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In Brief

New Year’s in Rockford the coldest on record

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The National Weather Service says Monday was the coldest New Year’s Day on record in Rockford with a high of minus 1 degree and Chicago with a high of 1 degree.

The bitter cold continued Tuesday as the weather service issued wind chill warnings for northwestern and central Illinois. Wind chill advisories were set for the Chicago area and parts of central and southern Illinois.

Forecasters in the Chicago area predicted wind chills between -35 and -20 degrees. They warned of frost bite and hypothermia risks and urged residents to take precautions, including dressing in layers, wearing a hat and gloves, covering exposed skin and bringing pets indoors.

The temperature in Lincoln in central Illinois was 1 with a wind chill of -17 on Tuesday morning.

Temperatures in Rockford are expected to stay in the single-digits and low-teens through Saturday, with overnight lows below zero. Find your complete local forecast at rockrivertimes.com/accuweather.

No injuries as crews battle Starved Rock resort blaze in sub-zero temps

Officials say no one was injured in a fire at a resort near Starved Rock State Park outside LaSalle-Peru.

Utica Fire Chief Ben Brown says the alarm sounded at Grizzly Jack’s Grand Bear Resort at 5:30 a.m. Tuesday. Chief of Staff Edward Rogers says all guests were safely evacuated and the fire was under control by 9 a.m.

The cause of the blaze is under investigation.

LaSalle County sheriff’s officials say the fire was in the main lodge and pool area at the resort in Utica.

Utica’s fire command requested salt trucks because of ice at the scene, where the temperature was hovering around minus 11 degrees.

Application for Arts Council awards due Jan. 5

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The Rockford Area Arts Council is accepting nominations for its Area Art Awards through Friday, Jan. 5.

Formerly knows as The Mayors Art Awards, RAAC will honor nominees in a number of categories at a Feb. 21 event at the Rockford Art Museum.

The Individual Artist Award is for an artist whose artistic achievements have generated a significant and positive impact on the community. The Community Impact Award will go to corporation or business which recognizes the importance of the arts through financial or in-kind support, use of the arts in the workplace, and/or encouragement of employees to volunteer for the arts or otherwise serves as an advocate for the arts. The Arts Advocate Award will go to an individual for exceptional efforts in advocacy, support, and/or volunteerism in the arts. The Creative Cultural Arts Event recognizes an exhibit, performance, festival, series or special cultural arts event during the 2016-2017 season which brought heightened visibility to the arts.

Nomination forms are available at RAAC, 713 E. State. St. or may be downloaded at artsforeveryone.com. R.

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Hanley Fallout

City, UEP advance talks over demo costs

By Shane Nicholson Managing Editor

ROCKFORD — Six months since an arsonist set fire to the historic downtown structure, its owner and the city are still working through the costs of the former Hanley Building.

Urban Equity Properties was on the hook for what was an estimated $600,000 for the demolition and clean up of the 5-story structure that was torched June 25. The building was the first targeted in a series of arsons that rocked the city in late June and early July.

Investigators ultimately ruled three of the four fires to hit downtown that week as intentional: the Hanley and two separate fires set on South 7th Street. The arson investigation is still ongoing, officials have said. A fourth fire on South Main was ruled out as a potential arson by city, state and federal investigators.

The City of Rockford said Thursday that the total cost of demolition on the Hanley

had come in under previously reported estimates. A spokesperson told The Times $475,934 had been spent to secure the property after the blaze, according to the most recent figures from City Hall.

Officials said in the aftermath that Hanley Lofts LLC, a company owned by UEP President Justin Fern, would be on the hook for the cost of demolition. In addition, a pending $60,000 code violation was attached to the Hanley property in the aftermath of repair work done on vaults under sidewalks surrounding the building around the time of UEP taking control in 2014.

Both parties said last Thursday that talks over the outstanding dollar amounts were ongoing, and UEP General Counsel Jeff Orduno says he hopes to have an agreement in place over the next few weeks.

“As far as Hanley goes, we’re going through the process with the mayor’s office now and we expect to be talking to the alderman very shortly on something

that would make good and make whole so that there is no taxpayer money that goes unpaid with regard to the demolition on the Hanley Building,” said Orduno.

UEP said it’s moving forward on a new plan for the former Hanley space, which was in advanced planning stages for development when it burned, and has been working with city lawyers and the council.

Orduno said resolving the demolition costs was a key step in that process: “We don’t want any open issue with the city; we want to get that closed out.”

Orduno added that the proposal for the future of the Hanley site was working its way through city channels but could not offer specific details of the ongoing negotiations or plans.

Reached for a comment, a spokesperson for the city said, “We have been engaged in ongoing discussions with the property owner to find a solution for the city to recoup the costs of demolition.”

Mayor Tom McNamara said Tuesday he

hopes to come to an agreement with UEP that will cover the city’s costs, even if that means offsetting some of them with future development of the Hanley site or other locations in town.

City officials said that because the Hanley had been held in an LLC with no liquid assets besides the building, the likelihood of recouping all demolition costs in the form of a cash payment was minimal. UEP’s liability insurance on the Hanley would not cover demolition costs or the loss of the structure, court filings revealed in July.

Despite claims by some persons on social media, city code hearings are still set for Jan. 10 for the former Hanley location and the adjacent 307-309 S. Main St. building, which a UEP company acquired in October.

UEP says it has spent around $150,000 in repairing the building, including a party wall between the two sites. Contractors The Times talked to said that figure was a reasonable amount for the remediation. R. A RockRiverTimes.com report.

UEP lawyer addresses reports about restaurant

By Jim Hagerty Contributor

DOWNTOWN — Drama surrounding the restaurant space left vacant after the Hanley Furniture Building fire continued over the holidays.

The space is the storefront at 307 S. Main St., occupied by Magpie from 2015 until a fire struck the adjacent Hanley building last June. Magpie owner Stephanie Caltagerone has since filed a lawsuit against her former landlord over terms of her existing lease and ownership of the building. She has also stated in various reports that she has been unable to retrieve her equipment, including a range hood, from the property.

Urban Equity Properties attorney Jeff Orduno told The Times that locks were changed after UEP Investments LLC received the property from Sam Pirrello last October.

According to communications between Orduno and Caltagerone’s then-lawyer reviewed by The Times, attempts were made to arrange for Magpie’s property to be removed from the space, including a walk through in November. Nothing was removed on that date though, Orduno said.

Sections of an awning at the former Magpie restaurant were cut out at the end of November, after Urban Equity Properties took control of the building. UEP says a police report has been filed.

Terms of a new lease were also offered during the talks but were never accepted, prompting UEP to lease the space to another restaurant, Sister’s Cafe.

Water and structural damage shuttered Magpie and the building’s other commercial tenants after the fire. It also led to the lawsuit against Sam Pirrello and others. Just after that complaint was filed, Pirrello signed the building over the UEP

Investments, a limited liability company owned by Urban Equity Properties CEO Justin Fern. Fern’s Hanley Lofts LLC owned the Hanley property.

Orduno said the space has now been leased to the company that owns Sister’s, and code violations caused by the fire are set to be remedied. Arrangements are being made through another attorney for Caltagerone to retrieve her equipment.

And while Caltagerone alluded in a WREX report that the hood belongs to her, it may be a fixture that stays with the property.

Urban Equity Properties has also filed a police report over vandalism to the Magpie storefront, following damage to an awning on the streetside in the days surrounding UEP’s decision to place the property for lease. Orduno said because someone cut out pieces of the awning, the new tenant will be unable to use it.

“We are going to have to replace that awning now,” he said. “We want to seek restitution from whomever caused that level of material damage.”

Latreece Nealon says Sister’s on Main will open this spring. She’s owned the popular Sister’s Cafe on Kilburn Avenue for three years. The second location will feature all-day breakfast, biscuits and gravy, Friday fish fry and steak and eggs weekends. A future dinner menu may follow.

Caltagerone reportedly plans to reopen in another downtown space. Asked for comment, she was provided with text of the communications between UEP officials and her lawyer but did not respond. R.

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Opioid Epidemic

City, county plan lawsuit against drug makers

By Jim Hagerty Contributor

ROCKFORD — Winnebago County and the City of Rockford plan to file a lawsuit against companies that distribute and manufacture opioids, officials announced Tuesday.

The announcement comes a month after DuPage, Kane, Will, McHenry and Lake counties accused several companies, including Purdue Pharma, Abbott Laboratories, Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Cephalon, Johnson & Johnson, Janssen Pharmaceut icals and Endo Healt h Solutions, of “aggressive and fraudulent marketing of prescription opioid painkillers,” leading to what lawyers are calling a “corporate-caused drug epidemic.”

Rockford and Winnebago County’s decision to bring against the industry was sparked six months ago when State’s Attorney Joe Bruscato and County Board Chairman Frank Haney engaged in talks about what area officials say is a full-blown opioid crisis that continues to complement an often deadly and growing heroin epidemic.

“As that conversation proceeded, we talked about what could be done on a local level to assist,” Bruscato said.

However, because the Office of the Illinois Attorney General typically handles consumer issues, Bruscato said a plan to battle this one would be unique, possible litigation without the AG. “We did our due diligence, if you will,” Bruscato said. “That included a trip down to Springfield with the Illinois attorney general and number of my colleagues from across the state—elected and sitting state’s attorneys.”

Bruscato said his team also interviewed drug industry experts.

“One of the responsibilities of the state’ attorney’s office is to be the lawyer for the county and for the citizens,” he said.

“The City of Rockford’s responsibility is to represent the citizens of the city and take up any potential litigation on their behalf.”

And both governments plan to do just that, the three-term state’s attorney said, to stop what he called profiteering at the expense of the citizenry. “(They) expect our taxpayers to clean up the mess,” he said. “These are your community leaders standing up today, saying, ‘We’ve had enough.’”

Bruscato said if the Winnebago County Board and Rockford City Council approve the lawsuit, it will ask the court to hold

companies responsible for various costs associated with the local opioid addiction crisis. The suit is also aimed at changing the way the drugs are marketed and distributed.

Ann Callis, of Goldenberg Heller Antognoli P.C., will lead the litigation team on behalf the municipalities. A former judge, Callis is part of a national consortium of lawyers that represents more than 100 public clients in 11 states.

“I’ve seen the devastation of the opioid epidemic on our communities,” Callis said.

“I feel it is my particular duty to represent these communities in overcoming this epidemic caused by these distributors and caused by these manufacturers.”

If the suit is approved, litigation will not cost the taxpayers anything, Callis said.

“Families are being devastated,” Rockford Mayor Tom McNamara added.

“It is imperative that drug manufacturers change their current practices. Data shows that past use of prescription opioids is the strongest risk factor for starting and continuing to use heroin.”

Haney said a lawsuit won’t end the crisis, but it will serve as an important piece of the overall puzzle. It’s a vital piece, though.

In asking local leaders to support the complaint, Haney said he was surprised to learn how many local residents are dealing with addiction.

“It’s personal,” Haney said. “And don’t take my word for it. Ask our first responders.”

The suit will name various companies, such as McKesson, AmerisourceBergen and Cardinal Health.

A leading pharmaceutical distributor, McKesson reported revenues of $198.5 billion in 2017, and paid $13 million in fines

in 2008 for failing to report massive orders of the pain medication hydrocodone.

AmerisourceBergen is a wholesaler responsible for 20 percent of all pharmaceuticals distributed in the United States.

The company was sued in 2012 by the State of West Virginia, which alleged that it contributed to the state’s pain-pill epidemic. Like McKesson, AmerisourceBergen is a leading distributor of hydrocodone.

Cardinal Health agreed to pay $34 million in civil penalties in 2008 to settle allegations that it failed to report suspicious orders of hydrocodone. The agreement followed the suspension of its distribution facilities in Florida, New Jersey and Washington.

Rockford and Winnebago County’s complaint will be filed in U.S. District Court. R.

Narcan exec talks merits of spray for overdoses

By Mike Stobbe AP Medical Writer

NEW YORK — Dr. Roger Crystal’s company was struggling to find new uses for an old drug that reverses overdoses. Then the opioid epidemic hit.

Naloxone had first gone on sale in 1971 but was injected with a syringe. Crystal and his colleagues came up with a naloxone nasal spray, intended to be more appealing than prefilled injectors or the other naloxone alternatives.

Crystal’s Opiant Pharmaceuticals Inc. partnered with Adapt Pharma to market the spray version. Adapt revived the brand name Narcan, which had fallen out of use after naloxone went generic.

The spray went on sale in the U.S. last year.

It costs $125 for a twin-pack; police and other groups pay $75.

Crystal talked to The Associated Press about the development of Narcan. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Q: How did you come to develop Narcan?

A: The company started back in 2009. We were using naloxone nasally for binge-eating disorder. The first years of the company were all about that. We had some encouraging data but it was going to be difficult to establish a market in binge-eating disorder.

At the time, the opioid crisis in the United States became apparent. In 2012, we thought

‘Let’s pivot.’ In this area of overdose, we really felt we could do something.

Q: Can you break down the market?

A: Not many people want to inject other people. Having a simple to use, reliable, FDA-approved nasal spray was extremely desirable. Once you have a nasal spray, you open up a huge patient population and bystander population who are now willing and able to use it.

We reported for the first half of 2017, net sales were at least $25 million. It’s fair to say that was a huge rise from 2016.

Q: You have conflicting pressures — from the public and stockholders. Is the price going to rise?

A: Not that I’m aware of, no. In a way I’m divorced from that because Adapt has entire control of pricing. But if you

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try and take the price to high levels, the margins will improve but there will be less customers as a result. You want people to keep coming back. You want them to be committed to using Narcan nasal spray.

It’s encouraging that on Twitter you can see police officers in certain counties holding up Narcan like a trophy. They’re proud. They’re empowered. They can do something about an overdose rather than arriving to a cold body.

Q: Despite the spray’s availability, drug deaths rose last year, and many involved opioids.

A: When there is naloxone available it does make a difference. But there’s low penetration in the overall market. This is a problem that has grown over more than a decade. It’s not going to stop overnight.

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State

2018 brings governor’s race, battles

By Sara Burnett Associated Press

CHICAGO — The new year will be one of big decisions in Illinois, from whether voters give Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner a second term to whether tech giant Amazon chooses the state for its second headquarters and some 50,000 new jobs.

Some high-profile court cases and a tribute to the nation’s first black president also will move forward.

Here’s a preview of what 2018 holds:

Elections

All statewide offices will be on the ballot on Nov. 8, but no contest will be as fevered — or costly — as the governor’s race.

Democratic candidates including billionaire J.B. Pritzker, wealthy businessman Chris Kennedy and state Sen. Daniel Biss are seeking their party’s nomination in the March 20 primary, when Rauner also faces a GOP primary challenge from conservative state Rep. Jeanne Ives.

Already, the candidates are raising and spending money at a pace that could make this the most expensive governor’s race in U.S. history.

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Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s unexpected announcement that she won’t seek a fifth term created a crowded Democratic primary for that office.

Some congressional races also will be closely watched. Several Democrats are vying for the seat held by U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez of Chicago, who’s retiring.

And Republican Congressman Peter Roskam will try to hold his seat representing suburban Chicago, a district Democrats are eyeing as one of the party’s best chances to gain a seat in the U.S. House after voters there supported Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump in 2016.

Fight for Amazon, jobs

With slow job growth and a dwindling population, Illinois has joined dozens of other states in attempting to lure Amazon’s new second headquarters, and the promised 50,000 jobs and at least $5 billion in construction spending.

The tech giant is expected to announce the location of its so-called HQ2 sometime in 2018, and competition is stiff, with nearly 250 proposals from the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

Officials in Chicago and with the state of Illinois are working together on a bid, touting 10 potential locations in the Chicago area. That includes two in the city’s downtown core, with one offering

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Legislature

After years of raucous political fighting over a state budget, Illinois begins the New Year with a spending plan but very little activity. The House of Representatives has scheduled just 16 session days — and the Senate, 18 — in the first 11 weeks of 2018.

That’s because a potentially rowdier fight awaits: November’s general election, when each seat in the House is on the ballot, along with one-third of the Senate’s. The legislative election is particularly important this year because the party controlling the General Assembly and the governor’s office controls 2020’s once-a-decade redraw of the boundaries for congressional and legislative districts.

First, candidates in many districts must compete in the March primary. After that dust settles, taxpayers will expect legislators and Rauner to craft a budget.

An income-tax increase last summer by Democrats who hold legislative majorities, aided by rebellious Republicans, gave Illinois its first budget since Rauner took

office in 2015. But the gale-force political winds are likely to force re-entrenchment on both sides despite a continuing debt of billions of dollars.

In the courts

Among those who could go on trial in 2018 is former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock. The 36-year-old Peoria Republican’s trial on corruption charges was supposed to start Jan. 22. But a federal judge delayed it while defense lawyers ask a federal appellate court to dismiss the more than 20-count indictment.

The trial of Brendt Christensen is set for Feb. 27. The 28-year-old is charged in the kidnapping of Yingying Zhang, a 26-year-old University of Illinois scholar from China whose June disappearance drew media interest nationally and from China.

Investigators believe Zhang dead, though her body hasn’t been found.

Just how police reforms will be carried out in Chicago is another battle that will largely play out in federal court. The Illinois attorney general’s office — with Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s blessing — filed a lawsuit in August calling for strict court supervision of any reform process.

A separate suit seeks to force the city to engage community groups in drawing up police-reform details.

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space in the Willis Tower. Officials have declined to release details on possible tax breaks and incentives.

Separately, the state is cooperating on a pitch for Missouri, which could benefit economically depressed areas in downstate Illinois.

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Automatically registering voters anytime they register with certain state government agencies was considered a major legislative priority by some at the statehouse, but lawmakers haven’t put the necessary tax dollars behind it to get it started.

As it is right now, Illinois residents can opt in to registering to vote when they get or update information for a state ID card or driver’s license. Lawmakers pushed to make that automatic and to include more state agencies.

Gov. Bruce Rauner vetoed the original automatic voter registration bill in 2016 with suggested changes he said made the bill better. Lawmakers followed his lead in 2017 and passed automatic voter registration.

Illinois State Board of Elections General Counsel Ken Menzel said that directed the elections board to start implementing the

program.

“We haven’t gotten any money appropriated for it quite yet,” Menzel said. “There’s a supplemental appropriation request pending with the legislature but we do have staff working on it as best we can. The staff that’s working on it has been updating the board on a monthly basis.”

Menzel said the elections office would need more than half a million dollars to get technology and programming in place.

“For the thing to work, we’re going to need, for example, servers,” Menzel said. “And, of course, we’re going to need programming time to do that, and I think some of the money was going to adding staff to do the programming.”

There’s already been coordination between the elections board and the Secretary of State’s office, Menzel said, but other state agencies involved in the process are also going to have to be updated for AVR to work.

“We’ve got to get their systems collecting

that data,” he said. “We’ve got to figure out how to get our systems to talk to their systems to transmit it.”

“It’s a fairly big undertaking,” Menzel said. “Without the money, it would be difficult to hit our benchmarks.”

The law says AVR should be fully implemented no later than July 2019.

Supporters of the law said they want to increase voter turnout and that the bill will help keep voter rolls accurate. Opponents said the measure wasn’t necessary and could lead to lower voter turnout percentages by adding scores of more voters to the rolls who might not actually go to the polls.

Eligible voters who don’t want to register to vote automatically when getting a service through the DMV or other state government agencies like the Illinois departments of Human Services, Employment Security, Financial and Professional Regulation, and Natural Resources have to opt out of the system.

The measure explicitly disallows any illegal immigrants to be registered to vote automatically when they apply for a Temporary Visitor Driver’s License.

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State. Bicentennial

Illinois’ top 10 athletes

By Mark Potash

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llinois has produced many outstanding and game-changing athletes, so it’s a tough job to create any top 10 list.

The Illinois Press Association and Illinois Associated Press Media Editors enlisted longtime Chicago Sun-Times sports reporter Mark Potash for the job.

Here is his list of the top 10 athletes from Illinois.

1. Red Grange, Wheaton

The early days of professional football were not pretty or promising — obviously not televised but also casually recognized.

The Bears and Cardinals were relegated to secondary pages of the sports sections in Chicago, with college football dominant and even high school football more prominent.

And more than that, pro football was a second-class citizen in American sport — considered substandard to college football and to some, an unseemly, disrespected profession. The best college players didn’t automatically go to the National Football League.

Red Grange helped change all of that.

The running back from Wheaton and the University of Illinois rivaled even Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey as an American sports star in the 1920s. When he signed with the Bears out of Illinois in 1925, he almost single-handedly changed the face of the NFL — giving it an instant credibility that was reflected in banner headlines and

sell-out crowds.

Grange’s debut with the Bears on Thanksgiving Day drew 36,000 fans at Cubs Park — the largest crowd in the then-brief history of the future Wrigley Field. Ten Days later, Grange drew a record 65,000 to the Polo Grounds for a game against Tim Mara’s fledgling New York Giants — an event that without exaggeration is credited with not only saving that franchise, but leaving an impression on Eastern sports writers that further legitimized pro football. On a winter barnstorming tour following the season, Grange and the Bears drew a record 65,270 to the Los Angeles Coliseum.

As it turned out, Red Grange’s impact on the field would never match all of that.

