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Voters in Winnebago County will get the choice on a referendum to combine the offices of the county clerk and recorder.

The county board last week voted 14-4 to put the question on the ballot. Chairman Frank Haney hopes that combining the two offices will see cost savings for the county, which has faced budget cuts across a number of departments.

“We can’t keep trying to do the same things we always have and just hope that it somehow fixes itself,” he told The Times in an interview last week.

The two offices operate in divergent parts of government: the clerk maintains election databases while the recorder is responsible for property records. Nearly 80 percent of Illinois counties have combined the positions under a single office.

And sources have told The Times that the county and city are exploring a merger of the two bodies’ election commissions. Currently, the City of Rockford and Winnebago County maintain their own voter rolls. Officials in both have indicated that eliminating redundancies in records by combining their respective offices could produce cost savings for the city and county.

Sheriff cancels New Year’s ride program

The Winnebago County Sheriff announced last week that it will not participate in the annual Sheriff’s New Year’s Eve Ride Home program.

The program provides rides to help cut down on drunk driving during the New Year’s holiday. Sheriff Gary Caruana’s office cited recent budget cuts in the move.

“Due to call volume and reduced staffing, the Winnebago County Sheriff’s Department will not be able to participate in the Ride Home program,” his office said in a statement.

“If drinking an alcoholic beverage, please use a designated driver or call your local ride-sharing companies or taxi companies for a ride home.”

The sheriff’s office is embroiled in the battle over budget cuts that have hit the county during 2017.

Park district, RPS maintain lax levies

Both the Rockford Park District and RPS 205 announced last week that they will maintain their current property tax levies.

The Rockford School Board to keep its tax levy at the same level for a sixth consecutive year, while RPD is holding the line on its levy for the fourth straight year.

“Our school board has illustrated strong fiscal responsibility,” said RPS 205 Superintendent Ehren Jarrett in a statement.

“We’re trying to do our part to relieve the tax burden and still invest in our students with high-quality education.”

“Holding the line on taxes is the responsible thing to do for taxpayers,” said RPD board president Ian Linnabary.

Both reported an uptick of around 2.5 percent in the equalized assessed value of properties, a trend the city and county also recognized in their 2018 budget projections. R.

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Settlement reached with former officer Poole

By Jim Hagerty Contributor

ROCKFORD — One of the officers involved in the Mark Anthony Barmore shooting has reached a financial settlement with the city after a years-long legal battle over his employment with the Rockford Police Department.

The city and Oda Poole, on Monday, reached a settlement worth $700,000. The agreement comes eight years after Barmore was shot dead in the basement of Kingdom Authority Church downtown.

Barmore, wanted on a domestic violence warrant, was believed to be armed when he was being pursued by Poole and Officer Stan North. Barmore reportedly wrestled for Poole’s service weapon and was shot during the struggle.

Poole was placed on administrative leave immediately after the shooting and then suspended by Police Chief Chet Epperson for violating three rules of the department’s Code of Conduct. Among those rules were Rule 9, which states officers must be efficient in their performance of assigned duty.

Epperson also decided that Poole violated

Rule 2 by impeding the department’s effort to achieve its goals, discrediting the police department; and Rule 49, committing an act contrary to good order and discipline or constituting a violation of any of the provisions of the Rules and regulations of the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners, the Rules and regulations of the Rockford Police Department, the written Orders of the Rockford Police Department.

Poole, 45, was fired in 2011. An arbitrator ruled in 2012 that Epperson fired him without cause, a decision that placed him back on administrative leave. The city appealed that decision and the case was then hung up in the state appellate system as Poole fought to be reinstated to the force.

Meanwhile, a wrongful death lawsuit against the city was settled in 2014 for $1.1 million. In 2016, a jury awarded various plaintiffs, including 10 children present at the church daycare when Barmore was shot, $360,000 in a ruling that stated Poole and North acted recklessly.

In total, the shooting cost the city more than $2 million, including legal fees and payments to expert witnesses.

The Barmore shooting was the fourth time Poole used deadly force as a member of the Rockford Police Department. He also fired at a suspect in 2002, while working as an officer in Washington, D.C. Each incident was ruled justified.

The city mulled a few settlement options.

One possibility was to reinstate Poole to active duty with back pay. However, under the agreed-upon terms, he will remain on administrative leave until he completes firearm recertification. After the 40-hour training is complete, he will retire in good standing.

Poole and his family will be insured through the city’s health plan for 10 years. In addition to back pay, he’ll receive $41,320.89 in pension arrearages from July 15, 2011.

Poole previously received a pension refund of $37,000. His salaries for the last three years are $73,657, $78,220, and $78,132, respectively.

“As a city and a community, we have been dealing with this situation since 2009,” Mayor Tom McNamara said. “I am happy to be moving beyond it and working towards

building our community relationships and making our city more united and stronger.”

The agreement must be approved by the Workers Compensation Commission.

Poole has elected not to speak to media.

His wife, a Rockford attorney, released a statement in 2010, challenging the verbiage of the police department’s code of conduct.

“The rules of conduct are so vague, general and non-specific, that they fail to inform any intelligent person as to what the alleged violations are,” Robin-Babcox Poole wrote. “Training, tactics, and policies or procedures are not referred to in the administrative charges against Oda. Officer Oda Poole and Officer Stan North bravely performed their professional responsibilities according to their training and acted consistently with the rules and regulations of the Rockford Police Department. Had they failed to attempt to apprehend Mr. Barmore, they surely would have been accused of not properly fulfilling their responsibilities to the community and Rockford Police Department.”

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Finance task force presents potential budget solutions

By Jim Hagerty Contributor

CITY HALL — The City of Rockford Finance Task Force gave its first presentation about how to tackle the $10.2 million budget deficit Monday.

In total, the committee gave aldermen recommendations of cuts more than 70 areas in the city’s current spending plan. They

include everything from the style of cars the city buys for employees to office supplies.

The most visible point of discussion continues to center on whether Rockford voters will reinstate home rule after 35 years. With home rule, the city would pursue several revenue streams that are currently prohibited by state law. If the referendum fails, the task force recom-

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Mullins to step down as clerk ROCKFORD — Margie Mullins, who had already said she would not seek a fourth term in office, announced Monday morning that she intends to resign as Winnebago County Clerk.

“This has been a very difficult decision for me, but for personal reasons I will be stepping down,” Mullins said in a letter to the county government, provided Monday morning. “Working for the county and being the county clerk has been very rewarding.”

Mullins’ last day is set for Jan. 31, 2018.

Her term expires Dec. 3, 2018.

“Clerk Mullins has been professional, impartial, and deeply committed to serving our community,” said county board chairman Frank Haney. “Although she was not seeking re-election and a new clerk will be elected in November of 2018, I am sad to see her go early.”

The board will declare the clerk position vacant as of Jan. 31 at their Jan. 11 meeting. Haney will then make a recommendation to the board who will have final approval over the appointment.

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mends the aldermen approve a utility tax on electricity and natural gas, something planners say could result in millions in revenue.

While Mayor Tom McNamara has vowed to not make cuts to public safety, the task force is recommending the city find a way to reduce overtime costs to save the city $300,000. Another $100,000 a year can be saved by doing the same in the fire department, the task force says.

Charging landlords property registration fees would create an additional $500,000 for the city while funding pothole patching operation from capital projects funds versus the general fund would save $240,000.

Turning low-level crimes into fined ordinance violations would save the city an estimated $187,000. It would also reduce the number of jailed offenses and people sentenced to probation, which can put a strain on city and county services.

“When you are in the line of duty fighting fire, or involved in a police incident, [there is] a cost,” Alderman Frank Beach said. “I think both chiefs say there’s ways they feel they can reorganize it to cut it down and we just challenge them to do that.”

The task force was asked to: review operating budget, department by department; propose recommendations to guide aldermen in a multiyear budget plan;

work Winnebago County Chairman Frank Haney’s Government Efficiency committee to find areas where efficiencies can be gained, and services can be strengthened through collaboration and or consolidation.

The recommendations will be subject to an up or down vote by City Council within 60 days.

“After tonight’s presentation, we’ll start moving these items forward, to council for consideration as part of the 2018 budget,” Finance Director Carrie Eklund said.

Other highlights of the task force’s presentation include: • Enforce and inspect commercial backflow preventers, currently required by local ordinance ($440,000); • Reduce Police and Fire overtime ($400,000); • Implement stormwater maintenance fee ($500,000); and • Replace copper phone lines with fiber network connections ($100,000).

“We need to pay attention to what we are doing and how we are doing it,” Alderman Ann Thompson-Kelly said. “There’s a lot of good suggestions made [by] this task force.

Aldermen will pay a lot of attention to the suggestions that were made.”

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LET THEM EAT CAKE Congressional Republicans celebrate tax bill that will only help the already filthy rich.

By Stephen Ohlemacher & Marcy Gordon Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Jubilant Republicans pushed on Tuesday to the verge of the most sweeping rewrite of the nation’s tax laws in more than three decades, a deeply unpopular bill they insist Americans will learn to love when they see their paychecks in the new year. President Donald Trump cheered the lawmakers on, eager to claim his first major legislative victory.

Perhaps emblematic of the stumbles along the way, there was one last hiccup. Speaker Paul Ryan, who has worked years toward the goal of revamping the tax code, gleefully pounded the gavel on the final House vote, but then it turned out it wasn’t final after all.

The Senate was expected to pass the legislation Tuesday night, after press time, but the plan to send it on to Trump for his signature had to be scrapped. Democrats noted that three provisions violated Senate rules and had to be removed. So the massive bill will be hauled back across the Capitol for the House to re-vote on Wednesday.

GOP House members roared and applauded as their chamber passed the $1.5 trillion package largely along party lines, 227-203.

Ryan declared, “This was a promise made.

This is a promise kept,” as he and other GOP leaders convened a victory news conference moments later.

The Senate was still on track to approve the package that will touch every American taxpayer and every corner of the U.S. economy, providing steep tax cuts for businesses and the wealthy, and more modest help for middle- and low-income families. Despite Republican talk of spending discipline, the bill will push the huge national debt ever higher.

After the delay for a second House vote, the measure then heads to Trump who is aching for a win after 11 months of legislative failures and non-starters. The president tweeted his congratulations to GOP leaders and “all great House Republicans who voted in favor of cutting your taxes!”

Congressional Republicans, who faltered badly in trying to dismantle Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, see passage of the tax bill as crucial to proving to Americans they can govern — and imperative for holding onto House and Senate majorities in next year’s midterm elections.

They have repeatedly argued the bill will spur economic growth as corporations, flush with cash, increase wages and hire more workers. But they acknowledge they have work to do in convincing everyday Americans. Many voters in surveys see the legislation as a boost to the wealthy, such as Trump and his family, and a minor gain at best for the middle class.

“I don’t think we’ve done a good job messaging,” said Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore. “Now, you’re able to look at the final product.”

Ryan was positive, even insistent. He declared, “Results are what’s going to make this popular.”

Democrats called the bill a giveaway to corporations and the wealthy, with no likelihood that business owners will use their gains to hire more workers or raise wages. And they mocked the Republicans’ contention that the bill will make taxes so simple that millions can file their returns “on a postcard” — an idea repeated often by the president.

“What happened to the postcard? We’re going to have to carry around a billboard for tax simplification,” declared Rep. Richard Neal of Massachusetts, the top Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee.

Tax cuts for corporations would be permanent while the cuts for individuals would expire in 2026 in order to comply with Senate budget rules. The tax cuts would take effect in January, and workers would start to see changes in the amount of taxes withheld

from their paychecks in February.

For now, Democrats are planning to use the bill in their campaigns next year. Senate Democrats posted poll numbers on the bill on a video screen at their Tuesday luncheon.

“This bill will come back to haunt them, as Frankenstein did,” said House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi.

The bill would slash the corporate income tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent. The top tax rate for individuals would be lowered from 39.6 percent to 37 percent.

The legislation repeals an important part of the 2010 health care law — the requirement that all Americans carry health insurance or face a penalty — as the GOP looks to unravel the law it failed to repeal and replace this past summer. It also allows oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

The $1,000-per-child tax credit doubles to $2,000, with up to $1,400 available in IRS refunds for families who owe little or no taxes. Parents would have to provide children’s Social Security numbers to receive the child credit, a measure intended to deny the credit to people who are in the U.S. illegally.

Disgruntled Republican lawmakers

from high-tax New York, New Jersey and California receded into the background as the tax train rolled. They oppose a new $10,000 limit on the deduction for state and local taxes.

Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, R-N.J., was among those who voted against the bill.

Frelinghuysen chairs the powerful House Appropriations Committee, and it is rare for committee chairmen to oppose major legislation.

GOP Rep. Peter King conveyed what people in his Long Island, New York, district were telling him about the tax bill: “Nothing good, especially from Republicans. ... It’s certainly unpopular in my district.”

The bill is projected to add $1.46 trillion to the nation’s debt over a decade. GOP lawmakers say they expect a future Congress to continue the tax cuts so they won’t expire.

That would drive up deficits even further.

The bill would initially provide tax cuts for Americans of all incomes. But if the cuts for individuals expire, most Americans — those making less than $75,000 — would see tax increases in 2027, according to congressional estimates.

Wells Fargo CEO reveals the scam at the heart of the GOP tax bill

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he GOP-led House and Senate voted Tuesday to pass their massive tax overhaul. Most Republican members of Congress are heralding the plan’s giant, permanent tax cut for corporations as the reason behind their support. The GOP argues that when corporations get a tax cut, they put that money toward creating more jobs and raising wages.

But history shows that just isn’t correct — and history may be about to repeat itself.

In an interview with CNN Money, Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan made it clear what he plans to do with the corporation’s tax windfall — and it doesn’t benefit the average American worker.

“Is it our goal to increase return to our shareholders and do we have an excess amount of capital? The answer to both is, yes,” Sloan told CNN Money. “So

our expectation should be that we will continue to increase our dividend and our share buybacks next year and the year after that and the year after that.”

And it’s not just Wells Fargo that stands to benefit. Goldman Sachs could also see a tax break worth up to $6 billion dollars from the GOP tax bill.

The statement from Wells Fargo’s CEO confirms the suspicion that many observers had a few weeks ago, after White House chief economic adviser Gary Cohn attended an Wall Street Journal event where CEOs were asked whether their company plans to invest more if the tax reform bill passes.

Very few hands went up.

This surprised Cohn, who asked, “Why aren’t the other hands up?”

But it shouldn’t be all that surprising.

The general consensus among economists is that cutting corporate taxes to spur economic growth — known as “trickle-down economics” — hardly

worked in the 1980s economy and would surely fail in today’s modernized economy.

The economy President Donald Trump is operating in is rife with startups, meaning corporations are more likely to invest in research and automation to stay competitive or turn over their gains to their shareholders, two things that generally don’t promote job growth. Even one of President Ronald Reagan’s economic policy advisers who helped shape the Republican myth of trickle-down economics now says it doesn’t work, calling the GOP rhetoric around tax cuts “wishful thinking.”

The American public is catching on to the scam as well. A recent CNN poll from Tuesday found only 33 percent of Americans say they favor the GOP tax bill, while 55 percent oppose it. Sixty-six percent of Americans say they believe the bill favors the wealthy over the middle class.

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’m not in charge,” Gov. Bruce Rauner said recently, “I’m trying to get to be in charge.”

Rauner said he’ll “get to be in charge” by taking away House Speaker Michael Madigan’s Democratic majority next year. Madigan, Rauner says, is “really” in charge of Illinois.

The Republicans need to win nine net seats. So, can Rauner really take out Madigan next year?

Keep in mind that Speaker Madigan drew the legislative district maps.

Thumping him in what looks to be a big Democratic year after taking four net seats away from Madigan in 2016 will stretch the partisan possibilities of that map beyond what most would consider common sense.

Rauner does have three things going for him, however: Money, the income tax hike passed over his veto and Madigan himself.

Rauner has plenty of the former, and the latter two don’t poll well for the Democrats.

The Republicans must first sweep four southern Illinois districts to have a shot, and winning them are very possible.

The only statewide Democrat to win appointed Rep. Natalie Phelps Finnie’s, D-Elizabethtown, deep southern Illinois district since 2012 was Secretary of State Jesse White. She has a great family name for the area, however, and she was appointed after the income tax hike votes.

Rep. Jerry Costello, D-Smithton, also has a well-known family name, voted against the tax hike, but also has a district that has been won only by White since 2012.

Freshman Rep. Katie Stuart, D-Edwardsville, was the sole bright spot for the House Democrats last year. She defeated a flawed Republican incumbent, Dwight Kay, who is running again against a female Republican. Stuart voted against the tax hike.

Rep. Dan Beiser’s, D-Alton, winning margins seemed to tighten every two years, which is one reason why he’s retiring. While President Trump won Beiser’s district by 16 points, Tammy Duckworth and Susana Mendoza both won, as did Dick Durbin, Lisa Madigan and Jesse White in 2014. President Obama also won it by five points in 2012. So, while it’s in play because it’s an open seat, this won’t be easy for the Republicans.

OK, so let’s say Republicans win all four of those (not a lock, but maybe).

They still need five more.

Let’s start with three suburban races that have been in play before.

Rep. Sam Yingling, D-Grayslake, underperformed Hillary Clinton by 9 points and had to be dragged across the finish line in the closing days by Speaker Madigan’s top field generals. He won what was considered to be a GOP district in 2012, so the Republicans won’t ever give up. Yingling voted against the tax hike.

Retiring Rep. Carol Sente, D-Vernon Hills, cruised to an easy victory last year.

She had some trouble in 2014, winning by five points. Rauner won that district by 16, which puts it in play in the GOP’s mind along with it being an open seat.

Rep. Marty Moylan, D-Des Plaines, won his last race by 19 points, but the Republicans never give up on him, either.

Just three statewide Republicans have

won this district since 2012 (Munger, Rauner and Judy Baar Topinka). Moylan voted against the tax hike. The anti-gun Democrat is facing a pro-gun Republican, Marilyn Smolenski.

If the Republicans somehow win all three (not likely), they’re still two seats shy of taking the chamber — if they can somehow hold onto all their own suburban seats.

Now, let’s look at possibly vulnerable Democrats who voted for the “Mike Madigan income tax hike” earlier this year.

Rep. Sue Scherer, D-Decatur, is at the top of the list. Scherer voted to override Rauner’s tax hike veto after first voting against the tax hike. Her district just barely went Democratic last year.

Rauner and Topinka are the only two Republicans who’ve won Rep. Fred Crespo’s, D-Hoffman Estates, district since 2012 (Clinton won it by 29). Add Tom Cross to that very short GOP winner list for Rep. Deb Conroy’s, D-Villa Park, district. Those same three Republicans won Rep. Stefanie Kifowit’s, D-Oswego, district. Rep. Anna Moeller’s, D-Elgin, district is also pretty solidly Democratic, outside of Rauner and Topinka wins during a strong national GOP wave.

Two pretty Democratic north suburban open seat races might possibly be in play: districts represented by retired Rep. Elaine Nekritz and attorney general candidate Rep. Scott Drury. And there may be one or two more, but I have my doubts about Rauner picking up a net nine.

So, if Rauner is re-elected next year, he probably still won’t be in charge — by his own definition.

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CHICAGO — Thursday will be the season’s busiest traffic day in the Chicago area.

AAA tells the Chicago Tribune that travel times will triple from 4 p.m.to 6 p.m. because holiday travelers will pour onto roads already clogged with post-work commuters.

AAA and global transportation analytics company INRIX provided the estimates.

Graham Cookson is chief economist and head of research for INRIX. He says record levels of travelers mean motorists must prepare for delays.

Experts predict 107 million travelers will drive, ride and fly to holiday revelry. The vast majority will be 97 million driving highways and interstates during the year-end holiday travel window — Dec. 23 to Jan. 1.

AAA says that would be a 3 percent increase in auto traffic over last year and a record level.

WHEATON — A detention hearing is underway for a Wisconsin man who was found mentally unfit to stand trial for the May shooting of an Amtrak conductor outside Chicago.

The Daily Herald reports that conductor Michael Case testified at 80-year-old Edward Klein’s hearing Monday, saying afterward that he wants to “put this behind me in the rearview mirror.”

Klein, of West Allis, Wisconsin, was found mentally unfit to stand trial in October. He has been held on $1.5 million bail on attempted first-degree murder and other charges. Closing arguments in the hearing are scheduled for Wednesday morning.

Prosecutors say Klein told investigators he shot Case because he wasn’t allowed to de-board the train at a suburban Chicago stop. Doctors have diagnosed Klein with an impaired cognition disorder, dementia and neuro-cognitive disorder.

CLAYTON, Mo. — A St. Louis man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing an Illinois college student who was lured to a remote area under the guise of a deal to sell his car.

Michael Gordon was sentenced Tuesday in St. Louis County. He was convicted of first-degree murder in October.

Nineteen-year-old Taylor Clark was shot to death in 2015. He was a sophomore at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville who was trying to sell a sports car on Craigslist and arranged to meet Gordon in an area of Hazelwood, Missouri, behind a truck training school where Gordon worked.

Clark was shot once. Police found his body hidden in nearby woods.

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State. Bicentennial

Peoria settlement sacked, burned during War of 1812

By Chris Kaergard Peoria Journal Star

If schoolchildren learn one thing about the War of 1812, it’s that the British marched on and burned Washington, D.C. But Illinois schoolchildren studying the war could also learn about the burning of a settlement in their own territory, one set ablaze by their own countrymen: the village located where Peoria stands today, in a location that had been settled since the late 1600s.

