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Attorney ends suit over nude pictures

Hello, 2014 DeKalb County residents discuss hopes for new year

Photos allegedly shared during prostitution case

By JILLIAN DUCHNOWSKI jduchnowski@shawmedia.com

Photos by Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com

Owners Debbie Witmer (left) and her husband, Mel Witmer, begin decorating O’Leary’s Restaurant and Pub ahead of Tuesday night’s New Year’s party in DeKalb.

By JILLIAN DUCHNOWSKI jduchnowski@shawmedia.com Why, hello, 2014.

You are just a baby, awakening today to snow and chilly temperatures. But you should know, we here in DeKalb County have been waiting for you.

A band called Menagerie performed in your honor Tuesday night at O’Leary’s Restaurant and Pub in downtown DeKalb, and snowplows hit the streets to make sure local residents celebrating you made it home OK. We have some great expectations for you, kid. Not that we have anything against your older sister, 2013, but let me tell you what we have in store for you in DeKalb, Sycamore and beyond.

DeKalb resident Alexis Simmons, 24,

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Jeanann Sundby helps decorate the restaurant ahead of Tuesday’s New Year’s party.

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SYCAMORE – The 28-yearold former DeKalb County attorney who admitted to prostitution dropped her lawsuit alleging former State’s Attorney Clay Campbell and her former defense attorney showed other attorneys nude photographs of her.

On Tuesday, an attorney for Reema “Nicki” Bajaj agreed to drop the lawsuit without the possibility of refiling it. The lawsuit had named defense attorney Timothy W. Johnson, Campbell and an unidentified assistant state’s attorney, who only was identified in court records as a white man.

Bajaj, who now works as an office manager, decided to drop the lawsuit to avoid bringing up unhappy memories, said Bajaj’s attorney, Amanda T. Adams.

“Ms. Bajaj is moving on with her life,” said Adams.

“She is in a new profession.”

In the lawsuit, Bajaj claimed Johnson showed other attorneys nude photographs of her that he received through the police investigation into allegations that two men paid her for sex or to perform sex acts from 2005 through January 2011. Bajaj hired Johnson on May 11, 2011, and about three weeks later, Johnson showed other local attorneys the nude photographs in the lawyers’ lounge at the courthouse in Sycamore, the lawsuit alleged.

The lawsuit also claimed that Campbell distributed copies of the nude photographs outside a courtroom

Reema Bajaj Former attorney

Clay Campbell Former state’s attorney

On the Web For details about the attorney ethics case pending against Reema Bajaj and the proposed sanctions, visit Daily-Chronicle. com.

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Health care law at a crossroads heading into new year

By RICARDO ALONSO–ZALDIVAR The Associated Press WASHINGTON – All things good, bad and unpredictable converge with the new year for President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul as the law’s major benefits take effect, along with an unpopular insurance mandate and a risk of more nerve-wracking disruptions to coverage.

The changes bring big improvements for some, including Howard Kraft of Lincolnton, N.C. A painful spinal problem left him unable to work as a hotel bellman. But he’s got coverage because federal law now forbids insurers from turning away people with health problems.

“I am not one of these people getting a policy because I’m being made to,” Kraft said.

“I need one to stay alive.”

What’s good for millions like Kraft is secured through what others see as an imposition: requiring virtually every American to get covered, either through an employer, a government program, or by buying a plan directly.

But the health care headlines early this year could come from continued unpredictable consequences of the insurance program’s messy rollout.

The consumer-facing side of the HealthCare.gov website appears to be largely fixed – with 2.1 million enrolled through federal and state

websites. But on the back end, insurers say they are still receiving thousands of erroneous sign-ups from the government.

That means early in the year insured patients could go for a medication refill – or turn up in the emergency room – only to be told there is no record of their coverage.

One of the main worries is over certain error-tainted enrollment records that insurers call “orphans” and “ghosts.”

“Orphans” are sign-ups that the government has a record of, but which do not appear in insurer systems.

Insurers say those customers never left the government’s “orphanage” to “go and live” with the carrier they selected.

“Ghosts” are new customers that the insurer does have a record of, but mysteriously the information does not appear in the government’s computers.

The Obama administration says the rate of such errors has been dramatically reduced, and insurers agree.

The catch is that the volume of sign-ups has surged in the meantime, which means even with a lower error rate the number of problem cases keeps growing. And there is no automated way to clear up mistakes quickly.

“Some people are actually going to start using their coverage Jan. 1, and that is a good

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Howard Kraft discusses signing up for health insurance Monday as he sits in his Lincolnton, N.C., home. A painful spinal problem left him unable to work as a hotel bellman, but he’s got coverage because federal law now forbids insurers from turning away people with health problems.

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8 DAILY PLANNER Thursday Safe Passage Domestic Violence support group: 815-7565228; www.safepassagedv.org.

Weekly Ladies’ Brunch: 8 a.m. at Fox Valley Community Center, 1406 Suydam Road, Sandwich. Cost is $4 for food, conversation and bottomless cups of coffee or tea.

Back To Basics AA(C): 9:30 a.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

Feed My Sheep Food Pantry: 10 a.m. to noon at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 1915 N. First St., DeKalb. All are welcome.

Sycamore History Museum Brown Bag Lunch Lecture: Noon to 1 p.m. at Sycamore Federated Church, 612 W. State St. Free local history presentation, coffee and cookies are offered to the public; donations are welcome. Contact Michelle Donahoe at Sychist@ tbc.net or 815-895-5762. www. sycamorehistory.org.

Stroke Support Group: 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the NIU Speech Language Hearing Clinic, at Bethany and Route 23 in the former Monsanto building. For patients, their families and other interested individuals. Email Lilli Bishop at lbishop@niu.edu.

Take Off Pounds Sensibly: 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. weigh-in and 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. meeting, Sycamore United Methodist Church, 160 Johnson Ave. Call Lydia at 815895-4618.

Open Closet: 5 to 7 p.m. at 300 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. Clothes and shoes for men, women and children. 815-758-1388.

ESL and GED Classes: 6 to 8 p.m. at Esperanza en Unidad (Hope in Unity), 2225 Gateway Drive, Suite A. To register and for information, call George Gutierrez at 815-970-3265.

Keep It Simple AA(C): 6 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

One Day Café AA(C): 6 p.m. at Waterman United Methodist Church, 210 W. Garfield St. 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

Weight Watchers: 6 p.m. weigh-in, 6:30 p.m. meeting Weight Watchers Store, 2583 Sycamore Road (near Aldi), DeKalb.

DeKalb County Amateur Radio Emergency Service: 7 p.m. on 146.73 megahertz. For information, call Bill Itter (N9EWA) at 815-895-2020.

DeKalb County Marines Corps League, officers, detachment and auxiliary: 7 p.m. at Sycamore Veterans Home, 121 S. California St. For information, contact Peter May at sneakypete2@hotmail.com or 815-761-7732, or call 815-756-6625. www.dekalbcountymarines.com.

Mourning After: 7 p.m. at Great Lakes Leadership Center, 526 N. Main St., Elburn. For young widows/widowers, and young adults who have lost their partner to death. Call Conley Outreach at 630-365-2880 for directions and monthly topics.

Sandwich Steppers AA(C): 7 p.m. at Fox Valley Community Center, 1406 Suydam Road. 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

Free Fit Club: 7:30 to 9 p.m. at Sycamore Community Center, 138 Fair St., Sycamore. For information, call 815-901-4474 or 815-566-3580.

A Friend Of Bill’s AA(C): 8 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, 33930 N. State St., Genoa. 800-4527990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

Any Lengths AA(C): 8 p.m. at Federated Church, 612 W. State St., Sycamore. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

Closed Discussion AA: 8 p.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

Friday Sexaholics Anonymous-DeKalb: 6:30 to 7:30 a.m. Fridays at Christ Community Church, 1600 E. Lincoln Highway, DeKalb. This 12-step recovery program is for Internet addiction. Call 815-508-0280. SA.org.

Weight Watchers: 8:30 a.m. weigh-in, 9 a.m. meeting Weight Watchers Store, 2583 Sycamore Road (near Aldi), DeKalb.

Coffee Club: 9 to 11 a.m. at Edward Jones, 1170 DeKalb Ave. in Sycamore. To discuss current events and investing. Coffee and doughnuts will be served. www. edwardjones.com.

Pass It On AA(C): 9:30 a.m. at DeKalb Area Alano Club, 312 E. Taylor St., DeKalb. 800-452-7990; www.dekalbalanoclub.com.

Story time: 10 a.m. at Barnes & Noble, 2439 Sycamore Road, DeKalb. Free readings are open to the public.

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Employee Lara Herzog trims away leaves Friday from pot plants, harvesting the plant’s buds to be packaged and sold at Medicine Man marijuana dispensary, which is to open as a recreational retail outlet today, in Denver. Colorado is making final preparations for marijuana sales to begin today, a day some are calling “Green Wednesday.”

Colo. readies for ‘Green Wednesday’

By KRISTEN WYATT The Associated Press DENVER – Police were adding extra patrols around pot shops in eight Colorado towns that plan to allow recreational sales to anyone older than age 21 today. Officials at Denver International Airport installed new signs warning visitors their weed can’t legally go home with them.

And at a handful of shops, owners were scrambling to plan celebrations, set up coffee stations, arrange food giveaways and hire extra security to prepare for potential crowds and overnight campers ready to buy up to an ounce of legal weed.

While smoking pot has been legal in Colorado for the past year, so-called Green Wednesday represents another historic milestone for the decades-old legalization movement: the unveiling of the nation’s first legal pot industry.

“It could be crazy. Or it could be crickets out there. Who knows? No one’s ever done this before,” said Robin Hackett, manager of BotanaCare in North-

glenn, a suburb of Denver, who planned to have a DJ to greet shoppers.

Preparation for the retail market started more than a year ago, soon after Colorado voters in 2012 approved the legal pot industry. Washington state has its own version, which is scheduled to open in mid-2014.

Pot advocates, who had long pushed legalization as an alternative to the lengthy and costly global drug war, had argued it would generate revenue for state coffers and save money in locking up drug offenders.

Still, setting up regulations, taxation and oversight for a drug that’s never been regulated before took some time.

Colorado set up an elaborate plant-tracking system to try to keep the drug away from the black market, and regulators set up packaging, labeling and testing requirements, along with potency limits for edible pot.

The U.S. Justice Department outlined an eight-point slate of priorities for pot regulation, requiring states to keep the drug away from minors, criminal cartels, federal property and other

Outgoing McLean County register of deeds Lee Newcom takes care of a small herd of alpacas Dec. 13 on his farm near Anchor, Ill. AP photo

Outgoing recorder sees future in alpaca farming

By MARY ANN FORD The (Bloomington) Pantagraph ANCHOR, Ill. – On Nov. 6, 2012, after all the McLean County election results had been tabulated, Lee Newcom posted a message on his Facebook page: “I won my election but lost my job.”

Newcom had been re-elected as McLean County recorder of deeds, but a referendum asking voters if the recorder’s office should be eliminated by the end of 2013 also passed – 37,699 to 24,207.

Newcom asked if anyone had any ideas for a job.

The first to respond was a high school friend who owns an alpaca farm in California, suggesting he start one.

“I said that costs money and I don’t know anything about alpaca farms,” said Newcom.

But after a lot of research, help from his friend and a trip to the California alpaca farm, Newcom decided to try it out. A couple of weeks ago, he received his first herd of 15 alpacas – one of which he helped birth on one of the California trips. Her name is KKKKatie, after Newcom’s daughter, Katie, who is a full partner in the new business venture.

