Wheaton, Illinois
Wheaton is an affluent suburban city in Milton and Winfield Townships and is the county seat of DuPage County, Illinois, United States. It is located approximately 30 miles west of the city center of Chicago which abuts the shore of Lake Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 52,894, which was estimated to have increased to 53,469 by July 2012.
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Navy Band Great Lakes Celebrates Independence Day in Cantigny Park, Wheaton, Illinois
Over 10,000 people celebrated Independence Day at Cantigny Park by taking in a concert featuring Navy Band Great Lakes. What better way to spend Independence Day than by performing for this wonderful and enthusastic audience. Thank you all for choosing to celebrate your nations birthday with Navy Band Great Lakes! Happy Indepencence Day!
Bon Appétit Management Company Takes Local Meat to the Next Level
3BL Media / theCSRfeed) Palo Alto, CA - September 20, 2011 - Bon Appétit Management Company, the socially and environmentally responsible food services company, announced today that it is adding an important new category to its landmark local-sourcing program, Farm to Fork. Launched in 1999, Farm to Fork now draws from over a thousand small farms and artisans to supply Bon Appétit's 400-plus cafés in 31 states. The company will extend the program to mid-size poultry and hog farms, cattle ranches, and dairies that meet its stringent criteria. By doing so, it will nourish this critically endangered segment of agriculture known as the disappearing middle. And by requiring third-party humane certification, Bon Appétit also hopes to increase the supply of ethically raised meat and poultry, which has not kept up with demand as the meat industry consolidates under ever-more-massive factory farms.
Bon Appétit requires all its chefs to buy at least 20 percent of their ingredients from registered Farm to Fork suppliers; some accounts in agriculturally diverse areas reach as high as 80 percent. The company spends tens of million of dollars annually on Farm to Fork purchases.
It's vital to the health of this country that we support the farmers and ranchers who are doing the right thing by their animals, the land, and the communities in which they operate, says Fedele Bauccio, CEO and cofounder of Bon Appétit Management Company. I've wanted to move more of our purchasing toward family farms ever since I served on the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production. As a company that serves more than 120 million meals per year, it's our responsibility to actively help grow the supply of the kind of meat that we can feel good about serving.
The meat industry's consolidation into a handful of gigantic producers has been accompanied by myriad modern problems such as contaminated food outbreaks, animal mistreatment scandals, and environmental pollution. Yet in the course of seeking out the small-scale hog and poultry farmers and beef ranchers that Bon Appétit has been supporting for years, the company has discovered that there are responsible, mid-size regional producers with similar values struggling to survive and grow. The problem of the disappearing agofthemiddle is well-known in sustainable food and farming circles. In 2005 Fred Kirschenmann, Distinguished Fellow of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University,coauthored a landmark whitepaper that launched a national discussion about how the increasing lack of mid-size farms spelled trouble for regional food systems.
The 'middle' is really a marketing middle, a gap between direct sales like farmers markets on one side and the commodity markets on the other, said Kirschenmann, who served with Bauccio on the Pew Commission. (Both men were recently honored with an inaugural Leadership Award from the James Beard Foundation.) For a large food-service company like Bon Appétit Management Company, which wants quality products in quantity, to begin actively pursuing these farms could be game-changing. These ranches are the ones that America is losing at the fastest rate.
See first photo for a chart of Bon Appétit's rules for Farm to Fork eligibility.
In addition to the Farm to Form criteria, Bon Appétit uses only rBGH-free milk and yogurt (since 2002); chicken, turkey, and hamburger from animals raised without the routine use of antibiotics (since 2003); and cage-free shell eggs (since 2005). By adding a groundbreaking seafood component, the new Fish to Fork program, to its preferences for small- and mid-size producers, the company will continue to lead the way in its goal to offer food services for a sustainable future.
About Bon Appétit Management Company
Bon Appétit Management Company (bamco.com) is an on-site restaurant company offering full food-service management to corporations, universities, and specialty venues. Based in Palo Alto, CA, Bon Appétit has more than 400 cafés in 31 states, including eBay, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Getty Center. A pioneer in environmentally sound sourcing policies, Bon Appétit has developed programs addressing local purchasing, the overuse of antibiotics, sustainable seafood, cage-free eggs, the connection between food and climate change, and, most recently, farmworker welfare. The company has received numerous awards for its work from organizations such as the James Beard Foundation, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Seafood Choices Alliance, The Humane Society of the United States, and Food Alliance. Its dining operations at Wheaton College in Illinois were recently voted Best College Food by 122,000 college students surveyed by the Princeton Review.
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DuPage County, Illinois
DuPage County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. As of the 2010 census, the population was 916,924, making it the second-most populous county in Illinois. Its county seat is Wheaton.
Dupage County is one of the collar counties of the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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Rocio S. Becerril: College of DuPage Alumna
Rocio Becerril was the first generation in her family to attend college.
She had no idea where to go or what her major would be, but it felt like a natural step to take right after high school. Becerril decided to enroll at College of DuPage.
“COD helped me tremendously as I tried to figure out what I wanted to do,” she said. “It’s hard going to college, especially when everyone else knows their major right off the bat and you feel pressured having to make that decision from the beginning. Going to COD allowed me to take several different classes to try and find myself and to figure out what I really wanted to do.”
While at COD, Becerril participated in the Disney College Program, through which she worked at Walt Disney World and lived in Orlando, Fla., for eight months. It was an “absolutely amazing experience.”
After earning her Associate in Arts degree, Becerril transferred to the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she obtained dual degrees: Bachelor of Arts in both French and Communications. She then earned her MBA at the University of Illinois at Springfield.
