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JJC to move forward with pilot deer culling program By FELIX SARVER fsarver@shawmedia.com JOLIET – Joliet Junior College officials plan to conduct a one-year test of a culling program to control the school’s growing deer population, which has caused property damage and posed safety concerns. At Tuesday’s Board of Trustees workshop meeting, Judy Mitchell, JJC vice president of administrative services, initially proposed a deer culling program that potentially would last up to four years. After inquiries from trustees for research on other aspects of the program, she proposed a one-year pilot program followed by an evaluation report. The deer population at JJC has been an ongoing concern since 2009, and officials have researched ways to control

it. Mitchell raised the issue of deer at the Sept. 29 board workshop meeting. The school also held a forum to gather input on their plans to manage the deer population. Some attendees had safety concerns about sharpshooters, while others supported the plan because of the impact of the deer on farmland. An aerial count in 2010 showed 120 deer on campus grounds, and college officials estimated that population has tripled. The deer have caused more than $20,000 in crop damage and contributed to eight car accidents. There was also a concern about the potential spread of a fatal neurological disease among the deer. JJC officials have proposed using sharpshooters in tree stands during off hours and weekends at the far northeast corner of campus.

Under the one-year pilot program, Mitchell said a sharpshooter certified by the Illinois Department of Natural resources would be used. She said she plans to get the pilot program running for the winter season Board Vice Chairman Andy Mihelich wanted to know from Mitchell what other recommendations for deer culling were possible besides shooting. Mitchell cited bow and arrow, which was not a recommended method. “There’s no other option here. We can’t transport them, we can’t … . Those are not options?” Mihelich asked. “I’m sure we could find someone to transport them – but, Andy, we are talking hundreds [of deer],” Mitchell said. Trustee Patricia Deiters asked if the DNR would be open to special use or lottery permits for the program.

Historic Plainfield home may become first downtown inn By VIKAAS SHANKER vshanker@shawmedia.com PLAINFIELD – A plan to turn the historical second school of Plainfield into a second-story inn also would help restore the building to its late19th century look. The Plainfield Plan Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to recommend a special use for property owner Jennifer Myers to turn the second story of her home at 15106 S. Fox River St. into a three-bedroom inn. “I’m in full support of this,” Commissioner Andrew Heinen said, adding that he has family members out of town who would love the downtown area and wouldn’t mind staying overnight when visiting. Myers lives in the two-story home – known as the Academy building – with her husband and child. She said her fami-

ly would live on the first floor while she rents out the second floor to temporary tenants. The tenants would be subject to village regulations regarding length of occupancy. They would have access to their rooms from an entrance and staircase divided from the first floor. The inn would not serve breakfast, so the inn would not be considered a bed-andbreakfast lodging. According to a survey from the Plainfield Historic Preservation Commission, the home used to be the second school in Plainfield, constructed in 1851 and moved to its current site in 1881 or 1882. The property has a full-facade porch, a two-car adjacent garage and a one-car detached garage. “It’s a great example of the Greek Revival [architecture],” Village Planner Mi-

chael Garrigan said. Janet Anderson, a longtime resident across the street, asked about parking, retaining the building’s historical nature and future plans if the inn fails as a business. Myers proposed to restore the historical nature of the building by removing the aluminum siding and restoring the exterior with wood clapboard. She also is planning to apply for local and national historic designations for the property. The driveway and parking are tight on the property, but Myers said she was open to expanding it to accommodate more parking if needed in the future. Commissioners also discussed second-floor compliance with the American Disabilities Act, to which Garrigan said the village will work on with Myers.

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To our readers: Due to an error made during final production process, the article “Plainfield School D-202 holds fullday kindergarten forum,” that was on page 4 of the Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015, edition of The Herald-News, carried an inaccurate secondary headline. The secondary headline that should have been published with the Plainfield 202 story was: “Parents attend with questions on cost, curriculum.” Instead, the secondary headline “City property taxes would go up 5 percent” was erroneously published with the Plainfield article. The inaccurate secondary headline was supposed to publish with the other story on that page, “Proposed Joliet budget includes tax hikes, deficit.” There would not be a tax increase to support the kindergarten program Plainfield School District 202 wants to implement next year. I called District 202 Superintendent Lane Abrell to apologize, and I apologize to our readers if any confusion was caused by our error.

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ON THE COVER Rhonda Northrup, an office manager at the Will County Veterans Assistance Commission, sorts through office supplies Tuesday at the commission’s new location along Glenwood Avenue in Joliet. See story page 3. Photo by Eric Ginnard – eginnard@shawmedia.com

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Veterans Assistance Commission in new, larger location By LAUREN LEONE–CROSS lleonecross@shawmedia.com JOLIET — U.S. Army veteran Shawn Mason walked Tuesday into the Veterans Assistance Commission of Will County’s new location at 2400 Glenwood Ave. in Joliet to check out the social service agency’s new, larger space. “You found us,” VAC Superintendent Kristi McNichol said, smiling as she leaned against a newly painted wall. Mason smiled back. “I just wanted to check out the new landscape,” Mason replied, noting the building’s close proximity to the Glenwood Avenue office of one of his health specialists.

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As movers packed boxes and transported office supplies and desks to the new location, the commission was closed for business Tuesday at its old location at 128 N. Scott St. But Eric Papineau, assistant superintendent, said veterans who walked into the new location were not turned away without first receiving information on services. The VAC hopes to start setting up new appointments soon, he said. Papineau and McNichol said they hope the new space is more accommodating for veterans, with the Workforce Services Division of Will County now located just down the hall, and another nonprofit – the Will County Center for Community Concerns – across the street. Three times the size of the old location, the new space is fitting for a social service agency that now sees 350 veterans a month, up from an average of 30 to 40 veterans in July 2013, McNichol said. At the old location, the VAC’s three offices were shuffled around constantly to ac-

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Kristi McNichol, superintendent of the Will County Veterans Assistance Commission, walks past stacks of furniture and boxes of office supplies Tuesday at the commission’s new Glenwood Avenue location in Joliet.

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The VAC has moved from 128 N. Scott St. in downtown Joliet to its new location at 2400 Glenwood Ave. in Joliet, just west of Larkin Avenue.

The VAC provides financial assistance for veterans, benefits claims, advocacy for veterans applying for grants, assistance through local agencies and federal programs and free transportation from the VAC commodate for outside agency office to Hines VA hospital’s Joliet visits. Clothes were stored in branch. the break room. Half the building would shut down when counselors from the Vet Center in Orland Park showed up three times a week to provide one-on-one counseling. Now, counselors have their own space. VAC board meetings have a dedicated space,

too. Another room stores donated clothing. A group room will provide space for activities, such as yoga. There’s also a shower, which McNichol anticipates clients – especially

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A closure sign hangs Tuesday on the door of the Will County Veterans Assistance Commission’s former location on Scott Street in Joliet.

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Joliet officials: Proposed budget may be crisis, definitely problem By BOB OKON JOLIET – The Joliet City Council will meet again Monday to deal with what at least one of its members was tempted to call “a budget crisis.” The budget proposed this week includes tax hikes, uses already-shrinking reserve funds to cover a deficit, and makes no provisions for the potential reduced revenues expected when the state resolves its budget impasse. The predicament had Councilman Larry Hug questioning why the city still plans to spend $1 million in discretionary funds that include money for the Rialto Square Theatre and Joliet Area Historical Museum. “We’re closing a fire station, and we’re making other cuts,” Hug said. “I don’t know why we’re bolstering other budgets when we have a budget crisis, or problem, of our own.” Hug made his comment as the council got its first look at the proposed budget Monday. It will meet again at 5:30 p.m. Monday at City Hall for a special meeting on the budget. No one else used the word “crisis” at the first meeting. But Councilman John Gerl was disturbed enough by the budget scenario that he was willing to reconsider a decision in August to move forward with the acquisition of low-income housing development Evergreen Terrace, a move made after a 10-year legal battle at a

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cost of about $18 million in city reserve funds. “I was a supporter of [acquiring] Evergreen Terrace, and I still am,” Gerl said. “I’m not saying we on the council would do anything different, but we at least need to know what our options are.” Whether the city could get its money back is uncertain. Evergreen Terrace owners are appealing the court decision to turn over the property to Joliet.

Tax hikes

Gerl was among those, including Mayor Bob O’Dekirk, who were looking for alternatives to a 5 percent hike in the city’s property tax rate proposed in the budget. O’Dekirk was elected in April in a campaign in which he criticized tax hikes approved during former mayor Tom Giarrante’s term and said he planned to roll them back. The council is looking at three tax increases in the budget: the 5 percent hike in the city tax; a 2 percent hike in the property tax for the Joliet Public Library; and an increase in the real estate transfer tax from $3 per $1,000 to $5 per $1,000. The budget does not include water and sewer hikes that the council put on hold earlier this year while asking for a cost analysis it hoped would show potential cost savings in the utilities department.

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ing Fire Station No. 3, the city’s newest fire station, which opened in 2012 with the help of a $1.16 million federal grant. Closing the fire station won’t cost jobs, City Manager Jim Hock said. But he said it would cut more than $1.7 million in overtime costs paid to meet manning requirements because equipment would be taken out of service. Hock, echoing a criticism made when the city decided to relocate Station No. 3 from Grove Street to Laraway Road, said the facility is in an area that “includes the highest number of industrial properties but also the least amount of residential” among the city’s fire stations. Even so, Hock suggested the closing could be temporary. He noted the city is beginning an evaluation of police and fire staffing, and said, “I’m proposing we close Fire Station No. 3 until we’ve completed that study.” Hock later showed a photograph of a rusting fire vehicle to show what he said is a state of decline spread throughout the equipment in city departments. Even so, he said, the budget does not include money for new vehicles, and that’s a problem. “Police cars are rusting away,” he said. “It’s not only that equipment is starting to fail, but it’s an image in the community. I think we needed to be concerned about that.”

JOLIET – Plans for a hotel-conference center remain on hold after the City Council on Tuesday tabled an incentive package sought by the developer. Meanwhile, another developer’s plan to build a Hilton suites hotel near the Louis Joliet Mall was aired as the council approved vacating an easement to make the project possible. The hotel-conference center planned by Hospitality Guru Group would be located near the Houbolt Road interchange with Interstate 80. But the Aurora-based hotel developer had asked the city to more than double the tax incentive package approved in 2013. Hospitality Guru Group owns the land but has not started construction. The new request for a $6.5 million incentive package spread over 20 years received a cool reception from the council’s Economic Development Committee at a meeting last week. The incentive package was tabled Tuesday without discussion. Attorney Michael Hansen, who represents the hotel developer, said Hospitality Guru Group wanted the vote tabled. “We’re still working on an agreement,” Hansen said. “We just need more time.” Hospitality Guru originally proposed two hotels – a Holiday Inn with 120 rooms and a Candlewood Suites with 80 rooms at a projected cost of $16 million to $20 million. But the developer now estimates costs at closer to $25 million and said it needs incentives increased from the $3 million package approved in 2013.

Hospitality Guru also has said it would delay construction of the Candlewood Suites extended-stay hotel until it determines there is a market for it. Meanwhile, another extended-stay hotel might be built next year. The Raymond Group, which already has one extended-stay hotel in Joliet, plans to build a 115-room Home2 Suites by Hilton hotel. The Middleton, Wisconsin-based hotel developer plans to begin construction sometime in 2016 on the three-story hotel, said Sarah Langer, real estate analyst for Raymond. “We see the need for an extended-stay product in the market,” Langer said. The hotel would be built on a 2.7-acre site at the southwest corner of Hennepin Drive and Louis Joliet Mall Entrance Road 6. Langer said construction would take about a year. The Raymond Group also owns TownePlace Suites by Marriott and two Hampton Inn hotels in Joliet. In other business, the council: • Approved fees for truck overweight permits, previously issued at no charge, that range between $75 and $150 per single trip depending on the size of the load. • Approved lawn maintenance contracts with three companies, including A & R Lawn Services, which plans to use its business with the city to implement a youth employment program. • Reversed a Nov. 17 vote that approved a Work Order Management System that would cost $964,000 to implement, so the expenditure could be considered in light of the 2016 budget first presented Monday.

