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Crime

Rockford man acquitted of murder; bond revoked in child sex case By Jim Hagerty Reporter

ROCKFORD - A man was acquitted of murder last week in a shooting that left another man dead in 2017. Tracy Barfield, 23, was charged with a dozen counts of first-degree murder in the death of 25-year-old Marlon Pendelton, of Rockford. Pendleton died Aug. 26, 2017, after being shot in the back in the 300 block of Underwood Street, on the city’s west side. Barfield, who was wanted on an unrelated warrant when Pendleton was killed, was also charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon without a FOID. Those charges were dismissed. On what unfolded as a deadly night, Rockford patrol officers responded to the shooting scene at 6 p.m., and located Pendleton. He was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. At around 9 p.m., police located 25-yearold Tyrell Dorsey in the 300 block of Royal

Avenue. He had been shot in the head and was pronounced dead at the scene. An hour later, three men were shot in the 4100 block of Auburn Street. Their injuries were not life threatening. While police reported that all three incidents were related and targeted acts, Barfield was not charged in the shootings on Royal Avenue and Auburn Street. There were 18 homicides in Rockford in 2017. Pendleton and Dorsey were the 11th and 12th victims, respectively.

Bond revoked

Judge Randy Wilt, on Aug. 21, revoked bond for a Roscoe woman who sexually assaulted a 12-year-old boy. Gina M. Colwell, 41, was scheduled to appear before Judge Brendan Maher Wednesday, Aug. 21, but was hospitalized minutes before the hearing. She pleaded guilty in July to a single count of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child as part of an open plea agreement. She faces a

mandatory minimum of six years in prison. Over defense attorney Aaron Buscemi’s objection, Maher granted Assistant State’s Attorney Jessica Maveus’s motion to revoke Colwell’s bond, but he did not re-schedule sentencing. “It wouldn’t make sense to re-schedule anything until we know we have her in our custody,” Maher said. Colwell assaulted the victim multiple times between Nov. 24, 2014 and Feb. 20, 2016. She also faces a single count of aggravated criminal sexual abuse in a pending case involving a 13-year-old boy she allegedly abused between Dec. 31, 2015 and Jan. 1, 2016. If convicted in that case, she could spend between two to seven years in prison, a sentence that would be served consecutive to the first term. Colwell’s medical condition was still not known at press time, and she was not listed on the Winnebago County Jail inmate roster.

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Real Estate

Rockford home sales hit highest average in 13 years Staff Report

ROCKFORD - The average Rockford home sold for $147,001 last month, the highest price for a home sold in July in 13 years and the highest average price for any month going back to July 2006, according to new stats released by Rockford Area Realtors. The three-month-rolling-average price of a home sold in the Rockford market (Winnebago, Boone and Ogle Counties) in July was up 3.5% or nearly $5,000 from $147,001 this July to $142,015 last July. The average year-to-date price was $135,160, 2.3% higher than the $132,101 average price for the first seven months of 2018. “There’s no doubt that the Rockford housing market is changing,” commented Conor Brown, CEO, Rockford Area Realtors. “What we’re seeing right now indicates it’s a strong time for sellers to enter the real estate market.” Rockford homeowners seem to agree. There were a total of 708 new listings in

July, up 10.6% from 640 new listings last July. This was only the fifth of the last 12 months which saw a year-over-year increase in new homes for sale. While inventory is still tight, the rate of inventory decline is falling drastically. There were 1,137 properties for sale in July, a drop of 5.4% from 1,202 homes available last July. For the first seven months of the year inventory is down 5.2% By comparison, inventory fell by 12.9% from 2017 to 2018, was down 18.6% from 2016 to 2017, was down 18.7% from 2015 to 2016, and was down 11.6% from 2014 to 2015. “What a difference a year makes,” Brown said. “Over the last few years, many sellers are seeing themselves put in a stronger and stronger position to put their house on the market.” Other July housing measures were also positive indicators for the Rockford housing market. Total sales were up from 450 homes sold last July to 459 sold this July, a 2-percent increase. The time it takes to sell

a home remains relatively short. Average days on the market in July was 36 days, up from 30 days in June, but down from 39 days last July. And distressed properties (foreclosures and short sales) remain low, making up just 6% of sales, down from 8% last July. Also spurring on the Rockford market is historically low mortgages rates. In July, the rate on a 30-year fixed home loan averaged 3.75%, down more than three quarter’s of a point from last July’s rate of 4.54%. In 2018, rates never fell below 4.25%. July marked the longest stretch of loan rates below 5% in more than 60 years. “The Rockford housing market offers major incentives for both buyers and sellers,” Brown said. “Rockford home buyers are saving big as interest rates are continuing to decline. And Rockford home sellers will likely earn some of the greatest returns on their investment by selling now before prices start to normalize.”

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Israel’s shadow war with Iran bursts into the open BY ARON HELLER ASSOCIATED PRESS

JERUSALEM (AP) – The long shadow war between Israel and Iran has burst into the open in recent days, with Israel allegedly striking Iran-linked targets as far away as Iraq and crash-landing two drones in Hezbollah-dominated southern Beirut. These incidents, along with an air raid in Syria that Israel says thwarted an imminent Iranian drone attack, have raised tensions at a particularly fraught time. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is looking to project strength three weeks before national elections, while Iran has taken a series of provocative actions in recent months aimed at pressuring European nations to provide relief from crippling U.S. sanctions. Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Iranbacked Hezbollah, vowed to retaliate after a drone crashed on the militant group’s Beirut media o�ce and another exploded midair early Sunday. Israeli forces along the border with Lebanon are on high alert, raising fears of a repeat of the 2006 war. Netanyahu has warned Nasrallah to “relax,” saying Israel “knows how to defend itself and how to pay back its enemies.” The Israeli leader has also addressed Gen. Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran’s elite Quds Force and the architect of its regional entrenchment, telling him to “be careful with your words and be even more careful with your actions.” Israel said Soleimani masterminded the alleged drone attack. Another commander in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, Gen. Mohsen Rezaei, dismissed the Israeli allegations as a “lie.” Israel has also blamed Iran for recent rocket ﬁre from the Gaza Strip, and on Monday struck a Palestinian base in Lebanon near the Syrian border. Israel views Iran as its greatest threat, and has hailed President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal and re-impose sanctions. But Netanyahu may fear the U.S. is moderating that approach after Trump said there’s a “really good chance” he could meet with Iran’s president. The two close allies already appear to be at odds over recent strikes on Iranlinked militias in Iraq. In a rare move, U.S. o�cials acknowledged that Israel was behind at least one of the strikes, and the Pentagon pointedly distanced itself from the Iraq strikes, saying U.S. forces were not involved. None of the parties is believed to

be seeking war, but the potential for miscalculation could lead to a regional conﬂagration.

ISRAEL

Israel says it is responding to increasingly aggressive moves by Iran and seeking to roll back its regional entrenchment. As Netanyahu fights for an unprecedented fifth term in the Sept. 17 elections, he is eager to display his security credentials and discuss what many Israelis see as his signature achievement – countering Iran and its nuclear program. Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes against Iran-backed forces in Syria since the civil war began in 2011. In recent months it has gone increasingly public with the campaign, immediately confirming the kinds of strikes it used to rarely acknowledge. Even Netanyahu’s political opponents support the operations, which are aimed at preventing Iran from establishing a permanent military presence on the Syrian frontier. But they have questioned his motives in making them public, with some accusing him of grandstanding, in what they suggest is an attempt to win over voters ahead of the elections. “There is definitely a more aggressive line now, even if Israel isn’t saying so o�cially,” said Amos Harel, an Israeli military analyst. “Part of it has to do with the increased Iranian e�orts and part of it has to do with all the other considerations.” Netanyahu’s opponents have hammered him for refusing to strike harder at the Islamic militant group Hamas after recent rocket fire from Gaza. Netanyahu also faces a tide of corruption allegations that have raised the stakes ahead of the vote. He has denied any wrongdoing. Despite his tough rhetoric, Netanyahu has traditionally been risk-averse in military matters. But he also views countering Iran as his primary mission and may hope to cement his legacy while he has a staunch supporter in the White House.

IRAN

Trump’s decision to withdraw from the nuclear deal and impose maximal sanctions on Iran has devastated its economy and left it desperate for relief. Iran has begun openly breaching limits set by the deal, saying it cannot abide by the agreement unless European signatories o�er it a respite from sanctions. In recent weeks, Iran shot down a U.S. military surveillance drone and has been blamed for mine attacks on six oil tankers

near the Strait of Hormuz, something it denies. Iran has also seized a Britishﬂagged oil tanker. At the same time, Tehran has launched a fresh diplomatic o�ensive, with Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif making a surprise appearance at the G-7 summit in France as part of a worldwide tour ahead of next month’s U.N. General Assembly. Experts say Iran seeks sanctions relief and not war, but are alarmed by the potential for miscalculation, either by Tehran or its foes. Iran has spent decades building up powerful allies in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and elsewhere, which it could call upon in a war with Israel or the United States.

HEZBOLLAH

Hezbollah appears likely to respond to the drone attack in order to project strength and establish deterrence, but the nature and scope of its retaliation will depend largely on domestic considerations. Nasrallah’s pledge to shoot down Israeli aircraft that enter Lebanese airspace is in keeping with the bravado he regularly displays in public addresses, but he will have to weigh his response with the risk of igniting another devastating war. Lebanon is already mired in an economic crisis that many blame on the government, which is dominated by Hezbollah and its allies. Nasrallah insists such considerations won’t dictate his response, but officials close to Hezbollah’s leadership say it is mindful of being perceived as dragging the country into a ruinous war with Israel that would hasten its economic collapse. Another consideration is the recent U.S.-mediated e�orts to open indirect talks between Lebanon and Israel aimed at demarcating their maritime border, which Lebanon hopes will allow it to begin o�shore oil and gas exploration later this year. Imad Marmal, a journalist close to Hezbollah, wrote Tuesday that the group’s response will be “well studied and proportionate in a way that conveys the categorical message that changing the rules of engagement is prohibited, but without leading to the outbreak of all-out war.” That may be easier said than done. The monthlong war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006 was sparked by a cross-border raid in which Hezbollah killed and captured Israeli soldiers. Nasrallah later said he would have never ordered the operation if he had known it would lead to a war of that magnitude.

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Amazon Fires

Respiratory ailments hit in Amazon as Brazil spurns G-7 aid By Luis Andres Henao and Christopher Torchia Associated Press

PORTO VELHO, Brazil (AP) – Acrimony between Brazil and European countries seeking to help fight Amazon fires deepened on Tuesday, jeopardizing hopes of global unity over how to protect a region seen as vital to the health of the planet. A personal spat between the leaders of Brazil and France seemed to dominate the dispute, but it also centered on Brazilian perceptions of alleged interference by Europe on matters of sovereignty, economic development and the rights of indigenous people. Brazil said it will set conditions for accepting any aid from the Group of Seven nations, which offered tens of millions of dollars for firefighting and rainforest protections. The Amazon’s rainforests are a major absorber of carbon dioxide, considered a critical defense against rising temperatures and other disruptions caused by climate change. While many of the recorded fires this year were set in already deforested areas by people clearing land for cultivation or pasture, Brazilian government figures indicate that they are much more widespread this year, suggesting the threat to the vast ecosystem is intensifying. The effect of the fires was evident in the Amazonian city of Porto Velho, where a thick pall of smoke covered the sky for most of the day. Elane Diaz, a nurse in the city, spoke about respiratory problems while waiting for a doctor’s appointment at a hospital with her 5-year-old-son Eduardo. “The kids are affected the most. They’re coughing a lot,” Diaz said. “They have problems breathing. I’m concerned because it affects their health.” Still, Diaz and some other residents in Porto Velho, the capital of Rondonia state, were supportive of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, saying he was doing what he could to protect the Amazon and that international criticism was unfounded. “Germany had already been helping through NGOs and they couldn’t prevent this,” said Mona Lisa Pereira, an agronomist. “It seems like this is the fire of a lifetime. But it’s not. We have fires every year.” Bolsonaro, who took office this year with a promise to boost development in Latin America’s biggest economy, has questioned whether offers of international aid mask a plot to exploit the Amazon’s resources and weaken Brazilian growth. On Tuesday, he said French President Emmanuel Macron had called him a liar

and that he would have to apologize before Brazil considers accepting rainforest aid. Macron has to retract those comments “and then we can speak,” Bolsonaro said. In a video message, Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho offered an apology to France for what he called Bolsonaro’s “hysteria,” saying the Brazilian government had resorted to insults to dodge responsibility for the Amazon fires. Bolsonaro met governors of states in the Amazon region, some of whom criticized laws that protect the environment and the rights of indigenous people that they said limited opportunities for economic development. Marcos Jose Rocha dos Santos, the governor of Rondonia state, questioned the intentions of international aid. “International resources are welcome as long as who uses those resources is us,” Rocha dos Santos said. “We will determine where the money will be applied, it’s useless if those resources get here and go to international NGOs.” At a summit in France on Monday, the G-7 nations pledged $20 million to help fight the flames in the Amazon and protect the rainforest, in addition to a separate $12 million from Britain and $11 million from Canada. Onyx Lorenzoni, the Brazilian president’s chief of staff, sharpened the criticism, saying Europe should use the funds for its own problems. “Macron could not avoid an obvious fire in a church that is a world heritage site,” Lorenzoni told the G1 news website, referring to the Notre Dame Cathedral that was ravaged by fire in April. Macron, who has questioned Bolsonaro’s trustworthiness and commitment to protecting biodiversity, shrugged off the snub from the Brazilian president. The French leader said Bolsonaro’s interpretation was a “mistake” and that the aid offer is “a sign of friendship.” He said the aid money isn’t just aimed at Brazil, but at nine countries in the vast Amazon region that also spans Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana, an overseas region of France. About 60% of the Amazon region is in Brazil. Even so, Macron has threatened to block a European Union trade deal with several South American states, including Brazil. He has also acknowledged that Europe, by importing soya from Brazil, shares some blame for agricultural pressure on the rainforest. Bolsonaro has previously said he wants to convert land for more cattle pastures and soybean farms. In contrast to the tension between

France and Brazil, U.S. President Donald Trump praised the Brazilian president. “He is working very hard on the Amazon fires and in all respects doing a great job for the people of Brazil - Not easy,” Trump tweeted Tuesday. Bolsonaro also said that Japan is “extremely aligned with us” and seeks a deeper trade partnership with South American nations. Brazil’s National Space Research Institute, which monitors deforestation, said the number of fires has risen by 85% to more than 77,000 in the last year, a record since the institute began keeping track in 2013. About half of the fires were in the Amazon region, with most just in the past month. Neighboring Bolivia is battling its own vast blazes. The largest are in the Chiquitanía region, a zone of dry forest, farmland and open prairies that has seen an expansion of farming and ranching. President Evo Morales, who has been under criticism for an allegedly slow response to the fires, was in the region on Tuesday overseeing firefighting efforts involving more than 3,500 people, including soldiers, police and volunteers. The Amazon has experienced an increased rate of fires during drought periods in the last 20 years, but the phenomenon this year is “unusual” because drought has not yet hit, said Laura Schneider of Rutgers UniversityNew Brunswick.

Schneider, an associate professor in the geography department, said fire is commonly used by people to clear land for cultivation, and the actual area burned this year must be measured for an accurate comparison with damage in past years. The funds offered this week by the world’s richest countries are widely viewed as useful but insufficient for dealing with the threats to the Amazon in the long term. Under international pressure, Bolsonaro has said he would make 44,000 troops available to fight the blazes. However, federal prosecutors in the Amazon state of Para said they had warned Brazil’s environmental protection agency about a “fire day” organized by farmers earlier this month to clear land. The agency said it lacked support from military police to protect its field teams in risky monitoring operations, according to prosecutors. Grace Quale, a laboratory technician at the 9 of July hospital in Porto Velho, said more people were undergoing tests because of respiratory problems caused by smoke. Children and the elderly are suffering the most, said Quale, who supports Bolsonaro and believes fires are being set by opponents trying to discredit him. “What’s happening is disrespectful to our humans, to our animals, because if they end the Amazon, how will we survive?” she said.

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Illinois Labor Day Connections

Illinois has been the nexus for the nation’s labor movement By Phil Luciano

Of the Journal Star of Peoria

From organizing unions to effecting labor laws, Illinois has played a vital historical role as a flashpoint – sometimes involving violence and danger – for workplace fairness. These are some of the key figures and events of that struggle.

