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On your mark, get set, run for office Many candidates, races jockeying for 2014 ballot By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – Candidates for McHenry County offices are off to the races in the first week that they were

allowed to circulate petitions for the March primary. At least a dozen petitions for County Board and countywide offices had been picked up at the McHenry County Clerk’s Office by Friday.

Tuesday was the first day that petitions can be circulated. County voters next year will elect one U.S. senator, their representatives in the Illinois and U.S. House of

Representatives, all statewide constitutional offices, the offices of county treasurer, county clerk, sheriff and regional school superintendent, and 12 of the County Board’s 24 members.

Voters in the March primary will be asked to weigh in on a binding referendum on whether the County Board chairman should be popularly elected, as is done in most other collar counties. Voters in the 33rd Senate District will elect their state senator, who drew a two-year term after the 2012 election in

the wake of redistricting after the 2010 U.S. Census. The 33rd District, represented by Sen. Karen McConnaughay, R-St. Charles, covers Grafton and far western Algonquin townships in McHenry County, and extends into northeastern Kane County.

See ELECTIONS, page A8

Doubts linger over Syria gas attack

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No evidence has been put forward By KIMBERLY DOZIER and ZEINA KARAM The Associated Press

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Chicago’s Jay Cutler (left) and Brandon Marshall celebrate a touchdown Sunday in the second half against the Cincinnati Bengals at Soldier Field in Chicago.

Bears start 2013 season with win over Bengals

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t started ugly, but the Bears rallied in front of a home crowd to win their season opener over a very good Bengals team 24-21. After gaining only 97 yards of offense in the first half, the Bears put up 226 yards after halftime. In his first game with the new offense, Jay Cutler completed 21-of-33 passes for 242 yards, two touchdowns and one pick. His favorite target, Brandon Marshall, had eight catches for 104 yards and the go-ahead score. On defense, Charles Tillman had two interceptions and Tim Jennings forced and recovered a fumble.

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Full coverage in Sports n Musick: 2-interception day from Charles Tillman had both teams singing his praises. PAGE B1 n Arkush: Little bit of luck helps prepared Bears top Bengals. PAGE B1 n Bears notebook: Jay Cutler’s scrambling led to two big plays for the Bears offense. PAGE B6-7 n What worked? 3 and out. PAGE B6

SATURDAY

HATCHERY PARK HOSTS AUTUMN FEST Hatchery Park Autumn Fest will be from noon to 8 p.m. Saturday at 2314 Hatchery Road, Spring Grove. The fest will feature live music, arts and crafts, hay rides, food, beer tasting, ghost storytelling and more. For information, call 815-675-2121 or visit www.springgrovevillage.com.

FRIDAY: ‘Insidious: Chapter 2,’ with Patrick Wilson, opens in theaters.

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BEIRUT – The U.S. government insists it has the intelligence to prove it, but the public has yet to see a single piece of concrete evidence produced by U.S. intelligence – no satellite imagery, no transcripts of Syrian military communications – connecting the government of President Bashar Assad to the alleged chemical weapons attack last month that killed hundreds of people. In its absence, Damascus and its ally Russia have aggressively pushed another scenario: that rebels carried out the Aug. 21 chemical attack. Neither has produced evidence for that case, either. That’s left more questions than answers as the U.S. threatens a possible military strike. The early morning assault in a rebel-held Damascus suburb known as Ghouta was said to be the deadliest chemical weapons attack in Syria’s 2½year civil war. Survivors’ accounts, photographs of many of the dead wrapped peacefully in white sheets and dozens of videos showing victims in spasms and gasping for breath shocked the world and moved President Barack Obama to call for action because the use of chemical weapons crossed the red line he had drawn a year earlier. Yet one week after Secretary of State John Kerry outlined the case against Assad, Americans – at least those without access to classified reports – haven’t seen a shred of his proof.

See SYRIA, page A8

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