While playing for the New York Yankees in 1927 after a salary dispute with the Bears, Grange suffered a knee injury and missed the 1928 season. He returned to the Bears in 1929, but had lost the speed and agility that made him a superstar. He made his mark as an outstanding defensive back — most notably making a touchdown-saving tackle on the final play that clinched the Bears’ 23-21 victory over Giants in the NFL championship game. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963.

All things considered, no player from Illinois has had more impact on a sport than Red Grange. He was a four-sport star at Wheaton High School who scored 75 touchdowns. He became a superstar as a three-time All-American at Illinois who famously rose to the occasion of the big game when he scored four touchdowns in the first quarter against Michigan in 1924 at newly dedicated Memorial Stadium — a 95-yard return of the opening kickoff, plus runs of 67, 56 and 44 yards. In those days he was a larger-than-life star, his No. 77 was almost as famous as he was. And even then, the best was yet to come.

2. Dick Butkus, Chicago

The greatest tribute to Dick Butkus’s fabulous NFL career is that as time passes and the linebacker position evolves argu-

ably more than any in football — bigger, faster, greater athletes with triple-digit career sack numbers — his stature continues to grow. The former Vocational High School and University of Illinois star still is No. 3 in most linebacker rankings. Some still say he’s there greatest linebacker to play the game. The Butkus Award is given to the best linebacker not only in college, but in high school and the NFL. Why? Because even with all-time greats such as Lawrence Taylor and Ray Lewis joining the best-of-all-time discussion, there always will only be one Dick Butkus.

As the late Doug Buffone often said, “To play this game you have to have the Neanderthal gene — Butkus had two.”

But Butkus’ greatness lies deeper than that. It’s almost a shame that Butkus’ reputation as a mean, angry, dirty player overshadows the reality that he was one of the most instinctive, disciplined, fundamentally sound and opportunistic players ever. He had a knack for being in the exact spot to make that brutal hit. And he had great hands. It’s almost ironic that Butkus, despite his reputation, was one of the cleanest, surest tacklers of all-time.

He was named to the All-Pro team five times and the Pro Bowl eight times. In 119 NFL games, he had 22 interceptions and 27 fumble recoveries. And the ferocity with which he played was real. Buffone, who played next to Butkus for seven years, often recalled looking at a frothing Butkus on the field and thinking, “I’m glad he’s on my side.”

3. George Mikan, Joliet

At 6-10, George Mikan was the first superstar of professional basketball — the first big-man who could run the floor and dominate at the rim on both ends. His impact forced three rules changes: goaltending, widening of the lane and the 24-second clock.

When he played with the Minneapolis Lakers in 1949, the marquee at Madison Square Garden said it all: “GEO MIKAN V/S KNICKS.” An awkward, un-athletic prospect from Quigley Prep/Joliet Catholic, Mikan flour-

ished under Ray Meyer’s tutelage at DePaul, becoming a three-time All-American and two-time Player of the Year in college. He won seven professional league championships, including one with the Chicago American Gears of the fledgling National Basketball League and six with the Lakers.

4. Isiah Thomas, Chicago

The epitome of the head-strong, willto-win Chicago point guard, Isiah Thomas parlayed his innate skills and determination into superstardom and championships. A west side native, he took St. Joseph High School in Westchester from anonymity to second place in the Class AA state tournament in 1979. He led Indiana to the NCAA title in 1981 and was the spark plug on the Pistons’ back-to-back NBA titles in 1989 and 1990.

Thomas was a 12-time NBA all-star and was inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame in 2000.

5. Jackie Joyner-Kersee, East St. Louis

A basketball and track star at East St. Louis Lincoln and UCLA, Jackie JoynerKersee made her biggest mark in international track competitions, particularly the Olympics, where she won six medals in four different Olympics — including a silver medal in the heptathlon in 1984 in Los Angeles and gold in the heptathlon in 1988 in Seoul and 1992 in Barcelona. She was named the greatest female athlete of all time by Sports Illustrated for Women in 1990.

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6. Otto Graham, Waukegan

The Big Ten Player of the Year at Northwestern — where he also played basketball and baseball — in 1943, Otto Graham became a prolific quarterback and one of the great leaders of pro football history.

He won seven league titles with Paul Brown’s Cleveland Browns in the old All-American Football Conference (1946-49) and NFL (1950, 1954 and 1955) and three NFL Most Valuable Player awards (1951, 1953, 1955).

7. Ray Nitschke, Maywood

A rough-and-tough, fierce competitor from Proviso High School, Ray Nitschke was a third-round draft pick by the Packers out of Illinois who was at the right place at the right time — becoming an intimidating force as the leader of the great Packer defenses in the Vince Lombardi era.

Nitschke won five NFL championships with the Packers, including the first two Super Bowls. He was the MVP of the 1962 championship game.

8. Jimmy Connors, Belleville

The “Brash Basher of Belleville,” as tennis guru Bud Collins called him, the East St. Louis native was a gritty, gutty, unconventional player and non-conformist who is credited with sparking a re-birth in American tennis in the early 1970s. Jimmy Connors won eight Grand Slam titles, a record 109 singles titles and was ranked No. 1 in the world for 268 weeks, including a then-record 160 straight from 1974-77.

In 1974 at age 22, Connors went 99-4 and won 15 tournaments, including three Grand Slam events — the Australian Open, U.S. Open and Wimbledon. He was barred from the French Open (the second leg) because of a contract with the World Team Tennis, costing him a chance to win the Grand Slam.

9. Lou Boudreau, Harvey

A Hall of Fame shortstop with the Cleveland Indians, Lou Boudreau had one of the greatest baseball seasons of all-time as player/manager in 1948. He won the American League batting title (.355) and MVP award and led the Indians to the World Series championship — the only title the Indians have won since 1920. Great knack for leadership, Boudreau won a state title in basketball as a sophomore at Thornton and Big Ten titles as team captain in basketball and baseball at Illinois.

10. Bonnie Blair, Champaign

Bonnie Blair won five gold medals at three different Olympic Games, capped by a dominating performance in 1994 at Lillehammer, when she won the 500-meters (by 0.36 seconds) and 1,000 meters (by a record-1.38 seconds) by wide margins. She was the first American to win an event (the 500-meters) in three consecutive Olympics. She won the Sullivan Award as the best amateur athlete in the U.S. in 1992.

Chicago Sun-Times sports writer Mark Potash can be reached at mpotash@suntimes.com and on Twitter at @MarkPotash.

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Byron-native modern baseball’s founding father

By Shane Nicholson

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Managing Editor

llinois has an exemplary baseball pedigree. The state has produced the fourth-most major leaguers in history and no fewer than 22 Hall of Fame inductees, including Lou Boudreau, Robin Yount, Joe McGinnity, Robin Roberts, and Rickey Henderson, of whom baseball historian Bill James once said, “If you could split him in two, you’d have two Hall of Famers.”

But no player aside from Babe Ruth has shaped the modern game of baseball as much as one man from Byron, who took his first steps toward baseball immortality in Rockford.

Albert Spalding, born Sept. 2, 1849, first played competitive baseball with the Rockford Pioneers before joining the Forest Citys in 1866. Establishing himself as a top right-handed pitcher in the formative days of what could loosely be described as “professional” baseball (players could not be paid to play, but were often employed by the clubs in other positions such as secretary or clerk to secure their services), Spalding signed after the 1867 season for the Chicago Excelsiors, though he continued to feature in Rockford’s starting-nine through at least 1869.

He jumped to the Boston Red Stockings (today’s Atlanta Braves) of the newly formed National Association, where from 1871 to 1875 he won 204 games as a pitcher while racking up a .323 batting average. But the Association was rife with gamblers, and games were often decided by money changing hands off the park. This enraged William Hulbert, the owner of the Chicago White Stockings. During the 1875 season, Hulbert conceived of a new organization, the National League, to begin playing in 1876, and he convinced Spalding, by then one of the biggest names in the sport, to join him.

The Byron-born hurler brought along a host of star players, including first baseman Cap Anson of the Philadelphia Athletics, all signed under secrecy before the 1876 season. The National League debuted and the Chicago-nine stormed the circuit, going 52-14 with Spalding claiming 47 wins himself, securing the first pennant for the now-Chicago Cubs. Spalding would play a minor role in two further seasons but he had already begun to lay the groundwork for his post-playing career.

Along with his brother Walter,

Albert Spalding, seated left, starred with the Rockford Forest Citys during the 1866 and 1867 seasons and continued to feature in their lineup through 1869. This copy of an 1869 team photo, taken by Rockford photographer G. W. Barnes, was part of Spalding’s scrapbooks that were given to the New York Public Library in 1921. Many original documents from Spalding’s archives, including this photo, have been stolen from the library over the past decades and sold at sports memorabilia auctions. Photo courtesy, Hauls of Shame/haulsofshame.com Spalding opened his first sporting goods store in Chicago during the 1874 season. The venture proved a success, and by 1901 the Spalding sporting goods company had more than 14 stores selling the company’s own manufactured wares, including the official baseball of the major leagues, which the company produced until 1976.

Spalding also authored the first official set of rules for the game and published an annual guide that was the authority on the sport in its early years.

In 1886, as president of the Chicago club, Spalding opened the first spring training in Hot Springs, Arkansas. In the winter of 1888-89, he took a group of major leaguers on a world tour, the first of its kind. And in 1890, he played a key part in the dismantling of the Players’ League, further cementing baseball’s so-called reserve clause, which kept players tied to their clubs indefinitely.

(This was ultimately challenged by Cardinals’ outfielder Curt Flood in 1969, paving the way for free agency in baseball beginning in 1975.)

By 1900, Spalding had moved on to San Diego. There, with his second wife, Elizabeth, he became entranced with Theosophical philosophy and took up an interest horse racing.

After renowned baseball historian Henry Chadwick claimed in 1905 that baseball had grown from the British

imports of rounders and cricket, Spalding led a commission to determine the “true” origins of the sport. Spalding loaded the group with men who refused to acknowledge rounders as a predecessor to the game, and in 1907 received a letter saying U.S. Army officer Abner Doubleday had invented “base ball” in 1839 in Cooperstown, New York.

Owing to Spalding’s stature, this became the official—albeit incorrect—story of the sport’s foundations, further cemented with the publishing of America’s National Game, Spalding’s 1911 book that was the first historical abstract of baseball. He passed away at age 66 of a stroke, Sept. 9, 1915.

He was posthumously selected to the Nation Baseball Hall of Fame as part of its inaugural class in 1939, with his plaque in Cooperstown reading, “Albert Goodwill Spalding. Organizational genius of baseball’s pioneer days. Star pitcher of Forest City Club in late 1860s, 4-year champion Bostons 1871–75 and manager-pitcher of champion Chicagos [sic] in National League’s first year. Chicago president for 10 years. Organizer of baseball’s first round-the-world tour in 1888.”

Suffice to say, without the influence of Byron’s own Albert Spalding, the young right-hander who made his first marks on the sport right here in Rockford, baseball as we know it would not exist today. R.

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Nation

A LEGAL FOOTNOTE You have to look hard to see the Supreme Court correct its mistakes.

By Ryan Gabrielson ProPublica

Rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court often come with great anticipation and attention, even true drama. Anxious crowds gather outside the court at dawn. Opinions first go out on paper to the waiting hands of television news interns, who sprint the documents to correspondents to be immediately deciphered on the air. Justices later announce their decisions in open court, and occasionally read aloud the opinions.

But when the court fixes mistakes in its opinions, it does so very quietly. No press releases. No public reading of corrections.

For most of the court’s history, the justices have only signaled their fixes and edits by adding the word “modified” in small type to newly issued print and digital versions of the opinions.

The changes thus have proved hard to find — not just for the general public, but for lawyers and judges and scholars of the law.

Gabe Roth, executive director of Fix the Court, an advocacy group pushing for judicial transparency, thinks that’s a problem.

“The court does what it can to obscure its mistakes and to obscure some of the finer points of what they do,” Roth said.

Most changes in opinions are minor — fixing a fact or two, not altering a constitutional determination. But some of the changes made have been substantial.

One of the court’s most infamous rulings — Scott v. Sanford, which in 1857 held that African Americans whose ancestors arrived as slaves could not be U.S. citizens or sue for their freedom — was heavily altered shortly after its release. Chief Justice Roger Taney added more than a dozen pages to the Scott majority opinion, largely to defend against arguments another justice made in a furious dissent. Taney did not show the rest of the court his rewrite before publishing the final opinion.

In 2014, Richard Lazarus, a Harvard University law professor, exposed the court’s methods for handling mistakes in a law review article. Lazarus dove into archival files, the working papers of retired justices, and proofs of opinions to unearth the backstories for several altered opinions, including the Scott ruling. He argued the Supreme Court should better notify the public of its revisions since the opinions are widely referenced and quoted.

“Serious practical problems arise when the version of the court’s opinion upon which lower courts, other branches of government,

and scholars and teachers rely can change, without notice, as many as five years after initial publication,” Lazarus wrote.

After the article, the court took a step toward greater transparency. Since 2015, the court’s website has flagged opinions that are modified after their initial release. It now also posts digital copies of the decisions that highlight edits.

However, this reform applies only to recent decisions. Finding earlier changes can be challenging, and details about the revisions — how the errors happened or were uncovered, for instance — are rarely in the documents.

This year, ProPublica fact-checked a sampling of the Supreme Court’s majority opinions from 2011 through 2015, and found several errors — including a couple of glaring inaccuracies in big decisions. A ruling that struck down part of the Voting Rights Act featured incorrect voter registration data.

Another that helped reshape criminal sentencing relied on flawed studies claiming that judges were punishing defendants erratically. The bad information came from legal filings, from government records and from the justices’ own independent research.

To date, the court has not corrected those errors. ProPublica sent the court questions about its practices for revising opinions, but the court did not respond. Chief Justice John Roberts and the other justices have repeatedly declined to comment when ProPublica provided them with our findings. “As a matter of policy the court does not comment on its opinions, which speak for themselves,” Kathleen Arberg, spokeswoman for the court, wrote in a September email denying interview requests.

There will be little, or no, public notice if justices later fix the errant opinions. And there is slim chance the court will ever explain its revisions.

Federal laws dictate what happens to presidents’ and lawmakers’ work documents, which detail what government officials have done and why. Those records often become the public’s property.

But no statute or regulation governs justices’ internal records. Further, the court does not even have in-house policies for its files, Jill Lepore, a New Yorker magazine staff writer, reported in 2014. The justices themselves have complete control.

“They can shred them; they can burn them; they can use them as placemats,” Lepore wrote. “Texts vanish; e-mails are deleted. The court has no policies or guidelines for secretaries and clerks about what to keep and what to throw away.”

The court also has not permitted much access to the minimal information it does release about changes in opinions.

In the course of his research, Lazarus sought copies of the “change pages” that mark revisions in rulings for publishers.

He obtained one year’s worth of the pages from an online service before the Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court, which disseminates opinions, directed the service to stop. The Reporter didn’t respond to Lazarus’ direct requests for change pages until after his law review article published.

“My view is that they impeded my efforts,” Lazarus told ProPublica. “The Reporter’s view is that they were agnostic.”

Justices have occasionally been more open about fixing factual errors when the mistakes became embarrassing. But they never offer a full accounting of how the mistakes occurred, how they decided to correct them and whether they verified the rest of their facts.

In 2010, the court ruled in Graham v. Florida that juvenile crimes other than homicide cannot bring life sentences in prison without parole under the Eighth Amendment, which protects against cruel and unusual punishment. Justice Anthony Kennedy undertook his own research in the course of writing the majority opinion.

A study of life sentences for juvenile offenders by Florida State University professors became central to the court’s decision.

It determined that such penalties were very rare. Only 109 juveniles were serving life

sentences for crimes less than homicide nationwide, the study found, of which 77 were in Florida.

The study included data from 47 states.

Lawyers for the state of Florida argued the research was not comprehensive nor independently vetted, and should not be trusted.

Kennedy sought to fill in the missing data.

The Supreme Court’s library sent letters to officials in the states that did not provide information to the Florida State professors and to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, asking for a count of juvenile life sentences for non-homicides. All provided information to Kennedy, and the justice added the new numbers to the earlier study’s tally. (He also counted an Oklahoma case based solely on a newspaper report.)

In the opinion, Kennedy wrote “there are 129 juvenile non-homicide offenders serving life without parole sentences.” A few days after the ruling, the Solicitor General’s Office, lawyers representing federal agencies, notified the court that its number was inaccurate.

The prisons bureau had sent Kennedy a list of six inmates serving life inmates for juvenile crimes, but each of those convictions had involved homicide.

The justice used data he collected without double-checking it. Kennedy edited the opinion to subtract the federal inmates from his count and include a footnote acknowledging the error.

Wisconsin

Farmers allowed to grow hemp, still face barriers MADISON — Industrial hemp is an option for Wisconsin farmers for the first time since lawmakers lifted a ban on the crop this fall.

The state Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection has until March to create regulations for the hemp industry, Wisconsin Public Radio reported .

The state will likely form an application process and require farmers to obtain seeds through the department, said Allison Pratt-Szeliga, a researcher from the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute.

“I suppose technically it’s possible that folks could be planting in spring,” PrattSzeliga said. “If the regulations are out and the application process is in place and people go through that process and are

approved and are able to purchase seed within our planting windows. So there might be a little bit of a rush.”

But farmers interested in growing hemp still face barriers to break into the business, according to industry experts.

Farmers won’t be able to rely on selling their crop to the closest grain elevator and will want to have a contract before growing hemp, said Adam Kuzcer, a member of the Wisconsin Farm Bureau board of directors.

“Before we plant it, we’ve got to have a market for it,” Kuzcer said. “There will definitely be people trying to get on it but it’s going to be a limited number (based on) what the processor will be willing to give out contracts for.”

–Associated Press

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Area Veterans

Vets’ groups provide key local services

By Scott Lewandowski

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s we conclude the season of giving, I thought I would provide my readers with a list of some local veterans-related programs that serve the veterans’ community all year and are in need of your support.

The Free Ride to Madison VA Program is a service that I am especially fond of.

Any veteran from Winnebago County can receive a free ride to the Madison VA Hospital for their doctors’ appointments.

The van has five pick up points around the county and makes daily trips.

This program is administered by a committee of the Winnebago County Veterans Association and completely run by volunteers from an office at Veterans Memorial Hall and Museum.

The Madison Veterans Administration provides funding for the license, fuel and maintenance but the WCVA pays the lease payment. Other funding is provided by monthly donations from WCVA member organizations as well as the help from

the community.

One of the main donors from the community is the Rockford Women’s Bowling Association. The funds they raise have allowed the van program to continue to operate uninterrupted. It takes a lot of work to put this program on and committee chairman John Kline oversees all aspects of the operation.

Currently, there are eight active drivers that drive the van five times a month and five coordinators that schedule appointments. Kline says “drivers and coordinators are always needed to keep the program going.”

If you are considering making a donation to a veterans program, I would highly recommend this one as all funds raised go directly to helping local veterans. John Kline can be reached at 815-964-6166 and you can mail donations to VA Van, 211 N. Main St. Rockford, IL, 61101.

The Veterans Drop-in Center, 1539 S. 4th St., is a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation and was started in 2011 when a group of caring, compassionate people decided

that Rockford area veterans and their families needed a place to gather and meet with their peers – without some of the formalities that come with other veterans’ organizations.

The center offers many things including but not limited to: computer classes; board games; lunches at 1 p.m. and dinner at 5 p.m.; haircuts (offered three times per month); weekly onsite meetings with VA and Vet Center representatives; and direct referrals to area veterans’ resources This program costs free of charge.

Veterans can come and go as they please.

Veterans are required to provide proof of service in the form of their DD214 or VA ID card and are asked to fill out a short form for internal records.

Center hours are 12:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Monday-Friday. Donations can be made on their website .veteransdropincenter.com or by calling Pat Ambrose at 815-713-8843 Finally, VetsRoll serves the area veterans by transporting them to Washington, D.C. over four days of honor and remem-

brance, at no cost.

WWII Veterans, ‘Rosie-The-Riveters’ and veterans through 1963 (active duty by Dec. 31, 1963, and honorably discharged with a DD-214) are eligible to participate. Charter coaches offer the flexibility of socializing, moving around, playing cards, board games and restrooms. Most participating Veterans are now in their mid-eighties to their mid-nineties. Ten chartered deluxe tour coaches and a para-transit van depart and return to Beloit, Wisc. The VetsRoll four-day trip occurs every May, the Sunday through Wednesday preceding Memorial Day weekend.

Donations can be made by at VetsRoll, 1777 Gardner St., South Beloit, IL, 61080 or by calling 608-207-8319 or e-mail: Mark@VetsRoll.org. R. Veterans Memorial Hall and Museum’s mission is to honor the Veterans of Winnebago County. For more information about Veterans Memorial Hall, stop by 211 N. Main St. or visit veteransmemorialhall.com. You can also find us on Facebook: facebook.com/ Veterans-Memorial-Hall-and-Museum.

Group wants photos of soldiers killed in Vietnam ELMHURST — Volunteers are coordinating a statewide effort to track down photos of Illinois natives killed during the Vietnam War as part of a national project by a veterans group.

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund started the “Wall of Faces” project about a decade ago to find photos for the more than 58,300 names listed on the monument in Washington, D.C. The group is working to create a digital database of the photos, the Daily Herald reported.