Newcom found a 5-acre farm in rural Anchor in eastern McLean County and was able to work out a rent-to-own deal. Because six of the alpacas are pregnant, his herd soon will be growing.

Alpacas are valuable for their fiber coats that are water resistant and warmer than wool, he said. The fiber on young alpacas is used in fine clothing; the older alpaca fiber typically is used for rugs.

states in order to avoid a federal crackdown. Pot is still illegal under federal law.

With the additional police patrols, the airport warnings and various other measures, officials were hoping they had enough safeguards in place to avoid predictions of public health and safety harm from the opening of the pot shops.

But they confessed anxiety about the opening of retail sales.

“We understand that Colorado is under a microscope,” Jack Finlaw, lawyer to Gov. John Hickenlooper and overseer of a major task force to chart news pot laws, recently told reporters about the first day.

Would pot-shop parking lots be full of overnight campers and crowds lined up to buy pot? Would sellers run out of marijuana? Would shoppers abide by state law and refrain from using pot publicly, or would clouds of pot smoke drift through neighborhoods?

Interviews with dozens of marijuana critics, legalization advocates and industry workers showed many share Finlaw’s opinion.

Unstoppable stocks end year on a high note

By STEVE ROTHWELL The Associated Press NEW YORK – The stock market was unstoppable in 2013. A U.S. government shutdown, fear of a default, the threat of military action in Syria, big budget cuts, and a European country looking for a bailout – any number of events might have derailed the stock market.

But they didn’t. And if skittish investors jumped out of stocks, they lost out.

“2013 would have been good year to wear noise-canceling headphones,” said Dean Junkans, chief investment officer for Wells Fargo Private Bank.

“There were a lot of things that happened and the market kept moving higher.”

The Standard & Poor’s 500 had its best year since 1997, ending up 29.6 percent. The Dow Jones industrial average also turned in a stellar performance: It closed up 26.5 percent, its best gain since 1995. Combined, the two indexes closed at record highs on 97 occasions.

Instead of worrying about the wider world, investors focused on the Federal Reserve and the outlook for its stimulus program.

The Fed bought $85 billion in government bonds each month in 2013. The purchases were designed to hold down long-term borrowing rates and encourage spending and investment. The stimulus also prodded investors to move from low-yielding bonds to stocks.

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Lawyer fears for safety after fire Suspects arson cause of Christmas blaze in Marengo office

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jengelhardt@shawmedia.com MARENGO – A mysterious Christmas night fire that destroyed a Marengo divorce lawyer’s office has the attorney searching for answers and safety as she suspects a possible arson.

It has been nearly a week since Paula Rieghns was called to her office at 10:30 p.m. Christmas night to see a fire had destroyed everything in her suite at 821 E. Grant St. Fire and police officials have yet to make a determination on the cause of the fire.

Rieghns, who has been staying with a friend because of safety concerns, believes her office might have been firebombed by someone unhappy over divorce proceedings. Both Rieghns and her attorney Bob Wagner, a former Crystal Lake mayor, said they overheard discussions of a gas can being recovered at the scene.

Out of the six units connected in the strip mall, Rieghns’ office was the only one affected by the fire. About 90 percent of Rieghns cases are based in DeKalb County, office manager Jennifer Landorf said, so she is casting a wide net searching for people who might have clues about what happened.

“People get very angry about their divorces. I’ve been threatened in the past,” Rieghns said. “My employees are scared, my clients are scared and I’m scared. I want this person caught. I want them brought to justice.”

Rieghns said she has been frustrated with the lack of

Anyone with information about the incident should call Marengo police at 815-568-7231 or the McHenry County Crime Stoppers Tip Line at 800-762-STOP (7867).

Information can also be emailed to TipLine@co.mchenry.il.us.

ently Marengo doesn’t see any urgency in solving that crime.

I have a client that is terrified from this terrorist act.”

Bill Weiss, battalion chief for the Marengo Fire Protection District, confirmed the state fire marshal and the ATF were not involved. He said the department is working with an arson investigator at the Marengo Police Department.

Weiss said the investigation is continuing and no investigation into suspects could begin until authorities determine if a crime was committed. No one at the Marengo Police Department was available for comment Monday.

Marengo Police Chief Joseph Hallman is expected back in the office on Thursday.

In the meantime, Rieghns said she was going to try to piece together her business as quickly as she could. But with no phone numbers, case files or computers, Rieghns is having a hard time even contacting those she represents.

“I’m trying to put the pieces back together as fast as I can because a law office doesn’t just stop,” Rieghns said. “If anyone has any information about the fire, please, please call the police.”

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Workers remove debris from a Christmas night fire at 821 E. Grant St., Unit F, in Marengo. progress in the investigation.

She said the Marengo Police Department did not return her calls on the Friday after the fire, and the first time she was contacted by the police since the incident was Monday. She said they said they were still without answers.

Wagner also criticized how the fire has been handled, lambasting local authorities for not bringing in the state fire marshal or the

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to assist in the investigation. He also criticized the decision to allow the landlord to clear the scene Saturday while the investigation is open.

“I don’t even know what they are doing. They turned the scene over to the landlord Saturday so now the crime scene has been corrupted,” Wagner said. “There was a crime committed and appar-

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DeKalb police received an arrest warrant in September.

Flowers was arrested Dec. 24.

He is accused of offering a fake bank contract to house vehicles on Mason’s property, telling Mason the bank would pay both men to house the vehicles, DeKalb police detective Angel Reyes said. Flowers allegedly defrauded Mason of more than $10,000 but less than $50,000 from about October 2012 through April 2013, court records show.

Mason reported the situation to police in April, Reyes said.

Police are working to identify other people involved in the case.

If convicted of the most serious charge, Flowers would face up to seven years in prison. He is due in court Jan. 15.

Judge declines to reduce bond in fraud case DeKALB – A judge declined to reduce bond Tuesday for a 35-year-old DeKalb man accused of defrauding property owner Jim Mason of Mason Properties.

Danny R. Flowers, of the 1000 block of Crane Drive, was charged with two counts of theft or deception of more than $5,000 of Danny R. someone age 60 Flowers or older and one count each of forgery, computer fraud and wire fraud.

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DeKALB – The 19-year-old DeKalb man who fired a shot during a fight in the DeKalb Travel Inn’s parking lot pleaded guilty Tuesday to aggravated discharge of a firearm.

Aaron J. Harris, 19, of the 800 block of W. Taylor St., DeKalb, was sentenced to three years of probation and 79 days in jail.

H e w i l l g e t Aaron J. credit for the Harris 51 days he has already served. He also was ordered not to drink alcohol while on probation.

The fight began after Bryce A. Meinert, 20, of Freeport took marijuana from Julio A. Martinez, 20, of Zion without paying for it, court records show. Martinez and about five

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Words were exchanged between the men when Harris allegedly showed a handgun in his waistband, court records show. One of the group’s dogs was let loose and chased Tyrone M. Sally, 19, of DeKalb, court records show.

A few seconds after Sally began running, Harris fired a gunshot towards the dog and several people around the dog, court records show. The bullet did not hit anyone.

Sally was charged with mob action, Martinez was charged with delivery of marijuana near a school and Meinert was charged with misdemeanor theft. Several others were charged with mob action.

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Retirement unlikely for some workers

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS The Associated Press Tom Edwards grew up in a family that’s been cutting trees and hauling timber in the Pacific Northwest for more than a century. The Spanaway, Wash., resident says he has worked as a logger since he was a kid – it’s just what an able-bodied youngster was expected to do.

Now, at 53, with business in a slump and little money in savings, he’s pessimistic about his chances of retiring.

“It’s never going to happen.

By the time I reach retirement age, there won’t be Social Security. There’s not going to be any money,” Edwards said.

“I’ll do like my father did: I’ll work ‘til I die.”

Across the U.S., such concerns are common among blue-collar baby boomers – the 78 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964.

Many have jobs that provide

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Tom Edwards poses for a portrait with his chain saw and logging clothes Dec. 19 in the woods near Spanaway, Wash. Edwards was not cutting trees the day the photo was taken because work has been slow this season for him. paltry pensions or none at all, as many companies have been moving toward less generous retirement packages in the past decade.

Many boomers expect to work the rest of their lives because they have little cash

put away for their old age and they worry Social Security won’t cover their bills. Some hope to move to jobs that are less physically demanding.

The share of U.S. workers who are 55 and older is expected to continue growing,

according to the “The Oxford Handbook of Retirement 2013.” The group comprised 12.4 percent of the workforce in 1998. The share jumped to 18.1 percent in 2008 and is expected to be almost 25 percent by 2018.

The book is edited by Mo Wang, co-director of the Human Resource Research Center at the University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business Administration. In an interview, Wang said it’s a misconception that lower-wage workers are slackers in preparing for retirement.

“People don’t have adequate earnings,” Wang told The Associated Press. “It’s not because they don’t want to save. It’s because they just can’t.”

Many people don’t save enough for their own retirement because they lack financial literacy skills, Wang said. Also, he said it can be incorrect to assume that peo-

ple with lower incomes have more financial concerns than people with higher incomes.

Psychologically, the important thing is the ratio of life earnings to wealth – how much money a person earns in a life span, compared to how much of it she gets to keep.

“Whether they have the 401(k) is not the decisive factor in influencing how well they live,” Wang said. “Whether they have their own house is a big factor.”

For homeowners, about 50 percent of wealth is typically tied up in the house and other investments, while a pension accounts for about 25 percent and Social Security accounts for about 25 percent, Wang said. For people who don’t own their homes, particularly those who’ve worked low-income jobs, “Social Security is super important,” he said.

“Social Security is one way to pull them out of poverty.”

8POLICE REPORTS Note to readers: Information in Police Reports is obtained from the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office and city police departments. Individuals listed in Police Reports who have been charged with a crime have not been proven guilty in court.

Veterans, families ring in new year in Genoa

8STATE BRIEFS Rockford raises parking fees

CHICAGO – Election officials say starting this year most Illinois 17-year-olds will be eligible to register and vote in the March primary election. Cook County Clerk David Orr said it’s a first in Illinois history. The change means that U.S. citizens born on or before Nov. 4, 1996, can register and vote in the March 18 primary election because they will turn 18 by the general election in November. Orr’s office is hosting a “Democracy Week” to register 17-year-olds. That’ll take place Feb. 3 to Feb. 7.

– Wire reports

The Rev. Dr. David Wilson Carlisle, 73, of DeKalb, Ill., passed away Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013, at Kishwaukee Hospital, DeKalb.

A complete obituary with service times will follow at a later date.

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DORIS L. SWEDBERG CLEW Doris L. Swedberg Clew, 90, formerly of Sycamore, Ill., died on Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013, in Alamo, Texas.

Arrangements are pending at Olson Funeral & Cremation Services, Quiram Sycamore Chapel, 1245 Somonauk St., Sycamore. For information, call 815-895-6589. To send a condolence or share a memory, visit www.olsonfh.com.

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Born: March 22, 1917, in Malta, Ill. Died: Dec. 27, 2013, in Appleton, Wis.

Lanell D. Craft, 30, of Chicago, was arrested Friday, Dec. 20, on a warrant alleging a traffic offense and charged with criminal trespass. Craft was also charged Saturday, Dec. 28, with criminal trespass to real property.

Peter H. Aiura, 24, of Chicago, was charged Thursday, Dec. 26, with motor vehicle theft.

Christopher Escutia-Rangel, 28, of DeKalb, was charged Monday, Dec. 23, with unlawful possession of marijuana.

Drequan L. Archie, 19, of Chicago, was arrested Friday, Dec. 20, on a warrant alleging he failed to appear in court on a traffic offense.

