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Give Local raises almost $190K DeKalb County nonprofits benefit from online fundraiser

By BRITTANY KEEPERMAN bkeeperman@shawmedia.com Community generosity was on display as donors gave almost $190,000 to 55 DeKalb County nonprofit organizations Tuesday through the daylong Give Local DeKalb County campaign.

Although the total fell a bit short of the $200,000 goal, Anita Zurbrugg, program director at the DeKalb County Community Foundation, said she was impressed with the response, especially in light of various competing causes that had surfaced.

“Locally, we were all con-

cerned and generous with Fairdale,” Zurbrugg said.

“Globally, we are concerned about the earthquake [in Nepal]. ... Our community still came through, and this shows how wonderfully the nonprofit community can pull together to make things happen.”

This was the second year

DeKalb County has participated in the Give Local campaign.

Zurbrugg said the community support was overwhelming last year, and involvement was even greater this year.

Almost double the number of nonprofit organizations participated. Give Local received 1,265 gifts by 699 unique do-

nors. Each gift averaged about $132, Zurbrugg said.

The DeKalb County Community Foundation contributed $23,000 in matching funds, which was included in the $189,899.42 total. Those matching

By the numbers • 1,265 gifts given to Give Local DeKalb County campaign • 699 unique donors to Give Local • $189,899.42 raised including $23,000 in matching funds from the DeKalb County Community Foundation

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Rauner: Ill. can’t bail out Chicago

WINDY CITY STORM CHASERS

By SOPHIA TAREEN The Associated Press

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Alex Wilkinson replaces the battery on the GoPro video camera attached to the roof of storm chasing partner Corey Hoffman’s car while on their way west April 9 to chase a storm cell coming out of Iowa. Together, Wilkinson and Hoffman are the Windy City Storm Chasers based out of DeKalb.

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BAD WEATHER Storm chasers were out during, but west of, Fairdale tornado

By ADAM POULISSE apoulisse@shawmedia.com DeKALB – When the weather worsened April 9, and people followed the weather reports to know when to take shelter in their basements or bathrooms, Corey Hoffman and Alex Wilkinson were driving as close to the storm as possible.

Together, these lifelong buddies are the Windy City Storm Chasers, based in DeKalb.

“Neither of us have any kind of meteorological degree,” Wilkinson said. “I do most of my stuff with free meteorological stuff online, and you learn the same information without having to pay. I’m not claiming to know as much as a meteorologist, but I can at least learn what I need to know.”

While individuals and state and regional organizations chase tornadoes, the Windy City Storm Chasers are the only official group based in DeKalb County. Hoffman and Wilkinson go out into storms to relay severe weather information to the community, while not endangering themselves.

“I don’t like roller coasters or anything like that, so it’s a way for me to get an adrenaline rush,” Wilkinson said. “I feel like I’ve taught myself enough about severe weather to where I can trust my own head to get in and get out.”

Windy City Storm Chasers consists of Hoffman behind the wheel every time there’s bad weather, Wilkinson observing

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Storm chaser Alex Wilkinson tracks a storm cell coming out of Iowa using the radar images on his laptop while on the road April 9 in partner Corey Hoffman’s car. “Neither of us have any kind of meteorological degree,” Wilkinson said. “I do most of my stuff with free meteorological stuff online, and you learn the same information without having to pay. I’m not claiming to know as much as a meteorologist, but I can at least learn what I need to know.”

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Storms are very [unforgiving]. Because a tornado is moving so fast, if you got in the path of it and your car suddenly had problems or skidded off the roadway, your chances of survival are slim. You have to make sure you have at least a basic understanding of storms.”

– Gilbert Sebenste, Northern Illinois University Meteorologist

CHICAGO – Gov. Bruce Rauner told Chicago aldermen Wednesday that Illinois can’t “bail out” the nation’s third-largest city, and urged cooperation addressing the looming financial challenges during an unprecedented speech by a sitting governor to the City Council.

In a roughly 10-minute speech, the new Republican governor gave dueling takes on the relationship between the state and Chicago, both of which are facing severe budget Gov. Bruce problems.

Rauner He said Chicago should have local control on such issues as a potential casino but also told the Democratic body the top suggestion he hears from downstate Illinois residents on improving the state is to secede from Chicago.

“I am eager to go to bat for the 2.7 million people of Chicago, but you must remember there are over 10 million people who live outside the city limits,” Rauner said. “Illinois as a state is in a terrible financial crisis. We don’t have the money to simply bail out the city of Chicago.

It’s not an option.”

Rauner has been traveling statewide to promote an agenda that includes funding cuts and restricting union influence. Many municipalities have embraced it, passing resolutions in support. But that hasn’t been the case in labor-friendly Chicago.

Moments before Rauner spoke, aldermen and Mayor Rahm Emanuel used a resolution to oppose Rauner’s push to create “right to work zones” where union membership is voluntary. Workers in the audience applauded heartily.

“It is the wrong strategy,” Emanuel told the crowd.

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DEKALB Adult Creative Writers and Artists Group Time: 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Thursday Place: Oak Crest Retirement Center Rattan Room, 2944 Greenwood Acres Drive Stitch Niche Club Time: 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday Place: Meeting room of the DeKalb Public Library, 309 Oak St. Information: 815-756-9568, ext. 250 Crocheters and knitters of all skill levels can learn how to stitch.

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Computer Class: LinkedIn Time: 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday Place: DeKalb Public Library, 309 Oak St. Information: 815-756-9568, ext. 220 LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network. People use it to build a professional presence online, find jobs or make a sale. This hands-on lab will be a chance to find out what LinkedIn is all about.

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‘Play On’ Presented by the Stage Coach Players Time: 7:30 p.m. Thursday Place: Stage Coach Players, 126 S. Fifth St. Cost: $12 Information: 815-758-1940 This is the hilarious story of a theater group trying desperately to put on a play in spite of maddening interference from a haughty author who keeps revising the script.

GENOA Plant Sale Time: 3 to 6 p.m. Thursday Place: Genoa-Kingston High School, 980 Park Ave. Information: 815-784-5111 Drive around to back of school to greenhouse for the plant sale.

SYCAMORE Free Coffee, Pastries and Conversation Time: 10:30 a.m. Thursday Place: The Grand Victorian, 1440 Somonauk St. Information: 815-895-1900 ‘Railroad Recollections’ Time: Noon Thursday Place: Sycamore History Museum, 1730 N. Main St. Information: 815-895-5762 or www. sycamorehistory.org The Sycamore History Museum will present “Railroad Recollections” as part of their Brown Bag Lunch series. Betty Hampa and Ron Klein will share their memories of the railroad in Sycamore. The audience is also encouraged to come and reminiscence about their experiences connected to the Chicago & North Western and Chicago Great Western railroads.

Sycamore High School Plant Sale Time: 3:10 to 4:30 p.m. Thursday Place: Sycamore High School, 427 Spartan Trail Information: 815-899-2160, ext.

2168 The Sycamore High School Horticulture Department will sell annuals, perennials and herbs that were grown in their greenhouse.

The greenhouse is located on the South side of the high school near the buses. Proceeds benefit the Sycamore High School Agriculture and Horticulture Program.

Game On! Time: 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday Place: Teen Zone! of the Sycamore Public Library, 103 E. State St. Information: 815-895-2500, ext. 28 Middle and high school students, grades six through 12, can come in after school for open play board games, card games, and Xbox.

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Brown lawns loom this summer in Calif.

The Associated Press LAS VEGAS – Traveling about 55 mph on a Nevada highway, the big rig’s driver looked like The Thinker, with his elbow on the arm rest and his hand on his chin. No hands on the steering wheel, no feet on the pedals.

Mark Alvick was in “highway pilot” mode, the wheel moving this way and that as if a ghost were at the helm.

Daimler Trucks North America LLC said its “Inspiration” truck, the first self-driving semitrailer to be licensed to roll on public roads – in this case any highway or interstate in Nevada – is the future of trucking. It’s a future that will still need drivers, but they might be called “logistics managers.”

“The human brain is still the best computer money can buy,” Daimler Trucks North America LLC CEO Martin

AVON PARK, Fla. – A central Florida woman helped save herself and her children by sending a message in an online pizza order that asked employees to call 911 because she was being held hostage.

The Avon Park Pizza Hut employees spotted what Cheryl Treadway wrote in the comment section of her online order. Employees recognized Treadway as a regular customer and called the sheriff’s

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Professional spa remover Juan Alexander empties a spa Wednesday for permanent removal at a residence in which the owner considered it “a waste of water,” in Garden Grove, Calif. California water regulators have imposed unprecedented mandatory water cutbacks, but now comes the tough part: coaxing reluctant residents to let their lawns immediately die and start taking three-minute showers. day, it sends fewer than a dozen notices a month to violators.

Reaching the city’s mandatory new target of cutting water use by 28 percent is doable but will require “a cultural change” in a community wedded to green yards in the front and fruit trees and vegetable gardens in the back, said William Murray, Garden Grove’s public works director.

“You are talking about a huge change that needs to be made, and unfortunately in a significantly short period of time,” he said.

At least one tree-lined street in Garden Grove shows the path to conservation. Lawns

have been allowed to turn yellow, and some of the greenest yards are artificial turf, made possible by the city’s recent easing of restrictions against fake grass.

“I used to have the greenest grass in the whole neighborhood,” boasted Mike Meza, a 36-year-old longshoreman who said he misses gardening with his sons. “Lately, we’ve just been letting it go.”

He has scaled back watering to twice a month, tells his kids to keep their showers to four minutes and bangs on the bathroom door when his 14-year-old takes too long.

Garden Grove was a farming community in its early

years, then took part in the housing boom after World War II. Much of the city is lined with suburban tract homes.

More recently, officials have encouraged development of hotels catering to tourists visiting nearby Disneyland, and a big indoor water park and resort is under construction and expected to open early next year.

Because of the drought, rules against artificial turf are being rolled back around the state, and laws have been passed to make it easier to create drought-friendly landscapes of rocks, cactus and other water-stingy plants.

the developments, said Ted Scott, director of engineering for American Trucking Associations, which represents trucking companies.

He questioned what the economic benefit would be, with companies paying a driver’s salary on top of the new technology, even given the potential safety advantages including less-fatigued drivers.

“Being a tired driver is not as big of a problem as it’s often AP photo made out to be,” Scott said.

People load in to a Daimler Freightliner Inspiration self-driving truck The group representing for a demonstration Wednesday in Las Vegas. truck drivers – the Owner Operator Independent Drivers Daum said Wednesday. intersections, no red lights, Association – isn’t sure the Although much attention no pedestrians, making it a far technology would affect drivhas been paid to autonomous less complex trip, said Wolf- ing jobs, noting the abundance vehicles being developed by gang Bernhard, a management of job openings now and the inGoogle and traditional car com- board member of Germany’s dustry’s high turnover.

“We mainly have quespanies, Daimler believes that Daimler AG, at an event in Las automated semitractor-trail- Vegas. But it will be years be- tions,” said Norita Taylor, the ers will be rolling along high- fore an autonomous truck hits group’s director of public afways before self-driving cars the highway for anything more fairs, citing current laws regare cruising around the sub- than tests and demonstrations, ulating how long a driver can drive and prohibitions on texurbs. the company said.

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More than a century later, this sprawling middle-class suburb of 175,000 people could struggle to live up to that name.

In Garden Grove and other communities across the state, residents can expect to see their gardens shrivel and lawns go brown this summer as mandatory water-conservation rules take effect amid California’s punishing four-year drought.

State regulators Tuesday ordered communities to slash water use anywhere from 8 to 36 percent, with the goal of cutting overall consumption by one-quarter. And since nearly half of residential water in California goes to lawns, turning off sprinklers will be one of the first orders of business.

“We can meet these targets by putting the lawns on a water diet now,” said Felicia Marcus, head of the State Water Resources Control Board.

Still, in Garden Grove and other places rich and poor, people who paid dearly to make their lawns beautiful are loath to say goodbye to the grass.

Last summer, Garden Grove residents used even more water than usual after Gov. Jerry Brown asked people to voluntarily conserve.

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Highlands County Sheriff’s deputies went to the home, where they were greeted by Treadway, who was carrying a small child. She told them her boyfriend, Ethan Nickerson, 26, was inside the home, armed with a knife. Her other two children were also inside.

Treadway and the child were escorted to safety.

WFLA-TV reports Lt. Curtis Ludden started talking to Nickerson through a closed door.

“His first words were, of course, ‘I’m not coming out because I know I’m going to jail,’ ” Ludden told the TV station.

It took about 20 minutes for Ludden to talk Nickerson into coming out peacefully. The children were not harmed.

According to an arrest report, the couple had been arguing throughout the day, as Nickerson carried a knife.

When Treadway started to leave to pick up her children from school, Nickerson

grabbed her and took her phone away. He went with her to the school.

Deputies said she eventually talked Nickerson into letting her use her phone to order a pizza. But immediately after sending the request, Nickerson took the phone back.

Nickerson was arrested and faces multiple charges including aggravated assault with a weapon without intent to kill, battery and false imprisonment.

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DeKalb gets $50K NIU student reported missing is found OK through America’s Best competition

with detectives, according to a news release.

Minor was reported missDeKALB – A Northern ing by his roommate and Illinois University student hadn’t been seen or heard who was reported missing on from since 9:15 a.m. Tuesday, Tuesday was police said. found WednesHe didn’t have his cellday at the Elphone and left his vehicle burn train stabehind, DeKalb police Cmdr. tion, DeKalb Bob Redel said. police said.

Family and friends were Police sent concerned about him and o u t a n o t i c e Andrew worried he might be deabout 6 p.m. “Andy” pressed. They had looked for t h a t A n d r e w Minor Minor before alerting police.

“Andy” MiWednesday morning ponor, 26, from lice used trained search dogs Galesburg, was located, that as part of wider efforts to find Danielle Guerra – dguerra@shawmedia.com he was fine and was talking the missing student.

Andrew Minor lives in this apartment building in DeKalb, police said.

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By DARIA SOKOLOVA dsokolova@shawmedia.com DeKALB – DeKalb has advanced to the quarterfinals in a national competition designed to foster economic revitalization in small towns.

As one of 50 quarterfinalists in the America’s Best Communities competition, DeKalb will be awarded $50,000 to create a plan to accelerate the local economy and improve the quality of life for residents.

Frank Roberts, vice president of Castle Bank and chairman of the work team that submitted the grant, said the money will be used to put together an economic development plan.

“It’s a great day for DeKalb,” Roberts said. “I’m pleased that we have made it to the next level.”

Making it to the quarterfinals is “in part, a recognition of the past work that has been done by many in our community to make DeKalb a great place to live, work, and raise a family,” Roberts said in a statement.

He added: “Re:New DeKalb looks forward to working with the city and various stakeholders throughout the next stage of [the competition].”

Re:New DeKalb, a local nonprofit, is providing a $15,000 matching grant, said DeKalb Community Development Director Ellen Divita. She said consultants would likely help in putting together a plan for the next stage of the competition.

The $10 million initiative, sponsored by Frontier Com-

munications, CoBank, Dish Network and the Weather Channel, is intended to stimulate economic revitalization in small towns and cities.

Quarterfinalists were selected from an initial pool of applicants based on their ability to demonstrate the greatest potential for revitalization.

Some of the criteria included context and commitment, community identity, economic development, and vision and impact according to the competition’s website, americasbestcommunities.com.

DeKalb’s grant application underscored the community’s agricultural legacy and growth. It also highlighted assets such as Northern Illinois University, Kishwaukee College, a mix of industrial and medical jobs and downtown investment, according to a news release. “[The grant] is a great opportunity to focus collaboration across the community,” Mayor John Rey said in a statement. “I am pleased to be among 50 cities selected for the next level in the application process. This gives us the benefit to direct energy on projects in an organized fashion and leverage local resources.”

Up to 15 semifinalists will be selected, according to the information on the competition’s website. The first-, second- and third-place finishers will receive grants of $3 million, $2 million and $1 million, respectively.

Two other Illinois communities that landed on the quarterfinalist list were Carbondale and Monmouth.

Sycamore mayor reverses course on sober house location

By BRETT ROWLAND browland@shawmedia.com SYCAMORE – Sycamore Mayor Ken Mundy reversed course Wednesday and urged the City Council to support DeKalb County’s plan to turn the residence at 491 E. State St. into an sober living home for men.

Mundy had previously opposed the plan, but after talking with Drug Court Judge Robbin Stuckert on Tuesday, the mayor sent out Ken Mundy a letter explain- Sycamore ing his decision mayor and urging the council “to take the issue off the table and vote to permit this facility to open.”

“The opportunity for a man or men to live in a safe supportive house with other recovering men and the possibility that some of them could become wage earning, tax-paying, responsible guys who become makers

not takers in the community outweighs the concerns for permitting the 23rd Judicial Circuit and DeKalb County use of the 491 E. Sate St. property to run a recovery house for drug and alcohol former abusers,” Mundy wrote.

Mundy said he still had concerns about taxes, safety, costs, facility management and the affect the facility could have on neighbors.

However, he said those concerns “don’t outweigh the potential good” that could come from the program. In an interview with the Daily Chronicle on Wednesday, Mundy said that if the program doesn’t work or if concerns raised by aldermen become issues, the city would intervene.

“If it goes south, it won’t continue,” he said.

The proposed location of the facility has been a sticking point for Sycamore aldermen. Mundy said he talked with Stuckert about the four other sites that the county had considered for the sober living home. The judge gave specific reasons why the oth-

Read more Sycamore Mayor Ken Mundy’s writes a letter to the editor about the sober living house. PAGE A7

ers were unsuitable.

“There are more details on alternate sites that are available, but the point is that [DeKalb County officials] did due diligence with these, but these points were made, but perhaps not strongly made, to [the] council,” Mundy wrote Mundy said he hopes to convince the rest of the council.

“I think the chances are pretty good that we can reform our efforts and get this done,” Mundy told the Daily Chronicle. “I think we should try this.”

In March, the Sycamore City Council voted 5-2 to deny the county’s request for a special use permit for the sober living home. Aldermen Pete Paulsen and Chuck Stowe voted in favor of giving the special use permit to the county,

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while Aldermen Alan Bauer, Steve Braser, Janice Tripp, Rick Kramer and Greg Taylor voted against it. Alderman Curt Lang was absent. Taylor has since left the council and newcomer Becky Springer took the oath of office Monday. Later in March, the City Council voted 4-3 to reconsider the county’s proposal.

Springer said Wednesday that she would consider the mayor’s comments while continuing to research the issue.

However, she was optimistic about finding a solution.

“I’m still doing fact-finding myself, but I do think we can work something out to get this up and running,” she said.

Bauer, Lang, Braser, Kramer, and Tripp didn’t return calls Wednesday afternoon seeking comment.

At a meeting Monday, Bauer, Lang, Braser and Tripp said they remained concerned about the location of the site despite a list of provisions negotiated by city and county administrators aimed at easing worries about the proposal.

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House Dems reject proposed human services cuts pensation overhaul would hurt workers.

Changes to workers compensation, as well as to the state’s unem ployment insurance system and to the legal system are key compoMichael nents of Rauner’s pro-busi- Madigan ness agenda he House wants approved speaker by lawmakers in exchange for consenting to new sources of revenue to close a $6 billion budget gap

Entrance on Malta Road. Parking is limited, but there will be a loading area available by the DeKALB – A Sandwich man Greenhouse and horticulture was being held on $100,000 bond Wednesday in the DeKalb students and staff to assist patrons with loading their County Jail after police said he had sexual contact with a child purchases, according to a news release. younger than 13 years of age.

