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State passes on Orland Park bid for Amazon HQ

By Dermot Connolly Staff Writer

Photos by Anthony Caciopo

Nick’s Barbecue, a popular restaurant on Harlem Avenue for more than two decades, will soon be relocating to Alsip. Temporary signage at the new location (below) on Cal Sag Road has already gone up.

Nick’s deletes Palos Heights from menu Move to Alsip allows video gambling

By Anthony Caciopo Regional News Editor

Nick Andricopulos is closing his longtime Palos Heights eatery and moving to Alsip, where he’s apparently betting on an increased bottom line.

For 24 years Nick’s Barbecue, The Place for Ribs, has anchored the northwest corner of 127th

Street and Harlem Avenue in Palos Heights, but that long run is about to come to an end, reportedly in the next several weeks, possibly sooner.

The reason? Andricopulos hasn’t responded to reach-out from The Regional News for comment, but last August when he was interviewed for a front-page story about the massive, record-setting Mega Millions lottery ticket sold at his store (which earned him $500,000), he expressed displeasure during casual, unrelated con-

versation that Palos Heights does not allow video gambling.

Alsip, where he’ll soon be in business, allows the popular activity and it’s typically lucrative for business owners. “(Nick) came to my office about three months ago,” said Palos Heights Mayor Bob Straz. “His lease was coming up and he said he has other locations where they all have it (video gambling) and it makes money for him, and he

By Anthony Caciopo Regional News Editor

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Still working, still behind the wheel

By Kelly White Correspondent

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Stacy Schuble is the new executive director of PAC, the Palos Area Chamber of Commerce, covering Palos Heights and Palos Park.

Schuble takes the reigns of the chamber from Mary Kay Spindler, who served as executive director since 2013.

“I’m excited that I have this opportunity to really help the businesses in the area grow,” she told The Regional News. “I love the area, I love living here. We’ve got a lot going on.”

Schuble brings to her new position 10 years of experience as a digital marketing consultant.

She runs her own business and has been a member of PAC since October of 2015. Last year, she was invited to join the PAC Board

of Directors and earlier this year she became the organization’s vice president.

“Our theme is ‘Connecting businesses with communities,’” she said. “We want businesses to know there are events for them and ways to get involved with the chamber.

“And it isn’t just the businesses,” she added. “Everyone in the community can come to our events and check them out.”

With the publication of this edition of The Regional News, Schuble and PAC will have just finished a Business After Hours event, held yesterday evening at CNB Bank, 12727 S. Ridgeland Ave. These events provide the opportunity for business people, as well as anyone else who’d care to attend, the opportunity to meet and network.

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Dorothy Blount (left), who turns 100 next Friday, shares a laugh with Lucy Crocilla, president of the Palos Park Woman’s Club, during a birthday celebration for Blount at the Palos Park Public Library. A celebration will be held at 1:00 p.m. Nov. 4 to mark the library’s 90th anniversary at 12330 Forest Glen Blvd.

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Let’s be ‘Blount’: Dorothy enjoys life nearing 100 Dorothy Blount certainly has something to celebrate. She will be marking the turn of a personal century on Nov. 3 with her 100th birthday.

“I’ve had a very full life, one that I’ve always enjoyed, and I am still enjoying my life now,” said Blount, of Palos Park.

She just renewed her driver’s license and describes herself as active and healthy, with no physical health issues holding her back.

“I’m very lucky,” she said.

Born in Wheaton in 1917 to Earl and Gertrude Grange, Blount was the second youngest of four children: Ruth, Art and Doug. Her family eventually relocated to the Beverly area, where Dorothy met the man she would marry, Laurent Blount.

At the age of 22, the couple wed in 1939.

They remained living in the Beverly area when Blount’s husband made the decision to purchase property in 1949 on Wolf Road in Palos Park that he later developed into Old Creek Road. The couple said goodbye to their Beverly roots and moved into what was then unincorporated Palos Township in 1958, never looking back.

“It was really just a lot of land with very few houses,” Blount’s son, Doug, 73, of Palos Park, recalls. “It was very rural. Just trees and grass, almost forest-like.”

Along with Doug, the Blount’s had two more children while living in Palos Park, Barbara and Alan. Blount enjoyed staying home and raising her three children during their young and adolescent years. When asked about his childhood, Doug said he was grateful.

“We didn’t really realize it at the time, but our entire childhood was so different from what children experience today,” Doug said. “My mother was very outdoorsy. She would pack

Orland Park won’t be home to Amazon’s proposed second North American headquarters.

The village’s response to Amazon’s request for proposals was not included in the State of Illinois’ bid to Amazon for the HQ2 facility, Mayor Keith Pekau announced Friday.

He released a statement explaining that state officials notified the mayor’s office of their decision not to include the village on the final list of potential sites, which, according to published reports, include several in Chicago, as well as sites in Oak Brook and Schaumburg.

Orland Park’s proposal had included two sites totaling 161 acres in the village’s regional mixed-use campus in the Interstate 80 corri-

dor in Will County. It highlighted the fact that infrastructure such as roads and utilities are already in place, so the site could accommodate the 500,000-sq. ft. building Amazon envisions for its headquarters.

“State officials were very gracious and offered high praise for our application,” Pekau stated.

“They were impressed with our submittal, the quality of our assets as well as our geographic location, but stated that without an existing 500,000 square foot facility in place, Orland Park’s bid could not move forward.”

“I’d like to thank village staff for the tremendous effort put forth in developing our bid. I particularly want to recognize Village Manager Joe La Margo, Assistant Village Manager Karie Friling, Interim Assistant Director of Development

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Commissioners meet; discuss roles, accomplishments, goals

By Dermot Connolly Staff Writer

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Left: Author Nancy Gee, of Orland Park, cuddles with R.E.A.D. therapy dogs, trained to help build children’s reading and literacy skills. Right: Gee’s latest work in her series is The Secret Room. She will sign books at the Barnes & Noble bookstore in Oak Brook Nov. 4.

Children’s author on a mission to R.E.A.D.

By Anthony Caciopo The Regional News

Sometimes life’s biggest and most rewarding challenges are spurred in unexpected ways.

Nancy Gee is busy. Very busy.

She runs a specialty manufacturing firm and the last thing she needed was more work.

Seriously.

But one of her young grandsons said to her one day “Why don’t you write a book?”

“I said to him ‘Because I run a company full-time. Come on, kids, when do you think I’d have time? I don’t even know how to write a book.’”

“You told me you could do anything, GiGi,” he said. “I challenge you!”

“So, I set off,” said Gee. “I didn’t tell him. I worked for two years. I weaved my way around and learned how to write a book.

Blessed was I to get published.”

Now with three children’s books to her credit, she’ll be signing copies of her latest, “The Secret Room,” from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 4 at a Barnes & Noble bookfair in the Oak Brook Mall, 100 Oak Brook Center.

She’ll have company, of the four-legged variety Gee will be joined by two R.E.A.D. Intermountain Therapy dogs. The dogs are trained in Reading Education Assistance, a method used to improve children’s reading and communication skills by having kids read to them.

Gee discovered the animals and the program at a reading of one of her previous books.

“After my reading, I walked over to a room and there was a therapy dog, on the floor,” she said. “The dog was lying with its paws on an open book as the child read to the dog. I slid down the wall and sat on the floor to watch. I was totally amazed.”

Gee was so moved by the experience that she “Got together with Intermountain and said, ‘I’d like to write a book about your dogs.’”

She’s on a mission Intermountain Therapy Animals, an organization based in Salt Lake City, Utah, trains and certifies dogs for not only read-

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Continued from Page 1 us up lunches and we would go out into the woods, hiking, exploring or playing for an entire day. We wouldn’t return home sometimes until after dusk. Children today often don’t get to experience that. We didn’t have cell phones or the Internet, so my mother made the best of the outdoors.”

“I’m still walking,” Blount said.

“I may not be walking five miles a day anymore like I used to, but I’m still walking regularly.”

Living on several acres in the wooded Palos Park area, the Blounts also owned not one, but five horses. One for every member of the family, Blount said.

“Living in Palos Park and raising my children here, I realize that I would have hated living in the busy city,” she said. “My children have had a very good life out here, even though they’re far from children anymore. It’s still hard for me to even believe.”

Blount, her husband and her children would ride regularly, and Blount refused to give up one of her favorite pastimes until she reached the age of 80. Described as an avid animal lover by her children, Blount also made sure their household always had a family dog, often an English Pointer, as they were bred by her father.

“I remember growing up, we would take in an array of wild animals,” Doug said. “There was one time my mother took in an injured crow and it ended up living with us for a few years.”

While she was home with the children, her husband, Laurent worked as a real estate agent and

ing assistance but for physical, occupational, speech and psychotherapies, as well as special education.

“I dedicated ‘The Secret Room’ on the back to Intermountain Therapy Animals,” she said. “(Intermountain’s) mission is to teach children confidence in reading.

“If children are in school, reading out loud and they (stumble) or mispronounce words, they can get kind of scared,” Gee said.

“But when they’re on the floor with the dog, the dog does not care,” she said. “The dog just looks at them with adoring eyes and the child cannot wait to have the interaction. It teaches kids the enjoyment of reading.”

“Anything we can do to get the message out for these animals,” said Gee. “I’m spending my next year spreading the word.”

To support R.E.A.D., a portion of the sales proceeds of any item sold in the store or online—her book, anyone’s book, toys or any other item—will be donated to the R.E.A.D. Therapy Dog effort, Gee said.

Her books—“The Secret Drawer,” “The Secret Path,” “The Secret Room” and the not-yetreleased “The Secret Bus”—have a similar style.

“All my books are in rhyme,” said Gee. “Short sentences for children to have fun while they’re reading the books so they aren’t bored.”

She runs Maywood Industries, a wood fabrication shop in Alsip.

“I make specialty wood pallets, specialty skids and boxes and we ship them all over the world,” she explained. “I’ve been doing this for 35 years.

“That’s all I do except write these books,” she said, smiling.

“I work two full-time jobs. I go to bed at 1 (a.m.) and I’m back up at 5.”

‘Bonne fortune!’

Her writing process doesn’t begin with words.

“I create my thoughts,” she explained. “I ‘image’ my thoughts as to what I’m trying to see, what I want the animals to discover. I walk through the imagery oneby-one until I’m done with my frames and then I draw pictures.”

“When I’m done with all that, that’s when I start to put it into words,” Gee said.

The author has old family roots in Orland Park. People of a certain age will remember Gee Lumber stores throughout Chicagoland, in a time long, long before the bigbox home improvement stores.

Yep, that’s Nancy’s family. Thirteen stores back in the day, she’ll tell you. The family had to give up its land so many years ago as Orland Park grew, but Gee remembers horses being raised on the family’s property.

Good fortune, as said in French, and through all that hard work on her “second” job, Gee has now crossed some distant shores.

“A Paris publisher was in a bookstore in Florida,” said Gee. “Saw my book. Made the call.”

“Nancy, would you like to go international?” the publisher asked her.

“I tried to be calm but it’s been unreal,” she said. “I’ve been to Paris for book signings. It’s been like an out-of-body experience.”

Gee is due to make visits across the U.S. with dogs and her books—New York, New Mexico, Minnesota, probably more destinations. “Dog stops,” she calls them.

At the events, R.E.A.D. representatives explain how the dogs are certified and the training they go through. “Not every dog makes it,” said Gee about the process.

She has also presented at McDonald’s restaurants and at a local hospital. She has sponsors to whom she sells books for about half-price so they can more easily get into the hands of charities.

“Just give them to the kids,” she said.

And speaking of kids: Those grandsons of hers, the one who threw down the gauntlet and challenged his grandmother to write a book? Well, they’re college-age now but “GiGi” still remembers the day she brought home her first batch of books, two years after she began her journey.

“I brought that big box of books, put it on the kitchen table and said, ‘Come over here, boys.’ I opened up that box and they could not believe it!”

Visit Nancy at www.anancygeebook.com and learn more about Intermountain Therapy Animals and the R.E.A.D. program at www.therapyanimals.org.

developer. In 1961, he built what is known as the Village Courtyard Shopping Center, 8101 W. 123rd St. in Palos Park, where he set the ground for his very own real estate agency, L.T. Blount, Realtors.

Eight other shops opened up their doors in the shopping center, including Deacon’s Bench Restaurant, personal boutique shops, a candle shop and a book store.

Once the children were 18 and older, Blount decided to obtain her real estate license, in 1962, and join the workforce. She began by running publicity and marketing for all the shops located in the Village Courtyard, designing and mailing 5,000 flyers known as the Village Crier every other month, encouraging residents to visit the shopping center. She would also arrange and organize events to be held in the common area of the Village Courtyard, ranging from wedding receptions, Palos Village Players theater performances and the Chicago Chamber Orchestra.

Her busy schedule did not stop there, however, as she also worked as a real estate agent at L.T. Blount, Realtors, establishing her own clientele.

In 1976, the Blounts sold ownership of the Village Courtyard but kept their real estate office.

In 1981, Laurent died tragically of a heart attack, but that did not deter Blount of her career choice.

Her son, Doug, took over the family business after his father’s passing. Since then, they have moved to a new location and have partnered with Berkshire Hathaway. They are now known as Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, Blount, Realtors and are located at 8100 W. 119th St., Palos Park.

To this day, Blount remains

active in the real estate office, coming in regularly to help out the business. She no longer shows homes, but she helps out with advertisements and sends out listings to potential clients.

“I always liked working in real estate and really enjoy it,” Blount said. “You become really good friends with the people who come in to purchase homes and properties.”

During the course of her dynamic lifetime, Blount also remained very active in the Palos Park community. She has been involved in Service League, Palos Park Woman’s Club, Palos Park Garden Guild II and the Community Center Foundation (now known as The Center) in Palos Park where she was active in hiring ranch camp staff for several years.

She also served on the board of directors.

“I’m very proud of her and all of her accomplishments,” Doug said.

“She is always helping others. She always sees the good in everyone and always has a positive attitude.”

Dorothy’s plans for her special day include dinner at The Center on Nov. 4 with her entire family.

She has family coming in from “all over,” she says, including California, Texas and Alabama, as well as those living throughout Illinois.

She has already been feted by fellow members of the Palos Park Woman’s Club. Dorothy was given a 50-year pin and a picture of herself with “Fifty Years” embossed on the frame, marking 50 years of service to the club. She also received a floral bouquet. The celebrants enjoyed two cakes: white and chocolate. Dorothy likes chocolate, her friends in the club reported.

The author at work

During a workshop held Saturday morning at the Orland Park Civic Center, members of Orland Park’s many volunteer commissions and advisory boards discussed their work with village officials who want to improve what many believe is already working well.

The 90-minute meeting included break-out sessions in which about 26 members of several of the 15 village commissions and advisory boards chatted with village staff, who acted as facilitators.

The commission members talked about what their commissions do, what they have accomplished, and made suggestions about what the village could do to make the system work better.

Among the most prominent of the 15 village commissions are the Civic Center Authority Board, Open Lands Fund Commission, Recreation Advisory Board, Board of Police and Fire Commissioners, and Veterans Commission, among others.

The next step in the process will be for the village clerk’s staff to compile a summary of the suggestions made Saturday. The village board will then discuss making changes at the Nov. 20 village board meeting, where residents will have a chance to have their voices heard on the subject as well.

Mayor Keith Pekau, along with trustees Dan Calandriello, Mike Carroll and Kathy Fenton moved from table to table, listening to the discussions and sharing their opinions. Assistant Village Clerk

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“I told him I don’t foresee it happening and I can’t guarantee it ever will happen,” Straz said.

Nick’s has four additional locations throughout the southwest suburbs, including the original restaurant in Burbank that Andricopulos opened 31 years ago.

Each of the communities where his restaurants are located allows video gambling.

“The city council has voted against it, which is the main reason Palos Heights doesn’t have video gambling,” said Straz. “The residents seem to be against it; they don’t care for it. Personally, I don’t like to see all the video poker banners and signs out in front of these various establishments. It’s not the image that Palos Heights wants to portray as a town.