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Will County set to bond out $225M for capital projects By LAUREN LEONE–CROSS lleonecross@shawmedia.com JOLIET – Will County Board Democratic Caucus Chairman Herbert Brooks, D-Joliet, might have summed up the gravity of the county’s new plan to borrow $225 million in staggered bond issuances over 30 years for a number of county capital projects. “As we go forward, I think I’m prepared to call it a good plan, but I’m not sure I’d call it a solid plan,” Brooks said. “I think … we’ve got to face each other and make some tough decisions, because there will be some consequences.” The plan unveiled Tuesday at a joint meeting of the county’s finance and capital improvements committees paints a clearer picture of how the county intends to pay for capital projects. Officials would issue staggered bonds through 2047 to pay for a Laraway Road sheriff’s facility, a county courthouse in Joliet and a health department building, all of which are inefficient and aging in their current state. Under the plan, county officials would build a $65 million to $75 million line of credit to pay for early “soft” costs associated with construction. Then officials would borrow money to pay for the sheriff’s complex, estimated at $20 million, rather than paying cash up front through RTA sales tax dollars as County Executive Larry Walsh Sr. suggested earlier this year. The plan relies on several funding sources to pay back bonds over time. Targeted resources for bond repayments include annual pulls of: $2.4 million from the corporate fund, $1.5 million in courthouse fees, $300,000 from parking lot fees, $1 million from landfill fees, $2 million from Public Building Commission sales tax revenue and federal rebate dollars associated with Sunny Hill Nursing Home renovations. The city of Joliet also has said it would chip in $500,000

annually beginning in 2018 as an incentive to keep the courthouse – estimated to cost $175 million to build – downtown. In 2028, bonds for the new Adult Detention Facility will fully mature, releasing about $4.7 million in sales tax dollars for use toward the courthouse bonds, Finance Committee Chairman Mike Fricilone said. The county would take no more than 15.01 percent of RTA tax dollars each year to pay off bonds, Fricilone said. Fricilone, R-Homer Glen, said the plan was created, in part, in response to Walsh Sr.’s earlier opposition to the Republicans’ plan to repeatedly use 25 percent or more of RTA tax dollars each year to pay back bonds associated with the courthouse. Republicans on the board have been adamant about paying for several capital projects

without raising taxes. Nick Palmer, chief of staff for Walsh Sr., questioned the wisdom of diverting $2.4 million annually from the operating budget over the next 30 years to capital, noting rising health care costs and union contractual raises. “If you’re not going to commit to raising revenue from whatever source – it doesn’t have to be property taxes, it can be sales tax increases – then basically your alternative is to cut elsewhere to pay for it,” Palmer said. Of course, there will be an impact, Finance Committee member Chuck Maher, R-Naperville, replied. But the county has to pay for these projects somehow, he said. “We can’t let our [buildings] fall down around us,” Maher said. “These are not projects that are being done because we want to spend money.”

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• Joseph J. Derbas, 19, of the 200 block of Walker Drive in Bolingbrook, was arrested by sheriff’s police Monday on a charge of vandalism. • Thomas J. Love, 29, of the 600 block of East Cass Street in Joliet, was arrested by Joliet police Monday on charges of aggravated battery and domestic battery.

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More online Visit this article at TheHerald-News.com to view a video of Los Mangos operating and the ribbon cutting of the new ice cream shop. ful place that makes you want to be here.” Among the flavors and configurations of ice cream offered is the mango with chili, a top flavor. Montoya said families usually don’t leave the restaurant without ordering the Mangonada, a thick smoothie drink. The space was remodeled for an ice cream parlor’s use. Los Mangos marks the first business to occupy the lot since Hallmark shut down more than two years ago after 29 years of operation. Montoya said his parents were undocumented immigrants when they came decades

ago to the United States from Durango, Mexico. His father was naturalized in the 1980s and started bringing over family. Montoya was 6 years old when he came to the U.S. in 1986. Montoya and his wife started their business as a candy and piñata store. When they started serving ice cream, they saw that side of the business become more popular. Los Mangos’ other locations are mostly in the Chicago area, with one location in Aurora. But Montoya, who runs the restaurant with his wife, Judith Montoya, and business partner, Jorge Angel, said there was a great opportunity to expand in the Crest Hill and Joliet area. “There is a big demand with the high [Latino population],” Montoya said. Joliet’s Latino and Hispanic populations are growing. Soliman said Crest Hill’s Latino population, comprising 20 percent of the city’s residents, also is growing.

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JOLIET – The city of Joliet and Waste Management remind residents that the last day for yard waste pickup will be Dec. 11. Yard waste collection will resume April 1. Those who will have a real Christmas tree should set it out after Christmas at the normal pickup location (curb or alley) on the regular trash day for pickup. If it is 5 feet in length or shorter, set it out in one piece; but if it measures more than 5 feet, cut it in half. The Christmas trees will be collected until Jan. 29.

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JOLIET – Witnesses may be allowed to testify about their relationships with a Joliet woman who police said had sex with a 15-year-old boy. But video recordings that allegedly show Margarita Hernandez having sex with two other underage boys will not be admissible to her trial for aggravated criminal sexual abuse, Judge Edward Burmila ruled Tuesday during a hearing at the Will County Courthouse in Joliet. Will County Assistant State’s Attorney John Connor said the encounters were recorded with surveillance cameras from the home Hernandez shared with her boyfriend, John Gabriel, in the 6900 block of Monmoth Drive. Hernandez, 36, who was a Troy Township Democratic committeewoman, was arrested in October 2012 after Gabriel, 79, came under investigation by the FBI. Gabriel, a retired journalist for The Times Weekly and Weekly Reporter, was convicted in March

on federal charges of manufacturing child pornography. While Burmila ruled the video would prejudice Hernandez’s right to a fair trial, he granted Connor’s motion to “admit other acts” by the defendant. One boy who had a “dating relationship” with Hernandez and two boys whose interactions with her demonstrate sexual “grooming behavior” could be called as witnesses, Connor said. The witnesses were all underage at the time, according to Connor. According to court files, Gabriel recorded sexual activities of Hernandez and others, which he claimed was a religious ritual. An email Gabriel sent a 17-yearold girl said if “participants had sex with troubled young boys then they were assisting in training the boys in better behavior, and to fight the devil,” according to the U.S Attorney’s Office. “In addition, according to these emails, each time a participant had sex with a troubled boy, a wealthy benefactor would purchase guide dogs for the blind

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Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy speaks Nov. 24 about first-degree murder charges against police officer Jason Van Dyke in the death of Laquan McDonald, as Mayor Rahm Emanuel looks on at left. from the public until the investigation was finished and the officer charged with murder. He said the move had nothing to do with his 2015 campaign. “You don’t compromise an ongoing investigation,” he said Tuesday. “Yet it’s clear you all

want and the public deserves that information. They’re two conflicting principles.” Asked by a reporter if Emanuel thought he would become a distraction himself and would consider resigning, the mayor responded, “You’ll make that

judgment. I think I’m doing my job.” Emanuel announced the dismissal of Superintendent Garry McCarthy, whose departure Tuesday came just a week after the video was released. The mayor praised McCarthy’s leadership but called it an “undeniable fact” that the public’s trust in the police had eroded. “Now is the time for fresh eyes and new leadership,” Emanuel said. Protesters have been calling for McCarthy’s dismissal in response to the handling of the death of Laquan McDonald, a 17-year-old who was killed in October 2014. Some aldermen, particularly members of the city council’s black caucus, have also been seeking McCarthy’s resignation, citing the city’s crime rate and questions about the department’s transparency.

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time since May the top leaders had met in person to discuss the budget, which should have taken effect July 1. Asked when he emerged from the private session what he considered progress, Democratic Senate President John Cullerton said, “The fact that there was a meeting.” The first-year governor and lawmakers stuck mostly to the script they’ve followed throughout the impasse, now in its sixth month. Rauner wants a far-reaching overhaul to the business climate to spur economic growth and curb union power before

talking dollars and cents. Pro-labor Democrats said the changes he wants would damage the middle class. Even without a fiscal framework, Illinois is spending money at a rate that far outstrips expected revenue, building a deficit that will be added to billions of dollars of debt that has been accumulating for decades. There’s too little revenue to cover ongoing expenses; too much borrowing, which continues; a ballooning hole in state pension programs and a mountain of unpaid bills. “This has been going on for decades,” Rauner said after

each legislative leader gave opening remarks. “This is not new, and if we don’t take on the structural causes of those problem, if all we do is raise taxes and make a couple of modest cuts, we’ll still chase our tail.” Democrats continue to rail against Rauner’s agenda – restrictions on payouts under workers’ compensation, a system that underwent reform in 2011; limits on the way liability lawsuits can be conducted; a property tax freeze that gives local governments freedom to control spending by limiting collective bargaining

by labor unions. Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan has never wavered from his position that Rauner’s proposals on workers’ compensation and curbs on unions are “extreme” and that a budget resolution will result from “moderation.” “Where the implementation of those ideas would reduce wages and the standard of living and send injured workers to welfare and to the emergency room, I view that as extreme,” said Madigan, adding that continuing to advocate those positions doesn’t “help the resolution of the problem.”

New Joliet location centralizes resources for veterans sent two blocks down to the county’s former Workforce Services Division loContinued from page 3 cation. Now, it’s just a matter of sending them across the hall. “Especially with vets, they get frushomeless vets – will use. With the new location, Papineau trated when getting tossed around. said he hopes veterans seeking finan- This centralizes veteran resources,” cial assistance, clothing, homeless Papineau said. services or a shuttle bus ride to Joliet Hines won’t be sent as frequently to Moving to the west side McNichol said she struggled at first several scattered locations for services. Before, veterans who arrived at the when considering leaving the downVAC for job assistance usually were town area because many homeless

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shelters and social service agencies are located there. At the same time, it’s a good move, she said, as Joliet experiences “urban sprawl” with more residents moving west of the city. Mason said the VAC’s previous location was in walking distance from the MorningStar Mission veterans housing where he lives. But he appeared unfazed Tuesday by the VAC’s move farther west. “Yeah, I had to take a few buses to get here. But they provide 10 free bus pass-

es a month, so it’s cool,” Mason said. Under the newly approved five-year lease agreement, rent is increasing from $29,000 to nearly $80,000 annually. But county officials have said the larger space is worth the cost, and is much needed to serve the growing clientele. The building owner, John Bays, is paying for the VAC’s moving costs. He also paid for building renovations. Staff hope to have the VAC’s new location officially open for business later this month.

• Wednesday, December 2, 2015

CHICAGO – Rahm Emanuel sought for months to keep the public from seeing a video that shows a white police officer shooting a black teenager 16 times. Now, a week after the video’s release, the Chicago mayor has fired the police superintendent, created a task force for police accountability and expanded the use of body cameras. But Emanuel’s effort to keep the video secret and his long wait to take action at the police department has stirred deep skepticism among those protesting the teen’s death. Many activists are especially incensed by the fact that the video first surfaced during a re-election campaign, when the mayor was seeking African-American votes.

“In our community, everyone is saying it (the video) was not released because of the election,” said Corey Brooks, a prominent black minister. The mayor’s quest for a second term sustained a setback after he failed to win the February election. He desperately needed black support to prevail in an April runoff. But Emanuel had angered black voters with his decision to close dozens of schools. And many African-Americans complained that the city was not doing enough to police the predominantly black West and South Sides. Had it emerged earlier, the video “could have buried” Emanuel’s chances for re-election, Columbia Law School professor Bernard E. Harcourt wrote in a New York Times oped piece published Monday. The mayor defended the decision to withhold the video

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OBITUARIES JOAN L. GOLF Joan L. Golf (nee Hoge) went to her Heavenly Father on Tuesday, December 1, 2015, at the age of 82. She was born, raised and educated in Morris, IL and was the daughter of the late Gordon and Mildred Hoge, who preceded her in death in 1979 and 1997. She was also preceded in death by her grandson, Jason Thomas in 2010. Joan is survived by her five children, Roy Homberg, Bradley Homberg, Robin (Manuel) Reyes, Scott Homberg, and Janelle (David) Schuman; her sister, Selma (David) Finch; 10 grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren. Joan was previously employed by the former E.J. and E. Railway and retired from METRA Railway located in Chicago, IL in 1995. In lieu of flowers, donations to Lamb’s Fold Center for Children and Women, 81 N. Ottawa St., Joliet, IL 60432, would be greatly appreciated. A Celebration of Joan’s life will begin on Friday, December, 4 2015, with a memorial visitation from 3:00 p.m. until the time of funeral service to be held at 7:00 p.m. at Tezak Funeral Home, 1211 Plainfield Rd, Joliet, IL 60435. Per Joan’s wishes cremation rites have been accorded. Obituary and tribute wall for Joan L. Golf at www.tezakfuneralhome. com or for information, 815-7220524. Arrangements entrusted to:

He was born in 1935 in Manhattan, New York. He worked at Reynolds doing waste treatment for 34 years before he retired.

RAY MARION

Born: July 10, 1944; in Kansas City, MO Died: Nov. 25, 2015; in Ruidoso, NM Ray Marion, 71, of Ruidoso Downs, NM passed away Wednesday, November 25, 2015, in Ruidoso. He was born July 10, 1944, at Kansas City, Missouri. He moved to Ruidoso Downs three years ago from El Paso, Texas. He was an avid bowler and lover of cars. He married Cheryl Fagan on February 24, 1968, at Joliet, Illinois and is survived by Cheryl. He is also survived by his children, Raymond Marion and Chelaine Marion; five grandchildren, Taylor Marion, Brittanie Marion, Katelynn Miller, Rayanne “Annie” Marion and Raymond “Nicky” Marion. No services are planned at this time. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.lagroneruidoso.com.

