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Police: Coach had affair with student Sycamore High math teacher, DeKalb-Sycamore co-op swim coach on leave on charges of criminal sexual assault and aggravated criminal sexual abuse, court records show.

She has been placed on paid leave from her positions as a Sycamore math teacher and coach of Leah Eames the DeKalbSycamore co-op swim team.

DeKalb police began investigating Eames on Aug. 10,

By JILLIAN DUCHNOWSKI jduchnowski@shawmedia.com SYCAMORE – A Sycamore High School teacher who also coached boys’ and girls’ swim teams for DeKalb and Sycamore high schools is accused of sexually assaulting a girl she was coaching this summer.

Leah N. Eames, 32, of the 600 block of Haish Boulevard in DeKalb, appeared Wednesday in DeKalb County Court

when a police officer checking the Barb City YMCA, 1515 S. Fourth St. in DeKalb, after hours found Eames working out with a student, DeKalb police Lt. Bob Redel said. The late hour seemed curious to the officer, so police examined the surveillance video from the time the two were there and saw them holding hands after the workout, Redel said.

Using the surveillance tape, police said detectives were able to identify the stu-

dent and later interview her, and later discovered Eames and the student had an ongoing sexual relationship.

Eames did not immediately return messages seeking comment Wednesday.

The criminal charges allege Eames had sexual contact with a teenage swimmer between June and Tuesday, court records show.

Eames’ bond was set at $75,000 Wednesday; she posted $7,500 bail and was re-

man said Eames was placed on paid leave Tuesday morning after Sycamore school officials were notified of the police investigation.

Countryman said administrators have been working with Sycamore police, including the school resource officer, although DeKalb police are leading the investigation.

On Wednesday, administrators sent an email to staff

leased with orders not to have contact with the alleged victim or other minors, records show. She is next due in court Sept. 17. If convicted of the more serious charge, criminal sexual assault, she could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison; probation would not be an option.

Sycamore School District 427 Superintendent Kathy Countryman said Eames was a second-year math teacher at the high school. Country-

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SAFEbuilt deputy building official Daniel Burrows inspects new makeup counters Friday that have been installed in Kohl’s on Sycamore Road in DeKalb. The city of DeKalb has a contract with SAFEbuilt to perform all of DeKalb’s building inspections. City officials are drafting an ordinance to expand DeKalb’s inspection program to include regular interior inspections of existing commercial and industrial buildings.

DeKalb commercial building owners await new inspection rules come in over the years, but other than that he hasn’t had much interaction with city inspectors.

DeKalb aldermen will discuss a draft DeKALB – Building owner He thinks some properties that Arch Richoz doesn’t know what ordinance covering building and pershould have had visits from into expect from a DeKalb proposal mit inspections for commercial and inspectors have not. that would revamp how the city dustrial buildings during Sept. 8’s City “I’ve got mixed emotions inspects commercial and indus- Council meeting. After the discussion, about these things,” Arch Richoz trial buildings. said. “If you’re going to make an city staff will draft a request seeking He’d like to think it will affect proposals from outside contractors to ordinance, you should enforce it.”

COMMERCIAL INSPECTIONS everyone, however.

The new ordinance, which the Richoz and his wife, Joan, conduct the inspections.

DeKalb officials are drafting have owned 221 W. Lincoln High- DeKalb City Council should take an ordinance they say will end way for four years. They run up Sept. 8, will cover all industhe city’s history of dealing with focus to finding problems when their business, Castle View Real trial and commercial buildings, buildings already dilapidated, they are small by performing reg- Estate, out of the building, which crumbling or uninhabitable. In- ular interior inspections. also holds Vinny’s Pizza. Arch “It’s something that needs to said he’s seen a fire inspector See INSPECTIONS, page A8 stead, the ordinance will shift the

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be addressed citywide,” City Attorney Dean Frieders said.

But the proposed ordinance will only affect commercial and industrial properties, leaving interior inspections on residential rental properties to be driven by complaints.

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SPRINGFIELD – The GOP candidate for Illinois governor broadened his criticism of state agriculture officials Wednesday, saying the department was “full of cronyism” and has “folks running things that generally don’t have much expertise.”

Winnetka businessman Bruce Rauner’s statements at a forum coordinated by the Illinois Farm Bureau featuring candidates for governor and U.S. Senate come after comments earlier this month that the agency’s director “must have agriculture experience” – a shot at Agriculture Director Bob Flider, a former Democratic lawmaker who was named to the post after he lost a 2010 re-election race for the Illinois House. Flider had voted, as a lame duck in the House, for Quinn’s 67 percent income-tax increase after earlier opposing it.

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

Take Off Pounds Sensibly: 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. weigh-in and 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. meeting, Sycamore United Methodist Church, 160 Johnson Ave. Call Lydia Johnson, chapter leader, 815-895-4618.

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

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Friendship Night: 7 p.m. in Room 10 of the Elburn Community Center, 525 N. Main St. For adults grieving the loss of a loved one through death. Call Conley Outreach at 630-365-2880 for directions and monthly topics.

Kirkland Lions Club: 7 p.m.

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Cold cash just keeps washing in

By ALLEN G. BREED The Associated Press In the couple of hours it took an official from the ALS Association to return a reporter’s call for comment, the group’s ubiquitous “ice bucket challenge” had brought in a few million more dollars.

Approaching $100 million, the viral fundraising campaign for the ailment better known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease has put the ALS group into the top ranks for medical charity donations. Since the end of July, the money has been sloshing in at a rate of about $9 million a week.

Last year, from July 29 to Aug. 26, the group raised just $2.6 million.

It’s caught everyone off-guard, none more so than the ALS Association folks.

But they know this is likely a one-off phenomenon, and the group now faces the task of spending all that money wisely. Research, care and advocacy are the group’s three main missions – but officials said they don’t know yet exactly how they’ll use the astonishing windfall.

“I think even if I or any PR person at either a nonprofit or a for-profit company had all of the PR dollars in the world to invest, no one would have come up with this idea,” said Carrie Munk, the association’s spokeswoman. “We realize there are responsibilities that come with being good stewards of these dollars.”

Part of what’s surprising is that ALS or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is one of those “orphan” diseases. It is a neurodegenerative disease that causes paralysis and death, and the association estimates that about 5,600 new cases are diagnosed in the U.S. each year.

This campaign hasn’t exactly put the charity in the same neighborhood as giants like the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association or Susan G. Komen for the Cure – which raised $889 million, $529 million and $310 million last year, respectively. But it’s moving into the same ZIP code now.

“People who have been in this space for a long period of time feel like it’s a dream come true,” said Munk.

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The ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO – Two Chicago men sued a taxi company this week, alleging a driver tried to kick them out of his cab because they shared a short kiss.

Matthew McCrea and Steven White filed the lawsuit against Sun Taxi.

They claim the driver violated the Illinois Human Rights Act and are seeking an undisclosed amount in damages.

PHOENIX – The accidental shooting death of a firing-range instructor by a 9-year-old girl with an Uzi has set off a powerful debate over youngsters and guns, with many people wondering what sort of parents would let a child handle a submachine gun.

Instructor Charles Vacca, 39, was standing next to the girl Monday at the Last Stop range in White Hills, Arizona, about 60 miles south of Las Vegas, when she squeezed the trigger. The recoil wrenched the Uzi upward, and Vacca was shot in the head.

Prosecutors said they will not file charges in the case.

Gerry Hills, founder of Arizonans for Gun Safety, a group seeking to reduce gun violence, said that it was reckless to let the girl handle such a powerful weapon and that tighter regulations regarding children and guns are needed.

“We have better safety standards for who gets to ride a roller coaster at an amusement park,” Hills said. Referring to the girl’s parents, Hills said: “I just don’t see any reason in the world why you would allow a 9-year-old to put her hands on an Uzi.” The identities of the girl and her family have not been released.

Sam Scarmardo, who operates the outdoor range in the desert, said Wednes-

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Red Bull team members dump buckets of ice water on Technical Chief Adrian Newey, (left) and Team Chief Christian Horner at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit Aug. 23 in Belgium for the “ice bucket challenge” in support of the ALS Association which is raising funds to cure Lou Gehrig’s Disease. The idea behind the challenge is to pour a bucket of ice cold water over oneself and to donate a sum of money to the charity at the same time, or pay more to avoid doing the challenge. verbial rock, here are the basic rules: Someone issues a challenge – that you allow yourself to be doused with a bucket of ice and water, like winning coaches along the sidelines. Then, the challengee has 24 hours to make a $100 donation to the ALS Association or submit to the water torture.

In the past month, everyone from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to former President George W. Bush has been doused. The Internet and airwaves are awash in videos of people taking the challenge – even if they fully intend to write the check.

Jonah Berger, author of the book “Contagious: Why Things Catch On,” said it’s like a modern-day chain letter – except, in this case, everyone will know if you break the chain.

“It has a lot of the key ingredients that often make people want to share things,” said Berger, a marketing pro-

fessor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. “It gives people lots of social currency to be part of it. It makes you look good. It makes you look smart and in the know; you know what’s going on. And it’s always hard to back down from a challenge.”

And now others are co-opting the bucket challenge for their own causes.

Actor Matt Damon, for instance, dumped toilet water over his head to call attention to his passion – safe drinking water. Actor Orlando Jones of the television series “Sleepy Hollow” showered himself with bullets in the wake of black teenager Michael Brown’s shooting death by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.

“I’m challenging myself to listen without prejudice, to love without limits and to reverse the hate,” he said. “So that’s my challenge – to me. And, hopefully, you’ll accept this challenge, too.”

The lawsuit contends McCrea gave White, his boyfriend, a one-secondlong kiss during a ride from the airport, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

The men said the driver then pulled over on the expressway and ordered them out. When they refused, the driver merged back onto the expressway, “driving recklessly, swerving into traffic,” according to the lawsuit.

The driver called 311 and was transferred to 911. When police arrived,

the driver told an officer McCrea and White were “making sex” in the cab, the lawsuit filed Monday said.

The driver, who is not named in the lawsuit, previously told the Sun-Times he pulled the car over to ask the couple to stop kissing, but he wasn’t kicking them out of the cab.

“I told them to stop,” he said. “It was raining. I couldn’t drive with something like that. I have to drive safely because it’s raining.”

Shooting by 9-year-old girl stirs debate over guns

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“We have better safety standards for who gets to ride a roller coaster at an amusement park.

Gerry Hills Founder of Arizonans for Gun Safety

day that the parents had signed waivers saying they understood the rules and were standing nearby, video-recording their daughter, when the accident happened.

Investigators released 27 seconds of the footage showing the girl from behind as she fires at a black-silhouette target.

The footage, which does not show the instructor actually being shot, helped feed the furor on social media and beyond.

“I have regret we let this child shoot, and I have regret that Charlie was killed in the incident,” Scarmardo said. He said he doesn’t know what went wrong, pointing out that Vacca was an Army veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Jace Zack, chief deputy for the Mohave County Attorney’s Office, said the instructor was probably the most criminally negligent person involved in the accident for having allowed the child to hold the gun without enough training.

“The parents aren’t culpable,” Zack said. “They trusted the instructor to

know what he was doing, and the girl could not possibly have comprehended the potential dangers involved.”

In 2008, an 8-year-old boy died after accidentally shooting himself in the head with an Uzi at a gun expo near Springfield, Massachusetts. Christopher Bizilj was firing at pumpkins when the gun kicked back. A former Massachusetts police chief whose company co-sponsored the gun show was later acquitted of involuntary manslaughter.

Two gun experts said Wednesday that what types of firearms a child can handle depend largely on the strength and experience of the child – although the notion of giving a 9-year-old a fully automatic Uzi made some queasy.

“So much of it depends on the maturity of the child and the experience of the range officer,” said Joe Waldron, a shooting instructor and legislative director of the Washington State Rifle and Pistol Association.

Dave Workman, senior editor at thegunmag.com and a spokesman for the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, said it can be safe to let children shoot an automatic weapon if a properly trained adult is helping them hold it.

After viewing the video of the Arizona shooting, Workman said Vacca appeared to have tried to help the girl maintain control by placing his left hand under the weapon. But automatic weapons tend to recoil upward, he noted.

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Thursday, August 28, 2014 • Page A3 Randall Olsen, the Democratic candidate for the Illinois 16th Congressional District, talks with DeKalb resident Julie Kiefer-Bell during a public town hall Wednesday at the Veteran’s Home in Genoa.

County Zero Waste task force proposal OK’d by committee

By JESSI HAISH

“I have two children of my own. In 20 years, I don’t want this to be a problem they have to deal with.”

jhaish@shawmedia.com SYCAMORE – County Zero Waste task force members hope that in the future their priorities can be expanded and recycling opportunities can be provided for more DeKalb County residents.

The task force was created in October to explore a zero waste policy, which means residents would rely on other means of disposing of waste, such as reusing materials and recycling. Since October, the 13-member team, including residents, members of the health department and government representatives, agreed upon a list of priorities for the future which were presented to the Planning and Zoning Committee as recommendations Wednesday.

The recommendations are expanding opportunities for rural recycling, commercial/ multi-unit housing recycling and harvesting organics.

Since the recommendations were approved Wednesday by the Planning and Zoning Committee, the recommendations will go to the County Board on Sept. 27 for a final vote on whether the plan for zero waste initiatives is something the county wants to pursue.

“I’m ecstatic right now,” said board member Marc Johnson, D-Sycamore, and a member of the task force.

“We’ve put so much work into this. I’m hoping someday we can create some sort of pilot program to harvest organics and work on making recycling available to apartment complexes.”

Task force members hope if their recommendations are one day put into place that

Steve Challgren Ideal Industries representative

the rate at which the landfill accepts refuse can be reduced by 50 percent in 20 years, from the current rate of 4.28 pounds per capita per day to 2.14 pounds by 2034.

The report states some costs will be associated with the plan, such as increasing the current solid waste coordinator position from part time to full time. However, the report anticipates there will be additional costs beyond personnel, but they are unknown pending further planning.

Charles Foster, R-Shabbona and member of the Planning and Zoning Committee, did not want to move forward with the recommendations because of the ambiguity of the costs, and voted against the recommendations.

Task force member Steve Challgren, representing Ideal Industries, said there was a cost to doing nothing to address the amount of garbage that is building up in the landfill. Challgren said he was originally unaware of how much garbage winds up in landfills, but since he joined the task force, it has opened his eyes to more information.

“I have two children of my own,” Challgren said. “In 20 years, I don’t want this to be a problem they have to deal with.”

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Congressional gridlock, taxes topics of candidate’s town hall

By ANDREA AZZO

“I want to be as informed as I can possibly be.”

aazzo@shawmedia.com GENOA – Genoa resident John Noyes liked many of the things he heard Randall Olsen, Democratic candidate for the Illinois 16th Congressional District, say Wednesday at a Genoa town hall.

Noyes himself is a Democratic candidate running for a second district seat on the DeKalb County Board. A former history teacher at Dundee Middle School, Noyes had a simple reason for wanting to attend the town hall held at Genoa Veteran’s Home, 311 S. Washington St. “I wanted to meet Randall,” he said.

Attendees of the town hall had the opportunity to ask Olsen about his campaign stances. Olsen touts himself as a moderate Democrat who would focus on three main points if elected: pass a jobs bill that was previously introduced in Congress but not debated; raise the minimum wage to at least $10 an hour; and pass an infrastructure bill to allocate money for street and bridge repairs and inspec-

Julie Kiefer-Bell DeKalb resident

tions.

Most importantly, however, Olsen said he wants to have a Democratic majority in Congress and replace Speaker of the House John Boehner.

“Nobody’s talking to each other,” Olsen said about Congress. “We can’t get anything done because nobody’s talking to each other.”

Olsen talked about many issues at the town hall, including how budget cuts to women’s health care service Planned Parenthood could have been prevented if only large American companies such as General Electric paid more income taxes.

Olsen said re-writing the tax code would mandate large companies to pay more taxes. He also said increasing the minimum wage would increase

spending since consumers are job creators, not employers.

Olsen also claims to have a solution to keep the Social Security program going through 2087: remove the wages cap currently set at $117,000 so that higher earners pay more taxes.

Olsen’s opponent, incumbent Republican Adam Kinzinger, has focused some of his campaign on balancing the U.S. budget. According to his website, Kinzinger has cosponsored and voted for bills such as The Budget and Accounting Transparency Act, which highlights the cost of government-sponsored enterprises like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and government-backed loan programs.

DeKalb resident Julie Kiefer-Bell also attended Olsen’s town hall. While she was frustrated by the low turnout, she said she enjoyed that she could talk one-on-one with a candidate to find out where he stands.

“I want to be as informed as I can possibly be,” Kiefer-Bell said.

Sex offender pleads guilty to weapons charges

By ANDREA AZZO aazzo@shawmedia.com SYCAMORE – A registered sex offender accused of carrying weapons into a Waterman park agreed to plead guilty Tuesday afternoon just before his trial was scheduled to begin, officials said.

Christopher Sowers, 28, of Zion, admitted to two counts of unlawful use of a weapon and was sentenced Tuesday to 1 1/2 years of conditional discharge, which is a Christopher type of nonreporting Sowers probation, according to court records.

Sowers was scheduled to appear in front of Associate Judge John McAdams to decide if he was also guilty of unlawful presence of a sex offender within a school zone and within a park, but those charges were dropped as part of the plea deal. He faced up to three years in prison if convicted of unlawful presence of a sex offender within a school zone.

Sowers was accused of carrying a knife and hatchet May 15, 2013, at Waterman Lions Park, which is near Indian Creek Middle School, court records show. He told police he was taking a break from riding his motorcycle while on a road trip and was carrying the weapons for protection, court records show.

Sowers was previously convicted of aggravated sexual criminal assault against a victim younger than 9 years old and is classified as a sexual predator, court records show.

As part of his sentence, Sowers may not possess a gun or other dangerous weapon, must pay $500 in fines and costs and forfeit any seized items, said DeKalb County Assistant State’s Attorney Rachel McIntyre.

Sowers is also allowed to move to Arkansas if he wishes, McIntyre said.

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Toilet Bowl Challenge flush with popularity

By ERIC SCHELKOPF eschelkopf@shawmedia.com MAPLE PARK – Now in its 10th year, the Toilet Bowl Challenge has become a signature event at the Maple Park Fun Fest, which is being held Saturday through Monday.

“We get a lot of people who show up and see it,” said Pat Mundinger, who organizes the event every year for the Maple Park American Legion Post 312. “The only disappointment I have is that there are not more people participating.”

This year, two teams have signed up so far. But Mundinger said that’s typical for the race.

“I don’t know who is showing up until right before the race starts,” he said.

The Toilet Bowl Challenge will take place at 1:30 p.m.

Know more Information about the Maple Park Fun Fest is available at its website, www.mapleparkfunfest.com.

Saturday. Those who want to sign up for the race can call Mundinger at 630-774-9288.

The rules of the race are simple: teams must have three people – one person will “steer” the toilet and the other two people will push. A new driver must be in place at the race’s halfway mark, and no motors can be used.

The team that wins first place will receive a $100 prize.

In addition, $50 will be awarded for second place and $25 for third place. The team chosen Best of Show will receive a $100 prize.

Over the years, Mundinger said he has seen many interesting entries in the Toilet Bowl Challenge. He said the teams come up with unusual names, such as Pot of Gold and The Turdminators.

“A lot of times people come up with crazy costumes,” Mundinger said.

Maple Park American Legion Post 312 also is sponsoring a car show, which will be held from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday on Main Street in Maple Park. To register, go to Maple Park American Legion’s website, www.mapleparklegion. org.

Other activities include a craft and vendor show from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday and a fireworks show at 8:30 p.m.

Sunday. There is a rain date of 8:30 p.m. Monday for the fireworks show.

Vallas: Rauner plan would cost public schools $4 billion

By JOHN O’CONNOR The Associated Press SPRINGFIELD – Republican Bruce Rauner’s proposal to dump a temporary state income tax increase would cost public schools $4 billion a year and lead to 28,000 teacher layoffs, the rival campaign for Illinois governor said Wednesday.

Paul Vallas, Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn’s running mate, presented a by-schooldistrict breakdown of cuts that he said would be required under Rauner’s “Jobs and Growth” agenda, which calls for rolling back Quinn’s temporary, 67 percent tax hike in January from 5 percent to its pre-2011 level of 3 percent – not 3.75 percent, as the law currently reads.

The reduction would leave school districts scrambling to raise local taxes, cut educational services and extracurricular activities, and increase class sizes, Vallas contended.

Rauner spokesman Mike Schrimpf said in an email

that the Winnetka businessman would make education a top priority. He said despite a tax increase, Quinn cut education spending by $500 million during his five years in office, forcing teacher layoffs and larger class sizes.

“And ours are real numbers, not like the ones Vallas made up, which he can’t source,” Schrimpf said. “His is from a fantasyland, designed to set up a TV ad.”

Since the start of the economic crisis in 2009, support for elementary and secondary education has decreased about $700 million overall, according to the Illinois State Board of Education, however spending has increased over the past two years.

Vallas, who served as schools chief in Chicago, Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Bridgeport, Connecticut, conducted the analysis with Quinn campaign policy staff members. He said returning to a 3 percent tax rate – which Rauner says he would accom-

news@daily-chronicle.com DeKALB – Some downtown DeKalb roads will close at 3 p.m. today in preparation for Corn Fest, which runs Friday through Sunday.