Election officials gear up for teen vote

REV. DR. DAVID W. CARLISLE

CORALIE ELIZABETH (BEYDLER) GUILFORD

Northern Illinois University

ROCKFORD – Officials in the Illinois city of Rockford said the cost of parking in city-owned decks and lots will rise in the new year to keep up with annual maintenance costs that have reached $300,000.

City Administrator Jim Ryan told the Rockford Register Star it’s important to invest in the city’s parking system.

Two levels of one city parking deck were closed in 2012 because of crumbling concrete pavement.

Hourly rates are climbing from $2 to $5 for one to two hours. Monthly passes at some of the facilities are going up from $53 to $60.

On-street parking for 75 people, mostly downtown residents, is increasing from $10 a year to $10 a month.

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Photos by Erik Anderson For Shaw Media Veterans, friends and family enjoy each other’s company while waiting for dinner to be served Tuesday during the first New Year’s Eve celebration at the Genoa Veterans Home in Genoa.

Tom Brugger (left) of Kingston sits at the bar Tuesday while watching a repeat of the Georgia versus Alabama game in 2012 during the first New Year’s Eve celebration at the Genoa Veterans Home in Genoa.

Ill. boy, U.S. senator inspire fellow stroke victims

By KERRY LESTER The Associated Press OAKWOOD – Jackson Cunningham lurches across the gym during a recess game, racing a fellow sixth-grader toward a doorstop tossed onto the floor. His right side is outstretched, but his left side trails behind – a lingering effect of the paralysis he has endured since suffering a stroke in 2011.

The 11-year-old is beaten by an inch but heads back to the sidelines with a smile.

It is the same quiet determination he showed when pushing a more Sen. Mark famous stroke Kirk victim – a U.S. senator – to conquer his own pain and doubts.

Jackson and Illinois Republican Mark Kirk have warmed hearts and inspired fellow stroke patients with their odd-couple friendship, an unlikely meeting of two distinct worlds – one full of Legos and zombies, the other focused on Iran sanctions and immigra-

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Jackson Cunningham, 11, works on his mobility and strength Dec. 16 with physical therapist Sheila Krahl (right) at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. Jackson suffered a stroke in 2011 that paralyzed much of the left side of his body. tion reform.

A visit to Jackson’s school in this small central Illinois town and another to witness his grueling routine at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago demonstrated the spunk behind the boy’s advice urging Kirk not to give up on himself.

“I feel just a little lucky, not having something more severe,” said Jackson, who’s been called on to share his

own rehab story in hopes of inspiring other kids. The National Stroke Association estimates that strokes affect 6 out of 100,000 children.

He says he feels blessed “to be able to talk to a lot more people and give more advice.”

Almost a year after Kirk returned to the Senate, Jackson carries on with his own rehabilitation, confronting typical concerns about plateauing

and not getting more of his strength and motion back.

Jackson and his family live in Oakwood, a town of 1,500 surrounded by farms and fields in Vermilion County along the Indiana border.

Father Craig Cunningham works on the assembly line at the local Quaker Oats factory.

Mother Erin works in human resources for auto-parts maker ThyssenKrupp Presta at another nearby factory. Grandparents help shuttle Jackson and sister Jordyn to and from school.

Jackson’s elementary school gives a sense of his local celebrity, with bulletin boards that prominently display news clippings of Jackson and Kirk smiling outside the Capitol.

Among his memories, Jackson now counts an episode in which Kirk allowed him to sneak into the vice president’s chair in the Senate when security officers weren’t looking.

After emerging from the foxhole of shock common for stroke victims, Jackson set an early goal to “get everything back” and began an exhaustive schedule of physical and occupational therapy.

APPLETON, Wis. – Coralie E. Guilford, 96, of Appleton, Wis., formerly of Rochelle, Ill., passed away peacefully on Friday, Dec. 27, 2013, at Cherry Meadows Hospice in Appleton.

Born March 22, 1917, in Malta, to the late Charles and Elizabeth (Blair) Beydler, she was united in marriage to Don W. Guilford, and he preceded her in death in 1992.

Surviving Coralie are a sister, Donna Knoll of Rockford; two grandsons, Mark (Linda) Caswell and Don (Terry) Caswell; and several great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her daughter, Judith Guilford, in 1995; sister, Virginia Clegg; and two brothers, Walter and Charles Beydler.

The funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 4, at Esmond United Methodist Church, with the Rev. David Rogula officiating. The visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, and again from 10 a.m. Saturday until the service at the church.

Burial will take place in Green View Cemetery, South Grove Township.

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Revelers start ringing in 2014 with fireworks Law license to be suspended The ASSOCIATED PRESS CANBERRA, Australia – Exploding fireworks sprayed from the sails of the Sydney Opera House and the Australian city’s harbor bridge at midnight Tuesday as the world ushered in a new year.

More than 1 million people crammed the Sydney Harbor foreshore on a warm summer night to watch the pyrotechnics show that appeared to live up to its billing as the most extravagant of Sydney’s already renowned annual display. Dubai was set later to try to create the world’s largest fireworks show to ring in 2014.

Revelers heading to New York City’s Times Square could expect the annual ball drop, the hefty police presence but

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Fireworks explode over the financial district at midnight Wednesday in Singapore. Celebrations started on New Year’s Eve where events were held and thousands gathered on the streets to usher in the new year.

International Dateline, New Zealand bid farewell to 2013 with fireworks erupting from Auckland’s Sky Tower as cheering revelers danced in

no mayor this year. The new year will instead be rung in by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

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the streets of the South Pacific island nation’s largest city.

Dubai is known for glitz, glamor and over-the-top achievements like the world’s tallest tower, and this year it hopes to break another record by creating the largest fireworks show ever.

Organizers planned to light up the city’s coastline with a flying falcon made out of fireworks that moves across a massive man-made palm-shaped island alongside a countdown in fireworks. Organizers said they would also create a burst of light out of fireworks to imitate a sunrise and dazzle spectators with a United Arab Emirates flag that could also break records for being the largest ever made out of fireworks.

Health, travel, hobbies on to-do lists this year • NEW YEAR

and his wife, Debbie, opened O’Leary’s Restaurant and Pub about nine years ago.

They sold Upper Deck Sports Bar & Grill, now Hometown Sports Bar & Grill, in February 2011 and Tapa La Luna in February 2012, so they have really been able to focus on O’Leary’s, he said.

Witmer said Corn Fest, despite its stormy start, was a huge boon for business. The annual festival returned to downtown DeKalb this year after taking place for five years at the DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport.

“A lot of people who visited us that day have become more regular because they came out to Corn Fest,” Witmer said.

This year, he hopes DeKalb leaders seriously discuss adding public transportation downtown, as well as a parking garage. Maybe the parking garage could go at the corner of Lincoln Highway and Fourth Street, Witmer said.

Meanwhile, Chris Fellows, 41, of Genoa, plans to take his mountain bike racing to the next level, adding weight and core training to his workout

Gwendolyn Brooks Elementary School in DeKalb.

“I think 2014 is going to be a better year all around for people,” said Kenney, who also is director of the DeKalb County Community Gardens. “I think the economy is getting a little better, and I’m always inspired to see how people support each other through hard times.

I’ve been seeing a lot of that, and I think it’s going to start paying off.”

DeKalb County Community Gardens, which grows produce for food pantries and similar programs, expanded from 16 to 36 locations and donated more than 8 tons of food in 2013, Kenney said.

He hopes they double the amount of food they grow this year.

They plan to plant fruit and nut trees for a community orchard near the DeKalb County Health Department building at 2550 N. Annie Glidden Road.

“It’s a large area; eventually we’re going to have it filled up,” Kenney said.

In downtown DeKalb, Mel Witmer figures 2013 was the best year he’s had since he

Continued from page A1 plans to graduate from Northern Illinois University’s law school this year. After studying linguistics in Missouri, she tackled law school because she didn’t know what else to do and ended up spending her first year digging through piles of work. In May, she’ll start studying for the bar exams.

“I’m pretty committed to school,” Simmons said Tuesday. “I spend all my time studying. Either I’m eating, working out, or studying.”

Like many others, she plans to be healthier this year, too.

“Like everyone else, I want to lose weight,” Simmons said. “I’m starting this low-sugar diet, where I only have 15 grams of sugar per day. This counts fruit sugar, but berries are pretty low in sugar.”

She expects 2014 to be rather stressful, while DeKalb resident Dan Kenney expects 2014 will outshine 2013. The 60-year-old retired last year as a fourth-grade teacher at

regimen.

“I will race a 62-mile race in Michigan called the Barry-Roubaix,” Fellows said.

“It will be very rough. All the guys I’m racing against are just as serious about it as I am, if not more.”

Patti Towers wants to travel, too. The 72-year-old Sycamore resident has seen England, Greece, Italy, France and more.

“Italy was my ultimate favorite,” Towers said. “I was in Tuscany. Even though people talk about traveling there so much, I like visiting the untraveled areas. There are certain areas in small towns and rural areas where I like getting to know people and how they live.”

So, what do you think, 2014? Will you take Towers someplace she’s never been?

Will you bring us a parking garage in downtown DeKalb?

Will you help the Huskies football team make it to another great bowl game?

We can hope you will.

We’re counting on you, kid.

• Daily Chronicle reporter Andrea Azzo contributed to this report.

• LAWSUIT Continued from page A1 about June 1, 2011.

But William Hotopp, an attorney for Johnson and Campbell, said the two never had copies of the photographs.

Instead, Bajaj hired a different defense attorney on June 6, 2011, and that defense attorney received copies of the photographs from the prosecutor on June 15, 2011, Hotopp said.

Moreover, any emotional distress or financial impact Bajaj experienced was caused by her creating an online profile for prostitution and being charged with a crime, Hotopp said. Hotopp said he plans to ask a judge to order Bajaj and Adams to cover Johnson’s and Campbell’s attorney fees for allegedly filing a frivolous lawsuit.

But Adams said neither she nor Bajaj knew whether the people who told them Johnson and Campbell had shared the photographs were correct.

“Whether those people

were telling the truth or not would have been a matter to decide at trial,” Adams said.

The lawsuit isn’t the last issue Bajaj has to resolve regarding the prostitution allegations. She pleaded guilty to misdemeanor prostitution in June 2012 and is serving two years of court supervision, which mean a conviction won’t go on her record if she successfully finishes the term.

Meanwhile, the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission brought ethics charges against her for allegedly using an alias when she engaged in prostitution and lying to investigators and commission officials about it, records show.

Bajaj has agreed to have her law license suspended for three years, a deal a hearing board accepted Dec. 12, said James Grogan, a spokesman for the disciplinary commission. Illinois Supreme Court justices are expected to consider the deal in January; it won’t be official until a majority of the justices approve it.

Drug stores vow to help customers • HEALTH CARE Continued from page A1 thing for them,” said Mark McClellan, who oversaw the rollout of Medicare’s prescription drug benefit – a program that also had its share of issues. “But there are going to be problems for any number of people who thought they had signed up, and it won’t work right off the bat. It would be particularly disruptive for people in the midst of treatment.”

Anticipating disruptions, major drug store chains like CVS and Walgreens have announced they will help customers who face coverage glitches, even providing temporary supplies of medications without insisting on upfront payment. Many smaller independent pharmacies are also ready to help.

White House health care

adviser Phil Schiliro told reporters Tuesday the administration was working with insurers and health care service providers to minimize disruptions “as we deal with what are always going to be unexpected problems where there is a transition.”

Obama had envisioned that the arrival of the Affordable Care Act’s major benefits in 2014 would be like a national seminar, showcasing his philosophy that government can and should smooth the rough edges of an unforgiving economy for struggling working people.