Mother Jones

She lost her own family, so she adopted a new one, a huge one, lifting up the cause of labor. In the process, Mother Jones became perhaps the greatest labor force in the history of Illinois. An Irish immigrant and dressmaker, Mary Harris landed in Memphis, Tennessee, where she met and wed George Jones, a foundry worker and union supporter. They’d had four children by 1867, when an epidemic of yellow fever claimed the entire household, save Mary. The 30-year-old widow relocated to Chicago to start anew with a dress shop, but it was lost in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. She scraped to get by, sometimes sewing piecework for wealthy Chicago families. As she’d gaze out their picture windows, she gained a keen eye and soft heart for disenfranchised. Jones gravitated to organizing with the Knights of Labor, then the United Mine Workers. Her labor-rights moxie quickly won over workers. She’d travel to help wherever the call – garment workers in Chicago, steelworkers in Pittsburgh, bottle washers in Milwaukee – railing against companies and corporations for fair wages and safe working conditions. At the close of the 19th century, Illinois became a labor battleground, especially for downstate miners, drawing her attention. After she died in 1930, she was buried among the miners laid to rest at Union Miners Cemetery in Mount Olive. Her simple marker carries some uncharacteristically purple prose, in part extolling: “She gave her life to the world of labor, her blessed soul to heaven.” It’s almost a shame she isn’t remembered there from one of her most telling quotes: “I’m not a humanitarian. I’m a hell raiser.”

The Haymarket Affair

With the explosion of a stick of dynamite, the Haymarket Affair became a key flashpoint of the U.S. labor movement. By May 1886, Chicago had become a labor battleground, with pro-labor forces fighting for better working conditions and

pay. The tug-of-war also included radical anarchists who wanted to overthrow capitalism, sparking fear among much of the public. To advance the idea of an eight-hour workday, a labor rally was set for May 4 – a day after police fired upon on an angry mob of striking Chicago workers, killing two. The rally seemed peaceful, ending as a throng of police stepped through to disperse attendees. Then a stick of dynamite was hurled at the police, killing seven cops and one civilian. In return, officers started firing into the crowd, wounding dozens. Eight men were arrested and convicted in connection with the bombing, though the thrower was never found. Still, four were hanged; at the gallows, one said, “The time will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today.” His words proved prescient. Though a wave of xenophobia had swept the nation immediately after the bombing, public skepticism gradually grew over what increasingly seemed like a sham prosecution. Of the other four defendants, one committed suicide while the other three were sent to prison; however, they were later pardoned. The martyrdom of the defendants fueled pro-labor forces, eventually leading to the eight-hour workday, along with the creation of International Workers’ Day on May 1.

The Pullman Strike

The Pullman Strike was the first national strike in American, riveting the country to the burgeoning labor movement. South of Chicago, the Pullman Co. not only built and leased passenger train cars but set up a company town of Pullman, allegedly as a model community. But during a recession in 1893, the company laid off workers and cut wages, yet did not reduce rents. Led by the American Railway Union, 4,000 Pullman workers went on strike May 22, 1894. Gradually, the strike grew nationally: by June 30, 125,000 workers on 29 railroads had walked off the job rather than handle Pullman cars. The strike shut down much of the nation’s freight and passenger traffic west of Detroit. In early July, the federal government (leaning on antitrust and commerce laws) obtained a court injunction ordering ARU leaders from inciting workers to refuse to work. President Grover Cleveland sent federal troops into Chicago. With the city

swarmed with more than 14,000 troops and policemen, 6,000 rioters destroyed hundreds of railcars on July 6. The next day, federal troops responded to an assault by firing into a mob, killing as many as 30 people. Public opinion, originally in favor of workers, switched to opposition as rail service languished. Federal troops were recalled on July 20, effectively ending the strikes. The company agreed to rehire strikers, as long as they sign a pledge to never join a union. But their rents were not reduced. As a conciliatory gesture to the labor movement, President Cleveland and Congress created Labor Day.

The Herrin Massacre

In 1922, a nation recoiled in horror at gruesome strike violence in downstate Illinois. That month, the United Mine Workers continued a nationwide strike. However, at the Southern Illinois Coal Co.’s strip mine near Herrin, workers kept working to pull coal from the earth but not ship it out. In mid-June, however, the owner decided to violate the agreement and ship coal. When the union workers refused, he fired them and called in replacements from Chicago – 50 men unaware that they had been hired as strikebreakers in an area where 90 percent of the workforce carried a union card. On June 21, shots rang out at the mine, though accounts differ as to who pulled the trigger first. Regardless, soon one strikebreaker and two strikers were dead, with a third seriously wounded. Union men from the entire region thundered to the mine, en route grabbing guns and ammunition from shops. Realizing their outnumbered predicament, the strikebreakers agreed to stop work in exchange for safe passage out. On the morning of June 22, they came out of the mine, and union workers marched them toward town, along the way killing the mine’s one-legged superintendent. After several miles of walking, the group reached a barb-wire fence. Strikers lined up the scabs against the fence and told them to run for their lives. As they clawed to climb the fence, strikers opened fire, killing and wounding many. The final death toll was 23. In the aftermath, prosecutors obtained 214 indictments. But when the first few resulted in acquittals by sympathetic local juries, the rest were dropped. The nation reacted to the massacre

with disgust. President Warren Harding characterized it as a “shocking crime, barbarity, butchery, rot and madness.”

The Cherry Mine Disaster

Though touted for modern safeguards, the St. Paul Coal Co. Mine sparked one of the worst disasters in mining history. The mine, located in Cherry about 50 miles northeast of Peoria, was considered to be secure when it opened in 1905. But on Nov. 13, 1909, an electric outage prompted miners to light kerosene lanterns and torches to continue to pull coal from the deep mine. Shortly after noon, embers from a wall lantern dropped below into a coal car filled with hay for mules. Flames spread to support timbers and quickly raced through the mine. Of 490 miners, 200 men and boys managed to scramble out. Meanwhile, a large shaft fan was reversed in an attempt to blow out the fire, but only succeeded in spreading the blaze. The mine’s two shafts were shut to smother the fire, but the tactic cut off oxygen to miners and allowed black damp (a suffocating mixture of carbon dioxide and nitrogen) to build up in the mine. Twelve volunteers went down a shaft in a lift to attempt a rescue. All died. Eight days after the ordeal began, 21 survivors were brought to the surface, though two later died. In the end, 259 men and boys died. Several families lost two or more relatives. Among the dead were a father-son team, the Kralls, whose bodies were found locked in an embrace. The disaster also claimed the lives of brothers John, Morrison, David and James Love, immigrants from Scotland. A surviving Love brother, William, later married the widow of one of the men who died while trying to rescue the trapped miners. The Cherry Mine Disaster inspired a crackdown on child-labor laws and led to mine-safety rules that eventually paved the way to modern worker’s compensation laws. Sources for these stories include britannica.com, ehistor y.osu.edu, wikipedia. com, history.com, allthatsinteresting.com, americanheritage.com. Phil Luciano can be reached at pluciano@pjstar.com.

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TUBE TALK

That in between time BY PAULA HENDRICKSON CONTRIBUTOR

We’re at that strange time of year where most summer series are wrapping up and the fall shows have yet to premiere. Sure, new shows are still rolling out – Amazon Prime’s Carnival Row, headed up by Orlando Bloom, starts streaming August 30 (and is getting lackluster reviews) – but I’m already thinking ahead a month to when some of my favorite returning series will be returning. That makes this a good time to check out currently-airing series you’ve never watched before. It’s interesting to do that now and then. Not long ago I watched an episode of a show my brother is always talking about, DIY’s Maine Cabin Masters. I liked it – then again, they wove doormats

from repurposed ropes from lobster traps, which I immediately wanted to try despite having no access to lobster trap ropes – but haven’t added it to my must-see list. The other day I was ﬂipping between channels, giving each show a few minutes to grab me before switching to another program. I wound up watching about half an hour of A&E’s Live P.D. while marveling at how stupid some people can be. Like the woman pulled over for erratic driving. Police found drugs in her car and while waiting for her care to be towed she asked the police if she could keep the drugs. It was a microcosmic view of a world I have no interest in seeing up close. Every now and then you’ll ﬁnd a new-toyou show that you like. Sometimes they’re shows that have been running a long time,

like Science’s Mysteries of The Abandoned, which I “discovered” earlier this year. Of course, I’ve always enjoyed Mysteries at the Museum, which has a similar vibe, so I knew I’d learn interesting historic trivia. It can be harder to get into watching scripted series when you’ve already missed several seasons, but it’s still fun to watch a random episode of popular shows you’ve never watched before. More often than not I ﬁnd myself wondering why anyone watches those shows. But every now and then a show will surprise you. The other night I enjoyed the updated version of To Tell the Truth. I’ve never been a big NCIS fan, so I never bothered watching either of its spino�s, NCIS: Los Angeles and NCIS: New Orleans. Then about a year ago, WREX started airing

repeats of NCIS: New Orleans immediately after SNL and I found myself hooked into more than a few episodes while working on a knitting project I couldn’t put down. Have I ever watched a ﬁrst-run episode of NCIS: New Orleans? No. But Scott Bakula, CCH Pounder, Daryl Mitchell and company are almost as fun to watch as the Louisiana scenery – even if I miss all of the details and jokes regular viewers would get. My job requires watching a lot of television, and I never know what kinds of article ideas might come from watching a program I’ve never seen before. If it weren’t for that fact, I’d probably do the best thing of all during the in-between season: turn o� the TV and pick up a good book.

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Stock Market

US stocks slide as bond yields surge on trade war worries By Alex Veiga

Associated Press

Stocks capped a wobbly day on Wall Street with broad losses Tuesday as anxious investors shifted money to U.S. government bonds, gold and other traditional safe-haven assets. The selling, which erased some of the market’s gains from a strong rally a day earlier, came as long-term bond yields once again fell below short-term ones, a rare phenomenon that has correctly predicted previous recessions. Worries that the costly trade war between the U.S. and China will drag the U.S. economy into a recession have increased demand for U.S. government bonds. On Tuesday, that pulled the yield in the 10-year Treasury below that of the two-year Treasury. This so-called inversion of the U.S. yield curve has accurately predicted the past five recessions. “You have a symptom in the inversion, but really the cause of that symptom is the tariffs and the trade war causing a global slowdown,” said Dan Heckman, national investment consultant at U.S. Bank Wealth Management. The S&P 500 fell 9.22 points, or 0.3%, to 2,869.16. The benchmark index has fallen for the past four weeks in a row. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 120.93 points, or 0.5%, to 25,777.90. The Nasdaq slid 26.79 points, or 0.3%, to 7,826.95. Smaller company stocks bore the brunt of the selling, which sent the Russell 2000 index down 19.96 points, or 1.4%, to 1,456.04. Major indexes in Europe closed mostly

higher. The major U.S. indexes are on track for losses of 3% or more in August in what has been a volatile month for the market. From the get-go Tuesday the indexes appeared headed to extend the gains from Monday’s rally. But they turned lower by midmorning as the inversion between long-term and short-term bond yields became more worrisome. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note tumbled to 1.48% from 1.54% late Monday. It briefly dropped to 1.468%. At the same time, the yield on the two-year Treasury dropped to 1.51%, down from 1.53% a day earlier. The yield at one point climbed as high as 1.54%. When the yield curve inverted earlier this month for the first time since 2007, it led to a broad market sell-off. While the inversion in the yield curve has been a good indicator of a coming recession in the past, it usually means a recession is at least a year off, said J.J. Kinahan, chief market strategist for TD Ameritrade. “Just because it happened doesn’t mean the world ends,” he said. “We do still have the China tariff situation, which many believe, if settled quickly, could also lead to a quick economic expansion.” Financial sector stocks fell the most as bond prices surged, which pulled yields sharply lower. When yields decline it means lower profits for banks, because they pull down interest rates on mortgage and other loans. JPMorgan Chase fell 1.1% and Citigroup dropped 1.7%. The latest losses mark a shift in investor sentiment from just a day earlier, when tentative optimism about the potential for

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Rockford Rocked

Spotlight on Kashmir drummer Doug Marocco Todd Houston Contributor

RRI: Hey Doug what have you been up to lately? How’s the family? Doug Marocco: Doing great Todd! I really enjoy your Rockford Rocked page by the way. The family is doing great as well. My oldest daughter, Alexandra, is at Rockford University finishing her teaching degree. My son Brady is in his senior year and my youngest, Miranda, is a junior – both at Harlem High School. The younger kids both run cross country and track which makes for a busy schedule. My wife Susan, besides running the household, works in IT at Mercyhealth and lately has become a crossfit junkie. RRI: Marocco is a cool name for a drummer. Where does the name originate? DM: I guess I have never really thought about my name being cool, but it does have a nice ring to it. My grandfather, Geno Marocco, was from Rome, Italy. RRI: For those who don’t know, you’ve been playing drums in one band or another for more than half of your life. Let’s talk about how/why you got into music and drumming in the first place and who were

the people/bands/musicians you looked up to starting out? DM: Well as a young kid, I really knew very little about music, because my parents didn’t have a stereo. My dad was a car guy. So, my musical interest was sparked my uncle, Mike. He had a nice stereo and was into the popular hard rock bands of the time. He would let me look through his albums and listen to them. I was intrigued by the album covers and the guys with long hair and psychedelic clothes. The three albums that captivated me were Jimi Hendrix Cry of Love, Santana, and Chicago Transit Authority. I wanted to be one of those mysterious guys with the long hair. Somehow, I convinced my parents that I wanted to play drums and they eventually signed me up to take lessons from Jack Brand. I was hooked. I played drums non-stop, mostly along to records. Jack introduced me to Jazz and the importance of keeping good time, playing for the music and being professional. Danny Seraphine (Chicago) was my first real influence. RRI: I understand that you hooked up with a very popular Rockford area band called The Employees. Didn’t this band

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have a spot on one of the WYFE Y95 albums? DM: The Employees was my first real band. We had a spot on the second WYFE album and won the voting, if I remember correctly. RRI: What style of music were you gravitating toward during this time? DM: We were kind of a power pop type of band. We played half covers and half originals at our shows. Frank Isabelli was the guitarist and songwriter. He was a huge Beatles and Cheap Trick fan, so we had a lot of those influences. RRI: Are you still doing The Kashmir (Chicago’s Led Zeppelin Show) gig? From the video footage that I watched you guys put on a very convincing and fantastic show! Start with how you got that gig if you would. DM: Yes, I am still doing shows with Kashmir. I got that gig in early 2009 by answering an ad in Illinois Entertainer. I thought it might be a cool gig; I like Led Zeppelin. I called Frank Livingston and set up an audition. I remember I played four songs at that audition, The Ocean, The Lemon Song, Rock and Roll, and Out on the Tiles. Frank liked my feel and I got the gig along with another drummer-they use a rotation of musicians to cover all the shows. I was given the set list to learn, as it’s complicated with truncated versions and one song goes into the next without stopping for much of the show. I had just been practicing at home when I told Frank I was going to come watch one of the shows. On the day of the show, Frank calls and asks if I could go ahead and play the gig. The night before did not go so well and the singer and the bass player refused to go on again with the other drummer. I said I really didn’t know the songs that well yet, but he convinced me to play that night. I frantically listened to the songs driving to the gig. There were about 800 people there including the drummer they just fired. I screwed up a couple things, but got through it pretty well considering I had only had one audition that didn’t include the singer. RRI: Wow, talk about pressure! DM: So yeah, I started playing gigs with them right away. I really had to learn on-the-fly. As a band, we’ve really only had three real practice sessions and they were basically stripped down rehearsals, with no vocals. I continually listen to the songs and practice at home to improve my playing. RRI: What song in the set list is the most fun for you to play? DM: I really like playing Kashmir as it just sits in a big fat pocket. I’ve learned to play it better with the click track (to sync up with the recorded keyboard track). It was a disaster the first time I played it. Really, all the Zeppelin songs are pretty fun to play. RRI: Where in the world did you find those orange Ludwig Vistalite drums? They look identical to the set Bonham used on the 1973 tour. (These drums were made

from a clear plastic material) DM: The drums belong to the band actually. They were custom built for Frank by a guy in Indiana named Jamie. I use my own cymbals, hardware and a ‘70s supraphonic snare. The drums are played wide open and they are loud! (laughs) RRI: So being based in Chicago and being a full-time dad, husband among many other things, did you ever say to yourself, “man this is just too much”? Or does your passion for music put a stop to those silly thoughts? DM: I tell ya man my schedule can be very tight and has been hectic at times. I’m juggling a day job, family, running and the demands of multiple bands. There were times when my kids were younger and I was driving home from Chicago racing the clock to get home before my wife had to leave for work at 5:30 a.m. I took a break from Kashmir gigs last year, but I have tried to become better at scheduling a sensible workload. I still have a passion to play the drums and hopefully entertain people. RRI: Okay here comes the fun part. If you had to choose one. RRI: Neil Peart (RUSH drummer) or Keith Moon (The Who)? DM: That’s a tough one! They are both great and important drummers, but neither was very inspirational for me. They were great fits for their bands, but they both play a little busy for my taste. To answer the question, I would have to say Moon, since he was a more improvisational player. RRI: Listening to digitally remastered music or old vinyl records on a turntable? DM: That’s an easy one – old vinyl records on vintage tube gear. RRI: Led Zeppelin fourth album (featuring “Stairway to Heaven”) or their second album (featuring “Heart beaker”)? DM: Another tough question and, I’m sorry, but I’m going to have to go with both. RRI: American Idol or America’s Got Talent? (Television shows) DM: I really don’t watch reality TV, so I guess neither one. I do like The Office reruns though. RRI: What’s next for Doug Marocco? DM: I think I’m in a good situation musically right now playing with Kashmir, Mr. Big Stuff and doing a little free-lancing. I hope to keep improving my playing and focus on quality gigs versus quantity. As far as outside of music, I plan to focus on spending time with Susan and the kids. Hopefully, we can get in some more travel and adventures before Brady and Miranda are off to college. On a personal level, I want to get back to running and racing at a competitive level again, possibly eventually doing an Ironman. I have been really lucky and thankful to have played music with so many really great musicians over the years that have helped shape who I am today.