“We’re starting to become more of a dining destination, based on what’s happened recently on Harlem Avenue,” said the mayor, referring to new restaurants opening.

“I go back to what I’ve been saying about the dining, culture and recreation parts of our town,

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The mayor and other village officials had acknowledged from the beginning that it was a longshot to be chosen by Amazon in its

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Continued from Page 1 “We’re planning for 2018 to have more Business After Hours events, more general membership meetings,” she said. “We’ll have quarterly new member orientations and we’re going to definitely be a lot more active than in the past.

It’ll be more opportunity for our member businesses to get together and network.”

“Businesses need to continue reaching out to other potential clients, even if they’re doing well,” Schuble said. “Getting involved with the chamber is the number one way to do that.

“Your restaurant might be doing great, but there’s still a lot of chamber members who’ve never been there, so why not attend a chamber event or host a Business After Hours?” she asked. “Wordof-mouth does a lot of good but it can only go so far. You need to showcase your business in other ways.

“A lot of businesses just join the chamber but never do anything else,” Schuble said. ‘My goal is to get them more involved and more active. A lot of our events are going to be free. Just show

Casey Griffin also participated. The village board agreed to hold the workshop, at Calandriello’s suggestion, rather than approve Pekau’s proposal to form an ad-hoc committee tasked with reviewing and making changes to the volunteer commission system. Pekau has appointed some new members to some of the commissions since taking office, but most of the trustees said they would rather have the workshop before making any major changes to the commission system.

“We had a good discussion. Let’s try to fine-tune it. I am looking forward to continuing the process,” said Calandriello.

“The takeaway here is that we’ve been doing an excellent job with all of our commissions. That is what I expected to hear. Your role is vital to this village,” Carroll told the assembled commissioners.

“The commissions are an extremely important part of this village. (The volunteer aspect of them) helps maintain the warm-and fuzzy, small-town feel of Orland Park, although we have nearly 60,000 residents now. We need that,” said Fenton.

“We do greatly appreciate the work done by commissioners,” she added, using the example of the Plan Commission, which is responsible for reviewing all development plans, and making recommendations to the village board about whether or not they should be approved.

“If there is a consensus that some changes need to be made, we will do it,” she said.

“The commission structure is

very important. We have 300 staff and seven trustees (including the mayor), but the trustees are only part-time,” said Pekau.

“Using the talents of the volunteer commissions that we have to help us is central to our mission. But all of that needs to be updated,” said Pekau.

The mayor said the newly reconstituted Economic Development Advisory Board was instrumental in putting together the proposal aimed at getting Amazon interested in the village as a possible site for its second North American headquarters. Although that bid was unsuccessful, the mayor said the efforts brought attention to the available sites in the I-80 Corridor, and the work done will make future proposals easier.

“This was a very good start. But we need to go deeper,” said Pekau afterward.

He noted that the workshop was not particularly well-attended, and suggested after the meeting that the ad-hoc committee might have been more productive, because members would be able to interview commission members one-on-one. Although staff volunteered their time, he said arranging the workshop took time away from other duties.

But Carroll disagreed with that assessment. “We knew it would be hard to get people to a weekend workshop.” He noted that most new commissioners appointed by Pekau were not there, but said those who couldn’t attend were able to answer the questionnaire used at the meeting, and submit their testimony in writing.

and I don’t think video poker fits in there,” said Straz, referring to the Lake Katherine Nature Center and the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra, now based at Trinity Christian College.

In 2016, according to the Illinois Gaming Board, the state took in tax revenue of $227 million from 24,841 video gambling terminals statewide.

The board also supplied last year’s gaming tax revenue totals for some nearby municipalities that allow video gambling, including Alsip, with $223,00; Bridgeview, $189,000; Chicago Ridge, $241,000; Crestwood, $292,000; Oak Lawn, $554,000 and Tinley Park, $225,000.

Other southwest suburbs where legal video gambling can be found are Burbank, Hickory Hills, Homer Glen, New Lenox, Oak Forest, Palos Hills, Worth and possibly others. This list is not necessarily comprehensive.

Municipalities near Palos Heights that do not allow video gambling are Palos Park and Orland Park.

Video gambling went live in Illinois in September, 2012.

Marquee signage is already up at

what will become the new Nick’s Barbecue, the former Clear View Restaurant at 5500 Cal Sag Rd. in Alsip. “Opening Soon” flyers are posted inside the door.

At the current Palos Heights location, business cards on the counter no longer include the store at 12658 S. Harlem Avenue. The address of the new Alsip location has taken its place but currently there are no other visible indications that Nick’s will soon be headed east.

“No way!” said Palos Heights resident Chris Nunez when he learned of the coming move.

“This place has always been around,” he said, waiting with his girlfriend, Yasmine Hafez, for their order. “I’m kind of sad to see them go but at least they’re not closing down for good.”

John Healy, of Chicago said he, too, was unaware of the impending move.

“I didn’t know,” he said. “I drive this way about once a month. I always try to stop.”

As he headed out the door after finishing his meal he said, “I’ll go to the new one.”

nationwide search, but they agreed that the effort was worthwhile.

Pekau said at a recent village board meeting that “whatever happens,” Will County now knows that the property is for development in the regional mixed-use I-80 corridor, and will begin marketing it to prospective developers. He and others also said that with the first request for proposal

completed for the I-80 corridor property, the next ones will be easier.

“Even though we were not selected, I am certain the bid process and our proposal put us on the map with the state of Illinois. As a result, the state indicated their interest in meeting with us to help drive development along the I-80 corridor,” Pekau concluded.

up, even for a little while. Just drop in.”

“Think a little more broadly,” she advised. “With some of the new businesses that are opening up—there’s new restaurants, and that’s great—and that’s going to bring more people here.”

Schuble shares the opinion of Mayor Bob Straz and city council members that Palos Heights is becoming a “destination,” thanks to increased dining, cultural and recreation opportunities.

PAC was founded in 1949 and didn’t always include the Palos Park business community but it has for many years now. Schuble intends to amp up the attention PAC pays to Palos Park.

“A lot of people don’t realize that PAC is Palos Park, too,” she said. “I’m trying to do more, reaching out more to Palos Park businesses.

“We’re not forgetting you,” she said. “You will be part of the chamber and we’ll have events in your area.”

PAC offers a new-member spotlight at no charge. PAC-news emails are sent to members on a soon-to-be monthly schedule.

They’re known as the Chamber Directive.

Schuble said the chamber will

be starting to push more on social media and with phone calls.

“We’ve never really done that for our members,” she said. “I have some ideas of different ways we can utilize social media.”

Highlights on the schedule at palosareachamber.org is a multi-chamber Business After Hours and Speed Networking Event from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Nov. 1 at the Double Tree by Hilton, 5000 W. 127th St. in Alsip and the annual holiday tree lighting at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 24 at the Lake Katherine Nature Center in Palos Heights. More events will be added in the coming weeks, including a members’ holiday party.

Schuble was raised in the western suburbs and she and her family lived in the heart of downtown Chicago until moving to Palos Heights in 2012. Stacy and her husband, Todd, have two children: daughter Alex, 6 and son Cameron, 2.

“We have a lot of great businesses in the city that should be patronized, she said. “We encourage the community to check them out. Look at the Palos area first.”

Stacy Schuble and the chamber can be reached at (708) 480-3025 and at info@palosareachamber. org.

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Trick-or-Treat safely in Orland and Palos communities Ghosts, superheroes and other costumed characters will be out and about Tuesday in an annual celebration of Halloween.

The official, approved hours for trick-or-treating are 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. in Palos Heights and Orland Park.

Palos Park has no preferred times.

The police departments in Palos Heights and Palos Park are offering tips of value to residents of any community. The departments are encouraging people to take safety precautions.

Before Halloween night, residents are reminded to clear walkways of any obstacles that could hamper visits from costumed youngsters.

Parents should inspect all treats collected by their children and dispose of any items that appear to be unsafe for consumption, such as unwrapped, partially opened, discolored or out-of-the-ordinary treats.

Motorists should drive cautiously

and obey all traffic laws. Be aware of children who will be running from house to house.

Halloween health and safety tips can be found on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website, www.cdc.gov/ family/halloween/index.htm.

Costumes should be bright, reflective and flame resistant. They should fit properly to prevent tripping and entanglement but should be loose enough to wear warm clothing underneath if cold outside. To ensure greater visibility, reflective tape can be added to costumes and bags.

Consider child-friendly makeup instead of masks that may block visibility and hats that fall over and cover the child’s eyes. If a sword, cane, or stick is part of the costume, make sure they are not sharp or too long. Children and their escorts should carry flashlights with fresh batteries.

A parent or responsible adult should always accompany small children when they are on their neighborhood rounds. Police suggest pinning a piece of paper with the child’s name, address and phone number inside a pocket in case adults and children get separated.

If older children are going trickor-treating alone, parents should review their route and agree on a specific time to return home. Parents should also explain the difference between a trick and vandalism.

Children, regardless of age, should only go to homes where the porch light is on and never enter a car or home for a treat.

Children should carry a cellphone for quick communication, police said. Parents should teach children how to dial 9-1-1 if they have an emergency or become lost.

Children going trick or treating should use sidewalks whenever pos-

Oops! New, bigger Sandburg HS sign installed without permission

By Michael Gilbert Correspondent

A new monument sign at Sandburg High School located on rightof-way property belonging to Palos Park appears likely to remain despite District 230 failing to notify the village of its plans to erect the sign beforehand.

Palos Park officials voted 3-1 Monday to approve the Plan Commission’s recommendation to grant Consolidated High School District 230 a special use for the new 705-square-foot sign, which highlights the school’s state championship teams. Commissioners Nicole Milovich-Walters and James Pavlatos and Mayor John Mahoney voted in favor of the recommendation while Commissioner Dan Polk cast the lone dissenting vote. Commissioner G. Darryl Reed was absent. The item is to come back for final approval at the council meeting on Nov. 13.

While Sandburg is located in Orland Park, the small parcel of land on which the sign is displayed was annexed into Palos Park in 1994. Mahoney said as part of the annexation agreement 23 years ago, the village council approved the sign in place and would allow the district a special use for a future sign. However, D230 was still to ask permission from Palos Park to build the sign when the time came, Mahoney said. While that did not happen, he said it wasn’t intentional.

“No one really realized [they should have come to the village for the special use],” Mahoney said

after the meeting. “Even the village didn’t immediately recognize that [land] was in the village.”

The new illuminated sign, which is made of masonry materials and will incorporate decorative landscaping, is approximately 440 square feet larger than the previous sign, which also listed the Eagles’ state title teams.

According to an email sent to The Regional by District 230, the total cost of the sign is $201,841.80. The school district is paying $90,109.86 and the Village of Orland Park is paying the remaining $111,731.94 as part of the LaGrange Road improvements.​ A few Palos Park residents contacted village officials to object to the size of the sign which led Mahoney and others to realize the sign was located in Palos and D230 should have sought permission.

“We had residents that really raised the issue for the first time,” Mahoney said. “We investigated it and recognized that we had a process to go through. To the school’s credit, they said of course they will go through the process.

“They didn’t intentionally ignore it. We are going to get it all corrected out [with the special use].”

Mahoney said if the council was to vote against the special use the sign would need to come down.

“I can’t imagine anyone would change their votes but that is what is at issue here,” the mayor said when asked by The Regional News if a “no” vote by the council would require the sign to be removed.

Polk said he voted against the special use for two reasons. The

Shanteria Morgan, 19, of Chicago, was charged with domestic battery following an incident in the 6600 block of College Drive at 9:26 a.m. last Thursday. Police said she fought over keys with someone she was dating, and allegedly struck the person several times in the face with her knee. She was held for a bond hearing.

Aggravated speeding Lily Giang, 23, of Aurora, was charged with aggravated speeding following a traffic stop in the 13200 block of South Harlem Avenue at 8:44 a.m. last Thursday. She allegedly was driving 72 mph in a 35-mph zone. She is due in court Nov. 3.

Driving without insurance Christopher R. Libner-Scapardine, 19, of Worth, was charged with driving without insurance following a traffic stop at 9:24 a.m. Sunday, in the 12200 block of South Harlem Avenue. Police said he was also arrested on a Palos Hills warrant for failure to appear in court, and cited for having no rear license plate. He is due in court on Dec. 17.

Suspended license Mohamed L. Merabet, 22, of Naperville, was charged with driving with a suspended license following a traffic stop at 7:58 p.m. Monday, in the 12700 block of South Harlem Avenue. Police said he was also cited for texting while driving. He is due in court on Nov. 14.

Araa M. Jouda, 32, of Chicago Ridge, was charged with driving with a suspended license following a traffic stop at 1:17 a.m. Friday, in the 12400 block of South Harlem Avenue. Police said she was also cited for having one headlight. She is due in court on Nov. 14.

Mohamad Makhlouf, 29, of Chicago Ridge, was charged with driving with a suspended license

plate following a traffic stop at 10:05 a.m. Oct. 18, in the 12600 block of South Ridgeland Avenue.

Police said he was also cited for texting while driving. He is due in court on Dec. 1.

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Orland Park Lions Club’s Haunted Woods “Buried in the Bayou,” located at 14800 S. Ravinia Ave., looks a little less scary in daylight, but come nighttime…. The annual outdoor spooky attraction, run by the Lions Club in cooperation with Boy Scout Troop 378, will be open from 7 to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 27 and 28. Admission is $12 per person.

VIP tickets cost $17. The last ticket is sold at 10 p.m. Admission is free for children under 5 accompanied by an adult. A $2 discount is available in exchange for a non-perishable food item for local food pantries. Trick or Treat Trail, in which children up to 8 can enjoy the scenes without the scares, will be open from 3:30 to 6 p.m. Saturday for $3 per child.

POLICE BLOTTER: PALOS PARK Uninsured driving Sandra L. Lawrence, 65, of Palos Park, was cited for driving without insurance following an incident outside a gas station in the 12300 block of South 80th Ave. at 11:40 a.m. Oct. 12. Police said the vehicle she was driving struck an attendant as he was retrieving two propane tanks from a storage case. He was not injured but she was cited for failure to yield to a pedestrian and was issued two local adjudication tickets for illegal transportation of alcohol and not having a village sticker.

Orland Park, was charged with aggravated speeding following a traffic stop at 1:56 a.m. Oct. 14, in the 12700 block of South LaGrange Road. Police said he was driving 80 miles per hour in a 45-mph zone.

ransacked about 2 a.m. Oct. 15. The victim said the glove compartment was open and the interior of the car was in disarray but nothing appeared to be missing.

first being he believes the sign is too large and secondly because Theft the sign boasts only athletic acVehicular burglary A package containing health complishments and not academic A .38-caliber pistol and ammushakes and other items worth $130 achievements. nition was reported stolen from a in total was reported stolen from “It’s really a giant visual impact,” Dodge Ram that was parked in a mailbox in the 11900 block of Polk said. “To me, it appears much the 12000 block of Timber Lane Southwest Highway at 3:30 pm. larger than the actual dimensions between 3 p.m. Oct. 14 and 11:50 Oct. 18. A neighbor reported seeing of the sign. I certainly appreciate a.m. Oct. 15. Police said a maga- someone in a black Mercedes sedan Sandburg wanting to announce zine with seven rounds was also pull into the driveway, take the their presence, but I believe there missing from the center console package and leave, ignoring shouts is a big water tower there with an where the gun was left. from the neighbor. The offender eagle that does that quite nicely.

A Palos Park resident told po- was described as a Hispanic or “My other issue is kind of ob- Aggravated speeding lice that a Mercedes parked in a Arabic man, about 25 years old, scure but the sign talks about their Abdullah O. Hussein, 18, of driveway on Woodland Trail was wearing a beard and a red shirt. sports victories. I don’t send my kid to school for sports victories.

There’s no sign that says we put 97 percent of our kids in college.

It’s a school.”

Prior to voting, Polk asked Village Attorney Tom Bayer how many votes would be needed to ultimately approve the special use.

