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Will head district through search for permanent leader

By VIKAAS SHANKER vshanker@shawmedia.com PLAINFIELD – The new captain of the shaky Plainfield Township Park District is counting on his 15 years of experience leading parks to help steer the district on a more stable course.

Richard Grodsky, a former executive director at Elmhurst Park District, was hired as the interim executive director by commissioners at a special board meeting April 17.

“There was a mutual agreement between the park board and myself that I will help them right the ship,” said Grodsky, who has most recently consulted for other parks organizations.

Grodsky has met staff and taken a tour through the parks while working on a trend analysis for several areas of the district.

“They gave me the authority to do what the executive director is responsible for,” he said. “If adjustments are to be

made, they’ll be made. People will know who and why they are. But mostly it’s guidance.”

Grodsky’s consulting services agreement pays him $75 per hour for 15 hours per week.

He won’t be eligible for employee benefits and will hold the position until a permanent executive director is hired. That will most likely happen in midto late June.

Grodsky has Richard t o l d staff his Grodsky job is “to stop the wheels from spinning and gain traction.” One of his main goals is to make sure the lines of communication with the public are open.

“People need stability and need the trust level to know this unit of local government is doing the best for the people,” Grodsky said.

Superintendent of Parks Gene Coldwater was thrust into the executive director position in January, but returned to his old job after Grodsky was hired.

“It’s been real smooth,” Coldwater said of the transition. “I think having an outsider in here, it’s actually helped the comfort level.”

Coldwater said there were a lot of issues in many of the departments of the park district. But Grodsky was open to suggestions and made the staff more comfortable about him making decisions.

Commissioner Mary Kay Ludemann is one of the members of the search committee tasked with finding a permanent executive director for the district. She said Grodsky has had a calming effect on staff and helped stabilize the district.

“Rich comes with the experience and knowledge to hit the ground running, which is what we need right now,” Ludemann said.

Grodsky said he’s working with staff to determine the need for a parks planner. The planning department was eliminated in January after two senior staffers in the department were forced to resign.

He’s also planning to meet next week with the youth sports organizations that use the parks to make sure land use is working for the groups.

“This is kind of fun for me because I’ve been able to take the body of work I’ve accomplished, and take the potential the park district has and move it forward,” Grodsky said.

Man gets prison time for stealing dog

By BRIAN STANLEY bstanley@shawmedia.com JOLIET – A man who stole a dog from a pet store at the Louis Joliet Mall last year has been sentenced to three-and-ahalf years in prison.

Brian Maness, 42, of Joliet pleaded guilty Thursday to a retail theft charge. Records show Maness has previous burglary convictions in Cook

County.

About 8 p.m. Feb. 1, 2013, Maness walked into Furry Babies and put a 1.5-pound female puppy under the flannel coat he was carrying and walked out. Surveillance video showed Maness was inside the store for less than a minute.

The dog was valued at $2,100.

Will County State’s Attorney spokesman Charles B. Pelkie said police received an

anonymous CrimeStoppers tip that Maness’ girlfriend had the puppy. Police went to the house but weren’t allowed inside.

“The girlfriend’s sister then contacted police saying the defendant had sold her the dog for $100 a few weeks earlier,” Pelkie said.

The puppy was returned unharmed to the store owner three days after the theft.

QUICK NEWS Will County to get $526,000 in grants Gov. Pat Quinn announced Thursday a $7.2 million investment that will allow communities across Illinois to clear blight and stabilize neighborhoods.

It includes $526,000 for Will County communities.

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ON THE COVER Children play a game April 15 during the Kidz Zone after-school program at the Smith Family YMCA in Joliet.

The YMCA’s camp and after-school program have been popular with parents looking for a safe place to engage kids in positive activities, helping the organization increase its membership by 23 percent last year.

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The funds come from the new Abandoned Property Program, which is administered by the Illinois Housing Development Authority and funded through filing fees paid by financial institutions, according to a news release.

Will County communities and institutions getting funds are:

• Braidwood, $41,150 • Joliet, $75,000 • South Suburban Land Bank and Development Authority, $260,600 • Will County, $150,000 For more information on the program, visit www.ihda.org.

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• Friday, May 2, 2014

OLIET – Renee Bosma was left scrambling last June for a place to take care of her 9-year-old daughter while she worked.

Bosma’s regular babysitter told Bosma her daughter Alexis was too old for the sitter’s day care.

Bosma’s coworkers suggested she enroll her daughter in the summer day camp at the Smith Family YMCA on Briggs Street.

“I was looking for a decent place to keep her busy,” said Bosma, a single parent who lives in Elwood. “With a sitter, she would be with a group of kids and they would have activities and snacks.

But it wasn’t a facility where she could go play basketball or go swimming. There’s more activities at the Y than at home day care.”

The summer day camp, along with the before- and after-school care programs, have led to a significant increase in membership at the Smith Family YMCA. The camp and the after-school program have been popular with parents looking for a safe place to engage kids in positive activities.

Last year saw a 23 percent increase in membership. Maurice Fears, Smith YMCA’s associate executive director, said this year the YMCA should experience another increase of more than 20 percent.

“This is phenomenal. The growth is off the charts,” Fears said.

The growth is attributed to increased efforts around programming. Katy Leclair, the chief operating officer for the Greater Joliet Area YMCA, said the summer camp and after-school programs were the main drivers of the increase.

“We’ve understood that schools are noticing increased issues of violence during the summer months,” said Leclair, adding that the YMCA is a need-based organization that responds to community needs. “We feel

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Reyna Hernandez (right) helps Yamietza Rivera, 8, with homework April 15 during the Kidz Zone after-school program at the Smith Family YMCA in Joliet. “Many parents are looking to engage in healthy lifestyles,” said Maurice Fears, Smith YMCA’s associate executive director, on the popularity of the organization’s programs. “They want a safer, structured environment.”