The carnival will be located in the Glidden, Ellwood, and Haish city lots, which are located between Oak and Locust streets off of Second and Third streets, according to a news release. The carnival will also be in the parking lots of RonanMoore-Finch Funeral Home and Frontier Communications.

Those parking lots closed Tuesday and will remain closed until Monday for carni-

val set-up and take-down.

Street closures will begin at 3 p.m. today, on these blocks and parking lot: • Lincoln Highway between First and Fourth streets • Locust Street between Second and Fourth streets • Second and Third streets from the railroad tracks to Oak Street • The Embrey parking lot, behind the DeKalb Chamber of Commerce, between First and Second streets. A limited number of parking spaces will be open for customers of Chesapeake Bagel.

Traffic from First State Bank will be allowed to exit onto Third Street until the

DeKalb police say four still wanted in drug investigation

By ANDREA AZZO aazzo@shawmedia.com DeKALB – Police have so far arrested nine of the 13 people recently charged after a months-long drug investigation in DeKalb, authorities said.

According to the most recent information available from DeKalb police, four people remained wanted: • Raul Ramos-Montoya, 30, of DeKalb, on a warrant alleging unlawful delivery of a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a park.

• Ricky Smith, 27, of DeKalb, on a warrant alleging unlawful delivery of a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a school.

• Dylan Donzelli, 22, of DeKalb, on a warrant alleging unlawful possession of a controlled substance.

• Franklin Haywood, 21, of Elgin, on a warrant alleging unlawful possession of marijuana with the intent to deliver.

A total of 23 people were implicated in the investi-

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gation that included sales of cocaine, crack cocaine, marijuana and prescription drugs, authorities said. Ten were arrested before Aug. 21, and nine have been arrested since DeKalb police notified the public of the investigation.

The nine who have recently been arrested are: • Benjamin Anthenat, 23, of Sycamore; on charges of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a church.

• Arturo Maldonado, 25, of Sycamore; on charges of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a school.

• Scott Lohr, 46, of DeKalb; on charges of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance

within 1,000 feet of a school.

• James Davidson, 21, of Oak Park; on charges of unlawful possession of a controlled substance.

• Markus Williams, 22, of Warrenville; on charges of unlawful possession of marijuana with intent to deliver.

• Matthew Masciola, 23, of DeKalb; on charges of unlawful possession of marijuana with intent to deliver.

• Lynn Palmer, 46, of DeKalb; on charges of unlawful possession of marijuana.

• Samuel Grant, 25, of DeKalb; on charges of unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia.

• Colin Martin, 20, of Chicago; on charges of unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia.

property.

Matthew E. Hynek, 23, of the 6500 block of North 300 East, Laporte, Indiana, was charged Wednesday, Aug. 13, with disruptive intoxication.

David S. Mack, 26, of the 300 block of Short Court, Rochelle, was charged Wednesday, Aug. 13, with possession of marijuana.

Daniel L. Gorchels, 19, of the 800 block of North Ninth Street, DeKalb, was charged Thursday, Aug. 14, with underage drinking.

Alexandra A. Walker, 20, of the 1200 block of South Rand Road, Villa Park, was charged Thursday, Aug. 14, with retail theft.

Michael P. Collins, 29, of the 200 block of North Bridge Road, DeKalb, was charged Thursday, Aug. 14, with battery, and possession of marijuana, and resisting, obstructing or disarming an officer.

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plish over four years – would leave an $8 billion hole in the budget. That’s about half of the annual budgetary amount considered discretionary spending that could be cut – money for seniors in the Department on Aging, veterans, and child protective services, Vallas said.

Because education makes up half of that discretionary funding, Vallas assumed for his analysis that it would mean a 50 percent cut to schools “unless they stop funding pensions, unless they stop paying bills, unless they totally decimate some of the other discretionary categories.”

“It’s a plan that either reflects a basic misunderstanding on how state government works and the purpose of the general [discretionary] funds, or maybe it reflects a general attitude that you can dramatically cut across the board and address the state’s long-term needs that way,” Vallas told reporters at a teachers’ union professional-development facility.

DeKalb Corn Fest road closures start today

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bank closes at noon Saturday.

Bank traffic will be directed to Locust Street and over to Fourth Street. Locust Street will close completely from noon Saturday until 9 p.m.

Sunday.

There will be signs posted by the city of DeKalb in advance as a reminder. Any vehicles in violation will be towed at the owner’s expense.

The city lots at Fourth and Grove and at Second and Grove streets will remain open throughout the festival.

There will also be street parking available on Locust Street on the east side of Fourth Street. For information, call 815-748-2676.

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

DeKalb city Levon Ozier, 20, of the 800 block of Ridge Drive, DeKalb, was charged Wednesday, Aug. 13, with aggravated domestic battery and domestic battery.

Rodney A. Scales, 33, of the 1100 block of South Independence Boulevard, Chicago, was charged Wednesday, Aug. 13, with criminal damage to

Northern Illinois University Maciej P. Skura, 18, of the 3600 block of North Harlem Avenue, Chicago, was charged Tuesday, Aug. 26, with possession of drug paraphernalia.

Nehemiah N. Daniels, 18, of the 4100 block of Hemlock Street, East Chicago, Indiana, was charged Sunday, Aug. 24, with possession of marijuana.

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Ways insurers can deter the sick from enrolling in plans

By TOM MURPHY The Associated Press Insurers can no longer reject customers with expensive medical conditions thanks to the health care overhaul. But consumer advocates warn that companies are still using wiggle room to discourage the sickest – and costliest – patients from enrolling.

Some insurers are excluding well-known cancer centers from the list of providers they cover under a plan; requiring patients to make large, initial payments for HIV medications; or delaying participation in public insurance exchanges created by the overhaul.

Advocates and industry insiders said these practices may dissuade the neediest from signing up and make it likelier that the customers these insurers do serve will be healthier – and less expensive.

Insurers acknowledge that people may see changes in coverage, driven in part by how the overhaul affects insurance.

But they said prudent business practices, not discrimination against the sick, are key factors behind some of the trends that have raised concerns.

There are three major ways insurers still might steer sick or expensive patients away from their coverage:

FORM NARROW NETWORKS Insurers can lower their chances for covering patients with expensive medical conditions like cancer and autism simply by limiting the number of doctors and hospitals in a coverage network. That would send those patients searching for coverage elsewhere because they don’t want to pay expensive, out-of-network rates.

Narrow insurer networks might include only 30 percent or less of a market’s hospitals, as opposed to 70 percent or more for a broader network, according to the consulting firm McKinsey & Co.

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An infusion drug to treat cancer is administered to a patient via intravenous drip Sept. 5, 2013, at a cancer center hospital in Durham, N.C. These narrow networks have grown more common in recent years, especially in coverage sold on new public health insurance exchanges created by the overhaul.

An Associated Press survey of the nation’s top cancer centers this spring found that patients covered under the health care law could encounter barriers to access in many cases. For instance, MD Anderson Cancer Center said it is included in the networks of less than half of the plans sold on the Houston area’s public insurance exchange.

Aside from excluding patients, narrow networks also can help insurers form a healthy customer base by lowering the cost of coverage. A narrow provider network gives insurers leverage to squeeze better rates out of doctors who want to be included in that network in order to get the insurer’s business.

Better rates lead to lower premiums, and young and healthy people generally shop for insurance based on price.

“They’re the ones that don’t check the provider directory,” said Bob Laszewski, a former insurance executive turned industry consultant.

Insurers said plans with narrow networks are among many coverage choices consumers can make when they shop for insurance, and they are not an attempt to dodge the sick.

CAUSE PRESCRIPTION STICKER SHOCK Some plans are requiring patients to initially pay 30 percent or more of the bill for drugs that can cost several thousand dollars a month. HIV drugs and multiple sclerosis medications are among them.

Insurers said their plans follow HHS guidelines and cover all medically necessary HIV drugs. They also note that the price patients pay reflects, to some degree, what drugmakers charge for their medications.

But AIDS Institute Deputy Executive Director Carl Schmid said he worries that patient choices will dissolve over time if the high prescription payments spread to other insurers in a market, and “the good plans will become the bad plans.”

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Obama faces Congress New images emerge of mass killings in Syria question on Syria again

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By JULIE PACE The Associated Press WASHINGTON – One year ago, President Barack Obama was barreling toward airstrikes in Syria when he abruptly announced that he first wanted approval from congressional lawmakers.

The move threw his policy into confusion and the strikes were eventually scrapped.

Now, as Obama again contemplates military action in Syria, the White House is suggesting it may not be necessary to get a sign-off from Congress.

While cautioning that Obama has made no final decisions, officials said there Josh Earnest is a difference between last year’s effort to strike Syria’s government in retaliation for chemical weapons use and a bombing campaign against Islamic State militants that is now under consideration.

“The situation a year later is markedly different,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said when asked about the prospect of Obama again seeking congressional authorization.

“What we’re talking about now is confronting a terrorist group that has sought safe haven in Syria.

“This is a group that poses a threat to Americans in the region and could potentially, down the line, pose a broader threat to American interests and our allies around the globe.”

Earlier this month, Obama authorized U.S. airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq. The militants

have been moving with ease between Iraq and Syria, effectively blurring the border between the neighboring nations.

Thus far, there has been little clamor among congressional leaders for Obama to seek approval from Capitol Hill before proceeding with military action in Syria.

Congress ultimately balked at Obama’s request for a vote last year, contributing to the president’s decision to pull back on the strikes.

The White House said it also abandoned plans to take military action after Syria agreed to give up its chemical weapons stockpiles.

This time, with the midterm elections just more than two months away, lawmakers may be even less inclined to take a politically risky vote on military action.

“I see no reason to come to Congress because, if he does, it’ll just become a circus,” Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., said this week.

There are some notable exceptions in both parties.

Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, a frequent critic of the administration’s foreign policy, has said Congress should “certainly” authorize any military action in Syria. Sen. Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat and White House ally, has also called for a vote on the president’s broader strategy for going after the Islamic State.

“I am calling for the mission and objectives for this current significant military action against ISIL to be made clear to Congress, the American people, and our men and women in uniform,” said Kaine, using one of the acronyms for the militant group. “Congress should vote up or down on it.”

The Associated Press BEIRUT – The mother of a hostage American journalist pleaded for his release Wednesday in a video directed at the Islamic State group, while new images emerged of mass killings, including masked militants shooting kneeling men after the capture of a strategic air base in Syria.

Shirley Sotloff’s plea came as a U.N. commission accused the group, which dominates a broad swath of territory spanning the Syria-Iraq border, of committing crimes against humanity and President Barack Obama weighs options for targeting the extremists’ stronghold in Syria.

The Islamic State militants have threatened to kill 31-yearold Steven Sotloff unless the U.S. halts its airstrikes against it.

Sotloff, who free-lanced for Time and Foreign Policy magazines, had last been seen in Syria in August 2013 until he appeared in a video released online last week by the Islamic State group showing the beheading of fellow American journalist, James Foley.

Dressed in an orange jumpsuit against the backdrop of an arid Syrian landscape, Sotloff was threatened with death unless the U.S. stopped airstrikes on the group in Iraq.

Addressing the leader of the Islamic State by name, Shirley Sotloff said her son was “an innocent journalist” who shouldn’t pay for U.S. government actions in the Middle East over which he has no control.

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This undated image posted Wednesday by the Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group, a Syrian opposition group, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters of the Islamic State waving the group’s flag from a damaged display of a government fighter jet after the battle for the Tabqa air base, in Raqqa, Syria. hammad.

“You, the caliph, can grant amnesty. I ask you, please, to release my child. I ask you to use your authority to spare his life,” Shirley Sotloff said on the video, which was first aired on the Al-Arabiya TV network. It was widely retweeted by Islamic State supporters later Wednesday with her face blurred because their ultra conservative interpretation of Islam prohibits showing a woman’s face.

At the White House, spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters he did not know whether Obama had seen Shirley Sotloff’s video appeal, but he said the administration was “deeply engaged” in trying to gain release of all Americans held hostage in the Middle East.

“She obviously, as is evident from the video, feels desperate about the safety and well-being of her son, and understandably so, and that is

why our thoughts and prayers are with Mr. Sotloff’s family at this very difficult and trying time,” Earnest said.

Meanwhile, new images emerged of the extremists’ bloody takeover of an air base in northeastern Syria.

In one photo posted online, masked gunmen were seen shooting seven men kneeling on the ground, some dressed in what appeared to be Syrian military uniforms, after the seizure of the Tabqa air base in the province of Raqqa earlier this week.

The photos underscored how the group uses violence, and images of violence to terrorize its opponents, as it sweeps further into Syria and Iraq, where it has imposed an Islamic state, or caliphate, governed by its harsh interpretation of Islamic law.

Some photos showed captured Syrian soldiers, many with bloodied and swollen

faces. In one, a masked Islamic State fighter stood behind a group of soldiers brandishing a knife of the type the militants have used is the past to behead victims, including Foley. In another, a militant grinned as he pressed a double-edged sword against the neck of a captured soldier inside a jeep.

One photograph showed a headless corpse, while another showed 10 slain men, sprawled in a pool of blood on a dirt road.

It wasn’t clear if they were killed during the clashes or after being captured.

Videos uploaded to social media networks also showed the aftermath of the battle, including footage of the charred bodies of Syrian soldiers. One video showed about 200 captured soldiers being marched through the desert in their underwear to an unknown fate as militants made the sounds of shepherds herding goats or sheep.

Donors give nearly $700K after police shooting

By JIM SUHR The Associated Press ST. LOUIS – Donors have given nearly $700,000 to online fundraising sites set up to collect money for the family of a black 18-year-old and the white police officer who fatally shot him in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson.

The Michael Brown Memorial Fund has raised almost $280,000 from more than 9,300 people in 13 days. Two sites supporting police officer Darren Wilson have taken in nearly $410,000 from nearly 10,000 contributors. The donations have come through the site GoFundMe.com.

A look at some key points behind the fundraising efforts: BROWN FAMILY: The money collected for the Brown family is meant to defray funeral, burial, travel and living expenses “as they seek justice on Michael’s behalf.” None of the donations will go toward the family’s legal fees, the web page said.

WILSON’S SUPPORTERS: Public rallies in support of Wilson have been far smaller than the street demonstrations to protest Brown’s death. But the contributions on the officer’s behalf have eclipsed the online donations to the Browns.

An early GoFundMe.com page raised $234,900 within eight days and was replaced by another page that has collected more than $175,000. The combined total is from nearly 9,900 donors. According to the page, that money is to be spent on “potential legal fees, relocation and living expenses” of Wilson and his immediate family.

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Obama crafting Grim stalemate at war’s end in Gaza legal rationale for immigration steps

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By JOSH LEDERMAN The Associated Press WASHINGTON – The White House is crafting a blame-iton-Congress legal justification to back up President Barack Obama’s impending executive actions on immigration.

Facing an expected onslaught of opposition, the administration plans to argue that Congress failed to provide enough resources to fully enforce U.S. laws, thereby ceding wide latitude to White House to prioritize deportations of the 11.5 million people who are in the country illegally, administration officials and legal experts said. But Republicans, too, are exploring their legal options for stopping Obama from what they’ve deemed egregious presidential overreaching.

A self-imposed, end-of-summer deadline to act on immigration is rapidly approaching.

While Obama has yet to receive the formal recommendations he’s requested from Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, administration officials said the president is intimately familiar with the universe of options and won’t spend much time deliberating once Johnson delivers his recommendations.

After resisting calls to act alone in hopes Congress would pass a comprehensive immigration fix, Obama in June bowed to immigration activists and said that “if Congress will not do their job, at least we can do ours.” The most sweeping, controversial step under consideration involves halting deportation for millions, a ma-

jor expansion of a 2012 Obama program that deferred prosecutions for those brought here illegally as children.

Roughly half a million have benefited from that program, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA. But while prosecutors are routinely expected to use their discretion on a case-by-case basis, such blanket exempting of entire categories of people has never been done on the scale of what Obama is considering – potentially involving many millions of people if he extends relief to parents of DACA children, close relatives of U.S. citizens or immigrants with clean criminal records.

Other options under consideration, such as changes to how green cards are distributed and counted, might be less controversial because of the support they enjoy from the business community and other influential groups. But Derrick Morgan, a former adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney and a scholar at the conservative Heritage Foundation, said Obama will still face staunch opposition as long as he attempts an end run around Congress.

Obama’s goal had been to announce his decision around Labor Day, before leaving on a trip next week to Estonia and Wales. But a host of national security crises have pushed the announcement back, likely until after Obama returns, said the officials, who weren’t authorized to comment by name and demanded anonymity.

Obama’s actions will almost surely be challenged in court.

Q-and-A on Westerners who join the fight in Syria

By AMY FORLITI The Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS – Douglas McAuthur McCain, an American killed in Syria while fighting with the Islamic State, was part of a growing number of Americans and other foreigners recruited by terror groups to help them wage war in the Mideast.

White House press secretary Josh Earnest confirmed Wednesday that McCain was fighting for ISIL in Syria in a conflict that now includes thousands of combatants from about 50 countries.

WHO ARE THESE TRAVELERS? FBI Director James Comey said in June that roughly 100 people had left the United States to join the conflict in Syria. His estimate came during a visit to Minnesota, where several young Somali-Americans had lived before travelling to Somalia in recent years to help expel Ethiopian troops seen as invaders. But Comey said the new wave of travelers to Syria was not coming from any particular part of the United States.

In May, for example, a Florida man named Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha was identified as carrying out a suicide truck bombing against Syrian government troops in the city of Idlib.

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“I don’t know if he was just lost or what,” Chase said.

TEL AVIV, Israel – The third Gaza War in six years appears to have ended in another sort of tie, with both Israel and Hamas claiming the upper hand. Their questionable achievements have come at a big price, especially to long-suffering Palestinians in Gaza.

In a sense, Israel got what it wanted: Hamas stopped firing rockets in exchange for mostly vague promises and future talks. But the cost to Israel was huge: Beyond the 70 people killed – all but six of them soldiers – the economy has been set back, the tourism season destroyed, its people rattled for 50 days and its global standing pummeled by images of devastation in Gaza.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces bristling from people who sense that Hamas controlled events and could not have its grip loosened on the Gaza Strip, which it seized by force from the Palestinian Authority in 2007. Around the corner lie international investigations into war crimes allegations.

Hamas is celebrating its success after surviving Israel’s far superior firepower. The Islamic militant group’s rocket fire emptied a string of Israeli border communities and disrupted Tel Aviv’s international airport. Weak a few months ago, it may emerge as more of a player in Palestinian politics, and the plight of Gazans is again atop the world’s concerns.

It also paid dearly: 2,143 Palestinians were killed, including nearly 500 children and hundreds of militants.

The U.N. estimates the war destroyed or severely damaged 17,200 homes and left 100,000 Palestinians homeless, with considerable swaths of Gaza in

AP photo

A Palestinian youth inspects the damage of Ali Ibn Abi Talib government school after it was hit overnight Tuesday in an Israeli strike in Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip. rubble. Hamas’ rocket arsenal is much depleted and many – if not all – of its attack tunnels against Israel have been destroyed.

achieved its aims. Netanyahu said as much Wednesday, telling a news conference that Hamas was surprised by the intensity of Israel’s attacks in the last week of the war.

FORCE MAY HAVE WORKED For 50 days, Hamas stuck to its rockets. Israel started with carefully targeted destruction of sites, but steadily escalated its strikes. It razed neighborhoods and killed top militants.

This week, Israel destroyed whole apartment towers.

Hamas’ fight was at first genuinely supported by Gazans desperate for an end to the embargo of the strip by Israel and Egypt – a policy largely meant to squeeze out Hamas. But in the end, probably sensing the population couldn’t take more, Hamas accepted a deal that does not differ much from the first Egyptian cease-fire proposal offered in mid-July and accepted then by Israel. The moral side of Israel’s use of devastating force will be debated and its legality may end up being examined at The Hague, but the outcome suggests it

THE PALESTINIANS SHOWED MORE RESILIENCE Gazans are hardly free to oppose Hamas’ rule, but it was still striking how much more pressure there was on Netanyahu to find a way to end the war. Also striking was the differing view of combatant deaths: At Hamas funerals in Gaza, the mood bordered on celebratory; in Israel, the soldiers’ deaths brought national bereavement. This limited Netanyahu’s options: Removing Hamas meant invading the heart of Gaza City and potentially losing many hundreds of troops in urban warfare. There was little stomach for this in Israel, however great the outrage over Hamas and its rockets.

It would have been even worse for Netanyahu had the Iron Dome missile defense system not successfully protected

Israelis from most of the missiles.

THE PALESTINIAN UNITY GOVERMENT IS BACK Israelis said that since Hamas embeds itself in civilian areas, there was no choice but to target those areas while making efforts to diminish civilian casualties by issuing warnings. Yet there were alternatives. Israel could have accepted some of Hamas’ demands despite reservations about doing so under fire. In May, Israel could have cautiously accepted the establishment of a technocratic Palestinian “unity government” that was backed by both Hamas and the moderate Fatah group, which runs the Palestinian Authority and its autonomous enclaves in the West Bank. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that government backed continued peace efforts even though Hamas itself may not, yet Netanyahu launched a diplomatic campaign against Abbas for aligning himself with terrorists.

