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Early results are in for DeKalb City Council to hear how new housing, towing ordinances are working out By DAVID THOMAS dthomas@shawmedia.com

DeKALB – After getting their car impounded via the city’s administrative towing powers, there are some people who will not want to return to DeKalb. Good riddance, said Police Chief Gene Lowery. “Many of the people who have come in to pay a fee to un-impound their car have said they would not want to return to DeKalb,” Lowery

said. “And based on the conduct they were involved in, I think that’s a great message to hear.” City officials will update DeKalb aldermen at today’s meeting on what kind of effect some new ordinances have had on the police department and its ability to enforce the law. In 2012, the City Council created a new bureau to oversee DeKalb’s rental properties, enabled the police department to tow vehicles that might be connected to illegal activity, and started a resident officer program in

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day, Lowery said. The majority of the cars are towed in relation to DUIs, but many have occurred because of n What: DeKalb City Council meeting felony arrests. n When: Committee of the Whole starts at Lowery said the resident officer 6 p.m. today; regular meeting at 7 p.m. program is going well, but the experin Where: DeKalb Municipal Building, 200 ence of municipalities with similar S. Fourth St. programs is that a real effect isn’t seen on the neighborhood’s juveniles until three to five years later. one of the neighborhoods. Meanwhile, the housing bureau is More than 40 days into the new still getting on its feet. In February, towing program, Lowery said the po- the city hired former DeKalb police lice tow an average of two vehicles a officer Carl Leoni as the bureau co-

ordinator. A full-time clerk is in the process of being added to the office, and three part-time inspectors will be hired later in the year. DeKalb Police Commander Jason Leverton spoke for Leoni at a Thursday news conference with city officials. Leverton said landlords are starting to register their properties with the city; they have until April 30 to do so. He said positive relationships are being built between Leoni

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Silly bills distract some Ill. lawmakers By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com

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Matt Rowan (left) and Brianne Mays (center) assemble small pieces with other workers Thursday in the Opportunity House’s workshop in Sycamore.

Opportunity House celebrates 50 years Organization integrates people with developmental disabilities into community On the Web

By STEPHANIE HICKMAN shickman@shawmedia.com SYCAMORE – Spring Bellows cherishes her free time drawing and expressing herself. Bellows often visits with friends while drawing at the Opportunity House’s Developmental Training Center in Sycamore. Bellows enjoys bonding with other clients of the Opportunity House, who she said are all her friends. “I like them all the same,” she said. “I don’t believe in favorites.” Opportunity House, which helps people with developmental disabilities learn the skills they need to live and work in the community, offers programs for Bellows and many others. The organization is celebrating its 50th year. Last year, it served 283 clients with disabilities through its sheltered workshops, recreational programs, group housing, employment assistance and developmental training programs. Executive Director Bob Shipman said Opportunity House works to meet the needs of every client, no matter the disability. “You run the gamut from the very seriously impaired to the peo-

Learn more about the Opportunity House, its services and how you can help at www.ohinc.org.

Spring Bellows works on coloring Dr. Seuss characters Thursday during an individual work time in one of Opportunity House’s classrooms in Sycamore. ple who need just a little bit of help,” he said. Founded in 1963, the organization was formed mostly by parents of children with disabilities who didn’t want to put them in institutions. They decided a better idea was to transition them into community life, Shipman said. “With a little bit of help, people with impairments or developmental disabilities can live and work in the community just like anyone else,” he said.

Opportunity House held its first workshop in the old South School building in Sycamore, and in 1967, it opened its first group home. Today, the organization provides housing for four to eight clients in each of its seven houses throughout the DeKalb and Sycamore areas. It recently purchased an eighth house in Sycamore and hopes to have it fully operational in June.

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Tuesday to Thursday each week as one of six staff members caring for the residents of Maplewood, one of the organization’s 24-hour assistedliving group homes. She helps them with their laundry, cooking, cleaning and meal planning. She also goes to movies, plays bingo, does arts and crafts and bowls on the Nintendo Wii with residents. “We do a lot of activities to encourage group participation and make them feel like they’re in a home,” she said. The staff strives to ensure residents feel like they are part of a family. The eight female residents of this handicap-accessible house have a private room. Ken Safford, director of the house, said they are encouraged to personalize and make it their own.

Our state lawmakers can’t come up with pension reform, but they can find the time to make it a crime to buy or sell lion meat. They have no concrete plan to pay down a $10 billion pile of unpaid bills, but they can file bills to crack down on anonymous commenters on websites. Recent piecemeal attempts to cobble together pension reform aside, state lawmakers have a history of dealing with anything but pension reform. A last-minute effort to enact pension reform collapsed in the final hours of the 2012 spring session, but lawmakers took the time in May to pass a bill allowing trained miniature horses to be used as service animals for the disabled. One could make a convincing argument, given the state’s financial crisis, that any bill not dealing with pension reform is a distraction. But some bills, from parades crossing railroad tracks to allowing the state to issue “Choose Life” license plates, are more meaningless distractions than others. The following is a bipartisan list of some of the bills before state lawmakers – six from each house, divided equally by party – that some lawmakers are focusing on while the $96 billion in unfunded pension liability increases by $17 million a day. • Lion meat – House Bill 2991, filed by Rep. Lou Lang, D-Skokie, makes it a Class A misdemeanor to slaughter lions for meat, buy or sell lions for the purpose of slaughter, or sell the meat. The bill, now sponsored by Rep. Luis Arroyo, D-Chicago, is awaiting action in the House Agriculture and Conservation Committee. In Lang’s defense, he also has filed a pension bill – it would make the temporary 67 percent income-tax increase permanent to pay for the pensions. • Death penalty – Senate Bill 2275, sponsored by Sen. Kirk Dillard, R-Westmont, brings back the death penalty for certain circumstances. Lawmakers abolished the death penalty in the 2011 lame-duck session that gave us the 67 percent income-tax increase. The bill is awaiting a hearing in the Senate Subcommittee on Civil Rights.

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8 DAILY PLANNER Today

Big Book Study AA(C): 9:30 a.m. at 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub. com. Overeaters Anonymous: 10 a.m. at Senior Services Center, 330 Grove St. in DeKalb; 815-758-4718. Free blood pressure clinic: 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Kishwaukee Community Hospital, 1 Kish Hospital Drive in DeKalb. www.kishhospital.org/programs; 815-748-8962. Sycamore Food Pantry: Noon at Sycamore United Methodist Church, 160 Johnson Ave. 815-8959113. Feed My Sheep Food Pantry: 3 to 5 p.m. at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 1915 N. First St. in DeKalb. All are welcome. New Hope Baptist Church Food Pantry: 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the church, 1201 Twombly Road in DeKalb. 815-756-7706. Kiwanis Club of DeKalb: 5:30 p.m. at the DeKalb Elks Lodge, 209 S. Annie Glidden Road. Contact Tarryn Thaden, club president, at tthaden@gmail.com; 815-7514719; dekalbkiwanis.org. Take Off Pounds Sensibly: 5:45 p.m. weigh-in and 6:30 p.m. meetings, St. John’s Lutheran Church, 13N535 French Road in Burlington. 847-833-6908. Safe Passage Domestic Violence support group: 815-7565228; www.safepassagedv.org. DeKalb Chess Club: 6 to 8 p.m. at First Congregational Church, 615 N. First St., DeKalb. Free, open chess game play, all ages and skill levels are welcome. Equipment is provided but attendees are welcome to bring their own. info@ dekalbchess.com or visit www. DeKalbChess.com. DeKalb Rotary Club: 6 p.m. at Ellwood House Museum. 815-7565677. 12 & 12 AA(C): 6 p.m. at Salem Lutheran Church, 1145 DeKalb Ave., Sycamore. 800-452-7990; www. dekalbalanoclub.com. 12 Step & 12 Traditions AA(C): 6:30 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 321 Oak St. in DeKalb; www.firstumc.net. American Legion Auxiliary Unit 66: 6:30 p.m. at 1204 S. Fourth St. in DeKalb. Back to Basics AA(C): 7 p.m. at Union Congregational, 305 S. Gage St., Somonauk. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. DeKalb Festival Chorus: 7 to 9 p.m. rehearsals in Room 171, Northern Illinois University Music Building in DeKalb. dekalbfestivalchorus.org. Adults can schedule an audition; festivalchorus@gmail. com or 630-453-8006. Sycamore Evening HEA: 7 p.m. Part of the Homemakers Education Association. For meeting location, call Margaret at 815-895-9290. ADD/ADHD Support Group: 7:30 p.m. at 14 Health Services Drive in DeKalb. For diagnosed adults and parents of diagnosed children. Registration required; contact Paul Legler at 815-758-8616 or CFC@ familyserviceagency.net. Dustin Chapter 365, Order of the Eastern Star: 7:30 p.m. at DeKalb Masonic Temple at Fairview Drive and South Fourth Street. Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 241: 7:30 p.m. at the DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport corporate hangars in DeKalb. 815756-7712. www.EAA241.org. Expect A Miracle AA: 8 p.m. open meeting, United Methodist, Third and South streets, Kirkland, 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. We Are Not Saints AA(C): 8 p.m. at 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Tuesday Kishwaukee Sunrise Rotary: 7 a.m. at Kishwaukee Community Hospital, 1 Kish Hospital Drive in DeKalb. Contact: Becky Beck Ryan, president, 815-758-3800. Weekly Men’s Breakfast: 8 a.m. at Fox Valley Community Center, 1406 Suydam Road, Sandwich. Cost for these men-only events is $4 for food and conversation, along with bottomless cups of coffee or tea. Easy Does It AA(C): 9:30 a.m. at 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Oak Crest HEA: 9:30 a.m. at Oak Crest DeKalb Area Retirement Center, 2944 Greenwood Acres Drive. Part of the Homemakers Edu cation Association. Call Mary Lu at 815-756-4390. Weight Watchers: 9:30 a.m. weigh-in, 10 a.m., 12:30 p.m., and 5:30 p.m. meetings at Weight Watchers Store, 2583 Sycamore Road (near Aldi), DeKalb.

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Time spinoff highlights magazine risks By RYAN NAKASHIMA The Associated Press LOS ANGELES – From Sports Illustrated to People to its namesake magazine, Time Inc. was always an innovator. But now when the troubled magazine industry is facing its greatest challenge, the company Henry Luce founded is struggling to find its way in a digital world. Time Warner Inc.’s decision to shed its Time Inc. magazine unit last week underscores the challenges facing an industry that remains wedded to glossy paper even as the use of tablet computers, e-readers and smartphones explodes. Although the new devices might seem to present an array of opportunity for Time Inc.’s 95 magazine titles, many publishers have found the digital transition troublesome. Digital editions of magazines represented just 2.4 percent of all U.S. circulation in the last

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An issue of Time Magazine sits on a newsstand Thursday in New York. Time Warner Inc. on Wednesday said that it will spin off the magazine unit behind Time, Sports Illustrated and People into a separate, publicly traded company by the end of the year. Time Warner Inc.’s decision to shed its Time Inc. magazine unit underscores the challenges facing an industry that remains wedded to glossy paper even as the use of tablet computers, e-readers and smartphones explodes. half of 2012, or about 7.9 million copies, according to the Alliance for Audited Media. Although that number more than doubled from a

year earlier, it’s hardly gangbusters growth, considering that the number of tablets in the U.S. also more than doubled last year to 64.8 million,

according to research firm IHS. The fact that so few tablet owners are buying magazines on their devices is a concern because both ad and circulation revenue from print editions have fallen more than 20 percent since their peak near the middle of the last decade. And, according to forecasts, there’s no recovery in sight. “We have to get much better at capturing those [digital] readers,” said Mary Berner, president of The Association of Magazine Media. Before publishers can accomplish that, they need to address problems, experts say. First, the range of free content on the Web has given some readers the impression that it’s not necessary to pay for the digital versions of magazine stories. Also, there’s no industry standard for pricing. Publishers aren’t in agreement over whether to include free access to digital copies as part of a print subscription.

8GOVERNMENT MEETINGS Send a schedule of meetings to be included in this weekly column to news@ daily-chronicle.com, with “Government Meetings” in the subject line, or send a fax to 815-758-5059. Please provide committee name, date, time and location with the complete address.

James St. Kishwaukee College Board: 5:30 p.m. in Room C-2175 at the college, 21193 Malta Road, Malta. Sycamore Public Library Board: 5:30 p.m. in the board room at the library, 103 E. State St. DeKalb County Communications Today Group: 6 p.m. at the Legislative Center, DeKalb-Sycamore Area TransportaFreedom Room, 200 N. Main St., Sycation Study Technical Advisory Commore. mittee: 1:15 p.m. at the DeKalb County Sycamore Park District Board Special Highway Department, 1826 Barber Meeting: 6 p.m. in the board room at 940 Greene Road, DeKalb. E. State St. DeKalb City Council: 6 p.m. in Room Genoa-Kingston School District 424 212 at the DeKalb Municipal Building, 200 Board Committee of the Whole: 6:30 S. Fourth St. p.m. at Genoa-Kingston High School, 980 Sycamore Township Board: 6 p.m. Park Ave., Genoa. at the Sycamore Township Office, 545 DeKalb County Board Executive ComBrickville Road. mittee: 7 p.m. at Administration Building, Cortland Township Board: 6:30 p.m. 110 E. Sycamore St., Sycamore. at the Cortland Township Building, 14 S. Genoa Tree Board: 7 p.m. at Genoa City Prairie St. Hall Council Chambers, 333 E. First St. Cortland Town Board: 7 p.m. at CortKingston Township Cemetery Comland Town Hall, 59 S. Somonauk Road. mittee: 7 p.m. at the Kingston Township Genoa Township Board: 7 p.m. at the Building, 301 Railroad St., Kingston. Genoa Township office, 221 Railroad Ave. Malta Township Public Library Board: Hiawatha School District 426 Board: 7 p.m. at the library at 203 E. Adams St. 7 p.m. at Hiawatha Middle School, 410 S. Maple Park Village Finance CommitFirst St., Kirkland. tee: 6 p.m. at 302 Willow St. Kaneland School District 302 Board: Maple Park Village Board of Trustees: 7 p.m. at Kaneland High School, 47W326 7 p.m. at the Maple Park Civic Center, 302 Keslinger Road, Maple Park. Willow St. Kirkland Community Fire District: 7 Sandwich District Library Board: 7 p.m. at 3891 Route 72. p.m. at the library at 107 E. Center St., Village of Lee: 7 p.m. at the fire station Sandwich. at Lee Road and County Line/Viking Vie Squaw Grove Township: 7 p.m. at Road, northeast corner, in Lee. Park in Hinckley Community Building, 120 Maple the rear of the building off County Line/ St., Hinckley. Annual meeting April 10. Viking Vie. Sycamore School District 427 Board: Malta Fire Department: 7 p.m. at 308 7 p.m. at the Sycamore School District E. Jefferson St. Administration Building, 245 W. Exchange Mayfield Township Board of TrustSt. ees: 7 p.m. at the Town Hall, 26925 Afton Township Board: 7 p.m. at Elva Church Road, Sycamore. Hall, 16029 Walker Drive, DeKalb. Sandwich City Council: 7 p.m. at the Kirkland Public Library Board: 7:15 Sandwich City Hall Annex, 128 E. Railroad p.m. at the library, 513 W. Main St. St. Genoa-Kingston Fire Protection Sycamore Plan Commission: 7 p.m. at District Board of Trustees: 7:30 p.m. at the Sycamore Center, 308 W. State St. Genoa-Kingston Station 1, 317 E. Railroad Village of Hinckley Planning Commis- Ave., Genoa. sion: 7 p.m. at 720 James St. Sandwich Plan Commission: 7:30 p.m. Hinckley Public Library District at City Hall Annex Council Chambers, 128 Board: 7:30 p.m. at the Hinckley Commu- E. Railroad St. nity Building, 100 N. Maple St. Waterman Village Board: 7:30 p.m. at the Waterman Village Hall, 214 W. Adams Tuesday St. DeKalb County Natural Hazards MitiWednesday gation Committee: 11 a.m. at the DeKalb DeKalb County Operating Board: 7 County Legislative Center, 200 N. Main a.m. at DeKalb County Rehab and Nursing St., Sycamore. Center, Conference Room, 2600 N. Annie Hinckley Village Personnel CommitGlidden Road, DeKalb. tee: 5:30 p.m. at the Village Hall, 720

DeKalb Sanitary District: Noon at 303 Hollister Ave. DeKalb Township Board: 4:30 p.m. at 2323 S. Fourth St., DeKalb. Maple Park & Countryside Fire Protection District: 5 p.m. at 305 S. County Line Road. Hampshire Fire Protection District: 6 p.m. at 202 Washington Ave., Hampshire. Milan Township Board: 6:30 p.m. in Lee. Somonauk Village Board: 6:30 p.m. at the Somonauk Village Hall, 131 S. Depot St. DeKalb County Board Economic Development Committee: 7 p.m. at the Legislative Center’s Freedom Room, 200 N. Main St., Sycamore. DeKalb Planning and Zoning Commission: 7 p.m. in council chambers at the DeKalb Municipal Building, 200 S. Fourth St. DeKalb Public Library Board: 7 p.m. in the meeting room at 309 Oak St. Franklin Township Board: 7 p.m. at the Road District Building, Highway 72 and Irene Road, Kirkland. Malta Village Board: 7 p.m. at Malta Municipal Building, 115 S. Third St. Hinckley-Big Rock School District 429 Committee of the Whole: 6:30 p.m. in the Hinckley-Big Rock High School Library, 700 E. Lincoln Highway, Hinckley. Sandwich Community Fire Protection District: 7 p.m. at the Sandwich Community Fire Protection District station, 310 E. Railroad St., Sandwich. Cortland Fire Protection District: 7:30 p.m. at Cortland Fire Station, 50 W. North St.

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DeKalb Design Review Committee: 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Large Conference Room at the DeKalb City Hall Annex, 223 S. Fourth St. Sandwich Park District: 6:30 p.m. at the Sandwich Park District Office Building, 1001 N. Latham St. DeKalb Park District Board: 7 p.m., following a study session at 6 p.m., at Hopkins Park, 1403 Sycamore Road. Genoa Plan Commission: 7 p.m. at Genoa City Hall Council Chambers, 333 E. First St. Malta Plan Commission: 7 p.m. at 115 S. Third St. Shabbona Township Board: 7 p.m. at the township garage, 204 S. Pontiac St., Shabbona. Paw Paw Township Board: 7 p.m. at Paw Paw Township Town Hall in Rollo, 2266 Suydam Road, Earlville.

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8LOCAL BRIEF Fat cat in Texas slims down, adopted by vet

DALLAS – An obese stray cat found wandering six months ago near Dallas has slimmed down to 34 pounds and been adopted by the veterinarian overseeing his care. Dr. Brittney Barton said the orange tabby dubbed Skinny is doing well on a special diet to lose weight and increase metabolism. Barton says she became attached to the onetime 41-pound cat she was treating at an animal orphanage and last month he became part of her family. Skinny joins Barton’s husband, three children, a dog and another cat at her home. Barton says Skinny gets along great with the other animals, can jump up on a couch and runs to his food bag at feeding time.

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Collision sends 2 to hospital By DAVID THOMAS dthomas@shawmedia.com CORTLAND – Two people were transported to Kishwaukee Community Hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries Sunday after a two-car collision south of Cortland. At 2:20 p.m., Sandra Gramly, 69, of Elburn, was traveling eastbound on Keslinger Road and stopped at the intersection of Keslinger and Somonauk roads, said deputy David Thomas – dthomas@shawmedia.com Josh Duehning of the DeKalb A tow worker moves a damaged Chevy Trailblazer out of the ditch Sun- County Sheriff’s Office. At the day at the corner of Keslinger and Somonauk roads. The Trailblazer same time, Richard Sullivan, collided with another vehicle at the intersection, sending two people 51, of Sandwich, was travelto the hospital. ing northbound on Somonauk

Road. Duehning said Gramly pulled her Saturn Vue in front of Sullivan’s Chevy Trailblazer. The collision caused both cars to go off the road, destroying the stop sign that drivers going east on Keslinger would use. Gramly and a passenger in the Trailblazer were taken to Kishwaukee, Duehning said. Sullivan did not report any injuries. Duehning was unable to say what kind of role Sunday’s weather – rainy and extremely foggy – played in the collision. He said it is still under investigation.

Teen recovering after Hinckley wreck By DAVID THOMAS dthomas@shawmedia.com

HINCKLEY – A Waterman teenager is in good condition, according to staff at Rockford Memorial Hospital, after she was injured in a car accident last week. On Tuesday, sisters Katie and Courtney Wisser were traveling east on Route 30 past Pritchard Road in Hinckley when their car slid into the opposite lane. A box-

truck struck their car on the passenger side. Another car rear-ended the box truck after the collision. In a post on the website CaringBridge – a blog for people who are hospitalized – Steve and Jen Wisser said their daughters hit a patch of black ice and spun out. They were on their way to school at Aurora Central Catholic High School. Katie Wisser, 16, was transported to Kishwaukee

Community Hospital, where she was later released. Courtney Wisser, 14, was airlifted to Rockford Memorial Hospital. The Wissers wrote Friday that the accident caused her brain to swell and broke a number of her ribs and pelvis. “The most important piece right now is her brain: It needs time to heal and allow the remaining fluid to drain off,” the Wissers wrote. “She

is unconscious and will remain so for several days until the doctors are comfortable trying to wake her. She is responsive to stimuli though, which is a positive sign.” In a journal post dated Sunday, the Wissers wrote that Courtney Wisser was doing better, but detailed a number of issues she was having. She graduated from St. Mary School in DeKalb in June. The school held a rosary for her Friday.

