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JANUARY 14, 2015 VOL. 7 ISSUE 19

NEWS Bettye gavin will remain on april ballot Joliet Electoral Board rules against her opponent’s bid to have her name removed

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CIty COUNCIL City Council discusses future of evergreen Terrace Concerns about financing, liability emerge

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OPINION Puttin’ up a stink on Joliet Partnership Will County government never has been known for acting quickly on major issues

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SPORtS Back in business JCA’s Nicole Ekhomu goes for 38 in win over Benet

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Czerkies pulls $350,000 donation after Rialto board tables decision about new marquee ed Czerkies withdrew his $350,000 donation for a new Rialto square Theatre marquee after the theater’s governing board on Jan. 8 tabled his request that the new marquee remain in place for at least 25 years. “i think there are way too many questions unanswered here,” said Dan Vera, Joliet Township supervisor and a member of the Will County Metropolitan exposition and auditorium authority, the Rialto’s governing board during the special meeting.

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The members of the Rialto’s board considered issues related to the new marquee.

The latest proposed version of the new marquee was distributed at the meeting. (Photos by sTeWaRT WaRRen | assistant Digital editor)

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‘My mother would not want to be on that sign’ Czerkies history of giving to local causes might be over

By Stewart Warren staff reporter

stewartwarren509@yahoo.com @stewartwarren

Ed Czerkies is the kind of guy who gives. He knows what it’s like to be in need. As a poor kid in Joliet, he hitchhiked to work at Cog Hill Golf and Country Club near Lemont.

Years later, he made a habit of stopping his truck for people who were standing at the curb, thumb out. “I was always out there trying to get a ride, and I want to repay people,” said Czerkies, a retired contractor who was raised in Joliet and still lives in town.

After his beloved wife Carolyn died in 2000 of multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood and bones, he wrote a $1.5 million check to the Mayo Clinic, one of the hospitals that treated her. He gave the same sum to the new Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox.

During the past few years,

he’s been looking for the right way to memorialize his parents, particularly his mother, Mary Czerkies. Her entire life was difficult, but she never complained, Czerkies said. When she was about 15, her mother died, and she had to leave school to take care of her brothers and sisters. She later married and had seven children, raising them in a small farmhouse without the luxury of running water or a bathroom indoors.

“All the hardship she went through, it was unbelievable. Yet she always smiled and said ‘God gave me what I could endure,’” Czerkies remembered.

A little more than two years ago, he appeared on a local cable television show and mentioned that he wanted to make a sizeable gift in his parents’ name. Several local organizations contacted him, including the management of the historic and generally cashstrapped Rialto Square Theater, 102 N. Chicago St., the jewel of Joliet. They wanted a new marquee to replace the aging sign that was installed in the 1970s and now was held together in some places with

“What really got to me is that you have got a small group of people that are controlling everything. They are controlling the city council. They are controlling the Rialto board,” Czerkies said. duct tape.

At first Czerkies wasn’t interested and said so, telling the theater’s management that he preferred giving to medical facilities. Then he changed his mind.

“The Rialto is an antique – it’s an old building. And my mother was old. So I just thought this might work for mom. Up until then, I had offers that I just couldn’t accept.

And I thought, ‘I am 77 years old.

I will never die happy unless I do something like this,’” Czerkies said.

So he discussed the subject again with Randy Green, general manager of the Rialto.

“They presented it to me just like you saw except it had ‘The Ed

Czerkies family’ on there. I said, ‘Randy, if you would change that to ‘In memory of Michael and Mary,’ we might have a deal. He said, ‘I don’t see a problem,’” Czerkies recounted.

When that was settled, he gave $350,000 to the theater. The firestorm began not long after the donation was announced on Nov. 24.

A group of local residents began complaining about the design of the new marquee, and they seemed particularly irked by the memorial to his parents appearing on all three sides of the sign. They took their beefs to Joliet City Council meetings and picketed a Christmas show at the theater. They discussed the issue endlessly on Facebook, often posting documents related to the theater and its management.

Dave Neal, a prominent local Democrat and the former Grundy County State’s Attorney who now is a special prosecutor for the Illinois Attorney General’s office, created a page for the opposition called The Rialto Belongs to the People.

Some members of the group said unpleasant things about Czerkies on the page and accused him of having ulterior motives, among other things. Although nearly 900

people are members of The Rialto Belongs to the People page, there seem to be about 20 who are really active in the group and live in the area.

Neal had his own problems with the Rialto, however. He had rented office space in the theater building, but did not pay some of the rent on his month-to-month lease. Theater management filed three lawsuits against him, seeking payment. The latest suit is scheduled for a bench trial on March 5.

On Jan. 8, the Will County Metropolitan Exhibition and Auditorium Authority, the Rialto’s governing board, called a special meeting to discuss the sign and show the latest version of its design. As part of the new design, the memorial to Czerkies’ parents had been reduced in size by about five inches, and the font had been changed. They also considered a resolution that would have kept the new marquee in place for at least 25 years. Czerkies had requested a pledge to keep the sign for that period of time.

After more than an hour of fielding comments from the public that sometimes seemed heated and repetitive, the board voted to table

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Rialto management, donor, discussing a compromise Bickering about the theater’s new sign continues at City Council workshop

By Stewart Warren staff reporter

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The Rialto Square Theater’s new marquee might not be a done deal.

