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	Imesch Attends Grand Jury By Joe Hosey The Herald News April 27, 2006 http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/top/4_1_JO27_BISHOP_S1.htm JOLIET — Bishop Joseph Imesch appeared before a grand jury Wednesday, taking a back stairway up to the secret session in a third-floor courtroom, a law enforcement source said. Imesch, the top man for the Diocese of Joliet, also took an alternate route into the courthouse, sources said. The bishop entered through a basement sally port instead of using the public entrance. Asked why the bishop was afforded special treatment on his trip to the courthouse, Pat Barry, spokesman for the sheriff's department, said late Wednesday that he had not been notified of Imesch's afternoon appearance. Imesch followed a local Catholic priest, the Rev. Richard Smith, into the grand jury. Two other priests waited in the hallway outside the grand jury room. Charles Pelkie, spokesman for State's Attorney James Glasgow's office, said he was prohibited from discussing Wednesday's grand jury session. Tom Kerber, the diocesan spokesman, after he was contacted late Wednesday, said he would look into the matter. Talk outside the grand jury room repeatedly returned to St. Joseph Church. None of the three priests present Wednesday afternoon is affiliated with that church. A message left with the Rev. James Radek, pastor of the historic North Chicago Street church, went unreturned Wednesday. - Contact Joe Hosey at (815) 729-6054 or e-mail him at jhosey@scn1.com.
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