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Classifieds......................................................34-35 Government Notices..........................................24 Public Notices................................................24-30 Real Estate Notices.......................................30-33 About Us The Rock River Times has a circulation of 17,000 free newspapers in the Rockford metropolitan area by Third Class mail and through more than 1,500 commercial outlets. The weekly newspaper is distributed every Wednesday. First-class delivery is $75 for 26 weeks or $140 for 52 weeks. Circulation totals audited by CVC. Contact Us Mail: The Rock River Times, 128 N. Church St., Rockford, IL 61101 | Phone: 815-964-9767 | Fax: 815-964-9825 | E-mail: contact@rockrivertimes. com | Online: rockrivertimes.com | Office hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Friday. Copyright Notice All material herein is the sole property of TRRT. No reprint, reproduction or other use of any of the materials contained herein is permitted without the consent of the publisher or his duly appointed representative. The Rock River Times is a proud member/affiliate of:

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The husband of an Illinois Department of Children and Family Services investigator who was beaten while trying to take protective custody of a child says his wife remains in a coma and in critical condition. Don Knight says 59-year-old Pamela Sue Knight of Dixon is hospitalized in Rockford and “will require medical assistance and equipment” for the rest of her life. Knight spoke Monday after a court hearing for the man accused of beating the investigator Sept. 29 when she was trying to take custody of a 2-year-old child. Andrew Sucher of Rock Falls has pleaded not guilty to aggravated battery charges. Sauk Valley Media reports that on Monday a judge set a Jan. 30 trial for the 29-year-old. Both sides also agreed to collecting Sucher’s blood, hair and saliva for DNA testing.

A donated U.S. Army uniform has led to an exhibit of a Vietnam War soldier’s life at the Kishwaukee Valley Heritage Society and Museum. It’s a tribute Genoa native Jessie Gerald Poe. The 1966 graduate of Genoa-Kingston High School was killed in Vietnam on June 2, 1968. The Daily Chronicle reports that Genoa native Lonnie Stojan, who now lives in Sycamore, donated Poe’s uniform and others pitched in to help. The display is open from 1 to 5 p.m. each Wednesday in November. A special gathering is scheduled for 2 to 4 p.m. Nov. 12. Veterans are invited to share their stories on video. Christi Slavena is a member of the Kishwaukee Valley Heritage Society board. She says Poe’s articles are the museum’s first from the Vietnam Era.

KNIB names Osborne executive director

Reporting failures aided Texas shooter NATION Page 11

Domestic violence office approved CITY Page 5

Environmental education and advocacy group Keep Northern Illinois Beautiful has named Pamela Osborne its new Executive Director. A Rockford resident, Osborne has served as KNIB’s Administrative Manager since 2016. Prior to KNIB, Osborne served as Business Manager for Kantorei, The Singing Boys of Rockford. Originally from Racine, Wisconsin, Osborne lived for many years on the West Coast where she was Director of Finance and Operations for Monterey County United Way in California. “Pam impressed the Executive Committee with her knowledge of the organization, non-profit financial management and her passion for the environment,” said Board of Directors President Kerry Keller. Osborne serves on the Board of Directors of Alpine Kiwanis in Rockford, where she is the club photographer and historian, and serves on the Project Eliminate committee. Additionally, she is the Treasurer for Be a Friend, an anti-bullying nonprofit. Her appointment became effective Nov. 1. Keep Northern Illinois Beautiful was founded in 1988. For more information visit knib.org or call 815-637-1343. R.

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City mourns fallen Police Officer Jaimie Cox By Jim Hagerty Contributor

ROCKFORD — Hundreds of public safety vehicles from several area departments proceeded along East State Street Monday night as the body of a fallen Rockford police officer was escorted from the Winnebago County Coroner’s Office downtown to Fitzgerald Funeral Home on South Mulford Road. Mourners lined the almost 7-mile stretch too, standing in support of Officer Jaimie Cox, killed early Sunday during a traffic stop near Rockford University. Details of the stop remain unclear. What is known is that around 1 a.m., Cox, 30, stopped a pickup truck driven by 49-yearold Eddie Patterson Jr. A short time later, he radioed for assistance. A struggle ensued, and Cox somehow became entangled in Patterson’s vehicle as it drove away from the point of the initial stop. Patterson was also killed. Responding officers initially believed Cox, who fired his weapon, had been shot. Autopsy results later showed that his cause of death was blunt force trauma. Patterson died of a gunshot wound, though preliminary autopsy reports showed he suffered blunt force trauma as well. Officials told The Times that the plates on the truck Patterson was driving were not registered to that vehicle, which may have been why Cox stopped the driver. What escalated from there isn’t known. Those questions are typically answered by reviewing dash-cam footage. However, whether Cox’s car was equipped with a camera is not clear. Body-cam footage could also help investigators piece together the incident but, according to Police Chief Dan O’Shea, Cox was not wearing one. Cox’s death has been ruled a homicide. Because he fired his weapon, the case is being investigated in part by the Winnebago-Boone Integrity Task Force. For the rest of Rockford, it is about remembering Cox, the first officer killed in the line of duty since 2001. “The outpouring of support from the community to Officer Cox’s family, friends and the Rockford Police Department

has been overwhelming,” Mayor Tom McNamara said. What Cox gave up in for his community reached far beyond Illinois. Police departments across the country have not only offered their condolences but will honor the officer and his family in person. “The City of New York is flying officers in to be here [for Cox’s funeral],” McNamara said. McNamara added that Sunday’s incident should remind the citizens of Rockford of the vitality of public safety. It is why, considering the looming budget deficit, he has vowed to not make police department cuts. In fact, he’s played a direct role in directing an additional $1 million to support the city’s 297 officers. “I have made it clear that public safety should not be cut to fill our budget void,” the mayor added. Visitation for Jaimie Cox will be held 3-9

p.m., Friday at First Free Rockford, 2223 N. Mulford Road, with a law enforcement walk-through scheduled for 6 p.m. A police funeral will be at 10 a.m., Saturday, at the church. Details of the funeral procession route will be shared later in the week, RPD said. “Officer Jaimie Cox devoted his entire adult life to protecting and serving others as a police officer and as a member of our military,” state Sen. Dave Syverson said. “We should all keep his wife, family, friends and colleagues in our thoughts and prayers.” Cox was a resource officer with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources before joining the Rock ford Police Department in September 2016. He served in the U.S. Army National Guard and was a graduate of Hononegah High School and Northern Illinois University. Area businesses have also come together

in honoring the fallen officer. Hotels have offered complimentary lodging for out-oftown family members while restaurants and other merchants have offered their support, some in form of cash donations to the Jaimie Cox Memorial Fund at Alpine Bank. Scott Nicholson, of Nicholson Hardware, told the Rockford Register Star Tuesday he is seeing a run on blue light bulbs as residents pay tribute to Cox. In response, he’s ordered 1,100 more, with plans to donate 100 percent of the proceeds to the memorial fund. The Morgan Street Bridge was illuminated by blue LED lighting Monday night and is expected to remain that way until after Cox is laid to rest. Covered in black and blue cloth, his squad car was still parked outside Police District 2 at press time. Flowers, ribbons, crosses and other mementos sit at the location of Sunday’s traffic stop. The Rockford Symphony Orchestra will honor Cox Saturday, Nov. 11, at the Coronado Performing Arts Center during its performance of “Mendelssohn and Brahms.” Admission is free to all area law enforcement through the RSO Share-ASeat program. Flags at City Hall, Police Districts 1, 2 and 3, and throughout Rockford were flying at half-staff beginning Sunday. Gov. Bruce Rauner, on Tuesday, ordered all flags throughout the state covered by the Illinois Flag Display Act to be flown at half-staff in Cox’s honor from sunrise on Thursday, Nov. 9 to sunset on Saturday, Nov. 11. “He paid the ultimate price while working to keep our communities safe,” Rauner said in a statement. “My thoughts and prayers are with his family as they find a way to cope with this tragic loss.” Cox is the first Rockford Police killed while serving the city since Kevin Rice was gunned down in 2001 near a new home he was building. Rice was the first officer murdered since 1980, when Officer Randall Blank was shot near a downtown Rockford bar. Other patrolmen killed on the job were Charles Williams, Arthur Bassett, Lorenzo Gillogly and Frank Cichella. R.

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Aldermen approve domestic violence office

Great Lakes Basin fails to appeal freight rail decision

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CITY HALL — Domestic violence calls have the cost the city more than $850,000 so far this year. And that is just the cost of man hours. What court proceedings, victim impact, related crime and the drain on existing domestic violence services is doing to the city’s bottom line isn’t exactly know. What Mayor Tom McNamara is sure of is that more than 30 percent of 911 calls are domestic violence related and that Rockford is the second-leading city in Illinois for sex trafficking. It is why he has asked Rockford aldermen to approve a city office aimed at curbing both problems. The Rockford City Council made that move Monday, approving what officials say will be called the Office of Domestic Violence and Human Trafficking. It will come with the initial cost of $150,000, which will cover a salary, IT and other setup. “The office [will] do number of things, from securing grant funds for our community [to] working with our school systems to provide education, prevention and awareness,” Mayor Tom McNamara said. “It will be a centralized facilitator of services that we have.” In addition, McNamara said the office would help the city and community partners analyze current services and determine the needs of future programs. Fifth Ward Alderman Venita Hervey remained the lone dissenter in chambers Monday, echoing the same concern she voiced at the Oct. 23 meeting of the Rockford Finance and Personnel Committee. The civil rights attorney says she recognizes that domestic violence plagues the city, and the need for a targeted effort at City Hall to stop it. But the looming $10 million budget gap prevented her from supporting Monday’s measure. “Right now, given the extreme and severe cost crunches that we are facing as a city that we have no way to mitigate and have not begun to talk about yet, now is not the time to add a payroll and legacy cost position,” Hervey said. Hervey said she may have been swayed if the person hired to run the office was an independent contractor—at least until spring, or until leaders iron out the

“It is work that needs to be done and the right thing to do. It helps victims, survivors and our partner agents—nonprofit(s) as well as governmental. It also has the potential to make a tremendous impact on our budget.”

city’s economic woes and decide whether Rockford can support another administrative salary. McNamara said planners considered a non-employee for the job. And there were some savings there, but not enough to outweigh other factors he said were at play. The first-term mayor said outsourcing the position would come with a misconception that it was a temporary job. “We [didn’t] propose this office to spend money,” McNamara said, noting that in 2016, the city spent $1.2 million in police man hours on domestic violence calls, assets the office would reallocate to curb one of Rockford’s most systemic problems,

one he says is at the root of other crimes being committed throughout the city. Despite accusations of taking away from the police budget, the mayor has injected $1 million into their spending plan. The domestic violence office, he said, will edify his stand to protect the public safety during what could be prickly economic decisions about which city departments could see cuts. “We’re putting more money into public safety,” he said. “It is work that needs to be done and the right thing to do. It helps victims, survivors and our partner agents—nonprofit(s) as well as governmental. It also has the potential to make a tremendous impact on our budget.” While the new office may not come with immediate savings, domestic violence and human trafficking remain growing problems across the country. That means the Rockford Office of Domestic Violence and Human Trafficking could have the potential to be fully grant-funded in the future. “Lives are being shattered,” Alderman Frank Beach said. “If we can figure out how to be more helpful, then that’s part of what we should do.” Aldermen approved the new office with a 12-1 vote. R.

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MUNSTER, Ind. — A group has failed to appeal in federal court the rejection of its application to construct a more than 260-mile freight railroad from northern Indiana to southeastern Wisconsin. Great Lakes Basin Transportation had 60 days starting Aug. 31 to appeal the Surface Transportation Board’s decision, The (Northwest Indiana) Times reported . The board said it rejected the company’s $2.8 billion plan because it didn’t provide accurate financial information. Company officials had previously said that potential investors were waiting for the project to receive federal approval before committing to it. The railroad would’ve provided freight trains a path around Chicago that would’ve allowed them to avoid the congested city. The plan also called for 26 connections to existing railroads. The line would’ve be able to support as many as 110 trains a day, according to the application. “The failure of GLBT to appeal certainly brings an end to the current proceeding,” said Howard Learner, the executive director of the Chicago-based Environmental Law & Policy Center, which fought against the transportation group in court. The company would have to submit a new application with all the financial information it didn’t provide in the rejected application, he said. The company could also petition the board for administrative reconsideration, but a petition would need to show “material error, new evidence, or substantially changed circumstances” from the original ruling. The proposed railway met with stiff community opposition in Winnebago County, where a redrawn plan would have seen it pass through acres of farmland on the county’s south and west sides. Frank Patton founded Great Lakes Basin Transportation in 2011. Company officials declined to comment to the newspaper about future plans. –Associated Press

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VietNow national HQ closed; local chapters still working ROCKFORD — The Illinois attorney general has announced a settlement by the state and more than 20 other states in a lawsuit accusing a Rockford-based veterans nonprofit of scamming donations. Attorney General Lisa Madigan sued VietNow National Headquarters after an investigation found the nonprofit had raised more than $20 million between 2003 and 2014, but spent 80 percent of those donations on payments to for-profit telemarketers, the Rockford Register Star reported. Most of the remaining funds went to administrative expenses, leaving little for the program to help veterans, according to the newspaper investigation. Madigan agreed to an order Monday that dissolves the agency’s board of directors and bans its four controlling o�cers from any fundraising, charity management or oversight of any charitable assets in Illinois. The nonprofit’s assets will be split between two legitimate organizations that assist Vietnam veterans. “For years VietNow has scammed donations from people who thought their money would be used to support necessary services for our military veterans,” Madigan said. “Instead, VietNow pocketed donations and did virtually nothing for veterans. Today’s settlement finally will

“It’s most important for everyone to understand that all of our chapters are separate corporate entities and have never beneﬁted from telemarketing.”

put an end to VietNow’s egregious fraud.” But local branches of VietNow will continue operating and serving veterans in their communities, says Darrell Gilgan, treasurer of the Rockford Charter Chapter VietNow. “VietNow was started right here in

Rockford during 1980,” Gilgan told The Times Tuesday. “When VietNow went national during 1984, we became Rockford Charter Chapter.” Gilgan stressed that dollars for the local chapters only come from local fundraising e�orts, and was not tied to the national organization. “It’s most important for everyone to understand that all of our chapters are separate corporate entities and have never benefited from telemarketing,” he says. “Each dollar earned by the local chapters is used in their communities.” He hopes e�orts over the past two years will help stave o� any damage to the various local groups’ fundraising. “The chapter will easily be able to survive without (the) national headquarters,” he said. “In fact, most if not all of the other chapters will be able to continue.” Gilgan adds that he has been working with local chapters across the country since 2015 to transition away from the national organization. The VietNow chapter in Rockford has about 300 members. The 23 other states investigating VietNow will enter into a state-specific settlement agreement with the nonprofit that’s similar to those in the Illinois order. R. –Associated Press with Sta� reports

After prodding, Rauner declares harvest emergency YORKVILLE — Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has declared a statewide harvest emergency to help agricultural workers hit hard by rain-related delays. The Republican issued a statement saying the declaration is in e�ect for 45 days starting Sunday. The declaration means drivers of trucks carrying agricultural commodities, like grain, can get a free permit to exceed gross vehicle limits. Local authorities can also waive the permit requirement. Rock Island County Farm Bureau members say they asked for declaration after a rain-delayed spring planting pushed back their harvest. “We didn’t start harvesting corn until Oct. 15,” said Brent Riewerts of Hillsdale, Rock Island County Farm Bureau vice president. “Everybody has the same window to

get the crop out, and this declaration allows you to throw on an extra 50 or 60 bushels. It’s going to speed up our travel time by 5 to 10 percent by having that. We can put on a few more bushels and not break the law.” Leaf River farmer Richard Beuth told FarmWeek that corn crops in northern Illinois had faired well throughout the season, despite ﬂooding in the spring and summer months and record-high temps as autumn crept in. “When you look at the overall growing season, we’re actually close to normal for rain and temperatures,” he said. “But there were just such extremes. At the end of July, we had 6.5 inches of rain (and up to a foot at other locations) all at once that caused a lot of ﬂooding.” The Winnebago-Boone Farm Bureau

estimates that more than 10,000 acres of area crops were lost due to ﬂooding during 2017, and another 10,000-plus acres sustained damage. “It was pretty sad at the end of July, seeing corn with water up to the ears,” Beuth told FarmWeek. State o�cials say Illinois has 72,000 farms on 26.7 million acres and is among the top corn producers in the country. Rauner’s o�ce says federal statistics show that the Illinois corn harvest at the end of October was 17 percentage points behind the year before. Richard Guebert Jr. is president of the Illinois Farm Bureau and says the declaration will help improve the transportation of crops. R. –Associated Press with Sta� reports

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Statehouse rushes to fix sex-harassment quandry State lawmakers in both chambers on Tuesday unanimously approved an ethics reform package that many say is just a first step in changing a culture at the Capitol that has allowed rampant sexual harassment to go unpunished for years. The legislation passed the Illinois House by a vote of 117-0. About an hour later, it was approved in the Senate, 55-0. It now heads to Gov. Bruce Rauner’s desk. Before the votes, Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan introduced the legislation on the floor, before referring questions to Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie. According to Madigan, the legislation would specifically prohibit sexual harassment in the state’s ethics code, something that is not the case currently, and assess a fine up to $5,000 per violation.

The legislation, which was rushed through the process after a rash of mostly anonymous sexual harassment allegations were levied in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein Hollywood scandal, also would require every constitutional office holder to adopt a sexual harassment policy that must include a prohibition, details on how individuals can report complaints of sexual harassment; and prohibition on retaliating against anyone who files a complaint. It also would require annual sexual harassment training for lawmakers, state employees and lobbyists, and create a hotline for victim’s file complaints. While the bill passed 117-0, lawmakers on the floor called it a first step. Separate task forces have been created in the House and Senate to study sexual harassment in

the Capitol and recommend more sweeping changes. Those recommendations might not come until December 2018, after the next election. A separate GOP plan introduced earlier Tuesday calls for a complete overhaul of the legislative ethics review system. Republican lawmakers also on Tuesday pressed Democratic colleagues for answers on why the legislative inspector general position charged with investigating sexual harassment complaints against lawmakers and their staffs went unfilled for two years. At a House committee hearing last week, a lobbyist said she filed a sexual harassment complaint against state Sen. Ira Silverstein, D-Chicago, a year ago, but nothing ever came of it. The next day, it was revealed that the lobbyist’s complaint and 26 others

went without investigation because of the vacancy, and that a one-year statute of limitations likely expired on many of the complaints. Separate measures that also passed both chambers Tuesday would eliminate the one-year limit. During discussion on the floor, Rep. Jeanne Ives, R-Wheaton, asked why the inspector general post was kept vacant for so long. Currie said she didn’t have an answer to that question. “I think there are a number of unanswered questions for which the voters should have information on prior to the next election,” Ives said. –Illinois News Network

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said IDOT hasn’t had the opportunity to see if there are any common suggestions for changes needed at Illinois rest areas. Gurski said she doesn’t know how IDOT will implement the changes requested by the public yet. “We’re really just going to be gathering information between now and this summer and once we have all that information and analyze it, then we’ll start to get a better feel for the roadmap ahead,” Gurski said.

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Your $20 million loan went bust? The Trump team has a job for you A government watchdog found irregularities in a loan guarantee arranged by Gavin Clarkson for an Indian tribe. Now Clarkson is in charge of the program that is on the hook for the mess. By Isaac Arnsdorf ProPublica

As a deputy assistant secretary for policy and economic development in the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Indian Affairs, Gavin Clarkson oversees a small program that guarantees loans for Indian businesses. His “expertise in the areas of law, finance and economic development are a valuable asset,” noted Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke in a statement announcing the appointment, which took effect on June 11 and didn’t require Senate confirmation. Zinke didn’t mention it, but Clarkson is particularly well acquainted with the loan guarantee program he now supervises: He played a key role in a convoluted transaction that flopped and left the Interior Department fending off a $20 million liability that is still in litigation years later. That sum represents about 25 percent of the amount the program can guarantee in a year, and until the case is resolved, that money cannot be used to guarantee new loans. Clarkson, a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, is a former law professor who has taught at the University of Michigan and New Mexico State, and been involved in several businesses. He referred

questions to a department spokeswoman, who did not respond to questions sent by email. The story begins with what sounds like an improbable idea: In 2008, the Lower Brule Sioux tribe in South Dakota decided to buy a nearly insolvent Wall Street financial services company. The tribe, which was receiving federal aid to reduce poverty, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, turned to Clarkson to obtain a loan, and a loan guarantee from the Interior Department. (The guarantees are intended to encourage banks and other entities to lend to Indian businesses that might not otherwise find funding. The government agrees to reimburse any covered debt that the borrower fails to pay off.) The tribe was hoping to raise $22.5 million with $20 million of it guaranteed, but Clarkson wasn’t able to gather anything close to that amount. Instead, using a company he helped create for the occasion, he borrowed $3.5 million from private investors and then loaned it to the tribe. But Clarkson still managed to obtain a guarantee for $20 million. (He accomplished this by moving $19 million in debt from the brokerage to his company, according to a report about the episode, and convincing the Interior Department

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to treat it like a loan.) Ultimately, things went badly awry. The brokerage went bankrupt a few years later and the loan guarantees had enough problems to generate a report by the inspector general of the Interior Department, as well as ongoing litigation. The inspector general’s report, released in March, criticized both the entity requesting guarantees in this instance and the Interior Department staffer who approved them. (The report was made public in redacted form, with the names of individuals blacked out.) The original application for loan guarantees should have raised several red flags, according to the inspector general. Companies that qualify for guarantees are supposed to be active lenders, but Clarkson’s company had never made a loan before. The Interior Department staffer in question did not verify whether the loan had been funded, prompting the inspector general to conclude there’d been “neglect.” Finally, the guarantee was for a much larger sum than is typical for the program. In 2012, Clarkson’s company sold the $20 million in guarantees to a life insurance company and used the cash to pare down old debt and pay tribal leaders, according to the IG report. Clarkson and his company

were paid $327,500, according to a filing in a related lawsuit. In 2013, the brokerage defaulted. At that point the life insurance company that held the guarantee sought to recover $20 million from the Interior Department. The department rejected the claim, saying the loan had never met the conditions of the guarantee. The life insurance company appealed within the agency but lost, and then sued in federal court. The government has asked the judge to throw out the case. The IG report concluded that the loan guarantee “departed from” department guidelines but didn’t find any criminal violations. A federal grand jury investigated the episode, according to a spokeswoman for the IG, but did not hand up any indictments. Still, the fiasco generated criticism both inside the tribe, according to the IG’s report, and outside. Said Arvind Ganesan, the director of Human Rights Watch’s Business and Human Rights Division, who researched the deal as part of a broader report on the Lower Brule Sioux: “It’s pretty disturbing that he’s now in charge of a department that’s being sued over a deal that he arranged and that went so badly.”

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Will Texas massacre finally get military to improve its criminal reporting system?