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Mice await their races Saturday at the Genoa Veterans Home, 311 Washington St. in Genoa. The races raised money for the GenoaKingston Education Foundation.

D-424 foundation rakes in the cheese

Mouse race raises money for programs By ERIC JOHNSON

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Hinckley man dies after snowmobile crash

HINCKLEY – A Hinckley man was killed after striking a fence with his snowmobile early Sunday morning. DeKalb County Coroner Dennis Miller pronounced William K. Danekas, 56, dead at 1:45 a.m. at the scene. Danekas was apparently driving his snowmobile west in a field by Duffy Road when the accident occurred. The incident is under investigation, but no foul play is suspected, according to a news release from the coroner.

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Cooks sought for Masons’ chili cook-off in DeKalb

DeKALB – The DeKalb Masons are seeking cooks and sponsors for their second annual chili cookoff from noon to 4 p.m. May 9. Cooks pay a $25 entry fee and receive a free T-shirt; the top three winners and the crowd favorite get trophies. For $100, sponsors receive two free Tshirts with their names on them and have their name put on a banner. The event will be at the lodge at the southeast corner for East Fairview Street and South Fourth Street in DeKalb, according to a news release. For more information or to register, call Jan Demers at 815-501-6386 or email jandemers46@gmail.com.

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U of I food, building workers to strike today

CHAMPAIGN – Food and building-service workers at the University of Illinois will walk off the job for three days starting today, after members of both bargaining units rejected the university’s contract offer. Service Employees International Union Local 73 spokesman Adam Rosen said Sunday that a majority of workers from both bargaining units rejected the university’s contract offer, but he did not disclose the vote totals. Outstanding issues include wages, provisions regarding retaliation against employees and the privatization of some work, Rosen said. Negotiations began in May, and a federal mediator recently was brought in. The next bargaining session has not yet been scheduled.

– Wire report

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Gov. Pat Quinn delivers his State of the Budget address Wednesday to a joint session of the General Assembly in the House chambers at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield.

Business decries Quinn loophole plan for taxes JOHN O’CONNOR The Associated Press SPRINGFIELD – Gov. Pat Quinn’s latest plan to pay off the state’s monstrous bill backlog is targeting income tax incentives that benefit Illinois corporations as a way to raise nearly half-a-billion dollars a year. But a governor’s loophole is often a business executive’s job-creator. Business leaders call the plan a tax increase on corporations in a state they say is already woefully inattentive to the needs of employers. As part of a $62.4 billion budget proposal laid out last week, Quinn proposed temporarily ending three tax breaks that would pump an estimated $454 million into the treasury. The money would go toward making a significant dent in $9 billion in overdue bills owed to providers of goods and services, the governor’s aides say. Quinn told a joint session of the General Assembly that he plans to reduce the $9 billion deficit by 20 percent before the June 2014

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end of the upcoming budget year. Assistant budget director Abdon Pallasch said the tax loophole money would be a savings on top of the $2 billion Quinn called for in reducing the overdue bills. That money Quinn plans to wring out of spending throughout the budget and growth in tax revenue. “It is no time for corporate tax loopholes when the state of Illinois has bills to pay,” spokeswoman Brooke Anderson said. “Suspending these loopholes until the backlog is paid down will ensure vendors are paid faster, which is good for the economy and the budget.” But the economy and budget also get a boost when employers are hiring taxpayers and making money, said Todd Maisch, vice president for government affairs for the Illinois Chamber of Commerce. The elimination of tax loopholes “is just one more way in which Illinois is the leader of the pack of doing things that employers will shake their heads and say, ‘When are these guys going to figure it out, that you’ve got to help us

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GENOA – The pride in Chuck Nunn’s voice was apparent when he spoke of his fleet-footed sprinters. “Sometimes they’re over in five seconds,” said Nunn, owner of Party Downs Mouse Racing in Wright City, Mo. “Other times they all just kind of sit there and chew on the wood until one finds the finish line.” They may not be champion thoroughbreds, but 54 mice made for exciting centers of attention for curious spectators Saturday in Genoa. The Genoa-Kingston Education Foundation hosted its third annual Mouse Race, a fundraiser featuring mousethemed games. The event, held at the Genoa Veterans Home, 311 Washington St. in Genoa, raised money for program funding in GenoaKingston School District 424. “Last year, we were able to raise over $4,400 from this event,” said Debbie Kuhn, board president of the foundation. “This year, we are looking to be closer to $5,500.” Participants placed bets on games such as mouse roulette and the mouse race. Cash prizes were awarded to those who predicted the winner in each of the six races. “I had a lot of faith in my mouse,” Bryan Evans of Genoa said. “Speed E. Gonzalez ran well, but not well enough to win.” The final race pitted winners against each other for a

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Security risks, frayed relations dog U.S., Afghans By LOLITA C. BALDOR The Associated Press

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Cardinal Carlo Caffarra (second from right) and Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke (right) walk past two Swiss guards Friday as they leave after a meeting at the Vatican. The cardinals have been attending pre-conclave meetings to discuss the problems of the church and decide who among them is best suited to fix them as pope.

Before the conclave, horse-trading begins By VICTOR L. SIMPSON The Associated Press

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican insists that the cardinals participating in the upcoming conclave will vote their conscience, each influenced only by silent prayers and reflection. Everybody knows, however, that power plays, vested interests and Machiavellian maneuvering are all part of the game, and that the horsetrading is already under way. Can the fractious Italians rally behind a single candidate? Can the Americans live up to their surprise billing as a power broker? And will all 115 cardinals from around the world be able to reach a meeting of minds on whether the church needs a peoplefriendly pope or a hard-edged manager able to tame Vatican bureaucrats? This time there are no star cardinals and no big favorites, making the election wide open and allowing the possibility of a compromise candidate should there be deadlock. While deliberations have

been secret, there appear to be two big camps forming that have been at loggerheads in the run-up to the conclave. One, dominated by the powerful Vatican bureaucracy called the Curia, is believed to be seeking a pope who will let it continue calling the shots as usual. The speculation is that the Curia is pushing the candidacy of Brazilian Odilo Scherer, who has close ties to the Curia and would be expected to name an Italian insider as secretary of state – the Vatican No. 2 who runs dayto-day affairs at the Holy See. Another camp, apparently spearheaded by American cardinals, is said to be pushing for a reform-minded pope with the strength to shake up the Curia, tarnished by infighting and the “Vatileaks” scandal in which retired Pope Benedict XVI’s own butler leaked confidential documents to a journalist. These cardinals reportedly want Milan archbishop Angelo Scola as pope, because he is seen as having the clout to bring the Curia into line.

The other key question to resolve is whether the pope should be a “pastoral” one – somebody with the charisma and communication skills to attract new members to a dwindling flock – or a “managerial” one capable of a church overhaul in a time of sex-abuse scandals and bureaucratic disarray. It’s hard to find any single candidate who fits the bill on both counts. Italy has the largest group of cardinal electors with 28, and believes it has a historic right to supply the pope, as it did for centuries. Italians feel it’s time to have one of their own enthroned again after 35 years of “foreigners,” with the Polish John Paul II and the German Benedict. But Italians are divided by which Italian church groups they have been affiliated with, and which leaders they follow. A dispute that pitted the followers of the archbishops of Genoa and Florence is said to have cost them the papacy in 1978 after 455 years of Italian popes.

Studies tie stress to heart risks MARILYNN MARCHIONE The Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO – Stress does bad things to the heart. New studies have found higher rates of cardiac problems in veterans with PTSD, New Orleans residents six years after Hurricane Katrina and Greeks struggling through that country’s financial turmoil. Disasters and prolonged stress can raise “fight or flight” hormones that affect blood pressure, blood sugar and other things in ways that make heart trouble more likely, doctors say. They also provoke anger and helplessness and spur heart-harming behaviors such as eating or drinking too much. “We’re starting to connect emotions with cardiovascular risk markers” and the new research adds evidence of a link, said Dr. Nieca Gold-

berg, a cardiologist at NYU Langone Medical Center and an American Heart Association spokeswoman. She had no role in the studies, which were discussed Sunday at an American College of Cardiology conference in San Francisco. The largest, involving 207,954 veterans in California and Nevada ages 46 to 74, compared those with PTSD, or post-traumatic stress disorder, to those without it. They were free of major heart disease and diabetes when researchers checked their Veterans Administration medical records from 2009 and 2010. Checked again about two years later, 35 percent of those with PTSD but only 19 percent of those without it had developed insulin resistance, which can lead to diabetes and hardening of the arteries. Doctors also saw higher

rates of metabolic syndrome – a collection of heart disease risk factors that include high body fat, cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar levels. About 53 percent of veterans with PTSD but only 37 percent of those without it had several of these symptoms. The numbers are estimates and are not as important as the trend – more heart risk with more stress, said one study leader, Dr. Ramin Ebrahimi, a cardiologist at the Greater Los Angeles VA Medical Center and a professor at UCLA. It shows that PTSD can cause physical symptoms, not just the mental ones commonly associated with it. That goes for others who suffer trauma such as being raped, robbed at gunpoint or in a serious accident, he said. Nearly 8 million Americans have PTSD, the National Institute of Mental Health estimates.

Born: Nov. 7, 1930, in DeKalb, Ill. Died: March 8, 2013, in Westerville, Ohio WESTERVILLE, Ohio – William “Bill” Fuller, 82, a longtime resident of Westerville, Ohio, went home to his Father early Friday, March 8, 2013, following complications from Parkinson’s. Bill was born on Nov. 7, 1930, in DeKalb, Ill. He was a respected district sales manager for the Wurlitzer Company for many years and retired as vice president of sales, Wurlitzer Division of Baldwin. He was a member of St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Westerville since 1959, and was a spiritual,

faithful, devoted husband and father of seven. He is preceded in death by his parents, Vincent and Marian Fuller; sister, Doris Burcum; and brother, Don Fuller. He is survived by his wife of 62 years, JoAnne (Plesa) Fuller; children, Gail Fleming, Julie (Bob) Foust, Lori (Larry) Everhart, Joni Fuller, Gina (Domenic) Massari, Bill (Chris) Fuller and John (Melissa) Fuller; grandchildren, Randy Orr, Adam and Branden Foust, Ross Hall, Blair and Amber Everhart, Ryan, Kaitlyn (Hill) and Devin Ison, Laine, Rachel, Tylor and Amanda Hurst, Patrick, Vincent,

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks Sunday during a nationally televised speech about the state of Afghan women in Kabul, Afghanistan. over the past 12 years, we have shed too much blood over the past 12 years, we have done too much to help the Afghan security forces grow over the last 12 years to ever think that violence or instability would be to our advantage,” Dunford said. Dunford’s comments came, however, soon after U.S. officials canceled a news conference with Hagel and Karzai because of a security threat – just a day after a suicide bomber on a bicycle struck outside the Afghan Defense Ministry, killing nine Afghan civilians and wound-

ing 14 others. Hagel heard the explosion from the safe location where he was meeting with Afghan officials but was never in danger. The security problems compounded a series of flareups in recent weeks, including a dispute that has stalled the transfer of a U.S. prison to Afghan authority as well as Karzai’s order to expel U.S. special operations forces out of Wardak province, which lies just outside the capital, because of allegations that Afghans working with the commandos were involved in abusive behavior.

nalia. Keenan L. Buckle, 22, of the 1500 block of Oakwood Avenue in DeKalb, was arrested Saturday, March 9, on an original warrant for aggravated battery. John A. Nielsen, 44, of the 8000 block of Twombly Road in DeKalb, was charged Saturday, March 9, with driving under the influence of alcohol, speeding and operating an uninsured motor vehicle. Antionette L. Thomas, 28, of the 600 block of North Annie Glidden Road in DeKalb, was charged Saturday, March 9, with forgery, theft and unlawful use of a credit card. Ryan J. Webb, 21, of the 7900 block of Fairdale Road in Cherry Valley, was charged Saturday, March 9, with aggravated battery. Justin N. Webb, 21, of the 600 black of Haish Boulevard in DeKalb, was charged Saturday, March 9, with aggravated battery. Wendy E. Salinas, 34, of the

600 block of Sterling Court in DeKalb, was charged Sunday, March 10, with two counts of domestic battery.

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Judy L. Gratschmayr, 41, of the 2200 block of Cambridge Court in DeKalb, was charged Thursday, March 7, with retail theft. Lashawna M. McWright, 22, of the 800 block of Russell Road in DeKalb, was arrested Thursday, March 7, on a failure-to-appear warrant for obstructing identification. Glenn Ouellette, 61, of the 3000 block of Country Club Lane in DeKalb, was charged Thursday, March 7, with violating an order of protection. Amy J. Shumway, 33, of the 400 block of East Adams Street in Malta, was charged Friday, March 8, with possession of marijuana and drug parapher-

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KABUL, Afghanistan – A series of security problems and fractured relations with Afghan leaders plagued Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s first trip here as Pentagon chief, including the Afghan president’s accusations that the U.S. and the Taliban are working in concert to show that violence in the country will worsen if most coalition troops leave. The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Joseph Dunford, quickly rejected the charges President Hamid Karzai made Sunday as “categorically false.” But the accusations were just the latest in a series of disputes that have frayed relations between the two nations as the U.S. works to wind down the war and turn the country’s security over to the Afghans. Speaking to reporters shortly after Karzai made the comments, Dunford said the Afghan leader has never expressed such views to him but said it was understandable that tensions would arise as the coalition balances the need to complete its mission with the Afghans’ move to exercise more sovereignty. “We have fought too hard

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and the city’s landlords. “So far, Carl has had numerous conversations with landlords,” Leverton said. “Some have called to inquire about things they need to do, clarify questions they had about the ordinance. Carl said those conversations were very positive.” Under the new housing laws, Leoni is required to inform landlords of all police calls to their properties. Because of

these calls, some landlords have started the eviction process, Leverton said. He did not know how many people or cases are involved. A landlord also has moved out residents of one of his buildings after a recent fire-safety check by the DeKalb Fire Department. Leverton said it was a voluntary effort on the landlord’s part, partially motivated by the increased standards of the city’s new housing rules. “He knows he has some work to do in that building,” Leverton said.

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Tim Sitowski spent his morning walking at the Kishwaukee YMCA as one of the many fitness opportunities offered through the Opportunity House’s developmental training program. His favorite activities are volleyball, basketball and playing games with the giant parachute in the center’s gymnasium. He prides himself on his athletic ability and participation in the Special Olympics. After lunch, he goes to the arts and crafts room to make shamrocks. Sitowski also contributes to the community’s Meals on Wheels program, which he said is his favorite. Sitowski and clients such as Bellows participate in activities in the school-like setting of the organization’s Developmental Training Center. Other clients work at the Opportunity House’s workshop at 202 Lucas St. in Sycamore, where they perform various tasks such as collating and shrink-wrapping folders for a

school supply company or assembling wire connectors for Ideal Industries. As members of the organization’s work service program, clients work flexible schedules learning work skills while earning wages. Chuck DeGraf, who has worked with Opportunity House for more than 30 years, supervises and assists the clients when necessary. The clients work at their own pace and earn wages based on their production numbers, DeGraf said.

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As Bellows finished her drawing and headed to lunch, she said she looks forward to spending time with her friends. She said her friends shouldn’t be treated differently by anyone. “I believe everyone should be treated the same whether they have handicaps or not,” she said. This philosophy is what drives the Opportunity House’s mission to help clients succeed. “Just because our bodies aren’t perfect doesn’t mean we’re not perfect,” Bellows said. “Everyone is perfect.”

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8STATE BRIEFS Uncle says he tried to save 7 from Ky. house fire

GRAY, Ky. – Gino Cima raced to a house as it was engulfed by flames in rural Kentucky, frantically trying to save his nephew, his nephew’s pregnant fiancee and five young children inside. But he was too late: He found his nephew’s body near a side door, lying in a way that suggested the man had been trying to rescue the sleeping children. Before coming upon his nephew’s body and that of the man’s fiancee, he said he screamed to firefighters: “There’s babies in that house!” Cima said Sunday that he arrived within minutes of hearing of the Saturday morning blaze. “When I opened the screen door, she was laying at the

door with her head to the door. And I pulled her out,” he said, speaking softly. “And about 2 feet from her laying the other way was [my nephew]. And I went in and got him and pulled him out. But they was done gone. There wasn’t nothing I could do.” The Knox County coroner and state police have not yet identified the victims, but family members said the five children killed ranged in age from 10 months to 3 years. Officials said the cause of the fire was under investigation. Arson investigators were at the scene Saturday, but officials said no foul play was suspected. State police said Sunday that no more information on the fire would be released until today.

6 teens killed, 2 hurt in northeast Ohio SUV crash

WARREN, Ohio – A speeding SUV taken without permission and carrying eight teenagers crashed into a guardrail Sunday morning and flipped over into a swampy pond in northeast Ohio, killing five boys and a woman, the state highway patrol said. The Honda Passport veered off the left side of a road and overturned just south of the city of Warren, about 60 miles east of Cleveland, Lt. Anne Ralston said. Investigators say it came to rest upside down in the swamp and sank with five of the victims trapped inside. A sixth, who was thrown from the SUV during the crash, was found under it when the vehicle was taken out of the water.

The two boys who survived escaped from the submerged vehicle and ran a quarter-mile to a home to call 911, the highway patrol said. State Highway Patrol Lt. Brian Holt said at an evening news conference that speed was a factor, although investigators were still trying to determine the speed at the time of the accident. “We will not be speculating on alcohol and/or drug usage pending toxicology reports,” Holt said. No one in the vehicle had permission to take it, but there were no theft reports, Holt said. The vehicle was licensed to a resident of Youngstown, about 20 miles away, he said.

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Animal tails, parades among Ill. law proposals • LAWS

Continued from page A1 • Enema of the state – Senate Bill 1651, sponsored by Sen. Iris Y. Martinez, D-Chicago, establishes licensing requirements with the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation for colonic hydrotherapy. The bill is awaiting reassignment to the Senate Licensed Activities and Pensions Committee, of which Martinez is chairwoman. • Gubernatorial portraits – House Bill 975, sponsored by Rep. Bill Mitchell, R-Decatur, provides that no portrait or other image of any current or former Illinois governor shall be paid for with state funds. The bill, which given recent history should exempt mug shots, is stuck in the House Rules Committee. • Show yourselves – Senate Bill 1614, sponsored by Sen. Ira Silverstein, D-Chicago, requires website administrators upon request to remove

any comments by an anonymous poster unless said poster agrees to attach a name and confirms that his IP address, name and address are accurate. The bill is stuck in the Senate Assignments Committee. • Real estate comments – The Republicans filed a comment regulation bill of their own. Senate Bill 1863, sponsored by Sen. Chapin Rose, R-Champaign, requires a website administrator to remove any messages upon request that are “spurious” and “demonstrably inaccurate” real estate offers. Bill consideration is postponed in the Senate Licensed Activities and Pensions Committee that will likely hear Martinez’s colon cleaning regulation bill. • Rare disease awareness – Senate Resolution 84, sponsored by Sen. David Luechtefeld, R-Okawville, and adopted last month, designated the last day of February 2013 and 2014 as Rare Disease Day. • Animal tails – House Bill

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2699, sponsored by Rep. Robert Rita, D-Blue Island, makes it a Class C misdemeanor to dock, or remove, the tail of cattle. The bill is awaiting a hearing in the House Business and Occupational Licenses Committee. • Smoke detector batteries – House Bill 2278, sponsored by Rep. Joe Sosnowski, RRockford, requires that smoke detectors not wired into the power of any house built after 1988 must have a nonremovable battery able to power the detector for at least 10 years. The bill, like Rita’s animal tail bill, was assigned to the Business and Occupational Licenses Committee. • Eat local – House Bill 1272, sponsored by Rep. Sam Yingling, D-Hainesville, designates the first Saturday of each month Eat Local, Buy

Illinois Products Day, and directs the Illinois Department of Agriculture to increase awareness of Illinois food and agribusiness products. The bill cleared the State Government Administration Committee on a 20-0 vote and is poised for a full House vote. • Window tints – Senate Bill 1524, sponsored by Sen. Matt Murphy, R-Palatine, ensures that home-rule governments can’t override the state’s ban on tinted car windows. The bill is set for a Tuesday hearing before the Senate Transportation Committee. • I love a parade – Even lawmakers who have seized the initiative on pension reform, like Rep. Elaine Nekritz, D-Northbrook, have found it hard to resist filing odd legislation. Nekritz filed House Bill 3255, which requires governments allowing a parade to cross railroad tracks to give the owner of the tracks 24 hours’ notice of the event. The bill is still in the House Rules Committee.