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Groups and individuals should look left, right and then left again when crossing the street. They should never assume they have the right of way. Pedestrians can be difficult for drivers to see, especially at night.

Do not allow small children to carve a pumpkin. Let them draw with markers, glitter or paint and have an adult do the carving. Candles should not be used to light a pumpkin. Instead, police suggest a battery-operated candle or glow stick.

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Pritzker pulling away from Democrat pack Democrat JB Pritzker spent $21 million on his gubernatorial campaign through the end of September and recently opened his 10th campaign field office. The billionaire spent more money on staff and consultants last quarter ($1.5 million) than any of his primary opponents raised.

The spending appears to be paying off. A new Capitol Fax/We Ask America poll of 1,154 likely Democratic primary voters has Pritzker with 39 percent of the vote, far ahead of the rest of the pack.

Chris Kennedy, who has struggled to raise money and hasn’t run any TV ads to date, was at just 15 percent – a whopping 24 points behind the front runner Pritzker. Word is going around that one of Pritzker’s own recent polls had him ahead of Kennedy by 17 points.

State Sen. Daniel Biss, who has had more success at raising money than expected, but appears to be hoarding most of it for later, was at just 6 percent in the poll taken Oct. 17-18 with a margin of error of +/- 3 percent.

The other two Democrats, Tio Hardiman and Bob Daiber, each polled at just 1 percent. Some 47 percent of the poll’s respondents were made to mobile phones by live callers. Automated calls were made to landline users.

Is it over? No. The primary isn’t until March. With 36 percent of Democrats currently undecided, somebody could still make this a race – but that somebody is gonna have to run a better campaign than they are now. And right now, the only person running a full-on campaign operation is Pritzker.

“There will be plenty of polls in this race,” the Kennedy campaign claimed, “but clearly there’s a reluctance among Democratic voters to support JB. After spending more than $20 million and being unchallenged on TV for months, that he can only get about a third of the electorate to support him shows that voters are looking for fundamental change. They recognize JB is an extension of the status quo. There’s a long way to go until March and we’re confident that when voters tune into the race and hear Chris Kennedy’s message, we win.”

If you look at Kennedy’s poll that he released in July, its Kennedy-Pritzker matchup had Pritzker at 38 percent, which is about the same place as he is now. Kennedy was at 44, but this new poll shows he has dropped like a rock – perhaps because he isn’t on TV and doesn’t have nearly the ground game that Pritzker does. Either way, the margin is what’s important, and the margin is huge.

Pritzker leads in every region of the state. He’s at 39 percent in Chicago, 42 in suburban Cook County, 37 in the suburban collar counties and 39 Downstate. Kennedy does best in Chicago and the collars, at 18 percent. Biss does best in suburban Cook, where he lives, at 11.

Biss slightly outpolls Kennedy 13-12 among 18-24-year-olds, but Pritzker takes the traditionally low-turnout (particularly in off years) demographic with 27 percent. Pritzker leads his two top rivals, Kennedy and Biss, among women 39-15-5, and among men 40-16-8. More women (39 percent) are undecided than men (33 percent).

The poll found that 56 percent of Democrats have a favorable impression of Pritzker, while 7 percent have an unfavorable opinion. Another 16 percent hadn’t yet heard of the billionaire and 21 percent were neutral.

Kennedy’s favorables were 41 percent, and his unfavorables were just 4 percent. But 30 percent hadn’t heard of him and another 25 percent were neutral, signaling that if he could ever raise any real money he might possibly be able to make this a race. But that clock is ticking as Pritzker continues to spend millions.

Kennedy does best among the 65 and over crowd, with 17 percent. And his favorable numbers are significantly higher among respondents aged 55-64 (42 percent) and 65+ (43 percent). That makes sense since those folks would have been alive when Kennedy’s father Robert and his uncle John were in the public eye.

According to the poll, 69 percent of Democrats have not yet heard of Sen. Biss. Surprisingly enough, that’s actually more than the 66 percent who hadn’t heard of Bob Daiber and the 60 percent who hadn’t heard of Tio Hardiman, although Hardiman did run against Pat Quinn in the 2014 Democratic primary.

Just 13 percent of Democrats gave Biss a favorable rating, compared to 3 percent who rated him unfavorably and 15 percent who were neutral. Both Hardiman and Daiber had slightly higher favorable ratings than Biss (15 percent for each).

It seems like everything in politics has been on an accelerated timetable this year, so Biss had better do something fast.

Rich Miller also publishes Capitol Fax, a daily political newsletter, and CapitolFax.com.

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RICH MILLER

Parental responsibility in Kenneka Jenkins’ death When does an investigation turn to the responsibilities of the parents?

It’s not an easy question to ask when those parents have lost a child.

But is it any less important than the questions being raised in the mysterious death of Kenneka Jenkins, a 19-year-old young woman from Chicago whose body was found in a walk-in freezer at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Rosemont on Sept. 10?

Much of the focus so far has been on the Crowne Plaza Hotel, and on the fact that there was such easy access to the freezer for a clearly drunk teenager.

Video released by police show Kenneka stumbling and weaving through the hotel late in the evening of Sept. 9, having been at a party there.

In the video, Kenneka looks inebriated.

Photos released by Rosemont Police show Kenneka on the floor of the freezer with some clothes in disarray and a shoe removed. Some suspect a possible assault.

But video surveillance doesn’t show anyone else in the monitored area.

The victim’s family has hired a lawyer.

As these things go, you can bet there will be a big lawsuit filed against the hotel, and possibly against the police and against Rosemont, because, the thinking goes, “it’s their fault.”

But what about the responsibility of the parents? Their tragic grief doesn’t eliminate parental responsibility for an under-aged girl.

What was Kenneka doing out so late?

RAY HANANIA Why was she allowed to drink alcohol?

Did the parents know what she was up to? Did the parents know where she was? If they knew, why didn’t they go and get her?

Why didn’t they know, or suspect, that maybe their under-aged daughter was drinking alcohol?

If they didn’t know where she was, why didn’t they call Chicago police and report that she was missing?

Police report that the hotel room where the party took place was paid for using a stolen credit card. The two men who booked the room have street gang affiliations. (Oh, we’re not allowed to talk about street gang affiliations. That’s “unfair.”)

At what point do we stop blaming everyone else for our problems? Problems that belong to parents?

As a parent, I know where my kids are all the time. I monitor them. I manage them.

They are under age. I have a responsibility to know these things. And if my under-aged son or daughter is not around at 2 a.m., do I shrug and say, “Boys will be boys,” or “Girls just want to have fun?”

The shooting of Laquan McDonald is

another example of parental failure. Sure, there is ample evidence to suggest police were overzealous in responding to the knife-wielding teenager. But what are police supposed to do when they see a kid with a knife at night?

What responsibility do the parents have in his death? They released a photo of him in student graduation robes, smiling to counter videos of him stumbling down the street at night as police confronted him. And, he refused to listen to police commands.

McDonald, who apparently had many issues, was suspected in a string of reported damage-to-vehicle incidents. The suspect was reported to be carrying a weapon.

What do you expect police to do when confronting an unresponsive, troubled kid carrying a weapon? They didn’t find a smiling, robed and obedient student.

Did police overreact? That’s where the focus has been. But the other question is, do parents “under-react?” Why hasn’t there been a bigger debate about the responsibility of his parents? Or involvement with street gangs? Or being impaired by drugs and having weapons?

With few answers, McDonald’s family received $5 million. That’s a big payday, I guess.

Where is the Kenneka Jenkins query headed?

Ray Hanania is an award winning former Chicago City Hall reporter. Email him at rghanania@gmail.com.

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CCSS promotes yearround awareness of domestic violence Dear Editor, As Domestic Violence Awareness Month comes to an end in these final days of October, the Crisis Center of South Suburbia (CCSS) reminds people that awareness and prevention is truly a year-long effort.

Soon to be celebrating 40 years, the CCSS began in 1978 with a hotline for women in crisis by a small group of members of the American Association of University Women in the kitchen of Dianne Masters. It has since grown into a highly successful, non-profit community organization providing emergency shelter and other essential services to individuals and families victimized by domestic violence, as well as addressing the societal issues that contribute to domestic violence.

Until the last three decades, incidents of domestic violence were kept secret by victims and family members and ignored by public servants.

Clerics offered no sympathy or help to victims who complained of abusive partners. Policemen answering domestic violence calls rarely removed the abuser from the home and the court system did not adequately support the victims.

In 1982, Illinois passed the Illinois Domestic Violence Act (IDVA) that provided safety provisions for survivors of domestic violence. But, even though there has been more awareness about domestic violence in recent years, the Illinois Dept. of Public Health reports that today 25 percent of women seen in emergency rooms are victims.

What is even more disturbing is that children continue to learn at an early age that it’s “all right” if dad abuses mom. So, a son may repeat that behavior in his relationships or a daughter may accept it as normal in her relationships.

Abusive behavior can often be attributed to drugs, alcohol, and “control” issues. In all instances,

battering is a behavioral choice and verbal and emotional abuse is equally destructive.

So why doesn’t a victim leave their abusive partner? That’s the question most people ask if they don’t understand what it’s like to be in that situation. The answer is that most likely they have no means of self-support or family support.

Or, in the case of a woman victim, she may have small children and nowhere to go.

If she has been continuously verbally abused, she may have lost her self-esteem and think it’s “her” fault. Commonly, she may have been threatened with her life if she leaves. And then there is the “Circle of Violence” that is prevalent in most of these relationships.

As soon as the abuser becomes violent and the victim threatens to leave, the abuser begs forgiveness, promises on bended knee (called the “honeymoon phase”) that they will change and never do it again. But...they do!

I invite you to read my editorial page commentary about this issue in last week’s edition of The Regional News, which has additional information about CCSS and its services. The 24-hr. hotline for help is 708-429-SAFE (7233).

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Is the president bent on ‘Donald’s War’?

Dear Editor, In the first nine months in office, Mr. Trump’s number-one effort is to destroy most everything that President Obama accomplished in his two terms in office. What a sad commentary. All he has done so far is sign many executive orders, with his two-inch letters of his signature-signing ceremonies, with his usual amount of cronies watching him sign the insignificant orders. He is on a mission to destroy, not build.

The world looks on as they see the United States of America and its territories being destroyed by Trump. Puerto Rico is an example of how little Trump knows

of our territories, which are part of the USA. Shame on Donald Trump for not giving full support to the American people who live in Puerto Rico. The residents of Puerto Rico are devastated by the hurricane that demolished their island. Meanwhile, Trump makes comments about their financial debt that they have, as they try to rebuild their properties and their infrastructure. He offers no comfort or assurance that our government will do whatever it takes to rebuild Puerto Rico.

Congress must act quickly to control Mr. Trump before he starts another world war, either with North Korea or with Iran.

He wants to put his name on a war, so that history will know that it was Donald’s war. He takes an exceptional interest in nuclear devastation. What is he thinking?

Congress must change the protocol on the “football” that is carried around wherever Trump goes. The “football” is a briefcase-shaped piece of luggage which contains a button that, when pressed by the president, can send nuclear bombs to a determined destination, such as North Korea or Iran.

If he bombs Iran, then Iran will press their buttons to totally destroy Israel. I don’t think Trump and Israel’s Netanyahu have figured that into their wild plans to destroy Iran. Former President Obama, with other nations, have a signed agreement to avoid this possibility.

Trump wants to erase this plan and make one of his choosing. He is eager to have a war of nuclear proportions, just so they name it after him.

The president’s cabinet is in disarray with people coming and going, so there is no one there to talk sense into the president’s ear.

Congress must act now to control Trump’s rantings and ravings before this leads our nation into another war.

Dean Koldenhoven Palos Heights

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The Dugout reopens in Burbank

Thursday, October 26, 2017

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BOB BONG A little more than four months after a fire swept through The Dugout, a popular fast food restaurant in Burbank, the business roared back to life on a rainy Monday at 6300 W. 79th St. DiStefano was able to save years of sports memorabilia from the fire and it is on display in the new Dugout.

Thanks to his fire insurance, just about everything else is new including a drive-through window. DiStefano expects that will increase his business by as much as 25 percent. Also new is a handicapped-accessible restroom.

What hasn’t changed is the menu.

But customers won’t be seeing as much of DiStefano, who has run the place since it opened in 1984. He said he was stepping back from the day-to-day operations. His cousin, Aaron Diaz, and sister-inlaw, Dawn Schmidt, will be taking on those chores.

Raising Cane’s opens this week in Evergreen Park Louisiana-based Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers will open its fifth Chicago-area restaurant on Thursday, Oct. 26, at 9570 S. Western Ave. in Evergreen Park in the new Evergreen Plaza.

It will be the chain’s second south suburban location. The first opened on Valentine’s Day at 11006 S. Cicero Ave. in Oak Lawn. Other locations are in Naperville, North Riverside and Harwood Heights.

“We are excited to continue our growth here in the Chicago area and to bring Caniacs who live and work in Evergreen Park a Raising Cane’s of their own,” General Manager RJ Reynolds said in a news release. “We’ve assembled an awesome crew and we’re all looking forward to opening our doors on Thursday and to getting more involved with the schools and other organizations throughout the community.”

Along with its focus on chicken fingers, Raising Cane’s is renowned for its commitment to active involvement in its local communities. The team attended the Mt. Greenwood Fest in August and on Oct. 20, Reynolds and his fellow crewmembers volunteered their time at the Chicago Ridge Animal Welfare League, where they helped paint and clean the facility and pamper the animals.

The new Raising Cane’s is also sponsoring the Beverly Hills Turkey Trot on Nov. 25.

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Aaron Diaz (left) will help oversee day-to-day operations of The Dugout, which was started in 1984 by his cousin, Mike DiStefano. A fire in June closed the Burbank eatery.

houses the largest number of adoptable animals from a non-profit organization in the entire Midwest,” said Reynolds. “They are committed to helping every pet find a good home. We are honored to have been able to volunteer with them for our pre-opening service project.”

Hours will be Sunday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m., and Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to midnight.

The eatery has about 85 employees.

The company was founded by Todd Graves in 1996 and named for his yellow Labrador. The Evergreen Park location is the 346th in the chain.

Amazon opens in Kohl’s The Kohl’s store in Tinley Park’s Brookside Marketplace and Chicago Ridge Mall are among six in the Chicago area that now include Amazon stations to allow customers to return purchases, as well as feature smart home products from the dot-com giant.

The new additions are part of a partnership between the Wisconsin-based retailer and its online counterpart to open Amazon Smart Home Experience spaces in Kohl’s across the country.

“The new store-within-a-store delivers a one-of-a-kind shopping experience for our customers,” stated a news release from Kohl’s.

Along with accepting returns of Amazon merchandise for free, these 1,000-square-foot stations also will have the company’s online home products for sale, including the Echo, Echo Dot and Fire tablets.

The stations will let customers “test drive” the devices before buying them, as well.

Eventually, Kohl’s and Amazon plan to roll out 82 smart home spaces in stores across the country.

Other Kohl’s adding the Amazon stations include Highland, Ind., Norridge, Elmhurst and Chicago’s Bucktown neighborhood.

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D.R. Horton opens Bristol Park development Homebuilder D.R. Horton unveiled its latest housing development, Bristol Park, on Tuesday, Oct. 24, at 1993 Bristol Park Road in New Lenox.

Bristol Park is a community of 140 single-family homes ranging from 2,630 to 3,018 square feet in size and priced from $329,990.

Both ranch and two-story designs are available for quick move-in and include today’s most popular new home amenities.

“Bristol Park offers a location and lifestyle that are highly desirable with today’s busy families,” Chris Naatz, vice president of operations for D.R. Horton’s Chicago division, said in a release.

For information, visit drhorton. com/newlenox or call 847-3629100.

If you see a new business in town or wonder what happened to an old favorite, drop me a line at bobbong@hotmail.com.

Medavog featured fantasy headpieces and dark glamour (left, photo by Rob Font), while HEKaTuRe offered delicate details and feminine elegance (right, photo by ATOC).

Fall ushers in Chicago’s fashion events Just as in classic literature, the fall season never fails to usher in the most glorious change of pace and vibrant iterations of style for the Chicago scene.