The theater’s general manager and the chairman of its governing board made that clear Monday night when they spoke during the Joliet City Council’s workshop session.

“As of this moment, we are still in discussions with the donor,” said James V. Smith, chairman of the theater’s board. “Quite frankly, the ball is in his court.”

This is he latest wrinkle in the ongoing and unusual saga that dominated local news at the end of 2014. At the Nov. 24 opening of the Festival of Trees at the Rialto, 102 N. Chicago St., Joliet, theater management announced that local businessman Ed Czerkies was donating $350,000 for a new, more modern sign. The marquee included a memorial on all three sides dedicating it to the memory of Michael and Mary Czerkies, his parents. Some people did not like the new marquee, and they seemed particularly upset by the size of the lettering comprising the memorial.

sign | from page 2 the issue until their meeting at 4 p.m. on Jan. 28.

Czerkies was at the meeting, although he didn’t call any attention to his presence. He quietly sat near the windows on one side of the room and listened to the proceedings.

By the end of the session, he’d had enough and decided to ask for his donation to be returned.

“What really got to me is that you have got a small group of people that are controlling everything. They are controlling the city council. They are controlling the Rialto board,” Czerkies said.

At the onset of the controversy, his sons read the negative comments on Facebook and told him not to look, Czerkies said. And Paul Pawlak, the chief executive officer of Silver Cross Hospital, telephoned him, urging him to wait for the brouhaha to end, Czerkies said.

“He said, ‘Ed, when we did Silver Cross Field, for the first week, they

Then Dave Neal, the former Grundy County State’s Attorney who has been sued three times by the theater’s board because he did not pay rent for office space in the historic building, became involved.

He created a Facebook page called “The Rialto Belongs to the People” opposing the marquee. Some members of that group, including de facto leader Mary Beth Gannon of Joliet, have attended the last few City Council meetings to plead their case. They also picketed a Christmas show at the theater and seem to be planning to protest again on Jan. 18 during the theater’s bridal expo.

During the City Council workshop session on Monday, some longstanding questions were answered. Councilman Bob O’Dekirk wanted to know why the existing sign wasn’t simply repaired. “(We felt) it was probably a better investment to look at a new one,” said Larry Green, the general manager.

Councilman Larry Hug asked if the construction of the new marquee was ongoing.

Green replied that it had been halted. “I still stand by my statement that the manufacturing work is about 75

percent completed,” Green said.

Councilwoman Jan Quillman wanted to know more about the memorial. “Why does the name have to be on all three sides?” she asked.

Smith explained that the proposed compromise involved changes to that part of the sign.

“The revised version is much more tasteful and aesthetically pleasing,” he said. The discussion became heated when several members of the Council began asking the mayor about his recent appointments to the theater’s board. Councilman Jim McFarland asked Giarrante if he was going to appoint former Joliet City Manager Tom Thanas to the Rialto’s board. The mayor said he had spoken to him but did not know if Thanas was interested in the position, considering the ongoing controversy.

O’Dekirk urged the mayor to appoint Gannon to the board.

But Giarrante said he had been discussing the position with other people since last summer, and he wanted to hear from them first.

Near the end of the discussion, Gannon demanded answers.

“When will I have an interview with you (for a position on the Rialto’s board)?” she said.

“As soon as one of the people refuses,” Giarrante replied.

hammered at us, too. In a week or two, this will all be forgotten,’” Czerkies said.

The protests haven’t diminished.

“It has gotten worse, I think,” Czerkies said, sounding dismayed that the naysayers hadn’t considered his perspective.

Other people who could have backed him hadn’t done so, at least not in public. No one on the Joliet City Council has supported his gift except for Mayor Tom Giarrante, Czerkies said. No one seemed to appreciate the fact that he simply wanted to help his hometown.

“It just kind of bummed me out throughout this deal. I did this for the Rialto and also for the city of Joliet,” he said. “You move the Rialto out of there and the courthouse out of there and you might as well shut downtown down,” he said.

In the past few weeks, other organizations have called to say they would be happy to have his parents’ name on their buildings.

But his recent experience seems to have changed Czerkies.

“I doubt if I will make another investment in the city of Joliet. I am very disturbed about it,” he said.

He wanted to make Joliet, a community that often struggles with crime, poverty and unforgiveable behavior, a better place. That’s why he’s given to the United Way, the Will-Grundy Medical Group and other local organizations. And when he gives, he remains involved. After donating $10,000 to the medical clinic, he often stops when he’s on Cass Street, just to see if they need anything else.

“If you are thinking just give them a check and forget about it, I can’t do that,” he said. People often say that no good deed goes unpunished.

Czerkies tried to help, and he got a kick in the teeth. “Never in my life did I know there was going to be this kind of static,” Czerkies said. “(Now), I am sure my mother would not want to be on that sign.”

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Czerkies pulls $350,000 donation after Rialto board tables decision about new marquee Members want more answers before they agree to keep new sign for at least 25 years

By Stewart Warren staff reporter

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Ed Czerkies withdrew his $350,000 donation for a new Rialto Square Theatre marquee after the theater’s governing board on Jan. 8 tabled his request that the new marquee remain in place for at least 25 years.