The conflagration there, almost certainly unplanned, gave rise to a half-century-long legal fight and slowed the city’s development.

In the early months of that conflict between the British and Americans, tensions grew in the western territories of the United States, including the Illinois Territory, because of fears that local American Indian tribes were either loyal to the British or being induced to attack American settlers, particularly after such an attack at Fort Dearborn.

Hence the decision by the state’s territorial governor, Ninian Edwards, to send a group of militiamen — some from Missouri — up the Illinois River in November 1812 to check into conditions in the village of fewer than 100 people.

“The M issourians were deeply suspicious of this thriving and peaceful village, unmolested within 10 miles of the main council site for Indian tribes that swarmed Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Iowa,” a Journal Star archival piece from 1962 reads.

Capt. Thomas Craig’s men began to sack the town while residents were at Sunday Mass.

“In the face of protests from Thomas Forsythe, an official Indian agent and … the village priest, the property was temporarily returned,” according to another Journal Star historical recounting from 1963. “Harmless shots from across the river, probably by hunters, led Craig to say his boats had been fired upon. The French denied it, but Craig demanded the attackers be turned over to him. When the villagers protested, Craig sacked the town.

Its buildings were burned, cattle killed, the wine vaults raided and villagers were taken prisoner and shipped down river.

Belated orders from the governor to belay and free the prisoners finally reached the group, with men, women and children being turned loose with few provisions in freezing weather near modern-day

Alton. One of the survivors later became the wife of the state’s fourth governor, John Reynolds, who called out the state’s militia for the Black Hawk War. The burning of the village and the stranding of its members in fact helped turn some local Indians against the American settlers.

The destruction cleared the way for the construction of Fort Clark at the corner of what is now Liberty and Water streets in 1813 as a bulwark against now-hostile Indian tribes. It remained on the site for only a few years until rebuilding of residential properties resumed nearby.

One problem: The displaced residents from 1812 had deeds to the property, dating back to the original French settlements there and began to petition Congress in 1813 to be reimbursed for their lost land. That process continued as Illinois entered its early days of statehood.

“By 1837, when surveys were made, American settlers were occupying these lots — but the sales to these inhabitants were made subject to the French claims,” Ernest E. East writes in an unpublished “History of Peoria” volume, as later recounted by local historian Bill Adams.

Some 32 former residents or their heirs subsequently filed claims on 70 lots — some of which devolved into lawsuits in county court or federal court. A piece by the Peoria Historical Society explains: “But the legal process moved very slowly, which in turn slowed the development of downtown Peoria. As a lawyer, Abraham Lincoln worked on some of these cases in the 1850s. Eventually, the displaced settlers were paid thousands of dollars in reparations for the loss of their homes.”

A handful of those cases first had to go to the state Supreme Court, and one to the U.S. Supreme Court, the latter with Lincoln as one of the attorneys involved.

The litigation ended when real estate baron Charles Balance finally bought out the remaining claims on eight lots for $31,000 in 1867 — about $500,000 in today’s funds.

Chris Kaergard covers politics and government for the Journal Star in Peoria. He can be reached at ckaergard@pjstar.com. Follow him on Twitter: @ChrisKaergard.

The Times and dozens of publications throughout Illinois will print a weekly series of articles featuring key moments, figures, industries and events that help to make Illinois unique as we build up to the state’s bicentennial, Dec. 3, 2018.

This 1840 land plat for Peoria shows the site of the old city that existed before the village’s burning in 1812.

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Local

2018 groundbreaking eyed for Amerock hotel

By Jim Hagerty DOWNTOWN — An early 2018 groundbreaking is being eyed on the long-awaited project to turn a the Amerock/Ziock factory into a four-star, flagship hotel.

The final closing on the $76.5 million project concluded Monday. The deal was approved April 10 with a City Council vote of 7-6. Under the agreement, Gorman & Co. will spend about $64 million from a varied capital stack on the hotel while the city will use $12.5 million from its 1 percent sales tax on hotels, bars and restaurants to build an adjoining conference center.

The hotel will be the first major entertainment-related development project since the MetroCentre was built between 1979 and 1981. The riverfront facility will fly the Embassy Suites flag and is slated for 156 rooms.

It’s also been questioned since the city council first gave Gorman the green light in 2014, largely because of delays and changes in the way deal would be financed.

The first version of the development agreement included an Amtrak station and parking deck that was nixed when Gov. Bruce Rauner pulled the funding after he unseated Pat Quinn.

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“It’s been a long road, and I am extremely happy it passed,” Gorman said in April.

“This will have a catalytic impact on downtown Rockford.”

Gorman has since secured various bridge loans, renewed historic tax credits and

additional pledges through the federal EB-5 visa program.

Remediation has been ongoing at the site for the past couple years, mostly inside the 13-story building. Work on the outside commenced in June to prepare the structure

Holidays

AAA to drivers: prepare for madness

By Vincent Caruso Illinois News Network

Holiday travel can be a headache. And there’s little reason to expect a change this weekend, a recent report warns us.

Metro area residents embarking on yuletide festivities, including in the Chicago region, might want to consider getting a head start this weekend, according to a holiday traffic forecast released by the American Automobile Association (AAA) and global analytics company INRIX. A joint study between the two organizations analyzed recent highway trends, as well as pertinent historical data, to produce educated estimates about what travel conditions will look like for drivers and passengers this holiday season.

And the results should breed caution.

The number of countrywide holiday travelers is projected to reach record heights this year. The share of the population expected? 107 million, by AAA’s estimate.

Among these, the lion’s share will be a projected 94.7 million motor vehicles

clogging interstate highways and freeways between Saturday, Dec. 23, and Monday, Jan. 1. This, an AAA spokeswoman has pointed out, would mark the highest volume of automobile travelers on record – and a 3 percent increase from the auto influx that took place last year.

Residents around major metro areas will be affected most severely by road congestion, the report underscores. Graham Cookson, INRIX chief economist and head of research, recommends metropolitan-area drivers, such as those in Chicago, avoid peak traffic hours – either that or brace for extreme delays.

However, don’t count on a head start alone to spare you from the mess. AAA also forecasts late-afternoon mania this Thursday. Early-bird congestion is projected to reach its peak between 4 and 6 p.m., as post-work commuters and holiday travelers converge in metro -areas. If travelers find themselves in traffic between these hours, they can expect their commute times to triple.

The number of those embarking on their holiday jaunts via train, bus and flight is

expected to climb to near 10 million, posing a significant challenge for those without automobiles as well.

For Windy City travelers, the Chicago Aviation Department is pointing travelers to FlyChicago.com. The website contains traffic and weather updates in real-time and will update passengers with notifications regarding their flights.

But the news isn’t all grim. Authors of the study attribute the growth in holiday travel to a strengthening economy and optimistic consumer confidence. Despite relatively high gas prices, Bill Sutherland, AAA’s senior vice president of travel and publishing, says the cost has evidently not deterred consumers from their yearly holiday travel habit.

On the contrary, increased travel during major holiday weekends in 2017 has been consistent across the board – including during Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Thanksgiving.

If the AAA and INRIX analysis bears fruit, 2017 will mark the ninth -consecutive year that year-end holiday travel has increased.

for inspection.

The project will create more than 300 construction jobs and 123 hotel and convention center positions when the facility opens. Construction is expected to take approximately two years. R.

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Nation

Trump’s dark deregulation Passing legislation and rolling back regulatory rules are hard.

There are quieter, easier ways to cut down on governmental oversight. Here are five ways the Trump administration is doing so.

By Ian MacDougall ProPublica

At an event last Thursday to tout his administration’s efforts to rid the federal government of what he contends is burdensome red tape, President Donald Trump used oversized gold scissors to cut a piece of red ribbon strung between two stacks of paper.

In short order, he promised, his administration would excise some 165,000 of the more than 185,000 pages in the Code of Federal Regulations.

That’s no easy task. Changing federal regulatory laws can mean a congressional slog. And for federal agencies to rescind rules, they must engage in a time-consuming process that opens them to public scrutiny and potential legal challenges.

But there are ways to get around these impediments. Collectively, you might call them dark deregulation.

Here are five techniques being used by the Trump administration.

The data dump

An agency can’t regulate blind. Deprive a regulator of information, and it can’t do much.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission enforces workplace discrimination laws. In September 2016, it announced that it would require certain larger employers to report wage and hour data by gender, ethnicity and race. “Collecting pay data is a significant step forward in addressing discriminatory pay practices,” Jenny Yang, who was the EEOC’s chair, said at the time.

This August, the White House budget office suspended the plan indefinitely while the office reviews it. The decision relied on an obscure law called the Paperwork Reduction Act. Passed in 1980, Congress intended it as a way to cut down on interminable compliance requirements. But from the beginning, opponents warned it would make it harder for agencies to do their jobs. In a letter to the EEOC, Neomi Rao — the administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs — wrote that the EEOC’s plan to collect salary data “lack[ed] practical utility” and was “unnecessarily burdensome.”

Although the hold on collection of salary data is not permanent, equal-pay organizations read Rao’s letter as the death knell for the data collection effort, which they expect

will hinder the government’s ability to bring discrimination cases against employers.

Organizations representing employers have argued it won’t since the salary data was too generic to allow the EEOC to detect wage discrimination accurately anyway.

This use of the Paperwork Reduction Act may not be a one-off. Rao signaled recently that her staff was likely to continue to wield the law to limit agency initiatives to gather information.

The enforcement strike

Sometimes, just doing less adds up to deregulation, in a form that’s difficult to identify and even harder to challenge in court.

Two studies of Securities and Exchange Commission data published last month offer an illustration. A report by researchers at New York University and Cornerstone Research, a consulting firm, observed a steep slide in new enforcement actions against publicly traded companies and their subsidiaries during the first six months of SEC Chairman Jay Clayton’s tenure. An analysis by Urska Velikonja, a law professor at Georgetown University, found a similar decline in new actions brought against public Wall Street financial firms and subsidiaries.

That pattern sets Clayton apart from two SEC chairs appointed by President Barack Obama, Mary Schapiro and Mary Jo White, Velikonja said. Data she shared with ProPublica show that the number of new enforcement actions remained roughly steady or rose in the months after Schapiro and White took office, in 2009 and 2013 respectively.

The 2017 data indicates that “something has changed,” Velikonja said. “Why it changed is a much more complicated narrative.”

At a conference earlier this fall, Steven Peikin, who co-directs the SEC’s Enforcement Division, suggested that the agency may start pursuing fewer cases, devoting resources only to those cases that “send a broader message.” (Peikin’s co-director, Stephanie Avakian has disputed claims that the SEC is giving Wall Street a pass.)

“What we’ve seen thus far is very surprising,” said Sara Gilley, a principal at Cornerstone. “We did not expect such a large drop-off.” But, she added, “it’s too early to tell if the change is because Clayton is going after big cases,” which would take time to build, or for some other reason, like the SEC simply cutting back on enforcement.

The budget squeeze

The White House’s decision to impose a so-called “regulatory budget” on government agencies is one of its more innovative moves to shrink the footprint of the federal

bureaucracy. Each agency’s allotment creates a sort of deregulatory cap-and-trade system designed to force the agency to make it cheaper for the private sector to comply with rules.

The budget flows chiefly through the White House budget office — and, in particular, Rao’s regulatory affairs staff — often called the “gatekeeper” of the administrative state, which does such wonkish work that it draws little public attention or pushback.

“We’re small but mighty,” Rao said of her staff at an October event at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington.

The regulatory budget caps the costs an agency can impose on industry each year through rule-making. No matter the social benefit of the new rule, the agency has to offset the cost of complying with it by reducing what it costs to comply with at least two existing rules.

“A regulatory budget could have the most far-reaching impact of any executive branch regulatory reform” since the Ford administration, researchers at the Brookings Institution wrote in October.

The administration believes the regulatory budget is working. On Thursday, it reported that agencies across the federal government (excluding some independent agencies, like the SEC) had slashed annual compliance costs by $570 million for the 2017 fiscal year. For 2018, the White House announced, agencies collectively will have to cut annual compliance costs by more than $685 million.

The slowdown

The rush toward the end of the Obama administration to finalize lingering rules left many of them to go into effect after Jan. 20, when Trump took office. That left open a possibility the White House has embraced: delay.

It’s a lot easier to justify postponing a rule than it is to justify killing or revising it. While the agency decides the rule’s ultimate fate, the people and businesses affected are free to ignore the rule’s requirements.

After a spate of miner deaths between 2013 and 2015, the Mine Safety and Health Administration proposed a rule to protect miners at hard rock and other non-coal mines. The rule was simple. Mine operators would have to inspect work sites for hazards before a new shift of miners began work.

Previously, operators could inspect the site after work had begun.

MSHA finalized the rule in January and gave mine operators four months to comply.

Since then, the agency has repeatedly delayed the rule, maintaining that mine operators needed more time to come into compliance.

How much time? Nearly a year and a half. The

rule is now set to go into effect in June 2018.

The rationale for delay doesn’t make much sense to Joseph Main, who headed MSHA during the Obama administration. During his tenure, he said, it took only a few months to get mine operators up to speed on much more complicated regulatory changes.

“It was such a common-sense rule,” Main said. “It’s really simple. The time taken — the delay to train up the industry — I think is beyond belief here, to say the least.”

By September, another reason for the delay had emerged: MSHA has proposed relaxing the rule so mine operators could inspect work sites “as miners begin work.”

The expanding exemptions

Many agency rules include exceptions to their requirements — when or where the rule applies, to whom it applies. Interpreting exceptions expansively or using them more aggressively are ways to cut back on a rule’s practical effect without revising it or taking it off the books.

Take the environmental reviews mandated by a 1970 law called the National Environmental Policy Act. NEPA requires agencies across the federal government to document the environmental impacts of major actions they plan to take. The process includes a chance for the public to comment on the government’s plans.

The Trump administration earlier this year announced plans to reduce “unnecessary burdens and delays” caused by NEPA reviews. To help achieve its goal, the administration has asked federal agencies to turn to “categorical exclusions.” Those are categories of government action that don’t require an environmental review. Examples include approving construction of short natural gas pipelines and laying a bike path.

Agencies are listening. Last month, for instance, a task force at the Department of Energy recommended that the agency consider granting more categorical exclusions. It singled out as an example geothermal energy projects on federal lands. (The recommendations remain under White House review.)

The NEPA process often takes months or years, and it is a longtime target of conservative groups, which say it needlessly delays energy and infrastructure projects and increases their cost. But environmental groups worry that an overeager turn to categorical exclusions will undermine NEPA’s core purpose.

“There are communities where, but for NEPA, nobody would know a highway is going to be built,” said Scott Slesinger, the legislative director for the Natural Resources Defense Council. “The idea is, when the government comes in to do something, they should look before they leap.”

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What it’s like inside the regulatory rollback at the EPA

Scott Pruitt, a longtime opponent of the Environmental Protection Agency, is now at its helm, spearheading a push to roll back regulations at a scale sta�ers say is unprecedented.

BY TALIA BUFORD PROPUBLICA

Betsy Southerland knew something was wrong the moment she walked into her o�ce at the Environmental Protection Agency.

It was 8 a.m. on a Thursday in April and already, her team was waiting at her door, computer printouts in hand.

For months, sta�ers in the O�ce of Water had been in help-desk mode, fielding calls from states implementing a federal rule that set new limits on water-borne pollution released by coal-fired power plants. The rule on what is known as “e�uent” had been hammered out over a decade of scientific study and intense negotiations involving utility companies, White House o�cials and environmental advocates.

The EPA had checked and rechecked its calculations to make sure the benefits of the proposed change outweighed the cost to the economy.

But now, members of Southerland’s team were handing her a press release, firing questions as her eyes skimmed the page.

Did she know about this? Had she seen it?

What happened?

T h e a n n o u n c e m e n t f r o m E PA Administrator Scott Pruitt said the agency

was considering undoing the rule. “This action is another example of EPA implementing President Trump’s vision of being good stewards of our natural resources, while not developing regulations that hurt our economy and kill jobs,” the release said.

Southerland was stunned. In three decades as a career sta�er at the EPA, she’d never seen an administrator describe a regulation in such terms. As director of science and technology for the o�ce, she also had never learned of such a major change of direction from a press release. She couldn’t give her team any answers. “I was as clueless as they were,” Southerland recalled.

Since Trump was elected, dozens of environmental rules have been either opened for reconsideration or overturned altogether. These regulations would have had far-ranging e�ects, from banning hazardous pesticides and o�shore oil drilling to stopping coal-mining debris from being dumped into local streams to forbidding hunters from shooting Alaskan wolves on wildlife refuges. They would have required infrastructure projects to be built to higher flood standards and greenhouse gas emissions to be limited and tracked.

ProPublica took a close look at the e�uent rule, which was one of the most scrutinized

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and meticulously researched of the regulations the new EPA leadership is preparing to overturn. Longtime sta�ers and environmental experts say it is an instance in which science and prevailing industry practices were swept aside to benefit a handful of coal-fired power plants that were having trouble meeting the new standards.

A spokeswoman for the EPA said the change of direction is part of a broader push to eliminate unnecessary federal rules.

“Administrator Pruitt has made a commitment to refocus the Agency back to its core mission of protecting human health and the environment, restore power to the states through cooperative federalism, and improve processes by adhering to the rule of law,” the spokeswoman told ProPublica.

“This includes a review of regulations passed by the previous administration that may impose unwarranted burdens or exceed our statutory authority.”

Many of the rules were years or even decades in the making, and the sheer speed with which they’ve been cast aside has left the EPA sta�ers who helped craft them shaken.

It has also deepened the chasm between the agency’s top decision-maker and his agency’s longtime sta�. Pruitt’s opposition

to EPA regulation was a defining feature of his career before he took the agency’s reins. As Oklahoma’s attorney general, he sued the EPA repeatedly and blasted its rules as overreaching. Since taking the administrator post, it’s been reported that he’s given lobbyists broad access and appointed people to key jobs who have close ties to the industries they are overseeing.

To the Trump administration and its supporters, this is no more than a long overdue balancing of the scales. In any administration, one side is always happier than the other, said Fred Palmer, a senior fellow at the Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank. “They are not being listened to because they disagree with the agenda of the President of the United States who, at the end of the day, is their boss,” he said of EPA sta�ers, “like it or not.”

Pruitt’s interaction with Southerland and her team on the e�uent rule reflects the degree to which the EPA is now shutting its own sta� out of the decision-making process.

Under prev ious administrations, Republican and Democrat ic a li ke, Southerland said sta�ers could make their case to agency leaders, presenting the scientific evidence behind rule-making proposals and other regulatory decisions.

They didn’t always win the day, but they often managed to hold onto the provisions they considered most important.

But under Pruitt, she and others said, EPA’s career sta�ers have seen their access to the agency’s leadership dwindle. More importantly, their arguments no longer

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have much influence on the rapid-fire series of decisions announced by Pruitt.

“This has been a long-planned assault on the agency, not some serendipitous thing,” Southerland said. “(Staffers) now understand that the overall process will be to repeal everything requested by industry.”

Lagging behind

The long road to the revamped effluent rule began in 2005.

“Effluent” is wastewater that is allowed to be discharged into rivers and lakes, a byproduct of 59 different industries, from commercial animal farms and landfills to soap companies and dental offices. This wastewater often contains dangerous toxins.

The Clean Water Act — a bedrock environmental protection that sought to make American waters “fishable and swimmable” — requires the EPA to set limits on toxins found in effluent. The rules must be updated every five years to keep up with advances in the technology that filters out dangerous chemicals.

Within the EPA, this task belonged to the Office of Science and Technology, a team of more than 100 scientists, engineers and economists within the Office of Water who develop standards to protect water safety and recommend limits for levels of contaminants. To update the effluent limits, the team had to understand how much each industry was polluting the water, how each processed its waste and how that process was evolving.

But the sheer volume of effluent-generating industries made it impossible for the office to revise the rules every five years.

So, the office set priorities.

Every year, the office reviewed pollutant discharges reported by companies and ranked them into categories that posed hazards to human health and the environment. In 2003, EPA’s screen found that coal plants ranked high in discharges of toxins and pollutants.

To keep coal ash — the carcinogenic leftovers from burning coal — from winding up in the air, some power plants use what are called scrubbers to trap it.

Those scrubbers need to be cleaned, and the residue is mixed with water and stored in ponds. To keep those ponds from overfilling, plants ultimately release effluent into nearby waterways. It’s a potentially hazardous process. Effluent from coal ash contains mercury, arsenic, lead and selenium — elements linked to an increased risk of lower IQs in children, cancer and organ damage.

In the mid-’00s, when the EPA’s concern about effluent from coal ash ponds grew, federal rules were silent on these toxins.

The limits focused on curbing oil, gas and total suspended solids — the visible stuff floating in coal ash wastewater. The regulations hadn’t been revised since 1982.

There was a growing body of studies and news reports detailing the damage caused by chemical contaminants from coal plant wastewater. Researchers learned of fish turning up deformed and dead, and bullfrogs found crippled, missing entire

rows of teeth. There were reports about coal ash ponds leaking and contaminating nearby groundwater. Drinking wells were poisoned in Maryland and Indiana.