August 28, 2019 The Rock River Times.

RACVB View

Tourism’s Economic Impact Up in 2018 Rockford Area CVB

In 2018, travel provided $392 million in economic impact to Rockford and Winnebago County communities and supported the livelihood of 3,039 hardworking area residents. At that level, visitor spending reached an all-time high, up 2.1 percent from $384 million in 2017. That spending generated visitor industry employment income of $95 million and generated $30 million in state and local taxes. The ten-year period between 2009 and 2018 shows visitor-related economic impact in Winnebago County growing 54 percent; faster than all other major counties except Cook (Chicago, at 58 percent) and much faster than the set average of 41 percent. Major metropolitan counties that were used for comparison are Cook, DuPage, Champaign, McLean, Lake, Will, Peoria, Madison, St. Clair, Sangamon, Kane and Rock Island. In addition to spending, visitors also generated increased funds for local and state tax coffers to use for core services

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such as police, fire and public works. In 2018, visitors paid $23.2 million in state and $6.8 million in local tax receipts (up 6.2 percent and 0.7 percent). Visitor expenditure, tax revenue and employment data are provided by the U.S. Travel Association and the Illinois Department of Commerce. “Tourism is a strong economic driver locally and has caused a ripple effect throughout our community. Based on reports and data analysis we can clearly see many businesses and organizations are thriving from successful tourism-related initiatives and events,” said Jennifer Furst, RACVB’s board chair. “I especially appreciate the correlation between visitor spending and how that helps put local people to work.” The economic impact of tourism has grown rapidly in recent years, and the recent and coming investments in the community – including a new downtown hotel and conference center and a future casino gaming complex in Rockford – will fuel additional impact. “I am pleased to see all the ways tourism

Winnebago County Fair has been a key contributor to the overall success of our community. Rockford area attractions, businesses and organizations have seen increased attendance and spending as visitors participate in various leisure activities, business events and sports tournaments,” says City of Rockford Mayor Tom McNamara. “The work of the RACVB helps to boost our economy which allows us to create new job opportunities and welcome more people.” “More and more as we share the story of our region with potential customers and visitors, they are experiencing what our friends and neighbors know to be true – our region is on the rise and has a bright future. Investments made in marketing and promoting the region are working and returning results. The year over year growth we are seeing demonstrates that folks continue to choose the Rockford region to visit. We know this success can spur on additional growth as every visitor is a potential new resident or investor,” said John Groh, RACVB president/CEO. In addition to growth in Winnebago County, the Illinois Office of Tourism reported both international and domestic travel expenditures grew to $41.7 billion in 2018, which is a $2 billion increase to the

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ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT

Why buy Greenland? BY DRS. ROBERT & SONIA VOGL CONTRIBUTORS

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When we held our first Renewable Energy and Sustainability Fair in 2002 climate change was already a topic of interest with atmospheric CO2 at 375 ppm. Now at 410 ppm it is getting lots of visibility in the media. Much of it is focused on the damages associated with it but recently the associated economic opportunities such as Trump’s attempt to buy Greenland are becoming more obvious. In 1969 we participated in a National Science Foundation course covering the substantial presence of oil, natural gas and mineral resources in the Arctic and the challenge of getting it to market. But little was said regarding how climate change could facilitate the exploitation of Arctic resources. As the ice melts two major shipping routes will simplify resource access. One is the Northwest Passage along the Canadian border and the other is the Northern Sea Route along the Russian coast. In a discussion with us in Iceland in 2003, a leading political figure looked forward to the economic benefits to his country from opening the Northwest Passage. He felt it would o�set the losses if the cod fishery collapsed or if rising levels of mercury in the ocean from the dramatic rise in coal burning in China adversely impacted the cod market. Currently a decline in Iceland’s cod fishery is underway. Given all the resources existing in the Arctic and the melting of sea ice it is not surprising that the current administration expressed an interest in buying Greenland and that Denmark declined the o�er. A Saturday morning interview on BBC revealed what Denmark already knows about the resource potential of the country. They have a productive fish and prawn resource in the North Atlantic. Oil and gas are found there as are rare minerals used in solar, wind, batteries and electric vehicles. The fine muds deposited from the melting glaciers are envisioned as serving to restore depleted tropical soils. Sand and gravel exist in pure piles for use in making concrete essential to building structures to protect coast lines threatened by rising sea levels and intense storms. Rich iron

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ore deposits are known along with gold deposits. The U.S already has a military presence in the area which could serve as a point from which access to the Northwest Passage could be controlled. Business as usual would be well served by utilizing the existing resources but climate change would intensify. The impacts of global warming in the north are occurring twice as fast as those in the rest of the world as revealed in a recent Canadian federal government report. Many of the impacts are likely to be irreversible. The country’s annual average temperature is up by 1.7°C or 3°F since 1948 and in northern Canada it is up 2.3°C or 4.05°F .The rising temperatures will accelerate the melting of ice. The race for Arctic resources does not bode well for the health of the planet or human wellbeing. As climate change accelerates the temperature of the earth could reach a tipping point which would produce higher temperatures than the earth has experienced in the past 1.2 million years. A research report “Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene” warns society is on a “Hothouse Earth” pathway which will lead serious disruptions to ecosystems, society and economies. To avoid such a future collective action is seen as essential. The economic case for securing more oil and gas from the Arctic or elsewhere is also challenged in a study entitled Wells, Wires and Wheels by Mark Lewis of the BNP Paribas, an asset management ﬁrm. It concludes that wind and solar combined with electric vehicles can deliver 3 to 4 times more useful energy than diesel and 6 to 7 times more useful energy than gasoline with oil at $60/bbl. Eventually gas would need to sell at $10 to $12/barrel to compete with electric vehicles. The competition from electric vehicles could make 40% of today’s global oil demand economically uncompetitive when wind, solar, batteries and EVs reach a su�cient global scale. Interest in buying Greenland ﬁts well with the existing global business model. But investing in climate solutions could prove to be a far better investment for society and the oil and gas industry facing stranded assets.

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Mr. Green Car

Toyota Prius sales down By Allen Penticoff Columnist

Since its introduction in December 1997 (yes, over 20 years ago), the Toyota Prius has seen many changes in the four generations of its development - and many offspring that are either variations on the Prius theme - such as the smaller Prius C and the larger Prius V, but also now there are several Toyota models that are essentially using the Prius drive system in them as well. This and other factors have brought the once ever-climbing sales figures of your average Prius into decline. But it’s not dead yet. Those U.S. sales figures peaked at 236,655 in 2012. As of 2017 U.S. sales were down to 108,661 across all four models. Although, since its introduction, several million Priuses have been sold worldwide. Nowadays, the plug-in Prius Prime, with EV mode range of 25-miles, accounts for about 20 percent of Prius sales. There is a new AWD version of the Prius out - the Prius

AWD-e, but more on this in a bit. There are five factors that have caused the decline in Prius sales. One: gas is cheap relative to our other living costs. Folks are less inclined to buy highly efficient vehicles just to save on the cost of fuel. Two: The average miles per gallon ratings are up on the entire fleet of vehicles available to consumers - making buying a Prius less necessary to get good gas mileage. Three: There are a ton of other hybrids out there in the market, a hybrid is no longer a unique vehicle. Also, pure electric vehicles are definitely stealing away the kind of folks who would otherwise buy a high efficiency vehicle. Four: Many consider the latest rendition of Prius styling to be a flop. It’s just too weird for most folks. Five: Toyota’s hybridization of their small RAV4 SUV and the long established Corolla models is cannibalizing Prius sales too. I’ll expound on point five here a bit. SUVs are all the rage among consumers. Sedans are in decline. Moving the Prius

hybrid drive system to the RAV4 makes sense from the standpoint of sales. Buyers like its versatility, all-weather capabilities and it still manages 39 mpg without the need for charging. Similarly, Toyota has dusted off the Corolla model (been around since 1966), given it better styling, power, appointments and advertised it to the youth market. Giving the Corolla hybrid the Prius’ drive system has boosted its average mpg rating to 50. A comfier car with a more subtle style - it is a favorite among the fuel conserving public. The Toyota Camry hybrid also eats away at Prius sales, as do the Toyota based Lexus hybrids. In trying to keep the Prius line alive Toyota has introduced all-wheel-drive (AWD) to the Prius package. With a modest $2,000 option and a small 2 mpg efficiency penalty, the buyer can get some help moving during snowy conditions. Without consuming much space or adding much weight, they install a 7-horsepower electric motor to drive the rear wheels during low

traction conditions. The motor will operate continuously up to 3 mph and partially up to 43 mph - whereupon it will disengage. The whole point is to help get out of your snowy driveway or across an unplowed parking lot, not to go four-wheeling in the mountains. Toyota recommends that owners leave the fuel-efficient low-rolling resistance tires on for winter - as winter tires tend to upset the designed traction control feature and cause the front tires to dig in. The Toyota Prius AWD-e attains an EPA rated 52 city and 48 highway mpg - making it a great commuter car for folks who live in northern states. With Toyota’s well-earned reputation for building solid reliable vehicles, the Prius line is still worth putting on your short list for fuel-efficient new car purchase particularly if you have reservations about going EV.

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A&E Happenings Music & Arts

Ongoing Open Stage at Mandalay Lounge - Monday-Sunday beginning at 5 p.m. 200 North Church Street. Mary’s Place - 602 N. Madison St. Open Stage, Tues. & Thurs. 9:30 p.m.-close; Karaoke, Wed. 9:30 p.m.-close. Bruce L. Warden - For listening & dining every Friday and Saturday 5-9 p.m. at Hoffman House, 7550 E. State St. Ongoing Chance Encounter: Julie Heffernan and Shelly Mosman Exhibition - On exhibit at RAM, located inside the Riverfront Museum Park at 711 N. Main Street. The exhibition remains on view through September 29. Chance Encounter explores paintings and photography by Julie Heffernan and Shelly Mosman. Both use opulent beauty and gritty detail to tell visual stories that disrupt one-sided histories of female ﬁgures that still exist today. Also on view are lavish, one-of-akind pieces of furniture by Minneapolis designer Carter Averbeck of Omforme Design. Mosman’s recent projects include collaborating with Fashion Week Minnesota to help celebrate youth and the beauty of aging. Heffernan is an Illinois native and professor of art at Montclair State University in New Jersey, where she has taught for more than 20 years. Both artists are represented in the Rockford Art Museum Permanent Collection. Chance Encounter is organized by RAM Curator Carrie Johnson. Friday, August 30 Mike Williamson Trio - Performing from 5-7:30 p.m. at Stockholm Inn, 2420 Charles St. Free admission. Saturday, August 31 Legendary Pairs Concert/Dance - Featuring Trinadora. 1-4 p.m. at American Legion Robert C.A. Carlson Post 1207, 1011 S. Alpine Rd. Free admission, “old school” lunches will be on sale from 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Friday, September 6 Trinadora Rocks - From 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Edbebrook Mall, 1639 N. Alpine Rd., the Trinadora Rocks band (Trinadora plus John Bishoff on lead guitar and Tim Austin on drums) performs four compact versions of their most popular. Monday, September 9 Trinadora - 6-9 p.m. at Prairie Street Brew House, 200 Prairie Street. Trinadora brings the duo version of their 21st Century ‘50s Radio potpourri to the Dockside Live series. Thursday, September 12 Ron Holm - Ron brings his solo “Roy Orbison Legacy” drama to Cherry Valley Public Library, 755 E. State St., in Cherry Valley. Performance from 10:3011:30 a.m. The presentation includes slides and explores the musicians that inﬂuenced Orbison and the stories behind some of Roy’s signature songs in addition to stunning solo performances of Roy’s hits. Friday, September 13 Trinadora Rocks - Trinadora Rocks band brings their 21st Century ‘50s Radio free-association potpourri to McEachran Winery, 1917 Wyman School Rd., in Caledonia. 6-9 p.m.

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Friday, September 6-Sunday, September 8 Roscoe Fall Festival - The Roscoe Lions Club is proud to announce that its 49th annual Roscoe Fall Festival will take place this year at Leland Park, 10701 3rd St., in Roscoe. Admission and Live Music entertainment continues to be FREE. This event helps fund the Club’s major programs including sight and hearing, diabetes and the annual scholarship program for local students. Activities: Beer garden by the stage; Kiddie parade Saturday morning with prizes; Bingo tent open to close daily; Sunday morning parade on Main Street; Fireworks at 8:30 Sunday night; 50/50 rafﬂes all day; Carnival rides and games (Saturday is arm band day at 11 a.m.); Great food in the Lions Eat Tent. Hours: 5-10 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday; noon-8 p.m. Sunday. For more information visit roscoelionsclub.com. Saturday, September 7 Walk to End Alzheimer’s - The Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s will take place at Sportscore One, 1288 Elmwood Rd., in Rockford. Nearly 800 people from the Rockford area are expected at this year’s event to raise awareness and funds to fight Alzheimer’s disease. On Walk day, participants will honor those affected by Alzheimer’s disease with Promise Flowers during the poignant Promise Garden Ceremony – a moving display of hope to represent the personal reasons participants join together to ﬁght Alzheimer’s. In Illinois alone, there are more than 230,000 people living with the disease and 588,000 caregivers. Participants can join a team or register to walk as an individual at alz.org/walk. Sunday, September 8 Beattie Is - Beattie Is... Arts Festival brings back one of the Midwest’s most beloved arts festivals after nearly three decades of hiatus. The free, family-friendly event includes over 50 artist booths, a main stage and a street stage, food trucks, busking artists, and interactive arts activities for all ages, including sculpture-making, print-making, community art weaving, and more! Join us for this quirky, energetic, creative event! Beattie Is... will begin with an opening ceremony at 10 a.m. in Beattie Park where the Festival began in 1974. Full festivities will run from 11 a.m.- 6 p.m. at Rockford City Market Grounds. For information on attending or volunteering at Beattie Is...Back, please visit artsforeveryone. com or BeattieIs.com; contact Caitlyn Baylor caitlynbaylor@artsforeveryone.com or call the Arts Council: 815-963-6765. Admission is free and open to the public. Wednesday, September 11 East High class of 1943 reunion - Rockford East High class of 1943 plans to meet for their 76th class reunion. It will be held at 12 noon at Stockholm Inn, 2420 Charles St., Rockford, IL. All classmates are welcome - please join us. For information contact Romayne Little 815-877-3254. Saturday, September 14 Friends of RPL Used Book Sale - The Friends of Rockford Public Library will host a Used Book Sale from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Hart Interim Library, 214 N. Church St. The sale will include new and

gently-used ﬁction, non-ﬁction, hardcover and paperback book sand many children’s books. Shoppers can stock up for fall reading at the bargain price of 25 cents per item. Money raised from the sale will go toward purchasing special equipment and materials that support Rockford Public Library’s programs and services. For more information call 815-966-2721 or email friendsofrpl@gmail.com. Wednesday, September 18 RVC and Rockford University Career & Internship Fair - Rock Valley College and Rockford University will be co-hosting a Career & Internship Fair from 1-4 p.m in the Physical Education Center (PEC) gymnasium on RVC’s main campus (3301 North Mulford Road). Participation in the Career & Internship Fair is a great way to connect and network with representatives of employing organizations. A number of our students and community members do obtain part-time and full-time employment as a direct result of participating in this event. Pre-registration is strongly encouraged but NOT required. Walkins are welcome and can register at the door for FREE. This event is free to students, alumni, and the community. Employer registration is also now open! Registration will close when the fair is at employer capacity, or by Monday, September 9, 2019. Employer walk-ins are not permitted. More information is available online at rockvalleycollege.edu/careerservices. For more information please contact Rock Valley College Career Services at (815) 921-4091.