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8NATION BRIEFS Pilot’s fate unknown in fighter jet crash

Keefe said at a news conference in Westfield, Massachusetts, home of the fighter wing.

DEERFIELD, Va. – An experienced pilot was missing Wednes- A deep crater and a large debris field are on the site, day after the flier’s F-15 fighter and state police are searching, jet crashed in the mountains spokeswoman Corrine Geller of western Virginia, shaking residents but causing no injuries said. on the ground, military and law Guide likens veterans enforcement officials said. to Oscar the Grouch The pilot of the single-seat jet PHILADELPHIA – An internal was headed to New Orleans for training guide used by the U.S. radar installation as part of rouDepartment of Veterans Affairs tine maintenance and reported compared veterans unhappy an inflight emergency, then lost about their care to Oscar the radio contact, authorities said.

Grouch, a newspaper reported.

The pilot and jet are with the The Philadelphia Inquirer 104th Fighter Wing of the Masobtained a VA training slide sachusetts Air National Guard, show with tips for employees on officials there said.

It was unclear whether the pilot how to help veterans with their had ejected and the plane had no claims. It was shown to VA employees staffing town-hall events munitions onboard, Col. James

with veterans in Philadelphia.

About a dozen slides included pictures of the grumpy “Sesame Street” character who lives in a trash can. The slide show said that veterans might be demanding and unrealistic, and advised staffers on “what to say to Oscar the Grouch.”

Veterans groups called the comparison insulting, especially in the wake of a VA scandal over veterans’ health care.

“There is no time or place to make light of the current crisis that the VA is in,” said Joe Davis, a national spokesman for the VFW. “And especially to insult the VA’s primary customer.”

A VA spokeswoman told The Inquirer the agency regretted any misunderstanding.

– Wire reports

Eames placed on administrative leave • COACH Continued from page A1 members notifying them of the charges against Eames. Countryman also sent a signed letter about the incident to parents of all children in the district.

“It’s a personnel issue that once we know more from the investigation, the board will take appropriate action,” Countryman said.

DeKalb School District 428 Superintendent Doug Moeller confirmed Eames had been placed on administrative leave from her position as swim

coach, for which she received a stipend from the district. He said Eames started as an assistant coach for the co-op team in 2006, becoming head coach around 2009.

“Any time there are charges made against a coach, they are obviously relieved of their coaching duty,” Moeller said.

“If there are charges, then obviously we don’t want them interacting with our students.”

Until 2011, Eames had been a swim team coach for the Kishwaukee Family YMCA, Executive Director Rob Wilkinson said. YMCA officials never received any com-

plaints or had concerns about her, but they notified parents of the allegations, Wilkinson said.

District 427 parents who have concerns about the situation should talk with their building principal or Countryman’s office. Anyone with information about other possible victims or about the investigation should call the DeKalb Police Department at 815-7488400.

• Daily Chronicle Sports Editor Eddie Carifio and Reporter Katie Dahlstrom contributed to this report.

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An outside contractor will be selected to perform inspections • INSPECTIONS Continued from page A1 including vacant ones.

While they play a role, absentee landlords or vacant buildings aren’t the main cause for dilapidated buildings, City Attorney Dean Frieders said. He pointed to the Wurlitzer Building, which collapsed while a member of the trust in control of the building lived locally.

The city also shut down the Travel Inn on May 23 because of dangerous and unsanitary conditions, but the owners were on-site daily, Frieders said.

The fundamental issue as Frieders sees it is that the city has gone for decades without a meaningful way to address building problems before they result in larger issues that make the property uninhabitable.

“The city has waited until there’s a calamity to go in and try to abate a problem that already exists,” Frieders said.

Beyond avoiding catastrophe, improving building conditions also could attract more businesses, Urban Grace co-owner Sherrie Larkins said. Urban Grace opened at 255 E. Lincoln Highway in downtown DeKalb earlier this year, af-

ter Larkins and Rachel Polly searched for places in Sycamore and DeKalb.

Larkins said between rent, painting, cleaning and the overall condition of the building, they struggled before finding a place they wanted to open a businesses.

“I think we looked at three or four places before we found this place,” Larkins said. “It was discouraging.”

An outside contractor will be selected later this year to perform the inspections, while a community development director should be hired by October to oversee the process. The city also plans to hire two part-time property maintenance inspectors.

RENTAL RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES The new ordinance and ensuing inspections won’t address apartment buildings, and the city doesn’t have any inspection processes that bring inspectors inside a residential rental property. That leaves the inspection process for residential rentals on the sidewalks where inspectors from the city’s Crime Free Housing Bureau do their work.

But city officials think having the inspectors on sidewalks is, in its own way, a means for discovering

problems.

“Our hope is that if a tenant finds a significant issue, that they’re unable to get their landlord to fix, they will connect with us,” Frieders said.

A resident complaint was the catalyst for city staff’s recent move to condemn Edgebrook Manor, 912 Edgebrook Drive, Frieders said. An Edgebrook Manor resident saw an inspector performing a sidewalk inspection and approached him asking for help. When the resident invited the inspector in, what he saw triggered the larger response the next day, which ultimately lead city officials to condemn the building Friday.

Loretta Nelson was still searching for a place for her son, Aaron Nelson, to live after he had to leave the apartment he’s lived in at Edgebrook Manor for two years.

As she struggled with property owners and management, she had no complaints about the actions city staff took.

She only wished they had discovered the problem earlier, before the stock of available cheap apartments had dwindled.

“I think they moved on it because it was that bad,” Loretta Nelson said. “I think if they had seen it two months ago, I think they would have closed it then.”

Quinn: Tax cuts create $8 billion hole • RAUNER Continued from page A1 been there for other reasons.”

When pressed on specifics, the Rauner campaign pointed to the department’s employment of Shayna Cherry, a former Illinois Department of Transportation employee whose father is an attorney with ties to top Democrats, including Tony Rezko, a former adviser and fundraiser to imprisoned former Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Rezko, like Blagojevich, is serving a sentence in federal prison.

Brooke Anderson, a spokeswoman for Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn’s campaign, responded for the Department of Agriculture. She said it was “false and rather sad that Mr. Rauner would attack a young woman staffer who is doing an excellent job for the state of Illinois.”

Rauner, Anderson added, “is the only one familiar with cronyism and corruption in this race.”

Two of Rauner’s former business associates were indicted on federal charges earlier this month. If elected, Rauner pledged to infuse the department with “farmers and farm experts.” The self-portrayed government outsider in the nationally watched race stressed the importance of rotating the state’s political “crops” and ending Democrats’ one-party rule in Springfield.

Quinn, who spoke during a separate, one-hour time slot at the event at a Bloomington farm, used the forum as an opportunity to tout agricultural achievements under his governorship and pledge to increase funding for the agency, juxtaposing himself with Rauner’s promise to return Illinois to a 3 percent income tax rate for individuals within four years, down from its current 5 percent.

Once fully rolled back, the move would create an $8 billion annual hole in the budget, the Quinn campaign has said.

“The idea that you pull back and starve a particular agency, not have proper personnel there, that is a very bad formula for success,” Quinn said.

“Nobody likes paying taxes, I certainly don’t. But if you have candidates running for governor that say you can cut the budget by $8 billion, don’t expect to have good schools, or a well-funded department of agriculture.”

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Reduce taxes without busting the budget A few days ago, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin waded into a debate among his fellow Republicans about how they should think about tax policy. His words carry weight among Republicans: They almost universally respect his judgment on economic policy, and partly as a result have decided to make him chairman of the tax-writing committee of the House should they keep control of it in November’s elections.

Some Republicans, notably Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, have argued that the party’s perennial focus on cutting marginal tax rates should be complemented by a revival of its occasional interest in tax relief for parents. Lee has proposed a plan that reduces the top tax rate to 35 percent and also expands the tax credit for children.

Ryan has repeatedly said that the goal should be a top rate of 25 percent. And last week, he told the Weekly Standard that he still thinks getting tax rates down should be the priority for tax reformers. Lower rates would improve incentives to work, save and invest, he argued, and thus increase economic growth. Higher growth would benefit households with and without children.

This is a friendly disagreement among Republicans about what to emphasize.

And Ryan’s remarks point to a way it can be overcome.

Some conservatives have argued that although cutting rates would be desir-

VIEWS Ramesh Ponnuru able, the economic effect of doing so is bound to be smaller the lower the rate is.

Cutting the top rate to 50 percent from 70 percent, as in President Ronald Reagan’s first term, meant increasing the after-tax return on a dollar earned to 50 cents from 30 cents. That was an increase of 67 percent. Reducing today’s top rate of roughly 40 percent to 25 percent – assuming that was politically feasible – would, on the other hand, improve incentives by only 25 percent.

Ryan countered in his interview that cutting rates is actually more important than ever. That’s because the United States is less dominant than it was in Reagan’s day, capital has become more mobile, and many businesses pay under the individual income tax.

These are better arguments for reducing taxes on investment, including business investment, than for cutting income-tax rates. Rep. Devin Nunes of California has advocated allowing businesses to write off the full cost of their investments immediately, and making up for the lost revenue by ending tax breaks for business borrowing. That would make the U.S. a more attractive destination for

investment in a world of mobile capital, and thus promote economic growth.

You can’t draw up a realistic budget with a top tax rate of 25 percent and a large child credit. (You might not be able to draw up a realistic budget with a top rate of 25 percent even without the credit.)

You probably can, however, draw up one with a lower top rate than we have today and better treatment for investment – including parents’ investment in the next generation. Because that mix of policies would leave many millions of middle-class families ahead, it may well be easier to enact than a plan that concentrates solely on reducing the top rate. Supply-siders, that is, might achieve more of the rate reduction they seek if they embrace the credit.

Combining these ideas, as Sens. Lee and Marco Rubio of Florida are now trying to do, seems like the obvious sweet spot for Republicans. It would allow them to be both pro-business and pro-middle class, pro-growth and pro-family. And if Chairman Ryan came on board, the party would find itself in a new friendly agreement.

• Ramesh Ponnuru, a Bloomberg View columnist, is a senior editor for National Review, where he has covered national politics for 18 years, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a resident fellow at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics.

8VIEWS

The whopper about taxation here and abroad

By MEGAN McARDLE Bloomberg News WASHINGTON – Jacob Levy, an American professor living in Montreal, made a point on Twitter this week that I wish more journalists would take to heart: If you’re writing about inversions, and you don’t prominently mention global taxation in the first few paragraphs, then your article is not serious and anyone with even a smidgen of actual interest in the issue should stop reading.

Let me explain. Or actually, in the case of Burger King’s planned acquisition of Tim Hortons, let my colleague Matt Levine explain, because he has already nicely summed things up: “The purpose of an inversion has never been, and never could be, and never will be, ‘Ooh, Canada has a 15 percent tax rate, and the U.S. has a 35 percent tax rate, so we can save 20 points of taxes on all our income by moving.’ Instead the main purpose is always: ‘If we’re incorporated in the U.S., we’ll pay 35 percent taxes on our income in the U.S. and Canada and Mexico and Ireland and Bermuda and the Cayman Islands, but if we’re incorporated in Canada, we’ll pay 35 percent on our income in the U.S. but 15 percent in Canada and 30 percent in Mexico and 12.5 percent in Ireland and zero percent in Bermuda and zero percent in the Cayman Islands.”

What is he talking about? The United States, unlike most developed-world governments, insists on taxing the global income of its citizens and corporations that have U.S. headquarters. And because the

U.S. has some of the highest tax rates in the world, especially on corporate income, this amounts to demanding that everyone who got their start here owes us taxes, forever, on anything they earn abroad.

It’s a great deal for the U.S. government, which gets to collect income tax even though it’s not providing the companies sewers or roads or courts or no-knock raids on their abodes. It’s not a very good deal for said citizens and corporations, especially because our government has made increasingly obnoxious demands on foreign institutions to help them collect that tax.

Both private citizens and corporations who have a lot of income abroad are deciding that they’d rather renounce their ties to the U.S. than deal with the expense and hassle of letting it tap into income that they have earned using some other country’s roads and sewers and police protection.

Practically speaking, global taxation is hard to enforce and loaded with bad incentives, which is why our fellow members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development have moved away from global taxation of corporate income, and abandoned global taxation of personal income. If anything, the U.S. has gone in the other direction – by insisting, for instance, that foreign companies report various financial transactions with U.S. citizens to the Internal Revenue Service, and taxing foreign cost of living allowances, which makes it more expensive for companies to employ expats.

Logically, there’s also not much of an argument for global taxation. OK, yes, most people born and raised here were

educated and provided various services by the government to get them to adulthood.

But we’re overwhelmingly the largest net recipient of immigrants, and most of those people were educated and provided various services by their governments to get them to adulthood; we don’t seem to think there’s a problem with us free-riding on all those other nations. And surely there’s a statute of limitation on what you owe the government that raised you; 40 years later, should those expats still have to file insanely complicated returns to the IRS? Because that’s what we currently demand.

As my colleague Matt points out, most Americans – including a lot of journalists who write about this - seem to be under the misimpression that companies that invert, or people who renounce their citizenship, are doing so to get a lower tax rate on income they earn here. And in a few intellectual-property-based businesses, which can make aggressive use of transfer pricing strategies to declare most of their income in low- or no-tax countries, these complaints have some basis. In most cases, however, including Burger King, they’re doing it because the U.S. inexplicably insists on taking a big chunk off the top of all their foreign income, and making their lives miserable in the process.

If we’re worried about inversion, then the U.S. government should follow the lead of other developed countries, and move to territorial taxation. Otherwise, we should stop complaining when people and corporations decide that they’d rather be a citizen of some more sane system somewhere else.

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AMENDMENT

DeKalb County football fans have been a bit spoiled by success in recent years, not that we’re complaining.

Last season, we watched teams from both Northern Illinois University and Sycamore High School go undefeated in the regular season and come up just one win short of the big game – in NIU’s case, the Fiesta Bowl, and in Sycamore’s, the IHSA Class 5A state title game.

The Huskies didn’t reach a second consecutive BCS bowl, but they still played in a postseason game. So too did four of our area’s teams. In addition to Sycamore’s run to the state semifinals, DeKalb made its second postseason appearance in this decade (and second since 1989); Genoa-Kingston also appeared in the playFor the record offs, and Kaneland reached the second round.

The level of local football The level of local football success means that the bar success means that the bar has been set high for this has been set high for this year, but not so high that it year, but not so high that can’t be cleared. it can’t be cleared. Many local teams have high hopes based on their past success, their maturing talent, or simply their tradition of always just getting the job done.

Today and Friday, there will be ample opportunities for fans to take in a game near home.

The Huskies will debut their post-Jordan Lynch offense at 6 p.m. tonight at Huskie Stadium against the Presbyterian Blue Hose.

On Friday, the local high school teams follow suit, with Sycamore opening their season at home against Lincoln-Way West, DeKalb at home against Vernon Hills, Genoa-Kingston at home against St. Edward, and Kaneland hosting Chicago Brooks.

For more information on the local prep teams and their plans for the season ahead, check out our prep preview section inside today’s Daily Chronicle, or online at www.Daily-Chronicle.com/dcpreps.

If you can’t make it to the game, or simply want to hear and see what the players have to say about it afterward, you can read our coverage, both in the pages of the Daily Chronicle, as well as online at HuskieWire. com and at DC Preps.

The first game of the season is only the first step in a long journey for our local teams. We wish all our local athletes good luck and encourage football fans to turn out and support them in the weeks ahead.

8ANOTHER VIEW

Obama can’t act alone on immigration issue Three words for President Barack Obama: Don’t do it.

Don’t sign an executive order unilaterally creating faux immigration reform.

Advocates, frustrated by a Congress that through two presidencies has failed to enact reform, are pressing for big and bold action.

Such action might be satisfying for a day or two. But it would set back their cause for years, if not decades.

The next Republican president could reverse such an order immediately. Even the pragmatic members of Congress would have no appetite to tackle permanent, comprehensive reform.

And it would ensure that nothing, absolutely nothing, gets done in Washington, D.C., until the next president takes office.

Plenty of Democrats, particularly congressional and gubernatorial candidates, are urging the president to refrain. But the White House is sending out signals that, yes, Obama is seriously contemplating taking executive actions, independent of Congress, that conceivably could create a legal status for perhaps millions of undocumented immigrants.

The options reportedly include broadening his Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to include the parents of children who came to this country as minors. He could expand the “parole in place” program that allows noncitizens to enter the U.S. for humanitarian reasons. And there are numerous other means to extend de facto legal status to individuals both inside the U.S. now or seeking entry.

Any actions contemplated by the White House that have the impact of altering the legal status of large numbers of people – figures of 5 million or more are being bandied about – are destined to have profound ramifications beyond the immediate, explicit goal of legalizing the status of undocumented immigrants.

Those consequences extend well beyond the issue of immigration itself and into genuine constitutional questions about the limits of presidential authority.

The question of constitutional authority has been debated at the margins in regard to many of Obama’s executive orders. Does the U.S. Constitution afford a president the authority to amend an act of Congress in as many ways as Obama has altered the Affordable Care Act? Maybe. Maybe not.

Political cynics suggest Obama may invoke executive authority over immigration law precisely because it would provoke a constitutional furor, and, perhaps, impeachment proceedings – an action that turned politically sour for Republicans when they impeached President Bill Clinton. We devoutly hope the president is not so foolish.

This way is folly, Mr. President. Yes, Congress’ failure to act is frustrating. But if Obama takes these actions on his own, it would constitute a higher order of failure.

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WEATHER

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7-DAY FORECAST

As another disturbance passes the area today, we will see more clouds than sun with a small chance of showers or storms. Temperatures will run slightly below average and even cooler by the lake. The active weather pattern will continue through the holiday weekend with a shower or storm possible each day. Temperatures will be at or above average.

TODAY

TOMORROW

SATURDAY

More clouds than sun, isolated showers

Overcast with scattered storms

Mostly cloudy with scattered storms

MONDAY

Partly sunny More clouds with an isolated than sun, shower scattered storms

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

Mostly cloudy with scattered storms

Mostly sunny and pleasant

77

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68

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66

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67

Winds: ENE 10-15 mph

Winds: SSW 10-15 mph

UV INDEX

ALMANAC

SUNDAY

Winds: SSW 6-12 mph

Winds: WSW 10 mph

Winds: SW 10-15 mph

Winds: SSW 10-15 mph

Winds: NNW 10 mph

REGIONAL CITIES

REGIONAL WEATHER

DeKalb through 4 p.m. yesterday

Temperature High ............................................................. 77° Low .............................................................. 61° Normal high ............................................. 80° Normal low ............................................... 60° Record high .............................. 95° in 2003 Record low ................................ 44° in 1968

Precipitation 24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. ......... 0.00” Month to date ....................................... 3.83” Normal month to date ....................... 3.89” Year to date ......................................... 23.14” Normal year to date ......................... 25.53”

Sunrise today ................................ 6:16 a.m.

Sunset tonight ............................. 7:35 p.m.

Moonrise today ............................ 9:12 a.m.

Moonset today ............................ 8:55 p.m.

Sunrise tomorrow ........................ 6:17 a.m.

Sunset tomorrow ........................ 7:34 p.m.

Moonrise tomorrow ................ 10:10 a.m.

Moonset tomorrow ................... 9:26 p.m.

Sep 2

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Last

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New

Sep 15 Sep 24

Kenosha 71/63 Lake Geneva 73/61

8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m.

The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 0-2 Low; 3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme.

AIR QUALITY TODAY

Rockford 74/66

Source: Environmental Protection Agency

Dixon 75/66

Joliet 76/66

La Salle 78/69 Streator 80/69

Source: National Allergy Bureau

Evanston 75/69 Chicago 74/68

Aurora 76/67

POLLEN INDEX

Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

Waukegan 71/64

Arlington Heights 75/68

DeKalb 77/68

Main ofender ................................................... N.A.

0-50 Good, 51-100 Moderate, 101-150, Unhealthy for sensitive groups, 151-200 Unhealthy 201-300 Very Unhealthy, 301-500 Hazardous

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Janesville 73/65

Hammond 77/68 Gary 77/67 Kankakee 78/65

Peoria 82/73

Pontiac 80/69

NATIONAL WEATHER

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Today Lo W 67 pc 71 pc 66 c 66 pc 68 t 66 pc 66 pc 65 pc 68 pc 65 pc 70 pc 67 pc 66 pc 69 pc 69 pc 72 pc 65 pc 64 pc 66 pc 72 pc 67 pc 67 pc 64 pc 64 pc 66 pc

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WEATHER HISTORY So much cool air moved southward on Aug. 28, 1944, that Raleigh, N.C., had a high of only 68 degrees, which is its lowest maximum temperature ever in August.

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Watseka 81/67

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Kishwaukee Belvidere Perryville DeKalb

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Today Lo W 66 pc 76 s 53 t 75 t 67 pc 70 pc 74 s 68 s

Tomorrow Hi Lo W 89 69 pc 91 76 t 80 55 pc 91 76 t 88 68 t 81 66 t 102 77 s 89 68 s

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Legend: W-weather, s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow lurries, sn-snow, i-ice.