Flags fly at half staff as law enforcement officials continue to investigate the scene of a shooting at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Tuesday, in Sutherland Springs, Texas. A man opened fire inside the church in the small South Texas community on Sunday, killing more than two dozen and injuring others. Photo, Eric Gay, AP

The Air Force’s apparent failure to send the criminal records of the airman behind Sunday’s mass killings to civilian authorities allowed him to obtain guns. Such reporting failings are widespread and longstanding. By A.C. Thompson & T. Christian Miller ProPublica

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott had an urgent question Monday about Devin Patrick Kelley, the former U.S. Air Force airman who is accused of killing 26 people worshipping at a church service yesterday: How was it that Kelley, convicted of domestic violence and discharged for bad conduct, was still able to get a gun?” By late afternoon, Abbott appeared to have his answer: the Air Force said an initial review indicated it had failed to share Kelley’s criminal record with the civilian authorities, and so his conviction was never entered into the federal database used to screen potentially dangerous gun buyers. Federal laws bar felons and those convicted of domestic violence from obtaining guns. The Air Force said it will conduct a full review of how it handled Kelley’s records, as well as all “relevant policies and procedures.” However, the Air Force and the military’s other armed services have known for years there were widespread problems with their reporting procedures.

A 2015 Pentagon report found the military was failing to provide crucial information to the FBI in about 30 percent of a sample of serious cases handled in military courts. Defense Department investigators looked at cases involving 1,102 service members convicted of serious and often violent offenses between 2010 and 2012. Officials in the three branches scrutinized by investigators — the Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force — failed to submit fingerprints to the FBI in more than 300 cases. The services did not give the FBI criminal history information in 334 instances. The Pentagon report found that the Air Force did not submit the fingerprints of at least 110 convicted airmen during the period between 2010 and 2012. It’s not clear yet whether Kelley was one of the 110 airmen reflected in that report, but he certainly could have been. Kelley was found guilty in 2012 of choking and kicking his wife and striking his young son hard enough to fracture his skull, according to interviews and military documents. He was also accused of threat-

ening his wife four times with a gun. Those charges were withdrawn by prosecutors after Kelley’s arraignment. In the response to the 2015 Pentagon report, Air Force officials said they were instituting plans to improve their collection and sharing of fingerprints and other data related to offenders. Any such plan developed and or implemented by the Air Force will now be under intense scrutiny. Don Christensen, a retired colonel who was the chief prosecutor for the Air Force at the time of Kelley’s case, said that providing information to civilian authorities was “never done well or consistently” during the 20 years he spent in the military justice system. “Somebodymessedup,”saidChristensen, now president of Protect Our Defenders, an organization which advocates for military victims of sexual violence. “All we know for sure is that this guy shouldn’t have had a gun.” Defense Department rules require military officials to provide the FBI with the criminal records of armed forces members

who are convicted of a range of serious offenses under the military justice system. O t h e r r e v i e w s b y t h e D e fe n s e Department’s inspector general have found similar problems, including a failure to share DNA samples from military offenders with the Bureau, and a persistent inability to send the FBI basic statistics on crimes within the military. The military’s inability or unwillingness to send the Bureau crime statistics has occurred despite defense rules and a nearly 30-year-old federal law requiring military officials to pass on that data as part of a national effort to map trends in criminal activity. At times, the FBI has blamed the failure on the technical limitations of military computer systems. A spokesperson for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, the unit that handles serious criminal matters, did not respond to questions from ProPublica about their reporting practices. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which handles major crimes for the Navy and the Marine Corps, did not return a request for comment on the inspector general’s findings. The Army’s Criminal Investigation Command also has not yet responded to a request for comment. The FBI did not respond to a question on whether the agency had received information on Kelley from the Air Force.

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Administration

Pruitt won’t allow investigations to get in the way of his regulatory rollback By Mark Hand

ThinkProgress.org

The number of investigations into Env i ronment a l Protec t ion Agenc y Administrator Scott Pruitt keeps growing as more information comes out about his ties with polluting industries and his use of federal funds. A Democratic leader has revealed that the EPA, under Pruitt’s leadership, is being investigated by Congress’ watchdog agency for potential violations of anti-lobbying and anti-propaganda laws through his relationship with big agriculture. Soon after he took over as EPA chief, the Oklahoma Bar Association opened an inquiry into Pruitt’s testimony at his Senate confirmation hearing regarding his use of personal email to conduct official business as Oklahoma attorney general. Pruitt also has become the target of the EPA’s inspector general over frequent trips that he made to Oklahoma on the taxpayer’s dime. Most re cent ly, t he G over n ment Accountability Office (GAO) agreed to investigate Pruitt’s appearance in an industry video where he calls on ranchers and farmers to file comments on the Clean Water Rule. This latest Pruitt investigation was made public late last Friday by Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), the top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. DeFazio and other Democratic lawmakers wrote a letter to the GAO last month asking the watchdog to provide a legal opinion on whether Pruitt’s appearance in the promotional video for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA), a lobbying group for the country’s largest meat producers, violated legal prohibitions on the use of taxpayer funds for lobbying and publicity or propaganda purposes. In an October 31 response to DeFazio, the GAO said it accepted the Democratic lawmakers’ request to look into the video, explaining that such an investigation is “within the scope of its authority.” The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has jurisdiction over the EPA’s water programs. Federal law prohibits taxpayer dollars from being used, directly or indirectly, for “publicity or propaganda purposes within the United States.” “We are deeply troubled that these recent EPA actions are the latest examples of EPA’s inappropriate use of taxpayer resources,” DeFazio and his colleagues wrote in their letter requesting the investigation. In the video, Pruitt clearly seeks to convey a message of opposition to the Clean Water Rule, the lawmakers wrote. “The viewing audience may be unable to discern the

source of that message, because in the video, the administrator’s image, name, and title appear alongside the name and logo of the NCBA,” the letter said. In the video, Pruitt urges farmers and ranchers to submit comments on the EPA’s efforts to withdraw from the Clean Water Rule, also known as Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule. The video displays a graphic encouraging viewers to visit the website of the NCBA “to file your WOTUS comments today.” The association’s website includes a number of hyperlinks urging viewers to contact their elected officials in Congress and urge congressional action to overturn the Clean Water Rule. Pruitt says in the video that the EPA is “trying to fix the challenges from the 2015 rule where the Obama administration re-imagined their authority under the Clean Water Act.” The Clean Water Rule “created great uncertainty,” Pruitt says. “We are fixing that” and want to hear from stakeholders “about how to get it right as we go forward,” he adds. The EPA defended Pruitt’s appearance in the video. “EPA’s commitment to an open, transparent process to redefine WOTUS includes engagement with all stakeholders,” agency spokesperson Liz Bowman said in a statement emailed to ThinkProgress. From private flights to enjoying an 18-member security detail, Pruitt also has come under scrutiny for how he uses taxpayer money. The EPA spent almost $25,000 on a secure phone booth inside Pruitt’s headquarters office. The EPA chief also has — like former HHS Secretary Tom Price — been opting to travel by private jet.

“While the price tag for Pruitt’s phone booth should outrage every taxpayer, it’s who he’s speaking with and what they’re plotting that should be the most concerning to the American people,” said Ken Cook, president of the Environmental Working Group President, a nonprofit environmental group. In an October 23 editorial, the Denver Post criticized Pruitt for agreeing to appear in the NCBA video when he visited Colorado in August. “Now that he’s head of the EPA, he should know better than to actually appear in an industry propaganda video while traveling in his official capacity. He should, but, apparently, he does not,” the newspaper said. An NCBA official, in a letter to the Denver Post, accused the newspaper of getting the facts wrong about the video. The EPA approached the association for possible venues near Denver where Pruitt could meet with farmers and ranchers. The association asked the EPA if it could interview Pruitt at the event. “NCBA filmed, edited and published the video without any direction from the EPA,” Colin Woodall, senior vice president of government affairs for the NCBA, wrote in the letter. Earlier this year, the Trump administration officially began repealing the Clean Water Rule, which was finalized by the Obama administration in 2015. The rule sought to clarify the legal jurisdiction of the federal government under the Clean Water Act. In doing so, it expanded protection for two million miles of streams and 20 million acres of wetlands. The rule was widely criticized by industry — including farmers,

fossil fuel producers, and manufacturers — as well as by Republican lawmakers, who called the rule an example of overreach by a federal agency. In a similar investigation during the Obama administration, the GAO found that the EPA broke the law on multiple occasions with “covert propaganda” on the Clean Water Rule. The watchdog found that a pair of social media campaigns conducted by the EPA, under the leadership of former Administrator Gina McCarthy, broke laws that prohibit federal agencies from promoting or lobbying for their own actions. According to The Hill, the Obama EPA defended its practices, saying that “using social media to educate the public about our work is an integral part of our mission.” More than 10 years ago, in one of the most prominent cases of covert domestic government propaganda, the GAO concluded that the Department of Education, under the George W. Bush administration, violated federal law when it paid for rightwing commentator Armstrong Williams to advance its policies. Williams received $240,000 in federal money to promote the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind Act through his syndicated television show and newspaper columns, without acknowledging his relationship with the department, the GAO said in a 2005 report. Williams rebounded from the startling revelations. In 2016, he served as a spokesman and adviser for the presidential campaign of Ben Carson, who now serves as secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Williams still works as a syndicated columnist where his opinions can be found in The Hill and other publications. Like Williams’ ability to overcome the Department of Education scandal, Pruitt isn’t letting his own controversies get in the way of his anti-environmental protection agenda. In the NCBA video, Pruitt parrots industry talking points, like the idea that the Clean Water Rule would have regulated a puddle, a dry creek bed, or drainage ditches across the country. Brian Palmer, a reporter for the Natural Resources Defense Council, wrote in an August column that Pruitt should not be helping ranchers and farmers evade environmental rules: the federal government already has an entity — the Department of Agriculture — that promotes food production as part of its mission. “Ranchers should be asking the EPA for help in complying with the rules. Instead, the EPA is asking them for help to weaken them,” Palmer wrote.

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Commentary

‘Hard to see a path’ for Ives’ success By Rich Miller Capitol Fax

Until recently, state Rep. Jeanne Ives, R-Wheaton, had been passing separate nominating petitions for both her re-election to the Illinois House and a possible primary bid for governor against incumbent Republican Bruce Rauner. The ultra-conservative firebrand now says she has stopped passing re-election petitions. But if a recent poll is any indication, Rep. Ives might want to keep her House re-election bid alive because the state’s Republican Party may not be nearly as divided as some GOP politicians have been claiming it is. A Capitol Fax/We Ask America poll found that 61 percent of 1,064 likely Republican voters had a favorable impression of Gov. Rauner. Just 24 percent had an unfavorable opinion, despite the fact that he has been taking enormous heat from his right flank ever since he signed a publicly funded abortion on demand bill into law in late September. The intensely outspoken anger directed at Rauner over the abortion bill, which he promised to veto last spring, is pretty much without precedent. “In the face

of overwhelming evidence of Rauner’s inability to competently administer the Illinois government, inability to stand up to Mike Madigan effectively, and inability to keep his word and his commitments, I can no longer support him,” said Rep. Peter Breen (R-Lombard) after Rauner signed the bill. “And whether or not they are able to agree publicly, I know hundreds of elected Republicans, along with hundreds of thousands of Republican voters, who feel the same way I do.” Maybe not. We didn’t test President Donald Trump in this poll, but nationally he’s been getting somewhere between 80 and 85 percent support from members of his own party. So while Rauner has some very real problems when compared with Trump, is the opposition stiff enough to actually take him out in the primary? The poll, conducted for my newsletter subscribers Oct. 25-29, found Gov. Rauner is leading Rep. Ives 64-19, with 16 percent undecided. The poll had a margin of error of +/-3 percent. Rep. Ives told the Daily Herald not long ago that she had commitments for “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in

contributions. But she’s gonna need a whole lot more than that because almost nobody knows who she is. According to the poll, 83 percent of Republican voters have never heard of Ives. Rep. Ives can tap into a strong statewide network of seasoned pro-life activists to collect enough signatures to get her onto the ballot against Rauner. And while that network also can generate lots of word of mouth for her candidacy (including via social media), it has historically never generated the kind of money that Ives will need to compete with the deep-pockets Rauner. If no millionaire surfaces to fund her campaign, she’ll need to tap into national small-dollar sources. So, it was somewhat surprising that Rep. Ives did not try to use her kickoff to closely tie herself to President Donald Trump. She never uttered his name during a long Illinois Channel television interview and didn’t appear to mention her party’s national leader when she launched her petition drive. That’s probably the easiest way to attract national attention and support, particularly since Gov. Rauner is so reticent to comment on anything the

president says or does. According to the poll, 85 percent of Downstaters and suburban Cook voters have never heard of Ives, and neither has 78 percent of collar county suburbanites. Gov. Rauner’s Downstate lead over Rep. Ives is 65-17. It’s 67-16 in suburban Cook County and 65-22 in the collars. Among men, Rauner leads 69-21 with 10 percent undecided. Among women, it’s 60-17, with 23 percent undecided. Fortyseven percent of the respondents were mobile phone users. Her only “bright spot” is Chicago, where Rauner’s lead is 41-34. Even so, 76 percent of Chicagoans say they’ve never heard of her, meaning they chose her without knowing who she is. Chicago is the only region where Rauner’s favorability is upside down. Just 40 percent have a favorable opinion versus 49 percent who have an unfavorable view. “It won’t be easy to convince potential deep-pocket contributors that she has a fighting chance,” said pollster Gregg Durham of Rep. Ives. “In this first, albeit early poll, it’s hard to see a path for her success should she decide to take the plunge into these very treacherous waters.”

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John Wayne, John Ford and Jimmy Stewart on the set of 1962’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

‘Wayne and Ford’ ponders movie-bred masculinity Americans do hold dear their myths. In that sense John Ford had it right: Print the legend. By Douglass K. Daniel

Associated Press

merican movies feature a handful of great actor-director partnerships — Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese come to mind, for example, as do Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcock. Arguably, no collaboration has been more fulfilling for audiences or more influential for narrative filmmakers than John Wayne and John Ford. Together, Wayne and Ford created the mature Western with Stagecoach (1939) and brought it to its peak with The Searchers (1956). Each made sturdy Westerns with others and added to their own list with The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), which carries a famous line tinged with irony that goes to the heart of the genre: When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

Wayne and Ford’s productive if knotty relationship is practically a legend in itself. That’s a plus and a minus for Nancy Schoenberger’s new book, Wayne and Ford: The Films, the Friendship, and the Forging of an American Hero. At just over 200 pages, it serves as a lean and energetic introduction to a pair of moviemakers who are central to understanding American cinema. For those already keen on the topic, Schoenberger offers a slightly different point of view about their legacy. Given the many books about the actor and director, the Wayne-Ford relationship is easy to recount. Ford was established in the business by the late 1920s when he became a father figure for Wayne, hired him for some of his first acting jobs, then rescued him from the purgatory of low-budget productions in the 1930s, giving him the chance to shine as an actor. In the decades that followed, Wayne delivered time and again for Ford — after “Stagecoach” they made 13 more movies together — and he continued to

work for “Pappy” even after Ford’s gifts had gone stale and Wayne had become the most popular star in Hollywood. A sentimental bully and a binge drinker, Ford never let Wayne forget his shortcomings — in particular his failure to serve in the military in World War II — and berated him on the set for movie after movie, maybe even more so after Wayne’s studio clout surpassed his own. Wayne showed gratitude and loyalty in ways Ford could not but kept Ford at arm’s length when directing his first movie, The Alamo (1960). The dynamic was that of a father who raised his son well but turned jealous of his son’s success and, of course, his youth. Framing this tale of dysfunctional male love is Schoenberger’s insight that Wayne and Ford created a “code of masculinity” in their Westerns. “We all know that code,” she writes, “because, for good or for ill, it shaped America’s idea of masculinity, what it means to ‘be a man’: to bear adversity in silence, to show courage in the face of fear, to bond

with other men, to put honor and country before self — in three words, ‘stoicism,’ ‘courage,’ ‘duty.’” Too often Schoenberger undermines her presentation by not double-checking her material. Among other stumbles, she misquotes Wayne’s final line in True Grit and his Oscar acceptance speech, calls Liberty Valance Ford’s final Western (that would be 1964’s Cheyenne Autumn) and describes The Alamo as Wayne’s rebuke to Vietnam protests, which came years later. In her conclusion, Schoenberger laments that future generations of men won’t conform to the Wayne mold cut by Ford, yet she hardly ponders why they didn’t always fit the mold themselves. Experts at selling fictional moving images, the actor and director were all too human away from the cameras. Could it be that their code was more theatrical than realistic, merely a fresh coat of folklore applied to Old West history? Americans do hold dear their myths. In that sense Ford had it right: Print the legend.

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RACVB VIEW

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ComEd brightens downtown with River Lights The Rockford Area Convention & Visitors Bureau is pleased to announce ComEd as the presenting sponsor of Rockford’s River Lights. ComEd’s support helps make River Lights a gift that keeps on giving during the Merry & Bright season and beyond in downtown Rockford. In 2017, Rockford River Lights, presented by ComEd, will be back for the third year in downtown Rockford, located on the banks of the Rock River between State Street and Je�erson Street bridges. River Lights will debut this year at Stroll on State, presented by Illinois Bank & Trust, on November 25 at 7 p.m.

“River Lights incorporates a very unique laser light show, choreographed to music along our riverfront and is truly a sight to see. We are honored that ComEd chose to sponsor this attraction this year,” said John Groh, RACVB president/CEO. “Thanks to their commitment, folks will be able to enjoy this magical experience at Stroll on State and throughout the Merry & Bright season.” After Stroll on State, the lights will feature holiday shows of dancing lights synchronized to music on Friday and Saturday nights throughout the month of December. Show times are 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. with shows occurring every 15 minutes. Each River Lights

performance is di�erent, providing a new experience each time. On non-show nights, Rockford’s River Lights stay on each night and illuminate the riverbanks. Shows are free. The River Lights shows are choreographed and designed by Rockfordbased Luxe Productions. “Partnering with the RACVB to present Rockford’s River Lights to the community certainly means a great deal to our employees. This stunning light show is sure to bring excitement and fun to downtown Rockford this holiday season,” said George Gaulrapp, external a�airs manager, ComEd. “We are really looking forward to seeing the lights shine brightly along the Rock River for everyone to enjoy and we love supporting events where our employees work, live and play in the Rockford region.” The River Lights experience is designed to be viewed both from afar as well as up close. Residents and visitors will be invited to walk along the Esplanade on the west bank of the river and the Millennium Fountain path on the east side, between the State and Je�erson Street bridges. For more information about this light installation in downtown Rockford visit rockfordsriverlights.com.

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Culture

How does an autocracy celebrate revolution? For Putin, the Soviet era wasn’t about repression. Nor was it about the upending of traditional order. By Cynthia Hooper The Conversation

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nd what, exactly, is there to be celebrating?” snapped Vladimir Putin’s press secretary on Oct. 25, a little more than a week before the 100th anniversary of what, in Soviet times, was lauded as the country’s greatest victory. On Nov. 7, 1917, Vladimir Lenin seized power in St. Petersburg. Soviet authorities glorified that day as the dawn of the world’s first successful communist revolution – and the creation of the first country to promise racial, gender and even economic equality. In 1967, to honor the Soviet Union’s first half-century, leaders staged countrywide displays of mass jubilation. They ordered sausages be made with the number “50,” in white fat, running through every slice. But today, though Lenin still remains embalmed and on show in a giant mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow is strangely silent. Putin – whose grandfather cooked for Lenin – has simply called the event “ambiguous.” Why this official disinterest, even as the upcoming centennial generates global headlines? Perhaps because if you wish to project an image of a strong state and united people, then it’s awkward to toast the overturning of a seated government and beginning of civil war. All the more when Bolshevik actions in 1917 can be compared to those of Euromaidan protestors in 2014 Ukraine, who ousted a pro-Russian president in a move the Kremlin condemned as “an anti-constitutional takeover and armed seizure of power.” While he’s capable of acknowledging the complexity of the Soviet origin story, Putin apparently sees no need to broadcast such confusion. Instead, he promotes an idea of “Russian greatness” in which history is used selectively, not to inform as much as to inspire. The Russian Revolution, however politically inconvenient, is no exception.

A popular uprising in name only?

In the Soviet era, the tricky thing about Revolution Day was that it was a holiday celebrating an uprising of the masses that didn’t, in fact, actually happen. On that day, Lenin’s followers stormed into all of two buildings in the capital city of the Russian Empire. Occupying only the Winter Palace and the Central Telegraph Office, they proclaimed a government in the name of the people. Exactly how the Bolsheviks managed

to go from controlling two buildings to taking over an empire that spanned one-sixth of the world is, admittedly, quite a story. But there’s no getting around the fact that the initial, much-exalted Soviet “revolutionary moment” was little more than a coup. It was conducted by a ragtag group of political extremists who understood, at the time, that they were emphatically not acting with the support – or awareness – of most Russian citizens. But if the Soviets struggled to recast Nov. 7 as a day when the poor turned against their rich oppressors, Russia, 100 years later, now has to grapple with the fact that it’s a capitalist country, a place where, according to Credit Suisse, 111 people control almost 20 percent of the country’s wealth. It’s also a nation that’s been ruled for 17 years by the same man – one who’s about to declare his candidacy for what would be a fourth presidential term. At a time when Putin is keeping a tight lid on any potential opposition, the last thing the Kremlin wants to do is condone the violent overthrow of an oppressive, undemocratic regime.

Filling a symbolic void

Most pressing is the desire to project state power and national pride. These aims were already evident in 2005, when Putin canceled the Nov. 7 holiday altogether and replaced it with a Nov. 4 “National Unity Day.” To the extent that the Kremlin is acknowledging the upcoming centennial at all, it is with this theme of solidarity in mind. On Oct. 26, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs tweeted that it will host an international conference titled “100 Years of the Russian Revolution: Unity for the Future.” The message of the event is clear: Focus on achievements to come rather than past conflict. It’s not that Putin or his people are anti-Soviet. Putin, in his own memoir, has unapologetically cast himself as a patriot, eager to serve in the KGB and incensed when the Berlin Wall was allowed to come down in 1989. He has called the disintegration of the USSR a “geopolitical catastrophe.” Above all, he has been deeply critical of the Yeltsin era and the early years of Russia’s transition from communism to capitalism. During this period of mass economic hardship, Russia’s natural resources were auctioned off for laughably small sums. The collapse of the Soviet Union also left a huge symbolic void. Faced with a history of submission – first to ruthless and opulent tsars, and then to ruthless and slightly less-opulent Soviet dictators – Russians found themselves with little to be proud of.

Everything is great

Putin and his people changed that, but largely by cherry-picking their way through the past. For the president, the Soviet era wasn’t about repression. Nor was it about the upending of traditional order. Instead, he portrays it as a giant modernization project, marked by the defeat of Nazi Germany, the launching of the first satellite into space, and advances in education and industry. But in contemporary Russia, the aristocratic era that the Bolsheviks swept away isn’t depicted as all that bad, either. Recent films of the period tend to ignore the fact that, in 1917, at least 80 percent of the population were abjectly poor peasants laboring in a country that possessed only 165 tractors. (At the time, 85,000 were operating in U.S. fields.) Instead, such dramas celebrate the beauty, broad spirit, sense of honor and daring of the Russian aristocracy (including the ability of great men to absorb prodigious amounts of alcohol). The horrific violence involved in transforming this imperial empire into a Union of Soviet Socialist Republics tends to be glossed over. Take, for example, the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. There, dancers telling a story of Russian history needed only a brief interlude of darkness and snow to move from a ballroom waltz – a nod to a famous scene in Leo Tolstoy’s novel “War and Peace,” which celebrates the country’s defeat of Napoleon – to an acrobatic march amid giant pieces of machinery. In the blink of an eye, glamorous aristocrats defending their empire from invasion morphed into smiling proletarians carrying ladders and building up their country.