THOMAS J. POMYKALA Born: Dec. 7, 1947 Died: Nov. 25, 2015

Thomas J. Pomykala, age 68, of Joliet, IL passed away on Wednesday, November 25, 2015. He fought a long battle with Colon Cancer. Born December 7, 1947, he was the son of the late Adam and Electra Pomykala. He is survived by sisters, Anna Hudgens and Theresa Ashby; one brother, Timothy Pomykala; former wife, Pamela Pomykala; one son, Toby (Gloria) Pomykala; ROBERT GUENARD SR. two daughters, Michelle Elwell and April Pomykala; 7 grandchilRobert Guenard Sr., age 80, dren, Zack and Nicolas Pomykala, passed away in his home, NovemEddie Jr, Isabell, Jordan, Isaias and ber 25, 2015. Meilani; and nieces, nephews and He is survived by his loving wife friends. of 50 years, Roberta, with whom he Thomas worked in construction. fathered 5 children, 3 living, Robert He enjoyed watching football on Jr., Gloria and Carol; 2 deceased, TV. Paula and Edward. He was a grandA Memorial Visitation will be held father to 10 and a great-grandfather Wednesday, December 2, 2015, to 15 children. He is survived by one from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at brother, John; and his wife, Irene. the Blackburn-Giegerich-Sonntag His memorial service will be held Funeral Home. on December 3, 2015, at 4:00 PM, In lieu of flowers memorials to the at 231 E. 9th St. family would be appreciated.

the United States Army. He served in the Korean and Vietnam War. Just as many of the young draftees, Charles was shipped almost imGERALDINE J. PURRI mediately overseas and into the combat Geraldine J. “Gerri” Purri, (Nee zone. During the Lopez), age 76, late of Lockport time in combat, he passed away peacefully Monday, November 30, 2015, surrounded by was badly injured. He remained in the Army after his recovery. He her loving family. had already received the rank of Arrangements by O’Neil Funeral sergeant Home. For more information, Charles returned to stateside 815-838-5010 or www.oneilfuneraland later met Ethel Jean Berry, a home.com young widow with a three year old daughter, named Phyllis. Charles and Jean (as she preferred to be HELEN J. RANDOLPH called) were married in December of 1960. He remained in the miliHelen J. “Jean” tary until 1963. He and his family Randolph (nee settled in the Missouri municipality McNiff), 90, of New of Velda Village Hills. He attended Lenox, passed away college on the GI bill and graduatTuesday, January ed from the University of Missouri 1, 2015, at Silver in 1980. He obtained work with Cross Hospital. a U.S. government affiliation and Jean was born in Joliet to the retired again in 1999. He lost his late Robert J. and Mary A. (nee beloved Jean in 2002. Genense) McNiff. Beloved wife of To occupy his time, he camthe late Robert D. Randolph;loving paigned for a position on the Board mother of Robert II (Linda), Dennis of his municipality. He served in (Mary Anne) and John (Julie); various positions as he was voted cherished grandmother of 10 and back on the board numerous times great grandmother of 13. and remained so for over 10 years. Jean was Supervisor of the Charles was preceded in death cafeteria at Lincolnway Central by his parents; his siblings, James, High School for 27 years and a Frankie, Luther and Ruby Smith. Volunteer at Silver Cross Hospital Charles leaves to honor his memfor over 25 years. She was a mem- ory; his wife of only two years, ber of Joliet Lodge #300 Women Irena Terry-Robinson; two children, of the Moose and one of the first Eddie Robinson and Brenda Louise members of New Lenox Fire De(Robinson) Franklin; two grandchilpartment Women’s Auxiliary. dren; three great grandchildren; Family will receive friends at nieces in various parts of the counKurtz Memorial Chapel, 102 E. try, Corene Wells, Olive Branch, Francis Road, New Lenox, IL MS, Ruth McClinton of Milwaukee, 60451 on Thursday, December 3, Clover Flowers of Menomonee 2015, from 10:00 a.m. until time Falls, WI, Debora Davis of Benton of Funeral Service at 12:00 noon. Harbor, MI, JoAnn also of Benton Interment Maplewood Cemetery, Harbor; Valire Smith of St. Louis, New Lenox. MO; daughter, Phyllis Berry of St. www.kurtzmemorialchapel.com Louis; cousins, Rachel Thompson or 815-485-3200 for info.

CHARLES E. ROBINSON Charles Edward Robinson, born on December 25, 1930, in Blytheville, Arkansas to the union of Harry Robinson and Edna (Auger) Smith-Robinson. He was the last child of his mother and the only child of his father. After graduating from high school, Charles was drafted into

of Osceola, AR; cousin, Bertha Mae Goff of East St. Louis, IL; one nephew, Clinton of California. Charles was a Prince Hall Mason in the William H. Scott Lodge #182 in St. Louis. Visitation will be held on Thursday, December 3, 2015, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the funeral home and Friday, December 4, 2015, 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 402 Singleton Pl., Joliet, IL. Service at 12:00 noon, Rev. Dr. David G. Latimore, pastor officiating. Interment following at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, Elwood, IL. Minor-Morris Funeral Home, Ltd. 112 Richards St. (815) 723-1283

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Benard B. Benco 12-2-1921 – 8-19-2002 Don’t grieve for me now, I’m free I’m following the path God has chosen for me I took His hand when I heard Him call I turned my back and left it all I could not stay another day, to laugh, to love, to work or play Tasks left undone must stay that way I’ve found now peace at the end of the day.

Love you, Dad

– Sandy

ing to lend a helping hand wherever it was needed. He could fix anything DONALD E. SENFFNER and he loved to tinker around the Born: Jan. 13, 1932 house. Died: Nov. 28, 2015 Donald was truly a selfless individual and always put the needs Donald E. “Papa” of his family before his own. He Senffner, it is with was a hard worker and an excellent heavy hearts that provider. He instilled in his family a we announce the deep faith in God and taught them passing of Donald E. the value of hard work, sacrifice Senffner, at the age and pushing through adversity. of 83 after a long His dedication and devotion to his and courageous family will always be remembered, battle with pulmogreatly appreciated and serve as a nary fibrosis. Donald wonderful example of a faithful husentered into eternal band and selfless father. A golden life on November 28, heart has stopped beating and his 2015, at home surrounded by his hardworking hands are now at rest. loving family. God broke our hearts to prove to us, Born in Joliet, IL on January 13, He only takes the best. 1932, to the late Steven and Mary We are truly blessed and eternally (nee Bregar) Senffner. Donald was grateful that Donald was our loving employed by Olin Chemical for father, grandfather, great grandfaover 40 years and he also served ther, brother, uncle and friend. as a part time police officer for the Preceded in death by his devoted villages of Channahon, Rockdale wife of sixty years, Dorothy A. and Minooka. He was a veteran of Senffner (July 6, 2015); beloved son, the Korean War serving under the Michael R. Senffner (April 11, 1998); auspices of the United States Army. and dear brothers-in law, Leroy A lifelong member of St. Paul the Pommerening and Richard Klimek. Apostle Catholic Church. Donald is survived by his beloved In his free time, Donald enjoyed daughters, Nancy A. (Kevin) Soland working outdoors especially plow- of Joliet and Karen L. Senffner of ing snow in the winter and cutting Lombard, IL; cherished grandchillawns in the summer for many of dren, Bryan M. (Melissa) Soland, his neighbors. He was always willSara J. Senffner, Jennifer L. Soland,

Michelle N. (Martin) Thompson, Nicholas K. Soland, Melissa D. Senffner; eight precious great-grandchildren; kind sister, Jacqueline Pommerening; dear brother, Dennis (Sharon) Senffner; loving sister-inlaw, Shirley Klimek; former, always in our hearts daughter-in-law, Susan (David) Shue; and numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and lifelong friends also survive. During this very difficult time, the family is deeply grateful for the outpouring of love, prayers, and support from family members, friends, neighbors and the entire staff at Joliet Area Community Hospice. Funeral Services for Donald E. Senffner will be held Friday, December 4, 2015, at 9:15 a.m. from the Fred C. Dames Funeral Home, 3200 Black (at Essington) Rds, Joliet to St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church for a Mass of Christian Burial at 10:00 a.m. Interment will be at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery with full military honors under the auspices of the United States Army. In lieu of flowers, memorials in his name to Joliet Area Community Hospice would be appreciated. Visitation Thursday, 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the funeral home. For more information: (815) 7415500 or visit his Book of Memories at www.fredcdames.com

ROUNDUP News from across the state

Mitsubishi plant in Normal ends production

NORMAL – The Mitsubishi Motors plant in Normal has produced its last vehicle. The plant on Monday ended production of its only vehicle, the Mitsubishi Outlander Sport, ending a 30-year run as one of McLean County’s largest employers. WJBC-AM reported about 900 union workers worked the last day. A few employees will remain on the job to complete the shutdown. Vehicle production peaked in 2000 when the plant turned out 222,000 vehicles. The McLean County Chamber

Man charged in library knife attack to get mental exam

Firsst-term Belleville alderwoman Schmidt dies

BELLEVILLE – First-term Belleville Alderwoman Janet Schmidt has died at age 56. Belleville Mayor Mark Eckert said Tuesday that Schmidt died Monday night at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital after calling in sick to a special City Council meeting. A cause of death has not been publicly released. Schmidt was elected to office in April 2013. Eckert said his colleague “jumped right in” to city business. Survivors include her husband, two adult sons, a daughter and granddaughter. The mayor said he doesn’t yet know whom he will recommend the council appoint as Schmidt’s replacement to complete the remainder of a four-year term that expires in 2017. A visitation is planned for Thursday from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at George Renner and Sons Funeral Home in Belleville.

Suburban man charged in beating death of wife, teen

WAUKEGAN – A 47-year-old northern Illinois man is accused of beating his wife and teenage stepson to death with a metal baseball bat. Armando Trejo Jr. was charged Monday with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of aggravated battery. His bail was set at $5 million. Forty-three-year-old Lailani Uy Trejo and 14-year-old Patrick K. Cruz Uy were found dead with “significant trauma” to their bodies inside their Beach Park home at about 2:45 a.m. Sunday. Trejo’s 68-year-old mother was taken to a hospital for treatment of a broken arm. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office said Trejo admitted attacking the three family members after an argument. The county public defender’s office is representing Trejo.

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Wolf Road, Mokena, IL. 60448. For information on services, 708-4791210 or www.vandenbergfuneralhome.com

PATRICIA A. STYVE JOHN K. STEPHENS John K. Stephens, age 97, late of Mokena, IL. Beloved husband of Emily nee Kopta. Loving father of Sandra (Tom) Anterton, Joyce Stephens and John (Pam) Stephens. Proud grandfather of Tom (Tari) Atherton, John (Chris) Atherton, Christine (Chris) Patterson, Nicki (Shaun) Mojzis, Michelle (John) Smith and Mandy Stephens. Great grandfather of 11 and great great grandfather of 3. Funeral Thursday December 3, 2015, 10:00 Mass at St. Mary Church, 19515 115th Ave., Mokena, IL. 60448. Interment in St. Mary Cemetery Mokena, IL. John was a St. Mary parishioner. Visitation Thursday December 3, 2015 at St. Mary Church from 9:00 AM until time of Mass 10:00 AM. Arrangements handled by Vandenberg Funeral Home, 19604 S.

Patricia A. Styve, nee Derrico, age 72, of Elwood, formerly of New Lenox, passed away on Monday, November 30, 2015. Beloved wife of Hank Styve; loving mother of Lisa and Annalee Styve; cherished grandmother of Ambriel, Taren, and Nathanael. She was preceded in death by her parents, Frank and Anna Derrico; and Brothers, Joseph, Jerry, Stanley, and Michael Derrico. Pat was a member of St. Jude Church in New Lenox. Family will receive friends at Kurtz Memorial Chapel, 102 E. Francis Rd., New Lenox, IL 60451 on Sunday,December 6, 2015, from 2:00 to 7:00 p.m. Funeral service Monday, December 7, 2015, with chapel prayers at 9:30 a.m. to St. Jude Catholic Church, 241 W. 2nd St., New Lenox, IL 60451 for a 10:00 a.m. Mass of Christian Burial. Interment pending. In lieu of flowers, donations to the American Cancer Society would be appreciated. For Info www.kurtzmemorialchapel.com or815-485-3200.

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PEKIN – A mental fitness exam will be done on a 19-year-old central Illinois man accused of trying to kill a 75-year-old man and attack children at the Morton Public Library. Dustin Brown of Morton pleaded not guilty to charges last month including attempted murder. A prosecutor didn’t object Monday when Brown’s attorney discussed potential plans to have Brown’s mental health raised as a defense. Defense attorney James LeFante said Brown will be visited by a psychiatrist in jail before his next court appearance Dec. 14,

the Pekin Daily Times reported. Authorities said Army veteran James Vernon was instructing 16 children in chess Oct. 13 when Brown entered the room with two knives and shouted his intention to kill them. Authorities said the children fled the room and Vernon subdued Brown, although Vernon was cut deeply on his hand. Gov. Bruce Rauner honored Vernon in October, saying that he’s “a true American hero.” Brown had been awaiting trial on charges of possessing child pornography. Prosecutors will tell a Tazewell County judge in two weeks whether Brown should be tried first for child pornography or attempted murder. According to an affidavit, Brown later said he targeted the children in the room at the library in anger over the child pornography charges. Brown remains in custody on $800,000 bond in the attempted murder case.

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of Commerce will hold a job fair for workers Dec. 11. Starting next week, a transition center will open in Normal to help the laid-off workers. A task force is looking for a buyer for the plant.