The office needed more data to form the basis of a new rule. It started collecting it in 2005.

First, staffers needed to understand what technologies companies were using to control pollution from coal plants, how much it cost and how clean the wastewater could get. They created a 391-page questionnaire that would ultimately reach 733 facilities.

In 2006, EPA scientists started visiting power plants to better understand how they operated. This launched eight years of study that took them to 73 facilities in 18 states. They collected samples to understand how different types of coal polluted the water and how well different treatment systems performed. Their investigation took them all the way to southern Italy, where a power plant in Brindisi was using an advanced wastewater evaporation process to protect an aquifer.

By 2009, the office reported their findings, saying it was clear newer technologies were available to “significantly reduce” the presence of harmful pollutants in public water, and that existing regulations were far out of date.

The office had the evidence it needed to move forward with stronger limits on coal plant effluent.

Stuck in the middle

Even as the EPA prepared to move forward on a rule, environmentalists grew concerned about reports on coal ash wastewater. On top of that, the Obama administration was strengthening rules to keep coal plants from pumping toxins like mercury into the air. If the rule went through, coal plant scrubbers would capture even more toxins, much of which would eventually end up in coal ash ponds that would discharge effluent.

“You’re taking the pollution out of the air and putting it into the water,” said Jennifer Peters, national water programs director at Clean Water Action. “That triggered concern within EPA and the environmental community wanting to ensure that they’re not just moving the pollution problem around.”

Environmentalists prodded the EPA to look at the danger to both the air and the water, but officials were in the thick of revising other regulations. So in 2010, several environmental groups sued the agency to force it to get the new effluent rule out sooner.

In a consent decree, reached in November 2010, the EPA agreed to propose an updated effluent rule by 2012, with a final rule coming no later than 2014. But there was a complicating factor.

Another EPA branch — the Office of Land and Emergency Management — was drafting another rule about coal ash waste.

Called the Coal Combustion Residuals rule, it was aimed at making sure coal ash ponds and landfills were structurally sound. The two rules needed to work in harmony, but

scientists from each office had collected data in different ways. The data needed to be standardized, and distinct costs and benefits assigned to each rule. The benefits of each rule had to justify the costs — a Clinton-era reform designed to limit excessive regulation.

The task fell to the Office of Science and Technology, which Southerland had just taken over after leaving another branch of the EPA. The analysis took longer than expected.

“We kept asking for delays because we kept having to redo the analysis on both rules to make sure we weren’t double counting the benefits,” Southerland said.

By now, her office was confident in its research, which showed some companies were using biological and chemical processes to clean wastewater. These other processes drastically reduced the toxins that ended up in the water, as well as the amount of water that needed to be released.

Southerland’s office crafted a rule that set limits on the amount of toxins that could be discharged. And though it didn’t specifically forbid using coal ash ponds, the rule would have forced plants to use technologies that could meet the more stringent limits.

It was time to take the proposed rule to the next phase.

In January 2013, the EPA submitted it to the White House’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, a forum for other agencies to review pending regulations and for lobbyists to weigh in. OIRA is a gatekeeper for all federal rules and needs to give final approval for any rule.

The substance of OIRA meetings are confidential, but public logs show that utility industry lobbyists and lawyers had ample opportunity to make their case.

In the end, the Obama administration office approved coal ash ponds as the “best available technology,” contrary to EPA’s recommended option. OIRA also recast some of the scientific findings and softened language toward coal utilities while finding that the benefits of the rule were less than the EPA had projected.

When the proposed rule went out for public comment, utilities argued the EPA was underestimating its cost, that wastewater was already being addressed through other regulations and that there was no proof that newer technologies were more effective in reducing the concentration of toxins in wastewater. Environmentalists had their own complaints, pressing the agency to eliminate wastewater discharges entirely and arguing the proposed regulations would likely lead to new coal ash ponds.

In all, more than 200,000 members of the public weighed in during the fourmonth comment period, largely due to letter-writing campaigns from environmental groups. A California woman recounted how industrial coal processing chemicals fouled water in West Virginia, leaving her friends with unsafe water for weeks. A West Virginia woman pleaded for help: “One thing’s for certain — our state oversight of this immense environmental legacy is sorely lacking and we desperately

look to the EPA to stand up for us!”

Industry weighed in as well, often attaching voluminous studies and additional monitoring data to their comments.

Southerland said she led the team in around-the-clock analyses to see if the industry-provided data affected the calculations that went into the rule.

At the same time, Southerland’s boss mounted a campaign to push OIRA to approve EPA’s original version of the rule.

Ken Kopocis, a lawyer who worked on Capitol Hill for more than 25 years before Obama nominated him to lead the Office of Water, said he appealed to “high-ranking” officials in the Office of Management and Budget, which oversees OIRA, and also the White House, walking them through the research.

“My people in Water didn’t think we were going to be able to get the rule we wanted,” Kopocis said. “I said, ‘No, we’re going to fight for it and we’re going to get it.’ ... OIRA is full of capable people. But they don’t know as much as the agency does.”

Kopocis’ strategy worked: He was able to convince OIRA to reverse its initial decision.

The final rule, released on Sept. 30, 2015, substantially mirrored EPA’s original proposal, setting strict limits, for the first time, on the amount of selenium, arsenic, mercury and nitrate utilities could discharge. It didn’t prescribe a specific technology plants needed to use to achieve this goal, but it said the tougher limits couldn’t easily be met using coal ash ponds.

This rule was “incredibly significant,” Kopocis said, because there’s “no dispute” that the toxins curbed by the rule are harmful. “It’s just incredible that we had all of these pollutants being put into water bodies when the technology was available to stop it.”

And it turned out, most utilities had already moved to comply with the toughened rule. EPA officials found that only 12 percent, about 134 facilities, needed to update their technology.

Officials knew some plant operators wouldn’t be able to afford the upgrades.

“There might have been a plant or two that would have ended up closing,” Kopocis said.

The EPA gave utilities years to raise the money needed to limit the toxicity of the liquid they released. The rule required them to start cleaning up their discharges by November 2018 and until 2023 to complete the transition.

The rule was challenged in courts around the country. Industry lawsuits said it was too difficult to comply with the rule; environmentalist lawsuits said it needed to go further. For months, cases were in limbo as they were consolidated before a single court. Industry and environmentalists tried to compel the EPA to disclose confidential business information gathered to create the guidelines — data that could be picked apart to bolster their legal arguments. The EPA asked the court for time to prepare briefs, delaying the case to 2017.

All this was pretty much par for the course for any new EPA rule.

Inside the Office of Science and Technology, Southerland’s team moved

December 20, 2017 The Rock River Times. forward with implementing the rule, holding webinars, writing documents and answering state regulators’ questions about how to put the guidelines into practice. They continued that work as the Obama administration ended and the Trump administration brought new leadership to the top of the agency.

Art of the deal

Standing there on that April morning, press release in hand, Southerland didn’t panic.

She had navigated setbacks under all kinds of administrations since she joined the EPA in 1984. Trained as an engineer, with a doctorate in environmental sciences and engineering, she said her instinct was to brief the administrator on the science.

She gathered key staffers around a conference table and got to work.

They quickly decided their old briefing documents from the Obama administration were too technical. For 90 minutes, they outlined the contours of four briefings — one each on how the rule came together, why it was affordable, why it was necessary, and the legal challenges that might arise from further revision.

Southerland told her team they needed to give Administrator Pruitt “all the relevant facts,” she said, so he “could make a good decision.” He was reconsidering the rule, but before he restarted the formal rulemaking process, they hoped they could persuade him not to throw it out completely.

These were their best arguments: The rule was already being widely followed by the industry. The industry claim that the rule would cause power plants to close was likely wrong — many plants lacking the appropriate technology were already slated for retirement, pushed out by the low cost of natural gas. The delayed compliance dates would give the remaining companies time to plan and pay for the shift.

The team spent the rest of the day fleshing out details.

“We we r e ab s olute ly hop e f u l,” Southerland said. “We thought if anything, we could talk him into repealing just a small part of it.”

They tried to get on Pruitt’s schedule, but he was booked — often with back-toback speaking engagements, meetings and briefings with industry executives, published calendars show.

While they waited to meet with Pruitt, Southerland and her team worked on those around him. For two months, they held in-person and phone briefings with EPA lawyers, high-ranking political appointees and career staffers. In meeting after meeting, they walked different officials through the development of the rule, the legal issues related to it, and the price tag for implementing it. They received no pushback from Pruitt’s lieutenants in those briefings, staffers said, and few questions.

Finally, they had two briefings on July 14 and July 21 with Pruitt himself, packing all of their talking points into those one-hour time slots.

Walking into the administrator’s packed conference room for the first time, their

hopes were high. “We assumed we had dazzled them and this was just the finishing touch,” Southerland said.

In the first briefing, the team explained how it developed the rule and calculated its costs; then, it laid out the arguments industry had raised and, point-by-point, gave potential options for solving them.

Pruitt took notes and was “attentive,” Southerland said, but asked few questions.

In the second briefing, the team laid out the bottom line of Pruitt’s options and the consequences of each. Reopening portions of the rule would likely mean even more stringent effluent limits down the road, since technology had improved since the final rule was released in 2015, they said.

Repealing the entire rule would rollback all of the protections — even those that utilities supported.

Finally, Pruitt asked if there was anything else the staff wanted to say.

Staffers added that municipal water utilities had expressed concern that, without the rule, they would bear the costs of keeping effluent pollutants out of the drinking water supply. Staffers also noted that putting the rule on hold would lead to confusion for states renewing discharge permits for coal plants. When the staffers finished speaking, Pruitt thanked them.

the rule be reopened, announcing that the EPA would re-examine the pollution limits that the new effluent rule set for the two biggest sources of wastewater from coal plants, potentially erasing the thrust of the rule issued in 2015.

Not long after, Pruitt’s office announced that “substantive portions” of the other rule to regulate coal ash ponds, the Coal Combustion Residuals rule, would be reconsidered. An EPA spokeswoman said “there were significant issues” with both rules that “justify the need to take a second look.”

“We were heartbroken,” Southerland said. “We raked ourselves over the coals trying to say ‘what more could we have done?’”

Delay and defeat

The reopened effluent rule sent ripples through the coal plant industry and beyond.

In Indiana, a company that planned to install $400 million in upgrades postponed seeking funding for a system that would have complied with the new pollution limits.

The company, Northern Indiana Public Service Co., will “revisit... investments once the EPA completes its review,” said director of external communications Nick Meyer.

The Tennessee Valley Authority — a federally owned independent power compa-

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eople complain about the actions of the EPA, but when you ask about the specific benefits ... no one says, “I want that to go away.” They don’t say “my drinking water is too safe” or “the beaches are too clean. I really miss that hazardous waste site next to my kids’ school ...”’

The meeting was over.

On the walk to the elevator, the team was ecstatic.

“We thought we made all of our points and that we couldn’t have done a better job explaining how important and affordable this rule was,” Southerland said.

The EPA now had to hear from the public.

In May, Pruitt had proposed delaying the deadline for coal plants to comply with the effluent guidelines while the agency considered whether to revise the rule entirely. The proposed rule triggered a public comment period, including a hearing on July 31 in which 71 people signed up to testify. Only three speakers were from industry. The rest begged for the effluent limits to remain intact.

“If somebody backed a tractor trailer truck of mercury up to my lawn or your lawn and dumped it on your lawn, what would you do?” said environmental attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “You would say to them, ‘Clean it up. Clean it all up.’ And if they said to you, ‘Well, it’s too costly for us to do that,’ you would say, ‘I don’t care what the cost is. You have no right to do that, ever.’”

Eleven days later, Pruitt sent a letter to lobbying groups that had requested that

ny — told state regulators it was holding off on installing new technology until 2023.

The company said it was awaiting guidance from the state, which was waiting for the EPA. “We’re not delaying anything,” Scott Brooks, the company’s spokesman, said, “but when you have a rule that’s suspended, you go back to what was in place prior to the guidelines that were suspended.”

Frontier Water Systems, which had created a system for dry-handling coal ash waste, is already feeling the squeeze.

The company has about 24 employees in San Diego, Salt Lake City and outside of Atlanta and is on track to do $15 million in business this year. But the company’s future is uncertain, since so much relies on when or if coal plants will be required to clean up their waste streams. One of the owners, Jamie Peters, said they’d consider selling their technology to China or another country if it’s unsustainable here.

“If this rule is delayed significantly or removed, we would probably have to abandon this,” Peters said. “I don’t think we have years; we have months.”

The new rulemaking process could take a few years, former officials said, since the EPA will have to collect data about the current state of wastewater technology in

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order to propose a replacement standard, then go through the interagency review process again and allow for more public comments.

Now, Southerland is on the outside looking in. In an interview with ProPublica, Southerland, 68, said she opted to retire in August for family reasons, though she’s been an outspoken critic of Pruitt since she left.

She made her farewell letter public, and it went viral.

“The truth is, there is NO war on coal, there is NO economic crisis caused by environmental protection, and climate change IS caused by man’s activities,” she wrote.

At her retirement party, she read the speech to the colleagues she was leaving behind — the ones tasked with orchestrating repeals of rules they crafted. Her scathing critique was both an acknowledgement of their current reality, and a plea to stay the course.

“I know in my heart that the majority of Americans in this country recognize that protection of public health and safety is a right and it is just,” she said. “And so this will happen. And all of you must just wait for that day to come — whether it’s two years, three years or four years: that day will come. So, do not give up. Do not feel that your efforts are going to go to waste in these four years. Because, eventually, you will overcome.”

At first, Southerland said, scientists at the agency expressed optimism that they could prevent rules they’d spent their careers to advance from being weakened or scrapped. But as time wears on, she said, that hope is fading.

More than 700 EPA employees had taken buyouts and early retirements by September, both because they oppose the agency’s current direction and to take advantage of a $12-million initiative launched to thin the ranks.

When asked about the departures, an EPA spokeswoman said the agency has more than 1,600 scientists and that “Pruitt has assembled a staff of highly-qualified individuals to help implement the President’s agenda, and ensure that EPA will continue to promote policies that provide clean air and water, protecting the environment and human health, while encouraging economic growth.”

Southerland’s former boss Kopocis, who retired in 2015, still speaks with former colleagues and tries to remind them why they came to the EPA in the first place.

“People complain about the actions of the EPA, but when you ask about the specific benefits ... no one says, ‘I want that to go away,’” he said. “They don’t say ‘my drinking water is too safe’ or ‘the beaches are too clean. I really miss that hazardous waste site next to my kids’ school ...’

“I’ve never been in a workplace where so many people work there because they wanted to,” Kopocis said. “They got graduate degrees so they would be qualified to work at the EPA ... It’s like being a park ranger — nobody would wear that Smokey the Bear hat unless they wanted to be a park ranger.”

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COMMENTARY

Why justice is more important than the rule of law

BY KLAUS MLADEK

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THE CONVERSATION

he 2017 Stress in America survey has confirmed it: Americans are o�cially freaking out.

The survey, conducted by the Harris Poll, reports that what keeps many Americans up at night is genuine political anxiety. Rather than issues related to their work or families, respondents said they were most worried about the “future of the nation” and the “current social divisiveness.” Almost two-thirds of Americans think the nation is going through “the lowest point” in its history.

As evidence for these unusually dark times, pundits often point to the breakdown of social norms and the disregard for the rule of law. To be sure, these are real problems. Yet, as a scholar and teacher of political theory and literature, I have always been amazed how quickly my students turn to talking about the abstract rule of law, rather than the concrete realities of law enforcement and justice.

Are people perhaps so interested in the rule of law because they fear American society is no longer equal and just?

Crisis

Consider the sense of injustice among many Americans that still lingers after the financial crisis and the global bank bailout in 2008. Or, consider that many politicians are incapable of addressing or unwilling to address the concerns facing many people, such as inequality, poverty and health care.

This disregard for “justice for all” and the unrest it has caused indicate a profound crisis in the United States.

Public o�cials, it seems, can no longer adequately respond to a series of popular demands. Many people have also lost confidence that this darkness will soon pass, as my colleague George Edmondson and I recently discussed in the introduction to a co-edited book “Sovereignty in Ruins: A Politics of Crisis.”

An alternative vision for our society is nowhere in sight. Political observers cannot even agree on vocabulary to describe the bewildering phenomena that confront Western democracies such as terrorism, populism and the refugee crisis. The current unrest in the global order today has revived ideas about

Source, American Psychological Association, Stress in America Survey 2017 conflict, factionalism and civil war – what the ancients called stasis. They considered it the worst calamity that could befall a society, the dissolution of order and values.

But as ancient philosophers, and more modern thinkers like the Founding Fathers, have pointed out: In conflict resides hope and the potential for justice.

Hope and justice

The pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus once stated, “Conflict is justice.” In this sense, justice emerges from concrete struggles and confrontation. Take, for example, Thomas Je�erson’s list of 27 grievances against the king of England in the Declaration of Independence. It is too early to know if recent movements such as Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, the Women’s March and the #MeToo campaign will have the same revolutionary force. But they likewise grew out contemporary conflicts that revitalize past struggles for justice.

The idea of conflict as justice was wellknown to the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. Contrary to the one-sided form of rhetoric by which the demagogue swayed the masses, the Socratic philosopher addressed his audience in dialogues.

Insights into the question “What is justice?” often emerge during the course of bitter exchanges. In other words, justice is not an object to have, but a

di�cult journey to undertake.

The Founding Fathers understood that a contentious conversation on justice can prevent tyranny much better than the rule of law. James Madison once asserted: “Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.”

According to Alexander Hamilton, the United States needs economic diversity and a variety of competing interests, parties and religions in order to achieve this justice. In fact, the greater the mixture of opinions and passions in a society, James Madison observed, the more it is “consonant with the public good.”

The robust exchange of ideas makes citizens forge a stronger bond. Like chess players who try to outmaneuver each other for many hours and feel, in that moment, closer to one another than to anyone else in the world. In short, justice consists of a balancing act among contrary powers that are more or less equal in strength.

Divided we stand

“United we stand” not despite the many divisions but because of them. This is Madison’s novel insight. Not to combat factions, but to redirect them to achieve unexpected outcomes, di�erent from the type of justice each faction advanced by itself. After all, harmony comes out of tension, even discord, like the melody produced by string instruments.

By contrast, contemporary American

politics, on nearly every issue – whether gun control or immigration – has increasingly fallen within a binary logic. This logic comes from only two camps that are locked in a culture war.

Americans don’t live in 11 separate nations, as the journalist Colin Woodard claimed, but only in two.

Economics professor Peter Temin recently explored this divide in his book on the “dual economy.” He argues that the cultural divide between liberals and conservatives, or between people living rural and urban America, has also become an economic one: between the prosperous and the poor.

Social media has played a role in shaping this divide. It trades an unpolitical vision of consensus – of “sharing,” “liking,” “friends” and “followers” – for genuine interrogation and discovery.

Message-testing, data collection and focus-group engineering predict most of our opinions. People are fed only stories they are apt to read and moved to share. A variety of factions are gradually reduced to recognizable social types.

The framers understood the danger of conformism. They argued that the mixing and stirring among a variety of adversaries has an educational e�ect. It obliges everyone to learn honesty and temperance, and to view the disagreement not as an obstacle to just governance but as its enabling power.

So, contrary to the appeal that Americans must come together to achieve union, Hamilton and Madison advanced an idea that was unheard of before: that divided we stand. The current political problem might not be that the people of the United States are too divided, but that they are not divided enough. There is divisiveness only if there are too few factions.

What can be done?

Have the tenacity and patience to remain in the place of tension. Don’t look for confirmation. Instead, have the courage to sustain conflict, to stand out and be alone. Keep in mind that conflict animates politics and justice. As Henry David Thoreau said, don’t follow the herd.

In other words, turn o� your devices and unplug. Read books, think for yourself and write in your own voice, di�erent from anyone else. Create new communities and work with people who want to amplify the growing calls for justice.

First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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George Henry Durrie’s ‘Winter in the Country: A Cold Morning’ (1861). Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Why there’s no place like home for the holidays

By Frank T. McAndrew

W

The Conversation

hile Christmas playlists often include cheesy favorites like “Rockin Around the Christmas Tree” and “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus,” there are also a handful of wistful tracks that go a little bit deeper.

Listen closely to “I’ll be Home for Christmas” or “White Christmas,” and you’ll hear a deep yearning for home, and sorrow at having to spend the holidays somewhere else.

Strip away the cursory Christmas rituals – the TV specials, the lights, the gifts, the music – and what remains is home.

It is the beating heart of the holiday, and its importance reflects our primal need to have a meaningful relationship with a setting – a place that transcends the boundary between the self and the physical world.

Can you love a place like a person?

Most of us can probably name at least one place we feel an emotional connection to. But you probably don’t realize just how much a place can influence your sense of who you are, or how essential it is for your psychological well-being.

Psychologists even possess an entire vocabulary for the affectionate bonds between people and places: There’s “topophilia,” “rootedness” and “attachment to place,” which are all used to describe the feelings of comfort and security that bind us to a place.

Your fondness for a place – whether it’s the house where you lived your whole life, or the fields and woods where you played as a child – can even mimic the affection you feel for other people.

Studies have shown that a forced relocation can elicit heartbreak and distress every bit as intense as the loss of a loved

one. Another study found that if you feel a strong attachment to your town or city, you’ll be more satisfied with your house and you’ll also be less anxious about your future.