Horticulture department staff Germaeel Herwill be on site during the sale nandez-Salas, to help, answer gardening and 28, of the 500 planting questions and assist block of West with choosing plants suited to Third Street in specific needs or wants.

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Fairdale Relief Fund According to court records, DeKALB – The DeKalb Elks Hernandez-Salas had inappropriate contact with the child in BPOE 765 recently donated more than $6,000 in cash 2006 and 2009. and $1,000 in supplies to the Hernandez-Salas was unable Fairdale Tornado Relief Fund, to post 10 percent of his bond. according to Barbara Shultz, He is next due in court Thursproject manager. day.

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By JOHN O’CONNOR The Associated Press SPRINGFIELD – A federal grand jury took testimony Wednesday as part of its probe of former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock, amid questions about spending that include reports that he accepted private airplane flights from donors and decorated his office in the style of TV’s “Downton Abbey.”

Schock, a Republican, was in his fourth term representing the Peoria area when he resigned from Congress in March after months of media reports about lavish office and political spending, which also included questions about improper mileage reimbursements.

Benjamin Cole, Schock’s former communications director, said he answered questions from the grand jury in Springfield for two hours

Wednesday. Cole, who said he is cooperating with federal prosecutors, said the grand jury told him afterward he would no longer be needed to testify.

At least two other Schock staff members were seen leaving the courthouse after spending about four hours there Wednesday, but they would not comment.

The Justice Department Aaron has issued Schock subpoenas to at least half a dozen current and former Schock staffers as it examines his expense accounts, campaign spending and relationships with donors. Schock’s resignation followed a series of revelations over six weeks about his business deals and spending.

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vestigators had begun probing Schock’s conduct in the days before his announcement, but that probe likely was shut down because of the federal investigation.

Questions about Schock’s spending have included Associated Press investigations of his real estate transactions, air travel and entertainment expenses – including some events that the congressman documented in photographs on his Instagram account.

Reports by Politico and other news organizations singled out Schock’s unusually high personal reimbursements for auto mileage.

Sharon Paul, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office, said she would neither confirm nor deny the existence of an investigation.

A special primary election to replace Schock is scheduled for July 7, with a special general election to follow Sept. 10.

Ex-in-law testifies from Kazakhstan in Boston Marathon bombing trial

By DENISE LAVOIE The Associated Press BOSTON – A former brother-in-law of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev testified Wednesday from Kazakhstan about the role of a conservative Muslim convert who steered Tsarnaev’s older brother toward a stricter version of Islam.

Elmirza Khozhugov, the former husband of Tsarnaev’s sister Ailina Tsarnaeva, testified on live video for the defense from Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan. The Tsarnaev family – ethnic Chechens – lived in the Dagestan region of Russia and in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan before moving to the U.S. when Dzhokhar was 8.

A federal jury will soon

decide whether Dzhokhar, now 21, should be executed or sentenced to life in prison for the 2013 bombings that killed three people and wounded more than 260.

The defense is trying to show that Dzhokhar was heavily influenced by his radicalized 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan, whom they call the mastermind of the plot. Tamerlan was killed days after the bombing during a getaway attempt.

Khozhugov said the Muslim convert named Misha often visited the Tsarnaev apartment in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to talk to Tamerlan about Islam.

“I wouldn’t call it formally a lesson, but he was teaching him and suggesting books to read ... expressing his own

views about that faith to Tamerlan,” Khozhugov said.

He said Tamerlan told him he quit boxing, stopped taking acting classes, and stopped playing and listening to music after Misha said those things were not appropriate in Islam.

Khozhugov also described the close-knit relationship between the brothers. He said Tamerlan often couldn’t find the words to express how much he loved Dzhokhar and how he was willing to do anything to help Dzhokhar succeed.

Dzhokhar, in return, adored Tamerlan, Khozhugov said.

“He listened to Tamerlan.

He went along any time Tamerlan would say, ‘Let’s go do this and that,’ ” Khozhugov said.

state’s temporary income tax increase.

While Rauner, in recent public appearances has acknowledged the spring session could extend into the summer, his spokesman dismissed Wednesday’s votes as “political theater.”

“Governor Rauner stands ready to work with Democrats to pass real structural changes to our government and enact a balanced budget,” Lance Trover said in an emailed statement. “We ask Democrats to meet the governor at the negotiating table and help turn our state around.”

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In July 1996, Richard retired from the U. S. Department of Commerce (USDOC) where he served as Deputy Director for Federal Technology Management in the Technology Administration for ten years, and was responsible for implementing legislation which encouraged the private sector to commercialize technology developed by federal laboratories.

Richard served as the Executive Director of the Interagency Committee on Federal Technology Transfer, directing an interagency task force to draft policies on potential conflict of interest guidelines for federal scientists seeking to transfer their inventions, and he prepared reports for Congress and the President.

For his work, Richard was honored with the USDOC Secretary’s Bronze Award for Outstanding Service during the Reagan Administration.

Other posts included serving as an Economist for the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, and he worked with the Bureau of Labor Statistics to develop procedures for measuring productivity in federal agencies. Further, he served at the Office of Productivity, Technology and Innovation, USDOC, and the U.S. Council on Wage and Price Stability.

Earlier in his career, Richard served at the Brookings Institute and for the USDOC Bureau of International Commerce.

Richard earned his Bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College, and did his graduate studies in economics at the University of Maryland.

In retirement, Richard worked for H & R Block, where he enjoyed assisting his clients in tax preparations. His interests included traveling with wife, Karen. He could talk about any subject, had a playfulness that friends enjoyed, a fabulous sense of humor and a wonderful smile. Richard adored dogs, his beloved Chicago Cubs, and he had a deep connection to his family farm in Illinois.

Richard is survived by his loving wife, Karen E. Olscamp; his sister, Mary Louise Sedlak; brother, Leslie Mullins, Jr.; mother-in-law, Mildred Olscamp; brother and sister-in-law, Keith and Pamela Olscamp; and four nieces and one nephew.

Richard is predeceased by his parents, Leslie Edwin Mullins and Elizabeth Harbert Mullins; in addition to sister-in-law, Jane Mullins; and one nephew.

The family will be receiving friends and colleagues on Thursday, May 7, 2015, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m., and 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., at the John M. Taylor Funeral Home. A memorial celebration will be held on Friday, May 8th, at 9:00 a.m., at the St. John Newman Catholic Church in Annapolis, Maryland. Graveside services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Monday morning, May 11, at Old English Cemetery in Shabbona, Illinois.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the Baltimore Washington Medical Center Foundation at www.bwmcfoundation.org where donations will be used to support the Tate Cancer Center.

Local arrangements were completed by Jacobson Funeral Home in Shabbona.

against the bills, which they said should have been more thoroughly vetted by the chamber.

“This is an absolute sham.

A carry over from yesterday’s sham,” GOP state Rep. Ron Sandack said. “It is an embarrassment to me that we’re wasting our time ... over these show votes. [It’s] political gamesmanship.”

Both sides spent months negotiating how to fix to a comparably smaller $1.6 billion hole in this year’s budget, which happened because lawmakers didn’t account for the mid-January expiration of the

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next year. Without that compromise, Rauner has presented a budget that is balanced entirely by slashing spending.

“We cannot balance the budget simply with cuts ... and must not balance the budget on the backs of the most frail and vulnerable,” House Human Services Appropriations Chairman Greg Harris, a Chicago Democrat said.

Madigan said the votes were being held to “permit us to have a full and open discussion and debate on this critical question.”

Republicans stated their objection by voting “present”

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SPRINGFIELD – Democrats who control the Illinois House sent a clear message Wednesday to GOP Gov. Bruce Rauner that they oppose his proposed cuts to human services in next year’s budget, foreshadowing what could be weeks of tense negotiations before the Legislature’s scheduled May 31 adjournment.

The caucus that controls the chamber with a veto-proof supermajority first moved to vote down an overall human services budget proposed

by Rauner in February that would cut Medicaid by $1.5 billion and reduce mental health and addiction treatment programs, among others. Then, dragging out the process long into the afternoon, Democrats voted to spend more than the governor proposed on individual programs and services within the human service budget.

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Meteorologist: ‘Storms are very [unforgiving]’ • STORM CHASERS Continued from page A1

WASHINGTON – On paper and in speeches, Republicans boast that Congress’ first budget since they won control of the Senate and House last fall will eliminate red ink within a decade.

Actually, it will do nothing of the sort. That’s because the budget itself is nonbinding and, on its own, has no effect on spending.

And also because Republicans have decided against using unique budget rules for follow-up legislation to save the trillions of dollars from food stamps, Medicaid and other benefit programs that would be needed to erase red ink. To do that would spark a pitched political battle with Democrats, a veto from President Barack Obama – and a possible backlash from the voters in 2016.

Republican veterans and

newcomers alike made no mention of this political truth in praising their own handiwork in recent days as the blueprint was ratified on party-line votes in both houses.

“This balanced budget achieves real results and allows the federal government to support Americans when it must and get out of the way when it should,” said Wyoming Sen. Mike Enzi, who chairs the Senate Budget Committee.

House Speaker John Boehner’s office listed 10 ways the budget will help taxpayers, including “balancing the budget without raising taxes to help create 1.2 million new jobs, save taxpayers more than $5 trillion and protect future generations from crushing debt.”

In a brief burst of candor, Republican negotiators who put together the final House-Senate compromise were more restrained. They

called their work a “statement of good faith to the American people that Congress can govern responsibly and effectively.”

Overall the Republican spending plan charts a far different course that the one pursued by Democrats, who treated budget-drafting as optional when they held the Senate majority in recent years and show less interest in deficit control.

It will curtail spending on programs that are funded on a yearly basis, by about onetenth of the $5 trillion needed to balance the budget over the next 10 years. Democrats and the White House are sure to contest those bills. But it generally will leave alone the large benefit programs where far greater savings are needed if deficits are to end.

The shortfall is projected to total $468 billion for the current budget year, the lowest since Obama took office.

Organizations will receive their funds May 21 • GIVE LOCAL Continued from page A1 Danielle Guerra – dguerra@shawmedia.com

Gilbert Sebenste, the Northern Illinois University Meteorologist, on April 9 in his off-campus office tracking the National Weather Service radar on his computer screen. ly interested in storm chasing – it just wasn’t as exciting as the movie, Wilkinson said.

“Unfortunately, like most movies, factually [“Twister”] is not very good,” he said.

“Some of the methods they use in the movies are hypedup Hollywood effects, like most disaster movies are. They have realistic properties to them, but there also are quite a bit of errors with how they portray things.”

Wilkinson said the team always exercises caution: They never chase at night, they obey all rules of the road, and they never get too close.

But there was a time the duo went to Omaha, Nebraska, last fall and ran into some pretty wild weather.

“The storm was a lot quicker than we anticipated it being, so it caught up with us,” Wilkinson said. “We had to punch through the whole thing and couldn’t see anything.

There was a tornado to the south of us that we were not able to see because it was rainwrapped.”

“We were the ones being chased,” Hoffman said.

Hoffman said DeKalb is a nice spot for storm chasing because it’s “closer to the highways.” Wilkinson said he appreciates the flat landscape,

which is conducive to storm spotting.

“Even though I hate that Illinois is flat geographically, it helps with storm chasing because we can see farther away,” Wilkinson said. “Our sight lines are not inhibited by trees or hills.”

NIU meteorologist Gilbert Sebenste also chases storms, and was out in the field for the April 9 tornado as well.

“I chase storms because I really enjoy their structure and beyond just the tornado aspect of it,” Sebenste said. “But when a storm chaser blocks traffic or puts himself or herself and others into an unnecessarily dangerous position, that’s where it crosses a line. I have seen storm chasers not care for others and not care for themselves. That’s when the seedy and dark side comes out.”

Sebenste said he understands the high of safely chasing storms, but it should always be done with caution.

“Storms are very [unforgiving],” Sebenste said. “Because a tornado is moving so fast, if you got in the path of it and your car suddenly had problems or skidded off the roadway, your chances of survival are slim. You have to make sure you have at least a basic understanding of storms.”

dollars will be allocated proportionally among the nonprofit organizations based on the percentage of total donations that each group earned.

Organizations will receive their funds May 21 after the foundation verifies all contributions. The final donation numbers will be available Tuesday after the verification process is complete, Zurbrugg said.

Kathy Stelford, founder of Oaken Acres Wildlife Center in Sycamore, said that participation in the drive is a good way for smaller nonprofits to benefit and reach their goals.

The group received about $10,800 in donations Tuesday, a significant amount for the small organization, Stelford

said.

“We don’t have paid staff that can go out and fundraise for us, so for us to raise $10,000 in 24 hours is so huge,” she said.

Oaken Acres will use the donations it received to triple the size of its whitetail deer enclosure, Stelford said.

Next year, the group plans to participate in Give Local and hopes to build a cage complex for its educational birds, she said.

Stelford said that she promoted the drive using Facebook and the community response was gracious.

“Give Local makes it so easy for the charity and the donor to get a project funded,” she said. “We’ve had nothing but a great response from our supporters.”

Give Local not only helps community members connect

with nonprofits, it also allows a chance for nonprofits to get involved with each other, Brian Reis, executive director of Ellwood House Museum, said.

That widespread involvement is what he enjoys most about Give Local, he added.

“It’s good to see other nonprofits out raising funds for their projects,” he said.

“We’re all rooting for each other and participating together.”

Ellwood House Museum raised the most during the Give Local DeKalb County campaign, with donations totaling $20,908. Reis said the organization will use the funds for the maintenance and care of its newest acquired building, the Ellwood-Nehring house. It will also use the funds to contribute to the ongoing project of safeguarding and rehousing museum items.

Emanuel will need help from Springfield for casino OK • BAIL OUT Continued from page A1 The Democrat, who won a second term last month, will need help from Springfield when it comes to getting approval for a revenue-generating casino or further attempts at pension reform. Emanuel

applauded Rauner’s request to speak and said he was the first sitting Illinois governor to make such an appearance.

He deemed it a sign of cooperation for the coming weeks as lawmakers try to craft a state budget by May 31.

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On April 9, Wilkinson and Hoffman traveled to the village of Chadwick, about 70 miles west of DeKalb. Their radar software, GR2 Analyst, was picking up some rotation in the area – a sign of tornadic activity.

Hoffman pushed their vehicle through hard rain and northern Illinois back roads – but they weren’t able to catch any tornado activity on the GoPro because the tornado was rain-wrapped, and couldn’t be seen at a safe distance.

“With there being so much rain around it, it’s very hard to see unless you’re behind the storm,” Wilkinson said from the passenger seat of their vehicle. “Unfortunately, we’re not.”

And they weren’t able to get behind it, either.

By this time, they were on the other side of the region when the EF4 tornado destroyed the tiny town of Fairdale, killing two women.

This is only a part-time gig for the two friends – Hoffman is a car salesman, and Wilkinson works for ComEd. They requested off from their jobs in advance to chase the inclement weather that had been forecast for days.

The two friends weren’t always like this, however. Both of them used to be scared of storms as children.

“Whenever a storm would come,” Hoffman said, “I would run to my mom and dad’s room and sleep on the floor. Then as I got older, I grew out of it, and also my mom and dad tried to lock me out of their room.”

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You can also learn much more about the project on the library’s To the Editor: website.

Although a state grant Everyone who drives around paid for most of the extension, downtown DeKalb will know by the library borrowed $3 million now that the DeKalb Public Library is expanding. Last Saturday, dollars from local banks and is I was part of a tour of the interior working hard to raise the money of the new part of the building. It to repay these loans. There’s still $1 million to go. is an amazing sight.

Consider becoming part of this So much care and attention have gone into the many details. exciting project by making a donation.

Scheduled to open in January, How lucky we all are to have a the extension has three floors, modern public library going up in measures 46,000 square feet, and has been designed to match DeKalb. the existing building in style.

Deborah Booth The older part of the building DeKalb will close for renovation in January and reopen in August.

Sycamore Mayor: Council Our new library will be very grand, fully handicapped accessi- should allow sober house To the Editor: ble, with several meeting rooms, I have listened to people on both a fabulous children’s room with sides of the sober facility issue, a tree, many computers, and and good and truthful points have lots and lots of books. In fact, been offered both in support of there will no longer be a need to and in opposition to the project. put books in the stacks or retire Concerns about taxes, safety, old books when new ones are neighbors, costs, and facility manpurchased. agement still are there, but upon You can watch the building process on a live webcam feed; a further review, the opportunity for link can be found on the library’s men to live in a safe, supportive

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house with other recovering men, and the possibility that some of them could become wage-earning, taxpaying, responsible guys who become makers not takers in the community outweighs the concerns about permitting the 23rd Judicial Circuit and DeKalb County use of the 491 E State St. property for a home for recovering drug and alcohol abusers.

We look at other counties and communities to see what they do with respect to this people business that all public servants are in, and then we weigh all the data pro and con and look for a Sycamore solution to the issue.

The Pay-It-Forward House, although privately funded, also is very much a Sycamore solution to a community need. Judge Robbin Stuckert and I talked yesterday and she outlined specific reasons why four other sites were unsuitable: the homes on west Exchange were found to be too small and configured in ways that require much more cost to make them work, the brick home at Locust and East Exchange was also too small and would require costly renovation, and the apartments

or sleeping rooms at 141 North Ave. have no kitchens or cooking spaces and are in rough shape.

The county did its due diligence with these. These points were made, but perhaps not strongly made, to the City Council.

City and county staff have agreed on some points, which were considered at council, and although not welcomed 100 percent by either party, when in negotiations, when nobody is smiling both sides are close to the middle ground.

The point is, the facility should be given a chance to become a valid choice for men who are recovering from an unhealthy lifestyle. Neither the county nor the city will tolerate problems at the facility should they occur, but the rationale that they might occur will never be known without allowing the facility to function.

I am urging council members to vote to permit this facility to open and give a chance to men in recovery who seek to remain that way one day at a time.

Ken Mundy Mayor, city of Sycamore

Do politicians have a sell-by date?

Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama: We’ve had three back-to-back, two-term presidencies for the first time since the 1820s. Each of these men took office with his party in control of both chambers of Congress; by their seventh year in office, both chambers belonged to the opposition. They have something else in common, too: Each of them won the presidency on his first try.

Is that a coincidence, or something more?

People are always looking for patterns in presidential elections. Governors seeking the White House, for example, do better than senators. Since 1920, senators have been elected president only twice.

Governors also win their party’s nomination for president more often than senators.

That could be a fluke, or it may demonstrate that voters strongly prefer presidents to have executive experience.

Jonathan Rauch, the political journalist, has identified another pattern, which he calls the Law of 14: Since Teddy Roosevelt’s election, all successful candidates for the presidency or vice presidency have won within 14 years of their first election victory. Lyndon Johnson is the exception – although a Jeb Bush versus Hillary Clinton race in 2016 could create another one.

Rauch has a plausible theory to explain the pattern, which is that “a genuine and

VIEWS Ramesh Ponnuru perfectly sensible electoral preference underlies it: The public wants seasoned fillies, but not old mares.”

Could the fact that the past three presidents won the White House on their first try be a sign that voters have become more averse to staleness in politicians?

Having run for president before still doesn’t seem to be an obstacle to winning a party nomination: Bob Dole, John McCain and Mitt Romney all got their nominations after their first campaigns.

But all, of course, went on to lose the general elections.

This trend – if trend it is – doesn’t go back as far as Rauch’s law does. Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush had all run and lost before their successful campaigns. But it seems noteworthy that every defeated Republican nominee of the past 20 years had already failed in an earlier bid.