During her MBA program, she took a course in business law and found it so interesting that she enrolled in law school at Northern Illinois University College of Law. Becerril thought she would combine her MBA with a law degree and took courses in business, including corporations and taxation.
By the end of her third year in law school, she had taken an immigration course and fell in love with immigration law, which is now the focus of her own law firm which she opened in 2012.
Becerril has two offices – one in Chicago and one in the western suburbs – and makes many presentations about immigration. She also has been a guest speaker at conferences, colleges, universities, churches, schools, police departments and civic centers as well as being interviewed by Telemundo Chicago and NBC Chicago.
“I want people to know that no matter where they come from, who they are, who their parents are or what background they have, they can achieve a successful education, and College of DuPage can be a basic foundation to that goal,” she said. “I came to the U.S. when I was 10 years old and I did not speak any English. My mother cleaned houses and my father was an upholsterer. Now I have two bachelor’s degrees, an MBA and my law degree and I graduated with zero debt.
“I worked very hard in high school to obtain good grades. I received numerous private scholarships throughout my education. My very first scholarship was from Subway for $500, which was actually through a project our English teacher at Wheaton Warrenville South High School made us do. From there on I obtained scholarships from the National Society of Hispanic MBAs, the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, the DuPage County Bar Association and the Hispanic Congressional Caucus, to name a few. During law school, I remember applying to over 13 scholarships in a single semester! But by working full-time, going to school and receiving these private scholarships, I was able to graduate with no debt. If I can do it, so can you!”
Becerril ultimately would like to teach, perhaps after she retires. She considers College of DuPage the best decision anyone can make.
“It’s extremely affordable. You take your basic core classes at COD and then you can transfer to a four-year college,” she said. “COD has flexible classes and schedules that allow you to work and go to school at the same time. COD has the feeling of a college campus but the support of a community college. If I had to do it all over again, I would do it exactly the same way.”
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The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the American Midwest, Middle West, or simply the Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau (also known as Region 2). It occupies the northern central part of the United States. It was officially named the North Central Region by the Census Bureau until 1984. It is located between the Northeastern United States and the Western United States, with Canada to its north and the Southern United States to its south.
The Census Bureau's definition consists of 12 states in the north central United States: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. The region generally lies on the broad Interior Plain between the states occupying the Appalachian Mountain range and the states occupying the Rocky Mountain range. Major rivers in the region include, from east to west, the Ohio River, the Upper Mississippi River, and the Missouri River. A 2012 report from the United States Census put the population of the Midwest at 65,377,684. The Midwest is divided by the Census Bureau into two divisions. The East North Central Division includes Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin, all of which are also part of the Great Lakes region. The West North Central Division includes Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, and South Dakota, several of which are located, at least partly, within the Great Plains region.
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Food in the Garden 2014: The Great Lakes
The Great Lakes region was integral to the War of 1812, a front for several naval and land conflicts such as the assaults on Ft. Meigs and the Battle of Put-in-Bay. Once referred to as the Eden of the West, the Great Lakes region included hundreds of miles of untamed wilderness, rolling rivers, and dense forest encompassing modern day New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan. The region was home to the Chippewa, Ottawa, and Iroquois tribes, who valued the waterways as a means of life. With the increasing demand for elbow room, European-Americans began to extend their reach westward into relatively unfamiliar territory with the hope of thriving off of abundant, fertile land. With them came exotic and—in some cases—invasive species never before seen in the region such as apples, peaches, swine, and other fare that would come to define the region. How did the introductions of new plant and animal species affect the cultural foodways of the people who lived there and continue to live in the region today?
200 years later, this region is the cultural center of the Midwest with over 32 million people living along the lakes. Although early settlements have come and gone, many heirloom seeds native to this region have stood the test of time and there is an ever-present effort to preserve them, not only for consumption but for their cultural significant as well.
Panelists: Jodi Branton, National Museum of American Indian; Rick Finch, interim director of the Glenn Miller Birth Place Museum and former site manager of Fort Meigs: Ohio’s War of 1812 Battleground; and Tim Rose, geologist at the National Museum of Natural History and cider maker with Distillery Lane.
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The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the American Midwest, Middle West, or simply the Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau (also known as Region 2). It occupies the northern central part of the United States. It was officially named the North Central Region by the Census Bureau until 1984. It is located between the Northeastern United States and the Western United States, with Canada to its north and the Southern United States to its south.
The Census Bureau's definition consists of 12 states in the north central United States: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. The region generally lies on the broad Interior Plain between the states occupying the Appalachian Mountain range and the states occupying the Rocky Mountain range. Major rivers in the region include, from east to west, the Ohio River, the Upper Mississippi River, and the Missouri River. A 2012 report from the United States Census put the population of the Midwest at 65,377,684. The Midwest is divided by the Census Bureau into two divisions. The East North Central Division includes Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin, all of which are also part of the Great Lakes region. The West North Central Division includes Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, and South Dakota, several of which are located, at least partly, within the Great Plains region.
Chicago is the most populous city in the American Midwest and the third most populous in the entire country. Other large Midwestern cities include (in order by population): Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Omaha, Minneapolis, Wichita, Cleveland, St. Louis, St. Paul, Cincinnati, Madison, and Des Moines. Chicago and its suburbs form the largest metropolitan statistical area with 9.9 million people, followed by Metro Detroit, Minneapolis–St. Paul, Greater St. Louis, Greater Cleveland, Greater Cincinnati, the Kansas City metro area, and the Columbus metro area.