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ADVOCATE GOOD SHEPHERD IN LINE FOR $247M EXPANSION
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Committee splits on extending halt By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com
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Environmental services tech Eva Dominguez cleans and prepares a two-bed patient room for its next patient at Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington. By BRETT ROWLAND browland@shawmedia.com BARRINGTON – Advocate Health plans to spend $247 million to expand and modernize its 34-year-old hospital in Barrington, building private rooms for patients, adding hospital beds and upgrading medical departments. The project requires approval from the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board. The price tag – $246,841,082 – is about $14 million more than what
rival Centegra Health System plans to spend to build a 128-bed hospital in Huntley. Competing hospitals in the area have questioned whether the project is needed. Advocate Good Shepherd President Karen Lambert said hospital officials had looked at several other options in the past several years before deciding to renovate. Alternatives included building Rendering provided by Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital
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Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington is proposing a $247 million expansion.
WOODSTOCK – Extending a seven-month moratorium on new electronic billboards in unincorporated areas to a full year could face a close vote on the McHenry County Board. Its Planning and Development Committee is sending the proposal to the full board without a recommendation after reaching a 3-3 impasse Thursday morning. The moratorium, imposed in September at the request of the county’s three largest municipalities and the village of Lakewood, is set to expire April 17. The original moratorium included a provision ending it sooner upon County Board ratification of its Unified Development Ordinance. But the ordinance still is undergoing draft review and approval is months away – county staff had anticipated an early 2013 approval at the time of the moratorium vote in September. The governments of Crystal Lake, Algonquin, Lakewood and Lake in the Hills asked the county last year for a temporary ban out of frustration with a surge of requests by sign companies to erect the large video screens on unincorporated land outside their boundaries, where the county’s sign rules are, for now, much less strict. Opponents of such signs allege that they cause light
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ROGER EBERT | 1942 - 2013
Ebert, Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic, dies at 70 By CARYN ROUSSEAU The Associated Press CHICAGO – Roger Ebert had the most-watched thumb in Hollywood. With a twist of his wrist, the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic rendered decisions that influenced a nation of moviegoers and could sometimes make or
break a film. The heavyset writer in the horn-rimmed glasses teamed up on television with Gene Siskel to create a format for criticism that proved enormously appealing in its simplicity: uncomplicated reviews that were both intelligent and accessible and didn’t talk down to ordinary movie fans.
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Ebert, film critic for the Chicago SunTimes since 1967, died Thursday at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chi- Roger Ebert cago as he was getting ready to go home for hospice care, his wife, Chaz, said in a statement
posted on his blog Thursday. He was 70. Two days earlier, Ebert had announced he was undergoing radiation treatment for a recurrence of cancer. “So on this day of reflection I say again, thank you for going on this journey with me. I’ll see you at the movies,” Ebert wrote Tuesday on his
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HUMAN SERVICES CUTS CRITICIZED McHenry County leaders in human services met Thursday to urge fellow organizations to advocate for more funding heading into the May 31 budget deadline. The beginning of cuts to Illinois human services began in 2009, with some services seeing drastic cuts. For more, see page B1.
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“Life Itself.” After cancer surgeries in 2006, Ebert lost portions of his jaw and the ability to eat, drink and speak. But he went back to writing full time and eventually even returned to television. In addition to his work for the Sun-Times, he became a
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blog. Despite his wide influence, Ebert considered himself “beneath everything else a fan.” “I have seen untold numbers of movies and forgotten most of them, I hope, but I remember those worth remembering, and they are all on the same shelf in my mind,” Ebert wrote in his 2011 memoir titled
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