Andrew Johnson is an Elmhurst native and a volunteer working to find soldiers’ photos through the project. As the incoming president of the National Newspaper Association, Johnson is raising awareness about the task through his connections in the industry, and has been collaborating with the Illinois Press Association for the past two years to put faces to the state’s service members who died in the war.

Organizers are still missing photos for more than 330 Illinois service members killed in Vietnam. Nationwide there are almost 4,000 missing photos.

“A lot of these Gold Star brothers and families are dying,” Johnson said. “A lot of these Vietnam guys are getting old. I believe we have a short window of time to really get this done. I think we need to

move on it quickly now.”

The fund prefers informal pictures of the soldiers, such as family photos and photos at social events.

“Those are fantastic photos that help tell the story because when we think that the

58,318 Americans who died were nothing but names or numbers, then we forget their sacrifices and what they gave us,” said Tim Tetz, the fund’s outreach director.

The group’s goal is to display the photos in the Education Center at The Wall, a $130

million underground structure that would be built near the Washington memorial.

For more information visit vvmf.org/ about-the-wall-of-faces.

–Associated Press

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Arts & Entertainment

With The Post comes a perfect vehicle for Hanks

By Josh Rottenberg Tribune News Service

LOS ANGELES — In spring and summer 1971, the American political landscape was on fire. In March, the Weather Underground set off a bomb in the U.S. Capitol. In April, half a million people marched on Washington to protest the Vietnam War. And in June, the Nixon administration battled with the New York Times and the Washington Post over the publication of the classified Pentagon Papers, which revealed years of deception at the highest levels of the government regarding the conduct of the war.

At the time, Tom Hanks wasn’t particularly aware of all this. He was a 14-year-old kid from Oakland, finishing up his run at Bret Harte Junior High, and he had things other than politics on his mind.

“I didn’t pay that much attention to what was going on,” Hanks recalled on a recent afternoon in Santa Monica. “I paid attention to things that 14-year-olds pay attention to: the Oakland Raiders and the California Golden Seals hockey team and girls and stuff.”

Cut to winter 2017, and the American political landscape is once again on fire. One of Hollywood’s most universally beloved stars, Hanks is now 61, though he still has a boyish, excitable quality — amplified this afternoon by the double caffeine hit of a Diet Coke and a latte. And this time, he is very much engaged with what’s going on.

In Steven Spielberg’s new period drama, The Post, which goes into wide release on Jan. 12, Hanks stars as the late Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, who, along with the paper’s pioneering publisher, Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep), stepped in to publish the Pentagon Papers after the Nixon administration sued the New York Times to halt publication.

With critics lauding Hanks’ performance as the brash, charismatic Bradlee — portrayed

by Jason Robards in an Oscar-winning turn in 1976’s All the President’s Men — The Post has suddenly placed the actor not only in this year’s awards-season conversation but in the thick of today’s political debate.

A longtime history buff, Hanks marvels at the echoes between then and now as the Trump administration engages daily in its own battle with the mainstream news media.

“All this time passes and nothing really changed,” he said. “It was the same sort of language and almost the same subject then as what’s happening now — minus Twitter feeds and cable news.”

If anything, Hanks sees the situation today as even more fraught, the stakes even higher.

“The Nixon administration waged almost a quaint assault on the 1st Amendment,” he said. “The facts were understood then — it was the opinion you had of them that was up for grabs. The thing that’s happening now is almost a Bizarro Superman war on reason.”

As “The Post” was shooting last summer,

Hanks found the historical resonances at times downright uncanny.

“There was one day where something had happened with the Russia investigation — it might have been (former national security advisor Michael) Flynn getting fired — and we were watching it on one of the period TVs in Ben Bradlee’s office,” he remembered.

“Here we are, in these Nixon-era clothes, watching on a Nixon-era TV, and we all looked up, like, ‘What year is this? Is this a Rod Serling (Twilight Zone) episode where we have a magic TV that can see into the future?’”

Years ago, Hanks had met Bradlee, who died in 2014, and his wife, Sally Quinn, socially on a number of occasions through mutual friend the late writer and filmmaker Nora Ephron.

“He was a big personality,” Hanks said.

“Everybody had an anecdote about Ben. Everybody had an amusing saga.” Diving into the research, Hanks keyed in on one quote from Bradlee that seemed to sum up his hardnosed yet idealistic journalistic ethos: “You have to be cynical without being a cynic.”

The Post marks Hanks’ fifth time being directed by Spielberg. But the director says Hanks has never taken on a role quite like this one, in part because Bradlee himself was a unique figure.

“There was a kind of sexiness about Ben Bradlee in the way he led the newsroom and the way he tenaciously would fight for a story — even fight his own publisher or anybody who pushed back on him,” Spielberg said.

“There were big dimensions, big colors, that I don’t believe Tom has ever played before.

There was a kind of machismo about Bradlee that Tom hasn’t brought to many other characters in his storied career.”

‘A real bond of trust’

Over the years, Spielberg and Hanks — whose working relationship goes all the way back to the 1986 comedy The Money Pit, which Spielberg produced — have established a deep creative mind-meld. “We have a similar philosophy of less is more,” Spielberg said, explaining that he will often trim lines of dialogue to get more quickly to the essence of a scene, only to find that

Hanks has independently marked the same lines with a red pen in his script.

“They have a real bond of trust,” said The Post producer Kristie Macosko Krieger, who has worked with Spielberg for more than two decades. “They know each of them is going to show up on set with their best ideas and they’ll make it through the day together as a team.”

While collaborating with Spielberg on The Post may have been old hat, Hanks had never worked with Streep before, a somewhat surprising turn of events that neither can quite explain. “Everyone asks why I had never worked with Tom before — it is something that I had always hoped would happen,” Streep said, adding, half-jokingly, “but, as he is 61 and I am 68, in Hollywood that means I would only ever have been appropriately cast as his mother or his grandmother.”

“Meryl is usually in movies about Meryl and Tom is in movies about Tom, and I think what was so great for them is that this was a movie about a relationship,” said The Post producer Amy Pascal, who acquired firsttime screenwriter Liz Hannah’s script for the film last fall. “It was about something that movies are never about, which is a platonic love story between a man and a woman and how they work together.”

Hanks has never shied away from expressing his own political views, to the point that over the years he’s been asked numerous times about his interest in running for office, a prospect he dismisses out of hand. “Yeah, boy, that would be fun, wouldn’t it?” he said, rolling his eyes. “Based on what? That’s what I always come back to. We have people in office who are just good on TV. I don’t think that’s what we’re looking for here.”

Since President Trump’s election, though, Hanks, like many in Hollywood, has felt compelled to become more pointedly outspoken.

“I think everybody has a point where they have to decide to go man the barricade somehow,” he said. “Some issue comes up and you just say, ‘Are you … kidding me?’

Talking about Pocahontas in front of the Navajo code talkers — if you don’t get why that might not fly, there’s no hope for you.

But then, if you’ve got neo-Nazis doing a

torchlight parade somewhere — no, I’m sorry, that’s a different sort of territory and that ends up being downright dangerous.”

Asked if he is worried about the nation’s future in these deeply polarized times, Hanks — who consumes endless books of history in his spare time (and recently published his own collection of short stories, Uncommon Type: Some Stories) — delivers an impassioned analysis that goes on for more than nine minutes straight.

He references Joseph McCarthy, Father Coughlin, the segregationist Dixiecrats of the 1940s and the protests of the Vietnam era. He touches on World War II Japanese American internment camps, FDR’s attempt to pack the Supreme Court and William Manchester’s sweeping historical tome The Glory and the Dream. He rhapsodizes at length about the 1st Amendment — “It’s a doozy, man” — and sings the opening lines of the 1970s Schoolhouse Rock song about the Constitution from memory.

A ‘resilient’ country

The bottom line? Hanks is concerned but not despairing. “We’re certainly in this spiral where disinterest and ignorance is holding more sway than it usually does,” he said. “But the country is very resilient. It rights itself.”

For all of his “pontificating,” as he self-deprecatingly calls it, Hanks is well aware that he is neither an academic nor an elected leader. He is an actor and an entertainer, and he is perfectly content with that.

“Ben Bradlee knew that he had a spirit that people dug — he would say, ‘Ah, the fun!’ I get that. I have the same thing for my job.”

Hanks, of course, also has a spirit that people dig. Indeed, he has long radiated such an easygoing charm onscreen and off that — even with five Oscar nominations and two wins — Streep believes he remains underappreciated as an actor.

“The thing about Tom is his phenomenal gift has been taken for granted for so long, his place in the Hall of Fame so confirmed over time, that sometimes I think we mistake the ease with which he delivers it as ‘easy,’” Streep said. “Nothing about it is easy, except his total embrace of the work.”

Accolades aside, after all these years, Hanks says he still feels as engaged with the work as he ever has, going back to the earliest days of his career when he was starring on an early-’80s sitcom that regularly involved dressing in drag for laughs.

“From something as joyful and fun as — forgive me — Bosom Buddies to The Post, it’s all these things where you’re examining a theme that’s locked deep in the text, where you’re trying to interpret all this behavior and words into an examination of something that’s bigger than yourself,” he said. “I think that’s a blast. I can’t think of a better way to make a buck.”

Hanks shrugged. “What can I say? I feel like I’m lucky to still be asked to show up.”

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January 3 - 9

First Fridays Art, Music, Food and Shopping WHEN Friday, January 5 (various times) WHERE Downtown Rockford Each month downtown art galleries, shops, music and theater venues work together to stay open late providing great new art, music and goods.

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WHERE Discovery Center Museum Great Balls of Fire, the temporary exhibition, is on its closest approach, and will disappear below the horizon on January 14. Take yourself on an astonomical adventure as you climb into a “spaceship” and compare and contrast real data about asteroids, comets, and meteors. Design your own solar system, test the e�ects of gravity, ID asteroids, and more!

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WHERE Rockford Listening Room at JustGoods Fair Trade Store Readers Theater, directed by Dorothy Paige Turner, features local actors who read excerpts from known and lesser-known African American plays. Each month a selection from di�erent playwrights including up and coming writers showcase the talents of these artists and the social struggle that African Americans still endure in these times.

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Death Notices Joan Rafferty 89 Rockford 12/25/2017 Ellen Mchugh 91 Rockford 12/25/2017 Rose Dalpra 97 Rockford 12/25/2017 Gerald Furbush 83 Machesney Park 12/25/2017 Larry Brown 66 Rockford 12/25/2017 Lorraine Candiotta 94 Rockford 12/25/2017 Nicholas Giorgi 60 Rockford 12/25/2017 Joseph Maggio 67 Rockford 12/25/2017 Lydia Kite 71 Rockford 12/25/2017 Merle Willson 84 Rockton 12/26/2017 JoLynn Blazina 66 Rockford 12/26/2017 Jack Freeberg 91 Rockford 12/26/2017 Peter Cesna 67 Rockford 12/26/2017 Mario Delfiacco 98 Roscoe 12/26/2017 JoAnn Menchinger 84 Rockford 12/26/2017 Henry Berenz 62 Rockford 12/26/2017 Raiben Patel 66 Rockford 12/26/2017 Mark Johnson 61 Rockford 12/26/2017 Sheila Alcock 77 Rockford 12/27/2017 Christina McWethy 47 Loves Park 12/27/2017 Natalie Serotini 94 Roscoe 12/27/2017 Leona Pavlik 87 Rockford 12/27/2017 William Williams 52 Rockford 12/27/2017 Mary Erwin 55 Rockford 12/27/2017 James McDuffie 83 Rockford 12/27/2017 Magdaleno Alegria 67 Rockford 12/28/2017 Clifford Ennis 74 Rockford 12/28/2017 John Novak 77 Rockford 12/28/2017 Felix Armado 92 Rockford 12/28/2017 Lawrence Spaulding 74 Rockford 12/28/2017 Helen Thompson 89 Rockford 12/28/2017 Agnes Monks 93 Rockford 12/28/2017 Ann Wood 90 Rockford 12/28/2017 Tessa Glogowski 16 Rockford 12/28/2017 James Barkowski 68 Rockford 12/28/2017 Esther Wayman 84 Rockford 12/29/2017 Gabrielle Labaz 63 Rockford 12/29/2017 Joann Magnuson 85 Rockford 12/29/2017 Marion Licwinko 89 Rockford 12/29/2017 Robert Wilson 73 Rockford 12/29/2017 Diane Koeshall 82 Rockton 12/29/2017 Fannie McKenzie 64 Rockford 12/30/2017 Ethel Ritter 86 Rockford 12/30/2017 William Pearson 69 Cherry Valley 12/30/2017 Lawrence Powder 75 Rockford 12/30/2017 Glen Gugliotta 59 Rockford 12/30/2017 Harvey Gustafson 73 Pecatonica 12/30/2017 Manuel Chavez 65 Rockford 12/30/2017 Donna Carter 77 Rockford 12/30/2017 Fern Mitchell 98 Rockford 12/30/2017 Charolette Matlock 50 Rockford 12/30/2017 Kent Cline 53 Rockford 12/30/2017 Kristyn Hicks 48 Rockford 12/30/2017 Robin Roberts 64 Rockford 12/30/2017 Edward Strick 72 Loves Park 12/30/2017 Shirley Johnson 88 Rockford 12/30/2017 Jeffery Hanaman 64 Rockford 12/31/2017 Vera Nordquist-Rabe 98 Davis 12/31/2017 Donald Lane 75 Rockford 12/31/2017 Susan Anderson 65 Machesney Park 12/31/2017 Nancy Long-Pappas 92 Machesney Park 12/31/2017 Bertha Renner 85 Rockford 12/31/2017 Max Rykowski 87 South Beloit 12/31/2017 Dale Kennedy 66 Loves Park 12/31/2017 Harold Sterett 90 Rockford 12/31/2017 Drenda Kraninak 70 Rockford 12/31/2017 Robert Kite Jr. 86 Rockford 1/1/2018 Ronnie Kiewel 71 Rockford 1/1/2018 Claude Ferguson 76 Loves Park 1/1/2018 Beverly Molitor 69 Rockford 1/1/2018 Gale Meredith 64 Rockford 1/1/2018 Evalyn Cowan 85 Rockford 1/1/2018 Shirely Walker 75 Rockford 1/1/2018 Charles Powers 96 Rockford 1/1/2018 Robert Lounsbury 80 Rockford 1/1/2018 Beverley Billstrand 90 Rockford 1/1/2018 Carol Radoe 78 Rockford 1/1/2018 Connie Garman 70 Rockford 1/1/2018 Linda Ferge 57 Rockford 1/1/2018 Roy Chavez 69 Rockford 1/1/2018 Douglas Thrasher 67 Rockford 1/1/2018 Kathryn Schoon 85 Rockford 1/1/2018 Elwood Walk 92 Rockford 1/1/2018 Karl Braswell 66 Rockford 1/1/2018 Norman Benters 78 Rockford 1/1/2018 Death notices are provided by the Winnebago County Coroner’s office.

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Your Health

Drinking hot tea linked to lowered glaucoma risk

By Carolyn Crist Reuters Health

People who drink hot tea daily may be less likely than others to develop glaucoma symptoms, U.S. researchers say.

Compared to coffee, soft drink and iced tea drinkers, study participants who consumed a cup or more of hot caffeinated tea daily had 74 percent lower odds of having glaucoma, the study authors report in the British Journal of Ophthalmology.

“Glaucoma can lead to blindness, and it would be great if it could be prevented because there is no cure,” said lead author Dr. Anne Coleman of the University of California, Los Angeles.

“The best way to prevent it is to get your eyes checked,” Coleman told Reuters Health in a telephone interview. “But we are also interested in lifestyle habits and what we can do to make a difference.”

Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness worldwide, according to the World Health Organization, affecting an estimated 58 million people. That includes more than three million Americans, only half of whom are aware they have the disease, according to the Glaucoma Research Foundation.

Coffee, or caffeine in general have previously been linked to increased glaucoma risk, although recent studies don’t agree, Coleman and her colleagues write.

To evaluate the relationship between specific caffeinated drinks and glaucoma, Coleman and colleagues analyzed data on a sample of more than 10,000 people in the U.S. who were representative of the entire population. Participants in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey during 2005-2006 answered questions about their diets and lifestyles, had medical exams and blood tests and also underwent eye examinations.

About 1,700 participants were over age 40, had no other known eye diseases and had full eye examination results from the survey. In this group, Coleman’s team found that just over 5 percent, 82 people, had glaucoma.

Almost half of participants reported drinking coffee often, but less than 10 percent drank hot tea daily. The research team found no associations between coffee, iced tea, decaffeinated tea or soft drink consumption and the likelihood of having glaucoma.

“Tea drinkers should keep drinking and don’t need to stop because of a fear of glaucoma,” Coleman said. “This makes sense, but we’ll see if it holds up in future studies.”

Future studies should look at the habits, activities and nutrition that affect lifestyle and glaucoma risks, said Idan Hecht of Tel-Aviv University in Israel, who wasn’t involved in the research.

“In the past few years, there has been a tremendous increase in interest, and subsequently research, into the ways lifestyle changes can influence diseases,” Hecht told Reuters Health by email.

Recent research indicates that vitamins C, E and zinc can help vision. Other studies indicate that antioxidants in tea could have similar effects, he noted.

“Patients can and should be involved and take an active role in the management of their ailments,” Hecht said. “Exercising, eating healthy and trying novel ways to improve your health is something you should definitely explore and bring up with your physician.”

Environmental factors could play a role in glaucoma risk as well, said Dr. Ahmad Aref at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

“As our population grows older, we need to think about the other factors that could help, particularly when it comes to the health benefits of physical activity,” he told Reuters Health by phone.

Overall, both medical and non-medical approaches are key to treating the disease in the future, Aref added.

“It’s a tough disease because we don’t have a way to bring vision back once it’s lost,” he said. “All we can do is prevent it from getting worse, and we want to help patients do that.”

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Horoscope Week of December 31, 2017 to January 6, 2018 ARIES

Your family will be by your side all week. You’ll dedicate most of your time to your children or your aging parents. The time is right for some much-needed bonding.

TAURUS

You aren’t afraid to speak your mind, and you’ll step up to the plate as a leader to ensure things go as planned. You’ll be right about everything, but people won’t appreciate your lack of tact.

GEMINI

You’ll feel especially energetic this week. Despite your modest budget, the festivities you’re planning will turn out to be quite spectacular. Your ideas and determination will be remarkable.

CANCER

Expect lots of action this week. You may even surprise yourself with all the ideas you’ll come up with.

People will follow your every move and cheer you on.

LEO

You’ll need to take some time for yourself. You’ll find yourself reflecting on the past year and analyzing your actions, good and bad. This review should help you figure out your resolutions for the coming year.

VIRGO

You’ll find yourself in charge of organizing an event that will bring together a good part of your social circle. Something you’ll accomplish will be remembered for a long time.

LIBRA

Expect a big mess to clean up early in the week. You’ll put together a grand event for your family, and it’ll be a huge success.

SCORPIO

If you purchase a lottery ticket with your family, you just might end up on a trip together as the holidays come to a close. In any case, expect lots of fun moments.

SAGITTARIUS

Someone may reveal to you a longburied family secret. You’ll feel particularly emotional and may be asked to deliver a heartfelt speech.

CAPRICORN

You’re a very sensitive person. It may be a good idea to stay out of family feuds this week, especially if they don’t involve you directly.

AQUARIUS

You’ll be unable to sit still during an upcoming celebration. Whether or not you’re the host of the event, you’ll be actively involved in one way or another.

PISCES

You’ll be the centre of attention all week. Your deadpan humour and sharp wit will have people laughing. You might even receive some applause.

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Government Notices n n n NOTICE OF PUBLIC COMMENT FOR THE RMAP PUBLIC PARTICIPATION PLAN DRAFT Notice is hereby given that the Rockford Metropolitan Agency for Planning (RMAP), the federal-designated Metropolitan Planning Organization for the Rockford Metropolitan Area, is seeking public comments on its draft of the Public Participation Plan.

The Public Participation Plan (PPP) is a federally required document that identifies the methods and strategies taken by RMAP to engage the public in transportation planning decisions. The document also provides information regarding the transportation planning process, organizations involved in the transportation planning process and information regarding other RMAP planning documents.

The draft PPP can be viewed at: http://www.rmapil.org/wp-content/ uploads/ppp_draft_2018.pdf.

As mentioned, the PPP is required by the federal Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act). As stipulated in FAST Act, a 45-day public comment period is afforded. The purpose of this comment period is to solicit feedback from the public as to how they perceive the transportation planning process as well as solicit suggestions from the public as to how to better the process.

Public comments will be accepted regarding the PPP from January 2, 2018 until February 16, 2018. Comments can be submitted to RMAP through email, telephone, or sending written comments.

RMAP staff contact information is listed below.

Sydney Turner Metropolitan Planner Region 1 Planning Council 313 N Main Street, Rockford, IL 61101 sturner@r1planning.org 815-319-4185 Jon Paul Diipla, AICP Director of Metropolitan Planning Organization Region 1 Planning Council 313 N Main Street, Rockford, IL 61101 jpdiipla@r1planning.org 815-319-4183 8432R TRRT 1/3

Public Notices n n n NOTICE BY PUBLICATION JEREMIAH GRIFFIN and TANCY GRIFFIN, Petitioners, vs.