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To enroll in the Summer Day Camp program, bring to your local Joliet-area YMCA: • A completed registration form for each child • $30 registration fee per child • $25 deposit per week per child for the camps selected now we have a great program to engage the kids in a safe and fun environment.”

Fears said Smith Family YMCA staff did an assessment in 2012, where they looked at what the center could improve to assist community needs. Officials decided to target the family and aquatic programming of the YMCA, bringing new directors to handle both areas.

Swim lessons were restructured, and new youth and family programming – like the summer day camp – were launched last summer, when the Smith Family YMCA joined the Galowich Family YMCA in holding summer day camp.

Enrollment was about 35 kids at the Smith Family YMCA, but its management is expecting that number to significantly increase this year.

“Many parents are looking to engage in healthy lifestyles,” Fears said. “They want a safer, structured environment.”

The summer day camp on each campus runs from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. every weekday, with the option of extended hours from 7 to 9 a.m. and 4:30 to 6 p.m. The fee for a full member is $165 per week per child and $195 per week per child for program

members.

The camp includes outdoor and learning skills activities, field trips, movies, sports and other recreation.

Fears said registration is always open and anyone from the community is invited to register for the summer camp, or the before- and after-school programs, during school months.

One of the promises at the YMCA is no one will be turned away because of an inability to pay.

Any parent with financial aid can apply for a scholarship or funding through Child Care Resource & Referral or the Illinois Department of Human Services.

“As people have less financial resources, they turn to us for help,” Leclair said.

“They look to us to help care for their children and the financial help is available to them.”

Leclair said plenty of individuals and families donate to the YMCA, which is a United Way organization. Several businesses and banking institutions also contribute.

The organization uses those contributions to help provide assistance to families who can’t afford the full membership cost.

“We always find a way to help them,” Leclair said.

Bosma received a reduced membership price because of her financial position.

She also enrolled her daughter in the after-school care program, which picks her up from school and provides activities until Bosma is off work.

Bosma said the programs have been a relief for her as a single parent.

“It tremendously helps me out,” said Bosma. “The YMCA is like a godsend to me.”

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Region marks National Day of Prayer Morris church hosts gathering

By HEIDI LITCHFIELD hlitchfield@shawmedia.com MORRIS – The 63rd annual National Day of Prayer was recognized Thursday in Morris at Living Water Church of the Nazarene, with area ministers, the public and students from Immaculate Conception School in attendance.

The group gathered to pray for nine areas of interest: government and government leaders; armed forces; law enforcement, fire department and first responders; family; children and youth; education; economy; church; and repentance.

“All 50 governors and the president have declared this National Day of Prayer,” said Pastor Rich Giovannetti, Grundy County coordinator of the event and pastor at Standing in the Word Ministries.

“Our nation needs prayer, we need God in America. It keeps us secure, safe and focused.”

Other local events were held in Bolingbrook, Lemont and Plainfield, according to the National Day of Prayer website.

According to nationaldayofprayer.org, the National Day of Prayer tradition predates the founding of the United States, evidenced by the Continental Congress’ proclamation in 1775 setting aside a day of prayer. In 1952, Congress established an annual day of prayer and in 1988 that law was amended, designating the National Day of Prayer as the first Thursday in May. “There are thousands of different groups gathered together today,” Giovannetti said.

Father Ed Howe, Immaculate Conception Church priest, said we sometimes forget that the founding fathers founded America “under God.”

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ABOVE: Father Ed Howe from Immaculate Conception Church in Morris says a prayer during the National Day of Prayer event held Thursday at Living Water Church of the Nazarene. RIGHT: Anna Valentine reads from the Bible during National Day of Prayer before Pastor Steve Cook says a prayer for the government.

“For whatever reason we try to hide God in a lot of different places,” Howe said.

“The call to prayer was important to the founders of our country; in some circles it has become forbidden, and we have to ask, why?”

Students from ICS attended to pray with the community, as well as sing in the program.

“It’s an opportunity to participate in an ecumenical event. Our children are allowed to pray throughout the day; this gives them a chance to join other denominations in prayer,” ICS Principal Kim DesLauriers said.

The event opened with a introduction to the purpose of the event, which was themed “One Voice, United in Prayer.”

“Without shame we want America to know we are a praying people,” Giovannetti said. “We are not ashamed to say one nation under God.” Howe then spoke a prayer that was passed out via the National Day of Prayer organization website so that everyone who attended an organized event Thursday would be reciting the same prayer.

The Morris Color Guard was on hand, as were Marine Sgt. Rafael Estrada and Staff Sgt. Martin White to present the flags.

“The flag is a symbol of our nation,” said Jerry Terando, of the Morris Color Guard.

“As citizens, let us pray for our leaders.”

Area pastors then took turns reciting prayers.

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Committee OKs special-use permit for pot dispensary City Council still needs to consider business proposal

By BILL WIMBISCUS bwimbiscus@shawmedia.com JOLIET – Officials considered the first of what may be many special-use permits for a new kind of business in the city: medical marijuana dispensary.

The Joliet City Council’s Land Use & Legislative Committee approved Thursday a special-use permit for a dispensary at 1627 Rock Creek Blvd. The matter will now go before the full council for consideration.

If the special-use permit is approved, the owners of the business will apply for state certification, said Michael J. Martin, a Joliet attorney representing the owners. Even with the special permit, there is no guarantee that the state will provide certification, he said.