Our physical surroundings play an important role in creating meaning and organization in our lives; much of how we view our lives and what we have become depends on where we’ve lived, and the experiences we’ve had there.

So it’s no surprise that architecture professor Kim Dovey, who has studied the concept of home and the experience of homelessness, confirmed that where we live is closely tied to our sense of who we are.

An anchor of order and comfort

At the same time, the concept of home can be slippery.

One of the first questions we ask when we meet someone new is “Where are you

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from?” But we seldom pause to consider how complicated that question is. Does it mean where you currently live? Where you were born? Where you grew up?

Environmental psychologists have long understood that the word “home” clearly connotes more than just a house.

It encompasses people, places, objects and memories.

So what or where, exactly, do people consider “home”?

A 2008 Pew study asked people to identify “the place in your heart you consider to be home.” Twenty-six percent reported that home was where they were born or raised; only 22 percent said that it was where they currently lived. Eighteen percent identified home as the place that they had lived the longest, and 15 percent felt that it was where most of their extended family had come from.

But if you look at different cultures across time, a common thread emerges.

No matter where they come from, people tend to think about home as a central place that represents order, a counterbalance to the chaos that exists elsewhere. This might explain why, when asked to draw a picture of “where you live,” children and adolescents around the world invariably place their house in the center of the sheet of paper. In short, it’s what everything else revolves around.

Anthropologists Charles Hart and Arnold Pilling lived among the the Tiwi People of Bathurst Island off the coast of Northern Australia during the 1920s.

They noted that the Tiwi thought their island was the only habitable place in the world; to them, everywhere else was the “land of the dead.”

The Zuni of the American Southwest, meanwhile, have long viewed the house as a living thing. It’s where they raise their kids and communicate with spirits, and there’s an annual ritual – called the Shalako – in which homes are blessed and consecrated as part of the year-end winter solstice celebration.

The ceremony strengthens bonds to the community, to the family (including dead ancestors), and to the spirits and gods by dramatizing the connection each party has to the home.

During the holidays, we might not officially bless our home like the Zuni.

But our holiday traditions probably sound familiar: eating with family, exchanging gifts, catching up with old friends and visiting old haunts. These homecoming rituals affirm and renew a person’s place in the family and often are a key way to strengthen the family’s social fabric.

Home, therefore, is a predictable and secure place where you feel in control and properly oriented in space and time; it is a bridge between your past and your present, an enduring tether to your family and friends.

It is a place where, as the poet Robert Frost aptly wrote, “when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”

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Fifth annual Stroll on State draws record crowd with 82,500 in attendance A record number of local residents and visitors gathered in downtown Rockford to celebrate Stroll on State, presented

by Illinois Bank & Trust, on Nov. 25.

The Rockford Area Convention & Visitors Bureau produces the annual event with the support, services and donations of many community partners, volunteers and sponsors.

Event organizers are pleased to announce that the merry and bright activities Stroll on State is known for, together with several new enhancements attracted an estimated 82,500 visitors to downtown Rockford for the one-day event, a 10 percent increase over 2017.

Key elements that contributed to the success of the event were the new Dasher Dash 5K run/walk, extended hours, a reimagined parade that kicked o� the event, the addition of new stages for live entertainment, additional fire and ice displays and the warmest Stroll temperatures on record. Organizers eval-

uate aerial photography, feedback from crowd spotters, shuttle bus ridership, occupied parking stalls, sales/participation numbers for local businesses and participation counts at event attractions throughout the duration of the event to help determine the estimate.

“Stroll on State truly resonates in the hearts of many and has become a tradition that puts a big, bright spotlight on downtown Rockford. With five years in our rear view we see more clearly than ever before that events like this make a big di�erence and form perceptions of our community that are both positive and lasting,” said John Groh, RACVB president/CEO. “Stroll on State may be a one-day event, but it is a catalyst for a revitalized downtown, has improved our economy with an influx of people supporting local businesses and provides a memorable experience thousands can look back on with joy for years to come.”

The event spans more than 15 blocks in downtown Rockford, showcasing locally owned retail shops and eateries. It also features an abundance of family-friendly activities highlighted by the Stroll on State parade, visits with Santa, horse and wagon rides, several live performances and entertainment, drinking hot chocolate and watching the magical tree lighting of the City of Rockford Christmas Tree.

In a post-event survey, Stroll on State and downtown Rockford have collectively received favorable feedback. An overwhelming 95 percent of people said they had a positive (excellent/46 percent, very good/34 percent or good/15 percent) experience at the event.

“Year in and year out the Saturday after Thanksgiving has been the largest grossing sales day of our fiscal year by far. The 2017 Stroll on State met and exceeded our expectations yet again,” said Ben Chauvin, Rockford Roasting Company co-owner. “This year we saw our sales increase over 60 percent

above last year and for five consecutive hours we did more sales than our single busiest hour last year. Furthermore, that “rush” included one hour with over 80 transactions! That accounts to four sales transactions every three minutes – a success by far!”

The Merry & Bright season continues in Rockford through the end of January with many more community events and programs. Check out gorockford.com/ merryandbright for recommendations and information. Stroll on State merchandise, sold during the event, is now available for purchase online by visiting the Rockford Store gorockford.com/store or at the RACVB o�ce (102 N. Main St.). Items are available while supplies last.

See the full By the Numbers document at strollonstate.com.

people volunteered for Stroll on State

letters written to Santa

kids visited Santa at SantaLand

Dasher Dash runners and walkers

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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: 815-877-0118.

Woodstock Opera House – 121 E. Van Buren St., Woodstock. Info: 815-338-5300.

Woodstock Weavers Guild – Old Courthouse Arts Center, 101 N. Johnson, Woodstock. Info: 815-399-1630.

Wright Museum of Art – Beloit College, 700 College St., Beloit, Wis. Free. Info: 608-363-2095.

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

Casino Bus Trip to the Dubuque Diamond Jo Casino!

Sat. Jan 6

Fri. Dec 29 $12 per person Includes Transportation and Lunch Buffet

Thurs. Jan 11, Tues. Jan 16 Fri. Dec 29, Sat. Jan 27

Pickup in Rockford (E. State K-Mart) & Beloit (Flying J)

Pickup in Rockford (E. State K-Mart) & Freeport (Shopko) Pickup in Belvidere (Walmart 2102 Gateway Center Dr.), Rockford (E. State K-Mart) & Freeport (Walmart 2545 Hwy 26) For reservations & pickup times, call: 1-800-582-5956 ext. 4751 or 4752 Friday Larry Higgs - Performing from 5:30-8 p.m. at Stockholm Inn, 2420 Charles St. Free admission.

Standout Midwestern Musicians: Mark Dvorak, Lee Murdock, Emily Hurd, & MORE - Listening Room Annual Fundraiser at JustGoods, 201 7th St. Doors open at 6 p.m., concert from 7-9:30 p.m.

Free admission, donations to Rockford Promise encouraged.

Saturday Ron Holm - Performing from 5:30-8 p.m. at Stockholm Inn, 2420 Charles St. Free admission.

Friday, December 29 Benjamin Cartel - Performing at Mary’s Place, 602 N. Madison St., at 9 p.m.

Saturday, January 20 Concerto Competition - Rockford Symphony Orchestra in partnership with Rock Valley College announce registration is open for the annual Concerto Competition for young musicians up to 21 years of age from a 50 mile radius of Rockford. The 2018 Concerto Competition will take place on Saturday, January 20, 2018 at Rock Valley College. Applicants must register for the competition by December 20, 2017. Registration is available online at rockfordsymphony.com/ concerto-competition. Cash prizes are awarded for the top three competitors and the first prize winner is offered an opportunity to perform with the Rockford Symphony Youth Orchestra at its spring performance. Competition Guidelines: Entries will be accepted in: Piano, Strings, Voice, Woodwinds, Brass, and Percussion. The competition piece should not exceed 10 minutes and must be appropriate to perform with a youth orchestra, such as a movement from a concerto, or an aria for voice. The competition piece need not be memorized. The applicant is responsible for obtaining their own accompanist. The applicant must bring three copies of their music for the judges. An entry fee of $35 must accompany the application.

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

Have your free listing in the Thursday preceding our Wednesday publication.

Listings can be e-mailed to contact@rockrivertimes.com or called in to 815-964-9767.

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 $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.

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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.

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.

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.

Victorian Holiday Open House - A Victorian Holiday Open House, benefiting Friends of Noah animal rescue, will be held at 103 North Chatham in Janesville from 5-8 p.m. on December 15, 16, 21, 22 and 23. Admission is free with a cash donation.

The home will be filled with 15 Christmas trees, a Christmas village display, doll houses, a North Pole display complete with Santa’s workshop, and many more decorations. Founded in 2010, Friends of Noah is an all-breed animal rescue group. Visit the Friends of Noah-WI website at h ttp://www.friendsofnoah-wi.org for more information.

Wednesday, Dec. 20-Saturday, Dec. 23 Little Caesars Grand Opening Week - Little Caesars at 3108 N. Rockton Ave. will be celebrating its Grand Opening Week with daily specials.

Wednesday enter for a chance to win free pizza for a year and receive free Little Caesars pizza cutters. Thursday Spin the Wheel for a chance to win Pizza, Crazy Bread, Caesar Doll, Playing Cards, Lanyard, or Sports Bottle. Friday enter for a chance to win free pizza for a year and receive a Little Caesars backpack. Saturday free Crazy Bread with the purchase of an Extramostbestest Pizza. Kids can also come in to receive a coloring sheet to enter for a chance to win a Nintendo Switch. Giveaway items are only available one per person and while supplies last. For more information visit Little Caesars. Open daily at 10:30 a.m. for lunch.

Tuesday, December 26-Saturday, December 30 Holiday Hoopla - The kids will soon be out of school for their winter break. But that doesn’t mean it’s “tis the season” for kids to be without reason! The holidays are a great time to exercise the mind.

Discovery Center provides the perfect holiday mix…family fun, physical activity and even a little science! Holiday Hoopla will merge hands-on arts and crafts with science, math and engineering.

Partake in a multitude of maker activities as you invent delightful ornaments and toys. Plus, vote for your favorite cookie, create a pretty pattern, solve puzzles, and discover hidden shapes. With over 250 hands-on exhibits, holiday planetarium shows, special craft activities and live science demonstrations during the holidays, kids and adults will have fun and maybe even learn a little something about science. The extra activities will take place 11:30 am to 3:30 pm each day. Holiday Hoopla activities are included with admission to the Museum. Planetarium shows are $1.00 for the general public and $0.50 for Discovery Center members. All other activities are included with museum admission-$8/person. Admission to the temporary exhibition Great Balls of Fire: Comets, Asteroid and Meteors is free to members and an extra $2 for the public. Discovery Center will be open until 3 pm on Dec. 24, closed Dec. 25, and open regular hours (10 am to 5 pm) Dec. 31 and Jan. 1.

Saturday, January 13 Winter Tree & Shrub Identification Workshop - The Natural Land Institute will host the Winter Tree & Shrub Identification Workshop from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. The workshop will be led by NLI’s Director of Stewardship, Zach Grycan. Participants will learn how to identify native and non-native trees and shrubs by buds, twigs, and bark. The workshop will start with an indoor classroom session to be held at Natural Land Institute’s office, 320 S. 3rd St., Rockford, from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. There will be a break for lunch (on own). The afternoon session will incorporate hands-on learning with a walk from 1-3 p.m. at Blackhawk Springs Forest Preserve, 5360 Mulford Rd., Cherry Valley. Cost is $20 per person. Registration is required by January 12, 2018. Call 815-964-6666 or email info@naturalland.org for more information and to register.

Thursday, January 3 Sinnissippi Quilters Meeting - Bill Kerr, Co-founder of the Modern Quilting Movement, will present two lectures to the Sinnissippi Quilters meeting on in the Bethesda Covenant Church at East State and Washington Street. At 1 p.m. Bill Kerr will talk about the finer points of quilt construction and

Monday, January 15 TOPS Open House - New Year’s Resolution To Lose Weight? Visit our TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) open house at 5:30 at Salvation Army, 422 S Main St., Belvidere, side entrance. You may contact Melissa at milicaf35@yahoo.com or call her at 815-547-0642 for more information.

materials in “Details Matter.” At 7 p.m. he will lecture on the power of color to support your quilt design. The public is invited; the guest fee is $10. Visit www.sinnissippiquilters.org for more details.

FUGITIVE ALERT REWARDS UP TO $1000 ROCKFORD ARE A CRIME STOPPERS – 963-7867

TOLL FREE 1-888-769-STOP (7867) IF YOU KNOW THE LOCATION OF A FUGITIVE OR HAVE INFORMATION ON OTHER CRIMES PLEASE CALL FUGITIVES WANTED AS OF

December 18, 2017 Warrants must be verified before arrest

WARNING:

Iris Beasley Agg Fleeing City---43 years old

Cortez Gayden Domestic Battery City----27 years old

Andre Gilbert Obstructing Justice City—33 years old

The fugitives in this bulletin may be dangerous. Never confront them. Call Crime Stoppers or your local police.

IMPORTANT: Your call is confidential; we never ask your name, and our phones do not have caller I.D. If your information leads to an arrest or solves a crime, you will be paid up to $1000.00.

This bulletin is an official publication compiled by the Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office, Rockford Police Department and Rockford Area Crime Stoppers.

Phillip Herron-Simmons Agg Fleeing City—28 years old

Darack Smart Domestic Battery City—44 years old

Sebastian Jensen Agg DUI City---46 years old

Seth Warden Domestic Battery County----22 years old

Have your free listing in the Thursday preceding our Wednesday publication.

Listings can be e-mailed to contact@rockrivertimes.com or called in to 815-964-9767.

Brittany Lebrecht Forgery City---23 years old

All individuals are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Stephon Kimble Fleeing County---25 years old

CRIME DOESN’T PAY – WE DO No Taxpayer money is ever used for a CrimeStoppers reward.

CrimeStoppers is 100% funded by donations.

You can help by sending a donation to: Rockford Area CrimeStoppers, P.O. Box 4535 Rockford, IL 61110 Bulletins may be downloaded from www.rockfordcrimestoppers.com

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THE LUCKIEST SIGNS THIS WEEK: CAPRICORN, AQUARIUS AND PISCES

Death Notices

Your health Week of December 3 to 9, 2017

James Hough 57 Rockford 12/11/2017

Sleep problems tied to female infertility

Michael Kreiman 57 Rockford 12/11/2017 William Bybee 60 Rockford 12/12/2017 Sylvester Hughes 78 Rockford 12/12/2017 Wonda Allen 67 Rockford 12/12/2017 Sylvia Blake 83 Rockford 12/12/2017 Daniel Runyan 77 Rockford 12/12/2017 Abdias Chiquito 59 Rockford 12/12/2017 Donald Hedblom 73 Rockford 12/12/2017 Dean Martin 56 Rockford 12/12/2017 Leona Lee 87 Rockford 12/12/2017 Denny Scroggins 80 Rockford 12/12/2017 Joseph Grotto 95 Rockford 12/13/2017 Josephine Paolucci 89 Rockford 12/13/2017 Larry Hairrell 83 Rockford 12/13/2017 Melissa Salsbury 45 Rockford 12/13/2017 Joanne Friesen 81 Rockford 12/13/2017 Lloyd Long Rockford 12/13/2017 Merry Osborne 58 Rockford 12/13/2017 Betty Constant 89 Rockford 12/14/2017 Clinton Logan 47 Rockford 12/14/2017 Gladys Bohren 81 Rockford 12/14/2017 Nancy McAllister 84 Rockford 12/14/2017 Thomas Jaquet Sr. 94 Rockford 12/14/2017 Bennie Gorden 58 Rockford 12/14/2017 Suzanne Mori 83 Rockford 12/14/2017 Martin Kasch 93 South Beloit 12/14/2017 Julia Allen 85 Rockford 12/14/2017 Anita Chincherna 83 Rockford 12/14/2017 Bridget Dillon 68 Rockford 12/14/2017 Edward Pavelek 92 Rockford 12/15/2017 Anthony Gonzales 32 Rockford 12/15/2017 Michelle Worley 47 Rockford 12/15/2017 Viola Cyborski 93 Rockford 12/15/2017 Artheda Patch 77 Roscoe 12/15/2017 Martin Schmeling 68 Rockford 12/16/2017 Russell Schaefer Sr. 78 Rockton 12/16/2017 Lisa Williams 55 Winnebago 12/16/2017 Kenneth Cunningham 77 Rockford 12/16/2017 Jimmy Beyer 69 Winnebago 12/16/2017 David Barrickman 64 Rockford 12/16/2017 Madge Tewell 86 Rockford 12/16/2017 Betty Dunn 79 Machesney Park 12/16/2017 Albert Patterson 69 Rockford 12/16/2017 John Cameron 69 Rockford 12/17/2017 Roberta Neslund 89 Rockford 12/17/2017 Eugene Bunger 82 Rockford 12/17/2017 Violet Raymer 99 South Beloit 12/17/2017 James Moore 91 Rockford 12/17/2017 Pleas Hodges 80 South Beloit 12/17/2017 Helen Bird 94 Rockford 12/17/2017 John Kowalkowski 66 Rockford 12/17/2017 John Percell 73 Loves Park 12/17/2017 Laverne Friday 97 Rockford 12/18/2017 Larry Johnson 61 Rockford 12/18/2017 Death notices are provided by the Winnebago County Coroner’s office.

Week of December 10 to 16, 2017

THE LUCKIEST SIGNS THIS WEEK: ARIES, TAURUS AND GEMINI

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Medical Center in Taipei, endTaiwan. the year in style.

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You may not by be thrilled with your disorders might directly use before sleep,” Wang said email.

You willcause stand infertility. out as a result and holiday schedule at work.

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Most LIBRA gather a few loved ones together. of the time, it’s caused by problems with Stress is the scourge of the as 21stwell as socioeconomic status and family You will also be inspired to create history, the authors note. ovulation, often related to You a will hormone century. need to get medical lots a personal masterpiece. rest, if for no ovarian other reason than“We still have a lot to learn about how imbalance known as ofpolycystic view your exactly sleep disorders confer risk for infersyndrome (PCOS). Sometosigns thatprofessional a woman future SCORPIO moreinclude clearly. irregular tility,” said JenniferA Felder, a researcher is not ovulating normally great artist lies dormant at inside the University of California, Francisco, you who willSan awaken in spectacuor absent menstrual periods.

SCORPIO larin fashion.

You will be recognized who wasn’t involved the study.

Less common causes of infertility in It’s not always easy to reconcile fafor something you didwomen and you will Even so, the results suggest that women can include blocked fallopian tubes, mily and work at this time of year. make fresh start. can add infertility to thea long list of health structural problems with thebe uterus Time will precious,or but you’ll reasons to get help when they can’t fall or uterine fibroids. find a way to organize your scheSAGITTARIUS stay asleep.

The risk increases with age, andyou candon’t alsomiss be a beat. dule so that Your social life will be in overdrive.

“Although we doYou not knoweverywhere whetherand exacerbated by smoking, excessive drinking, willyet be invited SAGITTARIUS treating sleep disorders improves fertility, stress, an unhealthy diet, too much exercise, you’ll accept with relish, even if at You’ll the opportunity treatment may helptimes and is notfeel likely hurt,” you’ll like to you’re burning being overweight or obese orhave having sexuallyto travel the candle at both ends.

Felder said by email.

“Cognitive behavior transmitted infections.with loved ones — maybe your family or a group of friends. You’ll therapy is recommended as the first line of For the study, researchers examined data feel like shaking up your routine and CAPRICORN treatment approach for insomnia, which on 16,718 women newly diagnosed with sleep doing things differently this Christmas.

If you decide to celebrate Christmas was the most prevalent sleep disorder in disorders between 2000 and 2010 in Taiwan in a big way this year, you will have this sample, and itlots is ofavailable as well as a comparison group of 33,436 simiCAPRICORN planning toin-person do. Time will be with a therapist or avia digital applications lar women who didn’t have sleep You will try toproblems. hide your sensitivity. precious commodity, but in the friends will be there orifself-help workbooks.”

At the start of the Your study, women werefor you end, success will be yours. you don’talthough feel your best, about 35 years old, on average, theyso don’t be afraid to air your true emotions AQUARIUS if need be.

You’ll feel compelled to step out of your comfort zone and explore the AQUARIUS No surveys. world. You may decide to spend the You will be in the perfect place to holidays abroad, or perhaps you’ll be No pop ups. gather large groups around you. introduced to a different cultural You will be inspired to bring about group’s traditional cuisine.

No paywall. some radical changes at work.

PISCES

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You or someone close to you will receive excellent health-related news.

You might also find a way to generate considerable extra income.

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PISCES

You will be deeply touched by the visit of a family member you see very rarely and who means a lot to you. They’ll appreciate the warm welcome you’ll have prepared.

You’ll find yourself planning your entourage’s holiday events without much help. You will also have a number of projects to finish in a short period of time.

Although you will receive numerous invitations to participate in upcoming holiday festivities, you may rather see yourself leaving the harsh winter behind and heading south.

GEMINI

You will be quite sensitive and it won’t take much for you to get emotional. You will need to make some changes to rediscover a zest for life. Holiday festivities will help put a smile back on your face.

CANCER

It’s not always possible to please everyone, despite all your efforts and compromises. You will have to weigh the pros and cons in a particular situation that will require much finesse.