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Some taxes up, and the sky’s still there

“Most of the media is so sold out to Obama that they’re missing the obvious,” Jim DeMint said on Fox News only last week. “The policies the president has in place, especially the tax increases that just got in, are going to hurt our economy, probably actually bring it down.” The former Republican senator from South Carolina was speaking as presidentelect of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. DeMint made this remarkably dire prediction seven days before the Dow Jones industrial average hit an all-time high. The employment numbers remain weak, but they, too, are improving and helping raise confidence levels, especially in the housing market. By the time you read this, stocks may have gone higher or lower. And a raft of additional good and bad economic news will have marched across the Bloomberg screens. But we can count on one constant: DeMint will be wronger than Captain Peter Wrongway Peachfuzz. His lightning bolts did provide some stereophonic balance to President Obama’s over-the-top warnings of grievous suffering should the sequester go into effect, a process that also began last week. Then, from the speaker on the right, came the not very relevant point that the tax hikes would take more money out of the economy than the forced spending reductions. “It’s a whopping $149 billion in taxes vs.

VIEWS Froma Harrop $85 billion in spending,” complained Heritage spokesman Robert Bluey. One wishes the bumper sticker could be widened to include these thoughts: For starters, the higher taxes plus the sequester equal significant deficit reduction, something conservatives purport to want. Also, combining new tax revenues with spending cuts would seem a balanced approach. One can’t repeat often enough that the stock market and economy took off after Bill Clinton’s 1993 tax hike on upper incomes. Ignoring that evidence, the right persists in replaying the old videotape that higher taxes inevitably lead to economic desolation. “Higher taxes will hinder economic growth,” Heritage said back in 1993. They “will shrink the tax base and reduce tax revenues.” They will “result in larger federal budget deficits.” Newt Gingrich, off by about 180 degrees, confidently predicted that the tax increase “will in fact kill the current recovery and put us back in a recession.” As we know, the opposite happened. Certainly, other things helped create Clinton-era budget surpluses. The dot-com boom raised stock-market wealth, and de-

fense spending went down. But the bottom line remains: By the end of Clinton’s eight years, there were 23 million new jobs and average weekly wages were up 21 percent. And here’s the kicker: The booming economy made the richest Americans even richer. They did better after paying Clinton’s higher taxes than they did in the George W. Bush era, when their tax rates were lower. As noted, many other factors add to or subtract from the economy’s health. Right now, the Federal Reserve’s low interest rates are helping boost investment. Housing seems to be perking up. And the American economy was bound to eventually recover from the depths. It’s obvious, though, that Obama’s tax increases, including a few fees on health care, are not blowing up the economy. It’s amazing that guys like DeMint can go on Fox year after year and make the same crashingly silly predictions – and that Heritage hasn’t stopped him. (The Washington Post last December predicted that DeMint, a tea party hero, would give Heritage a “sharper edge.” I don’t think “sharp” is quite the word.) As for the allegedly falling sky, all you have to do is look up. Some taxes have increased, and the sky’s still there. Not only that, it’s getting bluer.

• Froma Harrop is a member of the Providence (R.I.) Journal editorial board.

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Wireless competition that AT&T, Verizon need By SUSAN P. CRAWFORD Bloomberg View

Tantalizing reports that Americans might soon be getting free nationwide wireless Internet access, courtesy of the Federal Communications Commission, have turned out to be exaggerated. But wouldn’t we all welcome mobile connectivity at a reasonable price? The FCC should take steps to make that possible through competition in the wireless marketplace. Right now, Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc. dominate the market for wireless data as a duopoly, together accounting for more than two-thirds of all U.S. subscribers and most of the wireless industry’s profits. The other three of the five biggest mobile-phone companies – Sprint Nextel Corp., T-Mobile USA Inc. and MetroPCS Communications Inc. – are small by comparison. And the big keep getting bigger: In the fourth quarter of 2012, while Verizon added a record 2.1 million subscribers to its base of 90.4 million wireless retail subscriptions and AT&T added more than three-quarters of a million subscribers to its 106 million retail connections, Sprint, T-Mobile and MetroPCS all lost subscribers. The two giants have the

market power to impose very low monthly usage caps, beyond which consumers are charged exorbitant overage fees, and “shared use” plans that allow the companies to extract additional revenue per household from families sharing buckets of data. More importantly, Verizon Wireless and AT&T hold most of the licenses the FCC has issued for low-band wireless spectrum. This spectrum, which travels through walls and over great distances, gives the company a “tremendous advantage” over high-band licensees such as TMobile, Verizon’s chief technology officer, Tony Melone, told analysts in 2010. A single tower transmitting over low-band spectrum can cover three to 3½ times the geographic area of a high-band transmitter. This means that Verizon Wireless can run its nationwide network using far fewer towers than T-Mobile needs to provide similar coverage. These lowband spectrum holdings create a barrier to entry that other carriers have trouble overcoming. So people got excited when the Washington Post reported last month that the FCC was planning to make more Wi-Fi spectrum available for use by any home or business without permission. The Wi-Fi signals we currently use to connect to

the Internet are the last 50 feet of a wired connection; Wi-Fi allows us to share home and business wires without signing up for the wireless carriers’ data plans. Verizon and AT&T themselves already rely extensively on Wi- Fi to avoid having to increase the capacity of their own networks. The big difference between current Wi-Fi and the proposed additional Wi-Fi is that the new uses would be in low-band spectrum. While signals over high-frequency spectrum carry lots of information, they degrade very quickly over distance – which is why your current Wi-Fi connection at work fades as soon as you walk away from your office. More Wi-Fi would make one element of a wireless network – the frequencies – “free.” But a wireless network still can’t exist without being close to a wired Internet connection, and someone has to pay for that. Still, new spectrum for Wi-Fi is a good idea, because it would have greater range than current Wi-Fi and would foster innovation. But it would have far less range than Verizon Wireless and AT&T provide, and thus wouldn’t supplant the need for most people to have a mobile data plan. If we want more competition for Verizon Wireless and AT&T,

Wi-Fi alone won’t do it. We must ensure that low-band licensed (paid-for) spectrum is available to challengers who won’t be limited by the range constraints of Wi-Fi. The FCC has an opportunity to do that: In 2014, it plans to have TV broadcasters give up some of their low-band licensed spectrum for resale to wireless data carriers. This so-called incentive auction, which allows the broadcasters to share in the proceeds, is our last best chance to weaken the grip of the wireless duopoly. Broadcasters need to be urged to cooperate by contributing all the spectrum they don’t need. And the FCC needs to get the auction rules right so Verizon Wireless and AT&T aren’t allowed to snatch it all up for themselves. Otherwise, we will see no change. All American businesses want competition and innovation in the wireless space that will drive lower prices, wider choices of inexpensive devices and greater investments in capacity. The FCC needs to make sure they get it.

• Susan P. Crawford, a contributor to Bloomberg View and a professor at the Cardozo School of Law, is the author of “Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age.”

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Dawn Clark Netsch, a liberal Democrat from Chicago, former state comptroller and a longtime state senator, was a generation ahead of her time. Netsch, who died Tuesday at age 86, won the Democratic nomination for governor in 1994, the first woman to do so for a major party in Illinois. She campaigned hard against incumbent Republican Gov. Jim Edgar of Charleston. She strongly supported an increase in the state income tax from 3 percent to 4.5 percent. Such an increase, she said, would help straighten out Illinois’ finances and give more money to education. Building on her reputation as a “straight shooter,” Netsch filmed a TV commercial where she shot pool while discussing what she would do as governor. When the Nov. 8, 1994, election rolled around, however, Netsch was soundly defeated by Edgar. She received only 34 percent of the vote. Things looked rosy for the GOP back then. Republicans captured the U.S. House for the first time in 40 years, harnessing voter backlash against efforts by President Bill Clinton to approve a national health care bill. Republicans also captured the Illinois House of Representatives. Steve Brown, House Speaker Michael Madigan’s spokesman, said at the time: “We’re obviously surprised by the overall outcome. They [Republicans] are all out of excuses now. They’ll have to produce.” Having Netsch lead the Democratic ticket did not help Democrats that year, but her party, and her ideas, eventually prevailed. National health care was approved in 2010. A state income tax increase was approved in 2011. Netsch, a supporter of the gay and lesbian community, witnessed the granting of expanded rights, including civil unions, and a current movement to approve gay marriage. And state government is dominated by Democrats who think a lot like Netsch did. Gov. Pat Quinn, Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon, Secretary of State Jesse White and Attorney General Lisa Madigan all praised Netsch’s career and leadership. Netsch has affected Illinoisans perhaps more than they know. She helped write the 1970 Illinois Constitution, under which the state still is governed. She pushed hard for equal rights for women and sponsored the Equal Rights Amendment, which failed to win ratification. Netsch taught law, served on ethics commissions, supported political candidates and served as a mentor and role model. Netsch was known for her directness, so she would not mind us pointing out that her party has controlled the Illinois governor’s mansion, House and Senate for 10 years now. Paraphrasing the 1994 words of Speaker Madigan’s spokesman, Democrats are all out of excuses now. They’ll have to produce. Perhaps now, in tribute to Netsch, they will.

8 LEGISLATIVE DIRECTORY State Sen. Tim Bivins R-45, Dixon 629 N. Galena Ave. Dixon, IL 61021 Phone: 815-284-0045 Fax: 815-284-0207 Email: senatorbivins@grics.net State Sen. Dave Syverson R-35, Rockford 200 S. Wyman St. Suite 302 Rockford, IL 61101 Phone: 815-987-7555 Fax: 815-987-7563 Email: info@senatordavesyverson.com State Rep. Tom Demmer R-90, Dixon 1221 Currency Court Rochelle, IL 61068 Phone: 815-561-3690 Email: tom@tomdemmer.com Website: www.tomdemmer.com State Rep. Robert Pritchard R-70, Hinckley 2600 DeKalb Ave., Suite C Sycamore, IL 60178 815-748-3494 Fax: 815-748-4630 Email: Bob@PritchardStateRep.com Website: www.pritchardstaterep.com DeKalb County Board Chairman Jeffery L. Metzger, Sr. Legislative Center 200 N. Main St. Sycamore, IL 60178 Phone: 815-895-7189 Fax: 815-895-7284 Email: jmetzger@dekalbcounty.org Website: www.dekalbcounty.org Gov. Pat Quinn D-Chicago 207 Statehouse Springfield, IL 62706

Phone: 800-642-3112 Email: governor@state.il.us Website: www.illinois.gov U.S. Rep. Randy Hultgren R-14, Winfield 1797 State Street, Suite A Geneva, IL 60134 Phone: 630-232-7104 Fax: 630-232-7174 427 Cannon House Office Building Washington, D.C., 20515 Phone: 202-225-2976 Fax: 202-225-0697 Website: hultgren.house.gov U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger R-16, Manteno 628 Columbus Street, Ste. 507 Ottawa, IL 61350 Phone: 815-431-9271 Fax: 815-431-9383 Washington, D.C., office: 1218 Longworth HOB Washington, D.C. 20515 Phone: 202-225-3635 Fax: 202-225-3521 Website: www.kinzinger.house.gov U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin D-Illinois 309 Hart Senate Building Washington, D.C. 20510 Phone: 202-224-2152 Fax: 202-228-0400 Website: www.durbin.senate.gov U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk R-Illinois 387 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 Phone: 202-224-2854 Fax: 202-228-4611 Website: www.kirk.senate.gov President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, D.C. 20500 202-456-1111 Website: www.whitehouse.gov

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Chefs preparing for Homestead’s Divas Dish

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Cadette Girl Scout Troop 543 is among the guest chefs preparing treats for the 2013 Divas Dish on April 20.

Plan now to sample the offerings at the fifth annual Divas Dish for Glidden Homestead on April 20. The fundraising tasting event to benefit DeKalb’s Joseph F. Glidden Homestead and Historical Center will be held from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the Barsema Alumni & Visitors Center in DeKalb. Everyone is welcome and tickets are on sale now at $30 each or two for $50. Tickets can be purchased by phone at 815-756-7904, by email at gliddenhomestead@juno.com or from homestead board members. Building on the success of the past four years, this year’s Divas Dish will feature nearly 40 women from DeKalb County and beyond dishing up tried-and-true family recipes. New features this year

8briefs Sycamore Library celebrates pi with pie

On Thursday, the Sycamore Public Library will celebrate Pi Day, honoring both the enigmatic number pi (3.14159...) and the birthday of Albert Einstein (born in 1879). Members of the public will sample homemade pies and vote for their favorites to win the Tastiest Pie Award. The tasting will run from 5 p.m. until the pie runs out. Voting ends at 5:45 p.m. Pies must be dropped off at the library by 9 p.m. Wednesday with a recipe card or list of ingredients. A pie eating contest will begin at 4 p.m., with pies donated by the Parkway Restaurant. Contestants must register in advance at the children’s department desk. And for those who resemble a certain famed physicist, the Albert Einstein lookalike contest runs from 4 p.m. Wednesday to 4 p.m. Thursday. Stop by the children’s department desk to have your photo taken in your best Einstein costume; a winner will be selected from the photos. For more information, visit the library, call 815-895-2500, ext. 26, or visit www.sycamorelibrary.org.

Speaker to address tombstone restoration The next meeting of the DeKalb County Historical and Genealogical Society will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Little Theatre at Oak Crest DeKalb Area Retirement Center, 2944 Greenwood Acres Drive, DeKalb. Erik Johnson of DeKalb Township will speak on the 7- to 10year project of restoring tombstones in the DeKalb Township cemeteries. The project, started in 2012 at Evergreen Cemetery, has repaired 45 tombstones to date. The meeting is free and the public is invited. For information, call Sandy Lyon at 815895-6987.

Mary Todd Lincoln event rescheduled Mary Todd Lincoln faced difficult challenges in her lifetime. The audience gathered at Genoa Public Library didn’t expect another one to occur last month. Laura F. Keyes, a historical interpreter and polished re-enactor of Mary Todd Lincoln, was involved in a minor car accident en route to her performance at the library. She is rescheduled to present at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Keyes is a historical interpreter who portrays the tragic

and compelling life of Mrs. Lincoln. The presentation is set on April 14, 1865, as Mrs. Lincoln prepares for an evening with her husband and friends at the theater. Keyes’ presentation has been meticulously developed and promises to make the audience feel as if they’re hearing directly from Abraham Lincoln’s wife. After the 45-minute program there will be a Q-and-A session. The presentation is recommended for ages 7 and older. To learn more about the presenter, visit www.laurafkeyes.com. Along with this event, Genoa Public Library provides every month a free family movie, a women’s craft night, a book club and an after school Lego Club. On a weekly basis, the library offers a sign language class, preschool story time and computer training for novices and intermediate users. For more information, call 815-784-2627 or visit www. genoalibrary.org.

Panel to discuss use of drones The widespread use of unmanned drones by the United States and its implications will be the topic of a panel discussion from 7:30 to 9 p.m. March 18 in Room 170 (the Riley Courtroom) of Swen Parson Hall on the Northern Illinois University campus. The panel will discuss the many international implications and ramifications of this type of espionage and warfare. Topics of discussion include the legal, human rights, diplomatic, ethical and moral issues surrounding the use of drones. The panel will include NIU College of Law Professor Morse Tan, who is a Supreme Court Fellowship Finalist and has served previously as a Visiting Scholar and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Texas School of Law. Other panelists include Dawood Ahmed, Esq. of the University of Chicago, and Jon Hohnstadt, who served in the U.S. military and is a sociology student at NIU. They will be joined by Ric Amesquita, a published poet. Additional panelists include Howard Solomon, who teaches ethics with the City Colleges of Chicago. He also is on the steering committee for the DeKalb Interfaith Network and is cochair of the Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee. Also joining the panel will be Dr. Joy First, grandmother and peace activist who has been involved in nonviolent civil resistance since 2003. She is a member of Madison Pledge of Resistance,

Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice, Wisconsin Coalition to Ground the Drones and End Wars and the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance. The event is free and open to the public. Food and beverages will be available. For more information, call Dan Kenney 815-793-0950.

Webinar on beneficial insects set for Thursday A “Beneficial Insects” webinar will focus on utilizing beneficial insects in horticulture crops. Discussion will include which insect pests can be controlled by beneficial insects, how to release some beneficial insects and safe use of biopesticides with beneficials. This webinar is part of a Small Farm Webinar series and offered from 1 to 2 p.m. Thursday. Listen in from home or join others at the University of Illinois DeKalb County Extension office at 1350 W. Prairie Drive in Sycamore. There is no fee, but pre-registration is required. Sessions may be cancelled for insufficient registration and you may be asked to consider an alternate location. To register, call at 815-7588194 or visit https://webs. extension.uiuc.edu/registration /?RegistrationID=7578.

include a bake sale and silent auction of special dishes. The night also will include a silent auction, raffle and gift shop. Many of the chefs who participated in the past are returning with new recipes for 2013. Among the “divas” participating are Sarah Glidden DeMink, greatgreat-niece of barbed wire inventor Joseph F. Glidden; Megan Acardo; Debbie Armstrong and Stacie Haugk; Linda Anderson; Louise Beukelman; Cadette Girl Scout Troop 543; Fran Clucas and Mary Lou Erickson; Lindsey Engelsman; Gwen Fox; Katherine Gannon; Jennifer Groce; Marge Hash; Jayne Higgins; Susan Johnson; Lynne Morel; Fran Osenberg; Amy Polzin; Mary Pritchard;

Becky Sisler and team from Kishwaukee Community Hospital; Natalia Vinokur and Tracie Wells. Joseph Glidden was granted a patent for “The Winner” on Nov. 24, 1874. It became the most widely used barbed wire in frontier America. His wire was invented in the barn next to his red brick home. Both still stand on West Lincoln Highway in DeKalb, between Copy Service and Burger King. The Joseph F. Glidden Homestead and Historical Center is working to preserve the home and barn and to expand and enhance the museum campus. Anyone interested in being a chef should email gliddenhomestead@juno.com by March 20.

‘Roosevelt’ highlights museum fundraiser Who was a soldier, conservationist, athlete, philosopher, adventurer, Nobel Prize winner, scholar, teacher, visionary, father and President of the United States? Teddy Roosevelt. He is well known for his personality, range of interests and variety of achievements. See the 26th president come to life Saturday at Sycamore History Museum’s annual inter fundraiser. Re-enactor Derek Evans will perform Theodore Roosevelt. Evans tours nationally and appears regularly at the Visitor’s Center of the White House, the Body Politic and the Court Theater. His performance highlights Roosevelt’s inner commitment to family values and protection of the environment, while making surprising connections to the present day. “We are very excited to have Derek Evans as Teddy Roosevelt come to Sycamore. He has an amazing background and has performed for numerous groups throughout the country, including the White House. Sycamore is in for a big treat during this fundraiser,” Michelle Donahoe, executive director of the museum, said in a news release. In addition to the presentation, there will be a silent auction, desserts, coffee and cash bar sponsored by Taxco. The event will be held at St. Mary’s Parish Activity Center, 322 Waterman St., in Sycamore. Tickets cost $15 and can be purchased

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Re-enactor Derek Evans will perform as Theodore Roosevelt on Saturday at the Sycamore History Museum’s annual winter fundraiser. at the museum or the Sycamore Chamber of Commerce. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the presentation begins at 7 p.m. For more information, call 815-895-5762 or visit www.sycamorehistory.org.

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‘Acres of Change’ the topic of history lecture “Producing an Updated History of DeKalb County,” with presenters Barry Schrader and Terry Martin, will be the topic of the next Brown Bag Lunch from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Kishwaukee Valley Heritage Musueum, 622 Park Ave., Genoa. A slideshow will be presented on the making of the new book, “Acres of Change.” This book covers DeKalb County history from 1963 to 2012. Martin is the chairman of the DeKalb County Historical-Genealogical Society history book committee and is a retired Kishwaukee College faculty member who was part of the original faculty. Schrader is one of the chapter co-authors. He is a 1958 graduate of Genoa-Kingston High School and once own the Genoa Republican weekly. The book will be published in time for the Sandwich Fair, but pre-orders at a discounted rate are being offered through March 15. Members and friends of the KVHS are welcome to attend at no cost. Snacks and drinks will be provided. For more information, call 815784-5559.

