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Village chooses 3 new leaders Oakwood Hills saw wave of resignations over power plant By JEFF ENGELHARDT jengelhardt@shawmedia.com
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Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner (left) and his lieutenant governor running mate, Evelyn Sanguinetti, exit the building after speaking Friday at an open forum hosted by local chambers at the Lakeside Legacy Arts Park. Rauner introduced himself, talked about his candidacy and discussed business related issues.
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By JEFF ENGELHARDT jengelhardt@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – Bruce Rauner told McHenry County business leaders Friday if he were to become governor he would not tell governors from surrounding states to stop trying to attract Illinois businesses. Instead, Rauner said he would compete and make sure Illinois
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becomes a place no business would want to leave and others would flock to. “They’re doing their job,”
Rauner said of other governors trying to attract Illinois businesses. “It’s about competition. We have to compete and go to battle for free enterprise ... and Illinois is going to start winning that battle.” Rauner said restoring the business climate in Illinois would be his top priority during a speech to
OAKWOOD HILLS – Oakwood Hills is officially under new leadership after Village Board members selected Paul Smith to step into the acting president role after Melanie Funk’s resignation. Smith’s selection as acting president was one of three positions filled as Oakwood Hills resident Amanda Wagner was appointed to the trustee seat vacated by Beth Gorr and lawyer Lisa Waggoner was named village attorney after John Cowlin resigned. Smith, who was a trustee before being named acting president, could have also held on to his trustee seat, which would have allowed him to keep his vote. But Smith resigned from his seat after taking the acting president role, giving up his vote and the security of the trustee term should he fail to win the election for village president in April 2015. His seat is now open for a temporary appointment the board could fill. The changes in leadership got a positive reaction from many in the Power Plant Opposition Group, which had previously called for Funk to resign because of a hosting agreement for a $450 million natural gas power plant that has garnered heavy criticism. Mike Riley, an Oakwood Hills resident for more than 30 years, said the security measures such as metal detector wands and bag searches for residents entering Village Hall were no longer in place. Security measures were implemented before the Village Hall reopened in September after a monthlong shutdown Funk called for because of reported threats that
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Police raid shows Twitter parody plays differently in middle America CHICAGO – Jon Daniel was watching cartoons with one of his sons when he created a spoof Twitter account in the name of the Peoria mayor. Out of boredom, he said, he soon began sending profane messag-
es about sex, drugs and alcohol. Daniel never intended for the fake account to be seen by anyone other than his friends, and it never attracted more than a few dozen followers. But within weeks the raunchy parody led to a police raid of his home and ignited a debate about online satire, free speech and the limits
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of a mayor’s power. Now Daniel is taking the matter to federal court in a lawsuit alleging the city violated his civil rights. The 29-year-old, who works as a tavern cook in his hometown, modeled the tweets on those of other fake accounts that lampoon sports stars by tweeting in a voice that appears
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drunk. He was dumbfounded when Twitter suspended the account. “I was like, ‘Well, OK, that’s the end of that chapter,’ ” he told The Associated Press. Except it wasn’t. A few weeks later, four police officers acting on a complaint from Mayor Jim Ardis raided the home Daniel shares with
several roommates, seizing computers and smartphones. Daniel discovered that the type of spoof that might be tolerated – or even welcomed as flattery – in Chicago, New York or Hollywood can play differently in smaller cities in
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