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NATION & WORLD BRIEFS CDC: New diabetes cases in US adults are dropping

NEW YORK – Fewer cases of diabetes are being diagnosed in U.S. adults, according to startling new federal statistics released Tuesday. Diabetes had been climbing for decades, driven by surging obesity rates. In 2009, the number of new cases reached 1.7 million. By last year, it had dropped to 1.4 million. “After so many years of seeing increases, it is surprising,” said Edward Gregg, a diabetes expert who has been tracking the numbers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In recent years, the number of new cases seemed to be leveling off or even going down. But researchers wanted to see a few more years of data before declaring an improvement, he said. The figures from the past two years confirm a significant drop, Gregg said.

letter sent to all lawmakers. “Categorically refusing to take them only feeds the narrative of ISIS that there is a war between Islam and the West, that Muslims are not welcome in the United States and Europe, and that the ISIS caliphate is their true home.” Among those signing the letter are former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger, George Shultz and Madeleine Albright. Retired Gen. David Petraeus also signed the letter, as did former Homeland Secretary Michael Chertoff and onetime Defense Secretaries Leon Panetta, Chuck Hagel and William Cohen.

Facebook CEO to give away most of his money

SAN FRANCISCO – Talk about birth announcements: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife said they’ll devote nearly all their wealth – roughly $45 billion – to good works in celebration of their new baby daughter, Max. Zuckerberg’s wife, Priscilla Security experts back Chan, gave birth to a 7-pound, settling Syrian refugees 8-ounce daughter last week. WASHINGTON – Former top But the couple didn’t put out national security officials from the news until Tuesday, when Republican and Democratic Zuckerberg posted it on – of administrations urged Congress course – Facebook. on Tuesday to continue allowing In the same post, Zuckerberg the resettlement of Syrian and said he and Chan will commit 99 Iraqi refugees in the United percent of their Facebook stock States. to such causes as fighting dis“Refugees are victims, not ease, improving education and perpetrators, of terrorism,” the “building strong communities.” 20 retired military, security – Wire reports experts and others wrote in a

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Iraqi soldiers prepare Monday to shell Islamic State group positions at the front line as the Iraqi army and allied Sunni volunteer tribal fighters, supported by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, tighten the siege of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s Anbar province, 70 miles west of Baghdad, Iraq.

Iraqi forces surround Ramadi, but siege could take long time By SUSANNAH GEORGE The Associated Press BAGHDAD – After months of sluggish progress, stalled advances and outright failures, Iraqi troops and militias backed by U.S.led airstrikes have surrounded the key city of Ramadi and appear poised to launch a new attempt to wrest it from the Islamic State group. The battle that is shaping up threatens to turn into a drawn-out siege, with thousands of residents caught in the middle as the forces try to wear down the militants since they took over the capital of western Anbar province in May. Western officials and analysts warned that the strategy of a methodical, slow siege could make the fight even more difficult. On Monday, the Iraqi military dropped leaflets into the city, telling the remaining residents – estimated at anywhere from 4,000 to 10,000 – to leave, the strongest signal yet that an assault is imminent. But residents told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the militants have

clamped down, setting up checkpoints across the city to monitor civilians’ movements and prevent anyone from going. “Loudspeakers from mosques give warnings that civilians are not allowed to leave, and anyone who tries to do so will be either arrested or killed,” one resident said, speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear for his safety. Ramadi, like the rest of Anbar province, is overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, the minority community that complains of discrimination by the Shiite-led government in Baghdad. Some Sunnis in other parts of Anbar and in northern Iraq welcomed IS rule, at least initially. Resentment of the extremists has been stronger in Ramadi, but some residents worry about the cost of dislodging the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, ISIL and its Arabic acronym, Daesh. “Of course we want this to end,” another resident said, referring to IS rule and the government siege. But he said he also fears increased airstrikes and clashes, with him and his family unable to

escape. The Islamic State group’s capture of Ramadi was an embarrassing blow to the Iraqi military. The two sides had been battling over it since the previous summer. But in May, the militants unleashed a wave of suicide bombings that stunned the city’s defenders, and police and troops collapsed and fled. The jihadis swept in and took control, raising their black banner over the main government headquarters. The city became part of the large swath of territory IS holds in Iraq, including almost all of Anbar province and the northern city of Mosul, linked with areas of northern and eastern Syria that they also control. For several months, Iraqi troops and an umbrella group of militias – mainly Shiites – have been fighting in Anbar. Although progress was often slow, they clawed back territory surrounding the city. In recent days, their determination to retake Ramadi has been boosted by a victory in northern Iraq by Kurdish forces, who recaptured the strategic town of Sinjar.

French President Francois Hollande (right) speaks with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as they attend “The Climate Challenge and African Solutions” event Tuesday during the COP21, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Le Bourget, north of Paris.

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selves may not have the force of treaties, the process, the procedures that ensure transparency and periodic reviews, that needs to be legally binding,” Obama said in Paris, “and that’s going to be critical.” Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and a fierce critic of Obama’s policies, fired back immediately. “The U.S. Senate will not be ignored. If the president wishes to sign the American people up to a legally binding agreement, the deal must go through the Senate,” he said in a statement. “There is no way around it.” The White House previously said parts of the deal should be le-

gally binding, but this is the first time Obama has said it himself and spelled out which ones. Obama’s comments brought relief to the French hosts of the conference, who were worried about whether the U.S. wanted a binding deal at all after Secretary of State John Kerry told The Financial Times that the agreement was “definitely not going to be a treaty” and that there was “not going to be legally binding reduction targets.” “The fact that the United States of America could commit to a binding agreement, whilst before there was a doubt because of Congress, is really extraordinary news that comes at a good time,” French Environment Minister Segolene Royal said.

GOP-led House moves to block climate rule By MATTHEW DALY The Associated Press WASHINGTON – As President Barack Obama worked to hammer out a global climate agreement in Paris, Republicans in Congress moved to block his plan to force steep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. power plants. The House passed two resolutions Tuesday disapproving Obama’s power-plant rules and rendering them inoperative. A measure blocking an Environmental Protection Agency rule for existing power plants was approved 242-180, while a measure blocking a rule on future power plants was approved 235-188. The votes come after the Senate approved identical motions last month under a little-used law

that allows Congress to block executive actions it considers onerous. The measures now go to the White House, where they face almost-certain vetoes. Just four Democrats sided with Republicans to support the measures, which fell far short of the numbers needed to override a veto in both the House and Senate. Rep. Ed Whitfield, R-Ky., said GOP lawmakers were forcing a vote on the climate rule to “send a message to the climate conference in Paris that in America, there’s serious disagreement with the policies of this president.” House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said Obama wants to reduce carbon emissions, but his policies will kill jobs, increase electricity costs and decrease the reliability of the U.S. energy supply.

And Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., said he wished Obama took the threat posed by “radical jihadists” such as the Islamic State as seriously as he takes what Duncan called a “pseudoscientific threat” posed by climate change. Democrats countered that the power-plant rules were important steps to slow global climate change that is already causing real harm through increased droughts, wildfires, floods and more severe storms. Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., said it was regrettable that Republicans were trying to block the power-plant rules even as officials from more than 190 nearly countries and many of the world’s largest private companies gathered in Paris to work out details of a global agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The ASSOCIATED PRESS MEXICO CITY – Mexico weathered a record eastern Pacific hurricane season with almost no deaths and relatively little damage, given the intensity of this year’s storms. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its 2015 hurricane season report Tuesday, saying that “this is the first year since reliable record keeping began in 1971 that the eastern Pacific saw nine major hurricanes,” which are defined as Category 3 or higher with winds of at least 111 mph. Turning to the worst of those storms, the report noted that Hurricane Patricia was “the strongest hurricane on record in the Western Hemisphere” just before it struck a sparsely populated stretch of Mexico’s Pacific coast in October. But while Patricia caused tens of millions of dollars in damage, there was no confirmed death attributed to the storm – or from any of the other eight major hurricanes in the eastern pacific this year. Mexicans have wondered why the country escaped any major disaster, and President Enrique Pena Nieto even attributed the lack of damage to prayer circles and “the faith of the Mexican people.” But Dr. Gerry Bell, the lead seasonal hurricane forecaster at NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, said Tuesday the same thing that made Pacific hurricanes stronger – the El Nino weather phenomenon – may also have made them less deadly. El Nino is an ocean-warming phenomenon seen once every few years that can change weather patterns globally. “El Nino made both the central and eastern Pacific hurricane seasons more intense,” Bell wrote. “El Nino also caused the storms in the eastern Pacific to form farther west from the west coast of Mexico, and to also track more westward. As a result most of those storms remained over the open ocean throughout their life.” Bell attributed the lack of deaths from Patricia “to excellent responses from emergency managers and citizens before the storm struck.” The Atlantic hurricane season was below normal, with 11 named storms. The 2015 hurricane season ended Monday, and there is no telling what next year may be like. Bell wrote that “sometimes El Nino is a multi-year phenomenon, but we cannot currently tell whether this one will be.” He said computer models for now are pointing to the current El Nino dissipating late next spring.

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LE BOURGET, France – President Barack Obama said Tuesday that parts of the global warming deal being negotiated in Paris should be legally binding on the countries that sign on, setting up a potential fight with Republicans at home. Obama’s stand won praise at the U.N. climate conference from those who want a strong agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of coal, oil and gas. But it could rile conservatives in Washington, especially if he tries to put the deal into effect without seeking congressional approval. The Obama administration has pledged during the international talks to reduce U.S. emissions by up to 28 percent by 2025. But inscribing the emissions target in the Paris deal would probably require the president to submit the pact to the GOP-controlled Congress, where it would be unlikely to win ratification. Many Republicans doubt global warming is real or fear that stringent pollution controls could kill jobs. So the administration is looking to keep the targets out while including binding procedures on when and how countries should periodically review and raise their targets. “Although the targets them-

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To the Editor: On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a bus after a long day of work as a seamstress. She sat down. A short while later, as the bus grew more crowded, she was ordered by the bus driver to move toward the back of the bus to free her seat for a white person. She refused and was subsequently arrested. Her simple, dignified refusal launched the birth of a movement that would change America. Having been a student at Alabama State College – now Alabama State University – in Montgomery, Alabama, in the early 1950s, I experienced some of the inequalities that prompted the civil rights movement. This included being told where I could or could not sit on a bus. Coming from Chicago to Montgomery brought challenges and frustrations because of the racial climate in the South. In addition to the segregated transit system, African-Americans were prohibited from drinking at certain water fountains, using certain washrooms, and eating at many restaurants. African-American students faced the inequality of a segregated school system. While in Alabama, I attended a small church in northern Montgomery where Dr. Martin Luther King served as my pastor. Within one week of Ms. Parks’ arrest, Dr. King helped launch the Montgomery Bus Boycott. An adherent of peaceful, nonviolent protests against injustice, Dr. King simply wanted everyone to be treated fairly and equally. Dr. King wanted a transit system where all passengers, regardless of race, would have equal access to available seating. These efforts led to the desegregation of the Montgomery Transit System. I want to encourage everyone to take a moment to reflect on Rosa Parks’ simple act of courageous defiance 60 years ago this December, an act that would help launch the civil rights movement in America. Within a decade of Ms. Parks’ refusal to move to the back of the bus, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would become law, outlawing discrimination based on race, creed, gender or national origin. The landmark civil rights law would go on to prohibit racial segregation in schools, at work and at public facilities, and ended unfair voting registration practices. Jesse White

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Freelance reporter is why Chicago knows details about Laquan McDonald shooting SPRINGFIELD – I watched the video in disbelief. Bullet after bullet tore into the prone body of Laquan McDonald. The shooting of the 17-year-old was captured on video by a squad car’s camera. It was a horrifying display of the ultimate use of government power – the taking of a human life. I’ve been a reporter for almost 30 years. Early in my career, I covered cops and crime. I’ve covered shootings that were justified and some that were not. But what happened after the shooting was all too familiar. Folks started to lie. Bureaucrats covered their butts. And politicians pointed fingers. There is no other way to describe the situation. It was a cover-up. Initially, the Chicago Police Department said McDonald was shot once after lunging at an officer. But the autopsy showed he was shot 16 times. And the video shows him walking away rather than lunging at anyone. McDonald was no saint. But no one deserves to be shot while lying helpless on a street. A tenacious freelance reporter, Brandon Smith, filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the video. When the request was denied by

worked in restaurant kitchens and drives for Uber to support himself. Smith broke this story without Scott working for any particular news orReeder ganization. In fact, this small-town Ohio native, who set Chicago’s the city, he went to court, fought for political establishment on its ear, its release and won. hasn’t even earned his bachelor’s And it was not until the video degree yet. was on the brink of release that the But he already is holding those officer involved was charged with in power accountable and demandmurder. ing transparency from the opaque It was 13 months after the shoot- corridors of Chicago’s City Hall. ing. Thirteen months. And he is learning some tough Oh, and the taxpayers of Chilessons about those in power not cago already had paid a $5 million wanting to be held accountable. settlement to McDonald’s family On the day the video was made with a provision that video would public – because of his lawsuit remain confidential. – Chicago police officers turned Just call it hush money. him away from a mayoral news Mayor Rahm Emanuel said he conference. didn’t see the video until it was Why? They don’t consider him made public last week. “legitimate” media. The city dished out millions of Well, he might not have a press bucks to McDonald’s family and the pass in his pocket, but he has truth mayor hadn’t even bothered to see marching at his side. And for the what was on the video? public, horrified by the images he Give me a break. brought to light, that is credential Even in Chicago, $5 million isn’t enough. chump change. But who is this Brandon Smith? • Scott Reeder is a veteran He’s the reporter who forced the statehouse reporter and a journalChicago Police Department to ist with Illinois News Network, a release the video. project of the Illinois Policy InstiHe writes part time for whoevtute. He can be reached at sreeder@ er will buy his work and also has ilnews.org.