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Monday Free blood pressure clinics: no registration required. • 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Mondays in the Kishwaukee Community Hospital Roberts Conference Center, DeKalb. 815-748-8962 or visit www. kishhospital.org/programs. • 9 to 11 a.m. Wednesdays at Valley West Community Hospital, 11 E. Pleasant Ave., Sandwich. 815-7863962 or www.valleywest.org. • 9 to 11 a.m. Wednesdays at KishHealth Family & Specialty Care in Genoa. • 9 to 11 a.m. Thursdays KishHealth Family & Specialty Care in Waterman. Mom’s Time Out: 9 a.m. to noon Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at South Prairie School, Sycamore. Cost for residents is $9, nonresidents cost $10 per day. Call the Sycamore Park District at 815-8953202. Story Time at Panera Bread: 9:30 a.m. at 2476 Sycamore Road, DeKalb. For pre-school age children. Participants will receive a cookie and milk. Limit of 16 participants. Registration is required. Register online, call 815-756-9568, ext. 250, stop by the Youth Desk, or email theresaw@ dkpl.org. Kiwanis Club of DeKalb: 5:30 p.m. at the Elks DeKalb Ldoge BPOE 765 at 209 S. Annie Glidden Road in DeKalb. Club president is Tarryn Thaden. Contact: dekalbkiwanis@ gmail.com. 815-756-6912. www. dekalbkiwanis.org. DeKalb Chess Club: 6 to 8 p.m. at First Congregational Church, 615 N. First St., DeKalb. info@dekalbchess. com or visit www.DeKalbChess.com. DeKalb Rotary Club dinner and business meeting/program: 6 p.m. at Ellwood House Museum, 509 N. First St. in DeKalb. Contact Jim Allen at 815-787-0800. St. Patrick’s Week Concert – DeKalb High School String Band: 6 p.m. at The House Cafe, 263 E. Lincoln Highway, DeKalb. In addition to traditional Celtic music, songs by Mumford & Sons, Flight of the Conchords, Allison Krauss, Simon & Garfunkel and Bill Withers will be performed. The House Cafe’s Open Mic opportunity follows at 7 p.m. Bedtime Story Time: 6:30 p.m. in the Youth Services Department at DeKalb Public Library, 309 Oak St. Participants can wear pajamas. Call Youth Services at 815-756-9568, ext. 250, or email theresaw@dkpl.org. Singles club dances: 6:30 p.m. at St. Charles Singles Club at Hilton Garden Inn, 4077 E. Main St., St. Charles, across Route 64 from

Pheasant Run Resort. Singles age 40 and older from all towns are invited. Admission, $10, includes a professional dance lesson until 7:30 p.m. and dancing until 11 p.m. For information on this and other events, call 630-340-6647 or visit www. stcharlessinglesclub.com. Yoga Classes in DeKalb: 6:30 to 8 p.m. Monday and Wednesday; 10 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday at DeKalb Area Women’s Center (men welcome), 1021 State St., DeKalb. All classes are appropriate for all levels, beginner to advanced. Price: $12 per class for drop-in or 10 classes for $100 if you buy a class pack. Bring a yoga mat. bodyfirstmfr.com. St. Patrick’s Pins: 7 p.m. in the Youth Services Department at DeKalb Public Library, 309 Oak St. Contact Youth Services at 815-7569568, ext. 250, or email theresaw@ dkpl.org. Tuesday Kishwaukee Sunrise Rotary: 7 a.m. at Kishwaukee Community Hospital, 1 Kish Hospital Drive in DeKalb. Contact: Becky Beck Ryan, president, 815-758-3800. Tales for Twos: 9:30 a.m. in the Youth Services Department at DeKalb Public Library, 309 Oak St. Program lasts 20 to 25 minutes. Call 815-756-9568, ext. 250, or email theresaw@dkpl.org. Festive Bracelet Craft: 10 a.m. today, 11 a.m. Wednesday, and 11:30 a.m. Thursday (bilingual) in the Youth Services Department at DeKalb Public Library, 309 Oak St. 815-756-9568, ext. 250, or email theresaw@dkpl.org. Story Time: 12:45 to 1:30 p.m. at Hinckley Public Library. Stories, songs and crafts. Sign up by phone or at the front desk. 815-286-3220. Free Homework Help Nights: 6:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesdays and most Thursdays at Neighbors’ House, a nonprofit, faith-based, communitydevelopment organization, at the corner of Fifth and Pine streets in DeKalb. No-cost homework help provided for DeKalb County students, grade 4 through high school. The program also offers enrichment activities and snacks. For more on this and other NH Reading and Homework Clubs, contact NeighborsHouse@frontier.com or 815-787-0600. DeKalb Area Toastmasters: 7 p.m. Check the website calendar for meeting location. For adults who want to practice public and extemporaneous speaking, networking, leadership and mentoring. For more information about meetings, visit

www.dekalbtoastmasters.org, or call Larry at 815-756-2867. Kishwaukee Valley Barbershop Chorus rehearsals: 7:30 p.m. at First Congregational United Church of Christ, 615 N. First St. in DeKalb. Contact: 815-895-5955 or 815-7563004. Male singers of all ages are invited to learn to sing in harmony. Wednesday Master Networkers Chapter, Sycamore Business Network International: 8 to 9:30 a.m. at Midwest Museum of Natural History, 425 W. State St., Sycamore. Opportunity to share ideas, contacts and business referrals. New members and visitors are welcome. Contact: Jon Bockman, president, at 815-793-1832. Story Time: 9:45 to 10:30 a.m. at Hinckley Public Library. Stories, songs and crafts. Sign up by phone or at the front desk. 815-286-3220. Sycamore High School Class of 1944 reunion over coffee: 10 a.m. at Towne Square Restaurant, 351 N. Main St. in Sycamore. Toddler Time: 10:30 a.m. in the Youth Services Department at DeKalb Public Library, 309 Oak St. No sign-up necessary and walk-ins are welcome. Contact Youth Services at 815-756-9568, ext. 250, or email theresaw@dkpl.org. Kishwaukee Kiwanis: 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Hopkins Park Community Room in DeKalb. www. KishKiwanis.org. Contact: Amy Polzin at APolzin87@yahoo.com. DeKalb Noon Lions Club: Noon in the Blackhawk East Cafeteria at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb. Sycamore Rotary Club: Noon at Mitchel Lounge, 355 W. State St. in Sycamore. www.sycamorerotary. org. Contact: Brian Adams at 815762-5946. Twig Frame – Bilingual: 4 p.m. in the Youth Services Department at DeKalb Public Library, 309 Oak St. Contact Youth Services at 815-7569568, ext. 250, or email theresaw@ dkpl.org. Chess Game Play: 6 to 8 p.m. at Sycamore Public Library, 103 E. State St., Sycamore. Free, open chess game play, all ages and skill levels are welcome. info@dekalbchess.com or visit www.DeKalbChess.com. Magic Muffins – Discuss a Book: 6:30 p.m. in the Youth Services Department at DeKalb Public Library, 309 Oak St. Read “Al Capone Does My Shirts,” by Gennifer Choldenko. Limit of 12 tweens (between the ages of 10 to 14). Sign-up ends at 8 a.m. the morning of the program. Register in person, online, email darcyt@dkpl.org, or call 815-

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756-9568, ext. 250. Fox Valley Bicycle and Ski Club: 7 p.m. at Batavia Public Library, 10 S. Batavia Ave. The club invites DeKalb County cyclists to attend its rides, programs and other events throughout the year. programs@fvbsc.org. Kishwaukee Amateur Radio Club: 7 to 9 p.m. at Community of Christ Church, 1200 S. Malta Road, DeKalb. www.kish-club.org/vetesting.html. Sycamore Lions Club: 7 p.m. at MVP’s Regale Center, 124 1/2 S. California St., for service-minded men and women interested in improving their community. Information can be found at www.sycamorelions.org or call Jerome at 815-501-0101. Bingo nights: 7:15 p.m. at Sycamore Memorial Veterans Home, 121 S. California St. Contact: Robert Fleetwood at 815-895-2679. The public is invited. Greater Kishwaukee Area Band Rehearsals: 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the band room at Huntley Middle School, 1515 S. Fourth St., DeKalb. The volunteer band is open to people who have played wind or percussion instruments in the past. Especially needed are clarinets and low brass. No auditions are needed. Contacts are Sue at 815-899-4867 or John at 815-825-2350. Order of the White Shrine of Jerusalem DeKalb Shrine 47: 7:30 p.m. at DeKalb Masonic Temple, Fairview Drive and Fourth Street. Thursday Prayer Connection: 10 a.m. at Meadow Trail W., DeKalb. 815-7562679. Contact: 815-264-3719. Bilingual Story Time: 11 a.m. in the Youth Services Department at DeKalb Public Library, 309 Oak St. For children of all ages. Contact Youth Services at 815-756-9568, ext. 250, or email theresaw@dkpl.org. Stitch Niche Club: 5 p.m. in the meeting room at DeKalb Public Library, 309 Oak St. Learn how to crochet or share your favorite pastime. Contact Emily at 815-756-9568, ext. 265, or email emilyg@dkpl.org. Computer Help! Lab: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the meeting room at DeKalb Public Library, 309 Oak St. Practice your new computer skills. No sign-up required. 815-756-9568, ext. 220, or email dkplref@dkpl.org. Wildcard – Bleach Pen Art: 6:30 p.m. in the meeting room at DeKalb Public Library, 309 Oak St. Bring a piece of colored fabric free of designs (bags, jeans, shirts, leggings) and bleach pens will be provided. This program is for DeKalb area teens only. For more information, call 815-756-9568, ext. 280, or email

stever@dkpl.org. DeKalb Area Garden Club: 7 p.m. in the Vista Room at Oak Crest DeKalb Area Retirement Center, DeKalb. Contact: Tom Riley at 815756-6686. Sycamore American Legion Post 99 member meeting: 7 to 8 p.m. at Sycamore Veterans Memorial Home, 121 S. California St., Sycamore. For more information, call 815-895-2931, email janderson@parentpetroleum. com or visit www.sycamorevetsclub. org/americanlegion.htm. Friday Game Days: During library hours today and Saturday in the Youth Services Department at DeKalb Public Library, 309 Oak St. Board and card games will be available. For information, email theresaw@dkpl.org, or call 815-756-9568, ext. 250. Zumba Gold Classes: 10:30 a.m. at Fox Valley Older Adult Services, 1406 Suydam Road, Sandwich. Cost is $2 per class. Computer Help! Lab: 1 to 3 p.m. in the meeting room at DeKalb Public Library, 309 Oak St. Practice your new computer skills. No sign-up required. 815-756-9568, ext. 220, or email dkplref@dkpl.org. Computer Class – MS Word Intro: 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the meeting room at DeKalb Public Library, 309 Oak St. Sign up online or at the Reference Desk or call 815-756-9568, ext. 220. Elburn Lions Club Bingo: Doors open at 5 p.m. at 500 Filmore St. Early Bird Bingo starts at 6:30 p.m., followed by the first of four progressive raffles. Regular Bingo games start at 7 p.m. and include two split the pot games. Food and drink are available for purchase. Proceeds go toward Elburn Lions Charities for the sight and hearing impaired. 630-3656315. Bingo license B-04001. Peace vigil: 5 to 6 p.m. at Memorial Park at First Street and Lincoln Highway in DeKalb. The DeKalb Interfaith Network for Peace and Justice Peace Circle follows at 6 p.m. 815-758-0796. Troop support rally: 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at First Street and Lincoln Highway in DeKalb, across from Memorial Park. Nooks and Crannies – The Library Tour: 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in adult services department at DeKalb Public Library, 309 Oak St. Come to a special after-hours library tour. No sign-up required. 815-756-9568 ext. 220, or email dkplref@dkpl.org. DAWC activities and gallery viewings: 7 to 9 p.m. at DeKalb Area Women’s Center, 1021 State St. in

DeKalb. Contact: 815-758-1351 or dawc@niu.edu. All are invited to events; an entrance with an accessible lift is near the alley north of the building. Free parking is located at 415 N. 11th St., a half block south of the center. Saturday AARP Tax-Aide Free Tax Help: 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the meeting room at DeKalb Public Library, 309 Oak St. Bring photo ID, all tax documents and last year’s return. No sign-up required. 815-756-9568, ext. 220 or email dkplref@dkpl.org. Dr. Suess Movie Celebration: 11 a.m. at Somonauk Public Library, 700 E. LaSalle St. www.somonauklibrary. org or 815-498-2440. Sycamore-DeKalb Alumnae Panhellenic: 1 p.m. at 2855 N. First St., DeKalb. All national sorority women from all colleges are welcome. Members are welcome to bring guests. Call Martha at 758-2666 Preventing Identity Theft, Fraud and Scams: 2 to 3 p.m. in the meeting room at DeKalb Public Library, 309 Oak St. State of Illinois Comptroller’s Office will present this informative workshop. 815-7569568, ext. 220, or email dkplref@ dkpl.org. Sunday Adventure at the Library: 1 to 5 p.m. in the meeting room at DeKalb Public Library, 309 Oak St. Thrill to the twists and turns of a story that you help to create. No sign-up required. Register online, by email stever@dkpl.org or call 815-7569568, ext. 280. Rockford Writers’ Guild: 1 to 3 p.m. at Tinker Swiss Cottage Museum, 411 Kent St., Rockford. DeKalb County writers are invited to meet with peers at monthly guild meetings. The guild schedule – complete with maps and directions is available at www.rockfordwritersguild.com; click on “Meetings and Events for Writers.” Society for Creative Anachronism events: Visit www.carraigban.org/ or call 815-739-5788 or 815-986-5403 for other information. Middle Ages-Renaissance history re-enactors and those interested in “stepping into the past” are welcome. • Armored fighting practice: 4:30 p.m. behind Stevenson North at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb.

8community servings DeKalb County Salvation Army food pantry: 9 a.m. to noon Monday to Thursday; 5 to 6:45 p.m. Thursday at Ninth and Grove Streets in DeKalb. For DeKalb County residents only. Call 815-756-4308 or email gary_billings@usc.salvationarmy.org. Sycamore Food Pantry: Noon to 4 p.m. Monday at Sycamore United Methodist Church, 160 Johnson Ave. 815-895-9113. Feed my Sheep Pantry: 3 to 5 p.m. Monday and 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Thursday at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 1915 N. First St. in DeKalb. 815-758-3203. All are welcome. Feed’Em Soup Community Project Free Community Meals: 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at 122 S. First St., DeKalb. These meals are free to anyone in need. People wishing to volunteer can visit www.FeedEmSoup.org and fill out a short contact form to receive

updates about volunteer needs. Groups wishing to volunteer or spearhead events, such as food drives, for Feed ’Em Soup Community Project, can send email to Info@FeedEmSoup.org. NIU Knights of Columbus 5572 fish dinners: 5 to 7 p.m. Friday at the Newman Center, 512 Normal Road, DeKalb. The entrees are fish, Louisiana shrimp, fish and shrimp, grilled cheese and fries and macaroni and cheese. Salad, bread, vegetable medley, mashed potato, twice baked potato, baked potato, homemade desserts and coffee are also served with each entree. Beer, wine and pop are also available. $8 – fish, $8 – shrimp, $10 – fish and shrimp, $5 – grilled cheese and fries and $5 – macaroni and cheese. Knights of Columbus Lenten Friday

Night Fish Fry Buffets: 5:30 to 8 p.m. at 1336 E. Lincoln Highway, DeKalb. Open to the public. 815-758-4141. Cost: $10 for adults, $6 for children age 10 and younger. Sorry, no carryouts. Buffet includes: cod, walleye, shrimp, macaroni and cheese, soup, baked potatos, French fries, cole slaw, salad bar and rolls. Country Breakfast: 7 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Trinity Lutheran Church, 303 S. Seventh St. in DeKalb. The public is welcome at an all-you-can-eat full breakfast of pancakes, sausage, bacon, eggs, hash browns and biscuits and gravy. Donations are $6 for adults and $4 for children, ages 4-8. The meal is free for children 3 and younger. NICE pantry: 8:30 to 11 a.m. Saturdays and by appointment other days at 346 S. County Line Road in Lee. Contact: 815-824-2228.

8SUPPORT GROUPS Monday Big Book Study AA(C): 9:30 a.m. at 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Overeaters Anonymous: 10 a.m. at Senior Services Center, 330 Grove St. in DeKalb; 815-758-4718. Job & Career Support Group: 2 to 4 p.m. in the Sycamore Public Library board room, 103 E. State St. Take Off Pounds Sensibly: 5:45 p.m. weigh-in and 6:30 p.m. meetings, St. John’s Lutheran Church, 13N535 French Road in Burlington. 847-833-6908. Safe Passage Domestic Violence support group: 815-756-5228; www.safepassagedv.org. 12 & 12 AA(C): 6 p.m. at Sycamore Lutheran Church, 1145 DeKalb Ave., Sycamore. 800-452-7990; www. dekalbalanoclub.com. Group Hope: 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the private dining room at Rochelle Community Hospital. 815-398-9628. “Journey” adult grief support group: 6:30 to 8 p.m. at DeKalb County Hospice, 2727 Sycamore Road, DeKalb. 815-756-3000. www. dekalbcountyhospice.org. 12 Step & 12 Traditions AA(C): 6:30 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 321 Oak St. in DeKalb; www. firstumc.net. Back to Basics AA(C): 7 p.m. at Union Congregational, 305 S. Gage St., Somonauk. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. ADD/ADHD adult support group: 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Family Service Agency, 14 Health Services Drive in DeKalb. 815-758-8616. Expect A Miracle AA: 8 p.m. open meeting at United Methodist, Third and South streets, Kirkland. 800452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub. com. We Are Not Saints AA(C): 8 p.m. at 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Tuesday Family Caregiver Support Group: 9 to 11 a.m. at Visiting Angels, 630 Plaza Drive, Suite 1, Sycamore. For information or reservations, call

Welcome Cafe and Community Kitchen: 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 6 and May 11 at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 158 N. Fourth St., DeKalb. The Welcome Cafe and Community Kitchen provides monthly pay-as-you-can brunches catered by Sunn Flower Catering. Illinois WorkNet will provide employment information on site. Knights’ Saturday Burgers and More: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at DeKalb Knights of Columbus Hall, 1336 E. Lincoln Highway. Open to the public. Willard Aves American Legion Post 1010 48th annual Corned Beef and Cabbage Dinner: 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at Five Points Pub, 105 Main St., Kingston (at the corner of IL Route 72 and Five Points Road). Also serving at the Kingston Friendship Center. $10 for adults, $6 for children

12 and younger. For advanced tickets, see Dean Miller or David Gingerich at Country Financial, 305 W. Main St., in Genoa or call 815-784-6688. A 50/50 raffle will be held. Need not be present to win. Burger buffet: Noon to 2 p.m. Saturday at Genoa Veterans Home, 311 S. Washington St. Hamburger or cheeseburger with chips are available or sandwich and buffet. The buffet includes potato salad, macaroni salad and beans. Proceeds help fund community projects and scholarships. VFW breakfast: 7 to 11 a.m. Sunday at Genoa Veterans Home, 311 S. Washington St. This all-you-can-eat breakfast costs $8 and is free for children younger than 6. The menu includes scrambled eggs, french toast, hash browns, biscuits and gravy, chipped beef, fruit cocktail and coffee, milk and juice.