If we now have an emergent one-anddone rule for presidential bids, the next question is why? Maybe rising dissatisfaction with government and politics has increased the public’s demand for political outsiders, and people who have already

run for president don’t seem sufficiently outsiderish. That would fit with Rauch’s explanation for the trend he identified: The preference for freshness in a candidate has just gotten stronger.

Or perhaps some broader cultural trend has made presidential politics less forgiving of losers. Have Americans become less tolerant of failure? Have saturation news media coverage and declining attention spans made them more inclined to flip the channel on a familiar politician?

Then again, some apparent political rules are mainly a function of the small number of presidential elections we’ve had. Republicans haven’t won the presidency since 1928 without a Nixon or a Bush on the ticket – but Republicans could have run different vice-presidential candidates in 1952, 1956, 1980 and 1984 without changing the outcome of any of those elections.

So our string of three first-time’s-thecharm presidents could just be a random streak that’s about to be broken. Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee should be hoping it is – and so should Hillary Clinton.

• Ramesh Ponnuru, a Bloomberg View columnist, is a senior editor for National Review and a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

When new leaders take charge, things are bound to change.

Supporters of the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency are concerned about a change proposed by firstyear Gov. Bruce Rauner.

Rauner supports the abolition of the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency.

At first glance, his proposal seems drastic.

Illinois has a remarkable history, after all, and the Historic Preservation Agency plays an important role in safeguarding that heritage.

Some people have gone so far as to call the proposal “devastating.” We’ve read the legislation, House Bill 574, and believe the alarmist talk is overblown.

It’s true the bill would abolish the Historic Preservation Agency. However, all the agency’s “powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities,” with one exception, simply would be transferred to a new Historic Sites Division within the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.

The exception would be the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield.

The bill would allow that state-owned facility to operate on its own, governed by a board of directors. The belief is the 10-year-old Lincoln Library and Museum could become more efficient in its mission “to promote tourism and educate Illinois residents on Lincoln’s legacy and impact.”

Back to the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency.

If it is rolled into the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity and becomes the Historic Sites Division, its duties would not be forgotten.

The state’s dozens of historic sites, museums and monuments still would operate. People still would be able to conduct historical research. Efforts to preserve Illinois’ history still would be undertaken. Volunteers still would be solicited to assist at various historic sites.

Why the change, then? A new Historic Sites Division should benefit from better marketing and promotion within the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. Those people are all about business, and tourism is important to businesses in Illinois.

History buffs fearful of the proposed changes should take a longer historical view.

With reorganization can come rejuvenation. We believe that would be good news for Illinois’ historic sites and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.

ANOTHER VIEW

Huckabee is the down-home GOP candidate Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee entered the GOP presidential race Tuesday.

Although he’s not viewed as a top contender, Huckabee has proven himself a formidable candidate among the GOP base’s many evangelical Christians, winning the 2008 Iowa caucuses despite being phenomenally outspent by Mitt Romney, and from there taking seven other states before ultimately losing to John McCain.

Since then, the former Baptist preacher has cultivated his image as a Christian warrior and his TV talents as a Fox News host.

Huckabee wears his identity politics on his sleeve.

A Bible-quoting bass player, he mixed conservative talk with live country music on his Fox News show. He titled his latest book “God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy.”

Last month he warned a group of pastors that “We are moving rapidly toward the criminalization of Christianity” and added that ministers might soon have to start performing same-sex marriages or be subject to civil or criminal punishment. Neither statement has the advantage of truth.

In his announcement Tuesday, he came out for veterans, against “the false god of judicial supremacy,” for a cure for cancer and against the IRS, “the biggest bully in America.”

Huckabee caught on in his first campaign in part because he comes across as a genial, empathetic man who can promote a kind of moral populism without seeming moralistic. Of late, however, his appeal to the working class has tended toward a kind of conspiratorial populism that would not serve the U.S. economy well.

“We have a lot of globalists and, frankly, corporatists instead of having nationalists,” he said as he criticized the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal in March.

Huckabee also renewed his support for the so-called Fair Tax, which would replace all federal income and payroll taxes with a national consumption tax. Taxing spending rather than savings or labor makes sense in principle. In practice, such a tax would have to be set very high and designed carefully in order not to be regressive, and the plan probably wouldn’t get rid of the IRS, as its backers claim.

Still, it might appeal to primary voters for its downhome simplicity – much like Huckabee himself.

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SYCAMORE GIRLS BASKETBALL

Gilbert signs with Carthage

By TRAVIS ZUELLIG sports@daily-chronicle.com AP file photo

NFL: Patriots employees probably deflated balls Tom Brady: Unbelievable.

The 243-page report on “Deflategate” came out Wednesday and stopped barely short of calling the Patriots star quarterback a cheater. It did, however, call some of his claims “implausible” and left little doubt that he had a role in having footballs deflated before New England’s AFC title game against Indianapolis in January and probably in previous games.

In his report, attorney Ted Wells said the quarterback “was at least generally aware” of all the plans to prepare the balls to his liking, below the league-mandated minimum of 12.5 pounds per square inch. Wells said it was “more probable than not” that two Patriots employees – officials’ locker room attendant Jim McNally and equipment assistant John Jastremski – executed the plan.

For his trouble, McNally asked for expensive shoes and signed footballs, jerseys and cash. He brokered the deals over a series of salty text messages with Jastremski that portray Brady as a hardto-please taskmaster.

For the biggest home game of the season, McNally came through, taking the footballs from the officials’ locker room into a bathroom before delivering them to the field, the report said.

As for Brady’s claims that he didn’t know of efforts to deflate game balls and didn’t know anything about what McNally did: “We found these claims not plausible and contradicted by other evidence,” Wells wrote.

The penalties for all this? To be determined. League executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent is reviewing the report and will hand down the punishment.

– Wire report

SYCAMORE – After a productive prep career, one of the best girls basketball players in the area finally made her decision about where she will be playing college basketball next year.

Sycamore senior Bailey Gilbert signed to play Division III basketball at Carthage College. Gilbert put pen to paper in front of family, teammates and classmates in the Sycamore main gym Wednesday afternoon.

“Probably after a year of visiting numerous schools, I think it is kind of a relief to pick the one where I feel most comfortable and I know I will be successful at,” Gilbert said.

Since her freshman year, Gilbert

More online For all your prep sports coverage – stories, features, scores, photos, videos and more – log on to Daily-Chronicle.com/ dcpreps. has been prolific. She is a threetime all-area first teamer, including being named the Daily Chronicle’s Girls Basketball Player of the Year in her junior season in 2014. Gilbert finished in double-figures in points in each of the past three seasons and led the area with 17.2 points a game in 2014.

One obvious skill Gilbert will bring to Kenosha, Wisconsin, next year is her 3-point shooting ability.

But she also brings solid defense and ball-handling skills, Sycamore coach Brett Goff said. “(She is) dependable,” he said.

“You always know what she is going to give you every night. On the defensive end of the floor, she really came a long way in her four years. Offensively, you knew she was capable of.

She was also someone that her teammates trusted.”

Gilbert said she doesn’t want to be known as just a shooter when she starts playing in college.

“I think once I get to the next level, I will have to start working on more things,” Gilbert said. “I am Danielle Guerra file photo – dguerra@shawmedia.com going to try to get myself to where I am not just pinpointed as a shoot- Sycamore’s Bailey Gilbert goes up for a layup over a Sterling defender on Dec. 2 in Sycamore. er.”

See GILBERT, page B3

THE NEXT LEVEL

Making history at St. John’s Kaneland alum Lauren Zick helps Red Storm to their 1st Big East title

By EDDIE CARIFIO ecarifio@shawmedia.com

WHAT TO WATCH NHL: Blackhawks at Minnesota, 8:30 p.m., NBCSN With a 3-0 lead, the Hawks can eliminate the Wild and reach the Western Conference finals for the third consecutive season with a win in St. Paul.

Pro baseball Oakland at Minnesota, noon, or L.A. Dodgers at Milwaukee, 12:30 p.m., MLBN Cubs at St. Louis, 12:45 p.m., CSN Detroit at White Sox, 1 p.m., WGN Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees or Texas at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m., MLBN Stanley Cup playoffs Montreal at Tampa Bay, Game 4, 6 p.m., NBCSN Golf PGA Tour, The Players Championship, first round, noon, TGC Boxing Super bantamweights, Manuel Avilia (16-0-0) vs.

Erik Ruiz (13-2-0), 9 p.m., FS1 Soccer UEFA Europa League, semifinal, first leg, Fiorentina at Sevilla, 2 p.m., FS1 Hockey IIHF, World Championship, preliminary round, United States vs. Belarus, 9 a.m., NBCSN

Gilbert signed Wednesday to play at Division III Carthage College.

Photo provided by St. John’s University Athletic Department

Kaneland graduate Lauren Zick bats in a game earlier this season for St. John’s. Zick was a big part of the Red Storm’s first Big East regular season title.

The St. John’s softball team did something it never has done before – win the Big East Conference regular-season championship.

Freshman Lauren Zick has been a big part of that for the Red Storm.

The Kaneland alumna hit .350 this year in 80 at-bats, starting 31 games and playing mostly in left field, helping St. John’s go 26-17 and 16-2 in the Big East.

She also was a first-team Big East selection.

St. John’s earned the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament, which begins Friday at the Ballpark in Rosemont.

The Red Storm face Villanova, which they beat Saturday to clinch the title.

The championship game is Saturday against DePaul or Seton Hall.

Paige Keegan also is on a postseason run, as her Division III Winona State softball team qualified for the Augustana (South Dakota) Regional, earning a No. 5 seed after a 46-12 season. The team beat Augustana twice in the conference tournament to earn the No. 1 berth, but Augustana (50-9) still earned the No. 1 seed in the regional.

In the clincher against Augustana, Keegan, a GenoaKingston grad and a freshman with the Warriors, drove in a run. She was 2 for 4 in the two games against Augustana and scored twice. She’s made 19 starts this year and is batting .389, playing mostly catcher.

Also for Winona, Kaneland grad Ally O’Herron is hitting .281, starting all 57 games.

Kelly Gerace’s career came to end when her University of Dubuque softball team lost to Central College, 7-1, in the Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Confer-

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elcome to The Next Level, a regular look at how local athletes are doing at the collegiate level. Know anyone we should check in on? Let sports editor Eddie Carifio know at ecarifio@shawmedia.com or on Twitter at @DDCEddieCarifio.

This week’s edition features DeKalb’s Kelly Gerace and Jasmine Brown, Sycamore’s Mitchell Jordan and Lake Kwaza, Kaneland’s Lauren Zick, Josch Schuberg, Troy Kruger, Sydney Strang and Ally O’Herron, Genoa-Kingston’s Paige Keegan and Hinckley-Big Rock’s Mitchel Ruh.

ence tournament. The DeKalb grad finished her final season with a .280 batting average and six home runs, the last one coming April 2. She started the tournament with a 2-for-4 game against Simpson College in a win.

The baseball season wrapped up in the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin, and a pair of local players hit more than .300 for their respective teams – although both will miss out on the conference tournament for the NCAA Division III league.

Mitchell Jordan hit .303 for North Park this year, starting 35 games, and posting a .889 OPS – best on the team. The Sycamore grad had a home run and 16 RBIs on the year. For Augustana, Hinckley-Big Rock grad Mitchel Ruh hit .316 in 22 games, 12 starts.

See NEXT LEVEL, page B3

NBA PLAYOFFS: CAVALIERS 106, BULLS 91

Let’s just worry about ‘noise’ later Call it noise or discord or the music of the human mill.

That the Bulls’ front office – OK, John Paxson and general manager Gar Forman – have major issues with coach Tom Thibodeau is well known.

Funny thing here?

Game 3 Paxson hired Thibs.

Gar has profited from vs. Cleveland, 7 p.m. Thibs’ single-minded Friday, ESPN, lunacy. The Bulls are good.

AM-1000 Moreover, the front office knew what it was getting with the now-57-year-old hoops lifer: Tunnel vision, obsession, defensive focus, win-or-die mania, hu-

VIEWS Rick Telander morless grinding.

Thibodeau already had been a college assistant coach at Salem State and Harvard, and then an NBA assistant with the Timberwolves, Spurs, 76ers, Knicks, Rockets and Celtics.

Mileage was his calling card.

He never had been a head coach until Paxson vetted and hired him.

And if Pax didn’t know Thibs was maybe not your normal, social, player-friendly coach, then bad on him.

No matter what, this conflict like-

ly will mean Thibodeau will be gone after this season. Weird, isn’t it?

Especially when you consider that even after this stinker of a loss Wednesday night to the Cavaliers, 106-91, the Bulls have split in Cleveland and stolen homecourt advantage.

Get past the Cavs, and the Bulls could win the NBA title. And still Thibs might be launched. Because the front office is sick of his maniacal desire to burn everything to the core to win.

That’s why the feud is so odd – why it hints at the unsolvable flaws in human nature.

See TELANDER, page B2

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Bulls guard Derrick Rose watches from the bench late in Game 2 against the Cavaliers in a second-round NBA playoff series Wednesday night in Cleveland. The Bulls lost, 106-91.

2 SPORTS • Thursday, May 7, 2015 • Section B • Daily Chronicle / Daily-Chronicle.com LOCAL SCHEDULE TODAY Prep baseball DeKalb at Yorkville, 4:30 p.m.

Kaneland at Sycamore, 4:30 p.m.

Genoa-Kingston at North Boone, 4:30 p.m.

Prep softball DeKalb at Yorkville, 4:30 p.m.

Geneseo at Kaneland, 4:30 p.m.

Harvard at Genoa-Kingston, 4:30 p.m.

Girls soccer Yorkville at Sycamore, 4:30 p.m.

Morris at Kaneland, 4:30 p.m.

Boys tennis DeKalb at Plainfield North, 4:30 p.m.

Girls track and field Genoa-Kingston at Big Northern Conference meet at Marengo, 4 p.m.

Girls badminton DeKalb at Hoffman Estates Sectional College softball NIU vs. Akron, MAC tournament, 5 p.m.

SPORTS BRIEFS NIU softball loses to Miami in MAC opener The Northern Illinois softball team couldn’t erase an early six-run deficit in a 6-4 loss to Miami (Ohio) in the first round of the Mid-American Conference tournament Wednesday in Akron, Ohio.

Down 6-0 after four innings, the Huskies (28-24) scored four times in the fifth inning against the RedHawks (3222), including a three-run home run by Kayti Grable that tied her with Jill Justin for the most career home runs in program history.

“Obviously, we got off to a really slow start offensively,” NIU coach Christina Sutcliffe said. “We were just being too picky in the box, letting pitches go and looking at too many strikes. We had more in that game than we had all season.”

NIU is back in action at 5 p.m. today when it faces Akron in an elimination game.

Lawsuit accuses 49ers’ LB of groping woman SANTA CLARA, Calif. – A woman is accusing San Francisco 49ers linebacker Ahmad Brooks of groping her while she was unconscious at the home of former teammate Ray McDonald, who signed with the Bears in March.

In a civil lawsuit filed Tuesday in Santa Clara County, the woman said she believes surveillance footage will corroborate her allegations against Brooks. The woman said Brooks groped her before McDonald carried her upstairs to his bedroom and sexually assaulted her in December 2014.

McDonald has sued the woman for defamation, saying security camera footage would show a consensual sexual encounter occurred in his hot tub.

The 49ers cut McDonald after learning of the allegation. The Santa Clara County district attorney is considering whether to file criminal charges.

A call to McDonald’s attorney was not returned. It was not immediately clear whether Brooks had an attorney.

Pacquiao has shoulder surgery Manny Pacquiao underwent surgery on his injured right shoulder Wednesday after his loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr. in boxing’s richest fight ever.

Pacquiao spokesman Fred Sternburg quoted the fighter’s surgeon, Dr. Neal ElAttrache of the Kerlan Jobe Orthopaedic clinic in Los Angeles, as saying he could not be “more pleased with the results” and fully expects Pacquiao to make a full recovery.

– Staff, wire reports

STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS: BLACKHAWKS VS. WILD

NBA PLAYOFFS

Regular season means very little

By MARK LAZERUS mlazerus@suntimes.com MINNEAPOLIS – Remember in October and November, when the Blackhawks barely could score a goal? Remember in December and January, when Corey Crawford returned from an ankle injury and looked nothing like his old self?

Remember in February, when Patrick Kane was injured and the world basically had ended? Remember in March, when the Hawks went on the road and lost three of four to nonplayoff teams to fall into a wild-card spot? Remember in April when the Hawks, with a real chance to win the Central Division title, instead lost their last four games while scoring only five times?

Yeah. About that . . .

It’s time to accept as fact a theory that nobody wants to admit: The regular season simply doesn’t mean anything to the Hawks. This is a playoff team, built for the playoffs, always thinking about the playoffs, always confident about its fate in the playoffs. And the nearly seven months preceding the playoffs basically are an extended opening act, the faceless band nobody cares about and just wants to get through before the Rolling Stones take the stage.

Game 4 at Minnesota, 8:30 p.m. today, NBCSN, AM-720 “Unfortunately, you’ve got to play 82 games,” center Brad Richards said. “I would have fast-forwarded to the playoffs in a heartbeat, but you’ve got to go through the process.”

At 35 and chasing his first Stanley Cup since 2004, when he was with the Tampa Bay Lightning, Richards was talking only about himself. But for all the members of the Hawks’ vaunted core, it never has been about October through March – only April through June.

And, sure enough, the Hawks – the inconsistent, old, worn-out, not-deep-enough, just-not-good-enough, possibly finished Hawks, based on which fans and pundits you listened to throughout the season – are up 3-0 on the supposed Cup-contending Minnesota Wild. A win tonight would cap the Hawks’ first playoff sweep in five years and put them in the Western Conference final for the third consecutive spring and the fifth time in seven years. It would be their eighth series victory in three years, an astonishing accom-

plishment in the modern era of the NHL. You know that “switch” everybody’s always talking about? The Hawks had better find it, we all said. The Hawks can’t rely on it, we all said. The Hawks need to flip it for the stretch run, we all said. The Hawks knew better. They knew right where it was. They knew they could count on it. And they waited until the second period of Game 1 of the series against the Nashville Predators to flip it.

Why? Because they can.

That awful game Nov. 14 in Detroit – when, in coach Joel Quenneville’s words, the turnover-prone Hawks were handing out “pizzas” left and right – doesn’t seem so disconcerting now, does it? Those three home losses to the upstart Winnipeg Jets don’t seem so paradigm-shifting anymore, do they? That Godawful performance in a 3-0 loss Feb. 3 at Minnesota doesn’t seem so disheartening now, does it?

After each loss, the Hawks remained calm, cool and collected, almost frustratingly so.

We’ll be fine, they said. We’re not concerned, they said. We’ll do better, they said.

The underlying theme: It’s the regular season. Who cares?

Of course, you can take such

an attitude too far. The Los Angeles Kings learned that this season.

The Hawks, however, never were in danger of missing the playoffs, even when they briefly fell behind the Wild in the division standings. An eight-game winning streak that started on the circus trip and an 8-11 spurt in the wake of Kane’s injury made sure of that. Like Marian Hossa in his own zone, the Hawks always are aware of where everyone is all around them, and know exactly when they have to leap into action.

Here’s something to consider: The four teams that finished ahead of the Hawks in the Central Division over the past two regular seasons combined for four first-round exits. To put it even more bluntly: Would you rather be the St. Louis Blues, perennial regular-season powerhouses, or the Hawks, perennial Cup contenders?