“I think there are way too many questions unanswered here,” said Dan Vera, Joliet Township Supervisor and a member of the Will County Metropolitan Exposition and Auditorium Authority, the Rialto’s governing board during the special meeting. So the board decided unanimously to table the issue until their meeting at 5 p.m. on Jan. 28.

There was a large crowd of people in the room who clearly opposed the new marquee, and they all seemed pleased by the decision to table.

Czerkies, who also attended, was not.

A prominent local businessman, he had agreed to donate $350,000 for a new marquee with LED lighting for the historic theater, 102 N. Chicago St., Joliet. It was to be constructed by Landmark Sign Co. of Chesterton, Ind. Not long after his gift was announced at the opening of the Festival of Trees event at the Rialto in late November, Will County residents began to complain. They thought the sign was too large for the façade, and they did not care for the lettering on the marquee indicating it had been donated in memory of Czerkies’ parents.

‘That’s it’ Until the vote, Board Chairman Jim Smith said he had felt pretty good about the meeting, like the people in the audience who were opposed to the new marquee “didn’t see us as having three heads.”

He knew that in the past few weeks, the management of the theater has been trying to strike a compromise with Czerkies that might be palatable to everyone involved in the issue. When the meeting began Thursday, the

members saw the latest proposed version of the sign that included smaller lettering for the memorial to Czerkies’ parents.

They also considered a resolution requested by Czerkies and written

by Tom Carey, a local attorney who specializes in real estate and also represents the theater.

“EdwardM.Czerkieshasrequested assurance that the marquee memorial naming his parents shall be maintained,” read the resolution, in part. “The memorial shall remain on the marquee as described … for not less than 25 years.”

Smith started feeling uneasy when his fellow board members began voting to table, some because they had seen the proposed agreement only just before the meeting. But then, the agreement had been drafted by Czerkies and Carey only by 10:30 a.m. that same day, Smith said.

Czerkies said that morning he wanted the issue wrapped up that day. But as much as he fought for the agreement, Smith said in the end he made the motion to table unanimous so as not to appear divisive.

During a break in the meeting, Smith said he looked for Rialto General Manager Randy Green to talk to him about the vote. He found him talking with Czerkies.

“He had a smile on his face,” Smith said of Czerkies. “And he said, ‘Jim, I appreciate all you have done and tried to do, but I am done. I want my money back.’ I was taken aback a bit, but then not really shocked. “(Czerkies) is old Joliet. And he is all about family. To hear what he has had to put up with in the past few weeks, all the nastiness against him and his family, I don’t blame him. …

I thank him for his graciousness.”

Still, Smith thought immediately after the special meeting maybe they still had a chance to work something out before the next meeting on Jan. 28. Then they heard Czerkies on the radio saying he had pulled his donation.

“I don’t usually like to say never,” Smith said, “but I think that’s it.”

He said they will have to go over

the financials to see how they will pay for the sign, which has cost about $200,000 so far. Czerkies’ donation was to cover the cost of the marquee – estimated at just under $300,000 – as well as painting of the vertical sign and some reserves for maintenance.

Czerkies did not return a phone call Thursday night.

Audience speaks out Much of the discussion about the marquee has happened online.

Oddly, the most heated reaction on Facebook following Czerkies’ pulling the donation focused on conspiracy theories involving Mayor Tom Giarrante, who appoints some members to the board, but has no vote or control otherwise.

Before the vote, the board allowed the public to speak for more than an hour and a half.

“You are essentially selling naming rights to this sign,” said Mary Beth Gannon of Joliet, the de facto leader of the opposition. “Why not get 30 pieces of silver?”

Smith replied the memorial on the sign was not the same thing as naming rights.

Jackie Stewart-Kollinger of Rockdale asked if she would be able to donate curtains, carpeting or mirrors to the theater that would bear her family’s name.

“Where does it stop,” she asked.

Cheryl Grate of Grate Signs, 4044 McDonough St., said she was upset because information had circulated indicating that her company could not have created a new marquee for the theater. That’s not true, she said.

Grate Signs did the last remodel of the marquee in the 1970s and still maintains it today, she said. Her company never was given a chance to bid on the current job, Grate said.

Near the end of the discussion, Smith explained that though the theater is on the National Register of Historic Places, changing the marquee does not affect that status.

The sign is considered to be a “trade fixture or chattel,” he said.

They also postponed naming a member of the board as the new ethics officer. Dave Hacker, a board member who died last year and has yet to be replaced, was the former ethics officer.

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City Council discusses future of Evergreen Terrace Concerns about financing, liability emerge

By Stewart Warren staff reporter

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Now that the city of Joliet and the owners of Evergreen Terrace have their separate appraisals, the two sides can try to work out an agreed price for the public housing Jim Hock project.

City Manager And if they can reach a deal, there would be no need for a jury trial to determine how much the land and buildings are worth, City Manager Jim Hock said during the City Council meeting on Tuesday. Earlier in the day, the city had released information on its two appraisals for the property and the one that was done by the owners of Evergreen Terrace.