During the last week of September, I had the pleasure of transforming into a regal queen, a dazzling princess, and a blushing bride while modeling for Park 108 at the National Bridal Market at the Merchandise Mart. It brings me great pleasure to engage in this quintessential modeling. A buyer has no trouble envisioning the girl or woman in their market planning for an approaching event and what they like, the risks they would take, and the trends they would seek or readily embrace.

Oftentimes though, the buyer cannot tell what a garment looks like off its hanger and on a real person.

That is where I come in. I put on the garment, highlight its features, and with any luck, provoke a flutter of “Oh wow, that’s a yes!” The superb craftsmanship and visionary designs of Park 108 allowed for many of these instances.

Then Chicago celebrated innovation, passion and art during Latino Fashion Week 2017 “Without Limits.” Fashions from all over the world were presented from Thursday, September 28 through Saturday, September 30, 2017. Arabel Alva Rosales and Cesar Rolon Jr. produced the beloved fashion tour, which travels to Chicago, Los Angeles and Miami.

My excitement rapidly built up in

CAROLINE FOREMAN the days before the shows with tight schedules of fittings and modeling for television news spots on ABC7 and WGN. However, I could not have expected the baffling variety of collections and the level of devotion and cohesion within each unique designer’s collection.

Thursday’s opening night featured fashion by Camila Mesar, a young and zealous Colombian designer with breathtaking detail on crocheted garments, lux tweeds and impeccably crafted earrings.

Camila’s intense pride in her work is evident, making the pieces both amazing to behold and a delight to wear. She thoughtfully assembled her looks, and from crocheted sheath dress, to wool trousers and airy blouse, to tweed skirt suit, each ensemble was utterly sleek and classy.

Also featured on the runway was Good Circles. Spearheaded

by Kevin Brodzinski, the collection included cool casual urbanwear for men and women. His garments are innovative and versatile with highly travel-friendly accoutrements.

Designer Edith Aubé-Boughton shared her feminine collection of floral or swirly prints and elegant

draping in a palette of rich cobalt, cornflower blue, tan, metallics and gray.

More favorites on the runways included HEKaTuRe Designs with gorgeous navy gowns and embroidered floral motifs; Medavog with darkly glamourous gowns, fantastical headpieces and punky accents; Maison Minc Sisters from Argentina, offering flirty and fun spins on vintage glamour; and Carlos de Moya, whose vibrant prints in orange, yellow, and pink brought undeniable joy and energy to his sexy and girly looks.

Guadalajara’s Paulina Luna offered her astounding runway collection during closing night.

Her designs — including satin and hand-painted silk garments, accessories, and shoes — are crafted with a geometric perspective.

Her shapes are bold, her cuts are chic, and her tailoring and styling is immaculate. The color palette in the show was controlled to a trifecta of black, cream and red.

I wore a high-necked red pleated frock with wide culottes and oxford mules with chunky block heels. I was enthralled by the entire presentation, a feeling that continues by following her enchanting Instagram.

I continued this whirlwind adventure of Latino fashions with a two-week voyage to Spain. Next time, I will offer you my infatuated rant on the country’s marvelous approach to dressing.

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DEATH NOTICES Shirley Y. Anderson

Shirley Y. Anderson (nee Little), 90, died Oct. 19.

Mrs. Anderson lived in Orland and was self-employed, working with trade shows. She is survived by her sons, Glenn (Janet), Jeffrey and Kent; brother, Richard (Rae) Little; seven grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; three nephews and two nieces.

Services were Monday from Colonial Chapel in Orland Park to Palos Park Presbyterian Community Church. Interment took place at Chapel Hill Gardens South.

Stanley Jagiello

Stanley “Stanislaw” Jagiello, 78, a Palos Park resident, died Sunday at Palos Hospital.

Mr. Jagiello, a former Oak Lawn resident, was a retired welder and once worked for Central Steel. He was also a former resident of Chi-

cago’s Gage Park neighborhood.

Survivors include his wife, Angeline (nee Karkula); daughters, Lucy Mayhugh and Halina Rafacz; sister, Maria Dobrzynski; brother, Czeslawa Szwajnos; five grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.

Services were Wednesday from Zarzycki Manor Chapels, Ltd., to SS. Cyril and Methodius Church.

Interment followed at Resurrection Cemetery.

Ronald R. Medel

Ronald R. Medel, 85, died Oct. 16.

Mr. Medel lived in Orland Park and was a retired truck driver for ANR Freight. He is survived by his wife, Loretta; sons, Ronald (Linda) and Michael (Christine); daughters, Cheryl (David) Lavelle and Supplied photo Denise; seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Services were last Friday from Colonial Chapel in Orland Park to St. Julie Billiart Church in Tinley (Left to Right) - Orland Township Senior Dating Game winners Shirley Medley, John Trickle, Betty Willis, Joe AddPark. Interment took place at Good Shepard Cemetery. ante, Lenny Karpus, Cynthia Gregorich, Joyce Bakotic and Corny Morgan arrive at Frankie’s Ristorante in Tinley

Senior Dating Game winners dine together

Park on October 11 where they enjoyed wine and a four-course candlelight dinner. The Senior Dating Game and its participants were featured with a story and photos in the Oct. 12, 2017 edition of The Regional News.

HOUSES OF WORSHIP View importance of fathers at church event The film “The Father Effect” will be shown at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 9 at St. Francis of Assisi Church, 15050 S. Wolf Road, Orland Park.

Rooted in a man’s search for

meaning after his own father committed suicide when he was a boy, the film explores “the life-changing power of forgiveness, according to a publicity blurb. “This is a film that encourages, educates and inspires men to become the fathers God created them to be.”

In conjunction with the film, a

discussion will be led by clinical counselor Greg Rodriguez.

Admission is free.

The event is was part of the monthly Knowledge and Prayer series of events sponsored by the Respect Life ministries at a group of local Catholic parishes.

Trinity opens learning for ‘seasoned adults’

The SALT (Seasoned Adults Learning at Trinity) program is opening at Trinity Christian College, 6601 W. College Drive, Palos Heights.

SALT is a program for people age 55 years old and older.

The annual membership fee is $35, which allows members to participate in SALT courses and receive exclusive perks. Along with the membership fee, there is a fee of $15 for a one-session course, a $30 fee for a two-session course, and a fee of $40 for a three-session course.

Besides the opportunity to take classes, SALT members have other benefits: limited access to Trinity’s fitness center, invitations to participate in post-lecture/performance discussions, an official on-campus

parking sticker, free admission to regular-season home athletic contests, and personalized tours of art exhibits.

Upcoming sessions include: • “Growing Real Food in Chicago Public Schools,” led by Corenna Roozeboom.

• “Calumet Beginnings and the Indiana Dunes,” led by Dr. Ken Schoon.

• “From Tradition to Texture: A Fiber Art Journey,” led by Roz DeBoer.

• “Graphic Novels: More than just Giant Comic Books, Great for Grandkids, Grandparents and General Readers,” led by Dr. Bill Boerman-Cornell.

• “This Changed Everything: Video Viewings and Discussions of The Reformation,” led by Dr.

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• “America’s Competing Visions of the World,” led by Dr. Bob Rice.

• “Behind the Headlines,” led

by Tom Panush.

• “Environmental Issues and Creation Stewardship,” led by Dr. Lou Sytsma.

• “The People of the Great Depression,” led by Cleo Lampos.

• “Introduction to Pickle Ball,” led by Jim Kwasteniet.

• “Pullman—The Past, Present and Future,” led by Roger Wiers.

For details on SALT, contact Ginny Carpenter, program coordinator, at (708) 239.4798 or email ginny.carpenter@trnty.edu.

HEALTH BEAT Smith Crossing, Village offer info for caregivers Smith Crossing in Orland Park and Smith Village in Chicago’s Beverly/Morgan Park neighborhood—both life plan communities—are inviting nearby residents who are caregivers for older adults with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease to attend free memory care support groups.

At 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 7, Smith Village memory support coordinator Diane Morgan will offer tips for visiting with relatives and friends during the holidays. Smith Village is at 2320 W. 113th Place, Chicago. Reservations may be made by calling (773) 474-7300 or sending an email to familyandfriends@smithvillage.org.

Beginning at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9, Smith Crossing at 10501 W. Emilie Lane, Orland Park, will host an open discussion led by life enrichment director Dana Mahler and resident services director Amie Swim. The two will answer questions about the onset, diagnosis and care of

dementia sufferers. To reserve a seat, call (708) 326-2300 or send an email to familyandfriends@ smithcrossing.org.

Light refreshments will be served before both meetings end at 7:30 p.m.

Blood drive set for Palos Park Rec Center A community blood drive sponsored by the Palos Park Woman’s Club is set for 3 to 7 p.m. Tuesday,

Nov. 14 in the lower level of the village’s Recreation Department building, 8901 W. 123rd St. Blood donated will be utilized

by Heartland Blood Centers, which supplies blood to hospitals in the area and across the greater Chicago area.

To schedule an appointment and obtain more information, call Mary Ann at (708) 448-1289. Appointments are recommended, but walk-ins will be welcome, as well.

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Dear Readers, A few years ago Connie and I drove 1,012 miles to Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colo. so that our 8-year-old dog, E.B., could receive treatment for his brain tumor. We were given the choice of Fort Collins; Gainesville, Fla.; Yonkers, NY or San Diego.

At that time there were only four institutions delivering stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for pets nationwide. It would have been nice to have traveled back home to Gainesville, but I always felt that CSU had the better reputation for cancer treatment.

Stereotactic radiosurgery, utilizing linear accelerator technology, is revolutionizing cancer treatment in pets. This new treatment option is delivered with the intent to cure, resulting in fewer treatments and side effects than conventional radiation therapy. SRS therapy has been extremely effective in treating humans with cancer.

This noninvasive, nonsurgical approach delivers precisely targeted radiation to shrink or destroy the cancerous tissue with minimal collateral damage to surrounding normal tissue.

Conventional radiation treatment that we send pets for usually requires 15 to 21 treatments. SRS treatment can be done with one to three treatments, sparing normal tissue with fewer side effects.

This also means less time under anesthesia and less travel time back and forth. Most important, and the reason we drove out to CSU with E.B., is that SRS provides the ability to treat previously “untreatable” tumors. E.B.’s brain tumor was located in an area that was surgically non-approachable.

Some of the uses of SRS include oral melanoma, nasal tumors, pituitary gland tumors, ceruminous gland carcinomas, salivary gland carcinoma, brain tumors, tumors of the spinal cord including osteosarcoma and multiple myeloma, osteosarcoma of the long bones, mast cell tumors, soft tissue sarcomas such as nerve sheath tumors, fibrosarcomas, infiltrative lipomas, lung and liver tumors, anal sac

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I don’t know how much this type of treatment costs. Connie still hasn’t told me how much we spent back then on E.B.’s treatment, but he was only eight years old and I know we would do it again. Now, however, we wouldn’t have to drive for six days through Nebraska on I-80 to get treatment. PetCure Oncology is taking this technology nationwide and is available now in southeast Wisconsin.

Now that this therapy has become available locally the only thing keeping pets from getting this amazing treatment will be cost. If you would like more information please feel free to contact us for more information or contact your regular veterinarian.

First aid for cats and dogs If you’d like to take a short online course about this topic, there is one offered by the American Red Cross. You can access the course at www.redcross.org/catdogfirstaid.

Say what?

People often mispronounce the title of our esteemed profession.

Some refer to us as a vet’narian (four syllables); a vetranarian (five syllables) or a vetinarian (five syllables). The proper pronunciation is ve-ter-i-nar-i-an. It’s the only word in the English language that comprises six vowels, six consonants and six syllables.

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CROSSWORD PUZZLE Across 1 Drink-cooling shapes 6 Family girl 9 Neighborhood 13 Seize 14 So very uncool 15 Mascara target 16 *Where hockey transgressors cool their heels 18 Issue a ticket to 19 Shout of discovery 20 Draft classification 21 *Future attorney’s hurdle 25 Where sleeping dogs lie 27 “Give me a break!”

28 Decide one will Supplied photo 29 Sound confirming a locked car door 30 Oil-bearing rocks Seventh-graders and religious education students from Incarnation Catholic School in Palos Heights joined 33 Jimmy Fallon asset thousands of other Chicago-area middle school students Oct. 21 at Holy Fire at the UIC Pavilion. The event was 36 Go wrong sponsored by the Archdiocese of Chicago to bring Catholic youth together. Students enjoyed Catholic rap music, 37 June 14th observance ... and a lectures and adoration. “The Holy Spirit was on fire in the building while the kids sang and danced in the aisles hint to the first word in the answers to starred clues while worshipping God,” said an Incarnation School parent.

38 Sudoku section 39 Camping gear brand 40 Winner’s wreath 41 Voice quality 42 Film snippets 44 TV’s “Kate & __” ​Veterans are invited to 45 “The ability to fully experience Sandburg High School life,” per Thoreau 47 *Polite applause on the tee Sandburg High School’s annual 50 “Money __ object” veterans luncheon, which is open 51 Sandy or Roberto of baseball to all veterans, will take place be53 Catch sight of ginning at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, 54 *Vessel for Captain Jack SparNov. 2 at the high school, 13300 row S. LaGrange Road, Orland Park.

59 Fired, with “off” Reservations are needed by 60 Look carefully Monday, Oct. 30 for this free event 61 Gravel unit and can be made by calling Lisa 62 Colors, as hair 63 NFL gains Youngren at (708) 671-3101.

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Incarnation students experience ‘Holy Fire’

SCHOOL NOTES

and marching band performance.

Guest speakers, among others, will include Sgt. Wayne Lee and Detective David Ziolkowski of the Orland Park Police Department.

Lee served as a military police officer in the U.S. Army from 1988 to 1992 on active duty in Germany. Ziolkowski was in the U.S. Army National Guard for 21 years, serving in the infantry.

Lunch will be served at 12:20 p.m. and the program ends at 1:15 p.m.

Shadow days set at Chicago Christian Several “shadow days” for middle school students are planned at Chicago Christian High School, 12001 S. Oak Park, Palos Heights.

The school will host a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) Shadow Day on Friday, Oct. 27. Students will visit Engineering and Bio Medical classes, as well as hear from STEM teachers and students about their experiences.

Chicago Christian will host a Fine Arts Shadow Day on Thursday, Nov. 30. Prospective students will be able to spend time visiting art classes, meeting with the theater department and visiting music classes.

An Athletic Shadow Day is set for Friday, Dec. 8, where students will be able to enjoy a pizza lunch with coaches and athletes.

For details, call Wilma at (708) 388-7656. Students also may shadow at Chicago Christian High School any day school is in session.

The school also will host an open house at 6:45 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16.

VFW looking for entries for contests Local Veterans of Foreign Wars Posts are still accepting entries for the 2017-2018 VFW Voice of Democracy and Patriot’s Pen scholarship competitions.

The deadline for student entries in both contests is Tuesday, Oct. 31.

The VFW’s scholarship competitions are dedicated to promoting patriotism among America’s youth.

Students are asked to submit an essay in response to a question or statement on a subject that encourages them to consider how democratic ideals and principles apply to their lives. Each year the VFW awards more than $3 million in scholarships and awards to middle and high school students who participate in the two competitions.

This year’s Voice of Democracy theme asks students to discuss, “American History: Our Hope for the Future.” The Voice of Democracy scholarship competition is an audio-essay competition open to students in ninth through 12th grades. All judging is based on the recorded audio–essay. The national winner will receive a $30,000 scholarship. Prizes are also awarded at post, district and department level.

The Patriot’s Pen competition is open to students in sixth through eighth grades. This year, students are asked to reflect on the statement, “America’s Gift to My Generation.” The national winner will receive a $5,000 award. Prizes are awarded at all levels of competition.

Students should submit their entry (along with a completed entry form) to their participating local VFW Post. For more information and entry forms visit the VFW website. For more information or assistance, contact the Illinois VFW Headquarters at vfwil@vfwil.org.