For information about Alcoholics Anonymous closed meetings, call 800-452-7990 or visit www.dekalbalanoclub.com. 815-895-0200. Easy Does It AA(C): 9:30 a.m. at 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Weight Watchers: 9:30 a.m. weigh-in, 10 a.m. meeting at Weight Watchers Store, 2583 Sycamore Road, (near Aldi) DeKalb. Healing Expressions: 10 a.m. to noon at the Cancer Center at Kishwaukee Community Hospital, 10 Health Services Drive, DeKalb. 815748-2958 or visit www.kishhospital. org/programs. Men and Women Impacted by Cancer Networking Group: 10 to 11 a.m. in the Valley West Medical Office Building, 11 E. Pleasant Ave., Sandwich. 815-748-2958 or visit www.valleywest.org/programs. Caring Through Food: 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Cancer Center at Kishwaukee Community Hospital. www.kishhospital.org/programs or call 815-748-2958. Safe Passage Sexual Assault adults’ support group: 815-7565228; www.safepassagedv.org. Genoa Taking Off Pounds Sensibly: 6 p.m. weigh-in and 6:30 p.m. meetings at CrossWind Community Church, 13100 Cherry Road. 815-7843612. Hinckley Big Book Study AA(C): 6 p.m. at United Methodist Church, 801 N. Sycamore St. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Women’s “Rule #62 Group”: 6 p.m. at Federated Church, 612 W. State St., Sycamore. For information, call Kathy at 815-756-6655. 800452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub. com. Better Off Sober AA(C): 6:30 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Alcoholics Anonymous Tuesday Night Fellowship Group(C): 7 p.m. at The Church of St. Mary, 244 Waterman St. in Sycamore. 815-7391950. Good Vibes Al-Anon group: 7 to 8 p.m. at First Lutheran Church, 324 N. Third St., DeKalb. 815-895-8119. Sexaholics Anonymous: 7 p.m.

at 512 Normal Road, DeKalb (behind church in brick building). 815-5080280. Veterans Peer Support Group: 7 to 8 p.m. at Ben Gordon Center, 12 Health Services Drive in DeKalb; www.bengordoncenter.org. For information about the free group, call 815-756-4875 or 815-793-6972. Smoky Mirror AA(C): 7:30 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church. 33930 N. State Road, Genoa, 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Narcotics Anonymous: 8 p.m. at 1201 Twombly Road in DeKalb; www. rragsna.org; 815-964-5959. Program of Recovery AA(C): 8 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Wednesday Caregiver Networking Group: 8 to 9 a.m. at the Kishwaukee Community Hospital Roberts Conference Center. www.kishhospital.org; 815748-8962. Fresh Beginnings AA(C): 9:30 a.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. New Beginnings AA(C): 10 a.m. at 120 Main St., Kingston. 800452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub. com. 24-Hour-A-Day Brown Bag AA(C): 12:05 p.m. at Newman Center, 521 Normal Road, DeKalb. 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Weight Watchers: 5 p.m. weighin, 5:30 p.m. meeting at Weight Watchers Store, 2583 Sycamore Road, (near Aldi) DeKalb. (WED) Safe Passage Domestic Violence support group; 815-7565228; www.safepassagedv.org. Came to Believe AA(C): 6 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www. dekalbalanoclub.com. North Avenue Pass It On AA(C): 6:30 p.m. at North Ave. Baptist Church, 301 North Ave., Sycamore. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Narcotics Anonymous: 7 p.m. at United Church of Christ, 615 N. First

St. in DeKalb; www.rragsna.org; 815-964-5959. Hopefuls AA(C): 8 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Thursday Safe Passage Domestic Violence support group: 815-756-5228; www.safepassagedv.org. Back To Basics AA(C): 9:30 a.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Breastfeeding Group: 10 to 11:30 a.m. at Kishwaukee Community Hospital Roberts Conference Center, 1 Hospital Drive, DeKalb. www.kishhospital.org; 815-748-8962. Take Off Pounds Sensibly: 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. weigh-in and 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. meeting at Sycamore United Methodist Church, 160 Johnson Ave. Call Lydia Johnson, chapter leader, 815-895-4618. Keep It Simple AA(C): 6 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www. dekalbalanoclub.com. One Day Café AA(C): 6 p.m. at Waterman United Methodist Church, 210 W Garfield St. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Weight Watchers: 6 p.m. weighin, 6:30 p.m. meeting at Weight Watchers Store, 2583 Sycamore Road, (near Aldi) DeKalb. Grandparents Raising Grandchildren support group: 6:30 to 8 p.m. at DeKalb Senior Center. 815-7588616. Grieving Parent Support Group: 7 p.m. in Room 10 of the Elburn Community Center, 525 N. Main St. Call Conley Outreach at 630-365-2880 for directions and monthly topics. Sandwich Steppers AA(C): 7 p.m. at Fox Valley Community Center, 1406 Suydam Road. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. A Friend Of Bill’s AA(C): 8 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, 33930 N. State St., Genoa, 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Any Lengths AA(C): 8 p.m. at Federated Church, 612 W. State St.,

Sycamore. 800-452-7990; www. dekalbalanoclub.com. Closed Discussion AA: 8 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www. dekalbalanoclub.com. Friday Sexaholics Anonymous-DeKalb: 6:30 to 7:30 a.m. at Christ Community Church, 1600 E. Lincoln Highway, DeKalb. This 12-step recovery program is for Internet addiction. Contact: 815-508-0280. SA.org. Pass It On AA(C): 9:30 a.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www. dekalbalanoclub.com. Beacon Counseling Support Group: 10 a.m. at 113 N. Genoa St., Suite A, Genoa. Walk-ins also will be available beginning Friday, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Call 815-784-2362 for an appointment at other times. There is a Solution Too AA: 12:05 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. B.Y.O.B. Big Book – 12 & 12 Discussion AA(C): 6 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb, 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Big Book Discussion AA(C): 7 p.m. at Newman Catholic Student Center, 521 Normal Road, DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Fox Valley AA(C): 7:30 p.m. at Salem Lutheran Church, 1022 N. Main St., Sandwich. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. County Line Group Big Book AA(C): 8 p.m. at St. Mary’s Church, 121 N. Sycamore St., Maple Park. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. One Day At A Time AA(C): 8 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb, 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. There is a Solution AA(C): 8 p.m. at Kingston Friendship Center, 120 Main St. 800-452-7990; www. dekalbalanoclub.com. Day PAA(C): 9 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb,

800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Saturday Overeaters Anonymous: 8 a.m. in the Youth Room at Federated Church, 612 W. State St., Sycamore. www.oa.org; Contact: Marilyn at 815-751-4822. It Is What It Is AA(C): 9 a.m. at St. Catherine’s Church, 340 S. Stott St., Genoa. 800-452-7990; www. dekalbalanoclub.com. As Bill Sees It AA(C): 9:30 a.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www. dekalbalanoclub.com. Learning to Live Al-Anon group: 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at Newman Catholic Center annex, Normal Road in DeKalb; llc904@hotmail.com. Narcotics Anonymous: 10 to 11 a.m. at United Church of Christ, 615 N. First St. in DeKalb; www.rragsna. org; 815-964-5959. Back to Basics AA: 6:30 p.m. at Cortland United Methodist Church, 45 Chestnut Ave., Cortland. 800452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub. com. AA Speaker Open Meeting: 8 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Saturday Night AA(C): 10 p.m. at 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Sunday 24 Hours a Day AA(C): 9:30 a.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Steps And Traditions AA(C): 6 p.m. at Masonic Hall, Route 23, Genoa. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. No Longer Hopeless AA(C): 7:30 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor, DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com. Any Lengths AA(C): 8 p.m. at Federated Church, 612 W. State St., Sycamore. 800-452-7990; www. dekalbalanoclub.com.

WEATHER

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7-DAY FORECAST

Colder air will spill into the area on Monday, with a chance of rain showers in the morning and snow showers in the afternoon. Highs in the 30s. High pressure arrives Tuesday bringing some sun with a chance of flurries. The week remains above freezing, but cooler than our seasonal mid-40s.

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TODAY

TOMORROW

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Cloudy, cooler, rain and snow showers

Partly sunny, isolated snow showers

Mostly sunny

Partly sunny, a rain shower late

Partly sunny, isolated rain showers

Partly sunny, isolated snow/ rain showers

Partly sunny with a rain or snow shower

Winds: W 10-20 mph

Winds: WNW 10-20 mph

UV INDEX

Winds: NW 10-20 mph

Winds: SW 10 mph

Winds: NW 10-15 mph

Winds: NE 10-20 mph

REGIONAL CITIES

REGIONAL WEATHER

DeKalb through 4 p.m. yesterday

Temperature High ............................................................. 41° Low .............................................................. 36° Normal high ............................................. 42° Normal low ............................................... 25° Record high .............................. 66° in 1977 Record low ................................. -2° in 2003

Precipitation 24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. ......... 0.66” Month to date ....................................... 1.79” Normal month to date ....................... 0.68” Year to date ............................................ 6.91” Normal year to date ............................ 3.70”

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Full

Mar 11 Mar 19 Mar 27

Last

Apr 2

Lake Geneva 38/22

The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 0-2 Low; 3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme.

Rockford 39/24

AIR QUALITY TODAY

Source: Environmental Protection Agency

Arlington Heights 39/25

DeKalb 37/25

Main offender ................................................... N.A.

Dixon 38/22

WEATHER TRIVIA™

Where did the blizzard of 1888 reach its full fury?

La Salle 40/25

Joliet 41/26 Streator 41/26

Peoria 39/24

Evanston 39/27

Hammond 44/28 Gary 44/26 Kankakee 43/26

Watseka 43/26

Pontiac 41/26

NATIONAL WEATHER

Waukegan 37/24

City Aurora Belleville Beloit Belvidere Champaign Elgin Joliet Kankakee Mendota Michigan City Moline Morris Naperville Ottawa Princeton Quincy Racine Rochelle Rockford Springfield Sterling Wheaton Waukegan Woodstock Yorkville

Hi 37 44 38 39 42 38 41 43 39 41 38 41 38 41 39 39 39 38 39 41 39 39 37 39 37

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Tomorrow Hi Lo W 43 24 pc 49 27 pc 38 25 sf 38 25 sf 43 25 pc 39 24 sf 40 26 pc 43 26 pc 40 26 pc 39 25 sf 41 23 pc 41 27 pc 40 25 pc 41 27 pc 40 25 pc 43 24 pc 36 23 sf 40 24 pc 38 25 sf 45 25 pc 40 24 pc 40 26 sf 37 23 sf 38 24 sf 40 25 pc

RIVER LEVELS

WEATHER HISTORY

As of March 11, 1911, Tamarack, Calif., had the greatest snow depth ever observed in the United States -- 471 inches.

Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

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Sports editor Ross Jacobson • rjacobson@shawmedia.com

8MORNING KICKOFF

iesa WRESTLING

Huntley places two at IESA state Hernandez places fourth and Macarus takes fifth By STEVE NITZ snitz@shawmedia.com

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Cards manager Matheny to have back surgery JUPITER, Fla. – Cardinals manager Mike Matheny (Above left) planned to leave the team after Sunday's spring training game and return to St. Louis for surgery to repair a ruptured disk in his lower back. Matheny expects to be back at spring training for Thursday's game against Atlanta in Jupiter. "There is still a fragment that is stuck in a spot where it's getting to the nerve and affecting what is going on back there," Matheny said before Sunday's game against the New York Mets. The 42-year-old Matheny, who replaced Tony La Russa as manager after the 2011 season, said early in spring training that the injury probably traces back to his days as a big league catcher from 1994-2006. "They seem pretty confident this will take care of it," he said of the surgeons. The ruptured disk sends pain into his right leg, which became severe Feb. 28 and caused him to skip the next day's game against Houston at Kissimmee. An epidural injection March 4 failed to relieve the pain. "We were hoping it would kind of settle down and go away, but it really hasn't," Matheny said. The pain is at its worst when Matheny stands after sitting for any length. He decided to have the surgery now, before plane trips during the regular season. "I hate that it's been as big a deal as it's been," he said. "I'm anxious to get it over." Bench coach Mike Aldrete will manage the team in Matheny's absence. – Wire report

8WHAT TO WATCH Baseball World Baseball Classic, second round, at Tokyo, 5 a.m., Preseason, St. Louis vs. N.Y. Yankees, at Tampa, Fla, noon, ESPN Men’s college basketball Colonial Athletic Association, championship, at Richmond, Va., 7 p.m., NBCSN West Coast Conference, championship, at Las Vegas, 8 p.m., ESPN Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, championship, at Springfield, Mass., 8 p.m., ESPN2 Women’s basketball Big 12 Conference, championship, at Dallas, 7 p.m., FSN

8KEEP UP ONLINE Follow us on Facebook and Twitter Want the latest from the area’s prep sports scene? Follow our coverage on Facebook by searching for DC Preps or on Twitter at twitter.com/dc_preps. Follow our NIU athletics coverage on Facebook by searching for Huskie Wire or on Twitter at twitter.com/HuskieWire.

DeKALB – In Huntley Middle School’s wrestling room, there’s a list of all the school’s state qualifiers. Coach Patrick Kiley said his wrestlers stare at it all the time. Huntley seventh-grader Justin Hernandez already had his name up on the wall before

this weekend’s IESA State Meet at the NIU Convocation Center, having finished in sixth place last season. Hernandez will be seeing his name up on the board once again, as he took fourth place at this year’s meet, which concluded Saturday. Hernandez had a fall and two major decisions on his way to the semifinals, where he was pinned by Matt Kronsbein of Homer

Glen Homer. Hernandez lost by fall against Deerfield’s Reece Heller in the third-place match. “It feels pretty good to place two times,” Hernandez said. Next season, Hernandez hopes to become a three-time state qualifier, and stand on the top spot of the medal stand. “I think I should have done better this year. I think I should have placed top-two,” he said. “Next year, I think I should win it.” Homer Glen Homer won the Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com meet with a score of 202. HuntJack Evans (left), of DeKalb Clinton Rosette competes against Lake Forley was 15th (46) while Clinton est Deer Path’s Peter Kennedy in a 126-pound match Saturday during Rosette was 67th (11).

See WRESTLING, page B3

the Illinois Elementary School Association Boys State Wrestling Tournament at the Convocation Center in DeKalb.

Northern illinois basketball: mac tournament preview

Looking to defy odds

Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com

Northern Illinois’ Abdel Nader (23) attempts a shot between Ball State’s Marcus Posley (3) and Bo Calhoun (12) in the first half Feb. 13 in DeKalb. Ball State defeated NIU, 56-52.

Huskies to face Eastern Michigan in MAC tournament By STEVE NITZ snitz@shawmedia.com

More online For all your NIU sports coverage – including stories, features, scores, photos, videos, blogs and more – log on to HuskieWire. com.

DeKALB – Tonight, Northern Illinois returns to the scene of its lowest point of the season. On Jan. 26, Eastern Michigan defeated NIU, 42-25, in Ypsilanti, Mich. The Huskies, who finished the regular season at 5-24 and 3-13

in the Mid-American Conference, set multiple NCAA records, including the fewest points scored in a half (4) in the shot clock era. The Huskies will be back at the Eastern Michigan Convocation Center, where they will take on the Eagles in the first round of the MAC Tournament. Tip-off between the 10th-seeded

Huskies and seventh-seeded Eastern Michigan will be at 6 p.m. Last week, before NIU’s firstround opponent was determined, freshman point guard Travon Baker said the Huskies would be ready for another possible game in Ypsilanti.

See MAC TOURNEY, page B3

What kind of director would serve Huskies athletics best? Opinions? Brother, do I have opinions: Topic No. 1: Who should be the next Northern Illinois athletics director? The obvious answer: A true Huskie, somebody who will stay the course longer than 4-5 years. More often than not, NIU searches become enamored with these high-profile, fast-track types who use the university as a resume-builder and stepping stone to the next level. Maybe the revolving door in Huskies intercollegiate athletics would slow down with a local, home-grown AD who relates better with the community. Nine years ago when I first

KORCEK’S CORNER Mike Korcek perused Jim Phillips’ resume, I “knew” he was too good to stay here long. Same thing, after Northern Illinois stunned college football with the unprecedented Orange Bowl berth in December, the second thought that popped into my head was that Jeff Compher was gone, too. Change is constant, even moreso in college sports. And in some aspects, America is still the land of opportunity, so I understand moving up the NCAA ladder.

If I remember correctly, five years ago UCLA senior associate AD Ross Bjork was the other finalist when Compher got the NIU job. Within two years, Bjork became the AD at Western Kentucky and then bolted to Ole Miss as AD in 2012. Kudos to the search committee for finding “hot” candidates. But don’t we want the “right” candidate? Look, I comprehend that most people usually don’t turn down mega six-figure salaries from the Big Ten, SEC, or Conference USA (and the Big East) to stay in bucolic DeKalb County. Most people. As Phillips often reminded his staff, “the NIU lapel pin

never comes off.” Why not make it easier and hire a Northern Illinois grad? Say what you want about Hall of Famers and past ADs Bob Brigham and Cary Groth, both loved their alma mater dearly. Did they make mistakes? Who doesn’t? How many times have you heard the statement “they need to run Huskie athletics like a business?” I agree, but throw a little personality and Cardinal and Black passion into the mix. This is a major institution with a nationally recognized College of Business, isn’t it? With thousands of prominent business alums – many who were highly successful NIU student-athletes, even Aca-

demic All-Americas or national champions – why not consider those types of credentials? To paraphrase JFK, ask not what your alma mater can do for you – ask what you can do for the Huskies. Have we ever considered this? Isn’t it time to stop hiring these young associate ADs from BCS programs, buying a red and black tie for the introductory press conference, and teaching them how to spell H-u-s-k-i-e the NIU way? Names, I suppose you want names. What do you think this is? The Korcek Executive Search firm? Pony up $50,000, folks.

See KORCEK, page B3

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NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE

Central Division W L Pct Indiana 39 24 .619 Bulls 35 28 .556 Milwaukee 31 29 .517 Detroit 23 41 .359 Cleveland 21 42 .333 Atlantic Division W L Pct New York 38 22 .633 Brooklyn 37 26 .587 Boston 34 28 .548 Toronto 25 39 .391 Philadelphia 23 39 .371 Southeast Division W L Pct x-Miami 47 14 .770 Atlanta 34 28 .548 Washington 20 41 .328 Orlando 18 46 .281 Charlotte 13 50 .206

Baseball Byron at Hiawatha, 4:30 p.m. Softball Hiawatha at Byron, 4:30 p.m. Girls Soccer Herscher at Hinckley-Big Rock, 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday

Baseball Ashton-Franklin Center at Hiawatha, 4:30 p.m. Hinckley-Big Rock at Amboy, 4:30 p.m. Girls Soccer Hiawatha at Indian Creek, 4:30 p.m. Belvidere North at DeKalb, 6 p.m. Genoa-Kingston at Hinckley-Big Rock, 4:30 p.m. Girls Track Sycamore, DeKalb, Genoa-Kingston at Sycamore Indoor Invitational, 4 p.m.

Wednesday

Baseball Indian Creek at Genoa-Kingston, 4:30 p.m. Softball Genoa-Kingston at Indian Creek, 4:30 p.m. Boys Track Sycamore, Genoa-Kingston at Sycamore Indoor Invitational, 4 p.m.

8SPORTS SHORTS Woods wins another World Championship

DORAL, Fla. – Tiger Woods is hitting his stride on his march to the Masters. Woods had full control of his game Sunday and never let anyone get closer than three shots until he had locked up his 17th World Golf Championship title. With a bogey that didn’t matter on the final hole, he closed with a 1-under Par 71 to win the Cadillac Championship. One year ago at Doral, Woods left after the 11th hole with tightness in his left Achilles tendon. He since has won five times in his last 22 tournaments worldwide, and can return to No. 1 in the world with a win in two weeks at Bay Hill. Woods won by two over Steve Stricker, who gave Woods a putting tip on the eve of the tournament.

Michigan State downs Northwestern

EAST LANSING, Mich. – Keith Appling scored 16 points and Gary Harris added 12 to lift Michigan State over Northwestern. The Spartans (24-7, 13-5) were eliminated from Big Ten title contention early in their game when Indiana beat Michigan, and Michigan State struggled to put away the undermanned Wildcats. Northwestern (13-18, 4-14) rallied from a 13-point first-half deficit, tying the game at 51 before the Spartans recovered. Kale Abrahamson scored 16 points for Northwestern, which has lost eight straight. Michigan State senior Derrick Nix scored 10 points in his final home game. The Spartans shot 66 percent from the field and 6 of 10 from 3-point range.

Ohio State beats Illinois

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Deshaun Thomas, playing perhaps his final home game for Ohio State, scored 19 points in a victory over Illinois. Ohio State (23-7, 13-5) is the No. 2 seed for next week’s Big Ten tournament. Brandon Paul scored 21 points for Illinois (21-11, 8-10), which will be the No. 8 seed in Chicago. Aaron Craft added 14 points and six assists while creating his usual havoc on defense for the Buckeyes. Lenzelle Smith Jr. had 10 points. The Buckeyes have won five in a row, including wins over No. 2 Indiana and then-No. 4 Michigan State. Thomas, the Big Ten’s leading scorer at 19.8 points a game, is expected to give up his senior season to enter the NBA draft. – Wire reports

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WESTERN CONFERENCE

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Edmonton Oilers center Sam Gagne scores his second goal on Blackawks goalie Ray Emery with a backhand shot Sunday in Chicago.

oilers 6, blackhawks 5

Hawks know not to fret CHICAGO – After watching the Edmonton Oilers score four goals in 10-minute span Sunday, a Blackhawks fan screamed a question from the upper deck late in the first period. “How much time is left in this terrible period?!?” the fan said. His timing was perfect. “One minute remaining in the period,” public-address announcer Gene Honda responded. “One minute.” Not a minute too soon, Hawks players retreated to their locker room facing a 4-0 deficit. When they returned to the ice, they looked like their familiar selves. Long story short: The Hawks lost, 6-5, to the Edmonton Oilers. They started cardtable flat, made a breathtaking comeback bid, but ultimately ran out of time. Now, the Hawks have lost two consecutive games. They are 21-2-3 on the season. All of those ESPN and Sports Illustrated and Wall Street Journal reporters who filled the press box in recent games have packed their laptop bags and headed elsewhere. Once the streak – I mean The Streak – ended Friday in Colorado,

VIEWS Tom Musick the Hawks lost some national sizzle. Too bad. All of those news outlets are missing out on a good development in the story. It’s official. The Hawks are human. I was starting to wonder. Humans have bad days, and the Hawks finally have had a couple. That’s fine. Even a shortened regular season is a long season, and disappointing losses are inevitable. Give Hawks players credit for having the right approach to their recent cold spell. Just because you have a hiccup doesn’t mean you need CPR. Take this exchange between Patrick Kane and a reporter after the game. “You haven’t faced adversity as far as losing this season,” a serious-looking reporter said. “How do you expect this team to respond?” Kane tried, and failed, to stifle a chuckle. “You know what, it’s two games, so we can’t get too ahead of ourselves here,” Kane said. “But, we’ve had a great season to date. And we feel

we have a really good team in here that can do some special things.” Good for Kane for chuckling. Outside of the locker room, some might question the Hawks’ recent defensive breakdowns. Corey Crawford was yanked from Friday’s start after allowing five goals on 19 shots, and Ray Emery was yanked from Sunday’s start after giving up three goals on eight shots. But the Hawks’ goaltenders are not entirely to blame for the recent binge in goals allowed, just as they weren’t the sole reason for the team’s defensive success during The Streak. And the Hawks’ offense is as potent as ever, as proved by their five goals in the final two periods against Edmonton. Even if I wanted to press the panic button, I’m not sure that I would be able to find it. Maybe it’s next to where the Zambonis are parked? Maybe it’s on top of the scoreboard? What if it’s frozen underneath the faceoff circle at center ice, hidden in plain sight? Regardless, the Hawks will be fine. Jonathan Toews agreed. By the way, this is the same guy who is nicknamed “Captain Serious.” “We didn’t get a point

or we didn’t get two points tonight, but considering where we put ourselves [after the first period], we didn’t give up,” Toews said with a matter-of-fact tone. “We tried to come back, and we put them on their heels in the second half of the game. … “We’ll learn from this when we get back at it later on this week.” I believe him. It’s rare for Hawks players to have to sit around after a game and discuss a loss. It’s not something they want to become a habit. “It was weird after the first one,” Kane said. “Now, we’ve got to be careful not to get too down on ourselves – especially after the start we had. “We did something really special, and no one can ever take that away from you. We’re very happy with the start to the season. We’ve just kind of got to regroup here and get back to that mentality of not wanting to lose.” They already have that mentality. They’ll be fine.