JACK THOMAS EBERT, ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and THE ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES, a Duly Licensed Child Welfare Agency, Respondents.

CASE NO: 17 AD 231 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Take notice that on the 6th day of December, 2017, a Petition for Adoption was filed in the Circuit Court of Winnebago County, Illinois, 17th Judicial Circuit, and that on the first floor of the Winnebago County Juvenile Justice Center, on the 24th day of January, 2018 at the hour of 8:30 a.m., or as soon thereafter as this cause may be heard, a hearing will be held upon the Petition for Adoption.

Now, unless you appear at the hearing and show cause against the Petition, the Petition may be taken for confessed as against you and an Order, Judgment or Decree entered.

Dated at Rockford, Illinois this 12th day of December, 2017.

Thomas Klein Clerk of the Circuit Court ERIN L. NASH #6304953 Nash Law Office, P.C.

4615 East State Street, Suite 201 Rockford, IL 61108 (815) 397-7500 8389R TRRT 1/3 n n n NOTICE BY PUBLICATION JEREMIAH GRIFFIN and TANCY GRIFFIN, Petitioners, vs.

JESSICA NICOLE EBERT, ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and THE ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES, a Duly Licensed Child Welfare Agency, Respondents.

CASE NO: 17 AD 230 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Take notice that on the 6th day of December, 2017, a Petition for Adoption was filed in the Circuit Court of Winnebago County, Illinois, 17th Judicial Circuit, and that on the first floor of the Winnebago County Juvenile Justice Center, on the 24th day of January, 2018 at the hour of 8:30 a.m., or as soon thereafter as this cause may be heard, a hearing will be held upon the Petition for Adoption.

Now, unless you appear at the hearing and show cause against the Petition, the Petition may be taken for confessed as against you and an Order, Judgment or Decree entered.

Dated at Rockford, Illinois this 12th day of December, 2017.

Thomas Klein Clerk of the Circuit Court ERIN L. NASH #6304953 Nash Law Office, P.C. 4615 East State Street, Suite 201 Rockford, IL 61108 (815) 397-7500 8390R TRRT 1/3 n n n NOTICE BY PUBLICATION JEREMIAH GRIFFIN and TANCY GRIFFIN, Petitioners, vs.

MIRIAM ROSE EBERT, ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and THE ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES, a Duly Licensed Child Welfare Agency, Respondents.

CASE NO: 17 AD 229 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Take notice that on the 6th day of December, 2017, a Petition for Adoption was filed in the Circuit Court of Winnebago County, Illinois, 17th Judicial Circuit, and that on the first floor of the Winnebago County Juvenile Justice Center, on the 24th day of January, 2018 at the hour of 8:30 a.m., or as soon thereafter as this cause may be heard, a hearing will be held upon the Petition for Adoption.

Now, unless you appear at the hearing and show cause against the Petition, the Petition may be taken for confessed as against you and an Order, Judgment or Decree entered.

Dated at Rockford, Illinois this 12th day of December, 2017.

Thomas Klein Clerk of the Circuit Court ERIN L. NASH #6304953 Nash Law Office, P.C. 4615 East State Street, Suite 201 Rockford, IL 61108 (815) 397-7500 8391R TRRT 1/3 n n n TAX DEED NO. 2017TX227 FILED December 14, 2017 STEVEN C. HOWARD, 3439 Normandy Ave., Rockford, IL 61103 STEVEN C. HOWARD, 4553 Pepper Court, Rockford, IL 61114 DAVID E. MAYFIELD, ESQ., 4023 Charles St., Rockford, IL 61108 OCCUPANTS, 3439 Normandy Ave., Rockford, IL 61103 UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES INTERESTED, GENERALLY TAKE NOTICE

County of Winnebago Date Premises Sold October 26, 2015 Certificate No. 201400289 Sold of General Taxes of (year) 2014 Sold for Special Assessment of (municipality) N/A and Special Assessment Number N/A Warrant No. N/A Inst. No. N/A THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES Property located at 3439 Normandy Ave., Rockford, IL 61103 Legal Description or Permanent Index No.: Lot Six (6) as designated upon the Plat of River Heights Subdivision, a part of the Southwest Quarter (¼) of Section 1 and Northwest Quarter (¼) of Section 12, Township 44 North, Range 1 East of the Third Principal Meridian, the Plat of which Subdivision is recorded in Book 20 of Plat Records, Page 44 in the Recorder’s Office in Winnebago County, Illinois, excepting the South 5 feet of said Lot, the North line of said excepted tract being parallel with the South line of said lot; situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois.

Tax Code No. 11-01-355-003 This Notice is to advise you that the above property has been sold for delinquent taxes and that the period of redemption from the sale will expire on April 26, 2018.

The amount to redeem is subject to increase at 6 month intervals from the date of sale and may be further increased if the purchaser at the tax sale or his assignee pays any subsequently accruing taxes or special assessments to redeem the property from subsequent forfeitures or tax sales. Check with the County Clerk as to the exact amount you owe before redeeming.

This Notice is also to advise you that a Petition has been filed for a Tax Deed which will transfer title and the right to possession of this property if redemption is not made on or before April 26, 2018.

This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit Court of this County in Rockford, Illinois, on May 25, 2018 at 9:30, a.m. in Courtroom 426.

You may be present at this hearing, but your right to redeem will already have expired at that time.

YOU ARE URGED TO REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS OF PROPERTY Redemption can be made at any time on or before April 26, 2018, by applying to the County Clerk of Winnebago County, Illinois, at the County Courthouse in Rockford, Illinois.

For further information contact the County Clerk.

HALVORSEN TURTLE TRUST, Purchaser By: /s/ G. Michael Scheurich G. Michael Scheurich One of Its Attorneys 8395R TRRT 1/3 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY PROBATE DIVISION In the Matter of the Estate of: ELIZABETH ANN SLATER, Deceased.

CASE NO. 2017 P 221 CLAIM NOTICE NOTICE is given of the death of ELIZABETH ANN SLATER. Letters of Office of Executor issued on December 4, 2017 to JACQUELINE NEIL ROSS and SAMUEL SLATER, who are the legal representatives of the estate. The attorney for the estate is J. Laird Lambert, 2425 Charles Street, Rockford, IL 61108.

Claims against the estate may be filed on or before June 20, 2018, that date being at least six

(6) months from the date of first publication, or within three (3) months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to Creditors, if mailing or delivery is required by Section 18-3 of the Illinois Probate Act, 1975 as amended, whichever date is later. Any claim not filed by the requisite date stated above shall be barred.

Claims against the estate may be filed in the office of the Winnebago County Circuit Clerk -- Probate Division at the Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 West State Street, Rockford, IL 61101, or with the estate legal representative, or both.

Copies of claims filed with the Circuit Clerk’s Office -- Probate Division, must be mailed or delivered to the estate legal representative and to his/her attorney within ten (10) days of filing date.

DATED: December 20, 2017 JACQUELINE NEIL ROSS & SAMUEL SLATER LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES PREPARED BY: J. LAIRD LAMBERT ATTORNEY AT LAW 2425 Charles Street Rockford, Illinois 61108 815 / 316-2167 8396R TRRT 1/3 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY PROBATE DIVISION In the Matter of the Estate of: SHARON K. CLARK, Deceased.

CASE NO. 2017 P 389 CLAIM NOTICE NOTICE is given of the death of SHARON K. CLARK. Letters of Office of Executor issued on September 6, 2017 to David E. Clark, who is the legal representative of the estate. The attorney for the estate is J. Laird Lambert, 4615 E. State Street, Suite 201, Rockford, IL 61108.

Claims against the estate may be filed on or before June 20, 2018, that date being at least six (6) months from the date of first publication, or within three (3) months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to Creditors, if mailing or delivery is required by Section 18-3 of the Illinois Probate Act, 1975 as amended, whichever date is later. Any claim not filed by the requisite date stated above shall be barred.

Claims against the estate may be filed in the office of the Winnebago County Circuit Clerk -- Probate Division at the Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 West State Street, Rockford, IL 61101, or with the estate legal representative, or both.

Copies of claims filed with the Circuit Clerk’s Office -- Probate Division, must be mailed or delivered to the estate legal representative and to his/her attorney within ten (10) days of filing date.

DATED: December 20, 2017 DAVID E. CLARK LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE PREPARED BY: J. LAIRD LAMBERT ATTORNEY AT LAW 4615 E. State Street, Suite 201 Rockford, Illinois 61108 815 / 316-2167 8397R TRRT 1/3 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a Cleaning business in said County and State under the name of Emerald Cleaning Solutions at the following post office addresses: 213 N. 3rd St., Rockford, IL 61107; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Kyra DeBerry SIGNED: Kyra DeBerry 12/12/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 12th

day of December, A.D. 2017.

Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Thalia Gallardo, DEPUTY 8400R TRRT 1/3 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a photography business taking pictures of primarily people business in said County and State under the name of Amanda Clinton Photography at the following post office addresses: 5112 Henry St., Loves Park, IL 61111; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Amanda Clinton SIGNED: Amanda Clinton 12/14/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 14th day of December, A.D. 2017.

Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Angela Reina, DEPUTY 8401R TRRT 1/3 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a Real Estate Broker business in said County and State under the name of Andy Bren at the following post office addresses: 6755 Weaver Rd., Rockford, IL 61114; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Andreas Bren SIGNED: Andreas Bren 12/21/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 21st day of December, A.D. 2017.

Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Luanne Kaspar, DEPUTY 8422R TRRT 1/10 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY NORTHWEST BANK OF ROCKFORD, Plaintiff, VS. CHRISTINE L. GARNER, BRENT L. GARNER, THE CAMBRIDGE CHASE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, UNKNOWN OTHERS, NONRECORD CLAIMAINTS AND UNKNOWN TENANTS, Defendants.

CASE NO. 2017 CH 952 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE THE REQUISITE Affidavit for Publication having been filed, notice is hereby given to Unknown Others, Non Record Claimants and Unknown Tenants, the Defendants in the above-entitled suit, that the said suit has been commenced in the Circuit Court of the 17th Judicial Circuit, Winnebago County, Illinois, against you praying for a foreclosure of a mortgage upon the following property: Lot One (1) as designated upon the Plat of Cambridge Chase, being a Re-Subdivision of part of Lot Fifteen (15), Plat of Section 16, Township 44 North, Range 2 East of the Third Principal Meridian, the Plat of which is recorded in Book 38 of Plats on Page 3B in the Recorder’s Office of Winnebago County, Illinois; situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois.

Commonly known as: 5966 Cambridge Chase, Illinois 61107 P.I.N Number: 12-16-476-014 Property Code: 160 D 802C And for other relief, that the action was filed on or about December 28, 2017.

That Summons was duly issued out of said Court against you as

provided by law, and that the said suit is still pending. The record titleholder of the real estate is Christine L. Garner. An identification of the mortgage sought to be foreclosed is as follows: Mortgagor – Christine L. Garner Mortgagee – Northwest Bank of Rockford Date of Mortgage – August 9, 2013 Date of Recording – August 15, 2013 County of Recording – Winnebago Recording Document – 20131032879.

NOW THEREFORE, unless you Unknown Others, Non Record Claimants and Unknown Tenants, the said Defendants, file your Answer to the Complaint in said suit or otherwise make your appearance therein in the said Circuit Court of the 17th Judicial Circuit, Winnebago County, 400 W. State Street in the City of Rockford, State of Illinois on or before February 10, 2018, default may be entered against you at any time after that date and a judgment may be entered in accordance with the prayer of the Complaint.

Dated at Rockford, IL on the 28th day of December, 2017 Thomas A. Klein, Clerk of the Circuit Court Winnebago County, Illinois Plaintiff’s Attorney Timothy F. Horning #973 MEYER & HORNING, P.C. 3400 N. Rockton Avenue Rockford, IL 61103 815/636-9300 8429R TRRT 1/17 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO PROBATE DIVISION In the Matter of the Estate NANCY ANN COOMBER ADAMANY, Deceased.

Case No. 2017-P-566 CLAIM NOTICE Notice is given of the death of NANCY ANN COOMBER ADAMANY of Rockford, Illinois. Letters of Office were issued on December 21, 2017, to ANTHONY ADAMANY of Rockford, Illinois, and SUSAN C. OLIVER-BESSER, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, whose attorney is MARCIA L. MUELLER, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, 100 Park Avenue, Rockford, Illinois 61101.

Claims against the estate may be filed on or before July 3, 2018, that date being at least six (6) months from the date of first publication, or within three (3) months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to Creditors, if mailing or delivery is required by Section 18-3 of the Illinois Probate Act, 1975, as amended, whichever date is later. Any claim not filed by the requisite date stated above shall be barred.

Claims against the estate may be filed in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court at the Winnebago County Courthouse, Probate Division, 400 West State Street, Rockford, IL 61101, or with the estate legal representatives, or both.

Copies of claims filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered to the estate legal representatives and to the attorney within ten (10) days after it has been filed. /s/ Anthony Adamany ANTHONY ADAMANY, Independent Co-Executor of the Estate of NANCY ANN COOMBER ADAMANY, Deceased /s/ Susan C. Oliver-Besser SUSAN C. OLIVER-BESSER, Independent Co-Executor of the Estate of NANCY ANN COOMBER ADAMANY, Deceased PREPARED BY: HINSHAW & CULBERTSON LLP MARCIA L. MUELLER, ARDC #3122098 100 Park Avenue

P.O. Box 1389 Rockford, IL 61105-1389 mmueller@hinshawlaw.com 815-490-4900 Attorneys for Estate 8430R TRRT 1/17 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO In the Matter of the Estate of: MICHAEL F. VARCATO, JR., Deceased.

Case No. 2017 P 481 CLAIM NOTICE NOTICE is given of the death of MICHAEL F. VARCATO, JR. Letters of Administration were issued on December 7, 2017, to THOMAS VARCATO, 574 – 24½ Avenue, Cumberland, WI 54829 and PATRICIA KOBEISSI, 8705 Balmoral Court, Burr Ridge, IL 60527, who are the legal representatives of the estate. The attorney for the estate is Paul S. Godlewski, One Court Place, Suite 103, Rockford, IL 61101.

Claims against the estate may be filed on or before July 5, 2018, that date being at least six [6] months from the date of first publication, or within three [3] months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to creditors, if mailing or delivery is required by 755 ILCS 5/18-3 of the Illinois Probate Act, 1975 as amended, whichever date is later. Any claim not filed by the requisite date as stated above, shall be barred.

Claims against the estate may be filed in the office of the Winnebago County Circuit Clerk – Probate Division at the Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 West State Street, Rockford, IL, 61101 or with the estate, legal representatives, or both.

Copies of claims filed with the Circuit Clerk’s Office – Probate Division, must be mailed or delivered to the estate legal representative and to his attorney within ten days after it has been filed.

Dated: January 3, 2018 THOMAS VARCATO Co-Administrator PATRICIA KOBEISSI Co-Administrator PAUL S. GODLEWSKI Attorney for Estate One Court Place, Suite 103 Rockford, IL 61101 815/964-0058 ARDC - 0977837 8431R TRRT 1/17 n n n 815 Storage 1034 Short Elm Street Rockford, IL 61102 NOTICE OF SALE OR DISPOSITION OF PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that 815 Storage located at 1034 Short Elm Street, Rockford, IL 61102, intends to auction the items in the storage units listed below for the reason of nonpayment. The sale will be held at www.storagetreasures. com beginning on 1/18/2018 at 9:30 AM CST through 1/25/2018 at or after 9:30 AM CST. Certain terms and conditions shall apply.

See Property Manager for details, 815-786-7243. Units contain household items.

A029 - KIM GIGER; A037 - MARY BARNES; B004 - SHIHYAN WILDER; B031 - ROBERT BARNETT; B098 - SUSANNA GRIMBORG; B110 - LEAH DRISCOLL; B111 - TARISHA SMITH YOUNG; B112 - MECOSE JOHNSON; B116 - BETHANY ALVAREZ; C008 - CHASITY ROMAN; C011 - TIMOTHY MARKS; C012 - TIMOTHY MARKS; C044 - MAURICE FORD; C058 - BRANDY ROLAND; C062 - LATOYA YOUNG; C079 - DONALD TAYLOR; C081 - JAMIE BRANCH; C108 - JENNIFER AXELSON; C120 - JOLLY LANYEA; C124 - ANGELA SMITH; C164 - DOROTHY Y. STEVENSON;

C077 - DOROTHY YOUNG; B019 - MARIE KAY ROGERS; O-08 - CLAUDIS LAMBERTY. 8434R TRRT 1/10 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 17th JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY IN THE ESTATE OF: ROBERT M. FIGINSKY, JR., Deceased.

Case No. 2017 P 563 CLAIM NOTICE NOTICE is given of the death of Robert M. Figinsky, Jr. Letters of Office were issued on December 21, 2017, to Jenessa L. Figinsky, 4583 Woodcliff Lane, Roscoe, Illinois 61073, who is the legal representative of the estate. The attorney for the estate is Amy L. Silvestri of Silvestri Law Office, 2208 Charles Street, Rockford, Illinois 61104.

Claims against the estate may be filed on or before July 3, 2018, that date being at least six (6) months from the date of first publication, or within three (3) months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to creditors, if mailing or delivery is required by 755 ILCS 5/18-3 as amended, whichever date is later. Any claim not filed by the requisite date stated above shall be barred. Claims against the estate may be filed in the office of the Winnebago County Circuit Clerk, Probate Division at the Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 West State Street, Rockford, Illinois 61101, or with the estate’s legal representative, or both.

Copies of claims filed with the Circuit Clerk’s Office, Probate Division, must be mailed or delivered to the estate legal representative and to her attorney within ten days after it has been filed.

Dated: January 3, 2018 Jenessa L. Figinsky, Administrator Amy L. Silvestri ARDC#06210065 Silvestri Law Office Attorney for the Representative 2208 Charles Street Rockford, Illinois 61104 (815) 227-0700 8435R TRRT 1/17 n n n SUPPLEMENTARY CERTIFICATE OF OWNERSHIP OF BUSINESS (ADDITION OF NAME) STATE OF ILLINOIS COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO ss.

Certificate No. 032480 On the 4th day of April, A.D. 2015, the original certificate of ownership was filed in the office of County Clerk, in the County of Winnebago, Illinois for: Canine to 5 at the following address(es): 4967 Contractors Dr., Loves Park, IL 61111.

On the 29th day of December, A.D. 2017, the following person or persons were added to said organization and now have a financial interest in the business carried on under such assumed name: Shannah Gray SIGNED: Shannah Gray 12/29/17 STATE OF ILLINOIS, County of Winnebago ss.

The above being duly sworn, upon oath deposes and says that the foregoing is a true and correct supplementary report of the person or persons who have been added to the above-named firm together with their post-office addresses.

Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed) to before me, this 29th day of December A.D. 2017.

Luanne Kaspar, Deputy Clerk 8436R TRRT 1/3

January 3, 2018 The Rock River Times. n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.RYAN D. CONNELL A/K/A RYAN DAVID CONNELL, et al Defendant 2017 -CH- 0000694 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 14, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on January 26, 2018, at the NLT TITLE, LLC., 6885 Vistagreen Way, ROCKFORD, IL, 61107, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT FIFTY (50) AS DESIGNATED UPON THE PLAT OF SECOND LINCOLN PARK SUBDIVISION, A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER (1/4) OF SECTION 20, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 1 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, THE PLAT OF WHICH SUBDIVISION IS RECORDED IN BOOK 13 OF PLATS ON PAGE 51 IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 206 WOODROW, ROCKFORD, IL 61101 Property Index No. 11-20-127025 (200B047).

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation.

No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government

agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information, examine the court file 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 14-17-13321.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc. com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-17-13321 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 2017 -CH0000694 TJSC#: 37-11288 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I3072117 P8423R TRRT 1/17 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION; Plaintiff, vs.

JONATHAN POLLACK; STATE OF ILLINOIS; DAWN POLLACK; Defendants, 17 CH 181 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, February 8, 2018 at the hour of 1:00 p.m. at Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Suite 102, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: Lot seven (7) as designated upon the Final Plat No. 1 of Morris Hills, part of the Northwest Quarter of Section 33 and part of the Southwest Quarter of Section 28, all in Township 44 North, Range 1, East of the 3rd Principal Meridian, according to the plat thereof recorded July 1, 2005 in Book 45 of plats on Page 148 as Document No. 0537955 in the Recorder’s Office of Winnebago County, Illinois situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois.

P.I.N. 11-28-351-011.

Commonly known as 2140 Maxine Lane, Rockford, IL 61102.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders

are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

For information call Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (614) 220-5611.

17-005887 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3072158 P8424R TRRT 1/17 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS FIFTH THIRD MORTGAGE COMPANY Plaintiff, vs.