The dispensary would be in the Rock Run Business Park near Houbolt Road and Interstate 80.

“We think that Joliet as the county seat is the appropriate place for a dispensary,” Martin said.

Marijuana at the facility would have a low THC content, and generally be distributed in pill, liquid or edible forms, Martin said.

Under the state’s new medical marijuana laws, three dispensaries will be allowed

in Will County, Martin said.

The laws also allow one marijuana growing facility within Illinois State Police District 5, which comprises Will, Grundy and Kendall counties.

Joliet City Manager Jim Hock said the city so far has been approached by four cultivators and one dispenser about opening facilities.

City Planner Jim Haller noted that while the city generally avoids “speculative zoning,” state regulations requires that any marijuana-related business have a special-use permit in place before applying for certification.

“This is a legitimate business and should be treated as such,” Haller said.

Since no one is really sure how long the certification process will take – dispensers are certified by the Illinois Department of Health, growers by the Department of Agriculture – Haller recommended extending the special-use permit from 180 days to one year.

The committee agreed.

The business is owned by David Donka, David Prudden and Charles Harris.

In other business, the committee approved sending to the full city council a special-use permit for Hope Manor Joliet development, a 67unit veterans facility planned on the former campus of Silver Cross Hospital.

The project by Volunteers of America Illinois was rejected by the council last year over density concerns. VOA’s new proposal has fewer apartments in a larger area.

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Several district construction projects approved

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The same company would also install a gable roof for the Dellwood Park maintenance building for $19,940.

For about five years, park district officials have examined the roofs of each building they own and decided to put gable roofs on them instead of flat ones.

“It helps us because a lot of

the times with flat roofs you run into issues with leaking,” she said.

Jerry McCure & Sons were also approved by board members to handle the construction of a garage addition to Dellwood Park for $16,760.

Board members also revisited their intergovernmental agreement with Richland

Grade School District 88A. Under the agreement, park officials use school district property for public park purposes such as development, construction, operation and maintenance of landscaping and other facilities.

Micklevitz said the park district has been using the property for several years.

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LOCKPORT – Construction season is about to begin for Lockport Township Park District.

Several construction projects to aid an expanding park space this year were approved Monday by Lockport’s park board members.

Every year park officials assess their budget in the fall and winter before deciding on projects to complete in the spring, said Sue Micklevitz, the park district’s executive director.

“As soon as the weather breaks we’ll have a handful of projects we do right now,” she said.

Board members approved a roughly $76,900 bid for the Hassert Park pavilion construction project. Lockport-based K&B Concrete was awarded the bid and was the lowest among six other contractors.

Micklevitz said when Hassert Park was being developed several years ago, the pavilion was left out of the construction plans.

“This one has finally gotten up to the top of the prioritization list,” she said.

The 80-acre park has several softball fields, soccer

fields, a splash park and playgrounds, she said. The pavilion would be located near the playground and splash pad area.

Park board members also approved Joliet-based Jerry McCure & Son constructing a garage addition to Hassert Park for about $16,000 to store more supplies and equipment.

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This year, the city will begin phase II of Deer Ridge Park and begin work on the runway extension project at Morris Municipal Airport.

Residents also can look forward to new development in town with additions of new businesses and manufacturing facilities in 2014.

“A new Goodwill store has begun clearing ground next to Aldi and a Pilot Travel Center is preparing to break ground on north Route 47,” Kopczick said.

The city will continue to work toward creating a second tax increment financing district on the east side of town to include the proposed marina, and annexing the property needed for the new Costco meat processing facility, Kopczick added.

A TIF district is an area in

which assessed property values are frozen at their current level.

Tax money generated from the difference between the frozen value and current value of those properties in the district goes into a special TIF fund to be used to improve properties in the district.

“With all of the events, programs and festivals planned this year, like previous years, this year promises to be very busy and exciting,” Kopczick said.

Just before beginning the first meeting of the year, the city closed out fiscal 2013 with the last meeting of 2013 where the council approved an ordinance authorizing a development agreement between Morris and Pilot Travel Centers of America.

The agreement allows for a

storm water easement needed to complete a drainage project near Mall Road and the location of the new Pilot station.

The Pilot was first presented to the city in 2012, but the project was delayed due to internal issues at Pilot.

Pilot now hopes to begin construction soon. The station will include Subway, PJ Fresh Marketplace and Cinnabon restaurants.

The council also approved an ordinance creating the human resource administrator position, compensated with a $6,000 per year stipend. The city’s current Deputy Treasurer Daria Lynes was then appointed to the position during the first-of-the-year meeting.

With the stipend, Lynes will be making about $60,000 per year.

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Estimate for runway plan lower than expected

By JESSICA BOURQUE jbourque@shawmedia.com MORRIS – Morris Municipal Airport will spend less than budgeted on a runway extension project after bids for the project came in $500,000 less than engineers expected.

It was estimated that adding 500 additional feet of runway would cost about $1.6

million, but the lowest bid presented at Tuesday’s Morris Airport Committee meeting was $1.1 million from P.T. Ferro Construction out of Joliet.

Ninety percent of the funding for the extension project – which should be completed by the end of this construction season – is coming from federal grant money. The remaining 10 percent of the project cost is split between the state and the city, Morris Mayor Richard Kopczick said.

With the lower project cost, the city’s cost burden will be

reduced by about $25,000, he said.

“The division of aeronautics controls all of those dollars,” Kopczick said Wednesday. “But the 5 percent we have to match is reduced.”

The state ultimately determines which bid to accept, but Kopczick said all three of the submitted bids came in below the original estimate.

Airport manager Jeff Vogen said the half million in savings will go back into the block grant money and be used for other projects.