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Lockport’s Casey Schlusemann (left) drives to the basket around Plainfield North’s Bradlee Mills during Lockport’s 47-43 victory Tuesday in Plainfield. Larry W. Kane for Shaw Media

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Lockport rallies past Plainfield North By CURT HERRON cherron@shawmedia.com PLAINFIELD – Things definitely did not go as Lockport coach Brett Hespell hoped at the start of his team’s boys basketball game Tuesday against Plainfield North. The Porters turned the ball over eight times and were hit with a technical foul in the first quarter, as the Tigers used a 12-0 run to grab an early 17-10 advantage. But the tide turned for Lockport after that, as its defense caused all sorts of headaches for North in the Porters’ comeback 47-43 victory in nonconference action. Deiondre Taylor and Patrick Cooper limited North’s high-scoring Kevin Krieger to only five points and kept him from hitting a field goal until he sank one at the final buzzer. After going 2 of 8 from the floor to claim a 24-19 halftime lead, the Tigers hit only 1 of their first 22 field goal tries in the second half before making four buckets in the last two minutes. “Deiondre and Patrick switched off on Krieger and made him work for everything,” Hespell said. “He’s a great player and he’s bigger than them, but they met the challenge and did the job and that’s really where it started for us with that defensive effort. “Our first quarter wasn’t very good. We were careless with the ball and we were lucky that they didn’t pull away more. Because our guys battle all of the time, we were able to hang in there and withstand that. We’ve had a couple in a row where we were shaky at the beginning so I have to find a way for us to have better starts.” Casey Schlusemann led the Porters (4-1) offensively with 18 points while grabbing nine rebounds, while Matt Smietanski came off of the bench to score 10 points and grab seven boards. Mikolaj Nowobilski and Taylor chipped in with six points. “We didn’t start off with the best energy,” Schlusemann said. “We didn’t communi-

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Lockport’s Matt Smietanski (left) drives to the basket past Plainfield North’s Henry Thompson (right) during Lockport’s 47-43 victory over Plainfield North on Tuesday in Plainfield. cate on defense as well as we should have and didn’t talk on offense, so we were turning the ball over. But once we started talking and got into the game, we put some baskets together and got some stops on defense and denied their big guy. “Our record doesn’t mean anything, it’s about us improving as a team. I’d rather become closer as a team with better chemistry. That will help us more down the line than us saying that we started out 4-1.” Lockport took an early 4-0 lead, but North (2-3) responded with a 12-4 run to move in

front. After the Porters finally pulled even late in the second quarter, the Tigers scored the half’s final five points to move back in front. North only made 1 of its 13 field-goal attempts in the third quarter, but still was tied at 30 going into the final period. But the momentum had started to shift, as Lockport scored the final five points of the quarter to begin what would eventually be a decisive 15-1 run. “It was pretty sloppy at the beginning but we trusted our teammates, especially Deiondre and Patrick, who played very well and shut down No.

12 (Krieger), who’s been scoring a lot for them. It was our defense at the end that held us together to finish the game strong,” Nowobilski said. “A lot of people were down on us at the beginning of the year, so it’s good to prove those people wrong. We’re not even playing to the best of our ability, so if we cut down on some of the red flags like turnovers and missed free throws, we an compete against good teams.” The Tigers misfired on their first nine shots of the fourth quarter and trailed, 4031, with 2:58 left. They were 5

of 28 from the floor in the second half and finished connecting on 13 of 52 attempts for the contest. Zach Jarosz led North with 14 points, while Richie Elias and Henry Thompson added 10 points each. In addition to his five points, Krieger pulled down nine rebounds. “They played physical so we weren’t allowed to get to the lane much,” North coach Bob Krahulik said. “So we lived and died by the 3 and 60 percent of our shots came from behind the 3-point line and when you don’t shoot well, you’re going to really bad.”

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Jessica Jurak shoots a 3-pointer for Morris in a 50-35 loss to Lockport on Tuesday night.

GIRLS BASKETBALL: LOCKPORT 50, MORRIS 35

Lockport pressure too much for Morris By ROB OESTERLE roesterle@shawmedia.com MORRIS – During the first half of Tuesday’s home opener against Lockport, the Morris girls basketball team more than held its own against the pressure Lockport’s defense applied. That was no easy feat, considering the Redskins’ two main ball-handlers entering the season – Mya Shannon and Rylee Harr – were both on the bench with injuries. In the second half, however, the Redskins eventually buckled under the weight of their opponent, and Lockport came away with a 50-35 nonconference win. “We have been working on our pressure defense,” Lockport coach Dan Kelly said.

“Both the extended pressure in the diamond and our soft pressure in the 2-2-1. We want to play at a fast pace and get some easy shots. “In the first half, we did a good job of creating turnovers, but we didn’t finish very well. A lot of that had to do with Morris being able to get back in transition. In the second half, they got a little tired and we were able to get some easier baskets.” Behind 13 of her game-high 19 points, Meghan Smith led Morris to a 23-22 halftime lead. Morris (1-4) jumped to a 9-2 lead early, but Lockport rallied to tie it at 11 at the end of the first quarter. The Redskins’ Meghan Jurak (seven points) sandwiched a pair of baskets around a putback by Smith to start the second quarter to give

Morris a 17-11 lead before Lockport (3-2) rallied to tie it at 17 behind four points from Emily Dybas and two from Taylor Hopkins (10 points). Morris got the lead back, getting consecutive 3-pointers from Smith and Alissa Bojovic, for a 23-17 lead, but Lockport scored the final five points of the first half on a free throw by Elana Wolfe, a basket by Kayla Isom and a hoop by Kianna Campbell at the buzzer. Lockport stormed out of the gate in the second HALF, scoring the first 12 points of the second half before Smith ended Morris’ drought with 50 seconds left in the third quarter. Jessica Jurak also hit a 3-pointer for the Redskins in the quarter as Lockport led, 36-28. Lockport got four points each from Hopkins and Campbell in the

third, along with a basket each from Laurel Kucharski, Isom and Wolfe. The active Lockport defense forced Morris into 10 turnovers in both the third and fourth quarters, many of which turned into easy buckets on the other end. Lockport got two straight hoops from Madelyn Kennedy to start the fourth and another by Hopkins to move ahead, 42-28. Smith hit a free throw and a 3-pointer in the third for Morris, while Meghan Jurak also made a 3-pointer. The Redskins visit Kaneland on Friday before hosting Minooka on Saturday. “We got some quick runout baskets, which is a good sign,” Kelly said. “The girls shared the ball well and were looking for the open person. We got some good defensive efforts

from some girls that we hadn’t seen so far this year.” “This was a frustrating game,” Morris coach Kate Carey said. “With Mya and Rylee out, we had to ask some girls to do some things they aren’t accustomed to doing. I thought Meghan Smith did a good job running the point and our shooting actually wasn’t too bad. We just didn’t get the opportunities to shoot very often beause we were busy turning the ball over. “We know we are going to face pressure. Now we have to figure out how we are going to deal wth it. If we do that, I am confident in our half-court game.” Morris (2-2) lost Tuesday’s sophomore game, 35-16. Amanda Schmidt led Morris with eight points.

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JCA boys beat St. Edward in opener its, but the visiting Knights (2- (19 points, five assists, six re- complishment for Max, and 3) weren’t able to come away bounds), Robbie Brooks (11 one that is well deserved,” points) and Dom Gatling (10 Lewis coach Scott Trost said. AURORA – Joliet Catholic with a nonconference win. Reed-Custer 49, Wilmington points, eight rebounds) led “His performance against Academy’s boys basketball Northwood was as good a perteam kicked off its season in 42: The Comets (2-3, 1-0) had 22 JJC. Strus honored again: The formance as I have witnessed a good fashion when it defeat- points and 11 rebounds from ed St. Edward, 66-47, in Tues- Kenna Wilkey in Monday’s In- U.S. Basketball Writers Asso- at any level.” ciation (USBWA) announced Kennedy recognized: Uniday’s Aurora Christian Tour- terstate Eight road win. V a l G u z m a n a d d e d 1 5 Tuesday that Lewis sopho- versity of St. Francis senior nament. The Hilltoppers (1-0) got p o i n t s w h i l e G a b i P e r e z more forward Max Strus has forward Jens Kennedy has 26 points from Jalen Jackson chipped in nine points and 10 been selected as the USBWA been named the Chicagoland Division II Men’s Basketball Collegiate Athletic Conferwhile Donovan Finch added rebounds. Peotone 68, Plano 25: Dani Player of the Week for the pe- ence Men’s Basketball Player 14 points. Benninghoff scored 12 points riod ending Nov. 29. of the Week for the seven-day while Elizabeth Coffey and Strus, who also was named period ending Nov. 29. GIRLS BASKETBALL Kennedy turned in backJoliet West 62, Thornridge Cora Graffeo added 11 points the Great Lakes Valley Con43: Madi Mulder and Raven apiece for the Blue Devils (5- ference Player of the Week, to-back 27-point performances Reed led the host Tigers to 1, 1-0) in Monday’s Interstate averaged 38 points and 13 re- as No. 11-ranked USF defeated bounds a game, while shoot- Holy Cross College, 81-55, last their first win of the season Eight win. ing 66.7 percent from 3-point Tuesday before edging No. 15 in the SouthWest Suburban BOYS BOWLING range and 61.3 percent overall Mount Mercy University, 94cross-over game. J o l i e t W e s t 2 , 0 2 1 , L i n from the field in a pair of re- 92, on Sunday. Minooka 55, Oswego 42: The After notching a douIndians (3-2, 1-0) opened up coln-Way West 1,926: Matt Pe- gional victories last week. H e f i n i s h e d w i t h a ble-double with 27 points and Southwest Prairie Conference savento rolled the high game play with a home win. They (234) and high series (465) for school-record 52 points on 14 10 boards in the win over for 18 shooting, including 12 Holy Cross, he again tallied led, 20-14, at halftime and in- the Tigers. Lemont drops two: Lemont for 14 from beyond the arc in a 27 points – including the wincreased their advantage to 4427 at the end of three quarters. dropped South Suburban con- 99-95 regional win over North- ning basket with 13 seconds remaining in the contest – to Brooklyn Bachmann scored tests against Hinsdale Cen- wood on Nov. 24. tral, 2,604-2,372, Monday and “What a tremendous acgo along with seven rebounds a team-high 22 points while Sydney Arlis chipped in 12 T.F. South, 1,851-1,763. Chase Huron led Lemont (1-6, 1-5) points. Lincoln-Way West 61, Oak with a 517 series Monday and Forest 54: Emily Atsinger and 400 series Tuesday. Courtney O’Donnell led West (5-0) with 23 and 15 points, re- MEN’S BASKETBALL That’s right; Babe’s isn’t all about their jumbo spectively, in the nonconferJoliet Junior 102, Trinity hot dog, I have been to Babe’s numerous times ence home victory. Christian JV 65: The Wolves (8- and I always go for the jumbo, I wanted to try something new Sandburg 59, Lincoln-Way 1) had five players in double and ordered the third pound cheeseburger. It’s a good size Central 48: Rebecca Gorman figures in Monday’s win at and I was told they are handmade fresh daily, never frozen (14 points), Grace Curran (12 Wills gym. Daymeann Stewand cooked when you order, so how could I go wrong? It points), Jenna Meyers (11 art (20 points), Darius Wells was amazing! Juicy and flavorful and topped with melted cheese, ketchup, mustard, pickles, tomatoes and onions, all points) and Colleen Barrett (10 (19 points, five assists, six my favorites! 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as USF overcame a 17-point second-half deficit to defeat Mount Mercy. In the two games, Kennedy connected on 21 of 35 attempts from the field (60 percent) and was perfect on 10 free throw tries. USF ranked fourth: St. Francis, which is off to a 6-0 start, has been ranked No. 4 in the first regular-season edition of the NAIA Division II Men’s Basketball Coaches’ Top 25 Poll, released Tuesday. The No. 4 ranking is the highest to date in the program’s history.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL USF ranked 13th: After start-

ing off 7-0, St. Francis earned the No. 13 ranking in the first regular-season NAIA Division II Women’s Basketball Coaches’ Top 25 Poll, released Tuesday. This marks the first time the program has appeared in NAIA Division II rankings.

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Oklahoma safely No. 3 in College Football Playoff rankings tional champion Buckeyes. ... Alabama loses to Florida? The SEC is out. The Gators dropped to No. 18 after losing, 27-2, and an upset almost will certainly reflect poorly on the Crimson Tide, even though they nearly moved into the top spot this week.

