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SECTION 2 MONDAY CHICAGOLAND Dawn Turner Trice has the day off. By Tara Malone Tribune staff reporter About 3,000 miles from the tidy, west suburban home where she was raised, Peace Corps volunteer Blythe Ann worked in fields alongside farmers deep in the tropical countryside of Suriname. She wrestled with weeds, watered plants and tended to the harvest in a northern village. 25, died in those fields Thursday, shot when she accidentally tripped an animal trap rigged with a gun, Peace Corps administrators and published reports confirmed Sunday. The Bloomingdale native reportedly was injured in the thigh and hemorrhaged before she could get treatment.

Officials with the Peace Corps and Surinamese authorities continue to investigate the incident. Local prosecutors Saturday said the villager who laid the wired illegal, albeit common method of clearing wild game from farms in the remote face prosecution even if the death is ruled accidental. are treating it as an Peace Corps spokesman Richard Parker said. always send our investigators just to make sure we know exactly what enlisted with the Peace Corps in May 2006 and soon headed to the South American country slightly larger than Georgia. There, she partnered with local women to fund and develop a village community center and a potable water project.

Many of those women were with her in the farm fields Thursday and reported her death to area Peace Corps officials, Parker said. The deputy director notified parents late that night. last saw her parents, John and Joan, when she returned for a family wedding in August. In one of her final telephone conversations with her parents, said, according to a news statement: each waking moment must be spent satisfying basic needs that, in the U.S., are virtually satisfied at The U.S. Embassy in Suriname and family members declined to comment, referring all inquiries to the Peace Corps.

A family friend who answered the door in the quiet cul-de-sac de- PLEASE SEE VOLUNTEER, PAGE2 Peace Corps death probed Suriname volunteer from Bloomingdale shot by animal trap Urban planner Daniel Burnham anticipated the day when it would be possible for every Illinois resident to pile into all the cars and trucks and drive out of the Land of Lincoln. But Burnham, who worried about future traffic congestion overburdening the roadway system in outlying areas, also foresaw the day when gridlock, if left unchecked, would make that movement of humanity impossible. So he came up with a plan. By years after 15 millionth Model rolled off the assembly line at Henry factory in Highland Park, Mich Fast-forward to 2007, when the Chicago region and northwest Indiana rank No. 2 in the U.S.

for traffic congestion. Later this month, a preliminary financial assessment from Indiana is due out on the feasibility of building a long-discussed Chicago-area bypass highway called the Illiana Expressway If the Illiana is built, motorists in the Chicago area have Burnham to thank. The new highway is designed as the road of choice for cross- country in long-haul are not destined for the Chicago area, yet clog highways, including the Kingery and Borman Expressways and the Tri- State Tollway In historic Plan of Chicago of 1909, he envisioned a series of outer ring roads around the city that would tie together the street grid and ease traffic knots. primary purpose of ring roads, as Burnham had envisioned, is to take traffic that is going around Chicago and take it around rather than through the said Randy Blankenhorn, executive director of the Chicago Metropolitan Agen- cy for Planning a partner in the Illiana project. The Illiana, which has been included in transportation plans since the 1960s, is aimed at easing traffic on Interstate Highways between Illinois and Indiana.

It also would provide much- needed relief to nearby communities in Will south Cook and Kankakee Counties in Illinois as well as Lake County, Ind. It is in those towns, such as on Dixie Highway in Beecher in Will County, where the main streets have become unofficial alternate routes used by drivers trying to escape the gridlock on WITH JON HILKEVITCH Old bypass plan getting new life Gridlock spurs Indiana study PLEASE SEE EXPRESSWAY, PAGE2 Tribune photo by John Smierciak Truck traffic, as seen Friday on Interstate Highway is a major source of Chicago-area delays near the state line. By Alexa Aguilar Tribune staff reporter Allie friends had a good laugh when they heard about the class she had signed up for at North Central College in Naperville: Mathematics of Square Dancing. Hays thought it was pretty funny herself at first. said, you kidding me? a said the senior math major.

But after spending three hours a day for two weeks memorizing almost 100 dance then weaving in and out of complicated formations on cue, she has changed her mind. Amid constant movement, shehas had to visualize and use math concepts like shapes and patterns, group theory, fractions and permutations. math in walking through mathematics and would have no idea working with concepts that most college math majors study until their fourth says math profes- sor David Schmitz, describing square dancing as a Saundra Bryant, a Chicago person who stands and sings or speaks rapid-fire calls, or dance knowledge with a simulated dance Thursday. Disregarding traditional square-dance tunes, she typically sets her calls to everything from disco to Frank Sinatra to hip-hop. As she crooned the lyrics of Van she laid out the series of calls.