KRISTOPHER LEE PIERCE AKA KRISTOPHER L. PIERCE AKA KRISTOPHER PIERCE; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants, 17 CH 172 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, February 8, 2018, at the hour of 1:00 p.m., Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Suite 102, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: LOT TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-SIX (226) AS DESIGNATED UPON THE PLAT OF BLUFFSIDE HEIGHTS PLAT NO. 5, BEING A RESUBDIVISION OF PART OF BLUFFSIDE HEIGHTS PLAT NO. 4 AND PART OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER (1/4) AND PART OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER (1/4) OF SECTION 12, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 1 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, THE PLAT OF WHICH SUBDIVISION IS RECORDED IN BOOK 44 OF PLATS ON PAGE 112A IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. P.I.N. 15-12-253-012.

Commonly known as 4211 Chesterfield Avenue, Rockford, Illinois 61109.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call The Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Anselmo Lindberg & Associates, LLC, 1771 West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois 60563-1890. (630) 453-6960. For Bidding instructions visit www.alolawgroup.com 24 hours prior to sale. F17010283 I3072169 P8425R TRRT 1/17 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS ASSOCIATED BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.MICHAEL J. MYLNE, et al Defendant 16 CH 00966 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered

in the above cause on November 8, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on February 13, 2018, at the NLT TITLE, LLC., 6885 Vistagreen Way, ROCKFORD, IL, 61107, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT TWO HUNDRED AND SEVEN (207) AS DESIGNATED UPON THE PLAT NO. 3 OF LINDEN POINTE, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF SECTION 7, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 2 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, THE PLAT OF WHICH IS RECORDED IN BOOK 44 OF PLATS ON PAGE 179B IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 3826 CARROLLTON COURT, ROCKFORD, IL 61109 Property Index No. 16-07280-005.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation.

No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information, examine the court file 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 14-16-15580.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive,

24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc. com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-16-15580 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 16 CH 00966 TJSC#: 37-10407 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I3071327 P8426R TRRT 1/17 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.TRACI A. PUCKETT, et al Defendant 2017-CH-0000564 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on September 27, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on February 15, 2018, at the NLT TITLE, LLC., 6885 Vistagreen Way, ROCKFORD, IL, 61107, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: PART OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER (1/4) OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER (1/4) OF SECTION 12, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 1 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, BOUNDED AND DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS, TO-WIT: BEGINNING AT A POINT FOUR HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE AND FORTY-SIX HUNDREDTHS (421.46) FEET NORTH OF THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID SECTION AND FOUR HUNDRED (400) FEET WEST OF THE EAST LINE OF SAID QUARTER (1/4) SECTION; THENCE WEST, PARALLEL WITH THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID SECTION, TWO HUNDRED (200) FEET; THENCE NORTH PARALLEL WITH THE FAST LINE OF SAID QUARTER (1/4) SECTION ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-FIVE AND TEN HUNDREDTHS (135.10) FEET; THENCE EAST TWO HUNDRED (200) FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO A POINT FOUR HUNDRED (400) FEET WEST OF THE EAST LINE OF SAID QUARTER (1/4) SECTION AND FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY-SIX AND SEVENTY-FOUR HUNDREDTHS (556.74) FEET NORTH OF THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID SECTION; THENCE SOUTH, PARALLEL WITH THE EAST LINE OF SAID QUARTER (1/4) SECTION, ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-FIVE AND TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDREDTHS (135.28) FEET TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 1713 DELROY AVE, ROCKFORD, IL 61109 Property Index No. 15-12-377005 (228C008).

The real estate is improved with a residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation.

No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information, examine the court file 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 14-17-10097.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc. com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-17-10097 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 2017 -CH0000564 TJSC#: 37-9124 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I3071220 P8427R TRRT 1/17 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.-

JOSE ESPINOZA, et al Defendant 17CH 0000554 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 30, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on February 14, 2018, at the NLT TITLE, LLC., 6885 Vistagreen Way, ROCKFORD, IL, 61107, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: THE WEST FORTY-FIVE (45) FEET OF LOT THREE (3) IN BLOCK FOUR (4) AS DESIGNATED UPON THE PLAT OF SUBDIVISION OF BLOCKS FOUR (4) AND EIGHT (8) IN SPAFFORD’S ADDITION TO ROCKFORD, EAST OF ROCK RIVER, THE PLAT OF WHICH ADDITION IS RECORDED IN BOOK 86 OF DEEDS, PAGE 141, IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS, THE EAST LINE OF SAID PREMISES BEING PARALLEL WITH THE WEST LINE OF SAID LOT; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 1515 GREENWOOD, ROCKFORD, IL 61107 Property Index No. 11-24330-004.

The real estate is improved with a residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation.

No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts fore-

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closure sales.

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 14-17-09981.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc. com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-17-09981 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 17 CH 0000554 TJSC#: 37-8251 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I3071219 P8428R TRRT 1/17 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO PROBATE DIVISION In the Matter of the Estate of: David R. Johns, Deceased.

CASE NO. 2016-P-195 CLAIM NOTICE NOTICE is given of the death of David R. Johns, Letters of Office were issued to Sandra L. Johns, c/o Attorney Thomas G. Ruud 318 N. 1st Street, Rockford, IL who is the legal representative of the estate. The attorney for the estate is Thomas G. Ruud, Thomas G. Ruud & Associates, P.C., 318 N. First St., Rockford, IL 61107.

Claims against the estate may be filed on or before July 5, 2018, that date being at least six (6) months from the date of first publication, or within three (3) months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to creditors, if mailing or delivery is required by 755 ILCS 5/18-3 of the Illinois Probate Act, 1975 as amended, whichever date is later. Any claim not filed by the requisite date as stated above shall be barred.

Claims against the estate may be filed in the office of the Winnebago County Circuit Clerk - Probate Division at the Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 W. State Street, Rockford, IL, or with the estate’s legal representative, or both.

Copies of claims filed with the Circuit Clerk’s Office - Probate Division must be mailed or delivered to the estate’s legal representative and to her attorney within ten (10) days after it has been filed.

Dated: December 28, 2017 /s/ Sandra L. Johns, Executor Prepared by: Thomas G. Ruud #6188190 Thomas G. Ruud & Associates, P.C. Attorney for the Estate 318 N. 1st St. Rockford, IL 61107 (815) 961-9100 TGRLAW@aol.com 8433R TRRT 1/17

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n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON F/K/A THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE (CWALT 2006-19CB) Plaintiff, -v.DONNA S. GLASS, et al Defendant 17 CH 0000543 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 30, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on February 8, 2018, at the NLT TITLE, LLC., 6885 Vistagreen Way, ROCKFORD, IL, 61107, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT 109 AS DESIGNATED UPON PLAT NUMBER 5 IN TRESEMER SUBDIVISION, IN PART OF THE NORTHWEST 1/4 OF SECTION 29 AND PART OF THE NORTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 30, TOWNSHIP 46 NORTH, RANGE 2 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, RECORDED IN THE RECORDER’ S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS, IN BOOK 36 OF FLATS, ON PAGE 29, SITUATED IN WINNEBAGO COUNTY AND STATE OF ILLINOIS Commonly known as 12020 TRESEMER ROAD, ROSCOE, IL 61073 Property Index No. 04-29-152014 (029B369).

The real estate is improved with a residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation.

No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport,

etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information, examine the court file 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 14-17-07151.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc. com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-17-07151 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 17 CH 0000543 TJSC#: 37-8249 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I3070856 P8405R TRRT 1/10 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.GORDON SWANLUND A/K/A GORDON DAVID SWANLUND, et al Defendant 17 CH 119 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 20, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on January 23, 2018, at the NLT TITLE, LLC., 6885 Vistagreen Way, ROCKFORD, IL, 61107, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT 48 AS DESIGNATED UPON THE PLAT OF RE-SUBDIVISION OF PART OF LOTS 6 AND 7 OF GLEN EYRE SUBDIVISION PART OF SECTION 1, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 1 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, CITY OF LOVES PARK, ILLINOIS, THE PLAT OF WHICH RE-SUBDIVISION IS RECORDED IN BOOK 23 OF PLATS ON PAGE 26 IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 233 RENROSE AVENUE, LOVES PARK, IL 61111 Property Index No. 11-01254-009.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation.

No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title

and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce. com. between the hours of 3 and 5pm. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC, Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200, Chicago, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 416-5500. Please refer to file number 260720.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc. com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200 Chicago, IL 60602 (312) 416-5500 E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com Attorney File No. 260720 Case Number: 17 CH 119 TJSC#: 37-11220 I3072050 P8406R TRRT 1/10 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS HSBC BANK USA NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR FREMONT HOME LOAN TRUST 2006-C, MORTGAGE BACKED CERTIFICATES SERIES 2006-C; Plaintiff, vs.

MAEGAN A. KACHMAR; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF MAEGAN A. KACHMAR, IF ANY; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 17 ch 768 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation

will on Thursday, February 1, 2018 at the hour of 1:00 p.m. at Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Suite 102, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: LOT (36) AS DESIGNATED UPON PLAT NUMBER 2 OF LINCOLN ACRES, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER (1/4) OF SECTION 17, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 1 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, THE PLAT OF WHICH SUBDIVISION IS RECORDED IN BOOK 26 OF PLATS ON PAGE 130 IN THE RECORDER`S OFFICE; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. P.I.N. 11-17-353-036.

Commonly known as 4311 Nina Terrace, Rockford, IL 61101.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call sales department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, The Wirbicki Law Group, 33 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603.

(312) 360-9455. WA17-0327 I3071610 P8407R TRRT 1/10 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS TRICOMA TRUST TTSSR 1; Plaintiff, vs.

BRENDA JUSINO AKA BRENDA L. JUSINO AKA BRENDA BARRIOS AKA BRENDA L. BARRIOS AKA BRENDA L. JUSINO CORTES AKA BRENDA JUSINO CORTES; WILLIAM BARRIOS; ROCK RIVER WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT; THE CITY OF ROCKFORD, A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 15 ch 1010 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, February 1, 2018 at the hour of 1:00 p.m. at Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Suite 102, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: THE WEST 15 FEET IN WIDTH OF LOT 6 AND THE EAST 37 FEET IN WIDTH OF LOT 5 IN BLOCK 4 AS DESIGNATED UPON THE PLAT OF ROCKTON AVENUE SECOND ADDITION, BEING A SUBDIVISION IN THE NORTH 1/2 OF THE NORTHWEST 1/4 OF SECTION 11, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 1, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, THE PLAT OF WHICH SUBDIVISION IS RECORDED IN BOOK 3 OF PLATS ON PAGE 61 IN THE RECORDER`S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS, THE

EAST AND WEST LINE OF SAID PREMISES BEING PARALLEL WITH THE LINE DIVIDING SAID LOTS, SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. P.I.N. 11-11-103-016.

Commonly known as 2207 Jonathan Avenue, Rockford, IL 61103.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call sales department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, The Wirbicki Law Group, 33 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603. (312) 360-9455. W17-0137 I3071609 P8408R TRRT 1/10 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN HOME MORTGAGE INVESTMENT TRUST 2006-3, Plaintiff, vs.

DANIEL P. ADAMS; JACQUELINE A. ADAMS; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN BROKERS CONDUIT; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants, 15 CH 105 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, February 1, 2018 at the hour of 1:00 p.m. at Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Suite 102, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: LOT 60 AS DESIGNATED UPON PLAT NO.2 OF KEENELAND ESTATES, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 35, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 2, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, THE PLAT OF WHICH SUBDIVISION IS RECORDED IN BOOK 40 OF PLATS ON PAGE 37B IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 7580 Bridlewood Road, Caledonia, IL 61011.

P.I.N. 08-35-251-006.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

For information call Ms. Nicole Fox at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Potestivo

& Associates, P.C., 251 Diversion Street, Rochester, Michigan 48307. (248) 853-4400 ext 1200.

C14-04195 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3071599 P8409R TRRT 1/10 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR J.P. MORGAN MORTGAGE ACQUISITION TRUST 2007-CH3, ASSET BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-CH3 Plaintiff, vs.

NANCY L. CLARK, THE CHICAGO TRUST COMPANY AKA CHICAGO TITLE LAND TRUST COMPANY, CFNA RECEIVABLES (MD), INC AS SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO ASSOCIATES FINANCE, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO, WINNEBAGO COUNTY TREASURER, PEARSON PLUMBER PLUMBING AND HEATING COMPANY, UNKNOWN OWNERS, GENERALLY, AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants, 15 CH 169 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, February 1, 2018, at the hour of 1:00 p.m., in Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Suite 102, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: LOT SEVENTEEN (17) AS DESIGNATED UP ON PLAT NO. 1 OF HARLEM MEADOWS SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE E. 1/2 OF THE S.E. 1/4 OF SECTION 30, T. 45 N. R. 2 E. OF THE 3RD P.M. , THE PLAT OF WHICH SUBDIVISION IS RECORDED IN BOOK 26 OF PLATS ON PAGE 151 IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS, SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 8015 Scott Lane, Machesney Park, IL 61115.

P.I.N. 08-30-479-004.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call Mr. Anthony Porto at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Kluever & Platt, L.L.C., 150 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60601.

(312) 236-0077. SPSF.2039 I3071597 P8410R TRRT 1/10 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT AS TRUSTEE FOR PRETIUM MORTGAGE ACQUISITION TRUST

Plaintiff, -v.SUONG HO CHO, et al Defendant 16 CH 00953 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on February 15, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on January 25, 2018, at the NLT TITLE, LLC., 6885 Vistagreen Way, ROCKFORD, IL, 61107, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-EIGHT (188) AS DESIGNATED UPON THE FINAL PLAT OF WYNMERE PLAT NO.4, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER (1/4) OF SECTION 4, TOWNSHIP 46 NORTH, RANGE 2 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, THE PLAT OF WHICH SUBDIVISION IS RECORDED IN BOOK 48 OF PLATS ON PAGE 58A IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 15550 STONECREST ROAD, SOUTH BELOIT, IL 61080 Property Index No. 04-04451-005.

The real estate is improved with a residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation.

No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial

Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information, examine the court file 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 14-16-15178.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc. com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-16-15178 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 16 CH 00953 TJSC#: 37-11224 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I3071943 P8412R TRRT 1/10 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS ESTATE OF MARCELLO M. BROWN, DECEASED. 17P 544 Notice is given to creditors of the death of the above named decedent.

Letters of office were issued to JACQUELINE BROWN, 2845 ECHO STREET, ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, 61109, as Independent ADMINISTRATOR, whose attorney of record is LYNNE KRALOVEC; KRALOVEC JAMBOIS & SCHWARTZ, 60 WEST RANDOLPH STREET, 4TH FLOOR, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60601.

The estate will be administered without court supervision, unless under section 5/28-4 of the Probate Act Ill. Compiled Stat. 1992, Ch. 755, par. 5/28-4) any interested person terminates independent administration at any time by mailing or delivering a petition to terminate to the clerk.

Claims against the estate may be filed in the office of the clerk Tom Klein 400 West State Street Room 100 Rockford, Illinois 61101-1221 or with the representative, or both, on or before JUNE 27, 2018, or, if mailing or delivery of a notice from the representative is required by section 5/18-3 of the Probate Act, the date stated in that notice. Any claim not filed on or before that date is barred.

Copies of a claim filed with the clerk must be mailed or delivered by the claimant to the representative and to the attorney within 10 days after it has been filed.

LYNNE KRALOVEC KRALOVEC JAMBOIS & SCHWARTZ 60 WEST RANDOLPH STREET, 4TH FLOOR CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60601 (312) 782-2525 I3071755 P8411R TRRT 1/10

January 3, 2018 The Rock River Times. n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY NORTHWEST BANK OF ROCKFORD, Plaintiff, VS. FADI B. HAMED, ZUHRA H. AWADALLAH, PARENT PETROLEUM INC., UNKNOWN OTHERS, NONRECORD CLAIMAINTS and CLAIMANTS AND UNKNOWN TENANTS, Defendants.

CASE NO. 2017 CH 513 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE THE REQUISITE Affidavit for Publication having been filed, notice is hereby given to Fadi B. Hamed, Defendant in the above-entitled suit, that the said suit has been commenced in the Circuit Court of the 17th Judicial Circuit, Winnebago County, Illinois, against you praying for a foreclosure of a mortgage upon the following property: Lot One Hundred Two (102) as designated upon Plat No. 2 of Penfield Crossing, being a Subdivision of the Southeast Quarter (1/4) of Section 10, Township 43 North, Range 2 East of the Third Principal Meridian, the Plat of which Subdivision is recorded in Book 41 of Plats on Page 151B as Document number 9974498 in the Recorder’s Office of Winnebago County, Illinois; situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois.

Commonly known as: 6841 Butterfield Drive Cherry Valley, Illinois 61016.

P.I.N Number: 16-10-479-013 Property Code: 262-502 And for other relief, that the action was filed on or about June 23, 2017.

That Summons was duly issued out of said Court against you as provided by law, and that the said suit is still pending. The record titleholder of the real estate is Fadi B. Hamed. An identification of the mortgage sought to be foreclosed is as follows: Mortgagor – Fadi B. Hamed Mortgagee – Northwest Bank of Rockford Date of Mortgage - December 6, 2011.

Date of Recording – December 15, 2011.

County of Recording – Winnebago Recording Document – 20111044096.

NOW THEREFORE, unless you Fadi B. Hamed the said Defendant, file your Answer to the Complaint in said suit or otherwise make your appearance therein in the said Circuit Court of the 17th Judicial Circuit, Winnebago County, 400 W. State Street in the City of Rockford, State of Illinois on or before January 31, 2018, default may be entered against you at any time after that date and a judgment may be entered in accordance with the prayer of the Complaint.

Dated at Rockford, IL on the 22nd day of December, 2017 Thomas A. Klein, Clerk of the Circuit Court Winnebago County, Illinois Plaintiff’s Attorney Timothy F. Horning #973 MEYER & HORNING, P.C. 3400 N. Rockton Avenue

Rockford, IL 61103 815/636-9300 8413R TRRT 1/10 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO NORTHWEST BANK OF ROCKFORD, Plaintiff, VS. SHAWN HOFFMAN a/k/a SHAWN C. HOFFMAN, UNKNOWN OTHERS, NONRECORD CLAIMAINTS and UNKNOWN TENANTS, Defendants.

CASE NO. 2017 CH 43 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure heretofore entered by the said Court on the 15th day of September, 2017 in the above-entitled cause, GARY CARAUNA, Sheriff of Winnebago County, Illinois will on the 25th day of January, 2018 at the hour of 11:00 A.M., at the Winnebago County Criminal Justice Center, 650 W. State Street, Rockford, Illinois 61102 sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash and all singular, the following described premises and real estate in said Judgment mentioned, situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said Judgment to-wit: The North 66 feet of Lot One (1) and the North 66 feet of the East 8 feet of Lot Two (2) in Block Two (2) as designated upon the Plat of Perley and St. John’s Addition to the Town of Pecatonica, which is recorded in Book 35 of Deeds on page 1 in the Recorder’s Office of Winnebago County, Illinois; the South line of said tract being parallel with the North lien of said Block and the West line of said tract being parallel with the East line of said Lot Two (2); situated in the Village of Pecatonica, County of Winnebago and State of Illinois.

Commonly known as: 705 High Street Pecatonica, Illinois 61063 P.I.N Number: 09-29-402-020 Property Code: 461 D 236 The property is commonly known as 705 High Street Pecatonica, Illinois 61063 and is improved with a residential property.

Judgment was taken in the amount of $98,094.71 on behalf of Northwest Bank of Rockford.

Property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes and is offered for sale without any representations 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 sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid.

Sale terms are cash or certified funds 25% at time of sale and the balance, including the judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser to the person conducting the sale,

provided that in no event shall the fee exceed $300 is due within 24 hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale.

Upon payment in full on 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.

Respective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

For information, contact Timothy F. Horning attorney for Plaintiff, 3400 N. Rockton Avenue, Rockford, IL 61103. Pursuant to Section 15-1507 (c)(7) of the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure, no information other than the information contained in this Notice will be provided.

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER) YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701 (C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. Attorney Timothy F. Horning Meyer and Horning P.C. Attorney for Plaintiff 3400 N. Rockton Avenue Rockford, IL 61103 815/636-9300 8414R TRRT 1/10 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO NORTHWEST BANK OF ROCKFORD, Plaintiff, VS. KAREN S. RICE A/K/A KAREN SUE RICE A/K/A KAREN RICE, THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AT LAW OR LEGATEES OF JEFFREY J. RADKE, DECEASED, CLAIMANTS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF JEFFREY J. RADKE, D’ANN GRANGER A/K/A D’ANN MICHELLE RICE, AN HEIR TO THE ESTATE OF JEFFREY J. RADKE, JASON RADKE A/K/A JASON ANDREW RADKE AN HEIR TO THE ESTATE OF JEFFREY J. RADKE, CHAD RADKE A/K/A CHAD JEFFREY RADKE AN HEIR TO THE ESTATE OF JEFFERY J. RADKE, UNKNOWN OTHERS, NONRECORD CLAIMAINTS and UNKNOWN TENANTS, Defendants.