The goal was that in a midterm election year, Democrats would be able to point to millions of newly insured Americans, thanks to subsidized private plans and an expanded version of Medicaid. Media reports would feature compelling cases of people literally handed a lifeline.

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Like a ghost, the snowy owl glides through the air in soundless flight. This owl is different from most owls because it hunts during the day and at night.

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Wingspan is the measurement from wing tip to wing tip, when the wings are fully stretched.

Many animals can blend into their environment.

This is called camouflage. There are few trees on the tundra, so the snowy owl’s white plumage blends with the snowy world of the northern arctic.

In the spring, when the snowy owl makes a nest, the snow has started to melt and the brown earth shows through patches of white snow. The female snowy owl’s soft white feathers are streaked with brown so she cannot be seen as she nests on the ground.

The snowy owls need to eat a huge amount each day – enough to equal their own body weight. They don’t chew their food – they just swallow their prey whole, including fur, claws, teeth and bones. Then they spit out a pellet of all the parts they can’t digest.

Standards Link: Life Science: Animals need food for survival and have physical structures to help them survive.

Find the words in the puzzle. Then look for each word in this week’s Kid Scoop stories and activities.

Stretch your arms wide apart and swoop around outdoors.

Perch like an owl.

Squat down like you are sitting on a tree branch watching for mice on the ground. Fold your arms into wings with your thumbs in your armpits.

How long can you stay in this position?

How many of the things in this chart could fit into a snowy owl’s wingspan?

Standards Link: Measurement; students compare the length of objects by using direct comparison of standard units.

Fly like an owl.

What silly things can you find on this owlʼs dinner plate?

Here are three other animals that blend into their habitats, or homes.

Can you unscramble their names?

Measure 60 inches (152 cm) on the floor. Now lie down with your arms outstretched along the line. Measure your outstretched arms. How do you compare?

Try these exercises to have fun and exercise the owl way!

Standards Link: Life Science: Animals have external features that help them thrive in the different environments they inhabit.

Hop like an owl.

Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognized identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.

Baby owls are called owlets. Can you help the mother owl find her way home to her owlets?

All owls have excellent sight so that they can spot creatures like mice that run fast along the ground. Owls’ eyes are not the same as human eyes. We move our eyes in their sockets to see from side to side. The owl must turn his head to see in different directions. Owls also have a third eyelid, which protects the eye. It is a milky white eyelid that comes up from the bottom of the eye. Its purpose is to clean and refresh the owl’s eyes. This third eyelid is called a nictitating membrane.

Standards Link: Life Science: Adaptations in physical structures improve an animalʼs chance for survival.

Create Camouflage Choose a picture in the newspaper. Cut out a circle of white paper that fits over one-third of the picture. Color the white circle to match the picture underneath. This is camouflage.

Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple multiple-step directions.

The snowy owl has round, yellow eyes. Can you find the pairs of eyes that match?

Standard Links: Visual Discrimination; students compare and sort common objects.

Look through the newspaper and count the number of eyes that you find.

How many are human eyes?

How many are the eyes of other animals?

Standards Link: Number Sense; count and name a number of objects.

Start in the perch position.

Then hop to the right, hop to the left, hop forward, hop backward.

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While sitting in the perched position, turn your head as far to the right as you can. Then turn your head as far left as possible.

Standards Link: Physical Education: Understand the health benefits of physical activity and exercise.

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8SKETCH VIEW

New year, new laws in Illinois

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Pastor forgives attacker, finds new way to live

By MITCH ALBOM Tribune Content Agency Thirty-seven stabs. Thirty-seven cuts by a knife. Twice to his throat. Six times to his spine. Seven times to his shoulder. A slice to his abdomen that ripped him open like a fish.

Kevin Ramsby lay on the floor of his Highland Park, Mich., home, bleeding out, waiting to die. It was 3 a.m., no one else was home, he’d been awakened by the sound of an intruder and had stumbled downstairs, his bulky frame protected only by a tennis racket he had grabbed.

The intruder had a knife.

Thirty-seven stabs.

“I was praying my last prayers for my wife, for my daughter. I was praying that my son wouldn’t be angry at God for allowing this to happen to me.”

Ramsby was no stranger to prayer. A pastor who came from Rockford to work with troubled youth in Detroit, he lived in the community where he preached.

Now he was about to die in it.

But in one of those things that seem inexplicable except perhaps at this time of year, Ramsby says he heard a voice whisper to him. The voice said, “They still need you.”

It stirred him enough to rise from the

floor “holding my insides on the outside” and drag his dying body to his neighbor’s porch.

When police arrived they could not at first tell whether the victim was male or female. That’s how covered in blood Ramsby was.

Ramsby, 41, spent five months in the hospital and rehab. His attacker, a Detroit man named Wesley McLemore, pleaded guilty to attempted murder charges and was sentenced to 18 to 40 years in prison last year.

But at the end of the trial, Ramsby refused to give a victim’s statement. Instead, he gave a “life” statement, in which he forgave McLemore and offered to help him in any way – now or in the future.

“I forgave him when he said he was innocent,” Ramsby says. “When he confessed, I forgave him again.”

Ramsby did it because, he says, he has been forgiven for things in life. He feels compelled to pay it forward.

To this day, Ramsby writes McLemore in prison. He continues to encourage him.

We talk a lot about this being “the giving season.” But in many ways, the kindest offering might be what you give up. Letting go of anger, resentment, grudges or bitterness is a gift too big to fit inside a box, too vast to wrap in ribbon.

By letting go of any hate or fear, Ramsby has been able to resume his pastoring duties at Revival Tabernacle Church on Woodward. Rather than shy away from the community, he has increased his presence in it. He now oversees Hope Village and the Store House, a mile from the church, both of which serve the community through food banks, resources, social and educational programs, and endless encouragement.

The house in which the attack took place now houses four young men whom Ramsby has helped move in there, young men who need a bit of direction, young men who, if steered the right way, can avoid the despair and poverty that may have led his attacker to their encounter.

Good can come from bad. Ramsby is living proof. The voice said “they still need you.” And that was reason enough to go on.

“I am by far a better husband, a better father, a better friend and a better pastor because of what happened to me. ... When I forgave my attacker, I knew that God wanted me to do something out of this.”

Thirty-seven stabs. The man who had to hold his insides from the outside clearly has a heart too big for the average chest. And what he has surrendered may be one of the greatest gifts you’ll hear about this holiday season.

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Nuke gangbangers have upper hand on world cops has the upper hand.

Again, the actual bombs are not the The gangster state of North Korea beproblem. The combination of a bomb with a came a nuclear power in 2006-07, despite lots rap sheet is what changes all diplomatic and of foreign aid aimed at precluding just such strategic considerations. proliferation – help usually not otherwise It would be hard to contain a nuclear accorded such a loony dictatorship. ApparIran with bribes, as we have so far handled ently the civilized world rightly suspected Pakistan – and in the past North Korea, as that if nuclear, Pyongyang would either well. In both cases, we have had some help. export nuclear material and expertise to oth- Nuclear neighbor India assists in warning er unstable countries, or bully its successful Pakistan to behave. A nervous Chinese overbut non-nuclear neighbors – or both. lord is amused by North Korean troubleThe United States has given billions of making – but only up to the point that North dollars in foreign aid to Pakistan, whose Korea might threaten China’s vital export Islamist gangs have spearheaded radical markets. anti-American terrorism. Since a corrupt When Iran goes nuclear, one of two Pakistan went nuclear in 1998, it has been things will follow. Either its Arab rivals able to extort such foreign payouts – on fears will buy nuclear weapons from Pakistan that one of its nukes might end up in the to ensure that Iran does not bully them for hands of terrorists. political concessions – on matters of oil By any measure of economic success or production and pricing, autonomy for Shiite political stability, Pakistan would not warminorities, and an end to non-belligerency rant either the cash or the attention it wins with Israel. Or the Sunni powers will accept without nuclear weapons.

Iran’s hegemony to win exemption from its An observant Iran appreciates three laws episodic lunatic threats of Armageddon. of current nuclear gangbanging.

Either way, the Middle East will become a 1. Nuclear weapons earn a reputation. far more dangerous place.

2. The more loco a nuclear nation sounds, There is yet another side to the nuclear the more likely civilized states will fear that gangbangers: the reaction of non-nuclear it is not subject to nuclear deterrence, and so democratic civilized states that must live they pay bribes for it behave. Gangbangers with their occasional existential threats. always claim that they have nothing to lose; Nuclear China and Russia were not so their more responsible intended targets threatening after the end of the Cold War. have everything to lose.

The expense, the odium and the memories 3. As of yet there are no 100 percent of horrific wars made nuclear proliferation effective nuclear defense systems that can unimaginable. guarantee non-nuclear powers absolute All that could soon change. The one safety from a sudden attack. The nuclear constant in American foreign policy over gangbanger, not the global police, currently the last five years is that the administra-

By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

tion’s game changers, red lines and deadlines proved mostly negotiable. Meanwhile, China is beginning to translate its economic success into military adventurism, in the same manner imperial Japan did in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

The more nuclear powers, the less resistance to the addition of a new one.

War would not necessarily be inevitable in the China Sea should there soon be five or six nuclear powers with a presence in the region, rather than the present China, U.S. and North Korea. But the odds of conflict would increase – and the ability of the United States to ensure calm would diminish even further.

Yet just as likely looms the sudden growth in the nuclear family of responsible powers, who at present have no sure source of deterring nuclear renegades. Would a rich but non-nuclear Germany always count on a retrenching U.S., a fickle nuclear France, bribes or diplomacy to convince theocratic Iran to turn its missiles in a different direction? If Iran has a bomb, why not Turkey?

Or, for that matter, Brazil?

In such a nuclear club of 20 or more, rather than the present nine nuclear powers, border disputes, religious rivalries, ideological antagonisms and terrorism could all escalate not just to regional wars, but to the end of 21st-century culture itself.

• Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author, most recently, of “The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern.” You can reach him by emailing author@victorhanson.com.

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Whether you spent New Year’s Eve with a quiet evening at home or went out and partied to ring in 2014, when you woke up today morning, a number of new laws were in effect in Illinois.

Perhaps the biggest is that speaking on your cellphone while driving now is illegal unless you are using a hands-free device. Fines for being cited for using a hand-held cellphone while driving a vehicle range from $75 to $150.

You probably are aware of some of the other new laws that received a lot of exposure when they were passed, including the legalization of medical marijuana. Patients suffering from certain diseases can now use marijuana as treatment with a doctor’s permission.

Other new laws that go into effect today: • Cigarette butts are now considered litter and disFor the record posing of them by flicking them aside could get you a A complete list of new $50 fine. laws for 2014 can be found • Taking parenting away online at http://shawurl. from parents, it now is com/xfm. illegal for anyone under 18 to use indoor tanning equipment.

• The new pet lemon law will mandate a refund, replacement or reimbursement for veterinary costs from the seller if you buy a pet with an undisclosed illness.

• You still can’t speed through construction zones, but if you do and workers aren’t present, your fine will not be as high.

• Speaking of speed, some interstate speed limits will be increasing to 70 mph.

• 17-year-olds will be allowed to vote in a primary election if they will turn 18 before the general election.

• School buses are now allowed to have video cameras on board to record motorists who pass buses illegally. Those videos can be shared with police.

• It is now illegal to wantonly waste or destroy usable meat from game animals.

• Schools are not allowed to ask for or demand a student’s social networking password without cause.

• Public school sex-education courses offered to sixth- through 12th-graders must cover abstinence and contraception.