Concentrating, the eight students stepped through the moves. Occasionally, Bryant stopped them to see if they could identify which dancers were the apex of a triangle or how many diamond shapes were in one formation. all a far cry from the days of reluctantly clutching a sweaty hand in a junior high gym class as you swing her Over the last 50 years, square dancing has evolved from the early American Tribune photos by Stacey Wescott Christina Lorenzo (left), 18, of Naperville and Christine Muganda, 20, of Bolingbrook put math concepts into practice at the Mathematics of Square Dancing class at North Central College in Naperville taught by math professor David Schmitz. Square dancing quickens heartbeat of math whizzes Some square dancing moves are listed on a chalkboard in a North Central College classroom last week. While many are drawn by the camaraderie, others are intrigued by the underlying mathematical concepts PLEASE SEE DANCE, PAGE5 By Karoun Demirjian Tribune staff reporter Rev.

Al Sharpton has a message for the city of Chicago: Do something about police brutal- ityor he will work to ensure that the 2016 Olympics come to Chicago. Sharpton is demanding that the city show evidence of to address what he calls police brutality and in the Chicago Police Department. If it Sharpton said, he is prepared to lobby the International Olympic Committee to take bid out of consideration for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. has not been a real response, in terms of a concrete, plan, Sharpton said. mayor cannot go around the world acting like a beautiful city to come to when got this glaring ultimatum comes a few months after the formation of a Chicago branch of his National Action Network, a civil rights organization he established in 1991.

A main focus of the Chicago group has been addressing the relationship between city residents and police. is almost in mass Sharpton said of the cityconfronting its record on police brutality. even point to where a judicial process has ever cops are always Sharpton said he is looking for evidence of a good-faith effort from Mayor Richard whom the Olympics would be a capstone to his legacy in respond to evidence of police brutality with prosecutions and community meetings. has more than enough time to get the city on Sharpton said, before fall 2009, when a host city is expected to be selected for the 2016 games. Chicago became the U.S.

Olympic official bid to host the Olympic Games in the spring. The demands of campaign, which will begin Monday, rest mostly on office. Among them, Sharpton said he will ask the mayor to establish a civilian review board to address complaints of police misconduct and assess the response to them. He said he also plans to demand that Daley and newly appointed police Supt. Jody Weis articulate a workable solution for prosecut- Sharpton tells city: Fight cop brutality Activist warns he could lobby against Olympics in Chicago PLEASE SEE SHARPTON, PAGE5 By Carolyn Starks Tribune staff reporter Rick DuBois wrestled with strings of Christmas lights hanging on his small ranch home that sits on the banks of the Fox River.

But he considered himself lucky: He still has a home to decorate. Three months ago, DuBois was desperately filling sandbags to barricade his house from the rising river along West Riverside Drive south of McHenry. The 2-block-long peninsula of homes jutting into the Fox in McHenry County was one of dozens of neighborhoods from Wisconsin to Indiana that battled a weeklong drenching in late August. Officials had said the storms were some of the worst they have seen in a decade. In Des Plaines, the Des Plaines River crested at 8.6 feet above flood stage, causing hundreds of residents to evacuate and massive power outages that lasted for days.

To the west, part of DeKalb was submerged as the Kishwaukee River topped 15 feet, close to a record. With the holiday season here, there are signs of new beginnings. Although now covered with snow, grassy lawns on West Riverside grew back thanks to quick reseeding once the water levels went down. Some resi- dents used the sand to fill in their beaches. And now homes have been decorated with Christmas lights and wreaths.

Relationships that were neighborly before the flooding seem to have more meaning, the residents said. neighbors are the said DuBois, 47. would trust any of them with my In a sense, he did. Friends and neighbors helped salvage his home, not to mention his way of life, he said. While sandbag walls grew, so did friendship Riverside residents recall floods, give thanks for neighbors PLEASE SEE FLOODS, PAGE5 Product: CTMETRO PubDate: 12-10-2007 Zone: ALL Edition: HD Page: 2-1 User: croyer Time: Color:.