Tomorrow Hi Lo W 92 72 pc 91 81 t 78 65 pc 89 79 pc 78 65 s 81 64 s 68 54 c 84 69 s

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Quite the puzzle: The Northern Illinois Big 12 East title is up for grabs. Check out the Daily Chronicle prep season preview football team today. INSIDE TODAY

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8MORNING KICKOFF

GAME 1: NORTHERN ILLINOIS VS. PRESBYTERIAN, 6 P.M. TODAY, AM-560, 92.5-FM

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NFL suspends Browns star Gordon for season CLEVELAND – Josh Gordon’s (above) wait is over, and so is his 2014 season. Now the star wide receiver’s career is in peril.

The Browns learned Wednesday that Gordon’s indefinite suspension by the NFL has been upheld and he will miss at least 16 games for another violation of the league’s substance abuse policy. A repeat drug offender, Gordon had appealed the penalty, hoping it would be reduced so he could play this season.

The NFL, however, came down hard on Gordon, who must now pay the price for stepping out of bounds.

The league announced that arbitrator Harold Henderson supported Gordon’s yearlong suspension for marijuana use.

The Pro Bowler, who was subject to more frequent testing, will begin serving his suspension immediately and the league said in its statement that his “eligibility for reinstatement will be determined following the 2014 season.”

In the meantime, Gordon is not allowed to practice with the team, attend meetings or other club functions.

– The Associated Press

8WHAT TO WATCH College football Eastern Illinois at Minnesota, 6 p.m., BTN Wake Forest at Louisiana-Monroe, 6 p.m., ESPNU Tulsa at Tulane, 7 p.m.

CBSSN Boise St. vs. Ole Miss, at Atlanta, 7 p.m., ESPN Rutgers vs. Washington St., at Seattle, 9 p.m., FS1 Golf European PGA Tour, Italian Open, first round, part II, at Turin, Italy, 8:30 a.m., TGC Web.com Tour, Hotel Fitness Championship, first round, at Fort Wayne, Ind., 2 p.m., TGC LPGA, Portland Classic, first round, at Portland, Ore., 5:30 p.m., TGC European PGA Tour, Italian Open, second round, part I, at Turin, Italy, 4:30 a.m. (Friday), TGC Pro baseball Cubs at Cincinnati, 11:30 a.m., WGN/MLB N.Y. Yankees at Detroit, noon, MLB Cleveland at White Sox, 7 p.m., CSN Oakland at L.A. Angels, 9 p.m., MLB Pro football Preseason, N.Y. Jets at Philadelphia, 6 p.m., NFL Preseason, Bears at Cleveland, 7 p.m., Fox Preseason, Seattle at Oakland, 9 p.m., NFL Tennis U.S. Open, second round, at New York, noon, ESPN; 5 p.m., ESPN2

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1. Quarterbacks Pretty obvious. Northern Illinois has yet to name a starter for the season opener, and head coach Rod Carey hasn’t ruled out playing multiple quarterbacks, even though he’s said in the past he doesn’t want to do that.

It will be interesting to see which quarterbacks play, who gets the most reps and what signal-caller makes the most of it.

2. Akeem Daniels It’s crazy to think that Daniels hasn’t played in a game since the Orange Bowl, the game everyone wondered why he wasn’t getting the ball as much. Now, we know.

Daniels missed last season because of a foot injury suffered in the 2012 Mid-American Conference Championship game, but he’s healthy, and listed as the starter with Cameron Stingily now out with an injury. If Daniels plays as he did at the end of 2012, it’s a great sign for NIU’s offense.

3. The young defensive backfield Four true freshmen cornerbacks – Albert Smalls, Tifonte Hunt, Mayomi Olootu and Shawun Lurry, are listed on NIU’s two-deep.

It’s a good game for the young players to get their feet wet in, and this will certainly be something to keep an eye on throughout the season.

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Northern Illinois coach Rod Carey runs out with the team to start the second half of the Mid-American Conference Championship game Dec. 6 against Bowling Green at Ford Field in Detroit.

Huskies prepare to play Blue Hose in their season opener

By STEVE NITZ snitz@shawmedia.com DeKALB – Rod Carey, the Northern Illinois football coach, said Presbyterian reminds him of North Dakota in 2010.

North Dakota was Northern Illinois’ FCS opponent that season, and gave NIU a scare,

although the Huskies escaped with a 23-17 win.

Carey compared this year’s Presbyterian team, which the Huskies will take on at 6 tonight at Huskie Stadium when they look to extend their home winning streak to 27 games.

And Carey is plenty familiar with that team, as he was North Dakota’s offensive line

coach from 2008 to 2010.

Carey compared the two programs in that both teams recently moved up to the FCS from Division II. Presbyterian joined the FCS ranks in 2007.

“When I was at North Dakota, I came on the first year that they were moving up to the I-AA level at the time, so I’ve got a lot of respect for

what they are doing and their university, and how they’re really pushing football to the forefront and I applaud them for that,” Carey said.

The Blue Hose haven’t had much success at the FCS level, and have won just five games the past two seasons combined.

See RETURN, page B3

4. Defensive line Four new starters make up the Huskies’ front four. Defensive ends Jason Meehan and Perez Ford saw time, and had success, in 2013, and are now in starting roles. The starting tackles aren’t quite as well-known.

Junior-college transfer Ben Compton will start at one spot, and redshirt freshman William Lee at the other.

5. Which tailbacks see the field NIU’s running back depth looks like a strength. Joel Bouagnon, who saw time as a true freshman last season, is listed as the backup. Redshirt freshman Jordan Huff, sophomore Draco Smith and junior Keith Harris Jr. are other backs who could see time.

– Steve Nitz snitz@shawmedia.com

No matter the QB, Huskies a favorite Daily Chronicle sports editor Eddie Carifio and sports reporter Steve Nitz spend their days covering the area’s sports scene. Occasionally, they give their viewpoints on those local sports. In this installment of their Take 2 column, they discuss the Northern Illinois football quarterback situation and NIU’s season opener at 6 p.m. today against Presbyterian.

Carifio: I don’t think it

operate like an NFL team does during the preseason. If I had go guess, I’d say Matt McIntosh gets the most time, but it wouldn’t surprise me if Drew Hare and Anthony Maddie played as well.

Eddie Carifio and Steve Nitz face off The schedule works out well for the Huskies’ current takes a rocket scientist to center today when the game situation. figure out what the main starts against Presbyterian, This will be the final test storyline with NIU football is how much time will each play, for all three quarterbacks, this year. and how long will this free-for- and a decision will be made So let’s just cut right to all last? for the Northwestern game Sept. 6. it – who is going to be under Nitz: I think you’ll see NIU

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What are your thoughts on this whole situation?

Carifio: I don’t know much about coach Rod Carey and how much he likes to play games, but to an outside observer this looks like he’s trying to not tip his hand to Northwestern in Week 2.

If NIU is serious about getting the Group of Five playoff spot, beating Northwestern is almost a requirement.

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PRESEASON GAME 4: BEARS AT BROWNS, 7 P.M. TODAY, AM-780, 105.9-FM

Special teams are a work in progress BEARS INSIDER Hub Arkush Over the past 10 seasons, Bears fans have been spoiled.

The Bears have been among the top five specialty unit teams in the NFL for a decade and we’ve all taken it for granted.

Devin Hester is the greatest return man in the history of the NFL and he did it all as a Bear over eight seasons.

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Patrick Mannelly is one of the best long snappers in the history of the NFL and is now

retired and beginning a career as an all sports talk show host on AM-670 the SCORE. The Bears top seven special teams tacklers last year in order were Blake Costanzo, Craig Steltz, Sherrick McManis, Eric Weems, Anthony Walters, Dante Rosario and Michael Ford. All but McManis and Rosario are gone.

Through an entire offseason, training camp and three exhibition games the Bears have found no answers.

Is it just a bit disconcerting and unusual to be this uncertain about your special teams this close to the season?

Special teams coach Joe DeCamillis takes the high road.

See ARKUSH, page B3

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Bears receiver Chris Williams (left) runs for a touchdown past Philadelphia cornerback Jaylen Watkins during the second half of a preseason game Aug. 8 at Soldier Field.

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8SPORTS BRIEFS NIU football to be heard on 92.5-FM Northern Illinois football will be broadcast on 92.5 WCPT FM in DeKalb this season. The Huskies were previously heard on AM1360 WLBK. The station will also carry the “Inside Huskie Football with Rod Carey” shows which air Monday nights from 7 to 8 p.m.

“This has been a very long process and a very thorough search to find our local radio home, but I really believe we have come out of it with the best available radio coverage for Huskie fans,” NIU athletic director Sean Frazier said in a news release.

“WCPT provides us with a great signal, a strong reach during the day and at night and a partner that is excited to be the new home of NIU football.”

Sharapova outlasts Dulgheru at U.S. Open NEW YORK – Maria Sharapova’s serve and her groundstrokes were abandoning her.

What she had was her conditioning.

The five-time major champion rallied from a set down to beat 95th-ranked Alexandra Dulgheru, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, in the second round of the U.S. Open on Wednesday.

Sharapova overcame nine double-faults and 46 unforced errors to improve her record in threeset matches this year to 17-6.

On a hot, windy day, with the shadows shifting as late afternoon turned to evening, the fifth-seeded Sharapova avoided another upset on the women’s side. Fourth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska and 21st-seeded Sloane Stephens lost earlier.

Second-seeded Simona Halep had no such trouble, routing Jana Cepelova 6-2, 6-1.

On the men’s side, sixth-seeded Tomas Berdych swept 2001 U.S. Open champ Lleyton Hewitt, 6-3, 6-4, 6-3. Seventh-seeded Grigor Dimitrov beat American Ryan Harrison, 6-2, 7-6 (4), 6-2.

A return to innocence In sports, we latch on to anything remotely resembling innocence, knowing how rare and precious it is. We want to believe in purity so much it hurts.

That’s a huge part of the draw of the Jackie Robinson West team, a bunch of kids playing a kid’s game. Playing it surpassingly well, of course, but playing it with a child’s joy. Is there anything better than that? No, and there’s nobody better than JRW, other than South Korea, but I think I speak for the city when I say, “Who?” There those kids were Wednesday morning, aboard trolleys and buses along a parade route through Chicago, crowds cheering them as if the boys had won the big-league World Series instead of the national Little League title. All the local TV stations covered the 2½-hour event live, helicopters included. That the kids didn’t have agents by the end of the rally in Millennium Park is being investigated as a possible miracle by the Vatican.

The looks on the players’ faces. As if they still weren’t quite sure what to make of all the attention. Listening to speeches by White Sox vice president Ken Williams and Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein.

Watching emcee Hawk Harrelson work the crowd like a

The ASSOCIATED PRESS

Clippers sign Doc Rivers to 5-year extension

PREP ROUNDUP

IndyCar sets April 12 New Orleans date AVONDALE, La. – The IndyCar series has committed to an April 12 race date for next season’s inaugural Indy Grand Prix of Louisiana.

Louisiana Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne joined IndyCar president Mark Miles and other government officials for a formal announcement of the date and other details about the event on Wednesday afternoon at NOLA Motorsports Park, which will host the race.

The IndyCar series confirmed in May that it planned to bring a race to the New Orleans area in 2015, but the race calendar for next season had not been set at that time.

– Staff, wire reports

tent-revival preacher. Accepting the adult attention and wanting to get back to their kids’ lives, all at the same time. I’d like that image to stay in my mind forever. Something we can believe in for a moment without fear of that belief being crushed.

They’re children, some as young as 11, and they represent sport at its purest. So does Darold Butler Little League baseball, for the most part.

Athletics minus the garbage.

Is it? Not always, but I want to believe in it with all of my tiny heart.

Here’s why we are so desperate for innocence, real or imagined: At the same time the Jackie Robinson West kids were being greeted as heroes, Southern California was looking into the case of Josh Shaw, who was a hero for 24 hours until he wasn’t or might not be or maybe still is.

Shaw is the Trojans cornerback who said he sprained both his ankles jumping from the second story of an apartment complex to save his

7-year-old nephew, who he said was drowning in a pool. It was a feel-good story of the highest order. And possibly too good to be true. USC officials are looking into the veracity of Shaw’s account. Los Angeles police said that a man named Joshua Shaw was mentioned in a report about a weekend breakin at an apartment complex, although he wasn’t named as a suspect.

Sigh.

It’s hard to trust much in the sports world these days.

Come to think of it, it wasn’t too easy to trust the sports world years ago, either. Remember all the other things that were supposed to represent the purity of competition until we got wise to them?

College sports? Please.

The Tour de France? A pharmaceutical smorgasbord.

The Olympics and its hierarchy? Unless there’s such a thing as an amateur prostitute, no.

High school sports? Steroids, unsavory recruiting, out-of-control coaches … stop me when you’ve heard enough.

So here were 13 kids who captivated a city and a nation with their grit, enthusiasm and sportsmanship. And here they were waving to the fans along the parade route Wednesday, smiles on their faces to go with wide eyes. It’s a little strange to be 12 and

have adults falling at your feet, so you could understand their disorientation.

Finally at 12:30 p.m., in front of thousands of adoring fans at Millennium Park, the boys stood arm in arm, brothers in baseball. They weren’t thinking about being uniters of a torn-up city or peace-restorers or anything else of that heft. They probably were thinking about lunch.

As I’ve written before, we’ve put a little too much on these kids’ shoulders.

They represent a town. They represent some of what is right about the South Side. They’re a balm at a very difficult time for Chicago and our country.

All of that good stuff.

But they’re ballplayers.

And they’re kids.

“They’re the coolest little kids I’ve been around my entire life,’’ manager Darold Butler told the crowd at the rally.

Little. Kids.

It helps that they’re national champions. We as a city wouldn’t be paying them much mind otherwise. We like winners. But we like innocence too. Long for it, really. Thank you, Jackie Robinson West, for feeding us.

• Rick Morrissey is a Chicago Sun-Times columnist.

Write to him at rmorrissey@suntimes.com.

Reds overcome Soler’s home run, beat Cubs

LOS ANGELES – Southern California cornerback Josh Shaw has admitted to lying to school officials about how he sprained his ankles last weekend, retracting his story about jumping off a balcony to save his drowning nephew.

Shaw has been suspended indefinitely from all of the Trojans’ team activities after acknowledging his heroic tale was “a complete fabrication,” the school announced in a statement Wednesday.

The school didn’t explain how Shaw actually was injured, but USC officials said they regret posting a story on their website Monday lauding Shaw’s story about a second-story jump onto concrete to rescue his 7-year-old nephew.

Shaw is a fifth-year senior, a team captain and a key starter in USC’s defensive secondary.

LOS ANGELES – Doc Rivers is staying with the Los Angeles Clippers for another five years.

In Steve Ballmer’s first big move since taking over as the new owner, he gave Rivers a contract extension through the 2018-19 season.

VIEWS Rick Morrissey

CUBS/SOX ROUNDUP

CINCINNATI – Mat Latos had just enough. Javier Baez’s fly ball came up just short. It wasn’t pretty, but it was predictable.

The Reds won another ugly one over the Cubs.

Skip Schumaker drove in a pair of runs with a double and a single Wednesday night, and the Cincinnati Reds withstood Jorge Soler’s first-at-bat homer and his RBI single for a 7-5 victory over the Cubs.

“It wasn’t a lot of fun, that’s for sure,” said Latos (5-3), who pitched into the eighth.

Soler, a 22-year-old prospect from Cuba, was called up Wednesday after getting a nineyear, $30 million deal from the Cubs in 2012. He started in right field and batted fifth.

After Luis Valbuena led off the second inning with a homer off Latos, Soler hit a 2-1 pitch into the Reds’ bullpen in center field. The last Cub to homer in his first at-bat also did it in Cincinnati – Starlin Castro off Homer Bailey on May 7, 2010.

Soler also had an RBI single off Jonathan Broxton in the eighth, cutting it to 6-5. Latos pitched into the eighth and gave up four runs while fanning a season-high 10 batters.

“That was definitely something we needed,” manager Bryan Price said. “He gave up

Shaw admits to lying about injuries, rescue

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The Cubs’ Jorge Soler hits a pop fly for an out in the fourth inning Wednesday against the Cincinnati Reds in Cincinnati. Soler hit a home run in major league debut, but the Cubs lost, 7-5. the back-to-back homers early, then really turned the corner and made some outstanding pitches. He took us into the eighth inning.”

Pinch-hitter Chris Heisey homered in the bottom of the inning. Aroldis Chapman escaped a two-on threat in the ninth, getting his 28th save in 30 chances. Baez flied out to the warning track in center to end it.

Jacob Turner (4-8) made his first start for the Cubs and lasted only 3⅔ innings, giving up six runs – three of them unearned.

The Reds took advantage

of three Cubs errors and ended their four-game winning streak, one shy of their season high.

The Reds are 24-10 against the Cubs in the past two years, including 10-5 this season.

The Reds sent nine batters to the plate and scored four times in the fourth inning, taking advantage of fielding errors by shortstop Starlin Castro and Valbuena at third.

Schumaker, Brandon Phillips and Devin Mesoraco had RBI singles.

Reds leadoff hitter Billy Hamilton had a pair of infield singles and stole his 50th

base, becoming the ninth Reds player to reach the mark. Bob Bescher holds the club rookie mark with 54 in 1909.

“It’s just what I do: Steal bases,” Hamilton said.

The Cubs were missing first baseman Anthony Rizzo, who has a stiff lower back. Rizzo hit his 30th homer during a 3-0 win Tuesday night but had to leave in the eighth inning because of the back problem.

White Sox 3, Indians 2: At Chicago, Jose Abreu hit a pair of run-scoring singles against Cleveland ace Corey Kluber, and the White Sox beat the Indians, 3-2, Wednesday night to stop a season-high, seven-game losing streak Abreu put the Sox ahead for good in the seventh with his third hit of the game. Adam Eaton doubled with one out off Kluber (13-8) and advanced on Alexei Ramirez’s groundout, and Abreu drove in his ALhigh 96th run.

Hector Noesi (8-9) allowed two runs and six hits in seven innings, improving to 5-2 in eight starts since the All-Star break.

Javy Guerra allowed Jason Kipnis’ one-out single in the ninth and hit Zach Walters with a pitch with two outs.

Zach Putman relieved and retired Chris Dickerson on a flyout for his fourth save in five chances.

Kaneland girls volleyball opens with split

By STAFF REPORTS sports@daily-chronicle.com Kaneland girls volleyball coach Cyndi Violette picked up her first win and loss of the 2010s on the same day.

Opening pool play in the Wheaton North tournament Wednesday behind Violette, who guided the program about 15 years ago, the Knights advanced to Saturday’s silver championship bracket by rebounding for a 23-25, 25-19, 27-26 win in their second match after an opening loss (25-17, 25-15) to Glenbard South.

“We played much better against Romeoville,” Violett said, “and the girls really started playing like themselves.”

Violette returned to the Knights’ bench just a few days before preseason practice started after predecessor Kerri McCastland accepted a dean’s position at DeKalb.

She served as an assistant in the program after stepping

Other Barb Cub results Wednesday results Yorkville 3, Sterling 1 Burlington Central 0, Belvidere North 0 Today’s matches Yorkville vs. Freeport, 4:45 p.m.

Burlington Central vs. DeKalb, 6:30 p.m.

down from the head coaching position, citing family and the pursuit of her master’s degree.

“It felt good to finally get that first match under our belts tonight,” Violett said. “There was some relief, I think, and it just helped a lot.”

Spartans win opener: Sycamore defeated Plano in straight sets in nonconference action to start the season.

Golf Course in Yorkville.

Team members were Peyton Gatz, Drew Headley, David Boehne, Jak Wieseler and Emerson Witte.

County Day.

CROSS COUNTRY Cogs compete at Rocket Invite: The Genoa-Kingston boys

Royals drop nonconference team finished in sixth place, d u a l : A m b o y d e f e a t e d while the Lady Cogs finished Hinckley-Big Rock, 174-212, in a nonconference dual at Shady Oaks in Amboy.

LATE TUESDAY BOYS SOCCER Barbs open Barb Cup with win: DeKalb defeated Belvidere

North, 1-0, in its first match of the Barb Cup in DeKalb. The Barbs are competing in the Orange Pool and finish pool play against Burlington Central at 6:30 p.m. today. Also, in Barb Cup action, Sterling defeated Freeport, 6-2, in Black Pool play.

Spartans win two: Sycamore won two matches to win Group BOYS GOLF D at the Earlville-Leland tourIndian Creek wins tourney: In- nament. dian Creek shot a 14-under-par Sycamore won, 8-0, vs.

57 to win the 10-team Norseman Bishop McNamara and, 3-1, Scramble at Whitetail Ridge against Winnetka North Shore

eighth at the Rocket Invite at Centennial Park in Rock Falls.

Andy Voltz, CJ McPherson and Ethan Bode led GK in the boys race all finishing within 3 seconds of each other at 19:15, 19:17 and 19:18 respectively. Brianna Campbell was the top girls place-winner as she finished the 3-mile course in 24:43 with Anna Drendel right behind her at 25:11.

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL Hawks pick up win: Hiawatha defeated Westminster Christian, 16-25, 25-18, 25-12 in nonconference action.

• Want your team’s information included? Contact the sports department at 815-756-4841 or sports@dailychronicle.com.