• Northwest Herald sports columnist Tom Musick can be reached at tmusick@shawmedia.com and on Twitter @ tcmusick.

Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio 48 15 .762 Memphis 42 19 .689 Houston 34 30 .531 Dallas 29 33 .468 New Orleans 22 42 .344 Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 47 16 .746 Denver 42 22 .656 Utah 32 31 .508 Portland 29 33 .468 Minnesota 21 39 .350 Pacific Division W L Pct L.A. Clippers 44 20 .688 Golden State 35 29 .547 L.A. Lakers 33 31 .516 Phoenix 22 41 .349 Sacramento 22 42 .344 x-clinched playoff spot

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Saturday's Results Brooklyn 93, Atlanta 80 New York 113, Utah 84 Memphis 96, New Orleans 85 Washington 104, Charlotte 87 Denver 111, Minnesota 88 Phoenix 107, Houston 105 Milwaukee 103, Golden State 93 Sunday's Results L.A. Lakers 90, Bulls 81 Oklahoma City 91, Boston 79 Miami 105, Indiana 91 Toronto 100, Cleveland 96 Orlando 99, Philadelphia 91 Dallas 100, Minnesota 77 New Orleans 98, Portland 96 Milwaukee at Sacramento (n) Detroit at L.A. Clippers (n) Today’s Games Brooklyn at Philadelphia, 6 p.m. Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m. Detroit at Utah, 8 p.m. Denver at Phoenix, 9 p.m. New York at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

NHL WESTERN CONFERENCE

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WHITE SOX ROUNDUP

Sox split squads split games with Mariners, Reds The ASSOCIATED PRESS PEORIA, Ariz. – Dayan Viciedo went 3 for 3 with a double and two runs scored, and a White Sox split squad beat the Seattle Mariners, 11-7, on Sunday. Viciedo was in the middle of a five-run first inning that featured nonroster invitee Stefan Gartrell’s grand slam off Mariners starter Andrew Carraway. Seattle’s Michael Morse hit his third home run of the spring, a solo shot off Sox starter Dylan Axelrod. That was the only hit and run allowed by the right-hander. Axelrod, who pitched in 14 games and started seven last season, worked three innings for the win. He has allowed one earned run and three hits in eight innings over three outings this spring. Axelrod has walked none and struck out seven. Mariners outfielders Jason Bay and Carlos Peguero both tripled off of Scott Snodgress in the fourth. The Sox’s Brent Morel was 2 for 4 with a home run, and Gordon Beckham added a solo shot. Reds 7, White Sox (ss) 3: At Glendale, Ariz., Sox starter Gavin Floyd allowed four runs and struck out five in 3 1/3 innings for a Sox split squad in a loss to Cincinnati. “I’m trying to make pitches and act like it’s a middle-of-the-season game,” Floyd said. “I threw all my pitches for strikes, but they just got some good hits off me. I still got some good work in. It is a process of little things here and there. As soon as you can try to emulate a real game, the more prepared you are for the season.” Sox DH Paul Konerko went 0 for 3 after recording hits in eight of his nine previous plate appearances. Sox third baseman Jeff Keppinger was scratched from the lineup because of shoulder soreness, but the ailment is not considered serious. He will not play the field again until Wednesday, but he may be a designated hitter before then. Sox shortstop Alexi Ramirez was hit by a pitch from Reds starter Johnny Cueto, but he remained in the game and was not seriously injured. Cueto was erratic in his second spring start. He walked three and hit another, but completed four innings and gave up just two runs. The Reds’ Shin-Soo Choo got four hits, stole two bases and scored twice, With Team Canada eliminated from the World Baseball Classic, first baseman Joey Votto is expected to return to the Reds’ camp Tuesday. Cincinnati has an off day today.

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The Cubs’ Dioner Navarro (right) celebrates his two-run home run Sunday with Alfonso Soriano in the sixth inning of a spring training game against the San Diego Padres in Mesa, Ariz. The Cubs won, 9-3.

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Soriano, Navarro get key hits, Cubs beat the Padres The ASSOCIATED PRESS

MESA, Ariz. – David DeJesus took the jeers in stride, placed the winning bunt just so and posed with the championship belt a few minutes later. The Cubs’ center fielder defended his title in the team’s annual 64-man bunt tournament before Sunday’s 9-3 win over the San Diego Padres. This is the second year that manager Dale Sveum has run the event. It was a way to work on the craft in a fun manner, setting point values based on where bunted balls came to rest. And it’s become a big deal in camp, with almost the whole organization in attendance on one of the backfields for the finals. DeJesus beat Nate Hale, who played collegiately and works in the club’s video department for the prize money, a reported $3,400. It was clear that most around the field were rooting for Hale, but DeJesus came through on his last bunt in five rounds of eight attempts. “It’s always easy to [root for the underdog],” DeJesus said. “The guy with the belt, people be hatin’. But it’s all right.” The good time was a precursor for what came later when the Cubs’ hitters broke loose. Pitcher Travis Wood and DeJesus singled to start the sixth inning before a two-out, two-run double by Alfonso Soriano and a two-run hom-

er by Dioner Navarro against Tim Stauffer. The Cubs began the day last in the NL in team average (.247) and onbase average (.307) although regulars Anthony Rizzo (World Baseball Classic) and Starlin Castro (injured hamstring) have been out of the lineup for some time. “We’re not going to know anything until we get all eight (regulars) out there,” Sveum said. “We are going to have to be creative in the lineups. It’s not going to be a prolific offense, but it will keep the line moving better than it did last year.” Christian Villanueva added a tworun homer for the Cubs. He has three hits this spring and all of them are home runs. Padres starter Jason Marquis threw four scoreless innings and allowed two hits. Reliever Andrew Cashner made his first appearance and had a clean seventh inning after coming back from thumb surgery stemming from a hunting accident in December. “We didn’t see any sign of thumb [trouble] which he has shown through all of his workouts,” Padres manager Bud Black said. “It hasn’t been bothering him at all. It was encouraging.” Mark Kotsay hit a two-run double in the third inning off Cubs starter Scott Feldman.

Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 26 18 8 0 36 97 76 New Jersey 26 12 9 5 29 65 75 N.Y. Rangers 24 13 9 2 28 63 58 N.Y. Islanders 26 11 12 3 25 77 88 Philadelphia 27 12 14 1 25 75 82 Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 26 17 5 4 38 84 66 Boston 22 16 3 3 35 67 48 Toronto 26 15 10 1 31 79 70 Ottawa 25 13 8 4 30 59 51 Buffalo 26 9 14 3 21 67 83 Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Carolina 24 14 9 1 29 75 69 Winnipeg 25 12 11 2 26 63 74 Tampa Bay 25 10 14 1 21 85 79 Washington 24 10 13 1 21 69 72 Florida 26 7 13 6 20 64 98 Two points for a win, one point for OT loss. Saturday's Results Pittsburgh 5, Toronto 4, SO Minnesota 2, Nashville 1, SO Boston 3, Philadelphia 0 N.Y. Islanders 5, Washington 2 Columbus 3, Detroit 0 St. Louis 4, San Jose 3, OT Carolina 6, New Jersey 3 Montreal 4, Tampa Bay 3 Phoenix 2, Dallas 1 Los Angeles 6, Calgary 2 Sunday's Games Edmonton 6, Blackhawks 5 Columbus 3, Detroit 2, SO New Jersey 3, Winnipeg 2, SO N.Y. Rangers 4, Washington 1 Montreal 5, Florida 2 Pittsburgh 6, N.Y. Islanders 1 Philadelphia 3, Buffalo 2 Minnesota 4, Vancouver 2 Anaheim 4, St. Louis 2 San Jose at Colorado (n) Today’s Games Boston at Ottawa, 6:30 p.m. Calgary at Los Angeles, 9 p.m. Tuesday's Games N.Y. Rangers at Buffalo, 6 p.m. Carolina at Washington, 6 p.m. Vancouver at Columbus, 6 p.m. Boston at Pittsburgh, 6:30 p.m. Tampa Bay at Florida, 6:30 p.m. Toronto at Winnipeg, 7 p.m. San Jose at St. Louis, 7 p.m. Anaheim at Minnesota, 7 p.m. Nashville at Dallas, 7:30 p.m. Edmonton at Colorado, 9 p.m. Los Angeles at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

MLB Spring training Sunday's Games White Sox (ss) 11, Seattle 7 Cincinnati 7, White Sox (ss) 3 Cubs 9, San Diego 3 Boston 6, Tampa Bay 2 Pittsburgh (ss) 7, Minnesota 4 Philadelphia 7, Houston 1 Detroit 2, Washington 1 N.Y. Mets 3, St. Louis 0 Miami 10, Atlanta 2 Pittsburgh (ss) 5, Baltimore 2 N.Y. Yankees 3, Toronto 0 Kansas City 17, L.A. Angels 11 San Francisco 6, Milwaukee 1 Oakland 7, Arizona 5 Texas 7, Cleveland 6 L.A. Dodgers 6, Colorado 1 Today’s Games Colorado vs. White Sox, 3:05 p.m. Cubs vs. Arizona, 3:10 p.m. Boston vs. Miami, 12:05 p.m. N.Y. Mets vs. Detroit, 12:05 p.m. Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh, 12:05 p.m. St. Louis vs. N.Y. Yankees, 12:05 p.m. Atlanta vs. Washington, 12:05 p.m. San Francisco vs. Texas, 3:05 p.m. Oakland vs. San Diego, 3:05 p.m. L.A. Dodgers vs. Milwaukee, 3:05 p.m. L.A. Angels vs. Cleveland, 3:05 p.m. Minnesota vs. Tampa Bay, 6:05 p.m.

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lakers 90, bulls 81

Howard leads Lakers over Bulls Next

By JOE HAAKENSON The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES – Dwight Howard scored 16 points and grabbed 21 rebounds, Kobe Bryant chipped in with 19 points, nine assists and seven rebounds, and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Bulls 90-81 Sunday. The Lakers improved to 3331, the first time this season they have been two games over .500. They also moved one-half game ahead of the Utah Jazz and into sole possession of the No. 8 and final playoff spot in the Western Conference. The Lakers led almost throughout, only briefly falling behind by two points in the second quarter, and led by as many as 18 in the third period. Steve Nash had 16 points for the Lakers. Nate Robinson led the Bulls with 19 points, and Joakim Noah had 18 points and 17 rebounds. Bryant was scoreless in the first quarter, but the Lakers maintained a lead behind Howard’s play in the paint. He made 8 of 14 shots from the floor, but was 0 for 5 from the free throw line. His 21 rebounds marked the fourth time this season he’s grabbed at least 20. After a sluggish first half

at Sacramento, 9 p.m. Wed., AM-1000 by both teams, the Lakers came out hot to start the third quarter. Led by 10 points from Nash, Los Angeles went on a 21-7 run to begin the quarter, capped by a 3-pointer by Jodie Meeks that gave the Lakers a 65-47 lead. But the Bulls responded with an 8-0 spurt to narrow their deficit to 65-55. The Lakers finished the third quarter with a 73-61 lead when Earl Clark took a pass from Bryant and made a jumper at the buzzer. Bryant took only three shots in the first quarter, going scoreless in the opening 12 minutes. Metta World Peace was cold as well, missing four open 3-pointers, but the Lakers held an early lead thanks to Howard’s efforts down low. Though he missed all three free throws he took in the quarter, Howard was 3 of 3 from the field for six points and grabbed seven rebounds. The Lakers never trailed in the opening period, leading by as many as six before the Bulls cut the margin to 20-16 heading into the second quarter. Bryant finally got into the

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Bulls guard Nate Robinson passes as Los Angeles Lakers guard Steve Nash defends in the first half Sunday in Los Angeles. scoring column on a jumper in the lane with 7:15 left until halftime, then quickly hit another outside shot. But the Lakers couldn’t shake the Bulls, who pulled within 34-32

on a layup by Robinson, Howard picking up his third foul on the play. Howard remained in the game but the Bulls briefly pulled ahead, going up 36-34

on a basket by Carlos Boozer. The Lakers regained the lead shortly thereafter on a 3-pointer by Meeks, and led 44-40 at the half, but not without a little drama. After World

Peace was called for a foul on an illegal screen, denying Bryant a chance to take the final shot of the half, Bryant and World Peace barked at each other as they made their way upcourt. Nash got between the two to calm them down. Howard led the Lakers with eight points and 11 rebounds, while Bryant finished the half with six points on 3 of 9 shooting. Robinson led the Bulls with 13 points. Notes: Lakers forward Pau Gasol (foot injury; torn plantar fascia) remains on track to return before the end of the regular season. “Gasol is coming on,” Lakers coach Mike D’Antoni said. “It’s five weeks on Tuesday, and they said six to eight weeks, so hopefully that’s the case. If there are no setbacks, he should be back.” ... Bulls guard Derrick Rose, recovering from surgery on his left knee in May, is close to returning. But coach Tom Thibodeau said he can’t look ahead to how the team will adjust with Rose, the 2011 NBA MVP, back on the floor. “We’ll cross that bridge when we get there,” Thibodeau said. “For us right now, the guys that are playing, they have to concentrate on their improvement and our next opponent. Derrick has to concentrate on his rehab.”

Did Compher make a lateral move?

Ball State’s Matt Kamieniecki unsuccessfully tries to draw a charging foul from Northern Illinois’ Darrell Bowie (right) in the first half Feb. 13 in DeKalb. Ball State defeated NIU, 56-52.

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A win could be nice building block for young Huskies team • MAC TOURNEY

Continued from page B1 “There’s going to be a lot of motivation regardless,” Baker said. “But that might add a little bit to it.” NIU won’t be favored to win tonight, but the Huskies weren’t expected to get a victory when they were in the same position a year ago, before beating the Eagles, 55-52, in Ypsilanti to advance to the MAC Tournament’s second round in Cleveland. “Last year we were in a similar situation with us being toward the bottom of the conference,” junior guard Antone Christian said. “The good thing about college basketball, when it’s tournament time, anybody can be beat.” Last season, NIU took a big step with the win, which was their first MAC Tournament victory since 2003. This year’s team features a number of freshmen getting consistent playing time. Considering the makeup of the group, getting to Cleveland for the second year in a row would be a nice building block with how much the Huskies have struggled this year.

With a victory, NIU would play the winner of 11th-seeded Miami (Ohio) and sixth-seeded Bowling Green at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Quicken Loans Arena. “If we can get by that first play-in game like we did last year, I think our guys would benefit a lot,” NIU head coach Mark Montgomery said. With six freshmen on the roster, there’s been a lot of growing pains for NIU. Tonight is a new season, and Mongomery said his team has a shot if they play loose, confident and share the ball. The Huskies could be without sophomore wing Abdel Nader, who has been away from the team while going through personal and family issues. He didn’t play in the team’s 53-51 loss Saturday at Ball State, and Montgomery said his availability for the tournament hasn’t been determined. Having so many freshmen has allowed the young group to gain experience, but they’ve also gone through typical freshmen struggles. “I thought they all made strides,” Montgomery said. “At the same time they all hit the wall at times, which is tough.”

We’re looking for bright, proven, engaging Northern Illinois leaders – people such as Dennis Barsema, Mike Burke, Tim Dillon, Josh Haldi, Patrick Stephen, T. J. Lux come to mind. Athletic entrepreneurs. Hire a Huskie. Set the groundwork for NIU’s next generation. AD experience? Overrated. In the old days, retired football coaches automatically became ADs. Now, there’s too many lawyer ADs. This is CEO time. Find a 24/7 workaholic personality who surrounds himself – or herself – with a top-notch support staff in compliance, development, marketing, facilities management, business operations, academic counseling, media relations, etc. People who know and understand our school and culture should go to the head of the class. Will John Peter’s successor understand the critical nature of this hire? Facility-wise, NIU athletics has taken some bold (and overdue) steps in the past decade. Except for the badly needed Huskie Stadium press box and suite(s) renovation, the major capital projects are finished or near completion. For every step forward (can you say “Orange Bowl”), the Huskies hierarchy sometimes takes two backward (2013 home football schedule, too many Soldier Field games, the state of both basketball programs, and indifferent campus, community, and alumni support). More than ever, Northern Illinois needs the right AD to get all on the same page. Topic No. 2: Is East Carolina a lateral move for Jeff Compher?

OK, C-USA might be the MidAmerican Conference on steroids and a larger travel budget. Who knows what the future holds for the Big East? ECU’s athletic facilities are superior, probably because its administration made the commitment sooner. Since Northern Illinois football played at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium in 1990, the seating capacity was increased 35,000 to 50,000. Similar to NIU, the modern-era Pirates searched for the right league affiliation, spending two tenures as an independent and a member of the Southern Conference before joining C-USA in 1997. Who’s better at football? One of ECU’s finest teams would have to be the 1991 eleven that finished 11-1, beat North Carolina State in the Peach Bowl, wound up No. 9 in both major polls, and featured Heisman Trophy candidate and All-American Jeff Blake at quarterback. Does that ring any bells, Huskies fans? Because Northern Illinois almost beat East Carolina and Blake the year before. ECU did survive, 24-20, in maybe the greatest Huskies comeback that almost happened or that few recall. Remember: road game, no TV, no ESPN highlights. Coach Jerry Pettibone rallied the visitors from 10-0 and 17-7 deficits to take the lead in the fourth quarter, 20-17, on a five-yard QB keeper by Stacey Robinson. For some reason, the game officials ruled that Honorable Mention All-America kicker John Ivanic’s PAT was no good (there’s still a debate about that) which forced the Huskies into a touchdown mode once the Pirates went back ahead, 24-20. From around midfield (the details escape me) and with time running out, Robinson – considered one of the all-time best

option QBs in NCAA history – completed only his 60th pass of the year to wide receiver Larry Wynn, who lateralled the ball to fellow WR Kurt Cassidy who headed to the right corner and the end zone. As the ECU defenders converged on Cassidy, Robinson – like a trailer in basketball – followed the hook-and-ladder play toward the end zone. Cassidy fought valiantly to get the ball to the two-yard line as the clock went to 0:00. The next day, coach Pettibone showed me the press box game film angle of the same play. With another few seconds, Cassidy could’ve pitched the ball back to a wide-open Robinson for the game-winning touchdown. NIU finished 6-5 that fall and East Carolina 5-6. Who’s better? Toss-up in my mind. Topic No. 3: Only five Northern Illinois home football dates in 2013? Is the issue quantity or quality? Guess after a 12-2 Orange Bowl season, a little of both. No one expects Alabama or Notre Dame to visit Huskie Stadium. Since 1966 (when full home schedules began), NIU has hosted five home games 24 times, six home dates 17 times, four home games five times (1976, 1983 and the MAC title year, believe it or not, 1985, 1986, 1993), and seven games once (2003). Sure Vanderbilt, Oklahoma State, Kansas State, Louisville, Cincinnati, Wake Forest, etc., would look great again on the home schedule. Heck, some of those old Big West games (UNLV, Nevada, Utah State, Southwestern Louisiana, or Louisiana Tech) shine by comparison. Is this a Top 25 team’s schedule? No. Another task for the new AD. Start the list.

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Huntley had six state qualifiers, and eighth-grader Brian Macarus was the school’s other wrestler to place, taking fifth at 145 pounds in his first trip to state. Macarus was pinned by Cahokia Wirth’s Deandre Brown in the semifinals, but was able to defeat Island Lake Matthews’ Tyler Stankiewicz, 6-5 in the fifthplace match after losing his semifinal wrestleback. “A true sign of a good wrestler is one that can actually wrestle back and win,” Kiley said. “At that point,

More online For all your prep sports coverage – stories, features, scores, photos, videos, blogs and more – log on to Daily-Chronicle.com/dcpreps. what do you want to do? Everybody wants to be a champ. After that one, where do you want to go?” Macarus is another wrestler who’s name will be on the board, after ending the year at 34-6. “It’s going to be nice,” he

said. Clinton Rosette had seven state qualifiers, but the school which won the past two IESA state titles wasn’t able to place a wrestler. Clinton Rosette lost a number of wrestlers from last year’s team, including 14 starters. This season’s group had 22 seventh-graders and 16 sixthgraders. This year’s meet was tough for coach Dan Weller’s team, but hopes the experience will pay off in the future. “We’re just young right now,” Weller said. “But they’re hungry, they’ll be back next year.”