By RALPH D. RUSSO The Associated Press Oklahoma is No. 3 in the College Football Playoff selection committee rankings, putting the Sooners safely in position to be in the final four with their season completed. The Sooners locked up the Big 12 championship with a blowout victory at Oklahoma State on Saturday. Clemson is still No. 1 and Alabama remained No. 2. Both the Tigers (12-0) and Crimson Tide (11-1) head into their conference championship games Saturday needing just a victory to lock up a playoff spot. The top seed gets to play closest to home, so for Clemson a semifinal game at the Orange Bowl in Miami is also on the line against North Carolina in the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game. The Tar Heels (11-1) are No. 10. Iowa is No. 4 (12-0) and

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The American Athletic Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson gestures to the fans after a Conference championship 37-32 win Saturday against South Carolina in Columbia, S.C. Michigan State (11-1) is No. 5, setting up a playoff play-in game in Saturday’s Big Ten title game. Hoping for an upset by the Tar Heels against Clemson or Florida against Alabama in the Southeastern Conference title game is No. 6 Ohio State (11-1) and No. 7 Stanford (10-2). The Buckeyes’ season is over. The Cardinal can win the Pac-12 championship Saturday by beating USC for the second time this year.

WHAT HAPPENS IF ...

... Clemson loses to North Carolina and Stanford wins? The most intriguing possible debate for the selection committee. It would put Ohio State back in play and the committee would have to slice and dice the resumes of the Tar Heels, trying to make a huge jump after winning a title, the Cardinal, a two-loss conference champion with a top-10 win against Notre Dame, and the defending na-

game between Houston and Temple also should send the winner to a New Year’s Six bowl game, probably the Peach Bowl. The Cougars (111) will host the AAC title game and are No. 19 in the new rankings. The Owls (10-2) are No. 22. The only other team from the Group of Five conferences – Mountain West, Sun Belt, Mid-American and Conference USA – is Navy at No. 23, which is also from the American.

College Football Playoff Rankings 1. Clemson 2. Alabama 3. Oklahoma 4. Iowa 5. Michigan St. 6. Ohio St. 7. Stanford 8. Notre Dame 9. Florida St. 10. North Carolina 11. TCU 12. Baylor 13. Ole Miss 14. Northwestern 15. Michigan 16. Oregon 17. Oklahoma St. 18. Florida 19. Houston 20. Southern Cal 21. LSU 22. Temple 23. Navy 24. Utah 25. Tennessee

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Kyle Fuller has disappeared. In a good way. “As a corner, it’s probably a good thing if you don’t hear their name much,” Bears safety Chris Prosinski said. “You don’t see them catching balls on him. You don’t see him getting targeted too much. “That’s just a credit to the coverage he’s been playing. He’s been unbelievable.” That’s no exaggeration. In a Week 6 loss to the Lions, Fuller allowed receptions on eight of nine passes thrown his way for 60 yards and two touchdowns, according to Pro Football Focus. Since then, the second-year cornerback has allowed eight receptions on 25 targets for only 67 yards. That’s a staggering development for former first-round pick who was benched in Week 2, when defensive coordinator Vic Fangio said Fuller needed to translate his performance from the practice field to Sundays. Through the first six games, the passer rating on balls thrown to Fuller’s man was 137.8. Since then, it’s 39.6. “His play has definitely elevated,” cornerback Tracy Porter said.

than their 215 passing yards per game. That number figures to be stronger next week; Sunday’s opponent, the 49ers, are 30th in the NFL with 198.4 passing yards a game, and are dead last with 13.8 points and 295.5 yards a game. The Bears have made defensive tweaks during the season, Fox said, but are gaining a greater understanding of Fangio’s scheme as they become more familiar with each other. “They’re communicating better with each other,” Fox said. “There are a lot of things that happen once they break the huddle as far as how the offense deploys that they’re getting better at.” Fox credited Porter – who Fuller called “a guy you can learn a lot from” – with helping his teammates prepare. Porter studies so much that he often makes the defensive call before the safeAP file photo ties have time to. “He knows how to study tape,” Fox Bears cornerback Kyle Fuller tackles Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson said. “A lot of guys look at tape; someduring the second half Nov. 1 at Soldier Field. The Vikings won 23-20. times I’m not sure what they’re looking Don’t expect a thorough reflection “When you’re with a group of people at. I think he’s very, very smart that way. from Fuller. The second-year player for a certain amount of time,” he said, “He’s been around the league, undertreats interviews like root canals, and “you seem to jell together.” stands concepts, route concepts, splits, probably talks more during the latter. A former defensive backs coach, receiver locations – a lot of things that It’s different on the field, where Fuller Bears boss John Fox singled said his a young guy might not know – that I said the defensive backfield has learned team has improved its pass coverage all think he shares with that whole room.” to communicate better, both during a season. Statistically, the Bears are elite: Porter, who is playing at a Pro Bowl levhuddle and before the snap. only the Broncos have allowed fewer el.

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NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Central Division W L Pct Cleveland 13 5 .722 Indiana 11 5 .688 Bulls 10 5 .667 Detroit 9 9 .500 Milwaukee 7 11 .389 Atlantic Division W L Pct Toronto 11 7 .611 Boston 10 8 .556 New York 8 10 .444 Brooklyn 5 13 .278 Philadelphia 1 18 .053 Southeast Division W L Pct Miami 10 6 .625 Atlanta 12 8 .600 Charlotte 10 7 .588 Orlando 10 8 .556 Washington 7 8 .467 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio 14 4 .778 Memphis 11 8 .579 Dallas 10 8 .556 Houston 7 11 .389 New Orleans 4 14 .222 Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 11 7 .611 Utah 8 8 .500 Minnesota 8 10 .444 Portland 7 11 .389 Denver 6 12 .333 Pacific Division W L Pct Golden State 19 0 1.000 L.A. Clippers 10 8 .556 Phoenix 8 10 .444 Sacramento 7 12 .368 L.A. Lakers 2 15 .118

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Tuesday’s Results Washington 97, Cleveland 85 Philadelphia 103, L.A. Lakers 91 Brooklyn 94, Phoenix 91 Orlando 96, Minnesota 93 Memphis 113, New Orleans 104 Dallas at Portland (n) Wednesday’s Games Denver at Bulls, 7 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Washington, 6 p.m. Golden State at Charlotte, 6 p.m. Phoenix at Detroit, 6:30 p.m. Philadelphia at New York, 6:30 p.m. New Orleans at Houston, 7 p.m. Toronto at Atlanta, 7 p.m. Milwaukee at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.

NHL WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Dallas 24 19 5 0 38 85 62 St. Louis 25 15 7 3 33 66 61 Nashville 24 13 7 4 30 64 62 Blackhawks 25 13 9 3 29 68 64 Minnesota 23 12 7 4 28 65 62 Winnipeg 25 11 12 2 24 67 80 Colorado 25 10 14 1 21 73 76 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 23 14 8 1 29 58 50 San Jose 23 14 9 0 28 66 58 Arizona 24 13 10 1 27 67 70 Vancouver 25 9 9 7 25 69 69 Anaheim 25 9 11 5 23 51 65 Calgary 24 8 14 2 18 56 87 Edmonton 25 8 15 2 18 62 77 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 26 19 4 3 41 90 57 Detroit 25 13 8 4 30 61 64 Ottawa 24 12 7 5 29 78 72 Boston 22 13 8 1 27 73 64 Florida 24 11 9 4 26 63 60 Tampa Bay 25 11 11 3 25 59 58 Buffalo 25 10 12 3 23 58 67 Toronto 24 8 11 5 21 56 66 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA N.Y. Rangers 25 17 6 2 36 74 53 Washington 23 17 5 1 35 75 51 N.Y. Islanders 25 13 8 4 30 72 62 Pittsburgh 23 13 8 2 28 52 54 New Jersey 24 12 10 2 26 57 59 Philadelphia 25 10 10 5 25 49 67 Carolina 24 8 12 4 20 50 70 Columbus 26 10 16 0 20 61 78

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Tuesday’s Results Minnesota 2, Blackhawks 1 Detroit 5, Buffalo 4, SO Colorado 2, New Jersey 1 Montreal 2, Columbus 1 Philadelphia 4, Ottawa 2 Florida 3, St. Louis 1 Nashville 5, Arizona 2 Dallas at Calgary (n) Vancouver at Los Angeles (n) Pittsburgh at San Jose (n) Wednesday’s Games Toronto at Winnipeg, 6:30 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m. Boston at Edmonton, 8:30 p.m. Tampa Bay at Anaheim, 9:30 p.m.

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Suter, Wild beat Blackhawks By MATT CARLSON The Associated Press CHICAGO – Defenseman Ryan Suter drove to the net and poked in a rebound with 7:56 left in the third period, lifting the Minnesota Wild to a 2-1 victory over the Blackhawks on Tuesday night. After the Hawks’ Corey Crawford made an acrobatic right pad save on Mikael Granlund on a breakaway, Granlund missed on a rebound attempt. Suter then cruised to the net and buried a loose puck that was dangling near the goal line. Hawks forward Patrick Kane scored a power-play goal at 5:21 of the second period to extend his point streak to 20 games. Kane has 12 goals and 20 assists during the longest such

run for a U.S.-born player. The dynamic winger can match Hall of Famer Bobby Hull’s franchise record from the 1971-72 season with a goal or an assist Thursday night at Ottawa. Jason Pominville also scored for Minnesota, which snapped a three-game losing streak and won for just the second time in its last seven games. Minnesota’s Devan Dubnyk made 30 saves in his 14th start in 15 games. Crawford finished with 34 stops. Dubnyk returned to the net after Darcy Kuemper made 40 saves in a 4-3 overtime loss to Dallas on Saturday when the Stars rallied from a 3-0 deficit. Kane broke the record for a U.S. player when he got to 19 games with a goal in the Hawks’

3-2 overtime loss at Los Angeles on Saturday. He has at least one point in 23 of the Hawks’ 25 games this season. The Wild dominated the first period, outshooting the Hawks, 14-8, and taking a 1-0 lead on Pominville’s wraparound goal 4:09 in. After Crawford stopped Jared Spurgeon’s shot from the slot, Granlund fired the rebound to the left of a wide-open net. But Pominville picked up the puck behind the goal line and curled it in around the post before Crawford could react. Dubnyk robbed Hawks’ captain Jonathan Toews twice on prime chances in the first. He made a point-blank pad save on rookie Marko Dano’s rebound attempt just 15 seconds into the second.

MEN’S BASKETBALL: NORTHWESTERN 81, VIRGINIA TECH 79 (OT)

Northwestern outlasts Virginia Tech in OT The ASSOCIATED PRESS BLACKSBURG, Va. – Bryant McIntosh scored 19 points to lead Northwestern to an 8179 overtime victory over Virginia Tech on Tuesday in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge. McIntosh hit 8 of 15 for the Wildcats (6-1), who shot 47.8 percent (32 of 67) from the floor. He also grabbed five rebounds and handed out four assists. McIntosh’s layup with 27 seconds left in overtime gave the Wildcats an 81-79 lead. Virginia Tech (4-3) then called a timeout, and the Hokies’ Chris Clarke missed a baseline jumper at the buzzer that would have tied the game. Northwestern led by as many as 11 in the first half and 45-36 at halftime. The Hokies never led in the second half,

but tied the game twice, with the final time coming on two Seth Allen free throws with 55.3 seconds left that evened the game at 73. Both teams had chances to win in regulation. Northwestern’s Bryant McIntosh missed a layup with 47 seconds to go, and the Hokies’ Clarke missed a layup inside with 26 seconds left. On the final possession of regulation, the Wildcats ran the clock down and Tre Demps took a short jumper in the lane that didn’t fall with 2 seconds left. Allen’s halfcourt heave nearly went in at the buzzer, but didn’t and the game went into overtime. Demps added 17 points for the Wildcats, and Sanjay Lumpkin scored 12. Allen led Virginia Tech with 25 points. Justin Bibbs

added 17 while Clarke had 11 points and 13 rebounds. Virginia Tech is now 3-7 in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge while Northwestern is 7-10. The game marked a return to Blacksburg for center Joey Van Zegeren, who spent parts of four seasons playing for the Hokies before graduating and transferring to Northwestern The Wildcats hit six 3-pointers in the first half and have hit at least five 3-pointers in the first half of six straight games. Demps and McIntosh have scored in double figures in every game this season. Nathan Taphorn scored in double figures for the first time this season. Northwestern plays at home against SIU Edwardsville on Saturday.