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WHATIZIT? The clue for this week’s Whatizit photo (above) is: Vintage center.

Send your responses with your name and hometown by noon Monday to thereporter@comcast.net.

We had a few readers who had the right answer to last week’s photo quiz. We accepted the barn that is located at 50-Acre Park at 91st and Rockwell in Evergreen Park. Rich Rahn, of Evergreen Park, had the correct answer. Oak Lawn resident Steve Rosenbaum also knew it was the agricultural barn at 50-Acre Park. Evergreen Park resident Vince Vizza also knew it was the farm at the park.

Rich also pointed out correctly that the farm is the home of Turk and Jack, retired ace horses. The barn also includes Ariel, the miniature horse, and Clark and Addison, who are two goats. The farm also has many chickens. Other readers guessed barns at other locations.

Nice try by Goldie Xirafakis, of Palos Heights, who thought it was the Children’s Farm at The Center in Palos Park.

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The object of the game is to fill all the blank squares with the correct numbers.

Each row of 9 numbers must include all digits 1 through 9 in any order.

Each column of 9 numbers must include all digits 1 through 9 in any order.

Each 3 by 3 subsection of the 9 by 9 square must include all digits 1 through 9.

SXU sets concert slate

Richards High School and Reavis High School. The groups will be raising money for charity in Oak Lawn.

The SXU Wind Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra will be playing at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 11 in SXU’s Performance Space on the Chicago campus.

Leonard Bernstein’s music will be the focus for this year’s ensemble and orchestra, which will serve as a tribute for his centennial celebration. Bernstein was known for his programming efforts and tempo selections. He collaborated with countless musicians and was the director of the New York Philharmonic. For this concert, the SXU Wind Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra will focus on composers who were similar to Bernstein. The repertoire will showcase music by Richard Wagner, Georges Bizet, Ludwig van Beethoven, Dmitri Shostakovich, Modest Mussorgsky and Gustav Holst, to name a few.

A collaborative concert featuring SXU’s Chorale and Chamber singers is slated for 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 12 in the Cathedral of St. Raymond Nonnatus, 604 N. Raynor, Joliet. SXU’s Chorale and Chamber Singers will be traveling to Joliet to combine their talents with those of the Cathedral Choir of St. Raymond Nonnatus and the Ecclesiastical Choral Society of Joliet. The concert will feature Messe Solennelle in the French Romantic genre by Louis Vierne.

Laura Kempa Bogan, director of Choral Activities at SXU will be conducting the concert. Freewill offerings will be accepted.

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Members of the Palos Park Woman’s Club (PPWC) celebrated their fine arts scholarship recipients with an Octoberfest luncheon and performances from the students. The winning students are Kasia Sidor from Stagg High School in Palos Hills, Olivia Good from Sandburg High School in Orland Park and Angela Marquez from Andrew High School in Tinley Park. Pictured from left are: Lucy Crocilla, PPWC president; Mahmudiye Sidor and her daughter, Stagg student Kasia Sidor; Nicole Stachon, Stagg teacher; Andrew student Angela Marquez and her mother, Maria Marquez; Abir Othman, Andrew associate principal and Jeanne Krapauskas, scholarship chairperson.

With school back in session, Saint Xavier University’s Music Department will once again be hosting a concert series for the semester.

The performances are open to all and are free for SXU students, faculty and staff with a valid ID. Admission for the public is $6, and $5 for members of the military, senior citizens, and visiting students.

For more information, call the Department of Music at (773) 298-3421.

Ok-TUBA-fest will be held at 2 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 29, in McGuire Hall on the main campus, 3700 W. 103rd St., Chicago. Participants can join SXU’s brass faculty for a day of workshops and performances. Professors are offering this opportunity to high school students who would like to improve their performance skills on any of the following brass instruments, including the trumpet, cornet, horn, trombone, euphonium/baritone and the tuba. Topics will include tone, articulation, style, selection and performance anxiety.

Beginning at 2 p.m., participants can check-in, and the workshop begins at 2:15 p.m. At 5:30 p.m., there is a dinner for participants, and at 7:30 p.m. the grand finale, a concert. The fee to participate is $10, which includes the cost of an authentic bratwurst dinner.

A collaborative Choral Concert is scheduled at 7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 9 at St. Albert’s the Great Catholic Church, 8000 S. Linder, Burbank. SXU’s Chamber Singers will join with local choirs from Oak Lawn Community High School,

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Moraine Valley to host Halloween 5K run/walk There’s still time to register for the Halloween 5K run/walk set for 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 28 at Moraine Valley Community College, 9000 W. College Pkwy., Palos Hills.

Participants can walk or run the chip-timed, certified 5K (3.1 mile) loop around campus with the runners taking off first and awards for the top finishers.

Children ages 5 to 12 also can run a 1K (.62 miles), which starts at 10 a.m. All pre-registered partic-

ipants receive a T-shirt. Costumes are encouraged.

The Little Pumpkins Patch is a free family area open during and after the race that includes trunkor-treating, a bounce house, mummy race, face painting, pumpkin decorating and more.

Registration is $40 for community members, $35 for Moraine Valley alumni, $25 for Moraine Valley students and $10 for the children’s 1K race.

Signing up on race day is $50

for community members, $40 for alumni, $35 for students and $15 for children.

Proceeds from the race will go to the Moraine Valley Foundation, which provides scholarships to students. Those interested in dressing up their vehicle and providing candy for Trunk or Treating should email angela.caringella@ morainevalley.edu For additional information or to register, visit morainevalley.edu/ fitrec.

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LIBRARY NOTES Palos Heights Library offers walk in the woods

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Several activities for the week ahead have been announced at the Palos Heights Public Library, 12501 S. 71st Ave. For more information or to register for a program, call (708) 448-1473.

• “FAFSA – How to Become More Eligible” is scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 28. Participants will learn how to become more eligible for financial aid when applying for FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) in a seminar presented by CPA Gerald Knight.

• “Great Lakes Ghosts” starts at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 29. Musician Lee Murdock will present an afternoon of live music featuring songs of supernatural legends and spooky tales of ghost ships and haunted lighthouses.

• “Beyond Ancestry.com: Intro to Online Genealogical Research” begins at 2 p.m. Monday, Oct. 30.

Public Services Librarian Beth Stevens will lead an introduction to online genealogical research.

• “Joint Replacement – Is it Time?” is scheduled for 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 1. Board-certified orthopedic surgeon and co-medical director of the Bone and Joint Institute at Advocate Christ Medical Center, Dr. Kevin Luke, will discuss the issues and options of joint replacement.

OPPL offers ‘Pages and Pastries’ to readers The following events have been scheduled at the Orland Park Public Library, 14921 S. Ravinia Ave. For more information or to register for a program, call (708) 428-5100.

• A Very Spooky Bright Starts

Family Storytime will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 28 for children of all ages and their families.

Patrons can dress up in their favorite costumes and listen to nottoo-spooky tales.

• Pages and Pastries October Book Discussion is set for 10 a.m. Monday, Oct. 30 at Panera Bread, 15252 S. La Grange Road.

This offsite book discussion group, hosted by the Orland Park Public Library, will focus on their book of the month “The Little Book of Hygge” by Meik Wiking. Books are available at the library for checkout.

• Toddler Art for children 24 to 47 months and their parents or caregivers will begin at 10 a.m.

Monday, Oct. 30. Toddlers will explore with all their senses to create a beautiful take-home art project. Registration is required with the child’s Orland Park Public Library card.

• Children ages 3 to 7 are invited to a Halloween Scavenger Hunt at 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 30. This is a Youth Services scavenger hunt for little kids put on by Teens from Teen Inc. • Adults can learn Budgeting with Excel at 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 30. Adults can bring their budgeting into the 21st century with this program.

• Children of all ages can take part in Once Upon a Time Family Storytime at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 31. Children can drop in for stories, music and finger-plays to build pre-reading skills.

• Children of all ages can help the library celebrate National Picture Book Month by finding Elephant and Piggie from Wednesday, Nov. 1 through Thursday, Nov. 30. Those helping find Elephant and Piggie in the stacks will fill out a drawing slip to possibly win a prize.

The Palos Heights Farmers Market wrapped up its outdoor season Oct. 18 with a raffle drawing of tickets that had been submitted each week. Lucy Crocilla won the raffle and is pictured with the grand prize. The market moves indoors this year at the Palos Heights Recreation Center, 6601 W. 127th Street. Hours will be 8 a.m. to noon on Saturdays, Nov. 18 and Dec. 16, as well as Saturdays, Jan. 20, Feb. 17, March 10 and April 21 of 2018. Many of the current vendors will be participating, along with a few new ones.

COMMUNITY NOTES Orland Township want to ‘make a difference’ National Make a Difference Day is happening on Saturday, Oct. 28, and Orland Township is once again participating in this “national day of doing something good” by collecting donations for the Manteno Veterans Home.

All donations will be collected from 10 a.m. to noon Oct. 28 at the Orland Township office, 14807 S. Ravinia Ave., Orland Park.

Residents are being encouraged to donate new clothes, toiletries, non-perishable food items and gift cards to help local veterans residing at Manteno. Monetary donations will also be accepted.

For more information and a complete list of accepted item call (708) 403-4222.

use alluring powers as she speaks through playing her flute. The audience will be taken on Lady Vadula’s story through dance, storytelling and various styles of music pulling from classical, jazz, rock and new age.

Tickets for the all-ages show are $20 each. The show is capped at 150 guests, and there are no refunds for ticket purchases.

Tickets are on sale now at the village’s Recreation Administration Office, 14600 S. Ravinia Ave., and Sportsplex, 11351 W. 159th St. For details, call Jean Petrow at (708) 364-0682.

Orland Grassland to take final fall bird walk

The community is invited to an evening of music, dance and storytelling as the Village of Orland Park Arts Commission presents Michele McGovern’s theatrical production of “Lady Vadula – Spellbound” to be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28 at the Cultural Center Exhibit Hall, 14760 S. Park Lane.

McGovern’s show, “Lady Vadula – Spellbound” tells the story of Victoria Vadula, an immortal who loses her voice, but is able to

Orland Grassland volunteers Mike McNamee and Marnie Baker will lead the final bird walk for the fall migration season at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 29.

Walkers can join them in the main parking lot on 167th Avenue, just off LaGrange Road.

The group will be looking for warblers and shorebirds at the newest Audubon Important Bird Area. Migrating Sandhill Cranes and Northern Harriers have been seen recently.

Participants are reminded that wearing long sleeves, long pants and sturdy shoes for walking on natural terrain is strongly recommended. They should also bring their binoculars.

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Hang on! The playoffs are here!

Sandburg grad helps Back of the Yards move to front of the pack

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hicago’s Back of the Yards football team trudged off the rainy Gately Stadium field, and the players just wanted to get dry after carving up Carver, 51-18, on Oct. 7.

The 40-plus sweaty and rain-drenched warriors and coaches crammed into one of the smallish locker rooms at Gately and the Bobcats coach, Sheamus Murphy, walked in and had everyone’s attention.

Then he did a little dance.

Not like Fred Astaire, mind you. even like DaMaking the Not vid Ross. It was Extra Point more like Clemson coach Dabo Swinney. (You will have to call up Swinney’s dancing up on YouTube for a sample, but let’s just say it’s not quite Fred Astaire or David Ross.)

“Everyone freaked out,” Murphy said of his dance. “I did one of those dances like Dabo Swinney and it erupted from there. And it was a realization for the guys of what we were able to accomplish.’’

What the Bobcats accomplished was their sixth win of the season to clinch a berth into the Illinois High School Association football playoffs. Considering that in 2014, there was no such thing as Back of the Yards football, this was an accomplishment worth kicking up your heels for.

Murphy, a former Sandburg High School football defensive player, has taken just three seasons to get to this point.

When the program started, he said only seven players had football experience and most players didn’t even know how to put their girdle pads and other equipment on the right way.

The first two games in 2015 went about how you would expect they would go – a 34-13 lost to Goode STEM Academy and a 50-6 pasting from Kelly. Then on Sept. 11, the Bobcats won the first game in program history with a 29-12 victory over Chicago Richards and the team went on to finish a surprising 5-4.

And they knew how to put their girdles on.

“We were at square one,” Murphy said.

“We didn’t have any seniors. We were really happy with a 5-4 record.’’

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Marist’s Delonte Harrell hangs onto the ball after running for a first down against Joliet Catholic Academy on Friday night.

Photo by Jeff Vorva

Unbeaten Marist hopes for deep run in Dawczak’s first year

By Phil Arvia Correspondent

Not quite seven weeks before Marist’s football season was to begin, Ron Dawczak thought he was meeting with Pat Dunne to discuss his seventh season as a member of the head coach’s staff.

Instead, Dunne, the RedHawks’ coach for nine seasons with 71 wins, called Dawczak in to say he was leaving Marist for a job in the business world, and he’d recFIRST STEP ommend Dawczak as his replacement if the TO DEKALB 1993 Marist graduate CLASS 6A wanted the job.

Quincy at St. Laurence, 7 p.m. Friday “It was a shock,” Providence at Richards, 7 p.m., Friday Dawczak said. “It Marmion at Shepard, 7:30 p.m., Fri. wasn’t something I’d planned for, but it CLASS 8A Oak Park at Marist, 7 p.m., Friday was something I was really, really excited • Details on these games can be about immediately.” found on Page 3 With his wife’s encouragement, the Orland Park resident stepped up from heading the freshman team to taking over Marist’s program. He entered the season’s final weekend on the cusp of a feat not even Dunne managed.

“In the back of my head, I thought maybe I’d be a head coach someday,” Dawczak said. “Because of what Pat had built here, I didn’t envision it happening at Marist.

“And I knew we had a great core, a great team in terms of talent and character. But I never imagined an opportunity to complete an undefeated season.”

That first undefeated regular season in school history was realized Friday with a 42-14 win over Joliet Catholic (2-5, 3-6). Marist (9-0, 7-0) captured its second straight outright East

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Marist defensive back Gavin McCabe, who is heading to Indiana next season, hangs on to Joliet Catholic’s Nick Iannantone Friday night in Chicago.

STATE TENNIS

BTW, Sandburg makes great first impression, LOL

By Jeff Vorva Sports Editor

Photo by Jeff Vorva

Sandburg tennis coach Brian Ostrander, left, and junior star Anna Loureiro check out results on the phone during sectional play. During the state meet on Thursday, Ostrander helped keep players, coaches and parents informed on the Eagles’ success via a text messaging group.

There was plenty of texting going on Thursday morning and afternoon.

Sandburg girls tennis coach Brian Ostrander headed up a group chat with players, parents and coaches during the opening day of the Illinois High School Association state meet, which is held at several sites in the Northwest suburbs.

And most of the texting was good news.

There were plenty of LOLs (laugh out louds), BTW (by the way).

In a rare feat for any Regional/Reporter area girls tennis team, Sandburg had three winners in the first round.

Singles players Anna Loureiro and Agnes Florczyk and the doubles team of Julia Canellis-Jayme Gross won their firstround matches in the Class 2A portion of the event.

Loureiro, a junior making her third straight trip to the state meet, beat Danville’s Erin Houpt 6-0, 6-0 in the first

round but dropped a wild 7-6 (5) 1-6, 6-1 decision to Wheaton North’s Madeline Fidel in the second round. The Sandburg star, who entered the state meet undefeated, recovered for two consolation wins before dropping a 6-4, 4-6, 10-7 battle with Hinsdale South’s Marta Mikos in the fourth round of consolation.

Florczyk picked up a win over LincolnWay Central’s Kiana Sikich, 6-0, 6-1 but dropped her next two matches.

Canellis-Gross won a three-set battle over Lincoln-Way East’s Erin KleinClaire Stec 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 and dropped a two-set match to Glenbard West’s Claire Burelback-Sarah Burke. The Sandburg duo also beat Deerfield’s Maddie Ofner-Molly Krugman in two sets in the consolation round before dropping a two-set decision to Barrington’s Sara Amano-Nidhi Jha. The Eagles’ second doubles team of Mia Stolia-Konstance Delis lost its two matches in state play.