A right and a wrong way

Such “happy stories” can be sustained only by discouraging critical examination. Soviet censors used to argue that open discussion of past wrongdoing could serve only to demoralize the people, tarnish their achievements and weaken the regime. Kremlin pronouncements today remain in line with such principles. Here it’s worth remembering that Putin comes out of the same security milieu as did Lavrenti Beria, a notorious leader of Stalin’s secret police and a lifelong proponent of doing whatever it takes to promote state power. After Stalin’s death, Beria warned his fellow Politburo members against any public critique of the great leader. He scorned Nikita Khrushchev’s ideas of reexamining the cases of political prisoners serving time in labor camps

and setting free those found to have been unjustly condemned. Release prisoners early for economic reasons, he argued, but never, ever admit the government made a mistake. Beria lost the succession struggle, only to be unjustly condemned and shot as a spy. But his ideas live on. This year the Kremlin did not participate in local services commemorating the anniversaries of two hostage tragedies and a nuclear submarine accident that took place during Putin’s presidency. All three incidents involved controversial government responses that the Kremlin has never acknowledged as flawed. In April, Moscow officials angrily rejected a finding by the European Court of Human Rights that Russia had been guilty of “serious failings” in its handling of one – a shootout at an elementary school in Beslan, in which 330 people were killed. This strategy of denial extends into the cultural sphere. For example, a new British film, “Death of Stalin,” hasn’t yet been licensed for screening in Russia – but it’s already received blistering reviews in the Russian press. Various sources have deemed the political satire “more like a circus performance of clowns than a movie,” a “provocation” and “a new form of psychological warfare.” In contrast, the minister of culture recently extolled an upcoming, domestically produced movie called “To See Stalin,” about the man who designed the Soviet T-34 tanks in WWII. He called it “a great example of correct Russian film.” Coverage of the revolution in state-sponsored media outlets similarly tends to downplay any unsavory aspects. Rather than focus on class conflict and coup, programs highlight the admirable qualities of the various the Russian leaders involved: Leon Trotsky, Lenin and even the last Russian tsar, Nicholas II. They aim to make citizens feel proud of their past, however problematic that past might be. As Putin remarked last December in regard to 1917: “It is not permissible to drag the schisms, animosity, insults, and callousness of the past into our contemporary life.” The Soviet-era politician Leonid Brezhnev was less circumspect. Rejecting a poet’s appeal for permission to publish a diary recounting the terrors of Nazi invasion, Brezhnev proclaimed: “The main truth is that we won. All other truths fade before it.” That is the message the Kremlin sends today. The mistakes, abuses, and countless individual tragedies of history should not drag the country down. All should be subsumed within an overarching narrative of Russian glory.

The Rock River Times. November 8, 2017

A&E Happenings Arts & Theater

Attractions The ARC - 1222 E. State St., Beadware Mondays 1-4 p.m.; Open Studio Wednesdays & Thursdays 1-4 p.m. The Art Box – 308 E. Lincoln Hwy., DeKalb. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Info: 815-758-0313. Artists’ Ensemble Theatre – Rockford University, 5050 E. State St. Info: 815-394-5004. ArtSpace West Gallery – 1426 N. Main St. Wed.-Sat., noon-6 p.m. Info: 815-963-1894. Beloit Fine Arts Incubator – 520 E. Grand Ave., Beloit, Wis. Gallery hours: Mon.,10 a.m.-2 p.m. ; Tues.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Sat.,10 a.m.-3 p.m. Info: 608-322-4250. For more information visit BeloitFineArtsIncubator. com or call 608-313-9083. Beloit College – Logan Museum of Anthropology, Shaw Gallery, 700 College St., Beloit, Wis. Tues.Sun., 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Info: 608-363-2828. Belvidere Performing Arts Center – 1500 E. Ave., Belvidere. Tickets available at Tickets.thestudiorockford.com or 815-332-2205. Byron Civic Theatre – 850 N. Colfax, Byron. Info: 815-312-3000 or bctmagic.com. The Castle - The Castle Performing Arts Center at 501 Prospect St. is Beloit’s newest home for the arts. Visit thecastlebeloit.com or call 608-346-3114. Coronado Performing Arts Center – 314 N. Main St. 815-968-5222 or coronadopac.org. DeKalb Area Women’s Center Galleries - 1021 State St., DeKalb. Fridays, 7-9 p.m. Info: 815-758-1351. Ingrid Dohm Studio Gallery – 839 N. Perryville Road. Appointments/Info: 815-519-6492. Fireside Dinner Theatre - 1131 Janesville Ave., Fort Atkinson, WI. (800) 477-9505 Freeport Art Museum – 121 N. Harlem Ave., Freeport. Info: 815-235-9755. Gallery C – 900 Jackson St., Suite 113, Dubuque, Iowa. The Gallery At JustGoods – 201 Seventh St. Info: 815-965-8903. Horseflower’s Creative Hotspot - 1404 N. Main St. Open Friday and Saturdays. www.horseflowersrockford.com. For more information contact Lenny 815-501-2440 or email kandinskys.c.g.2015@gmail.com. Charlotte Hackin Art Studio & Gallery – 6278 Brynwood Drive, Rockford. Info: 815-639-1318. Kortman Gallery – 107 N. Main St. Mon.-Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Info: 815-968-0123. Main Street Players of Boone County – Community Building Complex, 111 W. First St., Belvidere. mainstreetplayersofboonecounty.com. Monroe Arts Center – 1315 11th St., Monroe, Wis. Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Info: 608-325-5700.

NIU Art Museum – Northern Illinois University, Altgeld, 116, DeKalb. David C. Olson Photography Studio – 5643 East State Street. Wildlife and nature imagery. 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Friday; 9 a.m.-noon, Saturday. Free. Info: 815-873-1777; www.davidolsonphoto.com. Pec Playhouse Theatre – 314 Main St., Pecatonica fo: 815-239-1210 or pecplayhouse.org. Rockford Art Guild - Meets at 6:30 p.m. the first Tuesday every month at Womanspace of Rockford, 3333 Maria Linden Dr. The Rockford Art Guild (RAG) is a supportive and encouraging group of people who have a strong passion for the arts. Each member has opportunities to improve, explore, and challenge themselves in ways they would not find elsewhere. Guild members work together to increase the appreciation of art in the Rockford area. The Public is invited. For more information visit www.RockfordArtGuild. Rockford Art Museum - 711 N. Main St.. For more information visit rockfordartmuseum.org. Rockford Dance Company – Riverfront Museum Park, 711 N. Main St. Info: 815-815-963-3341 or 815-968-0595. Rockford University Art Gallery – Clark Arts Center, 5050 E. State St. Info: 815-226-4105. Rockford University Performing Arts Department and Maddox & CheekTheatres - 5050 E. State St. For more information call 815.226.4100 or visit rockford.edu/artslectures/performingartsseason. Stage Coach Theater - 126 S. 5th St., DeKalb. Tickets and information at stagecoachers.com or 815-758-1940. Starlight Theatre - Performances throughout the year at Rock Valley College, 3301 N. Mulford Rd. For more information call 815-921-2160 or visit rvcstarlight.com State of the Art – 218 E. State St. Open Tues.-Sat., noon-6 p.m. and by appointment. “First Friday” events until 8 p.m. Info: 815-979-1944. 317 Studio and Gallery- 317 Market St. Stop by for Open Studio Thursday and Friday nights from 5-8 p.m. and Saturday from 12-5 p.m. Our gallery is open Tuesday-Saturday 12-2 p.m., also open during evening hours, check calendar for times or call. 317studiogallery.com or 815-315-7000 Timber Lake Playhouse – 8215 Black Oak Road, Mt. Carroll. Info: 815-244-2035. timberlakeplayhouse. org. (usual) Suspects - Nordlof Center Studio Theatre, 18 N. Main St. For more information call 815-5138685 or visit usualsuspectspresents.com Without Shoes Modern Dance Company – Maddox Theatre, Rockford University, 5050 E. State St. Womanspace – 3333 Maria Linden Drive. Info:

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Music

Ongoing Open Stage at Mandalay Lounge - Monday-Sunday beginning at 5 p.m. 200 North Church Street. DJ/Karaoke - Mortimer’s Roadhouse, 105 W. Grove in Poplar Grove. 815-765-0082. DJ/Karaoke w/ RPM every Friday, DJ/Karaoke w/ DJ Double D every Saturday Mary’s Place - 602 N. Madison St. marysplacebar. com. Open Stage, Tues. & Thurs. 9:30 p.m.-close; Karaoke, Wed. 9:30 p.m.-close. Bruce L. Warden - For listening & dining every Friday and Saturday 5-9 p.m. at Hoffman House, 7550 E. State St. Rockford Christian Fellowship - RCF performs locally, is not affiliated with any church, but rehearses Tuesday evenings from 7-9 p.m. at First Covenant Church, 316 Wood Road. The band welcomes additional participants (high school age through retired). See our website for more info www.rcfband.org. Contact Director, Brian Waterson, 815/797-2320, rcfband@gmail.com Friday Bluegrass Reunion Band - 5:30-8 p.m. at Stockholm Inn, 2420 Charles St. Free admission. Saturday Larry Higgs - 5:30-8 p.m. at Stockholm Inn, 2420 Charles St. Free admission. Sunday Sunday Night Dance Party w/ DJ - 7-10 p.m. at the VFW @ Alpine & Windsor Rd. $7 admission. Sunday, December 3 Christmas Concert and Dessert Buffet - 2-5 p.m. at Klehm Arboretum, 2715 S. Main St. Kick off your holidays with the joyful sounds of the season and enjoy a delectable assortment of holiday sweets, treats, and beverages. What a wonderful way to spend a Sunday afternoon in December! Musical guests: Rockford Flute Club; Betsy Baker’s Bluesy Sounds of Christmas; Emerald Wind Harp Ensemble; and River City Sound Chorus. Admission: $25/person, $20 for students, seniors and members. Kids 5 and under are free. This event is a fundraiser for Klehm Arboretum, a not for profit, educational and recreational resource for the Northern Illinois community.

Community

Ongoing Burpee Museum of Natural History – 737 N. Main St. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission: $8 for ages 13 & older, $7 for ages 3-12, free for children younger than 4 and members; additional fee for traveling exhibits. 815-965-3433. Camp Grant Museum - 1004 Samuelson Rd. 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Tues.-Fri., Sat. to 1 p.m. Closed Mon. & Sun. Adult

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$10, Children 8 up $5, Free for 7 or below. Special group hours available. Free admission with meal at Command Post Restaurant. Call 815-395-0679 or 815-395-0678 for more information. Cherry Valley Public Library District - 755 E. State St., Cherry Valley. Hours: Monday-Thursday 9 a.m.-8 p.m., Friday-Saturday 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Sun. 1-5 p.m. (Sept.-May) 815-332-5161. Cherryvalleylib.org Discovery Center Museum – 711 N. Main St. Hours: Sun.-Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $8 public, free for members. Children 1 and under are also free. 815-963-6769. Ethnic Heritage Museum - 1129 South Main St. and Graham-Ginestra House, 1115 South Main St. Open Sundays 2-4 p.m. Call 815 962-7402 to schedule other tours. Welcome Center Location: Ethnic Heritage Museum. Admission $8 individual, $5 student, $15 family, members free. Visitors tour both or one ‘Heritage Museum Park’ site for cost of admission. Memorial Hall – 211 N. Main St. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon-Fri., or by appointment. 815-969-1999. Midway Village – 6799 Guilford Road. Open TuesdayFriday (May-August) 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Closed Monday. 815-397-9112. Nicholas Conservatory & Gardens – 1354 N. Second St. Open Tues.-Sat. (closed Mon.): hours vary, check website or call. Admission: $6 resident, $8 non-resident, free for children 4 and younger. Water features, seating areas and sculptures, all in a tropical plant setting. Changing floral displays, events, educational programs, workshops, lecture series. Rentals of meeting/event room available. Gift shop. Info: rockfordparkdistrict.org or 815-987-8800. OSF Healing Pathways Cancer Resource Center – 5668 E. State St., Suite 2700. Healing Pathways provides programs and services to cancer patients, survivors and family members at no cost. Programs include strength training, nutrition classes, support groups, book club and more. For more information call 815-977-4123;Fax: 815-977-5513 or visit healingpathwayscrc.org. Rock Hollow Hunt Club - Bingo and pull-tabs the last Tuesday of every month at Rock Hollow Hunt Club, 1931 IL Route 75 East in Freeport. Buy cards beginning at 6 p.m. games start at 6:30 p.m. sharp. Benefits the US Sportsmen’s Youth Foundation. Rockford Park District – Various programs available throughout the year. Program Guides now available at Customer Service locations. Info: 815-987-8800 or rockfordparkdistrict.org. Tinker Swiss Cottage – 411 Kent St. Tours 1 and 3 p.m., Tues.-Sun. 815-964-2424. Keep Northern Illinois Beautiful Recycling Centers - 9 a.m.-noon every Saturday. 815-637-1343 Womanspace – 3333 Maria Linden Drive. Yoga every Thursday, 9:30-10:45 a.m. $40/four classes or $12/class. Basic Hatha Yoga. Other activities throughout the year. Info: 815-877-0118. Registration for Classes at The Arc – The Arc of Winnebago, Boone and Ogle Counties, 1222 E. State St. Info: 815-965-3455. Klehm Arboretum & Botanic Garden – 2715 S. Main St. Tues.-Sat., 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Admission $6 adults, $3 seniors & students, children younger than 3 and Klehm members, free. Donation Day is first Tuesday of each month. Admission free, donations of any amount welcome. Call 815-965-8146 or visit klehm.org for more information.

November 8, 2017 The Rock River Times.

Find more listings at RockRiverTimes.com/Happenings Rockford Crochet Club - Group in Rockford for those who love to crochet or would like to learn. Find us under “Rockford Crochet Club” on Facebook. Group meets once a week at Meg’s Daily Grind on Alpine/Guilford Road from 10:30 a.m.-noon. All crocheters are welcome. We gather at the large round table in the corner of the coffee shop. Bring whatever project you are working on and join in! Retired and Senior Volunteer Program - Are you 55+ and would you like to volunteer? We have endless opportunities for you to share your experience, talents, and interests to serve our community. Call RSVP, Retired and Senior Volunteer Program, a program of Lutheran Social Services of Illinois at 815-397-7103 or drop in at 1111 S. Alpine Suite 400 in Rockford. Rockford Friends & Newcomers - Rockford Friends & Newcomers is a social organization that welcomes both long-time residents and newcomers who want to meet other people through social events for couples and singles. Several games and activities available. Mug Morn every first Tuesday of the month at: Mary’s Market, 2636 McFarland Road, from 10-11:30 a.m. For more information e-mail rckfriends@yahoo.com Rock City Unique Steppers - Steppin classes are held on Thursdays at The West-mor Bowling Lanes, 2407 N. Central Ave., from 6:30-8:30 p.m. All styles of stepping, Chicago, Freestyle , Ballroom and much more. We offer mature and elegant dancing in a friendly and exciting environment. Our members have a deep appreciation and love for this dance form. Classes are $5 per week, the first week is free. Open dancing 8:30-10 p.m. Open dancing is FREE of charge. Come on down and get your dance on. Learn about CBD Oil & the Health Benefits - Wednesday nights from 6-7 p.m. in the banquet room of Dust Boots, 3907 Broadway, there will be presentations on the importance and health benefits of Cannabidiol oil. Call 815-742-1836 or text CBD to this

number for a free sample and to reserve your seat. Recover Me support group - Every Saturday 10 a.m. Katie’s Cup Rockford. All about healing and recovery. Al-Anon - Support group for families and friends of alcoholics. Help-line: (815) 399-0456. Saturday Local Color Art Auction - Temple Beth-El of Rockford will be holding a Local Color 50/50 Art Auction fundraiser from 6-9 p.m. at Midway Village, 6799 Guilford Rd. This is a fundraiser for Temple BethEl and support for the local artist community. Artists receive 50% of each sale. Admission is $25 per person. Complimentary hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar will be available. To purchase tickets call 815-398-5020. The call to artists with application may be downloaded from the Temple Beth-El website at templebethel-rockford.org. All Rockford area fine art artists are encouraged to apply. Saturday-Sunday Holiday Gem, Jewelry, Fossil and Mineral Show Northwest Illinois Rock Club will sponsor its annual Holiday Gem, Jewelry, Fossil and Mineral show and sale at Highland Community College Student/Conference Center, 2998 W. Pearl City Rd. in Freeport. Vendors from the Midwest will offer an array of fossils, minerals, dazzling gem stones, jewelry, and gift items perfect for holiday giving. Also featured are displays, demonstrations, and a fun-filled children’s area. Several speakers will cover topics including: volcanoes, cretaceous dinosaurs, glacial striations, gemstone energies, and fossils from Illinois and Wisconsin. Show hours are from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday. A free will donation is appreciated to defray the cost of the show. For more information call Brian Green at 815-745-2228 or email bgreen57@ hotmail.com.

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Nearly 700 Colts including: Nearly 100 percussion arms, over 80 first generation SAAs and over 50 DA revolvers. Over 500 Winchesters with 11 Henry and volcanic arms. Also featuring over 500 sporting arms and nearly 200 Smith & Wessons. Over 400 U.S. Military arms from early Martial and Civil War arms to WWI & WWII. Over 400 German, Japanese, and European Military arms. Over 40 Class III items. Over 2200 items classified as Antique or Curio & Relic. Featuring 17 iconic collections including: Robert M. Lee, Vernon J. Berning, Royal Hunt, Robert Bretherton and John Wimmer. To order a fullcolor, 3 vol. set catalog ($70 inc. S&H) or to inquire about selling at auction call 1-800-238-8022, email: info@rockislandauction.com. Catalog now online at www.rockislandauction.com. Preview Thur. Nov. 30th, 10am-6pm. Auction begins 9am Dec. 1st, 2nd & 3rd at RIAC’s facility 7819 42nd St. W., Rock Island, IL 61201 160 miles West of Chicago. 17.5% Buyers Premium – Discounted to 15% for pre-approved check or cash. Open to the public. Sunday Chonda Pierce ‘Getting Back To Funny’ Tour - The stand-up comedian, television hostess, actress and author will perform at 7 p.m. at the Coronado PAC. Tickets are $25-48 and available at ticketmaster.com or chonda.org. Monday Phi Beta Kappa lecture with Price Fishback, Ph.D. Fisher Memorial Chapel at Rockford University at 4 p.m. Dr. Fishback is an economics professor at the Univ. of Arizona. He is also the current executive director of the economic History Association and a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an expert on Roosevelt’s New Deal and the Great Depression, housing booms and busts between 1920 and 1040, and the long-term effects of climate and policy on agriculture. Tickets are free but required and may be obtained by calling 815-226-4100.

Rockford Stars”. Join Family Counseling Services of Northern Illinois for a night of fun that includes the competition, a delicious dinner, live and silent auctions, and your chance to dance the night away. Proceeds help provide counseling sessions for individuals and families in Winnebago, Boone, and Ogle Counties, regardless of ability to pay. Family Counseling Services is observing its 140th anniversary in 2017. Reservations for “Dancing with the Rockford Stars” are $70 per person or $650 for a table of 10. For information and reservations, please go to dancewithrockfordstars. com or call 815-962-5585.

Tuesday, Nov. 14-Thursday, Nov.16 Rockford Memorial Auxiliary Second Annual Holiday Market - Takes place at Mercyhealth Hospital, 2400 N. Rockton Ave. Sign up early for daily drawings, shop early for best selections. Items include holiday decor and textiles, lighted art, gourmet foods, Melissa & Doug children’s toys, and much more. Hours are 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday & Thursday; 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Wednesday.

Monday, November 20 Stewardship Session for Northwest Illinois Audubon Society - From 1-3 p.m. the Northwest Illinois Audubon Society will be offering a stewardship session at the Silver Creek Biodiversity Preserve. Tools, gloves, water, snacks and guidance provided. No past experience with prairie work is needed. Stewardship days are a fun way to enjoy the beauty of nature with other prairie enthusiasts. We’ll be working primarily on Multi-flora Rose and honeysuckle. Carpool from the Freeport Staples lot at 12:15 or meet at the preserve at 1:00 pm. The preserve is about 2 miles south of Leaf River on the west side of Leaf River Rd (S. Main St. crosses HWY 72 in Leaf River and becomes Leaf River Rd.). If weather is questionable call Mary at 815-938-3204.

Saturday, November 18 Trip to Observe Migrating Waterfowl on the Mississippi - At 8 a.m. Northwest Illinois Audubon Society will be offering a field trip to the Mississippi River to observe migrating waterfowl. The group will meet at the Staples parking lot in Freeport at 8 a.m. and carpool to Spring Lake, just south of Savanna. There should be ducks arriving and hopefully the Tundra Swans will have made their way south so that the group can view the spectacular Tundra Swans. The group will make several stops along the river for viewing, and end the trip with lunch at Heirloom Café in Thomson. Contact Laura at 815-947-2720 if you would like to join the trip or would like more information about the trip. Dancing with the Rockford Stars - A benefit for Family Counseling Services, will take place at 6 p.m. at Giovanni’s, 610 N. Bell School Road. The stage is set for local celebrity dancers to compete for the coveted Mirror Ball Trophies awarded to the winners of the Judges’ Choice and People’s Choice Awards at the annual “Dancing with the

Saturday, December 2 Deck The Halls Christmas Bazaar - At A Ministry of Restoration, 3015 S. 4th St. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cash and carry goods for sale, crafts, knitted hats & scarves, Christmas ornaments, and much, much more for sale. Also buy a handbag to help a child. Christmas Bake Sale - St. Helen’s Philoptochos of Sts. Constantine and Helen’s Greek Orthodox Church, annual Christmas Bake Sale, One day only. Luncheon and Bazaar - takes place from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at 108 N. Fifth Street. Greek luncheon of pastichio (Greek lasagna), Greek salad, dessert and coffee for $10. Served 11: a.m.-2 p.m. Several varieties of bakery items including cookies & spinach and cheese pie appetizers. Call 815-282-9593 to pre-order homemade spinach and cheese pie appetizers and pans of pastichio. Bazaar includes gift basket raffles, homemade crafts, jewelry, and many other gifts. Proceeds benefit Cornucopia, Food Pantry, Empty Stocking, Remedies, Rockford Rescue Mission, Children’s Cancer Fund, Alzheimer’s Association, and American Heart Association. Free admission.