CASE NO. 2017 CH 44 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure heretofore entered by the said Court on the 3RD day of November, 2017 in the above-entitled cause, GARY CARAUNA, Sheriff of Winnebago County, Illinois will on the 25th day of January, 2018 at the hour of 11:00 A.M., at the Winnebago County Criminal Justice Center, 650 W. State Street, Rockford, Illinois 61102 sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash and all

singular, the following described premises and real estate in said Judgment mentioned, situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said Judgment to-wit: Lot Ten (10) as designated upon the Plat of Westport Plat No. 2, being a Subdivision of part of the West Half (1/2) of the Northwest Quarter (1/4) of Section 18, Township 44 North, Range 1 East of the Third Principal Meridian, the Plat of which Subdivision is recorded in Book 26 of Plats on Page 167 in the Recorder’s Office of Winnebago County, Illinois, situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois.

Commonly known as: 2212 Havaview Drive Rockford, Illinois 61101 Property Code: 198B 018 P.I.N. Number: 11-18-152-012 The property is commonly known as 2212 Havaview Drive Rockford, Illinois 61101 and is improved with a residential property.

Judgment was taken in the amount of $97,739.13 on behalf of Northwest Bank of Rockford.

Property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes and is offered for sale without any representations 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 sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid.

Sale terms are cash or certified funds 25% at time of sale and the balance, including the judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser to the person conducting the sale, provided that in no event shall the fee exceed $300 is due within 24 hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale.

Upon payment in full on 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.

Respective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

For information, contact Timothy F. Horning attorney for Plaintiff, 3400 N. Rockton Avenue, Rockford, IL 61103. Pursuant to Section 15-1507 (c)(7) of the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure, no information other than the information contained in this Notice will be provided.

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER) YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701 (C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. Attorney Timothy F. Horning

Meyer and Horning P.C. Attorney for Plaintiff 3400 N. Rockton Avenue Rockford, IL 61103 815/636-9300 8415R TRRT 1/10 n n n NOTE: PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT, YOU ARE ADVISED THAT THE LAW FIRM OF HINSHAW & CULBERTSON LLP IS DEEMED TO BE A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO BLACKHAWK BANK, Plaintiff, v.

ADAM J. KEIP; MELISSSA S. KEIP; UNKNOWN OWNERS; UNKNOWN TENANTS; UNKNOWN SPOUSES; UNKNOWN HEIRS and NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants.

Case No.: 2017 CH 938 NOTICE TO UNKNOWN OWNERS; UNKNOWN TENANTS; UNKNOWN SPOUSES; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS FOR PUBLICATION The requisite Affidavit having been duly filed in my office, NOTICE is hereby given you, UNKNOWN OWNERS; UNKNOWN TENANTS; UNKNOWN SPOUSES; UNKNOWN HEIRS and NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants in the above-entitled suit, that the said suit has been commenced in the Circuit Court of Winnebago County, by the said Plaintiff, against you and other Defendants, praying for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage concerning the premises described as follows, to-wit: Lot Two Hundred and Eighteen (218) as designated upon the Final Plat No. 4 of Linden Pointe, being a Subdivision of part of Section 7, Township 43 North, Range 2 East of the 3rd Principal Meridian, the plat of which is recorded in Book 48 of Plats on Page 33B in the Recorder’s Office of Winnebago County, Illinois; situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois.

COMMON ADDRESS: 3737 Linden Road Rockford, IL 61109 P.I.N.: 16-07-253-001 And for other relief; that Summons was duly issued out of the said Court against you as provided by law, and that the suit is now pending.

NOW, THEREFORE, unless you, the said above-named Defendants, file your Answer to the Complaint of said suit or otherwise make your appearance therein, in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Winnebago County, Winnebago County Courthouse in the City of Rockford, Illinois, on or before the 29th day of January, 2018, default may be entered in accordance with the prayer of said Complaint.

THOMAS A. KLEIN, Clerk of the Circuit Court, 17th Judicial Circuit, Winnebago County, Illinois

PREPARED BY: Yashekia T. Simpkins (ARDC #6307014) HINSHAW & CULBERTSON LLP 100 Park Avenue P.O. Box 1389 Rockford, IL 61105-1389 Phone: 815-490-4900 Fax: 815-490-4901 ysimpkins@hinshawlaw.com 8416R TRRT 1/10 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE SEVENTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO PROBATE DIVISION ESTATE OF JOHN HENRY MORRIS, DECEASED. NO. 17 P 468 CLAIM NOTICE NOTICE is given of the death of JOHN HENRY MORRIS, who died on October 11, 2017. Letters of Office were issued on December 15, 2017, to First Midwest Bank, 2801 W. Jefferson St., Joliet, IL 60435, as Independent Administrator of the estate, whose attorney of record is Melinda C. Martin, 20 N. Clark St., Suite 1900, Chicago, IL 60602.

Notice is given to Derrick Whyte, who is an heir of the decedent whose address was not stated in the petition for independent administration of the estate. This means that the administrator will not have to obtain court orders of filed estate papers in court during probate. The estate will be administered without court supervision unless interested persons ask the court to become involved.

Claims against the estate may be filed with the estate representative or the Office of the Winnebago County Circuit Clerk Probate Division at the Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 W. State St., Rockford, IL 61101, or both, on or before June 27, 2018, or, if mailing or delivery of a notice from the representative is required by section 18-3 of the Probate Act of 1975, the date stated in that notice.

Any claim not filed on or before that date is barred. Copies of a claim filed with the Circuit Clerk’s Office - Probate Division, must be mailed or delivered to the representative and to the attorney within ten (10) days after it has been filed.

Melinda C. Martin Whitney T. Martin Righeimer Martin & Cinquino 20 N. Clark St., Ste 1900 Chicago, IL 60602 IARDC #: 6290140/6317508 8418R TRRT 1/10 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY – IN PROBATE In the Matter of the Estate of: EVELYN R. PODESTA, Deceased.

CASE NO. 2017 P 540 NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION – HEIRS AND CLAIMS Notice is given of the death of Evelyn R. Podesta of Rockford, Illinois, Letters of Office were issued on December 8, 2017, to Alpine Bank of Rockford, IL, as Executor, P.O. Box 6086, Rockford, IL 61125, whose attorney is Theodore Liebovich, 415 South Mulford Road, P.O. Box 6066, Rockford, IL 61125-1066.

Claims against the estate may be filed on or before June

28, 2018, that date being at least six (6) months from the date of the first publication, or within three (3) months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to Creditors, if mailing or delivery is required by Section 5/18-3 of the Illinois Probate Act, as amended whichever date is later. Any claim not filed by the requisite date stated above shall be barred.

Claims against the estate may be filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court at Winnebago County Courthouse, Probate Division, 400 West State St., Rockford, Illinois 61101 or with the estate legal representative or both.

Copies of claims filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered to the estate legal representative and to the attorney within 10 days after it has been filed.

ALPINE BANK OF ROCKFORD, IL, Executor.

8419R TRRT 1/10 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO SS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: WILLIAM M. RIGGLE, Deceased.

NO: 2017 P 531 CLAIM NOTICE NOTICE is given of the death of WILLIAM M. RIGGLE, Letters of Office were issued on December 15, 2017, to JOY V. BOHN, 7025 Stearman Drive, Loves Park, Illinois 61111, who is the legal representative of the estate. The attorney for the estate is PETER A. SAVITSKI, 838 North Main Street, Rockford, Illinois 61103.

Claims against the estate may be filed on or before June 30, 2018, that date being at least six (6) months from the date of first publication, or within three (3) months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to creditors, if mailing or delivery is required by 755 ILCS 5/18-3 of the Illinois Probate Act, 1975 as amended, whichever date is later. Any claim not filed by the requisite date as stated above shall be barred.

Claims against the estate may be filed in the office of the Winnebago County Circuit Clerk-Probate Division at the Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 West State Street, Rockford, Illinois, or with the estate legal representative, or both.

Copies of claims filed with the Circuit Clerk’s Office-Probate Division, must be mailed or delivered to the estate legal representative and to his/her attorney within ten days after it has been filed.

DATED: December 18, 2017 JOY V. BOHN ADMINISTRATOR TO COLLECT Attorney Peter A. Savitski ARDC No.: 2463741 838 North Main Street Rockford, Illinois 61103 (815) 963-0370 8420R TRRT 1/10 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a Construction business in said County and State under the name of 3 Squares Construction at the following post office ad-

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dresses: 1608 S. 5th St., Apt. #1, Rockford, IL 61104; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: J. Jesus Murillo SIGNED: J. Jesus Murillo 12/29/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 29th day of December, A.D. 2017.

Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Pamela Johnson, DEPUTY 8437R TRRT 1/17 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a photography service business in said County and State under the name of Ethan Zentz Photography at the following post office addresses: 2205 S. Perryville Road, Unit 111, Rockford, IL 61108; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Ethan Zentz SIGNED: Ethan Zentz 12/27/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 27th day of December, A.D. 2017.

Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Pamela Johnson, DEPUTY 8438R TRRT 1/17 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a lawncare, tree removal & firewood business in said County and State under the name of Dan & Debs Lawn Care and Tree Removal at the following post office addresses: 11038 Silver Creek Rd., Rockford, IL 61102; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Daniel W. Salathe SIGNED: Daniel W. Salathe 12/22/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 22nd day of December, A.D. 2017.

Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Luanne Kaspar, DEPUTY 8439R TRRT 1/17 n n n STATE OF WISCONSIN, CIRCUIT COURT, WALWORTH COUNTY Petitioner: Tammy L. Vieau -vsRespondent: Theodore Whitcomb Publication Notice Harassment Injunction Hearing Case No. 2017-CV-740 A harassment temporary restraining order was issued on December 18, 2017 against Theodore Whitcomb.

A hearing on the petition to grant a harassment injunction will be held on January 5, 2018 at 1:30 p.m., at the Walworth County Courthouse, Elkhorn, Wisconsin, in room 2040, before Comm.

Dougrillo, Court Official.

TO THE RESPONDENT: If you fail to appear at the hearing, the relief requested will be granted.

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n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE OF THE PRESTON RIDGE PARTNERS INVESTMENTS II TRUST Plaintiff, -v.BEVERLY KING A/K/A BEVERLY INGRAM, et al Defendant 17 CH 00194 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 30, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on January 30, 2018, at the NLT TITLE, LLC., 6885 Vistagreen Way, ROCKFORD, IL, 61107, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT 7 AS DESIGNATED UPON THE PLAT OF ALPINE PARK, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE EAST 1/2 OF THE EAST 1/2 OF SECTION 29, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 2 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, AND RE-PLAT OF LOTS 62, 63 AND PART OF 66 AND PART OF EAST LAWN DRIVE AS DESIGNATED UPON THE PLAT OF BULKLEY ACRES, THE PLAT OF WHICH SUBDIVISION IS RECORDED IN BOOK 32 OF PLATS ON PAGE 83 IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS Commonly known as 4817 ALPINE PARK DRIVE, ROCKFORD, IL 61108 Property Index No. 12-29-428003 (173D343).

The real estate is improved with a residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation.

No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF

THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information, examine the court file 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 14-17-01845.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc. com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-17-01845 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 17 CH 00194 TJSC#: 37-8253 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I3071043 P8380R TRRT 1/3 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS CITY OF ROCKFORD, A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION Plaintiff, vs.

HAROLD SUSKI, J.D. MARK, INC., JOSEPH SUSKI, UNKNOWN OWNERS, AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants, 17 CH 471 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 25, 2018 at the hour of 1:00 p.m. at Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Suite 102, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: F A HORSMANS ADD S 23.79FT E1/4 LOT 18 + N 5.21FT E 1/4 LOT 017 BLOCK 001.

Commonly known as 452 UNDERWOOD ST, ROCKFORD, IL 61101.

P.I.N. 11-22-202-004.

The mortgaged real estate is vacant land.

Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

For information call Mr. Matthew D. Flores at Plaintiff’s Attorney, City of Rockford Department of Law, 425 East State Street, Rockford, Illinois 61104. (779) 348-7395.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3070926 P8381R TRRT 1/3 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

WINNEBAGO COUNTY ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, vs.

ROBERT J. RILLIE AKA ROBERT RILLIE; MICHELLE S. RILLIE AKA MICHELLE RILLIE; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants, 15 CH 870 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 25, 2018, at the hour of 1:00 p.m., Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Suite 102, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: LOT FIFTY (50) AS DESIGNATED UPON PLAT NO. 5 OF PARKVIEW ESTATES SUBDIVISION, OF PART OF THE WEST HALF (1/2) OF SECTION 29, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 2, EAST OF THE THIRD (3RD) PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, THE PLAT OF WHICH IS RECORDED IN BOOK 35 OF PLATS ON PAGE 3 IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. P.I.N. 08-29-326-003.

Commonly known as 1515 Roosevelt Road, Machesney Park, Illinois 61115.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call The Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Anselmo Lindberg & Associates, LLC, 1771 West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois 60563-1890. (630) 453-6960. For Bidding instructions visit www.alolawgroup.com 24 hours prior to sale. F15090053 I3070925 P8382R TRRT 1/3 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, NA Plaintiff, vs.

CARLON J. WASHINGTON AKA CARLON WASHINGTON; MARLON T. WASHINGTON AKA MARLON WASHINGTON; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants, 17 CH 339 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 25, 2018, at the hour of 1:00 p.m., Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Suite 102, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: THE EAST HALF (1/2) OF LOTS ONE (1), TWO (2) AND THREE (3) IN BLOCK TWO (2) AS DESIGNATED UPON THE PLAT OF ROCKTON AVENUE SECOND ADDITION, BEING A SUBDIVISION IN THE NORTH

HALF (1/2) OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER (1/4) OF SECTION 11, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 1 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, THE PLAT OF WHICH ADDITION IS RECORDED IN BOOK 3 OF PLATS ON PAGE 61 IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS, THE WEST LINE OF SAID PREMISES BEING PARALLEL WITH THE EAST LINE OF SAID LOTS, ALSO THE WEST HALF (1/2) OF THE ALLEY (VACATED) RUNNING NORTH AND SOUTH BETWEEN AND ADJACENT TO THE LOTS ONE (1), TWO (2), THREE (3) AND THIRTY (30) IN SAID BLOCK TWO (2); SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. P.I.N. 11-11-104-002.

Commonly known as 24262428 Jonathan Avenue, Rockford, Illinois 61103.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call The Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Anselmo Lindberg & Associates, LLC, 1771 West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois 60563-1890. (630) 453-6960. For Bidding instructions visit www.alolawgroup.com 24 hours prior to sale. F1704002 I3070921 P8383R TRRT 1/3 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC DBA CHAMPION MORTGAGE COMPANY; Plaintiff, vs.

UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF GWENDOLYN F. DOOLAN, DECEASED; THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; ASSOCIATED BANK, N.A.; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; SHAWN DOOLAN JAMES DOOLAN; CURT DOOLAN; SHERRY KATHLEEN ZACK, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR GWENDOLYN F. DOOLAN, DECEASED; Defendants, 17 CH 586 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 25, 2018 at the hour of 1:00 p.m. at Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Suite 102, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: Lot 82 as designated upon Campus Hills Subdivision, Plat No. 1, part of the North East 1/4 and the North 1/2 of the North 1/2 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 2, Township 44 North, Range 1, East of the Third Principal Meridian, Rockford, Illinois, the plat of which

Subdivision is recorded in Book 23 of Plats on page 99 in the Recorder’s Office of Winnebago County, Illinois.

P.I.N. 11-02-403-040.

Commonly known as 1415 Notre Dame Road, Rockford, IL 61103.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

For information call Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (614) 220-5611.

17-030588 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3070924 P8384R TRRT 1/3 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO BOARD OF EDUCATION, ROCKFORD SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 205, WINNEBAGO – BOONE COUNTIES, ILLINOIS Plaintiff, v.

ROCKFORD HOME FINANCE SERIES THREE (3), ROCKFORD HOME FINANCE LLC, MICHAEL RICHARD MONTRIEF IRREVOCABLE TRUST, Michael Richard Montrief Trustee, ROBERT KAEMPEN, Individually, and as Trustee of the Rockford Investment Group Irrevocable Trust, MICHAEL MONTRIEF, an Individual, ROCKFORD INVESTORS GROUP LLC, an Illinois limited liability company, ROCKFORD HOMES LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company, THE STATE OF ILLINOIS SECRETARY OF STATE and UNKNOWN OWNERS Defendants.

Case No. 2017 ED 14 NOTICE TO UNKNOWN OWNERS FOR PUBLICATION The requisite Affidavit having been duly filed in my office, NOTICE is hereby given you, UNKNOWN OWNERS, Defendants in the above-entitled suit, that the said suit has been commenced in the Circuit Court of Winnebago County, by the said Plaintiff, against you and other Defendants, praying for the condemnation of a certain portion of the property described as follows, to-wit: The West Half (1/2) of Lot Four (4) as designated upon the Plat of Kling and Kjellberg’s Subdivision of South Park Lot One (1) (E.R.), the Plat of which Subdivision is recorded in Book 58 of Deeds (Plats) on Page 18 in the Recorder’s Office of Winnebago County, Illinois; situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois.

Common Address: 524 Union Street, Rockford, Illinois 61104 PROPERTY CODE: 11-26179-017 And for other relief; that Summons was duly issued out of the said Court against you as provided by law, and that the suit is now pending.

NOW, THEREFORE, unless you, the said above-named Defendants, file or otherwise make your appearance in this case in

the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Winnebago County, Winnebago County Courthouse in the City of Rockford, Illinois, thirty (30) days from the date of December 20, 2017, a trial may be held and judgment entered against you for the relief asked for in the Complaint.

Dated: December 15, 2017 BOARD OF EDUCATION, ROCKFORD SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 205, WINNEBAGO – BOONE COUNTIES, ILLINOIS By: HINSHAW & CULBERTSON LLP Yashekia T. Simpkins One of Its Attorneys Yashekia T. Simpkins ARDC 6307014 Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP 100 Park Avenue P.O. Box 1389 Rockford, IL 61105-1389 Phone: 815-490-4900 Fax: 815-490-4901 ysimpkins@hinshawlaw.com 8385R TRRT 1/3 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO IN RE THE ESTATE OF: ORLEY D. LARSON, Deceased.

No. 2017 P 525 CLAIM NOTICE NOTICE is given of the death of ORLEY D. LARSON. Letters of Office were issued on December 4, 2017 to SANDRA J. HENKE of 1108 Peterson Avenue, Eau Claire, Wisconsin 54703, who is the legal representative of the Estate. The attorney for the Estate is James M. DiVerde, Jr. of HOWARD & HARDYMAN, LLP, 124 N.Water Street, Suite 100, PO Box 1616, Rockford, Illinois 61110-0116.

Any claims against the Estatemay be filed on or before June 20, 2018, that date being at least six (6) months from the date of first publication, or within three (3) months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to creditors, if mailing or delivery is required by Section 18-3 of the Illinois Probate Act, 1975 as amended, whichever date is later. Any claim not filed by the requisite date stated above shall be barred.

Claims against the Estate must be filed with the Office of the Winnebago County Circuit Clerk-Probate Division at the Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 W. State Street, Rockford, Illinois 61101. Copies of claims filed with the Circuit Clerk’s Office - Probate Division, must be mailed or delivered to the Estate legal representative and to his/her attorney within ten (10) days after it has been filed.

DATED: December 11, 2017 SANDRA J. HENKE, Executor James M. DiVerde, Jr. ARDC# 6312675 HOWARD & HARDYMAN, LLP 124 N. Water Street, Suite 100 Rockford, Illinois 61107 (815) 964-8888 jdiverde@howardhardyman.com Attorneys for the Estate of ORLEY D. LARSON 8386R TRRT 1/3 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS PROBATE DIVISION Estate of Jeannine P. Gregg, Deceased.

No. 16-P-403 NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given to creditors of Jeannine P. Gregg of the death of the above-named Decedent on October 11, 2015.

Letters of Office were issued to Jill Heeren, c/o Attorney Ami Lynn Orava, Blakely & Blakely Law Firm, 611 E. Grand Ave, Ste. A, Beloit, WI 53511.

Claims against the estate may be filed in the office of the

Winnebago County Circuit Clerk, Probate Division, at the Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 W. State Street, Rockford, IL 61101, or with the Representative, or both, by June 20, 2018, 6 months from the date of the first publication of this notice, or within three months of the date of mailing of this notice, if later.

Any claim not filed on or before that date is barred. Copies of a claim filed with the clerk must be mailed or delivered by the claimant to the Representative and to the Attorney within ten days after it has been filed.

Name: Attorney Ami Lynn Orava Firm Name: Blakely & Blakely Law Firm Attorney for: Executor Address: 611 E. Grand Ave., Ste. A City & Zip: Beloit, WI 53511 Telephone: 608-365-4401 Atty. No.: 6313657 8387R TRRT 1/3 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO SS STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO In the Matter of the Estate of: JIMMIE D. KEILBACK, Deceased.

Case No.: 2017-P-519 CLAIM NOTICE NOTICE is given of the death of Jimmie D. Keilback, who died on October 19, 2017. Letters of Office were issued on November 30, 2017, to Terry L. Keilback, 807 Stephanie Ln., Winnebago, IL 61088, who is the legal representative of the estate. The attorney for the estate is Franklin J. Eubank, Jr., 126 N. Church Street, Rockford, IL 61101-1002.

Claims against the estate may be filed on or before July 5, 2018, that date being at least six (6) months from the date of first publication, or within three (3) months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to creditors, if mailing or delivery is required by Section 18-3 of the Illinois Probate Act, 1975 as amended, whichever date is later.