It’s a dangerous way to play, and it can’t last forever. And it’s maddening for fans who live and die with every regular-season game while their heroes occasionally sleepwalk through an early January game in Edmonton on the second night of a back-to-back.

But who are we to argue, when every spring, the result is the same?

NBA PLAYOFFS: CAVALIERS 106, BULLS 91

James lead Cavs in Game 2

By TOM WITHERS The Associated Press CLEVELAND – The headband returned. The aggressiveness, dunks and dazzling plays all came back, too.

LeBron James wasn’t going to have a second sub-par game.

James attacked from the start and scored 33 points, Kyrie Irving added 21 and the Cleveland Cavaliers evened their semifinal series, beating the Bulls, 106-91, in Game 2 on Wednesday night.

Donning the signature headband he ditched in March, James played like a man possessed. He powered to the basket, leaving Bulls defenders in his wake and keeping the Cavs, missing two starters, from falling into a 2-0 hole. He added eight rebounds and five assists for Cleveland, which led by 25 in the third quarter and withstood a third-quarter charge by the Bulls.

James said the choice to wear the headband was spur of the moment.

“It was in my locker and I decided to give it a go,” he said.

“It was time for it to make a comeback.”

The Cavs made one, too.

For the second straight game, they were without forward Kevin Love (shoulder surgery) and J.R. Smith (twogame suspension), but they had James and he was more like himself after an “off” opener.

“We’re a little banged up, we’re short-handed, so I have to be aggressive,” James said.

“Even more aggressive than my usual self, and I was happy I was able to make a couple of plays to help our team win tonight.”

Jimmy Butler scored 18 and Derrick Rose had 14 points and 10 assists for the Bulls, who host Game 3 on Friday night.

Pau Gasol added 11 points – 10 fewer than Game 1, when he destroyed the Cavs on uncontested jumpers.

Iman Shumpert added 15 points, James Jones made five 3-pointers and Tristan Thompson added 12 rebounds for Cleveland. Thompson started at power forward in Love’s spot, allowing James to move back to small forward. On the perimeter is where James is most AP photo dangerous and he made it clear from the outset that he wasn’t Cavaliers forward LeBron James (back) tries to knock the ball loose from going to stand around and wait Bulls center Joakim Noah during the second half of Game 2 in a second-round playoff series Wednesday night in Cleveland. The Bulls lost, 106-91. for the game to come to him.

Bulls need injured Noah on the floor

By JOE COWLEY jcowley@suntimes.com CLEVELAND – The playoffs haven’t been pretty for Joakim Noah.

The Bulls big man was averaging only 6.5 points a game, hitting just 43 percent of his shots, 1 for 12 from the free throw line, and coming off a Game 1 against the Cavaliers in which he was shutout in the scoring department.

Still, there he was in the starting lineup for the Bulls in Wednesday’s Game 2, and no one player was more excited about that than Derrick Rose.

As a matter of fact, as far as Rose was concerned, Noah – even with one good knee – is a must-start as long as the Bulls are breathing playoff life.

“Jo is giving us what he’s got,” Rose said of Noah. “He’s someone that has been through a lot. For a big guy having these injuries, it takes a lot. Just his energy, just his presence on the team is huge because he’s a [heck] of a character, [heck] of a person and a [heck] of a teammate, and he’ll do anything to win. It kind of rubs off on peo-

ple.”

If the players believe that, it’s completely fine with coach Tom Thibodeau. His reason for keeping Noah in that starting lineup, despite the spotty scoring, has more to do with Xs and Os than warm and squishy feelings about character.

“I don’t want anyone to get lost in his scoring because it’s never been like a strong suit for him, so for him it’s all the other stuff that he brings to the team,” Thibodeau said. “It’s not the emotion, it’s the activity. It’s what he’s doing out there. It’s the defense, the multiple-effort, the rebounding, moving the ball quickly, setting screens, all those things. When he does that, he’s very effective for us.”

All that will be tested Friday in Game 3, as the series goes to Chicago. With Cleveland increasing the size of their starting lineup by going with Tristan Thompson over Mike Miller, Noah’s size and versatility will again be on trial.

Thibodeau didn’t sound worried.

“It’s more of how the team functions when he’s on the floor,’’ Thibodeau said.

Rose injury at the heart of it • TELANDER Continued from page B1 Basically, you get sick of somebody you’ve been around too much. Especially when situations change. All you see are the negatives.

You can blame a lot of this on the uncertainty created by the Derrick Rose knee injuries. Rose was the MVP of the league in 2011, and Thibodeau was NBA Coach of the Year.

The two were linked like a bee and its honey.

But when Rose’s knee surgeries blew the hive to bits, a kind of frustrated, irritable, scapegoat-seeking atmosphere descended on the Bulls. It was unfortunate but understandable. The amazing Chicago-born point guard was tough as steel, fragile as glass.

To push him – as Thibs did – was to risk long-term loss for short-term gain.

Paxson, no light-hearted fellow himself, kept getting more unwired with the Rose chaos.

Through it all, Thibs was like a badger on speed, digging a hole. Pax and Gar were like crows watching from a tree, angry, dumbfounded, disgusted.

In marriage, it’s called the “seven-year itch.” In Hollywood, it’s called “un-coupling.”

In music, it’s called “creative

differences.” In crime, it’s called “Sorry, pal, this hole’s for you.”

What Paxson and Foreman are wondering is, how much better would we be with a different coach? Say, a rookie such as Fred Hoiberg?

Nobody knows. But the irritation never stops.

So we’ve got this silly issue right in the middle of battle.

The Bulls won 50 games this season, are in the second round of the playoffs and have been quite successful during Thibodeau’s five years in Chicago. A record of 265-139. Two firstplace and three second-place finishes in the Central Division. Always a playoff team.

But strange things happen in life and sports.

Example: Frail Bulls 3-point shooter Mike Dunleavy poster-ized All-World superstar athlete LeBron James on a second-quarter two-handed dunk Wednesday night.

Odds of that happening? Nil. But it happened.

We won’t worry about this Bulls rift until something caves. For now it’s background noise. Nothing more.

For now.

• Rick Telander is a Chicago Sun-Times columnist. Write to him at rtelander@suntimes.com or follow him on Twitter @rtelander.

CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Tuesday Atlanta 106, Washington 90, series tied 1-1 Memphis 97, Golden State 90, series tied 1-1 Wednesday Cleveland 106, Bulls 91, series tied 1-1 Houston 115, L.A. Clippers 109, series tied 1-1 Friday Cleveland at Bulls, 7 p.m.

Houston at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.

Saturday Atlanta at Washington, 4 p.m.

Golden State at Memphis, 7 p.m.

Sunday Cleveland at Bulls, 2:30 p.m.

Houston at L.A. Clippers, 7:30 p.m.

Monday Atlanta at Washington, 6 p.m.

Golden State at Memphis, 8:30 p.m.

Tuesday Bulls at Cleveland, 6 or 7 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Houston, 7:30 or 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday Washington at Atlanta, 7 p.m.

Memphis at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

Thursday, May 14 x-Cleveland at Bulls, TBD x-Houston at L.A. Clippers, TBD Friday, May 15 x-Atlanta at Washington, TBD x-Golden State at Memphis, TBD Sunday, May 17 x-Bulls at Cleveland, TBD x-L.A. Clippers at Houston, TBD x-Memphis at Golden State, TBD Monday, May 18 x-Washington at Atlanta, 7 p.m.

NHL PLAYOFFS CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Tuesday Blackhawks 1, Minnesota 0, Hawks lead series 3-0 Calgary 4, Anaheim 3 (OT), Ducks lead series 2-1 Wednesday Tampa Bay 2, Montreal 1, Lightning lead series 3-0 Washington 2, N.Y. Rangers 1, Capitals lead series 3-1 Today Blackhawks at Minnesota, 8:30 p.m.

Montreal at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.

Friday Washington at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m.

Anaheim at Calgary, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday x-Minnesota at Blackhawks, TBD x-Tampa Bay at Montreal, TBD Sunday x-N.Y. Rangers at Washington, TBD Calgary at Anaheim, TBD Monday x-Blackhawks at Minnesota, TBD Tuesday x-Montreal at Tampa Bay, TBD x-Anaheim at Calgary, TBD Wednesday x-Minnesota at Blackhawks, TBD x-Washington at N.Y. Rangers, TBD Thursday, May 14 x-Tampa Bay at Montreal, TBD x-Calgary at Anaheim, TBD

MLB NATIONAL LEAGUE Central Division W L Pct GB St. Louis 20 7 .741 — Cubs 14 12 .538 5½ Cincinnati 14 13 .519 6 Pittsburgh 12 15 .444 8 Milwaukee 9 19 .321 11½ East Division W L Pct GB New York 18 10 .643 — Atlanta 14 14 .500 4 Washington 14 15 .483 4½ Miami 13 15 .464 5 Philadelphia 10 19 .345 8½ West Division W L Pct GB Los Angeles 17 10 .630 — San Diego 15 14 .517 3 San Francisco 14 14 .500 3½ Arizona 12 14 .462 4½ Colorado 11 15 .423 5½ Wednesday’s Results Cubs 6, St. Louis 5 Washington 7, Miami 5 Arizona 13, Colorado 7, 1st game Arizona 5, Colorado 1, 2nd game San Diego 9, San Francisco 1 Cincinnati 3, Pittsburgh 0 N.Y. Mets 5, Baltimore 1 Atlanta 7, Philadelphia 5 Milwaukee 6, L.A. Dodgers 3 Today’s Games Cubs (Arrieta 3-2) at St. Louis (Lackey 1-1), 12:45 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Frias 2-0) at Milwaukee (Fiers 1-3), 12:40 p.m.

Cincinnati (DeSclafani 2-2) at Pittsburgh (Burnett 0-1), 6:05 p.m.

San Diego (Despaigne 2-0) at Arizona (R.De La Rosa 2-2), 8:40 p.m.

Miami (Haren 3-1) at San Francisco (T.Hudson 1-2), 9:15 p.m.

Friday’s Games Cubs at Milwaukee, 7:10 p.m.

Cincinnati at White Sox, 7:10 p.m.

Atlanta at Washington, 6:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 6:05 p.m.

St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 6:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, 7:40 p.m.

San Diego at Arizona, 8:40 p.m.

Miami at San Francisco, 9:15 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE Central Division W L Pct Kansas City 17 10 .630 Detroit 17 11 .607 Minnesota 15 13 .536 White Sox 10 14 .417 Cleveland 10 16 .385 East Division W L Pct New York 17 11 .607 Tampa Bay 15 13 .536 Toronto 14 15 .483 Baltimore 12 13 .480 Boston 13 15 .464 West Division W L Pct Houston 18 10 .643 Los Angeles 12 15 .444 Oakland 12 17 .414 Seattle 11 16 .407 Texas 11 16 .407

GB — ½ 2½ 5½ 6½ GB — 2 3½ 3½ 4 GB — 5½ 6½ 6½ 6½

Wednesday’s Results White Sox 7, Detroit 6 Toronto 5, N.Y. Yankees 1 N.Y. Mets 5, Baltimore 1 Tampa Bay 5, Boston 3 Cleveland 10, Kansas City 3 Minnesota 13, Oakland 0 Texas 11, Houston 3 Seattle at L.A. Angels (n) Today’s Games Detroit (Lobstein 2-2) at White Sox (Quintana 1-2), 1:10 p.m.

Oakland (Pomeranz 1-2) at Minnesota (Nolasco 1-1), 12:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Kluber 0-4) at Kansas City (Volquez 2-3), 1:10 p.m.

Baltimore (Tillman 2-3) at N.Y. Yankees (Eovaldi 2-0), 6:05 p.m.

Texas (N.Martinez 2-0) at Tampa Bay (Archer 3-3), 6:10 p.m.

Houston (McHugh 4-0) at L.A. Angels (Santiago 2-2), 9:05 p.m.

Friday’s Games Cincinnati at White Sox, 7:10 p.m.

Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees, 6:05 p.m.

Boston at Toronto, 6:07 p.m.

Kansas City at Detroit, 6:08 p.m.

Minnesota at Cleveland, 6:10 p.m.

Texas at Tampa Bay, 6:10 p.m.

Houston at L.A. Angels, 9:05 p.m.

Oakland at Seattle, 9:10 p.m.

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SPORTS 3

GIRLS SOCCER: DIXON 2, GENOA-KINGSTON 1

Grimm scores in Cogs’ loss

By DAN WOESSNER dwoessner@saukvalley.com

AP photo

Cubs Anthony Rizzo (from left to right), Starlin Castro, Kris Bryant and Addison Russell celebrate after defeating the Cardinals, 6-5, Wednesday night in St. Louis.

CUBS 6, CARDINALS 5

DIXON – It’s entirely possible the soccer ball realized if it bounced the wrong way in the opposite direction of the net again Wednesday that Lauren Chacon was likely to kick it into the Rock River that runs behind A.C. Bowers Field.

So when the ball crossed in front of the net off Chacon’s foot and hit the post with 26:46 left in the Dixon Duchesses’ Big Northern Conference crossover with Genoa-Kingston, it bounded to the ground

and spun backward into the goal.

It was Chacon’s second goal of the day, and it proved necessary in a 2-1 win over the Cogs.

The Cogs (7-11-1) finished the match on a high note with a goal by Ashley Grimm off a pass from Maggie Bouque with 16.7 seconds left.

The final Dixon score came after a series of close calls fired at the Genoa-Kingston goal that either were slightly off target, deflected off the post or were smothered by goalkeeper Kayleigh Engles.

Dixon (11-3-3) fired 22 shots, and Engles had six saves. It was good production form the senior, who is a firstyear soccer player.

“She’s a basketball player, and we were able to recruit her to come out and play for the first time,” G-K coach Randy Tate said. “She’s really picked up the game fast, and done a nice job back there.

We allowed six goals the first time we played Dixon, and only two this time. So that’s improvement.”

Chacon’s first goal came 9 minutes into the match off a

pass from Alexis Langloss.

The Duchesses controlled the ball in the first half, and did not allow a shot on goal until there was 26:47 left in the match.

The two teams will meet again Wednesday in a semifinal match of the Class 1A Genoa-Kingston Regional.

“Hopefully, that goal gives us a little confidence,” Tate said. “We’ve had so many injuries that has left us short-handed. We had three girls go down with season-ending injuries this year.”

Cubs end Cards’ PREP ROUNDUP 8-game win streak Kaneland clinches NI Big 12 East title

By R.B. FALLSTROM The Associated Press ST. LOUIS – Anthony Rizzo went deep again. So did Jon Lester.

Rizzo homered for the third time in five games with three RBIs, and Lester had a strong outing for the Cubs, who ended the St. Louis Cardinals’ eightgame winning streak and their own four-game skid with a 6-4 victory Wednesday night.

“What did they have, two runners on the last inning?” said rookie Kris Bryant, who had two hits and an RBI. “It was huge for us to get that win.”

Jhonny Peralta hit a 447-foot homer and Yadier Molina had two hits and two RBIs for the Cardinals, who erased deficits of five and three runs the first two games of the four-game series but couldn’t quite make up a three-run, fifth-inning deficit. Lance Lynn (1-3) allowed five runs in six innings.

“I just think this is who we are,” Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. “We’re just going to keep coming. Regardless of what’s happened in recent games, just keep playing.”

St. Louis put runners on the corners with one out in the ninth before Hector Rondon escaped for his sixth save in seven chances.

The Cardinals entered a major league-best 20-6, the best

start for the franchise since 1900, and their NL Central lead was shaved to 5½ games over the second-place Cubs. They’re 13-3 at home.

Lester (2-2) left leading 5-4 after seven innings but only one of the runs was earned against the team he dominated in St. Louis in Game 5 of the 2013 World Series. He’s worked seven innings in each of the past two starts.

The pitcher’s fielding error covering first led to a run in the second and second baseman Addison Russell missed a liner for a fielding error that led to two more runs in the sixth.

Lester also mishandled a cutoff throw on pinch hitter Kolten Wong’s RBI single in the eighth.

“It should have been a little bit easier,” Lester said. “I made it a little bit harder. If I catch two balls, maybe we save some guys in the bullpen.”

Rizzo hit his fifth homer in the third and added a tworun double in the fifth. He also homered in the series opener Monday and had three hits and a walk Tuesday.

“I think he’s one of the top five best at-bats in all of baseball,” said Cubs manager Joe Maddon, who was ejected in the sixth for arguing balls and strikes. “This guy is engaged in every pitch. He doesn’t give anything away at any time.”

Cohrs homers in Knights’ win against Morris

By DAILY CHRONICLE sports@daily-chronicle.com Meg Cohrs smacked a home run as the Kaneland softball team rolled to a 6-1 home win against Morris on Wednesday to clinch the Northern Illinois Big 12 East title.

Cohrs also scored twice and drove in two runs. Morgan Sikon had two hits and three RBIs, and Rachel Goress had two hits.

Angie Morrow allowed six hits and an earned run in the win, striking out nine.

G-K blanks Rockford Christian: Cassie Bade and Dani Mathey each threw three innings as Genoa-Kingston blanked Rockford Christian, 14-0.

Jaylin Sagatto was 3 for 5, and Megan McCausland was 3 for 4.

The Cogs (15-7, 6-4 Big Northern East) host Harvard at 4:30 p.m. today.

Hiawatha loses to Paw Paw: A home run by Hannah Corn wasn’t enough for Hiawatha in its 11-5 loss to Paw Paw.

an Creek topped Hinckley-Big Rock, 3-0.

The Timberwolves won earlier in the regular season and took the season series, 2-1.

Madison Spooner had a GIRLS SOCCER goal and an assist, and Renee DeKalb storms back at Corriveau and Madison RusYorkville: Natalie Vaughn-Low sell added goals for the Timscored four times as the Barbs berwolves. Josie Diehl made came from behind for a 5-2 two saves for the shutout. win at Yorkville.

Vaughn-Low staked the BASEBALL Barbs (12-6, 3-3 NI Big 12 East) Sycamore falls to Kaneland: to a 1-0 lead at halftime with Playing catch-up all day, the an early goal, but Yorkville Spartans could not get over goals in the 46th and 52nd the hump in a 7-6 loss in Maminutes gave the Foxes the ple Park. lead. Vaughn-Low scored in Sycamore, which won the the 64th, 70th and 72nd min- first game of the series Monutes to give DeKalb control, day, loaded the bases with and Leah Fassig added an in- no outs in the sixth in a 6-6 surance goal in the 74th min- tie, but could not score. Afute. ter Kaneland scored in the Sycamore shut out against bottom of the sixth, the SparBurlington Central: The Spar- tans got the first two runners tans lost to Burlington Cen- on in the seventh but made tral, 3-0. three straight outs to end the The Spartans had given game. up one goal in their past 11 Sycamore committed four games. Neither team scored errors. in the first half.

Nate Gross had three hits The two teams are in the for the Spartans and drove in Class 2A Sycamore Regional, two runs. Brett Weaver also which begins May 19 with the had two RBIs for Sycamore.

Spartans as the No. 1 seed and Austin Jacox and Kaneland’s the Rockets the No. 2 seed.

Joe Laudont each had two IC gets revenge on H-BR: A hits. week and half after losing to A win at Sycamore (12-8, the Royals at BarbFest, Indi- 4-4 NI Big 12 East) at 4:30 p.m.

Corn was 3 for 4 with four RBIs and two doubles for the Hawks (4-9, 3-7 Little Ten Conference). Despite taking the loss, Madison Marshall was 2 for 3 with an RBI.

today would give the Knights (14-9, 9-2) the league title.

Indian Creek tops Newark: Chris Pickwell struck out 11 in five innings as Indian Creek beat Newark, 11-4.