The two sides are about $10 million apart, price-wise. One of the city’s appraisals listed the total price for the two sections of Evergreen Terrace as $14. 3 million. The other was $13.76 million. The owners’ appraisal was $23.5 million.

For nearly 10 years, the city has been working to gain control of Evergreen Terrace, the federally subsidized, low-income apartment buildings at 350 N. Broadway, Joliet.

Built during a period of urban renewal in the late 1960s, the 156 units replaced historic 19th Century structures on the west banks of the Des Plaines River.

Officials filed the condemnation lawsuit because they believed the buildings were overcrowded, badly managed and contributed to crime problems in the surrounding area.

When the suit was filed, the city proposed tearing down Evergreen Terrace and building a combination of subsidized and market-rate housing there. In September, a federal judge ruled in the city’s favor.

But that was the first phase of the lawsuit. Now it’s down to the nitty-gritty: the money. If the two sides cannot agree, a jury trial is scheduled to begin on March 10.

“At the conclusion of the

approximately five-day trial, the jury will make an immediate decision on the value and the court will enter when the transfer of title and ownership will take place,” Hock wrote in a memo. “It is anticipated to be 90 to 120 days.

Without a settlement, the owners could appeal the entire decision to a higher court.”

During the meeting on Tuesday, the councilmen seemed concerned about other issues, however. After the city acquires Evergeen Terrace, the buildings will remainopenforsometimeand be managed by the Holsten Real Estate Development and Management Co. of Chicago, Hock said. The rent for the units then will be used to pay off the loans to buy the property.

Councilman Larry Hug wanted a breakdown of the revenues that would be generated by renting

Evergreen Terrace, but Hock said he didn’t have that information.

Hug also was concerned about the liability of owning the buildings.

“We certainly are exposed,” Hug said.

Councilman Bob O’Dekirk wondered why Holsten would want Evergreen Terrace to be redeveloped if the company was managing the property. After all, as long as the buildings are open, Holsten would make money from them.

“I say privately that the yardstick keeps getting moved on this,” O’Dekirk said.

Mayor Tom Giarrante agreed that there were negative aspects to the situation. But if the city did not acquire the property, it would be worse, he said. The current owners had not been able to stop the crime and other problems inside the buildings.

“If we take over, we can control that problem,” Giarrante said.

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The following items were compiled from the official reports of the Joliet Police Department. Appearing in the police blotter does not constitute a finding of guilt, only a court of law can make that determination.

SHOREWOOD Angel Hernandez-Cedillo, 52, 325 Pleasant, Joliet, was arrested at 5:54 a.m. Dec. 29 at Brookforest and Meadow for driving while license revoked and for having no valid registration.

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Brian R. Johnson, 41, 6816 Creston Road, Austin, Texas, was arrested at 11:57 p.m.

Jan. 1 at 310 Parkside on a Will County warrant for assault, and on a McHenry County warrant for harassing communication.

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JOLIET Brandon Lee Watt, 29, 416 Elmwood, was arrested at 12:09 p.m. on Jan. 1 at Fifth Street

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and Eastern Avenue for unlawful use and unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon.

Alexander J. Liebich, 18, of 203 Davis St. was arrested at 12:41 p.m. on Jan. 1 at Fourth and Hobbs streets for possession of cannabis.

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Jerrell M. Amos, 22, 310 Fifth Ave., was arrested at 12:28 p.m. on Jan. 1 at Wallace and Joliet streets for aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, felony possession of a weapon, possession of a firearm by a street gang member, no firearm owner’s identification card, resisting and obstructing a police officer and aggravated assault

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Stephanie A. Patterson, 22, and Peji C. Patterson, 24, of 2219 W. Jefferson St. were arrested at 3:36 p.m. on Jan. 1 at their home for endangering the life or health of a child. Peji C. Patterson also was arrested for domestic battery.

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Anthony A. Green, 26, of 933 Moen Ave., Rockdale, was arrested at 8:56 p.m. on Jan. 1 while at Larkin and Ingalls avenues for driving under the influence of alcohol with a blood-alcohol level of more than .08 and possession of drug equipment.

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Marietta Warren, 57, of 505 Plainfield Road, was arrested at 1:47 p.m. Jan. 1 at Plainfield Road and Wilcox Street for possession of a controlled substance.

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Ryan K. McCorkle, 22, and Rasheen R. McCorkle, 24, of 216 N. Hickory St., were arrested at 10:30 p.m. Jan. 2 at their home for manufacture and delivery of a controlled substance. Ryan K. McCorkle also was arrested for possession of drug equipment and possession of cannabis.

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Devin Q. Tyler, 18, of 1218 Hague St., and Quincy D. Marshall, 22, of 106 Riverview Ave., Lockport, were arrested at

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11:45 p.m. on Jan. 2 at Henderson and Cass streets for possession of cannabis.

cannabis, possession of controlled substance with intent to deliver and an out-of-town warrant.

Ashley N. Loewen, 27, of 1311 Frederick, was arrested at 10 p.m. on Jan. 3 at Campbell Street and Midland Avenue for driving under the influence of alcohol.

She also was arrested later for aggravated fleeing and attempting to elude police.

Drew T. Tsokatos, 57, of 2114 Jackson Branch Drive, New Lenox, was arrested at 8:34 a.m. on Jan. 5 at 301 N. Madison St. for cruelty to animals.