Any claim not filed by the requisite date stated above shall be barred.

Claims against the estate may be filed in the office of the Winnebago County Circuit Clerk-Probate Division at the Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 West State Street, Rockford, IL 61101 or with the estate legal representative, or both.

Copies of claims filed with the Circuit Clerk’s Office-Probate Division, must be mailed or delivered to the estate legal representative and to his/her attorney within ten (10) days after it has been filed.

Dated: 12/13/17 BY: /s/ Terry L. Keilback Terry L. Keilback, Estate representative Franklin J. Eubank, Jr. Attorney at Law 126 N. Church Street Rockford, IL 61101-1002 (815) 961-9668 Attorney for estate representative 8388R TRRT 1/3 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a Flooring Installation business in said County and State under the name of Blue Ribbon Premier Hardwoods at the following post office addresses: 4436 Lori Dr., Apt. C, Rockford, IL 61114; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Christy A. Knutson SIGNED: Christy A. Knutson 12/15/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 15th day of December, A.D. 2017.

Lisa L. Frederick, Notary Public

My Commission Expires May 26, 2021 8392R TRRT 1/3 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS, CIRCUIT COURT WINNEBAGO COUNTY NOTICE OF FILING A REQUEST FOR NAME CHANGE (ADULT) Request of: Ethan Tyler Johann-Russell Current Name Case Number: 17 MR 1050 There will be a court date on my Request to change my name from: Ethan Tyler Johann-Russell to the new name of: Ethan Tyler Martin Johann.

The court date will be held: On January 3, 2018 at 10:00 a.m., at 400 W. State St., Rockford, IL, Winnebago County, in Courtroom #412. /s/ Ethan Johann-Russell Ethan Johann-Russell Current Name 8394R TRRT 1/3 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a Landscaping & Snow Removal, (raking), mowing, trimming, planting, mulching business in said County and State under the name of Unique Landscaping & Snow Removal at the following post office addresses: 1006 23rd St., Rockford, IL 61108; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Unique Patterson; Robert Jefferson SIGNED: Unique Patterson 12/18/17 SIGNED: Robert Jefferson 12/18/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 18th day of December, A.D. 2017.

Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Thalia Gallardo, DEPUTY 8398R TRRT 1/3 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a Clothing & Accessories business in said County and State under the name of Midwest Threads at the following post office addresses: 2322 Charles St., Rockford, IL 61108; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Ebony Davis SIGNED: Ebony Davis 12/4/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 4th day of December, A.D. 2017.

Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Luanne Kaspar, DEPUTY 8399R TRRT 1/3 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a E-commerce business in said County and State under the name of River Valley Deals at the following post office addresses: 5757 Whispering Way, Loves Park, IL 61111; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Jarred Tholin SIGNED: Jarred Tholin 12/14/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 14th day of December, A.D. 2017.

Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Thalia Gallardo, DEPUTY 8402R TRRT 1/3

January 3, 2018 The Rock River Times.

n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY - ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, vs. ROBERT J. RILLIE AKA ROBERT RILLIE; MICHELLE S. RILLIE AKA MICHELLE RILLIE; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants, 15 CH 870 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 25, 2018, at the hour of 1:00 p.m., Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Suite 102, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 08-29-326-003.

Commonly known as 1515 Roosevelt Road, Machesney Park, Illinois 61115.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call The Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Anselmo Lindberg & Associates, LLC, 1771 West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois 60563-1890. (630) 453-6960. For Bidding instructions visit www.alolawgroup.com 24 hours prior to sale. F15090053 I3070925 P8382R TRRT 1/3 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY - ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS CITY OF ROCKFORD, A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION Plaintiff, vs. HAROLD SUSKI, J.D. MARK, INC., JOSEPH SUSKI, UNKNOWN OWNERS, AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants, 17 CH 471 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 25, 2018 at the hour of 1:00 p.m. at Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Suite 102, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: Commonly known as 452 UNDERWOOD ST, ROCKFORD, IL 61101.

P.I.N. 11-22-202-004.

The mortgaged real estate is vacant land.

Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

For information call Mr. Matthew D. Flores at Plaintiff’s Attorney, City of Rockford Department of Law, 425 East State Street, Rockford, Illinois 61104. (779) 348-7395.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3070926 P8381R TRRT 1/3 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE OF THE PRESTON RIDGE PARTNERS INVESTMENTS II TRUST Plaintiff, -v.- BEVERLY KING A/K/A BEVERLY INGRAM, et al Defendant 17 CH 00194 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 30, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on January 30, 2018, at the NLT TITLE, LLC., 6885 Vistagreen Way, ROCKFORD, IL, 61107, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 4817 ALPINE PARK DRIVE, ROCKFORD, IL 61108 Property Index No. 12-29-428-003 (173D343).

The real estate is improved with a residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE

RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information, examine the court file 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 14-17-01845.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-17-01845 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 17 CH 00194 TJSC#: 37-8253 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I3071043 P8380R TRRT 1/3 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY - ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC DBA CHAMPION MORTGAGE COMPANY; Plaintiff, vs. UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF GWENDOLYN F. DOOLAN, DECEASED; THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; ASSOCIATED BANK, N.A.; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; SHAWN DOOLAN JAMES DOOLAN; CURT DOOLAN; SHERRY KATHLEEN ZACK, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR GWENDOLYN F. DOOLAN, DECEASED; Defendants, 17 CH 586 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 25, 2018 at the hour of 1:00 p.m. at Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Suite 102, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 11-02-403-040.

Commonly known as 1415 Notre Dame Road, Rockford, IL 61103.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

For information call Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601.

(614) 220-5611. 17-030588 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3070924 P8384R TRRT 1/3 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO NORTHWEST BANK OF ROCKFORD, Plaintiff, VS. SHAWN HOFFMAN a/k/a SHAWN C. HOFFMAN,UNKNOWN OTHERS, NONRECORD CLAIMAINTS and UNKNOWN TENANTS, Defendants. CASE NO. 2017 CH 43 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure heretofore entered by the said Court on the 15th day of September, 2017 in the above-entitled cause, GARY CARAUNA, Sheriff of Winnebago County, Illinois will on the 25th day of January, 2018 at the hour of 11:00 A.M., at the Winnebago County Criminal Justice Center, 650 W. State Street, Rockford, Illinois 61102 sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash and all singular, the following described premises and real estate in said Judgment mentioned, situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said Judgment to-wit: Commonly known as: 705 High Street Pecatonica, Illinois 61063 P.I.N Number: 09-29-402-020 Property Code: 461 D 236 The property is commonly known as 705 High Street Pecatonica, Illinois 61063 and is improved with a residential property.

Judgment was taken in the amount of $98,094.71 on behalf of Northwest Bank of Rockford. Property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes and is offered for sale without any representations 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 sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a

return of the deposit paid.

Sale terms are cash or certified funds 25% at time of sale and the balance, including the judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser to the person conducting the sale, provided that in no event shall the fee exceed $300 is due within 24 hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale.

Upon payment in full on 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.

Respective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

For information, contact Timothy F. Horning attorney for Plaintiff, 3400 N. Rockton Avenue, Rockford, IL 61103. Pursuant to Section 15-1507 (c)(7) of the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure, no information other than the information contained in this Notice will be provided.

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER) YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701 (C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. Attorney Timothy F. Horning Meyer and Horning P.C. Attorney for Plaintiff 3400 N. Rockton Avenue Rockford, IL 61103 815/636-9300 8414R TRRT 1/10 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY - ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, NA Plaintiff, vs. CARLON J. WASHINGTON AKA CARLON WASHINGTON; MARLON T. WASHINGTON AKA MARLON WASHINGTON; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants, 17 CH 339 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 25, 2018, at the hour of 1:00 p.m., Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Suite 102, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 11-11-104-002.

Commonly known as 2426-2428 Jonathan Avenue, Rockford, Illinois 61103.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call The Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Anselmo Lindberg & Associates, LLC, 1771 West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois 60563-1890. (630) 453-6960. For Bidding instructions visit www.alolawgroup.com 24 hours prior to sale. F1704002 I3070921 P8383R TRRT 1/3 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO NORTHWEST BANK OF ROCKFORD, Plaintiff, VS. KAREN S. RICE A/K/A KAREN SUE RICE A/K/A KAREN RICE, THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AT LAW OR LEGATEES OF JEFFREY J. RADKE, DECEASED, CLAIMANTS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF JEFFREY J. RADKE, D’ANN GRANGER A/K/A D’ANN MICHELLE RICE, AN HEIR TO THE ESTATE OF JEFFREY J. RADKE, JASON RADKE A/K/A JASON ANDREW RADKE AN HEIR TO THE ESTATE OF JEFFREY J. RADKE, CHAD RADKE A/K/A CHAD JEFFREY RADKE AN HEIR TO THE ESTATE OF JEFFERY J. RADKE, UNKNOWN OTHERS, NONRECORD CLAIMAINTS and UNKNOWN TENANTS, Defendants. CASE NO. 2017 CH 44 NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure heretofore entered by the said Court on the 3RD day of November, 2017 in the above-entitled cause, GARY CARAUNA, Sheriff of Winnebago County, Illinois will on the 25th day of January, 2018 at the hour of 11:00 A.M., at the Winnebago County Criminal Justice Center, 650 W. State Street, Rockford, Illinois 61102 sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash and all singular, the following described premises and real estate in said Judgment mentioned, situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said Judgment to-wit: Commonly known as: 2212 Havaview Drive Rockford, Illinois 61101 Property Code: 198B 018 P.I.N. Number: 11-18-152-012 The property is commonly known as 2212 Havaview Drive Rockford, Illinois 61101 and is improved with a residential property.

Judgment was taken in the amount of $97,739.13 on behalf of Northwest Bank of Rockford. Property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes and is offered for sale without any representations 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 sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid.

Sale terms are cash or certified funds 25% at time of sale and the

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balance, including the judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser to the person conducting the sale, provided that in no event shall the fee exceed $300 is due within 24 hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale.

Upon payment in full on 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.

Respective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

For information, contact Timothy F. Horning attorney for Plaintiff, 3400 N. Rockton Avenue, Rockford, IL 61103. Pursuant to Section 15-1507 (c)(7) of the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure, no information other than the information contained in this Notice will be provided.

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER) YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701 (C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. Attorney Timothy F. Horning Meyer and Horning P.C. Attorney for Plaintiff 3400 N. Rockton Avenue Rockford, IL 61103 815/636-9300 8415R TRRT 1/10 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.- JOSE ESPINOZA, et al Defendant 17CH 0000554 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 30, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on February 14, 2018, at the NLT TITLE, LLC., 6885 Vistagreen Way, ROCKFORD, IL, 61107, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1515 GREENWOOD, ROCKFORD, IL 61107 Property Index No. 11-24-330-004.

The real estate is improved with a residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information, examine the court file 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 14-17-09981.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-17-09981 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 17 CH 0000554 TJSC#: 37-8251 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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The Rock River Times. January 3, 2018

n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON F/K/A THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE (CWALT 2006-19CB) Plaintiff, -v.- DONNA S. GLASS, et al Defendant 17 CH 0000543 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 30, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on February 8, 2018, at the NLT TITLE, LLC., 6885 Vistagreen Way, ROCKFORD, IL, 61107, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 12020 TRESEMER ROAD, ROSCOE, IL 61073 Property Index No. 04-29-152-014 (029B369).

The real estate is improved with a residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information, examine the court file 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 14-17-07151.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-17-07151 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 17 CH 0000543 TJSC#: 37-8249 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I3070856 P8405R TRRT 1/10 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.- GORDON SWANLUND A/K/A GORDON DAVID SWANLUND, et al Defendant 17 CH 119 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 20, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on January 23, 2018, at the NLT TITLE, LLC., 6885 Vistagreen Way, ROCKFORD, IL, 61107, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 233 RENROSE AVENUE, LOVES PARK, IL 61111 Property Index No. 11-01-254-009.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the

foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5pm. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC, Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200, Chicago, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 416-5500. Please refer to file number 260720.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200 Chicago, IL 60602 (312) 416-5500 E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com Attorney File No. 260720 Case Number: 17 CH 119 TJSC#: 37-11220 I3072050 P8406R TRRT 1/10 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY - ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS HSBC BANK USA NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR FREMONT HOME LOAN TRUST 2006-C, MORTGAGE BACKED CERTIFICATES SERIES 2006-C; Plaintiff, vs. MAEGAN A. KACHMAR; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF MAEGAN A. KACHMAR, IF ANY; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 17 ch 768 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, February 1, 2018 at the hour of 1:00 p.m. at Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Suite 102, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 11-17-353-036.

Commonly known as 4311 Nina Terrace, Rockford, IL 61101.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call sales department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, The Wirbicki Law Group, 33 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603.

(312) 360-9455. WA17-0327 I3071610 P8407R TRRT 1/10 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY - ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS TRICOMA TRUST TTSSR 1; Plaintiff, vs. BRENDA JUSINO AKA BRENDA L. JUSINO AKA BRENDA BARRIOS AKA BRENDA L. BARRIOS AKA BRENDA L. JUSINO CORTES AKA BRENDA JUSINO CORTES; WILLIAM BARRIOS; ROCK RIVER WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT; THE CITY OF ROCKFORD, A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 15 ch 1010 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, February 1, 2018 at the hour of 1:00 p.m. at Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Suite 102, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 11-11-103-016.

Commonly known as 2207 Jonathan Avenue, Rockford, IL 61103.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call sales department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, The Wirbicki Law Group, 33 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603.

(312) 360-9455. W17-0137 I3071609 P8408R TRRT 1/10 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY - ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN HOME MORTGAGE INVESTMENT TRUST 2006-3, Plaintiff, vs. DANIEL P. ADAMS; JACQUELINE A. ADAMS; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN BROKERS CONDUIT; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants, 15 CH 105 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty

Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, February 1, 2018 at the hour of 1:00 p.m. at Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Suite 102, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: Commonly known as 7580 Bridlewood Road, Caledonia, IL 61011.

P.I.N. 08-35-251-006.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

For information call Ms. Nicole Fox at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Potestivo & Associates, P.C., 251 Diversion Street, Rochester, Michigan 48307.

(248) 853-4400 ext 1200. C14-04195 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3071599 P8409R TRRT 1/10 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY - ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR J.P. MORGAN MORTGAGE ACQUISITION TRUST 2007-CH3, ASSET BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-CH3 Plaintiff, vs.

NANCY L. CLARK, THE CHICAGO TRUST COMPANY AKA CHICAGO TITLE LAND TRUST COMPANY, CFNA RECEIVABLES (MD), INC AS SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO ASSOCIATES FINANCE, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO, WINNEBAGO COUNTY TREASURER, PEARSON PLUMBER PLUMBING AND HEATING COMPANY, UNKNOWN OWNERS, GENERALLY, AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants, 15 CH 169 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, February 1, 2018, at the hour of 1:00 p.m., in Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Suite 102, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: Commonly known as 8015 Scott Lane, Machesney Park, IL 61115.

P.I.N. 08-30-479-004.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call Mr. Anthony Porto at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Kluever & Platt, L.L.C., 150 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60601.

(312) 236-0077. SPSF.2039 I3071597 P8410R TRRT 1/10 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT AS TRUSTEE FOR PRETIUM MORTGAGE ACQUISITION TRUST Plaintiff, -v.- SUONG HO CHO, et al Defendant 16 CH 00953 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on February 15, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on January 25, 2018, at the NLT TITLE, LLC., 6885 Vistagreen Way, ROCKFORD, IL, 61107, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 15550 STONECREST ROAD, SOUTH BELOIT, IL 61080 Property Index No. 04-04-451-005.

The real estate is improved with a residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information, examine the court file 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 14-16-15178.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-16-15178 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 16 CH 00953 TJSC#: 37-11224 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I3071943 P8412R TRRT 1/10 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.- TRACI A. PUCKETT, et al Defendant 2017-CH-0000564 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on September 27, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on February 15, 2018, at the NLT TITLE, LLC., 6885 Vistagreen Way, ROCKFORD, IL, 61107, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1713 DELROY AVE, ROCKFORD, IL 61109 Property Index No. 15-12-377-005 (228C008).

The real estate is improved with a residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information, examine the court file 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 14-17-10097.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-17-10097 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 2017 -CH- 0000564 TJSC#: 37-9124 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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January 3, 2018 The Rock River Times. n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.- RYAN D. CONNELL A/K/A RYAN DAVID CONNELL, et al Defendant 2017 -CH- 0000694 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 14, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on January 26, 2018, at the NLT TITLE, LLC., 6885 Vistagreen Way, ROCKFORD, IL, 61107, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 206 WOODROW, ROCKFORD, IL 61101 Property Index No. 11-20-127-025 (200B047).

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information, examine the court file 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 14-17-13321.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION

One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-17-13321 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 2017 -CH- 0000694 TJSC#: 37-11288 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I3072117 P8423R TRRT 1/17 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY - ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION; Plaintiff, vs. JONATHAN POLLACK; STATE OF ILLINOIS; DAWN POLLACK; Defendants, 17 CH 181 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, February 8, 2018 at the hour of 1:00 p.m. at Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Suite 102, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 11-28-351-011.

Commonly known as 2140 Maxine Lane, Rockford, IL 61102.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

For information call Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601.

(614) 220-5611. 17-005887 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3072158 P8424R TRRT 1/17

n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY - ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS FIFTH THIRD MORTGAGE COMPANY Plaintiff, vs. KRISTOPHER LEE PIERCE AKA KRISTOPHER L. PIERCE AKA KRISTOPHER PIERCE; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants, 17 CH 172 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, February 8, 2018, at the hour of 1:00 p.m., Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Suite 102, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 15-12-253-012.

Commonly known as 4211 Chesterfield Avenue, Rockford, Illinois 61109.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call The Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Anselmo Lindberg & Associates, LLC, 1771 West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois 60563-1890. (630) 453-6960. For Bidding instructions visit www.alolawgroup.com 24 hours prior to sale. F17010283 I3072169 P8425R TRRT 1/17 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS ASSOCIATED BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.- MICHAEL J. MYLNE, et al Defendant 16 CH 00966 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on November 8, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on February 13, 2018, at the NLT TITLE, LLC., 6885 Vistagreen Way, ROCKFORD, IL, 61107, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 3826 CARROLLTON COURT, ROCKFORD, IL 61109 Property Index No. 16-07-280-005.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special

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taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information, examine the court file 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 14-16-15580.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-16-15580 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 16 CH 00966 TJSC#: 37-10407 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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Mr. Green Car

Mr. Green Car’s year in review

By Allen Penticoff

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his time I’ll take a look back on the year and throw in a few reminders about winter driving now that it is really upon us.

2017 saw nearly all the major automobile manufacturers declare they were proceeding full steam ahead with developing electric vehicles (EV) despite continuing slow sales of EVs. Startling too is their commitment to driverless autonomous automobiles and their predictions for a whole new way to get around in the next few years.

2017 continues to see abnormally low fuel prices. This trend has stalled our transition to alternative fuel vehicles and EVs which remain non-competitive in the market on the basis of “return on investment.” The dealer lots still are crowded with pickup trucks and SUVs big and small. While there has been an encouraging trend to the crossover vehicle (CUV) that gets somewhat better gas mileage, we are not seeing the wholesale switch to pollution-free vehicles that is

needed to address climate change.

2017 took some big steps backward on the environmental front as American national politicians continue to deny and stall on doing the necessary things to forestall climate change. Fortunately, state and city politicians are stepping up to the plate and declaring their intent to create their own climate progress.

I would say the major corporations outside of the fossil fuel industry are on board with making changes to get ready for peak oil and climate change.

Corporations’ first priority is to survive.

And thus we see them preparing for the future by going ever deeper into electric transportation. They acknowledge the changes coming and are getting products ready to sell in the new economic environment where sustainable energy has displaced fossil fuels. In most cases, they are not doing this out of the goodness of their hearts — they see the writing on the wall.

2017 — I drove a Chevy Bolt! Loved it.

2017 has so much “green car news” I can’t keep up with it all and don’t even

try. I mostly depend on serendipity to provide a subject to write about and what interests me. I do not try to repeat old storylines I’ve gone over in the past years, but perhaps 2018 I’ll revisit some for new readers. I’ve mostly given up on writing about hybrids in general as there are so many and they are so common that it is no longer news. Still love our Volt though and glad to see the improved 2017 models roaming our streets.

We’ve had our Plugless Power charger for the Volt for a year. I wish I could say it was a wow, but it’s not. Glitches cause non-charging or cause for resets. Still, it is neat to not have to plug in our Volt — just pull in the garage and it starts charging — most of the time. This greatly extends our electric powered driving, rarely using gas in town. Three years in a row our “average” MPG for a whole year works out to 300 mpg — 30 gallons for 9,000 miles of driving.

Winter driving is upon us. Some tips: Buy “winter” tires for all four wheels and put them on separate wheels to rotate between seasons. Wash your car every

time it gets salt on it. Wipe the inside bottom edge of the door off. Open the hood and wash out the engine compartment once in a while too. Put “winter” washer fluid in your washer fluid tank.

Lift your wipers off the windshield and park them “up” if you think there is any chance they will freeze to the windshield.