Pickwell allowed two earns run. Jake Wieseler had two hits and picked up his fourth save of the year for the Timberwolves (19-4, 12-1 LTC).

Five players had two hits each for Indian Creek, with Drew Headley driving in three runs and Trevor Guerra driving in two.

DeKalb falls to Yorkville: The Barbs lost to Yorkville, 8-6.

Dani Garcia had two hits for the Barbs, while Jake Kuykendall hit his second homer in two games and drove in two runs.

LATE TUESDAY TRACK AND FIELD Sterling sweeps Sycamore: The Spartans lost a late-season dual against Sterling, 8561, and the Spartans girls lost, 83.5-58.5.

Ryan Grant won the shot put (47 feet, 8 inches) and the discus (141-8) for the Spartans boys.

G-K third at Harvard: The Cogs boys track team took third at a triangular in Harvard.

Ian Fell won the high jump, clearing 5-4.

WHITE SOX 7, TIGERS 6

Sox rally in the 8th to drop Tigers

By JEFF ARNOLD The Associated Press CHICAGO – Melky Cabrera hit a tying homer and drove in four runs, and the White Sox scored four times in the eighth inning to rally past the Detroit Tigers, 7-6, Wednesday night.

Avisail Garcia’s two-out single drove in the go-ahead run on the sixth straight hit off reliever Joba Chamberlain (0-1). All of them came after he retired the first two batters in the inning.

Cabrera tied the score at 6 with a three-run shot. Conor Gillaspie homered early for the Sox, their first long ball since April 22.

Zach Putnam (1-1) worked an inning to get the win, and David Robertson earned his fifth save for the Sox (10-14), who improved to 8-3 at home.

Victor Martinez homered and knocked in four runs for the Tigers.

The Sox trailed 6-3 in the eighth after Martinez drove in his fourth run of the night with a single.

Miguel Cabrera’s run-scoring single gave the Tigers a 4-3 lead in the fifth. Detroit added a run in the sixth when J.D. Martinez scored on Rajai Davis’ grounder.

Rodon to make 1st start: Sox rookie pitcher Carlos Rodon is slated to make his first major league start Saturday against Cincinnati.

Rodon is to start in place of Jeff Samardzija.

The 22-year-old left-hander made his major league debut April 21 and has a 2.84 ERA in 6⅓ innings and three relief

appearances.

“He’s doing well for a young guy coming up and I know it’s been a tough spot for him to be able to fill some innings for us, come in and get a lefty,” Sox manager Robin Ventura said. “Now, with this going on, he gets the chance to make a start for us. It’s a good spot for him.”

Samardzija starts 5-game suspension: Samardzija has dropped his appeal of a fivegame suspension.

Samardzija beat Detroit on Tuesday and started serving the penalty Wednesday.

If there are not any postponements, he would be eligible to rejoin the active roster for the May 11 game against Milwaukee.

Samardzija was suspended by Major League Baseball after his involvement in a bench-clearing brawl against Kansas City on April 23.

Guerra designated for assignment: Right-hander Javy Guerra was designated for assignment Wednesday.

Guerra didn’t allow a run in three games and 1⅓ innings for the Sox. He went on the disabled list with right shoulder inflammation April 20, a move retroactive to April 13.

He had a 17.18 ERA in four games during an injury rehabilitation assigned at Triple-A Charlotte. The Sox activated him from the DL on Wednesday, then designated him for assignment.

The Sox remain responsible for his $937,500 salary. The team has 10 days to trade him, sending him outright to the minors or put him on waivers.

Photo provided by St. John’s University Athletic Department

Kaneland graduate Lauren Zick bats in a game earlier this season for St. John’s. Zick was a big part of the Red Storm’s first Big East regular season title.

Davidson has 4th-lowest ERA for Millikin • NEXT LEVEL Continued from page B1 Sticking in the CCIW, Millikin also will miss out on the tournament, but Kaneland alumnus Kyle Davidson finished with the fourth-lowest ERA on the team. Starting nine games – the second most starts – he finished with a 6.02 ERA and a 4-3 record. He struck out 42 and walked 16 in 58⅓ innings.

On the links, Kaneland grad Josh Schuberg finished in a second-place tie last week in the four-round Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Golf Championship, carding a 12-over-par 297 for his University of Dubuque team, which also took third. Fellow Kaneland grad Troy Krueger shot a 307, only two strokes away from 10th place and all-conference honors for the D-III league.

In track, Indiana-Purdue-Fort Wayne’s Sydney

Strang took a pair of second-place finishes last time on the track, April 25 at the Crusader Open at Valparaiso.

The sophomore from Kaneland missed her career best in the 3,000-meter steeplechase by less than half a second, finishing in 12:44.1. She also was on the second-place 1,600 relay that finished in 4:22.2.

Iowa junior Lake Kwaza picked up another victory Saturday, this one in the 200, finishing in a career-best 23.6

at the Musco Invitational in Iowa City, Iowa. It was her first action since April 22 at the Drake Relays and her first win in the 200 since April 2013 at the Lee Calhoun Memorial Invite in Macomb.

Western Illinois sophomore Jasmine Brown won both her events Friday and Saturday at the Redbird Track and Field Invitational in Normal. The DeKalb graduate cleared 12.33 meters in the triple jump and 5.79 in the long jump.

Gilbert 3rd player in 2 years to play in college the arc. Gilbert is the third Spartan in the past two years Continued from page B1 to play college basketball.

Madelyne Johnson signed In her senior season, Gil- her letter of intent in Novembert finished averaging 13.7 ber to play at Drake Universipoints a game, 4.2 rebounds, 2.1 ty, and Julia Moll plays at Beassists and 2.1 steals. She also loit College. Gilbert said she shot 37.8 percent from beyond looked at a few D-II schools,

• GILBERT

but decided D-III was more of a fit for her and that Carthage felt like home after visiting the campus.

“I am looking to get a great education first and then play good basketball, so I think Carthage gives me both of that,” Gilbert said.

Goff thinks Gilbert will do just fine in college and that her work ethic will be key for her success at the next level.

“She takes the game very seriously and she doesn’t take possessions off, even in practice,” the coach said. “Not a lot of people can say that.”

4 SPORTS • Thursday, May 7, 2015 • Section B • Daily Chronicle / Daily-Chronicle.com

BEARS

Bears sign top picks WR White, NT Goldman

By PATRICK FINLEY pfinley@suntimes.com Look out, Claire’s.

Less than a week after Kevin White was drafted No. 7 overall by the Bears – and joked that he was frugal about jewelry, buying earrings from the store at the mall – the former West Virginia receiver was one of two players to agree to deals with the team Wednesday. Kevin White The Bears also signed their second-round draft pick, former Florida State nose tackle Eddie Goldman, to a four-year contract. Because he was a first-rounder, White’s four-deal has a fifth-year team option.

Terms were not announced.

The size of their deals will be based on the NFL’s salary cap and rookie compensation pool, but White is expected to make around $16 million.

Last year’s No. 7 pick, the Buccaneers’ Mike Evans, received a $14.6 million deal with a signing bonus of $8.96 million.

Goldman should make more than the Eddie Goldman $5.2 million the Jaguars gave last year’s No. 39 overall pick, receiver Marqise Lee. After being picked, White said he wasn’t sure what the first thing was he’d buy with his first paycheck. He pointed to his borrowed watch and

More online Visit ChicagoFootball.com for the latest Bears and NFL news. inexpensive earrings as proof those items weren’t important to him.

“I’m not a real flashy guy,” he said.

“Some people may see this watch, but I didn’t pay for this. I’m just borrowing it right now. …

“My agent has a daughter, and she’s a big-time jeweler. I said, ‘I don’t really spend a lot of money. I buy my earrings from Claire’s. So can I borrow this?’

“She said I could borrow it and re-

turn it. I don’t have to pay for it. It’s a win-win situation.”

He vowed to remain the same person “no matter how much money I get.”

The Bears are living up to their reputation as the fastest team in the league to sign their draftees.

Their bottom three picks signed deals Tuesday. All but one of their six selections – third-rounder Hroniss Grasu – has agreed to a contract.

The Oregon center is expected to sign his deal sometime before the start of the rookie minicamp Friday at Halas Hall.

Bears, ‘Deflate-gate’: A Bears spokesman said the team would have no comment about the release of the Wells Report on Wednesday. The NFL investigation into the Patriots’ playoff “Deflate-gate” scandal includ-

ed details about the Patriots’ actions leading up to their Oct. 26 home game against the Bears.

The report said Patriots quarterback Tom Brady said he first asked to see a copy of the NFL rules regarding football inflation during the week leading up to the Bears game.

It also detailed a text exchange between Patriots equipment assistant John Jastremski and the Patriots’ officials’ locker room attendant, Jim McNally, in which McNally wrote “the only thing deflating” for Brady during the upcoming Bears game “is his passer rating.”

Seemingly annoyed with the Patriots quarterback, McNally texted Brady’s footballs would be “[expletive] watermelons” – or overinflated – for the game.

MARSHALL FOOTBALL

Tailback charged in beating of 2 gay men Coach, AD kick Butler off team The ASSOCIATED PRESS

AP file photo

Rory McIlroy (left) of Northern Ireland and Texan Jordan Spieth walk up to the 14th tee box during the second day of the British Open Golf championship July 18 at the Royal Liverpool golf club, Hoylake, England.

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Marshall running back Steward Butler was charged in the beating of two gay men Wednesday and dismissed from the team.

Butler was arraigned before a Cabell County magistrate on two misdemeanor battery counts Wednesday and was released on $10,000 bond.

Huntington police Detective Chris Sperry said in criminal complaints that Butler got out of a car after seeing the men kissing on a street April 5 in Huntington.

Sperry said Butler allegedly then

began shouting derogatory words about their sexual orientation and punched the men.

Sperry told media outlets that one of the men took a video of the incident on his cellphone. The detective said evidence in the case has been turned over to federal authorities for review of possible civil rights violations.

Sperry and an attorney for Butler didn’t immediately return telephone messages.

Butler had been suspended indefinitely from the team earlier Wednesday, and Marshall athletic director Mike Hamrick said he and coach Doc Holliday agreed to the dismissal after learning more about the case.

Butler was Marshall’s second-leading rusher last season with 798 yards and seven touchdowns.

THE PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP

A budding rivalry McIlroy, Spieth linked closer now

By DOUG FERGUSON The Associated Press PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – Rory McIlroy remembers a 19-yearold Texan who was polished for his age and didn’t appear to have a glaring weakness in his game. That was the Texas Open two years ago, the first time he played with Jordan Spieth.

They are together again in The Players Championship under different circumstances.

There is talk of a new rivalry in golf between McIlroy and Spieth, partly because of age, mainly because of recent results.

McIlroy is No. 1 in the world on the strength of winning two of the past three majors and a pair of World Golf Championships. He already has two wins this year. Spieth won that other major – a wire-to-wire victory in the Masters – and moved up to No. 2. He also has two victories this year.

The PGA Tour didn’t let the opportunity pass to put them together for two rounds in its premier championship, which starts today at the TPC Sawgrass.

Even if it’s a budding rivalry, it’s one-sided. Spieth would be the first to concede that.

“He is as far ahead of me as I am with the next eight guys,” Spieth said, referring to the gap between No. 1 and No. 2 in the world ranking.

“So with that being said, it’s kind of anybody’s game to get up and make

it interesting with him. I just happen to be the one that occupies No. 2 right now.”

McIlroy responded to all the hype over Spieth and his green jacket by winning the Match Play Championship last week in San Francisco.

He provided another answer to the chatter about a rivalry by practically yawning.

“Last year it was Rickie (Fowler).

This year it’s Jordan, might be someone else, could have been Tiger,” McIlroy said. “There’s been four or five rivalries over the past year. So it doesn’t really do anything for me.”

He then borrowed a line that Jack Nicklaus once told Tiger Woods. Both had a revolving door of rivals over the years.

“As long as I’m one of them, the other can be whoever it is,” McIlroy said. “I don’t mind.”

He would appear to be the one to chase for years, but McIlroy is prone to go into mini-slumps. Think to one year ago at The Players Championship, when Woods still was No. 1 in the world. Now he’s at No. 125 from not playing well and not playing much because of injuries.

Adam Scott, Henrik Stenson, Bubba Watson and Matt Kuchar were next in line, and all of them had a mathematical chance to be No. 1 at The Players. McIlroy was No. 11. Two weeks later, he won the BMW PGA Championship and was on his way.

But if there is an advantage this week, it might go to Spieth. He was

tied for the lead going into the final round in his Players Championship debut and watched Martin Kaymer put on a clinic – and make an unlikely par putt on the island green at No. 17 – to win at Sawgrass.

McIlroy didn’t make a cut at The Players until his fourth try. He tied for sixth last year after closing with a 66, but he never was in contention.

“I heard something that it sort of tests everyone and favors no one,” McIlroy said of the Pete Dye design.

He has adopted a conservative style the past two years and is making progress with a pair of top-10 finishes.

“It’s always hard for me when I can’t get driver in my hand, because I feel like when I get driver in my hand I can give myself an advantage over the rest of the field,” McIlroy said.

Spieth had a share of the 54-hole lead in back-to-back big events last year – the Masters and The Players – and didn’t convert either. The Masters didn’t bother him nearly as much as Sawgrass because he felt Bubba Watson beat him in Augusta, and equipped with the experience, he failed to use it at The Players.

In both cases, Spieth doesn’t see it as a chance to atone for losses. What carried him at the Masters this year was the memory of recent form – a victory at Innisbrook, a runner-up in San Antonio and a playoff loss in Houston.

And if he gets in position at Sawgrass?

“I think I’ll be looking back at this year’s Masters to try and draw confidence from,” he said, “than I will trying to get anything back at this point from last year.”

Decathlete pulls loose tooth with javelin

By PAT GRAHAM The Associated Press For Bryan Clay’s family, it’s all fun and games especially when a tooth gets knocked out.

The American decathlete used a little creative dentistry to extract a loose bottom tooth from the mouth of his 5-year-old daughter, Ellie. He tied a piece of floss to the tooth and a javelin, then sent the javelin flying.

Out popped the tooth. It’s all captured in a video that’s going viral, even if it’s a little cringe-worthy.

Clay said in an email the idea was

a joint collaboration between his daughter and wife.

“Ellie is our youngest and has watched her older brother and sister both do crazy stunts to remove their loose teeth,” said Clay, the Olympic decathlete gold medalist at the 2008 Beijing Games.

“So she was excited for it to finally be her Bryan Clay turn.”

In the video, Ellie said “bye” to the tooth. Clay then instructed her to keep her chin up and counted down before letting go of the javelin.

At first, the family didn’t think it worked, before Ellie said, “It did!” and pointed to the gap where the tooth used to be. The family then searched on the ground for the tooth – hey, the tooth fairy needs visual confirmation for Ellie to receive her money – before Ellie said, “Can I have water?”

“She was excited to do this,” Clay said. “She was dancing around after singing, ‘I’m so lucky! I got my tooth pulled by a jav-a-lin!’ ” Other athletes are waiting in line for some dental work. Hurdler Lolo Jones posted on her Twitter account, “I never got my wisdom teeth out. I’m coming over.”

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Marshall running back Steward Butler (left) was charged in the beating of two gay men Wednesday and dismissed from the team.

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Axford’s son to throw out 1st pitch Friday

By PAT GRAHAM The Associated Press DENVER – The young son of Colorado Rockies closer John Axford finally will get to see his dad pitch in person after spending the past two months in and out of hospitals for treatment of rattlesnake bites.

Two-year-old Jameson Axford will be the guest of honor as he throws out the ceremonial first pitch Friday at Coors Field before a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The catcher? His John Axford father, of course.

“I wouldn’t let anybody else do that,” said Axford, whose wife, Nicole, and 3-year-old son will be in attendance, as well.

This actually has been in the works for a while, said Jim Kellogg, the team’s vice president of community and retail operations. The Rockies were just waiting for the right time.

“We want to make it special for the family and let the fans know that all the thoughts and prayers have helped the family,” Kellogg said.

Jameson Axford was bitten twice on the right foot two months ago in the yard of the house the family rented in Scottsdale, Arizona, for spring training. Since then, he’s gone through one procedure after another to fix the foot.

A trip to the ballpark definitely

will “lift his spirits,” his father said.

Jameson remains in a wheelchair while the foot heals.

“Just to see my son out there and with a smile on his face, being able to do something that he loves to do, which is come to a baseball game – that’s something that’s kind of rare right now, with what’s going on,” John Axford said. “He’s gone through so much already.”

Jameson undergoes procedures twice a week on his foot, but here’s encouraging news: His foot is starting to grow tissue.

“Looks like it’s going to be fine,” his father said. “Just a matter of how much more work he will need.”

As for when his son will be able to walk on his own again, Axford said that’s still unknown.

“It could be months or a year or a couple of years,” he said. “He did have to have his bone in his foot shaved down, because the staph infection took over part of the bone.

And then one of the tendons in his foot collapsed.

“We really don’t know if his foot will be stable right away or stable after a few months or never be stable. If it’s not, that means he’ll be with a brace for a while, until he’s older and stronger to have more surgeries.”

Axford isn’t sure whether Jameson will throw his first pitch Friday as a righty or a lefty. He’s equally adept at both.

“This is going to be exciting,” Axford said.

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Omar Gordon, 24, plays the guitar in front of the Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art store on April 30 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Clarksdale is one of the cities included in the “Americana Music Triangle,” a project that seeks to promote locations that contributed to the birth of nine of America’s most well-known music genres in Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee and Alabama.

New project in the South promotes ‘AMERICAN MUSIC

TRIANGLE’

By ADRIAN SAINZ

- The Associated Press CLARKSDALE, Miss. – Blues.

Jazz. Country. Rock ’n’ roll. Gospel.

Southern Gospel. Cajun-zydeco.

Soul/ R&B. Bluegrass.

Nine of America’s most wellknown music genres now have their own road map.

Led by Nashville preservationist Aubrey Preston, a group of historians and music lovers have come up with the “Americana Music Triangle.”

Stretching from Nashville to Memphis to New Orleans – and encompassing points in between — the triangle includes locations in the South that contributed to the birth of the musical genres, from Clarksdale, Mississippi, the home of blues masters Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker, to Muscle Shoals, Alabama, site of the famed music studio where Aretha Franklin, the Rolling Stones and many others recorded songs.

Destinations are connected by the so-called “Gold Record Road,” a 1,500-mile stretch of highway made up of Interstate 40 from Nashville to Memphis, Highway 61 – the Blues Trail – from Memphis to New Orleans, and the Natchez Trace Parkway from Nashville to Natchez, Mississippi. Travelers planning road trips can use a flashy website, or web “guide,” pinpointing destinations in the triangle and describing points of interest in more than 30 communities in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas.

Preston hopes the triangle gives traveling music lovers, both foreign and domestic, a multi-state, Internetbased, interactive guide of the cradle of America’s music, while also spurring enough interest for community

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Aubrey Preston, founder of the “Americana Music Triangle,” talks about the project on April 29 in Nashville. leaders to preserve these spots for future educational and tourism opportunities. State and local tourism officials hope much-needed dollars flow into their towns from travelers with cash to spend on restaurants, music shows, shops and even gas stations and car washes.

“We’re giving an anchor, a cloud of information ... that’s easily accessible and connects places, stories, people and music to information that people can get from any place in the world,” said Preston, whose last-minute purchase of Nashville’s legendary RCA Studio A in October 2014 saved it from being torn down.

Events scheduled on Monday and throughout next week in six cities will launch the Americana Music Triangle.