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Eric S. Woods Jr., 28, of 821 Second Ave., was arrested at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 3 at Broadway and Oneida Street for possession of cannabis.

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Rodney D. Bayless, 43, of 311 Margaret St., was arrested at 1:42 p.m. on Jan. 5 at 151 N. Ottawa St. for battery.

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Bradley M. Schwab, 34, of 6919 Great Falls Drive, Plainfield, was arrested at his home at 9:41 a.m. on Jan. 8 for domestic battery and aggravated domestic battery.

Tiffany C. Washington, 25, of Pontiac, was arrested at 11:58 p.m. Jan. 4 on Scott and Jackson streets for possession of

Clarissa M. Camacho, 22, of 407 Elwood Ave., was arrested at 11:23 p.m. on Jan. 8 at Irving Street and Parks Avenue for possession of cannabis, possession of drug paraphernalia and resisting a police officer.

Eladio Cardenas, 20, 505 E. Benton St., and Jonathan Narez, 22, 554 Clay St., were arrested at 12:09 a.m. Jan. 4 at the residence for possession of cannabis.

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While I was listening to the closing strains of the Jan. 6 County Board Finance Committee meeting, Board Member Beth Rice of Bolingbrook leaned over in the audience and whispered: “You’ve been covering County Board for a long time, haven’t you?”

Here and there, off and on since 1987, I whispered back.

“You’ve seen it all,” she responded.

I told her I haven’t seen it all, but I have seen a lot. And I have heard a lot. I remember when Jim Moustis of Frankfort came on board. Now, he’s the County Board Speaker and, with 22 years in, he’s also de facto historian of the board.

As such, Moustis told the board’s Capital Improvements Committee that same day they need to get crackin’ on a funding source for a new county courthouse. He remembered that it took five years for the board to approve the addition to the Will County Adult Detention Facility, and even then, some board members weren’t sure.

Will County government never has been known for acting quickly on major issues, especially those involving money, which it seems everything does. The new jail itself, let alone the addition, took – and you can look it up – some 20 years before a new cell door

actually clanked. I felt blessed that I was around to cover such a historic event.

Conversely, when I moved over to cover Joliet City Hall, I nearly got whiplash with how quickly they were able to plan, build and move on. That went for not one, but two casinos, and not one, but two nationally known auto venues: Chicagoland Speedway and Route 66 Raceway.

Odd, then, that it seems to be the city of Joliet that has been holding up a crucial part of a major capital program in partnership with the county. If you have been paying attention, you know the county and city have been swapping facilities downtown so the county can continue to be a major stakeholder in the City Center. And provide them the parking lot easement that will allow the city to once again open Chicago Street from Washington to Jefferson.

All of this is great, except the county has been waiting for about a year for Joliet city staff to nail down the easements needed to extend Joliet water and sewer out to the dismal Laraway Sheriff’s Station, which now is running on well and septic.

But county officials hope to have a new campus out at Laraway that would include new offices for the Sheriff and the Coroner. And the road to that plan lies with the city getting the rights-ofway for the water and sewer lines.

Nick Palmer, Will County Executive

Larry Walsh’s Chief of Staff, said they met recently with Mayor Tom Giarrante, City Manager Jim Hock and staff supervisors. All are on board, he said. But it’s not getting done.

He said city officials told him they plan to approve all or most of the documents at their Jan. 20 meeting, and whatever is left at the Feb. 3 meeting.

If not, Palmer said, well … hopefully that won’t be the case.

What the city does not need is to provide more ammunition for misguided folks who want to consider building a new courthouse on a “green grass” site outside of Joliet. Folks like Board Member Mike Fricilone, who said at the meeting something to the effect of, “How can they expect us to build a courthouse in their downtown when we can’t even get a water and sewer line?”

Yes, one is in the city and one isn’t.

But a partnership is a partnership. And both parties have to be invested in it.

I have to mention in closing that I screwed up one last time in 2014, which is good, because I wanted to be perfect all this year. I mentioned in a column that the courthouse and Laraway station were terrible facilities, and the other county buildings weren’t much better. I was quickly reminded the Will County Office Building is in great shape, Sunny Hill Nursing Home is amazing and the Emco building is so good that county judges and attorneys all want to move their offices there.

Very true. Now here’s to a perfect 2015.

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Back in BUSINESS Nicole Ekhomu drops 38 as JCA hands Benet its first loss of the year

By mark gregory sports reporter

mark@buglenewspapers.com @Hear_The_Beard

During Benet’s undefeated start to the season, the Redwings played really good basketball and also got a little help missing out on some opponent’s top players.

That was not the case Saturday as they ran into a Joliet Catholic Academy team with a healthy and determined Nicole Ekhomu, who had her best game of the season after returning from a stress fracture in her back.

The junior erupted for a careerhigh 38 points and paced the Angels to an 81-67 win, handing Benet its first loss of the season.

“When you have a player of her caliber that has been out two and a half to three months and now she has the opportunity to get back on the floor and do what she loves to do,” said JCA coach Kenny Battle. “She knows she’s been out, but she’s putting it on her shoulders saying, ‘Hey, guys, it’s my fault, I was out, but I’m back.’ That’s the Niki I want to see. Her leadership, her tenacity

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on defense, and just getting us where we need to go and continue to push us and get us better.”

