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DuPage County Board member Jim Zay said he considered Kwasman a very close personal friend for the past 15 years. He said they talked on the phone Friday about an issue they had planned to work on. Soon after, Zay was in the hospital visiting Kwasman.
He was always there next to me, Zay said. He was a friend and mentor.
Zay said Kwasman was proud of the inroads the city made in reducing the crime rate through the hiring of police officers and of building fire stations through his work on the fire district board.
He loved the city. As long as I knew him he never asked for anything for himself, but for West Chicago, Zay said. He was really a great leader. He brought people together.
Zay noted Kwasmans stand against locating a second garbage transfer station in town, and his leadership in efforts to annex properties adjacent to Diamonds Gentlemans Club that prevented it from relocating during the expansion of North Avenue.

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Re. April 5 story, “Big Al’s future in doubt”: Unlike the image portrayed in the article, Big Al’s strip club isn’t being asked to pay the $5 entrance fee proposed by state legislation sponsored by Sen. Toi Hutchinson. The customers who enter the club will be responsible for paying that fee, which will benefit rape crisis centers across the state. It is not accurate to say that Big Al’s, a staple in Peoria for years, will have its business decimated by this proposal. Using threats of leaving a city in order to generate fear is something legislators should not be threatened by. The money generated by the entrance fee will support rape crisis centers across the state, including the Center for Prevention of Abuse in Peoria, not just in Chicago. In fact, 29 of the 32 rape crisis centers in the state are located outside the city of Chicago. This legislation is not benefiting Chicago at the cost of the rest of the state. It is legislation benefitin …

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The problem with Chicago’s “genome” is that corporations there lack the culture of the modern knowledge-based company, which in our digital world might lack not only a loading dock but everything else, too. What used to be housed in the same office building is now distributed worldwide. The R&D might be in Sorrento Valley, manufacturing in Asia, while the original intellectual capital, that “Aha Moment,” could have sprung from the cerebrum of a scientist back in St. Louis, with the marketing to be done in Manhattan.
This is, not coincidentally, the case with Somark, a San Diego startup funded by Horowitt’s T2, which manufactures a chip-less, ink-based RFID marker in a valiant effort to keep track of the world’s lab mice, of which there are a lot. Really a lot.
“In today’s global economy,” the 53-year-old Horowitt says over a lean steak at the La Jolla Strip Club, “it’s the ability to access nonproximate resources, talent, information, capital that is actually driving innovation.” Regional clustering — the model of how to foster innovation held by most civic leaders and university deans — is no longer enough, he says.

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A 31-year-old Chicago Heights man who allegedly snatched a credit card from a car at a gas station at Harlem Avenue and 183rd Street around 2:45 p.m. April 9 was charged with one count of burglary, one count of identity theft and one count of illegal possession of a credit card. The victim immediately contacted police and her credit card company, police said. During the next 10 minutes, the man allegedly used the card to purchase a $700 iPad at a department store on the 7300 block of 191st Street. Police said the card was denied, however, when he attempted to purchase a second iPad.
Threats
Four tires were reported slashed April 4 on the 7100 block of West 170th Street. The complainant, a 19-year-old Tinley Park woman, said she decided to report the April 2 damage after receiving threatening messages from a person identifying himself as the slasher. The texter, who allegedly said he intended to break her windows and burn her car, reportedly identified himself as the same man she had punched in a Gary, Ind., strip club. The woman told police he had touched her inappropriately.

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On Jan. 3, Marshall resigned from Laraway School, after serving one semester as principal. On Jan. 5, the superintendent sent a letter to parents saying Marshall had been “removed from the principalship due to a serious lapse of professional judgment in the purposeful falsifying of a personnel record,” the February school newsletter said.
“We enjoyed working with Ms. Marshall during her four-month tenure in District 70C, but we, like Ms. Marshall need to move on. Ms. Marshall is entitled to a level of privacy, and since the local law enforcement officials are continuing to investigate this situation, we are not at liberty to discuss it further,” interim Superintendent Gary Bradbury stated.
At the November and December board meetings Lashone White was introduced as a new employee for the district. Six years ago White was sentenced to seven years in prison for delivering the final head blow in a fatal beating outside a Coram, N.Y. strip club on April 24, 2005.