Once you start your car, drive it. Don’t let it “warm up” for long periods; it wastes fuel and really does little for the engine while polluting the air. Leaving a car running while you are not in it is tempting to thieves. If your battery is getting old, go get a new one. They let you down at the worst time. It won’t be any cheaper waiting. Keep jumper cables in your car for you and those who need some help. Take it easy while driving in poor conditions. Don’t be in a rush, it can lead to a crush. Do drive with your lights on all the time — it lets others know you are approaching. Good for them and good for you.

That’s enough. Happy motoring in 2018. R.

Energy & Environment

Other impacts of climate change to consider

By Drs. Robert & Sonia Vogl Contributors

Scientists have repeatedly warned that global warming will bring extreme weather events such as the current cold spell. The apparent paradox of overall warming of the planet with periodic extreme weather events is consistent with climate change. It’s the polar vortex, a massive system of cold air that usually swirls around the North Pole that drops to the lower latitudes bringing bursts of cold weather.

The polar vortex has weakened as Arctic sea ice loss has increased due to global warming. The loss of ice cover reveals dark open waters of the Arctic increasing the absorption of the sun’s energy which accelerates the loss of ice.

The weakened vortex allows cold Arctic air to move into lower latitudes such as those of the midwestern and eastern states increasing the consumption of fossil fuels resulting in increased release of climate-changing gases and increasing the price of fuels borne by customers.

Lives and lifestyles have changed considerably since our youth. We walked

to school no matter what the weather.

We played outdoors in all seasons. Many adults today report that their kids tend to spend half the time outdoors as they did in their youth. Without outdoor experiences throughout the year, it is difficult to develop an awareness of nature in youth and its gradual decline. The lack of awareness makes it less likely for citizen support for needed environmental reforms.

The response of people to cold weather is to stay indoors and extend the amount of screen time they experience. Studies indicate that extended screen time has damaging impacts on both adults and youth over time.

Whether indoors or outdoors it is common to see people staring at screens of handheld devices ignoring siblings, adults and friends. It remains difficult to maintain good social relations between people when they are distracted by their handheld screens.

What is also ignored are the intricacies of the outdoors and its multiple benefits: the air is cleaner and fresher than that in buildings. Physical activities in the

outdoors can improve a person’s mood and sense of well being, Exposure to outdoor sunlight can also contribute to an elevated mood.

Outdoor physical activity may help offset weight gains in children, reduce the presence of type II diabetes and provide suitable alternatives for children with ADHD. It is common for doctors to recommend that their patients take brisk walks to help lose weight and improve their conditioning.

For most of human history, C02 levels in the atmosphere have ranged from 180-280 ppm. Recent studies indicate atmospheric C02 levels now exceed 400 ppm and are increasing at a rate of 2 ppm/year. Dr. Vivian Loftness points out that it is common for indoor levels of C02 to be 200-400 ppm above outdoor levels.

Higher levels are found in buildings as design standards for buildings have been as high as 1000 ppm.

A concern over high indoor C02 levels has led NASA to impose standards that lower the levels in space stations to avoid potential errors in the judgments and decision making of astronauts. Loftness

reports that some studies suggest that lowering C02 levels in many of our buildings would improve human performance.

Evidence is accumulating that lowering C02 levels is good for our mental and physical health although no definitive level has been established.

With CO2 domes existing over many large cities and even higher CO2 levels existing in buildings, air in urban areas could benefit from renewable energy and electrified transportation systems. .

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FARM & AG

Working to estimate December corn stocks

BY DEBRA LEVEY LARSON U OF I NEWS BUREAU

URBANA — The USDA releases the estimate of corn stocks held in the United States on Jan. 12. On the same date, the final estimate of the size of the 2017 corn crop is revealed. The estimates show the level of corn consumption during the first quarter of the 2017-18 marketing year. According to University of Illinois agricultural economist Todd Hubbs, these estimates allow for an updated projection of the level of stocks likely to be on hand at the end of the marketing year and will provide an indication of the direction for corn prices through the spring.

“Anticipating the Dec.1 corn inventories is di�cult because the final estimate of the size of the 2017 crop and the scale of consumption during the first quarter of the marketing year are unknown,” Hubbs says. “Given the November forecast for corn production is correct at 14.58 billion bushels and the consumption level for feed and residual use is on pace to meet the USDA’s current projection during the 201718 marketing year, a Dec.1 stocks estimate can be calculated using currently known consumption data. A Dec.1 stocks estimate near the calculated value can be considered neutral for corn prices. An estimate substantially di�erent from the calculated value may result in price movements.”

Export totals are readily available during the first quarter of the marketing year, Hubbs says. O�cial Census Bureau export estimates are available for September and October. USDA cumulative weekly export inspection estimates are available through the week ended Dec.10. Cumulative export inspections for September, October, and November totaled 246 million bushels.

Census Bureau estimates through October exceeded cumulative export inspections by 32.5 million bushels.

“Assuming the same di�erence continued through November, corn exports during the first quarter of the marketing year were likely very close to 342 million bushels,” Hubbs says. “This level of exports would be about 206 million bushels less than during the first quarter last year.”

Based on estimates in the USDA Grain Crushings and Co-Products Production reports, 915.6 million bushels of corn were used for ethanol and co-product production in September and October of 2017. Use of corn for the production of those products during November can be estimated based on the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) ethanol production estimate for November.

“The production estimate for November is based on weekly EIA estimates which

sometimes di�er from the subsequent monthly estimates,” Hubbs says. “Weekly estimates pointed to November 2017 ethanol production of 1.352 billion gallons, 6 percent larger than production in November 2016 when 451.9 million bushels of corn were used for ethanol and co-product production. A 6 percent increase would put November 2017 corn use at 479 million bushels and use during the first quarter of the marketing year at 1.395 billion bushels.

Thus far this marketing year, less sorghum has been used for ethanol production and this appears to have continued into November. Corn use during the quarter is estimated at 1.4 billion bushels.”

For the 2017-18 marketing year, the USDA projects domestic corn consumption for the production of food, seed, and industrial products other than ethanol at 1.46 billion bushels. Hubbs says the projection is 0.5 percent larger than consumption during the previous year. Quarterly consumption for those products is relatively consistent in most marketing years. “A 0.5 percent year-over-year increase in the first quarter this year would have resulted in a use level of about 350 million bushels.”

The Dec.1 stocks estimate reveals the size of the feed and residual use category for the first quarter of the marketing year.

For the year, the USDA has projected feed and residual use of corn at 5.575 billion bushels, up substantially from the estimate of 5.463 billion bushels used in the 2016-17 marketing year. An estimate of 2.274 billion bushels of corn was used in the feed and residual category during the first quarter of the marketing year last year.

“Given the growth in the livestock sector over the last year, feed and residual use should be proceeding more rapidly than last year,” Hubbs says. “If the USDA projection is correct, feed and residual use in the first quarter is projected at 2.342 billion bushels.”

Corn consumption during the first quarter of the marketing year is estimated to be near 4.64 billion bushels. Stocks of corn at the beginning the marketing year totaled 2.295 billion bushels and imports during the quarter were likely near 4 million bushels. With a crop of 14.578 billion bushels, the corn supply totaled 16.877 billion bushels. The calculation for the Dec.1 stocks estimate is 12.223 billion bushels, around 163 million bushels lower than last year.

“Because the current supply is quite large, a substantial deviation from this estimate may be necessary to generate a price reaction this marketing year,” Hubbs says.

Alternative crops: Raising specialty grains

BY GRANT MCCARTY CONTRIBUTOR

One of the more popular alternative crops in the last couple of years is the specialty grains. This group of heirloom grains has seen an increase due to the rise in local restaurants and gluten-free baking. Many bakers are also interested in these grains as they bring a di�erent flavor to their baking.

Wheat is the main grain that many bakers are interested in growing. It can be the easiest to harvest, thresh, store, and grind in small amounts. Wheat has 2 types as soft or hard, red or white, and spring or fall planting. Soft wheat has less protein with a softer starch and less gluten. Soft wheat is best for biscuits, cakes and quick breads. Hard wheat has small, hard kernels with a high protein and gluten. The hard wheat is best for bread flour. Rye has similar growing qualities as wheat and can be milled or used as a rice substitute.

Most oats are di�cult to hull which is why the best option to look for is the hull-less or naked oats. Hulless oats will be harvested in the groats form.

These are ready to be changed into flour, used in cooking, or cut further. If

oat groats are cut up, these will become what is known as steel cut oats.

Buckwheat, quinoa, and amaranth are warm season grains. Buckwheat will be planted similar to other grains while quinoa and amaranth will be planted as individual seedlings. All three will have di�erent harvest needs.

Most of these grains will do well on a small scale planting whereby you will be harvesting them by hand. On a larger scale, there can be some machinery needs. Many of these grains need to be milled. If you plan to mill the grain and sell on a local level, you may find that you need to work with your local health department. For your own use, tabletop mills can work well. Some grains have a hard hull on the outside that needs to be removed before cooking. These include oats, barley, and buckwheat.

As with any new crop, you need to research further di�erent varieties, harvest needs and pest issues. R. Grant McCarty is the Local Food and Smalls Farms Educator of the University of Illinois Extension. His tips and tricks for local eating and your at-home garden appear every week in The Rock River Times.

Winter Trails and Naturalist Tales explores nature in Rockford Embrace winter’s beauty through outdoor exploration and indoor inspiration at University of Illinois Extension’s Winter Trails & Naturalist Tales from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 3.

Winter Trails & Naturalist Tales will be held at Atwood Environmental Center, 2685 New Milford School Road, and includes two “naturalist tales” keynote speakers, a “winter trails” outdoor guided hike, and lunch. This year’s event will focus on winter raptors in Illinois and animal tracking.

The first naturalist tale will focus on winter raptors, eagles, hawks and owls, and all of the possibilities and probabilities they might face during winter migration. Mike Eickman, University of Illinois Extension Master Naturalist Volunteer and Station Master at Sand Blu� Bird Observatory, will discuss their habits, habitats and how these raptors hunt for food, and teach how to identify

our winter residents and visitors.

The second naturalist tale will be all about tracking. When you’re out exploring, or just walking in the landscape, do you notice signs and tracks for who’s been there? Peggy Doty, University of Illinois Extension Energy and Environmental Stewardship Educator, will talk about tracks and tracking to help participants gain a better awareness of who has been in the surroundings and to get you thinking about why they were there.

After lunch, U of I Extension Master Naturalist volunteers will lead a fun and educational winter ecology hike through Atwood Park.

Cost is $25 per person and includes lunch, two keynote speakers and a guided outdoor hike. For more information or to register visit web.extension.illinois.edu/ jsw or call 815-986-4357. Pre-registration is required by Jan. 31.

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Packers

Crossword

Offseason of change comes to Green Bay

By Genaro C. Armas AP Sports Writer

GREEN BAY, Wis. — One of the NFL’s model franchises for stability and success, the Green Bay Packers have embarked on an offseason of change after missing the playoffs and finishing with a losing record for the first time since 2008.

Ted Thompson is out after 13 years as general manager but will remain as senior adviser of football operations. President/ CEO Mark Murphy said a search for a replacement has started.

This should be an attractive opening since the Packers aren’t far off from returning to contender status. Two-time NFL MVP quarterback Aaron Rodgers is expected to return to full health next season following a collarbone injury.

“I think with our organization, the success we’ve had in the past, I think very realistically we can win Super Bowls in the near future,” Murphy said Tuesday at Lambeau Field. “And it’s now on us to get the right people in place and move forward.”

The Packers have several in-house candidates. But whoever replaces Thompson will have Mike McCarthy under contract through 2019, after Murphy said the coach was given a one-year extension during the season.

The extension prevents McCarthy from having lame-duck status with a new GM. “Kind of like Ted, the two of them together have had a great run. We have

<<< From Back Cover and backs up his words with prominent action against NFC competition to give the Bears’ sustained success, no benefit of the doubt is necessary.

To his credit, for as much as he’s had to repeat himself over the past three years, Pace understands the predicament he’s in. He has work cut out for him this coming off-season. He’s at fault for the failures of late but he’s also put the Bears in prime pole position.

Both can be true.

“At the end of the day, it’s results on

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all the confidence in the world in Mike,” Murphy said.

The Packers’ Super Bowl victory in 2010 was the highlight of Thompson’s 13-year tenure, which also included four NFC championship game appearances. The Packers abided by a “draft-and-develop” philosophy on Thompson’s watch.

“The organization, our fans and our community were fortunate to have had one of the NFL’s all-time great general managers leading our football operations,” Murphy said.

ButGreenBaylostitsseasonfinale35-11on Sunday to the Detroit Lions, slipping below .500inaseasoninwhichRodgersmissednine games with the collarbone injury.

The offense struggled with backup Brett Hundley, and a defense stocked with high draft picks failed to improve again.

Murphy said the subject of a transition was broached with Thompson after the season finale. Thompson, who has often spoken about his love of scouting, was given options.

But Murphy said he wasn’t forced out.

“It was a decision we made jointly,” Murphy said. “It was something in my mind I think it’s going to be good for the organization and Ted.” Thompson, notoriously media shy, did not attend the news conference.

“This is a special place and we’ve had some success along the way, but it’s the relationships that I value most,” he said in a statement.

the field ... “I need to point the finger at myself as well,” said Pace.

Pace can’t afford another Fox blemish, driving Chicago further into a hole they seemingly dig further into every year. The launch pad to contention is set up again and he would do well to see the Bears finally take off.

“The longer you’re in this, the better you get at your job.”

As the Bears again sit in a coach-less no man’s land, for the time being, Pace better hope he’s much better at this GM thing with seasoning under his belt. R. Find Robert on Twitter @RobertZeglinski.

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Region scores winning bid to host Illinois sports tradeshow From RACVB

The Rockford Area Convention & Visitors Bureau (RACVB) announced that the Rockford region has been selected to host the 2018 Sports Illinois Huddle.

This is the first time the tradeshow will take place in the Rockford region. RACVB submitted the bid to host the conference, which will draw attendees from around the United States to the region Sunday, May 20 – Tuesday, May 22, 2018 (a complete schedule of events and itinerary will be provided closer to the event date).

Sport Illinois Huddle is an educational conference/tradeshow produced by the Illinois Council of Convention & Visitor Bureau’s Sports Illinois (a consortium of Illinois-based CVBs working in the sports tourism market). The tradeshow is attended by representatives of national governing bodies, event rights holders and tournament directors who take part in the two-day conference to connect with representatives from approximately 15 Illinois CVBs. While the event is hosted to introduce the many exceptional facilities available within the state of Illinois for tournaments and events of all sizes, hosting the event directly in the Rockford region will allow RACVB the opportunity to introduce local sports tournament facilities to a large contingent of potential new customers. “Seeing really is believing,” said Lindsay Arellano, RACVB director of sales and service. “We have high expectations that getting these important decision makers to the Rockford region will result in a significant number of new client events booked in to our region.”

During the event, attendees will visit Mercyhealth Sportscore One and Two, the UW Health Sports Factory, as well as other public and private facilities. The host hotel for Sports Illinois Huddle is the Radisson Hotel & Conference Center.

Other communities/regions that have hosted this conference include DuPage

County, Chicago Northwest, Lisle, Chicago Southland and the Quad Cities.

“It was thrilling to hear the news that we won the bid to host the 2018 Sports Huddle. Our team is already in planning mode to ensure this is truly an incredible experience for a core group of key sports tournament decision makers,” said Arellano. “Together with our hospitality partners, we are honored to have the opportunity to showcase our community to these visitors. It will be a team effort by all and we appreciate the dedication from our partners who are so instrumental in making events like this possible.”

Through its efforts and programs, the Illinois Council of Convention & Visitors Bureaus (ICCVB) enables its members to

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be more effective and efficient in attracting visitors to their communities. Sports Illinois members meet several times per year to discuss strategic ways to engage and attract local, regional and nationally recognized tournaments and events to Illinois through their combined sports tourism outreach and marketing efforts.

“On behalf of the Illinois Council of Convention & Visitors Bureaus and Sports Illinois leadership team, it is truly an honor to choose the Rockford Area CVB to host the Sports Illinois Huddle 2018. As a national leader in the sports travel industry, they will do an excellent job in bringing in national rights holders in many different sports to engage with the participating CVB’s from around the state of Illinois,”

said Jayne DeLuce, Visit Champaign County president/CEO and Sports Illinois liaison. “The choice was tough, as there were several competitive host bids, which further shows our statewide commitment in making Illinois the top destination for sports tournaments, meetings and conferences, further creating economic impact for our communities.”

Sports Illinois is a niche committee of the Illinois Council of Convention & Visitors Bureaus and works closely with the Illinois Office of Tourism, focusing on promoting overnight sports events through direct marketing, education programs and networking activities, therefore creating a significant economic impact and enhancing opportunities for all in sports.

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Bears call time on John Fox

By Robert Zeglinski

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n his time as Bears general manager, while the on-field results have clearly not been up to par, Ryan Pace has rarely if ever minced words. Restraining your offense for your young quarterback in Mitchell Trubisky won’t do. 14-34 in three seasons isn’t going to cut it. Having a rebuild stuck in second gear — at least from many’s outside perspectives — does not fit the prerogative.

Now-former head coach John Fox received the ax on Monday because the Bears have largely gone nowhere since 2015. For now, he is the scapegoat. Given how much of an old-school way too conventional relic Fox was, he can be used as the needed bullet shield.

The timeline for the veteran institution was that Fox was considered the experienced man needed to keep a team in line when understanding Pace’s greenness as a first-time general manager. That experiment obviously failed in that regard, as it was clearer by the season — culminating in a listless 5-11 2017 — that the professional game had passed Fox by.

Which sends the Bears into a familiar coaching cycle, their third of the last six years. Unlike the much-maligned Marc Trestman and Fox eras, whoever is the next to roam the sidelines at Soldier Field better be the man to finally lead Chicago back into relevance. Or else.

Because unlike Fox, Pace — the boy wunderkind at Halas Hall — will be working with a two-year contract extension through 2021. One of the youngest general managers in the NFL is going to get the opportunity to plant the seeds of something special, to finish his vision, and make up for his egregiously comical initial choice of a head coach.

In that respect, while the Bears haven’t climbed out of the NFC North cellar in four years, Pace has done well to set a foundation for this coaching leeway.

When former GM Phil Emery was given walking papers in December 2014, the Bears had the most players over the age of 30 with 17 and the fewest first-round picks with five.

Three years later, Chicago has but five current rostered players 0ver 30-yearsold, 25 players under the age of 25, and six first-round picks (including currently injured Bears). The Bears have their young quarterback in place in Mitchell Trubisky. A defensive nucleus led by potential 2017 All-Pro Akiem Hicks is promising. And a timetable to contend is certainly well within reach.

That is what Bears Chairman George McCaskey see when he inspires faith in his young personnel man Pace’s diligence for more time. For one, he has no other choice but to trust him given their decades-long ineptitude. For the other, even he could see they stalled their own rebuild with a coach looking more for a quick turnaround

instead of a full teardown. As they eluded to in a season-ending evaluative press conference Monday afternoon.

“We didn’t have the record on the field that we wanted, but we thought that Ryan’s plan was the best way forward,” said McCaskey, as Bears’ higher-ups discussed Pace’s extension. “We wanted to make sure that we presented the best possible landing place for any candidate, and we thought that was appropriate.”

Indeed, if the Bears are finally going to right this ship, they have to marry Pace’s second and final head coaching choice to Pace’s hip. No top candidate is going to want to come here on a two-year contract with limited job security. It’s simple level-headed business. The timetable to actually win is still soon, waiting on the horizon. A double-digit loss season won’t be tolerated in 2018, assuredly. But whoever is the new coach will require patience to implement himself and use the Bears’ impressive foundation to his best advantage.

Make no mistake, there are no more excuses for Pace. This is his team. This is his organization. The pulse of the Bears runs through him, by him, around him.

Whatever happens to the franchise over the coming seasons is all on his shoulders, for better or worse.

He can’t hide behind Fox anymore.

Fox undoubtedly held the Bears back.

Fox is everything that’s wrong with the modern NFL, of leaders who won’t take

risks and who believe the game is played at a pop gun conservative pace. This new coach will be Pace’s earmarked choice.

If they’re not on the same page, if he’s holding the Bears back still, then the brunt of the blame goes to Pace and no one else.

He can’t use the shroud of early roster turnover or injury. Or, the idea of Emery and Jerry Angelo leaving a bare cupboard for him behind. Sure, there are receiver additions and defensive fine tuning to be made, but the roster is almost done.

The roster is almost entirely Pace’s doing through his acquisitions in the draft and free agency. The injuries are based on the strength and conditioning staff under his coach’s watch. These fall under his leadership and his alone.

Which all of this is to say as mentioned, the quarterback in Trubisky is here as well, so it’s on Pace to make his secret science project a blue ribbon winner. Trubisky is likely the only reason Pace is being afforded more time because a rebuild only truly begins once the quarterback is developing on the fly.

Trubisky can’t fail, as, if he fails, so does Pace—and spectacularly so.

Until they prove otherwise, you can copy paste “the Bears have made the playoffs five times in the past quarter-century” for as much as you’d like.

Until Pace finally lives up to his promises Continued on Page 30 >>>