By DEBBIE BEHRENDS [email protected]Leaders at Raven’s Husky Haven and Rescue of Sycamore hope Northern Illinois University business students can help them improve how they run the nonprofit organization. “The question is, how do we make our rescue self-sustaining,” said Lisa Monge, trainer and manager at Raven’s Husky Rescue. “The founders [Kel- ly Lambert and Jennifer Soule] are still paying for rescues out of their own pockets. We’re looking for a model on things to improve, add or take away, a whole new program to make it self-sustaining.” Students in Jim John- son’s executive master’s of business administration class will break into small groups that will visit the rescue organization. They will analyze and estimate the financial shortfall the organization will suffer for the next five years and cre- ate a long-term fundraising program to plug the hole, he said. This is about the 25th project for Johnson’s class- es. This type of real-world experience dots NIU’s educational landscape from adaptive physical edu- cation students running fitness programs at area retirement communities to communications students creating 30-second ads for nonprofits that are aired on the local cable TV channel. It’s also the type of experience NIU President Doug Baker wants students to receive. “Employers want the Ellwood House Museum’s Annual Holiday Event Friday, December 6, 7 – 9 pm * Saturday, December 7, 1 – 5 pm * Sunday, December 8, 1 – 5 pm * * Last admittance 30 minutes before closing. Tickets $10.00 for adults and $5.00 for children Sponsored by Tour guides will be stationed in twelve locations throughout the festive four floors of the mansion to share information about the architecture and the Ellwood family. Tickets may be purchased in advance at ellwoodhouse.org. 509 North First Street, DeKalb • 815-756-4609 • Ellwoodhouse.org Lottery A2 Local news A3-4 Obituaries A4 National and world news A2, A4-5 Opinions A7 Sports B1-4 Advice B5 Comics B6 Classified B7-9 Inside today’s Daily Chronicle Weather High: Low: 51 43 75 cents Breaking news at Daily-Chronicle.com Serving DeKalb County since 1879 Tuesday, December 3, 2013 Poor start stifles H-BR in loss to Ottawa Marquette Sports, B1 GIRLS PREP BASKETBALL Tasty Dawgs expands its business Marketplace, A6 KIRKLAND RESTAURANT Finest Furniture to open in DeKalb By DEBBIE BEHRENDS [email protected]DeKALB – DeKalb will have a furniture store again when Finest Furniture Ash- ley HomeStore opens by Mon- day. Store manager Sam Shara- wi said the new store will open in the Parkview Busi- ness Center at 1500 Sycamore Road, which is north of Jew- el-Osco. DeKalb has been without a retail furniture store since Small’s Furniture City closed in July 2012. Leath Furniture closed in May 2007. “We had a customer from DeKalb, and when we deliv- ered there, we learned there was no furniture store in DeKalb,” Sharawi said. “We thought we had a good chance of being successful there.” Sharawi, who also manag- es a Finest Furniture in Jo- liet, will be in DeKalb today to start preparing the new lo- cation. “The store is being com- pletely redecorated inside to Debbie Behrends – [email protected]The former Aaron’s Furniture store at 1500 Sycamore Road, DeKalb, will be the new home of Finest Furniture HomeStore. Voice your opinion Where do you typically buy furni- ture? Vote online at Daily-Chron- icle.com. Leaders to vote on pensions The ASSOCIATED PRESS SPRINGFIELD – Illinois lawmakers began putting the pieces in place Monday for a potentially historic vote to ad- dress the nation’s worst pub- lic-pension shortfall, as legis- lators scrambled to digest the complex deal and labor unions and other political heavy- weights ratcheted up pressure for and against it. The House and Senate are expected to vote today on the years-in-the-making agree- ment. Legislative leaders say the proposal, which emerged last week, would save an es- timated $160 billion over 30 years and fully fund the state’s five pension systems by 2044 through benefits cuts for work- ers and retirees. As of Monday evening the plan had the support of a clear majority of members on a pen- sion conference committee – enough to send the measure to the floors of both chambers. But its passage in the Dem- ocrat-controlled Legislature was not seen as assured. Several lawmakers said they still were reviewing the 325-page piece of legislation, and a number of big questions remained for lawmakers to consider with little time before an expected vote. Republican state Rep. Tom Cross of Oswe- go said he was waiting for in- formation on the possible im- pact of the monumental deal. Many still reviewing plan See PENSIONS, page A5 See FURNITURE, page A5 Hands-on learning NIU students get real-world experience in DeKalb County Photos by Rob Winner – [email protected]Blitz, a rescue dog at Raven’s Husky Haven and Rescue in Sycamore, receives a training session Monday with manager and trainer Lisa Monge. Raven’s is receiving suggestions from students in Jim Johnson’s executive master’s of business administration class at Northern Illinois University on how to improve its business model. TOP: Devon, a rescue dog at Raven’s Husky Haven and Rescue in Sycamore, is seen inside a kennel Monday. Monge interacts with a rescue dog Monday. “Employers want the degree and experience. If students can leave Northern Illinois with that piece of paper and the experience, they become a stronger candidate for a job and to advance more quickly.” – Paul Palian, NIU’s director of media & public relations “ See LEARNING, page A3 Jacqueline Madden
Leaders at Raven’sHusky Haven and Rescueof Sycamore hope NorthernIllinois University businessstudents can help themimprove how they run thenonprofit organization.
“The question is, howdo we make our rescueself-sustaining,” saidLisa Monge, trainer andmanager at Raven’s HuskyRescue. “The founders [Kel-ly Lambert and JenniferSoule] are still paying forrescues out of their ownpockets. We’re lookingfor a model on things toimprove, add or take away,a whole new program tomake it self-sustaining.”
Students in Jim John-son’s executive master’s ofbusiness administrationclass will break into smallgroups that will visit therescue organization. Theywill analyze and estimatethe financial shortfall theorganization will suffer for
the next five years and cre-ate a long-term fundraisingprogram to plug the hole,he said.
This is about the 25thproject for Johnson’s class-es. This type of real-worldexperience dots NIU’s
educational landscape fromadaptive physical edu-cation students runningfitness programs at arearetirement communities tocommunications studentscreating 30-second ads fornonprofits that are aired on
DeKALB – DeKalb willhave a furniture store againwhen Finest Furniture Ash-ley HomeStore opens by Mon-day.
Store manager Sam Shara-wi said the new store willopen in the Parkview Busi-ness Center at 1500 SycamoreRoad, which is north of Jew-el-Osco. DeKalb has beenwithout a retail furniturestore since Small’s FurnitureCity closed in July 2012. LeathFurniture closed in May 2007.
“We had a customer fromDeKalb, and when we deliv-ered there, we learned there
was no furniture store inDeKalb,” Sharawi said. “Wethought we had a good chanceof being successful there.”
Sharawi, who also manag-es a Finest Furniture in Jo-liet, will be in DeKalb todayto start preparing the new lo-cation.
“The store is being com-pletely redecorated inside to
The former Aaron’s Furniture store at 1500 Sycamore Road, DeKalb,will be the new home of Finest Furniture HomeStore.
Voice your opinion
Where do you typically buy furni-
ture? Vote online at Daily-Chron-icle.com.
Leadersto vote onpensions
The ASSOCIATED PRESS
SPRINGFIELD – Illinoislawmakers began putting thepieces in place Monday for apotentially historic vote to ad-dress the nation’s worst pub-lic-pension shortfall, as legis-lators scrambled to digest thecomplex deal and labor unionsand other political heavy-weights ratcheted up pressurefor and against it.
The House and Senate areexpected to vote today on theyears-in-the-making agree-ment. Legislative leaders saythe proposal, which emergedlast week, would save an es-timated $160 billion over 30years and fully fund the state’sfive pension systems by 2044through benefits cuts for work-
ers and retirees.As of Monday evening the
plan had the support of a clearmajority of members on a pen-sion conference committee– enough to send the measureto the floors of both chambers.But its passage in the Dem-ocrat-controlled Legislaturewas not seen as assured.
Several lawmakers saidthey still were reviewing the325-page piece of legislation,and a number of big questionsremained for lawmakers toconsider with little time beforean expected vote. Republicanstate Rep. Tom Cross of Oswe-go said he was waiting for in-formation on the possible im-pact of the monumental deal.
Many still reviewing plan
See PENSIONS, page A5
See FURNITURE, page A5
Hands-on
learning
NIU students get real-world experience in DeKalb County
Blitz, a rescue dog at Raven’s Husky Haven and Rescue in Sycamore, receives a training session Monday with manager and trainerLisa Monge. Raven’s is receiving suggestions from students in Jim Johnson’s executive master’s of business administration classat Northern Illinois University on how to improve its business model. TOP: Devon, a rescue dog at Raven’s Husky Haven and Rescuein Sycamore, is seen inside a kennel Monday.
Monge interacts with a rescue dog Monday.
“Employers want the degree and experience. If students can leave Northern Illinois
with that piece of paper and the experience, they become a stronger candidate for a
job and to advance more quickly.” – Paul Palian, NIU’s director of media & public relations“See LEARNING, page A3
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Doctors aimto lowerbirthsof twins
8 TODAY’S TALKER
By SCOTTMAYEROWITZThe Associated Press
NEW YORK – Amazon isworking on a way to get pack-ages to customers in 30 min-utes or less – via self-guideddrone.
Consider it the modernversion of a pizza deliveryboy, minus the awkwardteenager.
Amazon.com Inc. saysit’s working on the so-calledPrime Air unmanned aircraftproject but it will take yearsto advance the technologyand for the Federal AviationAdministration to create thenecessary rules and regula-tions.
The project was first re-ported by CBS’ “60 Minutes”Sunday night, hours beforemillions of shoppers turnedto their computers to huntCyber Monday bargains.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezossaid in the interview thatwhile his octocopters looklike something out of sciencefiction, there’s no reason theycan’t be used as delivery ve-hicles.
Bezos said the drones cancarry packages that weigh upto five pounds, which coversabout 86 percent of the itemsAmazon delivers. The dronesthe company is testing havea range of about 10 miles,which Bezos noted could cov-er a significant portion of thepopulation in urban areas.
Bezos told “60 Minutes”the project could become aworking service in four or
five years.Unlike the drones used
by the military, Bezos’ pro-posed flying machines won’tneed humans to control themremotely. Amazon’s droneswould receive a set of GPScoordinates and automatical-ly fly to them, presumablyavoiding buildings, powerlines and other obstacles.
Delivery drones raise ahost of concerns, from airtraffic safety to homeland se-curity and privacy. There aretechnological and legal obsta-cles, too – similar to Google’sexperimental driverless car.How do you design a machinethat safely navigates theroads or skies without hittinganything? And, if an accidentoccurs, who’s legally liable?
Delivering packages bydrone might be impossible ina city like Washington D.C.which has many no-fly zones.
But technology entrepre-neur and futurist Ray Kurz-weil notes that “technologyhas always been a doubleedged sword.”
“Fire kept us warm andcooked our food but also wasused to burn down our villag-es,” Kurzweil said.
“It’s fascinating as an ideaand probably very hard toexecute,” said Tim Bajarin,an analyst with CreativeStrategies who sees Bezos asan unconventional thinker.“If he could really deliversomething you order within30 minutes, he would rewritethe rules of online retail.”
Amazon has already donethat once. In 1995, with in-vestments from family andfriends, Bezos began oper-ating Amazon as an onlinebookseller out of a Seattlegarage. Over nearly twodecades, Amazon grew tobecome the world’s largestonline retailer, selling every-thing from shoes to groceriesto diapers and power tools.
Amazon spends heavilyon growing its business, im-proving order fulfillment andexpanding into new areas.Those investments have comeat the expense of consistentprofitability, but investorshave been largely forgiving,focusing on the company’slong-term promise and dou-ble-digit revenue growth.
Amazon sees delivery drones as future
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By MARILYNN MARCHIONEThe Associated Press
BOSTON – In the fiveyears since the “Octomom”case, big multiple birthshave gone way down but thetwin rate has barely budged.Now fertility experts arepushing a new goal: One.
A growing number ofcouples are attempting preg-nancy with just a single em-bryo, helped by new waysto pick the ones most likelyto succeed. New guidelinesurge doctors to stress thisapproach.
Twins aren’t alwaystwice as nice; they havemuch higher risks of pre-maturity and serious healthproblems. Nearly half of allbabies born with advancedfertility help are multiplebirths, new federal numbersshow.
Abigail and Ken Ernstof Oldwick, N.J., used theone-embryo approach toconceive Lucy, a daughter
born in September. It “justseemed the most normal, themost natural way” to con-ceive and avoid a high-risktwin pregnancy, the newmom said.
Not all couples feel thatway, though. Some can onlyafford one try with in vitrofertilization, or IVF, so theyinsist that at least two em-bryos be used to boost theirodds, and view twins as twofor the price of one.
Many patients “are tell-ing their physicians ‘I wanttwins,’ ” said Barbara Col-lura, president of Resolve, asupport and advocacy group.“We as a society think twinsare healthy and always comeout great. There’s very littlereality” about the increasedmedical risks for babies andmoms, she said.
The 2009 case of a Cali-fornia woman who had oc-tuplets using IVF focusedattention on the issue ofbig multiple births, and thenumbers have dropped, ex-
cept for twins.The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention’smost recent numbers showthat 46 percent of IVF babiesare multiples – mostly twins– and 37 percent are bornpremature. By comparison,only 3 percent of babies bornwithout fertility help aretwins and about 12 percentare preterm.
It’s mostly an Americanproblem – some Europeancountries that pay for fertil-ity treatments require usingone embryo at a time.
The American Society forReproductive Medicine istrying to make it the normin the U.S., too. Its guide-lines, updated earlier thisyear, say that for womenwith reasonable medicalodds of success, those young-er than 35 should be offeredsingle embryo transfer andno more than two at a time.The number rises with age,to two or three embryos forwomen up to 40, since older
women have more troubleconceiving.
To add heft to the advice,the guidelines say womenshould be counseled on therisks of multiple births andembryo transfers and thatthis discussion should benoted in their medical re-cords.
“In 2014, our goal is real-ly to minimize twins,” saidDr. Alan Copperman, medi-cal director of ReproductiveMedicine Associates of NewYork, a Manhattan fertilityclinic. “This year I’m talkingabout two versus one. Sev-eral years ago I was talkingabout three versus two” em-bryos.
The one-at-a-time idea iscatching on. Only 4 percentof women younger than 35used single embryos in 2007but nearly 12 percent didin 2011. It’s less commonamong older women, whoaccount for fewer IVF preg-nancies, but it is gainingamong them, too.
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Supreme Court won’t stop N.Y.’s Internet taxationBy JESSE J. HOLLANDThe Associated Press
WASHINGTON – On per-haps the busiest online shop-ping day of the year, the Su-preme Court refused to wadeinto a dispute over statesales taxes for purchases onwebsites like Amazon.com,an outcome likely to promptmore states to attempt to col-lect taxes on Internet sales.
Monday’s court actionmeans “it might be the lastCyber Monday without salestax,” said Joseph Henchmanof the Washington -based TaxFoundation.
It’s all part of a furious bat-tle – also including legislationin Congress – among Internetsellers, millions of buyers,aggrieved brick-and-mortarstores and states hungry forbillions of dollars in extra tax
revenue.The high court without
comment turned away ap-peals from Amazon.com LLCand Overstock.com Inc. intheir fight against a New Yorkcourt decision forcing them toremit sales tax the same wayin-state businesses do. Thiscould hurt online shoppingin that state, since one of theattractions of Internet pur-chasing is the lack of a statesales tax, which makes someitems a little cheaper thanthey would be inside a storeon the corner.
And the effect could be feltfar beyond New York if it en-courages other states to act.The National Council of StateLegislatures estimates thatstates lost an estimated $23.3billion in 2012 as a result ofbeing unable to collect salestax on online and catalog pur-
chases.The court’s refusal “allows
states that have passed lawslike New York’s to continuedoing what they’ve been do-ing,” said Neal Osten, directorof the Council’s Washingtonoffice.
This decision came downon Cyber Monday, expected tobe the busiest day of the yearfor online shopping. Hugenumbers of people head on-line on the first working dayafter the long Thanksgivingweekend in search of Internetdeals.
Overall, Internet shoppinghas become more and morepopular, with the NationalRetail Federation predictingthat more than 131 millionpeople would shop online onMonday, up about 2 percentfrom last year.
Web retailers generally
have not had to charge salestaxes in states where theylack a store or some otherphysical presence. But NewYork and other states say thata retailer has a physical pres-ence when it uses affiliates –people and businesses that re-fer customers to the retailer’swebsite and collect a commis-sion on sales. These affiliatesrange from one-person blogspromoting the latest gadgetsto companies that run couponand deal sites.
Amazon and Overstockboth use affiliate programs.Amazon has been collectingsales tax in New York, even asit fights the state over a 2008law that was the first to con-sider local affiliates enough ofan in-state presence to requiresales tax collection. Overstockended its affiliate program inNew York in 2008 after the law
passed and has ended its affil-iate programs in other statesthat have tried to force it tocollect sales taxes.
Without the affiliate pro-grams, companies still cansell in those states but justwon’t partner with local peo-ple and businesses that refercustomers to their sites.
Both companies collectsales taxes in some states. Forexample, Overstock.com col-lects taxes in Utah, where it isbased. Amazon says it collectssales tax in 16 states.
“Today’s Supreme Courtdecision validates New York’sefforts to treat both onlineand brick-and-mortar retail-ers equally and fairly, by re-quiring all retailers with apresence in our state to collectsales taxes,” said New YorkAttorney General Eric T.Schneiderman.
AP photo
This undated image provided by Amazon.com shows the so-called Prime Air unmanned aircraft proj-ect that Amazon is working on in its research and development labs. Amazon said it will take yearsto advance the technology and for the Federal Aviation Administration to create the necessary rulesand regulations, but CEO Jeff Bezos said Sunday there’s no reason Drones can’t help get goods tocustomers in 30 minutes or less.
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GENEVA – The Sycamoreman who admitted to havingheroin in his system duringa fatal car crash is being suedby the brother of the Sycamoreboy he killed, court recordsshow.
On Feb. 27, Benjamin Black,now 29, was driving a Ford Ex-pedition on Route 64 in KaneCounty when he smashed intothe back of a Chevrolet Cava-lier that was stopped becauseof another crash more than amile away. Eleven-year-old
Matthew Rank-en, the backseatpassenger in theCavalier, diedfrom his inju-ries. His broth-er Nick Weber,now 22, wasdriving.
On Nov. 21 – a week afterBlack pleaded guilty to chargesfrom the fatal crash – Weberfiled a lawsuit against him,according to court documentsfiled with the Kane CountyCircuit Clerk’s Office. The law-suit accuses Black of failing tokeep proper lookout, failing to
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Weber is seeking damagesin excess of $50,000, accordingto the lawsuit. It cites his medi-cal expenses; physical and emo-tional pain and suffering anddistress; loss of income; andloss of a normal life.
The lawsuit notes Matthewalso was survived by his par-ents and two other brothers,ages 18 and 14. As a result of theboy’s death, the lawsuit states,“his next of kin have and will
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A case management confer-ence is set for 9 a.m. Feb. 6, atthe Kane County Courthousein Geneva. A sentencing hear-ing in Black’s criminal case isset for March 20. Black couldface up to three and 14 years inprison for aggravated drivingunder the influence. Probationwould be an option only if Hal-lock found extraordinary cir-cumstances existed.
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degree and experience,” saidPaul Palian, NIU’s director ofmedia & public relations. “Ifstudents can leave NorthernIllinois with that piece of pa-per and the experience, theybecome a stronger candidatefor a job and to advance morequickly.”
For Johnson, this re-al-world experience is betterthan any hypothetical hecould create for his students.
“Virtually all my studentsare connected with a non-profit, whether it be school,church, Big Brothers Big Sis-
ters. A lot of nonprofits facethe same issues,” Johnsonsaid. “The knowledge theygain gives these students theability to go back and helpthe other organizations theyare affiliated with.”
Meanwhile, undergradu-ate students in an advancedpublic relations class haveworked with Nick Misitano,owner of DeKalb Tattoo Com-pany, to conduct a contestfor a new company logo. Thecontest was open to studentsand the general public, andprizes will be awarded to thewinners.
“They came in asking ifthey could use my businessfor a semester project,” Mis-
itano said. “I thought it wascool to help out the school,and they’ve really taken theinitiative on this project.”
Gabriella Flores, a seniorin the class, said they re-ceived 15 entries.
“We were hoping formore, but we’re pleased withthe quality,” said Flores, whoplans to pursue a career inpublic relations.
Misitano said he had agood experience workingwith the students.
“This has been a reallygood experience,” Misitanosaid. “These students areserious about the class andhave handled themselves in avery professional manner.”
DeKALB – DeKalb policeand U.S. marshals are search-ing for the 22-year-old Mat-teson man accused of hittinga woman with a pistol whilehe robbed her and a co-workerlast week.
An arrest warrant has beenissued charging DesmondL. Hunt, of the 3000 block of214th Place, with being a fel-on in possession of a weapon,aggravated battery, carryinga concealed weapon and twocounts of armed robbery. Themost serious charges, armedrobbery, arepunishable withbetween six and30 years in pris-on. His bond isat $500,000.