MLB AMERICAN LEAGUE Central Division W L Pct Kansas City 74 58 .561 Detroit 71 60 .542 Cleveland 67 64 .511 White Sox 60 72 .455 Minnesota 58 74 .439 East Division W L Pct Baltimore 75 56 .573 New York 69 62 .527 Toronto 67 66 .504 Tampa Bay 65 68 .489 Boston 58 75 .436 West Division W L Pct Los Angeles 78 53 .595 Oakland 77 54 .588 Seattle 72 60 .545 Houston 56 77 .421 Texas 52 80 .394

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Wednesday’s Results White Sox 3, Cleveland 2 Texas 12, Seattle 4 Kansas City 6, Minnesota 1 Tampa Bay 3, Baltimore 1 Toronto 5, Boston 2 N.Y. Yankees 8, Detroit 4 Oakland at Houston (n) Miami at L.A. Angels (n) Today’s Games Cleveland (Carrasco 5-4) at White Sox (John Danks 9-8), 7:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Kuroda 9-8) at Detroit (Lobstein 0-0), 12:08 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Hellickson 1-2) at Baltimore (B. Norris 11-8), 6:05 p.m.

Minnesota (Milone 6-4) at Kansas City (Guthrie 10-10), 7:10 p.m.

Texas (Tepesch 4-8) at Houston (McHugh 6-9), 7:10 p.m.

Oakland (Gray 13-7) at L.A. Angels (C. Wilson 10-8), 9:05 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Central Division W L Pct Milwaukee 73 59 .553 St. Louis 71 61 .538 Pittsburgh 69 64 .519 Cincinnati 64 69 .481 Cubs 59 73 .447 East Division W L Pct Washington 75 57 .568 Atlanta 69 64 .519 Miami 65 66 .496 New York 62 71 .466 Philadelphia 61 72 .459 West Division W L Pct Los Angeles 75 58 .564 San Francisco 69 62 .527 San Diego 61 70 .466 Arizona 55 77 .417 Colorado 53 78 .405

GB — 2 4½ 9½ 14 GB — 6½ 9½ 13½ 14½ GB — 5 13 19½ 21

Wednesday’s Results Cincinnati 7, Cubs 5 Pittsburgh 3, St. Louis 1 Atlanta 3, N.Y. Mets 2 Philadelphia 8, Washington 4 Milwaukee at San Diego (n) L.A. Dodgers at Arizona (n) Miami at L.A. Angels (n) Colorado at San Francisco (n) Today’s Games Cubs (Arrieta 7-4) at Cincinnati (Axelrod 0-0), 11:35 a.m.

Colorado (Lyles 6-1) at San Francisco (Y. Petit 3-3), 2:45 p.m.

Atlanta (Minor 5-8) at N.Y. Mets (Niese 7-9), 6:10 p.m.

NFL PRESEASON NATIONAL CONFERENCE North W L T Pct Minnesota 3 0 0 1.000 Bears 2 1 0 .667 Detroit 2 1 0 .667 Green Bay 2 1 0 .667 East W L T Pct N.Y. Giants 4 0 0 1.000 Washington 2 1 0 .667 Philadelphia 1 2 0 .333 Dallas 0 3 0 .000 South W L T Pct New Orleans 3 0 0 1.000 Atlanta 1 2 0 .333 Carolina 1 2 0 .333 Tampa Bay 1 2 0 .333 West W L T Pct Seattle 2 1 0 .667 Arizona 1 2 0 .333 San Francisco 1 2 0 .333 St. Louis 1 2 0 .333

PF 70 60 52 68

PA 46 81 51 48

PF 99 64 94 57

PA 79 52 97 89

PF 80 40 53 51

PA 65 66 66 50

PF 91 73 24 64

PA 41 49 64 61

AMERICAN CONFERENCE North W L T Pct PF PA 3 0 0 1.000 83 50 1 2 0 .333 75 79 1 2 0 .333 56 67 0 3 0 .000 49 70 East W L T Pct PF PA Miami 2 1 0 .667 55 50 New England 2 1 0 .667 78 65 N.Y. Jets 2 1 0 .667 62 62 Buffalo 1 3 0 .250 63 81 South W L T Pct PF PA Houston 2 1 0 .667 50 56 Tennessee 2 1 0 .667 68 64 Jacksonville 1 2 0 .333 47 43 Indianapolis 0 3 0 .000 53 63 West W L T Pct PF PA Denver 2 1 0 .667 72 34 Kansas City 1 2 0 .333 69 97 Oakland 1 2 0 .333 54 67 San Diego 1 2 0 .333 48 69 Today’s Games Bears at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Atlanta at Jacksonville, 5 p.m.

Kansas City at Green Bay, 6 p.m.

Detroit at Buffalo, 6 p.m.

Indianapolis at Cincinnati, 6 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

St. Louis at Miami, 6 p.m.

New England at N.Y. Giants, 6:30 p.m.

Carolina at Pittsburgh, 6:30 p.m.

Washington at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.

San Francisco at Houston, 7 p.m.

Baltimore at New Orleans, 7 p.m.

Denver at Dallas, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Tennessee, 7 p.m.

Arizona at San Diego, 9 p.m.

Seattle at Oakland, 9 p.m.

End of preseason

Baltimore Cincinnati Pittsburgh Cleveland

COLLEGE FOOTBALL TOP 25 SCHEDULE Today’s Games No. 9 South Carolina vs. No. 21 Texas A&M, 5 p.m.

No. 18 Mississippi vs. Boise St., 7 p.m.

No. 19 Arizona St. vs. Weber St., 9:30 p.m.

Friday’s Game No. 8 Michigan St. vs. Jacksonville St., 6:30 p.m.

Saturday’s Games No. 1 Florida St. vs. Oklahoma St., 7 p.m.

No. 2 Alabama vs. West Virginia, 2:30 p.m.

No. 3 Oregon vs. South Dakota, 9:30 p.m.

No. 4 Oklahoma vs. Louisiana Tech, 6 p.m.

No. 5 Ohio St. vs. Navy, 11 a.m.

No. 6 Auburn vs. Arkansas, 3 p.m.

No. 7 UCLA at Virginia, 11 a.m.

No. 11 Stanford vs. UC Davis, 3 p.m.

No. 12 Georgia vs. No. 16 Clemson, 4:30 p.m.

No. 13 LSU vs. No. 14 Wisconsin, 8 p.m.

No. 15 USC vs. Fresno St., 6:30 p.m.

No. 17 Notre Dame vs. Rice, 2:30 p.m.

No. 20 Kansas St. vs. Stephen F. Austin, 6:10 p.m.

No. 22 Nebraska vs. FAU, 2:30 p.m.

No. 23 North Carolina vs. Liberty, 5 p.m.

No. 24 Missouri vs. South Dakota St., 2:30 p.m.

No. 25 Washington at Hawaii, 9:30 p.m.

Sunday’s Game No. 10 Baylor vs. SMU, 6:30 p.m.

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Bears on the bubble get last chance in Cleveland David Fales against the Browns’ backup defense not doing it for you? Are you not excited to watch Rex Grossman play against the Bears’ third-stringers in the fourth quarter?

Well, then you can focus on to the several Bears fighting for a job tonight in the preseason finale against the Browns.

Here are some of those players on the bubble, hoping to put one more good performance on tape for the Bears, or one of the other 31 teams, to earn them a roster spot.

Defensive ends Austen Lane, David Bass and Cornelius Washington: Trevor Scott has clearly won the job as the Bears’ No. 4 defensive end, so these three players are fighting for one, potentially two spots if the Bears want to carry 10 defensive linemen. Lane is ahead of the two second-year players on the depth chart and he had a sack against Seattle.

It appears to be his spot to lose. Bass

showed flashes last season and has had a couple nice plays in the preseason, while Washington hasn’t matched his potential.

Linebackers Christian Jones and Jerry Franklin: Linebacker is suddenly a position of concern for the Bears, and with Jordan Senn gone, they should want to carry a sixth. If it comes purely down to special teams, Franklin obviously has the edge. He played them last year in 10 games in 2013 and has been a member of the first-team coverage units this preseason. He led the Bears in special teams snaps in Seattle. Jones has the upside as a linebacker, but hasn’t shown it in the preseason or in camp and has been buried on the depth chart. He’ll get plenty of snaps against the Browns, and may not make it through waivers to get to the practice squad because of his potential.

Defensive backs C.J. Wilson, Demontre Hurst and M.D. Jennings: Let’s assume the Bears keep 10 defensive

backs, and that Kelvin Hayden, Sherrick McManis and Chris Conte are roster locks, giving them five corners and four safeties.

One of these three players, likely based on his abilities on special teams, could take a final roster spot. Wilson got some time with the active roster last season and has two interceptions. Hurst was with the practice squad in 2013 and leads the team with 15 tackles in the preseason.

Jennings, a former Packer, has the most NFL experience, and will get plenty of reps at safety.

Returner Chris Williams: It’s starting to look like Josh Morgan and Santonio Holmes will make this team at wide receiver, but the Bears still need a return man, and their hope is that Williams, in his first opportunity, will show the speed we keep hearing about, take the job and guarantee himself a roster spot.

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Bears getting closer final roster • ARKUSH Continued from page B1 “I’m glad it’s happening now instead of during the season to be honest with you.

Looking at it from the positive viewpoint is, we’re getting things that we don’t want to have happen during the regular season. We can identify them and we can correct them. Sometimes you get a false sense in the regular season going in to where you’re not sure where the problems are coming from. I think our guys will rally to it and we’re going to get better. I’m going to coach them better.”

The problem is if they don’t have the talent to get it done.

Chris Williams was signed off the Saints practice squad after starring as a return man and receiver in Canada. He looked good at receiver early in camp, but before we could even see him return kicks he pulled a hamstring on a 73-yard catch and run against the Eagles.

DeCamillis was asked who his kickoff return man would be in the final exhibition in Cleveland.

“Well, obviously we’d like to see Chris Williams, see what he can do. Senorise [Perry] took a couple of reps last week, which were positive – I think he averaged 25.7,” DeCamillis said. “Those two are probably the ones who are going to get most of the reps on kickoff return.”

If Williams can return at the NFL level, can the extremely undersized 5-foot-8, 170-pound receiver stay on the field?

Perry is an undrafted rookie free agent running back out of Louisville, who only makes the team as a running back if the Bears cut Ka’Deem Carey or Tony Fiammetta, which isn’t likely to happen.

The Bears don’t want a returner without a position.

“Yes, Chris [Williams] would be in the equation, along with Micheal Spurlock, and Spurlock is also in the equation on kickoff return, too, by the way,” DeCamillis said when asked who the favorite was.

There’s no way Spurlock makes the team as anything more than a fifth wideout, even that’s unlikely if the Bears carry five, and Williams

is now pretty much in the same boat.

What will the Bears do on coverage?

The Bears are clearly planning on potential starters Chris Conte, Ryan Mundy, Danny McCray, Kyle Fuller, Shea McClellin and Jon Bostic to answer the bell in coverage.

While it’s not unusual to have a couple starters covering kicks, that many would be almost unheard of.

There are two questions here that beg answers from either Phil Emery, Marc Trestman or both. The first is what really was the plan and why it is so unsettled so late in the game.

The second is, is it possible the problem is that the bottom third of this roster, where your core special teams folks should come from, isn’t as talented as it was one, two or three years ago?

We don’t have the answers yet, but you certainly have to ask.

• Chicago Football editor Hub Arkush can be reached at harkush@chicagofootball.com or on Twitter @Hub_Arkush.

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NIU rarely opens season at home • RETURN Continued from page B1 However, Carey thinks this year’s squad will be the best one Presbyterian has had in Harold Nichols’ six seasons with the program.

“Coach Nichols has a fine football team and to his words he said it, he probably has his best football team to date and I believe it,” Carey said. “Just looking back at last year, how they finished the year from about the midpoint on going through the season with the players they have and kind of look at what they’ve got coming back off of injury, I really believe that they are a fine football team.”

Last season’s FCS opponent, Eastern Illinois, nearly ended NIU’s home winning streak, although the Blue Hose don’t have a player like

“Because of the success we’ve had, every team is going to give us their best shot, so we have to come to play.”

Dechane Durante Northern Illinois senior safety

former Eastern quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo, who’s now with the New England Patriots.

“Because of the success we’ve had, every team is going to give us their best shot, so we have to come to play,” NIU senior safety Dechane Durante said. “Last year, Eastern Illinois came in here and gave us their best shot and almost stole it from us.”

Today is also a rare event

in that NIU is opening up the season at Huskie Stadium. Since the upset win against Maryland in 2003, it’s happened just once – the 49-26 win over Army in 2011.

“I think it’s good for us [since] we haven’t opened at home in a couple of years,” Durante said. “It’s good for our season, it’s good for our fans and good for us as a team to get the season started.”

After the way last season ended, with NIU being on the brink of a second straight BCS berth only to suffer losses in the Mid-American Conference Championship game and Poinsettia Bowl, the Huskies are certainly ready to get back at it.

“It’s definitely been motivation all offseason,” NIU offensive tackle Ryan Brown said. “We’re ready to get back on the field and have a successful season.”

Presbyterian is no Eastern Illinois Dechane Durante.

He’s a four-year starter, Continued from page B1 has had a solid career and More online has good size (6-2, 193). I’m inAnd what better way to terested to see if he can take give yourself an advantage For all your Northern Illinois that next step into becoming by not having a starting University sports coverage – a real playmaker back there. quarterback announced? I Carifio: So given all this, including stories, features, scores, would get the feeling that you photos, videos, blogs and much more how do you see the Presbyare exactly right – the three terian game going? I think it – log on to HuskieWire.com. get somewhat equal time, but will be a lopsided NIU win, I’ll bet anything it is a very let’s say 38-10. After all, this vanilla offense – especially if two years. People forget how was a 3-8 FCS school last the Huskies grab any sort of a good the unit was in 2012, and year. they were solid in second half big lead early.

Nitz: Last year’s FCS of games last season until the opponent, Eastern Illinois, But that’s enough about Mid-American Conference the QBs. With all this talk gave NIU a big scare. But that Championship game disaster. team had Jimmy Garoppolo, about who’s going to replace Of course, NIU lost a lot of who was drafted by the New Heisman Trophy finalist talent from last year, includJordan Lynch, what is the England Patriots, and made a biggest storyline/player that ing San Francisco 49ers first- nice playoff run. Presbyterian round pick Jimmie Ward is being overlooked? has not been a good program. at safety. One guy to pay Nitz: I think the defense I’ll say: NIU 42, Presbytehas been overlooked the past attention to is senior safety rian 14.

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FRIDAY The Relics 5:30 p.m.

The Relics is a local group comprised of musicians who grew up around the area and were influenced by music of the 50s, 60s and 70s. They play music that should bring back memories for an older audience.

TheRelicsDeKalb.com

Audiodrive 7 p.m.

Audiodrive is a rock group that covers 80s

hair bands and other groups from the era, choosing songs specifically to appeal to the masses. AudiodriveRocks.com

Red Woody 9 p.m.

Red Woody is a cover band that aims to play music from all kinds of groups and decades, not just one, so their shows can include songs from Poison, Matchbox 20, Counting Crows and more. RedWoody.com

Big Daddy Woo Woo 3 p.m.

SUNDAY Pie Filler

Big Daddy Woo Woo bills itself as a party Noon band playing music from the 70s through now, Pie Filler is a three-piece band playing rock while offering plenty of opportunities to dance. anthems, like those by Pink Floyd and Sublime.

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Destination Unknown 5 p.m.

Lizzi Neal 1:30 p.m.

Comprised of local musicians, Destination Unknown plays country and alternative rock.

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The Lizzi Neal Band is blues rock, and plays as if Etta James and Steven Tyler had a baby and named it Lizzi Neal. LizziNealBand.com

7th Heaven 7 p.m.

Chicago Six 3 p.m.

Hitman bills itself as rock music, especially any songs deemed party worthy.

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7th Heaven is a rock band that performs original songs, but also is known for its “30 songs in 30 minutes,” which features a medley of songs from the 70s and 80s.

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The band includes three 1985 Chicago Bears players – Otis Wilson, Dan Hampton and Steve McMichael – performing a variety of Motown hits, country and rock. Facebook.com/pages/ Chicago-six/367155390074476

Johnny and the Boomers 1:30 p.m.

Hi Infidelity 9 p.m.

Johnny and the Boomers combines Ray Charles, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and Paul Butterfield for a sweet sound.

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Hi Infidelity plays covers of songs from all decades, but mostly focuses on 80s rock. New covers include tracks from bands like Daughtry, Nickelback and Buckcherry. HiFiLive.com

SATURDAY Hitman Noon

American English 4:30 p.m.

American English is a Beatles tribute band that has been performing for 20 years. Their mission is to take listeners through a history of the Beatles in 90 minutes.

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things to do this weekend summer travel season, or simply take a trip to somewhere nearby.

4. Check out a new movie. The big ones opening this week are “As Above, So Below,” an R horror movie, and “The November Man,” an R action flick starring Pierce Brosnan. And don’t forget “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” are still in theaters!

Closing out summer

Five ways you can bring the summer to a spectacular close this long Labor Day weekend: 1. Go on a picnic. It’s the perfect weekend to party, and whether you have a family picnic or a potluck with friends and loved ones, make sure you make the most of this three-day weekend.

2. Attend a public celebration. Will

STAGE STAGE Stage Coach Players’ “Urinetown, the Musical”: 7:30 p.m.

Sept. 11 through 13, and Sept.

18 through 20, 2 p.m. Sept. 14 and 21, Stage Coach Theatre, 126 S. Fifth St., DeKalb. www. stagecoachers.com.

CCT Penguin Project’s “Disney’s Aladdin Jr.”: 7 p.m. Sept. 25 through 27, 2 p.m. Sept. 28, DeKalb High School Auditorium, 501 W. Dresser Road, DeKalb.

Tickets: $12, adults; $6, children at www.CCTOnstage.com beginning Sept. 1.

Stage Coach Players’ “To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday”: 7:30 p.m. Oct. 9 through 11, and Oct. 16 through 18, 2 p.m. Oct. 19, Stage Coach Theatre, 126 S. Fifth St., DeKalb. www.stagecoachers. com.

IVT’s Dinner Theater “Ghost of a Chance”: 7 p.m. dinner, 8 p.m. show Oct. 17 and 18, 1 p.m. dinner, 2 p.m. show Oct. 19, Fox Valley Older Adults Center, 1406 Suydam Road, Sandwich.

Tickets: $30 at www.indian-

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John Hawkes and Jennifer Aniston are pictured in a scene from “Life of Crime.”

there be a parade in town this weekend?

Fireworks? Public art shows? Check around for listings.

5. Get ready for football. The college football season kicks off this weekend, and the NFL is not far behind (next week). Make sure your fantasy teams are in good order (or hold a fantasy draft with your buddies), set up your man cave and get ready for some fun.

3. Get away from it all. Plan a day trip out of town as a last hurrah to the

valleytheatre.com. No tickets will be sold at the door. Order deadline is Oct. 10.

Stage Coach Players’ “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas”: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 4 through 6, and Dec. 11 through 13, 2 p.m. Dec. 7 and 14, Stage Coach Theatre, 126 S. Fifth St., DeKalb. www. stagecoachers.com.

ART ART “Kishwaukee College Student Prints” exhibit: Through Aug. 30, The Art Box, 308 E. Lincoln Highway, DeKalb. Photographs, monotypes and relief prints by Kishwaukee College students.

Gallery hours: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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

“Drone R’ US,” Kishwaukee College Art Gallery exhibit: Through Sept. 25, Kishwaukee College Art Gallery, Malta.

Featuring works of Dominic Sansone and CJ Hungerman.

Free. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 6

p.m. Monday through Thursday.

Artists reception: noon to 2 p.m.

Sept. 9. Information: 815-8252086, ext. 2611.

“General Dutton’s America”: Sycamore History Museum, 1730 N. Main St., Sycamore. Exhibition explores the life and times of General Everell Dutton including his role in the Civil War and how he shaped Sycamore when he returned. Admission: $5, free for members and children younger than 14. www.sycamorehistory. org. 815-895-5762.

DeKalb Area Agricultural Heritage Association Exhibit Gallery: 2 to 4 p.m. Wednesdays and Sundays, Labor Day through Memorial Day, or by appointment, Nehring Gallery, 111 S. Second St., Suite 204, DeKalb. Free. www.daaha.inc@ gmail.com. 815-756-8737.

COMEDY

COMEDY Nick Swardson’s “Taste It” Tour: 8 p.m. Sept. 17, 135 N. Second St., Egyptian Theatre,

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DeKalb. Tickets: $39.50 at www. egyptiantheatre.org or www. livenation.com.

The Second City 55th Anniversary Tour: 7:30 p.m. Oct. 3, Northern Illinois University Convocation Center, 1525 W. Lincoln Highway in DeKalb. Tickets: $25 to $45 at Convocation Center box office, all Ticketmaster Outlets, Ticketmaster.com, or by phone at 800-745-3000. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Aug. 22.

Information: 815-752-6800 or www.niuconvo.com.

REGIONAL Zanies Comedy Night Club – St. Charles: Various dates at Pheasant Run Resort, 4050 E. Main St. Visit www.stcharles.zanies.com for acts, prices and showtimes.

630-584-6342.

EVENTS EVENTS DeKalb County Quilters Guild Mini Quilt Show: 7 to 9 p.m.

