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Candidates disclose contributions DeKalb mayor hopefuls spent $42K combined for chance at seat By DAVID THOMAS dthomas@shawmedia.com DeKALB – John Rey, Jennifer Groce, Mike Verbic and David Jacobson spent at least $42,000 combined in their efforts to capture the DeKalb mayoral seat. Rey won the election with 1,500 votes, spending at least $11,000 in the process. According to reports filed with the Illinois State Board of Elections, Rey spent about $7.33 for each vote, Groce spent about $10.80,
Verbic spent about $10.16, and Jacobson spent $9.81 per vote. Candidates for office in Illinois, regardless of the level, are required to disclose contributions and expenditures to the Illinois State Board of Elections. Contributions of $1,000 or more must be reported within five business days, or two business days if it’s 30 days before an election. Candidates can choose to report quarterly or twice a year. The reports showing what Rey, Groce and
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Jacobson spent in April are due July 15. Verbic already submitted his reports showing his April spending. A candidate’s political committee can receive up to $5,300 from an
individual, $10,500 from a corporation, labor organization or association, or $52,600 from a political action committee or another candidate’s political committee. Rey raised $14,615.34 between Oct. 1 and March 31. His strongest supporter was someone who encouraged him to run: Richard Katz, the president of Resource Bank. Katz contributed $1,250 to his campaign. “He strongly endorsed my going for that office,” Rey said.
During this same period of time, Rey spent $11,088.72. He highlighted his spending of $1,813.73 at Le Print Express in Sycamore for various printed materials as being effective. He also spent $2,635.88 on signs and another $2,713 in various media. “How do I get my name and platform out in front,” Rey said. He had $3,526.62 in his campaign war chest by the end of the closing period March 31.
See CONTRIBUTIONS, page A7
Police: More attacks planned
HONORING EARTH DAY
DISCOVERING NEW CREATIONS
By ALLEN G. BREED AND STEVE PEOPLES The Associated Press
Erik Anderson for Shaw Media
Elio RIzzi, 6, of Kaneville (left) and Zachery Behm, 7, of Kaneville wait to pet “Corny” the corn snake held by Guest Services member Philip Krepel during the themed Earth Day event for Den No. 12, Elburn Pack No. 107’s visit to the Midwest Museum of Natural History on Sunday in Sycamore.
Celebration becomes weeklong event in DeKalb By JEFF ENGELHARDT jengelhardt@shawmedia.com SYCAMORE – Green was not the only color of Earth Day at the Midwest Museum of Natural History. Yellow, red, blue and colors of all kinds filled the Sycamore-based museum Sunday as children were shown how to melt their broken crayons into colorful new creations. The activity was one of many the museum hosted over the weekend to show people the importance of reusing and recycling materials as part of the Earth Day initiative. Philip Krepel, who helped attendees make their new and improved crayons Sunday, said Earth Day is a great opportunity for the museum to reach out to the community and deliver its message of preservation. “It really fits with what the museum is all about,” he said of Earth Day. “We use it as a fun way to show people how to reuse what’s lying around the house.” David Fitzpatrick, who attended the event with his two daughters and their friend, said the crayon melt was a fun way to teach important lessons of recycling and preservation.
BOSTON – As churches paused to mourn the dead and console the survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing Sunday, the city’s police commissioner said the two suspects had such a large cache of weapons that they were probably planning other attacks. After the two brothers engaged in a gun battle with police early Friday, authorities surveying the scene of the shootout found it was loaded with unexploded homemade bombs. They also found more than 250 rounds of ammunition. Police Commissioner Ed Davis said the stockpile was “as dangerous as it gets in urban policing.” “We have reason to believe, based upon the evidence that was found at that scene – the explosions, the explosive ordnance that was unexploded and the firepower that they had – that they were going to attack other individuals. That’s my belief at this point.” Davis told CBS’s “Face the Nation.” On “Fox News Sunday,” he said authorities cannot be positive there aren’t more explosives that haven’t been found. But the people of Boston are safe, he insisted. The suspects are two ethnic Chechen brothers from southern Russia – 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan. Their motive remained unclear. The older brother was killed during a getaway attempt. The younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, remained hospitalized in serious condition Sunday after his capture Friday from a tarp-covered boat in a suburban Boston backyard. Authorities would not comment on whether he had been questioned, but several officials have said Tsarnaev’s injuries left him unable to communicate, at least for now. Shots were fired from the boat, but investigators haven’t determined where the gunfire was aimed, Davis said. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is tracing the weapons to try to determine how they were obtained by the suspects.
Erik Anderson for Shaw Media
See EARTH DAY, page A7
Maxwell McCoy, 6, of North Aurora takes a photo of “Daisy,” the ball python on Sunday in Sycamore.
See ATTACKS, page A7
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