Friday, September 20 Winnebago County CASA Oktoberfest Golf Outing The Winnebago County Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Program will hold a fundraiser at Forest Hills Country Club (5135 Forest Hills Road, Rockford). Lunch and golf registration start at 11:30 AM, with a shotgun start at 12:30. The After Hours Social Club will be from 5-7 p.m. in the clubhouse. Golf is $150 per player, $550 for a foursome. Golf tickets include the After Hours Club. Tickets for just the After Hours Club are $40 per person, and include music, hors d’oeuvres, and lots of fun! To buy tickets and for more information visit www.WinnebagoCountyCASA. org. CASA children are the truest victims – abused or neglected in their homes, by a parent or caretaker. They have done nothing wrong and deserve all the help our community can give them. The ultimate goal is to find a safe, permanent home for each child. CASA volunteers, who are appointed by the Juvenile Abuse & Neglect Court Judge to act as Guardian ad litem, advocate for abused and neglected children during court proceedings. Recommendations are made to the Judge about what is believed to be in the best interests of the children. Please join us for this fun-filled afternoon and evening to help support the children who are in great need of a CASA volunteer. There are currently more than 1,100 open cases of abuse and neglect in Winnebago County. If you’re interested in becoming a CASA volunteer, please contact the CASA office at 815-319-6880 or WinnebagoCountyCASA.org. Training sessions are held throughout the year.

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August 28 – September 3

Outdoor Garden Tours

Urinetown (the Musical)

WHEN Thursday, August 29 (9:30 a.m.)

WHEN Thursday, August 29 – Saturday, August 31 (7:30 p.m.)

WHERE Nicholas Conservatory & Gardens Rockford Park District’s Nicholas Conservatory & Gardens invites the public for free guided outdoor garden tours this season. Learn about native and exotic plants on the Conservatory grounds, shadeand sun-loving plants, as well as fun facts and the history of the Conservatory and Sinnissippi Park. Tours are approximately 1-1.5 hours long.

WHERE Nordlf Center For 20 years, a town has suffered a drought. A large, monopolizing corporation, with politicians and the police in their deep pockets, is charging fees as they please for water usage. When a new fee hike is imposed, the poor and downtrodden rise up against their oppressors and learn lots of lessons. Urinetown (the Musical) is put on by the Usual Suspects

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Trinadora’s Legendary Pairs Concert/Dance

Pig Minds Brewing Comedy Night WHEN Saturday, August 31 (8:30 p.m.)

WHEN Saturday, August 31 (1 – 4 p.m.)

WHERE Pig Minds Brewing Co.

WHERE American Legion Robert C.A. Carlson Post 1207

Headliner Charlie Kojis has been performing stand-up comedy in Madison since 2014, during which time he has been described as “this generation’s Charlie Kojis.” Combining his life experiences and general fears, Charlie blends traditional joke telling with his own personal narrative. His dry delivery leaves audiences both laughing and wondering if he is as ok as he pretends to be.

Ron Holm and Jannie Nelson (Trinadora Duo) sing with breathtaking fidelity. They will be playing timeless music of closely connected men and women such as Roy Orbison and Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash and June Carter, Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, Brenda Lee and Ray Charles, and more.

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Death Notices Joseph Iverson 67 Rockford 8/19/2019 Kennith Ellis 69 Rockford 8/19/2019 Steven Oriold 66 Rockford 8/19/2019 Darrell Malthe 85 Rockford 8/19/2019 Levones Tolbert Jr. 58 Rockford 8/19/2019 Richard Manning 64 Loves Park 8/19/2019 Gloria Winters 75 Rockford 8/20/2019 Derrick Parker 49 Rockford 8/20/2019 Bonnie Estes 91 Rockford 8/20/2019 Heather Christensen 37 Rockford 8/20/2019 Claudia Hetts 75 Loves Park 8/21/2019 Delbert Croom 86 Rockford 8/21/2019 Wendy Adams 54 Rockford 8/21/2019 Jesus Zaya-perez 77 Rockford 8/21/2019 Curtis Hill 72 Rockford 8/21/2019 Janice Semenchuk 83 Rockford 8/21/2019 Barbara Brooke 77 Rockford 8/21/2019 Cecil McKinney 83 Rockford 8/21/2019 Jaime Moctezuma 61 Rockford 8/21/2019 Dorothy Burkhalter 96 Rockford 8/22/2019 Vernell Harris 77 Rockford 8/22/2019 Gordon Hammond 85 Rockford 8/22/2019 William Weisendanger 76 Loves Park 8/22/2019 Gavin Harvey 87 Rockford 8/22/2019 Carol Doyle 67 Rockford 8/23/2019 Rudolph Allison 87 Rockford 8/23/2019 Henry Helminski 84 Rockford 8/23/2019 Harwood Colehour 102 Rockford 8/23/2019 Bonnie Kannarr 52 Rockford 8/23/2019 Lyman Smith 36 Rockford 8/23/2019 Lucille Jones 85 Rockford 8/24/2019 John Naill 66 Rockford 8/24/2019 Maynard Hughes 91 Rockford 8/24/2019 Beatrice Stanley 94 Rockford 8/24/2019 Eleanor Balonek 98 Rockford 8/24/2019 Harold Sundeen 89 Rockford 8/24/2019 Clifford Vedder 73 Rockford 8/25/2019 Earnest Diebold 83 Rockford 8/25/2019 Louis Bending 44 Rockford 8/25/2019 Ingram Gentry 93 Rockford 8/25/2019 Antoinette Sarruggia 90 Rockford 8/25/2019 Peggy Sells 77 Roscoe 8/25/2019 Constance Cleveland 62 Rockford 8/25/2019 Gregory Crisp 51 Rockford 8/26/2019

WEEK OF AUGUST 25 TO 31, 2019 THE LUCKIEST SIGNS THIS WEEK: Horoscope LIBRA, SCORPIO AND SAGITTARIUS

ARIES

You’ll have to work twice as hard to accomplish your goals this week. There’s a good chance you’ll be warmly applauded and congratu lated for a brilliant achievement.

TAURUS

Family life will demand a lot of energy, but luckily, you’ll get lots of gratitude in return. Those clo sest to you will feel confident around you. You’ll spend a lot of time at home.

GEMINI

You’ll be on the move this week, playing taxi for your children. Don’t forget to bring your GPS or check the directions before you leave. You’ll get some news from some one abroad.

CANCER

You’ll have some details to work out with your bank manager. Good communication sets the record straight in your personal life. This will give you more reason to break out of your shell and as sert yourself.

LEO

Lots of action lies ahead. You may even take up a new sport with someone interesting. Your love life will be an exciting adventure. At work, you’ll discover new ways to increase your revenue.

VIRGO

Avoid burning the candle at both ends, especially if your health isn’t at its best. Good time with friends will help you relax. You’ll disco ver a new spiritual approach that will improve your wellbeing.

LIBRA

It’s time to update your work ward robe. New clothes and a revam ped look may help increase your selfconfidence. Your creativity will be an asset in your professional development.

SCORPIO

You’ll take a leading role in an important meeting at work or with your family. To your amaze ment, you’ll be calm under pres sure and perform great feats that settle the problems around you.

SAGITTARIUS

If you’re in school or undergoing training of any kind, you’ll find a professional path that corresponds with your dreams and values. A spontaneous trip may be planned.

CAPRICORN

Your emotions will be all over the place this week. Take time to talk to your loved ones about your concerns. You’ll be surprised by their understanding, which will help put your mind at ease.

AQUARIUS

It’s easier to get along with people you don’t have emotional attach ments to. Avoid talking about mo ney with family members. It’ll take patience to find harmony after a period of chaos and upheaval.

PISCES

Death notices are provided by the Winnebago County Coroner’s office.

At work, you’ll find yourself dea ling with an emergency. Put on your white gloves to deal with a particular colleague or client. You’ll also need tact and diplomacy to reach an understanding with some people, including your partner.

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CROSSWORD & SUDOKU Across 1. Resort hotel 4. Thunder noise 8. Happy 12. Beret, e.g. 13. Intense dislike 14. Portrayal 15. Tennis shot 16. Observer 17. Fit 18. Road sign 20. Kiddie pie ingredient 22. Uncover 25. Fellows 29. Choir singer 32. Lounge around 34. This bird gives a hoot 35. Payable 36. Literary composition 37. Contend 38. Sense organ 39. ____ off (angry) 40. Orchestra 41. Poison ____ 43. Tinter 45. Old pronoun 47. Heroism 51. Poultry 54. ____ in a lifetime 57. Dumbfound 58. Notion 59. Thug 60. Sign of triumph 61. Stoplight colors 62. Says further 63. Question

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21. “The ____ Duckling” 23. Differently 24. _ _ _ _ around (snooped) 26. PBS science series 27. Duplicate 28. Winter slider 29. Cooling drinks

30. Hawaiian party 31. Expression 33. Woman 36. Clearly outline 40. Swimsuit top 42. Book of maps 44. Makes ﬂush 46. Type of exercise

48. Molten rock 49. Is beholden to 50. Emit fumes 51. Kind of evergreen 52. Hymn of praise 53. Got hitched 55. Afﬁrmative gesture 56. New England cape

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August 28, 2019 The Rock River Times. Government Notices n n n Committee Report Passed: 8/19/2019 ORDINANCE NO. 2019-177-O WHEREAS, The City of Rockford is the owner of and possessed of the real estate hereinafter particularly described; and WHEREAS, the said real estate is no longer necessary, appropriate or required for the use of, nor profitable to, the City of Rockford; and WHEREAS, retention of the property is not for the best interest of said City of Rockford. THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, THAT: Section 1: The City Council offer for sale of City owned property at 413 Ford Street, PIN #11-26-130-017 at a minimum bid of $5,900 which includes advertising and with preference to the adjacent property owners. The city reserves the right to reject all bids. The subject property is legally described as follows: Part of Lot Ten (10) in Block Sixty-Four (64) as designated upon the Map of that part of the Town (now City) of Rockford on the East side of Rock River; the Plat of which is recorded in Book D of Deeds on pages 340 and 341 in the Recorder’s Office of Winnebago County, Illinois bounded as follows, to-wit: beginning at the North East corner of said lot; thence Westerly along the Northerly line of said lot, Forty-Five (45) feet; thence Southerly, parallel with the Easterly line of said lot, Sixty-Six (66) feet to the Southerly line of said lot; thence Easterly along said Southerly line Forty-five (45) feet to the Southeast corner of said lot; thence Northerly along the Easterly line of said lot. Sixty-six (66) feet to the point of beginning; situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois. ALSO THE EAST 45 FEET OF THE FOLLOWING: A tract of land located in the Northwest ¼ of Section 26, Township 44 North Range 1 East of the 3rd Principal meridian; commencing at the Northeast comer of Lot 10 in Block 64 of East Rockford Subdivision, said point being the point of beginning, thence North 10 feet more of less to a point on the South property line of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, thence West 155.32 feet more or less to the Northwest corner of said lot 10, 155.0 feet more or less to the point of beginning, located in the State of Illinois, and County of Winnebago; situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois. Section 2: The Notice of said sale and the fact that said City of Rockford will receive bids for the purchase of said real estate shall be advertised in the Rock River Times, a weekly newspaper published in said City of Rockford, for three (3) consecutive weeks, the first publication to be not less than thirty (30) days before the day provided in said Notice for the opening bids for the real estate. Section 3: The said Notice shall set forth the fact that said bids will be received until 11:00 A.M., local Rockford time on October 7, 2019, at the office of the City of Rockford Purchasing Manager and shall be accompanied by a bank cashier’s or certified check

payable to the City of Rockford for at least ten (10) percent of the amount of the bid, the balance to be paid in cash by the successful bidder within not more than fifteen (15) calendar days from the date of the City Council’s acceptance of his bid. The City of Rockford reserves the right to accept or reject any and all bids. Section 4: The provisions and sections of this Ordinance shall be deemed severable, and the invalidity of any portion of this Ordinance shall not affect the validity of the remainder. Section 5: All orders, resolutions, or ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed insofar as such conflict exists and this Ordinance shall take effect immediately upon its passage, approval, and publication, as required by law. Section 6: A full, true, and complete copy of this Ordinance shall be published within ten (10) days after passage in pamphlet form by and under authority of the Corporate Authorities. 10721R TRRT 9/4 n n n LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE is hereby given that the Rockford Park District intends to contract for the following items and services; specifications are on file with Demandstar.com and Vendorregistry.com. The Rockford Park District invites qualified firms to bid on site demolition and removals, site grading, storm water drainage installation, water service installation, asphalt paving, concrete flatwork, playground equipment and surfacing installation, site furnishings, landscaping, and turf establishment for Ekberg-Pine Manor Park, 3750 Balsam Lane, Rockford, IL 61109. Bids will be opened at the Rockford Park District, Webbs Norman Center Board Room, 401 South Main St, Rockford, IL 61101 (Purchasing Dept (815) 969-4062). The Rockford Park District reserves the unrestricted right to reject any or all bids received, to waive or not to waive any informality, or to accept the bid considered to be in the best interest of the Park District. Contractor shall not pay less than the prevailing rates of wages to all laborers, workmen, and mechanics performing work under this contract, and shall comply with the requirements of the IL Wages of Employees on Public Works Act (820 ILCS 130/1-12). Bid No. 19-2232 Ekberg Pine Manor Park - New Park Construction Pre-Bid Conference: Thursday, September 5, 2019 at 2:00 p.m., Rockford Park District, Webbs Norman Center Board Room, 401 S. Main St., Rockford, IL 61101 Bid Opening: Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 2:00 p.m., Rockford Park District, Webbs Norman Center Board Room, 401 S. Main St., Rockford, IL 61101 BY: Julianne C. Elliott, Secretary 10723R TRRT 8/28 n n n LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE is hereby given that the Rockford Park District intends to contract for the following items and services; specifications are on file with Demandstar.com and Vendorregistry.com. The Rockford Park District invites qualified firms to bid on site demolition and removals, site grading, storm water drainage installation, asphalt paving, concrete flatwork, playground equipment and surfacing installation, fencing, site furnishings and sports equipment installation, landscaping, and turf establishment at Washington Park, 3617 Delaware St., Rockford, IL 61102. This project is being financed, in part, with funds from the State of Illinois Department of Natural Resources “Open Space Land

Acquisition and Development (OSLAD) grant program. The local sponsor shall encourage 1) minority business firms to submit bids on the approved project, and 2) successful contract bidders to utilize minority businesses as subcontractors for supplies, equipment, services and construction. Bids will be opened at the Rockford Park District, Webbs Norman Center Board Room, 401 South Main St, Rockford, IL 61101 (Purchasing Dept (815) 969-4062). The Rockford Park District reserves the unrestricted right to reject any or all bids received, to waive or not to waive any informality, or to accept the bid considered to be in the best interest of the Park District. Contractor shall not pay less than the prevailing rates of wages to all laborers, workmen, and mechanics performing work under this contract, and shall comply with the requirements of the IL Wages of Employees on Public Works Act (820 ILCS 130/1-12). Bid No. 19-2233 Washington Park - New Park Construction Pre-Bid Conference: Thursday, September 5, 2019 at 2:30 p.m., Rockford Park District, Webbs Norman Center Board Room, 401 S. Main St., Rockford, IL 61101 Bid Opening: Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 2:30 p.m., Rockford Park District, Webbs Norman Center Board Room, 401 S. Main St., Rockford, IL 61101 BY: Julianne C. Elliott, Secretary 10724R TRRT 8/28