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8 ANOTHER VIEW

Illinois would benefit from high-wage jobs The state of Illinois should not raise the minimum-wage rate above its current level of $8.25 an hour.

The federal government, however, might consider a minimum-wage rate above its current $7.25 per hour.

Those statements are undoubtedly contradictory and the best policy for both state and federal governments is to create opportunities for higher-paying jobs that will move more people above the minimum-wage level.

Illinois has one of the highest minimum-wage rates in the nation and Gov. Pat Quinn has stated frequently that he would like the General Assembly to increase that wage rate, possibly as high as $10 an hour.

But Illinois does not operate in a vacuum. Surrounding states, and most of the rest of the states, have lower minimum wages. That makes Illinois appear to be unfriendly to business. In this case, it’s an accurate sentiment.

Combine the high minimum-wage rate with comparably higher taxes and fees, workers’ compensation costs and more stringent regulation and it’s no wonder that the state has one of the worst unemployment rates in the nation. It’s pretty clear that most businesses don’t want to expand in Illinois and many businesses have taken their operations, and their employees, elsewhere. State policies have had an impact on the state’s employment picture.

Those arguing that the federal minimum-wage rate of $7.25 is too low have some credibility. The current rate has been in effect for more than five years and it may be time to consider an increase.

Like many economic arguments, facts can be presented that seem the bolster both sides.

What’s undeniable, however, is that there are too many minimum-wage workers. During more robust economic times, minimum-wage jobs were reserved primarily for those first entering the workforce or working at part-time jobs to supplement their income.

What we’re currently seeing, however, are more and more people being moved from higher-paying jobs down into minimum-wage jobs. That’s not a healthy economic situation.

The best solution for Illinois isn’t necessarily to raise the minimum wage, but to increase the number of higher-paying jobs. We believe that Gov. Quinn sincerely wants to help those at the lower ends of the economic spectrum and the best way for him to do that is to focus on economic, tax and business policies that would create additional higher-paying jobs. The state needs a plan to put more people to work and to present higher-paying opportunities for its residents.

Although increasing the minimum wage is popular in many circles, it would be unwise for Illinois to move its minimum wage further away from other states.

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SECTION B * Wednesday, January 1, 2014 Daily Chronicle

Sports editor Ross Jacobson • rjacobson@shawmedia.com

8WHAT TO WATCH

NO. 13 IOWA STATE 99, NORTHERN ILLINOIS 63

Winning streak blown away

By LUKE MEREDITH The Associated Press

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College football Rose Bowl, Stanford vs.

Michigan St., 4 p.m., ESPN PASADENA, Calif. – The game considered to be the first Rose Bowl was staged in 1902 to help pay for the Tournament of Roses Parade. An unexpectedly huge crowd of about 8,000 sat on temporary stands in a park and watched Stanford lose 49-0 to Michigan.

No. 5 Stanford has returned to Pasadena 112 years later, facing No. 4 Michigan State today in the 100th edition of college football’s quintessential bowl game.

Far fewer fans will show up to Arroyo Seco on horses and buggies this time, and the game probably won’t be called early because of a blowout.

The Spartans and Cardinal still believe they’ll put on a display of throwback football for the Granddaddy of Them All’s centennial celebration.

“There is a special quality to it,” said David Yankey, Stanford’s All-American left guard.

“The Rose Bowl will still go on, but it’s kind of an end of an era in some sense, and we’re excited to be part of that.”

Both the Rose Bowl game and the stadium have evolved since that initial outing eventually was followed by the institution of an annual New Year’s Day game in 1916.

The 100th game falls during the final season of the Bowl Championship Series, and the stadium also will host the last BCS title game Monday.

Both Stanford and Michigan State fell just shy of contending for that title shot, but it’s tough to find any disappointed players on either team.

The Cardinal (11-2) are in their fourth consecutive BCS bowl game after winning the Pac-12, while the Spartans (12-1) blew through their Big Ten schedule and won their final nine games to earn the long-suffering school’s first trip to Pasadena since 1988.

Also on TV...

College football Gator Bowl, Nebraska vs.

Georgia, 11 a.m., ESPN2 Heart of Dallas Bowl, UNLV vs. North Texas, 11 a.m., ESPNU Capital One Bowl, Wisconsin vs. South Carolina, noon, ABC Outback Bowl, Iowa vs. LSU, noon, ESPN Fiesta Bowl, Central Florida vs. Baylor, 7:30 p.m., ESPN Pro hockey Winter Classic, Toronto vs.

Detroit, noon, NBC Winter sports Olympic trials, speed skating: women’s 5,000 and men’s 10,000 long track, 4 p.m., NBCSN Soccer Premier League, Manchester City at Swansea City, 6:40 a.m., NBCSN Premier League, Chelsea at Southampton, 8:55 a.m., NBCSN Premier League, Tottenham at Manchester United, 11:25 p.m., NBCSN

8KEEP UP ONLINE Follow us on Facebook and Twitter Want the latest from the area’s prep sports scene?

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AMES, Iowa – Iowa State capped one of the saddest days in program history with a reminder of why its future looks so bright.

DeAndre Kane had 16 points, 12 assists and eight rebounds and No. 13 Iowa State blew past Northern Illinois, 99-63, on Tuesday night for its 12th straight win.

Melvin Ejim and Naz Long both had a team-high 17 points for the Cyclones (12-0), who rolled past the Huskies just hours after

For all your NIU sports coverage – including stories, features, scores, photos, videos, blogs and more – log on to HuskieWire.com. learning of the death of longtime former coach Johnny Orr. Orr, who was 86, spent 29 years as a Division I coach, with current Cyclones coach Fred Hoiberg among his many star players.

Orr won a school-record 218 games at Iowa State from 1980-94.

“This has been as hard a day as I’ve had in coaching. I talked to our guys just about what Johnny meant to the entire community, to the state, to college basketball in general,” Hoiberg said. “I told [the team], ‘Guys, I’m going to need you. This is going to be a rough one for me to get through.’

And they did that for us, and they did that for him.”

Dontel Highsmith had 19 points for Northern Illinois, (5-6), which had its two-game winning streak snapped.

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Northern Illinois coach Mark Montgomery yells to his players during the first half of Tuesday’s game against No. 13 Iowa State in Ames, Iowa. The Huskies lost, 99-63.

Michael Pollack

Luke Davis III

Ethan Conroy

DEKALB BOYS BASKETBALL

THE FUTURE IS HERE

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Sophomore trio playing vital part in DeKalb’s turnaround

By ROSS JACOBSON rjacobson@shawmedia.com

T

he plan was put into place before the 2012-13 basketball season even started.

The DeKalb boys basketball team was focusing on its future rather than its present when the Barbs decided to keep all of their new freshmen playing on the same team rather than splitting them up among three differ-

ent levels. While the varsity team struggled last year, the freshman team was thriving, going undefeated in the Northern Illinois Big 12 East.

“The way our middle school program is, it’s a shorter season and we have two middle schools,” DeKalb coach Dave Rohlman said. “We purposely kept all those kids together as freshmen and then at the end of the season we brought those three guys up.”

Those three guys were

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Ethan Conroy, Luke Davis III and Michael Pollack, now fixtures in the varsity rotation as sophomores. The trio al-

ready is playing crunch-time minutes for the Barbs, who, at 5-9, are only three wins away from already equalling last year’s win total.

Davis, who was named to the all-tournament team in the Chuck Dayton tournament last week, said he still is adjusting to the faster pace of the varsity game but has learned how to deal with playing against other posts who possess his size, or more.

“No matter how good

they are, just play hard. Just playing hard, it can go so far,” Davis said. “Them being bigger than me, it doesn’t bother me at all.”

DeKalb got a taste of what the three sophomores could bring in the Barbs’ 55-52 win over Belvidere North in last year’s regional quarterfinals.

Davis had a big bucket down the stretch and Pollack scored five points in a reserve role.

See BARBS, page B3

BEARS

Draft for need or best available?

TAKE 2 After narrowly missing out on the playoffs, the Bears have the No. 14 overall pick in the NFL draft. Shaw Media’s Hub Arkush and Tom Musick discuss:

Musick: Michael Haynes. Tommie Harris. Chris Williams. What do all of these players have in common? The Bears picked each one at No. 14 overall in the draft. And now, for the fourth time since 2003, the Bears will be sitting pretty at No. 14. What would you do if you were standing in Phil Emery’s shoes? And what kind of shoes do you suppose the Bears’ general manager wears, anyway?

Arkush: Based on his career path from the Naval Academy through the front offices of a number of NFL clubs, I’m guessing Phil isn’t kicking around in Birkenstocks,

Tom Musick and Hub Arkush face off Air Jordans or Toms? I’m thinkin’ he’s a penny loafer kind of guy.

But to the matter at hand, here I was just starting to bust out of my post-concussion syndrome from the blow to the head – and heart – we all took from Aaron Rodgers to Randall Phil Emery Cobb, and you had to give me Michael Haynes and Chris Williams? What are you doing now, running around looking for puppies to kick?

Fortunately those all were Jerry

Angelo’s picks and we still have cause to hope Emery can be better than that.

What I absolutely know about where Emery and the Bears are at now is there isn’t a spot on the roster they can’t stand to get better at, so they must draft the best football player available and not get distracted by “greatest needs” and reach for a pass rusher or safety if the best player available is a linebacker or running back.

Musick: The hardest thing about kicking puppies is that they’re so small and quick. It’s easier to kick immovable objects such as bulldozer AP file photo tires or newspaper boxes. Perhaps a Bears defensive tackle Tommie Harris looks up at the scout will see my kicking skills and scoreboard during a game against the Houston Texreward me with an oversized conans on Dec. 28, 2008, in Houston. The Bears will have tract (cough-Robbie Gould-cough).

See TAKE 2, page B2

the 14th overall pick in the draft in May. The Bears drafted Tommie Harris with the 14th pick in 2004.

SPORTS New Year’s Eve at the United Center

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8PREP SCHEDULE THURSDAY

NFL PLAYOFFS WILD CARD Saturday Kansas City at Indianapolis, 3:35 p.m.

New Orleans at Philadelphia, 7:10 p.m.

Sunday San Diego at Cincinnati, 12:05 p.m.

San Francisco at Green Bay, 3:40 p.m.

Boys Bowling Sycamore at Ottawa, 4 p.m.

FRIDAY

DIVISIONAL Saturday, Jan. 11 Green Bay, San Francisco or New Orleans at Seattle, 3:35 p.m.

Cincinnati, Indianpolis or Kansas City at New England, 7:15 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 12 Philadelphia, Green Bay or San Francisco at Carolina, 12:05 p.m.

Indianapolis, Kansas City or San Diego at Denver, 3:40 p.m. (CBS)

Girls Basketball Genoa-Kingston at Sycamore, 7 p.m.

Newark at Hinckley-Big Rock, 7 p.m.

Wrestling Sycamore at Harvard’s double dual meet, 10 a.m.

CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS Sunday, Jan. 19 AFC, 2 p.m.

NFC, 5:30 p.m.

SATURDAY

PRO BOWL Sunday, Jan. 26 At Honolulu TBD, 6:30 p.m.

Boys Basketball Kaneland vs. Geneva at United Center, 2 p.m.

Marengo at Genoa-Kingston, 7:15 p.m.

Girls Basketball Indian Creek at Woodstock, 1:15 p.m.

Rockford Boylan at DeKalb, 2:30 p.m.

SUPER BOWL Sunday, Feb. 2 At East Rutherford, N.J. AFC champ vs. NFC champ, 5:30 p.m.

NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Central Division W L Pct GB Indiana 25 5 .833 — Detroit 14 19 .424 12½ Bulls 12 17 .414 12½ Cleveland 10 21 .323 15½ Milwaukee 6 24 .200 19 Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 13 15 .464 — Boston 13 18 .419 1½ Brooklyn 10 21 .323 4½ Philadelphia 9 21 .300 5 New York 9 21 .300 5 Southeast Division W L Pct GB Miami 24 7 .774 — Atlanta 18 14 .563 6½ Washington 14 14 .500 8½ Charlotte 14 18 .438 10½ Orlando 10 21 .323 14

8SPORTS SHORTS NIU’s Lynch to play in East-West Shrine Game Northern Illinois senior quarterback Jordan Lynch accepted an invitational to play in the East-West Shrine Game on Jan. 18 in St. Petersburg, Fla. The East-West Shrine Game is the longest running college allstar game in the country, having been played since 1925.

Other quarterbacks who have accepted invitations include Eastern Illinois’ Jimmy Garoppolo, Notre Dame’s Tommy Rees, Ball State’s Keith Wenning and Cornell’s Jeff Mathews.

Small improvement for driver after 2nd surgery GRENOBLE, France – Michael Schumacher underwent a second surgery after a brain scan showed small, “surprising” signs of improvement, but grim doctors said Tuesday they could offer no insight into the prognosis for the Formula One champion.

Schumacher, who turns 45 on Friday, suffered critical head injuries when he fell and struck a rock Sunday while skiing on a family vacation in the French Alps. His manager confirmed that the accident cracked his helmet, which doctors credited for giving him a chance at survival.

Schumacher’s condition stabilized somewhat after the second surgery, but he remains in a medically induced coma – and doctors gave no prediction on how long that would last.

NHL hopes bigger makes the Winter Classic better ANN ARBOR, Mich. – As the novelty of playing hockey outdoors seems to be wearing off, the NHL is hoping bigger is better at the Winter Classic.

The league has been playing at least one game outdoors annually since 2008 other than last season because of the lockout. The popularity of the concept is being tested by putting six games in the elements this season.

With a lot more fans and two Original Six teams, including one from Canada for the first time, the NHL is confident the 2014 Winter Classic will be different.

The league said 105,500 tickets have been sold for the game today between the Detroit Red Wings and Toronto Maple Leafs at Michigan Stadium. That almost doubles the average of 53,045 spectators who watched the first five Winter Classics.

Tebow: Not done with NFL despite ESPN job COLUMBIA, S.C. – Tim Tebow will continue chasing his goal to be a NFL quarterback, even after signing on to help ESPN launch the SEC Network this fall.

The former Florida Gator said Tuesday he trains five days a week for a return to the league.

“I feel like I’m the best that I’ve ever been as a quarterback right now. I hope I get the opportunity to show that,” he said. “But I’m also looking forward to being part of ‘SEC Nation’ and part of ESPN.” – Staff, wire reports

WESTERN CONFERENCE

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Bulls small forward Luol Deng drives to the basket past Toronto Raptors point guard Greivis Vasquez (left) as Bulls teammate Jimmy Butler (21) and the Raptors’ Terrence Ross look on during the first half of Tuesday night’s game at the United Center. The game ended too late for a game story to appear in this edition. Log on to Daily-Chronicle.com for the story.

ILLINOIS 83, INDIANA 80 (OT)

Illini hold off Hoosiers in OT Champaign native Rice scores 29 in Big Ten opener

By DAVID MERCER The Associated Press CHAMPAIGN – Illinois had no shortage of scoring Saturday afternoon.

Rayvonte Rice dropped in 29 points. Tracy Abrams added 17.

But after the Big Ten opener against Indiana, it was defense the Illini wanted to talk about – and with good reason.

Illinois (12-2) made the most of 23 Hoosiers turnovers and held Indiana to a single field goal in overtime on the way to an 83-80 win.

“We’ve got some tough dudes. We take a lot of pride in that,” Illinois coach John Groce said. “But to their credit, they do, too.”

As the Hoosiers (10-4) went cold from the field, they kept finding their way to the freethrow line. They scored six of their nine overtime points from the line, and were 24 of 30 for the game.

The turnovers were a big difference in the game, Indiana coach Tom Crean said, but the Hoosiers’ toughness and freethrow shooting almost made up for it, he said.

“For the most part, when you’re shooting 30 free throws, you’re getting a lot of good things done,” he said.

Yogi Ferrell led Indiana with a game-high 30 points,

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Illinois coach John Groce high-fives fans after the Illini defeated Indiana, 83-80, in overtime Tuesday in Champaign.

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Saturday, BTN, AM-670 and played 43 minutes, staying on the court through the overtime. Hoosiers freshman Noah Vonleh finished with 16 points and nine rebounds. But he fouled out with 2 seconds left in overtime.

Rice was close behind Ferrell in both points and minutes (42).

The game came down to free throws – some made, some misses – and the final half-minute of overtime was a wild scramble.

Jon Ekey stole a pass from Vonleh in the Indiana lane with 25 seconds to play and Il-

linois up 78-75. But Rice missed the free throws that resulted from the possession.

Rice fouled Will Sheehey at the other end, Sheehey sank both shots and Indiana was right back in it 78-77 with 22 seconds to play.

But on the next possession Troy Williams fouled Nnanna Egwu, sending the 6-foot-11 center to the line.

Egwu had been cold most of the afternoon, from anywhere on the court. That included a series of misses on long jumpers. He finished the game 3 of 11 from the field, including 0 of 5 on 3-point shots.

But he sank the two free throws and gave the Illini a tiny bit of breathing room they made stick.

Illinois never trailed in the overtime, and held the Hoosiers to a single field goal, a 3-pointer by Ferrell with 4 sec-

onds to play that pulled them to within a point, 81-80.

But, forced to foul, Indiana had to hope the Illini would go cold.

Rice drew the foul, hit his final free throws and sealed the win. He said the free throws he’d just missed didn’t affect him when he returned to the line.

“It’s just mental,” he said.

“Just go up there and knock them down.”

Rice, a Champaign native who transferred from Drake and sat out last season, said toughness and gritty defense are things Groce has preached.

“Coach emphasized that from the first day,” he said.

“Just giving the extra effort, being tough.”

One play late in the first half illustrated the degree to which Rice adds to that toughness for Illinois.

Tied at 36, Indiana moved up court, settling in to look for the final shot of the half.

But Rice cut off a pass, stealing the ball and driving for a layup. Rice was fouled by a stunned-looking Sheehey, and grinned big before he went to the line, hit the free throw and put Illinois back on top, 39-36 with 28 seconds left.

But, as Groce said, Indiana brought its own grit to the game.

When the Hoosiers went the other way, it was Sheehey who buried a 3-pointer for a 39-39 halftime tie.

“We fought, we battled,” Crean said. “And we just didn’t get the result at the end.”

Arkush: Emery must take the best player available position of need rather than just the best guy on the board.

Continued from page B1 Here’s the problem: Let’s say the Bears are picking But you are right, Hub, it 14th, it’s their turn and still is unfair to throw old piles available are the seventh-best, of Haynes (and Williams) at 11th-best and 14th-, 15th- and Emery’s penny-loafer feet. The 16th-best players, but they all jury remains out on him when play offense. The 17th-best is a it comes to the NFL draft, but linebacker and then the next I think he’d be muy loco if he two are offensive guys, as well. selected anything other than a Do you want the seventh- or defensive player with that 11th-best player available, or No. 14 pick. do you want another linebackArkush: I feel you man, but er who’s the 17th-best player I’m telling you there are unemaccording to your own rankployment lines around the coun- ings? Or do you take the guy try in the 32 cities that host NFL you think is the 20th-best playclubs spotted with former GM’s er at 14 because he happens to and personnel directors who be a pass rusher or a safety? outsmarted themselves drafting Musick: Hub, you know I the best player available at a don’t do well with math. But

• TAKE 2

I see your point: Don’t dig in the couch cushions for loose change when a $20 bill is sitting right in front of you.

Hopefully for Emery’s sake, the stars align and a prized defensive prospect is on the board when the Bears’ selection arrives. I’m thinking that Alabama safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix would look pretty great in orange and blue. Other possibilities could be He He McGee, Chuckle-Snort Smith and LOL Jackson.

Arkush: Chuckle, snort and he, he, he if you like, but look at your own past history lesson. Tommie Harris’ career might have ended prematurely and unhappily, but first he was a perennial Pro Bowler

who slipped to the Bears at 14 because 13 other teams had inaccurate or just bad injury information on him. Everybody knew he was one of the top five or six prospects in the draft, and when he fell to Angelo, they had to grab him, they did and thank the Lord.

With both Haynes and Williams, they weren’t even top 20 on most lists, but the Bears reached for a need. How would C.J. Mosely look in orange and blue, or what if somehow Anthony Barr miraculously slipped to the Bears at 14? Can you pass a linebacker because you used two picks on backers last year? Not if Emery wants to keep that job and be rolling in penny loafers, he can’t!

Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 25 7 .781 — Houston 21 13 .618 5 Dallas 18 13 .581 6½ New Orleans 14 15 .483 9½ Memphis 13 17 .433 11 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 25 5 .833 — Portland 24 7 .774 1½ Minnesota 15 16 .484 10½ Denver 14 16 .467 11 Utah 10 24 .294 17 Pacific Division W L Pct GB L.A. Clippers 21 12 .636 — Phoenix 19 11 .633 ½ Golden State 20 13 .606 1 L.A. Lakers 13 18 .419 7 Sacramento 10 20 .333 9½ Tuesday’s Results Toronto at Bulls (n) Atlanta 92, Boston 91 Indiana 91, Cleveland 76 Golden State 94, Orlando 81 Sacramento 110, Houston 106 San Antonio 113, Brooklyn 92 Portland at Oklahoma City (n) Milwaukee at L.A. Lakers (n) Today’s Games Dallas at Washington, 5 p.m.

Indiana at Toronto, 6 p.m.

New Orleans at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Denver, 8 p.m.

Charlotte at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

NHL WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Blackhawks 42 28 7 7 63 158 115 St. Louis 39 27 7 5 59 139 93 Colorado 38 23 11 4 50 109 97 Dallas 38 19 12 7 45 112 111 Minnesota 42 20 17 5 45 97 109 Winnipeg 42 19 18 5 43 114 121 Nashville 40 18 18 4 40 95 119 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 41 28 8 5 61 131 103 San Jose 39 25 8 6 56 128 98 Los Angeles 40 25 11 4 54 108 80 Vancouver 41 23 11 7 53 111 97 Phoenix 38 19 10 9 47 116 117 Calgary 39 14 19 6 34 95 122 Edmonton 41 13 24 4 30 106 139

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Boston 40 26 12 2 54117 86 Tampa Bay 39 23 12 4 50110 93 Montreal 41 23 14 4 50103 94 Detroit 41 18 14 9 45107 117 Toronto 41 20 16 5 45115 118 Ottawa 42 17 18 7 41118 135 Florida 41 15 20 6 3696 130 Buffalo 40 11 25 4 26 71 113 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 42 29 12 1 59 131 96 Washington 40 20 15 5 45 122 119 Philadelphia 39 19 16 4 42 101 110 New Jersey 41 17 16 8 42 97 103 N.Y. Rangers 41 20 19 2 42 96 109 Carolina 40 15 16 9 39 96 118 Columbus 39 17 18 4 38 106 112 N.Y. Islanders 41 13 21 7 33 107 138 Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss Tuesday’s Results N.Y. Rangers 2, Florida 1 (SO) New Jersey 2, Pittsburgh 1 St. Louis 2, Minnesota 1 N.Y. Islanders 5, Boston 3 Carolina 5, Montreal 4 (OT) Winnipeg 3, Buffalo 0 San Jose at Anaheim (n) Los Angeles at Dallas (n) Columbus at Colorado (n) Philadelphia at Calgary (n) Edmonton at Phoenix (n) Today’s Games Toronto vs. Detroit at Ann Arbor, Mich., noon Tampa Bay at Vancouver, 9 p.m.

