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FOX LAKE OFFICER SHOOTING
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Fox Lake Police Lt. Joseph Gliniewicz was shot and killed Tuesday morning after a foot chase involving three suspicious men.
Gliniewicz is 83rd officer to die on duty in U.S. in ’15
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By EMILY K. COLEMAN ecoleman@shawmedia.com
and KATIE DAHLSTROM
kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com
Sarah Nader – snader@shawmedia.com
Law enforcement and K-9 units sweep an area Tuesday off Frontage Road and Fox Ridge Drive in Fox Lake during a manhunt for three people suspected in the killing of Fox Lake Police Lt. Joseph Gliniewicz.
Officer remembered as volunteer, family man By CHELSEA McDOUGALL cmcdougall@shawmedia.com FOX LAKE – Everyone who knew Fox Lake Police Lt. Joseph Gliniewicz described him the same way: kind, generous, dedicated, proud, a family man. On Tuesday, Gliniewicz was shot and killed in the line of duty after a foot chase with three suspects. The 30-year police veteran was one month away from retirement. Outpourings in Gliniewicz’ honor were streaming in on social media and from a mourning community. “This is real – it went from seeing it on the news to my backyard,” said Fox Lake resident Gina Maria. She was part of about a doz-
Our view We mourn for the fallen Fox Lake police officer and pray for those he left behind. PAGE B2 en supporters holding signs that read “Police lives matter,” “Blue n Brave” or “RIP G.I. Joe.” Brittany Evans, a business owner in town, said the officer was not only well-liked, but well-known. “We haven’t had any events like this in this town,” Evans said. “It’s going to change this town forever. Everybody knew Joe.” Gliniewicz, who went by Joe to his friends and family and “G.I. Joe” at the police department, was
See GLINIEWICZ, page A6
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FOX LAKE – More than a hundred police officers scoured terrain only miles from the site of another manhunt that occurred less than a year before, but Tuesday’s frantic search was done with the knowledge that this time they were searching for a cop killer. Fox Lake Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz – known as G.I. Joe to friends and the Fox Lake If you go community and set to retire WHAT: Tentaat the end of tively scheduled September, the candlelight vigil village’s mayto honor Fox Lake or said – was k i l l e d T u e s - Lt. Charles Joseph day morning Gliniewicz WHEN: 6 p.m. after he told d i s p a t c h e r s Wednesday WHERE: he was going to investigate Lakefront Park, 71 t h r e e s u s p i - Nippersink Blvd., c i o u s m e n , Fox Lake Lake County Detective Chris Covelli said. The officer’s last call to dispatchers before contact was lost was that he was involved in a foot chase in the area of Sayton Road and Route 12, Covelli said. The first officers who responded to the scene found Gliniewicz injured with a gunshot wound. The search for the three men – described only as two white men and one black man – continued well into Tuesday night. Gliniewicz is the 83rd police officer to die on duty in the U.S. this year, the 24th to be shot nonaccidentally, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page. Last year, 47 officers were fatally shot. His death follows the shootings of Deputy Darren H. Goforth, who was pumping gas into his patrol car at a commercial gas station in Texas; police officer Henry Nelson, who was responding to a domestic disturbance in Louisiana; and Louisiana Senior Trooper Steven Vincent, who was checking on a vehicle that had been reported as driving recklessly, all of which happened in the past nine days. The rash of killings brought some out to the streets to show their support. A group of supporters who lined Route 12 near a police staging area held signs such as “Police Lives Matter.” An emotional mayor, Donny Schmit, addressed the media Tuesday, speaking about the loss of his friend, describing him as a decorated officer and a father of
See MANHUNT, page A6
Illinois House gears up for override of union-strike veto By JOHN O’CONNOR The Associated Press SPRINGFIELD – One of the subplots of the summer-long Illinois budget standoff will take center stage this week with a likely attempt by House
Democrats to restore legislation they say will prevent labor unrest. The House convenes Wednesday to consider overriding Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner’s veto of a proposal that would put a potential labor-contract impasse in the hands of an outside
arbitrator, rather than risk a strike or a lockout. Here are things to know about the bill that could change the face of the Rauner administration’s negotiations with the state’s largest employee union, Council 31 of the American Federation of State, County
and Municipal Employees.
Strike out?
Rauner and AFSCME have been negotiating since winter on a contract to replace one that expired June 30. In May, backed by the union, Democrats
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