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Glen Ellyn Hadley’s Luke Favia (top) competes against DeKalb Clinton Rosette’s Jose Flores in a 112-pound match Saturday during the Illinois Elementary School Association Boys State Wrestling Tournament at the Convocation Center in DeKalb.

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Older friends sharing time share kisses too

Dear Abby: I am a semi-retired widow in my 60s. A few months ago I started spending time with a man I work with. We would see each other once or twice a month, strictly as friends. Our “dates” ended with a platonic hug. About a month ago, a hug turned into an embrace. A week later, the embrace became a passionate kiss. Since then, whenever we get together – now once or twice a week – we spend a good portion of our time together “making out.” We love the way each other kisses. The problem is, we’re still just friends. There is no desire on the part of either of us to take the relationship up a notch. What do we do? We should not be kissing a friend the way we do, but we can’t

are busy people. Our time is money. We rarely even stop for lunch. Clients who come in talking on their cellphones are a real problem for us because they slow us down. I have had clients jump seem to stop. We’re not hurting anyone. up from my chair to answer We have tried meeting only in their cellphone in the middle public places, but there is still of a haircut – hair flying everywhere. I have had to do a the goodnight kiss. I never haircut AROUND a cellphone, thought I’d need this kind of with the client switching the advice at my age. Must we phone from ear to ear! These stop spending time together? – Flabbergasted in Wisconsin are not even important calls – just casual conversations. Dear Flabbergasted: Not in The lack of courtesy is ridicmy opinion. I assume you’re ulous, and it seems to be getting both eligible. This is the way worse. I would like people who relationships develop, and do this to think twice before you would be foolish not to see where it leads. As of now, subjecting their stylist to it. a kiss is still a kiss. Let me They should put their phones hear from you in a month. on silent, get their hair cut or Dear Abby: I am writing colored, and talk on their own on behalf of hairstylists. We time! – Fed Up in Nebraska

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Dear Fed Up: You are not helpless. This is happening because you have allowed it. If you can’t find the gumption to tell your customers you don’t want them using their cellphones while they’re in your chair, then post a sign on your mirror that reads “Cellphones Not Allowed.” Dear Abby: I am a new bride. I love my husband very much, but I’ve encountered a problem I don’t know how to handle. My husband and I were together for six years before we got married and were engaged for three. We eloped to Las Vegas (it wasn’t planned) and had a “proper” celebration with friends and family later. My husband makes comments that suggest I dragged him and tricked him into marrying me. I know he’s

only kidding, but it’s very hurtful. I don’t know how to let him know his comments really hurt my feelings. It makes me feel like he’s ashamed of our marriage. – Newlywed in California Dear Newlywed: The squeaky wheel gets the grease. The next time your husband does it, speak up. Explain that his attempts at humor are hurtful, not to mention insulting. Ask him if he regrets marrying you. (If the answer is yes, it’s important that you know it NOW.) Clear communication is the key to a strong marriage, and so is respect for one’s partner, which he appears to be lacking.

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PET scans allow doctors clearer view of organs

Dear Dr. K: I’m in treatment for colorectal cancer. My doctor has scheduled a PET scan to see how well my treatment is working. What will happen during this test? Dear Reader: A positron emission tomography, or PET, scan is an imaging technique. Unlike most imaging techniques, a PET scan primarily shows how different parts of the inside of the body are working, rather than just how they are shaped. As in your case, PET scans are often used to determine how well cancer treatment is working. They can also be used to detect cancerous tumors and to determine how much cancer has spread. In addition, doctors use PET

ASK DR. K Anthony L. Komaroff scans to evaluate neurological illnesses, especially epilepsy and dementia. In patients with coronary artery disease, PET scans may be used to evaluate how well the heart is functioning. A PET scan involves radioactivity. Tell your doctor if you are pregnant or if there is a possibility that you might be pregnant. A PET scan usually is done as an outpatient test in a major medical center. The PET scanner is a ring-shaped device with an attached table.

You will lie on the scanning table. During the PET scan, either you will inhale a substance called a tracer, or it will be injected into one of your veins, usually in your arm. Once the tracer is given, the PET scan must be done immediately because the tracer decays rather quickly. The tracer will travel through your bloodstream to the organ being targeted for imaging. Once there, the tracer will produce radioactive particles that interact with other particles in your body to produce gamma rays (similar to X-rays). The PET scanner will detect these gamma rays. A computer analyzes the scans to form an image.

You must lie very still during the PET scan. The scanning table will slide slowly through the opening in the scanner ring, so you won’t need to move. The entire scan should take 30 minutes to two hours. Afterward, you can go home and resume your normal activities. The radioactive tracers used in PET scans are considered to be safe. They are short-lived and are quickly cleared from the body. Before the discovery of Xrays about a century ago, we had no way of looking inside the body without cutting the skin. X-rays were a revolutionary advance, honored with the Nobel Prize. They have helped greatly to diag-

nose a variety of diseases, but the pictures they produce are fuzzy. For example, you can barely see anything in the brain – like a brain tumor. However, until about 50 years ago, X-rays were all we had. Since then, the discovery of computerized tomography (CT) scans, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), functional MRI scans and PET scans allow really clear pictures of our insides. The invention of flexible tubes called endoscopes has also made it possible to see inside the body. All of these technologies have helped doctors solve and fix problems inside the body.

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Alcohol has brought more pain than healing Dr. Wallace: I’m outraged that you are against drinking alcohol until a person reaches the “magic” age of 21, and you even included those in the military. I happen to be a Desert Storm veteran. If an 18-year-old G.I. can vote, be charged as an adult for a crime and die for his country, he should be able to have a cold beer when he’s thirsty. I’m tired of “goody-goody” guys like you preaching about the “evils of drinking alcohol.” I know you are not a military veteran or you wouldn’t think the way you do. We vets have got to stick together. – Veteran, Galesburg, Ill.

’TWEEN 12 & 20 Robert Wallace Veteran: It’s not important if I am or am not a military veteran when I say the world would be a much better and safer place if all the alcohol suddenly vanished forever. Alcohol has triggered more tragedy and pain than it has brought joy and comfort. But, for your information, I served my country in the Korean War. I only mention this to show that all vets don’t think alike. Thank goodness! It would be great if an

8astrograph By BERNICE BEDE OSOL Newspaper Enterprise Association

TODAY – There are strong indications that you could establish three important relationships in the year ahead that could benefit you materially and socially. However, these new pals might not mix too well with your old friends. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – Exercise your initiative instead of waiting for someone else to make the first move. Your chances for achievement are excellent, if you utilize your talents. ARIES (March 21-April 19) – If you want to accomplish as much as possible, don’t be afraid to request assistance. You’ll get no volunteers if nobody knows you need help. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – It will take a positive frame of mind to realize any of your hopes and expectations. Don’t allow any doubts, even a small one, to get a toehold. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – The rate of your accomplishment can be enhanced if you clearly define your goals. Clarity will provide the added time you need to get everything done. CANCER (June 21-July 22) – Try to avoid involvements that would inhibit your independence and mobility. Additionally, you need activities that are mentally challenging instead of physically routine. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – Normally, you’re not overjoyed by changes not of your making, yet you’ll be able to adapt quite advantageously to today’s unexpected developments. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – Don’t discount your mate’s ideas about issues of mutual importance, even if they are very different from your own. His or her view might be clearer than yours. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – You won’t be content frittering your time away. Tackling a weighty endeavor will be the only thing that brings you happiness. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – Devote some time to an activity or a sport that you enjoy. Taking a break from your everyday routines could refurbish your psyche and attitude. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – If at all possible, try to entertain some friends to whom you feel socially obligated. Contact them as early as possible to join you in an impromptu get-together. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – You can best gratify your restlessness by getting in touch with a friend whom you haven’t seen much lately. It won’t matter where you meet, you’ll just enjoy each other’s company. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – Your prospects for achieving success continue to look good, especially if you choose to work on an idea you’ve been contemplating that could make or save you some money.

18-year-old could enjoy a single cold beer when he was really thirsty. But alcohol is an addictive drug, and eventually, the one drink leads to another and another. I’m firmly convinced that alcohol use has brought more pain and destruction to families than it has brought joy and healing. Dr. Wallace: My parents are divorced, and I live with my mom and my grandmother. I’m 15 years old. My problem is that ever since the divorce, my mother has been very grouchy. She constantly blames me for every little thing, and she is rude and unkind to Grandma and to me.

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Last night I was talking to my boyfriend, and my mother walked by and pulled the telephone from my hand and hung it up. I was so embarrassed I broke into tears. When my boyfriend called back to find out what happened my mother wouldn’t let me answer the phone. All she did was swear a lot. My father is living in a beautiful new apartment, and he told me I could come live with him and his new wife. I would have my own bedroom and live in a nicer neighborhood. My mother said I could go if I want to; she didn’t care. I talked to my grandmother (my mother’s

mother), and she said I should live with my father until my mother “gets her act together.” I would also be in my same school. I know you really care for teens, so I’m wondering what you would advise me to do? I hate to leave my mother, but somehow I feel I am annoying her right now. – Sheila, Tyler, Tex. Sheila: Take your grandmother’s advice. If mother needs and wants you to come back when she “gets her act together,” you still have the option to return to live with her if you want to.

• Email Dr. Robert Wallace at rwallace@galesburg.net.

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If you need a pitch, watch your entries P.G. Wodehouse, a prolific English author who spent a lot of his life on Long Island, had several unhappy experiences with aunts when he was young. He transferred this animosity to his books, including this passage from a Bertie Wooster and Jeeves novel: “There came from without the hoof-beats of a galloping relative, and Aunt Dahlia whizzed in.” Bridge players – whether an aunt or an uncle or another relative – need entries for various reasons, including to cash winners, to take finesses and to draw trumps. In this deal, what is the critical entry card that allows South to make four spades after West leads the heart queen? A simple Stayman sequence leads to four spades. (Note that a red-suit lead defeats three no-trump.) South starts with four losers: one in each suit. The careless declarer wins trick one and immediately plays a trump. But then West can win with his ace and lead another heart (East being careful to complete a high-low to show his doubleton). Suddenly South cannot avoid going down one. The more thoughtful declarer realizes that he must eliminate the heart loser before touching trumps. And once the diamond ace has been dislodged, he can discard two hearts from the board. But he must be careful to win the first trick with dummy’s king. South then calls for the diamond six. East wins and returns the heart five, but declarer takes that with his carefully conserved hand entry, the heart ace, and cashes his two diamond winners, discarding dummy’s remaining hearts. Finally, with only three losers, he plays on trumps.

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PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association PLAINTIFF Vs. Irma Garcia; et. al. DEFENDANTS 10 CH 00300 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on 1/10/2013, the Sheriff of DeKalb County, Illinois will on 4/25/13 at the hour of 1:00PM at Public Safety Building, 150 North Main Sycamore, IL 60178, or in a place otherwise designated at the time of sale, County of DeKalb and State of Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real estate: PIN 08-03-475-049 Improved with Single Family Home COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 703 Woodbridge Court, Dekalb, IL 60115 Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated 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, 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. If the property is a condominium and the foreclosure takes place after 1/1/2007, purchasers other than the mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after Confirmation of the sale. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises. 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 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 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information: Examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: Codilis & Associates, P.C., 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-10-15556. I513783 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, March 11, 18 & 25, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY - SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee for J.P. Morgan Alternative Loan Trust 2007-A2 PLAINTIFF Vs. Oscar Cornejo; et. al. DEFENDANTS 10 CH 00336 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on 12/13/2012, the Sheriff of DeKalb County, Illinois will on 4/11/13 at the hour of 1:00PM at Public Safety Building, 150 North Main Sycamore, IL 60178, or in a place otherwise designated at the time of sale, County of DeKalb and State of Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT 7 IN BLOCK 4 OF FOURTH ADDITION TO NORTH CREST SUBDIVISION, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF A PART OF PARCEL 'A' OF THE ELLWOOD FARM PLAT ON SECTION 14, TOWNSHIP 40 NORTH, RANGE 4 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN AS PER PLAT RECORDED IN THE RECORDER'S OFFICE OF DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS, ON JUNE 15TH, 1966 AS DOCUMENT NO. 333404, SITUATED IN DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS PIN 08-14-129-001 Improved with Single Family Home COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 1830 N. Judy Lane Dekalb, IL 60115 Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated 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, 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. If the property is a condominium and the foreclosure takes place after 1/1/2007, purchasers other than the mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after Confirmation of the sale. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises. 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 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 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information: Examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: Codilis & Associates, P.C., 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-10-15992. I510073 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, February 25, March 4 & 11, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DeKALB COUNTYSYCAMORE, ILLINOIS BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. PLAINTIFF VS CLAY PAZIN AKA CLAY R PAZIN; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK OF DEKALB COUNTY; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS ; DEFENDANTS 11 CH 00362 129 GURLER STREET DEKALB, IL 60115 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UN-

DER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE ACT ***THIS DOCUMENT IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT ON A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE*** PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered by said Court in the above entitled cause on January 10, 2013, DEKALB COUNTY SHERIFF in DEKALB County, Illinois, will on April 25, 2013, in 150 N. Main Street, Sycamore, IL 60178, at 1:00 PM, sell at public auction and sale to the highest bidder for cash, all and singular, the following described real estate mentioned in said Judgment, situated in the County of DEKALB, State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said Judgment: TAX NO. 08-22-427-006 COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 129 GURLER STREET DEKALB, IL 60115 Description of Improvements: GRAY VINYL TWO STORY SINGLE FAMILY HOME WITH A TWO CAR DETACHED GARAGE; HAS FENCE; UTILITIES ARE OFF; PROPERTY IS VACANT The Judgment amount was $148,469.98. Sale Terms: This is an "AS IS" sale for "CASH". The successful bidder must deposit 25% down by certified funds; balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. NO REFUNDS. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate, water bills, etc., and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to plaintiff. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the bid amount, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises. 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 YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DYAS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For Information: Visit our website at http:\\service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only - Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel. No. (312) 372-2060. Please refer to file #PA1112656 Plaintiff's attorney is not required to provide additional information other than that set forth in this notice of sale. I514116 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, March 11, 18 & 25, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS Wells Fargo Financial Illinois, Inc. PLAINTIFF Vs. Michael Mcdermott a/k/a Mike A. Mcdermott; et. al. DEFENDANTS 11 CH 00615 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on 7/26/2012, the Sheriff of DeKalb County, Illinois will on 4/25/13 at the hour of 1:00PM at Public Safety Building, 150 North Main Sycamore, IL 60178, or in a place otherwise designated at the time of sale, County of DeKalb and State of Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real estate: PIN 08-24-351-026 Improved with Residential COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 125 Cotton Avenue, Dekalb, IL 60115 Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated 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, 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. If the property is a condominium and the foreclosure takes place after 1/1/2007, purchasers other than the mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after Confirmation of the sale. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals

presently in possession of the subject premises. 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 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 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information: Examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: Codilis & Associates, P.C., 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-11-36130. I513807 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, March 11, 18 & 25, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY - SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS Illinois Housing Development Authority PLAINTIFF Vs. Shawn P. Long; et. al. DEFENDANTS 11 CH 00661 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on 12/13/2012, the Sheriff of DeKalb County, Illinois will on 4/11/13 at the hour of 1:00PM at Public Safety Building, 150 North Main Sycamore, IL 60178, or in a place otherwise designated at the time of sale, County of DeKalb and State of Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real estate: PIN 08-22-405-006 Improved with Single Family Home COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 624 Ellwood Avenue DeKalb, IL 60115 Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated 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, 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. If the property is a condominium and the foreclosure takes place after 1/1/2007, purchasers other than the mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after Confirmation of the sale. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises. 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 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 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information: Examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: Codilis & Associates, P.C., 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-11-32920. I510072 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, February 25, March 4 & 11, 2013.)

Street, Sycamore, IL 60178, at 1:00 PM, sell at public auction and sale to the highest bidder for cash, all and singular, the following described real estate mentioned in said Judgment, situated in the County of DEKALB, State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said Judgment: TAX NO. 08-22-427-003 COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 133 SHERMAN PLACE DEKALB, IL 60115 Description of Improvements: GRAY WOOD SIDED TWO STORY SINGLE FAMILY HOME WITH ONE CAR ATTACHED GARAGE The Judgment amount was $71,419.46. Sale Terms: This is an "AS IS" sale for "CASH". The successful bidder must deposit 25% down by certified funds; balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. NO REFUNDS. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate, water bills, etc., and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to plaintiff. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the bid amount, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises. 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 YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DYAS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For Information: Visit our website at http:\\service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only - Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel. No. (312) 372-2060. Please refer to file #PA1126842 Plaintiff's attorney is not required to provide additional information other than that set forth in this notice of sale. I514130 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, March 11, 18 & 25, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY - SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS The Bank of New York Mellon f/k/a the Bank of New York, as Trustee for the Certificateholders of CWMBS Inc., CWMBS Reperforming Loan REMIC Trust, Certificates, Series 2005-R1 PLAINTIFF Vs. Terry C. Bennett Jr. a/k/a Terry C. Bennett; et. al. DEFENDANTS 12 CH 00378 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on 11/1/2012, the Sheriff of DeKalb County, Illinois will on 4/11/13 at the hour of 1:00PM at Public Safety Building, 150 North Main Sycamore, IL 60178, or in a place otherwise designated at the time of sale, County of DeKalb and State of Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real estate: PIN 08-22-457-013 Improved with Single Family Home COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 803 S. First Street DeKalb, IL 60115 Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated 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, 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. If the property is a condominium and the foreclosure takes place after 1/1/2007, purchasers other than the mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after Confirmation of the sale. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises. 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 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 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information: Examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: Codilis & Associates, P.C., 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-12-19997. I510074

(Published in the Daily Chronicle, February 25, March 4 & 11, 2013.)

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS PNC Bank, National Association PLAINTIFF Vs. Shailini Patel; et. al. DEFENDANTS 12 CH 00541 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on 1/10/2013, the Sheriff of DeKalb County, Illinois will on 4/25/13 at the hour of 1:00PM at Public Safety Building, 150 North Main Sycamore, IL 60178, or in a place otherwise designated at the time of sale, County of DeKalb and State of Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real estate: PIN 08-03-450-021 Improved with Residential COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 671 Blackstone Court, Dekalb, IL 60115 Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated 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, 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. If the property is a condominium and the foreclosure takes place after 1/1/2007, purchasers other than the mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after Confirmation of the sale. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises. 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 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 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information: Examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: Codilis & Associates, P.C., 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-12-28463. I513784

(Published in the Daily Chronicle, March 11, 18 & 25, 2013.)

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DeKALB COUNTYSYCAMORE, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. PLAINTIFF VS DAVID MANN; MA TERESA MANN; ILLINOIS COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION; SUMMIT ENCLAVE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION; SUMMIT ENCLAVE COURT HOME CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; DEFENDANTS 12 CH 1 1530 GRAND DRIVE UNIT 6 DEKALB, IL 60115 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE ACT ***THIS DOCUMENT IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT ON A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE*** PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered by said Court in the above entitled cause on November 8, 2012, DEKALB COUNTY SHERIFF in DEKALB County, Illinois, will on April 25, 2013, in 150 N. Main Street, Sycamore, IL 60178, at 1:00 PM, sell at public auction and sale to the highest bidder for cash, all and singular, the following described real estate mentioned in

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Daily Chronicle / daily-chronicle.com said Judgment, situated in the County of DEKALB, State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said Judgment: TAX NO. 08-13-178-017 COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 1530 GRAND DRIVE UNIT 6 DEKALB, IL 60115 Description of Improvements: 4 OR MORE UNITS WITH ATTACHED 2 CAR GARAGE. The Judgment amount was $125,522.09. Sale Terms: This is an "AS IS" sale for "CASH". The successful bidder must deposit 25% down by certified funds; balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. NO REFUNDS. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate, water bills, etc., and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to plaintiff. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the bid amount, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises. 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 YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DYAS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For Information: Visit our website at http:\\service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only - Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel. No. (312) 372-2060. Please refer to file #PA1126781 Plaintiff's attorney is not required to provide additional information other than that set forth in this notice of sale. I514129

Beyers & Mihlar, LLC, 111 E. Main St., Decatur, Illinois 62523 (217) 422-1719. The purchaser of a condominium unit at a judicial foreclosure sale, other than a mortgage, who takes possession of a condominium unit pursuant to a court order or a purchase who acquires title from a mortgage shall have the duty to pay the proportionate share, if any, of the common expenses for the unit which would have become due in the absence of any assessment acceleration during the 6 months immediately preceding institution of an action to enforce the collection of assessments, and which remain unpaid by the owner during whose possession the assessments accrued. If the outstanding assessments are paid at any time during any action to enforce the collection of assessments, the purchaser shall have no obligation to pay any assessments which accrued before he or she acquired title. 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-l) 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 151701 (c) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. Note: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act you are advised that the Law Firm of Heavner, Scott, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC, is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt, and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. James A. Coale Attorney for Heavner, Scott, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC I515180 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, March 11, 18 & 25, 2013.)