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… Bad at Girls” began three or four years ago when Pierson was in New York City and a friend asked him to contribute a piece to an evening of storytelling. Pierson immediately thought of a story that had been much on his mind for much of his life: His first-ever crush on a sixth-grade girl “and how I totally botched it.”
“That was kind of my romantic origin story, really, because I lived a long stretch of my life, romantically, based on that one experience.”
That show went well enough that Pierson decided to enlarge the concept since, at the time, his luck with girls had not noticeably improved (though he is quite happy to point out that he currently is involved in a romantic relationship that seems to be benefitting from his hard-won experience).
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In addition to his painful puppy-love episode, “Bad at Girls” includes the story of Pierson’s most significant college relationship, and his subsequent post-grad romance with a professional stripper.

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… Bad at Girls” began three or four years ago when Pierson was in New York City and a friend asked him to contribute a piece to an evening of storytelling. Pierson immediately thought of a story that had been much on his mind for much of his life: His first-ever crush on a sixth-grade girl “and how I totally botched it.”
“That was kind of my romantic origin story, really, because I lived a long stretch of my life, romantically, based on that one experience.”
That show went well enough that Pierson decided to enlarge the concept since, at the time, his luck with girls had not noticeably improved (though he is quite happy to point out that he currently is involved in a romantic relationship that seems to be benefitting from his hard-won experience).
Lifetime loves
In addition to his painful puppy-love episode, “Bad at Girls” includes the story of Pierson’s most significant college relationship, and his subsequent post-grad romance with a professional stripper.

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… Bad at Girls” began three or four years ago when Pierson was in New York City and a friend asked him to contribute a piece to an evening of storytelling. Pierson immediately thought of a story that had been much on his mind for much of his life: His first-ever crush on a sixth-grade girl “and how I totally botched it.”
“That was kind of my romantic origin story, really, because I lived a long stretch of my life, romantically, based on that one experience.”
That show went well enough that Pierson decided to enlarge the concept since, at the time, his luck with girls had not noticeably improved (though he is quite happy to point out that he currently is involved in a romantic relationship that seems to be benefitting from his hard-won experience).
Lifetime loves
In addition to his painful puppy-love episode, “Bad at Girls” includes the story of Pierson’s most significant college relationship, and his subsequent post-grad romance with a professional stripper.

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The Kentucky Wildcats held off a late run by the Kansas Jayhawks to win its eighth national championship last night. The Wildcats finished the season 38-2 and led by as many as 18 points in the first half. Chicago native and national player of the year Anthony David had 6 points on 1-of-10 shooting but finished with 16 rebounds and had six blocks. The freshman tied the championship-game record for blocks. Full story.
Simon pushes for strip club tax
Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon was in Arlington Heights yesterday advocating for a bill that would tax strip club goers $5, which would fund services for sexual assault victims. The bill will be debated after Easter break. Simon said the main reason for the tax is to fund agencies that provide rape counseling but often see their budgets cut. The proposal is modeled on a Texas law that went to the state supreme court and was deemed constitutional. Full story.

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Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon was in Arlington Heights Monday advocating for a bill in the state legislature that would tax strip club patrons to fund services for sexual assault victims.
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“Crimes are up in areas where strip clubs serve alcohol,” said Simon. “For the folks that are customers at the clubs, they are known as soft targets. They have a lot of cash and have been drinking. And there are sexual assaults against the women who work in these establishments. They are followed home after work and stalked.”
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Members of the strip club industry have said the tax would put some clubs out of business. There are about 50 strip clubs in the state that have liquor licenses, said Simon spokeswoman Kathryn Phillips. There are probably more than 100 clubs in Illinois, but drinking is not allowed under local regulations, she said.

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