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The Rock River Times. November 8, 2017

Death Notices Shirley Stubbs 83 Rockford 10/30/2017 Susan Fry 69 Rockford 10/30/2017 Joel Olson 57 Rockford 10/30/2017 Roger Duvall 70 Roscoe 10/30/2017 Emery Meyers 91 Durand 10/30/2017 Eleanor Glaser 101 South Beloit 10/30/2017 Barbara Healy 90 Rockford 10/30/2017 Ronald Webb 67 Rockford 10/30/2017 Cheryl Zwanzig 61 Rockford 10/30/2017 Lloyd Bucher 62 Rockford 10/30/2017 Emily Palmer 81 Rockford 10/30/2017 Sheila Davis 54 Rockford 10/30/2017 Betty Fisher 91 Rockford 10/31/2017 Peter Bartkus 94 Rockford 10/31/2017 Perris Williams 68 Rockford 10/31/2017 Margaret Swenson 80 Rockford 10/31/2017 Helen Smith 72 Loves Park 10/31/2017 Rex Golden 95 Rockford 10/31/2017 Jeremy Wilson 27 Rockford 10/31/2017 Donna Boss 72 Rockford 10/31/2017 Gerald McGovern 84 Rockford 10/31/2017 Jeffrey Gustafson 36 Rockford 10/31/2017 Jacqueline Reynolds 89 Rockton 10/31/2017 Mary Boel 67 Rockford 10/31/2017 John Trunce 69 Rockford 10/31/2017 Mary Parish 79 Rockford 11/1/2017 Carl Labella 89 Rockford 11/1/2017 Bruce Batley 71 Rockford 11/1/2017 Doreen Strader 77 Rockford 11/1/2017 Linda Estrada 65 Rockford 11/1/2017 Francisco Serrano 62 Rockford 11/1/2017 Gretta Fiet 73 Rockford 11/1/2017 John Malone 73 Rockford 11/1/2017 Jennie Howell 61 Rockford 11/1/2017 Regina Perrineq 85 Rockford 11/2/2017 Janice Breazeale 55 Rockford 11/2/2017 Louis Myers 63 Rockford 11/2/2017 Patricia Reed 84 Loves Park 11/2/2017 Sharon Benseman 76 Rockford 11/2/2017 Curtis Bryant 54 Rockford 11/2/2017 Mildred Priem 100 Rockford 11/2/2017 Elizabeth Hirth 84 Rockford 11/2/2017 Nellie Oswald 92 Rockford 11/2/2017 John Startzel 83 Rockford 11/2/2017 Jon Shoemaker 69 Roscoe 11/3/2017 Karen McKibbin 65 Rockford 11/3/2017 Leanard Graves 40 Rockford 11/3/2017 Dennis Grottke 62 Rockford 11/3/2017 Dirk Aissen 76 Rockford 11/3/2017 Dennis Schroeder 63 Rockford 11/3/2017 Carolyn Wasmund 69 Rockford 11/3/2017 Clarence Suhr 97 Rockford 11/3/2017 John Bomgarden 92 Pecatonica 11/4/2017 Lloyd Everett 89 Rockford 11/4/2017 Shirley Keniuk 73 Rockford 11/4/2017 Dennis Gage 59 Rockford 11/4/2017 Arthur Hildebrand 89 Rockford 11/4/2017 Guadalupe Rodriguez 73 Rockford 11/4/2017 Edna Hassel 95 Rockford 11/4/2017 Louis Dorsey 66 Rockford 11/4/2017 Dennis Suhr 67 Rockford 11/4/2017 Donald Andresen 87 Rockford 11/4/2017 Sharnekea Faustin 25 Rockford 11/4/2017 Kevin Stebbins 49 Rockford 11/4/2017 Eli Difede 86 Rockford 11/4/2017 Floyd Bartow Sr. 53 Rockford 11/4/2017 Lynne Erickson 69 Rockford 11/5/2017 Margaret Stropes 96 Rockford 11/5/2017 Mary Ann Cordett 69 Rockton 11/5/2017 Ida Hill 84 Rockford 11/5/2017 John Carlson 71 Pecatonica 11/5/2017 Jesse Penix 80 Rockford 11/5/2017 Bonnie-Jean Wright 73 Rockford 11/5/2017 Dennis Carrol 72 Rockford 11/5/2017 Richard Johnson 86 Rockford 11/6/2017 Death notices are provided by the Winnebago County Coroner’s office.

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CHICAGO — Emergency rooms are where many patients are first introduced to powerful opioid painkillers, but what if doctors offered over-the-counter pills instead? A new study tested that approach on patients with broken bones and sprains and found pain relievers sold as Tylenol and Motrin worked as well as opioids at reducing severe pain. The results challenge common ER practice for treating short-term, severe pain and could prompt changes that would help prevent new patients from becoming addicted. The study has limitations: It only looked at short-term pain relief in the emergency room and researchers didn’t evaluate how patients managed their pain after leaving the hospital. But given the scope of the U.S. opioid epidemic — more than 2 million Americans are addicted to opioid painkillers or heroin — experts say any dent in the problem could be meaningful. Results were published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Long-term opioid use often begins with a prescription painkiller for short-term pain, and use of these drugs in the ER has risen in recent years. Previous studies have shown opioids were prescribed in nearly one-third of ER visits and about 1 out of 5 ER patients are sent home with opioid prescriptions.

“Preventing new patients from becoming addicted to opioids may have a greater effect on the opioid epidemic than providing sustained treatment to patients already addicted,” Dr. Demetrios Kyriacou, an emergency medicine specialist at Northwestern University, wrote in an accompanying editorial. The study involved 411 adults treated in two emergency rooms at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City. Their injuries included leg and arm fractures or sprains. All were given acetaminophen, the main ingredient in Tylenol, plus either ibuprofen, the main ingredient in Motrin, or one of three opioids: oxycodone, hydrocodone or codeine. They were given standard doses and were not told which drug combo they received. Patients rated their pain levels before taking the medicine and two hours later. On average, pain scores dropped from almost 9 on a 10-point scale to about 5, with negligible differences between the groups. Ibuprofen and acetaminophen affect different pain receptors in the body so using the two drugs together may be especially potent, said Dr. Andrew Chang, an emergency medicine professor at Albany Medical College in upstate New York, who led the study. He noted that a pill combining ibuprofen and acetaminophen is available in other countries; his findings echo research from Canada and Australia testing that pill against opioids for pain relief.

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CANCER

You’ll enjoy front-row seats at all kinds of events, but it’s up to you to take initiative and make sure plans are in order.

LEO

Expect a confusing start to the week. You’ll need two cups of coffee to brave the first couple of days. Severe procrastination and constant daydreaming won’t help your case.

VIRGO

Your coworkers and friends will most likely leave you in charge of organizing upcoming events, even though you would prefer to stay out of the spotlight. It’s time to find your inner confidence!

LIBRA

You’ll be overwhelmed with worry if the company you work for announces plans to restructure. Thankfully, you’ll succeed in climbing the corporate ladder.

SCORPIO

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SAGITTARIUS

Emotions will fly high, leaving you feeling overwhelmed. Consider your financing options before committing to buying a new house.

CAPRICORN

Before making your final decision, take the time to consider all of the information provided, even if you’re under pressure to respond. Think about each option carefully before revealing your choice.

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Government Notices n n n ORDINANCE NO. 2017- 178-O WHEREAS, The City of Rockford is the owner of and possessed of the real estate hereinafter particularly described; and WHEREAS, the said real estate is no longer necessary, appropriate or required for the use of, nor profitable to, the City of Rockford; and WHEREAS, retention of the property is not for the best interest of said City of Rockford. THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, THAT: Section 1: The City Council offer for sale of City owned property at former known as 1518 North Main Street and 1526 North Main Street, PIN # 11-14-282-014, at a minimum bid of $7,624 with preference to the adjacent property owners. The city reserves the right to reject all bids. The subject property is legally described as follows: C E SOVEREIGNS AUBURNDALE SUB PT NE1/4 SEC 14-44-1 BEG SW COR LT 7 BLK 1 TH N 117.43 FT E 27.96 FT SE 18.63 FT SW 15.44 FT SW 30.85 FT SW 32.36 FT S 22.02 FT TH W 15.41 FT TO POB PT LTS 7 & 8 BLK 1 Section 2: The Notice of said sale and the fact that said City of Rockford will receive bids for the purchase of said real estate shall be advertised in the Rock River Times, a weekly newspaper published in said City of Rockford, for three (3) consecutive weeks, the first publication to be not less than thirty (30) days before the day provided in said Notice for the opening bids for the real estate. Section 3: The said Notice shall set forth the fact that said bids will be received until 11:00 A.M., local Rockford time on December 4, 2017 at the office of the City of Rockford Purchasing Manager and shall be accompanied by a bank cashier’s or certified check payable to the City of Rockford for at least ten (10) percent of the amount of the bid, the balance to be paid in cash by the successful bidder within not more than fifteen (15) calendar days from the date of the City Council’s acceptance of his bid. The City of Rockford reserves the right to accept or reject any and all bids. Section 4: The provisions and sections of this Ordinance shall be deemed severable, and the invalidity of any portion of this Ordinance shall not affect the validity of the remainder. Section 5: All orders, resolutions, or ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed insofar as such conflict exists and this Ordinance shall take effect immediately upon its passage, approval, and publication, as required by law. Section 6: A full, true, and complete copy of this Ordinance shall be published within ten (10) days after passage in pamphlet form by and under authority of the Corporate Authorities. 8213R TRRT 11/15 n n n REQUEST FOR BIDS The Board of Trustees of Rockford Public Library hereby invites sealed bids for HVAC equipment replacement for the Nordlof Center lower level west. Bids will be received until 11:00 A.M., local Rockford time, on Friday, November 17th, 2017 at the office of the Director of Finance, Rockford Public Library, 214 North Church Street, Rockford, Illinois 61101. At 1:00 P.M. at the Nordlof Center bids received will be publicly opened and read aloud. Bid forms may be obtained at the administrative office of the Library and on the Library’s

website. Bids must be enclosed in a sealed envelope and marked “Sealed Bid for HVAC for Nordlof Center Lower Level West”. Each bidder shall submit with their bid the information specified in the bid documents for compliance with the laws of the State of Illinois on Fair Employment Practices and with the City of Rockford’s Ordinance on Equal Employment and Business Opportunity. Any bid which fails to include the compliance items properly completed will not be read and will not be considered. The mandatory site visit will be on Monday, November 13th, 2017 between 10:00 A.M. and 2:00 P.M. Schedule your visit with Noel Devine via phone 815-742-6364 prior to the designated date and time above. The walkthrough will take place at the Nordlof Center, 118 North Main Street, Rockford, Illinois 61101. Rockford Public Library reserves the right to accept or reject any and all bids and to waive technicalities. Dated: 8 November 2017 Anthony Cortez Director of Finance 8239R TRRT 11/8 n n n INVITATION TO BID GARAGE COMMERCIAL LABOR RFP NO.: 1117-PW-151 Bids will be received until 11:00 a.m., local time, on Tuesday, December 5, 2017 at the office of the Central Services Manager, City Hall Building, 425 East State Street, 4th floor, Rockford, Illinois 61104. At that time and place all bids received will be publicly opened and read aloud. Bids will be accepted until the specified opening time and date. Any bidder attempting to deliver after the opening time and date will be refused. Mandatory Pre-bid Meeting. Tuesday, November 28, 2017 at 9:00AM, at the Public Works facility, Administration building, at 523 S. Central Avenue. All interested bidders must attend this meeting. Any vendors attempting to submit a bid who do not appear on the pre-bid meeting sign-in sheet will be refused. Bid documents may be obtained at the office of the Central Services Manager, at City Hall, 4th floor, 425 E. State Street, Rockford, IL, 61104, or at https://rockfordil. gov/city-departments/finance/ central-services/purchasing Bids must be enclosed in a sealed envelope and marked with the name of the bid, and the bid number. Each bidder shall submit with his bid the information specified in the bid documents for compliance with the laws of the State of Illinois on Fair Employment Practices and with the City of Rockford’s Ordinance on Equal Employment and Business Opportunity. Any bid which fails to include the compliance items properly completed will not be read and will not be considered. All Contracts for the Construction of Public Works are subject to the Illinois Prevailing Wage Act (820 ILCS 130/1-12). The City of Rockford reserves the right to accept or reject any and all proposals and to waive technicalities. 8242R TRRT 11/8 n n n INVITATION TO BID RISC PROJECT RFP NO.: 1017-PD-146 Bids will be received until 11:00 a.m., local time, on Friday, December 08, 2017 at the office of the Central Services Manager, City Hall Building, 425 East State Street, 4th floor, Rockford, Illinois 61104. At that time and place all bids received will be publicly opened and read aloud. Bids will be accepted until the specified opening time and date. Any bidder attempting to

deliver after the opening time and date will be refused. Mandatory Pre-bid Meeting. Thursday, November 09, 2017 at 10:00AM, at 1410 Broadway, Rockford,IL 61104.All interested bidders must attend this meeting. Any vendors attempting to submit a bid who do not appear on the pre-bid meeting sign-in sheet will be refused. Bid documents may be obtained at the office of the Central Services Manager, at City Hall, 4th floor, 425 E. State Street, Rockford, IL, 61104, or at https://rockfordil. gov/city-departments/finance/ central-services/purchasing Bids must be enclosed in a sealed envelope and marked with the name of the bid, and the bid number. Each bidder shall submit with his bid the information specified in the bid documents for compliance with the laws of the State of Illinois on Fair Employment Practices and with the City of Rockford’s Ordinance on Equal Employment and Business Opportunity. Any bid which fails to include the compliance items properly completed will not be read and will not be considered. All Contracts for the Construction of Public Works are subject to the Illinois Prevailing Wage Act (820 ILCS 130/1-12). The City of Rockford reserves the right to accept or reject any and all proposals and to waive technicalities. 8243R TRRT 11/8 n n n INVITATION TO BID ELEVATOR MAINTENANCE BID NO.: 1117-PW-148 Bids will be received until 11:00 a.m., local time, on Wednesday, November 22, 2017 at the office of the Central Services Manager, City Hall Building, 425 East State Street, 4th floor, Rockford, Illinois 61104. At that time and place all bids received will be publicly opened and read aloud. Bids will be accepted until the specified opening time and date. Any bidder attempting to deliver after the opening time and date will be refused. Bid documents may be obtained at the office of the Central Services Manager, at City Hall, 4th floor, 425 E. State Street, Rockford, IL, 61104, or at https://rockfordil. gov/city-departments/finance/ central-services/purchasing Bids must be enclosed in a sealed envelope and marked with the name of the bid, and the bid number. Each bidder shall submit with his bid the information specified in the bid documents for compliance with the laws of the State of Illinois on Fair Employment Practices and with the City of Rockford’s Ordinance on Equal Employment and Business Opportunity. Any bid which fails to include the compliance items properly completed will not be read and will not be considered. All Contracts for the Construction of Public Works are subject to the Illinois Prevailing Wage Act (820 ILCS 130/1-12). The City of Rockford reserves the right to accept or reject any and all proposals and to waive technicalities. 8244R TRRT 11/8 n n n REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS CAMERA EXPANSION PROGRAM RFP NO.: 1017-PD-147 Proposals will be received until 11:00 a.m., local time, on Friday, December 8, 2017 at the office of the Central Services Manager, City Hall Building, 425 East State Street, 4th floor, Rockford, Illinois 61104. At that time and place, all proposals received will be publicly opened and read aloud. Proposals will be accepted until the specified opening time and date. Any bidder attempting to deliver after the opening time and date will be refused.

Proposal forms may be obtained at the office of the Central Services Manager, at City Hall, or at https://rockfordil.gov/city-departments/finance/central-services/ purchasing Proposals must be enclosed in a sealed envelope and marked with the name of the RFP, and the RFP number. Each vendor shall submit with their proposal the information specified in the bid documents for compliance with the laws of the State of Illinois on Fair Employment Practices and with the City of Rockford’s Ordinance on Equal Employment and Business Opportunity. Any proposal which fails to include the compliance items properly completed will not be read and will not be considered. The City of Rockford reserves the right to accept or reject any and all proposals and to waive technicalities. 8245R TRRT 11/8 n n n INVITATION TO BID PIONEER PARKING DECK CHILLER REPLACEMENT BID NO.: 1117-PW-149 Bids will be received until 11:00 a.m., local time, on Tuesday, November 28, 2017 at the office of the Central Services Manager, City Hall Building, 425 East State Street, 4th floor, Rockford, Illinois 61104. At that time and place all bids received will be publicly opened and read aloud. Bids will be accepted until the specified opening time and date. Any bidder attempting to deliver after the opening time and date will be refused. Mandatory Pre-bid Meeting. Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 1:00PM, on site at 327 N Wyman (rear lower access entrance). All interested bidders must attend this meeting. Any vendors attempting to submit a bid who do not appear on the pre-bid meeting sign-in sheet will be refused. Bid documents may be obtained at the office of the Central Services Manager, at City Hall, 4th floor, 425 E. State Street, Rockford, IL, 61104, or at https://rockfordil. gov/city-departments/finance/ central-services/purchasing Bids must be enclosed in a sealed envelope and marked with the name of the bid, and the bid number. Each bidder shall submit with his bid the information specified in the bid documents for compliance with the laws of the State of Illinois on Fair Employment Practices and with the City of Rockford’s Ordinance on Equal Employment and Business Opportunity. Any bid which fails to include the compliance items properly completed will not be read and will not be considered. All Contracts for the Construction of Public Works are subject to the Illinois Prevailing Wage Act (820 ILCS 130/1-12). The City of Rockford reserves the right to accept or reject any and all proposals and to waive technicalities. 8246R TRRT 11/8 n n n INVITATION TO BID CITY HALL EXTERIOR RESTORATION BID NO.: 1117-PW-150 Bids will be received until 11:00 a.m., local time, on Wednesday, November 29, 2017 at the office of the Central Services Manager, City Hall Building, 425 East State Street, 4th floor, Rockford, Illinois 61104. At that time and place all bids received will be publicly opened and read aloud. Bids will be accepted until the specified opening time and date. Any bidder attempting to deliver after the opening time and date will be refused. Mandatory Pre-bid Meeting. Wednesday, November 15, 2017 at 10:00AM, at City Hall, 425 E. State Street in Conference Room

A on the 2nd floor.All interested bidders must attend this meeting. Any vendors attempting to submit a bid who do not appear on the pre-bid meeting sign-in sheet will be refused. Bid documents may be obtained at the office of the Central Services Manager, at City Hall, 4th floor, 425 E. State Street, Rockford, IL, 61104, or at https://rockfordil. gov/city-departments/finance/ central-services/purchasing Bids must be enclosed in a sealed envelope and marked with the name of the bid, and the bid number. Each bidder shall submit with his bid the information specified in the bid documents for compliance with the laws of the State of Illinois on Fair Employment Practices and with the City of Rockford’s Ordinance on Equal Employment and Business Opportunity. Any bid which fails to include the compliance items properly completed will not be read and will not be considered. All Contracts for the Construction of Public Works are subject to the Illinois Prevailing Wage Act (820 ILCS 130/1-12). The City of Rockford reserves the right to accept or reject any and all proposals and to waive technicalities. 8247R TRRT 11/8 n n n NOTICE The Cherry Valley Public Library District has placed on file with Winnebago County and Boone County their 2016-2017 Annual Audit, prepared by Wipfli LLP. The audit will also be available at the Cherry Valley District Library, 755 E. State Street, Cherry Valley, IL 61016 for public inspection Monday through Saturday 12:00 noon through 6:00 p.m. 8248R TRRT 11/8

Public Notices n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS CIT Bank, N.A. PLAINTIFF Vs. Kathleen Kennedy; United States of America Department of Housing and Urban Development; Rock River Water Reclamation District; Amcore Mortgage, Inc.; Unknown Heirs and Legatees of Ann M. Gouchenour; Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Claimants; Timothy A. Miller, as Special Representative for Anne M. Gouchenour (deceased); State of Illinois-Department of Healthcare and Family Services; Karla Stone DEFENDANTS 2017CH 0000634 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU: Unknown Heirs and Legatees of Ann M. Gouchenour Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Claimants That this case has been commenced in this Court against you and other defendants, praying for the foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying the premises described as follows, to-wit: COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 4902 Forest View Ave Rockford, IL 61108 and which said Mortgage was made by: Ann M. Gouchenour executed the mortgage, however this individual is deceased and is not named as a defendant in this lawsuit the Mortgagor(s), to Financial Freedom Senior Funding Corporation, A Subsidiary of IndyMac Bank, F.S.B., as Mortgagee, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Winnebago County, Illinois, as Document No.

0702717; and for other relief; that summons was duly issued out of said Court against you as provided by law and that the said suit is now pending. NOW, THEREFORE, UNLESS YOU file your answer or otherwise file your appearance in this case in the Office of the Clerk of this Court, Thomas A. Klein Clerk of the Circuit Court 400 West State Street, Room 108 Rockford, IL 61101 on or before November 27, 2017, A DEFAULT MAY BE ENTERED AGAINST YOU AT ANY TIME AFTER THAT DAY AND A JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRAYER OF SAID COMPLAINT. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100 Burr Ridge, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 DuPage # 15170 Winnebago # 531 Our File No. 14-17-10853 NOTE: This law firm is a debt collector. I3065647 P8185R TRRT 11/8 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 contracting business in said County and State under the name of X & A Contracting at the following post office addresses: 5554 Santa Fe Trail, Rockford, IL 61109; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Arounsavath Sacdyphoud SIGNED: Arounsavath Sacdyphoud 10/20/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 20th day of October, A.D. 2017. Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Thalia Gallardo, DEPUTY 8198R TRRT 11/8 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS SS. COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: EUNICE F. MARKS, Deceased CASE NO. 2017 P 424 CLAIM NOTICE NOTICE IS GIVEN of the death of EUNICE F. MARKS. Letters of Office were issued on 9-28-2017 to Karen E. Lawver, 924 Euclid Avenue, Beloit, Wisconsin 53511, who is the legal representative(s) of the estate. The attorney for the estate is Attorney Lisa M. Schultz, 604 Pleasant Street, Suite 120, Beloit, Wisconsin 53511. Claims against the estate may be filed on or before April 25, 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 Courthouse, 400 West State Street, Rockford, Illinois, or with the estate’s legal representatives, or both. Copies of claims filed with the Circuit Clerk’s Office - Probate Division, must be mailed or delivered to the estate’s legal representatives and to his attorney within ten (10) days after it has been filed. DATED: October 25, 2017, KAREN E. LAWVER, Executor, Attorney Lisa M. Schultz, 604 Pleasant Street, Suite 120,

Beloit, Wisconsin, 53511 (608) 365-6614. Reg. St. 8190R TRRT 11/8 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 Sales and Marketing Consulting business in said County and State under the name of LA and Associates at the following post office addresses: 5094 Safford Road, Rockford, IL 61101; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Larry Adams SIGNED: Larry Adams 10/20/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 20th day of October, A.D. 2017. Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Pamela Johnson, DEPUTY 8199R TRRT 11/8 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 selling music, books, speeches, general entertainment business in said County and State under the name of Mediamogul at the following post office addresses: 4812 Javelin Dr., Apt. 4, Rockford, IL 61108; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: James Mosley SIGNED: James Mosley 10/18/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 18th day of October, A.D. 2017. Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Thalia Gallardo, DEPUTY 8196R TRRT 11/8 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 Auto Repair business in said County and State under the name of TH Enterprises at the following post office addresses: 4737 Colt Rd., Rockford, IL 61109; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Tom Hogshead SIGNED: Tom Hogshead 10/31/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 31st day of October, A.D. 2017. Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Luanne Kaspar, DEPUTY 8234R TRRT 11/15 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 Trim, Tile, Drywall, Rough framing, Siding upgrade, Bathroom upgrade, Kitchen upgrade, Finish drywall business in said County and State under the name of Aaron’s Up-Grade and Remodeling at the following post office addresses: 3324 Alida St., Rockford, IL 61101; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Aaron Ingram; Selena Ingrim SIGNED: Aaron Ingram 10/30/17 SIGNED: Selena Ingram 10/30/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 30th day of October, A.D. 2017. Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Thalia Gallardo, DEPUTY 8231R TRRT 11/15 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 Bookkeeping business in said County and State under the name of Bookkeeping It at the following post office addresses: 1004 Jessica Trl., Winnebago, IL 61088; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Denise Monson SIGNED: Denise Monson 10/26/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 26th day of October, A.D. 2017. Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Luanne Kaspar, DEPUTY 8229R TRRT 11/15 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 massage therapy practice business in said County and State under the name of Health Focuses at the following post office addresses: 712 Windsor Rd., Loves Park, IL 61111; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Victor Richard Lars Wallace, 815-871-7259 SIGNED: Victor Richard Lars Wallace 10/24/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 24th day of October, A.D. 2017. Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Luanne Kaspar, DEPUTY 8202R TRRT 11/8 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 resell/retail business in said County and State under the name of Heathers Menagerie at the following post office addresses: 1643 N. Alpine Rd., Suite 104-501, Rockford, IL 61107; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Heather Wright SIGNED: Heather Wright 11/7/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 7th day of November, A.D. 2017. Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Thalia Gallardo, DEPUTY 8267R TRRT 11/22 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 cosmetic company business in said County and State under the name of Cherelle Saecher Int. at the following post office addresses: 1214 Benton St., Rockford, IL 61107; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Mercedes Peyton SIGNED: Mercedes Peyton 11/3/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 3rd day of November, A.D. 2017. Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Thalia Gallardo, DEPUTY 8264R TRRT 11/22