Public Notices n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC D/B/A MR. COOPER Plaintiff, vs. JAMIE S. SCHIRRA, BRYCE W. WILLIAMS, ROCK RIVER WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT Defendants, 18 ch 620 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, September 19, 2019 at the hour of 1:00 p.m. Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: LOT FOUR (4) AS DESIGNATED ON THE PLAT OF NORTH PINE WOODS, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER (1/4) OF SECTION 19, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 2 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, THE PLAT OF WHICH SUBDIVISION IS RECORDED IN BOOK 41 OF PLATS ON PAGE 123B IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. P.I.N. 08-19-480-004. Commonly known as 830 NEEDLE POINT DR., MACHESNEY PARK, IL 61115. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. For information call Mr. Ira T. Nevel at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Law Offices of Ira T. Nevel, 175 North Franklin Street, Chicago, Illinois 60606. (312) 357-1125. 18-03601 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3128404 P10677R TRRT 8/28 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY IN RE THE ESTATE OF: RUSSELL W. KUTZ, Deceased. No. 2019 P 341 CLAIM NOTICE NOTICE is given of the death of RUSSELL W. KUTZ. Letters of Office were issued on July 29, 2019, to EDWARD A. KUTZ of W127S7721 Nursery Court, Muskego, Wisconsin 53150, who is the legal representative of the Estate. The attorney for the Estate is Jeffrey E. Hardyman of HOWARD, HARDYMAN & DIVERDE, LLP, 124 N. Water Street, Suite 100, PO Box 1616, Rockford, Illinois 61110-0116. Any claims against the Estate may be filed on or before February 14, 2020, that date being at least six (6) months from the date of first publication, or within three (3) months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to creditors, if mailing or delivery is required by Section 18-3 of the Illinois Probate Act, 1975 as amended, whichever date is later. Any claim not filed by the requisite date stated above shall be barred. Claims against the Estate must be filed with the Office of the Winnebago County Circuit Clerk-Probate Division at the Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 W. State Street, Rockford, Illinois 61101 Copies of claims filed with the Circuit Clerk’s Office - Probate Division, must be mailed or delivered to the Estate legal representative and to his or her attorney within ten (10) days after it has been filed. DATED: August 6, 2019 EDWARD A. KUTZ, Independent Executor Jeffrey E. Hardyman ARDC# 6201356 HOWARD, HARDYMAN & DIVERDE, LLP 124 N. Water Street, Suite 100 PO Box 1616 Rockford, Illinois 61110-0116 (815) 964-8888 jhardyman@howardhardyman. com Attorneys for the Estate of RUSSELL W. KUTZ, Deceased 10680R TRRT 8/28 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO PROBATE DIVISION In the Matter of the Estate of KIYO C. RUSSIAN, Deceased. CASE NO. 2019 P 332 CLAIM NOTICE Notice is given of the death of Kiyo C. Russian of Rockford, IL. Letters of Office were issued on July 25, 2019, to Lorraine White, who is the legal representative of the estate. The attorney for the estate is G. Michael Scheurich. Claims against the estate may be filed on or before February 17, 2020, that date being at least six (6) months from the date of first publication, or within three (3) months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to creditors, if mailing or delivery is required by 755 ILCS 5/18-3 of the Illinois Probate Act of 1975, whichever date is later. Any claim not filed by the requisite date stated above

shall be barred. Claims against the estate may be filed in the Office of the Winnebago County Circuit Clerk-Probate Division at the Winnebago County Courthouse, Room 425, 400 West State Street, Rockford, Illinois, or with the estate legal representative, or both. Copies of claims filed with the Circuit Clerk’s Office--Probate Division must be mailed or delivered to the estate legal representative and to the attorney within ten (10) days after it has been filed. Dated: August 9, 2019. G. Michael Scheurich, Attorney G. MICHAEL SCHEURICH (#2479869) Guyer & Enichen, P.C. scheurich@guyerlaw.com Attorneys for the Estate 2601 Reid Farm Road, Suite B Rockford, Illinois 61114 (815) 636-9600 10681R TRRT 8/28 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF: GABRIELA ZAMARRIPA, Petitioner, vs. JOSE ORTIZ, Respondent. Case No. 19 D 552 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to Respondent Jose Ortiz that Petitioner Gabriela Zamarripa has caused to be filed a PETITION FOR DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE and other relief in the above-captioned cause of action. You are further notified that if you fail to file an answer or otherwise appear on or before September 16, 2019, a judgment by default may be entered against you at any time thereafter for the relief requested in the petition. /s/ Gabriela Zamarripa, Petitioner 10683R TRRT 8/28 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS GABRIELA ZAMARRIPA, Petitioner, and REFUGIO-ROBLES PALOMARES, Respondent. Case No: 19 F 422 NOTICE OF FILING OF PETITION FOR ALLOCATION OF PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES YOU, REFUGIO-ROBLES PALOMARES, ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that this case has been commenced in this Court and is pending against you asking for allocation of parental responsibilities and other relief. Unless you file your Answer or Appearance in this case in the office of the Clerk of the 17th Judicial Circuit, Winnebago County, Illinois located at 400 West State Street, Rockford, Illinois before September 16, 2019 or otherwise appear at the hearing in this matter on September 19, 2019 at 2:30 p.m. in Courtroom 459 at 400 W. State Street, Rockford, Illinois, A JUDGMENT BY DEFAULT MAY BE TAKEN AGAINST YOU FOR THE RELIEF ASKED FOR IN THE COMPLAINT. 10684R TRRT 8/28 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a food business in said County and State under the name of La Islas at the following post office addresses: 615 N. Sunset Ave., Rockford, IL 61101; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Jeremy L. Torres Ortega SIGNED: Jeremy L. Torres Ortega 8/7/19

Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 7th day of August, A.D. 2019. Lori Gummow, COUNTY CLERK Maria Pinedo, DEPUTY 10686R TRRT 8/28 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a Barbershop & Beauty Salon business in said County and State under the name of The Kidds Corner Barbershop & Beauty Salon Service by Jade & Chris at the following post office addresses: 3814 Auburn - Rear, Rockford, IL 61101; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Jade Carter; Chris Roberson SIGNED: Jade Carter 8/5/19 SIGNED: Chris Roberson 8/5/19 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 5th day of August, A.D. 2019. Lori Gummow, COUNTY CLERK Ashley Try, DEPUTY 10687R TRRT 8/28 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a residential rental business in said County and State under the name of Henke-Wall Properties at the following post office addresses: 4601 Luna Dr., Machesney Park, IL 61115; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Gregory F. Wall; Sherry W. Henke; Lon L. Henke SIGNED: Gregory F. Wall 8/8/19 SIGNED: Sherry W. Henke 8/8/19 SIGNED: Lon L. Henke 8/8/19 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 8th day of August, A.D. 2019. Lori Gummow, COUNTY CLERK Thalia Gallardo, DEPUTY 10688R TRRT 8/28 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a mattress & furniture store business in said County and State under the name of Boxdrop Rockford at the following post office addresses: 4790 Colt Rd., Rockford, IL 61109; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Kimberly A. Morhardt SIGNED: Kimberly A. Morhardt 8/19/19 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 19th day of August, A.D. 2019. Lori Gummow, COUNTY CLERK Ashley Try, DEPUTY 10717R TRRT 9/4 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a Plumbing, Beekeeper, Handyman business in said County and State under the name of J & W Enterprises at the following post office addresses: 2327 8th Ave., Rockford, IL 61104; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: John Wolfe SIGNED: John Wolfe 8/15/19 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 15th day of August, A.D. 2019. Lori Gummow, COUNTY CLERK Pamela Johnson, DEPUTY 10718R TRRT 9/4

n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a Siding business in said County and State under the name of Michael Goete dba Sinissippi Siding at the following post office addresses: 403 Emerson Dr., Rockford, IL 61108; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Michael Goethe SIGNED: Michael Goethe 8/8/19 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 8th day of August, A.D. 2019. Lori Gummow, COUNTY CLERK Thalia Gallardo, DEPUTY 10690R TRRT 8/28 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a Cleaning business in said County and State under the name of Watch Us Clean at the following post office addresses: 931 Acorn St., Rockford, IL 61101; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Kizzy Moore SIGNED: Kizzy Moore 8/7/19 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 7th day of August, A.D. 2019. Lori Gummow, COUNTY CLERK Maria Pinedo, DEPUTY 10691R TRRT 8/28 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a restaurant business in said County and State under the name of Tacos El Toro at the following post office addresses: 3605 Auburn St., Rockford, IL 61101; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Judith Robledo Cuevas SIGNED: Judith Robledo Cuevas 8/2/19 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 2nd day of August, A.D. 2019. Lori Gummow, COUNTY CLERK Thalia Gallardo, DEPUTY 10692R TRRT 8/28 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a Wrestling business in said County and State under the name of MattJones2587 at the following post office addresses: 1224 Widergren Dr., Rockford, IL 61108; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Matthew Jones; Kate Jones SIGNED: Matthew Jones 8/12/19 SIGNED: Kate Jones 8/12/19 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 12th day of August, A.D. 2019. Lori Gummow, COUNTY CLERK Ashley Try, DEPUTY 10697R TRRT 8/28 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a Women’s Ministry business in said County and State under the name of HALO Ministries at the following post office addresses: 5443 Gingeridge Lane, Rockford, IL 61114; that

the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Lugina C. Horton SIGNED: Lugina C. Horton 8/12/19 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 12th day of August, A.D. 2019. Lori Gummow, COUNTY CLERK Maria Pinedo, DEPUTY 10698R TRRT 8/28 n n n Media Notice IlliniCare Health is committed to protecting the privacy and security of our members’ information. On Aug.6. 2019, we became aware of an unauthorized disclosure to monday.com – an online project management software tool. The incident occurred when a file was inadvertently uploaded containing protected health information to monday.com. The information potentially compromised includes Name, Address, Date of Birth, Medicaid ID number, Diagnoses and other medical information. We are working to help prevent something like this from happening in the future. Actions we are taking include: • Working with the monday. com to ensure the member information is permanently deleted from all backup drives on monday.com. • Reinforcing our policies and procedures around transferring files that include protected health information of members. • Reviewing our practices in relation to submission of protected health information. IlliniCare Health has no reason to believe any member’s information has been used wrongly. Member Services is available to answer questions from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Friday. Contact us by phone at 1-877-6474848. For more help on steps you can take to protect your information, you can contact the Federal Trade Commission at ftc.gov or 1-877-438-4338. 10747R TRRT 8/28 n n n Media Notice IlliniCare Health está comprometida con proteger la privacidad y seguridad de la información de nuestros afiliados. El 6 de agosto del 2019, nos enteramos de una divulgación no autorizada a Monday.com – una herramienta de software de administración de proyectos en línea. El incidente ocurrió cuando un archivo que contenía información de salud protegida se trasfirió electrónicamente de manera involuntaria a monday.com. Estamos trabajando para prevenir que algo similar ocurra en el futuro. Las acciones que estamos tomando incluyen: • Estamos trabajando con monday.com para asegurar que la información de los afiliados se elimine permanentemente de todos los discos duros de respaldo en monday.com. • Estamos reforzando nuestras políticas y procedimientos acerca de la transferencia de archivos que incluyan información de salud protegida de los afiliados. • Estamos revisando nuestras prácticas relacionadas con la presentación de información de salud protegida. IlliniCare Health no tiene razón para creer que la información de ningún afiliado haya sido usada de manera indebida. Servicios para los afiliados está disponible para responder cualquier pregunta de lunes a viernes, de 8 a.m. a 8 p.m. Llámenos al 1-877-647-4848. Para obtener más información acerca de las medidas que puede tomar para proteger su información, puede comunicarse con la Federal Trade Commission en ftc.gov o al 1-877-438-4338. 10748R TRRT 8/28

The Rock River Times. August 28, 2019

n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS TOWD POINT MORTGAGE TRUST 2017-2, U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE, PLAINTIFF vs. ROBERTO ESCOTO; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, DEFENDANT 2019-CH-0000432 PUBLICATION NOTICE The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given to you, ROBERTO ESCOTO; and UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendant in the above entitled suit, that the said suit has been commenced in the Circuit Court of the 17th Judicial Circuit, Winnebago County, Illinois by the plaintiff against you and other defendant, praying for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage conveying the premises described as follows to wit: LOT TWO AS DESIGNATED UPON PLAT NO.1 OF MEADOWS OF SPRINGBROOK, A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE EAST HALF OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 2, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 2 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, AND A PART OF THE EAST HALF OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 11, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, AND RANGE 2 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED OCTOBER 7, 1974 IN BOOK 35 OF PLATS ON PAGE 292 AS DOCUMENT NO. 1348452 IN WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. COMMON ADDRESS: 7338 Spring Brook Road, Rockford, IL 61114 P.I.N.: 12-11-126-008 and which said mortgage was signed by ROBERTO ESCOTO, Mortgagor, to TCF NATIONAL BANK, ILLINOIS CONSUMER LENDING DEPARTMENT, as Mortgagee, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Winnebago County as Document No. 200800828296; and for such other relief prayed; that summons was duly issued out of the Circuit Court of Winnebago County against you as provided by law, and that the said suit is now pending. NOW THEREFORE, UNLESS YOU, the said above defendant, file your answer to the Complaint in said suit or otherwise make your appearance therein, in the Office of the Clerk of this Court in Winnebago County in Room 103 at 400 W. State St., Rockford, IL 61101 on or before September 30, 2019, default may be entered against you at any time after that day and a judgment entered in accordance with the prayer of said complaint. YOU MAY BE ABLE TO SAVE YOUR HOME - DO NOT IGNORE THIS DOCUMENT. By order of the Chief Judge of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, this case is subject to the Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation Program. You must follow the instructions mailed to the property address to participate in this program or otherwise contact Johnson Blumberg & Associates for more information. E-Filing is now mandatory for documents in civil cases with limited exemptions. To e-file, you must first create an account with an e-filing service provider. Visit

http://efile.illinoiscourts.gov/service-providers.htm to learn more and to select a service provider. If you need additional help or have trouble e-filing, visit http://www. illinoiscourts.gov/faq/gethelp. asp or talk with your local circuit clerk’s office. Circuit Clerk Johnson, Blumberg, & Associates, LLC 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite 1125 Chicago, Illinois 60606 Email: ilpleadings@johnsonblumberg.com Ph. 312-541-9710 / Fax 312-541-9711 JB&A # IL 19 6872 I3129596 P10722R TRRT 9/11 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF: ERIKA N. RICHARDSON, Petitioner, vs. DAVID S. RICHARDSON, Respondent. Case No. 18 D 584 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to Respondent David S. Richardson that Petitioner Erika N. Richardson has caused to be filed a PETITION FOR DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE and other relief in the above-captioned cause of action. You are further notified that if you fail to file an answer or otherwise appear on or before September 30, 2019, a judgment by default may be entered against you at any time thereafter for the relief requested in the petition. /s/ Erika N. Richardson, Petitioner 10725R TRRT 9/11 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY IN CHANCERY STILLMAN BANCCORP, N.A., Plaintiff, vs. JESSE BUTLER, RACHAEL BUTLER, STATE OF ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, UNKNOWN OWNERS and NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants. CASE NO 2018 CH 712 PUBLIC NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Public Notice is hereby given that in pursuance of a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in said Court in the above-entitled cause on the 25th day of April, 2019, I, Gary Caruana, Sheriff of Winnebago County, or such other Deputy as may be sitting in my stead, will sell at public venue to the highest and best bidder, the following described lands and premises in said Judgment mentioned or so much thereof as may be necessary to realize the amount due to satisfy said Judgment with the terms and conditions set forth herein: A. The name, address and telephone number of the person to contact for information regarding the real estate is: Jody L. Booher BARRICK, SWITZER, LONG, BALSLEY & VAN EVERA, LLP 6833 Stalter Drive Rockford, Illinois 61108 (815) 962-6611 B. The common address of said property is: 2611 Karen Drive, Rockford, Illinois 61101. C. The legal description of the property is: LOT TEN (10) AS D E S I G N AT E D U P O N PLAT NO. 2 OF GLENNY VIEW, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER (1/4) OF SECTION 3, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH,