“That [funding] might ac-

tually come back to us with other projects,” Vogen told the committee Tuesday.

The runway extension is the first of many improvement projects scheduled in the next five years aimed at making the airport more compatible for corporate jets.

After the runway is extended to 5,500 feet in length, the city will install new precision lights along the runway to make landing easier. The lighting project will cost the city an additional $12,000.

Over the three following years, the city plans to resur-

face and widen the runway, extending it to 100 feet in width.

The goal is to bring in more corporate aircraft since there are several major industries located in and near Grundy County. Kopczick said the city has no plans of equipping the airport for commercial aircraft use.

“With the improvements, we can bring in a larger corporate aircraft which will help develop commercial industry in this area,” Kopczick said.

“Costco executives use our airport a lot.”

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MORRIS – The city of Morris rang in the new fiscal year Thursday with a prayer from Steve Larson of the First Baptist Church and a state of the city address from Mayor Richard Kopczick.

The address is delivered every year on May 1 – when the city’s new fiscal year begins – to highlight the accomplishments of the prior year and the proposed projects of the upcoming budget cycle.

Kopczick touted Morris’ work to save taxpayers mon-

ey through initiatives like the city’s electrical aggregation program, which has saved an estimated $450 per household in the last three years.

“As has been the case for more than 10 years, the city was once again able to hold our Richard p r o p e r t y t a x Kopczick multiplier to just 65 cents and maintain a positive balance in our budget,” Kopczick said in his address.

Some of the major projects from last year included beginning work on the new Deer Ridge Park, the expansion of the city’s water plant and the Waverly Street Storm Sewer Project, which will alleviate flooding near the hospital.

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By BRIAN STANLEY bstanley@shawmedia.com JOLIET – Police say a man gave a tattoo to a 15-year-old girl.

Cmdr. Al Roechner said the girl’s mother called police about 1:30 a.m. Thursday after learning her daughter had gone to the Townhouse Motel, 832 Plainfield Road, Joliet.

“She said her daughter

was supposed to be visiting a female friend, but had actually gone to the motel to discuss having Anthony Garcia fix the tattoo he’d given her a few weeks ago,” Roechner said.

Police arrived and spoke with the girl, who has the letters “T” and “R” tattooed on her chest, Roechner said.

Garcia, 23, of Joliet, was not present, but returned to the motel about 20 minutes

later.

Roechner said Garcia, who had an outstanding arrest warrant, was aware of the girl’s age and is not a licensed tattoo artist.

“He said he’d gotten his machine off the Internet,” Roechner said.

Garcia was charged with tattooing the body of a minor and booked into the Will County Jail on the warrant.

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By BRIAN STANLEY bstanley@shawmedia.com PLAINFIELD – Machinery at a recycling plant caught fire Thursday morning.

Deputy Fire Chief Jon Stratton said no one was in-

jured at Kuusakoski Recycling, but the ring crusher – a machine that smashes metal into smaller chips – will be out of service after a belt ignited.

The fire began about 8:50 a.m. and was contained to the machine area, but “heavy

smoke” filled the building at 13543 S. Route 30, Stratton said.

The building once housed the presses for Copley Newspaper Printing and served as the offices of The Herald-News from 2009 to 2012.

JOLIET – DNA testing has confirmed the decomposed body discovered last month in a vacant Joliet building was the man who wandered away from Harrah’s Casino last fall.

Will County Coroner Patrick K. O’Neil said the death of Henry L. Chunn, 69, of Calumet City does not appear to be foul play.

Joliet police were called about 2:30 p.m. April 17 after the body was discovered inside 211 North Joliet St.,

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Chunn and his wife were staying at the nearby casino hotel on Oct. 17. Chunn’s wife ate breakfast and returned to their room about 9 a.m. to find him gone. She told investigators it was not unusual for her husband to take walks that lasted several hours, but she grew concerned when he didn’t come back.

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course, in front of the newly completed JJC Veterans Center, and the VA Mobile Bus and Hines VA Mobile Medical Unit will be parked outside.

The resource fair is being held to help provide information on community resources to all

veterans in the JJC district. The fair is hosted by the JJC Veterans Alliance Club in conjunction with the JJC Financial Aid/Veterans Office. For information, call 815280-2623 or email VeteransBenefits@jjc.edu.

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FEMA requirements The decision to purchase the radios is a direct result of Morris’s long-term natural disaster mitigation plan, enacted last year.

The city was required to complete the plan to retain eligibility for Federal Emergency Management Agency funding. Ensuring that every household had a NWS-certified radio was included in that mitigation plan. “[FEMA] wants to see what your city is doing to protect property,” Kopczick said.

“Instead of spending their resources to come clean up after a major disaster, they want to see how you’ve prepared.”

The project was made a priority last fall when the tornado struck Diamond and Coal City.

“That hit really close to home,” Kopczick said. “When the tornado hit, it was like, ‘Wow, that happened really fast.’ So we decided to move forward with the radio program.”

The radios are designed to pick up local broadcast signals from the local National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration station and will alert residents to all manner of severe weather.

“It’s not only for tornadoes,” Coleman said. “Blizzards, wind storms, floods – it covers most weather events.”

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MORRIS – The city of Morris is on its way to becoming a beacon of weather preparedness.

If city officials get their way, every Morris resident will be equipped with a National Weather Service weather alert radio, programmed to broadcast localized severe weather alerts directly from the weather service.

Morris Mayor Richard Kopczick said the city is partnering with Walgreens to subsidize the radios and offer them to Morris residents at a substantially discounted price of $10.

The Midland Weather Alert Radios – sold at several major retailers and recommended by the Department of Homeland Security for Emergency Preparedness – cost from $30 to $40 when purchased new.