November 8, 2017 The Rock River Times. n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.MICHAEL PETWAY, et al Defendant 15CH 00846 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on September 20, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on December 22, 2017, 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 SEVENTY-FOUR (74) AS DESIGNATED UPON PLAT NO. 1 OF HARRISON PARK, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF FRACTIONAL SECTION 4, 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 47B IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 2914 STOWMARKET AVENUE, ROCKFORD, IL61109 Property Index No. 16-04-252022 (256A374). 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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE

WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file 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 14-15-03052. 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. 14-15-03052 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 15 CH 00846 TJSC#: 37-8942 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. I3065799 P8235R TRRT 11/22 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS ROUNDPOINT MORTGAGE SERVICING CORPORATION; Plaintiff, vs. MELISSA A. BYARS; ROCK RIVER WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF MELISSA A. BYARS, IF ANY; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 17 CH 382 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, December 14, 2017 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 195 AS DESIGNATED UPON PLAT NO 6 OF MULFORD HILLS, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 34, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 2, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN. THE PLAT OF WHICH SUBDIVISION IS RECORDED IN BOOK 39 OF PLATS ON PAGE 61A AS DOCUMENT NO 1940349 IN THE RECORDERS OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY ILLINOIS SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. P.I.N. 08-34-381-025. Commonly known as 4554 Galleon Drive, Loves Park, IL 61111. 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. W17-0224 I3066698 P8236R TRRT 11/22 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS PHH MORTGAGE CORPORATION A/K/A PHH MORTGAGE SERVICES Plaintiff, -v.UNKNOWN SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE OF THE MICHAEL W. JOHNSON TRUST U/T/A DATED THE 7TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 2000, et al Defendant 15CH 00490 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on September 13, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on December 15, 2017, 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 EIGHTY-FOUR (84) AS DESIGNATED UPON THE PLAT OF MAPLEWOOD SOUTH BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE EAST 1/2 OF SECTION 33, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 2 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, THE PLAT OF WHICH SUBDIVISION IS RECORDED IN BOOK 32 OF PLATS ON PAGE 92 IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS. SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 1935 BERGER PLACE, ROCKFORD, IL 61108 Property Index No. 12-33276-022. 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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Pro-

spective 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 14-15-07484. 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. 14-15-07484 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 15 CH 00490 TJSC#: 37-8623 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. I3066621 P8237R TRRT 11/22 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS NEW PENN FINANCIAL LLC D/B/A SHELLPOINT MORTGAGE SERVICING Plaintiff, -v.GERALD EVANS A/K/A GERALD EVANS JR., et al Defendant 16 CH 00901 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on September 13, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on December 19, 2017, 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 120 AS DESIGNATED UPON PLAT NUMBER 4 OF ANDREW’S RIVER RIDGE BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF SECTIONS 19 AND 30, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 2 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN THE PLAT OF WHICH

IS RECORDED IN BOOK 26 OF PLATS ON PAGE 62 IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 9515 GARY DRIVE, MACHESNEY PARK, IL 61115 Property Index No. 08-19-379018 (127C038). 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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file 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 14-16-14334. 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. 14-16-14334 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 16 CH 00901 TJSC#: 37-8628 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. I3066630 P8238R TRRT 11/22 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION; Plaintiff, vs. JOHN HOLLAR; MELISSA HOLLAR; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; SPRING LAKE ESTATES HOMES ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE OF THE CAMPBELL TRUST NO. 95, DATED OCTOBER 21, 1997; Defendants, 17 CH 287 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, December 14, 2017 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 Three Hundred Thirty (330) as Designated Upon plat Number 12 of Spring Lake Estates, being a Subdivision of part of The Northeast Quarter (1/4) of Section 9, Township 44 North, Range 2 East of the Third Principal Meridian, the plat of which is recorded in Book 36 of Plats on Page 197 in the Recorder’s Office of Winnebago County, Illinois. Commonly known as 3203 Youngfield Drive, Rockford, IL 61114. P.I.N. 12-09-229-018. 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. 17-009441 F2

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3066711 P8240R TRRT 11/22 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS CITY OF ROCKFORD, A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION; Plaintiff, vs. LAVERNE LUND; LOUIS C. LUND; COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO; UNKNOWN OWNERS, AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 17 CH 653 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, December 14, 2017 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: I J SHELDONS SUBD PT SW 1/4 SEC 15-44-1 LOT 002. Commonly known as 1226 Blaisdell Street, Rockford, IL 61101. P.I.N. 11-15-380-023. 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 Ms. Lafakeria S. Vaughn at Plaintiff’s Attorney, City of Rockford Department of Law, 425 East State Street, Rockford, Illinois 61104. (779) 348-7154. INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3066712 P8241R TRRT 11/22 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO IN CHANCERY IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF: TONYA VASILEV, Petitioner, And NIKOLAI VASILEV, Respondent. Case No. 17 D 615 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to Respondent NIKOLAI VASILEV that Petitioner TONYA VASILEV has caused to be filed a PETITION FOR DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE and other relief in the above-captioned cause of action. You are further notified that if you fail to file an answer or otherwise appear on or before December 11, 2017, a judgment by default may be entered against you at any time thereafter for the relief requested in the petition. /s/ Tonya Vasilev, Petitioner 8249R TRRT 11/22 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS SS COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO IN THE CIRCUIT COURT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: SAM FRANK LATORRE, deceased 2017P479 CLAIM NOTICE NOTICE is given of the death of Sam Frank LaTorre. Letters of Office were issued on October

27, 2017 to Lawrence LaTorre, 10311 Cotton Grass Ct, Roscoe, Illinois 61073. The administrator for the estate is Lawrence LaTorre, 10311 Cotton Grass Ct, Roscoe, Illinois 61073. Claims against the estate may be filed on or before May, 9, 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 5/18-3 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 Probate Clerk’s office of the Winnebago County Courthouse 400 W. State St., Rockford, Illinois, or with the estate legal representative, or both. Copies of claims filed with the Circuit Clerks Office-Probate Division must be mailed or delivered to the estate’s legal representative within ten (10) days after being filed. Dated November 3, 2017 Lawrence LaTorre, Administrator of the estate of Sam Frank LaTorre Prepared by Lawrence LaTorre 10311 Cotton Grass Ct. Roscoe, Il 61073 Rock River Times November 9, 15, 22, 2017 8250R TRRT 11/22 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO IN CHANCERY IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF: SAMANTHA LEE TULLY, Petitioner, vs. JONATHAN LAWRENCE TULLY, Respondent. Case No. 17 D 777 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to Respondent JONATHAN LAWRENCE TULLY that Petitioner SAMANTHA LEE TULLY has caused to be filed a PETITION FOR DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE and other relief in the above-captioned cause of action. You are further notified that if you fail to file an answer or otherwise appear on or before December 11, 2017, a judgment by default may be entered against you at any time thereafter for the relief requested in the petition. /s/ Samantha Lee Tully, Petitioner 8259R TRRT 11/22 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 business Buying, Selling and having Rental Property business in said County and State under the name of CJTLA Investments at the following post office addresses: 4614 Raven St., Rockford, IL 61107; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Calvin L. Malone SIGNED: Calvin L. Malone 11/6/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 6th day of November, A.D. 2017. Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Pamela Johnson, DEPUTY 8261R TRRT 11/22

The Rock River Times. November 8, 2017

n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION Plaintiff, vs. NICHOLAS ZACHARIAH GRAY; THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT Defendants, 16 CH 456 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, December 7, 2017 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 Two Hundred Seven (207) as designated upon Winfield Plat No. 5, being part of the South Half (1/2) of the Northwest Quarter (1/4) of Section 18, Township 46 North, Range 2 East of the Third Principal Meridian, the Plat of which Subdivision is recorded in Book 45 of Plats on Page 169 in the Recorder’s Office of Winnebago County, Illinois; situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois. Commonly known as 813 Dr. Clark Way, South Beloit, IL 61080. P.I.N. 04-18-157-012. 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. 16-014132 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3065975 P8204R TRRT 11/15 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO LASALLE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR MERRILL LYNCH MORTGAGE INVESTORS TRUST, MORTGAGE LOAN ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-AHL1 Plaintiff, -v.DANNY BRYANT, et al Defendants 17 CH 00216 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on September 13, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on December 15, 2017, 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 TWENTY-THREE (123) AS DESIGNATED UPON PLAT NO. 3 OF SIERRA HEIGHTS, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE NORTH HALF OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 13, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 1 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, THE PLAT OF WHICH IS RECORDED IN BOOK 26 OF PLATS ON PAGE 211 IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS, SITUATED IN WINNEBAGO COUNTY, STATE OF ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 2813 CASCADE DRIVE, ROCKFORD, IL 61109 Property Index No. 15-13-427003 (229D045). 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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file 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 14-17-02206. 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. 14-17-02206 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 17 CH 00216 TJSC#: 37-8624 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. I3065253 P8205R TRRT 11/15 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, vs. BALDEMAR GALLEGOS; NICOLE L. KRAL Defendants, 17 CH 354 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, December 7, 2017 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 Thirty-four (34) as designated upon the plat of Guilford View Subdivision No. 4 a part of the Northwest Quarter (1/4) of Section 20, Township 44 North, Range 2 East of the Third Principal Meridian, the plat of which subdivision is recorded in Book 23 of Plats on Page 150 in the Recorder’s Office, in Winnebago County, Illinois; situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois. Commonly known as 3808 Brendenwood Road, Rockford, IL 61107. P.I.N. 12-20-102-011. 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. 17-014267 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3065973 P8206R TRRT 11/15 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS

SUNTRUST MORTGAGE, INC. Plaintiff, -v.DONALD J WARD A/K/A DONALD WARD, et al Defendant 16CH 918 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on September 13, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on December 11, 2017, 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 SIXTEEN (16) AS DESIGNATED UPON THE PLAT OF HIGHLAND CREST SUBDIVISION PART OF THE SOUTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 18, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 2 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, THE PLAT OF WHICH SUBDIVISION IS RECORDED IN BOOK 20 OF PLATS ON PAGE 1 IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 3216 BUCKINGHAM DRIVE, ROCKFORD, IL61107 Property Index No. 12-18453-011. The real estate is improved with a single family home with an attached two car garage. 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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORE-

CLOSURE 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 259298. 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. 259298 Case Number: 16 CH 918 TJSC#: 37-9147 I3064892 P8207R TRRT 11/15 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC Plaintiff, -v.MARLENE L. ZELLNER, et al Defendant 17 CH 0000401 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on July 5, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on December 13, 2017, 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 TWENTY-SEVEN (27) AS DESIGNATED UPON THE PLAT OF NORTH RIDGE SUBDIVISION PLAT NO. 3, BEING A PART OF 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 SUBDIVISION IS RECORDED IN BOOK 27 OF PLATS, ON PAGE 151 IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 3304 CHATEAU LANE, ROCKFORD, IL 61103 Property Index No. 11-11101-025. 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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real

estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file 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 14-16-13406. 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. 14-16-13406 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 17 CH 0000401 TJSC#: 37-6293 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. I3058482 P8208R TRRT 11/15 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS BMO HARRIS BANK N.A. Plaintiff, -v.SOMBOUN SOUYAVONG, et al Defendant 16 CH 01013 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on March 8, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30

PM on November 29, 2017, 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 SEVEN (107) AS DESIGNATED UPON PLAT NO. 4 OF COLONIAL VILLAGE, PART OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER (1/4) OF SECTION 33, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 2 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, THE PLAT OF WHICH SUBDIVISION IS RECORDED IN BOOK 36 OF PLATS IN PAGE 12A IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 1522 POWDERHORN DRIVE, ROCKFORD, IL 61108 Property Index No. 12-33-128001; 177B407. 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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file 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 14-16-14184. 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. 14-16-14184 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 16 CH 01013 TJSC#: 37-9591 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. I3066081 P8209R TRRT 11/15 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF Jordan A. Delgadillo Minor’s Current Name Maria D. Ledesma Name of Parent/Guardian filing on behalf of the Minor Case No. 17 MR 1041 NOTICE OF FILING PETITION FOR NAME CHANGE Notice is hereby given, that on December 27, 2017, at 10:00 a.m., in Room 426, I will present a Petition requesting that the Court change his/her present name of Jordan A. Delgadillo, a minor, to the name of Jordan Ledesma. The hearing will take place at Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 West State St. in Rockford, Illinois. /s/ Jordan A. Delgadillo, a minor, by, /s/ Maria Ledesma Date: 10-27-2017 8221R TRRT 11/15 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 an online outdoor website business in said County and State under the name of Schitty Outdoor Wear at the following post office addresses: 3741 Golden Prairie Ave., Rockford, IL 61109; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Tanner Lafew; Michael Turman; Christopher Lafew SIGNED: Tanner Lafew 10/18/17 SIGNED: Michael Turman 10/18/17 SIGNED: Christopher Lafew 10/18/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 18th day of October, A.D. 2017. Casey Bloom, Notary Public My Commission Expires 5/30/2021 8197R TRRT 11/8

November 8, 2017 The Rock River Times. n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO CITY OF ROCKFORD, a municipal corporation Plaintiff, vs. CINDY POON, NORTHWEST BANK OF ROCKFORD, UNKNOWN OWNERS, and NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants. Case No. 17 CH 470 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE BY PUBLICATION The requisite Affidavit for Publication having been filed, notice is hereby given you, Non-Record Claimants and all Unknown Owners, Defendants in the above-entitled cause that the above-entitled Demolition Lien Foreclosure action was filed on June 2, 2017 and is now pending. 1. The names of all Plaintiffs and the Case Number are identified above. 2. The Court in which this action was brought is identified above. 3. The name of the titleholder of record is Cindy Poon 4. A legal description of the real estate sufficient to identify it with reasonable certainty is as follows: WESLEYAN SEMINARY ASSN ADD WLY 35.07 FT LOT 2 + ELY 14.93 FT LOT 003 BLOCK 003 situated in Winnebago County, Illinois P.I.N. No. 11-21-281-004 5. A common address or description of the location of the real estate is as follows: 1914 W. State Street, Rockford, Illinois 6. An identification of the Lien sought to be foreclosed is as follows: a. Name of Property Owners: Cindy Poon b. Name of Lien Holder: City of Rockford c. Date of Lien: January 14, 2016 d. Date of Recording: November 22, 2016 e. County Where Recorded: Winnebago County, Illinois f. Recording Document Identification: 20161036056 NOW, THEREFORE, unless you, Non-Record Claimants and Unknown Owners, Defendants, file your answer to the Complaint for Foreclosure in this cause or otherwise make your appearance therein, in the Circuit Court of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Winnebago County, Illinois, in the Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 West State Street, Rockford, IL on or before the 1st day of January, 2018 default may be entered against you and each of you at any time after that day and a Judgment for Foreclosure may be entered in accordance with the prayer of the Complaint for Foreclosure. Circuit Clerk Matthew D. Flores – ARDC #6323902 City of Rockford Department of Law 425 E. State Street Rockford, IL 61104 (779) 348-7395 8251R TRRT 11/22 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 DEBORAH R. WRIGHT, Deceased. CASE NO. 2017 P 471 CLAIM NOTICE Notice is given of the death of DEBORAH R. WRIGHT. Letters of Office were issued on October 25, 2017, to GARY R. WRIGHT, JR., 5302 Pierce Lake Drive, Caledonia, IL 61011, who is the Independent Executor of the Estate. The attorney for the Estate is MICHAEL J. SCHAPPERT, HolmstromKennedyPC, 800 North Church Street, P.O. Box 589, Rockford, Illinois 61105-0589. Claims against the Estate may be filed on or before May 8, 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 400 West State Street, Rockford, Illinois 61101, or with the Estate legal representative, or both. Copies of claims filed with the Circuit Clerk’s Office - Probate Division must be mailed or delivered to the Estate legal representative and to his attorney within ten (10) days after it has been filed. Dated: November 1, 2017. GARY R. WRIGHT, JR., Independent Executor of the Estate of DEBORAH R. WRIGHT, Deceased HolmstromKennedyPC His Attorneys By: /s/ Michael J. Schappert MICHAEL J. SCHAPPERT Attorney Michael J. Schappert HolmstromKennedyPC – ARDC #3128183 Attorney for Independent Executor 800 N. Church Street P.O. Box 589 Rockford, IL 61105-0589 (815) 962-7071 mjs@hkrockford.com Attorney Shawn Kasserman Tomasik Kotin Kasserman 161 North Clark Street Suite 3050 Chicago, IL 60601 (312) 605-8800 shawn@tkklaw.com 8252R TRRT 11/22 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO BRYCE AVERY, Plaintiff, v. DAVID L. WESCOTT and UNKNOWN OCCUPANTS, Defendants. CASE NO: 2017 LM 1778 NOTICE OF SUIT FOR RESCISSION OF CONTRACT FOR CONVEYANCE OF LAND The requisite Affidavit having been duly filed in my office, NOTICE is hereby given you, DAVID L. WESCOTT, as title holder of record, and 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 forfeiture of a certain installment contract concerning the premises described as follows, to-wit: Lot Nine (9) in Block Four (4) as designated upon the Original Plat of Seward, the Plat of which is recorded in Book 86 of Deeds on page 257 in the Recorder’s Office of Winnebago County, Illinois. Also, part of Lot Eight (8) in Block Four (4) as designated upon said Plat, bounded and described as follows, to-wit: Beginning at the Northeast corner of said Lot Eight (8); thence South along the East line of said Lot Eight (8), Eighteen (18) feet; thence West, parallel with the North line of said Lot Eight (8), One Hundred (100) feet; thence North, parallel with the West line of said Lot Eight (8), Eighteen (18) feet to the North line of said Lot Eight (8); thence East along the North line of said Lot Eight (8), One Hundred (100) feet to the place of beginning. commonly known as 3092 South Pecatonica Road, Seward, Illinois; and for other relief; that summons was duly issued out of the said Court against you as provided by law, and that the said suit is now pending. The contract sought to be foreclosed is identified as follows: Agreement for Deed dated December 14, 2015 between Bryce Avery and David L. Wescott. in the amount of $30,000.00; NOW, THEREFORE, unless you, the said above named Defendants, file your answer to the Complaint in the 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 27th day of December, 2017, 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 G. Michael Scheurich #2479869 scheurich@guyerlaw.com GUYER & ENICHEN, P.C. 2601 Reid Farm Rd., Suite B Rockford, IL 61114 (815) 636-9600 8253R TRRT 11/22 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO BLACKHAWK BANK, Plaintiff, v. ROGER D. ELLISON; TERESA M. ELLISON; UNKNOWN OWNERS; UNKNOWN TENANTS; UNKNOWN SPOUSES; UNKNOWN HEIRS and NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants. Case No.: 2017 CH 128 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered by the Court

in the above-entitled cause, the property hereinafter described or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said Judgment, will be sold to the highest bidder. A. The name, address and telephone number of the person to contact for information regarding the real estate is: Yashekia T. Simpkins, HINSHAW & CULBERTSON LLP, 100 Park Avenue, Rockford, Illinois 61101, Tel. (815) 490-4942. B. The common address and other common description, if any, of the real estate is: 2415 Wisconsin Road, Rockford, Illinois 61108. C. The legal description of the real estate is: Lot Twenty-three (23) as designated upon the Plat of Colorado Heights Subdivision Plat No. 3, being a Subdivision in the Southeast Quarter (1/4) of Section 31, Township 44 North, Range 2 East of the Third Principal Meridian, the Plat of which Subdivision is recorded in Book 23 of Plats on Page 167 in the Recorder’s Office of Winnebago County, Illinois; situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois. D. A description of the improvements on the real estate is: Single-family home with 3 bedrooms, 1½ bathrooms and approximately 1,485 square feet. E. The time and place of sale will be November 30, 2017, at 11:00 A.M., Winnebago County Justice Center, Lobby, 650 West State Street, Rockford, County of Winnebago, Illinois. F. The terms of the sale are: Ten Percent (10%) due by cash or certified funds at the time of the sale and the balance is due within 24 hours of sale. The property offered for sale is subject to all real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality of the title and without recourse to the Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office and in “as is” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. G. Title will be conveyed subject to the following liens and interests: all general real estate taxes, special assessments, if any, easements and restrictions of record, and the interests, if any, of any tenant in possession. H. The property will not be available for inspection. I. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of subject premises. J. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g) (1) and (g)(4). BLACKHAWK BANK, Plaintiff By: HINSHAW & CULBERTSON LLP By: Yashekia T. Simpkins One of Its Attorneys 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 8254R TRRT 11/22 n n n NOTICE BY PUBLICATION CHAD BEASLEY and CASSANDRA BEASLEY, Petitioners, vs. KORISMA DAVIS, 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 208 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Take notice that on the 1st day of November, 2017, a Petition for Adoption was filed in the Circuit Court of Winnebago County, Illinois, 17th Judicial Circuit, and that on the second floor of the Winnebago County Juvenile Justice Center, on the 6th day of December, 2017 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 2nd day of November, 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 8255R TRRT 11/22 n n n Public Storage 24/7 4850 North Main Street Rockford, IL 61103 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Public Storage 24/7 is announcing that the following unit numbers which the following people occupy are delinquent for rent payments. We will be holding a public auction at 4850 N. Main Street, in Rockford, IL 61103 on Thursday, November 16th, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. All contents of the units will be sold to the highest bidder. Units C29, D67, D71 & D72 Felecia Box; Unit D79 - Jacob Miller; Unit B46 - Brien Soto; Unit E53 - Geraldine Bowdy; Unit C98 - Robert Wojick; Unit C47 - Maurice Erving; Unit D82 - Tyler Rux; Unit C82 - Kevin Heckman; Unit E52 - Elizabeth Amundson; Unit E78 - Mark Jarvis; Unit B52 - John Johnson; Unit B55 - Clyde Anderson; Unit E16 - Sharon Johnson. After many documented attempts to contact you to collect the delinquent rental charges, we have decided to take legal action. Signed: Public Storage 24/7 Dated: 10-24, 2017 State of Illinois, County of Winnebago By: Sarah Jackson Notary Signature: Joyce Lask 8256R TRRT 11/15 n n n Public Self Storage 3231 N. Main St. Rockford, IL 61103 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

