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Public hearing set for July 14 Developer seeks special use permit for FRG project By ALLISON GOODRICH agoodrich@shawmedia.com
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he sky lit up Friday night over the village of Cary, the annual firework show at Lions Park kicking off local celebrations in honor of the 239th anniversary of our independence. Although the Declaration of Independence from England, ending in a mutual pledge from the founding representatives of the United States, was adopted by Congress long
ago, we still proudly mark the Fourth of July each year, in McHenry County and across the country. Celebrations will continue throughout the area in the next few days and nights in Crystal Lake, Fox Lake, Fox River Grove, Huntley, Island Lake, Johnsburg, McHenry, Spring Grove, Wonder Lake and Woodstock. Turn to PAGE A4 for a list of upcoming events.
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Scholars urge a new look at one of this nation’s founding fathers, oftentimes overlooked. PAGE A7
FOX RIVER GROVE – The firm proposing a nearly $250 million development for the village’s downtown is looking to move the project forward, and the public will have a chance to weigh in during an upcoming hearing. Public notice was recently posted on the village website for a hearing before the Planning and Economic Development Commission, scheduled for 7 p.m. July 14 at the Fox River Grove Village Hall, 305 Illinois St. Northbrook-based Gart Partners LLC is seeking a special use permit for a planned unit development, which would likely be built in four phases, the memo said. If ultimately approved by the Village Board, the vote to grant a special use permit would be the village’s first official action toward bringing the plan to fruition since the memorandum of understanding was adopted. “It’s a very important landmark step for us and the village to initiate the redevelopment of the Fox River Grove downtown,” said Gart Partners principal Jordan Glazov of the hearing. It comes after a recent pre-application conference, during which Gart Partners presented the concept to the village in an official capacity. However, the plan previously had been discussed at length since the developers
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Hundreds pack Lions Park for the annual fireworks display Friday in Cary.
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Thousands truckin’ to Chicago for final Grateful Dead shows By DON BABWIN The Associated Press CHICAGO – The Grateful Dead is closing the lid on its storied half-century of concerts this weekend in Chicago, where a museum has captured the band’s prankster heart by displaying its artifacts, skeletons-and-roses iconography included, in the shadow of a world-famous dinosaur. Soldier Field, which was
the last place legendary guitarist Jerry Garcia played with the band before his death in 1995, is hosting the final three shows of the short “Fare Thee Well” tour in what the remaining core members – rhythm guitarist Bob Weir, bassist Phil Lesh and percussionists Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann – said will be the last. The lakefront stadium, just south of the Field Museum and the bones of Sue the Tyranno-
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saurus rex, will be a sea of tiedyed shirts, and the sounds of bootleg concert tapes will fill the air in the parking lots. Certainly, there’ll be young people who never saw Garcia play among the tens of thousands of fans, but they’ll likely be outnumbered Deadheads who display more than a touch of grey. Many of those who followed the band around decades ago – and can recite the exact number of shows they’ve seen as
easily as they can their Social Security numbers – have become lawyers, accountants and, in at least one case, a member of the U.S. Senate. “Yes, my wife and I are coming for the Saturday and Sunday shows,” said former comedian and avowed Deadhead Al Franken, who now represents Minnesota in Washington. “To me they represent a big part of my life, they are a touchstone for a long time and they still
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are.” The Democrat began seeing the Dead about the time he was getting out of college in the early 1970s, and later became friends with Garcia and other members of the band when they appeared on “Saturday Night Live,” of which Franken was a cast member. “I still listen to them pretty much every chance I get,” he said. That so many older fans are
coming in may help explain why the city heard few complaints after it nixed the idea of overnight camping sites near Soldier Field. “I would not even have a car back in my San Francisco State days [and] I would find people to hitch rides with and find homes to sleep on the couch or on the floor,” said Rick Wolfish, a 59-year-old
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