RANGE 1 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, THE PLAT OF WHICH SUBDIVISION IS RECORDED IN BOOK 26 OF PLATS ON PAGE 105 IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. D. A description of the improvements on the real estate is: Residential Property / Single Family Home E. The time and place of the sale are: September 19, 2019 at 11 :00 a.m. at Winnebago County Justice Center, 650 West State Street, Rockford, Illinois. F. The terms of the sale are: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; the balance, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If the property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g) (1) and (g)(4). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER}, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C} OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW, UNLESS THE PROPERTY HAS BEEN JUDICIALLY FOUND TO BE ABANDONED. Dated at Rockford, Illinois, this 22nd day of August. 2019. GARY CARUANA SHERIFF OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY PREPARED BY: Jody L. Booher BARRICK, SWITZER, LONG, BALSLEY & VAN EVERA, LLP 6833 Stalter Drive Rockford, Illinois 61108 (815) 962-6611 jbooher@bslbv.com 10726R TRRT 9/11 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO BLACKHAWK BANK, Plaintiff, v. ROBIN L. WESSEL f/k/a ROBIN L. SCHULZ; UNKNOWN OWNERS; UNKNOWN TENANTS; UNKNOWN SPOUSES; UNKNOWN HEIRS and NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants. Case No. 2018-CH-0000751 NOTICE OF SALE (5451 Charles Street, Rockford, Illinois 61108) PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered by the Court in the above-entitled cause, the property hereinafter described

or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said Judgment, will be sold to the highest bidder. 1. The name, address and telephone number of the person to contact for information regarding the real estate is: Staci M. Holthus, HINSHAW & CULBERTSON LLP, 100 Park Avenue, Rockford, Illinois 61101, Tel. (815) 490-4915. 2. The common address and other common description, if any, of the real estate is: 5451 Charles Street, Rockford, Illinois 61108. 3. The legal description of the real estate is: Parcel I: A part of the East Half (1/2) of the East Half (1/2) of the Southwest Quarter (1/4) of Section 33, Township 44 North, Range 2 East of the Third Principal Meridian, bounded and described as follows, to-wit: Commencing at the Northeast corner of said Quarter (1/4) Section; thence South along the East line of said Quarter (1/4) Section, a distance of 245 feet; thence West perpendicular to the East line of said Quarter (1/4) Section, a distance of 292.00 feet for a place of beginning; thence North parallel with the East line of said Quarter (1/4) Section, a distance of 85.00 feet; thence West perpendicular to the East line of said Quarter (1/4) Section, a distance of 147.58 feet; thence South parallel with the East line of said Quarter (1/4) Section, a distance of 85.00 feet; thence East perpendicular to the East line of said Quarter (1/4) Section, a distance of 147.58 feet to the place of beginning; situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois. Parcel II: Easement for ingress and egress described as follows, to-wit: Part of the East Half (1/2) of the East Half (1/2) of the West Half (1/2) of Section 33, Township 44 North, Range 2 East of the Third Principal Meridian, bounded and described as follows, to-wit: Beginning at a point North 89 degrees 29’ West, 226 feet from a point on the East line of the Southwest Quarter (1/4) of said Section, 330 feet South of the Northeast corner of the Southwest Quarter (1/4) of said Section; thence North 89 degrees 29’ West, 66 feet; thence North 00 degrees 31’ East parallel with the East line of the West Half (1/2) of said Section, 327.68 feet to the Southerly line of the S.B.I. Route 5 (Charles Street Road) which line is 53 feet Southerly from and parallel with the center line of said road; thence South 77 degrees 12’ East along the Southerly line of said road, 67.55 feet; thence South 00 degrees 31’ West parallel with the East line of the West Half (1/2) of said Section, 313.34 feet to the place of beginning; situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois. COMMON ADDRESS: 5451 Charles Street Rockford, IL 61108 PROPERTY CODE: 12-33328-002 4. A description of the improvements on the real estate is: A single-family home with 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, containing approximately 1,296 square feet. 5. The time and place of sale will be Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 11:00 A.M., Winnebago County Justice Center, Lobby, 650 West State Street, Rockford,

Illinois. 6. The terms of the sale are: Ten Percent (10%) due by cash or certified funds at the time of the sale and the balance is due within 24 hours of sale. The property offered for sale is subject to all real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality of the title and without recourse to the Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office and in “as is” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. 7. Title will be conveyed subject to the following liens and interests: all general real estate taxes, special assessments, if any, easements and restrictions of record, and the interests, if any, of any tenant in possession. 8. The property will not be available for inspection. 9. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of subject premises. 10. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g) (1) and (g)(4). BLACKHAWK BANK, Plaintiff Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP By: Staci M. Holthus One of Its Attorneys PREPARED BY: Staci M. Holthus (ARDC #6327045) HINSHAW & CULBERTSON LLP 100 Park Avenue P.O. Box 1389 Rockford, IL 61105-1389 PHONE: 815-490-4900 FAX: 815-490-4901 sholthus@hinshawlaw.com 10727R TRRT 9/11 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF: MAURICE ANDRE BAEZA, Petitioner, vs. JANICE MARIE ROBY, Respondent. Case No. 19 D 615 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to Respondent Janice Marie Roby that Petitioner Maurice Andre Baeza has caused to be filed a PETITION FOR DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE and other relief in the above-captioned cause of action. You are further notified that if you fail to file an answer or otherwise appear on or before September 30, 2019, a judgment by default may be entered against you at any time thereafter for the relief requested in the petition. /s/ Maurice Andre Baeza, Petitioner 10728R TRRT 9/11 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF: DAWN MICHELLE ROSARIO, Petitioner, vs. RICARDO QUINTERO ROSARIO, Respondent. Case No. 19 D 532 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to Respondent Ricardo Quintero Rosario that Petitioner Dawn Michelle Rosario has caused to be filed a PETITION FOR DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE and other relief in the above-captioned cause of action. You are further notified that if you fail to file an answer or otherwise appear on or before September 30, 2019, a judgment by default may be entered against you at any time thereafter for the relief requested

in the petition. /s/ Dawn Michelle Rosario, Petitioner 10729R TRRT 9/11 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF: EVA RAMIREZ, Petitioner, vs. NICOMDES PEREZ, Respondent. Case No. 19 D 596 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to Respondent Nicomdes Perez that Petitioner Eva Ramirez has caused to be filed a PETITION FOR DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE and other relief in the above-captioned cause of action. You are further notified that if you fail to file an answer or otherwise appear on or before September 30, 2019, a judgment by default may be entered against you at any time thereafter for the relief requested in the petition. /s/ Eva Ramirez, Petitioner 10730R TRRT 9/11 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS, CIRCUIT COURT WINNEBAGO COUNTY PUBLICATION NOTICE OF COURT DATE FOR REQUEST FOR NAME CHANGE (ADULT) Request of: MICHAEL RICHARD WENTLAND Current Name Case Number 19 MR 809 There will be a court date on my Request to change my name from: MICHAEL RICHARD WENTLAND to the new name of: Michael Richard Wentland. The court date will be held: on October 23, 2019 at 10:00 a.m., at 400 W. State St., Rockford, IL, Winnebago County, in Courtroom #412. /s/ MICHAEL RICHARD WENTLAND MICHAEL RICHARD WENTLAND Current Name 10731R TRRT 9/11 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF: TIMOTHY MICHAEL HOLMES, Petitioner, vs. MARSHA ELAINE HOLMES, Respondent. Case No. 19 D 473 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to Respondent Marsha Elaine Holmes that Petitioner Timothy Michael Holmes has caused to be filed a PETITION FOR DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE and other relief in the above-captioned cause of action. You are further notified that if you fail to file an answer or otherwise appear on or before September 30, 2019, a judgment by default may be entered against you at any time thereafter for the relief requested in the petition. /s/ Timothy Michael Holmes, Petitioner 10732R TRRT 9/11 n n n NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE The following self-storage Cube contents containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart to satisfy a lien on Date September 12th at www.storagetreasures.com. All online Bids start approximately 14 days prior to the final sale date listed above at the stores listed below at the approximate times listed. All items in the Storage Cubes contain household items unless otherwise mentioned. Online Bid Ends Approx. 11:00AM at CubeSmart #6146, 7511 Vandiver Road, Cherry Valley, Illinois 61112 (815) 277-4051: Mark Podzimek – Cube #K40, Sara Carmack – Cube #K1,

Jennifer Neal – Cube #H44, Cherrelle Pendelton – Cube #G7, Ruth Smith - Cube #L19. Online Bid Ends Approx. 11:30AM at CubeSmart #6150, 4548 American Road, Rockford, Illinois 61109 (815) 277-4049: Chezera D Porte - Cube #1403, Kalan Miller – Cube #1160, Kathi E Monroe – Cube #1244, Harlan W Yttrie – Cube #1524, Levon Harris – Cube #1535, Donesha Ashford – Cube #2215, Toshia Huble – Cube #2216, Audra Smith – Cube #2628, Dajanique Wilson – Cube #4106, Maria Leon – Cube #4225, Dione D Bowden – Cube #5505, Steven E Menor – Cube #5927, Erik Follman – Cube #703, James S Harkins – Cube #706, Kiara Brown – Cube #709, Jayson Tripp – Cube #5126, Carletta Parker - Cube #1422. Online Bid Ends Approx. 11:30AM at CubeSmart #6153, 4560 Stenstrom Road, Rockford, Illinois 61109 (815) 277-4049: Sara Beach – Cube #S129, Princess Smith – Cube #S9, Nelson 5 – Cube #S23, Kimberly R Albright – Cube #S39. Online Bid Ends Approx. 12:00PM at CubeSmart #6152, 3015 North Main Street, Rockford, Illinois 61103 (815) 2774054: Valorie Owens – Cube #A119, Kendra Smith – Cube #A127, Melissa King – Cube #B7, Charmaine Pope – Cube #B100, Marjorie Elliott – Cube #B281, Marjorie Elliot – Cube #B287, Paul J Jimenez Jr – Cube #B304, Eric Nelson – Cube #D15, Ashlynn Baxter – Cube #B43, Kenna Straight – Cube #B295, Tiffany M Williams – Cube #A120. Online Bid Ends Approx. 12:30PM at CubeSmart #6151, 6210 Forest Hills Road, Rockford, Illinois 61111 (815) 277-4052: Emmett Caton – Cube #P09, Luis Rios – Cube #212B, Stephanie R Shoulders – Cube #301, Lori Schnorr – Cube #302, Sabrina M. Arnold – Cube #511. Online Bid Ends Approx. 1:00PM at Cubesmart #6148, 4300 Interstate Boulevard, Loves Park, Illinois 61111 (815) 2774053: Curtis Dean Miller – Cube #422. 10733R TRRT 9/4 n n n PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF: ELADIO GUZMAN, Petitioner, and MARIA DEL SOCORRO MACIAS RODRIGUEZ, Respondent. Case No: 2019 D 244 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION YOU, Maria Del Socorro Macias Rodriguez, ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that this case has been commenced in this Court and is pending against you asking for a dissolution of marriage and other relief. UNLESS YOU FILE YOUR Response or otherwise file your Appearance in this case in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit of the 17th Judicial Circuit, Winnebago County, Illinois at 400 W. State Street, Rockford, Illinois, 61101 before September 24, 2019 at 10:30 a.m., A JUDGMENT BY DEFAULT MAY BE TAKEN AGAINST YOU FOR THE RELIEF ASKED IN THIS COMPLAINT. Prepared by: Alexis Simmons, The Law Offices of Alexis M.K. Simmons, LLC, P.O. Box 301, Rockford, IL 61105, (815) 570-9662, alexis@ simmonslaw.org. 10735R TRRT 9/11 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct

and transact a Glass installation business in said County and State under the name of Miles Glass Company at the following post office addresses: 3405 16th St., Rockford, IL 61109; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Jesse Miles SIGNED: Jesse Miles 8/22/19 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 22nd day of August, A.D. 2019. Lori Gummow, COUNTY CLERK Kayla Hilliard, DEPUTY 10736R TRRT 9/11 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a to provide inspiration and motivation encompassing health, personal development and spiritual development to positively change lives business in said County and State under the name of Alicia Shares Her Keys at the following post office addresses: 1720 Remington Rd., #2, Rockford, IL 61108; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Alicia U. Stewart SIGNED: Alicia U. Stewart 8/16/19 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 16th day of August, A.D. 2019. Lori Gummow, COUNTY CLERK Thalia Gallardo, DEPUTY 10737R TRRT 9/11 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a videography and photography business in said County and State under the name of Eye2Eye Visionz at the following post office addresses: 2403 Quail Run, Rockford, IL 61103; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Markiez Lacy SIGNED: Markiez Lacy 8/23/19 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 23rd day of August, A.D. 2019. Lori Gummow, COUNTY CLERK Thalia Gallardo, DEPUTY 10738R TRRT 9/11 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a Chiropractic clinic business in said County and State under the name of Street Smartz Chiropractic at the following post office addresses: 818 Coolidge Place, Rockford, IL 61107; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Natalia Street; Susie Briggs SIGNED: Natalia Street 8/23/19 SIGNED: Susie Briggs 8/23/19 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 23rd day of August, A.D. 2019. Lori Gummow, COUNTY CLERK Maria Pinedo, DEPUTY 10739R TRRT 9/11

August 28, 2019 The Rock River Times. n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS PHH MORTGAGE CORPORATION Plaintiff, -v.JENNIFER HILL et al Defendant 2019-CH-0000005 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on June 6, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on September 17, 2019, at the NLT TITLE, LLC., 6885 Vistagreen Way, ROCKFORD, IL, 61101, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT 165 AS DESIGNATED UPON PLAT NO.9 OF WELLINGTON EAST, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE EAST HALF OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 27, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 2 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, THE PLAT OF WHICH SUBDIVISION IS RECORDED IN BOOK 40 OF PLATS ON PAGE 190B IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS. SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 949 WHITE CHAPEL LANE, ROCKFORD, IL 61108 Property Index No. 12-27276-016 The real estate is improved with a single family residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no

right of redemption. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL, 60527 (630) 794-9876 THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc. com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE IL, 60527 630-794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-18-13860 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2019-CH0000005 TJSC#: 39-5029 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I3129143 P10705R TRRT 9/4 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.STEPHANIE VARTABEDIAN et al Defendant 2019 -CH- 0000031 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on May 2, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on September 23, 2019, at the NLT TITLE, LLC., 6885 Vistagreen Way, ROCKFORD, IL, 61101, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT 15 IN BLOCK 7 AS DESIGNATED UPON THE PLAT OF MANUFACTURER’S ADDITION TO THE CITY OF ROCKFORD, THE PLAT OF WHICH SUB-

DIVISION IS RECORDED IN BOOK 5 OF PLATS ON PAGE 11 IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 1622 BROADWAY, ROCKFORD, IL 61104 Property Index No. 11-25382-016 The real estate is improved with a multi-family residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL, 60527 (630) 794-9876 THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial

Sales Corporation at www.tjsc. com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE IL, 60527 630-794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-18-13439 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2019 -CH0000031 TJSC#: 39-2861 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I3128985 P10706R TRRT 9/4 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS WINNEBAGO COUNTY CHANCERY DIVISION PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, vs. CYNTHIA SUTHERIN, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR RANDY GARETSON AKA RANDY E. GARETSON, CHRISTINA GARETSON, BRIAN GARETSON, SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, ILLINOIS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF RANDY GARETSON AKA RANDY E. GARETSON, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendant(s). 19 CH 0000232 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION Notice is given to you: UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF RANDY GARETSON AKA RANDY E. GARETSON and UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS that this case has been commenced in this Court, against you and other Defendants, praying for the foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying the premises described as follows, to wit: LOT FIVE (5) IN BLOCK SIX (6) AS DESIGNATED UPON THE PLAT OF HARLEM PARK SUBDIVISION OF A PART OF THE NORTH HALF (1/2) OF SECTION 13, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 1 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, THE PLAT OF WHICH SUBDIVISION IS RECORDED IN BOOK 4 OF PLATS ON PAGE 6 IN THE RECORDER`S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 2124 MELROSE ST, ROCKFORD, IL 61103 And which said Mortgage was made by: CHRISTINA GARETSON, RANDY GARETSON AKA RANDY E. GARETSON, the Mortgagor, to PNC MORTGAGE, A DIVISION OF PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Mortgagee, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Winnebago County, Illinois as Document No. 20111004087; and for other relief, that summons was duly issued out of said Court against you as provided by law and that the said suit is now pending. NOW, THEREFORE, UNLESS YOU file your answer or otherwise file your appearance in this case in the Office of the Clerk of this Court, Winnebago County Circuit Clerk 400 W. State Street Rockford, IL 61101 On or before September 23, 2019, A DEFAULT MAY BE EN-