Hunt is onparole for a pre-vious robberyin Cook Coun-ty, said JohnP e t r a g a l l o ,DeKalb policec o m m a n d e r .Anyone withi n f o r m a t i o nabout the case isasked to call theDeKalb PoliceDepartment at815-748-8400 or Crime Stoppersat 815-895-2155.
Hunt went into UniversityHeights’ rental office about 4p.m. Wednesday, pointed a gunat two employees and demand-ed money, court records show.When the women told himthey didn’t have access to thesafe, he hit one with a pistol,knock ing her to the floor andbruising her face. He stole apurse from one woman and acellphone from the other, courtrecords show. Later, policefound Mariah N. Romero, 21,in the second-floor hallway ofUniversity Heights, 1120 Var-sity Boulevard, where she isa resident. Romero told policeshe discussed the robbery withHunt, her boyfriend, and toldhim who was in the office. Po-lice found a gun and the stolenitems in her apartment.
Romero was charged withaggravated battery, obstruct-ing justice, possession of mari-juana and two counts of armedrobbery. She was appointed apublic defender Friday and isdue in court Thursday. She re-mained in DeKalb County Jailon Monday unable to post 10percent of her $103,000 bond.
DeKALB – Middle schoolstudents in the DeKalb schooldistrict will have an oppor-tunity to take Spanish as anelective if board members ap-prove the plan.
The DeKalb School Dis-trict 428 Board members areexpected to vote on the pro-posal during their meeting,which starts at 7 p.m. todayat the Education Center,901 S. 4th St.
Doug Moeller, assistantsuperintendent of curriculumand student services, said theelective is being proposed toreplace health, which hasbeen moved from the electiveofferings and added to thephysical education curricu-
lum for middle-schoolers.Neither he nor board
member Mary Hess could saywhen Spanish was discon-tinued as an elective for mid-dle-schoolers, but Hess said
she’s receivedseveral emailsfrom parentsa n d f o r m e rstudents whosupport theproposal.
“Researchsays learninga second lan-
guage is better at a youngerage,” Hess said. “This allowsstudents to go into high schoolwith that foundation they canbuild on.”
For sixth-grade students,Spanish will be part of therotation with art and com-
puters. Seventh- and eighth-grade students would takeSpanish for the full year.
“If students take the fullyear in seventh and eighthgrade, they can take a place-ment test and go right intoSpanish II in high school,”Moeller said.
Those students would notreceive credit for Spanish Iin high school, as the studenthad not learned the materialfrom high school teachers,Moeller said. The advantagefor students testing out ofSpanish I is that they wouldbe able to take AdvancedPlacement Spanish 5. Therewould be no additions to thestaff if the plan is approved,Moeller said, and he’s unsurehow many students will takeadvantage of the opportunity.
SYCAMORE – FormerDeKalb County State’s At-torney Clay Campbell isrunning for office again, butthis time he wants a seat onthe DeKalb County Board.
“I think I have a particu-larly informed perspectiveon county government,”Campbell said. “And I thinkthere’s a lot of issues thatneed to be addressed.”
Campbell, of Sycamore,is competing with incum-bent Riley Oncken for theRepublican nomination forthe District 3 seat in theMarch 18 local primary. It isone of four contested racesthat emerged after the can-didate filing period ended at5 p.m. Monday.
Laurie Emmer is chal-lenging incumbent Antho-ny Cvek for the Republicannomination for a CountyBoard District 4 seat.
Samuel-Louis Bandy Jr.and Craig Genteman arebattling for the Republi-can nomination for CountyBoard District 9.
For the Democrats, TrentTaylor of DeKalb and De-nise Ii of Sandwich are bothrunning for County Clerkand Recorder.
Taylor and Ii both filedtheir petitions at 8:30 a.m.Nov. 25, so a lottery will beDec. 11 to determine whosename appears first on theDemocratic ballot.
Next year’s electionscould change the makeup ofthe 24-seat DeKalb CountyBoard, which is presentlyevenly divided between Re-publicans and Democrats.Out of 12 seats up for elec-tion, seven are held by Re-publicans while five areheld by Democrats.
A local defense attor-ney who lost re-election asState’s Attorney in Novem-ber 2012, Campbell wantsto attack several criminaljustice issues as a CountyBoard member.
DeKalb County is pay-ing more than $1 million ayear to house jail inmatesoutside DeKalb County, butCampbell doesn’t think theproposed DeKalb CountyJail expansion is feasible,so he wants leaders to dis-cuss other solutions.
“That’s going to take thecooperation of the State’sAttorney, the judiciary andas the entity in control ofthose budgets, the CountyBoard,” Campbell said. “I’mafraid we’re accepting thestatus quo and the statusquo is costing us $1 milliona year.”
Oncken said he was sur-prised to learn Campbellwas running against him.He said he’s running againbecause he believes he’sdone a good job serving theresidents of the district andcounty.
“I look forward to con-tinuing to serve on theboard and, if necessary, Iwill run the best campaignI can,” he said.
Board members votedto appoint Oncken back onthe board in March whenRepublican Ken Andersonresigned in February froma District 3 seat.
Oncken had lost hisre-election last year to MarkPietrowski, D-Cortland, forthe District 3 seat that ex-pires in 2016.
Meanwhile, Cvek wel-comed his Republican op-ponent, Laurie Emmer ofSycamore, in the District4 race. Cvek said he’s run-ning again because hethinks he’s provided con-sistent leadership on issuesmost important to taxpay-ers such as county budgetexpenses.
“If anyone wants to stepforward with some ideas, Iwelcome them to the fray,”he said.
Emmer, who is runningfor office for the first time,said she would like to meetwith people in District 4about the issues that mat-ter most to them. For her,reining in budget costs isimportant.
“I’m running because Iwant to be part of the pro-cess and represent the dis-trict,” she said.
Ex-State’s Attorney runs for County Board
Candidate filings
REPUBLICANS
• County Clerk and Recorder:
Douglas J. Johnson of Sycamore(I)• Sheriff: Roger A. Scott of
DeKalb (I)• Treasurer: Christine J. John-
son of Shabbona (I)• County Board District 2:
Maureen Little of Kingston• County Board District 3:
Riley Oncken (I) of Sycamore;Clay Campbell of Sycamore• County Board District 4:
Anthony Cvek (I) of Sycamore;Laurie Emmer of Sycamore• County Board District
9: Samuel-Louis Bandy Jr. ofDeKalb; Craig J. Genteman ofDeKalb• County Board District 11:
Daniel Cribben (I) of Somonauk• County Board District 12:
John C. Frieders (I) of Somonauk
DEMOCRAT
• County Clerk and Recorder:
Trent Taylor of DeKalb; Denise Iiof Sandwich• County Board District 2:
John R. Noyes of Genoa• County Board District 3:
Joshua Orr of Cortland• County Board District 4:
Joseph Bassett of Sycamore.• County Board District 5:
Stephen Reid (I) of DeKalb• County Board District 6:
Bob Brown (I) of DeKalb• County Board District 7:
Marjorie Askins of DeKalb• County Board District 8:
Christopher Cole Porterfield ofDeKalb• County Board District 9:
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JAMES VANCE ‘JIM’McELHATTENBorn:March 7, 1948, in Butler, Pa.Died: Nov. 24, 2013, in Downers G
DeKALB – JamesVance “Jim”McElhatten, 65, ofDeKalb, Ill., formerlyof Shermans Dale,Pa., passed awaySunday, Nov. 24,2013, at Good Sa-maritan Hospitalin Downers Groveafter a battle with leukemia, with hisfamily by his side.He was born March 7, 1948, in
Butler, Pa., to the late Eugene andMarie (nee Michael) McElhatten.He was a 1966 graduate of Butler
High School, graduated from ValeTechnical Institute in 1967, and thenserved his country in the U.S. Armyin Vietnam. Jim retired after 35 yearsas an assistant manager at K-Mart inMechanicsburg, Pa.He attended Kishwaukee Bible
Church in Sycamore. Jim’s hobbiesinclude hunting, fishing and garden-ing. He loved being a grandpa. Hewas always willing to help anyonewho needed a hand.Jim is survived by his wife, Virginia
“Ginny” (nee Chronister), whom hemarried Oct. 1970; son, Brian (Tracy)of Naperville; granddaughters, Kayla,7, and PeytonMcElhatten, 5; broth-er, David (Anne) of Clearwater,Fla., sister, Colleen (Richard “Dick”)Trulick, of Butler; brothers-in-law,Cal (Jane) Chronister of Butler andRandy (Patty) of Slippery Rock, Pa.;and numerous nieces, nephews,grandnieces and -nephews.Services were held Nov. 26, and he
was buried at Naperville Cemetery.Memorials can bemade in his
memory to Hines Fisher House,5000 S. Fifth Ave., Hines IL 60141,www.woundedwarriorproject.org/donate or St. Jude Children’s Re-search Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place,Memphis, TN 38105-190.Arrangements by Beidel-
man-Kunsch Funeral Home andCrematory. For information, call630-355-0264 or visit www.beidel-mankunschfh.com.To sign the online guest book, visit
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RONALD D. PERCYBorn: Feb. 18, 1944, in ElginDied: Nov. 29, 2013
ALAMOGORDO,N.M. – RonaldD. Percy, of Al-amogordo, N.M.,passed away Friday, Nov. 29, 2013.Ron was born Feb. 18, 1944, in
Elgin, the son of Robert and Lydia(Vierig) Percy.Ron attended Burlington Central
High School. After high school, heserved in the U.S. Air Force duringthe Vietnam era. While stationed inNewMexico, he grew fond of theSouthwest, later moving and resid-ing there for most of his adult life.Ron was a heavy equipment
operator, retiring in 2006 from theInternational Union of OperatingEngineers. He enjoyed cooking, read-ing andmorning conversation withfriends at the campground where heresided.Ron is survived by his sisters,
Diane (Terry) Parkhouse, BeverlyThurnau and Cathy (Jerry) Finn;three nieces, Jennifer (Keith) Crobbe,Jackie (Kevin) Anderson and Jessica(Kurt) Pfund and their children: Ben-jamin, Brody, Harper, Sofia, Wyattand Ellie.He was preceded in death by his
parents; brother, Bobby; nephew,Barry R. Totty (Diane’s son); andniece, Amy Thurnau.Ron’s family wishes to express
a special thank-you to his NewMexico friends for their kindness andconcern during his brief illness.A private memorial service will be
held Saturday, Dec. 7, at FredrickFuneral Home in Hampshire. Burialwill be held at South BurlingtonCemetery.In Lieu of flowers, memorials can
be directed to the Ronald PercyMemorial Fund, in care of FredrickFuneral Home, P.O. Box 445, Hamp-shire, IL, 60140.For information, call 847-683-2711.To sign the online guest book, visit
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8OBITUARIES
Note to readers: Informationin Police Reports is obtainedfrom the DeKalb CountySheriff’s Office and city policedepartments. Individuals listedin Police Reports who have
been charged with a crimehave not been proven guilty incourt.
SycamoreAndres Leon-Lopez, 39, of
Sycamore, was charged Friday,Nov. 29, with two counts ofdriving without a valid driver’slicense and improper lane use.Adam Lee Jensen, 28, of Syc-
amore, was charged Wednes-
day, Nov. 27, with possessionof a controlled substance.Lucinda K. Trautvetter, 36,
of Sycamore, was chargedSunday, Nov. 24, with domes-tic battery.
Jason A. Bailey, 33, of Cor-tland, was arrested Monday,Nov. 25, on a warrant alleginghe failed to appear in court onallegations of driving whilelicense suspended.
8POLICE REPORTS
FBI looks to stemChicago violenceBy MICHAEL TARMThe Associated Press
CHICAGO – The new headof Chicago’s FBI office saidMonday he’ll look for wayshis agents can do more to helpstem homicide rates and otherviolent crimes in the nation’sthird-largest city, though headded it’s not yet clear whatmore the FBI can do that it’snot already doing.
Robert Holley’s commentsto The Associated Press in oneof his first interviews since as-suming his new post a monthago come amid calls by MayorRahm Emanuel, Illinois’ twoU.S. senators and others forfederal law enforcement to domore to combat violence inChicago, which has hundredsof homicides each year.
Already, about 25 percent
of Chicago agents work vio-lent-crime cases, Holley not-ed. But given congressionalspending constraints, shiftingmore resources to the gang,gun and drug crimes that un-derpin much of the violencecould jeopardize other inves-tigative priorities in Chicago,including corruption, coun-terterrorism and cybercrime,he said.
“Could I move resourcesfrom one investigative branchto another? I could,” said Hol-ley. “But I would have to takeaway from other programs,and I don’t know if I am will-ing to accept that risk rightnow.”
Holley declined to say ex-actly how many agents in Chi-cago were assigned to coun-terterrorism, but he said agreater number is devoted to
violent crime.Monday was the first time
Holley weighed in publicly onthe topic.
The newly sworn-in U.S.attorney for Chicago, Zacha-
ry Fardon, hasfaced similarquestions.
H o l l e ysaid he hasn’tyet met withEmanuel aboutany added rolefor the FBI intackling vio-
lent crime. But he said he hasbroached the subject withFardon, as well as with Chi-cago Police SuperintendentGarry McCarthy.
Chicago’s killings topped500 last year – the first timeit hit that mark since 2008.Though the homicide rate has
declined in 2013, some shoot-ings, including the slayingearly this year of 15-year-oldhonor student Hadiya Pend-leton a mile from PresidentBarack Obama’s South Sidehome, have put the issue ofChicago violence back in thenational headlines.
Holley’s forte is terrorism.During his 20 years with theFBI, he has held many of theagency’s top counterterror-ism posts and he was amongthe ranking agents sent toBoston to help investigate theBoston Marathon attack.
His most recent job was atFBI headquarters in Wash-ington as deputy assistantdirector of the agency’s coun-terterrorism division. His re-sponsibilities included brief-ing the director of the FBIeach morning on potential
terror threats.Holley grew up in Indiana,
served in the military and onlyapplied for a job with the FBIat age 36 – just a year youngerthan the cutoff for new agents.His affable but direct personais reflected by a sticker on onewall of his corner office onChicago’s southwest side: Ithas the word “whining” witha red line through it.
Now that he’s responsi-ble for overseeing the gamutof criminal activity, he saidhe’s taking his first monthsin Chicago to absorb as muchinformation as possible aboutareas where he’s had less ex-perience, including the city’sstreet crime. He said that willbe part of his analysis aboutwhether the office can domore than it’s doing on vio-lence.
RobertHolley
DeKalb’s National NightOut event recognizedDeKALB – Target Corp. gave
local leaders a $1,000 grant anda 2013 Excellence Award for theNational Night Out event heldAug. 6.DeKalb police helped host
this annual event with Targetemployees, DeKalb firefighters,Northern Illinois Universitypolice, DeKalb County Sheriff’sdeputies and other entities,according to a news release. Theevent featured picnic-style food,educational activities, and chil-dren’s prizes including bicycleaccessories, toys and bicycleswith the support of Target andthe DeKalb Police Benevolentand Protective AssociationMore than 15,000 events were
held nationwide as part of theNational Night Out effort. Localleaders plan to use the grant tosupport next year’s event, therelease states.
– Daily Chronicle
Ill. group misses paperairplane world recordWEST CHICAGO – A Civil Air
Patrol unit fromWest Chicagodidn’t manage to set a newworld record for the highestpaper airplane flight.The Fox Valley Composite
Squadron’s attempted record fellshort Sunday when the paperairplane attached to a largehelium weather balloon climbedto only 51,000 feet.It was about 30,000 feet short
of the world record that hadbeen set in Spain in 2010. Thegroup had hoped their balloonwould climb to more than100,000 feet.It eventually landed near Mon-
ticello, Ind.
Chicago vets: Makeholidays safe for petsCHICAGO – The festive holiday
season calls for safety precau-tions – for your pets as well aschildren and guests.The Chicago Veterinary
Medical Association is urgingpet owners to make their homespet-friendly during the upcomingseason.Officials say bones from turkey,
ham, lamb and other meats canbe dangerous. If it’s too largeor sharp, a bone can damagethe intestinal tract and requiresurgery.Chocolate – particularly dark
or baking chocolate – can bedangerous for dogs, as well asthe artificial sweetener Xylitolfound in candy and baked goods.Guests should be advised not
to feed pets table scraps. Andkeep alcoholic beverages awayfrom pets. Holiday plants suchas mistletoe and lilies can belife-threatening to animals. Hollycan be toxic.
–Wire reports
8BRIEFS
AP photo
Protesting fast food workers demonstrate Aug. 29 outside a McDonald’s restaurant on New York’s Fifth Avenue, in New York. Fast-foodworkers in about 100 cities will walk off the job Thursday to build on a campaign that began about a year ago to call attention to thedifficulties of living on the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.
Fast-food strikes aim at 100 citiesThe ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK – Fast-foodworkers in about 100 cit-ies will walk off the job onThursday, organizers say,which would mark the larg-est effort yet in a push forhigher pay.
The actions are intendedto build on a campaign thatbegan about a year ago tocall attention to the difficul-ties of living on the federalminimum wage of $7.25 anhour, or about $15,000 a yearfor a full-time employee.
The protests are part of amovement by labor unions,Democrats and other workeradvocacy groups to raise payin low-wage sectors. Lastmonth, President BarackObama said he would back a
Senate measure to raise thefederal minimum wage to$10.10 an hour.
Protesters are calling for$15 an hour, although manysee the figure as a rallyingpoint rather than a near-term possibility.
It’s not clear how largethe turnout will be at anygiven location, or whetherthe walkouts will be enoughto disrupt operations. Simi-lar actions this summer hadvarying results, with somerestaurants unable to servecustomers and others seem-ingly unaffected.
The National RestaurantAssociation, an industrylobbying group, called thedemonstrations a “cam-paign engineered by nation-al labor groups,” and said
the vast majority of partici-pants were union protestersrather than workers.
The group added that pastdemonstrations “have fallenwell short of their purportednumbers.”
Kendall Fells, a NewYork City-based organizerfor Fast Food Forward, saiddemonstrations are plannedfor 100 cities, in addition tothe 100 cities where work-ers will strike. He said plansstarted coming togethershortly after the one-day ac-tions in about 60 cities thissummer.
“They understand they’renot going to win from a one-day strike,” Fells said ofworkers.
Still, organizers face anuphill battle in reshaping an
industry that competes ag-gressively on low prices, apractice that has intensifiedas companies including Mc-Donald’s Corp., Burger KingWorldwide Inc. and YumBrands Inc., which ownsKFC, Pizza Hut and TacoBell, face growing competi-tion and slow growth in theweak economy.
Fast-food workers arealso seen as difficult tounionize, given the indus-try’s high turnover rates.But the Service EmployeesInternational Union, whichrepresents more than 2 mil-lion workers in health care,janitorial and other indus-tries, has been providingorganizational and financialsupport to the push for high-er pay over the past year.
For critics, Common Core is educational follyBy PHILIP ELLIOTTThe Associated Press
WASHINGTON – Criticsare relentless in warningabout what they see as the fol-ly of the new Common Coreacademic standards, designedto prepare students for col-lege or a job by the time theygraduate from high school.
The standards are beingimplemented in 45 states andthe District of Columbia, butcritics say they were writtenin private and never testedin real classrooms, and thateducators aren’t familiarenough with the standards touse them. The standards alsocome with a multibillion dol-lar price tag.
“Children are cominghome with worksheets andtheir parents don’t recognizeit,” said Emmett McGroarty,a director at the AmericanPrinciples Project, a conser-vative group that opposes thestandards. “Common Core is
reckless in what it’s doing tochildren.”
Common Core’s support-ers think the worries areoverblown and miss nuancesof the sweeping changes thatspell out the reading and mathskills that students shouldhave at each grade level, fromkindergarten through highschool. But even the mostvocal supporters admit theycannot guarantee the stan-dards will succeed.
There’s one thing bothsides agree on: When fullyimplemented, Common Corestands to reshape the vastmajority of American class-rooms.
Critics – parents, teachersand tea partyers alike – arguethat states were pressured tosign onto the Common Corestandards to get federal eco-nomic stimulus money tokeep teachers on the job.
In fact, to qualify for morethan $4 billion in aid, stateshad to put into place stan-
dards to prepare students forlife after high school and teststudent performance. Com-mon Core wasn’t specificallyprescribed, but the Obama ad-ministration clearly signaledit was the preferred optionstarting in 2009.
“Normally, to go throughstandards it would takeyears,” said Bill Evers, a re-searcher at Stanford Univer-sity’s Hoover Institution. “InCalifornia, we had six weeks.”
Such quick approval re-sulted in new standards thatsome didn’t fully understand.
For instance, the stan-dards include tougher ap-proaches to math – such asrigid motion in geometry –over more common approach-es.
“It has never successfullybeen used in K-12 educationin the United States, in anystate, in any country,” Everssaid of rigid motion.
At the same time, CommonCore puts a greater emphasis
on critical thinking needed asadults. There is a greater em-phasis on nonfiction and tech-nical selections, more likelyneeded in the workplace thansonnets.
To critics, it smacks of afederal reading list.