Aug. 29, DeKalb Area Women’s Center, 1021 State St., DeKalb.

www.dcqg.org.

Corn Fest: Aug. 29 to 31, downtown DeKalb. www.cornfest. com. Sound Stage lineup: Friday 5:30 p.m. – The Relics 7 p.m. – Audiodrive 9 p.m. – Red Woody Saturday Noon – Hitman 1:30 p.m. – Johnny and the Boomers 3 p.m. – Big Daddy Woo Woo 5 p.m. – Destination Unknown 7 p.m. – Seventh Heaven 9 p.m. – Hi Infidelity Sunday Noon – Pie Filler 1:30 p.m. – Lizzi Neal 3 p.m. – Chicago Six (1985 Chicago Bears Otis Wilson, Dan Hampton and Steve McMichael) 4 p.m. – American English Swing Dancing in DeKalb: 7 to 10:30 p.m. Sept. 2, O’Leary’s Irish Pub & Grill (upstairs), 260 E. Lincoln Highway, DeKalb.

No partner needed, casual dress, leather-soled shoes recommended. $5 admission (includes lesson at 7 p.m. at no additional charge). Water provided; food and beverages available for purchase. See BarbCitySwing.com for coming dates and exceptions and look for the group on Facebook.

Kishwaukee Valley Art League: 6:30 p.m. Sept. 4, Hy-Vee Club Room, 2700 DeKalb Ave., Sycamore. Featured demonstrator is Pamela Hamilton. Open to the public. kval.us Rocky Horror Picture Show: 8 p.m. Sept. 5, Egyptian Theatre, 135 N. Second St., DeKalb.

Tickets: $10 at www.egyptiantheatredekalb.ticketforce.com.

Ride Like An Egyptian: 6:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sept. 13, Egyptian Theatre, 135 N. Second St., DeKalb.

Bicycle ride of 25, 50, 75 or 100 miles throughout east-central DeKalb County and west-central Kane County benefiting Egyptian Theatre. Cost: $5 to $30. www. egyptiantheatre.org.

MUSIC MUSIC Jazz in Progress: 8 p.m. Sept. 2,

Dee Palmer Band Shell, Hopkins Park, 1403 Sycamore Road, DeKalb. Free. 815-751-0006.

ONGOING ONGOING Northern Illinois University Community School of the Arts: NIU Music Building, 400 Lucinda Ave., DeKalb. Classes in music, art and theater for children and adults. www.csa.niu.edu or 815-753-1450.

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 815-895-5955 or Ed at 815-7563004.

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.

Review: Ex-007 actor spying again in ‘November Man’

By JOHN DeFORE The Hollywood Reporter LOS ANGELES – Onetime 007 Pierce Brosnan embraces a darker take on spycraft in Roger Donaldson’s “The November Man,” playing a former CIA agent whose autumnal nickname acknowledges his tendency to leave few alive when he passes through a town.

A familiar string of dark secrets, shifting allegiances and (wo)manwho-knew-too-much pursuit propels the storyline (adapted from one in a series of Bill Granger novels), giving Brosnan the opportunity to prove his cool remains intact, sans tux and gadgets. “November Man” won’t do anything like Bond’s box office, but will satisfy the actor’s fans and moviegoers biding their time until the next top-shelf le Carre-style thriller.

Here, Brosnan plays Peter Devereaux, who in his day was known for his unwillingness to form personal attachments that could compromise his duties. Like all spies, though, he had his secrets: When the woman he once loved (and who secretly bore him a daughter) dies while spying in Moscow, he becomes the enemy of her killer – his old protege David Mason (Luke Bracey), whose bosses at Langley ordered the hit lest she be

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This image released by Relativity Media shows Pierce Brosnan in a scene from the film, “The November Man.” captured by the Russians.

Make that one Russian in particular: Corrupt former general Arkady Federov (Lazar Ristovski), who is on track to be the next Russian president and wants to erase anyone who knows about the atrocities he committed in the Second Chechen War.

Devereaux’s ex was one of those secret-holders, and in following her leads, he winds up saving Alice Fournier (Olga Kurylenko) from Federov’s top assassin. (Said killer is a woman, whose introductory scenes make one wonder why we so rarely meet hitmen who do balletic splits in

order to limber up before a kill.)

Fournier is a social worker who has helped some of the girls Federov sold into the sex trade, including one named Mira he made his personal slave. Mira overheard a lot during those years, and powerful people around the globe want to find her

before she tells anyone what she knows.

Though the film’s cat-and-mouse scenes hardly compare to those in a Bourne movie, they’re enjoyable and only occasionally ridiculous. (A long sequence in which Devereaux and Mason taunt each other on the phone during a chase makes little sense except for those longing to hear “You’ve lost your touch, old man” cliches.) Brosnan, whose old franchise made a smart turn away from superspy fantasy after his departure, plays the gritty side of spookdom well, and the film offers him (sometimes puzzling) opportunities to show just how nasty he can be, even as he’s risking life and limb to save a stranger.

“Don’t put your faith in me, Alice – I promise I’ll disappoint you,” Peter says at one point, and Brosnan’s grave delivery almost makes you ignore the fact that it’s exactly the kind of line Pee-wee Herman ruined for troubled loners when he gave Dottie the kiss-off back in 1985’s “Pee-wee Herman’s Big Adventure.” This episode in Granger’s “November Man” series, “There Are No Spies,” was published two years after that, and Michael Finch and Karl Gajdusek’s script does little to disguise the fact that we’ve seen and heard all of this many, many times since.

8MUSIC REVIEWS Ariana Grande “My Everything” (Republic Records) This is how you follow up an impressive debut: simply step into the recording booth, and be amazing yet again.

Maybe it’s easier said than done, but Ariana Grande manages to pull off the feat with her sophomore release “My Everything,” the successor to last year’s near-pop perfection “Yours Truly,” which topped the Billboard 200 chart and spawned the hit single “The Way,” featuring Mac Miller.

Admittedly, Grande’s sophomore effort doesn’t go in a radically different direction (she was on the right path to begin with), but big changes are there. For one, music

veteran Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds is nowhere to be found. Still, the R&B and soul sensibilities that he brought to “Yours Truly” are at play, even without him.

That’s evident on “Be My Baby,” featuring Norwegian DJ Cashmere Cat, and in the slick bounce of “Break Your Heart Right Back.” Produced and co-written by duo Pop & Oak, the latter samples Diana Ross’ “I’m Coming Out.” Featured guest Childish Gambino repurposes bars from Notorious B.I.G.’s “Mo Money, Mo Problems” for the track.

Additional collaborations with rappers, including Big Sean, A$AP Ferg as well as Iggy Azalea on the successful single “Problem,” might tempt critics to accuse Grande of relying on old formulas. But

she shows growth, busting out of familiar genres, and exploring electronic dance music on second single “Break Free,” featuring Zedd, and again on the David Guetta-written “One Last Time.”

Thankfully, no matter where Grande ventures, her dazzling vocals lead the way – powerful on the Benny Blanco and Ryan Tedder-produced “Why Try,” with its hypnotic drums, and lightas-a-feather on “Just a Little Bit of Your Heart,” with its aching and lovesick lyrics co-written by One Direction’s Harry Styles.

The 21-year-old Grande has a fantastic voice, and she and her team have found the music to showcase that. A feat that isn’t to be underestimated, considering the power-

house vocalists who’ve been bypassed for passable singers with more memorable tracks.

Sure, “My Everything” was a safe bet – but only in the best of ways. For some fans, the listening experience will be like returning to a delicious little restaurant they’ve recently discovered, and finding that the food is as good as they thought it was the first time.

Trunk.” However, that doesn’t mean he suddenly starts to play it safe.

Musically, Paisley’s arrangements continue to emphasize intricate musicianship and turn-on-a-dime ensemble play, while his lyrics use witty wordplay to explore the many ways people try to escape their problems and improve their lives.

The veteran country star’s – Melanie Sims, knack for tongue-in-cheek fun The Associated Press comes through on the funky “River Bank,” the fist-pumpBrad Paisley ing “Crushin’ It” and the hijinks of the “Moonshine In The Trunk” high-speed title song. Paisley also touts American pride throughout, (Arista Nashville) whether he’s name-checking sports teams and muscle Brad Paisley backs away from social issues and strikes cars on “Country Nation” or toasting the land of opportuniup a party on his 10th studio album, “Moonshine In The ty on “American Flag on the

Moon.”

As in the past, his ambitious reach sometimes gets the best of him. On the traditional country tune “4WP,” for example, Paisley jams the gears by racing through too many musical ideas too quickly.

Still, 15 years into his career, Paisley is the country singer most likely to crack jokes about a hillbilly family getting rich (“High Life”) or write a sensitive power ballad about a woman breaking through the good-old-boy corporate network (“Shattered Glass”). Which also makes him the country star most likely to make fans smile – and to make them think.

– Michael McCall, The Associated Press

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‘Drone R’ US’ opens season at KC gallery The Kishwaukee College Art Gallery will open the new season with a provocative dual exhibition titled “Drone R’ US,” featuring the works of artists Dominic Sansone and CJ Hungerman.

The show will run through Sept. 25 with an artists reception from noon to 2 p.m. Sept.

9 in the gallery. Gallery hours for the fall are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday.

The Kishwaukee College Art Gallery and the artists reception are both free and open to the public.

Sansone’s works are sculptures created using the traditional mediums of bronze, iron and porcelain, as well as contemporary materials of silicone, urethane rubber, foam and plastic. His works and their installation are designed to invite the viewer to consider the current cultural desensitization to violence as a result of nonstop media saturation.

“As a single cohesive composition, my work is intended to create a monument contradictory to the ones that dominate the landscape of our cities,” he said in a news release. “In the end, these works do not answer the questions or propose solutions, but hopefully cause the viewer to consider, with more than a cursory glance, the visual culture of our cities, our entertainment, our public art and our media.”

Hungerman’s works are mixed media and composed of kinetic color interwoven with iconic images representing human emotions.

Each work is a vibrant, color labyrinth that, in its complexity and seeming chaos, reveal a unique explanation to the individual viewer.

Juxtaposed with the works of Sansone, the “Drone R’ US” exhibition is both visually arresting and thought-provoking.

For more information, call Steven Hoover, gallery director, at 815-825-2086, ext. 2611.

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The Kishwaukee College Art Gallery’s first show of the fall is “Drone R’ US,” featuring the works of artists Dominic Sansone and CJ Hungerman. The show will run through Sept. 25. Pictured is a detail from one of CJ Hungerman’s works, “cosmo robotica reaper madness,” mixed media.

Ride Like An Egyptian benefits historic DeKalb theater The Egyptian Theatre’s seventh annual Ride Like An Egyptian bicycle recreational ride will be held Sept. 13. Begun in 2008, this annual benefit ride attracts cyclists from all over the Midwest.

The ride begins and ends at the Egyptian Theatre, 135 N. Second St., DeKalb. Riders have the option of riding 25, 50, 75 or 100 miles throughout east-central DeKalb County and west-central Kane County. The ride features a well-

stocked central rest stop in Maple Park.

Routes are clearly marked and rider-friendly integrated map/cue sheets will be provided the morning of the ride. This year’s ride again features radio-dispatched SAG (Support and Gear) courtesy of the Kishwaukee Amateur Radio Club.

North Central Cyclery of DeKalb will again provide riders with pre-ride professional tech support during registration. There will be

professional tech support during the ride at the central rest stop provided

by The Bike Haven of McHenry.

An end-of-ride meal in the Egyptian Theatre lobby will be provided for registered riders featuring an assortment of options. The end-ofride meal has continued to receive rave reviews from riders through the years.

The preregistration cost for adults ages 16 and older is $25 ($30 after Aug. 30). The preregistration

cost for youth younger than 16 is $5 ($10 after Aug. 30) with paid adult rider. Riders younger than 16 must ride with a participating parent or guardian. Registration can be done online at www.egyptiantheatre.org.

Registration the day of the ride is from 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. in the Egyptian Theatre lobby. The ride closes at 3:30 p.m. The ride goes on rain or shine. Due to the charitable nature of this ride, there are no refunds offered. T-shirts in a variety of

colors are available in advance for $10 ($12 after Aug. 30). Preregister and receive a ride logo decal for free.

The Egyptian Theatre is owned and operated by the Preservation of the Egyptian Theatre Inc., a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization. Proceeds from this benefit will be used for ongoing operation and preservation of the theater.

For more information, call 815758-1215 or visit www.egyptiantheatre.org.

Women roar on new fall TV shows

By FRAZIER MOORE The Associated Press

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Sandwich native Leslie Beukelman will perform at the Sandwich Fair on Sept. 7 with her band, The Oh Yeahs.

Sandwich native back to perform at the fair but they have one thing in common – they love to make music and sing together.

The Oh Yeahs will perform original compositions, current pop hits and classics by artists such as Johnny Cash, the Beatles, and Crosby, Stills and Nash.

For more information, music, and videos, visit www. facebook.com/theohyeahs, www.soundcloud.com/theohyeahs, or www.youtube. com/theohyeahs.

“The Mysteries of Laura” (NBC; Sept. 24). Detective Laura Diamond doesn’t flinch, whether it’s flouting

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This image, released by CBS, shows Tea Leoni as Elizabeth McCord, the shrewd, determined, newly appointed Secretary of State in “Madam Secretary,” premiering Sept. 21. regulations to nab a bad guy or cooking up a scheme to get her twin boys into a private school. She’s always in a frenzy, forever creating waves, and mostly getting what she wants through sheer force of will. As played by Debra Messing, she even manages to be sexy in an offbeat sort of way, in the rumpled raincoat she habitually wears.

“How to Get Away With Murder” (ABC; Sept. 25). She

is abruptly complicated when she learns that, despite her decision to wait, her virgin status has been compromised through an accidental sperm insemination. Now she faces yet another, very unexpected challenge – pregnancy – necessitating hard choices that will affect not only her life but also many others’ around her.

“State of Affairs” (NBC, Nov. 17). CIA analyst Charleston Tucker is joining such past and present CIA heroines as Elizabeth McCord (“Madam Secretary”) and “Homeland” stalwart Carrie Mathison, but with her own specialty: compiling and delivering to the Oval Office the president’s Daily Briefing every morning. But Charleston’s bond with the chief executive is even tighter than this, since she used to be engaged to the president’s son – that is, until he was killed by a terrorist attack. And wouldn’t you know it: the president is a woman, too!

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Sandwich native Leslie Beukelman will return home to perform with her all-female acoustic trio, The Oh Yeahs, at the Sandwich Fair on Sept. 7.

The Oh Yeahs will play from noon to 2 p.m. on the Home Arts Stage. The trio features folksy three-part harmonies by three of Chicago’s top vocalists and multi-instrumentalists: Beukelman, Allison Orobia and Sarah Marie Young. Each woman has a diverse musical background,

NEW YORK – “The Good Wife,” ‘’Homeland,” ‘’Scandal,” ‘’Nurse Jackie” and, well, “Girls” are just a few current shows that put women front and center.

And this fall, even more women are stepping up.

As if TV programmers were in a classroom cribbing off one another’s exams, a few common themes emerge. One prevalent theme: the fantasy world of comic books and sci-fi, courtesy of newcomers “The Flash” (CW), “Gotham” (Fox), “Constantine” (NBC) and “Forever” (ABC). Spies and anti-terrorism also remain big in our heebie-jeebie era, with “Scorpion” (CBS) as well as a couple of the shows below.

But strong females are the dominant trend – and dominate in prime time this fall.

“Madam Secretary” (CBS, Sept. 21). Elizabeth McCord is a loving wife and mother and a brilliant former CIA analyst who is abruptly drawn back into public life as U.S. secretary of state after the incumbent’s suspicious death. Tea Leoni plays a woman who has it all – including growing concerns that she, too, may be on the endangered list.

spring their clients, whatever it takes. And in her law practice, she is a Machiavellian figure leading a team of top-flight students to help her tackle tough cases. As Annalise Keating, series star Viola Davis is powerful and often disturbing, never to be overlooked nor underestimated.

“Bad Judge” (NBC; Oct. 2).

Kate Walsh plays a woman who, in the courtroom, makes Judge Judy look like a pushover, then, after-hours, makes Snooki look like a wallflower.

This is a woman who doesn’t hesitate to announce from the bench her relief that her pregnancy test has come up negative. The only way she could create more of a stir is if she were appointed to the Supreme Court (maybe Season 2?).

“Cristela” (ABC, Oct. 10).

This sitcom’s young heroine is working multiple jobs to fund her dream of becoming a lawyer. And when she gets slammed by her family for taking so long in law school, or for drinking the last beer in the fridge, she can return their salvos with equivalent gusto.

“Jane the Virgin” (CW, Oct. 13). Jane Villanueva is a radiant and ambitious young woman whose future

is a thunderous presence in the classroom as she teaches law students how to

NIU Annuitants to see ‘Camelot’

Mark your calendars for Indian Valley Theatre’s fall dinner show, “Ghost of a Chance.”

The comedy features the local talents of Connie Cline, Mark Dettman, Matt Johnson, Deb Merkel, Tom Merkel and Sharon Pagoria and is directed by Chris Johnson.

Shows will be held Oct. 17 through 19 at Fox Valley Older Adults Center, 1406 Suydam Road in Sandwich. Dinner begins at 7 p.m. and the show at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. Dinner is at 1 p.m. and the show at 2 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets cost $30 and can be ordered at www. indianvalleytheatre.com. No tickets will be sold at the door.

The deadline to order tickets is Oct. 10.

Indian Valley Theatre is a nonrofit organization dedicated to the appreciation and development of the performing arts in the Fox Valley area.

Reservations are being accepted for the Northern Illinois University Annuitants Association trip to Drury Lane is to see the matinee show of “Camelot” on Nov. 26.

The winner of four Tony Awards, “Camelot” transports audiences to the magical days of medieval England. The legendary characters King Arthur, Queen Guenevere, Sir Lancelot and Merlyn come alive in this exciting tale of love and chivalry.

The classic production features a lush, romantic score including “If Ever I Would Leave You,” “Camelot,” “How to Handle a Woman,” and “Follow Me.” The group will depart NIU at 10:30 a.m. and Oak Crest at 10:45 a.m. for the 1:30 p.m. matinee performance. A pre-show luncheon is included. Cost is $73 per person, guests cost $78.

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Wife is unwilling to shoulder burden of care Dear Abby: My mother-inlaw is 80 and in the early stages of Alzheimer’s. She lives alone an hour and a half from us. She also has a professional who takes care of her once a week. My husband, “Fred,” goes to help and entertain her every weekend, and I sometimes accompany him. She has enough money to stay in an assisted living facility, but Fred wants to build a motherin-law apartment for her on our property.

Abby, I DON’T LIKE HER. She was a bully when she was younger, and she’s still manipulative. She has made some comments about me hitting her, which never happened. Of course, Fred believed me. If she lives with us, I will be her main caregiver because I have a homebased business and a flexible schedule.

I have already said no to

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips Fred’s idea, but I don’t want to be the bad guy. His two brothers live states away and don’t want to be involved because of the way their mother treated them during their teens. Fred is the only son willing to overlook past issues and has made peace with her.

Could you help me to sort this out? – Three’s A Crowd in Maryland Dear Three’s A Crowd: I’ll try.

Caring for someone who has Alzheimer’s disease is a fulltime job because the disease is PROGRESSIVE. While Fred’s mother can live alone with the help of a professional once a week now, that will soon not be the case. She will

become increasingly helpless and so confused that should an emergency arise in her apartment she will be unable to think sequentially enough to know what to do. She may no longer recognize who you are and become agitated and combative.

For these reasons your mother-in-law should be in an assisted living facility staffed with caregivers who have been trained to take care of people with Alzheimer’s.

Because you have a business to run, it can’t be you. Since Fred has made peace with his mother, he should visit her often to ensure she is well-treated. But he should NOT expect the responsibility of caring for her to be yours because it is unrealistic.

Dear Abby: My wife likes to leave money hidden in the house or car as her little ATM. The problem is, one or

both of our teenagers discover her stashes and the money disappears. We have had a family meeting about it, yet it continues. I have argued for years with her that part of the problem is leaving money around, not cleverly hidden.

My wife blames one kid who she wants to kick out, but what if it’s the other?

Now she’s blaming me for not solving the problem. Yes, it’s terrible, but she has fed the impulsiveness and refuses to change her ways. She wants us to be on the “same page,” but that usually means her page. Any ideas? Family counseling? – Dad in The Middle Dear Dad: Your wife may want to place the blame on you, but there is more than one problem happening in your household. The first is her insistence on leaving

money where it’s tempting a teen (or two) who steals.

Second, you don’t know who is taking the money and what it’s being used for. Third is your wife’s idea that a quick fix would be to throw a dependent child out.

It may take the services of a licensed marriage counselor to mediate an agreement between the two of you to work cooperatively together.

If your wife needs money, the only ATM she should use is one that’s connected with your bank rather than the cookie jar. Your teens should both be tested for drugs and evaluated for emotional problems. After that, family counseling might help you all communicate more successfully with one another.

• Write Dear Abby at www.

DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Age-related changes will affect the GI tract Dear Dr. K: As I’ve entered my 70s, I’ve noticed that my eating and bowel habits have changed. Is this normal?