“Walgreens is excited to participate with us,” Morris Fire Marshall Robert Coleman said. “If we put this together, we’ll be the first community to partner with Walgreens on a project of this size with the radios.”

In the budget for fiscal 2014, the city set aside several thousand dollars to purchase 2,500 radios, which officials hope to have ordered within the next few months, Kopczick said.

To be eligible for a reduced-cost radio, residents must have an address within the corporate city limits of Morris, which excludes some residents who live in Goose Lake and other areas that technically have a Morris address.

Every household will receive no more than one radio at the discounted rate.

“This is only for the people

who live within the corporate city limits because those other folks do not pay taxes to the city of Morris. This program is only for our taxpayers,” Kopczick said.

If the first batch of radios goes over well and there is a large enough demand, the city will purchase more in fiscal 2015. The hope is to distribute the radios to all Morris residents, Kopczick said.

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Illinois same-sex couples can convert civil unions to marriages next month JOLIET – Same-sex couples can convert their existing civil union into a marriage starting June 1.

New civil unions will still be permitted and existing ones are not automatically converted into a marriage, according to a news release from the Will County Clerk’s office.

The conversion comes into effect under the Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act that Gov. Pat Quinn signed into law Nov. 20.

The conversion must be done at the clerk’s office in the county where the civil union license was issued.

If that was in Will County, applications can be taken at the county clerk’s office at 302 N. Chicago St., or the satellite locations: • Crete Township Office, 1367 Wood St., Crete, IL 60417, 708-672-8279.

• DuPage Township Office, 241 Canterbury Lane, Bolingbrook, IL 60440, 630-759-1317.

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Couples who have a civil union can apply for a marriage license and hold a ceremony in the next 60 days from their application or apply for a marriage license that will be backdated to the civil union, according to the news release. There is no charge for either option.

Since civil unions between same-sex couples became legal in June 2011, the Will County Clerk has issued 286 licenses, 271 of which have been registered with the clerk’s office.

his driveway Saturday night.

Chief Brian Benton said the 54-year-old victim parked about 11 p.m. in the 900 block of Edgerton Drive when he was approached by three men.

“He was cleaning out his car [when] they pushed him back into his car, held him down and rifled through his pockets,” Benton said.

The robbers then ran to a car parked a few houses down and left. The victim was not injured.

Currently, 49 million Americans – 1 in 6 – are unsure where their next meal is coming from.

Sixteen million are children who feel hunger’s impact on their overall health and ability to perform in school, according to a news release. And nearly 5 million seniors over age 60 are food insecure, with many living on fixed incomes.

Food banks and pantries often receive the majority of their donations during the holiday season.

By springtime, many pantries are depleted, entering the summer low on supplies at a time when many school breakfast and lunch programs are not available for children in need.

To help, leave a nonperishable food donation in a bag by your mailbox on May 10, and the postal carrier will do the rest.

LOCAL BRIEFS Autopsy results released in fatal Joliet crash JOLIET – An autopsy showed a Joliet man died from injuries sustained after his van crashed into a tree Tuesday.

David Herrera, 56, was driving a gray GMC Sierra south on Wesmere Parkway about 2 p.m. when he left the road and smashed into a tree north of Twin Lakes Drive, police said.

Herrera, who relatives said recently had a heart transplant, was unable to stop the vehicle, police said.

Will County Coroner Patrick K. O’Neil said an autopsy performed Wednesday showed Herrera “died from multiple injuries as a result of the crash.”

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Letter carriers’ annual food drive will be May 10 May 10 will mark the 22nd anniversary of the National Association of Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive in partnership with the U.S. Postal Service, Campbell Soup, Feeding America and other groups.

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By BRIAN STANLEY bstanley@shawmedia.com JOLIET – A 32-year-old man was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison as a result of his third Class X felony conviction.

Augusta Spearman of Joliet was found guilty of home invasion in October during a jury trial before Judge Robert Livas in which Spearman represented himself.

Court records show Spearman was assigned a public defender shortly after he was arrested in April 2013. He chose to represent himself in June and was reminded by Livas in subsequent court appearances that a conviction carried a mandatory life sentence.

Spearman was convicted of armed robbery in 2004 and delivery of drugs near a park in 2008. He was on parole for that offense at the time of his most recent arrest.

A motion for appeal that

Spearman filed, using the public defender he fired earlier, indicated he was offered a six-year sentence as part of a plea deal but did not accept the Will County State’s Attorney’s offer in time.

Spearman’s motion also argues the state failed to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt when the victim identified one of his attackers as weighing “400 pounds” while hospital records list Spearman at 333 pounds.

On April 7, 2013, Anthony W. Lukas, 23, and Spearman entered an apartment in the 500 block of Dover Street and robbed a man at gunpoint, police said. Lukas and Spearman were identified when police used a GPS feature to find the victim’s cellphone with the two men. Spearman admitted to participating in the robbery. Lukas pleaded guilty to a theft charge and was sentenced to three years in prison earlier this year.

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MICHAEL T. KULIG Born: Sept. 29, 1931; In Chicago, IL Died: April 29, 2014; In Highland, IL Michael T. Kulig, age 82, of Highland, IL, died April 29, 2014.

He was born on September 29, 1931, in Chicago, IL, the son of Michael F. and Sophie (nee Glowa) Kulig. On August 25, 1956, he married Joan C. Kulig (nee McLinden) who survives. Born and raised in Chicago, IL; served with the US Air Force on active duty from

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uty f November 8, 1951 until June 19, 1953, during the Korean War, stationed with the Far East Logistical Force near Tokyo.