Public Self Storage is announcing that the following unit numbers which the following people occupy are delinquent in pay. We will be holding a public auction at 11:00 a.m. on November 16th, 2017. All contents of the units will be up for sale to the highest bidder. Units 28 & 42 - Kathy Dahlberg; Unit 89 - Nakischa Patrick; Unit 48 - Keith Lindell; Unit 39 - Patricia Huntoon. After many documented attempts to get hold of you to collect the delinquent rent, we decided legal actions. Signed: Public Self Storage Dated: 10-24-17 State of Illinois, County of Winnebago By: Sarah Jackson Notary Signature: Joyce Lask 8257R TRRT 11/15 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: SELDEN J. SWARTWOUT, Deceased. CASE NO. 2016-P-483 CLAIM NOTICE NOTICE is given of the death of SELDEN J. SWARTWOUT. Letters of Office were issued on November 18, 2016, to KEVIN JAMES SWARTWOUT, 106 Prospect Avenue, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin 53916, 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 May 8, 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: November 1, 2017 KEVIN JAMES SWARTWOUT Executor Attorney Peter A. Savitski ARDC No.: 2463741 838 North Main Street Rockford, Illinois 61103 (815) 963-0370 pas-law@sbcglobal.net 8258R TRRT 11/22 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO SABRE INVESTMENTS LLC, Plaintiff, v. ALEX RIVERA, Defendant. CASE NO: 2017 LM 1802

NOTICE OF SUIT FOR RESCISSION OF CONTRACT FOR CONVEYANCE OF LAND The requisite Affidavit having been duly filed in my office, NOTICE is hereby given you, ALEX RIVERA, as title holder of record, Defendant 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, praying for the forfeiture of a certain installment contract concerning the premises described as follows, to-wit: THE WEST HALF (1/2) OF LOT EIGHT (8) IN BLOCK TWENTY-FOUR (24) A DESIGNATED UPON THE PLAT OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER (1/4) OF SECTION 14 AND OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER (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 4 OF PLATS ON PAGE 8, IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS, THE EASTERLY LINE OF SAID PREMISES BEING PARALLEL WITH THE WESTERLY LINE OF SAID LOT; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. commonly known as 2101 Latham Street, Rockford, Illinois; and for other relief; that summons was duly issued out of the said Court against you as provided by law, and that the said suit is now pending. The contract sought to be foreclosed is identified as follows: Five Year Balloon Contract for Quit Claim Deed dated May 6, 2013 between Sabre Investments LLC and Alex C. Rivera in the amount of $38,500.00; NOW, THEREFORE, unless you, file your answer to the Complaint in the 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 27th day of December, 2017, 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 G. Michael Scheurich #2479869 scheurich@guyerlaw.com GUYER & ENICHEN, P.C. 2601 Reid Farm Rd., Suite B Rockford, IL 61114 (815) 636-9600 8260R TRRT 11/22 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 Groundskeeper/Handyman business in said County and State under the name of GroundkeepingPlus at the following post office addresses: 911 4th Ave., Apt. 2, Rockford, IL 61104; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as

follows: Riccardo Williams SIGNED: Riccardo Williams 11/6/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 6th day of November, A.D. 2017. Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Thalia Gallardo, DEPUTY 8262R TRRT 11/22 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a general construction and remodeling business in said County and State under the name of M.L. Construction and Remodeling at the following post office addresses: 811 Barnum Rd., Rockford, IL 61109; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Miriam G. Venegas SIGNED: Miriam G. Venegas 10/16/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 16th day of October, A.D. 2017. Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Thalia Gallardo, DEPUTY 8263R TRRT 11/22 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 investment business in said County and State under the name of Lit Investments at the following post office addresses: 6911 Spring Brook Rd., Rockford, IL 61114; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Shawn Koukos; Parth Patel SIGNED: Shawn Koukos 11/1/17 SIGNED: Parth Patel 11/1/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 1st day of November, A.D. 2017. Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Angela Reina, DEPUTY 8265R TRRT 11/22 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 Threading business in said County and State under the name of Threading Expert at the following post office addresses: 3818 W. Riverside Blvd., Suite 115, Rockford, IL 61101; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Parimal Patel SIGNED: Parimal Patel 11/2/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 2nd day of November, A.D. 2017. Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Pamela Johnson, DEPUTY 8266R TRRT 11/22

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n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS TCF NATIONAL BANK; Plaintiff, vs. ROBERTO ORTEGA; CHRISTIAN R. ORTEGA; ROCK RIVER WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT; MIDLAND FUNDING LLC; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 17 CH 288 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, December 7, 2017 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 TWELVE (12) AS DESIGNATED UPON THE PLAT OF KYLEMORE EAST, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE EAST HALF (1/2) OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER (1/4) OF SECTION 22, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 2 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, THE PLAT OF WHICH IS RECORDED IN BOOK 40 OF PLATS ON PAGE 68A IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 6378 GARRETT LANE, ROCKFORD, IL 61107. P.I.N. 12-22-327-004. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. For information call Mr. David T. Cohen at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Cohen Jutla Dovitz Makowka, LLC, 10729 West 159th Street, Orland Park, Illinois 60467-4531. (708) 460-7711. INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3065960 P8210R TRRT 11/15 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC Plaintiff, -v.CRYSTAL L. MAXWELL, et al Defendant 17CH 0000384 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 2, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on December 11, 2017, 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 LOTS SIX (6) AND SEVEN (7) IN BLOCK SIXTY-SEVEN (67)

AS DESIGNATED UPON THE PLAT OF HASKELL AND EDWARDS ADDITION TO THE TOWN (NOW CITY) OF ROCKFORD, THE PLAT OF WHICH ADDITION IS RECORDED IN BOOK Y OF DEEDS ON PAGE 9 IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS, BOUNDED AS FOLLOWS, TO-WIT: COMMENCING AT THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF SAID LOT SEVEN (7); THENCE NORTH ALONG THE WEST LINE OF SAID LOT SEVEN (7), 36 FEET; THENCE EAST ALONG A LINE PARALLEL WITH THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID LOT SEVEN (7), 23 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE EAST ALONG A LINE PARALLEL WITH THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID LOT SEVEN (7) TO THE EAST LINE OF SAID LOT SEVEN (7); THENCE SOUTH ALONG THE EAST LINES OF SAID LOTS SEVEN (7) AND SIX (6), 102 FEET TO THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID LOT SIX (6); THENCE WEST ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID LOT SIX (6), 91.92 FEET TO A POINT ON THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID LOT SIX (6) WHICH IS 48 FEET EAST OF THE SOUTHWEST CORNER; THENCE NORTHERLY ALONG A STRAIGHT LINE TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, ALSO A PART OF PALM STREET AND HASKELL AND EDWARD’S ADDITION TO THE CITY OF ROCKFORD, BOUNDED AS FOLLOWS, TO-WIT: COMMENCING AT THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF LOT SIX (6) IN BLOCK SIXTY-SEVEN (67) IN SAID ADDITION; THENCE EAST ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID LOT SIX (6), 48 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE EAST ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID LOT SIX (6) TO THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID LOT SIX (6); THENCE SOUTH TWENTY-THREE (23) FEET; THENCE WEST ALONG A LINE PARALLEL WITH THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID LOT SIX (6) TO A POINT 55 FEET EAST OF THE ORIGINAL EAST RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF ROCKTON AVENUE; THENCE NORTHERLY ALONG A STRAIGHT LINE TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 515 N. ROCKTON AVENUE, ROCKFORD, IL 61103 Property Index No. 11-23-151-010(203B471A). 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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale

is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file 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 14-17-04842. 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. 14-17-04842 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 17 CH 0000384 TJSC#: 37-7247 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. I3063978 P8211R TRRT 11/15 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO CITY OF ROCKFORD, a municipal corporation Plaintiff, vs. BOGDAN STANEK, MARY MARKIEWICZ, UNKNOWN OWNERS, and NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants. Case No. 2017-CH-750 Address: 327 Foster Avenue Rockford, IL 61102 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE BY PUBLICATION The requisite Affidavit for Publication having been filed, notice is hereby given you, Non-Record Claimants and all Unknown Owners, Defendants in

the above-entitled cause that the above-entitled Demolition Lien Foreclosure action was filed on July 13, 2017 and is now pending. 1. The names of all Plaintiffs and the Case Number are identified above. 2. The Court in which this action was brought is identified above. 3. The name of the titleholder of record is Bogdan Stanek and Mary Markiewicz 4. A legal description of the real estate sufficient to identify it with reasonable certainty is as follows: KELLOGG + SHELDONS SUB PT WESLEYAN SEMINARY ASSN ADD S47FT LOTS 15 + 016 BLOCK 017 P.I.N. No. 11-21-259-019 5. A common address or description of the location of the real estate is as follows: 327 Foster Ave, Rockford, Illinois 6. An identification of the Lien sought to be foreclosed is as follows: a. Name of Property Owners: Bogdan Stanek and Mary Markiewicz b. Name of Lien Holder: City of Rockford c. Date of Lien: September 15, 2017, September 14, 2017, December 7, 2016, August 4, 2015, and February 6, 2013 d. Date of Recording: September 15, 2017, September 14, 2017, December 7, 2016, August 4, 2015, and February 6, 2013 e. County Where Recorded: Winnebago County, Illinois f. Recording Document Identification: 20171028865, 20171028379, 20161037692, 20151023947, and 20191005670 NOW, THEREFORE, unless you, Non-Record Claimants and Unknown Owners, Defendants, file your answer to the Complaint for Foreclosure in this cause or otherwise make your appearance therein, in the Circuit Court of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Winnebago County, Illinois, in the Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 West State Street, Rockford, IL on or before the 30th day of November, 2017, default may be entered against you and each of you at any time after that day and a Judgment for Foreclosure may be entered in accordance with the prayer of the Complaint for Foreclosure. Circuit Clerk Matthew D. Flores – ARDC #6323902 City of Rockford Department of Law 425 E. State Street Rockford, IL 61104 (779) 348-7154 8215R TRRT 11/15 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO CITY OF ROCKFORD, a municipal corporation Plaintiff, vs. MICHAEL S. FORTNER, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC. AS NOMINEE FOR FREEMONT INVESTMENT & LOAN, HSBC BANK USA AS TRUSTEE FOR FREEMONT HOME LOAN TRUST 2004-D, THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, ROCK RIVER WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT, THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO, UNKNOWN OWNERS, and NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants. Case No. 2017-CH-751 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE BY PUBLICATION The requisite Affidavit for Publication having been filed, notice is hereby given you, Non-Record Claimants and all Unknown Owners, Defendants in the above-entitled cause that the above-entitled

Demolition Lien Foreclosure action was filed on October 6, 2017 and is now pending. 1. The names of all Plaintiffs and the Case Number are identified above. 2. The Court in which this action was brought is identified above. 3. The name of the titleholder of record is Michael S. Fortner. 4. A legal description of the real estate sufficient to identify it with reasonable certainty is as follows: THE SOUTHERLY 12.5 FEET OF LOT 3 (3) AND THE NORTHERLY ONEHALF (1/2) OF LOT FOUR (4) IN BLOCK FORTY-SEVEN (47) AS DESIGNATED UPON THE MAP OF THAT PART OF THE TOWN (NOW CITY) OF ROCKFORD ON THE EAST SIDE OF ROCK RIVER, WHICH PLAT IS RECORDED IN BOOK D OF DEEDS ON PAGES 340 AND 341 IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO, COUNTY, ILLINOIS; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS; THE NORTHERLY AND SOUTHERLY LINES OS SAID TRACT BEING PARALLEL WITH THE NORTHERLY LINE OF SAID LOT 4; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS P.I.N. No. 11-23-456-015 5. A common address or description of the location of the real estate is as follows: 410 N. 4th Street, Rockford, Illinois 6. An identification of the Lien sought to be foreclosed is as follows: a. Name of Property Owners: Michael S. Fortner b. Name of Lien Holder: City of Rockford c. Date of Lien: November 27, 2014 d. Date of Recording: January 30, 2015 e. County Where Recorded: Winnebago County, Illinois f. Recording Document Identification: 20151003152 NOW, THEREFORE, unless you, Non-Record Claimants and Unknown Owners, Defendants, file your answer to the Complaint for Foreclosure in this cause or otherwise make your appearance therein, in the Circuit Court of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Winnebago County, Illinois, in the Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 West State Street, Rockford, IL on or before the 30th day of November, 2017, default may be entered against you and each of you at any time after that day and a Judgment for Foreclosure may be entered in accordance with the prayer of the Complaint for Foreclosure. Circuit Clerk Matthew D. Flores – ARDC #6323902 City of Rockford Department of Law 425 E. State Street Rockford, IL 61104 (779) 348-7154 8216R TRRT 11/15 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO CITY OF ROCKFORD, a municipal corporation Plaintiff, vs. TODD KUDLACIK, CONNIE WEXLER f/k/a CONNIE KUDLACIK, BYRON BANK, STATE BANK OF DAVIS, THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, THE WINNEBAGO COUNTY TRUSTEE, THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO, UNKNOWN OWNERS, and NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS

Defendants. Case No. 2017-CH-753 Address: 910 Hoban Avenue Rockford, IL 61101 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE BY PUBLICATION The requisite Affidavit for Publication having been filed, notice is hereby given you, Non-Record Claimants and all Unknown Owners, Defendants in the above-entitled cause that the above-entitled Demolition Lien Foreclosure action was filed on October 6, 2017 and is now pending. 1. The names of all Plaintiffs and the Case Number are identified above. 2. The Court in which this action was brought is identified above. 3. The name of the titleholder of record is Todd Kudlacik and Connie Kudlacik 4. A legal description of the real estate sufficient to identify it with reasonable certainty is as follows: Lot Forty-Seven (47) as designated upon the Plat of Boylan Terrace Subdivision part of the East Half (1/2) of the Southwest Quarter (1/4) of Section 16, 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 73 in the Recorder’s Office of Winnebago County, Illinois; situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois. P.I.N. No. 11-16-332-010 5. A common address or description of the location of the real estate is as follows: 910 Hoban Avenue. Rockford, IL 61101 6. An identification of the Lien sought to be foreclosed is as follows: a. Name of Property Owners: Todd Kudlacik and Connie Kudlacik b. Name of Lien Holder: City of Rockford c. Date of Lien: October 30, 2014 d. Date of Recording: December 15, 2014 e. County Where Recorded: Winnebago County, Illinois f. Recording Document Identification: 20141040012 NOW, THEREFORE, unless you, Non-Record Claimants and Unknown Owners, Defendants, file your answer to the Complaint for Foreclosure in this cause or otherwise make your appearance therein, in the Circuit Court of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Winnebago County, Illinois, in the Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 West State Street, Rockford, IL on or before the 30th day of November, 2017, default may be entered against you and each of you at any time after that day and a Judgment for Foreclosure may be entered in accordance with the prayer of the Complaint for Foreclosure. Circuit Clerk Matthew D. Flores – ARDC #6323902 City of Rockford Department of Law 425 E. State Street Rockford, IL 61104 (779) 348-7154 8217R TRRT 11/15 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO CITY OF ROCKFORD, a municipal corporation Plaintiff, vs. KEVIN SWAN, UNKNOWN OWNERS, and NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants. Case No. 2017-CH-794 Address: 2511 W. State Street Rockford, IL 61102 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE BY PUBLICATION

The requisite Affidavit for Publication having been filed, notice is hereby given you, Non-Record Claimants and all Unknown Owners, Defendants in the above-entitled cause that the above-entitled Demolition Lien Foreclosure action was filed on October 23, 2017 and is now pending. 1. The names of all Plaintiffs and the Case Number are identified above. 2. The Court in which this action was brought is identified above. 3. The name of the titleholders of record are Kevin Swan 4. A legal description of the real estate sufficient to identify it with reasonable certainty is as follows: Lots Ten (10) and Eleven (11) in Block Ten (10) as designated upon the Plat of H. Johnson’s Subdivision of part of the North Half (1/2) of Section 21, Township 44 North, Range 1 East of the Third Principal Meridian, the Plat of which Subdivision is recorded in Book 5 of Plats on Page 3 in the Recorder’s Office of Winnebago County, Illinois; situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois. situated in Winnebago County, Illinois P.I.N. No. 11-21-140-009 5. A common address or description of the location of the real estate is as follows: 2511 W. State Street, Rockford, IL 61102 6. An identification of the Lien sought to be foreclosed is as follows: a. Name of Property Owners: Kevin Swan b. Name of Lien Holder: City of Rockford c. Date of Lien: August 3, 2016, June 9, 2014, and August 4, 2014 d. Date of Recording: December 6, 2016 and October 20, 2014 e. County Where Recorded: Winnebago County, Illinois f. Recording Document Identification: Document No. 20161037500 and 20141032831 NOW, THEREFORE, unless you, Non-Record Claimants and Unknown Owners, Defendants, file your answer to the Complaint for Foreclosure in this cause or otherwise make your appearance therein, in the Circuit Court of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Winnebago County, Illinois, in the Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 West State Street, Rockford, IL on or before the 15th Day of December, 2017 default may be entered against you and each of you at any time after that day and a Judgment for Foreclosure may be entered in accordance with the prayer of the Complaint for Foreclosure. Circuit Clerk Matthew D. Flores – ARDC #6323902 City of Rockford Department of Law 425 E. State Street Rockford, IL 61104 (779) 348-7395 8218R TRRT 11/15 n n n NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Personal Property stored by the following individuals from A Place for Space Self Storage L.L.C. P.O. Box 8116 Rockford, IL 61126, a self service storage facility, operated by A Place for Space Self Storage L.L.C. shall be sold at a public auction at the address listed below. The Auction will be held on or after 11/10/2017 at 9:00 a.m. to enforce the Owner’s lien thereon. If there are no bidders, the property will be otherwise disposed of by owner. Any vehicles sold will not have a title provided to the buyer. Units Located at: 1619 N Meridian Rd Rockford IL 61103 12:00 p.m. Anthonette Butler Unit #M142. Units Located at: 1821 Chrysler Dr. Belvidere IL 61008 1:00 p.m. Justin Bentley Unit #C027.

If unit is not paid in full by Friday November 3rd 2017 at 4 p.m. your unit will be sold to the highest bidder at public auction on Friday November 10th 2017. To register as a buyer please arrive 15 minutes prior to auction with proper identification and payment. You may also register on Thursday November 9th from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. at our office located at 5112 Linden Rd. Rockford IL 61109. A Place for Space Self Storage L.L.C. 8220R TRRT 11/8 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 Auto Repair Shop business in said County and State under the name of Steele Auto Repair at the following post office addresses: 3000 W. State St., Rockford, IL 61102; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Dave Steele SIGNED: Dave Steele 10/27/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 27th day of October, A.D. 2017. Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Angela Reina, DEPUTY 8224R TRRT 11/15 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 Art Gallery Event Space business in said County and State under the name of Loft Ten 19 at the following post office addresses: 1019 3rd Ave., Rockford, IL 61104; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Clydale Hilson; Leah Blake SIGNED: Clydale Hilson 10/25/17 SIGNED: Leah Blake 10/25/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 25th day of October, A.D. 2017. Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Pamela Johnson, DEPUTY 8225R TRRT 11/15 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 massage therapy business in said County and State under the name of Ambiance Therapeutic Massage at the following post office addresses: 4040 Charles St., Rockford, IL 61108; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Stacy Alexander SIGNED: Stacy Alexander 10/25/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 25th day of October, A.D. 2017. Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Luanne Kaspar, DEPUTY 8227R TRRT 11/15

November 8, 2017 The Rock River Times. n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION; Plaintiff, vs. FRANCISCO MANDUJANO; JUANA BELMONTES; Defendants, 17 CH 326 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, November 30, 2017 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: Part of Lot Forty-Two (42) and Forty-three (43) as designated upon the Plat of Eastwood and Stokburger Subdivision of the Brown Tract, the Plat of which Subdivision is recorded in Book 12 of Plats on page 44 in the Recorder’s Office of Winnebago County, Illinois, bounded as follows, to-wit: Beginning at a point in the North line of said Lot 42, 77.71 feet East of the Northwest corner of said Lot 42; thence East along the North line of said Lot 42, 40.35 feet; thence South in a direct line a distance of 101.98 feet more or less to a point in the South line of said Lot 43, which is 118.08 feet East from the Southwest corner of said Lot 43; thence West along the South line of said Lot 43, 40.36 feet to a point in the South line of said Lot 43, which is 77.72 feet East of the Southwest corner of said Lot 43; thence North in a direct line to the point of beginning; situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois. Commonly known as 809 21st Avenue, Rockford, IL 61104. P.I.N. 11-35-405-003. 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. 16-035009 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3065350 P8177R TRRT 11/8 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.; Plaintiff, vs. AARON N. WALZ AKA AARON WALZ; MEGHAN WALZ; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 17 CH 178

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, November 30, 2017, 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 SEVENTEEN (17) AS DESIGNATED UPON THE PLAT OF LINCOLN PARK SUBDIVISION BEING A SUBDIVISION IN THE EAST HALF (1/2) OF THE WEST HALF (1/2) OF SECTION 20, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 1 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, THE PLAT OF WHICH SUBDIVISION IS RECORDED IN BOOK 4 OF PLATS ON PAGE 19 IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. P.I.N. 11-20-177-007. Commonly known as 4108 West State Street, Rockford, Illinois 61102. 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. F17020075 I3065348 P8178R TRRT 11/8 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS ESTATE OF TANICE NEAL, DECEASED 17P 421 Notice is given of the death of the above named decedent. Letters of Office were issued to MARLA MCKINNEY, 1554 WEST 127TH STREET, CALUMET PARK, ILLINOIS, 60827, as Supervised Administrator, whose attorney is JONATHAN D. MORTON; GOLAN CHRISTIE TAGLIA LLP, 70 WEST MONROE STREET, SUITE 1500, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60602. Notice is given to UNKNOWN HEIRS, who are Heirs of the Decedent whose names or addresses were not stated in the petition for Letters of Administration that an order was entered on OCTOBER 10, 2017, granting Letters Administration of the estate. 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 APRIL 25, 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 clerk must be mailed or delivered by the claimant to the representative and to the attorney within 10 days after it has been filed. JONATHAN D. MORTON GOLAN CHRISTIE TAGLIA LLP 70 WEST MONROE STREET, SUITE 1500

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60602 (312) 263-2300 I3065458 P8179R TRRT 11/8 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWMBS, INC., CHL MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH TRUST 2006-3, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-3 Plaintiff, -v.MARK D. MERCER A/K/A MARK MERCER, et al Defendant 16 CH 00720 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 December 4, 2017, 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 FOURTEEN (14) AS DESIGNATED UPON THE PLAT OF ALLINGTON SUBDIVISION OF LOTS 1, 2, 3 OF SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE NE 1/4 OF SECTION 23 WEST OF ROCK RIVER IN T. 44 N., R. 1 E. OF THE 3RD P.M. THE PLAT OF WHICH FIRST NAMED SUBDIVISION IS RECORDED IN BOOK 21 OF PLATS ON PAGE 176 AND 177 IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE ON WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 203-207 CARLTON TERRACE, ROCKFORD, IL 61103 Property Index No. 11-23204-018. 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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common

interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file 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 14-16-11216. 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. 14-16-11216 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 16 CH 00720 TJSC#: 37-8252 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. I3064438 P8180R TRRT 11/8 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 clean up, mowing, tree trimming business in said County and State under the name of Perez Landscaping at the following post office addresses: 207 Fairview Ave., Rockford, IL 61108; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Julio Perez SIGNED: Julio Perez 10/24/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 24th day of October, A.D. 2017. Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Thalia Gallardo, DEPUTY 8203R TRRT 11/8 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, NA Plaintiff, -v.TRACEY L SMITH A/K/A TRACY L SMITH, A/K/A TRACY SMITH, JOHN HENRY SMITH A/K/A JOHN HENRY SMITH, JR, A/K/A JOHN SMITH, ILLINOIS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Defendant 17CH 230 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on September 1, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30