Historian Colin Escott says the triangle accurately spotlights locations that will draw people to the South: The jazz halls of New Orleans, the rock ’n’ roll and soul studios of Memphis, the cotton plantations of the Mississippi Delta.

“People do seem to want to touch something that’s real,” said Escott, co-writer of the book and musical “Million Dollar Quartet” and contributor to the triangle project.

“They love this music throughout the world, and it is like a universal currency.”

A city of about 17,200 about 1 ½ hours’ drive south of Memphis, Clarksdale has seen its share of population loss, poverty, troubled schools and blight, like other small towns in the triangle.

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But, in recent years, the city has tried to boost its agriculture-driven economy with tourist spending and the sales taxes it generates. Downtown has seen an increase in restaurants and accommodations like loft apartments, and population appears to be growing. Tourists from overseas are making more frequent treks to Clarksdale, according to Mayor Bill Luckett and co-owner of Ground Zero Blues Club.

“Pulling this project off will be a tremendous help to this whole region,” Luckett said. “It puts money in this economy that wasn’t here before.”

Luckett says promoting tourism does not exploit the city’s more disadvantaged residents, some of whom may resent that so much attention is being paid to tourists while they struggle.

“There are some people who are going to express some resentment.

I read it, I hear it,” Luckett said.

“Frankly, it’s unfair and untrue.”

Tourism and civic leaders in each location are encouraged to direct tourists to other spots on the trail, even if they are in another state. This sets the project apart from government-run initiatives that won’t promote tourism experiences outside their purview.

The project’s supporters hope that, as more people are drawn to these locations, governments, philanthropists and nonprofits will move to preserve the sites and increase opportunities for musicians.

“If you have more regular (visitor) traffic, then you can start to have more music,” said Roger Stolle, owner of the Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art store in Clarksdale. “It not only means that venue is going to be there for a long time, but it gives a reason for musicians to be there.”

2 A&E CALENDAR • Thursday, May 7, 2015 • Section C • Daily Chronicle / Daily-Chronicle.com Putting around Saturday is National Miniature Golf Day, a day to celebrate miniature golf. Head to a course near you with your family and/or friends, or if there isn’t a course around, set up your own around your yard.

Playoff action At the movies There’s one big movie opening this week. It is “Hot Pursuit,” a PG-13-rated action-comedy starring Reese Witherspoon and Sofía Vergara.

Don’t forget mom

S 5 THING TO DO EKEND E W S I TH ART ART “Curated by DeKalb: 50 Years of the Anthropology Museum”: Through May, Cole Hall, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.

Museum hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays. Free. www. niu.edu/anthro_museum.

“A Visual Memoir” by Robert L. Even: May 3 through May 23, The Art Box, 308 E. Lincoln Highway, DeKalb. Gallery hours: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

Information: 815-758-0313 or dan@dekalbgallery.com.

This Sunday is, of course, Mother’s Day. It’s not too late to plan a super day for mom. Take her somewhere special, make her breakfast in bed or a special dinner, let her relax at a spa – any idea is good as long as you celebrate your mom.

Kishwaukee Valley Art League: 7 p.m. May 7, Hy-Vee Club Room, 2700 DeKalb Ave., Sycamore.

Meeting features encaustic techniques. Open to the public. www.kval.us.

44th annual Northern Illinois Art Show: June 6 – 7, DeKalb County Courthouse lawn, Routes 23 and 64, Sycamore. www.kval.us.

EVENTS EVENTS

Corn Fest: Aug. 28-30, downtown DeKalb. www.cornfest.com.

Sound Stage lineup: Friday 5:30 p.m. – Field Day

The NBA and NHL playoffs are heating up, so if you’re looking for some intense sports action this weekend, find a game on TV. Check your paper or your favorite sports website for schedule information.

The need to read Reading is Fun Week kicks off Sunday. Pick out some books this weekend, and start reading on Sunday. Challenge your friends to a read-off to see who can read the most books, hold a book-club gettogether or read a book out loud to each other. Just celebrate the joy of reading.

7 p.m. – Back Country Roads 9 p.m. – 7th Heaven Saturday Noon – Mr. Myers Duo 1:30 p.m. – The Beaux Band 3 p.m. – Johnny & The Boomers 5 p.m. – Stroker Red 7 p.m. – Catfight 9 p.m. – Hi-Infidelity Sunday Noon – The Relics 1:15 p.m. – Josh & The Empty Pockets 2:30 p.m. – Bobby Messano 4:30 p.m. – Lou Gramm “The Voice of Foreigner” Ellwood House Art Fair and Ice Cream Social: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Aug. 2, Ellwood House grounds, 509 N. First St., DeKalb. More than 30 artists from around the Midwest will exhibit and sell their work and the DeKalb Municipal Band will perform. www.ellwoodhouse.org.

MUSIC MUSIC

Rick Springfield: 7 p.m. May 15, NIU Convocation Center, 1525 W. Lincoln Highway, DeKalb.

Doors open at 6 p.m. Tickets: $25-$45 at the Convocation Center box office, Ticketmaster. com or 800-745-3000. www. niuconvo.com.

Pastiche Steel Ensemble: 7 p.m.

May 12, Boutell Memorial Concert Hall, Music Building, NIU. Suggested donation: $8, students; $10, adults. Information: www. virtualsteelband.com or www. pastichesteel.com.

Tropixplosion: 7 p.m. May 16, Sandwich Opera House, 140 E. Railroad St., Sandwich. Caribbean flavor. Tickets: $20. www. sandwichoperahouse.org or 815-786-2555.

Kishwaukee Concert Band’s “Music Made in America”: 3 p.m. May 17, Boutell Memorial Concert Hall, Music Building, NIU, DeKalb. Free.

Jo Dee Messina: 7:30 p.m. May 23, Egyptian Theatre, 135 N. Second St., DeKalb. Special guest Destination Unknown. Tickets available at www.egyptiantheatre.org or 815-758-1225. Cost: $29.50, $39.50 and $65.

Shania Twain & Cher Tribute: 8 p.m. June 6, Sandwich Opera House, 140 E. Railroad St., Sandwich. Tickets: $35. www. sandwichoperahouse.org or 815-786-2555.

DeKalb Festival Chorus’ “Home”: 7 p.m. May 9, First Lutheran Church, 324 N. Third St., DeKalb.

Tickets: $12, adults; $25, family; $8, students; available at the event. Information: www.dekalbfestivalchorus.org.

STAGE STAGE DeKalb High School’s “Hairspray”: 7:30 p.m. May 28, 29, 30 and 1 p.m. May 31, DeKalb High School auditorium, 501 W. Dresser Road.

ONGOING ONGOING Northern Illinois University Community School of the Arts: NIU Music Building, 400 Lucinda

The House Café hosts grad bash The House Café in DeKalb will celebrate the end of the college year Saturday with an evening of four musical acts.

The event will be headlined

by Radiant Devices, which hails from Chicago.

Front woman Mojdeh combines sung vocals and spoken word commonly exploring social and intimate topics.

The lineup for the evening also includes the Matthew Ed Stillman Trio. Matthew is a singer-songwriter who has a deep appreciation for Americana Roots Music. He pays homage to classic artists from Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard and Ernest Tubb to Bill Withers, Otis Rush, Big Bill Broonzy and Ray Charles.

The lineup also includes Panic Stations from Dixon.

The local attraction for the evening will be the opening act: a set by Northern Illinois University’s Mitchell Irwin. Irwin is a biological anthropologist specializing in primate ecology and behavior, but he also is passionate about music and enjoys playing. This “singing professor” has been gracing the House Café stage during Open Mic Nights.”

This show will begin at 7 p.m. The House is located at 263 E. Lincoln Highway. The cover charge is $5.

Pastiche Steel Ensemble to play at NIU Pastiche Steel Ensemble, a steelpan group created by Northern Illinois University Steelband members about five years ago, will host a fundraising concert at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall in the Music Building at NIU. Proceeds from the concert will help the group get to Trinidad and Tobago to perform at the International Conference and Panorama and complete the Virtual Steelband project, which will premiere at the conference.

Suggested donation is $8 for students and $10 for adults.

For information, visit www.virtualsteelband.com or www.pastichesteel.com.

Ave., DeKalb. Classes in music, art and theater for children and adults. www.csa.niu.edu or 815753-1450.

Bread & Roses women’s choral group rehearsals: 5:45 to 8 p.m. Sundays, Westminster Presbyterian Church, Annie Glidden Road, DeKalb. www.breadandroseschorus.org.

Indian Valley Community Band: 6 to 7:20 p.m. Mondays, Sandwich Middle School band room. Area musicians who enjoy playing for fun invited; no auditions.

DeKalb Festival Chorus rehearsals: 7:15 to 9:15 p.m. Mondays during the school year, NIU Music Building. www.dekalbfestivalchorus.org. Contact conductor Seth Houston at seth@sethhouston.com or call 303-815-0648.

Kishwaukee Barbershop Harmony Singers rehearsals: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Tuesdays, First Congregational Church, 615 N. First St., DeKalb. Open to men of all ages. Contacts: Dave at 815895-5955 or Ed at 815-756-3004.

Prairie Echoes Chorus rehearsal: 7:30 to 10 p.m. Tuesdays, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 900 Normal Road, DeKalb. Singing, food, friendship and fun.

Kishwaukee Concert Band rehearsals: 7:30 to 9 p.m.

Wednesdays, band room at Door 16 of Huntley Middle School, 1515 S. Fourth St., DeKalb. All-volunteer band for anyone age 18 or older who has played a wind or percussion instrument in the past. No auditions needed. 815-899-4867 or 815-825-2350.

“The Way” acoustic coffee house: 6 to 8:30 p.m. first Saturday each month, DeKalb Christian Church, 1107 S. First St. 815-758-1833 or tomndcc@ aol.com.

Middle schools to present ‘Shrek’

Tropixplosion will perform on May 16 at the Sandwich Opera House.

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Sounds of the islands Tropixplosion brings island party to opera house Tropixplosion, the ultimate island party band, is coming to the Sandwich Opera House at 8 p.m., May 16.

Playing more than the standard steel drum band, the band’s repetoire includes a variety of music, not only the typical favorites, but many reggae classics and pop/rock party songs re-arranged to feel like

the Islands. New tunes, classics and other surprises are performed with an exotic twist.

Tickets cost $20 and are on sale at www.sandwichoperahouse.org or at the box office at 10 E. Railroad St. Hours are 8:30 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Call 815-786-2555 during those hours for information. The box office will

open at 7 p.m. the evening of the performance.

For information about the band, visit tropixplosion.com.

The opera house is fully handicapped accessible.

Tours and rentals can be arranged. Programs at the opera house are supported by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

DeKalb’s Clinton Rosette and Huntley middle school students have come together in a cast of 50 to perform “Shrek The Musical Jr.” Featured in the production are Jim Small as Lord Farquaad, Tate Mangum as Donkey, Emma Carpenter as Fiona and Jake Folowell as Shrek.

Adapted from the DreamWorks Animation Motion Picture and the book by William Steig, these actors will take the audience on a journey as Shrek the Ogre attempts to reclaim his swamp from creatures who were exiled from their homes by Lord Farquaad, a prince who prides himself on being a “stand-up” kind of guy.

Accepting a deal from the Prince, Shrek embarks on his journey with a smarty-pants Donkey to rescue Princess Fiona from the Dragon’s realm.

The show is directed by Gregor King, choir director for Huntley and Clinton Rosette middle schools.

Performance times are scheduled for 7 p.m. May 15 and 16 and 2 p.m. May 17 at Huntley Middle School, 1515 S. Fourth St. in DeKalb. Tickets are $3 for children and $5 for adults.

For information, search “Shrek Jr., DeKalb IL” on Facebook.

STEM Read reimagines ‘The War of the Worlds’ The Martians have landed in DeKalb and they did not come in peace. That’s the premise of STEM Read’s new adaptation of the classic 1938 radio play, “The War of the Worlds.”

Throughout the winter and spring, STEM Read worked with Northern Public Radio and teens from DeKalb, Sycamore and Genoa to imagine, write and record the story of a Martian invasion in DeKalb County. The new radio play will air at 6 p.m. Sunday on WNIU (90.5 FM).

Northern Illinois University’s STEM Read creates live events and online resources to help readers of all ages explore the science behind popular fiction books.

They highlight both new and clas-

sic books and create videos, interactive games, field trips, author visits, collaborative writing activities and educator lesson plans that are free online at stemread.niu.edu.

STEM Read Director Gillian King-Cargile said STEM Read started the project by handing out more than 200 copies of H.G. Wells’ novel “The War of the Worlds” to visitors during STEMfest 2014. They also created video interviews with experts on the role of H.G. Wells in science fiction, the science of heat rays, the impact of Orson Welles’ 1938 broadcast on modern media, the true history of Mars exploration and the legacy of radio dramas.

From there, STEM Read hosted listening parties at DeKalb Public Library and Sycamore Public

Library where community members could hear the panic-inducing 1938 broadcast by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater. STEM Read then worked with teen groups such as Sycamore High School’s Sci-Fi Club to collaborate on writing a script for a new version of the radio play.

“It was great to go to different locations and see what different groups of teens added to the radio play,” Mary Baker, coordinator of SMARTspace@niu, who helped plan the project, said in a news release.

“Even though some of the teens never met, they played off of each other’s ideas and really created something spectacular.” Baker worked with the teens to brainstorm ideas for an online Martian math game that uses an alien invasion as

the basis for fun and challenging story problems. The game will be available on stemread.niu.edu and smartspaceniu.com.

Once the radio play was finished, STEM Read worked with the teens and community members as well as NIU faculty, staff and students to record voiceovers, sound effects and mock-commercials in the style of a modern-day NPR broadcast.

“The result is 30 minutes of fun, freaky radio,” King-Cargile said in the release. “The Martians destroy a lot of local landmarks.”

Listeners can hear the broadcast on 90.5 FM or stream it from northernpublicradio.org by clicking Listen Live. After May 10, the broadcast will be available on stemread. niu.edu.

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In 2012, CCT’s Advanced Imagination Camp presented “Legally Blonde.” Registration for this year’s camp and the production of “Aida” is underway at cctonstage.com.

CCT challenges cast to do Broadway show in two weeks Young performers looking for a challenge will have the opportunity to stage a production of Broadway’s “Aida,” taking the show from auditions to opening curtain in less than two weeks at Children’s Community Theatre’s Advanced Imagination Camp, June 15-28.

“As in years past, this will be an intensive, immersive theater experience that will push our cast to pull off something that most people [think] can’t be done,” camp director Jeff Hall, who also will direct the show, said in a news release.

“In the past, our casts have said they worked harder, learned more and had more fun than they ever thought possible, and we expect this year will be the same.”

In the past, the camp has staged productions of “Little Shop of Horrors,” “Footloose,”

“Legally Blonde” and “Les Miserables.”

The experience begins June 15 with auditions at The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. John, 26555 Brickville Road, where most rehearsals will take place. Work will begin at once on the main ensemble numbers that day, and the show will move into high gear the next day when the cast list is announced.

In addition to training in singing, dancing and acting to help them prepare for their roles, the cast also will learn about costuming, make-up, scenery making and other aspects of theater. Opening night for the show will be 7 p.m. June 26 at Sycamore High School with performances also scheduled for 7 p.m.

June 27 and 2 p.m. June 28.

The complete rehearsal schedule for camp is available at cctonstage.com.

The camp is open to actors entering seventh grade in the fall through those who graduated in the spring of 2015. The cost for the two-week program is $140.

Registration can be completed at cctonstage.com.

This year’s show, “Aida,” is based on the award-winning production written by Elton John and Tim Rice. It is a tale of love, loyalty and betrayal chronicling the love triangle between Aida, a Nubian princess stolen from her country, Amneris, an Egyptian princess, and Radames, the soldier they both love.

In addition to its Advanced Imagination Camp, CCT also offers a two-week Beginner’s Imagination Camp for students in grades 1 through 6.

This year’s theme is Ye Olde Theatre Camp.

Information can be found at cctonstage.com.

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Mama Maddelena. She also has worked with Madison Savoyards, Wisconsin Chamber Choir, Madison Festival Choir, Four Seasons Theatre, Music by the Lake, Grant Park Apprentice Chorale and Da Corneto Opera.

“An American Symphony,” which was heard in the movie “Mr. Holland’s Opus.” is a dramatic piece

by Michael Kamen. “Ballyhoo March” by LaValle and arranged by Gene Vanden Bosch will close out the first part of the concert.

The second part of the concert will begin with Warren Barker’s arrangement of George Gershwin’s “An American in Paris,” “Cuban Overture” and “Rhapsody in Blue,” titled “The Symphonic Gershwin.”

Falconer will join the band again for another Gershwin tune arranged by Gene Vanden Bosch, “Someone to Watch Over Me.” “Shenandoah” by Frank

Ticheli also will be performed.

The last concert of the 13th season will close with “Fantasy on ‘Yankee Doodle’” by Mark Williams.

The Kishwaukee Concert Band is made up of volunteers older than 18 from all walks of life who have played a wind or percussion instrument. The band welcomes all, especially clarinet and low brass players. No auditions are needed. Rehearsals for the 14th season will begin in September.

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The Kishwaukee Concert Band will present “Music Made in America” at 3 p.m.

May 17 in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall in the Music Building at Northern Illinois University.

Gene Vanden Bosch will be the conductor for this concert, which is sponsored

by Brad Osborn, president Go Self Insured of Sycamore.

The concert will open with “Commando March” by Samuel Barber, followed by selections from “West Side Story,” lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and music by Leonard Bernstein.

Natalie Falconer, mezzo soprano, will perform the song made famous by Pasty Cline, “Crazy.” Falconer is a graduate of Roosevelt University with a bachelor’s degree in Classical Voice. She regularly performs with the Madison Opera Chorus and will sing in Music Theatre of Madison’s production of “Nine” this summer as

4 ADVICE & PUZZLES • Thursday, May 7, 2015 • Section C • Daily Chronicle / Daily-Chronicle.com

Cancer diagnosis unlikely to thaw grandmother’s heart Dear Abby: I recently found out my grandmother has been diagnosed with lung cancer and has elected not to treat it.

The doctors give her a year at the most. My dilemma is whether to extend just one more olive branch.

She has never been a “warm and fuzzy” type of grandmother. She was cold and distant when I was in my teens and 20s, and downright mean when I was in my 30s.

If I try to talk to her at family functions, she turns away and begins a conversation with someone else, not even acknowledging I’m standing there. Last year at a family reunion, she took several photos with my mom and sister, and when it was suggested I

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips join them in the photo, she walked away before one could be snapped. I’m not the only family member or grandchild she behaves this way toward.

None of us knows why.

Do I try one more time, suspecting the diagnosis hasn’t softened her heart and I’ll again end up with hurt feelings? Or do I assume nothing I do now will change who she is and I will have no positive, happy memories of her? – Invisible In Kansas Dear Invisible: Frankly, the chances of your grandmother

transforming into someone warm and accepting don’t look promising because she appears to be a punitive and unhappy person. However, if you feel you might have regrets if you don’t try once more to connect with her, then make the effort so when she dies, you’ll know you did everything you could. Don’t do it for her; do it for yourself.

Dear Abby: Ever since I was young, which was not that long ago, I have known my parents’ marriage wasn’t a healthy one. But only recently has it begun to affect me emotionally. It isn’t that I blame myself, but I’m afraid of how my own romantic endeavors will fare.

Recently, I was told about

my mother’s infidelity. I was always curious and suspected one or both of them had affairs. But now more than before, I worry about finding love. Love is something we all seek, and I believe we all need, but I don’t see myself as able to handle that kind of heartbreak.