Teachers can pick theirown passages but CommonCore provides suggestions.If teachers have better ideas,they’re free to use them. Lit-erature and history aren’tabandoned.
For example, the recom-mended reading has a PabloNeruda poem listed on thesame page as the Constitu-tion’s Bill of Rights and aRalph Waldo Emerson essay.
“There is no prescriptionas to how these should betaught. There’s no one peda-gogical standard how theseshould be taught,” said Wil-liam Schmidt, who heads theCenter for the Study of Cur-riculum at Michigan StateUniversity.
Year-end signups a crucialtest for health care website
By RICARDOALONSO–ZALDIVARThe Associated Press
WASHINGTON – Pres-
ident Barack Obama’s new
and improved health care
website faces yet another
test in just a couple of weeks,
its biggest yet. If HealthCare.
gov becomes overwhelmed
by an expected year-end
crunch, many Americans
will be left facing a break in
their insurance coverage.
Until now, the main
damage from the website’s
technology woes has been
to Obama’s poll ratings. But
if it chokes again, it will be
everyday people feeling the
consequences.
Some of those at risk
are among the more than 4
million consumers whose
individual policies have
been canceled because the
coverage didn’t comply with
requirements of the new
health care law. A smaller
number, several hundred
thousand, are in federal
and state programs for peo-
ple whose health problems
already were a barrier to
getting private insurance
before the overhaul.
“The chances are almost
100 percent that someone
who would like to continue
coverage next year and in-
tends to secure it is not go-
ing to be able to do it,” said
Mark McClellan, who over-
saw the rollout of the Medi-
care prescription drug ben-
efit under President George
W. Bush.
“It’s important to recog-
nize that none of these pro-
grams are going to work
perfectly from the start and
a big part of implementation
is having mechanisms in
place that anticipate prob-
lems and help mitigate their
effects,” added McClellan,
now a health care policy
expert with the Brookings
Institution think tank in
Washington.
But Monday, adminis-
tration officials projected
renewed confidence that
they’re on top of things.
White House spokesman Jay
Carney declared that the fed-
eral site serving 36 states got
375,000 visitors by noon.
Even as fixes continued
on back-end features of the
system, enrollment counsel-
ors said the consumer-facing
front end was working no-
ticeably better – but still was
not free of glitches or delays.
As Carney acknowledged,
some of Monday morning’s
visitors were shuttled into a
queue and advised when to
return for speedier service.
That’s actually an improve-
ment to handle high volume,
he said.
NTSB: Train was going too fastThe ASSOCIATED PRESS
YONKERS, N.Y. – A com-muter train that derailed overthe weekend, killing four pas-sengers, was hurtling at 82mph as it entered a 30 mphcurve, a federal investigatorsaid Monday. But whether thewreck was the result of humanerror or brake trouble was stillunclear, he said.
Asked why the train was go-ing so fast, National Transpor-tation Safety Board memberEarl Weener said: “That’s thequestion we need to answer.”
Weener said the informa-tion on the locomotive’s speedwas preliminary and extractedfrom the Metro-North train’stwo data recorders, taken fromthe wreckage after the Sun-day morning accident in theBronx. He also said investiga-
tors began interviewing thecrew members, but he wouldnot disclose what the engineerhad told them.
Weener said the throttlewent to idle six seconds beforethe derailed train came to acomplete stop – “very late inthe game” for a train going thatfast – and the brakes were ful-ly engaged five seconds beforethe train stopped.
He said investigators wereexamining the engineer’s cell-phone – apparently to deter-mine whether he was operat-ing the train while distracted.
Asked whether the tragedywas the result of human erroror faulty brakes, Weener said:“The answer is, at this point intime, we can’t tell.”
As investigators mined thedata recorders for informa-tion, workers righted the fall-
en cars along the curve, a bendso sharp that the speed limitduring the approach dropsfrom 70 mph to 30 mph.
The wreck came twoyears before the federal gov-ernment’s deadline for Met-ro-North and other railroadsto install automatic-slowdowntechnology designed to pre-vent catastrophic accidents.But with the cause of Sunday’swreck unknown, it was notclear whether the technologywould have made a difference.
The engineer, WilliamRockefeller, was injured and“is totally traumatized by ev-erything that has happened,”said Anthony Bottalico, execu-tive director of the rail employ-ees union.
He said Rockefeller, 46, wascooperating fully with inves-tigators.
AP photo
Cranes lift a derailed Metro-North train car Monday in the Bronx borough of New York. Federal authoritiesbegan righting the carsMondaymorning as they started an exhaustive investigation into what caused a NewYork City commuter train rounding a riverside curve to derail, killing four people and injuring more than 60.
“This is going to be thebiggest vote most legislatorsmake in their career,” he said.“You’ve got one shot at thisand you want to do it right.”
Illinois’ pension funds are$100 billion short of what’sneeded to pay benefits as cur-rently promised to employeesand retirees, largely becauselawmakers for years havefailed to fully fund the state’spayments to the systems. Butuntil last week, legislativeleaders were unable to agree onhow to fix the problem – evenas pension payments grew totake up about one-fifth of thestate’s general funds budgetand the major credit ratingagencies repeatedly downgrad-ed the state’s rating. Illinoisnow has the lowest credit rat-ing of any state in the country.
A number of cities andstates have dealt with similarpension troubles, but Illinoishas notably lagged behind infinding the political will to dealwith its ballooning financialproblem.
The proposal would pushback the retirement age forworkers ages 45 and younger,on a sliding scale. The annu-al 3 percent cost-of-living in-creases for retirees would bereplaced with a system thatonly provides the increases ona portion of benefits, based onhow many years a beneficiarywas in their job. Some workerswould have the option of freez-ing their pension and starting
a 401(k)-style defined contribu-tion plan.
Language to prevent “pen-sion abuses” is also part of theplan, as nongovernment em-ployees such as union bossescouldn’t participate and newhires wouldn’t be able to banksick or vacation time to boostpensions.
Republican and Democrat-ic legislative leaders and Gov.Pat Quinn, a Chicago Demo-crat, have spent recent daysdrumming up support for theplan through conference callsand meetings with individualmembers. At the same time,Illinois unions spent Mondayflooding the offices of lawmak-ers as they work to oppose themeasure.
Labor groups say it’s un-fair to retirees and believe thatsome parts of the plan are un-constitutional. Union leadersplanned to speak against theproposal during a Tuesdaymorning hearing.
Some conservatives alsocriticized the plan as not go-ing far enough, saying publicemployees’ retirement benefitswill still be far more generousthan those provided in theprivate sector. There also wascriticism that the process wastoo rushed.
Some members, includingDemocratic state Rep. GregHarris of Chicago, said theywere comfortable with theshort turnaround.
“These concepts have beentalked about for a long time,”Harris said, acknowledgingthat there was “natural fearor concern of if this is the best
possible solution.” Harrisplans to vote yes.
Only one of the three Re-publicans seeking their par-ty’s nomination for the 2014governor’s race supports theagreement. State Sen. BillBrady of Bloomington, a pen-sion committee member, saidit was a difficult decision. AndU.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, the state’shighest ranking Republican,said Monday the General As-sembly should reject the bill“that neither lawmakers northe voters have had the timeto read.”
But a coalition of 11 influen-tial business and civic organi-zations, including the IllinoisChamber of Commerce and theIllinois Manufacturers’ Associ-ation, sent a joint letter to leg-islators calling it “a good bill”that deserves their support.
“While not a solution to allof the state’s fiscal problems,this bill is a significant stepforward,” the letter stated.
Quinn said at an unrelatedevent in Chicago earlier in theday that he was traveling Mon-day night to Springfield andwould talk to and meet with asmany lawmakers as possible totry to get their yes votes.
“I think the most importantfiscal vote that will ever be tak-en by the general assembly inmy lifetime,” he said. “We needto erase the liability and moveIllinois forward. That’s whatI’m committed to and I thinkeveryone who is interested inthe future of Illinois, the com-mon good, what’s good for tax-payers should join us in urginga yes vote.”
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display a full line of furni-ture, including living room,dining room and bedroomfurniture, and other furnish-ing accessories,” Sharawisaid. “We sell Ashley Furni-ture and customers can ex-cept the quality and upscalestyle that they have come toexpect from Ashley Furni-ture.”
The new store will helpthe local economy by creat-ing jobs and gathering sales
tax, including some sales taxfrom out-of-town customers,DeKalb Mayor John Rey said.
Local economic develop-ment leaders had been work-ing to bring a furniture storeto town.
“We believe we’re losingbetween $5 million and $10million a year in furnituresales, specifically,” said Rog-er Hopkins, DeKalb’s eco-nomic development consul-tant. “Many of the furniturestores want to be in locationsthat have 40,000 square feetor more. We were really for-tunate to find someone want-
ing a smaller floor plan,”Hopkins said.
Hopkins said negotiationswith Finest Furniture beganin September, and the own-ers wanted to find a locationto occupy before Christmas.Property owner Jim Masonsaid he gave the business the8,500-square-foot retail spacerent-free for three months.
“They looked at smallerlocations and one of the newbuildings under constructionon Sycamore Road,” Hopkinssaid. “But the space and rentdidn’t quite match, and it didat Parkview.”
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Vietnam Memorial hostsChristmas ceremonySPRINGFIELD – Officials are
preparing for the Illinois Viet-nam Veterans Memorial’s 26th
annual ceremony for prisoners
of war and service members
who remain missing in action.
The ceremony will be
Saturday in Springfield’s Oak
Ridge Cemetery. There are
66 Illinoisans listed as MIA or
POW in Southeast Asia.
Families and friends of
soldiers may hang handmade
ornaments on a tree near the
memorial. Others attending
may bring a weather-proof
ornament to hang.
Officials: No emergencycall made from chopperLONDON – The pilot of a
Scottish police helicopter did
not put out any emergency
calls before crashing through
the roof of a crowded Glasgow
pub, killing nine people, inves-tigators said Monday.
Authorities used a crane to
remove the wreckage of the
helicopter from the roof of The
Clutha pub where it crashed
Friday night. The helicopter’s
crew – a civilian pilot and two
police officers on board – died
in the accident. Six other
people died.
– Wire reports
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When Linda Underwood, Genoa Main
Street Inc. president, got up to welcome
the large crowd of supporters gathered
for the organization’s annual dinner, she
was able to give a positive report.
“Nine new businesses, an improved
streetscape and 12 months of successful
events,” Underwood said, according to
a news release. “I’d say it’s been a good
year.”
Genoa Main Street has been working
to improve downtown since 1996. Over
the years, the city of 5,000 has estab-
lished itself as a community welcom-
ing to new businesses, residents and
visitors.
“Downtown should be a successful
business center, a place for the commu-
nity to gather, and an attractive place
to visit,” Main Street executive director
Mim Evans said in the release. “This past
year saw progress on all three fronts.”
Downtown Genoa has a new phar-
macy, antique store, furniture store,
exercise studio, siding business and
several office-based businesses. The new
arrivals appreciate affordable space,
the 10,000 cars a day that pass through
downtown and an entrepreneur-friendly
environment.
“Genoa Main Street Inc. is part of a
team that keeps downtown strong. The
city invested in downtown with sidewalk
improvements, benches and planters,”
Evans said in the release. “The city also
provides free police support for down-
town events. The chamber is very sup-
portive, and many people don’t realize
the fire department runs Genoa Days.”
Downtown Genoa has established
itself as a year-round community
center. The summer-through-fall Open
Air Markets are the largest in the area,
attracting vendors from across northern
Illinois. In the winter months, people
of all ages skate on the free outdoor ice
rink.
“Private investment downtown
increased in 2013,” Evans said in the
release. “Several building owners put on
new roofs, tuck pointed and painted. The
new owner of the pharmacy completed a
major rehabilitation, inside and out.”
Looking ahead, the Genoa Public
Library is scheduled to expand onto the
vacant lot next to its existing build-
ing. Genoa Main Street, Inc. is taking ap-
plications for its small business incuba-
tor, Genoa Springboard, which provides
quality space at affordable cost. With
Amtrak service to Genoa on the horizon,
a new train station is anticipated.
“While we have few vacancies, there
are still opportunities for new business-
es or investors to be a part of downtown
Genoa,” Underwood said. “We have
something special here, with a tradition-
al small town that really works.”
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Class Member
Luis Aguilar was born and raised in DeKalb and has seen his city grow by leaps and bounds in his lifetime. Graduatingfrom DeKalb High School in 2000, Luis forsook college in favor of taking up full time volunteer service where he wasfortunate to meet his future wife, Sadie.For the last 8 years Luis has dedicated his career to the banking industry. Starting as a teller, he quickly transitioned intolending and personal banking. He loves using his knowledge and experience to be a financial advocate to his community.He enjoys educating and guiding his customers to financial independence and security. One of Luisʼ favorite hobbies isvolunteering with a local dog rescue group. He and his wife enjoy fostering dogs in need and rehabilitating them toprepare them for adoption. Having an active role in the community is important to him and he has found that his careerat Castle Bank caters to that. He has had the privilege of being a part of the Castle Challenge and helping with the MealsOn Wheels program. You will always find him smiling and willing to help you when you visit Castle Bank. He always goesabove and beyond in his career, as a member of the community, as a husband and father.
With Thanksgiving andall that comes with it nowbehind us, we can nowfocus on the next part of theholiday season and all that itbrings.
The excitement of footballcontinues after inviting theIHSA State Football Cham-pionships to DeKalb andnow it’s back to watchingour Huskies go for a thirdstraight MAC Championshipon Friday night. There couldbe much more to the story ofthe 2013 NIU Huskies Foot-ball team so be sure to checkout the game to find out thenext chapter.
Winter Bash: The DeKalbChamber celebrates theholidays each year with itsWinter Bash. This year’sevent brings great excitementwith the opening of Faranda’sbanquet facility in downtownDeKalb. The Winter Bash andgrand opening event of Faran-da’s have joined together tomake for a fun event for allwho attend. Come celebratefrom 5 to 8 p.m. today at 302Grove St. in DeKalb. Therewill be great food, refresh-ments and entertainmentthanks to event sponsorsFaranda’s, American Liquorsand Heritage Woods.
Santa comes to town: Oneof the best things about thistime of year is the excite-ment that children have forthe holidays. If you want tosee children get excited, besure to head downtown towatch Santa arrive Thurs-day evening. The event issponsored by NB&T andincludes cookies, cocoa andcaroling at the EgyptianTheatre beginning at 6 p.m.The man in the big red suitwill arrive at his house inVan Buer Plaza at 7 p.m.Come enjoy the fun of the
season and the first chanceto see Santa and get your listin early this year.
Visits with Santa andcarriage rides: Each of thefirst three Saturdays inDecember, Santa will be inhis house so kids of all agescan visit him and share theirlist. He’ll be visiting from 11a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec.14 and 21. During the sametime on those dates, carriagerides will be offered from theDeKalb Public Library. Thevisits with Santa and car-riage rides are all availableat no cost thanks to NB&T.
DeKalb County’s LargestHoliday Office Party: It’s timefor the ninth annual DeKalbCounty’s Largest Holiday Of-fice Party brought to you bythe DeKalb Chamber of Com-merce, B95, Daily Chronicle,The MidWeek and Fatty’sPub & Grille. Have youroffice party here, join us foran extension of yours or justcome out to enjoy the fun.The party begins at 5 p.m.with a complimentary appe-tizer buffet. Santa will makean appearance and handout gifts and Back CountryRoads will perform at 8 p.m.
Find out about these
upcoming events and more
by visiting www.dekalb.
org, calling 815-756-6306, or
following us on Facebook or
Twitter. Happy Holidays to
everyone and remember to
enjoy the season and focus
on what is important to you!
• Matt Duffy is execu-tive director of the DeKalbChamber of Commerce.
KIRKLAND – There’s a new fam-ily business in Kirkland where theowners claim to have the best hotdogs on the planet.
Tasty Dawgs, 518 W. Main St.,opened Nov. 9 after success withthe owners’ Woodstock hot dog cartbusiness interested them in expand-ing.
The Allens wanted to expand be-cause it has been a childhood dreamof brothers Jim and David to own ahot dog restaurant.
“I love working with people,”
said Jim Allen, co-owner of TastyDawgs. “I didn’t realize it, [but] mybrother secretly has always wantedto have a hot dog [business], but wenever had those conversations.”
Opening the restaurant has al-lowed the brothers to form a closerbond as well. Now that they work
together, the brothers talk everyday as opposed to every few weeks,Jim Allen said.
The Allens also hope the businesswill be here to stay in the smalltown of Kirkland. The restaurant islocated in the same spot as a hot dogrestaurant that went out of business.
The Allens said the thing that setstheir business apart is the work theywill do with the community. The fam-ily plans to sit down and speak withlocals such as the mayor to see howthey can help serve the community.
“The intention is to give back tothe community,” said Lizz Allen,Jim’s wife. “Being a part of the com-
munity is our goal; not just to makemoney.”
Jim Allen said they already havemet with the mayor to discuss howto run a business in Kirkland.
The restaurant sells never-fro-zen products such as hot dogs andhamburgers, and they receive theirmeat from Inboden’s Meat Marketin DeKalb. Their hot dogs are madefrom Vienna beef, and fresh-cutfries come with every meal.
Surprisingly, their most popularitem is the cheddar burger, whichcomes with a cheese spread as op-posed to a slice of cheese, Jim Allensaid.
“What goes out the door, we wantit to be high quality,” Lizz Allensaid. “If it doesn’t look good, it won’tgo out the door.”
So far, locals have responded wellto the new restaurant. One familyvisited the restaurant three times ina single day, Jim Allen said.
Jim Allen said there will be somenew competition for Gene & Jude’s,a River Grove restaurant voted theNo. 1 hot dog in the U.S. by EveryDay With Rachael Ray Magazineand three judges from Serious Eatsfood blog.
“We sure would like to give thema run for their money,” he said.
Tasty Dawgs business expands to Kirkland
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Tasty DawgsAddress: 518 W. Main St., KirklandPhone: 815-522-3111Hours: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through
Saturday; will open on Sundays in the spring
Car dealership hostsphotos with Santa event
DeKalb Sycamore ChevroletCadillac GMC invites familiesto its dealership Saturday for aholiday event.Santa will be there for the kids
to share their wish lists and pic-tures. Visitors are encouragedto bring an unwrapped toy forToys-for-Tots as the business isan official Toys-for-Tots drop-off location.The event will be from 11 a.m.
to 2 p.m. Saturday. DeKalb Syc-amore Chevrolet Cadillac GMCis located at 1925 MercantileDrive (next to Menards) inSycamore.
Coach attends strengthtraining seminar
Shawn Sellers, a coach atMoose-L Up Redemption Club,recently attended a CircularStrength Training seminartaught by international fitnesscoach and U.S. military andlaw enforcement consultantScott Sonnon. Circular StrengthTraining teaches participants torestore their natural mobility,move gracefully and correctpoor compensatory movements.It encompasses movement andflexibility techniques found inyoga, martial arts and dancestudios, with a variety of pro-gressive strengthening exercis-es using body weight, gravity,club bells and kettle bells.Sonnon’s peak perfor-
mance-enhancement methodsare considered to be on the
scientific cutting edge, and he
consults for agencies such as
the Department of Defense,
Department of Homeland Se-
curity, and the U.S. Federal Law
Enforcement Training Center.Sellers coaches Magnifi-
cent Mobility at Moose(L)-UpRedemption Club Strength Gymin Sycamore. He focuses onmobility to preserve healthyjoints, body weight exercise to
strengthen the body and yogato preserve benefits and preventdrawbacks. Magnificent Mobilityis scalable for any fitness level.
Giles Productionssets grand opening
Giles Productions will hold agrand opening reception from4 to 9 p.m. Friday at its newstorefront and photographystudio at 318 E. Lincoln Highway
in DeKalb.The business offers in-home
or studio photography andfilming services, custom giftsspotlighting local artists andcustom-made announcements,cards and specialty items.The store is owned by Morgan
Marie Banks (left) and Donna DeMarco ready the newest addition to downtown Genoa. Theirshop, Hummingbird, opens Friday and specializes in hand-painted furniture. Downtown Genoawelcomed nine new businesses in 2013.
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Busy month ofholiday events
The football games are over – so let the self-examina-tion begin.
Judging by the accounts of organizers and thosewho attended, DeKalb made a fine debut as host of theIHSA football state championships this weekend.
There were good-sized crowds that filled in a lot ofthe available space at the 24,000-seat stadium – ratherthan looking sparse as the crowd typically does in theUniversity of Illinois’ 60,000-seat Memorial Stadium.
Things were orderly for the most part, and therewere no major malfunctionsor incidents that upstagedthe games themselves.
As with most any endeav-or of this scale, there will bethings that can be correctedor improved before thegames return Nov. 27 and 28,2015 to Huskie Stadium.
There were some longlines for concessions, and attimes they ran out of popularitems such as hot dogs.
There also were some periods of long traffic backupsto get into the Convocation Center parking lot, andby midday Saturday, the Convocation Center lot wasalmost full, leaving people with a longer walk to HuskieStadium than they might have liked.