PM on December 4, 2017, 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 144 AS DESIGNATED UPON PLAT NUMBER 3 OF BLUFFSIDE HEIGHTS, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER AND PART OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 12, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 1 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, THE PLAT OF WHICH SUBDIVISION IS RECORDED IN BOOK 43 OF PLATS ON PAGE 138 IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 4342 SUNBURY DRIVE, Rockford, IL 61109 Property Index No. 15-12253-004. 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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information: 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 260184. 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. 260184 Case Number: 17 CH 230 TJSC#: 37-8702 I3063605 P8182R TRRT 11/8 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 Auto Mechanic business in said County and State under the name of DGO Auto Mechanic at the following post office addresses: 2602 17th St., Rockford, IL 61109; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Juan Garcia SIGNED: Juan Garcia 10/31/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 31st day of October, A.D. 2017. Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Luanne Kaspar, DEPUTY 8233R TRRT 11/15 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS PHH Mortgage Corporation a/k/a PHH Mortgage Services PLAINTIFF Vs. Tanya R. Bates; Brice D. Williams; Ben Williams; Unknown Heirs and Legatees of Dorothy Robinson; Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Claimants; Timothy A. Miller, as Special Representative for Dorothy Robinson (deceased) DEFENDANTS 2017CH 0000680 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU: Unknown Heirs and Legatees of Dorothy Robinson Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Claimants That this case has been commenced in this Court against you and other defendants, praying for the foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying the premises described as follows, to-wit: COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 2203 Sherman Avenue Rockford, IL 61101 and which said Mortgage was made by: Dorothy Robinson executed the mortgage, however this individual is deceased and is not named as a defendant in this lawsuit the Mortgagor(s), to Amcore Bank, N.A., as Mortgagee, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Winnebago County, Illinois, as Document No. 0536139; and for other relief; that summons was duly issued out of said Court against you as provided by law and that the said suit is now pending. NOW, THEREFORE, UNLESS YOU file your answer or otherwise file your appearance in this case in the Office of the Clerk of this Court,

Thomas A. Klein Clerk of the Circuit Court 400 West State Street, Room 108 Rockford, IL 61101 on or before November 27, 2017, A DEFAULT MAY BE ENTERED AGAINST YOU AT ANY TIME AFTER THAT DAY AND A JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRAYER OF SAID COMPLAINT. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100 Burr Ridge, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 DuPage # 15170 Winnebago # 531 Our File No. 14-17-07326 NOTE: This law firm is a debt collector. I3065598 P8184R TRRT 11/8 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO IN CHANCERY IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF: XZENA R. RODRIGUEZ, Petitioner, And BENITO RODRIGUEZ, Respondent. Case No. 16 D 835 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to Respondent BENITO RODRIGUEZ that Petitioner XZENA R. RODRIGUEZ has caused to be filed a PETITION FOR DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE and other relief in the above-captioned cause of action. You are further notified that if you fail to file an answer or otherwise appear on or before November 28, 2017, a judgment by default may be entered against you at any time thereafter for the relief requested in the petition. /s/ Xzena R. Rodriguez, Plaintiff 8201R TRRT 11/8 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.SCOTT MONCRIEF ROGERS IV, et al Defendant 17 CH 00351 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on June 28, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on December 4, 2017, 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 (1) AS DESIGNATED UPON THE REPLAT OF LOTS EIGHTY-THREE (83) AND EIGHTY-FOUR (84) OF SECURITY PARK SUBDIVISION, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER (1/4) OF SECTION 16, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 1 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, THE PLAT OF WHICH REPLAT IS RECORDED IN BOOK 43 OF PLATS ON PAGE 93 IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 1212 WILLARD AVENUE, ROCKFORD, IL 61101 Property Index No. 11-16156-031. 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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file 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 14-17-04900. 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. 14-17-04900 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 17 CH 00351 TJSC#: 37-6181 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. I3058480 P8183R TRRT 11/8

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n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO WOODFORD STATE BANK, Plaintiff, v. MARTIN D. GOBELI, BONNIE J. GOBELI and UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants. Case No. 2017 CH 789 PUBLICATION NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE To: UNKNOWN HEIRS and NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given you, Unknown Heirs and Non-Record Claimants, defendants in the above-entitled cause, that the above suit has been commenced in the Circuit Court for the 17th Judicial Circuit, Winnebago County, Illinois, by the said plaintiff against you and other defendants, praying for foreclosure of a mortgage and other relief on the following described property in which you have or claim an interest: Lot Nine (9) in Block Four (4) as designated upon the Plat of Glenny and Upson’s Subdivision of a part of the NE Quarter (1/4) of Section 15, T. 44 N., R. 1 E. of the 3rd P.M., the Plat of which Subdivision is recorded in Book 3 of Plats on page 33 of the Recorder’s Office of Winnebago County, Illinois, Except that part deeded to the City of Rockford by Warranty Deed dated May 4, 1993 and recorded May 5, 1993 of Microfilm 93-26-07 15 and revised on Microfilm 93-85-1244. Beginning at the Southeast corner of said Lot 9, thence Westerly along the South line of said Lot 9, a distance of 140 feet to the Southwest corner of said Lot 9; thence Northerly along the West line of said Lot 9, a distance of 2 feet; thence Easterly along a line parallel to the South line of said Lot 9, a distance of 94.79 feet to a point being 45.21 feet West of the East line of said Lot 9 and 2 feet North of the South line of said Lot 9; thence Northeasterly along an arc having a radius of 47.50 feet, and being concave to

the Northwest, a distance of 21.74 feet; thence Northerly along a line parallel to the West line of Lot 9, a distance of 4.91 feet; thence Easterly along a line parallel to the South line of said Lot 9, a distance to 7.98 feet to a point of intersection with the extension of the described arc; thence continuing Northeasterly along said arc a distance of 21.72 feet to a point being 28.29 feet North of the South line of said Lot 9 and 2.50 feet West of the East line of said Lot 9; thence Northerly a distance of 21.21 feet to a point being 49.50 feet North of the South line of said Lot 9 and 2.50 feet West of the East line of said Lot 9; thence 2.50 feet Easterly to the East line of said Lot 9; thence Southerly along the East Line of said Lot 9, a distance of 49.50 feet to the point of Beginning; situated in the County of Winnebago and State of lllinois. Commonly known as: 2505 Auburn Street, Rockford, IL 61101 Property Code / PIN: 11-15281-018 Title Holder of Record: Martin D. Gobeli and Bonnie J. Gobeli Identification of Mortgage: Mortgage from Gobeli & Gobeli, a partnership and Randall L. and Teresa E. Gobeli, Martin D. and Bonnie J. Gobeli to Woodford State Bank, its successors and/or assigns dated October 13, 2004 and recorded October 14, 2004 in the Winnebago County Recorder’s Office as Document No. 0468672. Now, therefore, unless you, the said defendants, “Unknown Owners” and “Non-Record Claimants” file your answer in said suit or otherwise make your appearance therein in the said Circuit Court for the Judicial Circuit, Winnebago County, Illinois, on or before DECEMBER 4, 2017, default may be entered against you and each of you at any time after that day and a decree entered in accordance with the prayer of said complaint. Dated: October 27, 2017 WILLIAMSMcCARTHY LLP /s/ Thomas P. Sandquist Thomas P. Sandquist Its Attorneys Prepared by: Thomas P. Sandquist #06198232 WILLIAMSMcCARTHY LLP 120 West State Street P.O. Box 219

n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC Plaintiff, -v.- CRYSTAL L. MAXWELL, et al Defendant 17CH 0000384 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 2, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on December 11, 2017, 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 515 N. ROCKTON AVENUE, ROCKFORD, IL 61103 Property Index No. 11-23-151-010(203B471A). 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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject

Rockford, Illinois 61105 (815) 987-8900 tsandquist@wilmac.com 8222R TRRT 11/15 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 Life Insurance business in said County and State under the name of In Loving Memory Life Insurance at the following post office addresses: 1020 S. Main St., Rockford, IL 61101; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Malcolm D. Payne SIGNED: Malcolm D. Payne 10/26/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 26th day of October, A.D. 2017. Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Luanne Kaspar, DEPUTY 8228R TRRT 11/15 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 Martial Arts School business in said County and State under the name of Gracie Humaita Rockford at the following post office addresses: 4739 Colt Rd., Rockford, IL 61109; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Ahmad Mubarak; Cristiano Ribeiro da Costa SIGNED: Ahmad Mubarak 10/23/17 SIGNED: Cristiano Ribeiro da Costa 10/23/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 23rd day of October, A.D. 2017. Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Thalia Gallardo, DEPUTY 8195R TRRT 11/8 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 & Development business in said County and State under the name of RS Custom Fabricators by Design at the following post office addresses: 5151 Browns Beach Road, Rockford, IL 61103;

that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Robert W. Ciaccio; Shelly L. Ciaccio SIGNED: Robert W. Ciaccio 10/27/17 SIGNED: Shelly L. Ciaccio 10/27/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 27th day of October, A.D. 2017. Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Thalia Gallardo, DEPUTY 8223R TRRT 11/15 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 computer and electronics recycling business in said County and State under the name of Recycle Mike at the following post office addresses: 525 N. Longwood St., Rockford, IL 61107; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Mike Stopka, 815-450-9819 SIGNED: Mike Stopka 10/25/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 25th day of October, A.D. 2017. Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Thalia Gallardo, DEPUTY 8226R TRRT 11/15 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO IN RE NAME CHANGE OF: MALE GLOCKNER a/k/a WILLIAM EMILE VON GLOCKNER, Petitioner. Case No: 2017-MR-0000974 PUBLICATION NOTICE OF COURT DATE FOR REQUEST FOR NAME CHANGE There will be a court date on my Request to change my name from MALE GLOCKNER to the new name of WILLIAM EMILE VON GLOCKNER. The court date will be held: on 12/14/17 at 10:00 a.m. in Courtroom 412 at Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 West State Street, Rockford, Illinois. /s/ William E. Von Glockner MALE GLOCKNER a/k/a WILLIAM EMILE VON GLOCKNER CHERI N. GREENLEE ARDC #1052004 Chery N. Greenlee, P.C. One Court Place, Suite 300

Rockford, IL 61101 (815) 965-4412 cngreenleepc@ameritech.net 8192R TRRT 11/8 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF Josephine Elida Spitson Minor’s Current Name Cathleen Ann Hendrickson Name of Parent/Guardian filing on behalf of the Minor Case No. 17 MR 938 NOTICE OF FILING PETITION FOR NAME CHANGE Notice is hereby given, that on December 14, 2017, at 10:00 a.m., in Room 412, I will present a Petition requesting that the Court change his/her present name of Josephine Elida Spitson, a minor, to the name of Joseph Elijah Hendrickson. The hearing will take place at Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 West State St. in Rockford, Illinois. /s/ Yasmine Elizabeth Spitson, a minor, by, /s/ Cathleen Ann Hendrickson Spitson Date: 10-12-2017 8189R TRRT 11/8 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 ARTHUR R. GUSTAFSON Deceased. NO. 2017 P 388 CLAIM NOTICE Notice is given of the death of ARTHUR R. GUSTAFSON. Letters of Office were issued on October 16, 2017, to CINDY L. CARLSON, who is the Independent Executor of the Estate. The attorneys for the Estate are MICHAEL JON SHALBRACK, HolmstromKennedyPC, 800 North Church Street, PO Box 589, Rockford, Illinois 61105-0589. Claims against the Estate may be filed on or before April 25, 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 400 West State Street, Rockford, Illinois 61101, or with the Estate legal representative, or both. Copies of claims filed with the Circuit Clerk’s Office - Probate Division must be mailed or delivered to the Estate legal representative and to his attorney within ten (10) days after it has been filed. Dated: October 20, 2017. Cindy L. Carlson, Independent Executor of the Estate of Arthur R. Gustafson, Deceased HolmstromKennedyPC, By: /s/ Michael Jon Shalbrack Michael Jon Shalbrack, one of its attorneys Attorney Michael Jon Shalbrack - ARDC #6188198 HolmstromKennedyPC– Attorney for Independent Executor 800 N. Church Street PO Box 589 Rockford, IL 61105-0589 mshalbrack@hkrockford.com 8193R TRRT 11/8 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 MARIA A. LUGO, Deceased. No.: 2017 P 426 CLAIM NOTICE NOTICE is given of the death of MARIA A. LUGO, who died on September 9, 2017. Letters of Office were issued on October 17, 2017, to Jennifer Paz, who is the administrator of the estate, 1012 Knowlton St., Rockford, IL 61102. The attorney for the estate is Elizabeth Groncki-Boger, 124 N. Water St., Ste. 305, Rockford, IL 61107. Any claims against the estate may be filed on or before April 25, 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 of 1975, as amended, whichever date is later. Any claim not filed on or before that date shall be barred. 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. Copies of claims filed with the

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. 14-17-04842 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 17 CH 0000384 TJSC#: 37-7247 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. I3063978 P8211R TRRT 11/15 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY - ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION Plaintiff, vs. NICHOLAS ZACHARIAH GRAY; THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT Defendants, 16 CH 456 NOTICE OF SALE

Circuit Clerk’s Office - Probate Division, must be mailed or delivered to the estate legal representative and to her attorney within ten (10) days after it has been filed. DATED: October 23, 2017 Jennifer Paz, Administrator Elizabeth M. Groncki-Boger 6283004 124 N. Water St., Ste. 305 Rockford, Illinois 61107 (815)986-4870 Attorney for the Estate of Maria A. Lugo, Deceased 8194R TRRT 11/8 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF Talyn Eric Joseph Gonzales Minor’s Current Name By Joelee Sodergren Name of Parent/Guardian filing on behalf of the Minor Case No. 17 MR 989 NOTICE OF FILING PETITION FOR NAME CHANGE Notice is hereby given, that on December 14, 2017, at 10:00 a.m., in Room 426, I will present a Petition requesting that the Court change his/her present name of Talyn Eric Joseph Gonzales, a minor, to the name of Talyn Eric Sodergren. The hearing will take place at Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 West State St. in Rockford, Illinois. /s/ Talyn Gonzales, a minor, by, /s/ Joelee Sodergren Date: 10-23-2017 8219R TRRT 11/15 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF Yasmine Elizabeth Spitson Minor’s Current Name Cathleen Ann Hendrickson Name of Parent/Guardian filing on behalf of the Minor Case No. 17 MR 937 NOTICE OF FILING PETITION FOR NAME CHANGE Notice is hereby given, that on December 14, 2017, at 10:00 a.m., in Room 412, I will present a Petition requesting that the Court change his/her present name of Yasmine Elizabeth Spitson, a minor, to the name of Yasmine Elizabeth Hendrickson. The hearing will take place at Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 West State St. in

Rockford, Illinois. /s/ Yasmine Elizabeth Spitson, a minor, by, /s/ Cathleen Hendrickson Spitson Date: 10-12-2017 8188R TRRT 11/8 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: NANCY JEAN KRONBERG Deceased, CASE NO. 17 P 457 CLAIM NOTICE NOTICE is given of the death of NANCY JEAN KRONBERG. Letters of Office were issued on October 13, 2017, to CHRISTINE L. KRONBERG-SMITH, c/o 4001 North Perryville Road, Loves Park, IL 61111, who is the legal representative of the estate. The attorney for the estate is JEREMY RAMSEY, 4001 North Perryville Road, Loves Park, IL 61111. Claims against the estate may be filed on or before May 1, 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 Div. at the Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 W. 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: October 31, 2017 CHRISTINE L. KRONBERG-SMITH Name: JEREMY RAMSEY ARDC Number: # 6276765 Attorney for Estate Address: 4001 North Perryville Road Loves Park, IL 61111 Telephone: (815) 988-4364 8232R TRRT 11/15

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, December 7, 2017 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 813 Dr. Clark Way, South Beloit, IL 61080. P.I.N. 04-18-157-012. 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. 16-014132 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3065975 P8204R TRRT 11/15

November 8, 2017 The Rock River Times. n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWMBS, INC., CHL MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH TRUST 2006-3, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-3 Plaintiff, -v.- MARK D. MERCER A/K/A MARK MERCER, et al Defendant 16 CH 00720 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 December 4, 2017, 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 203-207 CARLTON TERRACE, ROCKFORD, IL 61103 Property Index No. 11-23-204-018. 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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION

15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file 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 14-16-11216. 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. 14-16-11216 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 16 CH 00720 TJSC#: 37-8252 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. I3064438 P8180R TRRT 11/8 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.- SCOTT MONCRIEF ROGERS IV, et al Defendant 17 CH 00351 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on June 28, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on December 4, 2017, 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 1212 WILLARD AVENUE, ROCKFORD, IL 61101 Property Index No. 11-16-156-031. 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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file 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 14-17-04900. 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. 14-17-04900

Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 17 CH 00351 TJSC#: 37-6181 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. I3058480 P8183R TRRT 11/8 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY - ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION; Plaintiff, vs. JOHN HOLLAR; MELISSA HOLLAR; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; SPRING LAKE ESTATES HOMES ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE OF THE CAMPBELL TRUST NO. 95, DATED OCTOBER 21, 1997; Defendants, 17 CH 287 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, December 14, 2017 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 3203 Youngfield Drive, Rockford, IL 61114. P.I.N. 12-09-229-018. 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. 17-009441 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3066711 P8240R TRRT 11/22

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n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO LASALLE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR MERRILL LYNCH MORTGAGE INVESTORS TRUST, MORTGAGE LOAN ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-AHL1 Plaintiff, -v.- DANNY BRYANT, et al Defendants 17 CH 00216 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on September 13, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on December 15, 2017, 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 2813 CASCADE DRIVE, ROCKFORD, IL 61109 Property Index No. 15-13-427-003 (229D045). 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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file 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 14-17-02206. 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. 14-17-02206 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 17 CH 00216 TJSC#: 37-8624 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. I3065253 P8205R TRRT 11/15 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS SUNTRUST MORTGAGE, INC. Plaintiff, -v.- DONALD J WARD A/K/A DONALD WARD, et al Defendant 16CH 918 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on September 13, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on December 11, 2017, 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 3216 BUCKINGHAM DRIVE, ROCKFORD, IL61107 Property Index No. 12-18-453-011. The real estate is improved with a single family home with an attached two car garage. 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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject

to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information: 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 259298. 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. 259298 Case Number: 16 CH 918 TJSC#: 37-9147 I3064892 P8207R TRRT 11/15 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC Plaintiff, -v.- MARLENE L. ZELLNER, et al Defendant 17 CH 0000401 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on July 5, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on December 13, 2017, 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 3304 CHATEAU LANE, ROCKFORD, IL 61103 Property Index No. 11-11-101-025. 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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file 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 14-16-13406. 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. 14-16-13406

Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 17 CH 0000401 TJSC#: 37-6293 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. I3058482 P8208R TRRT 11/15 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS BMO HARRIS BANK N.A. Plaintiff, -v.- SOMBOUN SOUYAVONG, et al Defendant 16 CH 01013 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on March 8, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on November 29, 2017, 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 1522 POWDERHORN DRIVE, ROCKFORD, IL 61108 Property Index No. 12-33-128-001; 177B407. 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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file 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 14-16-14184. 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. 14-16-14184 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 16 CH 01013 TJSC#: 37-9591 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. I3066081 P8209R TRRT 11/15 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY - ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, vs. BALDEMAR GALLEGOS; NICOLE L. KRAL Defendants, 17 CH 354 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, December 7, 2017 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 3808 Brendenwood Road, Rockford, IL 61107. P.I.N. 12-20-102-011. 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. 17-014267 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3065973 P8206R TRRT 11/15 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY - ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS TCF NATIONAL BANK; Plaintiff, vs. ROBERTO ORTEGA; CHRISTIAN R. ORTEGA; ROCK RIVER WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT; MIDLAND FUNDING LLC; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 17 CH 288 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, December 7, 2017 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 6378 GARRETT LANE, ROCKFORD, IL 61107. P.I.N. 12-22-327-004. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. For information call Mr. David T. Cohen at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Cohen Jutla Dovitz Makowka, LLC, 10729 West 159th Street, Orland Park, Illinois 60467-4531. (708) 460-7711. INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3065960 P8210R TRRT 11/15 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY - ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION; Plaintiff, vs. FRANCISCO MANDUJANO; JUANA BELMONTES; Defendants, 17 CH 326 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, November 30, 2017 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 809 21st Avenue, Rockford, IL 61104. P.I.N. 11-35-405-003. 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. 16-035009 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3065350 P8177R TRRT 11/8 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. AARON N. WALZ AKA AARON WALZ; MEGHAN WALZ; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 17 CH 178 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, November 30, 2017, 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. 11-20-177-007. Commonly known as 4108 West State Street, Rockford, Illinois 61102. 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. F17020075 I3065348 P8178R TRRT 11/8

November 8, 2017 The Rock River Times. 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. LAVERNE LUND; LOUIS C. LUND; COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO; UNKNOWN OWNERS, AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 17 CH 653 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, December 14, 2017 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 1226 Blaisdell Street, Rockford, IL 61101. P.I.N. 11-15-380-023. 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 Ms. Lafakeria S. Vaughn at Plaintiff’s Attorney, City of Rockford Department of Law, 425 East State Street, Rockford, Illinois 61104. (779) 348-7154. INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3066712 P8241R TRRT 11/22 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.- MICHAEL PETWAY, et al Defendant 15CH 00846 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on September 20, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on December 22, 2017, 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 2914 STOWMARKET AVENUE, ROCKFORD, IL61109 Property Index No. 16-04-252-022 (256A374). 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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file 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 14-15-03052. 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. 14-15-03052 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 15 CH 00846 TJSC#: 37-8942 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. I3065799 P8235R TRRT 11/22 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY - ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS ROUNDPOINT

MORTGAGE SERVICING CORPORATION; Plaintiff, vs. MELISSA A. BYARS; ROCK RIVER WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF MELISSA A. BYARS, IF ANY; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 17 CH 382 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, December 14, 2017 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. 08-34-381-025. Commonly known as 4554 Galleon Drive, Loves Park, IL 61111. 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. W17-0224 I3066698 P8236R TRRT 11/22 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS PHH MORTGAGE CORPORATION A/K/A PHH MORTGAGE SERVICES Plaintiff, -v.- UNKNOWN SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE OF THE MICHAEL W. JOHNSON TRUST U/T/A DATED THE 7TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 2000, et al Defendant 15CH 00490 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on September 13, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on December 15, 2017, 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 1935 BERGER PLACE, ROCKFORD, IL 61108 Property Index No. 12-33-276-022. 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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file 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 14-15-07484. 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. 14-15-07484 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 15 CH 00490 TJSC#: 37-8623 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. I3066621 P8237R TRRT 11/22 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS NEW PENN FINANCIAL LLC D/B/A SHELLPOINT MORTGAGE SERVICING Plaintiff, -v.- GERALD EVANS