NCAA FOOTBALL BOWL SCHEDULE TUESDAY’S RESULTS AdvoCare V100 Bowl Arizona 42, Boston College 19 Sun Bowl UCLA 42, Virginia Tech 12 Liberty Bowl Mississippi State 44, Rice 7 Chick-fil-A Bowl Texas A&M vs. Duke (n) TODAY’S GAMES Heart of Dallas Bowl UNLV (7-5) vs. North Texas (8-4), 11 a.m. (ESPNU) Gator Bowl Nebraska (8-4) vs. Georgia (8-4), 11 a.m. (ESPN2) Capital One Bowl Wisconsin (9-3) vs. South Carolina (10-2), noon (ABC) Outback Bowl Iowa (8-4) vs. LSU (9-3), noon (ESPN) Rose Bowl Stanford (11-2) vs. Michigan St. (12-1), 4 p.m. (ESPN) Fiesta Bowl Baylor (11-1) vs. UCF (11-1), 7:30 p.m.

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BCS CHAMPIONSHIP GAME: NO. 1 FLORIDA ST. (13-0) VS. NO. 2 AUBURN (12-1), 7:30 P.M. MONDAY, ESPN

FSU, Auburn touch down in SoCal for title game Seminoles coach Fisher signs new deal, eliminating Texas speculation

By RALPH D. RUSSO The Associated Press ANAHEIM, Calif. – Before top-ranked Florida State made its way to southern California for the BCS championship game against No. 2 Auburn, Seminoles coach Jimbo Fisher had some business to take care of on campus.

Fisher signed a new contract Tuesday that runs through the 2018 season. The deal seems to signal an end to any plans Texas might have had to hire Fisher to replace Mack Brown.

“We’re blessed that we got that out of the way so we can focus on winning a national championship,” Fisher said Tuesday AP photo during a news conference at the Auburn coach Gus Malzahn gives a thumbs up to fans as he ESPNZone in Downtown Disneyprepares to board the team flight Tuesday at the Montgom- land as he sat next to the crystal ery, Ala., airport as the Tigers leave for the BCS national football coaches’ trophy that will championship game in Pasadena, Calif. Auburn plays Flori- go to the winner Monday night at the Rose Bowl. da State on Monday at the Rose Bowl.

Getting out of Tallahassee, Fla., on Tuesday proved a bit tricky for the Seminoles. They were delayed about two hours because they had to wait for a pilot to get clearance to fly.

“It’s been a long day,” All-America defensive back Lamarcus Joyner said. “It’s starting to sink in that we are here.”

Florida State (13-0) blew through its competition this season, winning each of its games by at least 14 points. The Seminoles will play for the BCS championship for the first time since the 2000 season. They last won a national title in 1999, under Bobby Bowden.

“This is the ultimate goal that we want to get to,” said Fisher, who is in his fourth season as Florida State’s coach.

Auburn’s appearance at ESPNZone was scheduled for about 90 minutes after the Florida State’s.

The Tigers (12-1) were the big-

gest surprise of the 2013 season.

A season after Auburn finished 3-9, did not win a Southeastern Conference game and fired coach Gene Chizik, the Tigers and firstyear coach Gus Malzahn won their last nine games to reach the BCS title game for the second time in four seasons.

But the opening at Texas had a chance to be a sidebar to this national title game.

Texas reportedly has interest in hiring Fisher, and even Malzahn’s name has come up as a possible candidate for the Longhorns.

“I think that there’s a sense of relief that it’s done, but anytime you’re one of the top coaches in the country and there’s a top program that’s open, you’re going to be on the list because that institution, Texas, can go and get basically anybody they want,” Florida State athletic director Stan Wilcox said. “But I know Jimbo, he’s a Seminole. He wants to be with Florida State and we want him to be with Florida State.”

Auburn announced Malzahn agreed to a new deal with the Ti-

BOWL ROUNDUP

Mississippi St. rips Rice in Liberty Bowl The ASSOCIATED PRESS MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Dak Prescott threw three touchdown passes and ran for two more scores, and Mississippi State trounced Rice, 44-7, on Tuesday in the most one-sided Liberty Bowl victory in the game’s 55-year history.

Mississippi State (7-6) wrapped up its fourth straight winning season and prevented Rice (10-4) from winning bowl games in back-to-back years for the first time. By accounting for five touchdowns, Prescott set a Liberty Bowl record.

After falling behind 7-0, the Bulldogs scored touchdowns

on four consecutive possessions.

Mississippi State’s Jameon Lewis caught nine passes for 220 yards to break the Liberty Bowl receiving record held by Houston’s Vincent Marshall, who had 201 yards in a 44-36 loss to South Carolina in 2006.

Lewis also set the school single-game record.

Prescott was 17 of 28 for 283 yards and also ran for 78 yards on 14 carries.

UCLA rout Virginia Tech.

The Bruins (10-3) outscored the Hokies (8-5) 28-5 in the second half.

Hundley had an 86-yard touchdown run and finished with 161 yards on 10 carries, and completed 16 of 29 passes for 226 yards. He was selected the co-MVP along with linebacker Jordan Zumwalt, who had 10 tackles and an interception.

ADVOCARE V100 BOWL Arizona 42, Boston College 19: SUN BOWL No. 17 UCLA 42, Virginia Tech At Shreveport, La., B.J. Denk12: At El Paso, Texas, Brett er threw for 275 yards and two Hundley threw two touch- touchdowns, Ka’Deem Carey down passes and ran for two rushed for 169 yards and two more scores to help No. 17 touchdowns and Arizona had

an easy time beating Boston College (7-6).

Arizona (8-5) never trailed, leading 21-6 by halftime and 42-6 early in the fourth quarter. Carey had his 16th straight game with at least 100 yards rushing while Denker added a 14-yard touchdown run.

The game was billed as a matchup between two of the nation’s top running backs – Arizona’s Carey and Boston College’s Andre Williams.

But the duel between AP All-America first team selections was one-sided. Williams, who won the Doak Walker Award over Carey, was held to 75 yards rushing and a touchdown.

gers the week before the SEC title game.

Fisher and Wilcox said the terms of the deal, which were not released, were agreed upon about three weeks ago.

“But when lawyers get involved, you know how things can take a little while? It wasn’t anything bad it was just a matter of dotting the Is and crossing the Ts. And then we practiced all the way up until Monday. I was leaving at 6:30 in the morning, getting home 11:30 I wasn’t thinking about anything. We got the contract today. The first time I had a chance to sign it.”

Fisher’s previous deal ran through 2015 and paid $2.75 million annually. The new deal reportedly pays him about $4.1 million a season.

Fisher wouldn’t be the first college coach to sign a new deal and then bolt for another job shortly after, but the timing of this does make it seem that he could be off the market.

“It’s good that we’re able to get it done before the championship game,” Wilcox said.

Rohlman: Sophomore trio has high basketball IQs • BARBS Continued from page B1 But with the loss of a big senior class, including a lot of the team’s size, Rohlman expected them all to contribute much more this year.

Their development has allowed DeKalb to make some lineup adjustments that give the Barbs’ offense a boost.

“We started [Conroy] out as a backup point, but at times I really like where we can push Rudy Lopez to the two and let him score more,” Rohlman said. “Let Ethan Conroy take care of running the plays and that deal.”

Rohlman noted that all three have high basketball IQs and it has showed early on as opponents have started to focus on Davis, who seemingly has no trouble passing back out to the perimeter from inside.

Now, last year’s struggles are turning into this year’s – and future – gains.

“The freshmen group, who are now sophomores, only lost one game last year and you can see when the ball goes into the post, the way Pollack will cut off it,” Rohlman said. “They’ve played together enough now where they understand each other.”

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Today is our opportunity for a fresh start Dear Readers: Welcome to 2014! It seems like the world spins faster every year. With each new year comes our chance for a new beginning.

It’s an opportunity to discard destructive old habits and create healthy new ones. With that in mind, I will share my often-requested list of New Year’s resolutions that were adapted by my mother, Pauline Phillips, from the original credo of Al-Anon: Just For Today: I will live through this day only. I will not brood about yesterday or obsess about tomorrow. I will not set far-reaching goals or try to overcome all of my problems at once. I know that I can do something for 24 hours that would overwhelm me if I had to keep it up for a lifetime.

Just For Today: I will be

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips happy. I will not dwell on thoughts that depress me. If my mind fills with clouds, I will chase them away and fill it with sunshine.

Just For Today: I will accept what is. I will face reality. I will correct those things that I can correct and accept those I cannot.

Just For Today: I will improve my mind. I will read something that requires effort, thought and concentration. I will not be a mental loafer.

Just For Today: I will make a conscious effort to be agreeable. I will be kind and courteous to those who cross

my path, and I’ll not speak ill of others. I will improve my appearance, speak softly, and not interrupt when someone else is talking.

Just For Today: I will refrain from improving anybody but myself.

Just For Today: I will do something positive to improve my health. If I’m a smoker, I’ll quit. If I am overweight, I will eat healthfully – if only for today. And not only that, I will get off the couch and take a brisk walk, even if it’s only around the block.

Just For Today: I will gather the courage to do what is right and take the responsibility for my own actions.

And now, Dear Readers, I would like to share an item that was sent to me by I.J. Bhatia, a reader from New Delhi, India:

Dear Abby: This year, no resolutions, only some guidelines. The Holy Vedas say: “Man has subjected himself to thousands of self-inflicted bondages. Wisdom comes to a man who lives according to the true eternal laws of nature.”

The prayer of St. Francis (of which there are several versions) contains a powerful message: “Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; “Where there is hatred, let me sow love; “Where there is injury, pardon; “Where there is doubt, faith; “Where there is despair, hope; “Where there is darkness, light; “And where there is sad-

ness, joy.

“Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; “To be understood, as to understand; “To be loved, as to love; “For it is in giving that we receive, “It is in pardoning that we are pardoned, “And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.”

And so, Dear Readers, may this new year bring with it good health, peace and joy to all of you. – Love, Abby

• Dear Abby is written

by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Vitamin D’s disease protection under study Dear Dr. K: I had some blood work done recently and was surprised to learn that I am deficient in vitamin D. How is this possible? What can I do about it?

Dear Reader: Vitamin D is an unusual vitamin. We get most vitamins from the foods we eat; our body can’t make them. Unfortunately, vitamin D isn’t found naturally in many foods. Fatty fish and milk (which is fortified with vitamin D) are the main food sources. (I’ve put a table listing other dietary sources of vitamin D on my website.)

Fortunately, your body can make its own vitamin D. In order to do so, your body needs sunshine – more specifically, ultraviolet B (UVB) rays. But most of us

ASK DR. K Anthony L. Komaroff spend the vast majority of our time indoors. Even when we’re outside, we often use sunscreen because it protects us against skin cancer.

But less exposure to the sun means that our bodies may be making less vitamin D than we need.

What are the health benefits of vitamin D, and the health problems caused by low blood levels of vitamin D? I wish I could give you just a simple answer. Here’s the simple part: Adequate blood levels of vitamin D protect us against osteoporosis, a

disease that increases the risk of bone fractures. Taking vitamin D supplements if your blood level of vitamin D is low can help prevent osteoporosis. Most doctors agree on that.