“They are a good team. Ekhomu was very good today. She is hard to guard. She’s hard to cover,” Benet coach Joe Kilbride said. “We didn’t do a good job of trapping her the way we prepped doing, but she’s a tough cover, so even if you do a good job, she’s going to get some. You don’t want her to have 38. She is a special player and she had a special game.”

Ekhomu finished the game 15for-21 from the floor and 7-for10 from the free-throw line. She also added six rebounds and four steals for the Angels (11-5, 2-1).

“I’m feeling much better now,” Ekhomu said. “The in-shape part I’m trying to push myself so that I can get 100 percent there, but this was a really good game.

I wasn’t too winded or anything.

I owe that all to my teammates, though, because Ty [Battle], she’s such a threat in the post. I tell her to screen for me. So it’s either you have to guard me or Ty, and if the

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the Benet defense could not stop JcA’s nicole ekhomu as she poured in a career-high 38 points saturday .

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Larry Roberts and Minooka fell to SPC rival Plainfield South.

boys hoops

Minooka looks young in loss to Plainfield South Indians battle back from 13-point deficit in first quarter, fall in final minutes Don’t look now SPC, but here comes Plainfield South.

After starting the season 1-9, the Cougars have run off a threegame winning streak – the latest a 54-50 win over Minooka Friday night.

“After our (win) against Plainfield East, I was worried about a letdown game, but we came out ready to play,” Plainfield South coach Tim Boe said. “We

played as good as we could play.

They took our punch and they came back with a couple more and then it was just a couple of good basketball teams making plays at the end.”

The Cougars (4-9, 3-2) opened the game on fire, jumping out to as much as a 16-3 lead late in the first quarter.

“I’d rather land the last punch,” Boe said. “But, yeah, it

was nice.”

After the first quarter, Minooka rallied back and had a chance to tie or win the game in the closing seconds.

“You just can’t give that kind of lead,” Indians coach Scott Tanaka said. “We played like a young team tonight, that’s the bottom line. We played young, we showed our youth. We think we are making progress and then we have a game like this. If your team isn’t ready to play, it’s on

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Fighting Saints sweep Roosevelt University Bowlers compete at Baker Challenge Junior Ilya Ilyayev (Los Angeles, Calif./ Palisades) led five Saints in double digits with a game-high 32 points as University of St. Francis defeated host Roosevelt University 9378 in a clash of Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference men’s basketball divisional leaders Saturday afternoon.

With the victory, St. Francis (13-5) improved to 7-0 in league play to remain atop the CCAC South Division. Roosevelt (11-6), which entered the game tied for first place in the North Division, fell to 5-2 in conference action.

St. Francis jumped out to a 17-4 lead and by halftime built a 45-32 advantage. The Saints maintained a double-digit edge for the first 10 minutes of the second half, but back-to-back baskets by the Lakers’ Jeremiah Jackson trimmed USF’s lead to 67-61 with 9:04 left in the game.

St. Francis answered with a 7-0 run, capped by an Ilyayev layup at the 7:17 mark, to push its to 74-61.

Roosevelt cut the gap to single digits, 78-69, on a pair of Joe Harks free throws with 4:06 to go, but the Saints scored the game’s next six points to pull

away for good.

Ilyayev was 8-of-14 from the field, including 2-of-3 shooting from 3-point range, and was perfect on 14 free throw attempts.

He also handed out five assists and grabbed a team-high six rebounds. Ilyeyev’s 32 points matched his career best.

Sophomore Jake Raspopovich (Merrillville, Ind./ Merrillville) recorded his first career doubledouble with 10 points and 11 assists. Junior Jens Kennedy (Dwight, Ill./ Dwight) and sophomore Jo Jo Ballestero (Anaheim, Calif./ Canyon) each tallied 13 points, and junior Edvinas Presniakovas (Plainfield, Ill./ Plainfield South) added 11.

St. Francis shot 57% from the field, including a 10-of-19 effort (53%), from the behind the 3-point arc.

USF connected on 25 of 27 attempts from the free throw stripe as it won for the seventh time in its last nine games.

Kevin Priebe and Tyree York led Roosevelt with 23 and 20 points, respectively, while Jackson netted 14. The Lakers shot 42% from the field.

women’s hoops Senior Katie Gonnering (Seymour, Wis./ Freedom) scored 25 points and grabbed 18 rebounds to lead University of St. Francis to a 75-63 win over host Roosevelt University in Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference women’s basketball action Saturday afternoon.

En route to her ninth double-double of the season, Gonnering connected on 11 of 12 free throws and pulled down 11 offensive boards as St. Francis won its fourth straight game and sixth in its last seven outings.

St. Francis (8-11, 4-2 CCAC) never trailed in the contest.

Sophomore Kamari Jordan’s (Bolingbrook, Ill./ Bolingbrook) 3-pointer at the 7:36 mark of the first half gave the Saints a 31-20 lead. USF maintained a doubledigit edge for the remainder of the game, leading by as many as 20 points on four occasions during the second stanza.