But nothing on that list rates as more than aninconvenience, something that members of the IHSADestination DeKalb committee – or whoever will be incharge of coordinating the next effort to hold the games– will have time to discuss and plan to change.
In general, it went very well. There were lots of fans,mostly sunny weather, and some memorable footballplayed on the field (and replayed on the Huskie Stadi-um video board).
Event organizers will have almost two years to ana-lyze what went right and what could have been better,work improve what they can, and also figure out whereto get the funds for the next round of games in 2015.
The two-year time difference could be a blessing ora curse, depending on how they use it. But the ultimategoal should be to keep the games in DeKalb for years tocome by refining the approach and making a science ofrunning this event.
It was a great debut, and hopefully 2015 will be evenbetter.
Let planningbegin for the2015 games
For the record
The ultimate goal should
be to keep the games in
DeKalb for years to come
by refining the approach
and making a science of
running this event.
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“With the power vested in me, I grant Popcorn fullreprieve from a future of stuffing and cranberry sauce.”– President Barack Obama, Wednesday
At least President Obama is aware that he possessesthe power of clemency. Unpardonably, though, with theexception of the silly Thanksgiving ritual in which hespares a turkey by executive order, he virtually neverdiscusses this prerogative, and he rarely uses it. In fact,no modern president comes close to Obama in metingout mercy so rarely and so stingily.
In his first term in office, Ronald Reagan signed 250pardons for federal inmates; George H.W. Bush autho-rized 77, and Bill Clinton, 56. Obama granted just 23.(Including those granted this spring, his total is now upto 39.) According to an analysis by ProPublica, whichstudied applications for pardons processed by the Jus-tice Department, Obama has granted clemency to just2 percent of applicants. Reagan pardoned about a thirdof such applicants; Clinton 12 percent; and the elderGeorge Bush about 7 percent. Even George W. Bushextended pardons at a rate slightly higher than Obama.
As the Huffington Post noted, so far in his presi-dency Obama has pardoned about the same number ofdrug offenders (11) as turkeys (10). Possibly, part of theproblem is that the office reviewing the applications isin the Justice Department and staffed mainly by careerprosecutors loath to recommend leniency. But the big-ger hang-up may be in the White House.
There is little political upside to forgiving convictedcriminals or shortening their sentences. But there is aquestion of principle here, as Obama has acknowledged.He said, as a candidate, and Attorney General EricHolder has since reiterated, that America must revisitits policy of imposing decades-long sentences on nonvio-lent drug offenders.
Those over-the-top penalties also apply to offensesinvolving marijuana, whose use has been legalized insome states and is moving toward legalization in others.Federal judges frequently complain of the draconiansentences they are required to hand down in evenlow-level and nonviolent drug cases. Holder says he isdetermined to pare sentences for older and nonviolentinmates and reform sentencing laws so that certain con-victs who pose little risk to society receive punishmentsshort of incarceration.
The chances that Congress would enact such reformsare low. But Obama can act in selected cases on his own,empowered by Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution,which permits him the ability “to grant reprieves andpardons for offenses against the United States.” Thatvirtually unrestricted power has been used too sparing-ly for many years. Obama is extending the trend in thewrong direction.
TheWashington Post
County Board candidatewants to rein in spendingTo the Editor:
My name is Craig J. Genteman
and I am running for DeKalb
County Board in District 9.
I am an Army Veteran who
served multiple tours in Iraq
as a combat medic with the
82nd Airborne Division and the
25th Infantry Division. I will
be graduating from Northern
Illinois University next year, with
a Bachelors of Arts in Public
Administration and International
Relations. I have been married to
my wife Angela for 6 years and
we are expecting our first child in
January.
In a nutshell, District 9 is in
DeKalb. It includes to the north
everything east of Sycamore
Road up to Bethany, down toward
First and then Fourth streets, and
goes back north along the North-
South train tracks, juts east and
goes up along DeKalb Township’s
eastern boundary line.
Since leaving military service in
2011, I have witnessed firsthand
the damages of big government
utopianism and out of control
spending. The fallacy of central
planning is not about rationality
and reason. It is not about knowl-
edge and experience. It is about
illegitimately exercising power
over others. It is about the coer-
cive imposition of an impossible
utopian ideal, one that is complex
and ambiguous; fixed and elusive;
comprehensive and piecemeal;
abrupt and gradual.
However, its direction is clear:
It leads to tyranny, in one form or
another.
I intend on bringing Constitu-
tional Republicanism back to
DeKalb County. I am for reining in
out-of-control spending. I am for
downsizing government to save
the taxpayers’ money throughout
the county. I do not believe in
raising property taxes, especially
when the value of property is
decreasing. I am for a compre-
hensive review of our county’s
budget by an independent agen-
cy outside the “good ol’ boy”
system currently used by some
of our board members. Finally,
I want to review the efficiency
of every department within the
county to determine the level
of effectiveness and find ways
to cut waste and spending. As a
county, we should not recklessly
spend our savings and raise taxes
in order to fulfill self-interested
projects.
If we ever want to see a return
to Constitutional Republicanism
in this country, it will start at
the local level. Please join me in
restoring our founding principles
to DeKalb County. It will take ev-
eryone’s input and commitment
to make this happen. Please like
my Facebook page at “Genteman
for County Board”. I hope to be
hearing from all of you very soon.
Thank you.
Craig J. GentemanDeKalb
Make local businesses
part of shopping planTo the Editor:
Just wanted to say I really
appreciated the column Nov. 29
by Jason Akst, in which he high-
lighted Small Business Saturday
and urged readers to patronize
locally owned business on Nov.
30.
As a person who has worked
in a small locally owned retail
establishment for many years, I
hope that a lot of readers will do
as Akst suggests.
For the past few years I have
purchased as many Christmas
gifts as possible by shopping
locally in small businesses and
then buying the rest from chain
stores.
It is very satisfying to find just
the right gift at a small local
business. I hope many of your
readers will give it a try.
Ginny KroeningSomonauk
Government doesn’t have to work this badlyHow is it possible that President Barack
Obama did not know that his belovedhealthcare.gov website was a botch? That’s aquestion many thoughtful people (includingthoughtful Democrats) are asking.
We heard him say that he wouldn’t haveboasted that it would be as easy to use asamazon.com or obitz.com had he knownthat it wouldn’t. I’m not “stupid enough,”he said at his Nov. 14 news conference. MostAmericans agree that’s true.
One thing we do know is that this is achief executive who does not want to hearbad news, or at least effectively discourageshis subordinates from bringing it to him.
He made a decision to take the questionof intervention in Syria to Congress afterconsulting, on a walk in the White Houselawn, with his chief of staff. Any staffer withknowledge of congressional opinion on theissue could have told him that he didn’tcome close to having the votes.
And it’s known that his White Housecounsel, Kathryn Ruemmler, learned theweek of April 22 from Treasury lawyersthat the Internal Revenue Service had, inher words, “improperly scrutinized several... organizations by using words like ‘TeaParty’ and ‘patriot.’ “
Evidently, she didn’t tell the president,who said he learned about the scandal onlywhen it was made public by IRS official LoisLerner on May 10. Counsels to former pres-idents of both parties say they would haveinformed their bosses immediately.
Effective executives take special pains toferret out bad news from the organizationsthey command. They know that most under-lings like to tell their superiors that thingsare going fine.
“A culture that prefers deluding the bossover delivering bad news isn’t well equipped
to try new things,” writes Internet pioneerClay Shirky on his eponymous blog. AsShirky explains, in developing softwarethere is “a tradeoff between features, qualityand time.”
“If you want certain features at a cer-tain level of quality, you’d better be ableto move the deadline,” he writes. “If youwant overall quality by a certain deadline,you’d better be able to simply delay or dropfeatures. And if you have a fixed feature listand deadline, quality will suffer.”
You find out what works by testing,“even if that means contradicting manage-ment’s deeply held assumptions and goals.”But the testing of the Obamacare websitewas, he says, “late and desultory.”
Government doesn’t have to work thisbadly. The Obama administration had 42months from the passage of Obamacare tothe scheduled rollout of healthcare.gov.The Pentagon, still the world’s largest officebuilding after more than 70 years, was builtin 18 months.
But that was accomplished by men whoknew that the Commander-in-Chief, Frank-lin Roosevelt, expected results. Rooseveltcould be an inspiring orator. But he alsoshowed a gift for selecting the right men(and, occasionally, women) to reach goalsthat he thought were really important.
Obama seems to lack that knack. Hehas advanced to the highest position ingovernment without having demonstratedthe ability to get results outside a politicalcampaign. He is the product, as the Hoover
Institution’s Peter Berkowitz writes, “of thesame progressive version of higher educa-tion that simultaneously excises politicsfrom the study of government and publicpolicy while politicizing education.”
“This higher education,” Berkowitzcontinues, “denigrates experience; exaltsrational administration; reveres abstractmoral reasoning; confidently counts on themainstream press to play for the progressivepolitical team; accords to words fabulousabilities to remake reality; and believesitself to speak for the people while haughtilydespising their way of life.”
Or to put it more pithily, Obama knowshow to use words well. But he doesn’t seemto understand how the world works. “We’realso discovering,” he said at that pressconference, “that insurance is complicatedto buy.” Yup.
There is a reason public policy in indus-trial age America (and other democraticcountries) moved toward greater regimen-tation and standardization. Centralizedcommand and control was a good way to runassembly lines.
There is a reason also that public policyin the information age, elsewhere and hereuntil 2008, moved toward more marketmechanisms. Central planners have a hardtime anticipating how IT systems and con-sumers will respond. That’s especially truewhen chief executive doesn’t want to hear –and perhaps cannot imagine that there willbe – bad news. Welcome to the kludgeocracy.
• Michael Barone, senior political analystfor The Washington Examiner, is a residentfellow at the American Enterprise Insti-tute, a Fox News Channel contributor anda co-author of The Almanac of AmericanPolitics.
HINCKLEY – One big run can make all thedifference. And for the Hinckley-Big Rock girlsbasketball team, that run didn’t go its way.
With the score tied atthe start of the secondquarter, Ottawa Mar-quette closed out the firsthalf on a 21-4 run thatspanned nearly six min-utes. That run was the dif-ference as the Royals fell,44-33, in its home opener.
“We had no energy af-ter the first two minutesand dug ourselves too bigof a hole to get out of,”
H-BR coach Greg Burks said. “Then, in thesecond half, we got the energy and effort levelup. But it was too little, too late.”
Bowling Green footballcoach Dave Clawson has hadthe service of both his coordi-nators since he took the job af-ter the 2008 season.
He’s the only coach in theMid-American Conference whocan say that.
Offensive coordinator War-ren Ruggiero and defensive co-ordinator Mike Elko have beenwith Clawson from the time hearrived in northwest Ohio.
And lately, Elko’s defenseshave been very, very good. Thisseason, the Falcons are giving
up only 13.8 points a game, fifthin the nation. Florida State isgiving up a nation-low 11 pointsa contest, and is followed by Al-abama, Louisville and Michi-gan State.
Sister: Deadly shootingwas over ’Bama lossBIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A
woman charged with killinga fellow Alabama fan after
the end of last weekend’sIron Bowl football game was
angry that the victim andothers didn’t seem upsetover the Crimson Tide’s lossto archrival Auburn, said the
sister of the slain woman.Adrian Laroze Briskey, 28,
was charged Monday withmurder in the killing of 36-year-old Michelle Shepherd.Hoover police Capt. Jim Coker
said both Birminghamwomen
were Alabama fans and at
the same party for the annualgame between intrastate
rivals. With no time left onthe clock, Auburn returned a
missed Crimson Tide field goalmore than 100 yards for a 34-28 victory, dashing any hopesof Alabama playing for a third
straight national championship.The victim’s sister, Nekesa
Shepherd, said she witnessedthe killing and had no doubt
it was about football, even
though it was unclear to inves-tigators whether the violencewas motivated by the game.
“That’s one of the things weare investigating,” Coker saidMonday.Nekesa Shepherd said Briskey
flew into a rage when she sawthe sisters and others joking
that the Crimson Tide’s losswasn’t as bad as if the NBA’s
Miami Heat had lost a game.“She said we weren’t real Al-
abama fans because it didn’t
bother us that they lost. And
then she started shooting,”Shepherd told The AssociatedPress.Shepherd said she and her
sister were invited to the par-ty by a mutual friend who also
invited Briskey. About two
dozen people were on hand.– Wire report
Pro hockeyDallas at Blackhawks,7 p.m., CSN, NBCSNA portion of the Hawks’
most recentstellar roadtrip includ-ed a sixthconsecutivevictory against the Stars.The Hawks hope to contin-
ue that success against theStars when they return hometonight looking to extend theirseason-high winning streak toseven games.
Also on TV...Men’s basketball
Illinois at Georgia Tech,6:15 p.m., ESPN2Indiana at Syracuse, 6:15 p.m.,
ESPNMichigan at Duke, 8:15 p.m.,
ESPNNotre Dame at Iowa, 8:15 p.m.,
ESPN2Soccer
Premier League, West Hamat Crystal Palace, 1:40 p.m.,NBCSN
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MID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
MAC title game
No. 14 NIU (12-0, 8-0 MAC West) vs.Bowling Green (9-3, 7-1 MAC East),7 p.m. Friday at Ford Field in Detroit
Strength vs. strength in title game
TomMusick
VIEWSOTTAWA MARQUETTE 44, HINCKLEY-BIG ROCK 33
Home debut goes awry
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Bowling Green defensive back Jude Adjei-Barimah and linebackerGabe Martin walk off the field after a close loss to Mississippi State onOct. 12 in Starkville, Miss. Mississippi State won, 21-20.
Falcons 5th in nation in pointsscored; NIU ‘O’ 9th in scoring
See HUSKIES, page B3
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Bears coach Marc Trestman looks on during the second half of Sun-day’s game against the Minnesota Vikings in Minneapolis. The Bearslost, 23-20, in overtime.
ANALYSIS: VIKINGS 23, BEARS 20 (OT)
Trestman & Co. grade out poorlyThe Bears’ 23-20 overtime loss to
the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday wasas disappointing as any I can remem-ber in recent seasons.
To lose that game, the Bears hadcomplete breakdowns of both thewhole offense and the whole defense,making it extremely difficult to assigneither individual or positional grades,and giving you a pretty good indicatorof what the coaching grades shouldbe.
So let’s get that done first.Marc Trestman and his staff get aD+. Gaining 480 yards of offenseand getting five quarterback
sacks from the 23rd-rated pass rushin the league gets you a few browniepoints.
But ... while six penalties for 51yards isn’t the end of the world, thesilliness and lack of discipline onseveral of them points to coaches aswell as players.
See ARKUSH, page B2
HubArkush
BEARS INSIDER
Next up
vs. Dallas, 7:40p.m. MondayESPN, AM-780,105.9-FM
As Bearsswoon,Hawksopen arms
CHICAGO – Attention,Bears fans: Brandon Saadfeels your pain.
The Blackhawks’ second-year winger grew up nearPittsburgh, where the Steelersdominate sports talk from thefirst day of training camp un-til the final play of the season.
Yes, Saad still follows hisboyhood team.
Yes, heknows they’re5-7 after atough Week 13loss.
Yes, heknows theBears are in asimilar, sinking boat.
“I can relate,” Saad saidMonday with a weary smile.
Not only that, but Saad andhis teammates happily canserve as your winter sportssaviors.
The high-flying Hawks willreturn to the United Centeron Tuesday against the DallasStars, marking their first gameon home ice in more than twoweeks. They practiced Mondayat Johnny’s IceHouse West,where the pace was fast andthe mood was light.
Thank goodness.No point guard blew out
his knee and was lost for theseason. No bespectacled foot-ball coach abandoned logicand decided to attempt a longfield goal on second down.
No baseball team tried tosell you holiday ticket pack-ages because, um, well, justbecause.
This was merely an up-tem-po practice by a team withmore wins (20) and points (44)than any other team in theNHL. It’s the same team thathas won two Stanley Cup cham-pionships in the past four sea-sons. It’s the same team lookingto make it three out of five.
Hinckley-Big Rock’s Lauren Paver goes to the floor to keep possession as OttawaMarquette’s Kendall Kaufmann pressures her during the firstquarter of Monday night’s game in Hinckley. The Royals lost, 44-33, in the home opener.
Hinckley-Big Rock’s Karrigan Cowan looks to pass while being doubled-teamed by Otta-wa Marquette defenders during the first quarter Monday night in Hinckley.See ROYALS, page B3
Bears receiver Alshon Jef-fery set a franchise record with12 receptions for 249 yardsand two touchdowns Sundayagainst the Minnesota Vikings.Shaw Media’s Hub Arkush andTom Musick discuss:
Musick: Look past the Bears’flaws – yes, I realize this iseasier said than done – andyou’ll see a 23-year-old receiv-er blossoming into a nationalcelebrity. That player is noneother than Alshon Jeffery,who is as quiet as a mouse inthe locker room but has madeplenty of noise on the field inhis second season with theBears. I certainly didn’t seethis coming. Did you?
Arkush: Wait ... hold on. ...I’m sorry, Tom, but it tookawhile to get past all thoseflaws! But you’re right, I foundhim – Alshon Jeffery – andhe’s looking good. Superstar?Let’s delay the coronation justa bit longer. Jeffery is a greatcatcher of the ball who alsohas shown good athleticismbeyond what was predicted ofhim coming out of college.
But there are two issues.His huge game in Minneso-
ta was against backup cornerson one of the league’s worstpass defenses. And his biggestgames have come when theopposition focuses on takingaway Brandon Marshall. He’srising fast, but there is still abit more to prove.
Musick: I don’t know, Hub,I think I’m ready for the coro-nation. I’ve got a crown and arobe and a fancy chair that Iordered online (thanks, CyberMonday!), and I’m ready tostart the ceremony wheneverSir Alshon arrives.
Backup cornerback or not,Jeffery’s touchdown catch overthe top of Minnesota’s ChrisCook was the best play I’veseen this season. Brian Billickcalled the play “Calvin John-son-esque” on the Fox broad-cast, and he was right on themoney. Jeffery has the mak-ings of a No. 1 receiver, andhe might seize the baton fromMarshall sooner than later.
Arkush: Hmm, King Alshon?I wonder just what monarchythat’s from?
Besides questioning hislineage, you’re absolutely
right, the tools appear to bethere. And just like you said,“he has the makings and mightseize the baton sooner ratherthan later.” The problem is asgreat as he was in the farewellto the Humph-Dome game, hehas disappeared a couple oftimes this year, too, specifi-cally whenever teams haven’tbracketed Marshall all over thefield with multiple defenders.“Might” just isn’t good enough. Ilike the kid, too, but there’s stilla chance for a little premature ...
Musick: Yes, I can see itnow. King Alshon, supremeleader of the Republic ofTouchdowns.
Phil Emery has drawn a lotof scrutiny for selecting SheaMcClellin in the first round in2012, but his decision to moveup to select Jeffery in the sec-ond round that year has provedto be brilliant. Take a look atthe six receivers selected aheadof The King: Justin Blackmon,Michael Floyd, Kendall Wright,A.J. Jenkins, Brian Quick andStephen Hill. Whoops.
Arkush: Well, Floyd andWright actually are lookingpretty good right now, butthere’s no question Jeffery isthe best value of the bunch. No-body’s debating that Alshon hasbecome a really good receiver.
The question you’ve posedI believe is: Could he flourishin the Brandon Marshall roleas No. 1? And I still believethe answer is we need just abit more evidence before werender our verdict.
Marshall struggled againstthe Vikings, but he’s proved hecan’t be singled, and when he’sdoubled or been bracketed, hestill has given you big plays asoften as not. I can’t rememberJeffery ever being double-cov-ered, can you?
And if he is going to be theking, does that make MartellusBennett his court jester andMarshall his personal dresser?
Musick: Yes, and I wouldadd Josh McCown as his spiri-tual adviser and Kyle Long ashis security chief.
To your point, I have seen
only single coverage againstJeffery, and I have seen Jefferyroast that single coverage tothe tune of five 100-yard gamesand two 200-yard games. That’swhat No. 1 receivers do: Beatsingle coverage and demandextra attention.
Besides, I can’t retreat frommy position now. I mean, I al-ready have bought this crown,and I don’t think I can get arefund.
Arkush: Yes, Tom, andunfortunately there certainlyisn’t anyone else on the Bears’roster who’ll be wearing acrown anytime soon.
Bottom line, Jeffery is look-ing like the best Bears draftchoice since they took CharlesTillman in the second round ofthe 2003 draft. Could it be thatdry spell that has us so quickto want to crown Jeffery?
Regardless, we might beasking the wrong question.Perhaps the right one is: Dothe Bears feel good enoughabout him to send Marshallpacking after this season andcreate another $9 millionin cap space? There’s a newdebate for us.
Keith Country Day at Hiawatha,6:45 p.m.Byron at Sycamore, 7 p.m.Genoa-Kingston at Hinckley-Big
Rock, 7 p.m.Girls Basketball
Hiawatha at Ashton-FranklinCenter, 6:45 p.m.Sycamore at Sterling, 7 p.m.Stillman Valley at Genoa-Kingston,
7:15 p.m.Boys Bowling
DeKalb at Rochelle, 4 p.m.Girls Bowling
DeKalb at Rochelle, 4 p.m.Kaneland at Sterling, 4 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Girls BowlingRochelle at Sycamore, 4 p.m.Lisle at Kaneland, 4 p.m.