NATIONAL CONFERENCE North W L T Pct PF Minnesota 8 3 0 .727 231 Green Bay 7 4 0 .636 262 Bears 5 6 0 .455 231 Detroit 4 7 0 .364 230 East W L T Pct PF Washington 5 6 0 .455 241 N.Y. Giants 5 6 0 .455 287 Philadelphia 4 7 0 .364 243 Dallas 3 8 0 .273 204 South W L T Pct PF Carolina 11 0 0 1.000 332 Atlanta 6 5 0 .545 260 Tampa Bay 5 6 0 .455 248 New Orleans 4 7 0 .364 261 West W L T Pct PF Arizona 9 2 0 .818 355 Seattle 6 5 0 .545 267 St. Louis 4 7 0 .364 186 San Francisco 3 8 0 .273 152

PA 194 215 264 288 PA 267 273 274 261 PA 205 234 279 339 PA 229 222 230 271

AMERICAN CONFERENCE North W L T Pct PF PA Cincinnati 9 2 0 .818 297 193 Pittsburgh 6 5 0 .545 266 230 Baltimore 4 7 0 .364 259 276 Cleveland 2 9 0 .182 213 310 East W L T Pct PF PA New England 10 1 0 .909 347 212 N.Y. Jets 6 5 0 .545 272 228 Buffalo 5 6 0 .455 266 257 Miami 4 7 0 .364 225 287 South W L T Pct PF PA Indianapolis 6 5 0 .545 249 260 Houston 6 5 0 .545 232 234 Jacksonville 4 7 0 .364 236 299 Tennessee 2 9 0 .182 203 257 West W L T Pct PF PA Denver 9 2 0 .818 252 207 Kansas City 6 5 0 .545 287 220 Oakland 5 6 0 .455 264 280 San Diego 3 8 0 .273 244 307 Thursday’s Results Bears 17, Green Bay 13 Detroit 45, Philadelphia 14 Carolina 33, Dallas 14 Sunday’s Results Houston 24, New Orleans 6 Kansas City 30, Buffalo 22 Oakland 24, Tennessee 21 Cincinnati 31, St. Louis 7 Minnesota 20, Atlanta 10 Washington 20, N.Y. Giants 14 Indianapolis 25, Tampa Bay 12 San Diego 31, Jacksonville 25 N.Y. Jets 38, Miami 20 Arizona 19, San Francisco 13 Seattle 39, Pittsburgh 30 Denver 30, New England 24, OT Monday’s Result Baltimore 33, Cleveland 27 Thursday’s Game Green Bay at Detroit, 7:25 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6, Games San Francisco at Bears, noon Arizona at St. Louis, noon Seattle at Minnesota, noon Jacksonville at Tennessee, noon N.Y. Jets at N.Y. Giants, noon Atlanta at Tampa Bay, noon Houston at Buffalo, noon Baltimore at Miami, noon Cincinnati at Cleveland, noon Denver at San Diego, 3:05 p.m. Kansas City at Oakland, 3:05 p.m. Carolina at New Orleans, 3:25 p.m. Philadelphia at New England, 3:25 p.m. Indianapolis at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m.

WHAT TO WATCH NBA Denver at Bulls, 7 p.m., CSN New Orleans at Houston, 7 p.m., NBA Indiana at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m., NBA Men’s basketball Butler at Cincinnati, 6 p.m., CBSSN Hartford at Providence, 6 p.m., FSN Louisville at Michigan State, 6:15 p.m., ESPN

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VCU at Middle Tennessee, 8 p.m., FSN Indiana at Duke, 8:15 p.m., ESPN Notre Dame at Illinois, 8:15 p.m., ESPN2 Florida St. at Iowa, 8:15 p.m., ESPNU Gonzaga at Washington St., 10 p.m., FS1 NHL Rangers at Islanders, 7 p.m., NBCSN

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DIY sauce spices up the holidays

or holiday gifts this year, I’ve decided to start a spicy new tradition. I am going to make bottles of my favorite boozy hot sauce. Everyone loves hot sauce, and this one is simple, beautiful and intensely delicious. It relies on alcohol, whole chilies and spices, and that’s it. The alcohol is what carries the heat. You could use vinegar, but I prefer the hard stuff. The alcohol lends a softer flavor to the finished sauce and becomes more balanced as it ages. Most any distilled spirit will work so long as it isn’t fortified with a lot of sugar (don’t use any liqueurs). I like to use clear liquors (such as vodka, gin, white rum, tequila or even moonshine) because it lets you see the chilies and spices in the bottle. The basic recipe is incredibly versatile, and it’s easy to put your own spin on it. The recipe I make most often calls for silver tequila, whole peppercorns and whole dried chilies. One of my

Homemade Boozy Hot Sauce Start to finish: 1 hour, plus aging Makes 3 cups

16 dried chilies (a mix or variety depending on desired heat) 20 whole cloves

favorite holiday variations offers a Caribbean touch by using rum, allspice, cinnamon and chilies. The sky and your spice cabinet are your only limits. As for bottles to pack the hot sauce in, consider buying the booze you use in the recipe in half-pint sizes. Those bottles are perfect for packaging the finished hot sauce. There is something both rustic and chic (and green) about reusing the bottles you bought the booze in. Just be sure to soak off the old labels before you fill the bottles. Alternatively, numerous shapes and sizes of bottles can be found online and at craft stores. The sauce gets hotter the longer it sits, so you want to make the sauce at least three weeks before you give it to people. Also, shake the bottles every few days. This homemade hot sauce is great as a condiment, mixed into recipes and even can be used to give kick to cocktails (best Bloody Mary ever). This recipe calls for rum, which gives the finished hot sauce a decidedly Caribbean taste. Want a more neutral flavor? Go with vodka.

4 whole allspice berries 10 whole black peppercorns 750-milliliter bottle white rum or vodka In a 4-cup heat-safe glass measuring cup, combine all ingredients. Cover tightly with plastic wrap, then set into a large saucepan. Pour enough water into the saucepan so it reaches the same level as the ingredients inside the

Choose your chilies A mix of dried chilies is nice, but you need to decide for yourself what sort of heat you (or the recipients of your gifts) can handle. Scotch bonnets are a great choice. Ditto for Thai bird. Want to really crank up the heat? Look for dried ghost chilies, supposedly the hottest around.

measuring cup. Turn on the heat to medium-low. Heat the water to 180 degrees F. (use a candy or instant thermometer to monitor), then heat at that temperature for 10 minutes. Remove the measuring cup from the water and uncover. Use a slotted spoon to remove the solids, then divide them between 4 small bottles (each large enough to hold 1 cup). Divide the rum or vodka among the bottles, then seal them tightly. Age for 3 weeks, gently shaking every day or so.

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HOT GIFTS By ELIZABETH KARMEL

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BRIDGE by Phillip Alder

Both at once will find the fit

CELEBRITY CIPHER

Kurt Vonnegut, whose best-known book is “Slaughterhouse-Five,” said, “Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.” Bridge causes laughter and frustration – if one side is inwardly laughing, the other is probably frustrated. Look at the North hand in today’s diagram. With neither side vulnerable, your righthand opponent opens one spade. What would you do? You have three choices: pass, two diamonds (higher-ranking of two fivecard suits first) and two no-trump (the Unusual No-trump, showing at least 5-5 in the minors). Pass might result in your side’s missing a good fit. But if you are due to be outbid, passing will not give helpful information to the opposing declarer. Two diamonds risks ending in diamonds when you belong in clubs, but does not drive your side to the three-level on a relatively weak hand. Two no-trump will at least find your side’s better minor-suit fit, but is aggressive with such unimpressive suits. Also, if they win the auction, you will have given their declarer a complete map of the deal. One columnist recommended pass, but said two diamonds was acceptable. I think two diamonds is the worst choice. Either stay out or make sure you find the right fit and potentially frustrate the opponents. Here, over two diamonds, partner might well pass, and the contract will fail. But over two no-trump, he will bid three clubs, and that can be made, for example, by establishing the diamonds. There are several possible lines of play. For the curious, download Deep Finesse free from deepfinesse.com.

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Then, your pharmacist labels your bottle with an expiration date that’s usually one year from the day your prescription is filled. So the expiration date you see on your pill bottle is usually sooner than the expiration date the drug company has assigned your pills. Expiration dates shouldn’t really matter with a medicine to treat a temporary problem – like taking an antibiotic for strep throat, for example. You should have swallowed the last medicine long before its expiration date. And expiration dates shouldn’t matter for a medicine that you are supposed to take regularly for a chronic problem, such as to keep your blood pressure normal. If you are taking the medicine as prescribed, it should never have an expiration date that already has passed. In fact, expiration dates should be an issue only when you have a medicine for a recurring temporary problem. I’m thinking of a strong pain pill for back pain that flares up from time to time, for example, or an antibiotic for a recurrent urinary tract infection. Remember that the favorable results I mentioned apply to medications that have been stored properly. Always keep your drugs in a cool, dry place in their original containers. And toss out medicines you no longer need. Their presence in your medicine cabinet can be confusing and could cause you accidentally to take the wrong pill.

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44 Tilt-a-Whirl and Ferris wheel 8 1950s Mideast 46 Insurgent 27 Cook up a 37 Invasive bug hot spot conspiracy 47 Underworld 39 Crazies group 9 Stop for water 29 Chorus that’s not nice to hear 40 Alito succeeded 50 “American ___” 10 Famous middle her on the name that means 32 Unidentified 52 Like a 14-Down bench “love of God” hostile aircraft 54 “The StarSpangled 11 Prepares for 33 ___ of personality 41 Cannot stand Banner” writer another round of 42 Hebrew name for 34 Punch shots 55 Measure God ingredient? opposed by 12 Flying transmitter 35 “Great” river of 43 Big name in Phyllis Schlafly, 14 Tiptoer, e.g. England 1980s jeans for short 18 What can take Online subscriptions: Today’s puzzle and more than 7,000 past people for a loop? puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year). Read about and comment on each puzzle: nytimes.com/wordplay. 22 Nissan S.U.V. Crosswords for young solvers: nytimes.com/studentcrosswords. 25 Contents of some banks 7 Slowpoke

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HOROSCOPE By EUGENIA LAST Newspaper Enterprise Association TODAY –Be wise in your choices this year. If you pick the right path, you can make your dreams come true. Planning and preparation are your strong points. Your strength of character will lead you in the direction you desire. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – Don’t let anyone meddle in your affairs. Keep your thoughts to yourself and your private matters secret. Interference from others will be what stands between you and success. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – Your desire for change may concern the people who love you. Follow your heart. If your actions are less transparent, you will avoid interference. Be true to yourself and forge ahead. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – Someone you love will demand extra attention. Don’t give in too readily if you have made a prior commitment. It’s important that you respect your needs

as well. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – Take care of pressing health problems. Make an appointment with your doctor or get some needed rest. Don’t let anyone upset you or cause undue stress. Nurture your emotional and physical needs. ARIES (March 21-April 19) – Speak up and clear the air if you feel it will help a conflict you have with someone. Anger is a waste of time, and ignoring the situation will result in emotional stress. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – Look at the big picture and find a way to reach your destination. A monetary gain is apparent if you put in the time and effort to finish what you start. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – Engage in some serious self-reflection in order to discover a way to address any problem you are experiencing. Downtime will give you the opportunity to think and make a decision. CANCER (June 21-July 22) – Avoid joint money ventures. An older or younger

person in your life will compete for your attention. A compassionate and mindful approach will clear up a misunderstanding. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – The more you pursue the things you want, the better you will do and the more you will gain. Keep in mind that a penny saved is a penny earned. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – Expect someone to make poor assumptions. Ignore what’s being said and paint a clear picture that reveals the facts in order to bypass trouble and accomplish great things. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – Empty promises will be a result of you not wanting to make up your mind or make a move. Assess the situation and take action – only then will you reap full advantage. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – You’ll accomplish the most if you stay out of the spotlight. Secretly making changes to your routine or a plan will help you avoid interference.

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the pills in my medicine cabinet reach the expiration date. Do I really need to throw them out? They can be expensive. Dear Reader: The two questions to ask about pills that are past their expiration date are: Do they lose their strength, and do they become toxic or harmful? There is little evidence that outdated medications become toxic or harmful. However, some drugs do lose their potency, or effectiveness, over time. The most notable is nitroglycerin, which should be replaced every six months. The epinephrine in EpiPens also loses its potency past its expiration date. You absolutely do not want to take the risk of needing a nitroglycerin pill to treat sudden heart pain -- and having the pill not work. Likewise with EpiPens to stop a severe allergic reaction. In addition, liquid drugs are less stable than tablets or powders. Liquid drugs include oral suspensions and solutions and injectable products. As a general rule, I would get a fresh refill of liquid drugs when they pass their expiration date. Most drugs, however, retain their strength past their expiration dates. In one study, for example, researchers tested 96 different drugs stored in their original containers. They found that more than three-quarters of these drugs would remain stable for nearly five years beyond their expiration dates. And a study of two anti-influenza drugs found that these drugs remained fully active after 25 years of storage! Drug companies generally give their products an expiration date two to three years from the date they’re manufactured.

ACROSS 1 “The ___ is up!” 4 Corrodes 9 What tiny fish and eyes do 13 Hunky-dory 15 What might lead you to say “Whatever” 16 Spy Aldrich 17 34-Across case involving … wrongful termination? 19 ♂ 20 Prepares to tie one’s shoes, say 21 Put a strain on 23 Multiplication sign, in math class 24 Some razors 25 … divorce proceedings? 28 Washing machine cycle 29 Political group unlikely to be swayed

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Note to readers: This column is an update of one that originally appeared in October 2011.

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COMICS Arlo & Janis

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Big Nate

Frank & Earnest

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DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips sent her an apology and we talked about it afterward. I feel terrible about hurting her, because she is a sweet person, and it was a complete misunderstanding on my part. She told me she accepted my apology. What else can I do for her, or should I just learn my lesson? – Flubbed It In Florida Dear Flubbed: I think your apology was enough. However, because it hasn’t assuaged your guilt, consider asking if you can treat her to lunch. And in the future, look twice before hitting “send.” Better yet, go “old school” and write your thoughts in a notebook you keep in your purse. Dear Abby: I am scheduled to attend a wedding later this month. Well, I just found out the groom’s uncle is not a real minister, and that he purchased his minister’s license online. I think it is very disrespectful to people who take religion seriously, and to real ministers who spend years studying in order to be ordained. There’s nothing wrong with having a judge preside over the ceremony, but to have a fake minister preside makes the whole ceremony a fraud. If I say anything, I know it will cause hurt feelings, so I’m keeping my mouth shut. Am I an old fuddy-duddy? –

Silent in Springfield Dear Silent: You are entitled to your feelings, but if this uncle is the person the happy couple wants to officiate, you shouldn’t judge. If their choice makes you uncomfortable, stay home.

