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DeKalb County mails out tax bills What does my bill look like?
By STEPHANIE HICKMAN shickman@shawmedia.com DeKalb County residents should have received their property tax bills this week. The DeKalb County Treasurer’s office mailed real estate tax bills to 42,780 county residents May 3 so officials could collect $202,911,050.54. DeKalb County Treasurer Christine Johnson said all residents should have received their bills at this point. Here’s some of the things you need to know:
The bill is in a letter-size envelope with “This is Your Tax Bill” printed in a purple box on the front. Although there are two stubs for taxpayers to pay both installments, Johnson said residents will only receive one bill, so it is important not to throw it away after the first installment is paid. Even if a resident’s bill will be paid by a mortgage company, Johnson said it is still important for them to keep their copy of the bill, as they will need it when they file their income taxes.
gets paid,” she said.
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“It’s your home; you’ll want to see that bill,” she said. “It’s an important document to have.” She also recommended residents check with the mortgage company to make sure the company will actually pay the bill. “Ultimately, it’s the taxpayers responsibility that their bill
When is my bill due? Because bills are not due on the same date each year, Johnson said residents need to be aware of the dates for this year. The first installment is due June 3, with the second due Sept. 3. Johnson recommends paying the bill a few days in advance to make sure it gets to the office in time.
How do I pay? There are many payment options available to taxpayers.
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Residents can pay their bill in person at most DeKalb County banks during normal business hours. They can mail a check to DeKalb County Collector,110 E. Sycamore St., Sycamore, IL 60178, with their parcel number on the check. They should include the appropriate payment stub. Residents also can pay their bills by credit card both online or in person at the Treasurer’s Office, 110 E. Sycamore St., Sycamore. Visa, MasterCard, Discover
Christine Johnson DeKalb County Treasurer
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‘AT ANY PRICE’ OPENS IN DeKALB
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By MEGHAN BARR and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER The Associated Press
Photos by Monica Maschak – mmaschak@shawmedia.com
Matthew Petersen (center), 15, of DeKalb watches movie previews with his friends Jesse Heinsohn (left), 16, and Ali Morreale, 15, on Friday before the showing of “At Any Price” in DeKalb at the Carmike Market Square 10. In the movie, Petersen played the part of Brett Johnson, who is the brother of Zac Efron’s character’s rival.
Area residents used as extras in flick attend screening By FELIX SARVER
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fsarver@shawmedia.com DeKalb – When several local extras who appeared in “At Any Price” went to go see the movie for the first time, they had the hardest time focusing on the story itself. Linda and Kevin Herrmann, who were extras along with their children, saw the movie Friday at the Carmike Market Square 10 on 2160 Sycamore Road; the local screenings will continue this week. After watching the movie, Kevin Herrmann said he was more focused on noticing all the familiar DeKalb County locations in the background. “It’s kind of hard to watch it as a normal movie,” Kevin said. Karyn Petersen, whose son Matthew has a speaking role in the movie, had the same problem. She said she’ll be watching the movie multiple times later to catch all the local restaurants and shops in
To view video from the screening of “At Any Price” at the Carmike Market Square 10 in DeKalb, visit Daily-Chronicle.com.
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CLEVELAND – The mannequin was life-sized, with a moplike wig and creepy, slanted eyes. Ariel Castro kept it propped against a wall of his house and liked to use it to scare people. Sometimes he drove around town with it in the back seat of his car. “He threatened me lots of times with it,” said Castro’s nephew, 26-year-old Angel Caraballo, who was terrified of his uncle as a little boy and unnerved by him as an adult. “He would say: ‘Act up again, you’ll be in that back room with the mannequin.’ ” Castro installed padlocks on every door leading into his dilapidated home on Seymour Avenue. He kept the basement bolted shut, too. When relatives showed up at his front door, he made them wait for half an hour before emerging, and nobody was ever allowed past the living room. “He had told me to stay in the kitchen,” said Elida Marie Caraballo, Castro’s niece, who was at his house about seven years ago with Castro’s daughter Rosie. “I didn’t know why.” In the days since Castro’s arrest on charges of keeping three women imprisoned in his home for a decade, relatives and acquaintances have sketched a portrait of him as a man with a twisted sense of humor, a compulsion for secrecy and a towering, terrifying rage that led him to savagely beat, torment and control his common-law wife, Grimilda Figueroa.
Ariel Castro was held on $8 million bail Thursday in Cleveland. Castro, a former school bus driver, is accused of imprisoning three young women and beating them repeatedly over a decade in his Cleveland home.
See SUSPECT, page A8 Showtimes for “At Any Price” at Carmike Market Square 10 in DeKalb for the coming week: Linda and Kevin Herrmann discuss details of the movie “At Any Price” with their children Keith, 11, Emily, 16, and Brittany, 19, after seeing an afternoon showing Friday at the Carmike Market Square 10. The movie set included the Herrmann family’s house, farm and land. They were also extras. the background. “To see your community immortalized on film is incredibly special, and not something people can claim everyday,” said Debbie Armstrong, executive director of the DeKalb County Convention and Visitors Bureau. “At Any Price,” was filmed
in 2011 in DeKalb County, and features locations from the area including the First Lutheran Church, Sycamore Speedway and the Junction Eating Place. Linda Herrmann said the filmmakers also had used her family’s
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Elida Caraballo (right), with her husband Frank, talks Thursday at their home in Cleveland about the abuse her late sister, Grimilda Figueroa, suffered at the hands of her common law husband, Ariel Castro.
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