THURSDAY
Girls BasketballHiawatha at Indian Creek, 6:45 p.m.
WrestlingSycamore vs. Kaneland at NIU
Convocation Center, 5 p.m.Rochelle at DeKalb, 5:30 p.m.
Boys BowlingDeKalb at Ottawa, 4 p.m.
Girls BowlingDixon at Kaneland, 4 p.m.Morris at Sycamore, 4 p.m.DeKalb at Sterling, 4 p.m.
Sycamore-Kanelandmatch to precede NIU’sSycamore and Kaneland’s var-
sity wrestling match schdeduledfor Thursday will take place at5 p.m. at the Northern IllinoisConvocation Center in DeKalb.The high school match will pre-
cede the NIU wrestling team’shome meet against ClevelandState, which starts at 7 p.m.Former Sycamore star Austin
Culton wrestles for NIU.
NIU QB Lynch named MACWest Player of the WeekNorthern Illinois quarterback
Jordan Lynch was named MACWest Player of the Week onceagain. Lynch ran for 321 yards ina 33-14 over Western Michiganon Nov. 26, breaking the NCAArecord for rushing yards by aquarterback he set earlier thisseason against Central Michi-gan.Lynch single-handedly
outgained the Broncos in totalyards, 360-256, to earn the hon-ored for a school-record eighthtime this season.
DeKalb’s Johnson namedWarHawk tourney MVPDeKalb junior Madelyne John-
son was named the WarHawkGirls Basketball Tournament MVPfor her play over the past week.DeKalb sophomore Brittney
Patrick was also named to theall-tournament team. The Barbsfinished in first place.
White Sox agree to 1-yearcontract with C FlowersCHICAGO – The White Sox
agreed to a $950,000, one-yeardeal with catcher Tyler Flowers.Flowers hit .195 with a ca-
reer-high 10 homers and 24 RBIsin 84 games this year. He is a.200 hitter in 192 career gamesover five seasons with the Sox.The 27-year-old Flowers had
season-ending right shouldersurgery Sept. 5, but is expectedto be ready for spring training.
Big Ten reprimands OSU,Marcus Hall after fightCOLUMBUS, Ohio – The Big
Ten has publicly reprimandedOhio State offensive linemanMarcus Hall and the Buckeyes’coaching staff for their actionsin the wake of a fight duringSaturday’s game at Michigan.Hall was ejected from the
game for coming onto the fieldto participate in the skirmish. Ashe was leaving the sideline, heangrily threw his helmet to theground, kicked the team bench-es and then held up both handsin an obscene gesture.Coach Urban Meyer has said
he will issue punishment withinthe team to Hall and kick return-er Dontre Wilson, who was seenthrowing a punch.
– Staff, wire reports
NATIONAL CONFERENCENorth
W L T Pct PF PADetroit 7 5 0 .583 326 287Bears 6 6 0 .500 323 332Green Bay 5 6 1 .458 294 305Minnesota 3 8 1 .292 289 366
Thursday’s ResultsDetroit 40, Green Bay 10Dallas 31, Oakland 24Baltimore 22, Pittsburgh 20
Sunday’s ResultsMinnesota 23, Bears 20 (OT)New England 34, Houston 31Indianapolis 22, Tennessee 14Jacksonville 32, Cleveland 28Carolina 27, Tampa Bay 6Philadelphia 24, Arizona 21Miami 23, N.Y. Jets 3San Francisco 23, St. Louis 13Atlanta 34, Buffalo 31, OTCincinnati 17, San Diego 10Denver 35, Kansas City 28N.Y. Giants 24, Washington 17
Monday’s ResultSeattle 34, New Orleans 7
Thursday’s GameHouston at Jacksonville, 7:25 p.m.
Sunday’s GamesAtlanta at Green Bay, noonMinnesota at Baltimore, noonKansas City at Washington, noonBuffalo at Tampa Bay, noonMiami at Pittsburgh, noonDetroit at Philadelphia, noonIndianapolis at Cincinnati, noonCleveland at New England, noonOakland at N.Y. Jets, noonTennessee at Denver, 3:05 p.m.Seattle at San Francisco, 3:25 p.m.N.Y. Giants at San Diego, 3:25 p.m.St. Louis at Arizona, 3:25 p.m.Carolina at New Orleans, 7:30 p.m.
Monday’s GameDallas at Bears, 7:40 p.m.
NHL
NFL
WESTERN CONFERENCECentral DivisionGP W L OT Pts GF GA
Pittsburgh 28 18 9 1 37 86 64Washington 27 14 11 2 30 82 78N.Y. Rangers 28 14 14 0 28 62 71New Jersey 28 11 12 5 27 61 67Philadelphia 27 12 13 2 26 57 65Carolina 27 10 12 5 25 57 78Columbus 27 10 14 3 23 67 80N.Y. Islanders 27 8 15 4 20 72 93Two points for a win, one point for OT loss
Monday’s ResultsWinnipeg 5, N.Y. Rangers 2Montreal 3, New Jersey 2Minnesota 2, Philadelphia 0St. Louis at Los Angeles (n)
Today’s GamesDallas at Blackhawks, 7 p.m.San Jose at Toronto, 6 p.m.Pittsburgh at N.Y. Islanders, 6 p.m.Carolina at Washington, 6 p.m.Tampa Bay at Columbus, 6 p.m.Ottawa at Florida, 6:30 p.m.Vancouver at Nashville, 7 p.m.Phoenix at Edmonton, 8:30 p.m.Los Angeles at Anaheim, 9 p.m.
Wednesday’s GamesMontreal at New Jersey, 6 p.m.Philadelphia at Detroit, 7 p.m.Phoenix at Calgary, 9 p.m.
Monday’s ResultsNew Orleans 131, Bulls 128 (3OT)Washington 98, Orlando 80San Antonio 102, Atlanta 100Utah 109, Houston 103Indiana at Portland (n)
Today’s GamesOrlando at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.Denver at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m.Milwaukee at Boston, 6:30 p.m.Detroit at Miami, 6:30 p.m.Phoenix at Memphis, 7 p.m.Charlotte at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.Oklahoma City at Sacramento, 9 p.m.Toronto at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.
TAKE2
Hub Arkush and Tom Musick face off
The Bears were 2 for 11 con-verting third downs. Josh Mc-Cown is going to take a hit forthat as well, but at some pointyou have to realize the coachesaren’t putting their offense thebest plays to succeed.
Worst of all is changingyour identity at the mostcritical juncture of a game.Trestman has identifiedhimself as a bit of a gambler inrecent weeks, going for it withmixed results, professing greatconfidence in his offense.
To suddenly say RobbieGould is the only guy onthe team he trusts by tryinga 47-yard field goal on sec-ond-and-7 was stunning at bestand inexcusable at worst. Onthird down, I get it, allow fora second chance with a false
start or bad hold. But to not try
to get closer on second down,
there really is no explanation
other than fear.
I don’t believe in judging
players by taking away their
two or three best plays, but
McCown’s numbers were
downright pedestrian without
the 80- and 46-yard touchdowns
to Alshon Jeffery, and Mc-
Cown was just 4 of 9 passing on
third down and one of the two
conversions was the 46-yarder
on the incredible Jeffery catch.
McCown just didn’t make
enough plays to beat a bad
Vikings team, and I think the
best you can give him is a B- or
C+.
Matt Forte had a nice game
with 23 carries for 120 yards,
but the Bears’ short yardage
ground game is awful. Forte
gets a very solid B.
For the most part, Jeffery,
Brandon Marshall and Martel-
lus Bennett were your receiv-
ers. Jeffery clearly gets an A+,
Marshall gets a B- and Bennett
had a tough day, probably a C.
The offensive line gets a C,
too. The four sacks it allowed
was the most in a game this
season and, as I said, the Bears
short-yardage ground game
is awful. Jordan Mills, in par-
ticular, has become a favorite
target of opposing defenses.
The defensive line gets a
B-, carried by another A- for
Julius Peppers. Five sacks is
easily its best output of the
year, but it can’t get a pass on
the 246 yards of rushing the
Vikings piled up. Like Mills,
Shea McClellin is becoming
harder and harder to hide.
The linebackers and safe-
ties have to bear the brunt of
the failure to stop the run, and
James Anderson was the most
vulnerable this time. To Jon
Bostic, I say, taunting? Really,
after they ran it down your
throat all day long? Ds for all
but Anderson, who gets a D-.
Tim Jennings has played
well of late, and Zack Bowman
wasn’t a problem. I’d give Jen-
nings a B, Bowman B-.
As for special teams, how
hard can you be on a kicker
who missed only his second
and third kicks of the year, one
from 66 yards? Gould never
should have been out there at
that moment on the 47-yarder
in overtime. But it is exactly
that kick – on fourth or maybe
third down – that he gets paid
millions of dollars to make. He
did fail.
• Hub Arkush covers the
Bears for Shaw Media and Hu-bArkush.com. Write to him [email protected].
• ARKUSHContinued from page B1
Kicking field goal on 2nd down is inexcusible
BEARS NOTES
Offense still leaving points on fieldBy KEVIN FISHBAIN
LAKE FOREST – Gaudyproduction from Josh Mc-Cown, Alshon Jeffery and MattForte over the past month isn’ttranslating into points, and af-ter reviewing Sunday’s loss tothe Vikings, Bears coach MarcTrestman expressed disap-pointment in his offense.
“The fact that our defensehad three sacks early and wewere not able to do anythingwith the field position wasextremely disappointing,” hesaid Monday. “We didn’t finishour drives. We started off poor-ly on third down.”
The Bears scored at least24 points in seven of their firsteight games. They have yet toreach 24 points in each of theirpast four games. Points cancome from sustained drives,
and the offense has stalled inshort yardage. They were 0 for3 on third-and-1 Sunday.
“In our short yardage, cer-tainly we had a second-and-1and a third-and-1 that we didn’tconvert, critical to maintain-ing possession,”Trestman said.“Very disap-p o i n t e d . W etalked throughall of those to-day and we’llc o n t i n u e t owork on tryingto get better, especially comingoff a fast start by our defense.”
On the season, the Bears are5 for 12 in converting on third-and-1 situations, while oppo-nents are 19 for 25.
“… To be up 20-10 in thefourth-quarter and not be ableto finish the game in any phaseof our football disappointed all
of us amidst a lot of good play.It wasn’t good enough,” Trest-man said.
A hair short: On the Vikings’fourth-and-11 conversion latein the fourth quarter, the Bearshad a blitz set up that didn’t gethome.
“Another click and we wouldhave gotten off just a split-sec-ond quicker, (Matt) Casselwould not have been able to de-liver that ball,” Trestman said.“If you look at it on the coach’scopy, James [Anderson] wasrunning right at him. He threwit around James.”
Trestman said Andersongot off the Vikings’ quick snap“just a click late.”
Praise for Peppers, Steltz:Trestman said Julius Peppers“probably [had] his best game.He was very disruptive.”
Peppers had eight tacklesand 2.5 sacks in the loss.
On Craig Steltz, who startedin place of Major Wright andhad a team-high 12 tackles,Trestman said, “I felt we got aheck of a performance out ofCraig. ... He wasn’t perfect –none of us were. But he reallyplayed well and had a good per-formance.”
Record attempt: A Hail Maryon the final play of regulationfrom midfield “was a possibili-ty,” but Trestman elected to letRobbie Gould go for an NFL-re-cord 66-yard field goal.
“It was worthwhile in thedome to let It go,” Trestmansaid.
Trestman was pleased withhow the Bears covered Cordar-relle Patterson, who tried to re-turn the missed field goal. Asfor Gould’s range, Trestmansaid, “I think Robbie feels hecan make any kick. He went af-ter it, and came close.”
Josh McCown
Is Bears’ Jeffery a No. 1 receiver?
AP photo
Bears receiver Alshon Jeffery (17) celebrates in front of Minnesota Vikings safety Robert Blanton (right) aftercatching a 46-yard touchdown pass in the second half of Sunday’s game in Minneapolis. The Bears lost, 23-20, in overtime.
23 points and Joakim Noah had adouble-double with 19 points and10 rebounds.
Wizards 98, Magic 80: At Wash-ington, the Washington Wizardsare a .500 basketball team for thefirst time in years, and John Wallwants to build on the early suc-cess.
Wall had 16 points and 13 as-sists to lead Washington to a 98-80victory over the Orlando Magic onMonday night.
Trevor Ariza scored 24 points,Nene had 14 and Marcin Gortatfinished with 13 as Washington (9-9) got to .500 for the first time since
it split its first four games of the2009-10 season, when Wall was justa touted freshman at Kentucky.
Spurs 102, Hawks 100: At San An-tonio, Tim Duncan made a jumperwith 0.4 seconds left to lift the SanAntonio Spurs to a 102-100 victoryover the Atlanta Hawks on Mon-day night.
Duncan finished with 23 pointsand 21 rebounds as San Antoniodominated the middle against theyounger and more athletic Atlan-ta front court. Boris Diaw had 16points and Tiago Splitter finishedwith 11.
Atlanta had all five start-ers score in double figures. JeffTeague had 19 points, Al Horfordadded 18 and DeMarre Carroll fin-ished with 17.
Jazz 109, Rockets 103: At SaltLake City: Marvin Williamsscored five points in the final two
minutes, Gordon Hayward brokeout of a shooting slump to score 29points and the Utah Jazz earnedtheir first back-to-back wins of theseason with a 109-103 victory overthe Houston Rockets on Mondaynight.
With Utah clinging to a 101-98lead, Williams stole James Hard-en’s pass and raced down for adunk with 2 minutes left. Williamsthen hit a 3-pointer from the topof the key with 59 seconds to go toboost the lead to 108-100.
Rookie Trey Burke posted ca-reer highs of 21 points and sixassists for Utah, which shot 54percent and made 10 of 17 from be-yond the arc.
Harden had 15 of his sea-son-best 37 points in the fourthquarter to keep the Rockets close,but they couldn’t get enough de-fensive stops.
PELICANS 131, BULLS 128 (3OT)
Holiday lifts Pelicans past Bulls in 3OT
Blackhawks have hugebase of die-hard fanatics
PREP ROUNDUP
Falcons’ defense has plenty of experienced players
Royals cold shooting from field, free-throw line
“... We have a long historytogether. I hired him whenhe was, I think, 23 or 24 yearsold.”
It’s gotten to the pointwhere BCS schools with coor-dinator openings might comecalling for Elko. Clawson saidthere was interest after lastseason.
“Mike certainly had the op-portunity to leave last year. Hehad a couple different oppor-tunities. Fortunately, BowlingGreen’s a great place to work,and we get good support here,”Clawson said. “It’s a greatplace and a great communityto live in. Mike made the deci-
sion for his career and for hisfamily that he wanted to stay.We’ll keep fighting that fight,and try to keep him here, andwe’ll see what happens.”
The Falcons’ defense alsohas plenty of experience itself,as it is littered with seniorssuch as defensive backs Boo-Boo Gates, Ryland Ward andCameron Truss, as well as line-backer Paul Swan and defen-
sive tackle Ted Ouellet.
Statistically, this is the
best defense the Huskies have
faced this season. Iowa, NIU’s
Week 1 opponent, is 11th in the
nation, giving up 18.8 points
a game. Over the past four
games combined, the Falcons
have given up only 17 points.
“I think [the system] holds
everyone accountable. It gives
everyone a job to do, and it’s
not just focusing on one player
to make all the plays,” Swan
said. “Every guy at every level
is making plays at any given
point of the game and it’s real-
ly a collective effort from our
defense.”
Carey making players off-lim-its: NIU players will not be al-
lowed to talk to the media this
week until Thursday’s MAC
Championship news confer-
ence in Detroit. Coach Rod
Carey said he wants them to
focus on Bowling Green. He
said he did not take the deci-
sion lightly.
Bowl reps on hand at FordField: Among the bowl repre-
sentatives on hand Friday will
be people from the Fiesta, Sug-
ar and Orange Bowls. Should
NIU get a BCS bid, it’s likely
the Huskies will head to the
Fiesta. The Sugar and Orange
Bowls likely would be a long
shot for the Huskies.
Lewis expected back: Carey
said he expects receiver Tom-
mylee Lewis, who has missed
the past two games with a toe
injury, back for Friday’s game.
It’s the same team that isgoing to need to light up ourdark sports nights once again.
So, yeah.No pressure.“I think the pressure is
good,” said defenseman NickLeddy, a Minnesota nativewho welcomed the city’ssports spotlight after one ofhis favorite players, AdrianPeterson, trounced the Bearsfor something like 700 rushingyards and 11 touchdowns. “Itadds a little pressure on us,but it’s always fun playing inthose big-pressure moments.”
Every team says this, butthe Hawks actually believe it.
Clearly, the Hawks boasta huge base of die-hard fansthat watch every period ofevery game and could ranktheir top three Brandons onthe team without batting aneye. The Hawks’ incrediblesellout streak, which is at 240games and counting, provesthat plenty of fans have notstrayed or shifted their focusto other teams such as theBears or Bulls.
But for those of us whosehockey fandom is more casualthan crazed, particularly inthe early-season months ofOctober and November, nowis the time to hop back on thebandwagon.
Grab a seat. Bop along to“Chelsea Dagger.” The Hawkswill welcome you with openarms.
No self-righteous hockeyhipsters here. The more, the
merrier.“Oh, yeah,” said Shaw, a
fan favorite for his relentlessplaying style. “Last year wasawesome to see – especiallythat parade. Two million peo-ple in the park. People comingfrom all over.
“Even when we’re on theroad, sometimes we havemore fans than the home teamdoes. It’s great to see. I thinkChicago fans are worldwide.”
It’s starting, then.The Hawks’ recent road
trip provided players with re-minders of last season, whenexcitement swelled like waterboiling on a stove. Everyday was bigger than the daybefore. Every game seemedmore electric, more exhilarat-ing, more thrilling than thegame before – until the final,most thrilling game of all,on a warm Monday night inBoston.
By the looks of things, thisseason might be even crazier.
“Last year, you’d go toother buildings and you’d seefans,” Saad said. “But thisyear is a whole ’nother level.
“[On Saturday] in Phoe-nix, they were cheering ‘GoHawks’ louder than the otherteam. I think we all have funwith it. I think we all like thatand we embrace that.”
When all else fails in ourlocal sports landscape, we canembrace the Hawks.
Thank goodness.
• Shaw Media sportscolumnist Tom Musickcan be reached [email protected] on Twitter @tcmusick.
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CHICAGO – Derrick Roseremained absent from theUnited Center on Monday,staying away from the team af-ter having season-ending sur-gery last week to repair a tornmeniscus in his right knee, buthe has stayed in contact withcoach Tom Thibodeau.
“I’ve been talking to him,yeah,’’ Thibodeau said. “He’sdoing fine.’’
The more immediate con-cern for Thibodeau was howhis players have been doing inthe aftermath of losing theirbest player. If the four roadgames after Rose was injuredwere any indication, not verywell. An embarrassing loss inLos Angeles to the Clippers, anovertime loss to what was thena one-win Utah team, a win inDetroit, followed by a loss inCleveland.
But there has been life.According to Thibodeau,
his players are fully aware ofwhat it will take to move onwithout Rose and get back tothe level they played last sea-son without the 2011 MVP.
“The strengths of the teamchange a little bit, but howwe play, that’s not going to
change,” Thibodeau said.“How you practice, that can’tchange. What goes into win-ning, that part is the same. Ithink we can never lose sightof the fact of how hard we haveto play being short-handed.
“The challenge is you canuse it as a crutch or you canuse it to motivate, move for-ward and realize what youhave to do to win.”
No homecoming: For the sec-ond straight season, formerPerspectives Charter Schoolstandout Anthony Davis wasunable to play in front of hishometown crowd.
As a rookie last season, theNew Orleans big man had con-cussion-like symptoms. Nowit’s a broken hand, which willbe re-evaluated today in NewOrleans.
Pelicans coach Monty Wil-liams was outspoken aboutthe NBA concussion rule lastyear that kept Davis out ofthat game, and was remindedof that this visit in.
“This time I’m just not get-ting fined $25,000,’’ Williamssaid. “That’s one of the firstthings he said to me when I gotback in the locker room [Sun-day night]. He said, ‘Two yearsin a row.’ He really wanted toplay here. I feel bad for him.’’
Bulls strugglewithout Rose
BULLS NOTES
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New Orleans Pelicans center Jason Smith grabs a re-bound in front of Bulls center Joakim Noah during thefirst half ofMonday night’s game at the United Center.
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The Royals (3-3) were cold
in the first half, going 4 for
16 from the field and 3 for 10
from the free-throw line. An-
drea Brinkley led H-BR with
four points in that half.
“We didn’t shoot the ball
at all, we were poor from the
free-throw line, and those
were coupled with being
down double digits,” Burks
said. “We missed some easy
buckets and some free throws
and that didn’t help the mat-
ters.”
A f t e r t h e C r u s a d e r s
pushed the lead to 34-11 in the
third quarter, Burks started
using a full-court press and
it worked. The Royals ended
the third quarter on a 13-2 run
to close the gap to 12 points.