Here’s where it gets complicated: Many studies have found that people with low blood levels of vitamin D also are at greater risk for getting high blood pressure, heart disease, various autoimmune diseases (including multiple sclerosis and Type 1 diabetes), depression and colon cancer. So you might think that taking vitamin D supplements would protect you against these diseases, like it protects against osteoporosis.

But it isn’t that simple.

To prove that taking

vitamin D supplements protects against these diseases requires a very large study called a randomized clinical trial. Fortunately, such a study is underway (with leadership here at Harvard Medical School). But it will be years before the results are known.

For now, here’s what most experts agree on. The recommended dietary allowance (RDA) of vitamin D is 600 international units (IU) for adults up to age 70, and 800 IU from age 71 on. If you’re not getting enough vitamin D from foods and modest sun exposure, consider a daily supplement to get 600 to 800 IU per day. Choose a supplement that contains the form of vitamin D called D3. Do not take

more than 4,000 IU per day, as that can cause side effects.

I think this is reasonable advice. However, when the results of further studies are analyzed, we may come to a different conclusion. We may discover that we need more vitamin D than these recommendations. Or it could turn out that we need to take vitamin D supplements only when our blood levels of vitamin D are low, and with the only expected health benefit being healthy bones. That’s why we do research.

• Dr. Komaroff is a physician and professor at Harvard Medical School. Visit www.

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Would corporal punishment help schools?

Dr. Wallace: My grandfather says that unruly students have taken over American schools. That’s why he thinks our educational system is in big trouble.

My grandfather says that when he was in high school, if a male student needed to be disciplined, he was sent to the vice principal who had a wooden paddle. The student was told to bend over and to grab his ankles. The vice principal then proceeded to lay the wood to the boy’s rump. In most cases, says my grandfather, the boy didn’t go home and tell his daddy

’TWEEN 12 & 20 Robert Wallace about being paddled because if he did, the daddy would have given him another swat on the rump.

Do you agree with my grandfather that corporal punishment administered by school personnel would help eliminate the huge discipline problems in today’s schools?

– Angel, Oakland, Calif.

Angel: Speaking as a former high school coach,

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By BERNICE BEDE OSOL Newspaper Enterprise Association

TODAY – This year will offer numerous opportunities, but discerning which ones are right for you will be a challenge.

Don’t spread yourself too thin. Seek advice from experienced individuals, and don’t be afraid to ask for favors. What you accomplish this year is entirely up to you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – Seek closure by communicating with those who have upset you. You can make positive changes if you clear the air. If you fail to sort out personal problems, your future will stall.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – Awkwardness will ensue if you allow others to blame you. Begin this year by setting the record straight. Be strong and take a stance that reflects your own values.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – Don’t allow others to leave you holding the bag. Avoid indulgent forms of entertainment. Instead, relax and prepare for the year to come. Put yourself first.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) – Get the year off to a good start.

Carefully plan how to get ahead. Make use of your talents. As soon as you get the chance, confidently share your ideas.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – Reflect on your past, and make it your mission to avoid repeating mistakes. Treat other people as you wish to be treated. Focus on empathy.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – Things will go smoothly today. Love is on the rise, and you will have plenty of choices. If you are already in a relationship, plan a romantic evening. If not, get out on the town.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) – Don’t be afraid to lead. You will be admired for your skills if you get involved in family projects.

Someone may express jealousy toward you. Ignore any negativity, and continue to offer your support.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – Socialize with friends and relatives. Be candid with your opinions, but prepare to be accountable. If you can let go of the past, you will have an easier time moving forward.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – Deal with any issues that have been hanging over you. Reflect on past experiences to avoid getting caught in a vicious cycle. You need stability, and you can only find it by letting go.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – Don’t be tempted by a dubious scheme. Try to start the year on the right foot. Hold out for better opportunities. Travel is likely to result in frustrating delays.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – Overindulgence is likely to cause you problems today. Don’t lend money to friends or take on responsibilities that aren’t yours. You must take care of your own needs first.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – Begin planning for the new year. Put your ideas on paper so that you’re ready for the future to arrive. Don’t allow personal setbacks to interfere with your goals.

teacher and administrator, I agree with grandfather that our schools now have a greater challenge in controlling on-campus discipline than when he was a student. There are a number of reasons why this is true.

Almost every adult in the United States attended went through the education system for many years, so they believe they have become authorities on why the majority of schools need better student discipline. The first people they blame are the teachers, administrators and other school staff members.

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It’s a fact that all school employees need to continue to improve their methods for teaching and educating our children. No job is more important.

But the major discipline problem in schools is caused by those parents who have little or no child discipline in the home. They won’t, or can’t discipline their own children, so they expect the school to do this for them.

Do I think that school personnel should use corporal punishment as a means to improve student discipline?

My answer is NO! But if a

BRIDGE Phillip Alder

parent wanted to lay the wood to a son’s rump at the school where I was a principal, I would be all for it.

All the parent would have needed to do was to bring the paddle to school and lay it firmly on the son’s rump.

• Dr. Robert Wallace welcomes questions from readers. Email him at rwallace@galesburg.net. To find out more about Dr. Robert Wallace and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web site at www.creators.com.

8CROSSWORD

Reading the deal from the bidding I hope all of my readers have a very happy and healthy New Year.

Yesterday, I gave the deal for which Peter Bertheau from Sweden won the International Bridge Press Association Yeh Bros. Best Bid of the Year award.

That was excellent, but I particularly admired this action by Peter Fredin, also from Sweden. The deal was originally described by Shane Blanchard of New York City.

Look at the South hand and the auction. Partner’s redouble shows 10 or more points and fewer than four hearts.

Doubler’s one no-trump indicates equal length in the minors. And partner’s jump to four hearts promises threecard support and opening count. What would you do now, if anything?

Fredin paused to work out who had what. East would surely have bid one spade over the redouble with four, and West probably had three spades because he would have rescued via one spade with four. So North rated to have five spades. (Not six, because he would have called one spade instead of redouble.)

If West had equal length in the minors, his hand’s distribution was surely 3-2-4-4.

Ergo, hearts were breaking 3-2. North also had three or four diamonds, but had not doubled two diamonds for penalty. So he was probably weak there. Fredin deduced that his partner’s 12-plus points were mostly in the majors. And with both of those suits lying well, Fredin bid four no-trump, Roman KeyCard Blackwood, followed by six hearts.

As you can see, this was laydown; South taking five spades, five hearts and two clubs.

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Becherer Farm, approx 80 acres.

76.6 tillable acres with 2 story farm house and ranch house. $1,725,600. 859-630-5920

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DeKalb 1BR, w/study stove, fridge, heat included.

815-748-4085 DEKALB ADULT, QUIET, REFINED Building. 2 Bedroom Apt with homey environment. Car port. For mature living. Excellent Location!

No pets/smoking. Agent Owned.

815-758-6712

DEKALB EAST SIDE 3BR lower off st. prkng, $550/mo + utilities and deposit, reference, cat OK 815-758-2872 DEKALB for Rent 3BR Apt upstaris $750 5 BD House $1100/mo.

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DEKALB GROUND LEVEL APARTMENT 1-2 Bedroom ground level unit of house with new carpeting and freshly painted. Appliances included. Near 7th and Lincoln DeKalb. $600 per month.

815-827-3434 duffpropertiesllc@gmail.com DeKalb. 1st Floor. 1BR. $525+ Location! Quiet Neighborhood.

Adolph Miller RE 815-756-7845

GENOA 2 BEDROOM DUPLEX

Stove, fridge, D/W, W/D. NO PETS. $755/mo + sec. Water sewer, garb incl. 815-739-1250

MALTA 1 Mo Rent FREE! 2 bedroom duplex, appliances, W/D hook-up, no pets, $595/mo.

815-562-7368 Malta- Cozy 1 BD Upper, efficiency off street parking. Non-smoker.

Utilities included in rent.

Malta- 2 BD ground floor W/D hook-ups 815-981-8117

Rochelle Large Upper 3BR Heat paid. Formal dining, large kit, encl front & back porch, 2 car gar. $760/mo, 1st, last, sec with small pet dep, no smkg. 815-757-1045

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SHABONA, 2 BR UPPER, QUIET & CLEAN, Priv. Prkg., $595/mo. 815-979-7012

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815-758-1100 or 815-895-8600 Sycamore - 2BR 1BA Apt Avail Now Updated Kitch & Bath, W/D in bldg 1611 Maness Ct. $625/mo Call Pittsley Realty (815)756-7768

SYCAMORE ~ 2BR, 1BA

Within walking distance of downtown, parks and schools.

1st/last/sec. 630-854-6161

Waterman: efficiency apt., $450/mo., 1st, last, $150 dep., NO pets, 815-761-0308

For Working Lady. Private bath and kitchen privileges + parking.

630-234-0497

Sycamore. 1000 SF shop with 600 SF office. Full bath. Heat, A/C. 9 ft OH Door. $600/mo.

J & A RE 815-970-0679

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Sycamore - Luxury 2BR 2BA Condo Granite, SS, Fireplace, 2C Gar. Available NOW! 954 Arvle Circle Call Pittsley Realty (815)756-7768

Sycamore TH Like New 2BR

Great location! 2BA, 2 car garage, skylights, appl, W/D, C/A, $935.

No pets.

815-758-0123

SYCAMORE ~ 3BR, 2.5BA Fox Brier Townhouse available.

All appliances include W/D. 1 car garage, balcony. $1100/mo.

Barry 815-757-9040

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DeKalb Newer 2BR on Cul-De-Sac Quiet neighborhood, all appl, W/D, walk-in-closets, no pets, $950/mo + 1st/last/sec. 815-739-4442

815-757-1907

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RANCH TOWN HOME with Sun Room & Full Basement.

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Appl, W/D, $1000/mo + sec.

630-707-0466 SYCAMORE 3BR, FR, $995

Stone Prairie 2BR, 2BA APT.

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on College Ave. Available Immed. $1200 + 1st, last security, no pets.

815-757-5079 Dekalb: Tilton Park Area Lovely remodeled 2BR, 1BA, w/den, A/C, all appl., deck, fenced in yard, 2 car gar., avail 2/1, no smoking, pets neg., $800/mo. 630-675-4485

HINCKLEY 2BR, 1.5BA

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DeKalb 4 Bedroom, 1.5 Bath

815-758-7859

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Available Jan 1st, $700/mo.

847-683-3442

DeKalb 1 & 2BR Starting $540

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DEKALB 3 BEDROOM, 1 BATH Newly Remodeled Ranch. All appl, bsmt,1.5 car garage, $1150/mo + security.

815-751-2650

University Village Apts.

722 N. Annie Glidden Rd.

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Pets negotiable, $875/mo + sec.

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1 bath, W/D, 1.5 car garage.

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815-970-1321 DeKalb - 3Bd 2Ba House 2C Gar, Fireplace, Basement 204 Hollister, $1250/mo Call Pittsley Realty (815)756-7768

Starting @ $599, 2 Bedroom $683, 3 Bedroom

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No pets/smkg, $800/mo + lease, deposit & ref. 815-758-6439

DeKalb Summit Enclave 2 lrg BR, 2 lrg BA, W/D, 2 car gar. $1100/mo + $1000 deposit.

No pets/smoking 847-373-0602

DeKalb ~ The Knolls Sub. 3BR, 1.5BA, D/W, W//D, 1 car garage, $975/mo + 1st , last sec.

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Beautiful 3BR, 2.5 BA End Unit Townhome, Full Basement, 2nd floor laundry, Private master bath w/walk-in closet. $1200/month.

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