Theresa M. He graduated from Lewis College Gallagher, age 86, of in Lockport, IL in 1958, where he Manhattan, passed went into teaching at Richland away peacefully on Grade School in Crest Hill, Illinois.

Thursday, May 1, He coached all boys sports, and 2014 at Joliet Area later became the District Community Hospice Home.

Superintendent. In 1978, he moved She is survived by two sisters, to become Superintendent of the Cecilia (Truman) Mundt and Doris Akeley, Minnesota, School District, (Wesley) Hawryluk; and her sister in where he also coached High School law, Doris Jean (Francis Gallagher) Varsity Football, until his retirement Robbins; and 22 nieces and in 1989. nephews.

He received numerous honors for Preceded in death by three his work in Education, and brothers, Eugene (Mary Kay), community service. His Francis, and Joseph (Betty) memberships included Holy Family Gallagher; five sisters, Irene School Board (past President); Gallagher, Bernice (Thomas) chairmen of Will County United Bratcher, Ruth (Paul) Audette, Crusade, and American Cancer Lillian (Ambrose) Walsh and Hazel Society; Lewis University Alumni Draves; two nieces, and one Association (past vice-president); nephew.

Akeley Lion's Club (past President Theresa was a life-long member of and Secretary); Highland Lion's St. Joseph Church in Manhattan.

Club, Highland, IL; and member of She graduated from St. Joseph VFW Post 5694 - Highland IL. Grade School in 1941 and from Survivors include his wife, Joan C. Peotone High School in 1945. She Kulig nee McLinden, Highland, IL; was a past employee of the 1st sons, Michael A. (Kathy) Kulig, National Bank of Joliet for 34 years Highland, IL, Mark T. Kulig, Highland, and retired as Assistant Vice IL, Matthew P. (Kathy) Kulig, President in 1988. She worked as a Millstadt, IL; daughters, Stacy volunteer for many years at the (Douglas) Clift, Alexandria, VA, Manhattan Library.

Tracy A. (Lt Col, Ignacio, USAF Funeral service for Theresa M. Retired) Alvarez, Lorton, VA. Gallagher will be 9:30 A.M. on He was preceded in death by his Monday, May 5, 2014 from the parents; a daughter, Kathleen Susan Forsythe Funeral Home, Manhattan, Kulig (died at 6 months, Oct 8, to St. Joseph Catholic Church, 235 1960); and eight siblings.

W. North Street, Manhattan, Mass Arrangements are being handled of Christian Burial 10:00 A.M.

by Spengel-Boulanger Funeral Interment St. Joseph Cemetery.

Home in Highland, Illinois, Memorials to the Manhattanwww.spengel-boulanger.com.

Elwood Public Library or the Joliet Funeral Mass will be at 10:00 AM Area Community Hospice would be on Friday, May 2, 2014, at Saint Paul most appreciated.

Catholic Church in Highland, IL, with Visitation Sunday, from 2:00 P.M. Rev. Fr. Paul Kala, Pastor, St. to 6:00 P.M. Forsythe Funeral Lawrence Catholic Church, Home, 507 S. State St. (Rt. 52, Greenville, IL, officiating. Interment Manhattan, IL 60442 will be at a later date at Abraham For information: 815-478-3321 or Lincoln National Cemetery in www.forsythefuneralhome.com Elwood, IL. Memorial contributions may be made to Donor's Choice.

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umbia, KY p (Paige) Daniels of Shorewood.

Eleven grandchildren, Mia and How to submit Anthony Pesavento, Ryan, Patricia Doretha April, age and Michael A'Hearn, Ciara and Send information to obits@ 74. At rest Monday, Savana Daniels, Joseph, Richelle, theherald-news.com or call April 28, 2014 at her Camilla and Nicholas Daniels. Three 877-264-2527. home after a great-grandchildren, Anthony, courageous battle Kayona and Kaylyn Pesavento. Stepwith lung cancer.

Most obituaries appear children, Chris (Michelle) Black and Preceded in death online. To leave a message of the late Steve Black. Step-daughterby her parents. condolence in the online guest in-law, Joy Black Williams. StepSurvived by children, Darlene April book, go to theherald-news. grandchildren, Trenton, Kyrstan, of Joliet, IL, Andre Sr. (Gabriele) of com/obits Dylan, Marissa, Olivia and Columbia, South Carolina, and Jada Christopher. One sister, Patricia April-Brown (Everett) of South Barrowman. Numerous nieces, Holland, IL; seven grandchildren, School District 86 after over 42 nephews and a multitude of friends Jonathan (Deon) Banks and Kayla also survive.

Green of Joliet, IL, Andre April, Jr. of years of teaching. She truly loved education, her coworkers and A Memorial Mass for Phil Daniels Frederick, MD, Andrew April of students. will be held at St. Ambrose Catholic Orlando, FL, Justice April and A special thank you to the Church in Crest Hill on Friday, May Jasmine April of Columbia, SC and following people: The entire staff at 2, 2014 at 11:00 am. The family will Briana Payton; brothers, James Adventist Hinsdale Hospital, receive friends at the church Phillip (Barbara) Carter, Fitzgerald Presence St. Joseph Hospital, JOHA beginning at 9:00 am. Per Phil's Carter, and George Justice of and Dr. Steven S. Nemeth. Your wishes, cremation rites have been Chicago, IL; sisters, Marva Carter kindness and level of care were accorded and final inurnment will and Rosetta Whitfield of St. Louis, second to none be held at Abraham Lincoln National MO; brothers-in-law, A.J. (Ann) April Memorial services will be held at Cemetery at a later date. of Markham, IL, Larry, Robert and the Carlson-Holmquist-Sayles In lieu of flowers, memorials in Ricky Reed of Memphis, TN, and Funeral Home, 2320 Black Road, on Phil's name to the Joliet Area Robert Reed of Atlanta, GA; sistersSaturday, May 3, 2014 at 1:00 PM. Community Hospice would be in-law, Gertrude (Molly) Scott of In lieu of flowers, memorials to appreciated and preferred.