Anne Klein’s four points
sparked the run. Lauren Pav-
er capped the spurt and the
quarter with a bucket.
“We just picked up the
intensity a little bit,” Burks
said. “[Our players] know
what they are capable of and
it is just a matter of doing it
on a consistent basis.”
H-BR had the momentum,but the Royals never couldget the scoring margin to lessthan nine points, and Mar-quette closed out the win.
T h e R o y a l s h a d afew chances to keep thethird-quarter momentum go-ing but missed four shots andthree free throws to open thefourth quarter.
Klein, Jacqueline Mad-den and Karrigan Cowan ledthe Royals with seven pointseach. Madden and Paver eachhad eight rebounds. The pairalso combined for eight steals.
Next for H-BR is Immacu-late Conception on Saturdayin the Amboy Shootout.
“This team has some ex-perience and they need tounderstand that we need tocome out and play at a high ef-fort level at all times,” Burkssaid.
After a steal, Hinckley-Big Rock’s JacquelineMadden pushes the ball upcourt during the first quarter of Monday night’s game in Hinckley. TheRoyals lost, 44-33, in their home opener.
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ILLINOIS
Beckmanwill be back as coach next yearBy DAVID MERCERThe Associated Press
CHAMPAIGN – Illinoiscoach Tim Beckman will beback in 2014 after a secondstraight losing season.
Athletic director MikeThomas confirmed the de-cision Monday through aspokesman.
The Illini finished 4-8 (1-7Big Ten) in Beckman’s sec-ond season at Illinois, and losttheir finale, 37-34, on Saturdayto Northwestern. He faced
speculation about his job se-curity through much of theseason, much as he had a yearearlier when Illinois went2-12.
Illinois spokesman KentBrown said there hadn’t beenany doubt that Beckmanwould return for 2014.
“I don’t think there was everany consideration of making achange,” Brown said. Thomasand Beckman were travelingMonday and not available forcomment.
Beckman is finishing up
the second year of a five-year contract that paid him$1.7 million this year and $9million in all. After Satur-day’s loss, Beckman sound-ed as if he expected to keephis job.
“We’re going to take thisprogram one step forwardeach and every day and makeit better,” he said.
Defensive coordinator TimBanks has been dogged by ru-mors that he won’t be back. Il-linois’ defense was at or nearthe bottom of the Big Ten in
most defensive categories.The team gave up 35.4 pointsa game (10th in the 12-teamconference) and 481.5 yards(11th).
Banks said after the gamethat he hadn’t given muchthought to whether he’ll beback.
“All I can do is the best thatI can. I think that the thingsI have done as a coach for thepast 18 years stand on theirown,” he said. “No, to answeryour question, I don’t worryabout that.”
AP file photo
Illinois football coach Tim Beckman will be back in 2014 after a secondstraight losing season, athletic director Mike Thomas confirmed Mon-day through a spokesman.
AP photo
Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer joins his team in singing the school’s alma mater after their 42-41 win over Michiganon Saturday at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, Mich.
BIG TEN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
Another week, anothermust-win for BuckeyesThere’s no timeto celebrate winover Michigan
By RUSTY MILLERThe Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio – There was atime when Ohio State players couldlook forward to a break after tradingbruises with archrival Michigan.
Not anymore. At least, not thisyear.
No sooner did the second-rankedBuckeyes escape Michigan Stadi-um with a 42-41 victory – thanks toTyvis Powell’s last-minute intercep-tion on a two-point conversion passat the goal line – than they alreadywere immersing themselves inpreparation for yet another make-or-break game.
The Big Ten championship gameagainst No. 10 Michigan State – theonly top-15 team Ohio State hasplayed in a school-record 24-gamewinning streak under coach UrbanMeyer – looms Saturday at LucasOil Stadium in Indianapolis.
The Buckeyes are beaten up,physically and mentally. But this
is no time to reflect on what’s beenaccomplished so far.
“I think they are sore,” Mey-er said Monday. “I have got to besmart this week in what we do. Asfar as energy and focus – and throwin the fact that it’s finals week atOhio State – we have to be really ef-ficient with these guys.”
Now No. 2 in the BCS standings,the Buckeyes need to win to hangon to their spot in the BCS nationalchampionship game.
Since 1943, Ohio State has nothad an opponent between Michiganand a bowl game. But with the BigTen going to a two-division formatthree years ago, it was only a mat-ter of time until the Buckeyes werebusy again the week after their an-
nual grudge match with Michigan.A year ago, the Buckeyes also
went 12-0, but were not permittedto play in the Big Ten title game ora bowl because of NCAA sanctionsfrom violations that occurred onformer coach Jim Tressel’s watch.
It’s not as if they don’t have somethings to work on this week.
The defense was overwhelmedby Michigan’s previously errat-ic offense. The Wolverines’ DevinGardner completed 32 of 45 passesfor 451 yards and four touchdowns– including three in the fourth quar-ter as Michigan pulled even aftertrailing by 14 points.
The Buckeyes surrendered 603yards.
Ohio State defensive coordinatorLuke Fickell was displeased withthe stats but couldn’t have been hap-pier that the Buckeyes’ offense didenough to bail out his side of the ball.
“Did we win? Did we win?” herepeated when asked about the fail-ures of his defense. “Because I’vebeen up there quite a few times inmy 18-year career (as a player andcoach) here and have not alwaysbeen able to come away with thewin. Momentum and things happenand we didn’t play great on the de-fensive side of the ball. So there’s alot of things to correct.”
Big Ten title game
No. 2 Ohio State (12-0, 8-0 Leaders Divi-sion) vs. No. 10 Michigan State (11-1, 8-0Legends Division), 7:17 p.m. Saturday at
Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis
MEN’S BASKETBALL: AP TOP 25 POLL
MSUNo. 1 for 3rd week in a rowThe ASSOCIATED PRESS
Michigan State stays No. 1 for a third straightweek in The Associated Press’ college basketballpoll, receiving all but two of the first-place votes.
Arizona moved from fourth to second Mon-day, drawing the other No. 1 votes from the65-member national media panel.
Kentucky remains third while Syracusejumps from eighth to fourth. Ohio State movesup two spots to fifth and is followed by Kansas,which had been second. Completing the top 10are Louisville, Wisconsin, Oklahoma State andDuke, which drops four spots after losing to Ari-zona in the NIT Season Tip-Off.
Villanova beat Kansas and Iowa to win theBattle 4 Atlantis and goes from unranked to No.14. The other newcomers are No. 24 San DiegoState and No. 25 Dayton. They replace North Car-olina, Creighton and Marquette.
Dayton’s entry into the rankings makes for abrother pairing that could be a first. Archie Mill-er, who coaches the Flyers, is the younger broth-er of Arizona coach Sean Miller. It is believed tobe the first time brothers have had teams rankedin the Top 25 at the same time.
AP Top 25 poll
The top 25 teams in The AssociatedPress’ college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records throughSunday, total points based on 25 points fora first-place vote through one point for a25th-place vote and lastweek’s ranking:
74, Virginia 73, New Mexico 71, NorthCarolina 62, Florida St. 40, Boise St.36, Pittsburgh 36, VCU 30, Charlotte20, Colorado 17, Creighton 17, Missouri16, Harvard 10, Illinois 10, Cincinnati 8,Mississippi 3, George Washington 2,Saint Mary’s (Cal) 2, Xavier 1.
AP photo
Keith Appling (right) and MichiganState are No. 1 in The AssociatedPress’ Top 25 poll, releasedMonday,for the third week in a row.
USC
Sarkisiantakes overTrojans
By GREG BEACHAMThe Associated Press
LOS ANGELES – Steve Sarkisianwas named the head coach at South-ern California on Monday, leavingWashington to return to the Trojans’storied football program for anotherrun at national titles.
Two days after USC’s regularseason ended with a home loss toUCLA, Trojans athletic director PatHaden replaced interim coach EdOrgeron with yet another assistantcoach from Pete Carroll’s champion-ship-winning era at the school.
The 39-year-old Sarkisian is a LosAngeles-area native who went 34-29in five seasons at Washington, re-
building a decimatedprogram into a bowlcontender. He is thepermanent replace-ment for Lane Kiffin,his former co-offen-sive coordinator atUSC under Carroll.
Sarkisian will beintroduced at a news conference to-day. In a statement released by USC,the coach thanked the Huskies for hisfirst head coaching opportunity.
“I am extremely excited to be com-ing home to USC and for the opportu-nity that USC presents to win cham-pionships,” Sarkisian said. “I can’twait to get started.”
Kiffin was fired in Septemberand replaced by Orgeron, who didn’tget the permanent job from Hadendespite going 6-2. Crosstown rivalUCLA trounced USC, 35-14, on Sat-urday in what turned out to be theTrojans’ final game under Orgeron,who resigned Monday after failing toget the head job.
Haden didn’t immediately an-nounce who will coach the Trojansin their bowl game this month, but itcould be Sarkisian, who immediatelyleft Washington. He also could bringa handful of Huskies assistants withhim to USC.
Haden said USC conducted a ma-jor search during the regular season,interviewing five coaches for the job.
“We kept coming back to Sark,”Haden said. “He is the only one whowas offered the job. I believe in mygut that he is the right coach for USCat this time. He embodies many ofthe qualities for which we looked. Heis an innovative coach who recruitswell and develops players. He is aproven and successful leader.”
Orgeron turned himself into a can-didate for the full-time job with an im-pressive revitalization of a programthat had grown dour and stale whenHaden fired Kiffin, who went 28-15, atthe airport five games into the season.Orgeron’s tenure was highlighted bythe Trojans’ victory over No. 5 Stan-ford last month, but his groundswellof support for the full-time job dissi-pated with a home loss to the Bruins.
Haden said he spoke to Orgeronabout remaining on Sarkisian’s staff,but Orgeron said he wants to be ahead coach.
In a school statement, Orgeronthanked “all the Trojan players andfamily members who have becomeclose personal friends during my 11years at USC. I am especially proudof this year’s team and coaching staff,who had to start a new season andthen bonded, played together as afamily and competed like Trojans.”
USC players were told not to speakto reporters after leaving a team meet-ing with Haden, but many went onlineto post mixed feelings about the move.
“Words can’t explain how I’m feel-ing right now....just lost a father. Waymore than a coach,” tweeted USC de-fensive lineman Leonard Williams,who was named to the all-Pac-12 firstteam Monday. Orgeron recruitedWilliams out of his native Florida.
SteveSarkisian
NO. 3 AUBURN
Players:It’s morepluckthan luck
By JOHN ZENORThe Associated Press
AUBURN, Ala. – Don’t call the Au-burn Tigers lucky.
The third-ranked Tigers havenavigated a season of close calls andamazing finishes to make it into Sat-urday’s Southeastern Conferencechampionship game against No. 5Missouri.
They balk at any notion that thisis a lucky team, though.
“I wouldn’t say it’s luck becausewe’ve put in thew o r k a n d w e ’ v edefinitely done thework to be able tobe where we’re at,”Auburn ful lbackJay Prosch said onMonday. “It’s notluck, but I do thinkthere are some crazy things that hap-pened.”
The craziest have been a deflect-ed Hail Mary to beat Georgia andChris Davis’s 109-yard return of amissed field goal on the final play toupend No. 1 Alabama in back to backgames.
Those plays made that touch-down with 10 seconds left to beatMississippi State and the game-win-ner with 1:19 remaining against No.22 Texas A&M, plus some late defen-sive stands, seem downright mun-dane.
“Against Georgia, that was justa miracle,” Auburn tailback CoreyGrant said. “It was a great play.I kind of look at [the Alabama]game, that was more of a coach-ing standpoint to put Chris backthere. Coaches with their job, theyshould know stuff like that. Thatwas a great deal of coaching fromour coaches to put Chris back therein that situation with that happen-ing.”
Gus Malzahn’s Tigers (11-1) haveproven they’re awfully good just bybeing in position to defeat teamslike the two-time defending nation-al champion Crimson Tide. A winover Missouri (11-1) coupled witha loss by either No. 1 Florida Stateagainst No. 20 Duke or No. 2 OhioState versus No. 10 Michigan State,and Auburn could be playing for anational title.
It wouldn’t be the strangest occur-rence of Auburn’s season.
“It’s just amazing that this keepshappening,” Prosch said.
Malzahn doesn’t think it’s hap-penstance that his first Auburn teamis managing to pull out tight games,however it happens.
“I think it is unique and it is rarethat you have teams that believe theyare going to win no matter how badit looks,” he said. “They still havebright eyes and belief in each otherand that is what our guys have founda way to do. We talked all week be-fore last week’s game that we haveto get it close to the fourth quarterand we will win the game. And theybelieved it and they found a way todo it.”
He delivered a similar messagebefore the Georgia and Texas A&Mgames, among others.
Malzahn cites his team’s résumwhen asked what he’d say to someonecalling Auburn lucky.
“I think any time you win 11games in this league – the best leaguein college football – you have to bea pretty good team,” Malzahn said.“Teams that find a way to win, thatis rare. Our team has found differentways to win and I am very proud ofthem.”
SEC titlegame
No. 3 Auburn vs.No. 5 Missouri,3 p.m. Saturday
Dr.Wallace:You said thatthere is a high correlation be-tween college students’ gradesand the amount of alcohol theydrink. You said that those whodon’t drink or drink only smallamounts of alcohol earn bettergrades than those who drinka lot of alcohol. Where did youget your data?
My fraternity roommateand I consume a lot of liquorweekly, but we both areexcellent students. If alcoholis so destructive, why docollege bigwigs host cocktailparties? The human racehas been consuming alcoholsince the Garden of Eden,
and that wonderful traditionwill last forever! – Student,University of Wisconsin.
Student: The Center for Ad-diction and Substance Abusecompiled data from more than3,000 four-year colleges anduniversities and found thatstudents were split into twogroups when it came to alco-hol consumption: those whorarely drank or never drank,and those who drank often
and to excess. To nobody’s sur-prise, the heavy drinkers werethe poorest students.
In a study at SouthernIllinois University, it wasdetermined that studentswith poor grade-point aver-ages consumed more than11 alcoholic drinks per weekwhile, on average, studentswith the highest grade-pointaverages had four drinks perweek or less.
This is a general picture.Students can crash and burnin college for reasons otherthan overdrinking. And, yes,some heavy drinkers stillmanage to pull off decent
grades – postponing thecollapse of their lives fromalcohol abuse till middle age,perhaps. And while there’sstill hypocrisy on campus– with teachers and admin-istrators hosting cocktailparties while condemningstudent drinking – there’s agrowing trend in academia tomake school-related func-tions alcohol-free.
I’m passionate in mybelief that society wouldbenefit at every level – thefamily, the community,the state and the nation – ifalcohol were suddenly todisappear from our lives. Of
course, many adults havean alcoholic drink only onspecial occasions, but theyare in the minority. Alcoholis a powerfully addictivedrug, and once a person isaddicted, his life and thelives of loved ones are dra-matically impaired. Addictscan become alcohol-free, butwill remain alcoholics therest of their lives. But if theyconsume just one alcoholicdrink, it can trigger the de-sire for alcohol to dominatetheir lives once again.
Dear Abby: I am a 38-year-old woman who has beendating a 41-year-old man forseven months. He’s wonderfuland treats me magnificently.We have similar values andinterests and are very muchin love. Sadly, although Ihave always wanted children,he does not.
At my age, I have datedenough men to know that Ihave found someone special. Irealize my choice is either tostay in a relationship with afabulous partner, knowing wewon’t have children, or end it,hoping I’ll find someone justas wonderful who wants kids.
Your advice in making thehardest decision of my lifewould be greatly appreciated.– Maternal in New York
Dear Maternal: I’ll try. Manywomen in their late 30s findthat conceiving a child is
complicated, and it canalso take longer than theythought. It has taken you 38years to find this exceptionalman, and it could take quite abit of time to find another onewho is so compatible.
Look at it this way: If youmarried “Mr. Wonderful”and learned afterward that hecouldn’t father a child, wouldyou leave him? Insist onadopting? Or would you countthe many blessings you dohave with him and stay?
Many women are happilychildless. However, if you’renot one of them, you shouldtake your chances and moveon – remembering that there
are no guarantees.
Dear Abby: I work on a busystreet in San Francisco wheresmokers walk around puffingall day while ignoring thosearound them. Don’t you thinkthey should be considerateenough to smoke at designat-ed areas only and not whilewalking with their second-hand smoke billowing aroundother pedestrians?
I have seen pregnant wom-en and children inundatedby the smoke as these puffersstroll by with no regard. Wenonsmokers would appreci-ate their courtesy for othersbecause we don’t want toinhale what they’re smoking.Can you comment? – HatesThat Habit
Dear Hates That Habit: I hateit, too, but unless there is anordinance in your city thatprohibits smoking on certain
sidewalks, I think it’s unreal-istic to expect smokers whoinhale not to exhale.
Dear Readers: Years ago, ayoung mother in Arlington,Va., wrote my mother abouta book she had received thatpromised to help parents pre-pare their children for schoolby expanding their vocabu-lary. The “secret”? Reading tothem while they are small.
Children learn wordsby hearing them spoken incontext – the more they hear,the more they absorb. Likeeverything else, reading issomething people will domore of if they enjoy it. Whena parent reads to a child, thechild associates reading withpleasure.
“The Read-Aloud Hand-book” by Jim Trelease becamea huge best-seller when it waspublished. Penguin Books
called it one of the 75 most im-portant books it has publishedin its history. The book is nowin its seventh – and LAST –edition and has been com-pletely revised and updated.If you’re a parent who wantsyour child to succeed, a grand-parent, or someone contem-plating becoming a parent inthe future, pick up a copy.
The first half is filled withthe latest research on theimportance of literacy forchildren’s success; the restlists book titles and ages of theyoungsters for which they’reintended. To learn moreabout the author, visit www.trelease-on-reading.com. Toorder the book, go to www.penguin.com. – Love, Abby
• Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
Dear Dr. K: I’ve been takinglevodopa for years to treat myParkinson’s disease. Lately,though, it hasn’t been aseffective. Are there any othertreatment options?
Dear Reader: It is quite com-mon for the effectiveness oflevodopa to change over time.Fortunately, there are othertreatments available. Someare very high-tech, reflectingthe latest scientific knowl-edge. Others are very low-tech, reflecting the wisdom ofthe past.
Parkinson’s disease occurswhen a certain part of thebrain does not make enoughof the chemical signal dopa-mine. Dopamine is one of thenatural “neurotransmitter”chemicals that one braincell uses to send a signal toanother cell. It has manyeffects, one of which is to help
coordinate movement. With-out dopamine, hands tremble,arms and legs become stiff,movement slows, and balanceand coordination fail. Youmay have trouble walking,talking, swallowing and doingeveryday tasks.
Drugs such as levodopa canfill in for natural dopamineand ease symptoms. If thedrug has become less effective,your doctor can try adjustingthe dose or schedule of yourmedication. That often restoreseffectiveness. There also areother types of medicines,which can be used alone or incombination with levodopa,and your doctor may want you
to try one of these.A non-drug type of treat-
ment that has been used formore than a decade to helpcontrol Parkinson’s symp-toms is known as deep-brainstimulation (DBS). It involvesplacing a tiny wire called alead in the part of the brainthat controls movement. Amatchbook-sized stimula-tor is implanted under theskin below the collarbone.The lead and stimulator areconnected to each other bya second wire. This wireruns under the skin of theshoulder, neck and head. Thedevice emits small pulses ofelectricity that are receivedby the wire in the brain andhelp to coordinate movement.DBS – either alone or incombination with levodopa– might help control yoursymptoms.
Another, much lower-techoption is tai chi. Tai chi is anancient Chinese practice thatwe’ve talked about severaltimes before in this column.It involves slow, gracefulmovements that flow smooth-ly from one challenging poseto the next.
Tai chi enhances balanceand muscle strength. Ithelps prevent falls and girdsagainst physical decline.People with Parkinson’s canalso reap these benefits of taichi. An excellent book abouttai chi, “The Harvard MedicalSchool Guide to Tai Chi,”by my faculty colleague Dr.Peter Wayne, is described onmy website.
The benefits of tai chiin people with Parkinson’sdisease were demonstrat-ed in a study published inthe New England Journal
of Medicine. Researchersrandomly assigned studyparticipants with mild tomoderate Parkinson’s diseaseto twice-weekly sessions of taichi, strength-building exercis-es or stretching. After sixmonths, Parkinson’s patientswho did tai chi were strongerand had much better balancethan patients in the othergroups. The tai chi group alsohad significantly fewer fallsand slower rates of decline inoverall motor control.
When I was a medicalstudent, there were fewtreatments for Parkinson’sdisease. That has changeddramatically, due not only toscientific progress but also tothe scientific study of ancientpractices.