I understand why Mom did it – that’s part of what hurts me. I’m angry they would masquerade a failure “for me,” that failure being their “relationship.” I think my anger is valid. My family has screwed me up emotionally and it started long before I knew what was going on.

What should I do? – Screwed

Up In Oregon Dear Screwed Up: When

children are raised in a household where the parents’ words and actions are different, they cope either by believing only what they are told (even if it contradicts what they see happening) or only what they see. While it can interfere with forming healthy relationships later in life, it’s the way they keep themselves sane.

You are right to be concerned, and I hope you will discuss this with a licensed counselor or therapist because if you do, you will find it helpful.

• Write to Dear Abby at www.dearabby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Abnormal menstrual bleeding can have several causes Dear Dr. K: My periods used to be pretty regular. But for the past few months, I’ve been spotting all month long. Why is this happening?

Dear Reader: There are many possible explanations. Fortunately, few of them can turn into serious problems. Before talking about the causes of abnormal bleeding from the uterus, it’s worth reviewing the menstrual cycle.

Normally, the cycle is triggered by signals from sex hormones. Hormones made in the brain travel to the ovaries, leading to the production of other hormones by the ovaries: estrogen and progesterone. But sometimes the cycle’s hormonal signals get thrown off.

Irregular bleeding, including alternating periods that are heavy and light, spotting, or

ASK DR. K Anthony L. Komaroff shorter and longer cycles, can result.

In the first half of the menstrual cycle, levels of the female hormone estrogen start to rise. Among its many functions, estrogen stimulates the making of the inner lining of the uterus. This endometrial lining is the blood-enriched layer of tissue that grows inside the uterus every month to prepare for a possible pregnancy. While the lining is growing, an egg in one of the ovaries starts to mature. Midway through the monthly cycle, the egg leaves the ovary. This is called ovulation.

The egg travels from the ovary down a tube called the oviduct to the uterus. If the egg is fertilized, it lands in the uterine lining, where it begins to grow. If the egg is not fertilized, hormone levels drop. As a result, the thickened lining of the uterus is shed during the menstrual period. This prepares the uterus to form a new and fresh inner lining a month later.

Irregular bleeding can happen for a number of reasons. In teenagers, for example, following the start of menstruation, cycles may take a few months or years to become normal.

That’s often because hormone levels aren’t yet sufficient to keep the endometrial lining growing. As a result, parts of the blood-enriched lining separate from the uterus, then

get passed from the uterus to the vagina. Then the pieces of lining get passed out of the vagina, which is when spotting is noticed.

Factors that can change bleeding patterns include: • Hormonal abnormalities (thyroid problems, for example); • Medications (most commonly, birth control pills and blood thinners like warfarin); • Excessive exercise or weight loss; • Obesity; • Stress or illness.

Just as at the beginning of the menstrual cycle, sex hormone levels start to peter out and get irregular as a woman approaches menopause. Spotting becomes more common than earlier in life.

There are many effective

treatments to help regulate periods and control irregular bleeding. If irregular bleeding is caused by another medical condition, treating that condition should restore normal cycles. Otherwise, treatment is based on the cause and the amount of bleeding.

When deciding on treatment, your doctor will take into account if you want to have children. If you don’t, birth control pills that combine the hormones estrogen and progesterone can decrease the amount of bleeding. If you do, your doctor may prescribe medication to help your ovaries ovulate more regularly.

• Write to Dr. Komaroff at www.askdoctork.com, or Ask Doctor K, 10 Shattuck St., Second Floor, Boston, MA 02115.

Teenager will feel lost when best friend moves away Dr. Wallace: I’m 13, and my best friend is the same age.

We’ve been best friends for more than six years. We do nearly everything together and we share all our deepest secrets. Carla’s parents recently got a divorce, and she has been living with her mother alone for the past two months.

But her mom is planning to move to Memphis, Tennessee, to get away from her bad memories from the marriage.

She already has found an apartment and they will be moving in three weeks. I’m really going to miss Carla because she is the only real close friend I have. What should I do? – Sarah, Holly Springs, Mississippi Sarah: It will be a huge loss

’TWEEN 12 & 20 Robert Wallace for you not being able to see Carla every day. However, with a positive attitude and a little planning, you will adjust quickly to the change. You two will still be best friends and you can correspond frequently

by U.S. mail, texting or email, and you can occasionally talk to each other by phone. Since Memphis isn’t that far away, Carla and you may be able to see each other quite often on weekends.

You should now make an effort to get more involved in activities you might enjoy at

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school, church and in your community. You’ll still be friends with Carla, but as you broaden your horizons, you’ll continue to make new friends, many who will remain your friends for life.

Dr. Wallace: My mother and I shared promises. Mom promised that if I received no grade lower than a B I could go to a basketball clinic this summer at the University of Michigan. I promised to do my best in the classroom.

I play basketball for our school and will be a senior next school year. The clinic is a week long, and several college coaches will conduct the clinic. I was really looking forward to it because I could really learn a lot and it would

SUDOKU

By EUGENIA LAST Newspaper Enterprise Association

TODAY – You are in a high-energy cycle. Put your skills to good use and aim high. New doors will open for you, so make sure you are ready to take advantage of the opportunities that arise.

Focus and stamina will be your strengths. Personal relationships will take a turn for the better.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – This is not the time to lend or borrow money or possessions. Make your cash go further by cutting out unnecessary purchases. Look into high-yield savings possibilities.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – If emotions are running too high at home, plan to do some socializing away from the people you live with. An old friend is likely to resurface, causing some jealousy.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) – You will be able to meet any challenge. Your hard work will be appreciated, but that doesn’t mean you should shoulder someone else’s responsibilities.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – Get out and experience something you have never done before. You don’t know what you are capable of until you try. Be a participant, not an observer.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – There will be plenty going on around you. Don’t let all the chaos distract you from accomplishing your goal. Prioritize and stick to your schedule in order to reach your destination.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – Plan to broaden your circle of friends.

Join a group, organization or club that appeals to your senses.

You will meet compatible people who will have a positive impact on your future.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – Modernize your living space or wardrobe. You can make lots of enhancements without going over budget. Feeling attractive is an important aspect of building confidence.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – Make a point to get out and socialize. Host a party or a friendly sporting or intellectual competition with close friends or relatives. The expenses will be minimized if everyone pitches in.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – Deception is apparent. Rumors, gossip or lies will circulate. Don’t allow anyone to take advantage of your good nature. Protect yourself and your reputation by being up-front and honest.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – A new business venture will evolve from one of your creative ideas. Your helpful attitude is admirable, but if you are doing too much for others, you won’t reach your goals.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – A calm and composed attitude will help you get through your day. A loss of control would sap your energy and postpone your plans. Show some discipline and ride out any storm.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) – Unleash your adventurous spirit. Experiencing new cultures, traditions and subjects that inspire and enlighten you will lead you in a promising direction. Romance is in the stars.

help me to be a better player.

The total cost for food, dorm room and clinic fee was $300.

My final grades were 5 B’s and 1 A. I really studied extra hard because I wanted to go to the clinic. When I showed my mom my grades I was one happy young lady.

Twenty seconds later, I was crushed. She told me I wouldn’t be able to attend the clinic because she was short of money. She bought new tires for her car.

When I told her she promised I could go to the clinic she said parents are allowed to break promises.

If that’s true, then all parent promises don’t mean anything. I don’t think a promise should ever be broken unless

something comes up unexpectedly that causes a promise not to be honored. Buying the tires now was not necessary.

Mom only bought them because they were on sale.

I’d like your comments, please. It’s too late for me to go to the clinic because it’s past the deadline for enrolling. –

Nameless, Detroit Nameless: Mother made a big mistake. Promises, especially by parents, must be kept. If mom felt she had to purchase new tires for her car, she should have found a way to have the funds available for you to attend the basketball clinic.

• Write to Dr. Wallace at rwallace@galesburg.net.

CROSSWORD

BRIDGE Phillip Alder

When you know, clue in partner Anouk Aimee, a French actress, said, “What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen.”

What may help a bridge defender go forward is information from a partner. In this deal, West is in the dark, but East, whose curtains are open, can throw light upon the situation for partner.

South is in three no-trump after the most common auction of all. West leads a fourth-highest spade six, which is covered by the two, jack and king. Declarer plays a club to dummy’s ace and returns a low club.

What should happen after that?

As I mentioned a couple of days ago, North should not mention his club suit in the auction. Note that five clubs has no chance.

After trick one, West is wondering who holds the spade queen. It could be either East or South. Each would have played the same way with or without that card. However, East knows what is happening.

He applies the Rule of Eleven.

Deducting six (West’s lead) from 11 gives five. So, there are five spades higher than the six in the North, East and South hands combined. And at trick one, East saw all five: dummy’s seven, his nine, jack and queen, and South’s king.

East knows that West’s suit is ready to run. At trick three, East should discard his spade queen, telling partner exactly what he wants to know. Then three no-trump will go down one.

• Phillip Alder is combining in May 2016 with Kalos to run a bridge and golf river cruise starting from Bordeaux, France. Details are available at www.phillipalderbridge.com.

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Pickles

Brian Crane Pearls Before Swine

For Better or For Worse

Non Sequitur

COMICS 5 Stephan Pastis

Lynn Johnston Crankshaft

Tom Batiuk & Chuck Hayes

Wiley The Duplex

Glenn McCoy

Beetle Bailey

Mort Walker Blondie

Dean Young & Denis LeBrun

Frank & Ernest

Bob Thaves Dilbert

Scott Adams

Jim Meddick Zits Hi and Lois

Monty

Rose is Rose

Pat Brady & Don Wimmer Arlo & Janis

Soup to Nutz

The Family Circus

Rick Stromoski Big Nate

Bill Keane

The Argyle Sweater

Scott Hilburn

Stone Soup

Grizzwells

Jim Borgman JerryWalker Scott Brian &&Greg

Jimmy Johnson

Lincoln Peirce

Jan Eliot

Bill Schorr

“Chloe lights up my life”

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portation company is seeking the best, safest and most qualified Class A CDL for Spotting and CDL Class B Drivers w/Hazmat, for a dedicated account.

Contact Jose Malave at: 773-922-2293

DENTAL ASSISTANT Full time in Sycamore.

High quality office. 3 years experience, great attitude, and strong work ethic required.

Please send resume and a paragraph about yourself to Dr. Joseph Sullivan at: DrJoe1962@yahoo.com

Certified Medical Assistant Clinical Experience Required Great Schedule Great Place to Work

Kishwaukee Medical Associates 954 W. State Street Sycamore, IL 60178 Send Resume or Apply in Person

PUBLIC WORKS Village of Waterman ISO F/T Public Works staff.

General knowledge mechanics, plumbing, equip. & gen. maint. desirable. Sewer / water experience and/or CDL a plus. Salary commensurate with skills/experience.

Benefits available. Send resume by May 20 to Box 239, Waterman, IL 60556, e-mail to: clerk@villageofwaterman.com

Raynor Garage Doors, a leading supplier of residential and commercial garage doors and openers has an immediate opening for an OverThe-Road Semi Driver.

The qualified candidate must possess a valid CDL with at least two years of verifiable recent over the road driving experience. Must have good communication skills and also have a good driving record. Candidate must meet all federal DOT requirements, including Drug and Alcohol screening and must be at least 21 years old. Candidate must possess passport or apply for a passport within 14 days of employment. Heavy lifting is required.

Raynor is also accepting applications for Production Workers. Qualified candidates must possess a high school diploma or equivalent, be able to read and correctly interpret orders, and be a hands-on team player. Heavy lifting is required.

Raynor offers a competitive compensation package and benefits, including medical, dental, life, and 401(k). If you are interested in an exciting career with a solid organization, please send your resume and cover letter to: Raynor Garage Doors Attn: Human Resources 1101 E. River Road Dixon, IL 61021 Fax: 815-285-7133 E-mail: employment@raynor.com EOE

RN / LPN DeKalb County Rehab & Nursing Center has full & part time positions available for RN's / LPN's on the Night Shift (10:45pm – 7:00am).

$3 shift differential Excellent benefits Apply at:

DeKalb County Rehab & Nursing Center 2600 North Annie Glidden Rd DeKalb, Illinois 60115

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is seeking experienced

Bartenders & Servers Full & Part time Apply in person or at our website: www.elwoodsteakand fishhouse.com 2219 Sycamore Rd in DeKalb.

Seasonal Kishwaukee Country Club is Hiring Summer Staff...

Assistant Restaurant Manager, Assistant Pool Manager, Exp. Bartender/Wait Staff and Lifeguards Apply within 9am-4pm M-F 1901 Sycamore Rd. DeKalb, IL. 815-758-6848 ext. 21

SECURITY OFFICERS Full time openings 2nd & 3rd shifts in DeKalb.

Apply at www.securitasjobs.com Select Rockford or call 815-398-5710 EOE M/F/D/V

Send your Classified Advertising 24/7 to: Email: classified@ shawsuburban.com Fax: 815-477-8898 or online at: www.daily-chronicle.com

#'s Half Hour Prior to Sale 2595 SORROS CT. Sports memorabilia furniture, appliances, collectibles & MORE! Check FMH for pics @

estatesales.net DeKalb (South) 15414 State Route 23 Thurs noon – 6pm Fri & Sat 8am – 3pm Something for every collector, grease monkey, warm souls, cooks, imagineers.

DEKALB MOVING SALE May 1st - Friday 8AM – 3PM May 8 & 9 Fri & Sat 8AM – 3PM 1627 Sleepy Hollow Lane

Psychic Reader - Palm, Tarot, $10 Special, 1 question free over phone 815-501-3975 DeKalb, IL Readings By Sarha

ALWAYS INVESTIGATE BEFORE INVESTING ANY MONEY

Contact the Better Business Bureau www.chicago.bbb.org - or Federal Trade Commission www.ftc.gov Financial partnership needed for banquet facility that seats 900 Chefs Dream or Young retiree w/ food experience, working partner acceptable. Great monthly income 708-307-6082 Bob.

2 bedroom sets, office desks/chairs, bookcases, lamps, wicker set, much more !

DEKALB SATURDAY ONLY 8A-2P 422 Lucerne Lane Xyron 900, storage bench, wicker furniture, electric kettle, vintage china, yogurt makers, bicycles, holiday decor, raised bed trellises, more!

GENEVA - MILL CREEK GARAGE SALE 200 HOMES! (1.5 mi. west of Randall Rd between Keslinger & Main St) Thurs-Sat May 7-9, 8am-4pm Maps avail at www.millcreekgeneva.com and each garage. furniture, kids' toys/clothes, power tools, bikes,gym equip., jewelry, collectibles, electronics, and so much more!

GENOA YARD & PLANT SALE 1 mile off Rt. 72

DEKALB

FRI & SAT MAY 8 & 9 9AM - 3PM ~ CASH ONLY ~ 2826 Greenwood Acres Drive Over 70 Years of Accumulation Mostly Vintage, 1940's Red Rocket sled, Lowrey organ, furniture, crafts, sewing machines, women's clothing, sizes 12-14, purses, lamps, books, dishes, glassware, crystal, B&G & Royal Copenhagen, Pyrex, Fire King, Anchor Hocking, Melmac, occupied Japan, Germany, bedding, linens, kitchen stuff, collectibles, over 800 pcs of costume jewelry (Trifari, Monet etc.) Evans full length fur coat

50% - 75% OFF! DEKALB FRIDAY MAY 8TH ,10AM-4PM, SATURDAY 9TH ,9AM-2PM. 125 TILTON PARK DR. Furniture, household items, jewelry,art,clothing,books, lawn mower.

UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP AVANCER HOMES & GENESIS DTC JOB FAIR Qualified Intellectual Disabilities Professional, Direct Support Personnel, DT Trainers & Instructors and Driver positions available.

Help people with disabilities live satisfying independent lives.

No experience required. No criminal record. Must have reliable transportation to travel in DeKalb & Ogle Counties. FT & PT positions.

Day Bed, white w/ trundle $75 815-758-7931 815-751-2044

May 13, 2015 11am - 2pm INTERVIEWS AT THE TIME OF APPLICATION.

Home grown perennials, hosta, rhubarb, patio plants, fences, trellises, benches, patio furniture, antiques, furniture

& MUCH MISC! Advertise here for a successful garage sale!

Call 815-455-4800

DISHWASHER Kenmore Used White $75.

DeKalb 815-756-8089

Boys 18" Razor freestyle bike $25; Boys 20" Mongoose "rebel" bike $30; Girls 18" Kent "peace" bike $25. 630-639-1312 Child Disney Princess Tricycle With Storage Area In Back, $25, DeKalb. 815-739-1953 HELMET - Child Bike Helmet w/Blue Strap, White In Color & Has Picture Of Kangaroo On Front & Says Kangaroo, $5, 815-739-1953 DeKalb Schwinn aluminum tubing S-25 mountain bike $75 815-508-3553.

TRICYCLE - Radio Flyer Child Bike Tricycle. Red & Blue In Color, $22, DeKalb, 815-739-1953

-WindowsWooden interior w/white Aluminum exterior. 8 windows in all $300.00 OBO 815-370-8759

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TODDLER BED Little Tikes Train Toddler Bed. Very good condition.

Comes with 2 mattresses. $200/obo. 815-762-0957, anytime call or text.

Craftsman Chipper & Shredder 8-1/2 Hp. Gas w/o catcher bag $125. 815-501-1842 12p-7pm Cub Cadet Lawn Tractor, Model 2136 AGS, 12.5 HP, 38” mowing deck. Runs well.

Good condition. $395.

Phone 815-762- 2385.

Cub Cadet- 1872 60” deck very good condition.

2002 Ford Thunderbird

1990 & Newer

2004 Honda Civic LS, 4 door, manual trans. 209K. Drivable but needs some work, new tires/battery, brakes gd. $1800 815-501-4031

Will beat anyone's price by $300.

13K miles, 2 tops, built in GPS. $23,500 815-498-3647

1979 Mack RD, 6 Wheel Dump w/ snow plow, $10,000/obo.

815-901-2804

1995 Ford F150 Ext Cab

Cub Cadet – 1862 50” deck 815-761-0301 or 815-758-0729

Dual tanks, 8 ft bed, V-8. $2500.

815 901 1081

Toro 22" rear bag self propelled mulching mower. needs carb cleaned. $45. 630-639-1312

1998 Ford Ranger XLT 77k, 3 liter V/6 AT 815-761-0301 or 815-758-0729

HAY FOR SALE Large bales, Grass and light Alfalfa, 1st and 2nd cuttings, $4/bale. 630-313-0251

2004 Ford E350 XLT 15 passenger Van, $8700.

815-901-1081

Will pay extra for Honda, Toyota & Nissan

815-814-1964 or

815-814-1224

Publisher's Notice: All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise "any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention, to make any such preference, limitation of discrimination." Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18.

This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law.

Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination call HUD tollfree at 1-800-669-9777. The tollfree telephone number for the hearing impaired is 1-800-927-9275.

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2004 Honda Shadow 750 (like new)includes helmets lg & sm, bike cover and bike stand. $4000. Call 3:30 -8pm 815-970-4620

DEKALB ~ 2 LRG BR, 2 LRG BA 1509 sq ft, new roof, heated, insulated, oversize 2 car gar/shop. $89,000.

815-756-5959

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Bench Grinder, 2 sided 6” wheel w/light $75 Huntley area. 847-515-8012 CABLE WIRE 1000' Reel RG - 6 New, $25, Sycamore 815-895-5373

Safari, Fiberglass, 70” wide x 84” long.