Seattle, WA, Joyce Reed of the American Cancer Society will be Arrangements entrusted to: Memphis, TN; great aunt-in-laws, appreciated.

Tapella Funeral Services at Louise Duckworth, Seattle, WA., and Visitation will be held Saturday Blackburn-Giegerich-Sonntag Carrie April and Emma Louise of from 10:00 AM until time of Funeral Home. 815-726-4054 or Joliet, IL; and cousin-in-law, Virgie services. visit www.bgsfuneralhome.com April of Joliet, IL. Visitation will be held on Saturday May 3, 2014 from 9:00 to 10:30 A.M. at Prayer Tower Ministries JANE L. FIENE C.O.G.I.C., 500 Stryker Ave., Joliet, IL, Pastor Warren Dorris, Jr. Service Jane L. Fiene Nee: at 10:30 A.M., Pastor Gary R. Bertrand, age 88, Williams officiating. Interment passed away following at Elmhurst Cemetery.

Monday April 28, PHILLIP M. DANIELS Minor-Morris Funeral Home 2014 at Symphony 112 Richards St. 815-723-1283 of Joliet. Born in Phillip M. Daniels, Joliet, a lifelong “Phil”, age 81 years, resident. late of Crest Hill Survived by cousins, Greta JENNIFER M. CASHEN passed away Bertrand, Ed (Lori) Bertrand and Lori suddenly on Monday (Chris) Adler.

April 28, 2014 at Jennifer M. Cashen (nee Preceded in death by her home.

McLurkin), passed away peacefully husband, William Fiene; parents, Born in Kansas after a courageous battle with Elzie and Adeline Bertrand.

City, Missouri on cancer, Tuesday, April 29, 2014 at Special Thank You to the staff at September 6, 1932 Presence St. Joseph Medical Center. and resided in Joliet Symphony of Joliet and Joliet Area Age 67 years.

Community Hospice, for the loving and Crest Hill most Survived by her loving husband of care and compassion given to Jane.

44 years, Philip Cashen; and her son of his life. He was a veteran of the Funeral Services will be held, Matthew Cashen. A sister, Jill (Ray) US Army.

Saturday, May 3, 2014 at 10:00 a.m.

Member of the Knights of Morgan; and three brothers, Charles Columbus Council 382, Life Member at the Blackburn-Giegerich-Sonntag McLurkin Jr., Robert (Sandra) of UNICO National and a member of Funeral Home. Private Interment McLurkin and Ronald (Yvonne) will be held at Resurrection St. Ambrose Catholic Church.

McLurkin. Several nieces and Preceded in death by his first wife, Cemetery. Visitation Saturday nephews also survive.

Lucy (nee Alberico) Daniels (2008); morning, from 9:00 a.m. until time Preceded in death by her parents, of services. his parents, Joseph and Rose (nee Charles and Jennie (nee Fair) Memorials to Joliet Area Alaimo) Daniels; and by his stepMcLurkin; and a brother, Julian Community Hospice in Jane's name father, Robert Barrowman.

McLurkin.

Survived by his wife, Bernice May would be appreciated.

A graduate of the University of St. Francis, she would go on to receive Black (nee Reynolds) Daniels; four a Masters Degree from Illinois State children, Rosemarie A'Hearn of Shorewood, Dr. Joseph (Dana) University and then Lewis Daniels of Aledo TX, Mary (Darryl) University.

Jennifer retired from Joliet Public Koerner of Columbia, KY and Phillip

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nd, he pe g High School, Class of 1973, College time with his family, friends and • Continued from page 15 of St. Francis, Joliet, IL (1978) and beloved puppies, Maggie and Dirty received his Masters of Business Martini.

Helen W. Meyer Julia Pascarella, Preceded in death by his parents, (nee Whiting), age PAUL F. LUCAS age 90, of Frankfort, Administration from Lewis University, Lockport, IL. Anna (nee Gleason) and Robert L. 89. Peacefully Illinois passed away Taylor, Sr.; brothers, Ronnie, Richard Employed by Whitehall Tuesday, April 29, peacefully on Paul F. Lucas, age "Dicky", and Raymond; one sister, Laboratories followed by 22 years 2014 at Our Lady of Thursday, April 17, 77, entered into the of service with Ciba Vision in which Corinne "Corky" (late Don) Dwyer; Angels Retirement 2014 while kingdom of Heaven sister-in-law, Grace (late Patrick) he received annual top awards in Home. surrounded by her on Saturday, April sales management.

Norton; niece, Cheryl "Cheri" Hauert Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, three children.

26, 2014, surrounded A musician, performing numerous Nugent; and numerous aunts, She was born in Chicago Heights, by his loving family. and raised in Riverside, Illinois, she years with local bands. Most uncles and cousins. was a graduate of RiversideIllinois and resided there for many Paul is survived by Survived by his devoted wife of 55 recent project as contributing Brookfield High School.

She years. She was also a former his loving nephews, Larry (Melissa) years, Corinne "Corky" (nee studio musician, production and attended the University of Michigan resident of Elwood, Illinois. She Lucas, Matt (fiancé Sarah Kranz) Wilhelmi); his children, Lori promotional assistance on a Los spent the last five years in Arizona Lucas; sister-in-law, Donna (the late and was a member of the Gamma (Matthew) Taylor-Esposito and Angeles studio production.