By BERNICE BEDE OSOLNewspaper Enterprise Association
TODAY – Don’t let life get you down. Participate in activities andevents that bring you joy. Share with people you care about.Move in a positive direction and embrace change. Adventureawaits you, and having the confidence to move toward anindependent future should be your goal.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – Participate in a worthwhilecause. Offer your services, and you will be appreciated andrewarded. It will be difficult to hide your feelings. Be honestbut kind.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – Partners may cost you morethan you bargained for. Refrain from making promises that arehard to live up to. Your tendency to overindulge in all areas oflife should be curbed.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – Educational pursuits will helpyou get a better job. Making a career move will pay off. Prob-lems with a friend or relative should be handled swiftly.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – Delays due to red tape will be an-noying. Leave plenty of time to sort through any problems thatarise. Lowered vitality may result, leading to minor ailments.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) – You’ll enjoy all the options that comeavailable to you. Embrace change and enjoy making new friendsalong the way. Simplicity and moderation should be enforced.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – A lack of sympathy will surfaceif you are stubborn. Use your skills diversely. This is an oppor-tune time to show others what you are capable of doing.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – Don’t mix business with pleasure.You’ll get more accomplished both at work and at home if yougive your undivided attention to whichever happens to be yourfocus.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) – Put your creative talent to work foryou. A unique approach to something you already do well willgive what you have to offer new life. Self-improvement willboost your confidence.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – Choose your path and stay on course.A change will inspire you to try something new. Don’t letsomeone’s demands get you down. Be courteous, but don’tneglect your needs.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – A responsible attitude will get youa lot in return. Romance is on the rise and will help you wardoff a problem you might face if you aren’t attentive.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – Speak up. If you get your feelingsout in the open, you will be able to deal with any problem youencounter. Take care of any legal, financial or medical matters.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – Participate in seminars, tradeshows or anything that interests you. You’ll be inspired bywhat you see and learn and will explore new possibilities whenit comes to home, family and personal relationships.
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PUBLIC NOTICE
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALBCOUNTY - SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS
Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLCPLAINTIFF
Vs.Elpidio Castro; et. al.
DEFENDANTS09 CH 00614
NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OFREAL ESTATE
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIV-EN that pursuant to a Judgment ofForeclosure and Sale entered in theabove cause on 9/26/2013, theSheriff of DeKalb County, Illinoiswill on 1/9/14 at the hour of1:00PM at Public Safety Building,150 North Main Sycamore, IL60178, or in a place otherwisedesignated at the time of sale,County of DeKalb and State of Illi-nois, sell at public auction to thehighest bidder for cash, as set forthbelow, the following described realestate:
PIN 08-22-433-008Improved with ResidentialCOMMONLY KNOWN AS: 122
Prospect Street Dekalb, IL 60115Sale terms: 10% down of the
highest bid by certified funds at theclose of the auction; The balance,including the Judicial sale fee forAbandoned Residential PropertyMunicipality Relief Fund, which iscalculated at the rate of $1 for each$1,000 or fraction thereof of theamount paid by the purchaser notto exceed $300, in certified funds,is due within twenty-four (24)hours. The subject property is sub-ject to general real estate taxes,special assessments, or special tax-es levied against said real estateand is offered for sale without anyrepresentation as to quality orquantity of title and without re-course to Plaintiff and in "AS IS"condition. The sale is further subjectto confirmation by the court.
If the property is a condominiumand the foreclosure takes place after1/1/2007, purchasers other thanthe mortgagees will be required topay any assessment and legal feesdue under The Condominium Prop-erty Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1)and (g)(4).
If the property is located in acommon interest community, pur-chasers other than mortgagees willbe required to pay any assessmentand legal fees due under the Con-dominium Property Act, 765 ILCS605/18.5(g-1).
If the sale is set aside for anyreason, the Purchaser at the saleshall be entitled only to a return ofthe deposit paid. The Purchasershall have no further recourseagainst the Mortgagor, the Mort-gagee or the Mortgagee's attorney.
Upon payment in full of theamount bid, the purchaser shall re-ceive a Certificate of Sale, whichwill entitle the purchaser to a Deedto the real estate after Confirmationof the sale. The successful pur-chaser has the soleresponsibility/expense of evictingany tenants or other individualspresently in possession of the sub-ject premises.
The property will NOT be openfor inspection and Plaintiff makesno representation as to the condi-tion of the property. Prospectivebidders are admonished to checkthe Court file to verify all informa-tion.
IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR(HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THERIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSIONFOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF ANORDER OF POSSESSION, IN AC-CORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORT-GAGE FORECLOSURE LAW.
For information: Examine thecourt file or contact Plaintiff's attor-ney: Codilis & Associates, P.C.,15W030 North Frontage Road,Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527,(630) 794-9876. Please refer tofile number 14-11-04754.I575356
(Published in the Daily Chronicle,November 26, December 3 & 10,2013.)
PUBLIC NOTICE
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALBCOUNTY - SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS
U.S. Bank National Association, astrustee for J.P. Morgan AlternativeLoan Trust 2007-A2
PLAINTIFFVs.
Oscar Cornejo; et. al.DEFENDANTS
10 CH 00336NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF
REAL ESTATEPUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIV-
EN that pursuant to a Judgment ofForeclosure and Sale entered in theabove cause on 12/13/2012, theSheriff of DeKalb County, Illinoiswill on 1/9/14 at the hour of1:00PM at Public Safety Building,150 North Main Sycamore, IL60178, or in a place otherwisedesignated at the time of sale,County of DeKalb and State of Illi-nois, sell at public auction to the
publichighest bidder for cash, as set forthbelow, the following described realestate:
PIN 08-14-129-001Improved with Single Family
HomeCOMMONLY KNOWN AS: 1830
N. Judy Lane Dekalb, IL 60115Sale terms: 10% down of the
highest bid by certified funds at theclose of the auction; The balance,including the Judicial sale fee forAbandoned Residential PropertyMunicipality Relief Fund, which iscalculated at the rate of $1 for each$1,000 or fraction thereof of theamount paid by the purchaser notto exceed $300, in certified funds,is due within twenty-four (24)hours. The subject property is sub-ject to general real estate taxes,special assessments, or special tax-es levied against said real estateand is offered for sale without anyrepresentation as to quality orquantity of title and without re-course to Plaintiff and in "AS IS"condition. The sale is further subjectto confirmation by the court.
If the property is a condominiumand the foreclosure takes place after1/1/2007, purchasers other thanthe mortgagees will be required topay any assessment and legal feesdue under The Condominium Prop-erty Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1)and (g)(4).
If the property is located in acommon interest community, pur-chasers other than mortgagees willbe required to pay any assessmentand legal fees due under the Con-dominium Property Act, 765 ILCS605/18.5(g-1).
If the sale is set aside for anyreason, the Purchaser at the saleshall be entitled only to a return ofthe deposit paid. The Purchasershall have no further recourseagainst the Mortgagor, the Mort-gagee or the Mortgagee's attorney.
Upon payment in full of theamount bid, the purchaser shall re-ceive a Certificate of Sale, whichwill entitle the purchaser to a Deedto the real estate after Confirmationof the sale. The successful pur-chaser has the soleresponsibility/expense of evictingany tenants or other individualspresently in possession of the sub-ject premises.
The property will NOT be openfor inspection and Plaintiff makesno representation as to the condi-tion of the property. Prospectivebidders are admonished to checkthe Court file to verify all informa-tion.
IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR(HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THERIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSIONFOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF ANORDER OF POSSESSION, IN AC-CORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORT-GAGE FORECLOSURE LAW.
For information: Examine thecourt file or contact Plaintiff's attor-ney: Codilis & Associates, P.C.,15W030 North Frontage Road,Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527,(630) 794-9876. Please refer tofile number 14-10-15992.I575360
(Published in the Daily Chronicle,November 26, December 3 & 10,2013.)
PUBLIC NOTICE
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALBCOUNTY - SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS
Nationstar Mortgage LLCPLAINTIFF
Vs.James B. Schladt; et. al.
DEFENDANTS12 CH 00418
NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OFREAL ESTATE
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIV-EN that pursuant to a Judgment ofForeclosure and Sale entered in theabove cause on 9/26/2013, theSheriff of DeKalb County, Illinoiswill on 1/9/14 at the hour of1:00PM at Public Safety Building,150 North Main Sycamore, IL60178, or in a place otherwisedesignated at the time of sale,County of DeKalb and State of Illi-nois, sell at public auction to thehighest bidder for cash, as set forthbelow, the following described realestate:
PIN 08-21-304-005Improved with Single Family
HomeCOMMONLY KNOWN AS: 1723
Tassel Court DeKalb, IL 60115Sale terms: 10% down of the
highest bid by certified funds at theclose of the auction; The balance,including the Judicial sale fee forAbandoned Residential PropertyMunicipality Relief Fund, which iscalculated at the rate of $1 for each$1,000 or fraction thereof of theamount paid by the purchaser notto exceed $300, in certified funds,is due within twenty-four (24)
ty-four (24)hours. The subject property is sub-ject to general real estate taxes,special assessments, or special tax-es levied against said real estateand is offered for sale without anyrepresentation as to quality orquantity of title and without re-course to Plaintiff and in "AS IS"condition. The sale is further subjectto confirmation by the court.
If the property is a condominiumand the foreclosure takes place after1/1/2007, purchasers other thanthe mortgagees will be required topay any assessment and legal feesdue under The Condominium Prop-erty Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1)and (g)(4).
If the property is located in acommon interest community, pur-chasers other than mortgagees willbe required to pay any assessmentand legal fees due under the Con-dominium Property Act, 765 ILCS605/18.5(g-1).
If the sale is set aside for anyreason, the Purchaser at the saleshall be entitled only to a return ofthe deposit paid. The Purchasershall have no further recourseagainst the Mortgagor, the Mort-gagee or the Mortgagee's attorney.
Upon payment in full of theamount bid, the purchaser shall re-ceive a Certificate of Sale, whichwill entitle the purchaser to a Deedto the real estate after Confirmationof the sale. The successful pur-chaser has the soleresponsibility/expense of evictingany tenants or other individualspresently in possession of the sub-ject premises.
The property will NOT be openfor inspection and Plaintiff makesno representation as to the condi-tion of the property. Prospectivebidders are admonished to checkthe Court file to verify all informa-tion.
IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR(HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THERIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSIONFOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF ANORDER OF POSSESSION, IN AC-CORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORT-GAGE FORECLOSURE LAW.
For information: Examine thecourt file or contact Plaintiff's attor-ney: Codilis & Associates, P.C.,15W030 North Frontage Road,Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527,(630) 794-9876. Please refer tofile number 14-12-21792.I575355
(Published in the Daily Chronicle,November 26, December 3 & 10,2013.)
PUBLIC NOTICE
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALBCOUNTY - SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS
Wells Fargo Bank, NAPLAINTIFF
Vs.Israel McGinnis; et. al.
DEFENDANTS13 CH 00083
NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OFREAL ESTATE
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIV-EN that pursuant to a Judgment ofForeclosure and Sale entered in theabove cause on 9/26/2013, theSheriff of DeKalb County, Illinoiswill on 1/9/14 at the hour of1:00PM at Public Safety Building,150 North Main Sycamore, IL60178, or in a place otherwisedesignated at the time of sale,County of DeKalb and State of Illi-nois, sell at public auction to thehighest bidder for cash, as set forthbelow, the following described realestate:
PIN 09-20-152-003Improved with Single Family
HomeCOMMONLY KNOWN AS: 254
W. Robin Avenue Cortland, IL60112
Sale terms: 10% down of thehighest bid by certified funds at theclose of the auction; The balance,including the Judicial sale fee forAbandoned Residential PropertyMunicipality Relief Fund, which iscalculated at the rate of $1 for each$1,000 or fraction thereof of theamount paid by the purchaser notto exceed $300, in certified funds,is due within twenty-four (24)hours. The subject property is sub-ject to general real estate taxes,special assessments, or special tax-es levied against said real estateand is offered for sale without anyrepresentation as to quality orquantity of title and without re-course to Plaintiff and in "AS IS"condition. The sale is further subjectto confirmation by the court.
If the property is a condominiumand the foreclosure takes place after1/1/2007, purchasers other thanthe mortgagees will be required topay any assessment and legal feesdue under The Condominium Prop-erty Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1)and (g)(4).
and (g)(4)If the property is located in a
common interest community, pur-chasers other than mortgagees willbe required to pay any assessmentand legal fees due under the Con-dominium Property Act, 765 ILCS605/18.5(g-1).
If the sale is set aside for anyreason, the Purchaser at the saleshall be entitled only to a return ofthe deposit paid. The Purchasershall have no further recourseagainst the Mortgagor, the Mort-gagee or the Mortgagee's attorney.
Upon payment in full of theamount bid, the purchaser shall re-ceive a Certificate of Sale, whichwill entitle the purchaser to a Deedto the real estate after Confirmationof the sale. The successful pur-chaser has the soleresponsibility/expense of evictingany tenants or other individualspresently in possession of the sub-ject premises.
The property will NOT be openfor inspection and Plaintiff makesno representation as to the condi-tion of the property. Prospectivebidders are admonished to checkthe Court file to verify all informa-tion.
IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR(HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THERIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSIONFOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF ANORDER OF POSSESSION, IN AC-CORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORT-GAGE FORECLOSURE LAW.
For information: Examine thecourt file or contact Plaintiff's attor-ney: Codilis & Associates, P.C.,15W030 North Frontage Road,Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527,(630) 794-9876. Please refer tofile number 14-13-03379.I575354
(Published in the Daily Chronicle,November 26, December 3 & 10,2013.)
PUBLIC NOTICE
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALBCOUNTY - SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS
SunTrust Mortgage Inc.PLAINTIFF
Vs.Pedro Martinez; et. al.
DEFENDANTS13 CH 00185
NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OFREAL ESTATE
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIV-EN that pursuant to a Judgment ofForeclosure and Sale entered in theabove cause on 8/1/2013, theSheriff of DeKalb County, Illinoiswill on 1/9/14 at the hour of1:00PM at Public Safety Building,150 North Main Sycamore, IL60178, or in a place otherwisedesignated at the time of sale,County of DeKalb and State of Illi-nois, sell at public auction to thehighest bidder for cash, as set forthbelow, the following described realestate:
PIN 08-13-323-018Improved with ResidentialCOMMONLY KNOWN AS: 1403
Cambria Drive Dekalb, IL 60115Sale terms: 10% down of the
highest bid by certified funds at theclose of the auction; The balance,including the Judicial sale fee forAbandoned Residential PropertyMunicipality Relief Fund, which iscalculated at the rate of $1 for each$1,000 or fraction thereof of theamount paid by the purchaser notto exceed $300, in certified funds,is due within twenty-four (24)hours. The subject property is sub-ject to general real estate taxes,special assessments, or special tax-es levied against said real estateand is offered for sale without anyrepresentation as to quality orquantity of title and without re-course to Plaintiff and in "AS IS"condition. The sale is further subjectto confirmation by the court.
If the property is a condominiumand the foreclosure takes place after1/1/2007, purchasers other thanthe mortgagees will be required topay any assessment and legal feesdue under The Condominium Prop-erty Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1)and (g)(4).
If the property is located in acommon interest community, pur-chasers other than mortgagees willbe required to pay any assessmentand legal fees due under the Con-dominium Property Act, 765 ILCS605/18.5(g-1).
If the sale is set aside for anyreason, the Purchaser at the saleshall be entitled only to a return ofthe deposit paid. The Purchasershall have no further recourseagainst the Mortgagor, the Mort-gagee or the Mortgagee's attorney.
Upon payment in full of theamount bid, the purchaser shall re-ceive a Certificate of Sale, whichwill entitle the purchaser to a Deedto the real estate after Confirmation
of the sale. The successful pur-chaser has the soleresponsibility/expense of evictingany tenants or other individualspresently in possession of the sub-ject premises.
The property will NOT be openfor inspection and Plaintiff makesno representation as to the condi-tion of the property. Prospectivebidders are admonished to checkthe Court file to verify all informa-tion.
IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR(HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THERIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSIONFOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF ANORDER OF POSSESSION, IN AC-CORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORT-GAGE FORECLOSURE LAW.
For information: Examine thecourt file or contact Plaintiff's attor-ney: Codilis & Associates, P.C.,15W030 North Frontage Road,Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527,(630) 794-9876. Please refer tofile number 14-12-36085.I575353
(Published in the Daily Chronicle,November 26, December 3 & 10,2013.)
PUBLIC NOTICE
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THETWENTY THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS
THE NATIONAL BANK & TRUSTCOMPANY
Plaintiff,vs.
TIMOTHY A. GRUDECKI, DENISE L.GRUDECKI, DEVONAIRE FARMSCOMMUNITY ASSOCIATION, UN-KNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS,
Defendants.
CASE NO. 13 CH 184NOTICE OF JUDICIAL SALE
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby giventhat pursuant to a Judgment forForeclosure entered by the Court inthe above entitled cause the proper-ty hereinafter described or so muchthereof as shall be sufficient to sat-isfy said judgment, shall be sold tothe highest bidder.
The name, address and tele-phone number of the person tocontact for information regardingthe real estate is:
Jeffrey L. LewisKlein, Stoddard, Buck & Lewis LLC
2045 Aberdeen CourtSycamore, IL 60178
(815) 748-0380
The common address and othercommon description, if any of thereal estate is:
570 DEVONAIRE PARKWAY,DEKALB, IL 60115
The legal description of the realestate:
PIN: 08-21-374-019
A description of the improve-ments on the real estate:
Residential real estate
The time and place of the sale is:
January 9, 2014 at 1:00 pm
DeKalb County Sheriff's Office150 North Main StreetSycamore, IL 60178
The terms of the sale are:A. The sale shall be by public
auction.B. The sale shall be by open
verbal bid.C. The sale shall be conducted
by the Sheriff of DeKalb County.D. The sale shall be cash.E. The sale shall be "as is"
condition without any representa-tion or warranty as to the conditionof the property. The sale is furthersubject to confirmation by thecourt.
Title will be conveyed withoutany representation as to quality orquantity of title and without re-course to Plaintiff subject to all gen-eral real estate taxes which are alien upon the real estate, in addi-tion to those which have not yet be-come due and payable, and spe-cial assessments and special taxes,if any, and easements, covenants,conditions, zoning laws anddrainage ditches, feeders, lateralsand restrictions of record.
Upon payment in full of theamount bid, the Purchaser shall re-ceive a certificate of sale which willentitle Purchaser to a deed to thereal estate subject to court confir-mation of the sale.
The property will NOT be openfor inspection.
THE NATIONAL BANK & TRUSTCOMPANY OF SYCAMORE
BY: /s/ JEFFREY L. LEWISOne of its Attorneys
Prepared by:JEFFREY L. LEWISKlein, Stoddard, Buck & Lewis, LLC2045 Aberdeen CourtSycamore, IL 60178(815) 748-0380mailto:[email protected]
(Published in the Daily Chronicle,December 3, 10 & 17, 2013.)
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PUBLIC NOTICE
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALBCOUNTY - SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS
Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLCPLAINTIFF
Vs.Elpidio Castro; et. al.
DEFENDANTS09 CH 00614
NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OFREAL ESTATE
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIV-EN that pursuant to a Judgment of
pu dgmForeclosure and Sale entered in theabove cause on 9/26/2013, theSheriff of DeKalb County, Illinoiswill on 1/9/14 at the hour of1:00PM at Public Safety Building,150 North Main Sycamore, IL60178, or in a place otherwisedesignated at the time of sale,County of DeKalb and State of Illi-nois, sell at public auction to thehighest bidder for cash, as set forthbelow, the following described realestate:
THE WEST 64 FEET OF LOT 10IN BLOCK 5 IN THE ORIGINAL VIL-LAGE (NOW CITY) OF DEKALB, AC-CORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOFRECORDED IN BOOK "A" OFPLATS, PAGE 8 1/4 ON DECEM-BER 19, 1853, IN DEKALB COUN-TY, ILLINOIS
PIN 08-22-433-008Improved with ResidentialCOMMONLY KNOWN AS: 122
Prospect Street Dekalb, IL 60115Sale terms: 10% down of the
highest bid by certified funds at theclose of the auction; The balance,including the Judicial sale fee forAbandoned Residential PropertyMunicipality Relief Fund, which iscalculated at the rate of $1 for each$1,000 or fraction thereof of theamount paid by the purchaser notto exceed $300, in certified funds,is due within twenty-four (24)hours. The subject property is sub-ject to general real estate taxes,special assessments, or special tax-es levied against said real estateand is offered for sale without anyrepresentation as to quality orquantity of title and without re-course to Plaintiff and in "AS IS"condition. The sale is further subjectto confirmation by the court.
If the property is a condominiumand the foreclosure takes place after1/1/2007, purchasers other thanthe mortgagees will be required topay any assessment and legal feesdue under The Condominium Prop-erty Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1)and (g)(4).
If the property is located in acommon interest community, pur-chasers other than mortgagees willbe required to pay any assessmentand legal fees due under the Con-dominium Property Act, 765 ILCS605/18.5(g-1).
If the sale is set aside for anyreason, the Purchaser at the saleshall be entitled only to a return ofthe deposit paid. The Purchasershall have no further recourseagainst the Mortgagor, the Mort-gagee or the Mortgagee's attorney.
Upon payment in full of theamount bid, the purchaser shall re-ceive a Certificate of Sale, whichwill entitle the purchaser to a Deedto the real estate after Confirmationof the sale. The successful pur-chaser has the soleresponsibility/expense of evictingany tenants or other individualspresently in possession of the sub-ject premises.