TERED AGAINST YOU AT ANY TIME AFTER THAT DAY AND A JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRAYER OF SAID COMPLAINT. Marinosci Law Group, P.C. 134 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 1900 Chicago, IL 60602 Telephone: 312-940-8580 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act you are advised that this law firm is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I3129055 P10707R TRRT 9/4 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY IN RE THE ESTATE OF: PATRICIA J. KROMBACH, Deceased. Case No. 2019 P 355 CLAIM NOTICE NOTICE is given of the death of PATRICIA J. KROMBACH. Letters ofOfficewere issued on August 7, 2019 to CYNTHIA L. GEHANT, of 107 Doresella Street, Loves Park, IL 61111 and ANTHONY L. KROMBACH, of 465 Joren Trail, Antioch, IL 60002, who are the legal co-representatives of the estate. The attorney for the estate is Jeffrey E. Hardyman of HOWARD, HARDYMAN& DIVERDE, LLP, 124 N. Water Street, Suite 100, PO Box 1616, Rockford, Illinois 61110-0116. Any claims against the estate may be filed on or before February 21, 2020, that date being at least six (6) months from the date of first publication, or within three (3) months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to creditors, if mailing or delivery is required by Section 18-3 of the Illinois Probate Act, 1975 as amended, whichever date is later. Any claim not filed by the requisite date stated above shall be barred. Claims against the estate must be filed with the Office of the Winnebago County Circuit Clerk-Probate Division at the Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 W. State Street, Rockford, Illinois 61101 Copies of claims filed with the Circuit Clerk’s Office - Probate Division, must be mailed or delivered to the estate legal representatives and their attorney within ten (10) days after it has been filed. DATED: August 15, 2019 CYNTHIA L. GEHANT, Independent Co-Executor ANTHONY L. KROMBACH, Independent Co-Executor Jeffrey E. Hardyman (ARDC# 6201356) HOWARD, HARDYMAN & DIVERDE, LLP 124 N. Water Street, Suite 100 PO Box 1616 Rockford, Illinois 61110-0116 (815) 964-8888 jhardyman@howardhardyman. com Attorneys for the Estate of PATRICIA J. KROMBACH, Deceased 10713R TRRT 9/4 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: BERNITA L. BLOZIS, CASE NO: 2019 P 354 CLAIM NOTICE NOTICE is given of the death of BERNITA L. BLOZIS, Letters of Office were issued on August 7, 2019 to SHARON R. FIFFICK, 6507 Commonwealth Drive, Loves Park, IL 61111, who is the legal representative of the estate. The attorney for the estate is Jeffry A. Dahlberg, 5130 N. Second St., Loves Park, IL 61111. Claims against the estate may be filed on or before February 21,

2020, that date being at least six (6) months from the date of first publication, or within three (3) months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to creditors, if mailing or delivery is required by Section 18-3 of the Illinois Probate Act, 1975 as amended, whichever date is later. Any claim not filed by the requisite date stated above shall be barred. Claims against the estate may be filed in the office of the Winnebago County Circuit Clerk – Probate Division at the Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 West State Street, Rockford, Illinois, or with the estate legal representative, or both. Copies of claims filed with the Circuit Clerk’s Office–Probate Division, must be mailed or delivered to the estate legal representative and to his/her attorney within ten days after it has been filed. Dated August 14, 2019 SHARON R. FIFFICK, Executor Attorney for Estate: JEFFRY A. DAHLBERG #6206776 BALSLEY & DAHLBERG 5130 N. Second St. Loves Park, IL 61111 815-877-2593 10715R TRRT 9/4 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a online accessory business such as sunglasses, eye lashes, wigs business in said County and State under the name of Londynn’s Accessories at the following post office addresses: 2210 Custer Ave., Rockford, IL 61103; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Lakesha Thompson SIGNED: Lakesha Thompson 8/8/19 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 8th day of August, A.D. 2019. Lori Gummow, COUNTY CLERK Pamela Johnson, DEPUTY 10689R TRRT 8/28 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF: REBECCA JOHNSON, Petitioner, vs. AARON JOHNSON, Respondent. Case No. 2019-D-0000340 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to Respondent Aaron Johnson that Petitioner Rebecca Johnson has caused to be filed a PETITION FOR DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE and other relief in the above-captioned cause of action. You are further notified that if you fail to file an answer or otherwise appear on or before September 23, 2019, a judgment by default may be entered against you at any time thereafter for the relief requested in the petition. /s/ Rebecca Johnson, Petitioner The American Law Firm, P.C. R. Owen Ainsworth 475 Executive Parkway Rockford, IL 61107 Office: (815) 397-2600 Fax: (815) 394-1955 Attorney Identification # 6294644 Email: oainsworth@theamericanlawfirm.com 10711R TRRT 9/4 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO PROBATE DIVISION In the Matter of the Estate of: WILLIAM J. LISCHKA, Deceased. CASE NO. 2019-P-350

CLAIM NOTICE NOTICE is given of the death of WILLIAM J. LISCHKA. Letters of Office were issued on the 7th day of August, 2019, to TYLER LISCHKA, 6148 Elevator Road, Roscoe, Illinois 61073, who is the legal representative of the Estate. The attorney for the estate is GEORGE P. HAMPILOS, of Hampilos & Associates, Ltd., 308 West State Street, Suite 210, Rockford, Illinois 61101. Claims against the estate may be filed on or before February 21, 2020, that date being at least six (6) months from the date of first publication, or within three (3) months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to creditors, if mailing or delivery is required by Section 18-3 of the Illinois Probate Act, 1975 as amended, whichever date is later. Any claim not filed by the requisite date stated above shall be barred. Claims against the estate may be filed in the office of the Winnebago County Circuit Clerk--Probate Division, at the Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 West State Street, Rockford, Illinois, 61101, or with the estate legal representative, or both. Copies of claims filed with the Circuit Clerk’s Office--Probate Division, must be mailed or delivered to the estate legal representative and to their attorney within ten days after it has been filed. Dated: August 14, 2019 By: /s/George P. Hampilos, Esq. George P. Hampilos, Esq. George P. Hampilos — ARDC #6210622 HAMPILOS & ASSOCIATES, LTD. 308 West State Street, Suite 210 Rockford, Illinois 61101 Telephone: 815-962-0044 Fax: 815-962-6250 georgehamp@aol.com 10712R TRRT 9/4 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF: LAURA NATION, Petitioner, v. MACK NATION, Respondent. Case No.: 2019 D 450 NOTICE The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN YOU, MACK NATION, Respondent in the above-entitled action, that Petitioner, LAURA NATION, has commenced a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage in the Circuit Court of Winnebago County against you, praying for a Judgment of Dissolution of Marriage and other relief. Proper procedures according to law have been taken and said suit is still pending. NOW THEREFORE, unless you, MACK NATION, file your Response to the Petition for Dissolution of Marriage in said suit or otherwise make your appearance therein in the said Court of the 17th Judicial Circuit, Winnebago County, Illinois held in the courthouse in the City of Rockford, County of Winnebago, State of Illinois, on or before September 25, 2019, default may be entered against you after that date and a decree entered in accordance with the prayer of said Petition for Dissolution of Marriage. Prepared by: Kira Devin, 6310820 PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES, INC. 303 North Main Street, Ste. 600 Rockford, IL 61101 (815) 965-2902 / kdevin@pslegal.org 10714R TRRT 9/4 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the un-

dersigned intend to conduct and transact a retail, clothing, creating custom made T-shirts, hats, socks, etc. business in said County and State under the name of Endigensus Enke at the following post office addresses: 138 Flintridge Dr., Apt. 6, Rockford, IL 61107; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Cory Barfield SIGNED: Cory Barfield 8/16/19 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 16th day of August, A.D. 2019. Lori Gummow, COUNTY CLERK Kayla Hilliard, DEPUTY 10716R TRRT 9/4 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a lawncare service business in said County and State under the name of Big C’s Lawncare & Landscaping at the following post office addresses: 514 Royal Ave., Rockford, IL 61101; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: George Allan Roach SIGNED: George Allan Roach 8/13/19 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 13th day of August, A.D. 2019. Lori Gummow, COUNTY CLERK Thalia Gallardo, DEPUTY 10700R TRRT 8/28 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a Entertainment and DJ service business in said County and State under the name of Big C’s Entertainment & DJ Service at the following post office addresses: 514 Royal Ave., Rockford, IL 61101; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: George Allan Roach SIGNED: George Allan Roach 8/13/19 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 13th day of August, A.D. 2019. Lori Gummow, COUNTY CLERK Thalia Gallardo, DEPUTY 10701R TRRT 8/28 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a Handyman / remodeling / home maintenance business in said County and State under the name of Custom Upgrade at the following post office addresses: 11211 Jasmine Dr., Roscoe, IL 61073; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Leonard Narcaroti SIGNED: Leonard Narcaroti 8/9/19 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 9th day of August, A.D. 2019. Lori Gummow, COUNTY CLERK Thalia Gallardo, DEPUTY 10695R TRRT 8/28

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n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS, CIRCUIT COURT WINNEBAGO COUNTY PUBLICATION NOTICE OF COURT DATE FOR REQUEST FOR NAME CHANGE (ADULT) Request of: TIFFANY ANN HALE Current Name Case Number 19 MR 673 There will be a court date on my Request to change my name from: Tiffany Ann Hale to the new name of: Haiden Andrew Winkelman. The court date will be held: on September 18, 2019 at 10:00 a.m., at 400 W. State St., Rockford, IL, Winnebago County, in Courtroom #426. /s/ Tiffany Ann Hale Tiffany Ann Hale Current Name 10703R TRRT 8/28 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a general contracting/remodeling business in said County and State under the name of G & S Renovations at the following post office addresses: 5414 Edith Ln., Roscoe, IL 61073; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Donald E. Ganrude SIGNED: Donald E. Ganrude 8/13/19 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 13th day of August, A.D. 2019. Lori Gummow, COUNTY CLERK Thalia Gallardo, DEPUTY 10704R TRRT 8/28

n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS CIRCUIT COURT 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Paul F. Johnson, DECEASED CASE NO. 2019 P 308 CLAIM NOTICE NOTICE is hereby given of the death of Paul F. Johnson. Lorraine A. Johnson was appointed as representative of the estate herein on August 6, 2019. The Representative resides at 5934 Palisades Parkway, Rockford, Illinois 61109. The attorney for the representative and estate is Scott M. Boyd whose address is One Court Place, Suite 302, Rockford, Illinois 61101. Claims against the estate may be filed on or before February 20, 2020, that date being at least six (6) months from the date of first publication of this notice, or within three (3) months from the date of mailing or delivery of notice to creditors, if mailing or delivery is required by Section 18-3 of the Illinois Probate Act of 1975, whichever date is later. Any claim not filed on or before the required date stated above is barred. Claims against the estate may be filed in the office of the Clerk of Circuit Court-Probate Division, at the Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 W. State St., Rockford, Illinois, 61101, or with the represenative of the estate, or both. A copy of a claim filed with the Clerk of Circuit Court must be mailed or delivered to the representative of the estate and to the representative’s attorney of record within ten (10) days after a claim has been so filed, and

n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.- STEPHANIE VARTABEDIAN et al Defendant 2019 -CH- 0000031 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on May 2, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on September 23, 2019, at the NLT TITLE, LLC., 6885 Vistagreen Way, ROCKFORD, IL, 61101, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1622 BROADWAY, ROCKFORD, IL 61104 Property Index No. 11-25-382-016 The real estate is improved with a multi-family residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION

proof of such required mailing or delivery must be filed with the Clerk of Circuit Court. Dated August 8, 2019 /s/ Scott M. Boyd Scott M. Boyd, Attorney for representative Scott M. Boyd #74 Attorney for representative and estate One Court Place #302 Rockford, IL 61101 smacboyd@earthlink.net 10702R TRRT 8/28 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a used vehicle business in said County and State under the name of Park Motors at the following post office addresses: 9728 N. 2nd St., Machesney Park, IL 61115; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Thurston S. Hanson SIGNED: Thurston S. Hanson 8/9/19 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 9th day of August, A.D. 2019. Lori Gummow, COUNTY CLERK Kayla Hilliard, DEPUTY 10694R TRRT 8/28 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a E-Commerce business in said County and State under the name of Da Liquidation Guys at the following post office addresses:

383 Gramercy Dr., Rockford, IL 61107; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: David L. Korte SIGNED: David L. Korte 8/12/19 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 12th day of August, A.D. 2019. Lori Gummow, COUNTY CLERK Pamela Johnson, DEPUTY 10696R TRRT 8/28 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a Media, etc. business in said County and State under the name of Prunty Productions at the following post office addresses: 615 Brooke Rd., Rockford, IL 61109; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Aprel Prunty SIGNED: Aprel Prunty 8/20/19 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 20th day of August, A.D. 2019. Lori Gummow, COUNTY CLERK Thalia Gallardo, DEPUTY 10740R TRRT 9/11 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a Apparel, tote bags, pens, mugs, tumbler mugs, etc. business in said County and State under the name of Unity Power Respect Women Empowerment at the following post office address-

15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL, 60527 (630) 794-9876 THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE IL, 60527 630-794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-18-13439 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2019 -CH- 0000031 TJSC#: 39-2861 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I3128985 P10706R TRRT 9/4 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered by the Court in Winnebago County Case No. 2018-CH-751, the property hereinafter described or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said Judgment, will be sold to the highest bidder. 1. The common address and other common description, if any, of the real estate is: 5451 Charles Street, Rockford, Illinois 61108. 2. The time and place of sale will be September 19, 2019 at 11:00 A.M., Winnebago County Justice Center, Lobby, 650 West State Street, Rockford, County of Winnebago, Illinois, conducted by the Winnebago County Sheriff. 3. A description of the improvements on the real estate is: A single-family home with 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, containing approximately 1,296 square feet.

es: 7144 Sue Lane, Loves Park, IL 61111; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Timmera Moore SIGNED: Timmera Moore 8/23/19 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 23rd day of August, A.D. 2019. Lori Gummow, COUNTY CLERK Kayla Hilliard, DEPUTY 10741R TRRT 9/11 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a Barbershop/Salon (Haircuts for Men, Women, and Kids) business in said County and State under the name of Kingdom Cutz and Styling at the following post office addresses: 1814 S. Alpine Rd., Rockford, IL 61108; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Kevin L. Marks SIGNED: Kevin L. Marks 8/26/19 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 26th day of August, A.D. 2019. Lori Gummow, COUNTY CLERK Kayla Hilliard, DEPUTY 10742R TRRT 9/11 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a construction business in said County and State under the name of D.J. Construction at the following post office addresses: 1510 Oakdale St., Rockford, IL 61108;

that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Domingo Juarez SIGNED: Domingo Juarez 8/26/19 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 26th day of August, A.D. 2019. Lori Gummow, COUNTY CLERK Maria Pinedo, DEPUTY 10743R TRRT 9/11 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a Handmade crystal jewelry and art business in said County and State under the name of Janae Creations at the following post office addresses: 3605 Modesto Drive, Rockford, IL 61114; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Kayla Moore SIGNED: Kayla Moore 8/27/19 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 27th day of August, A.D. 2019. Lori Gummow, COUNTY CLERK Ashley Try, DEPUTY 10744R TRRT 9/11 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a Construction business in said County and State under the name of Alvarez-P Construction at the following post office addresses: 345 S. Memorial Ave., Rockford, IL 61102; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting

4. The terms of the sale are: Ten Percent (10%) due by cash or certified funds at the time of the sale and the balance is due within 24 hours of sale. The property offered for sale is subject to all real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality of the title and without recourse to the Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office and in “As Is” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. 5. Title will be conveyed subject to the following liens and interests: all general real estate taxes, special assessments, if any, easements and restrictions of record, and the interests, if any, of any tenant in possession. 6. The property will not be available for inspection. 7. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises. 8. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). 9. The name, address and telephone number of the person to contact for information regarding the real estate is: Staci M. Holthus, HINSHAW & CULBERTSON LLP, 100 Park Avenue, Rockford, Illinois 61101, Tel. (815) 490-4915. NOTE: PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT, YOU ARE ADVISED THAT THE LAW FIRM OF HINSHAW & CULBERTSON LLP IS DEEMED TO BE A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. 10727R TRRT 9/11 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY IN CHANCERY STILLMAN BANCCORP, N.A., Plaintiff, vs. JESSE BUTLER, RACHAEL BUTLER, STATE OF ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, UNKNOWN OWNERS and NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants. CASE NO 2018 CH 712 PUBLIC NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Public Notice is hereby given that in pursuance of a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in said Court in the above-entitled cause on the 25th day of April, 2019, I, Gary Caruana, Sheriff of Winnebago County, or such other Deputy as may be sitting in my stead, will sell at public venue to the highest and best bidder, the following described lands and premises in said Judgment mentioned or so much thereof as may be necessary to realize the amount due to satisfy said Judgment with the terms and conditions set forth herein: A. The name, address and telephone number of the person to

such business are as follows: Horacio Alvarez-Perez SIGNED: Horacio Alvarez-Perez 8/13/19 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 13th day of August, A.D. 2019. Jaime Salazar, Notary Public My Commission Expires Feb. 25, 2020 10745R TRRT 9/11 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO PROBATE DIVISION IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: SUSAN L. SCHINDLER, Deceased. Case No. 2019 P 299 CLAIM NOTICE NOTICE is given of the death of Susan L. Schindler. Letters of Office were issued on July 17, 2019 to Michelle Turnure, 1521 Ravine Street, Janesville, Wisconsin 53548, who is the legal executor of the estate. The attorney for the estate is Nancy Grimme Schilling, Schilling Law, LLC, 973 Featherstone Road, Suite 350, Rockford, Illinois 61107. Claims against the estate may be filed on or before February 20, 2020, that date being at least six (6) months from the date of first publication, or within three (3) months from the date of mailing or delivery of notice to creditors, if mailing or delivery is required by Section 18-3 of the Illinois Probate Act, 1975 as amended, whichever date is later. Any claim not filed by the requisite date stated above shall be barred. Claims against the estate may be filed in the office of the Winnebago County Circuit Clerk-Probate