Needs work, Dark Blue. $200/obo. 815-739-8555

A-1 AUTO Hospital Bed – Head, Foot, Raise Lower, 2 Speed Vibrator on Wheel 99% New - $125. Call 3p-6p Call 815-786-4449

Brake Pads - Wagner MX215 premium semi-metallic brake pads.

NEW IN BOX. Fit many GM cars from 80s and early 90s.

Alternate numbers – MX7136 and OEM LT215. $22/OBO. 815-825-2443 Dekalb Area.

CLEATS SHOES - Boys Men's Nike Size 5.5, $5, DeKalb, 815-739-1953 Diodora Cleats Shoes Boy's Men's - Size 8, $5, DeKalb, 815-739-1953

NEW Wayne 12 volt standby sump pump Model ESP-15 $100/OBO. 815-748-7693 SHOES - Adidas Everyday Shoes Boy's Men's Size 7.5, $5.

DeKalb, 815-739-1953 SHOES - Cherokee Black Casual Dress Tie Shoes, Boy's Men's Size 6, $5. 815-739-1953 SNEAKERS Sneaux Black Boy's Men's Size 7 Everyday Shoes, $5, DeKalb, 815-739-1953

WURLITZER PIANO Good Condition. $350.00 815-761-2789

Womens Gold Clubs Dunlop PowerTrac – Complete Set 13 clubs, good condition, comes w/ Wilson bag & 3 wheel carrier $40. 815-756-6516

Will BUY UR USED CAR, TRUCK, SUV,

MOST CASH WILL BEAT ANY QUOTE GIVEN!! $400 - $2000 “don't wait.... call 2day”!!

PUBLIC NOTICE

HARLEY DAVIDSON SOFTAIL DELUXE 2007 Harley Davidson Softail Deluxe with ONLY 4,888 original miles! Stored in heated garage.

96 cubic inch motor, beautiful blue and white paint, white wall tires with spoke wheels, detachable backrest and larger passenger seat, rush performance slip on exhaust. AWESOME SOUND! $15,995. Call 815-759-1651.

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Honda Cruiser 750 CC, 2,700 miles. 1 owner $4,650/obo 815-895-8222

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS The National Bank & Trust Company of Sycamore, PLAINTIFF Vs. Dennis A. Haile; et. al.

DEFENDANTS 14 CH 00133 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on 8/14/2014, the Sheriff of DeKalb County, Illinois will on 6/11/15 at the hour of 1:00PM at Public Safety Building, 150 North Main Sycamore, IL 60178, or in a place otherwise designated at the time of sale, County of DeKalb and State of Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real estate: PIN 08-14-129-013 Improved with Multi-Family Unit COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 1807 N. 1st Street DeKalb, IL 60115 Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds,

s, $ , is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

If the property is a condominium and the foreclosure takes place after 1/1/2007, purchasers other than the mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after Confirmation of the sale. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/ expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises.

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

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information: Examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: Codilis & Associates, P.C., 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-14-09717.

I655148 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, April 30, 2015 May 7, 14, 2015)

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TO: Riverbend Development of Genoa, LLC BMO Harris Bank, NA Mark F. Suchy Ada J. Suchy Mark F. Suchy, Ltd. David D. Speers, Trustee Illinois Secretary of State William M. & Mary I. Utley Rev. Living Trust

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS The National Bank & Trust Company of Sycamore, PLAINTIFF Vs. Dennis A. Haile; et. al.

DEFENDANTS 14 CH 00133 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on 8/14/2014, the Sheriff of DeKalb County, Illinois will on 6/11/15 at the hour of 1:00PM at Public Safety Building, 150 North Main Sycamore, IL 60178, or in a place otherwise designated at the time of sale, County of DeKalb and State of Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT 5 IN SIXTH ADDITION TO NORTH CREST SUBDIVISION, BEING A RESUBDIVISION OF OUTLOT "A" OF THE FOURTH ADDITION TO NORTH CREST SUBDIVISION OF PART OF PARCEL "A" OF THE ELLWOOD FARM PLAT ON SECTION 14, TOWNSHIP 40 NORTH, RANGE 4 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN BOOK "Q" OF PLATS, PAGE 87, ON JULY 17TH, 1975, AS DOCUMENT NO. 387507, IN DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS. PIN 08-14-129-013 Improved with Multi-Family Unit COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 1807 N. 1st Street DeKalb, IL 60115 Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the auction; The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

If the property is a condominium and the foreclosure takes place after 1/1/2007, purchasers other than the mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4).

If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after Confirmation of the sale. The successful purchaser has the sole responsibility/ expense of evicting any tenants or other individuals presently in possession of the subject premises.

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

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information: Examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: Codilis & Associates, P.C., 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-14-09717.

I655148 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, April 30, 2015 May 7, 14, 2015)

TAKE NOTICE CERTIFICATE NO. 2011-00029

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TO: Patricia W. Peterson Roger Peterson Occupant Estate of Violet M. Bartlett Suchan Oak Park Investments, Inc. Persons in occupancy or actual possession of said property; Unknown owners or parties interested in said land or lots.

A Petition for Tax Deed on premise described below has been filed with the Circuit Clerk of DEKALB County, Ill. as Case No. 15 TX 14

A Petition for Tax Deed on premise described below has been filed with the Circuit Clerk of DEKALB County, Ill. as Case No. 15 TX 20

A Petition for Tax Deed on premise described below has been filed with the Circuit Clerk of DEKALB County, Ill. as Case No. 15 TX 15

The Property is located at: 12257 Waterman Road, Waterman

The Property is located at: 52.81 acres along Parkview Ln., Genoa Permanent Index Number: 02-25-200-010 Said Property was sold on 11/5/2012 for Delinquent Real Estate Taxes and/or Special Assessments for the year 2011.

The period of redemption will expire on 9/2/2015. On 10/23/15 at 09:00 am the Petitioner will make application to such Court in said County for an Order for Issuance of a Tax Deed.

Midtax, Inc., Petitioner (Published in the Daily Chronicle, May 5, 6 & 7, 2015.)

PUBLIC NOTICE TAKE NOTICE CERTIFICATE NO. 2011-00134 TO: Kevin M. Smith Michelle Smith Occupant Persons in occupancy or actual possession of said property; Unknown owners or parties interested in said land or lots.

A Petition for Tax Deed on premise described below has been filed with the Circuit Clerk of DEKALB County, Ill. as Case No. 15 TX 17 The Property is located at: 966 Wells Drive, Sycamore Property Index Number: 06-28-356-029 Said Property was sold on 11/5/2012 for Delinquent Real Estate Taxes and/or Special Assessments for the year 2011.

The period of redemption will expire on 9/4/2015. On 10/23/15 at 09:00 am the Petitioner will make application to such Court in said County for an Order for Issuance of a Tax Deed.

MS INVESTMENT GROUP, INC., Petitioner (Published in the Daily Chronicle, May 5, 6 & 7, 2015.)

PUBLIC NOTICE TAKE NOTICE CERTIFICATE NO. 2011-00135 TO: John B. Dwyer Kevin Dwyer Madeline Dwyer Darby W. Dwyer Occupant Internal Revenue Service Department of the Treasury United States Attorney United States Attorney General Asset Acceptance, LLC Persons in occupancy or actual possession of said property; Unknown owners or parties interested in said land or lots.

A Petition for Tax Deed on premise described below has been filed with the Circuit Clerk of DEKALB County, Ill. as Case No. 15 TX 18

Said Property was sold on 11/5/2012 for Delinquent Real Estate Taxes and/or Special Assessments for the year 2011.

The period of redemption will expire on 9/4/2015. On 10/23/15 at 09:00 am the Petitioner will make application to such Court in said County for an Order for Issuance of a Tax Deed.

MS INVESTMENT GROUP, INC., Petitioner (Published in the Daily Chronicle, May 5, 6 & 7, 2015.)

PUBLIC NOTICE CERTIFICATE NO. 2011-00320 TO: Guy Smith Loretta A. Smith Occupant Coventry Townhomes of North Field Farms Persons in occupancy or actual possession of said property; Unknown owners or parties interested in said land or lots.

A Petition for Tax Deed on premise described below has been filed with the Circuit Clerk of DEKALB County, Ill. as Case No. 15 TX 19 The Property is located at: 430 North Troy Lane, Cortland

The period of redemption will expire on 9/4/2015. On 10/23/15 at 09:00 am the Petitioner will make application to such Court in said County for an Order for Issuance of a Tax Deed.

MS INVESTMENT GROUP, INC., Petitioner (Published in the Daily Chronicle, May 5, 6 & 7, 2015.)

PUBLIC NOTICE CERTIFICATE NO. 2011-00041

(Published in the Daily Chronicle, May 5, 6 & 7, 2015.)

PUBLIC NOTICE TAKE NOTICE

TO: Riverbend Development of Genoa, LLC BMO Harris Bank, NA Mark F. Suchy David D. Speers, Trustee William M & Mary I Utley Rev LT Ada J. Suchy Mark F. Suchy, Ltd. Illinois Secretary of State Persons in occupancy or actual possession of said property; Unknown owners or parties interested in said land or lots.

A Petition for Tax Deed on premise described below has been filed with the Circuit Clerk of DEKALB County, Ill. as Case No. 15 TX 22 The Property is located at: 5.13 acres along Stearn Dr., Genoa Permanent Index Number: 02-24-476-008 Said Property was sold on 11/5/2012 for Delinquent Real Estate Taxes and/or Special Assessments for the year 2011.

The period of redemption will expire on 9/2/2015. On 10/23/15 at 09:00 am the Petitioner will make application to such Court in said County for an Order for Issuance of a Tax Deed.

Realtax Developers, Ltd, Petitioner (Published in the Daily Chronicle, May 5, 6 & 7, 2015.)

TAKE NOTICE

ga ptio ope y No. 08-14-251-008 This notice is to advise you that the above property has been sold for delinquent taxes and that the period of redemption from the sale will expire on 8/13/2015.

The amount to redeem is subject to increase at 6 month intervals from the date of sale and may be further increased if the purchaser at the tax sale or his or her assignee pays any subsequently accruing taxes or special assessments to redeem the property from subsequent forfeitures or tax sales. Check with the county clerk as to the exact amount you owe before redeeming: This notice is also to advise you that a petition has been filed for a tax deed which will transfer title and the right to possession of this property if redemption is not made on or before 8/13/2015.

This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit Court of this County in Sycamore, Illinois, on 9/18/2015 in the Dekalb County Courthouse, 133 W. State St., Sycamore, IL 60178, Courtroom 200 at 9:00 A.M. You may be present at this hearing but your right to redeem will already have expired at that time.

YOU ARE URGED TO REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS OF PROPERTY Redemption can be made at any time on or before 8/13/2015 by applying to the County Clerk of Dekalb County, Illinois at the Office of the County Clerk in Sycamore, Illinois.

For further information contact the County Clerk.

Dekalb County Clerk 110 E Sycamore St. Sycamore, IL 60178 (815) 895-7149 CENTRAL BUYER CORP. PURCHASER or ASSIGNEE Dated: 03/25/2015 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, May 7, 8 & 9, 2015.)

PUBLIC NOTICE TO: ILLINOIS ATTORNEY GENERAL, DALE RUNIA, THE NATIONAL BANK & TRUST COMPANY OF SYCAMORE, OCCUPANT, JOSEPH A. LANDRY A/K/A JOE A. LANDRY, M. ADAMS EQUIPMENT CO., MARVIN ADAMS, AS R/A FOR M. ADAMS EQUIPMENT CO., DISTRICT DIRECTOR - I. R. S., UNITED STATES DISTRICT ATTORNEY, MICHAEL S. FITZGERALD A/K/A MICHAEL FITZGERALD, STATE OF ILLINOIS, DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, LIEN UNIT UNITED STATES ATTORNEY GENERAL, PARTIES IN OCCUPANCY OR ACTUAL POSSESSION OF SAID PROPER

TAKE NOTICE

AL POSSESSION OF SAID PROPERTY; UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PERSONS INTERESTED IN SAID LAND OR LOT. DEKALB COUNTY CLERK 2011-00244 TAX DEED NO. 15TX13 FILED: 3/20/2015 TAKE NOTICE County of DeKalb, State of Illiois Date Premises Sold 11/5/2012 Sold for General Taxes of (year) 2011 Sold for Special Assessment Number N/A and Special Assessment Number N/A Warrant No. N/A Inst. No. N/A THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES Property located at 850 GLIDDEN AVE., DEKALB, IL Legal Description or Property Index No. 08-22-454-012 This notice is to advise you that the above property has been sold for delinquent taxes and that the perios of redemption from the sale will expire on 8/13/2015.

The amount to redeem is subject to increase at 6 month intervals from the date of sale and may be further increased if the purchaser at the tax sale or his or her assignee pays any subsequently accruing taxes or special assessments to redeem the property from subsequent forfeitures or tax sales. Check with the county clerk as to the exact amount you owe before redeeming: This notice is also to advise you that a petition has been filed for a tax deed which will transfer title and the right possession of theis property if redemption is not made on or before 8/13/2015.

This matter is set for hearing in the Circuit Court of this County in Sycamore, Illinois, on 9/18/2015 in the Dekalb County Courthouse, 133 W. State St., Sycamore, IL 60178, Courtroom 200 at 9:00 A.M. You may be present at this hearing but your right to redeem will already have expired at that time.

PURCHASER or ASSIGNEE /s/ Douglas J. Johnson DeKalb County Clerk & Recorder

Dated 03/25/2015 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, May 7, 8 & 9, 2015.)

Public Notice Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Malta-Milan Multi-Township Assessing District will take place on Wednesday, May 20, 2015, at 7:00 p.m. at the Milan Township building.

Paula Kyler, Clerk (Published in the Daily Chronicle, May 7, 2015.)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY-THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS

ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on April 10, 2015 a certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of DeKalb County, Illinois, setting forth the names and post office addresses of all of the persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as: REED'S LAWN SOLUTIONS 918 Birchwood Dr., Sycamore, IL 60178.

Dated April 10, 2015 /s/ Douglas J. Johnson DeKalb County Clerk & Recorder (Published in the Daily Chronicle, April 23, 30 & May 7, 2015.)

PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that on June 5, 2015, at 9:00 A.M. at the DeKalb County Courthouse, 133 West State Street, Sycamore, Illinois, 60178 in the courtroom occupied by the presiding judge, Neeru Ashokrai Patel will file his/her petition requesting that his/her name be changed from NEERU ASHOKRAI PATEL to NEERU PATEL pursuant to the statute in such case made and provided. Any persons interested in said request for change of name may appear at said time and place, if they so desire.

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Neeru Ashokrai Patel 186 Quinlan Avenue DeKalb, IL 60115 (Published in the Daily chronicle, April 23, 30 & May 7, 2015.)

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Redemption can be made at any time on or before 8/13/2015 by applying to the County Clerk of Dekalb County, Illinois at the Office of the County Clerk in Sycamore, Illinois.

PUBLIC NOTICE

CENTRAL BUYER CORP.

PUBLIC NOTICE

IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF: NEERU ASHOKRAI PATEL FOR CHANGE OF NAME

YOU ARE URGED TO REDEEM IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT LOSS OF PROPERTY

For further information cotact the County Clerk DeKalb County Clerk 110 E. Sycamore St. Sycamore, IL 60178 (815) 895-7149

(Published in the Daily Chronicle, May 7, 14 & 21, 2015.)

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ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on May 5, 2015 a certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of DeKalb County, Illinois, setting forth the names and post office addresses of all of the persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as: OLTD/BEST BUDS PRODUCTIONS 1210 Commercial St., Sycamore, IL 60178.

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CERTIFICATE NO. 2011-00056 TO: Anthony Nikols Spouse of Anthony Nikols MB Financial Bank, NA Ganges Bell

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Persons in occupancy or actual possession of said property; Unknown owners or parties interested in said land or lots.

A Petition for Tax Deed on premise described below has been filed with the Circuit Clerk of DEKALB County, Ill. as Case No. 15 TX 16 The Property is located at: 207 E. 1st St., Genoa

Said Property was sold on 11/5/2012 for Delinquent Real Estate Taxes and/or Special Assessments for the year 2011.

PUBLIC NOTICE TAKE NOTICE

MS INVESTMENT GROUP, INC., Petitioner

Property Index Number: 06-29-103-011

Said Property was sold on 11/5/2012 for Delinquent Real Estate Taxes and/or Special Assessments for the year 2011.

(Published in the Daily Chronicle, May 5, 6 & 7, 2015.)

The period of redemption will expire on 9/4/2015. On 10/23/15 at 09:00 am the Petitioner will make application to such Court in said County for an Order for Issuance of a Tax Deed.

Permanent Index Number: 03-19-429-036

Permanent Index Number: 02-22-100-005

Midtax, Inc., Petitioner

Said Property was sold on 11/5/2012 for Delinquent Real Estate Taxes and/or Special Assessments for the year 2011.

The Property is located at: 1611 John Street, Sycamore

Property Index Number: 09-20102-129

The period of redemption will expire on 9/2/2015. On 10/23/15 at 09:00 am the Petitioner will make application to such Court in said County for an Order for Issuance of a Tax Deed.

Property Index Number: 11-33-400-010

CERTIFICATE NO. 2011-00039

The Property is located at: 32984 Five Points Rd., Kingston

Said Property was sold on 11/5/2012 for Delinquent Real Estate Taxes and/or Special Assessments for the year 2011.

Persons in occupancy or actual possession of said property; Unknown owners or parties interested in said land or lots.

Persons in occupancy or actual possession of said property; Unknown owners or parties interested in said land or lots.

TAKE NOTICE

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The period of redemption will expire on 9/2/2015. On 10/23/15 at 09:00 am the Petitioner will make application to such Court in said County for an Order for Issuance of a Tax Deed.

Midtax, Inc., Petitioner

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(Published in the Daily Chronicle, May 5, 6 & 7, 2015.)

PUBLIC NOTICE TO: CHRISTA L. MCGRATH A/K/A CHRISTA L. WALLACE, HEALTHCARE AND FAMILY SERCOLLECTION/TECHNICAL VICES RECOVERY, OCCUPANT, JUSTIN T. MCGRATH A/K/A JUSTIN MCGRATH, WILLIAM R. WALLACE A/K/A BILLY WALLACE, JENNA MORTENSEN, OF ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT HEALTHCARE AND FAMILY SERVICES F/K/A STATE OF ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC AID BUREAU OF COLLECTIONS/ TECHNICAL RECOVERY SECTION, ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTHCARE AND FAMILY SERVICES F/K/A STATE OF ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC AID BUREAU OF FISCAL OPERATIONS, IVD ACCOUNTING, ILLINOIS ATTORNEY GENERAL, VERDELL A. NITZ, PARTIES IN OCCUPANCY OR ACTUAL POSSESSION OF SAID PROPERTY; UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PERSONS INTERESTED IN SAID LAND OR LOT. DEKALB COUNTY CLERK 2011-00197 TAX DEED NO.

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Ray Faivre – Owner Epoxy/Poly Injection Drain Tile Systems Window Well Systems Cracked Walls Leaky Basements

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TAKE NOTICE County of Dekalb, State of Illinois Date Premises Sold 11/5/2012 Certificate No. 2011-00197 Sold for General Taxes of (year) 2011 Sold for Special Assessment of N/A and Special Assessment Number N/A Warrant No. N/A Inst. No. N/A THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR DELINQUENT TAXES

CERTIFICATE NO. 2011-00502

Property located at 145 JOANNE LN., DEKALB, IL

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Quality Work Bill Johnson

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