Dear Reader: Well, I could tell you what it says in the medical textbooks, or I could speak from personal experience. The answer would be the same: It sure is normal.

Aging most definitely affects our eating and bowel habits. The human digestive system – our gastrointestinal (GI) tract, or “gut” – is a series of hollow organs linked to form a long, twisting tube.

It begins at the mouth and winds down through the esophagus, stomach, small intestine and colon. These organs break down food into components that the body can absorb and use for energy.

What’s left is expelled by an efficient disposal system. (I’ve

ASK DR. K Anthony L. Komaroff put an illustration of the GI tract on my website.)

Here are some age-related changes you may have noticed: The mouth. As we age, the number and sensitivity of our taste buds decline. Our chewing muscles also weaken and we begin to lose teeth. The food we swallow next enters the tube that leads from the throat to the stomach, called the esophagus.

The esophagus. Food does not simply drop down the esophagus; it is pushed down by coordinated contractions of the muscles in the esophagus wall. Unlike the muscles

of our arms and legs, we don’t will these muscles to move.

When they are stimulated by the presence of a lump of chewed food, they just automatically squeeze the food downward.

Unfortunately, the muscles of the esophagus weaken as we age. They contract less vigorously around food after swallowing, and this can make swallowing more difficult.

Weakened muscles in the esophagus also can cause a second problem. Muscles at the bottom of the esophagus, where it enters the stomach, normally squeeze down hard after food passes through.

This keeps stomach acid from squirting back up into the esophagus. When those muscles become weaker with age, it can contribute to acid

reflux.

The stomach and small intestine. The stomach is a storage and processing facility where food is prepared for digestion.

The stomach produces acid, which helps break down food. As we age, the stomach produces less acid. This doesn’t usually interfere with digestion. And it may make acid reflux and “heartburn” less of a problem.

But lower levels of stomach acid can lead to vitamin B12 deficiency. That’s because stomach acid helps the small intestine absorb vitamin B12 in food. Lower levels of stomach acid also can lead to an overgrowth of bacteria in the small intestine.

The colon. The final stage of digestion happens in the colon, or large intestine. Just as happens in the esophagus,

muscles in the wall of the colon squeeze the waste downward. Moving one’s bowels may be the most frequent GI challenge associated with aging. In general, people have more trouble having regular bowel movements after they reach age 65. Weakness and poor coordination of the muscles of the colon are a major reason for this.

Although our gut ages along with the rest of us, and that can contribute to some of the infirmities of growing older, there are effective treatments. We’ll discuss these in future columns.

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

AskDoctorK.com to send questions and get additional information.

Teen: I won’t gamble just because I watch poker Dr. Wallace: I really enjoy sports, and I watch all of the big games on television.

Sometimes when there are no important games being played, the sports channel shows world-class poker players playing for a lot of money.

Last week the World Series of Poker was being shown. I like to see how these big-time players play their poker hand in a game called Texas Hold ‘em.

My grandmother lives with us, and sometimes

’TWEEN 12 & 20 Robert Wallace she interferes with things I do. For example, if I watch television for a few hours she calls me a “couch potato” and tells me to go outside and exercise. I will admit that I’m overweight, but that is none of granny’s business.

Now she is upset because

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TODAY – It’s time to pull together the knowledge and expertise you have acquired over the years and find a way to put it to good use. Let go of uncertainty and doubt, and trust in your skills. Any challenges can be conquered if you don’t let situations fester.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – If you are ambivalent about your current career, look into other options. It’s never too late to change your direction, go after a dream or pick up a new skill.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – You may be feeling uncertain about a situation at work. If immediate action isn’t necessary, focus on doing the best job possible. Keeping busy will help free your mind from worry.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – Don’t let anyone push you to make a hasty decision. Take all the time you need to investigate the details of a pending financial, legal or medical matter.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – Your popularity is growing within your peer group. Don’t take any of your relationships for granted, or the tables will turn. Nurturing what you have built with others will always be necessary.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – Don’t listen to someone who is cynical. Once you have decided the best route, keep moving forward. It’s pointless to wait for everyone’s blessings.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – Make sure that everyone around you is clear about your intentions. Your insight will inspire others to follow you, giving you the support and muscle required to reach your goals.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – You are a dependable and dedicated person, but it’s also important to take time to replenish and rejuvenate. Don’t take on demands or errands at the risk of getting run-down.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) – A hasty decision could turn out badly if you haven’t checked your sources. Before you proceed, check to see if someone with ulterior motives has misled you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – Procrastination will be your downfall. You have decided on your direction, so don’t waste time second-guessing your moves. Take the plunge and get on with your life.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – You don’t have to blow your budget to enjoy some lively entertainment. Love and romance are knocking at your door. Make special plans to do something within your means.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) – Your opponents will not give an inch. Instead of stepping into the spotlight where it is easy for others to criticize your actions, keep your ideas quiet until your presentation is flawless.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – Good advice is useless if you don’t take it. Listen to the experts to discover a way to overcome anything you face. A delay could cause trouble.

I’m watching poker on TV. She told my dad that watching “that junk” will cause me to one day become a gambler.

That’s simply not true. I watch murders on television and I’m never going to murder someone just because I saw a person murdered on television.

Now my dad has restricted me from watching poker on the tube, so I’ve got to go over to my friend’s house to watch Texas Hold ‘em. His

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parents are cool. Even his dad and mom enjoy seeing who will win the $1,000,000.

Please tell my dad that I’m not going to turn into a serious gambler just because I watch poker on TV. – Ken, Santa Fe, New Mexico Ken: Watching Texas Hold ‘em on television does not mean that you will turn into a serious gambler, but I can inform you that since Texas Hold ‘em has been on television it has been highly popular

with teens (mostly boys), and a disturbing number of them are engaged in trying to earn extra money playing the game.

Since you enjoy viewing important athletic events, stick to games where a ball is either kicked, hit, dribbled or passed. It’s much more exciting than watching a bunch of non-athletes trying to “out bluff” one another!

• Email Dr. Robert Wallace at rwallace@galesburg.net.

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ADVICE & PUZZLES 5 BRIDGE Phillip Alder

Take the dummy under advisement Livy, a Roman historian who died in A.D. 17, said, “The troubles that have come upon us always seem more serious than those that are only threatening.”

This week we are looking at active and passive defense.

The defenders either strive to take winners (active) or sit back and wait for declarer to give them tricks (passive).

First, the defenders listen to the auction. But when that does not help them to know which plan to adopt, they must take the dummy into account.

Is it threatening or not?

Threatening is a dummy with a short suit, giving declarer ruffing tricks, or a long side suit, offering declarer a second source of winners.

Unthreatening is a balanced hand.

In this example, how should East defend against four spades after West leads the diamond two and East takes dummy’s queen with his king?

I would have raised to three no-trump with that North hand because of the strong doubleton – and gone down in flames after a diamond lead.

East, since the dummy is so flat, should return a diamond at trick two, which removes that dummy entry.

If declarer is psychic, he can make the contract: heart to the queen, two rounds of trumps, diamond ruff in the dummy, second heart finesse, cash the heart ace, and run the club nine. East wins with his 10 and returns a low club, but South plays low from his hand to lose only one diamond and two clubs. However, he is unlikely to find that line and will go down.

With a relatively flat dummy, stay passive.

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Brian Crane Pearls Before Swine

For Better or For Worse

Non Sequitur

Northwest herald / nwherald.com 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

Monty

Jim Meddick Zits Hi and Lois

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

Brianand & Greg Jim Borgman JerryWalker Scott

Jimmy Johnson

Lincoln Peirce

Jan Eliot

Bill Schorr

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Tools, tools, tools, microwave, furniture, childrens clothes, ladies slacks, large, odds & ends

Social service agency seeking Manager for Family Enrichment Program. Candidates will supervise a team of parenting consultants who deliver direct services to families and children using a variety of delivery systems. Applicant must exhibit capability in the areas of budgeting and grant writing. Excellent skills in relationship building as well as written & oral communication necessary. Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in Child Development, Social Work, Early Childhood Education or related field. 4-C is an EOE.

Advertise here for a successful garage sale!

Call 815-455-4800

Cresswood Shredding Machinery in Cortland is looking for self-starter to provide excellent administrative functions in a fastpaced environment. Candidate will be responsible for performing administrative and organizational duties and support for the office.

Position Summary: Answer multi-line telephone system, with excellent telephone techniques; Preparing and updating Office Procedure Manuals; Proofreading and preparing installation and operating manuals for machinery; Creating pro-forma invoicing for machinery; Accurate e-mail writing both externally (at an executive level) and internally; Experience working with a team and independently; Effectively use communication on a professional level; Be able to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously; Some Customer Service; Some Human Resources paperwork.

Requirements: Must have 7-10 years of administrative support experience; 2 years of Customer Service experience with a can-do attitude; Solid experience in all Microsoft Office Suite applications and working with templates; Exceptional interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills are a must; Takes initiative to get tasks completed, especially those with tight timelines; Must be able to type 50 wpm with accuracy; Must have the ability to work as a team and independently; Attention to detail is a must; Must have 1 year of processing hiring paperwork for Human Resources; Database knowledge helpful; as we use Made-2Manage and ACT! This is a full-time position, with an opportunity for future growth.

Good pay with benefits.

Please e-mail your letter of interest, resume and three work references to Human Resources at kcoffin@cresswood.com

COUCH

DESK - 52" x 24" Steel Desk, 3 Pieces, Lt Beige Color, Wood Grain Top, w/ Small Left Side Return, Includes – Chair, Great Shape, $85. 815-762-0382 Lazy-boy loveseat, floral pattern good cond. $45 815-786-3283 Sandwich ROLL-TOP DESK – Excellent shape, light color. $40. 815-757-2021 Round Table w/5 padded seats high back chairs for kitchen or dining room $55. 8 a.m. To 9 p.m.

815-522-6607.

AIR CONDITIONERS – 2 in good used condition. $50.

815-7572021 CARPET & PADDING – NEW. Carpet - $20. Padding - $25.

815-757-2021

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 X-Box, guitar controller good cond. $10 815-786-3283 Sandwich

KITTENS Tabby, ready to go.

815-498-9128

815-575-5153

Framed Art - Autographed Cartoon Cell - Hanna/Barbera - Characters On Parade" Documented, Mint Condition $400 - Moving Sycamore 815-762-0382

Jacob Haish gas engine $2500. Several other engines available. 815-539-9898

CABLE WIRE 1000' Reel RG - 6 New, $25, Sycamore 815-895-5373 Compound Miter Saw Black & Decker Model # 9425 8-1/4", 8 Amp Meter, w/ Manual, Accessories & Extra Blade, Great Shape, $40. Moving, Sycamore 815-762-0382 Conduit Bender 1/2", $20, Sycamore, 815-895-5373

DON'T NEED IT? SELL IT FAST! Daily Chronicle Classified Call 877-264-2527

XDJ Jr Left Handed Golf Set Tartan Precise XDJ 5 Club Junior Left Handed Golf Set for Ages 9-12.

Clubs: Driver, Hybrid, 6/7 Combo Iron, 9/Pitching Iron, Putter, Stand Bag. Recommended Height Range - 52 to 60 Inches Tall. $65 Call 815-739-6716.

DOLL SET NEW American Girl Bitty Baby Doll Set w/ Doll, Book & Star, Includes Deluxe 15 Piece Layette Collection; Dress, Cardigan, Pants, Tights, Shoes. Rattle, Bottle, Bib & Hangers All In a Satin Storage Suitcase.

All new & in original packaging $150 for all, 815-739-1953 Mega Blocks Child Storage Chair With Over 100 Duplos & Mega Blocks That Store Under Seat In Chair, Good for Child Ages 1-3, $15. DeKalb. 815-739-1953

WANTED! I Buy Old Envelopes Stamps

Will pay extra for Honda, Toyota & Nissan

815-814-1964 or

815-814-1224 !!!!!!!!!!!

WE PAY THE BEST! For Junk Cars, Trucks & Vans with or without titles.

630-817-3577 or 219-697-3833

BIG APARTMENTS, LESS MONEY! Rochelle: 15 minutes from DeKalb 1 BR & 2BR Starting at $530 Recently updated!

Affordable heat.

Walk to shops!

(815) 562-6425 www.whiteoakapartments.net Now accepting Visa, M/C, Discover

Cortland Spacious 2 Bedroom W/D hookup with garage. $775/mo + utilities + sec, no pets.

Sue 815-762-0781 DEKALB $975/MO BIG! 3BR + Office + 2 Living Rooms Laundry. Call for details 815-751-2546 DeKalb - 3 BR Apartment & 4 BR Apartment, W/D, Close to School 815-739-9258

DEKALB - SPACIOUS MARKET APARTMENTS Starting @ $432, 1BR; $599, 2 BR; $683, 3 BR.

GOLF CARTS

18K miles, loaded, comes with a new trailer and 2 sets of helmets. $22,000/obo 815-495-9404

Near the heart of NIU. Incl gas and forced air heat. Off street parking, lush grounds, on site laundry room. Outdoor pool, tennis and basketball courts, patios and balconies. Cats OK.

University Village Apts.

722 N. Annie Glidden Rd. 815-758-7859

DEKALB ~ 235 N. 1st Large 2BR, carport, A/C, laundry.

Clean, quiet and secure. $750/mo.

J&A RE. 815-970-0679

Harley Davidson Screaming Eagle Slip On Mufflers - EPA stamped.

Off of 2011 Ultra Classic Limited.

15,000 miles on them - excellent condition. $250/OBO. Call 815-895-6096 - leave message

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1999 TOYOTA COROLLA Good, reliable transportation.

182,000 miles. 5 speed manual transmission. Body in good shape. A little rust around the rear wheel wells. Runs smoothly.

Clear title in hand. $1800.

815-761-9094 EXCELLENT CONDITION! 2002 Ford Windstar 60115, 53K, (815) 756-6095

DeKalb 2BR, $700 WINDSOR APTS. 623 N. First St.

JOBS ANNOUNCEMENTS STUFF VEHICLES REAL ESTATE SERVICES

DeKalb Lower 2 Bedroom

Daily Chronicle Classified and online at: www.Daily-Chronicle.com

DEKALB – Newly remodeled 3BR 2 bath apt with garage, ctrl air, near schools & Rt 23. No dogs or smkg. $900/mo + util. 630-450-5372

Welcome home to a park-like setting with carport and quiet lifestyle. 815-758-0600 hillcrestplaceaptsdekalb.com $695 + dep & lease, avail now.

Stove, fridge, heat & water incl.

No pets/smoking. 815-298-0423

DeKalb Newly Remodeled 2BR 1BA, A/C, off St parking for 1 car.

Lndry in bldg, pets OK. $760/mo + deposit. Pete 630-363-3430

EVENING PUBLIC AUCTION THE FOLLOWING LISTED ITEMS FROM SEVERAL ESTATES HAVE BEEN MOVED TO THIS LOCATION FOR BIDDERS CONTINENCE AND WILL BE SOLD LOCATED AT 333 DIETZ AVE, DEKALB, IL. EAST SIDE OF DEKALB OFF PLEASEANT STREET. WATCH FOR AUCTION SIGNS.

THURSDAY EVENING, SEPT. 4 STARTING AT 5:00 P.M.

2008 Buick Enclave, Like new condition, 66,000miles $18,000 815-751-5414

TOOLS • FURNITURE • VEHICLES

DAILY CHRONICLE CLASSIFIED www.Daily-Chronicle.com

AUCTION TO BE CONDUCTED ON PREMISES. -

2564 N. 4670TH RD., SOMONAUK, IL. DIRECTIONS: SOUTH OF SOMONAUK ON 2351 RD – (HOXSEY RD.) TO 4670TH RD., (CLASSON ESTATES) ~ WATCH FOR SIGNS~

OPEN HOUSE ON SUNDAY ,AUGUST 31, 2014 FROM 11 A.M. TO 2 P.M. www.auctionzip.com (ID#2927)

2000+ sq. ft. ranch. 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. Large family room with fireplace. Patio, deck, storage shed, 3 car garage, full basement. Excellent condition. Large lot.

OWNER: James & Bonnie Schumpert Attorney for Sellers: Karen Johnson 15 W. Railroad St., Sandwich, IL • 815-786-7854

AUCTIONEERS: JIM ELLIOTT - IL Licensed Auctioneer No. 040000574 - 815-343-2527 CRAIG ELLIOTT - IL. Licensed Auctioneer No. 441001460 - 815-325-4651; 815-498-3377

Will beat anyone's price by $300.

2006 Honda GL1800 Trike

Collections

Hinckley ~ Rimsnider Road Becherer Farm, approx 80 acres.

76.6 tillable acres with 2 story farm house and ranch house. $1,599,000. 859-630-5920

1990 & Newer

1991 HARLEY DAVIDSON XLH1200 SPORTSTER, many performance upgrades, looks & runs great $2900. Greg 815-751-0437

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2014 STARTING AT 11:00 A.M.

not responsible for accidents

I BUY CARS, TRUCKS, VANS & SUVs

For sale. Call for info and pricing. 815-695-1600

PUBLIC AUCTION OF REAL ESTATE RANCH HOME

www.elliottauctions.net

CRESTON & DEKALB - 2 houses 4 sale. Single fam or use as rental.

Call for details at 815-751-1915 or edrivkin@comcast.net

!!!!!!!!!!!

Push broadcast Spreader with air tires. $20 815-748-7693 SLIDE - Little Tikes Large Slide With Option To Hook Hose To That Has A Sprinkler & Water Goes Down Slide, Teal Green Slide With Purple Steps, In Nice Shape, $50, DeKalb.

815-739-1953

815-758-4004

Band Saw- Central Machinery 12" Band Saw, Model 1629, 1/2 Hp. Motor, 4-5/8 x 12" Capacity, 62" Blade, w/ manual, accessories & 2 new blades, $150 w/ stand, $100 w/o stand 815-762-0382 Sycamore

CAR, TRUCK, SUV,

WILL BEAT ANY QUOTE GIVEN!! $400 - $2000 “don't wait.... call 2day”!!

Craftsman Post Hole Digger, #83870 & Steel Bow Rake, #83862. Yellow Fiber Handles, Life Time Warranty, Heavy Duty, New - $40 for both, moving Sycamore 815-762-0382 LAWN TOOL CADDY - plastic, on casters, holds 20+ tools, great shape, 40"x 40"x 20" $20.00, Moving, Sycamore 815-762-0382 Patio Chairs – Four, White, Straight Back Chairs - $15 for all.

815-756-2301

Will BUY UR USED

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.

MOST CASH

Angora female Rabbit for sale $15. Call 815-748-3782

Complete Full Size Bedding & Accessories – Bright Pink & Orange bedding w/2 matching comforters, pillow shams, drapes & 2 lamp shades. $50 obo 815-370-8759 Plastic Drum - White, 55 gallon Great For Rain Barrel Project Sycamore. $20. Moving 815-762-0382 STEP LADDERS - 3 wood step ladders, Type lll, 200lb. rating, very good condition, 4' to 5' high, $15 each, moving, Sycamore 815-762-0382

A-1 AUTO

Lefton 12 pc. Collection autum wheat and vintage bisque $30/obo 815-786-3283 Sandwich

GROUP GARAGE SALE

Thursday & Friday, 9 – 5 Saturday, 9 – 12

Administrative Assistant

COMPUTER DESK & PRINTER Very nice wood computer desk, excellent condition - $60; Canon Photo Printer PIXMA ip2600 Series - $30. 815-739-4279

8.5'L, brown leaf pattern, $75.

2 Easy Chairs, beautiful floral design, $40/ea. $50. 815-824-2577

JOIN THE 4-C TEAM!

Please apply by sending a letter of application and resume to: 4-C Community Coordinated Child Care Attn: Susan Petersen 155 North Third St., Ste. 300, DeKalb, IL 60115

Concord Grapes With Seeds, Excellent For Wine, Juice & Jelly, $7 for a five gallon bucket, $12 for two five gallon buckets (you supply the buckets). U PICK right off the vine! 815-895-5373. Sycamore.

4-Dale Earnhardt luminum Ribelle Wheels DJ708 Black, size 18X19,Pod6\135, offset 20MM, Hub Bor 87.1MM, mounted w/Bridgestone Duller HT tires.