The property will NOT be openfor inspection and Plaintiff makesno representation as to the condi-tion of the property. Prospectivebidders are admonished to checkthe Court file to verify all informa-tion.
IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR(HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THERIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSIONFOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF ANORDER OF POSSESSION, IN AC-CORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORT-GAGE FORECLOSURE LAW.
For information: Examine thecourt file or contact Plaintiff's attor-ney: Codilis & Associates, P.C.,15W030 North Frontage Road,Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527,(630) 794-9876. Please refer tofile number 14-11-04754.I575356
(Published in the Daily Chronicle,November 26, December 3 & 10,2013.)
PUBLIC NOTICE
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALBCOUNTY - SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS
U.S. Bank National Association, astrustee for J.P. Morgan AlternativeLoan Trust 2007-A2
PLAINTIFFVs.
Oscar Cornejo; et. al.DEFENDANTS
10 CH 00336NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF
REAL ESTATEPUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIV-
EN that pursuant to a Judgment ofForeclosure and Sale entered in theabove cause on 12/13/2012, theSheriff of DeKalb County, Illinoiswill on 1/9/14 at the hour of1:00PM at Public Safety Building,150 North Main Sycamore, IL60178, or in a place otherwisedesignated at the time of sale,County of DeKalb and State of Illi-
ynois, sell at public auction to thehighest bidder for cash, as set forthbelow, the following described realestate:
LOT 7 IN BLOCK 4 OF FOURTHADDITION TO NORTH CREST SUB-DIVISION, BEING A SUBDIVISIONOF A PART OF PARCEL 'A' OF THEELLWOOD FARM PLAT ON SEC-TION 14, TOWNSHIP 40 NORTH,RANGE 4 EAST OF THE THIRDPRINCIPAL MERIDIAN AS PER PLATRECORDED IN THE RECORDER'SOFFICE OF DEKALB COUNTY, ILLI-NOIS, ON JUNE 15TH, 1966 ASDOCUMENT NO. 333404, SITUAT-ED IN DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS
PIN 08-14-129-001Improved with Single Family
HomeCOMMONLY KNOWN AS: 1830
N. Judy Lane Dekalb, IL 60115Sale terms: 10% down of the
highest bid by certified funds at theclose of the auction; The balance,including the Judicial sale fee forAbandoned Residential PropertyMunicipality Relief Fund, which iscalculated at the rate of $1 for each$1,000 or fraction thereof of theamount paid by the purchaser notto exceed $300, in certified funds,is due within twenty-four (24)hours. The subject property is sub-ject to general real estate taxes,special assessments, or special tax-es levied against said real estateand is offered for sale without anyrepresentation as to quality orquantity of title and without re-course to Plaintiff and in "AS IS"condition. The sale is further subjectto confirmation by the court.
If the property is a condominiumand the foreclosure takes place after1/1/2007, purchasers other thanthe mortgagees will be required topay any assessment and legal feesdue under The Condominium Prop-erty Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1)and (g)(4).
If the property is located in acommon interest community, pur-chasers other than mortgagees willbe required to pay any assessmentand legal fees due under the Con-dominium Property Act, 765 ILCS605/18.5(g-1).
If the sale is set aside for anyreason, the Purchaser at the saleshall be entitled only to a return ofthe deposit paid. The Purchasershall have no further recourseagainst the Mortgagor, the Mort-gagee or the Mortgagee's attorney.
Upon payment in full of theamount bid, the purchaser shall re-ceive a Certificate of Sale, whichwill entitle the purchaser to a Deedto the real estate after Confirmationof the sale. The successful pur-chaser has the soleresponsibility/expense of evictingany tenants or other individualspresently in possession of the sub-ject premises.
The property will NOT be openfor inspection and Plaintiff makesno representation as to the condi-tion of the property. Prospectivebidders are admonished to checkthe Court file to verify all informa-tion.
IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR(HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THERIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSIONFOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF ANORDER OF POSSESSION, IN AC-CORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORT-GAGE FORECLOSURE LAW.
For information: Examine thecourt file or contact Plaintiff's attor-ney: Codilis & Associates, P.C.,15W030 North Frontage Road,Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527,(630) 794-9876. Please refer tofile number 14-10-15992.I575360
(Published in the Daily Chronicle,November 26, December 3 & 10,2013.)
PUBLIC NOTICE
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALBCOUNTY - SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS
Nationstar Mortgage LLCPLAINTIFF
Vs.James B. Schladt; et. al.
DEFENDANTS12 CH 00418
NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OFREAL ESTATE
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIV-EN that pursuant to a Judgment ofForeclosure and Sale entered in theabove cause on 9/26/2013, theSheriff of DeKalb County, Illinoiswill on 1/9/14 at the hour of1:00PM at Public Safety Building,150 North Main Sycamore, IL60178, or in a place otherwisedesignated at the time of sale,County of DeKalb and State of Illi-nois, sell at public auction to thehighest bidder for cash, as set forthbelow, the following described realestate:
LOT 279 IN DEVONAIRE FARMS
SUBDIVISION UNIT 2, BEING ASUBDIVISION OF PART OF THEWEST HALF OF SECTION 21,TOWNSHIP 40 NORTH, RANGE 4EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPALMERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THEPLAT THEREOF RECORDEDSEPTEMBER 27, 2005 IN PLATCABINET NUMBER 9, AT SLIDE163-C, AS DOCUMENT NUMBER2005019325, IN DEKALB COUN-TY, ILLINOIS.
PIN 08-21-304-005Improved with Single Family
HomeCOMMONLY KNOWN AS: 1723
Tassel Court DeKalb, IL 60115Sale terms: 10% down of the
highest bid by certified funds at theclose of the auction; The balance,including the Judicial sale fee forAbandoned Residential PropertyMunicipality Relief Fund, which iscalculated at the rate of $1 for each$1,000 or fraction thereof of theamount paid by the purchaser notto exceed $300, in certified funds,is due within twenty-four (24)hours. The subject property is sub-ject to general real estate taxes,special assessments, or special tax-es levied against said real estateand is offered for sale without anyrepresentation as to quality orquantity of title and without re-course to Plaintiff and in "AS IS"condition. The sale is further subjectto confirmation by the court.
If the property is a condominiumand the foreclosure takes place after1/1/2007, purchasers other thanthe mortgagees will be required topay any assessment and legal feesdue under The Condominium Prop-erty Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1)and (g)(4).
If the property is located in acommon interest community, pur-chasers other than mortgagees willbe required to pay any assessmentand legal fees due under the Con-dominium Property Act, 765 ILCS605/18.5(g-1).
If the sale is set aside for anyreason, the Purchaser at the saleshall be entitled only to a return ofthe deposit paid. The Purchasershall have no further recourseagainst the Mortgagor, the Mort-gagee or the Mortgagee's attorney.
Upon payment in full of theamount bid, the purchaser shall re-ceive a Certificate of Sale, whichwill entitle the purchaser to a Deedto the real estate after Confirmationof the sale. The successful pur-chaser has the soleresponsibility/expense of evictingany tenants or other individualspresently in possession of the sub-ject premises.
The property will NOT be openfor inspection and Plaintiff makesno representation as to the condi-tion of the property. Prospectivebidders are admonished to checkthe Court file to verify all informa-tion.
IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR(HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THERIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSIONFOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF ANORDER OF POSSESSION, IN AC-CORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORT-GAGE FORECLOSURE LAW.
For information: Examine thecourt file or contact Plaintiff's attor-ney: Codilis & Associates, P.C.,15W030 North Frontage Road,Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527,(630) 794-9876. Please refer tofile number 14-12-21792.I575355
(Published in the Daily Chronicle,November 26, December 3 & 10,2013.)
PUBLIC NOTICE
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALBCOUNTY - SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS
Wells Fargo Bank, NAPLAINTIFF
Vs.Israel McGinnis; et. al.
DEFENDANTS13 CH 00083
NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OFREAL ESTATE
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIV-EN that pursuant to a Judgment ofForeclosure and Sale entered in theabove cause on 9/26/2013, theSheriff of DeKalb County, Illinoiswill on 1/9/14 at the hour of1:00PM at Public Safety Building,150 North Main Sycamore, IL60178, or in a place otherwisedesignated at the time of sale,County of DeKalb and State of Illi-nois, sell at public auction to thehighest bidder for cash, as set forthbelow, the following described realestate:
LOT 62 IN RICHLAND TRAILS,BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OFTHE SOUTH HALF OF THE NORTH-WEST QUARTER AND PART OF THESOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SEC-TION 20, TOWNSHIP 40 NORTH,RANGE 5 EAST OF THE THIRD
PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDINGTO THE PLAT OF RICHLAND TRAILSRECORDED JUNE 18, 2007 ASDOCUMENT NUMBER2007010715, CERTIFICATE OFCORRECTION RECORDED AS DOC-UMENT NUMBER 2007015993, INDEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS.
PIN 09-20-152-003Improved with Single Family
HomeCOMMONLY KNOWN AS: 254
W. Robin Avenue Cortland, IL60112
Sale terms: 10% down of thehighest bid by certified funds at theclose of the auction; The balance,including the Judicial sale fee forAbandoned Residential PropertyMunicipality Relief Fund, which iscalculated at the rate of $1 for each$1,000 or fraction thereof of theamount paid by the purchaser notto exceed $300, in certified funds,is due within twenty-four (24)hours. The subject property is sub-ject to general real estate taxes,special assessments, or special tax-es levied against said real estateand is offered for sale without anyrepresentation as to quality orquantity of title and without re-course to Plaintiff and in "AS IS"condition. The sale is further subjectto confirmation by the court.
If the property is a condominiumand the foreclosure takes place after1/1/2007, purchasers other thanthe mortgagees will be required topay any assessment and legal feesdue under The Condominium Prop-erty Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1)and (g)(4).
If the property is located in acommon interest community, pur-chasers other than mortgagees willbe required to pay any assessmentand legal fees due under the Con-dominium Property Act, 765 ILCS605/18.5(g-1).
If the sale is set aside for anyreason, the Purchaser at the saleshall be entitled only to a return ofthe deposit paid. The Purchasershall have no further recourseagainst the Mortgagor, the Mort-gagee or the Mortgagee's attorney.
Upon payment in full of theamount bid, the purchaser shall re-ceive a Certificate of Sale, whichwill entitle the purchaser to a Deedto the real estate after Confirmationof the sale. The successful pur-chaser has the soleresponsibility/expense of evictingany tenants or other individualspresently in possession of the sub-ject premises.
The property will NOT be openfor inspection and Plaintiff makesno representation as to the condi-tion of the property. Prospectivebidders are admonished to checkthe Court file to verify all informa-tion.
IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR(HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THERIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSIONFOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF ANORDER OF POSSESSION, IN AC-CORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORT-GAGE FORECLOSURE LAW.
For information: Examine thecourt file or contact Plaintiff's attor-ney: Codilis & Associates, P.C.,15W030 North Frontage Road,Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527,(630) 794-9876. Please refer tofile number 14-13-03379.I575354
(Published in the Daily Chronicle,November 26, December 3 & 10,2013.)
PUBLIC NOTICE
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALBCOUNTY - SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS
SunTrust Mortgage Inc.PLAINTIFF
Vs.
Pedro Martinez; et. al.DEFENDANTS
13 CH 00185NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF
REAL ESTATEPUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIV-
EN that pursuant to a Judgment ofForeclosure and Sale entered in theabove cause on 8/1/2013, theSheriff of DeKalb County, Illinoiswill on 1/9/14 at the hour of1:00PM at Public Safety Building,150 North Main Sycamore, IL60178, or in a place otherwisedesignated at the time of sale,County of DeKalb and State of Illi-nois, sell at public auction to thehighest bidder for cash, as set forthbelow, the following described realestate:
THAT PART OF LOT 15 IN SUM-MIT ENCLAVE, UNIT ONE, A SUBDI-VISION OF PART OF SECTION 13,TOWNSHIP 40 NORTH, RANGE 4EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPALMERIDIAN, IN DE KALB COUNTY,ILLINOIS, SAID PART DESCRIBEDAS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING ATTHE NORTHEASTERLY CORNERTHEREOF; THENCE SOUTH 05 DE-GREES 16 MINUTES 35 SECONDSEAST 45.09 FEET ON THE EASTER-LY LOT LINE TO THE EASTERLY EX-TENSION OF THE CENTERLINE OFA COMMON WALL, SAID POINTALSO BEING THE POINT OF BEGIN-NING; THENCE SOUTH 84 DE-GREES 43 MINUTES 59 SECONDSWEST 111.04 FEET ON SAIDEASTERLY EXTENSION, SAID CEN-TERLINE AND THE WESTERLY EX-TENSION TO THE WESTERLY LOTLINE; THENCE SOUTH 04 DE-GREES 26 MINUTES 11 SECONDSEAST 8.66 FEET ON SAID WESTER-LY LINE TO A POINT OF CURVE;THENCE SOUTHEASTERLY ON SAIDCURVE TO THE LEFT HAVING A RA-DIUS OF 150.00 FEET AND ANARC LENGTH 93.12 FEET TO THESOUTHERLY LOT LINE; THENCENORTH 49 DEGREES 31 MINUTES59 SECONDS EAST 103.60 FEETTO SAID EASTERLY LINE; THENCENORTH 05 DEGREES 16 MINUTES35 SECONDS WEST 36.65 FEETON SAID LOT LINE TO THE POINTOF BEGINNING.
PIN 08-13-323-018Improved with ResidentialCOMMONLY KNOWN AS: 1403
Cambria Drive Dekalb, IL 60115Sale terms: 10% down of the
highest bid by certified funds at theclose of the auction; The balance,including the Judicial sale fee forAbandoned Residential PropertyMunicipality Relief Fund, which iscalculated at the rate of $1 for each$1,000 or fraction thereof of theamount paid by the purchaser notto exceed $300, in certified funds,is due within twenty-four (24)hours. The subject property is sub-ject to general real estate taxes,special assessments, or special tax-es levied against said real estateand is offered for sale without anyrepresentation as to quality orquantity of title and without re-course to Plaintiff and in "AS IS"condition. The sale is further subjectto confirmation by the court.
If the property is a condominiumand the foreclosure takes place after1/1/2007, purchasers other thanthe mortgagees will be required topay any assessment and legal feesdue under The Condominium Prop-erty Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1)and (g)(4).
If the property is located in acommon interest community, pur-chasers other than mortgagees willbe required to pay any assessmentand legal fees due under the Con-dominium Property Act, 765 ILCS605/18.5(g-1).
If the sale is set aside for anyreason, the Purchaser at the saleshall be entitled only to a return ofthe deposit paid. The Purchasershall have no further recourseagainst the Mortgagor, the Mort-gagee or the Mortgagee's attorney.
gag gag eyUpon payment in full of the
amount bid, the purchaser shall re-ceive a Certificate of Sale, whichwill entitle the purchaser to a Deedto the real estate after Confirmationof the sale. The successful pur-chaser has the soleresponsibility/expense of evictingany tenants or other individualspresently in possession of the sub-ject premises.
The property will NOT be openfor inspection and Plaintiff makesno representation as to the condi-tion of the property. Prospectivebidders are admonished to checkthe Court file to verify all informa-tion.
IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR(HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THERIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSIONFOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF ANORDER OF POSSESSION, IN AC-CORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORT-GAGE FORECLOSURE LAW.
For information: Examine thecourt file or contact Plaintiff's attor-ney: Codilis & Associates, P.C.,15W030 North Frontage Road,Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527,(630) 794-9876. Please refer tofile number 14-12-36085.I575353
(Published in the Daily Chronicle,November 25, December 2 & 9,2013.)
PUBLIC NOTICE
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALBCOUNTY - SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS
Wells Fargo Bank, NAPLAINTIFF
Vs.Jose G. Torres; Unknown Ownersand Nonrecord Claimants
DEFENDANTS13 CH 00371
NOTICE BY PUBLICATIONNOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU: Jose
G. Torres, Unknown Owners andNonrecord Claimants; That thiscase has been commenced in thisCourt against you and other defen-dants, praying for the foreclosure ofa certain Mortgage conveying thepremises described as follows, to-wit:
LOT 36 IN LINCOLNVIEW SUBDI-VISION OF THE CITY OF DEKALB,SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OFDEKALB AND STATE OF ILLINOIS.
COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 127Home Drive, Dekalb, IL 60115
and which said Mortgage wasmade by: Jose G. Torres, the Mort-gagor(s), to Mortgage ElectronicRegistration Systems, Inc. as Nomi-nee for Platinum Capital Groupd/b/a Primera Mortgage Co., asMortgagee, and recorded in the Of-fice of the Recorder of Deeds ofDeKalb County, Illinois, as Docu-ment No. 2004000597; and forother relief; that summons was dulyissued out of said Court againstyou as provided by law and thatthe said suit is now pending.
NOW, THEREFORE, UNLESSYOU file your answer or otherwisefile your appearance in this case inthe Office of the Clerk of this Court,
Maureen A. JoshClerk of the Circuit Court
133 W. State StreetSycamore, IL 60178
on or before December 19,2013, A DEFAULT MAY BE EN-TERED AGAINST YOU AT ANY TIMEAFTER THAT DAY AND A JUDG-MENT MAY BE ENTERED IN AC-CORDANCE WITH THE PRAYER OFSAID COMPLAINT.CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C.Attorneys for Plaintiff15W030 North Frontage Road,Suite 100Burr Ridge, IL 60527(630) 794-5300DuPage # 15170
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PUBLIC NOTICE
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THETWENTY THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS
THE NATIONAL BANK & TRUSTCOMPANY
Plaintiff,vs.
TIMOTHY A. GRUDECKI, DENISE L.GRUDECKI, DEVONAIRE FARMSCOMMUNITY ASSOCIATION, UN-KNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS,
Defendants.
CASE NO. 13 CH 184NOTICE OF JUDICIAL SALE
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby giventhat pursuant to a Judgment forForeclosure entered by the Court inthe above entitled cause the proper-ty hereinafter described or so muchthereof as shall be sufficient to sat-isfy said judgment, shall be sold tothe highest bidder.
The name, address and tele-phone number of the person tocontact for information regardingthe real estate is:
Jeffrey L. LewisKlein, Stoddard, Buck & Lewis LLC
2045 Aberdeen CourtSycamore, IL 60178
(815) 748-0380
The common address and othercommon description, if any of thereal estate is:
570 DEVONAIRE PARKWAY,DEKALB, IL 60115
The legal description of the realestate:
LOT 70 IN DEVONAIRE FARMSSUBDIVISION UNIT 1, BEING ASUBDIVISION OF THE WEST ? OFSECTION 21, TOWNSHIP 40NORTH, RANGE 4, EAST OF THETHIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, AC-CORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOFRECORDED OCTOBER 29, 2002,IN PLAT CABINET NO. 9, AT SLIDE#38-C, AS DOCUMENT NO.2002021981, IN DEKALB COUN-TY, ILLINOIS.
PIN: 08-21-374-019
A description of the improve-ments on the real estate:
Residential real estate
The time and place of the sale is:
January 9, 2014 at 1:00 pm
DeKalb County Sheriff's Office150 North Main StreetSycamore, IL 60178
The terms of the sale are:A. The sale shall be by public
auction.B. The sale shall be by open
verbal bid.C. The sale shall be conducted
by the Sheriff of DeKalb County.D. The sale shall be cash.E. The sale shall be "as is"
condition without any representa-tion or warranty as to the conditionof the property. The sale is furthersubject to confirmation by thecourt.
Title will be conveyed withoutany representation as to quality orquantity of title and without re-course to Plaintiff subject to all gen-eral real estate taxes which are alien upon the real estate, in addi-tion to those which have not yet be-come due and payable, and spe-cial assessments and special taxes,if any, and easements, covenants,conditions, zoning laws anddrainage ditches, feeders, lateralsand restrictions of record.
Upon payment in full of theamount bid, the Purchaser shall re-ceive a certificate of sale which willentitle Purchaser to a deed to thereal estate subject to court confir-mation of the sale.
The property will NOT be openfor inspection.
THE NATIONAL BANK & TRUSTCOMPANY OF SYCAMORE
BY: /s/ JEFFREY L. LEWISOne of its Attorneys
Prepared by:JEFFREY L. LEWISKlein, Stoddard, Buck & Lewis, LLC2045 Aberdeen CourtSycamore, IL 60178(815) 748-0380mailto:[email protected]
(Published in the Daily Chronicle,December 3, 10 & 17, 2013.)
PUBLIC NOTICE
ASSUMED NAMEPUBLICATION NOTICE
Public Notice is hereby giventhat on November 18, 2013 a cer-tificate was filed in the Office of theCounty Clerk of DeKalb County, Illi-nois, setting forth the names andpost office addresses of all of thepersons owning, conducting andtransacting the business known asWILLIAMS SPORTING GOODS lo-cated at 1044 S. Sixth St., DeKalb,IL 60115.
Dated November 18, 2013
/s/ Douglas J. JohnsonDeKalb County Clerk & Recorder
(Published in the Daily Chronicle,November 19, 26 & Dec. 3,2013.)
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