LEO

Lots of work is on the horizon! You will be blazingly efficient and end your week on a roll, at home as much as at work. Your guests will be blown away by your efforts.

VIRGO

You’ll be placed on a pedestal by someone for whom you have great respect. You could accomplish a remarkable — perhaps even heroic — feat. You may save somebody from tragedy, if only by listening attentively.

LIBRA

You may change your holiday plans at the last minute. You may also decide to redecorate your living space on a whim. A family member will need particular attention.

SCORPIO

You may buy yourself a car as a Christmas gift! You will be on the road a lot to finish shopping for all your upcoming social events.

SAGITTARIUS

Be careful with your spending this week: you wouldn’t want to max out your credit card. Pay your bills in advance. At home, you will need lots of affection from your partner.

CAPRICORN

Your emotions will be all over the place. Fortunately, you’ll be back on track with the winter solstice. Your ideas and enthusiasm will lead to a welcome break from your regular social routine.

AQUARIUS

Idealism can be healthy, as long as you manage to stay grounded in reality. Avoid the news this week and let a good novel carry you to a world that’s better aligned with your views.

PISCES

Your help will be required to bring many people together. An event that you’ll have organized will draw an impressive crowd. A spontaneous group trip could be in the cards.

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Government Notices n n n Committee Report Passed: 12/4/2018 ORDINANCE NO. 2017-214-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 which is a vacant lot at 1320 9th Street, PIN # 11-25-360-004, at a minimum bid of $500 with preference to the adjacent property owners. The city reserves the right to reject all bids. The subject property is legally described as follows: WOODRUFFS 2ND ADDN N 22 FT LOT 15 + S 22 FT LOT 016 BLOCK 016 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 January 22, 2018 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.

8366R TRRT 12/27 n n n Committee Report Passed: 12/4/2018 ORDINANCE NO. 2017-215-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 which is a vacant lot at 1246 Corbin Street, PIN # 1127-180-010, at a minimum bid

of $500 with preference to the adjacent property owners. The city reserves the right to reject all bids. The subject property is legally described as follows: LOT FOUR (4) IN BLOCK FORTY-EIGHT (48) AS DESIGNATED UPON THE PLAT OF SANF0RD’S ADDITION TO THE CITY OF ROCKFORD, THE PLAT OF WHICH ADDITION IS RECORDED IN BOOK 58 OF DEEDS (PLATS) ON PAGE 152 IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS, SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. Section 2: The Notice of said sale and the fact that said City of Rockford will receive bids for the purchase of said real estate shall be advertised in the Rock River Times, a weekly newspaper published in said City of Rockford, for three (3) consecutive weeks, the first publication to be not less than thirty (30) days before the day provided in said Notice for the opening bids for the real estate.

Section 3: The said Notice shall set forth the fact that said bids will be received until 11:00 A.M., local Rockford time on January 22, 2018 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.

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Public Notices 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 consulting company specializing in social media business in said County and State under the name of Caster Media Consulting at the following post office addresses: 12768 Legend Lakes Drive, Roscoe, IL 61073; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Benjamin Tyler Fiege, 608-346-7848 SIGNED: Benjamin Tyler Fiege 12/4/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 4th day of December, A.D. 2017.

Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Thalia Gallardo, DEPUTY 8352R TRRT 12/20 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 Barber Shop business in said County and State under the name of Diamond Cuttaz Barber Shop at the following post office addresses: 346 College Ave., Rockford, IL 61104; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Mario Jones; Kevin C. Jones SIGNED: Mario Jones 12/4/17 SIGNED: Kevin C. Jones 12/4/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 4th day of December, A.D. 2017.

Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Thalia Gallardo, DEPUTY 8353R TRRT 12/20 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY PROBATE DIVISION IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: JAMES WILLIE EVANS, Deceased.

Case No. 2017 P 464 CLAIM NOTICE Notice is given of the death of JAMES WILLIE EVANS of the City of Rockford, County of Winnebago and State of Illinois. Letters of Office were issued on October 30, 2017, to LINDA EVANS, of Rockford, Illinois, as Administrator, whose attorney is DANIEL A. LEWANDOWSKI, 1111 South Alpine Road, Suite 205, Rockford, Illinois 61108.

Claims against the Estate may be filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court at WINNEBAGO COUNTY COURTHOUSE, Probate Division, 400 West State Street, Rockford, Illinois, 61101, or with the representative, or both, within six (6) months from the date of the first date of Publication, and any claim not filed within the period is barred. Copies of a claim filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered to the representative and to the attorney within ten (10) days after it has been filed.

LINDA EVANS, Administrator By: /s/ Daniel A. Lewandowski DANIEL A. LEWANDOWSKI Prepared by: DANIEL A. LEWANDOWSKI, Reg. No. 6272609 Attorney for Petitioner 1111 South Alpine Road, Suite 205 Rockford, IL 61108 Office: (815) 399-1703 Fax: (815) 399-2803 E-mail: attorneylewandowski@ gmail.com 8351R TRRT 12/20 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 matchmaking for singles over 40 business in said County and State under the name of Bliss Matchmakers at the following post office addresses: 214 W. Main, Box 87, Rockton, IL 61072; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Carla McKinney SIGNED: Carla McKinney 11/30/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 30th day of November, A.D. 2017.

Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Thalia Gallardo, DEPUTY 8355R TRRT 12/20 n n n NOTICE BY PUBLICATION JEREMIAH GRIFFIN and TANCY GRIFFIN, Petitioners, vs.

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

CASE NO: 17 AD 231

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Take notice that on the 6th day of December, 2017, a Petition for Adoption was filed in the Circuit Court of Winnebago County, Illinois, 17th Judicial Circuit, and that on the first floor of the Winnebago County Juvenile Justice Center, on the 24th day of January, 2018 at the hour of 8:30 a.m., or as soon thereafter as this cause may be heard, a hearing will be held upon the Petition for Adoption.

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

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

Thomas Klein Clerk of the Circuit Court ERIN L. NASH #6304953 Nash Law Office, P.C. 4615 East State Street, Suite 201 Rockford, IL 61108 (815) 397-7500 8389R TRRT 1/3 n n n NOTICE BY PUBLICATION JEREMIAH GRIFFIN and TANCY GRIFFIN, Petitioners, vs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thomas Klein Clerk of the Circuit Court

ERIN L. NASH #6304953 Nash Law Office, P.C. 4615 East State Street, Suite 201 Rockford, IL 61108 (815) 397-7500 8391R TRRT 1/3 n n n TAX DEED NO. 2017TX227 FILED December 14, 2017 STEVEN C. HOWARD, 3439 Normandy Ave., Rockford, IL 61103 STEVEN C. HOWARD, 4553 Pepper Court, Rockford, IL 61114 DAVID E. MAYFIELD, ESQ., 4023 Charles St., Rockford, IL 61108 OCCUPANTS, 3439 Normandy Ave., Rockford, IL 61103 UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES INTERESTED, GENERALLY TAKE NOTICE County of Winnebago Date Premises Sold October 26, 2015 Certificate No. 201400289 Sold of General Taxes of (year) 2014 Sold for Special Assessment of (municipality) N/A and Special Assessment Number N/A Warrant No. N/A Inst. No. N/A THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES Property located at 3439 Normandy Ave., Rockford, IL 61103 Legal Description or Permanent Index No.: Lot Six (6) as designated upon the Plat of River Heights Subdivision, a part of the Southwest Quarter (¼) of Section 1 and Northwest Quarter (¼) of Section 12, Township 44 North, Range 1 East of the Third Principal Meridian, the Plat of which Subdivision is recorded in Book 20 of Plat Records, Page 44 in the Recorder’s Office in Winnebago County, Illinois, excepting the South 5 feet of said Lot, the North line of said excepted tract being parallel with the South line of said lot; situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois.

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

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

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

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

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

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

For further information contact the County Clerk.

HALVORSEN TURTLE TRUST, Purchaser By: /s/ G. Michael Scheurich

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DATED: December 20, 2017 DAVID E. CLARK LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE PREPARED BY: J. LAIRD LAMBERT

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

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

Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Angela Reina, DEPUTY 8401R TRRT 1/3 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a E-commerce business in said County and State under the name of River Valley Deals at the following post office addresses: 5757 Whispering Way, Loves Park, IL 61111; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Jarred Tholin SIGNED: Jarred Tholin 12/14/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 14th day of December, A.D. 2017.

Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Thalia Gallardo, DEPUTY 8402R TRRT 1/3 n n n NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: The following self-storage Cube contents containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart 6146, 7511 Vandiver Rd, Cherry Valley IL 61112 (815-332-4400) to satisfy a lien on January 11th, 2018 at approx. 10:00 AM at www. storagetreasures.com. All online bids start 14 days prior to the below start date.

Cube #K1, Sara Carmack; Cube #LL7, Franca M. Mastrodonato.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: The following self-storage Cube contents containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart 6150, 4548 American Rd, Rockford IL 61109 (815-874-2141) to satisfy a lien on January 11th, 2018 at approx.

11:00 AM at www.storagetreasures.com. All online bids start 14 days prior to the below start date.

Cube #1412, Abrianna Nicole Vyborny; Cube #5428, Monica Rose;

Cube #2610, Terry Barber; Cube #1239, Amanda Marie Ramirez; Cube #B33, Patricia M. Sunny; Cube #2623, Darrell Williams; Cube #5505, Dione D. Bowden.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: The following self-storage Cube contents containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart 6153, 4560 Stenstrom Rd, Rockford IL 61109 (815-874-2141) to satisfy a lien on January 11th, 2018 at approx.

11:15 AM at www.storagetreasures.com. All online bids start 14 days prior to the below start date.

Cube #S38, Jason Shelton; Cube #S39, Maria Lump; Cube #S35, Maria Lump.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: The following self-storage Cube contents containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart 6152, 3015 N. Main St., Rockford IL 61103 (815-282-4500) to satisfy a lien on January 11th, 2018 at approx.

11:30 AM at www.storagetreasures.com. All online bids start 14 days prior to the below start date.

Cube #A185, Dorothea M. Horton; Cube #B281, Marjorie Elliott; Cube #B154B167, Floyd Benson; Cube #A84, Andrew J. Weber; Cube #B233, Barbara Mackey.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: The following self-storage Cube contents containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart 6151, 6210 Forest Hills Road, Rockford IL 61111 (815-877-3146) to satisfy a lien on January 11th, 2018 at approx. 12:00 PM at www.storagetreasures.com. All online bids start 14 days prior to the below start date.

Cube #29, Lori Schnorr; Cube #211B, Tationa Monique Elliott; Cube #421, Richard G. Hess; Cube #302, Lori Schnott.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: The following self-storage Cube contents containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart 6148, 4300 Interstate Blvd, Loves Park IL 61111 (815-885-2100) to satisfy a lien on Janurary 11th , 2018 at approx. 12:30 PM at www.storagetreasures.com. All online bids start 14 days prior to the below start date.

Cube #128, Deb Berthiaume.

8403R TRRT 12/27 n n n SUPPLEMENTARY CERTIFICATE OF OWNERSHIP OF BUSINESS WITHDRAWAL OF NAME(S) STATE OF ILLINOIS COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO ss.

Certificate No. 030297 On the 5th day of October, A.D. 2011, the original certificate of ownership was filed in the office of County Clerk, in the County of Winnebago, Illinois for: F & L Finishing at the following address(es): 310 Morgan St., Rockford, IL 61102.

On the 19th day of December, A.D. 2017, the following person or persons ceased doing business under the above assumed name and have no further connection with or financial interest in the business carried on under such assumed name: Janet Lingle SIGNED: Janet Lingle 12/19/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed) to before me, this 19th day of December A.D. 2017.

Luanne Kaspar, Deputy Clerk 8404R TRRT 12/20

December 20, 2017 The Rock River Times. n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC Plaintiff, -v.MICHELLE R. SAVAIANO, et al Defendant 17 CH 0000408 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 January 26, 2018, at the NLT TITLE, LLC., 6885 Vistagreen Way, ROCKFORD, IL, 61107, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: THE NORTH TWENTY (20) FEET IN WIDTH OF LOT SEVENTEEN (17) AND THE SOUTH TWENTY (20) FEET IN WIDTH OF LOT EIGHTEEN (18) IN BLOCK THIRTY-FIVE (35) AS DESIGNATED UPON THE PLAT OF HARLEM PARK SUBDIVISION OF A PART OF THE NORTH HALF (1/2) OF SECTION 13, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 1 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, THE PLAT OF WHICH SUBDIVISION IS RECORDED IN BOOK 4 OF PLATS ON PAGE 6 IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS, THE NORTH AND SOUTH LINES OF SAID PREMISES BEING PARALLEL WITH THE LINES BETWEEN SAID LOT 17 AND 18 IN WINNEBAGO COUNTY; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 1731 DOUGLAS ST, ROCKFORD, IL 61103 Property Index No. 11-13-182004 (193A615).

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN

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

For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-17-05668.

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. 14-17-05668 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 17 CH 0000408 TJSC#: 37-8944 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.

I3070234 P8360R TRRT 12/27 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 RESIDENTIAL ASSET MORTGAGE PRODUCTS, INC., MORTGAGE ASSETBACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-RP1 Plaintiff, -v.CHERYL R. TUNISON, et al Defendant 17 CH 00203 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on May 17, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on January 11, 2018, at the NLT TITLE, LLC., 6885 Vistagreen Way, ROCKFORD, IL, 61107, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: PART OF LOT ONE (1) IN BLOCK TWO (2) AS DESIGNATED UPON THE PLAT OF AUBURNDALE, E. H. MARSH’S SUBDIVISION PART OF THE SOUTH HALF (1/2) OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER (1/4) OF SECTION 14, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 1 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, WHICH PLAT IS RECORDED IN BOOK 3 OF PLAT, PAGE 21 IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS, BOUNDED AS FOLLOWS, TO-WIT: BEGINNING AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER

OF SAID LOT; THENCE WEST ALONG THE NORTH LINE OF SAID LOT ONE (1), ONE HUNDRED (100) FEET; THENCE SOUTH PARALLEL WITH THE EAST LINE OF SAID LOT, FORTY-SIX (46) FEET; THENCE EAST PARALLEL WITH THE NORTH LINE OF SAID LOT, ONE HUNDRED (100) FEET TO THE EAST LINE OF SAID LOT; THENCE NORTH ALONG SAID EAST LINE FORTY-SIX (46) FEET TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 1722 HUFFMAN BLVD., ROCKFORD, IL 61103 Property Index No. 11-14183-011.

The real estate is improved with a residence.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-17-01929.

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. 14-17-01929 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 17 CH 00203 TJSC#: 37-10789 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.

I3070267 P8361R TRRT 12/27 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.; Plaintiff, vs.

MATTHEW J. JACKSON; Defendants, 16 CH 976 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 18, 2018 at the hour of 1:00 p.m. at Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Suite 102, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: The East Forty (40) feet in Width of Lot Sixteen (16) and the West Five (5) feet in width of Lot Seventeen (17) in Block Six (6) as designated upon the Plat of Manufacturer’s Addition to the City of Rockford, the East and West lines of said premises being parallel with the line between said Lots Sixteen (16) and Seventeen (17); the Plat of which Subdivision is recorded in Book 5 of Plats on page 11 in the Recorder’s Office of Winnebago County, Illinois; Situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois.

P.I.N. 11-25-380-019.

Commonly known as 1632 13th Avenue, Rockford, IL 61104.

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.

16-033138 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3070149 P8362R TRRT 12/27 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS CIT Bank, N.A. PLAINTIFF Vs. Tamera Adams; Unknown Heirs and Legatees of Frances R. Adams; United States of America Department of Housing and Urban Development; Steven Adams;

Glen Adams; Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Claimants; Timothy A. Miller, as Special Representative for Frances R. Adams (deceased) DEFENDANTS 2017-CH-0000771 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU: Unknown Heirs and Legatees of Frances R. Adams 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: 7622 Delafield Drive Cherry Valley, IL 61016 and which said Mortgage was made by: Frances R. Adams 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. 0640896; 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 January 12, 2018, 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. 14-17-13951 NOTE: This law firm is a debt collector.

I3070088 P8363R TRRT 12/27 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION; Plaintiff, vs.

BRADLEY WENGER; NICOLE WENGER; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; JANET K. BALISTRERI Defendants, 17 CH 494 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 18, 2018 at the hour of 1:00 p.m. at Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Suite 102, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: Lot Two Hundred Seventy-three (273) as designated upon Plat No. 12 of PineCroft, being a Subdivision of part of the North Half (1/2) of Section 19, Township 46 North, Range 2 East of the Third Principal Meridian, the Plat of which Subdivision is

recorded in Book 40 of Plats on page 78B in the Recorder’s Office of Winnebago County, Illinois; situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois.

P.I.N. 04-19-227-013.

Commonly known as 84 Bristlewood Court, Rockton, IL 61072.

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.

17-019605 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3070147 P8364R TRRT 12/27 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS, CIRCUIT COURT WINNEBAGO COUNTY NOTICE OF FILING A REQUEST FOR NAME CHANGE (ADULT) Request of: Erin Marie Devlin Current Name Case Number: 17 MR 1130 There will be a court date on my Request to change my name from: Erin Marie Devlin to the new name of: Erin Marie Gustafson.

The court date will be held: On January 31, 2018 at 10:00 a.m., at 400 W. State St., Rockford, IL, Winnebago County, in Courtroom #412. /s/ Erin M. Devlin Erin Marie Devlin Current Name 8368R TRRT 12/27 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF: MARIA LYNN REGENTE, Petitioner, V. CELESTINO REGENTE, Respondent.

Case No. 17 D 875 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to Respondent CELESTINO REGENTE that Petitioner MARIA LYNN REGENTE 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 January 11, 2018, a judgment by default may be entered against you at any time thereafter for the relief requested in the petition. /s/ Maria L. Regente, Petitioner 8369R TRRT 12/27 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ORLO K. WHITNEY DECEASED. Case No. 2017 P 494 CLAIM NOTICE Notice is given of the death of ORLO K. WHITNEY, of Rockford, Illinois. Letters of Office were issued on December 4, 2017 to PATRICIA A. MOORE whose attorney is Robert C. Becker, Jr., 213 West Main Street, Genoa, Illinois 60135.

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

of the Court at The Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 West State Street, Rockford, IL 61101, or with the representative, or both, within 6 months from the date of issuance of letters and any claim not filed within that period is barred. Copies of a claim filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered to the representative and to the attorney within 10 days after it has been filed.

Thomas A. Klein Clerk of the Circuit Court 8370R TRRT 12/27 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH ANN ENGBLOM, Deceased.

No. 2017-P-495 CLAIM NOTICE NOTICE is given of the death of JUDITH ANN ENGBLOM. Letters of Office were issued on November 20, 2017 to PHILIP C. ENGBLOM, who is the legal representative of the Estate. The attorney for the estate is Gary L. Ecklund, 4023 Charles Street, Rockford, IL 61108.

Claims against the estate may be filed on or before June 20, 2017, that date being at least six (6) months from the date of first publication, or within three (3) months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to creditors, if mailing or delivery is required by Section 18-3 of the Illinois Probate Act, 1975, as amended, whichever date is later. Any claim not filed by the requisite date stated above shall be barred.

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

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

DATED: December 7, 2017 /s/ Gary L. Ecklund Gary L. Ecklund Name: Gary L. Ecklund #0710822 Attorney for Estate Address: 4023 Charles Street City: Rockford, IL 61108 Telephone: 815-229-5333 gary@rockriverlaw.com 8371R TRRT 12/27 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 NANCY FROELICH, Deceased.

CASE NO. 2017-P-514 CLAIM NOTICE Notice is given of the death of NANCY FROELICH. Letters of Office were issued on November 27, 2017, to GEORGE SLAFKOSKY, 913 North Main Street, Apt. 1508, Rockford, Illinois, 61103, who is the Independent Executor of the Estate. The attorney for the Estate is PHILIP R. FRANKFORT, HolmstromKennedyPC, 800 North Church Street, P.O. Box 589, Rockford, Illinois 61105-0589.

Claims against the Estate may be filed on or before June 13, 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

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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: December 11, 2017 GEORGE SLAFKOSKY, Independent Executor of the Estate of Nancy Froelich, Deceased HolmstromKennedyPC, His Attorneys By: /s/ Philip R. Frankfort PHILIP R. FRANKFORT Attorney Philip R. Frankfort #0863734 HolmstromKennedyPC Attorney for Independent Executor 800 N. Church Street, P.O. Box 589 Rockford, IL 61105-0589 Telephone (815) 962-7071 pfrankfort@hkrockford.com 8372R TRRT 12/27 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 insurance services for individuals and companies business in said County and State under the name of The Redd Insurance Group at the following post office addresses: 834 N. Church St., Rockford, IL 61103; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Maurice Redd SIGNED: Maurice Redd 12/8/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 8th day of December, A.D. 2017.

Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Thalia Gallardo, DEPUTY 8373R TRRT 12/27 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 property management business in said County and State under the name of Michael’s Properties at the following post office addresses: 3316 E. State St., Rockford, IL 61108; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Gregory Steele SIGNED: Gregory Steele 12/8/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 8th day of December, A.D. 2017.

Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Thalia Gallardo, DEPUTY 8374R TRRT 12/27 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a cleaning services business in said County and State under the name of Les’ Cleaning Services at the following post office addresses: 236 Evelyn Ave., Apt. 2, Loves Park, IL 61111; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Leslie Reyes SIGNED: Leslie Reyes 12/8/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 8th day of December, A.D. 2017.

Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Thalia Gallardo, DEPUTY 8375R TRRT 12/27

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The Rock River Times. December 20, 2017

n n n State of Illinois In the Circuit Court of the 17th Judicial Circuit County of Winnebago Durand State Bank, Plaintiff, –vs– James H. Olson, Nicholas Olson, The County of Winnebago, Unknown Owners, and Non-Record Claimants, Defendants.

Case No. 2017–CH–895 Notice of Mortgage Foreclosure The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is given to you, Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants, defendants in the above action which has been commenced in the Circuit Court of Winnebago County against you and other defendants requesting a Mortgage Foreclosure made by Durand State Bank, against James H. Olson on the following described real estate: Lot Thirty-two (32) as designated upon Plat No. 1 of Western Hills, being a Subdivision of part of the West Half (1/2) of the Southeast Quarter (1/4) of Section 17, Township 44 North, Range 1 East of the Third Principal Meridian, the Plat of which Subdivision is recorded in Book 35 of Plats on Page 6 in the Recorder’s Office of Winnebago County, Illinois; situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois.

Commonly known as: 510 Overland Trail Rockford, IL 61101 Summons was issued out of the court against you as provided by law, and the action is still pending.

Consequently, unless you, Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants, defendants in the above case, file your answer to the Complaint in the action or otherwise make your appearance in the Circuit Court of Winnebago County, located in Rockford, Illinois on or before January 15, 2018 default may be entered against each of you at any time after that day and a judgment may be entered in accordance with the prayer of the Complaint.

Prepared by: George P. Hampilos – ARDC # 6210622 Hampilos & Associates, Ltd. Attorneys for Durand State Bank 308 W. State St. – Suite # 210 Rockford, IL 61101 (815) 962-0044 8343R TRRT 12/20 n n n State of Illinois In the Circuit Court of the 17th Judicial Circuit County of Winnebago Durand State Bank, Plaintiff, –vs– James H. Olson, Nicholas Olson, The County of Winnebago, Unknown Owners, and Non-Record Claimants, Defendants.

Case No. 2017–CH–895 Notice of Mortgage Foreclosure The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is given to you, Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants, defendants in the above action which has been commenced in the Circuit Court of Winnebago County against you and other defendants requesting a Mortgage Foreclosure made by Durand State Bank, against James H. Olson on the following described real estate: Lot Thirty-four (34) as designated upon Plat No. 1 of Western Hills, being a Subdivision of part of the West Half (1/2) of the Southeast Quarter (1/4) of Section 17, Township 44 North, Range 1 East of the

Third Principal Meridian, the Plat of which Subdivision is recorded in Book 35 of Plats on Page 6 in the Recorder’s Office of Winnebago County, Illinois; situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois.

Commonly known as: 518 Overland Trail Rockford, IL 61101 Summons was issued out of the court against you as provided by law, and the action is still pending.

Consequently, unless you, Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants, defendants in the above case, file your answer to the Complaint in the action or otherwise make your appearance in the Circuit Court of Winnebago County, located in Rockford, Illinois on or before January 15, 2018, default may be entered against each of you at any time after that day and a judgment may be entered in accordance with the prayer of the Complaint.

Prepared by: George P. Hampilos – ARDC # 6210622 Hampilos & Associates, Ltd. Attorneys for Durand State Bank 308 W. State St. – Suite # 210 Rockford, IL 61101 (815) 962-0044 8344R TRRT 12/20 n n n State of Illinois In the Circuit Court of the 17th Judicial Circuit County of Winnebago Durand State Bank, Plaintiff, –vs– James H. Olson, Nicholas Olson, The County of Winnebago, Unknown Owners, and Non-Record Claimants, Defendants.

Case No. 2017–CH–895 Notice of Mortgage Foreclosure The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is given to you, Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants, defendants in the above action which has been commenced in the Circuit Court of Winnebago County against you and other defendants requesting a Mortgage Foreclosure made by Durand State Bank, against James H. Olson on the following described real estate: Part of the Northwest Quarter (1/4) of Section 10, in Township 44 North, Range 1 East of the Third (3rd) Principal Meridian, bounded and described as follows, to-wit: Beginning at a point in the West line of Ellis Heights Second Subdivision, the Plat of which Subdivision is recorded in Book 18 of Plats on Page 25 in the Recorder’s Office of Winnebago County, Illinois, at a point Thirteen Hundred Twenty-three (1,323) feet South of the North line of said Section; thence South along the West line of said Ellis Heights Second Subdivision, One Hundred Thirty-eight (138) feet to the North line of Rice and Baker’s Subdivision, the Plat of which last mentioned Subdivision is recorded in Book 11 of Plats on page 51 in the Recorder’s Office of Winnebago County, Illinois; thence West along the North line of said Rice and Baker’s Subdivision One Hundred Sixty-six and Four Tenths (166.4) feet to a point in the center line of Vinton Avenue, as same is laid out and designated upon the Plat of Rice and Baker’s Subdivision; thence North along the center line of said Vinton Avenue, extended North, One Hundred Thirty-eighth (138) feet; thence East,

parallel with the North line of said Section to the place of beginning; EXCEPTING THEREFROM the Westerly Thirty (30) feet and the Northerly Thirty (30) feet of said premises for record purposes; situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois.

Commonly known as: 3029 Vinton Avenue Rockford, IL 61101 Summons was issued out of the court against you as provided by law, and the action is still pending.

Consequently, unless you, Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants, defendants in the above case, file your answer to the Complaint in the action or otherwise make your appearance in the Circuit Court of Winnebago County, located in Rockford, Illinois on or before January 15, 2018, default may be entered against each of you at any time after that day and a judgment may be entered in accordance with the prayer of the Complaint.

Prepared by: George P. Hampilos – ARDC # 6210622 Hampilos & Associates, Ltd. Attorneys for Durand State Bank 308 W. State St. – Suite # 210 Rockford, IL 61101 (815) 962-0044 8345R TRRT 12/20 n n n State of Illinois In the Circuit Court of the 17th Judicial Circuit County of Winnebago Durand State Bank, Plaintiff, –vs– James H. Olson, Nicholas Olson, The County of Winnebago, Unknown Owners, and Non-Record Claimants, Defendants.

Case No. 2017–CH–895 Notice of Mortgage Foreclosure The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is given to you, Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants, defendants in the above action which has been commenced in the Circuit Court of Winnebago County against you and other defendants requesting a Mortgage Foreclosure made by Durand State Bank, against James H. Olson on the following described real estate: Part of the Northwest Quarter (1/4) of Section Ten (10), Township Forty-four (44) North, Range One (1) East of the Third (3rd) Principal Meridian, described as follows, to-wit: Beginning on a line Thirteen Hundred Eighty-three and Eight Tenths (1383.8) feet south of the North line of said Section at a point Sixteen Hundred Twenty-seven and One Tenth (1627.1) feet East of the West line of said Section; thence West 188.0 feet parallel with the North line of said Section; thence South 40.0 feet, parallel with the West line of said Section; thence East 188.0 feet, parallel with the North line of said Section; thence North, parallel with the West line of said Section, 40.0 feet to the point of beginning, reserving the East 30 feet in width for road purposes, situated in the Township of Rockford, Winnebago County, Illinois.

Commonly known as: 3030 Vinton Avenue Rockford, IL 61101 Summons was issued out of the court against you as provided by law, and the action is still pending.

Consequently, unless you, Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants, defendants in the above case, file your answer

to the Complaint in the action or otherwise make your appearance in the Circuit Court of Winnebago County, located in Rockford, Illinois on or before January 15, 2018, default may be entered against each of you at any time after that day and a judgment may be entered in accordance with the prayer of the Complaint.

Prepared by: George P. Hampilos – ARDC # 6210622 Hampilos & Associates, Ltd. Attorneys for Durand State Bank 308 W. State St. – Suite # 210 Rockford, IL 61101 (815) 962-0044 8346R TRRT 12/20 n n n State of Illinois In the Circuit Court of the 17th Judicial Circuit County of Winnebago Durand State Bank, Plaintiff, –vs– James H. Olson, Nicholas Olson, The County of Winnebago, Unknown Owners, and Non-Record Claimants, Defendants.

Case No. 2017–CH–895 Notice of Mortgage Foreclosure The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is given to you, Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants, defendants in the above action which has been commenced in the Circuit Court of Winnebago County against you and other defendants requesting a Mortgage Foreclosure made by Durand State Bank, against James H. Olson and The County of Winnebago on the following described real estate: Part of the Northwest Quarter (1/4) of Section (10), in Township (44) North, Range (1) East of the Third Principal Meridian, bounded and described as follows, to-wit: Beginning at a point Thirteen Hundred Thirty-seven and Eight Tenths (1337.8) feet South of the North line of said Section and Fourteen Hundred Fifty-seven and One Tenth (1457.1) feet East of the West line of said Section; thence West, parallel with the North line of said Section, One Hundred Sixty (160) feet; thence South, parallel with the West line of said Section, Eighty-six (86) feet; thence East, parallel with the North line of said Section, One Hundred Sixty (160) feet; thence North, parallel with the West line of said Section, Eighty-six (86) feet to the place of beginning; situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois; EXCEPTING THEREFROM the East 18 feet in width thereof.

The South Sixty-six (66) feet of the following described premises, to-wit: Part of the Northwest Quarter (1/4) of Section (10) in Township (44) North, Range (1) East of the Third Principal Meridian, described as follows, to-wit: Beginning at a point One Thousand Three Hundred Thirty-seven and Eight Hundredths (1337.08) feet South of the North line of said Section and Nine Hundred Sixty-seven and Ten Hundredths (967.10) feet East of the West line of said Section; thence East, parallel with the North line of said Section, Three Hundred Thirty (330) feet; thence South, parallel with the West line of said Section, One Hundred Thirty-three and Ten Hundredths (133.10) feet to the North line of

Rice and Baker’s Subdivision, the Plat of which Subdivision is recorded in Book 11 of Plats on Page 51 in the Recorder’s Office of Winnebago County, Illinois; thence West along the North line of Rice and Baker’s Subdivision, Three Hundred Thirty (330) feet to a point Nine Hundred Sixty-seven and Then Hundredths (967.10) feet due East of the West line of said Section; thence North, parallel with the West line of said Section, One Hundred Thirty-four and Three Tenths (134.3) feet to the place of beginning; situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois.

ALSO known as part of Lot 57 of County Clerk’s Sub. Northwest 10-44-1.

ALSO known as part of Lot 57 of County Clerk’s Sub. Northwest 10-44-1.

Commonly known as: 3031 Rice Avenue Rockford, IL 61101 Summons was issued out of the court against you as provided by law, and the action is still pending.

Consequently, unless you, Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants, defendants in the above case, file your answer to the Complaint in the action or otherwise make your appearance in the Circuit Court of Winnebago County, located in Rockford, Illinois on or before January 15, 2018, default may be entered against each of you at any time after that day and a judgment may be entered in accordance with the prayer of the Complaint.

Prepared by: George P. Hampilos – ARDC # 6210622 Hampilos & Associates, Ltd. Attorneys for Durand State Bank 308 W. State St. – Suite # 210 Rockford, IL 61101 (815) 962-0044 8347R TRRT 12/20 n n n State of Illinois In the Circuit Court of the 17th Judicial Circuit County of Winnebago Durand State Bank, Plaintiff, –vs– James H. Olson, Nicholas Olson, The County of Winnebago, Unknown Owners, and Non-Record Claimants, Defendants.

Case No. 2017–CH–895 Notice of Mortgage Foreclosure The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is given to you, Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants, defendants in the above action which has been commenced in the Circuit Court of Winnebago County against you and other defendants requesting a Mortgage Foreclosure made by Durand State Bank, against James H. Olson on the following described real estate: Part of the Northwest Quarter (1/4) of section Ten (10), Township Fourty-four (44) North, Range One (1) East of the 3rd Principal Meridian, described as follows, to-wit: Beginning on a line One Thousand Three Hundred Thirty-seven and Eight Tenths (1337.8) feet South of the North line of said Section at a point One Thousand Sixteen Hundred Twenty-Seven and Onetenth (1627.1) feet East of the West line of said Section, thence West, One hundred Eighty-eight (188) feet, parallel with the North line of said Section; thence South Forty-six (46) feet, parallel with the West line of said section; thence East

One Hundred Eighty-eight (188) feet, parallel with the North line of said section; thence north parallel with the West line of said section, Forty-six (46) feet to the point of beginning, reserving the east Thirty (30) feet in width for road purposes; situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois.

Also known as Part of Lot 52 of County Clerk’s Plat of the NW 1/4 of Section 10, Township 44 North, Range 1 East recorded in Book 20 of Plats on page 220 in the Recorder’s Office of Winnebago County, Illinois, Situated in Winnebago County and the State of Illinois.

Commonly known as: 3034 Vinton Avenue Rockford, IL 61101 Summons was issued out of the court against you as provided by law, and the action is still pending.

Consequently, unless you, Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants, defendants in the above case, file your answer to the Complaint in the action or otherwise make your appearance in the Circuit Court of Winnebago County, located in Rockford, Illinois on or before January 15, 2018, default may be entered against each of you at any time after that day and a judgment may be entered in accordance with the prayer of the Complaint.

Prepared by: George P. Hampilos – ARDC # 6210622 Hampilos & Associates, Ltd. Attorneys for Durand State Bank 308 W. State St. – Suite # 210 Rockford, IL 61101 (815) 962-0044 8348R TRRT 12/20 n n n State of Illinois In the Circuit Court of the 17th Judicial Circuit County of Winnebago Durand State Bank, Plaintiff, –vs– James H. Olson, Nicholas Olson, The County of Winnebago, Unknown Owners, and Non-Record Claimants, Defendants.

Case No. 2017–CH–895 Notice of Mortgage Foreclosure The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is given to you, Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants, defendants in the above action which has been commenced in the Circuit Court of Winnebago County against you and other defendants requesting a Mortgage Foreclosure made by Durand State Bank, against James H. Olson on the following described real estate: Lot Six (6) in Block Two (2) as designated upon Plat No. 1 of Jefferson Heights, being a Subdivision of part of the E. 1/2 section 31, T. 44 N, R 2 E of the 3rd P.M., the Plat of which Subdivision is recorded in Book 20 of Plats on page 223 in the Recorder’s Office of Winnebago County, Illinois; situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois.

Commonly known as: 2224 Arizona Ave Rockford, IL 61108 Summons was issued out of the court against you as provided by law, and the action is still pending.

Consequently, unless you, Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants, defendants in the above case, file your answer to the Complaint in the action or otherwise make your appearance in the Circuit Court of Winnebago County, located in Rockford, Illinois on or before January 15, 2018, default may be entered against each

of you at any time after that day and a judgment may be entered in accordance with the prayer of the Complaint.

Prepared by: George P. Hampilos – ARDC # 6210622 Hampilos & Associates, Ltd. Attorneys for Durand State Bank 308 W. State St. – Suite # 210 Rockford, IL 61101 (815) 962-0044 8349R TRRT 12/20 n n n State of Illinois In the Circuit Court of the 17th Judicial Circuit County of Winnebago Durand State Bank, Plaintiff, –vs– James H. Olson, Nicholas Olson, The County of Winnebago, Unknown Owners, and Non-Record Claimants, Defendants.

Case No. 2017–CH–895 Notice of Mortgage Foreclosure The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is given to you, Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants, defendants in the above action which has been commenced in the Circuit Court of Winnebago County against you and other defendants requesting a Mortgage Foreclosure made by Durand State Bank, against James H. Olson and Nicholas Olson on the following described real estate: Part of the North Five (5) acres of the South Half (1/2) of the Northeast Quarter (1/4) of the Southeast Quarter (1/4) of Section Eighteen (18) in Township Twenty-eight (28) North of Range Eleven (11) East of the Fourth (4th) Principal Meridian, described as: Commencing at the Northwest corner of said tract; thence 160 feet South along the West line of said tract; thence East 350 feet parallel with the North line of said tract; thence North 160 feet to the North line of said tract; thence West 350 feet to the place of beginning; situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois.

The Southerly 18 feet of the Westerly three hundred fifty (350) feet of the South one (1) acre of the North Half (1/2) of the Northeast Quarter (1/4) of the Southeast Quarter (1/4) of Section Eighteen (18) in Township Twenty-eight (28) North of Range Eleven (11) East of the Fourth (4th) Principal Meridian; situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois.

EXCEPT the Southerly 18 feet of Part of the North Five (5) acres of the South Half (1/2) of the Northeast Quarter (1/4) of the Southeast Quarter (1/4) of Section Eighteen (18) in Township Twenty-eight (28) North of Range Eleven (11) East of the Fourth (4th) Principal Meridian, described as: Commencing at the Northwest corner of said tract; thence 160 feet South along the West line of said tract; thence East 350 feet parallel with the North line of said tract; thence North 160 feet to the North line of said tract; thence West 350 feet to the place of beginning; situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois.

Commonly known as: 11861 Moate Rd. Durand, IL 61024 Summons was issued out of the court against you as provided by law, and the action is still pending.

Consequently, unless you, Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants, defendants in the above case, file your answer to the Complaint in the action or otherwise make your appearance in the Circuit Court of Winnebago County, located in Rockford, Illinois on or before January 15, 2018, default may be entered against each of you at any time after that day and a judgment may be entered in accordance with the prayer of the Complaint.

Prepared by: George P. Hampilos – ARDC # 6210622 Hampilos & Associates, Ltd. Attorneys for Durand State Bank 308 W. State St. – Suite # 210 Rockford, IL 61101 (815) 962-0044 8350R TRRT 12/20 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS, CIRCUIT COURT Winnebago County PUBLICATION NOTICE OF COURT DATE FOR REQUEST FOR NAME CHANGE (ADULT) Request of: MINDY MOWDY Current Name Case Number: 17 MR 1053 There will be a court date on my Request to change my name from: Mindy Nicole Mowdy to the new name of: Alexis Rae Carter.

The court date will be held: On January 10, 2018 at 10:00 a.m., at 400 W. State St., Rockford, IL, Winnebago County, in Courtroom #412. /s/ Mindy Mowdy Mindy Mowdy Current Name 8339R TRRT 12/20 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 & Remodeling business in said County and State under the name of Cumbe Construction at the following post office addresses: 2904 Charles St., Apt. 1, Rockford, IL 61108; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Marcelo Cumbe SIGNED: Marcelo Cumbe 12/6/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 6th day of December, A.D. 2017.

Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Thalia Gallardo, DEPUTY 8377R TRRT 12/27 n n n ASSUMED NAME CERTIFICATE OF INTENTION STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO This is to certify that the undersigned intend to conduct and transact a online retail store to sell pet supplies and apparel business in said County and State under the name of PawFection at the following post office addresses: 929 N. Main St., #211, Rockford, IL 61103; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Andrew L. Smith SIGNED: Andrew L. Smith 12/7/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 7th day of December, A.D. 2017.

Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Angela Reina, DEPUTY 8376R TRRT 12/27

December 20, 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.

DANIEL J. BEARD; ANITA J. BEARD; THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; THE UNKNOWN SUCCESSOR TRUSTEES OF THE CHARLES L. FUNK AND HELEN H. FUNK TRUST; Defendants, 17 CH 333 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 11, 2018 at the hour of 1:00 p.m. at Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Suite 102, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: Lot Two (2) as designated upon Plat No. 1 of Gregory Heights, being a Subdivision of part of the Southwest Quarter (1/4) of Section 28, Township 44 North, Range 2 East of the Third Principal Meridian, the Plat of which is recorded in Book 26 of Plat on Page 215 in the Recorder’s Office of Winnebago County, Illinois; Situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois.

P.I.N. 12-28-354-036.

Commonly known as 1411 Charlotte Drive, Rockford, IL 61108.

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.

17-013248 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3069260 P8328R TRRT 12/20 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK NA; Plaintiff, vs.

RAMON PEREZ OLVERA AKA RAMON PEREZ O; VIRGINIA PEREZ; Defendants, 17 CH 348 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 11, 2018 at the hour of 1:00 p.m. at Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Suite 102, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell at public auction to the highest bidder

for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: Part of the Southeast Quarter (1/4) of the Southeast Quarter (1/4) of Section 15 in Township 44 North of Range 1 East of the Third Principal Meridian, bounded as follows, to-wit: Beginning at the Southeast corner of said Quarter (1/4) Section, thence North, on the East line of said Quarter (1/4) Section, 44 feet, thence West, parallel with the South line of said Quarter (/4) Section, 3 chains, thence South, parallel with the East line of said Quarter (1/4) Section, 44 feet, to the South line of said Section, thence East on the South line of said Section, 3 chains to the place of beginning, in Winnebago County, Illinois, Excepting Therefrom, the premises conveyed by Joseph T. Geraghty and Evelyn P. Geraghty to the City of Rockford by Warranty Deed dated March 22, 1967 and recorded March 28, 1967, in Microfilm No. 6705-0946 as Document No. 1157095 in Winnebago County, Illinois, described as follows: Part of Lot Eighty-two (82) of County Clerk’s Plat of part of the East Half (1/2) of the Southeast Quarter (1/4) of Section 15 and the East Half (1/2) of the Northeast Quarter (1/4) of Section 22, Township 44 North, Range 1 East of the Third Principal Meridian, bounded and described as follows, to-wit: Beginning at the present Northeast corner of said Lot 82 and running thence South on the East line of said Lot 82, which line is also the existing West line of Rockton Avenue, to the Southeast corner of said Lot 82; thence West on the South line of said Lot 82 to a line through a point on the South line of Lot 7 of Block 80 of Morgan and Horsman’s Second Subdivision Westerly of and 36 feet perpendicularly distant from the survey line for a proposed improvement of public street designated as Rockton Avenue at Station 198+99 more or less and a point Westerly of and 41 feet perpendicularly distant from said survey line for Rockton Avenue at Station 201+41; thence Northerly along said last described line to the North line of said Lot 82; thence East on the North line of said Lot 82 to the point of beginning, in Winnebago County, Illinois; situated in the County of Winnebago and State of Illinois.