P25570R18 3 years old, $70/ea. $240/set. 815-761-7015

2 Large Wet Vacs, Good condition, $8 each; 3 steel farm wells, 30” diameter - $25 each 815-756-2301 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

PRIDE MOBILITY CHAIR, JAZZY 614HD, 24VOLT, 400LB CAPACITY. WORKS GREAT; LIKE NEW CUB CADET 6 SPEED SELF PROPELLED LAWN MOWER, 20” CUT, 8.75 H.P.; CRAFTSMAN ½ DRIVE FLOOR STANDING DRILL PRESS, LITTLE USE; CRAFTSMAN 10” TABLE SAW; BOSCH JOB SITE RADIO, CD, PLAYER, CHARGER, POWER CONVERTOR; HITACHI MITER SAW; PORTER CABLE ROOFING AIR NAILER; LOTS OF COIL NAILS FOR POWER NAILERS; LOTS OF HAND TOOLS; HIGH INTENSITY WORK LIGHTS; POWER TOOLS; JOHN DEERE WEED EATER, GAS POWERED; BOSCH ROUTER AND SANDERS; WEBER GENESIS GOLD GAS GRILL, LITTLE USE; COLEMAN ROAD TRIP PORTABLE GAD GRILL; SAMSUNG BLUE RAY DISC PLAYER; PLAY STATION 2; OVER 100 DVD MOVIES; 7 HUMMEL FIGURENS; MINOLTA 35MM XD-11 & SR-7 CAMERAS; SEVERAL LONG 35MM LENS AND CAMERA EQUIPMENT; 3- 27” TV SETS, SONY & PANASONIC; BOX FULL OF BRAND NEW HARLEY DAVIDSON SHIRTS AND T-SHIRTS; BOX FULL OF NASCAR T-SHIRTS, HATS AND LANYARDS; 2-LEATHER HARLEY DAVIDSON RIDDING JACKETS; HARLEY PATCHES AND PINS; SKYBOX BEVERAGE COOLER AND DISPENSER FOR 4 DIFFERENT FLAVORS WITH NASCAR LOGOS AND THEME. VEHICLES: 1995 FORD WINDSTAR MINI VAN RUSTY BUT TRUSTY; 1997 GRUMMAN KURBMASTER BREAD TRUCK LOW MILES, GREAT SHAPE, READY FOR WORK; CUSHMAN TURF MASTER; 20 FOOT DRY CONSTRUCTION/STORAGE CONTAINER; HEAVY DUTY CAR DOLLY; KYMOTO SCOOTER RUNS AND DRIVES GOOD; 2001 16 PASSENGER BUS CHEVY 3500, LOW MILES; WOMENS AND MENS BICYCLES; 6 ROTARY MOWERS IN DIFFERENT STATES OF REPAIR; ETHAN ALLEN BEDROOM FURNITURE, TWIN BED AND MATTRESS ETHAN ALLEN LEATHER CHAIR AND FOOT STOOL; 4 GLASS DISPLAY CABINETS; LEATHER COUCH AND LOVE SEAT. SLOT MACHINE; LASER DISC COLLECTION WITH 2 PLAYERS (OVER 50 TITLES); CHERRY WOOD CABINET; CHAUTAUQUA INDUSTRIAL ARTS TEACHING DESK, VERY OLD IN GOOD SHAPE; LADDER RACK FOR VAN; MINI FORKLIFT/MATERIAL MOVER; ANTIQUE SCHOOL DESKS COUCHES/CHAIRS/KITCHEN TABLES/END TABLES/ COFFEE TABLES /OUTDOOR TABLE TWIN LOFT CANOPY BED TWIN BEDROOM SET WITH BED /DESK AND CHEST OF DRAWERS. STUDENT DESKS AND CHAIRS 3 LEVEL INDUSTRIAL SHELVES, HARDLY USED. AUCTIONEERS NOTE: JOIN US FOR THIS EARLY EVENING AUCTION, ITEMS ARE VERY NICE, TAKE A LOOK AT THE PICTURES ON THE WEB SITE WWW.ALMBURGAUCTIONS.COM. TERMS: CREDIT CARDS, CASH OR CHECK ONLY ON SALE DAY. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ACCIDENTS INJURY OR THEFT. ANNOUNCEMENTS MADE SALE DAY TAKE PRECEDENCE OVER ALL OTHER ADVERTISEMENTS. PATRIOT DOGS WILL BE ON SITE SERVING FOOD. AUCTION WILL TAKE PLACE INSIDE WITH PLENTY OF PARKING.

ESTATES OF SCHIEVE, MITCHELL & BLOWER, OWNERS All our auctions with pictures are advertised worldwide @ www.almburgauctions.com

Appraisals Real Estate Liquidators 815-825-2727 Malta, IL

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Bikes, games, furniture, baby items, toys, game table, GEO Trax, roller blades, skates

Old School Condos 440 – 468 E. Exchange St.

Schedule may be somewhat flexible and will include two-three full days weekly.

Pavilion dv6000 Intel Pentium, dual core, windows Vista 15 1/2” screen. $100 815-508-3553.

X-Box 360's.

All 4 have red ring cords & controllers. $100.

815-508-3553.

X-Box 360's.

All 4 have red ring cords & controllers. $100.

815-508-3553.

2000 Ford F-350 4x4 Auto, 5.4ltr gas engine. 163K miles, $2900 obo 815-748-3782

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Check out the

825 Sharon Dr.

877-264-2527

bill@lovettstowing.com or call: 815-756-2681

SAT, AUG 30 9AM - 3PM

Sycamore

Classified has GREAT VARIETY!

Laptop, Hewlett Packard

69”Wx48”T, excellent condition! $150 815-943-6103

GARAGE SALE FRI. & SAT. 9-4 Priced to sell. Items include: Tractor, Table Saw and Other Tools, Camping and Fishing Gear, Furniture, Men's & Women's Clothing, Stuffed Animals and Beanie Babies.

Laptop, Hewlett Packard Pavilion dv6000 Intel Pentium, dual core, windows Vista 15 1/2” screen. $100 815-508-3553.

DRIVE UP TRAILER GATE

1328 N. 14th St.

OWNER OPERATORS 100% Dedicated LanesLimited Time!

NEW $4,000 Lease Incentive!

Solo OpportunityGreat Regional Runs If you've found yourself in need of a NEW Partnership, this is the perfect driving opportunity for you!

DEKALB

Sharon Drive & Colby Ct.

DeKalb 430 S. 4th St.

MECHANIC

All proceeds will be used for community projects sponsored through Kishwaukee Kiwanis.

For information see our website www.kishkiwanis.org

(Mailing address is Sycamore)

DINING SERVICES SUPERVISOR NEEDED Full-time Experience preferred.

Must have Sanitation Certificate.

MUST APPLY IN PERSON 1440 Somonauk St. Sycamore, IL.

Home & Office Furniture, shoes, belts, purses, books, magazines, DVDs, CDs, kitchen items, Christmas decorations & trees, wall art, toys, fabric, household merchandise, downhill skis, luggage, and lots of miscellaneous items.

Daytona Bike Week. Make an offer. 630-408-6713

Propane Heater Remington Torpedo, Model #REM35LP, 35,000 BTU w/ Manual, Great shape, $45 - w/o tank, Sycamore, 815-762-0382

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SHABBONA - 2 BR / 1Bath, W/D, 1 car garage, $700 per mo. + sec. + util. NO smoking! 1 yr. lease.

630-365-6887 Sycamore Quiet 2BR House W/D hook-up, garage, off St. prkg. $695/mo+ dep, ref. NO PETS. 1 YEAR LEASE. 815-793-2664

DeKalb Quiet Studio 1, 2, 3BR

Lease, deposit, ref, no pets.

815-739-5589 ~ 815-758-6439

DEKALB QUIET, SPACIOUS 2BR Incl W/D, wood floors, balcony.

Off St. parking, no dogs/smoking. $765/mo. Jamie 815-761-2526

SYCAMORE ~ 2BR DUPLEX

DEKALB TOWNHOUSE $980/MO 4BR+2BA+Office, Central Air, laundry, Dishwasher 815-751-2546

Lower Unit, 1 bath, off St. parking.

Walk to downtown, no pets/smkg. $725/mo incl util. 815-757-2340

DEKALB ~ 1 BEDROOM Clean, quiet, 1 bath, appliances included, available now.

815-758-6580 1 bedroom, $585/mo, tenant pays electric, coin laundry on site, 1st, last $500 sec. 815-970-5262

Sycamore E. State St. AVAILABLE NOW! Newly remodeled 2 Bedroom CALL FOR DETAILS 815-236-4051 ~ 815-923-2521

DeKalb ~ 518 S. Second St.

DEKALB, Attractive 1 BR, 1st flr eff. in quiet priv. residence near NIU & Schnucks. All appls.

C/A, Sat., HDTV, Wifi, W/D, Screened porch, Gar, No pets/smoke. $900. incl. all utils.! *Ref. & dep. 630-802-7865 Dekalb, Downtown 3rd & Lincoln, 2 bedroom $750/mo. Includes utilities. 2 bedroom with terraza floors, glass block, exposed brick, jacuzzi tub.

1mo/dep required.773-203-7928 DEKALB: 2BR Apts.-$650/m. Incl. heat, water, garb, W/D on premises. Nice Neighborhood.

Avail mid Aug. 815-756-1424

GENOA 1 & 2 BEDROOM

Sycamore Large 1st Floor 2 Bedroom Apartment

Stone Prairie

Available September 1st.

815-509-5506

2BR, 2BA APT.

Sycamore Quiet Upper 2BR

Washer & dryer, central air, fireplace, exercise center.

Cat friendly. Private fishing. $765/mo.

Laing Mgmt.

815-758-1100 or 815-895-8600 SYCAMORE - 2 BR 1 BA $750 Upstairs, w/ pay washer/dryer in basement. Central air & ht. Pets possible. Quiet, small complex.

Off-st. parking. New carpets, paint.

Contact Mark: 630.651.8301, mgalli@gallinet.net

1 bath, W/D, no pets/smoking. $675/mo + 1st, last security.

815-501-1378 Sycamore Spacious 407 W. State St., 2 Br. downtown. Very secure bldg. w/prkng. Some utilities, W/D & Sec. system incl. 815-761-3961

SYCAMORE ~ 2BR, 1BA

Malta Quiet 2 Bedroom

MALTA, 1 BR, Upper $575/mo. everything included except electricity.

2 BR Upper $625/mo. everything included except electricity Laundry on site.

Call: 815-739-4702

Sycamore 2 Bedroom $600/mo incl water, stove, refrig.

No pets/smoking. 815-895-4756 or 815-562-3459

Rochelle 1 Bedroom, 1 Bath

Remodeled, clean and quiet.

Available now. 815-758-6580 or 815-739-5806

2500 Sq Ft of Offices and Warehouse space, close to I-88.

14ft garage door, newly remodeled office, $1100. Call Mark MWG Prop. 815-739-6084

DeKalb ~ Near Downtown North 2nd St, 1200 + Sq Ft. Ideal for office, retail, salon.

Call for details, Agent Owned.

815-756-2359 Or 815-758-6712

Check out the

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All NIU Sports... All The Time

in today's Classified

COUNTRY PEACE AND QUIET GREAT VALUE FOR $156,900

CLOSING COST MONEY AVAILABLE 3 Bedrms, 1 ½ Baths, Beautiful Huge Country Kitchen, All Appliances.

CALL NEDRA ERICSON, REALTOR - NOW! 815-739-9997

FOR SALE NOW READY FOR NEW OWNER

5 Bdrms, 2.5 Baths, GREAT ROOM that is unbelievable. Brick flr to ceiling fireplace, 1st flr laundry, appliances, huge fenced yard.

ALL for ONLY $215,000. WOW!

CALL NEDRA ERICSON, REALTOR - NOW! 815-739-9997

SELLER SAID, “I WANT THIS SOLD” LOWERED THE PRICE TO $98,500 – WOW!

DeKalb, 1 Family Home 7mi. S. of DeKalb, 3 BR 1 BA, appl, h/w flrs, lawn/snow care, outside storage, Indian Creek School Dist, pets neg. no smkg. 1st. last, sec. + fuel dep. $900/mo. Call 815-758-0140

DeKalb–2 bedroom Farmette, On hard surface road, Recently updated ! $900/mo.

815-751-6645 leave msg.

Upper efficiency apt - utilities included. $700/month. 815-703-7910

Sandwich - 3 bedroom home close to town, garage, C/A, no pets/reptiles. Deposit $925 + 1st & Last. $925/mo.

815-695-5267 or 815-375-0559

CORTLAND- 3-4BR 2.5bath Condo w/appl. & 2 car gar. $1350/mo, renter pays util. 1st+last due at sign.

No smoking/pets. 815-501-5217

Sycamore & DeKalb – Check out properties at tv-realty.com or call Tom 815-378-7962

SYCAMORE OUTDOOR STORAGE Secure fenced, paved, commercial parking lot. $40/month.

Discount for longer terms.

Call Jon at 630-215-7930.

Sycamore. 22X29' Shop/Storage 9' overhead door. $400/mo. Heat & Electric incl.

J&A RE 815-970-0679

DEKALB 3BR 2.5BA RANCH 225 Windsor Dr. 2400 sf, in-law suite in basement. Beautiful home, available now. 815-758-6580

Sycamore: 3 Bedroom, 1 Bath Apt. First Floor of House, Appliances, Carport, Yard. $1000/Mo. + Utilities. 815-790-3587

Bsmt, appl, W/D hook-up, garage.

No pets/smkg, $800/mo + lease, deposit & ref. 815-758-6439 Need Help Rebuilding, Repairing or Replanting?

DEKALB – 3 BR 1 bath, large fenced yard, pets considered. $950/mo. Nice neighborhood.

815-756-1539 DeKalb 3 BR, DR, Ofc, gar. $1000, & 3 BR 1.5 BA, new interior, 3 car gar, $1175 no pets/smokers 815-762-4730

DeKalb-803 S 1st St, 3br, 1.5ba, att Garage, Cent AC, DW, W/D, Fenced yard, $1095/mo,1st+sec, avail 9/1, 847-845-4021

CORTLAND ~ 2BR DUPLEX

Maple Park, 1 bedroom, water/gas/trash included, $450/mo.

815-761-5944

Close to schools, 2 car garage.

Basement, clean, quiet, ready by August 15. 815-758-6580

Within walking distance of downtown, parks and schools.

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

1 bath, remodeled, appl. Countrya setting, close to downtown Genoa.

815-784-4606 ~ 815-901-3346 Appl furnished, W/D hook-up, water & garbage incl, Xtra storage.

Garage, no pets. 815-751-0480

Cortland - Industrial Park

DEKALB 2BR, 1BA RANCH

DEKALB ~ 303 BUSH ST.

Sweet, Neat, Modern Townhouse Apt in historic dist. On quiet street, near Huntley Park. 2BR, 1.5BA, C/A, W/D, stove, fridge, cable, micro, gar + add'l off St parking, full basement, $850/mo + electric and gas.

815-758-0566

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DeKalb, 1000sf. workshop, heated incl.outdoor lot for pkg/equipment 815-758-7368 Yamber Real Estate & Property Management,LLC

OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT Brand New Office Space in Downtown Creston. Hardwood Floors and Handicap accessibility Landlord pays Water, Sewer, Trash and WIFI. $350.00 Per Month 805-550-7744 Mark Sycamore, Near courthouse, Furnished office spaces, $175/mo. - $550/mo.

815-739-6186

DeKalb Near NIU 1 Bedroom $400/mo.

Master Bedroom W/bath $500/mo.

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PUBLIC NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS COUNTY OF DEKALB LEGALS LEGAL NOTICE GENOA TOWNSHIP PARK DISTRICT STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES for the period May 1, 2013 through April 30, 2014 ALL FUNDS Begining Fund Balance May 1, 2013 RECEIPTS Property Taxes Pers Prop Replacement Taxes Interest Income Building Rental Swimming Pool All Recreation Programs Fitness Center Concessions Bond Proceeds Community Grants Total Receipts Total Funds Available DISBURSMENTS American Express Automatic Doors Inc. Blue Cross/ Blue Shield Camille's of Canton Inc Cardmember Services Carl Bruder - General Contract Champion Energy LLC City of Genoa Commonwealth Edison Conserv FS David Lyons Frontier Genoa-Kingston CUSD#424 Hawkins, Inc. Heartland Bank & Trust IMRF IPS Incorporated Kansas State Bank Kishwaukee Special Recreation Mike Long Construction Inc. Nicor Gas Ogorek & Associates, LTD PDRMA Resource Bank Royer Asphalt Paving, Inc. Rush Power Systems LLC Sams Club/GECF Shannon Scott Marbutt Sheahan Construction Speer Financial, Inc. T. Allen & Associates LLC The Law Offices of Chapman & Cutler Tobinson's Ace Hardware United States Treasury WK Landscape Service, Inc Wolff & Jeske LLC Wyatt Pavement Maintenance, In SubTotal Disbursemnts Under $4,000.00 Total Disbursments Salaries Ending Fund Balance April 30, 2014

588,105.31 584,039.50 47,030.96 591.28 6,355.00 48,159.65 154,849.76 249,407.04 7,010.65 258,975.00 0.00 1,356,418.84 1,944,524.15 13,389.61 4,356.00 17,199.88 4,409.18 22,686.77 4,585.00 6,729.05 56,075.27 5,012.12 7,276.58 4,144.00 5,886.98 6,709.24 6,015.17 157,952.21 28,229.74 4,765.50 32,574.42 19,300.10 13,450.00 6,353.97 4,812.50 15,566.96 258,190.24 8,102.00 6,348.00 9,854.23 6,011.75 8,140.00 4,250.00 7,020.00 4,000.00 6,571.97 37,347.85 11,115.00 6,250.00 5,277.20 825,958.49 87,593.29 913,551.78 507,255.83 523,716.54

PUBLIC NOTICE 14-072348 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 23RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY, SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC PLAINTIFF, -vsBRIAN T. BAILEY A/K/A BRIAN BAILEY; STATE OF ILLINOIS; COMPASS MORTGAGE, INC.; BANKFINANCIAL, FSB; KENSINGTON POINTE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; UNKNOWN OCCUPANTS DEFENDANTS

14CH 161 PUBLICATION NOTICE The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given you Brian T. Bailey a/k/a Brian Bailey, Kensington Pointe Homeowners Association and Unknown Owners and NonRecord Claimants; Unknown Occupants. Defendants in the above entitled suit, that the said suit has been commenced in the Circuit Court of Dekalb County, by the said Plaintiff against you and other defendants, praying for the foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying the premises described as follows, to wit: LOT 153 IN KENSINGTON POINTE PUD UNIT NO. 2, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE EAST 1/2 OF THE SOUTHWEST 1/4 OF SECTION 22, TOWNSHIP 40 NORTH, RANGE 4, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED AUGUST 12, 2002 IN PLAT CABINET 9, AT SLIDE 32-C, AS DOCUMENT NO. 2002015514, IN DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 663 Bush Street, DeKalb, IL 60115 Permanent Index No.: 08-22329-025 and which said Mortgage was made by Brian T. Bailey Mortgagors, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Nominee for GMAC Mortgage, LLC f/k/a GMAC Mortgage Corporation as Mortgagee, and recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Dekalb County, Illinois, Document No. 2008000720.

And for other relief; that summons was duly issued out of the said Court against you as provided by law, and that the suit is now pending.

Now therefore, unless you, the said above named defendants, file your answer to the Complaint in the said suit or otherwise make your appearance therein, the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Dekalb County, in the City of Sycamore, Illinois, on or before the 30th day after the first publication of this notice which is September 29, 2014.

Default may be entered against you at any time after that day and a judgment entered in accordance with the prayer of said Complaint.

Clerk Fisher and Shapiro, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 2121 Waukegan Road, Suite 301 Bannockburn, IL 60015 (847)291-1717 THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT IF YOUR PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR THIS DEBT HAS BEEN EXTINGUISHED BY A DISCHARGE IN BANKRUPTCY OR BY AN ORDER GRANTING IN REM RELIEF FROM STAY, THIS NOTICE IS PROVIDED SOLELY TO FORECLOSE THE MORTGAGE REMAINING ON

YOUR PROPERTY AND IS NOT AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT THE DISCHARGED PERSONAL OBLIGATION. I624259 (Published in the Daily Chronicle, August 28, September 4 & 11, 2014.)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY-THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ANNA MARIE DIAB, Deceased.

1. Notice is given of the death of Anna Marie Diab on July 17, 2014.

2.Letters of office were issued on August 25, 2014 to Joseph A. Diab, 522 15th Avenue, Moline, IL 61265, as Independent Representative.

3.The attorney for the estate is Gary W. Cordes of KLEIN, STODDARD, BUCK & LEWIS, LLC, 2045 Aberdeen Court, Suite A, Sycamore, IL 60178 and whose telephone number is (815) 748-0380.

4.The estate will be administered without court supervision, unless under Section 28-4 (755 ILCS 5/28-4) of the Probate Act any interested person terminates independent administration at any time by mailing or delivering a petition to terminate to the clerk of the court.

5.Claims against the estate may be filed in the office of the Clerk of this Court at 133 W. State St., Sycamore, IL 60178, or with the representative, or both, on or before March 5, 2015. Any claim not filed within that period is barred. Copies of a claim filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered to the representative and to the attorney within ten (10) days after it had been filed.

MAUREEN JOSH, CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF DEKALB COUNTY, ILLINOIS (Published in the Daily Chronicle, August 28 & September 4 & 11, 2014.)

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Public Notice is hereby given that on August 20, 2014 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: TREFOIL STUDIO located at 1850 Thurow St., Sycamore, IL 60178.

Dated August 20, 2014 /s/ Douglas J. Johnson DeKalb County Clerk & Recorder (Published in the Daily Chronicle, August 21, 28 & September 4, 2014.)

PUBLIC NOTICE ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on August 19, 2014 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: TRIPLE THE FUN located at 1266 Penny Lane, DeKalb, IL 60115.

Dated August 19, 2014 /s/ Douglas J. Johnson DeKalb County Clerk & Recorder (Published in the Daily Chronicle, August 21, 28 & September 4, 2014.)

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Treasurer Genoa Township Park District Genoa, IL (Published in the Daily Chronicle, August 28, 2014.)

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