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FOCUS ON THE CHICAGO FIRE

Niko finishes first, Fire finishes third

By Jeff Vorva Sports Editor

When the Chicago Fire signed Nemanja Nikolic during the offseason, one of the first things he said was: “I hope I score many goals here.’’

Well, not only did the Hungarian star set a record for most goals in a season by a Fire player, he won the Major League Soccer Golden Boot winner after finding the back of the net 24 times in 2017.

In a bittersweet moment, Nikolic found out he clinched the Boot after the Fire’s 3-0 regular-season road loss to Houston Sunday, which kept Chicago in third place in the East Division. The Fire (16-11-7) was scheduled to host the New York Red Bulls Wednesday at Toyota Park in the MLS knockout round.

There wasn’t much offense to talk

about after the Houston loss except Nikolic’s Boot award after beating out the New York City FC’s David Villa by two scores.

“It’s a fantastic feeling, really,” he said.

“This competition…everybody wants to win this award. Of course, the collective is the most important like always and I’m really happy that I can help my team to achieve the playoffs. To achieve good position in the playoffs, and along with that I scored goals so I really have been proud of everything that we achieved in regular season.”

In his first year with the Fire, Nikolic broke the club’s 17-year-old goal scoring record of 18 goals, previously set by Ante Razov in 2000. Nikolic also became the quickest in club history to ten goals with a pair against the Colorado Rapids on May 17. This is the third country

in which Nikolic has led his respective league in goal scoring.

He also led the league with six multigoal games including a hat trick against the Philadelphia Union on Oct. 15 to lead the Fire back into the post season for the first time since 2012. The Fire’s attack ranked third in the league with 61 goals.

Five of Nikolic’s goals were gamewinners, helping the Fire to three points on March 11 against Real Salt Lake, April 8 against Columbus Crew SC, May 17 against the Colorado Rapids, July 1 against the Vancouver Whitecaps and Oct. 15 against the Philadelphia Union.

In addition to his goals, Nikolic tallied four assists, including the assist on Luis Solignac’s game-winning goal on June 17 against the New England Revolution at Gillette Stadium.

While many fans and players were

disappointed to the meek ending to the regular season, the big picture showed the season as a whole was a huge upgrade over 2015 and 2016, when the Fire had the worst record in the MLS. “The season is now over and we finished in third place — not an easy task,’’ veteran player Arturo Alvarez said. “I credit the players, technical staff and the fans that support us in Chicago. We have to move forward. Now that some teams are in the playoffs anything can happen - before you know it you are in and you win the MLS Cup.” “We are proud of the third place finish in the regular season,’’ second-year fire coach Veljko Paunovic said. “But as I have said, the best is yet to come.

I believe we have the right team and the right guys and the right mood to do important achievements this year.”

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Fire midfielder Nemanja Nikolic scored 24 goals for the Fire this year and won the MLS Golden Boot award for most goals in 2017.

CROSS COUNTRY REGIONALS

BOYS SOCCER REGIONALS

Fantastic Four leads Marist to regional title

Sandburg and St. Laurence net championships

By Jeff Vorva Sports Editor

Call them the Fantastic Four.

Four Marist girls’ cross country runners hogged up the first

By John Romando four spots in the Marist Class 3A Correspondent Regional Saturday at Midlothian Meadows.

Was anyone going to score?

Freshman Cecilia Light won That was a legitimate question late in the the 3-mile race in 18 minutes, second half of Saturday’s Class 3A Sandburg 34.23 seconds, followed by junior Photos by Jeff Vorva Regional championship match in Orland Park. Sandburg’s Jimmy Margas was the only player to Jill Borza (18:50.89) and sophoStagg and Sandburg had already battled it score in a 1-0 victory over Stagg to win the Class mores Amanda Tracy (18:51.45) and Brigid Englehart (19:24.53). out for 80 minutes in a scoreless tie during the 3A Sandburg Regional.

Supplied photo Sophomore Maddie Langford Marist’s girls cross country team won its seventh regional on Saturday. regular season and this match looked like it rounded out the scoring with a was going to head into overtime without a goal.

15th-place finish (20:17.32) to McNamara Regional at Kankakee (ninth, 16:25) and freshman But Sandburg captain Jimmy Margas found a help lead the RedHawks to their Community College with junior Griffin Lehnhardt (10th, 16:28) nice pass from Vasili Vouris and found the net seventh regional title with 25 Emily Damstra (19:24) leading rounded out the scoring. in the 73rd minute and the Eagles went on to points. All seven titles came in the way. The Knights advanced to Stagg was led by senior Jared win, 1-0 on Saturday morning in Orland Park. the past 10 years. the Lisle Sectional at Community Tarantino, who finished second “Indescribable,” is how Margas described Stagg finished second with 57 Park in Lisle. with a 15:36. Shepard was fifth the win. “Every time you play them it feels points, led by junior Taylor Fiala’s led by sophomore Jackson Sima like the last time you are ever going to play. seventh-place finish (19:51.68). Boys regionals (20th, 16:52) and Brother Rice was There are going to be (disciplinary red or yelMother McAuley was third with Sandburg easily won the Class sixth with junior Dan Spellman low) cards. It’s going to be scrappy. Every time 69 points led by senior Lia Mu- 3A Marist regional title with 37 leading the way (13th, 16:36). it is going to come down to one play just like noz’s fifth-place finish (19:28.48). points at Midlothian Meadows on Advancers head to the Hinsit did today.”

Sandburg (fourth place) and Saturday. dale Central Sectional Saturday Sandburg (11-2-4) won its fifth regional title Shepard (sixth) also advance to The Eagles rested senior Dylan at KLM Park in Hinsdale. in the last nine years and the fifth-seeded Eagles St. Laurence’s Juan Guzman (left) gets by Goode sectional play as freshman Bri- Jacobs (who finished third in the Marist also hosted a Class 2A were slated to face top-seeded Bradley in the Stem’s Donaldo Enamorado and is ready to let loose elle Morris led the Eagles with a state last year and turned in a regional and the RedHawks finwith a goal in a 9-0 regional semifinal victory over Reavis Sectional on Tuesday. ninth-place finish (19:55.93) and sub-14 minute time this year in ished third, Oak Lawn took fourth Goode Stem on Oct. 18. Guzman also scored the After a 0-0 score at the half, Margas said the deciding shootout goal against Hancock on Saturday sophomore Kate McGovern led a meet in Peoria) and still fin- and Evergreen Park fifth to adEagles made adjustments against the Chargers. to help the Vikings win the regional. the Astros with an eighth-place ished 24 points ahead of Stagg. vance to the Wheaton Academy “The first half was tough. Our coach (Desi finish (19:55.47).

It was Sandburg’s 22nd district or Sectional at Kress Creek Farms Marist Regional qualifiers feed regional title and fifth in a row. Park in West Chicago.

Vuillaume) did a great job,’’ Margas said. “At Stagg, they don’t like us, it’s just how it is. This into Saturday’s Hinsdale Central halftime he gave us a great game plan. He felt awesome to win against a rival.’’

Junior Nico Calderone finished Sophomore Thomas Leonard Sectional at KLM Park in Hin- fourth in 15 minutes, 52 seconds, (second place, 16:06) led Marist, told us to stop playing so much over the top. sdale. while sophomores Ben Giblin senior Abe Tawil (fifth, 16:56) led They’re great in the air, we weren’t winning Class 2A St. Laurence Regional Marist also hosted a Class 2A (sixth-place, 15:55 Will Giblin Richards and Horace Holifield anything. So we played more on the ground, The hosts needed to win in a shootout and Juan regional in Midlothian and Ev- (eighth, 16:01), Sam Rodriguez (seventh) led Evergreen Park. more on the feet and it started working a little Guzman provided the clincher in a 2-1 victory ergreen Park advanced with a better and we were able to take it to them in over Hancock on Saturday in Burbank. It was fourth-place finish, led by junior the second half.” the Vikings’ third soccer regional title in school Kayley Burke’s fourth-place fin- AREA SPORTS REPORT Sandburg controlled much of the game playing history and first since 2012. ish (19:58). the different style.

Second-seeded St. Laurence (16-4-1) was schedQualifiers will head to the Despite the hard play during the match, Sand- uled to face third-seeded Chicago Noble Bulls Wheaton Academy Sectional at burg players consoled Stagg players who were at the Fenwick Sectional Wednesday.

Kress Creek Farms Park in West devastated by the defeat.

Danny Garcia scored the lone goal in regulaChicago on Saturday.

Sandburg’s Daniel Kaleciak said on the field, tion for the Vikings while he joined Guzman, In Class 1A, Chicago Christian, meeting to follow. There is a $25 thing can get intense when these two teams hook Mario Carmona and Jacob Suchecki in scoring which is coming off two top-10 By Jeff Vorva tryout fee, which includes a t-shirt.

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WEEKLY FOOTBALL FORECAST

All hail Rookie Randy Whalen, who is our 2017 King of the regular-season Football Forecast fools. He had an impressive 75-14 mark and was a game ahead of Vorva. Overall, the chumps were 424-110, which is 79.4 percent — almost a B. From now until two days after Thanksgiving, we have our postseason MVP race and we will see if the Rook can make it a double-double…

Last week: Overall: Quincy at St. Laurence Providence at Richards Marmion at Shepard Oak Park at Marist Mt. Carmel at Moline Simeon at St. Rita Eisenhower at Normal West Warren at Bolingbrook Benet at Maine West SXU at St. Francis (Ill.)

JEFF VORVA 9-1 74-15 St. Laurence Providence Shepard Marist Mt. Carmel St. Rita Normal W Bolingbrook Maine West SXU

IHSA FIRST-ROUND PLAYOFF CAPSULE PREVIEWS OAK PARK (5-4) AT MARIST (9-0)

JASON MAHOLY 8-2 68-21 St. Laurence Richards Shepard Marist Mt. Carmel St. Rita Normal W Bolingbrook Benet SXU

WALLY FINDYSZ 9-1 71-18 St Laurence Providence Marmion Marist Mt. Carmel St. Rita Normal W Bolingbrook Benet SXU

BOB RAKOW 9-1 67-22 St. Laurence Richards Shepard Marist Moline St. Rita Normal W Bolingbrook Benet SXU

The coach is right as Astros finish great regular season

By Jason Maholy

Shepard football coach Dominic Passolano is leading an 8-1 team into the playoffs.

Correspondent

Shepard head coach Dominic Passolano said before this season the Astros’ roster was the greatest collection of talent he had seen in his eight years at the helm.

Shepard proved him right as it concluded its best regular season in nearly a quarter century Friday with a 40-7 blowout of South Suburban Red Conference rival Argo. The Astros scored five touchdowns on 23 snaps and reached eight regular-season wins for the first time since 1993.

Junior quarterback Marquel Porter completed all five of his pass attempts for 163 yards and three touchdowns. Two of those scoring tosses went to junior wide receiver Rishard Blake, who had 113 yards on his only two receptions.

Junior cornerback/wide receiver Chris Harrison returned a punt 68 yards for a touchdown.

Rice finished the season 2-7, one year after going 9-3. It was their second sevenloss season in the past five years, but the last one – in 2013 – included a loss in the Chicago Catholic League playoffs. According to Brother Rice coach Brian Badke, the Crusaders are not entering the Catholic League playoffs this season.

PROVIDENCE (5-4) AT RICHARDS (7-2)

Moline 28, Stagg 27

Richards 41, Oak Lawn 14

THE FACTS: Providence, the 13th seed in the South bracket, visits fourthseeded Richards at 7 p.m. Friday in the first round of the Class 6A playoffs.

Richards is located 10601 Central Ave. in Oak Lawn.

PLAYOFF HISTORY: Richards qualified 35 times and took first in Class 4A in 1988 and 1989 and second in Class 6A in 2001 and 2013. Providence also qualified for the 35th time and has won 11 state titles, NOTEWORTHY: Quarterback Sebastian Castro (pictured) and the Bulldogs play a tough schedule year after year and will need it this year. Despite its rich playoff history, the Celtics did not qualify for the playoff in 2015 or 2016 after winning the Class 7A title in 2014.

Despite its record, some analysts predict Providence will make it to the 6A title game this year.

NEXT: The winner faces 12th-seeded Eisenhower or fifth-seeded Normal West in the second round.

The Chargers mounted a comeback from a two-touchdown deficit and had the ball with a chance to win and position themselves for a playoff berth, but fell to the playoff-bound Maroons.

Stagg, after being down 28-14, scored with three minutes remaining in the fourth quarter to pull within a point; however, failed to make the subsequent two-point conversion attempt. The Chargers defense held Moline to negative yards on the ensuing possession to give the offense another opportunity, but they couldn’t hit the big play they needed.

“We wanted the chance to win the game with three minutes left on the clock, and leave it up to our defense,” said Stagg head coach Mike Fahey. We were on the road, and at the time we had all three timeouts.”

The Chargers finished 4-5 one season after going winless.

The Bulldogs scored more than 40 points for the third straight game and topped their crosstown rivals for the ninth straight year, and finished the regular season with a fivegame winning streak.

The Spartans’ last victory in the series was a 20-12 triumph in 2008, current Richards head coach Tony Sheehan’s first year at the helm. That was also the last time Richards failed to make the playoffs.

Bulldogs junior running back Derek Flowers ran for 193 yards and four touchdowns on 16 carries. Junior quarterback Sebastian Castro threw for 169 yards and two scores to senior wide receiver Niles Gall.

Oak Lawn junior quarterback Marc Virusso ran for 51 yards and a touchdown. Spartans junior safety Jamie Marinez had an interception. Oak Lawn (4-5) won four games for the first time since 2011.

Loyola 28, Brother Rice 7

St. Ignatius 28, St. Laurence 13

MARMION (5-4) AT SHEPARD (8-1)

The Ramblers sent their Chicago Catholic League Blue rivals to their fifth loss in six games with the victory in Wilmette.

QUINCY (6-3) AT ST. LAURENCE (6-3)

THE FACTS: Quincy, the ninth seed in the South bracket, visits eight-seeded St. Laurence at 7 p.m. Friday in the first round of the Class 6A playoffs.

St. Laurence is located at 5556 W. 77th St. in Burbank.

PLAYOFF HISTORY: St. Laurence qualified 17 times and won a 5A title in 1976 and finished second in 1979.

The Vikings recently made it to the Class 5A semifinals in 2015 and to the 6A semifinals in 2016. Quincy qualified 10 times but only has one playoff win.

NOTEWORTHY: Seven of the nine teams on St. Laurence’s regular-season schedule are in the playoffs. Kendell Spearment (pictured) and his teammates want to put a Week 9 loss to St. Ignatius behind them as they did last year and go deep in the playoffs.

Quincy opened the season giving up 48 points to Belleville West and 48 more to Alton in losses before winning six of its next seven.

NEXT: The winner faces 16th-seeded Hinsdale South or No. 1-seeded Crete-Monee in the second round.

— Capsules compiled by Jeff Vorva

CORRECTION In the Oct. 19 edition of the Regional/Reporter, the wrong St Laurence football player was named in a caption. The player should have been identified as Christian Booker.

RANDY WHALEN 9-1 75-14 St. Laurence Providence Shepard Marist Mt. Carmel St. Rita Normal W. Bolingbrook Benet SXU

WEEK 9 HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL ROUNDUP

THE FACTS: Oak Park, the 30th seed, visits third-seeded Marist at 7 p.m. Friday in the first round of the Class 8A playoffs. Marist is located at 4200 W. 115th St. in Chicago.

PLAYOFF HISTORY: Marist qualified for the postseason 18 times and finished second in Class 8A in 1986, 2009 and 2015. This is the 17th time Oak Park qualified for the playoffs and a school-record sixth year in a row.

NOTEWORTHY: This is the first time in history RedHawks had a perfect 9-0 regular-season mark. T.J. Ivy (pictured) and his teammates are putting last year’s shocking first-round loss to New Trier behind them. Oak Park is 1-4 against teams with winning records this season and come into this game with back-to-back losses to Glenbard West (24-14) and Lyons (31-14).