P.I.N. 11-15-482-005.

Commonly known as 824 North Rockton Avenue, Rockford, IL 61103.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

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

17-014074 F2

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3069257 P8329R TRRT 12/20 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY FSB AS TRUSTEE FOR STANWICH MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST C; Plaintiff, vs.

GREGORY W. JANICKI AKA GREGORY WILLIAM JANICKI AKA GREGORY JANICKI; DONNA JANICKI AKA DONNA MARIE JANICKI AKA DONNA SERINO; SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 16 CH 725 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 11, 2018, at the hour of 1:00 p.m., Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Suite 102, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: LOT FIFTEEN (15) IN BLOCK TWENTY-FOUR (24) AS DESIGNATED UPON THE REPLAT OF ROLLING GREEN, A RESIDENTIAL PARK, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF A PART OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER (1/4) OF SECTION 31, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 2 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, THE PLAT OF WHICH REPLAT IS RECORDED IN BOOK 18 OF PLATS ON PAGE 35 IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS; SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. P.I.N. 12-31-257-023.

Commonly known as 3226 Carolina Avenue, Rockford, Illinois 61108.

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. F16090038 I3069263 P8330R TRRT 12/20 n n n IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS PHH Mortgage Corporation PLAINTIFF Vs. Cheryle R. Machie; Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Claimants DEFENDANTS 2017-CH-0000605 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU: Cheryle R. Machie 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: 1622 N Church Rockford, IL 61103 and which said Mortgage was made by: Cheryle R. Machie 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. 0373629; 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 January 5, 2018, 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. 14-17-10302 NOTE: This law firm is a debt collector.

I3069434 P8331R TRRT 12/20 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY NORTHWEST BANK OF ROCKFORD, Plaintiff, VS. DENNIS L. LEAHY, SUSAN B. LEAHY, TRUSTEE OF THE LEAHY TRUST #1, BENEFICIARIES OF THE LEAHY TRUST #1, JP MORGAN CHASE BANK NA., UNKNOWN OTHERS, NONRECORD CLAIMAINTS AND UNKNOWN TENANTS, Defendants.

CASE NO. 2017 CH 876 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE THE REQUISITE Affidavit for Publication having been filed, notice is hereby given to The Trustee of the Leahy Trust #1, Beneficiaries of the Leahy Trust #1, Unknown Others, Nonrecord Claimants and Unknown Tenants, the Defendants in the above-entitled suit, that the said suit has been commenced in the Circuit Court of the 17th Judicial Circuit, Winnebago County, Illinois, against you praying for a foreclosure of a mortgage upon the following property: Tract H as designated upon the Plat of Brookwood Subdivision, a part of the West Half (1/2) of the Northwest Quarter (1/4) of Section 18, Township 44 North, Range 2 East of the Third Principal Meridian, the Plat of which os recorded in Book 23 of Plats on page 80 in the Recorder’s Office of Winnebago County, Illinois; Commonly known as: 2208 Benev Lane Rockford, Illinois 61107.

P.I.N. Number: 12-18-154-005 Property Code: 162B 073 And for other relief, that the action was filed on or about November 29, 2017.

That Summons was duly issued out of said Court against you as provided by law, and

that the said suit is still pending.

The record titleholder of the real estate is Susan B. Leahy as to an undivided ½ interest and Leahy Trust #1 as to an undivided ½ interest. An identification of the mortgage sought to be foreclosed is as follows: Mortgagor – Dennis L. Leahy and Susan B. Leahy Mortgagee – Northwest Bank of Rockford Date of Mortgage – October 6, 2009.

Date of Recording – October 14,2009.

County of Recording – Winnebago Recording Document – 200900952493.

NOW THEREFORE, unless you the Trustee of the Leahy Trust #1, Beneficiaries of the Leahy Trust #1, Unknown Others, Nonrecord Claimants and Unknown Tenants, the said Defendants, file your Answer to the Complaint in said suit or otherwise make your appearance therein in the said Circuit Court of the 17th Judicial Circuit, Winnebago County, 400 W. State Street in the City of Rockford, State of Illinois on or before January 31, 2018, default may be entered against you at any time after that date and a judgment may be entered in accordance with the prayer of the Complaint.

Dated at Rockford, IL on the 30th day of November, 2017 Thomas A. Klein, Clerk of the Circuit Court Winnebago County, Illinois Plaintiff’s Attorney Timothy F. Horning #973 MEYER & HORNING, P.C. 3400 N. Rockton Avenue Rockford, IL 61103 815/636-9300 8335R TRRT 12/20 n n n NOTICE BY PUBLICATION AMANDA GERDE, Petitioner, vs.

DANIEL ESTEVAN CHAVEZ-GERDE, 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 224 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Take notice that on the 29th 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 first floor of the Winnebago County Juvenile Justice Center, on the 5th day of January, 2018 at the hour of 8:30 a.m., or as soon thereafter as this cause may be heard, a hearing will be held upon the Petition for Adoption.

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

Dated at Rockford, Illinois this 1st day of December, 2017.

Thomas Klein Clerk of the Circuit Court ERIN L. NASH #6304953 Nash Law Office, P.C. 4615 East State Street, Suite 201 Rockford, IL 61108 (815) 397-7500 8336R TRRT 12/20 n n n ADOPTION NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO STATE OF ILLINOIS COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO SS In the matter of the Petition for Adoption of BENTLYE MICHAEL KEITH OLDHAM, a male child 2017 AD 188 To NATHAN BURKS, biological father and All Whom It May

Concern: TAKE NOTICE that a Petition was filed in the Circuit Court of Winnebago County, Illinois, for the adoption of a minor child named BENTLYE MICHAEL KEITH OLDHAM. NOW THEREFORE, unless you, and all whom it may concern, file your answer to the Petition in the action or otherwise file your appearance therein in said Circuit Court of Winnebago County, Room 108 in the City of Rockford, Illinois on or before the 30th day of December, 2017 a default may be entered against you any time after that day and a Judgment entered in a accordance with the prayer of said Petition.

Dated: November 13, 2017.

Thomas A. Klein Clerk of the Circuit Court David H. Carter Attorney at Law 308 West State Street, Suite 215 Rockford, IL 61101 (815) 968-8900 8337R TRRT 12/20 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO PROBATE DIVISION IN RE THE ESTATE OF: ANN CROSS, Deceased.

2017 P 312 CLAIM NOTICE NOTICE is given of the death of ANN CROSS. Letters of Office were issued on September 8, 2017 to STEVEN CROSS, who is the legal representative of the estate. The attorney for the estate is Danielle Burza-Smith, Crosby Law Firm, P.C., 475 Executive Parkway, Rockford, Illinois 61107.

Claims against the estate may be filed on or before June 6, 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, 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. /s/ Danielle Burza-Smith Danielle Burza-Smith Attorney for Executor Crosby Law Firm, P.C. Danielle Burza-Smith 475 Executive Parkway Rockford, Illinois 61107 815/397-2006 815/394-1955 Fax 8338R TRRT 12/20 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO PROBATE DIVISION IN RE THE ESTATE OF: ROBIN G. BEADNELL-ANDERSON, Deceased.

2017 P 470 CLAIM NOTICE NOTICE is given of the death of ROBIN G. BEADNELL-ANDERSON. Letters of Office were issued on October 30, 2017 to DAVID ANDERSON, who is the legal representative of the estate. The attorney for the estate is Danielle Burza-Smith, Crosby Law Firm, P.C., 475 Executive Parkway, Rockford, Illinois 61107. Claims against the estate may be filed on or before June 6, 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, 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. /s/ Danielle Burza-Smith Danielle Burza-Smith Attorney for Executor Crosby Law Firm, P.C. Danielle Burza-Smith 475 Executive Parkway Rockford, Illinois 61107 815/397-2006 815/394-1955 Fax 8342R TRRT 12/20 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF WINNEBAGO In the Matter of the Estate of LANCE L. HAMMOND, deceased No. 17-P-482 CLAIM NOTICE Notice is given of the death of LANCE L. HAMMOND, of Rockford, Illinois on May 7, 2017.

Letters of office were issued on November 21, 2017, to MARGARET J. HAMMOND, 1182 Tebala Drive, Rockford, IL 61108, as independent executor, whose attorney is TOBIN & RAMON, 530 South State Street; Suite 200, Belvidere, IL 61008-3711.

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

Claims against the estate may be filed in the office of the Winnebago County Circuit Clerk -- Probate Division at the Winnebago County Courthouse, at 400 West State Street, Rockford, IL 61101, or with the representative, or both, on or before June 7, 2018, which date is not less than six (6) months from the date of the first publication of this notice, or, if mailing or delivery of a notice from the representative is required by section 5/18-3 of the Probate Act, the date stated in that notice. Any claim not filed on or before that date is barred.

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

DATED: December 4, 2017.

MARGARET J. HAMMOND Independent Executor Natalie Hyser Barber Tobin & Ramon Attorneys for Petitioner 530 South State Street; Suite 200 Belvidere, IL 61008-3711 (815) 544-0316 natalie@tobinramon.com 8341R TRRT 12/20 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 catering, meal plan and food service business in said County and State under the name of Chef Q’s Kitchen at the following post office addresses: 3391 Prairie View Dr., Rockford, IL 61114; that the true and real full names of all

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persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Quinton Whitley SIGNED: Quinton Whitley 11/30/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 30th day of November, A.D. 2017.

Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Luanne Kaspar, DEPUTY 8357R TRRT 12/20 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 Graphic Design business in said County and State under the name of Dvine Dzign at the following post office addresses: 3006 Sunnyside Dr., Rockford, IL 61102; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Jose J. Sanchez SIGNED: Jose J. Sanchez 12/4/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 4th day of December, A.D. 2017.

Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Luanne Kaspar, DEPUTY 8359R TRRT 12/20 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 Gutters business in said County and State under the name of Five Brothers Gutters at the following post office addresses: 2808 Carmac Rd., Rockford, IL 61101; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Agustin F. Manriquez SIGNED: Agustin F. Manriquez 12/1/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 1st day of December, A.D. 2017.

Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Thalia Gallardo, DEPUTY 8358R TRRT 12/20 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 Small business; Entertainment Company business in said County and State under the name of Policy Inc. at the following post office addresses: 3219 Gilbert Ave., #10, Rockford, IL 61101; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Domonique Henry SIGNED: Domonique Henry 12/1/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 1st day of December, A.D. 2017.

Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Angela Reina, DEPUTY 8356R TRRT 12/20 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 Die Cast and collectible business in said County and State under the name of High Class Die Cast and Collectibles at the following post office addresses: 10217 Fawn Prairie Dr., Roscoe, IL 61073; that the true and real full names of all persons owning, conducting or transacting such business are as follows: Robert J. Fisher SIGNED: Robert J. Fisher 11/29/17 Subscribed and sworn (or affirmed to) before me, this 29th day of November, A.D. 2017.

Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Thalia Gallardo, DEPUTY 8354R TRRT 12/20

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The Rock River Times. December 20, 2017

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

The real estate is improved with a residence.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-17-01845.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The mortgaged real estate is vacant land.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lisa L. Frederick, Notary Public

My Commission Expires May 26, 2021 8392R TRRT 1/3 n n n PUBLIC NOTICE OF SALE Midwest Self Storage, 1401 Windsor Rd., Loves Park, IL 61111, gives notice of an ONLINE AUCTION of property to satisfy landlord’s lien. Sale ends on January 6th, 2018 at 10:00 am CST on StorageAuctions.com (https:// storageauctions.com/). Units will be posted to site in advance of sale.

Property will be sold to highest bidder. If there are no bidders, the property will be donated to charity or disposed of accordingly.

Cleanup and removal deposit will be required. Seller reserves the right to withdraw property from sale or refuse any bid. Property includes contents of units of the following tenants: Cheryl Brown (162), Nicholas Antimucci (159), Jeff Rice (92), Dan Thornton (131), Babbie Turnmire (71), Andrew Rodriguez (238), Greg Humphry (115,123). Call (815) 633-2333 for more info.

8393R TRRT 12/27 n n n STATE OF ILLINOIS, CIRCUIT COURT WINNEBAGO COUNTY NOTICE OF FILING A REQUEST FOR NAME CHANGE (ADULT) Request of: Ethan Tyler Johann-Russell Current Name Case Number: 17 MR 1050 There will be a court date on my Request to change my name from: Ethan Tyler Johann-Russell to the new name of: Ethan Tyler Martin Johann.

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

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

Margie M. Mullins, COUNTY CLERK Luanne Kaspar, DEPUTY 8399R TRRT 1/3

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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 TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE OF THE PRESTON RIDGE PARTNERS INVESTMENTS II TRUST Plaintiff, -v.- BEVERLY KING A/K/A BEVERLY INGRAM, et al Defendant 17 CH 00194 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 30, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on January 30, 2018, at the NLT TITLE, LLC., 6885 Vistagreen Way, ROCKFORD, IL, 61107, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 4817 ALPINE PARK DRIVE, ROCKFORD, IL 61108 Property Index No. 12-29-428-003 (173D343).

The real estate is improved with a residence.

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

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

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

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

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

For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-17-01845.

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

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

I3071043 P8380R TRRT 1/3 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY - ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS CITY OF ROCKFORD, A

MUNICIPAL CORPORATION Plaintiff, vs. HAROLD SUSKI, J.D. MARK, INC., JOSEPH SUSKI, UNKNOWN OWNERS, AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants, 17 CH 471 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 25, 2018 at the hour of 1:00 p.m. at Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Suite 102, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: Commonly known as 452 UNDERWOOD ST, ROCKFORD, IL 61101.

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

The mortgaged real estate is vacant land.

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

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

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

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3070926 P8381R TRRT 1/3 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY - ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, vs. ROBERT J. RILLIE AKA ROBERT RILLIE; MICHELLE S. RILLIE AKA MICHELLE RILLIE; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants, 15 CH 870 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 25, 2018, at the hour of 1:00 p.m., Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Suite 102, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 08-29-326-003.

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

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

For information call The Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Anselmo Lindberg & Associates, LLC, 1771 West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois 60563-1890. (630) 453-6960. For Bidding instructions visit www.alolawgroup.com 24 hours prior to sale. F15090053 I3070925 P8382R TRRT 1/3 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY - ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, NA Plaintiff, vs. CARLON J. WASHINGTON AKA CARLON WASHINGTON; MARLON T. WASHINGTON AKA MARLON WASHINGTON; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants, 17 CH 339 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 25, 2018, at the hour of 1:00 p.m., Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Suite 102, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 11-11-104-002.

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

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act.

Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call The Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Anselmo Lindberg & Associates, LLC, 1771 West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois 60563-1890. (630) 453-6960. For Bidding instructions visit www.alolawgroup.com 24 hours prior to sale. F1704002 I3070921 P8383R TRRT 1/3 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY - ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC DBA CHAMPION MORTGAGE COMPANY; Plaintiff, vs. UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF GWENDOLYN F. DOOLAN, DECEASED; THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; ASSOCIATED BANK, N.A.; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; SHAWN DOOLAN JAMES DOOLAN; CURT DOOLAN; SHERRY KATHLEEN ZACK, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR GWENDOLYN F. DOOLAN, DECEASED; Defendants, 17 CH 586 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 25, 2018 at the hour of 1:00 p.m. at Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Suite 102, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 11-02-403-040.

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

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

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

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

(614) 220-5611. 17-030588 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3070924 P8384R TRRT 1/3 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY - ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS JPMORGAN CHASE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION; Plaintiff, vs. DANIEL J. BEARD; ANITA J. BEARD; THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; THE UNKNOWN SUCCESSOR TRUSTEES OF THE CHARLES L. FUNK AND HELEN H. FUNK TRUST; Defendants, 17 CH 333 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 11, 2018 at the hour of 1:00 p.m. at Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Suite 102, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 12-28-354-036.

Commonly known as 1411 Charlotte Drive, Rockford, IL 61108.

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. 17-013248 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3069260 P8328R TRRT 12/20 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY - ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK NA; Plaintiff, vs. RAMON PEREZ OLVERA AKA RAMON PEREZ O; VIRGINIA PEREZ; Defendants, 17 CH 348 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 11, 2018 at the hour of 1:00 p.m. at Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Suite 102, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 11-15-482-005.

Commonly known as 824 North Rockton Avenue, Rockford, IL 61103.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

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

(614) 220-5611. 17-014074 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3069257 P8329R TRRT 12/20 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY - ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY FSB AS TRUSTEE FOR STANWICH MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST C; Plaintiff, vs. GREGORY W. JANICKI AKA GREGORY WILLIAM JANICKI AKA GREGORY JANICKI; DONNA JANICKI AKA DONNA MARIE JANICKI AKA DONNA SERINO; SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 16 CH 725 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 11, 2018, at the hour of 1:00 p.m., Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Suite 102, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 12-31-257-023.

Commonly known as 3226 Carolina Avenue, Rockford, Illinois 61108.

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. F16090038 I3069263 P8330R TRRT 12/20

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December 20, 2017 The Rock River Times. n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY, ILLINOIS NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC Plaintiff, -v.- MICHELLE R. SAVAIANO, et al Defendant 17 CH 0000408 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 January 26, 2018, at the NLT TITLE, LLC., 6885 Vistagreen Way, ROCKFORD, IL, 61107, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1731 DOUGLAS ST, ROCKFORD, IL 61103 Property Index No. 11-13-182-004 (193A615).

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

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

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

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

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

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

For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-17-05668.

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. 14-17-05668 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 17 CH 0000408 TJSC#: 37-8944 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.

I3070234 P8360R TRRT 12/27 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 RESIDENTIAL ASSET MORTGAGE PRODUCTS, INC., MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-RP1 Plaintiff, -v.- CHERYL R. TUNISON, et al Defendant 17 CH 00203 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on May 17, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 12:30 PM on January 11, 2018, at the NLT TITLE, LLC., 6885 Vistagreen Way, ROCKFORD, IL, 61107, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1722 HUFFMAN BLVD., ROCKFORD, IL 61103 Property Index No. 11-14-183-011.

The real estate is improved with a residence.

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

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

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

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

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

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

For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-17-01929.

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. 14-17-01929 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 17 CH 00203 TJSC#: 37-10789 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.

I3070267 P8361R TRRT 12/27 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY - ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.; Plaintiff, vs. MATTHEW J. JACKSON; Defendants, 16 CH 976 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 18, 2018 at the hour of 1:00 p.m. at Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Suite 102, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 11-25-380-019.

Commonly known as 1632 13th Avenue, Rockford, IL 61104.

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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. 16-033138 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I3070149 P8362R TRRT 12/27 n n n REAL ESTATE NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 17TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WINNEBAGO COUNTY - ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION; Plaintiff, vs. BRADLEY WENGER; NICOLE WENGER; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; JANET K. BALISTRERI Defendants, 17 CH 494 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 18, 2018 at the hour of 1:00 p.m. at Intercounty’s Winnebago County office, 7210 East State Street, Suite 102, Rockford, Illinois 61108, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 04-19-227-013.

Commonly known as 84 Bristlewood Court, Rockton, IL 61072.

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.

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Mr. Green Car

By Allen Penticoff

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here is a new player in the future of the electric car.

Vacuum cleaner entrepreneur James Dyson recently announced that his company was going to pursue manufacturing autonomous electric cars, committing $2.6 billion to the project.

In a lengthy company-wide letter dated September 26, 2017, Dyson explained to his employees and investors why he was getting into the business of building cars. In 1988 Dyson had read a report on the number of deaths caused by diesel exhaust emissions.

By 1990 he had a team of engineers working on developing their vacuum cleaner “cyclonic” technology into a system for removing soot from diesel exhaust. With prototypes available for demonstration in 1993 they sought out manufacturers to buy the technology. Sadly, despite having found a cost-effective method to remove carbon particulates from diesel exhaust, they were turned down because getting rid of the captured soot was considered problematic. Dismayed, Dyson asked the rhetorical question, “Better to breathe it in?”

Quoting Dyson from his letter; “In the period since, governments around the world have encouraged the adoption of oxymoronically designated ‘clean diesel’ engines through subsidies and grants. Major auto manufacturers have circumvented and duped clean air regulations. As a result, developed and developing cities are full of smog-belching cars, lorries [trucks] and buses. It is a problem that others are ignoring.”