A/K/A GERALD EVANS JR., et al Defendant 16 CH 00901 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on September 13, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on December 19, 2017, 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 9515 GARY DRIVE, MACHESNEY PARK, IL 61115 Property Index No. 08-19-379-018 (127C038). 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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file 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 14-16-14334. 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. 14-16-14334 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 16 CH 00901 TJSC#: 37-8628 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. I3066630 P8238R TRRT 11/22 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered by the Court in Winnebago County Case No. 2017 CH 128, the property hereinafter described or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said Judgment, will be sold to the highest bidder. 1. The common address and other common description, if any, of the real estate is: 2415 Wisconsin Road, Rockford, Illinois 61108. 2. The time and place of sale will be November 30, 2017, at 11:00 A.M., Winnebago County Justice Center, Lobby, 650 West State Street, Rockford, County of Winnebago, Illinois, conducted by the Winnebago County Sheriff. 3. A description of the improvements on the real estate is: Single-family home with 3 bedrooms, 1½ bathrooms and approximately 1,485 square feet. 4. The terms of the sale are: Ten Percent (10%) due by cash or certified funds at the time of the sale and the balance is due within 24 hours of sale. The property offered for sale is subject to all real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality of the title and without recourse to the Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office and in “As Is” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. 5. Title will be conveyed subject to the following liens and interests: all general real estate taxes, special assessments, if any, easements and restrictions of record, and the interests, if any, of any

tenant in possession. 6. The property will not be available for inspection. 7. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises. 8. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). 9. The name, address and telephone number of the person to contact for information regarding the real estate is: Yashekia T. Simpkins, HINSHAW & CULBERTSON LLP, 100 Park Avenue, Rockford, IL 61101, Tel (815) 490-4942. 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. 8254R TRRT 11/22 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, NA Plaintiff, -v.- TRACEY L SMITH A/K/A TRACY L SMITH, A/K/A TRACY SMITH, JOHN HENRY SMITH A/K/A JOHN HENRY SMITH, JR, A/K/A JOHN SMITH, ILLINOIS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Defendant 17CH 230 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on September 1, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on December 4, 2017, 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 4342 SUNBURY DRIVE, Rockford, IL 61109 Property Index No. 15-12-253-004. 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. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information: 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 260184. 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. 260184 Case Number: 17 CH 230 TJSC#: 37-8702 I3063605 P8182R TRRT 11/8

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Mr. Green Car

The thrill of ‘Robocars’ By Allen Penticoff

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s mentioned in my previous Mr. Green Car about electric Formula E racing: There is a new motorsport that involves not only electric drive - but totally autonomous cars racing one another. This is called “Roborace” and the vehicles are called “Robocars.” Not to be confused with the South Korean animated children’s program, Robocar Poli (which you can watch on YouTube), Roborace is a private enterprise to promote autonomous automobile technology through racing competition. For the 2016-2017 season, there are ten teams with two cars each. Each Robocar is identical, built by Kinetik. However, each team must program their car with real-time computer algorithms and artificial intelligence. In other words, one car is no faster than the other, technically, but it will be the challenge of making the car perform well in driving the course and in dealing with the other cars. The nearly all carbon fiber chassis, designed by Daniel Simon, is teardrop shaped for ultimate aerodynamic

efficiency. These autonomous race cars weigh in at a bit over 2,200 pounds yet possess four powerful 400 horsepower electric motors powered by a 540 kWh battery. Builder Kinetik claims top speeds of 190 - 200 mph. Guidance is via GPS, with multiple radar, lidar, ultrasonic sensors and optical systems processed through a Nvidia Drive PX2 brain at the astounding rate of 24 trillion AI operations per second. At least initially torque vectoring steering traction control will be allowed which is relatively easy to accomplish with a four-motor electric drive. During the first “race” between two prototype “DevBot” cars that took place during the 2017 Buenos Aires ePrix, one of the cars avoided a dog that ran onto the course while the other crashed in a corner at speed. The planned Roboraces will feature all twenty cars on the starting line. One team will be privately backed with crowdsourced programming by artificial intelligence developers from around the world. With the races being conducted on city streets, out of control robot cars are a concern. So for now anyway, these “autonomous” cars can feature human

drivers along (in cruder DevBot cars) to take control if the car’s systems cannot quite figure out what to do next as they learn to program the computers. During a demonstration ePrix in New York City, a DevBot had to be driven at times by the monitor/human driver. Using its GPS mapping, the Robocar learns the track as it goes. Initial laps are slow as it learns. The sleeker Robocars will not accommodate human oversight. However, during a demonstration in Paris on May 20, 2017, a Robocar was turned loose on its own without a human and did navigate the entire 1.9-kilometer race course on its own. Similar autonomous long distance racing of sorts has taken place in the deserts of the United States sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) who hosted the “Grand Challenge” competition in 2004 and 2005. The winners received $1-2 million in prize money. In 2007, there was a similar “Urban Challenge.” The allied 2012 “Robotic Challenge” was for robots to operate in dangerous environments. The government’s goal here is to find technical solutions to remove humans

from hazardous situations such as forward reconnaissance and medevac operations. Our science fiction movies and stories are rapidly coming to reality. While autonomous driving is forecast for our near future, it will have its teething problems as for now our computers and their algorithms cannot quite figure out everything. So far, only the DevBot development cars have seen any real track time, but as shown in this YouTube video youtube.com/watch?v=T3f2xPjZ81U or search “Autonomous Racing Car Full Lap” taken at the Berlin 2017 race, a DevBot completed the course in about 30 seconds more lap time than a human-driven Formula E car. That’s impressive. Also, search “The inside scoop on Roborace The Edge” – youtube. com/watch?v=IXWtufc9OLE – which shows the actual sleek Robocar quite well. A similar video of the autonomous NIO EP9 supercar making a 160 mph lap at the Nurburgring course in Germany can be found on YouTube as well. R.

Energy & Environment

Solar revolution must protect species diversity By Drs. Robert & Sonia Vogl

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he solar revolution is underway and optimistically is arriving in time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change already built into the system due to high levels of atmospheric climate-changing gases. In 2016 new solar capacity in the U.S. nearly doubled; along with new wind installations, they were the least costly sources of new energy. Globally, solar capacity increased by 75 percent. Energy efficiency and renewable energy sources are essential in developing a clean energy economy. Although essential they alone are insufficient to reverse the accelerating rate of environmental deterioration. While climate change draws the most attention the loss of flying insect species was recently addressed by Damian Carrington, Environmental Editor at the Guardian. He cited a study published in

Plos One documenting that the abundance of flying insects in Germany plunged by 75 percent over the past 25 years. Based on data gathered in 67 nature reserves it holds implications for agricultural landscapes around the globe. The study was based on the work of amateur entomologists trained to use standardized collecting methods at different nature reserves. Both training insect collectors processing data were done by scientists with Hans de Kroon of Radboud University in the Netherlands serving as the project leader. The study is unique as it includes all flying insects in contrast to studies focused on single species. We asked a respected biology professor what he thought about the German study. Based on his observations, readings and attendance at biology conferences where leading international entomologists express concern regarding the global decline in species diversity, the report is

consistent with his understandings. To illustrate the point he indicated that 20 years ago when he first moved into his northern Illinois country home he observed at least 20 species of butterflies during a season. Over the past few years, he indicates he is lucky if he sees five species during a season. Similarly, at our farm home, we observed only three butterfly species – sulphur, monarch and tiger swallowtail – this past summer. The decline in flying insect biomass is of concern as many of them such as bees pollinate flowering plants; some serve as food for many animals. Some control pest species and others serve as predators and decomposers in nature. They are integral to the web of life. The abundance of nature preserves in northern Illinois offers an opportunity to document flying insects in these areas as well. Such studies could involve amateur entomologists under the guidance of scientists to aid in documenting the

situation. The professor expanded the conversation to include the loss of biodiversity in the biological hot spots of the world. Leading international scientists have expanded their preservation efforts to include learning how to grow threatened plant species from biological preserves in greenhouses as species diversity loss is occurring in them as well. There are roughly 3.3 million known plants in the world including samples in herbarium collections. Using the information on the herbarium sheets, scientists are traveling to those locations to determine if the plants still exist. As well as documenting ecological conditions, more nature preserves should include energy efficiency and solar installations to meet essential electrical needs. Visit illinoisrenew.org. R.

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FARM & AG

Must-do November gardening tasks BY GRANT MCCARTY CONTRIBUTOR

Most likely, your garden ended a couple weeks ago. You may still have some plants trying to make it; but for most of us, the garden has ended. Before you ignore the leftover debris, there are a couple of garden tasks left to do to fully wrap up this season. If you planted garlic this fall, you might consider adding more mulch. You should also add mulch if you did not when you ﬁrst planted garlic. A good 6-8 inches of straw and other mulch can be applied. Straw mulch will settle once it has been applied so you may need to add more now or months to come. Remove garden stakes and other materials from the garden. These stakes and cages should be cleaned before you put them up for the winter. If you are growing cool season crops, you need to give them a bit more attention these next couple of weeks. Many of them can tolerate these colder conditions but may need some protection. A low tunnel with a PVC pipe and ﬂoating row cover can provide

protection for kale, broccoli, and others. You can ﬁnd directions on low tunnel instructions online. A heavier ﬂoating row cover will limit light exposure but can provide far greater protection than the spring row cover you may have. Mulching around carrots can lead to sweeter carrots further into the winter when you harvest them. Your soil should be managed this fall. If your soil remains uncovered, this can lead to erosion problems and the buildup of weed seeds. Try to keep your soil covered if you can. It is unfortunately too late for a cover crop. If you have access to raw manure, this would be the time to apply it. By applying in the fall, it allows for the manure to age and be ready for spring planting. Now is also the time to get a soil test before the soil freezes. By taking a soil test in the fall, you also will be able to raise or lower the soil pH if you need to. 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.

Improving the state dairy industry, one farm at a time BY LAUREN QUINN U OF I NEWS BUREAU

URBANA — Like most farmers, Illinois dairy producers want to maximize e�ciency and productivity to improve their bottom line. But many don’t have the time or objective perspective to audit their own operations for potential improvements. That’s why the University of Illinois Dairy Focus Team was formed. “Knowing a farm’s potential causes of ine�ciency and e�ciency is key to improving its performance,” says Ines Rivelli-Bixquert, a doctoral researcher in the Department of Animal Sciences at U of I, and leader of the Dairy Focus Team. She recently published findings from the project in The Professional Animal Scientist. Rivelli-Bixquert worked with assistant professor Felipe (Phil) Cardoso and a team of graduate and undergraduate students in the department to develop a protocol to evaluate dairy operations in Illinois. In the summer of 2014, the team visited 20 farms across the state. Upon arrival, the group would fan out, evaluating and sampling every aspect of the dairy, while Cardoso sat down with the farmer to complete a lengthy questionnaire and get copies of the farmer’s data. Specifically, the team evaluated nutrition, by taking samples of corn silage, total mixed rations, and manure; reproduction, by examining farmers’ data on yearly pregnancy rate, first conception rate, and services per conception; and young stock, by measuring aspects of calf housing. Back at the lab, the researchers analyzed farm samples and data from farmers to obtain an overall view of the dairy industry in Illinois. Specifically, data from farms in northern and southern Illinois were compared to pinpoint geographic patterns. “There were definitely management differences between south and north,”

Rivelli-Bixquert says. “Some of these di�erences were leading southern farms to be more proficient when ensiling corn, meaning that they could have reduced losses and lower costs. On the other hand, northern farms had more proficient feeding management strategies for calves and better reproductive e�ciency than southern farms.” Cardoso explains the di�erences might simply come down to climate variations in the two regions. “The other di�erence is that in the north, the proximity to Wisconsin, a huge dairy state, makes the transference of information easier,” he says. “As extension personnel, we should be talking more about reproduction in the south, and perhaps encouraging those producers to visit farms in the north to learn how to obtain good reproductive results.” Perhaps more importantly, results from individual farms were shared with each producer, along with specific recommendations for potential improvements. Rivelli-Bixquert says some of the farmers weren’t aware of problems before the team showed up. “Sometimes they thought they needed help with nutrition, but they really needed to focus on some aspect of reproduction. The process helped them to understand their farms,” she says. Cardoso and the team also used the data to develop a research-based newsletter and online tools for farmers, available at dairyfocus.illinois.edu. He says using farm-collected data and using it to improve e�ciency for other farmers is the modern version of extension. Rivelli-Bixquert adds, “I believe that if we do science, it is because there is someone out there who needs it, but it is not always easy to translate it to the general public. And extension is the best tool we have to bring scientific knowledge to the farmers.” A longer article on this project is available at go.illinois.edu/dairyfocus.

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Study: Black voter turnout plummets MADISON, Wis. — Turnout among black voters in Wisconsin dropped about 19 percent between 2012 and 2016, more than four times the national decline, according to a new study. The Center for American Progress, a liberal nonprofit, studied census data, polls and state voter files, the Wisconsin State Journal reported. The study estimated the turnout rate among black voters in Wisconsin fell from 74 percent in 2012 to about 55 percent in 2016. The study found that the national black voter turnout rate only fell about 4.5 percent during that period. The study also found that voter turnout for Hispanics and Asians in Wisconsin dropped almost 6 percent in 2016. The turnout rate for those groups rose about 2 percent nationally. State Rep. David Bowen, D-Milwaukee, said the study confirms that requiring photo identification to vote disproportionately hurts minority voter turnout. Wisconsin’s voter ID requirement took

effect during the 2016 presidential election. “It definitely had a significant impact on turnout in 2016,” Bowen said. Donald Trump was the first Republican since Ronald Reagan in 1984 to carry Wisconsin. Trump beat Hillary Clinton in Wisconsin by about 23,000 votes. Courts have found that minority voters are less likely to have a driver’s license or another form of ID that meets the requirement. A study published in September by the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that nearly 17,000 registered voters in Dane and Milwaukee counties may have chosen not to vote because of the voter ID requirement. Eligible voters who didn’t have the required ID could have petitioned for a receipt that would have allowed them to vote. But Bowen said many voters were unaware of the petition process. –Associated Press

Legislature to pass bill allowing utilities to fill wetlands MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Assembly has passed a bill that would loosen wetland restoration requirements for public utilities. The Assembly passed the measure Tuesday on a voice vote. The Senate was slated to vote on it later Tuesday. Current state law requires anyone looking to fill a wetland to obtain a permit from the Department of Natural Resources. The agency must require

the restoration, enhancement, creation or preservation of other wetlands as a permit condition. The Republican bill would allow the DNR to exempt public utilities and power cooperatives from mitigation if the utilities and co-ops fill no more than 10,000-sqaure-feet of wetlands. The measure will have to be signed by Gov. Scott Walker before becoming law. –Associated Press

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This week’s solutions, from Page 23.

Across 1. What car does over time 6. Traveler’s purchase 9. Kind of cola 13. Opening 14. ___ de Triomphe 15. Opposite of domesticated 16. Beer garden mug 17.Huladancer’snecklace 18. “Haste makes waste,” e.g. 19. Thanksgiving game day stars 21. Peeps around the table 23. “But I heard him exclaim, ____ he drove out of sight ...” 24. Queen of Carthage 25. British broadcaster 28. Fungal spore sacs 30. Angry dispute 35. Rhine tributary 37. “Cogito, ____ sum” 39. Did like a star at night 40. Assortment 41. Last float passenger 43. Larger-than-life 44. Like a neon sign

46. Catcher’s catcher 47. Facts and figures 48. Nile and Mississippi ____ 50. Plural of “forum” 52. State of no-mindness 53. Impose, as in tax 55. Rage 57. Star of the show on Thanksgiving 60. ”The Thanksgiving Song” singer 64. Small, olive-gray bird 65. Kind of printer 67. Nose of a missile 68. Donated live-saver 69. Born, in society pages 70. Child-eating daemon, in Greek mythology 71. Do this at a funeral 7 2 . Symbolized by elephant 73. Funny Down 1. Reduced Instruction Set Computer 2. “Do ____ others...” 3. Hearty one-pot dish 4.Squanto’sWampanoag, e.g

5. Mexico City state 6. “Buffalo ____, won’t you come out tonight...” 7. “Is” is to “she” as ____ is to “we” 8. “The Terminator” genre 9. Ghana monetary unit 10. Like word of mouth 11. Same as cagey 12. Stout relative 15 . K ate Huds on’s “Almost ____” 20. Those in favor 22. Sum it up 24. Make something seem worthy 2 5 . _ _ _ _-bre a s te d variety 26. Pop out 27. Prepare white wine 2 9. P a c k l i k e sardines 31. Lose one’s coat 32. November birthstone 33. Get together 34. Pumpkin alternative 36. Dig like a pig

38. Bismarck’s first name 42. Courtyards 45. Non-scholarship player 49. “____ Spot run” 51. ____ Palmer 54. Contending 56. ”Thanksgiving,” poem by ____ Albert Guest 57. Michelin product 58. Strong desire 59. ____ harvest before giving thanks 60. Beehive basket 61. Stretched ride 62. Like a villain 63. Bona fide 64. Wedding promise, e.g. 66. “New” prefix

November 8, 2017 The Rock River Times.

NFL. Week 10

Bears look to expand offense’s role By Gene Chamberlain Associated Press

LAKE FOREST — The Chicago Bears built some momentum while going 3-5 in the season’s first half thanks to defensive depth. In the second half of the schedule, coach John Fox thinks building on what they’ve established will require the offense to step forward and show some depth. “I think we’re probably a little bit more whole than we were for sure last season,” Fox said Monday at Halas Hall. “I think we still had interesting changes in lineups, in particular in the offensive line. Hopefully we can stay a little bit more consistent as far as lineups. “We have to be right on top of it. When we are, we win. And we’ve lost some close games, we’ve won some close games. I’d rather see that be more consistent in the second half.” The Bears returned Monday from their bye week, and when they resume preparation Wednesday for Sunday’s game at Soldier Field against the Green Bay Packers, two offensive line injuries and a receiver group in a constant state of flux will be issues. One position where the Bears will be severely challenged is tight end. Zach Miller’s season-ending dislocated knee means they’ve lost one of quarterback

Mitchell Trubisky’s few dependable targets. “You can’t put a number or an amount on it — he’s irreplaceable,” Trubisky said. “We love Zach and he knows that.” Miller was to be released from a New Orleans hospital Monday after being injured Oct. 29. He underwent surgery to repair a torn artery, saving his left leg. Miller still faces surgery to repair the knee itself. “I talked to him a little bit and his mom over the course of the bye week, just to make sure (of) the whole family situation,” Fox said. “I think they feel very good about where he is.” Miller posted a note on Twitter thanking team doctors and trainers and surgeons at the University Medical Center of New Orleans. “Without their teamwork, expertise and urgent care I do not know if the outcome would have been as successful,” Miller said. Tight ends Dion Sims, second-round pick Adam Shaheen, and Daniel Brown now become more important in the offense. Trubisky will also need to target wide receivers more, and has more choices. With recently acquired Dontrelle Inman now available, and veteran Markus Wheaton expected to return in coming weeks from a groin injury to join Kendall Wright and Tre McBride, Trubisky could

“With people coming in and veterans coming back it’s going to open up the offense, take stress off of Jordan and just really get the ball and distribute it in a lot of different areas.”

try getting the ball downfield more often. Inman spent the bye week learning the offense. “In San Diego I could miss training camp and still come in and know the offense because I’ve been there so long,” Inman said. “So it’s a different learning curve. “It’s back to when I first came into the league and had to study, study, study. But I knew that coming in, so I expected nothing else.” McBride had a career-high and Bears season-high 92 receiving yards against New Orleans, but expects building a rapport with Trubisky at this point in the season will be challenging. Training camp is when such ties are established. “On the field, in pads, that’s when that time is built, and we only get so many days to do that, so there’s no other shortcut,”

McBride said. The Bears start the season’s second half ranked last in passing at 157.5 yards per game. Running back Tarik Cohen has produced big plays, but the brunt of the offense has fallen on running back Jordan Howard, who is fifth in the NFL with 662 yards rushing. “We had key injuries that took away from the offense, took away from the passing game,” Cohen said. “With people coming in and veterans coming back it’s going to open up the offense, take stress off of Jordan and just really get the ball and distribute it in a lot of different areas.” The other issue facing the Bears is on the offensive line. Both guard Kyle Long (finger) and center Cody Whitehair (elbow) suffered injuries against New Orleans, and their status will be more clear Wednesday when practice resumes. A week off has Fox thinking the offense can take on a different look. “I think we’ve leaned a little bit on our run as a football team, much like last year,” Fox said. “We’ll continue on that path, we can get better in those areas, we’ve had some negative runs that we want to get cleaned up. “I think the biggest thing we’ve kind of stressed is things to do better in the passing game.”

NHL

Lack of goal scoring troubling Blackhawks By Paul Skrbina

Tribune News Service

The Stanley Cup playoffs don’t begin today. Or tomorrow. Or the day after that. In fact, there are more than five months’ worth of todays and tomorrows before they do. So forgive the offensively challengedof-late Blackhawks, who are 7-6-2, for not making summer vacation plans in November despite ranking 18th of 31 teams with a 2.87 goals-per-game average. Despite scoring 21 goals — including 10 in the season opener — in their first four games and 22 in 11 games since. Despite scoring just three non-empty-net goals in their last three games. Despite zero five-on-five goals in more than 150 minutes and counting. Patrick Kane used the word “frustrating” to describe the slump, which, if the playoffs began today or tomorrow, would leave the Blackhawks on a beach some-

where, on the outside looking in. “It seems like we either have the chances or we’re not really producing much,” Kane said Sunday after the Blackhawks were blanked 2-0 by the Canadiens, whose third-string goalie, Charlie Lindgren, was playing in just his fourth NHL game. “It’s not really fun when it’s going that way. That just comes with being more confident around the net. Being a little bit more patient if the puck comes on your stick. Take that extra second and put it where it needs to be.” It’s not like the Blackhawks haven’t had their chances. Through Sunday they were fourth in the league with 501 shots on goal. But they’ve managed to convert on just 43, or 8.6 percent. They’ve also allowed 508 shots, second-most in the league. And not all shots are created equally. What the Blackhawks have possessed in

quantity, they’ve sometimes lacked in quality when it comes to shot selection. “Get in front of the goalie’s eyes, I think is the biggest thing,” center Nick Schmaltz said. “We gotta get more traffic, some dirty goals and some rebounds. After we get a couple of those I think the plays will start opening up.” Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville, not one to spend much time fretting about such small samples, said his concern about the lack of scoring is beginning to sprout. “Starting to think about it,” he said Sunday. “We have to find a way to generate some offense. We scored the winning goals the last two games with our power play. … The offense is a little dry right now.” Exactly why that is, nobody is quite sure. Some different line combinations have been tried. Pucks haven’t bounced the Blackhawks’ way.

“It could be chalked up to a few different things,” Kane said. “Just kind of bearing down on our chances. Seems like there’s some loose pucks around the net that we can’t really get there in time, or when we do, we can’t put it in the right place to put it in the net. A little rusty in that area.” The power play also has been squeaky, with a 13.6 percent conversion rate, 28th in the league. The saving grace, so far, has been goalie Corey Crawford, who leads the NHL in save percentage (.945) and goalsagainst average (1.77). But Schmaltz and his teammates are looking forward to a time when they don’t have to rely so heavily on their goalie. “We can’t get too tight,” Schmaltz said. “Can’t too much pressure on ourselves and just relax and make plays. A lot of guys in here can make plays.” And a lot of those guys feel like it’s just a matter of time before they do.

The Rock River Times. November 8, 2017