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PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association PLAINTIFF Vs. Irma Garcia; et. al. DEFENDANTS 10 CH 00300 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on 1/10/2013, the Sheriff of DeKalb County, Illinois will on 4/25/13 at the hour of 1:00PM at Public Safety Building, 150 North Main Sycamore, IL 60178, or in a place otherwise designated at the time of sale, County of DeKalb and State of Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT 5-3 ON THE FINAL PLAT OF WINEBERRY PUD PHASE THREE-A RESBUDIVISION NO. 3, A RESUBDIVISION OF LOTS 5, 8 AND 9 OF WINEBERRY PUD PHASE THREE-A, A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF SECTION 3, TOWNSHIP 40 NORTH, RANGE 4 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED MARCH 12, 2007 IN PLAT CABINET 10 AT SLIDE NO. 17-C AS DOCUMENT NO. 2007004181, ALL SITUATED IN THE CITY OF DEKALB, DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS. PIN 08-03-475-049 Improved with Single Family Home COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 703 Woodbridge Court, Dekalb, IL 60115 Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated 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, 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. If the property is a condominium and the foreclosure takes place after 1/1/2007, purchasers other than the mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after Confirmation of the sale. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises. 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 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 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information: Examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: Codilis & Associates, P.C., 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-10-15556. I513783 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, March 11, 18 & 25, 2013.)

amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, 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. If the property is a condominium and the foreclosure takes place after 1/1/2007, purchasers other than the mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after Confirmation of the sale. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises. 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 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 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information: Examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: Codilis & Associates, P.C., 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-10-15992. I510073

(Published in the Daily Chronicle, February 25, March 4 & 11, 2013.)

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DeKALB COUNTYSYCAMORE, ILLINOIS BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. PLAINTIFF VS CLAY PAZIN AKA CLAY R PAZIN; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK OF DEKALB COUNTY; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS ; DEFENDANTS 11 CH 00362 129 GURLER STREET DEKALB, IL 60115 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE ACT ***THIS DOCUMENT IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT ON A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE*** PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered by said Court in the above entitled cause on January 10, 2013, DEKALB COUNTY SHERIFF in DEKALB County, Illinois, will on

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(Published in the Daily Chronicle, March 11, 18 & 25, 2013.)

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF DEKALBSYCAMORE, ILLINOIS BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, vs. RICARDO S. NIETO, NOEMI NIETO, and HEIGHTS FINANCE CORPORATION Defendants. 12-CH-301 Property Address: 105 Oak Street, DeKalb, IL 60115 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to the Judgment of the above Court entered on January 10, 2013 in the above-entitled cause, the following described real estate, to wit: Permanent Index Number: 0823-152-005 Commonly known as: 105 Oak St., DeKalb, IL 60115 will be offered for sale and sold at public vendue on the 11th day of April, 2013, at 1:00 p.m., at the Public Safety Building, 150 North Main, Sycamore, Illinois. The Judgment amount is $158,673.91. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. Sale terms: The bid amount, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, shall be paid in certified funds immediately by the highest and best bidder at the conclusion of 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 the Plaintiff. The Sale is further subject to confirmation by the Court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the Court file to verify all information. For information, contact the Plaintiff's Attorney: Heavner, Scott,

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Page B8 • Monday, March 11, 2013 April 25, 2013, in 150 N. Main Street, Sycamore, IL 60178, at 1:00 PM, sell at public auction and sale to the highest bidder for cash, all and singular, the following described real estate mentioned in said Judgment, situated in the County of DEKALB, State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said Judgment: LOT 6 IN BLOCK 1 IN ANDREW PETERSON'S ADDITION TO THE CITY OF DEKALB, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED JULY 25, 1893, IN BOOK "B" OF PLATS, PAGE 119 (EXCEPT THEREFROM 30 FEET OFF THE SOUTH END OF SAID LOT RESERVED FOR STREET PURPOSES AS CONTAINED IN WARRANTY DEED RECORDED NOVEMBER 18, 1891 IN BOOK 86 OF DEEDS, PAGE 300, MADE BY ANDRUS PETERSON AND ANNA PETERSON, HIS WIFE, TO JOHN A ROSELL), ALL SITUATED IN DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS. TAX NO. 08-22-427-006 COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 129 GURLER STREET DEKALB, IL 60115 Description of Improvements: GRAY VINYL TWO STORY SINGLE FAMILY HOME WITH A TWO CAR DETACHED GARAGE; HAS FENCE; UTILITIES ARE OFF; PROPERTY IS VACANT The Judgment amount was $148,469.98. Sale Terms: This is an "AS IS" sale for "CASH". The successful bidder must deposit 25% down by certified funds; balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. NO REFUNDS. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate, water bills, etc., and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to plaintiff. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the bid amount, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises. 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 YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DYAS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For Information: Visit our website at http:\\service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only - Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel. No. (312) 372-2060. Please refer to file #PA1112656 Plaintiff's attorney is not required to provide additional information other than that set forth in this notice of sale. I514116 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, March 11, 18 & 25, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS Wells Fargo Financial Illinois, Inc. PLAINTIFF Vs. Michael Mcdermott a/k/a Mike A. Mcdermott; et. al. DEFENDANTS 11 CH 00615 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on 7/26/2012, the Sheriff of DeKalb County, Illinois will on 4/25/13 at the hour of 1:00PM at Public Safety Building, 150 North Main Sycamore, IL 60178, or in a place otherwise designated at the time of sale, County of DeKalb and State of Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT 7 OF HETCHLER'S RESUBDIVISION OF LOT 8 AND PART OF LOT 9 OF COTTON'S ADDITION TO THE CITY OF DEKALB, DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN BOOK "L" OF PLATS, PAGE 17-B IN THE DEKALB COUNTY RECORDER'S OFFICE, SITUATED IN DEKALB COUNTY, STATE OF ILLINOIS. PIN 08-24-351-026 Improved with Residential COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 125 Cotton Avenue, Dekalb, IL 60115 Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated 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, 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. If the property is a condominium and the foreclosure takes place after 1/1/2007, purchasers other than the mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after Confirmation of the sale. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises. 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 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 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information: Examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: Codilis & Associates, P.C., 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-11-36130. I513807 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, March 11, 18 & 25, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY - SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS Illinois Housing Development Authority PLAINTIFF Vs. Shawn P. Long; et. al. DEFENDANTS 11 CH 00661 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on 12/13/2012, the Sheriff of DeKalb County, Illinois will on 4/11/13 at the hour of 1:00PM at Public Safety Building, 150 North Main Sycamore, IL 60178, or in a place otherwise designated at the time of sale, County of DeKalb and State of Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real estate: THE NORTH 25 FEET OF LOT 19 AND THE SOUTH 30 FEET OF LOT 20 IN BLOCK 4 OF TAYLOR'S ADDITION TO THE CITY OF DEKALB, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN BOOK "B" OF PLATS, PAGE 104, IN DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS. PIN 08-22-405-006 Improved with Single Family Home COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 624 Ellwood Avenue DeKalb, IL 60115 Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated 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, 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. If the property is a condominium and the foreclosure takes place after 1/1/2007, purchasers other than the mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after Confirmation of the sale. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises. 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 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 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information: Examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: Codilis & Associates, P.C., 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-11-32920. I510072 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, February 25, March 4 & 11, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DeKALB COUNTYSYCAMORE, ILLINOIS BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. PLAINTIFF VS DAVID JAGO; PATRICIA JAGO A/K/A PATRICIA K. JAGO; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS ; DEFENDANTS 12 CH 00015 133 SHERMAN PLACE DEKALB, IL 60115 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE ACT ***THIS DOCUMENT IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT ON A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE*** PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered by said Court in the above entitled cause on January 17, 2013, DEKALB COUNTY SHERIFF in DEKALB County, Illinois, will on April 25, 2013, in 150 N. Main Street, Sycamore, IL 60178, at 1:00 PM, sell at public auction and sale to the highest bidder for cash, all and singular, the following described real estate mentioned in said Judgment, situated in the County of DEKALB, State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said Judgment: LOT 2 IN BLOCK 1 IN JOHN JOHNSON'S ADDITION TO DEKALB, SITUATED IN THE CITY OF DEKALB, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN BOOK "C" OF PLATS, PAGE 3, ON DECEMBER 4TH, 1896, COUNTY OF DEKALB AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. TAX NO. 08-22-427-003 COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 133 SHERMAN PLACE DEKALB, IL 60115 Description of Improvements: GRAY WOOD SIDED TWO STORY SINGLE FAMILY HOME WITH ONE CAR ATTACHED GARAGE The Judgment amount was $71,419.46. Sale Terms: This is an "AS IS" sale for "CASH". The successful bidder must deposit 25% down by certified funds; balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. NO REFUNDS. The subject property is sub-

ject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate, water bills, etc., and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to plaintiff. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the bid amount, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises. 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 YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DYAS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For Information: Visit our website at http:\\service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only - Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel. No. (312) 372-2060. Please refer to file #PA1126842 Plaintiff's attorney is not required to provide additional information other than that set forth in this notice of sale. I514130 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, March 11, 18 & 25, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY - SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS The Bank of New York Mellon f/k/a the Bank of New York, as Trustee for the Certificateholders of CWMBS Inc., CWMBS Reperforming Loan REMIC Trust, Certificates, Series 2005-R1 PLAINTIFF Vs. Terry C. Bennett Jr. a/k/a Terry C. Bennett; et. al. DEFENDANTS 12 CH 00378 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on 11/1/2012, the Sheriff of DeKalb County, Illinois will on 4/11/13 at the hour of 1:00PM at Public Safety Building, 150 North Main Sycamore, IL 60178, or in a place otherwise designated at the time of sale, County of DeKalb and State of Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT 1 IN BLOCK 11 IN TAYLOR'S ADDITION TO THE CITY OF DEKALB, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF ON DECEMBER 27, 1889 AS DOCUMENT NO 30460 IN BOOK "B" OF PLATS, PAGE 104, SITUATED IN DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS. PIN 08-22-457-013 Improved with Single Family Home COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 803 S. First Street DeKalb, IL 60115 Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated 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, 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. If the property is a condominium and the foreclosure takes place after 1/1/2007, purchasers other than the mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after Confirmation of the sale. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises. 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 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 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information: Examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: Codilis & Associates, P.C., 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-12-19997. I510074 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, February 25, March 4 & 11, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS PNC Bank, National Association PLAINTIFF Vs. Shailini Patel; et. al. DEFENDANTS 12 CH 00541 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on 1/10/2013, the Sheriff of DeKalb County, Illinois will on 4/25/13 at the hour of 1:00PM at Public Safety Building, 150 North Main Sycamore, IL 60178, or in a place otherwise

designated at the time of sale, County of DeKalb and State of Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real estate: UNIT 27-5 OF WINEBERRY P.U.D PHASE 2 RESUBDIVISION #1, OF LOTS 25 AND 27 OF LOT 107 IN WINEBERRY P.U.D PHASE 2, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED MARCH 31, 2004 IN PLAT CABINET 9, AT SLIDE NO. 100-B AS DOCUMENT NO. 2004005788, IN THE CITY OF DEKALB, DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS. PIN 08-03-450-021 Improved with Residential COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 671 Blackstone Court, Dekalb, IL 60115 Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated 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, 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. If the property is a condominium and the foreclosure takes place after 1/1/2007, purchasers other than the mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after Confirmation of the sale. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises. 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 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 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information: Examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: Codilis & Associates, P.C., 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-12-28463. I513784 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, March 11, 18 & 25, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DeKALB COUNTYSYCAMORE, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. PLAINTIFF VS DAVID MANN; MA TERESA MANN; ILLINOIS COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION; SUMMIT ENCLAVE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION; SUMMIT ENCLAVE COURT HOME CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; DEFENDANTS 12 CH 1 1530 GRAND DRIVE UNIT 6 DEKALB, IL 60115 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE ACT ***THIS DOCUMENT IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT ON A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE*** PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered by said Court in the above entitled cause on November 8, 2012, DEKALB COUNTY SHERIFF in DEKALB County, Illinois, will on April 25, 2013, in 150 N. Main Street, Sycamore, IL 60178, at 1:00 PM, sell at public auction and sale to the highest bidder for cash, all and singular, the following described real estate mentioned in said Judgment, situated in the County of DEKALB, State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said Judgment: UNIT 202-6 IN SUMMIT ENCLAVE COURT HOME CONDOMINIUM, AS DELINEATED ON A SURVEY OF THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED REAL PROPERTY: CERTAIN LOTS OR PARTS THEREOF, IN SUMMIT ENCLAVE UNIT 1, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF SECTION 13, TOWNSHIP 40 NORTH, RANGE 4 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, WHICH SURVEY IS ATTACHED AS EXHIBIT "A" TO THE DECLARATION OF CONDOMINIUM RECORDED MAY 13, 2003 AS DOCUMENT 2003-013151, AS AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME, TOGETHER WITH IT UNDIVIDED PERCENTAGE INTEREST IN THE COMMON ELEMENTS, IN DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS. TAX NO. 08-13-178-017 COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 1530 GRAND DRIVE UNIT 6 DEKALB, IL 60115 Description of Improvements: 4 OR MORE UNITS WITH ATTACHED 2 CAR GARAGE. The Judgment amount was $125,522.09. Sale Terms: This is an "AS IS" sale for "CASH". The successful bidder must deposit 25% down by certified funds; balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. NO REFUNDS. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate, water bills, etc., and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to plaintiff. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the bid amount, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, oth-

er 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 DYAS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For Information: Visit our website at http:\\service.atty-pierce.com. Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only - Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel. No. (312) 372-2060. Please refer to file #PA1126781 Plaintiff's attorney is not required to provide additional information other than that set forth in this notice of sale. I514129 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, March 11, 18 & 25, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF DEKALBSYCAMORE, ILLINOIS BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, vs. RICARDO S. NIETO, NOEMI NIETO, and HEIGHTS FINANCE CORPORATION Defendants. 12-CH-301 Property Address: 105 Oak Street, DeKalb, IL 60115 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to the Judgment of the above Court entered on January 10, 2013 in the above-entitled cause, the following described real estate, to wit: Lot 5 in Block 1 in Lewis Huntley's Addition to the Original Village (now City) of DeKalb, according to the Plat thereof recorded June 9, 1855, in Book "A" of Plats, Page 8-1/4, situated in DeKalb County, Illinois; (EXCEPTING therefrom the following: That part of Lot 5 in Block 1 of Lewis Huntley's Addition to the Original Village (now City) of DeKalb, as recorded in Book "A" of Plats, Page 8-1/4, described as follows: Beginning at a point on the Southerly line of said Lot 5, that is 96.22 feet Easterly of, as measured along said Southerly line, the Southwest corner of said lot; thence Easterly along said Southerly line, 62.03 feet to the Easterly line of said lot; thence Northerly along said Easterly line, 65.99 feet (Plat 66.00 feet) to the Northwest corner of said lot; thence Westerly along the Northerly line of said lot, 62.39 feet to a Northwest corner of said lot; thence Southerly 65.98 feet to the point of beginning, all in the City of DeKalb, DeKalb County, Illinois.) Permanent Index Number: 0823-152-005 Commonly known as: 105 Oak St., DeKalb, IL 60115 will be offered for sale and sold at public vendue on the 11th day of April, 2013, at 1:00 p.m., at the Public Safety Building, 150 North Main, Sycamore, Illinois. The Judgment amount is $158,673.91. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. Sale terms: The bid amount, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, shall be paid in certified funds immediately by the highest and best bidder at the conclusion of 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 the Plaintiff. The Sale is further subject to confirmation by the Court. Upon payment in full of the

Daily Chronicle / daily-chronicle.com amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the Court file to verify all information. For information, contact the Plaintiff's Attorney: Heavner, Scott, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC, 111 E. Main St., Decatur, Illinois 62523 (217) 422-1719. The purchaser of a condominium unit at a judicial foreclosure sale, other than a mortgage, who takes possession of a condominium unit pursuant to a court order or a purchase who acquires title from a mortgage shall have the duty to pay the proportionate share, if any, of the common expenses for the unit which would have become due in the absence of any assessment acceleration during the 6 months immediately preceding institution of an action to enforce the collection of assessments, and which remain unpaid by the owner during whose possession the assessments accrued. If the outstanding assessments are paid at any time during any action to enforce the collection of assessments, the purchaser shall have no obligation to pay any assessments which accrued before he or she acquired title. 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-l) 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 151701 (c) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. Note: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act you are advised that the Law Firm of Heavner, Scott, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC, is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt, and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. James A. Coale Attorney for Heavner, Scott, Beyers & Mihlar, LLC I515180 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, March 11, 18 & 25, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE DeKalb Community Unit School District #428 is accepting bids for Supplies for the 2013-14 school year. Vendors may pick up bid instructions and specifications on or after Monday, March 11, 2013 in the Purchasing Office at the District #428 Administration Center, 901 S 4th Street, DeKalb, IL 60115. Sealed bids will be publicly opened at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 26, 2013 in the Board Room at the District #428 Administration Center. (Published in the Daily Chronicle, March 11, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING DEKALB TOWNSHIP ELECTRIC AGGREGATION PLAN Notice is hereby given pursuant to Chapter 20, Act 3855k, Illinois Compiled Statutes, that the Township of DeKalb, Illinois will hold two separate public hearings for public comment on the DeKalb Township Electric Power Aggregation Plan of Operation and Governance for the Municipal Electrical Aggregation Program to be held on April 2, 2013 at 6:00 PM and 6:30 PM at the Township Building located at 2323 S. Fourth St, DeKalb, Illinois. The DeKalb Township Electric Power Aggregation Plan of Opera-

tion and Governance describes the policies and procedures by which the DeKalb Township will carry out its Municipal Electric Aggregation Program, including those policies and procedures which relate to rates and customer service. The Plan includes information on member education, opt-out procedures, billing, obligations of an electric supplier solicitation of bids, changes and termination of service and selection of an electric supplier. A copy of the proposed plan is available for inspection at the DeKalb Township Building or by calling 815-758-8282. DEKALB TOWNSHIP ILLINOIS BOARD OF TRUSTEES (Published in the Daily Chronicle, March 11 & 18, 2013.)

PUBLIC NOTICE Construction Management Services NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CONCERNING THE PROPOSED BUDGET OF THE DEKALB PARK DISTRICT, DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS FOR THE YEAR 3/1/2013 TO 2/28/2014 PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the DeKalb Park District, DeKalb County, Illinois (the "District"), will hold a public hearing on the 21st day of March, 2013, at 7:00 o'clock P.M. The hearing will be held in the 2nd floor conference room in the Hopkins Park Community Center building at 1403 Sycamore Road, DeKalb, Illinois. The purpose of the hearing will be to receive public comments on the proposed Budget for the Fiscal Year 3/1/2013 to 2/28/2014. By order of the Board of Park Commissioners of the DeKalb Park District, DeKalb County, Illinois. Dated this 7th day of February, 2013. Phil Young, Secretary, Board of Park Commissioners, DeKalb Park District, DeKalb County, Illinois (Published in the Daily Chronicle, March 11, 2013.) STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 15TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OGLE COUNTY AMY LEDLOW Vs. CHARLES LEDLOW Case No. 2012D-000191 PUBLICATION NOTICE NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, Charles Ledlow, defendants, that this case has been commenced in this court against you and other defendants, asking for a Divorce, and for other relief. UNLESS YOU file your answer or otherwise file your appearance in this case in the office of the Ogle County Circuit Clerk, Ogle County Judicial Center 106 S. 5th Street, Suite 300, Oregon, IL 61061 on or before March 28, 2013, A JUDGEMENT OR DECREE BY DEFAULT MAY BE TAKEN AGAINST YOU FOR THE RELIEF ASKED IN THE COMPLAINT. Witness: February 21, 2013 Kimberely A. Stall (Clerk of the Circuit Court) By: L. Haas (Deputy) (Published in the Daily Chronicle, February 25, March 4 & 11, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING REGARDING CHARTER SCHOOL To: Residents of Sycamore Community Unit School District No. 427

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NOTICE is hereby given that a public meeting to obtain information on the proposal to establish the Illinois Virtual Charter School at Fox River Valley will be held on Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. in the cafeteria at Sycamore Middle School, 150 Maplewood Drive, Sycamore, Illinois 60178. NOTICE is further given that the charter school proposal is on file with the Sycamore Community Unit School District No. 427 Superintendent's office and conveniently available for public inspection at the Sycamore Community Unit School District Administration Building, 245 W. Exchange Street, Sycamore, Illinois during regular business hours. The charter school proposal is also available on the District's website under BoardDocs. NOTICE is further given that at the public meeting on March 19, 2013, the citizens of Sycamore Community Unit School District No. 427 shall have a right to make comments concerning the Illinois Virtual Charter School at Fox River Valley proposal. Donald Clayberg, Secretary Board of Education Sycamore Community School District No. 427

(Published in the Daily Chronicle, March 11, 2013.)

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