Although there are now some diesel soot capturing technologies in use, Dyson has determined that eliminating exhaust entirely – through electric vehicle technology is what is needed to address the air pollution crisis. Dyson’s company will not be

using anyone else’s battery or electric motor technology in their vehicle development, feeling better solutions can be made when starting from a clean sheet. They will, however, use software developed by others to control the vehicle. Dyson’s aim is to improve battery and drive efficiency by over 50 percent compared to currently produced EVs. He is not concerned with building recharging infrastructure as he feels his vehicles will provide all the range needed with one daily recharging. Their goal is to have this vehicle on the road by 2020 (that’s only two years away folks).

Dyson has 400 employees working on this project and is hiring more.

But, as he says, “Competition for new technology in the automotive industry is fierce and we must do everything we can to keep the specifics of our vehicle confidential.” So with that, there are no photos or other design teasers yet. Auto journalists are already calling the proposed vehicle an “appliance.” Actually, the appliance appellation is not off-base. From what I have heard of the direction of the transportation industry, they are not expecting us to care as much about what we drive as in just how simple it can be to get from point A to point B. The auto journalists are wringing their hands over this bland prospect for the future.

Dyson’s letter concludes with the statistics that in London alone nearly 9,500 people die each year due to longterm exposure to air pollution. Globally, the World Health Organization reported 7 million people died in 2012 from air pollution — roughly one in eight deaths. Dyson closes his letter with this statement, “It is our obligation to offer a solution to the world’s largest single environmental risk. I look forward to showing you all what I hope will be something quite unique and better, in due course.” R.

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ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT

Solar leadership shifts

BY DRS. ROBERT & SONIA VOGL CONTRIBUTORS

Shortly after President Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris international climate agreement in which we would reduce greenhouse up to 28 percent over 2005 levels by 2025, French President Macron announced seeking financial support to accelerate France’s e�ort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

They are awarding multi-year grants for scientists to relocate to France to initiate e�orts to “Make our Climate Great Again.” Grants were awarded to eighteen scientists, thirteen of whom are based in the United States.

French government-controlled utility EDF announced plans to develop 30 gigawatts of solar capacity between 2020 and 2035. Nine European energy companies will issue green bonds to finance programs targeted at climate change.

According to National Geographic, President Trump’s order to abandon the climate accord is unlikely to stall international e�orts to curb carbon emissions as China continues its e�orts by reducing its reliance on coal and accelerating renewable energy installations. They canceled construction of over 100 new coal-fueled plants and anticipate investing $360 billion into renewable energy sources by the end of this decade. They are on their way to

peaking their carbon emissions by 2030 and securing 20 percent of their energy from renewable sources as promised in the Paris Accord.

Writing for Inside Climate News, Lyndsey Gilpin points out that solar installations are booming in some southern states which voted for President Trump. Their appeal is based on their low prices and the promise of energy independence without any reference to climate change. Mississippi is known as one fastest growing solar markets in the country. Most of the growth has come from large utility-scale projects that are cheaper than coal or natural gas plants. While some utilities are capitalizing on low-cost solar energy, their policies tend not to support rooftop solar energy for residential customers.

While installers report residential interest in solar energy, state and utility policies tend not to support residential desire for energy independence. Florida and North Carolina have restrictions on rooftop solar. Net metering, higher prices for solar energy sold back to utilities and laws supporting distributive generation would provide additional incentives for rooftop installations to increase dramatically.

Existing low prices for solar systems could rise in the short term depending on the outcome of U.S. e�orts to

impose tari�s. If installations slow in this country due to tari�s, they are not expected to influence global prices. A recent report indicates that solar energy is the least cost option for 30 countries across the globe Illinois has added incentives for renewable energy that appear to be leading to a boom in solar installations.

Bureau County is targeted for a $31 million solar farm to be built on 313 acres of land that is rated to produce 17MW of solar electricity/year. Cypress Creek has also proposed a 20 MW solar farm which will occupy 200 acres in Ogle County. It has met with resistance as the Forreston Village Board has voted against the project. Major concerns include removing farmland from production and potential adverse e�ects on nearby property values.

Substantial numbers of solar panels can be installed on rooftops of warehouses and stores such as IKEA’s installation in the Chicago area. With solar panels mounted on poles, even large parking lots can provide shade and some protection from rain while generating a substantial portion of electricity for buildings served by the lots.

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Toyota Motor Corp. now o�ers no purely electric vehicles, although it leads in hybrid models, which switch between an electric motor and a gas engine.

Executive Vice President Shigeki Terashi said Monday that Toyota’s EVs will be first o�ered in China, a nation that’s encouraging electric vehicles with subsidies and other policies, and is expected to drive massive growth in that technology.

Terashi says Toyota’s EVs will also later be o�ered in Japan, India, the U.S. and Europe.

The company says that by about 2025, every model it sells will have some kind of “electrified” version, such as hybrid, electric or fuel-cell.

Last week, Toyota announced it will set up a joint auto battery business with Japanese electronics maker Panasonic Corp. Terashi stressed the deal with Panasonic is “a crucial piece” in Toyota’s strategy, and that it wanted to promote a Japanese partnership.

Advances in battery technology are vital for the success of EVs. A major shift toward their use would require more use and recycling of the rare and expensive materials used in batteries, such as lithium.

Toyota announced other goals on green vehicles. By about 2030, it hopes to sell 5.5 million electrified vehicles a year. Toyota sells about 10 million vehicles globally a year.

The company said it will invest 1.5 trillion yen ($13 billion) to realize its 2030 goal, more than half of it on making batteries.

Other automakers, including Nissan Motor Co., Volkswagen AG and Honda Motor Co., o�er or are working on electric vehicles. That means competition among battery makers is heating up. It is unclear whether Panasonic will emerge the victor in the race.

Toyota has generally sought to develop key technologies in-house, rather than purchasing them from outsiders. That includes knowhow for computer chips and robotics, which are also expected to be pillars of growth for the auto sector in coming years.

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Alternative crops: What’s new to grow in 2018

BY GRANT MCCARTY CONTRIBUTOR

Many backyard and commercial fruit and vegetable growers are always looking for the next new plant. Whether this is because they want a challenge or expand into a new operation or direction, alternative crops are ones that can sometimes address both of these needs. A grower could see an alternative crop as one that will allow them to find a niche market they would not have found otherwise. A backyard grower could grow something unusually to be added to their jams and jellies.

It is important to realize when you look at alternative crops that there is not as

much research as others. For instance, the University of Illinois can endorse apple varieties for performing well because there has been research on diseases and insects.

Whereas a lot of the information on alternative crops is purely anecdotal or coming from a company.

Many of these alternative crops also have growth characteristics you may not be prepared for. This may include an 8-10 feet vine, large spikes around the fruit, an outer shell that needs to be harvest, and deep roots that may spread as a rhizome. Trying out one or two plants can help you see this before investing in many plants.

Most alternative crops are perennial

plants and seasonal issues of drought and heat can a�ect establishment. In addition, some plants take 5-10 years for establishment for proper yields. While most of Northern Illinois is 5A/5B planting zone, you may find that your growing area is colder than that.

Many of the more popular alternative crops are berries. These include Saskatoon, Seaberry, Goji, Aronia, and Haskaps. Most of these are tart but have antioxidants or other health benefits to them. Growers that are looking at these crops are expecting to sell to wineries or others that will allow them to be combined with another fruit. Each of these berry plants have wide

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ranging growth characteristics.

Like other tart berries, Gooseberry and Currant will yield well in a backyard area.

They can sometimes tolerate shade as well.

Currants are usually susceptible to White Pine Blister Rust and you should look for resistant varieties of these like Consort, Crusador, and Titania. There are both red and black currants available to grow. Next week, I’ll discuss more about alternative crops to look at in 2018. 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.

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WISCONSIN

Man paints with his mouth following accident

BY RYAN SIVOLA BELOIT DAILY NEWS

BELOIT, Wis. — Picking up a paintbrush and pencil is something Beloit resident Ben Karr never thought he would be able to do again.

However, over the last two years, Karr, 36, has learned how to do what he once thought was the impossible — picking up his love for painting again — by using his mouth.

In 2005, he jumped o� a friend’s boat and ended up breaking his neck. A previous article in the Beloit Daily News reported that Karr had done belly flops in the same place in the Rock River o� the same boat for years, but this time he moved his head the wrong way.

“There was a sandbar and I just didn’t get far enough to protect myself,” Karr said. “I hit my head on the sand and was instantly paralyzed. My buddy was on the boat and his sister...they are pretty much the reason I’m alive now.”

Karr’s best friend Hank Baumann, and buddy Ryan Wachsmuth, lifted him into the boat while Baumann’s sister, Becky, started doing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation along with another woman who saw the accident and jumped in to help. The boat sped to Preservation Park where rescue workers took over.

“Your world gets turned upside down,” Karr said. “It changes the way you think.

Even when you want to be positive, sometimes you do it just for friends and family, and when they see me being strong, holding it together, it helps them also. If they saw me falling apart they would totally do the same. So I try to always think about the positives in everything.”

After his accident in June of 2005, he knew that Father’s Day was coming up and he needed to fill out a card.

“Right then I signed my name on a card for my dad,” Karr said. “It was the first time I put a pen in my mouth. You could clearly see B-E-N. Luckily I have a short name.”

After that he colored in a squirrel and flower out of a coloring book. The finished product is still hanging up in his room as a reminder of all the progress he’s made. He now paints all kinds of trees and flowers.

It can be di�cult, as one shiver can lead to a catastrophic mistake. He paints with a biting stick that has a paint brush taped to it, with a stand holding up the canvas and paint supply. Nurses or family stand by to prepare the paint for Karr.

Karr has to paint in bed since there aren’t tables that are the right dimensions for him to be able to completely get his wheelchair under. So far, Karr has completed about 10 paintings.

Before his accident, Karr was a firefighter and EMT with an associate’s degree in fire science from Blackhawk Technical College.

In 2005, Ben Karr was paralyzed after he jumped off a friend’s boat and ended up broke his neck. Karr has learned how to do what he once thought was the impossible - picking up his love for painting again - by using his mouth. Photo, Ryan Silvola/The Beloit Daily News via AP

He also loved to create his own artwork, do construction and play sports.

“I never quit a sport,” Karr said. “I didn’t like defeat. I would always finish a sport, then decide later if I wanted to take it up again.”

Karr’s accident made him quadriplegic.

He can only move his head and shoulders.

However, that doesn’t mean he’s given up.

“It’s easier to tell people what I hadn’t broken,” Karr said. “I was always in every single sport, so it’s a little harder life, but it’s still worth living. Nothing’s going to change that. There’s too much good out there.”

This positivity didn’t always come so easy to Karr, though.

It was a long road to get back to his determined mindset he had before the accident.

“It’s gloomy on some days, but a lot of the other days make up for it,” Karr said.

He enjoys going to see family and friends as much as possible, often seeing his brother’s children who live right down

the road. In all, Karr has four brothers and two sisters. He’s also close with his mother, Julie, who retired from General Motors and went back to school to be a nurse to take care of her son after his accident.

Each morning, caregivers come in and stretch Karr muscles to help prevent spasms. Then Karr gets cleaned up, dressed, moved from the bed into the chair.

The routine can take up to four hours.

When done preparing for the day, Karr will go shopping, attend car shows, watch his niece and nephew play sports or even go to a Sonic Boom concert.

“I can go do anything I want to,” Karr said.

Helping people has always been a goal for Karr, and he was able to sell boxes he painted as part of a fundraiser last summer for fellow Beloit resident Aiden Dunn, a boy who is battling brain cancer. Karr sold boxes he painted, and all of the proceeds went to charity.

Karr said the event really helped get his

name out there and he has set up Facebook to display his work. Karr has considered starting a business, but painting primarily serves another purpose for Karr.

“It’s therapy, knowing that I can still do something I used to do and love, it helps me a lot,” Karr said. “People are now commenting on my pictures and people wanting pictures. It brightens your day. It helps remind people that I’m still the same guy. I just look a little di�erent.”

He said it’s just always positive to find something he can do without help.

“I have to ask people to do things like scratch my nose, and people take that for granted,” Karr said. “People are like ‘You used to be such an active guy. Do you miss it?’ I would just like to be able to scratch my nose. Nothing big, just scratch my nose. I don’t care that I can’t play sports anymore. That wasn’t my whole life. I’d still like it, but small victories can seem very big.”

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Crossword

State

Urban coyotes a growing concern

By Greg Bishop

Illinois News Network

Stories of coyotes snatching dogs or encroaching on people’s backyards are growing across Illinois for a number of reasons.

Cook County Forest Preserve District Senior Wildlife Biologist Chris Anchor said wildlife researchers are going into 18 years of studying so-called urban coyotes and there’s one thing they’ve found around the state.

“You are in the territory of some coyote family group,” Anchor said. “The vast majority of coyotes are living amongst us and you don’t even know they’re there.

It’s very rare that we have a coyote that actually gets in trouble.”

But there are reports around the state of coyotes causing problems in urban settings.

Anchor attributes the increased activity this time of year to it being breeding season.

“Coyotes become much more active during the day,” Anchor said, “and they’re actively defending their territory from other coyotes, but in the process they come in contact with more domestic dogs and people’s cats and things.”

A security camera got footage of a coyote attacking a small dog in Northfield. In Springfield, aldermen said they’ve heard similar reports from constituents. They asked Springfield Police Chief Kenny Winslow what can be done about it. Winslow said he’s been asked the same thing by city residents.

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“‘What if I’m walking down the street and it’s attacking me and it’s coming right at me’,” Winslow recalled a conversation with a resident. “‘I got my concealed carry, what can I do?’ I’m not your attorney,” Winslow said. “I’m not your legal advisor. You make your decision and we’ll deal with whatever happens when it comes out.”

Winslow said it’s illegal to hunt in the city or even fire off your gun in the city.

Anchor said residents could carry pepper spray.

“If an animal gets close enough that you feel threatened, generally it’s close enough to pepper spray,” Anchor said.

“In those cases where people have pepper sprayed coyotes, the problem disappears very quickly.”

While there aren’t any reports of people getting attacked by coyotes in Illinois, Anchor said it’s an issue elsewhere.

“The attacks that have been documented have been documented typically on children 6 and under in North America and, with rare exception, every single one of them was preceded by people actively feeding coyotes,” Anchor said.

The best things residents can do, Anchor said, is to not feed coyotes, teach kids to not approach or feed any wild animal, keep track of family pets, leash them when on trails, and make sure trash cans with food waste are secure.

More in for mat ion about t he Urban Coyote Project can be found at UrbanCoyoteResearch.com.

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NFL. Week 16

Browns a welcome Christmas respite for foundation-laying Bears

By Robert Zeglinski

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t 4-10, the Bears are in no position to have any “schedule wins” or overlook an upcoming opponent. Yes, a healthier-in-spirit Bears squad managed to beat contenders such as the Steelers, Panthers, and Ravens. A true microcosm of the Jekyll and Hyde this 2017 team was earlier in the year. Line them up and let them play. But with a rookie quarterback in Mitch Trubisky learning on the fly coming off a three-interception game in Detroit, and a defense battered with injuries to key contributors, Chicago is now at the point of the season where its a better bet they lose to anybody.

Enter the winless Cleveland Browns, who are seeking to avoid their own futile history of an 0-16 season. With the rival Vikings playing for home-field advantage in Week 17, this is one final likely opportunity at a Bears 2017 victory. This is one game for the Bears’ young core to again flourish should they receive the opportunity. Ultimately, this is one shot to avoid humiliation (not that the Bears haven’t already experienced enough).

Of course, the public hype for this matchup is at a mute considering that it occurs on Christmas Eve. Soldier Field isn’t expected to sell out in with this pending barn burner on the horizon, far from it. Not that that’s shocking. People and Bears fans, in particular, would understandably rather be with their families staying at home for the holiday than watch non-quality football. A not-so-crazy concept.

Even while most of the public turns a blind eye to a game between teams with a total of four wins, that doesn’t mean the Bears are overlooking their opportunity.

They haven’t earned the right to overlook opponents. As John Fox coaches out the string of his tenure, it’s still something he preaches to his players.

“We look at tape. We don’t look at the record,” said Fox, speaking of the Browns.

Indeed, the Browns are better than their current 0-14 record indicates.

Much like Chicago continually experiences “almost-wins” with Fox, Cleveland has lost five games by one score this season, including heartbreakers to the Steelers and Packers respectively.

Talents such as 2017 No. 1 overall pick pass rusher, Myles Garrett, are a load to handle. Humbled star receiver Josh Gordon has taken it to teams of late.

Rookie quarterback DeShone Kizer does lead the NFL in interceptions but has proven to be one of the better quarterbacks between the 20’s so far.

The Browns aren’t stacked with talent and ability. They’re not some juggernaut waiting to be unearthed. But this will be no cakewalk for the positivity-seeking Bears.

This isn’t a game you can merely show up to, not that you can do that for anyone.

And really, that’s the best ideal for Chicago.

This is an organization looking to put a meaningful stamp on the rest of the season. This is a nucleus of talent trying to sell itself to a future attractive new head coach. You know, the coach that will finally turn the Bears into a contender.

That’s because while there won’t be an intense magnifying glass from a national perspective on this Browns’ visit, you can bet top prospective NFL minds will have

their eye on how Trubisky responds to his turnover-laden game. Overall, someone important will be watching how Chicago buries an inferior team on paper.

These Bears, like all NFL teams, are too prideful, too afraid of losing their own collective livelihood to play for a draft pick the way many them want to, anyway. Actively tanking doesn’t benefit anyone on this team, although retaining Fox through the end of the season is essentially a passive version of tanking.

Building a resume for a hotshot coach is the key. Glitzing up a mess of a situation that can be fixed with a few proper strokes is what the Bears need to focus on. A poor finish, especially against a team Chicago is expected to come out on top against, will only handicap this venture. When it comes to finding the next coach, that’s not a situation the Bears would do well to see themselves

in. Mailing it in is not an option.

Solid competition down the stretch can’t hurt anyone in that respect. Playing like a favorite, instead of a hungry underdog, is how the Bears must approach their last two games, not only against Cleveland. A healthy mindset of that mold will help prepare an organization prepared to soon finally turn the page.

Trubisky, who is from nearby Cleveland and who was reportedly a stroke away from becoming the Browns next quarterback in the draft, was asked about what it’s going to be like to face his hometown team. About how he doesn’t want the Bears to give them their first win of the year.

He jokingly exemplified his team with the needed amount of loose edge, not taking any opponent for granted.

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Rodgers shut down for rest of season

By Genaro C. Armas AP Sports Writer

GREEN BAY, Wis. — This will be a strange couple weeks in Titletown.

The Green Bay Packers’ streak of eight straight postseason appearances is over.

Quarterback Aaron Rodgers is done for the year after he was placed on injured reserve Tuesday.

Rodgers threw for three touchdowns and tossed three interceptions in Sunday’s 31-24 loss at Carolina in his return from a broken collarbone. Coach Mike McCarthy said there were no setbacks with Rodgers’ injury, but it made sense to shut him down.

“He took a number of hits. With all the factors involved, we felt this was clearly in Aaron Rodgers’ best interest,” McCarthy said. “He’s not happy about it. It’s a hard day for him.”

It’s an unusual time for the team as a whole.

The Packers last missed the playoffs in 2008, which was Rodgers’ first season as the starter. They’re not used to playing games this late into December without postseason implications.

Atlanta’s win over Tampa Bay on Monday night sealed Green Bay’s fate in the NFC wild-card chase. Packers receiver

Randall Cobb dozed off in front of the TV while watching the game and woke up on Tuesday morning to difficult news.

“It’s very disappointing. You never want to be in this situation,” Cobb said, “but we are.”

The Packers managed to go 3-4 in games started by backup quarterback Brett Hundley to keep their playoff hopes alive while Rodgers was out. With Rodgers done, Hundley will take over again as the starter Saturday against Minnesota, and the Packers re-signed Joe Callahan to be his backup.

The last three games of the year figured to be tough with or without Rodgers. He was knocked out in Week 6 after landing on his right arm after a hard hit outside the pocket by Vikings linebacker Anthony Barr.

“I mean you can’t go out there trying to take someone out like that. Just play ball, we don’t really think about it too much,” left guard Lane Taylor said when asked if the team was motivated by another opportunity to face Barr.

So the Packers are in the unusual position of possibly playing the spoiler role. Their final foe, the Detroit Lions in Week 17, also remains in the chase for a wild-card spot.

An early end to a season for a team

perennially considered a Super Bowl contender could spark more change in the offseason, especially on defense.

The Packers haven’t had consistent pass-rushing punch on the edge, a group led by outside linebacker Clay Matthews and Nick Perry.

Injuries have also have decimated the Packers at cornerback, which was already a question mark. They were without starters Kevin King and Davon House last week against Carolina due to shoulder injuries.

“You know we had ups and downs. We didn’t play as good as we should have, and what we’re capable of,” Perry said.

“We didn’t get the job done this year. I’m pretty sad about it. The only thing we can do now is just look forward and just move in the right direction.”

They’ll have to do it without Rodgers over the final two weeks. When asked, McCarthy said there was no second-guessing about playing Rodgers last week.

“I think we all cringed when he took that first hit and frankly when he took the one from behind on the full fake,” McCarthy said. “That’s a bad hit on a good day, when you’re completely healthy, not coming off what he went through to get back for that game.”

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