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

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The Argyle Sweater

Dear Abby: I have dated a lot of women over the years -- including actresses, beauty contest winners and models. Every one of them, except my current live-in, “Amanda,” would dress up in lingerie when I asked them to. Amanda adamantly refuses. She says if I love her, I should be turned on whether she’s nude or wearing lingerie. Part of the problem is she’s not in the best shape, and the lingerie would hide that. I have tried bargaining with her, but she won’t agree. She doesn’t understand why I’m not chasing her around all the time. I have tried to explain that I don’t find a tummy sexy. She just calls me Shallow Hal. Advice? – Hal in New York Dear Hal: I’d love to know what attracted you to Amanda in the first place, since your “type” seems to have always been women who are arm candy. Sadly, taut bodies don’t always last. At some point, age, pregnancies and the pull of gravity can cause them to sag. By the way, with the exception of pregnancy, this can affect men as well as women. Bottom line: If physical perfection is what you need to feel aroused, then you and Amanda may be a mismatch because NOBODY’S perfect. (And this includes you.) Dear Abby: I have started using an effective coping skill when I get upset about something or someone at work. I “vent” in a personal email to myself and send it to my home email address. Well, today I got upset with my office buddy, so I sent myself an email. But instead of it going to my home, I mistakenly sent it to her and it hurt her feelings. I never meant for her or anyone else to read it. The technique keeps me from staying angry at work. As soon as I realized what I had done, I

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Kenmore Gas Stove

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Wedding Toasting Flutes

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Christmas Décor - Animated Ice Skating Figure of Micky & Minnie Mouse dressed in red velvet, Great for show in windows or next to Xmas tree - $150. 773-315-9677 leave message

1986 Cadillac DeVille Fleetwood

Nice ride, many new parts. 46,500 original miles, garage kept. Second owner, $3900. 815-263-8044

2002 HYUNDAI S0NATA

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CLASSIFIED 37 wit: LOT 50, IN PLANK TRAIL ESTATES - PHASE 2, BEING A SUBDIVISION IN THE SOUTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 24, TOWNSHIP 35 NORTH, RANGE 12, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED AUGUST 27, 2001, AS DOCUMENT NUMBER R2001-112538, IN WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS. COMMON ADDRESS: 21325 Plank Trl Dr., Frankfort, IL 60423 P.I.N.: 19-09-24-403-014 and which said mortgage was signed by HERBERT PERKINS, mortgagor, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for First Franklin a Division of National City Bank, as Mortgagee, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Will County as Document No. R2006186420; and for such other relief prayed; that summons was duly issued out of the Circuit Court of Will County against you as provided by law, and that the said suit is now pending. YOU MAY STILL BE ABLE TO SAVE YOUR HOME. DO NOT IGNORE THIS DOCUMENT. By order of the Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit, this case is set for Mandatory Mediation on 11/19/2015 at 1:30 pm at the Will County Court Annex-3rd Floor (Arbitration Center), 57 N. Ottawa St., Joliet, Illinois. A lender representative will be present along with a court appointed mediator to discuss options that you may have and to pre-screen you for a potential mortgage modification. YOU MUST APPEAR ON THE MEDIATION DATE GIVEN OR YOUR RIGHT TO MEDIATION WILL TERMINATE. NOW THEREFORE, UNLESS YOU, the said above defendant, file your answer to the Complaint in said suit or otherwise make your appearance therein, in the Office of the Clerk of this Court in Will County at Will County Court House 14 West Jefferson Street, Joliet, IL 60432 on or before the December 18, 2015, default may be entered against you at any time after that day and a judgment entered in accordance with the prayer of said

38 CLASSIFIED complaint. Johnson, Blumberg, & Associates, LLC 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite 1125 Chicago, Illinois 60606 Ph. 312-541-9710 Fax 312-541-9711 JB&A # IL 15 2009 I675910 (Published in the Herald-News 18, 25, 2015 November December 2, 2015)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 12TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WILL COUNTY - JOLIET ILLINOIS JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION PLAINTIFF VS DARNELL CRAWFORD A/K/A DARNELL L CRAWFORD; JESSIE WILLIAMS A/K/A JESSIE L

• Wednesday, December 2, 2015 • The Herald-News / TheHerald-News.com WILLIAMS A/K/A JESSIE LAVONNE WILLIAMS A/K/A JESSIE REYNOLDS A/K/A JESSIE VENSON; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; DEFENDANTS 15 CH 2202 612 KEVIN LANE UNIVERSITY PARK, IL 60484 F/K/A UNIVERSITY PARK, IL 60466 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS GIVEN YOU, DARNELL CRAWFORD A/K/A DARNELL L CRAWFORD; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; defendants, that this case has been commenced in this Court against you and other defendants, asking for the foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying the premises described as follows, to wit: LOT 57 IN ROSEDALE SUBDIVISION PHASE 2, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 12, TOWNSHIP 34 NORTH, RANGE 13 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL

MERIDIAN IN WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as: 612 KEVIN LANE UNIVERSITY PARK, IL 60484 F/K/A UNIVERSITY PARK, IL 60466 and which said Mortgage was made by, DARNELL CRAWFORD A/K/A DARNELL L CRAWFORD; JESSIE WILLIAMS A/K/A JESSIE L WILLIAMS A/K/A JESSIE LAVONNE WILLIAMS A/K/A JESSIE REYNOLDS A/K/A JESSIE VENSON; Mortgagor (s), to CHASE BANK USA, N.A. Mortgagee, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of WILL County, Illinois, as Document No. R07102926; and for other relief. UNLESS YOU file your answer or otherwise file your appearance in this case in the Office of the Clerk of this County, Pamela J. McGuire Clerk of the Court

14 W Jefferson Suite 212 Joliet, Illinois 60432 on or before January 4, 2016, A JUDGMENT OR DECREE BY DEFAULT MAY BE TAKEN AGAINST YOU FOR THE RELIEF ASKED IN THE COMPLAINT. YOU MAY STILL BE ABLE TO SAVE YOUR HOME. DO NOT IGNORE THIS DOCUMENT. By order of the Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of the Twelfth Circuit Court, this case is set for Mandatory Mediation on JANUARY 12, 2015 at, 1:00 p.m. at the Will County Court, Annex 3rd Floor (Arbitration Center) 57 N. Ottawa Street, Joliet, Illinois. A lender representative will be present along with a court appointed mediator to discuss options that you may have and to pre-screen you for a potential mortgage modification. For further information on the mediation process, please see the attached NOTICE OF MANDATORY MEDIATION.

YOU MUST APPEAR ON THE MEDIATION DATE GIVEN OR YOUR MEDIATION WILL BE TERMINATED. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES Attorneys for Plaintiff Thirteenth Floor 1 North Dearborn Chicago, Illinois 60602 Tel. (312) 346-9088 Fax (312) 346-1557 PA 1506620 I676858 (Published in the Herald-News December 2, 9, 16, 2015)

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ESTATE OF LOUIS J. PESAVENTO, There will be a court hearing on my Deceased request to change my name from: EAN GOU No. 2015 P 00827 to the new name of: EANNA GOU CLAIM NOTICE The court hearing will be held: on December 23, 2015 at 9:00 NOTICE IS GIVEN to creditors of the a.m., at 57 N. Ottawa St, Joliet, death of Louis J. Pesavento of Will County, in Courtroom A236. Lockport, Illinois. Letters of Office were issued to Mary Ann Furlane on /s/ YAWA ZHANG November 17, 2015 whose address is 4925 Parkway Drive, (Published in the Herald-News Downers Grove, Illinois 60515, as November 25, December 2 & 9, Independent Executor, whose attor2015) 1136011 ney of record is Gabriel G. Orenic of Spesia & Ayers, 1415 Black Road, Joliet, IL 60435. CASE NO: 15 MR 02608

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LEGAL NOTICE CITY OF JOLIET ADVERTISEMENT TO BIDS CONTRACT NO. 2140-0116 PROJECT NAME: WELL 11D REHABILITATION-REBID - JOLIET, IL

LEGAL NOTICE CITY OF JOLIET ADVERTISEMENT TO BIDS CONTRACT NO. 2139-0116 PROJECT NAME: WELL 5D REHABILITATION-REBID - JOLIET, IL

The City of Joliet, Illinois, does hereby invite sealed bids for the Well 11D Rehabilitation project, Joliet, Illinois. Bids will be received at the Office of the City Clerk, City of Joliet Municipal Building at 150 West Jefferson Street, Joliet, Illinois 60432-4156 until 10:10 A.M. local time on, December 17, 2015, at which time they will be opened and publicly read aloud. Those desiring to bid may examine the bid documents and detailed specifications at the above address in the Purchasing Department, between the hours of 8:00 A.M. and 4:30 P.M., Monday through Friday. Electronic copies of the documents can be received by emailing purchasing@jolietcity.org. All bidders will be required to submit Bid Security in the form of a Certified Check, Cashier's Check or a Bid Bond in the amount of Ten percent (10%) of the Base Bid, payable to the City of Joliet. The successful bidder will be required to post performance Security and to provide a Certificate of Insurance as set forth in the Invitation of Bid and the General Terms & Conditions. Bidders must be prequalified with the City of Joliet to bid this project pursuant to Ordinance 7345. A bidder shall become prequalified in one of the following ways:

The City of Joliet, Illinois, does hereby invite sealed bids for the Well 5D Rehabilitation project, Joliet, Illinois. Bids will be received at the Office of the City Clerk, City of Joliet Municipal Building at 150 West Jefferson Street, Joliet, Illinois 60432-4156 until 10:00 A.M. local time on, December 17, 2015, at which time they will be opened and publicly read aloud. Those desiring to bid may examine the bid documents and detailed specifications at the above address in the Purchasing Department, between the hours of 8:00 A.M. and 4:30 P.M., Monday through Friday. Electronic copies of the documents can be received by emailing purchasing@jolietcity.org. All bidders will be required to submit Bid Security in the form of a Certified Check, Cashier's Check or a Bid Bond in the amount of Ten percent (10%) of the Base Bid, payable to the City of Joliet. The successful bidder will be required to post performance Security and to provide a Certificate of Insurance as set forth in the Invitation of Bid and the General Terms & Conditions. Bidders must be prequalified with the City of Joliet to bid this project pursuant to Ordinance 7345. A bidder shall become prequalified in one of the following ways:

1) If a company is currently prequalified by the State of Illinois (via IDOT or the Capital Development Board), such person shall submit a copy of said prequalification to Office of the City Clerk prior to the date and time set for the bid opening.

2) If a company is not State of Illinois prequalified as described above, they shall submit a City of Joliet Prequalification Form and a financial statement. The prequalification forms can be obtained from the City of Joliet website at http://www.cityofjoliet.info/departments/finance/purchasing/prequalification-process. This prequalification MUST be renewed yearly. The current price for City of Joliet prequalification is $175, which offsets the costs for independent auditor review of the documents. Those documents are to be submitted to City Clerk's Office, City of Joliet, 150 W. Jefferson Street, Joliet, IL 60432, at least 6 days prior to the bid opening and must be accompanied by $175 and need to be updated annually. In addition to the form being submitted, a financial statement prepared or certified by a duly certified public accountant should be also submitted. The certified public accountant shall also certify that he/she is presently a duly certified public accountant in the state in which he/she is certified. This financial statement must include the company's latest balance sheet and income statement showing the following items: Current Assets (e.g., cash joint venture accounts, accounts receivable, notes receivable, accrued income, deposits, materials inventory, and prepaid expenses). The evaluation of the independent auditor shall determine the amount of prequalification. Prequalification shall be valid for a period of twelve (12) calendar months following the date of verification by the independent auditors.

3) Bids from bidders who have not submitted required prequalification documents as required in subsection (1) or (2) above shall not be opened. The City of Joliet reserves the right to reject any and all bids, parts of any and all bids, or to waive technical errors or omissions in bids. The Contract shall be subject to the provisions of the Prevailing Wage Act (820 ILCS 130/1 et seq.) to the extent required by law.

3) Bids from bidders who have not submitted required prequalification documents as required in subsection (1) or (2) above shall not be opened.

JAMES D. HOCK CITY MANAGER

The City of Joliet reserves the right to reject any and all bids, parts of any and all bids, or to waive technical errors or omissions in bids. The Contract shall be subject to the provisions of the Prevailing Wage Act (820 ILCS 130/1 et seq.) to the extent required by law. ALL PROPOSALS ARE SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE CITY OF JOLIET PROCUREMENT CODE (Section 2-430 - 2-453 of the Code of Ordinances) BID DOCUMENT FEE: $0.00 Published in the Herald News JAMES D. HOCK WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2015 CITY MANAGER

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