NEXT: The winner faces 19th-seeded Curie and 14th-seeded Lyons in the second round.

THE FACTS: Marmion, the 14th seed in the South bracket, visits third-seeded Shepard at 7:30 p.m. in the first round of the Class 6A playoffs. Shepard is located at 13049 S. Ridgeland Ave. in Palos Heights PLAYOFF HISTORY: Shepard is making its 15th trip to the postseason and third trip in a row. The Astros have four playoff wins including last year’s 41-7 triumph over Morgan Park. This is Marmion’s 16th trip to the playoffs and the team finished second in the state in Class 6A in 2010.

NOTEWORTHY: DeClan Quinlan (pictured) and his teammates picked themselves up after falling to Richards on Sept. 8 and won six straight. If they win this game, they tie a school record for most wins in a season. Marmion is coming into the game on a four-game losing skid, dropping games to Fenwick, St. Laurence, De La Salle and giving up 198 points in those four games. All that misery came after stunning perennial power Montini, 28-27.

NEXT: The winner faces 11th-seeded Hubbard or sixth-seeded Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin in the second round.

JOE BOYLE 9-1 69-20 St. Laurence Providence Shepard Marist Mt. Carmel St. Rita Normal W. Bolingbrook Benet SXU

Photo by Jeff Vorva

The Wolfpack raced out to a 21-0 first-half lead to help snap St. Laurence’s four-game win streak.

St. Ignatius’ Quinn Donath, Joe Loftus, Giorgio Arquilla and Aidan Casey combined to run for 222 yards and three touchdowns – one more score than St. Laurence had allowed over its previous four contests, combined.

Vikings running back Tori Clinton caught two passes for 94 yards, including a 74-yard touchdown, and senior wide receiver Christian Booker caught five passes for 61 yards and a score. Senior quarterback Devon Rembis threw for 235 yards and two touchdowns, but was also intercepted twice.

Chicago Christian 48, Guerin 0 The Knights (4-5) snapped a three-game losing streak by trouncing the Gators on Senior Night in Palos Heights, and reached four victories for the first time since 2014.

Homewood-Flossmoor 50 Sandburg 14 The Vikings roared to 43 first-half points and coasted to victory in Orland Park.

The Eagles offense netted only 64 yards from scrimmage. Senior running backs Thomas Smith and John Murphy each scored a touchdown in their final high school game.

Tinley Park 29 Evergreen Park 0 The Mustangs (3-6) were blanked for the second time this season, and lost for the sixth time in seventh games to close out head coach Jerry Verde’s second year at Evergreen Park.

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A few odds and ends from a busy sports week Richards freshman Kayla McSweeney was given a box of cereal before heading to the IHSA state tennis tournament. Art teacher Kristin Tyszkiewicz had a hand in jazzing up the front of the box to honor McSweeney and Richards Athletic Director Ken Styler was credited with the idea.

Supplied photo Photo by Jeff Vorva

Photo by Jeff Vorva

Here is a look at the other side of the breakaway banner as Marist’s Gavin McCabe is about to bust through and lead his team Friday night in a game against Joliet Catholic.

Last week, one of the major basketball stories was Morgan Park star Ayo Dosunmu verbally committing to Illinois. In a game in March, Dosunmu (left) closely guarded Evergreen Park’s Dan Smith in regional action.

Richards soccer player Abdullah Ahmed (left) was not avoiding contact against Stagg in regional action on Oct. 17 even though he had a mask protecting his busted nose and a wrap around his sprained wrist.

Members of Richards’ and Shepard’s girls tennis team cheer on Sandburg’s Anna Loureiro at the state tournament last week. Loureiro’s mother, Lydia, is a social studies teacher at Eisenhower, which is in District 218 with Richards and Shepard.

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NO. 10 ST. XAVIER 41 ST. AMBROSE 28

SPOTLIGHT ON AREA COLLEGES

Crook beats wind and rain to earn a spot in nationals

By Jeff Vorva Sports Editor

Moraine Valley Community College golfer Mitch Crook did not earn all-conference honors in the Skyway Collegiate Conference this season.

But the Richards graduate is going to the nationals.

On a windy, rainy weekend Oct. 5 through Oct. 7, the National Junior College Athletic Association Region IV at the Oak Ridge Golf Club in Seneca. He finished 11th with a three-round total of 237 to earn the final individual spot to compete in the NJCAA Division II Championships in Alabama in May. “During the season I wasn’t doing as well as I wanted. I realized this could be the last time playing competitively, and so I had fun and enjoyed the moment,’’ Crook said. “I played my best round of golf ever at regionals. I thought about what I did wrong on the course previously and how I could correct it to shoot the best score I possibly could. I was the last person to make the cut, and

I was very excited to hear that I get to keep golfing.”

Crook said he plans to build his endurance and golf whenever he can throughout the winter, even if it means putting a ball around the house.

During the season, other Cyclone golfers enjoyed success as Nick Regan (Lincoln-Way East) and Reid Rimsnider (Lockport), and freshmen James Goich (Lincoln-Way East) and Michael Stanton (Brother Rice) were named all-conference.

“Overall it was a great season,” Cyclones coach Mike Lovelace said.

“Four guys got conference honors, and Mitch is going to nationals. I was disappointed that we fell short from winning conference. I learned a few things I’ll do differently and new strategies for next year. We have a few guys coming back, and if we get a couple more quality guys, it’ll be anyone’s ballgame in conference and regions.”

St. Xavier University Women’s volleyball: The Cou-

After getting stung early, Cougars stomp on Bees

By Jeff Vorva Sports Editor

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Moraine Valley Community College’s Mitch Crook (Richards) qualified for the NJCAA Division II national tournament.

gars won their 15th straight match and bolstered their overall win total to 26 (the most in five years) with a three-set road win over Roosevelt on Thursday. Bridget Krasowski, an Oak Lawn native, had 12 kills and 14 digs for the Cougars.

Trinity Christian College

Women’s cross country: Megan DeWeerd and April Van Ryn finished second and third respectively among 279 runners in the Seminole Valley Stampede in Cear Rapids, Iowa. DeWeerd finished the 5K race in 17 minutes, 59.3 seconds and Van Ryn crossed the finish line in 18:03.

Marist

Vorva

Continued from Page 1 But the team was in the Chicago Public Inter-City 5 conference, which is not eligible for IHSA playoff competition.

Year two, Back of the Yards finished in the front of the pack and won the conference en route to a 9-0 record and outscored opponents 329-57. Seven games were home games. It was a great season, but, again, no playoffs.

But they still knew how to put their girdles on.

This season, the Bobcats moved up in the world and were in the playoff-eligible Great Lakes Conference. They won that conference with a 6-0 mark and finished 8-1 this season and will host Solorio in its historic first Class 5A playoff game at noon on Saturday.

The team’s only game outside of the Chicago Public League was a 75-34 nonconference beating by Thornton Fractional North, a team that finished 2-7 and gave up 52 points to Bremen and 54 to Lemont and 62 to Tinley Park.

So any playoff game outside the city could be a rough go. Even this game against Solorio will be a difficult with Virginia Techbound Quincy Patterson running the show.

“Obviously we are thrilled to be in the state playoffs and to represent our school and any team we play at this point is going to be an incredible challenge,” Murrphy said. “But we’re looking forward to it.’’

Some of the players who have been a big factor in building this program include quarterback Jeremiah Harris (double digits in passing touchdowns and rushing touchdowns), receivers Carl McNickles and Keshawn Brown and running backs Horace Muff and Kevon Given.

Some of the defensive stars have been freshman linebacker James Granat, Jakhari Johnson, Brandon Crittendon and Harris.

As for the coach who put this all together?

Murphy was a free safety at Sandburg for coach Marty Balle’s final season (2006) and

St. Ambrose’s football team landed a few haymakers and had St. Xavier on the ropes.

But, being a top 10 team in the nation in NAIA play, SXU did what all teams that want to stay in the top 10 have to do: It fought back.

The Cougars were down to the Bees 21-7 early but then went on a 34-point rampage to pull off a 41-28 victory Saturday afternoon at Deaton Field in Chicago.

Sophomore quarterback Alex Martinez threw for 315 yards and four touchdowns in his first home start of the season. Martinez and junior transfer Justin Hunniford have been trading starts this season but Hunniford suffered a knee injury in a win over Trinity International on Oct. 14 and might be out for a few more weeks.

Freshman Elliott Pipkin corralled five passes for 103 yards and Harold Davis had five catches for 68 yards and a score.

Defensive back Trevon Anderson had a 59yard interception return in the late stages of the first half.

St. Ambrose (2-5 overall, 0-2 in the MidStates Football Association Midwest League)

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Former Sandburg player and current Back of the Yards football coach Sheamus Murphy is about to get drenched after a home game this season. Murphy started up the program in 2015 and this year the Bobcats qualified for the IHSA playoffs.

Dave Wierzal’s rookie campaign (2007).

Murphy said those two guys, plus current Sandburg coach Scott Peters, were big influences on him.

He also credits a host of other people including coaches from the Oak Forest Lions and Oak Forest Raiders plus his dad, TJ, for his love of the game and coaching.

Murphy said he had opportunities to play Division III football but added that he knew his future would be in teaching and coaching so he kick-started his career at Illinois State University, where he started as a student assistant manager and learned the ins and outs of how a Division I football program is run.

Then he got out into the real world with three years as a sophomore line coach at Lincoln-Way West before starting up the Back of the Yards program.

Murphy was married in March and he and Hannah live in Chicago, although they may be moving to the suburbs in the future.

So it’s been a huge year for Murphy with his personal life and with his team.

No wonder he’s dancing.

Suburban Catholic title with multipronged attack that featured Delonte Harrell rushing for 157 yards and two touchdowns on 12 carries, and adding a 28-yard TD reception, T.J. Ivy making scoring grabs of 21 and 28 yards, Billy Skalitzky rushing for 95 yards on just three carries and Mike Markett completing an efficient 7-of-9 passes for 128 yards.

“Every single player on this team can make a play,” Harrell, who went over 1,000 yards rushing for the season, said. “This team is full of weapons.”

Oh, and the defense forced three turnovers and blocked a field goal attempt.

“That tells me we’re multidimensional,” Dawczak said. “Not only do we have those weapons on offense, we’ve got guys on all three levels of the defense who can make plays. That bodes well.”

Boding less well is the specter of Marist’s shocking ouster from last season’s playoffs. The RedHawks, seeded 11th in 8A, lost 31-24 to 22nd-seeded New Trier to finish 8-2 a year after finishing second in the state from the 23rd seed.

“I’m not going to hide from it,” Dawczak said. “I can use it as a cautionary tale for our guys.”

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Continued from Page 1 Sandburg finished tied for 16th in the state with nine points.

“Coach said it was one of the best days we’ve had as a team at state and that was good to hear,” Loureiro said.

“I was really happy to hear how Agnes and the first doubles team did. When I heard the second doubles team didn’t

Photo by Jeff Vorva

SXU coach Mike Feminis will take his troops to Joliet Saturday to face his alma mater, the University of St. Francis.

was led by quarterback Jake Romani, who threw for 246 yards and two touchdowns.

SXU (6-1, 2-0) visits the University of St. Francis (Illinois) at 1 p.m. Saturday in Joliet.

USF is SXU coach Mike Feminis’ alma mater and the last two meetings have been close wins for the Cougars. Last year, the Cougars beat the Saints, 42-35 and in 2015, the Cougars sweated out a 34-28 win.

The Saints are 3-4 overall and 2-0 in the league after beating Olivet Nazarene, 43-31 on Saturday.

Not that he thinks they need it.

“Our seniors haven’t forgotten what it felt like, leaving the field versus New Trier,” he said. “They know they have the talent to do something special. They don’t want it to end.”

Special? In terms of talent, certainly.

The RedHawks have a pair of defensive linemen committed to Big Ten schools in Gavin McCabe (Indiana) and Elijah Teague (Minnesota). Ivy, a tight end, had committed to West Virginia, but recently reopened his recruiting. And Markett has emerged as a dual threat, throwing for more than 1,200 yards on the season and rushing for more than 100 twice — in Week 7 and 8 wins over ESCC contenders Nazareth and Benet.

While the RedHawks, since the beginning of the Dunne era, have always been offensive juggernauts, this may be their best defensive unit. Five times under Dunne, and again this season, Marist scored more than 200 points in ESCC games. Until this season, only once had their opponents been held under 100.

Beyond McCabe and Teague, Dawczak cited several other key contributors, including linebackers Danny Meehan and Kendrick Nowling, free safety Michael Lawlor and cornerback Charlie Laurencell.

This season, Marist scored 328 points in ESCC games while its opponents

scored 85. The only other time the RedHawks scored at least 300 (in 2011, when they had 310), their conference foes scored 237.

But will any of that matter heading into the playoffs, given what happened last year?

“I kind of think we’re a lot more confident than last year’s team,” McCabe said. “This team is really special.

We’re all so close. … Our focus is to go win a state championship.”

Ironically, losing Dunne may have helped that focus.

“Selfishly, I wanted him to be our coach,” McCabe said. “Beyond football, what he’s done for me as a man, and helping me with colleges and stuff, I just have so much respect for him.

“But I couldn’t be mad about something like that. I actually felt kind of bad for him, having to choose between a job he loved and doing what’s best for his family.

“Honestly, that situation with Coach Dunne brought us all closer. We’ve all been very focused all season.”

Plus, with Dawczak, the program hasn’t missed a beat.

“It wasn’t as big of a change as I thought it would be,” McCabe said.

“There were no other coaching changes besides that. Strategically, the way (Dawczak) runs practices, it’s all almost the same as coach Dunne.”

win, I thought that was OK. They got here to state. They have next season and have time to work on the things they need to work on to come back even better for next year.’’

Marist capped off the best season in its history with sophomore Nicole Micklin going 2-2 and reaching the third round of consolation while the doubles team of Caitlyn Foggie-Isabella Rabianski finished 1-2.

Micklin opened the meet with her

first career state victory with a 6-0, 6-4 victory over Geneva’s Caroline Lahey before succumbing to Deerfield’s Emily Casati 6-0, 6-1. She recovered to beat Rockford Boylan Catholic’s Natalie Muldowney 7-6 (4), 6-3 before bowing out in a 6-1, 1-6, 10-4 war with St. Ignatius’s Ivvy Hicks.

Shepard’s doubles team of Brooke Zielke-Rachel Habbel and Richards singles player Kayla McSweeney finished 0-2.

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Houses For Sale IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION ARVEST CENTRAL MORTGAGE COMPANY Plaintiff, -v.CHARLES A. DREWRY, DIANE M. DREWRY, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 17 CH 002016 8018 W. 157TH STREET ORLAND PARK, IL 60462 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 31, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December 4, 2017, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 8018 W. 157TH STREET, ORLAND PARK, IL 60462 Property Index No. 27-14-409-011-0000, Property Index No. 27-14-409-022-0000.

The real estate is improved with a residence.

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

No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS� condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

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

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

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

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

For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-17-01714.

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. 14-17-01714 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 17 CH 002016 TJSC#: 37-8311 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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Houses For Sale IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION PENNYMAC LOAN SERVICES, LLC Plaintiff, -v.TARIQ JOUDEH, DEANNA SARSOUR-JOUDEH Defendants 17 CH 005497 8554 W. SUN VALLEY DRIVE PALOS HILLS, IL 60465 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 17, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on November 27, 2017, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 8554 W. SUN VALLEY DRIVE, PALOS HILLS, IL 60465 Property Index No. 23-14-107-001-0000.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

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

No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS� condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

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

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

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

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

For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-17-03830.

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. 14-17-03830 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 17 CH 005497 TJSC#: 37-7768 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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Houses For Sale IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION DITECH FINANCIAL LLC Plaintiff, -v.VIERA RACOVA, SCENIC TREE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 16 CH 9937 8577 W. 101ST TERRACE UNIT 201 Palos Hills, IL 60465 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 28, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on November 30, 2017, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 8577 W. 101ST TERRACE UNIT 201, Palos Hills, IL 60465 Property Index No. 23-11-302-003-1165 Vol. No. 151.