Jordan handed out a team-high six assists on the day.

Senior Kaitlyn Ray (New Lenox, Ill./ Lincoln-Way West) joined Gonnering in double figures with 15 points to go along

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Wedn esday, January 14, 2015 | bug lenewspapers.com usf | from page 11 with five assists. Ray was 4-of-6 from 3-point range as St. Francis went 9-for-22 from behind the arc, good for a .409 percentage.

Becky Williford paced the Lakers (6-13, 2-5) with 17 points, while Jasmine Kyler and Paige Gallimore added 16 and 13, respectively.

men’s bowling The University of St. Francis men’s bowling team gained a share of fourth place at the Roto Grip Eagle Baker Challenge, hosted by Robert Morris University, Saturday and Sunday at Stardust Bowl.

St. Francis finished sixth out of 21 teams after 24 Baker games on Saturday and 16 more Sunday with 7,493 total pins.

Robert Morris University led the field with 8,252 pins, followed by McKendree University (8,048) and Purdue University (8,000).

USF opened the eight-team bracket competition with a 3-2 win over Purdue, before dropping a 3-2 decision to McKendree in the semifinals. Robert Morris went on to defeat McKendree 3-0 in the final match.

women’s bowling The University of St. Francis women’s bowling team tied for fourth place at the Roto Grip Eagle Baker Challenge, hosted

by Robert Morris University, Saturday and Sunday at Stardust Bowl.

St. Francis finished fourth among 18 teams after 24 Baker games on Saturday and 16 more Sunday, finishing the 40 games with 7,331 total pins.

Robert Morris University led the field with 7,628 pins, followed

by Grand View University (7,569) and Ashford University (7,396).

The Saints opened the eightteam bracket competition with a 3-1 win over Calumet College of St. Joseph, before falling to AIB College of Business 3-0 in the semifinals. Mount Mercy University defeated AIB 3-0 to claim the tournament title.

St. Francis, which recorded its seventh top-10 finish in as many tournaments this season, will return to Stardust Bowl next Saturday and Sunday to participate in the Kegel/ISBPA Midwest Collegiate Classic.

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Wedn esday, January 14, 2015 | bug lenewspapers.com young | from page 10 everybody from the coaching staff on down to the players, so I guess we didn’t do our job as a coaching staff to be ready to play. If we wanted to contend for conference, this was a game we couldn’t afford to lose and we lost.”

Plainfield South junior guard Jacob Buchner was a one-man wrecking crew early, scoring 20 of his game-high 23 points in the first half.

Buchner hit 9-of-15 shots, including 4 of 7 from 3-point range.

In the second half, Minooka adjusted and senior Shane Ritter took over adding 16 points.

back | from page 9 other person collapses, I have my shooters out there. It was tough to guard.”

Battle tallied eight points and grabbed 17 rebounds in the game. Jnaya Walker had nine points for JCA, while Mia Farrell added eight points and Andrea Acosta had six points and nine rebounds.

“This feels good and we know some people from the other team,

“It is really all about the team,” Buchner said. “If there is no shot for me, someone else is open if I’m doubled.”

“Those two guys (Buchner and Ritter) are nice to have,” Boe said.

“They space the floor, one each side of the court and it makes it easier when the ball goes in the basket. All of the guys in the locker room like each other and they see those adjustments and they see a guy is hot and they say keep shooting. Ultimately what you want is for the guys to get along and have one common goal.”

Boe said with the poor start to the season, it would have been easy for the Cougars to give up.

“We didn’t have a good season

at the start and when you have a slow start like we had, it’s easy for the guys to fold and make practice miserable and start pointing fingers,” Boe said. “For these guys to do what they have done speaks volumes for the kids and how hard we work. They don’t let the record determine the attitude or how hard we work. I couldn’t be prouder of them.”

“This is a huge confidence booster,” Buchner said. “We struggled at the beginning of the season and for us to come up big like this is huge for our confidence.”

Joe Butler led Minooka (7-8, 3-3) with 18 points, while Larry Roberts and Nick Clemmons added eleven each.

so it is always fun,” Ekhomu said.

“Everybody gets ready for Benet and JCA.” Battle said in a game like this, the Angels should have been ready.

“This was a big game for us,” he said. “We’re playing the No. 2 team in the state, undefeated, at home on a Saturday afternoon.

If you can’t get up for that, then you are in the wrong sport Benet senior Emily Eshoo had a career game of her own, scoring

34 points on 11-for-14 shooting, including 5-for-6 from three.

“Emily had a very good game and to her credit, she kept us in it,” Kilbride said. “We have been good to this point because of a collective and today it wasn’t collective and that hurt us. It has to be more of a group thing for us, that is the bottom line.”

Kathleen Doyle had 16 points, six rebounds and six assists, but no other Benet player scored more than six.

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county news

Quinn Leaves Will County with Million Dollar Idea Quinn to allow Election Day registration at all of the county’s 303 precincts the county’s 303 precincts.

To do it right, Voots said, managing editor nreiher@buglenewspapers.com there would need to be a special @JolietILNews computer tablet at each polling place that has the Although there are most updated names and elections in April, Will addresses of all people County Clerk Nancy who should be voting in Schultz Voots is very that precinct’s polling worried about 2016. place.