Division at the Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 West State Street, Rockford, Illinois, 61101, or with the estate legal representative, or both. Copies of claims filed with the Circuit Clerk’s Office – Probate Division, must be mailed or delivered to the estate legal representative and to his/her attorney within ten (10) days after it has been filed. Dated: August 12, 2019. Michelle Turnure, Executor, By: Schilling Law, LLC By: Nancy Grimme Schilling Schilling Law, LLC By: Nancy Grimme Schilling 973 Featherstone Road, Suite 350 Rockford, IL 61107 (815) 977-5000 (telephone) 10685R TRRT 8/28 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a Sporting Goods/ Firearms business in said County and State under the name of Madison Guns at the following post office addresses: 2100 Harlem Rd., Loves Park, IL 61111; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Thomas Christopher Madison SIGNED: Thomas Christopher Madison 8/8/19 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 8th day of August, A.D. 2019. Stephen Thomas, Notary Public Randolph County, North Carolina My Commission Expires October 15, 2019 10693R TRRT 8/28

contact for information regarding the real estate is: Jody L. Booher BARRICK, SWITZER, LONG, BALSLEY & VAN EVERA, LLP 6833 Stalter Drive Rockford, Illinois 61108 (815) 962-6611 B. The common address of said property is: 2611 Karen Drive, Rockford, Illinois 61101. D. A description of the improvements on the real estate is: Residential Property / Single Family Home E. The time and place of the sale are: September 19, 2019 at 11 :00 a.m. at Winnebago County Justice Center, 650 West State Street, Rockford, Illinois. F. The terms of the sale are: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; the balance, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If the property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER}, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C} OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW, UNLESS THE PROPERTY HAS BEEN JUDICIALLY FOUND TO BE ABANDONED. Dated at Rockford, Illinois, this 22nd day of August. 2019. GARY CARUANA SHERIFF OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY PREPARED BY: Jody L. Booher BARRICK, SWITZER, LONG, BALSLEY & VAN EVERA, LLP 6833 Stalter Drive Rockford, Illinois 61108 (815) 962-6611 jbooher@bslbv.com 10726R TRRT 9/11

August 28, 2019 The Rock River Times.    REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS PHH MORTGAGE CORPORATION Plaintiff, -v.- JENNIFER HILL et al Defendant 2019-CH-0000005 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on June 6, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on September 17, 2019, at the NLT TITLE, LLC., 6885 Vistagreen Way, ROCKFORD, IL, 61101, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 949 WHITE CHAPEL LANE, ROCKFORD, IL 61108 Property Index No. 12-27-276-016 The real estate is improved with a single family residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS

IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The

Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL, 60527 (630) 794-9876 THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE IL, 60527 630-794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-18-13860 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 2019-CH-0000005 TJSC#: 39-5029 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. I3129143 P10705R TRRT 9/4    REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY - ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC D/B/A MR. COOPER Plaintiff, vs. JAMIE S. SCHIRRA,

BRYCE W. WILLIAMS, ROCK RIVER WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT Defendants, 18 ch 620 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, September 19, 2019 at the hour of 1:00 p.m. Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 08-19-480-004. Commonly known as 830 NEEDLE POINT DR., MACHESNEY PARK, IL 61115. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. For information call Mr. Ira T. Nevel at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Law Offices of Ira T. Nevel, 175 North Franklin Street, Chicago, Illinois 60606. (312) 357-1125. 18-03601 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3128404 P10677R TRRT 8/28

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‘Like morons’: Fashion reviews dim for MLB weekend uniforms By The Associated Press

Across 1. Say without thinking 6. Abscess contents 9. Fictional Griffin and actual Ryan 13. Witty one-____ 14. ____ Khan 15. Swan of the “Twilight” series 16. Carl Jung’s inner self 17. What is the reason? 18. Painter’s support 19. *Six-sided polygon 21. *Type of triangle 2 3. Appet izer in a blanket 24. Brooding 25. *___pendicular lines 28. Ghana monetary unit 30. Star of Raffi’s song 35. Instead of written 37. “Formerly,” formerly 39. Archeologist’s find 40. Cusco valley dweller, once 41. *Plane to 2D is like ____ to 3D 43. Shade of beige 44. Daughter of a sibling 46. ____ dream

47. Same as Celt 48. Mother of Calcutta 50. Capital of Ukraine 5 2 . R o b e r t B ur n s ’ “Comin’ Thro’ the ____” 53. Classic board game 55. Unruly bunch 57. *Pythagoras’ ____ 61. Archipelago constituents 65. Donkey in Mexico 66. Auction proposal 68. Seize a throne 69. Scatter 70. The day before 71. “Prepare to meet your ____!” 72. Boot-wearing feline 73. Swedish shag rug 74. Lament for the dead Down 1. Ho-hum 2. *Straight and infinitely extended 3. Type of operating system 4. Remake a map 5. Opposite of comic 6. Weakest in chess 7. “Gross!”

8. One’s assertion 9. Square one? 10. Additional 11. Campbell of “Rhinestone Cowboy” fame 12. White one at Macy’s 15. Bringer of news, e.g. 20. S-shaped moldings 22. Mowgli to Raksha in “The Jungle Book” 24. Feeling of aversion 25. *It has no dimensions, only position 26. “Sesame Street” regular 27. Mario Andretti or Niki Lauda 29. Between stop and roll 31. Potato’s soup mate 32. H. pylori consequence 33. Like a stereotypical girl 34. *Not right or obtuse 36. Spike punch, e.g. 38. Cone-shaped

quarters 42. Regards 45. Real estate sale agreement 49. Type of brew 51. *Length x width x height 54. Earthy color 56. Primary 57. Cookbook amt. 58. Rwanda’s majority 59. Does something wrong 60. Loads from lodes 61. Brainchild 62. Heat in a microwave 6 3. For tune-telling coffee stuff 64. Light on one’s feet 67. Like Brown league

Terry Francona took one look at Cleveland’s all-black uniforms and turned into a fashionista. His review? Not good. “What’s the slogan, ‘Let the kids play’?” the Indians manager said. “Let the grownups look like morons.” That was a common view across the majors and social media on Players’ Weekend, when big leaguers wore uniforms designed to be fresh and fun, complete with nicknames on the back. But rather than a hit, the monochromatic schemes were mostly rated a big swing and miss. “It’s not our proudest moment rockin’ these all-white milkmen jerseys,” Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Saturday. Asked if he could compare them to anything he’s worn before, Roberts said: “It was probably an ugly sweater over the holidays.” New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone initially liked the concept. Then reality hit. “When I put the uniform on I felt a little silly,” he said. “I’m sure I would have felt that way if I had the white one on, too.” The Dodgers and Yankees traditionally wear two of the most classic uniforms in the majors. The Dodgers, in fact, asked Major League Baseball for permission to sport their regular uniforms for one game in this highly anticipated series at Dodger Stadium. Request denied. “The one thing I would say — you know, Dodgers-Yankees, I feel like it would be cool that . this isn’t necessarily the best weekend for us,” Boone said Friday. “I think having this matchup and to have them in their uniform and us in ours.” The Chicago Cubs went rogue on Friday to begin their series against Washington at Wrigley Field. This is the third season of Players’ Weekend and, according to an arrangement worked out this year between MLB and the players’ union, the home team could pick whether to wear all black or all white. There was one caveat — pitchers in white had to wear a black hat, to help hitters see the ball better.

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Dressed in white, the Cubs decided on their own to go with blue hats, being a dark color to match starter Jon Lester’s black cap. “They got together and figured (for) uniformity we’d all wear the same hat. A solidarity kind of a move,” manager Joe Maddon said. Later, the Cubs were told by MLB to stick to the plan. “Listen, I get in so many tough spots when I demonstrate my feelings on certain things,” Maddon said. “I just don’t know. I’d just like to know who said this was a good idea. That’s the best way I can describe that. Just really awkward, very awkward. They’re getting enough heat. I don’t need to pile on.” Maddon offered his own suggestion. “My take on it is they should every team design their own Players’ Weekend uniform. That would be cool,” he said. “You style the Cubs uniforms, then it truly is Players’ Weekend,” he said. “I think you’d get a lot more interesting and better ... if you went that route.” NL batting leader Jeff McNeil of the New York Mets returned from the injured list Saturday and saw his jersey — with “Flying Squirrel” on the back — hanging in his locker at Citi Field. “It’s really white!” he said. “It’s fun, so I like it.” To others, those uniforms made players look like the Good Humor Man, or something from “Field of Dreams.” Chimed in Kristin Smoak, wife of Toronto first baseman Justin Smoak: “These uni’s are kind of the worst look I’ve ever seen,” she posted on Twitter. Arizona manager Torey Lovullo said he enjoyed this opportunity each year where “the players get to show a little bit of flair and their personality,” adding, “I’m all for it.” But it also made things a bit more difficult with his Diamondbacks wearing black to play the Milwaukee Brewers at Miller Park. “It was hard for me to look across the diamond and tell who is who. You can’t see the numbers or the names,” Lovullo said. “Maybe I’d ask for just a little bit more contrast for the names and numbers on the white uniforms.”

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FOOTBALL

Once upon a time ... in Chicago BY ROBERT ZEGLINSKI CONTRIBUTOR

No one should be surprised at outward arrogance shown by the NFL. Since the Bears and Packers began as meat and cheese packing outlets in the early 20th century, the league has rarely taken a misstep in business ventures. That type of success tends to breed self-esteem past a healthy point of believing in one’s self, all the way to thinking everything you touch turns into gold by association. The NFL’s growth has proliferated into a beast of an American institution holding more influence over the population than most would care to admit. Over the course of the last decade, the No. 1 cultural monolith on this side of the Atlantic has raked in profits in the billions only matched by your favorite trust fund managers. The salary cap has increased by a lucrative $10 million every year since 2013. On paper and on its face, professional football is more popular than ever. It’s literally printing money it can comfortably back at the presses. It’s writing the checks and cashing them in its own bank, in its own gold reserves. The 100th NFL season being on the horizon made the charter franchise Bears the ideal host to celebrate the league’s evolution into the most elaborate supplier of breads and circuses ever. Juvenal would have been proud of their e�orts. It also places the Bears on a pedestal for the 2019 season where they’ll receive attention on a national level even their Super Bowl shu�ing predecessors didn’t enjoy. The storylines for the first Bears team to be relevant when social media is an extra appendage for many people are boundless. From championship droughts and quarterback leaps, to vengeance for kicking woes’ past, the 2019 Bears have the burden of expectations and the weight of a city’s hopes resting on their shoulders.

Getting the monkey off Halas Hall’s back

It would take a tremendous amount of collective ineptitude for the Bears to broach upon the Cubs’ formerly traumatic 108-year championship drought. It would also mean the NFL would have to exist by the time humanity has colonized Mars, everyone’s ﬁnally using ﬂying cars, and the absurdly wealthy have achieved immortality; the latter three of which all being far more realistic prospects by 2100. Even so, the Bears’ ongoing 33-year Super Bowl winless drought is something to behold for a franchise that used to stack NFL titles in sets of triplets once upon a time. Every other legacy professional football team (the Giants, Packers, and Steelers) has had the pleasure of hoisting a Lombardi trophy this century. The only NFL teams with longer championship droughts than the Bears are modern expansion teams who have

never been the last team standing like the Carolina Panthers, Houston Texans, and the Jacksonville Jaguars, and long-existing hapless organizations such as the Lions. Every year the Bears’ failure to instill a sense of pride back in the city where professional football was ﬁrst organized continues, is another year of angst cresting past the boiling point. The water’s already broken and clogged the stove. The water’s evaporated entirely. It’s about minimizing the damage to the rest of the oven now. If Matt Nagy’s Bears headlined by transcendent talents like Khalil Mack, Akiem Hicks, and Eddie Jackson can’t win a championship in the next two years, that drought will likely extend well past four decades. Then the real frustration begins.

Trubisky, the Favorite Son

Playing quarterback in Chicago has been compared to playing shortstop for the New York Yankees, playing center for the Los Angeles Lakers. Playing these speciﬁc positions in these cities carries more inherent localized pressure than any other sporting destination in the Western hemisphere. However, a crucial distinction has to be made: the Yankees and Lakers have a history of consistent success at shortstop and center. No one alive with their memory and motor functions intact remembers the last time the Bears had an All-Pro face-of-the-league quarterback. (Sid Luckman is more bar trivia question than someone to rest your laurels on.) Unlike the Lakers and Yankees, who have a set standard of great play at center and shortstop, the Bears, historically, don’t know what a great quarterback looks like unless he’s playing for a division rival three hours up north. The only reason Mitchell Trubisky receives as much attention as he does – to the positive and negative extremes – is because he’s a No. 2 overall pick featuring for the Bears. And because he represents the Bears’ good faith attempt at ﬁnding a legitimate franchise quarterback since the last time their foil in the Packers didn’t have their own answer under center. Trubisky represents Chicago’s best bid to shed itself of a thorough defensive identity marked by bruised broad shoulders in decades. If he can’t ascend to legitimate franchise quarterback play this season, let alone a special generational passer to be marketed league-wide, it boggles the mind as to when the Bears will have such a quarterback. Hope erodes faster than goodwill lasts. The Bears aneed Trubisky to take a marked step in improvement if they’re going to be playing in Miami in the early winter. The NFL’s No. 1 reigning defense aside, a cornucopia of o�ensive talent needs Trubisky to take on more of the o�ensive burden if the Bears are to make any noise past the month of December. His reputation

can’t continue to subsist purely on the idea of being a top pick at the most important football position alongside the Bears’ actual game-changers on defense. If Nagy’s bunch is to build on a 12-win division championship season, Trubisky has to be one of those ﬁeld-tilters. It’s doubtful a city that doesn’t know what a good quarterback looks like accepts anything less.

Nagy’s kicking demons

By now, the Bears’ coach’s contentious war with Kicker A, Kicker B, and himself has been well-documented. He’s treated rookies and amateurs like world-class golfers at Augusta. He’s replayed the most painful play of the most painful playo� loss the Bears have su�ered in their six postseason appearances since the early 1990s over and over. Through a nonsensical forthright honesty, he’s openly and publicly admitted that he still thinks about Moby Parkey’s ill-fated 43-yard attempt from last January any time one of his active kickers lines up from a similar distance. The last time a reigning Coach of the Year, someone as initially successful in their profession as Nagy, was this consumed by their ostensible demons, they screamed in terror to tear up the ﬂoorboards because the sound of a beating heart drove them mad. They dove in after a malevolent

mind-controlling ring into the ﬁres of Mount Doom. They then led an extensive naval expedition after a leviathan who ate their leg. Nagy’s still quite evidently chasing Moby Parkey. He’ll be damned if his thirst for vengeance isn’t quenched by the end of this calendar year. A harmful obsession with one unpredictable position aside, it’d be better for the Bears if Nagy learned to keep his fears and insecurities over Chicago’s instability at kicker to himself. The Bears have too many other potential issues, pitfalls, and pending battles with other NFC heavyweights to be concerned with how their coach demands retribution from his kicker. The psyche of a conﬁdent team ready to break through is already fragile enough. Nagy is too smart, too patient of a progressive-thinking coach to weigh himself and his players down from his other managing responsibilities by overthinking a position that either strikes the right chord or doesn’t. There will come a time when the Bears need house favorite leg Eddy Pineiro to keep their season alive in the coming months. The only time anyone on the Bears – Nagy included – should think about the stratospheric stress of that moment, is when it arrives. Robert is a writer, editor, and producer. You can follow him on Twitter @RobertZeglinski.

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