The real estate is improved with a condominium.

The judgment amount was $109,923.51.

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

No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS� condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

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

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

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

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

For information, contact Plaintiff’s attorney: JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC, 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125, Chicago, IL 60606, (312) 541-9710 Please refer to file number 16-3819.

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.

JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125 Chicago, IL 60606 (312) 541-9710 E-Mail: ilpleadings@johnsonblumberg.com Attorney File No. 16-3819 Attorney Code. 40342 Case Number: 16 CH 9937 TJSC#: 37-8718 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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Houses For Sale IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC Plaintiff, -v.NASER AHMAD, RASHA SULIEMAN, FOUNTAIN HILLS OF ORLAND PARK HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION Defendants 2015 CH 13721 18046 ALYSSE COURT Orland Park, IL 60467 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on February 21, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on November 15, 2017, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 18046 ALYSSE COURT, Orland Park, IL 60467 Property Index No. 27-32-304-002-0000.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

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

No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS� condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

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

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

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

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

For information: Visit our website at service. atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5pm.

McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC, Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200, Chicago, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 416-5500. Please refer to file number 2092.

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

McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200 Chicago, IL 60602 (312) 416-5500 E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com Attorney File No. 2092 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 2015 CH 13721 TJSC#: 37-8960 I3063991

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Fun ways to stay active in the fall and winter

By Jackson A. Thomas The temperature outside might be dropping, but that doesn’t mean your fitness routine has to take the heat for it. Cold weather is no excuse to forgo your fitness.

Finding ways to stay active — and have fun — in the fall and winter is easier than you think.

Explore the indoors

Basketball helps develop concentration and self-discipline and builds muscle, says Andre Smith, a certified personal trainer at 4Ever Fit in Cleveland. “It also helps keep your cardiovascular activity level up, which in turn will help pro-vide better overall endurance and muscle endurance,” Smith says.

To focus on cardio while playing basketball, increase your tempo. Sure, shooting hoops burns calories, but running or jogging up and down the court can really get your heart pumping.

Be sure to wear gym shoes and comfortable workout clothing, such as shorts or a tank top.

“These activities will keep your body from plateauing,” Smith says. “Switching your routine up is good for overall muscle development and growth.”

Boxing and martial arts are also great for guys who want to let out frustration, says certified personal trainer Christian Koshaba, founder of Three60Fit in Arlington Heights, Illinois.

“I found, as far as for myself,

QUICK TIP Remember that the cold air is dry, which can lead to respiratory challenges. So do a quick warm-up to heat the air that your body takes in and allow the pulmonary system to adjust. it’s such a great stress reliever,” Koshaba says. “Just being able to hit something, not always another human, you’re getting in an awesome sweat. It’s just really good psychologically and emotionally.

You’re meeting new friends in the gym, and that’s really what it’s about.”

Brave the cold

Try cross-country skiing, which can help improve endurance, relieve stress and is also great cardio.

As you’re soaking up the sun, you’ll get some vitamin C. But Fabio Comana, a faculty instructor at the National Academy of Sports Medicine, says it’s important to remember that the cold air is dry, which can lead to respiratory challenges. So doing a quick warm-up might be necessary to warm the air that your body takes in and allow the pulmonary system to adjust.

“Many do not realize that

Healthy, happy holidays

By Tim Dudik rapid dehydration can occur in cold, dry environments, so it is important to guard against with plenty of fluid intake,” Comana says. “Sweat remaining against the skin can freeze and cause frostbite, so breathable and removable layers with wicking properties are critical to remove moisture from the skin while allowing heat to pass into the environment.”

A cover for the mouth might be appropriate, Comana says, and be sure to bring protective cushioning in case you fall.

You can also strap on some tennis rackets to your shoes and go snowshoeing. A form of hiking, snowshoeing provides a cardio workout while also building strength, agility, balance and endurance. Jonathan Ross, a certified personal trainer with the American Council on Exercise, says it’s

important for mood and mindset to get active out-doors, even in the winter.

“Connecting physical activity to something that is real, outdoors and lets you feel your lungs and legs working out in nature provides a benefit different, deeper and more rich than a gym workout,” Ross says. “Learning to appreciate the more clear, crisp air, the lower traffic on hiking trails, the different animals you see while outside, are keys to enjoying the outdoors year-round.”

And, Ross says, whether you’re bringing the heat inside or find a cool outdoor exercise, what matters is that you’re staying active.

“These kinds of activities are a way to find something you enjoy about winter, instead of just complaining how cold it is,” he says.

How to instill good eating habits, physical activity in kids

By Amy Cavalier The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree when it comes to diet and exercise among children. It’s essential for parents who want healthy children to be healthy parents themselves.

“Evidence shows that a familybased approach is most effective,” says Dr. Stephen Cook, an associate professor at UR Medicine’s Golisano Children Hospital’s Pediatrics & Center for Community Health.

This can be as easy as encouraging healthy eating by having on-the-go healthy food options within reach for an after-school snack, replacing screen time with physical activity and gifting toys that will encourage children to stay active — like jump ropes, hula hoops, bicycles and scooters.

“It’s a matter of getting up and moving, getting away from sedentary behaviors and making them social,” Cook says.

Parents should engage in the pro-cess of changing behaviors, monitoring weight and most importantly practicing what they preach if they expect their children to follow suit, Cook says.

Health begins in the womb

Attention to wellness should begin before pregnancy. Healthier moms mean healthier babies.

Cook recommends expectant mothers quit smoking, have a balanced diet and exercise regularly.

“The idea is that if you start developing and maintaining those

habits as a parent, then you’re role modeling that to your children and those become the standard within your family,” he says.

Women who gain an excessive amount of weight in their pregnancy can experience complications during pregnancy and delivery including higher blood pressure and diabetes.

SWEET POTATO HASH

Forget all the butter, cream and sugar of those sweet potato casseroles — this hash is healthy and light.

Makes 6 servings • 2 pounds sweet potatoes, peeled and small diced • 1/2 cup green pepper, peeled and small diced • 1/2 cup celery, small diced • 1/4 cup red onion, small diced • 2 cloves garlic, minced 3 tablespoons olive oil • 1 tablespoon dried sage • 1 tablespoon smoked paprika • 1 tablespoon salt • 2 teaspoons black pepper 5. Only eat when you’re hungry —not when you’re bored, upset or emotional.

Obesity is not a choice

Sometimes, though, diet and exercise aren’t enough. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the percentage of children with obesity in the U.S. has tripled since 1970.

“The obesity epidemic is not a personal-choice issue,” Cook says. “It’s not a moral failure.”

About one in five school-aged children is obese, which puts them at risk of chronic health conditions such as asthma, sleep apnea, bone and joint problems, type 2 diabetes and heart dis-ease. In addition, children who struggle with weight issues may be bullied

and teased or suffer from social isolation, depression and lower self-esteem.

When someone is already obese or has a higher level of excess weight, changes in diet and exercise might not be enough. Variables like stress, domestic violence and poverty can have an adverse effect on maintaining a healthy weight, Cook says.

“I want all families, regardless of the parents’ and children’s weight or size, I want them to eat better, watch less television, get regular exercise, get an adequate amount of sleep, not overindulge in screen time or unhealthy food options in schools and day care, and to get more physical education time in schools,” he says. “You have to put your health first.”

Smith Crossing, Smith Village residents enjoy convenient access to hearing specialists who offer tips for holidays Submitted by Smith Senior Living Holiday gatherings pose formidable challenges for people with hearing loss, as well as their family members, according to Deborah Walsh, a hearing instrument specialist licensed by the State of Illinois and a representative of the Miracle-Ear office in Oak Lawn.

“When someone can’t hear, it’s a family affliction,” said Walsh, who attends to the hearing health of residents at Smith Village, a life plan community located at 2320 W. 113th Place in Chicago’s Beverly neighborhood.

“Not being able to hear in crowded spaces is usually the first sign of hearing loss. That’s why problems often emerge at holiday gatherings,” Walsh said.

Hosts can help by keeping background music and other ambient noises low, by avoiding low lighting and tall centerpieces which hinder the ability of those with hearing challenges to read lips and facial expressions to get the gist of what someone is saying. Friends and family members

also should be sure to make eye contact and speak directly to a person with hearing loss. Hosts also can seat the hearing-challenged person in a quiet corner with an overview of the room, and designate a hearing helper to explain bits of missed conversation.

“Of course, during the holidays, we want everyone to feel included. But even with these measures, a person with hearing loss is still likely to end up feeling left out,” Walsh said. There’s also a strong possibility that without hearing correction, the loved one will experience further debilitating effects of hearing loss, including accelerated cognitive decline, more frequent falls and a sense of isolation.

“So, we urge older adults to take responsibility for their hearing health,” said Walsh, who every second Thursday of the month sets up her portable lab in the Smith Village Wellness Center.

There, she tests residents’ hearing, cleans and fits hearing aids, Continued on page 8

VEGETABLE CASSOULET

This traditional, stewed French dish usually contains meat, but in this version, we stick with autumn vegetables and white beans for a good source of protein.

Makes 6 servings • 1 cup zucchini, diced • 1 cup yellow squash, diced • 1 cup carrots, medium diced • 1/2 cup yellow onion, diced • 1 15.5 oz. can Great Northern White Beans, drained and rinsed • 1 14.5 oz. can diced tomatoes • 1 8 oz. can tomato juice • 3 tablespoons olive oil • 3 cloves garlic, minced • 1 tablespoon dried oregano • 1 tablespoon dried basil • 1 tablespoon salt • 1 tablespoon black pepper In a medium stock pot over low heat, add olive oil, garlic, onion, carrots, zucchini and squash. Stir frequently for about 8 minutes or until vegetables are soft. Add tomatoes, tomato juice and spices.

Cook for about 20 minutes over low heat and stir occasionally.

Add white beans and continue cooking for 10 minutes. If using as a main dish, serve with your favorite crusty baguette.

Staying health as a family

Parents of young children should make a habit of including fresh fruits and vegetables as part of regular meals and replace drinks with high sugar content with water. Avoiding processed foods and eating out a lot, taking walks, hikes and bike rides as a family will set healthy examples.

“When you do it together as a family, it becomes the norm as opposed to badgering,” he says.

“Picking on people doesn’t change behavior. It’s a matter of owning it, adopting it, having it be some-thing you choose to do on your own.”

Cook suggests enforcing the five “only’s” of eating to help children form healthy eating habits: 1. Only eat in the kitchen or dining room — not in the bedroom, living room or family room.

2. Only eat sitting down — not while standing around or walking.

3. Only eat off of a plate or out of a bowl — not out of the container, and using smaller sized bowls/plates.

4. Only eat while you are eating — don’t text, check social media or watch television.

Meals during autumn and early winter, especially around Thanksgiving, bring family and friends together, brighten our homes and nourish our bodies and spirits. The smells and flavors are so familiar that they can take us back in time. But these dishes can also overwhelm us, which is when many people look for healthier options. Whether you are eating healthy to lose weight, because of food allergies or just trying to make healthier decisions, finding healthy dishes can be difficult. But with these autumn-inspired healthy sides, you can bring something different to the table during the holidays.

In a large sauce pan over medium heat, add olive oil, green pepper, celery, onion, sweet potatoes and garlic. Stir occasionally for about 15 minutes or until sweet potatoes become tender.

Add in spices, and cook for about two more minutes. Remove from heat and serve.

WILD RICE WITH CRANBERRIES, ALMONDS AND SAGE This dish is bursting with autumn flavor and can be a great alternative to traditional stuffing.

Makes 6 servings • 1 cup wild rice • 3 cups vegetable stock • 1 cup dried cranberries • 1 cup sliced almonds, lightly toasted • 1/2 cup yellow onion, small diced • 1/2 cup celery, small diced • 1/2 cup carrot, small diced • 1/4 cup fresh sage, chopped • 1 tablespoon salt • 2 teaspoons black pepper • 2 tablespoons olive oil In a medium stock pot over medium heat, add olive oil, onions, celery and carrots. Cook for 8 minutes or until soft. Add wild rice and stir frequently for two minutes.

Add vegetable stock, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to simmer. Cover and let cook for 45 minutes, or until rice is soft. Mix in sage, half the dried cranberries and half the almonds. Pour into bowl and top with remaining cranberries and almonds.

To toast almonds, heat a small skillet over high heat. Add almonds, moving constantly, until almonds begin to brown lightly.

ROASTED POTATOES, WILD MUSHROOMS AND SHERRY VINEGAR If you’re staying away from mashed potatoes, the mushrooms in this dish will help to satisfy your savory tooth.

Makes 6 servings • 2 pounds small red potatoes, cut in half • 1 pound cremini mushrooms, washed and cut in half • 1/2 pound shiitake mushrooms, stems removed • 4 tablespoons olive oil • 1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon salt • 2 teaspoons black pepper • 1 teaspoon white pepper • 1/4 cup sherry vinegar • 1 bunch parsley, finely chopped

Photo by Smith Village

Deborah Walsh, a state-licensed hearing specialist, recommends anticipating holiday festivities with a hearing check-up.

Preheat oven to 425* In large mixing bowl, combine potatoes with 2 tablespoons olive oil, 1 tablespoon salt and black pepper.

Toss to coat, and place on sprayed baking pan. Place in preheated oven and bake for 20 minutes. Rotate pan and continue baking for about 15 minutes, or until potatoes are browned and crisp.

Meanwhile, in a large pan, sauté mushrooms in 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Cook over high heat, stirring frequently until mushrooms are lightly browned and softened. Remove from heat, and combine with potatoes.

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Continued from Page 7 and educates residents about the importance of their proper use.

Victoria Wright, a specialist like Walsh who is affiliated with Miracle Ear in Orland Park, is developing a similar relationship with Smith Village’s sister life plan community, Smith Crossing,10501 Emilie Lane in Orland Park. She also provided hearing screenings at a recent health fair there.

“It’s very embarrassing when older adults have trouble hearing in group situations and the conversation starts rolling,” Wright said. “They don’t want to constantly interrupt, so they start pulling away. Withdrawing from social situations is the worst thing they can do because they need that stimulation.”

For those wanting to optimize opportunities to connect with family and friends during the holidays and at other times, Walsh and Wright advocate hearing checkups every two years for adults over 65. For those who wear hearing aids, annual or more frequent checkups are recommended.

And most important: “If you have hearing aids, wear them,” said Walsh, who began wearing hearing aids in her mid-50s.

“Also, be patient. Realize there’s always a period of adjustment.”

Hearing loss is common in older adults and can result from several causes: impacted earwax, heredity, illness, injury, prolonged exposure to loud noise and certain medicines.

For those who refuse to consider hearing aids due to cost, vanity or anxiety about technology, Walsh offered the following considerations. Hearing aids cost far less than knee or hip replacements, and payment plans make them much more affordable. Some newer models are practically invisible. The newer technology is more precise and much easier to use.

For Baby Boomers who often embrace new technologies, today’s hearing aids connect with smart phones, computers and

other electronic devices. They also automatically adjust for six different hearing settings: quiet; speech with quiet; noise; music; car quiet; and the toughest setting of all, speech amid noise, which is commonly experienced at large holiday gatherings.

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About Smith Senior Living

Smith Senior Living, a notfor-profit organization serving older adults, sponsors two life plan communities located in the Southwest sector of Metropolitan Chicago: Smith Village in Chicago’s Beverly neighborhood and

Smith Crossing in Orland Park, Ill. An innovative leader providing the finest services and care for seniors, Smith established its first community in 1924, on the same city block where Smith Village stands today.

Both LPCs provide spacious

independent living residences, and apartments for assisted living, as well as memory support and skilled nursing care. In addition, they offer short-term rehab programs for residents and others who have had surgery or a medical incident.

For more information about how Smith Senior Living can help seniors enjoy their retirement, contact Smith Crossing at 708-326-2308 or SmithCrossing. org, and Smith Village at 773474-7303 or SmithVillage.org.

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