No, she’s not up for reThe cost, she told election until 2018. But the Will County Board’s Voots recently was made Committee aware of a new state law Nancy Schultz Finance Voots just signed by outgoing Will County Clerk Jan. 6, would be over $1 million. And to get them Gov. Pat Quinn to allow Election Day registration at all of ordered and election judges By nick reiher

“Even if they delayed it until 2018 so that we could budget for the tablets,” she said. “I don’t have any problem allowing more people to vote, but I want to make sure we don’t lose integrity.” trained on them, she said, the county would need to order them very soon.

That would be more than $1 million the county hadn’t counted on when the board approved the 2014-2015 budget in November.

Already county officials are trying to figure out how to pay

for a slew of projects, including a new courthouse that has been estimated to cost $150 million to $200 million.

Voots said Election Day registration was tested on Nov. 4 at four polling places in the county based on population: Bolingbrook Village Hall; City of Naperville; Wheatland Township offices; Joliet Park District headquarters; and at her office in the Will County Office Building, 302 N. Chicago St., Joliet.

Voots said those ballots were counted as provisionals, meaning they were not counted on Election Night, but a few weeks later with absentee ballots.

Under the new law, not only would Election Day registration be allowed at all 303 polling places,

but they would be considered regular ballots to be counted that day, not provisionals counted later.

That leaves a lot of room for the possibility of voter fraud, she said, or voters just going to the wrong polling place unintentionally. The tablet, which also would need a Comcast cable link, would be the only way to ensure people are registering and voting in the right places on Election Day, she said.

Considering 2016 is a presidential election year, Voots added, she sees the possibility of long lines as well.

She said she had hoped the state might add only a few more precincts for the Election Day voting, meaning it could be offered in the Eastern part of the county as well.

Voots said she’ll bring up the issue again at the Jan. 13 meeting of the County Board’s Legislative Committee. She already has talked to several local legislators on the issue, but she said it seemed they didn’t believe there was anything they could do.

“Even if they delayed it until 2018 so that we could budget for the tablets,” she said. “I don’t have any problem allowing more people to vote, but I want to make sure we don’t lose integrity.”

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Bettye Gavin will remain on April ballot Joliet Electoral Board rules against her opponent’s bid to have her name removed

continue the proceedings. In her opening statement, Gavin denied any wrongdoing.

“I found it surprising that (Foster’s) letter … does not contain the identity of any individual or individuals that support his claim. He if had provided this

By Stewart Warren staff reporter information prior to this hearing, stewartwarren509@yahoo.com I would have conducted an @stewartwarren investigation into the true motivation behind this Bettye Gavin’s petition,” she said. campaign will Mitchell then objected continue.

Although to the documents that James V. Foster, one of had been submitted by the three other people Foster. They contained running for the Joliet the names of people with District 4 City Council information about how seat, tried to have Bettye Gavin and where Gavin collected her name knocked Joliet District City Council her signatures, but did off the April 7 ballot, 4candidate not include the addresses he did not succeed.

The Joliet Electoral Board voted and phone numbers of those unanimously against his bid to people, he said. And because the stop her campaign. At the end residents weren’t at the hearing, of the hearing, Foster said he the information provided by would not appeal the decision in Foster was hearsay, Mitchell Will County court. “I’m not going added.

“If Mr. Foster would bring there,” he said.

Foster accused Gavin of individuals to testify and allow collecting signatures for her Mrs. Gavin to cross-examine nominating petitions while at them, this is not hearsay,” the Forest Park Community Mitchell said.

City Attorney Marty Shanahan Center, 1017 Woodruff Road, Joliet. Gavin is the director of the said the rules in an electoral not-for-profit organization. The board hearing were more relaxed Internal Revenue Service forbids than they were in a courtroom. the collection of signatures at Because the people who signed places that are exempt from the documents did not appear paying federal income tax under in person, the board members simply should consider that section 501 (c) (3), Foster said.

At the beginning of the when making their decision.

As the hearing continued, the Electoral Board’s meeting, Mayor Tom Giarrante recused board members decided that himself from service because four of Foster’s five documents he appointed Gavin to her seat weren’t relevant. In one case, in 2014. Councilwoman Jan a woman named Crisonda Quillman then took his place, Watson had signed a document and the board was composed of saying that she had been asked City Clerk Christa Desiderio and to sign Gavin’s petitions while Councilman Mike Turk. About at the community center. But 20 people came to City Council her signature did not appear on chambers on Tuesday to support Gavin’s petitions. Near the end Gavin, and a handful were there of the meeting, Foster seemed for Foster. Eric Mitchell, a local to know that he wouldn’t prevail. lawyer, represented Gavin, but “I did not come down here for a show. I did not come down here Foster did not bring an attorney.

Mitchell immediately asked to to make up lies. I presented the evidence as best as I could,” he have the matter dismissed. “(There are) insufficient facts said. After the board members to support the claim,” Mitchell announced their decision to told the board. “(Foster) makes allow her to continue, Gavin certain assertions and allegations seemed pleased.

“God is good. We now can pretty much as to why we are here continue to improve the quality today, however it is very vague.”

But the members of the board of life for our residents,” she did not agree and decided to said.

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