Phi Beta Sorority. under the care of her daughters.

Larry) Lucas; and great-nephews, Bobby Taylor III; granddaughters, When her husband returned from Julie was preceded in death by her Funeral Services will be held Mitchell and Logan Lucas.

Saturday May 3, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. Jordyn Taylor and Genevieve "Evie" being wounded during active husband, Mario Pascarella (2007); Numerous cousins also survive. at the Blackburn-Giegerich-Sonntag Esposito; his sister, Mary Ann service in the Army in WWII, they her parents, Mary and Joseph Preceded in death by his parents, (Warren) Hauert; special nieces and Funeral Home with Reverend were married July 11, 1945.

They Pachura; and six brothers.

Francis “Tuffy” and Helen (nee Goddaughters, Kathleen (Vern) Deacon Louis Tomlianovich moved to Joliet in 1960.

She is survived by her son, John Yurkovich) Lucas.

Elgas, Debbie (Robert) Skolds and officiating.

Visitation Saturday Member of St. Paul the Apostle Pascarella (Nancy) of Frankfort, Paul was born and raised in Debi (Jimmy) Cottle; sister-in-law, morning from 10:00 a.m. until time Catholic Church and formerly of St. Illinois; daughters, Sherry Verges Rockdale, IL and graduated from Sandie (late Ronnie) Taylor; former of services.

Joseph Catholic Church in Rockdale. (Nick) of Scottsdale, Arizona, and Lewis University. He then went on to make daughter-in-law, Kathleen (John Those wishing A volunteer with Joliet Area Debbie Lucafo (Phil) of Gilbert, to begin and end his career at Joliet contributions in remembrance of Schultz) Taylor; and many nieces Arizona; step daughter, Michele Central High School as a chemistry Community Hospice.

Tom, Juvenile Diabetes Research and nephews.

Preceded in death by her Pascarella from Sens, France; and mathematics teacher. Paul was Foundation International (jdrf.org) A special thank you to his husband, William J. Meyer, Jr. grandchildren, John, Michael, a lifelong parishioner at St. Joseph wonderful caregivers with Vitas or Heifer International (Heiter.org) (1995).

Kristen, Phillip, Nicholas, Jenna, Catholic Church in Rockdale. He Hospice, family friends, Wanda Survived by one daughter, Mary Natalie and Julia; step enjoyed traveling, no matter where Reeder, Ron Smiles, Chief Terry Ann (Bruce) Fritz of Glen Carbon, IL; grandchildren, Nathalie and Cedrick; the destination was, and going on Lemming and all the members of sister, Sophie Tokarski of Havana, vacation to his house in Wisconsin. two sons, John (Pamela) Meyer of the Lockport Police Department.

Oxford, MS and Robert (Karen) Illinois; brother, Dennis Pachura Paul was a fireworks fanatic and Funeral Services for Bob Taylor Meyer of Gainesville, VA; four (Rose) of Sun Lakes, Arizona; and was a World War II enthusiast. He will be Monday, May 5, 2014 at 8:45 grandchildren, Brian Fritz, Stacy many nieces and nephews. touched many lives and will be truly ROBERT L. TAYLOR, JR. a.m. from the Fred C. Dames Funeral (Adrian) Barr, Jason Meyer and She had unconditional love for her missed.

Home, 3200 Black at Essington Rd., Jennifer Meyer also survive. family and devoted her life to caring The family would like to offer a Robert L. Taylor, Joliet to St. Joseph Catholic Church, The family would like to express for them. special thank you to Joliet Area Jr. "Bob", age 84.

Lockport for Mass at 10:00 a.m. their heartfelt appreciation to Our Memorial services will be held on Community Hospice for the Born July 27, 1929, Interment Resurrection Cemetery.

Lady of Angels Retirement Home Monday, May 5, 2014 from 4:00pm wonderful comfort and care that and valiantly earned Visitation Sunday from 1:00 to 6:00 and Angels Grace Hospice, the staff to 8:00pm at Gerardi's Funeral they provided to Paul. his wings for his p.m. at the funeral home. For and medical professionals for the Home in Frankfort, Illinois. Mass will A celebration of Paul's life will next adventure on information: 815-741-5500 or th outstanding and compassionate be celebrated on Tuesday, May 6 begin on Saturday, May 3, 2014, April 30, 2014 at www.fredcdames.com care that our mother received.

We at 10:00am at St. Anthony's with prayers in the funeral home 9:33 p.m., while held in the arms of will be forever grateful.

Catholic Church in Frankfort, Illinois. chapel at 9:20 a.m. then driving in his devoted daughter, holding the Funeral Services for Helen W. Entombment at Assumption procession to St. Joseph Catholic hand of his wife, and surrounded by Meyer will be Saturday, May 3, 2014 Cemetery, Glenwood, Ilinois.

Church in Rockdale for a Mass of his loving family. from the Fred C. at 12:15 p.m.

For funeral information, call Christian Burial to be celebrated at He retired from Union Local #444 Dames Funeral Home, 3200 Black at 815-469-2144 or 708-754-2144 10:00 a.m. Per Paul's wishes in 1992 following 41 years of Essington Rd., Joliet to St. Paul the cremation rites will be accorded. service.

Apostle Catholic Church for a Mass Inurnment will be held privately at A true, honest and trusting family of Christian Burial to be celebrated Resurrection Cemetery in man and friend, he loved spending at 1:00 p.m.

Private interment will THOMAS E. SCOTT Romeoville at a later date. Visitation take place at Arlington National will be on Friday, May 2, 2014 at Cemetery where she will be buried Tezak Funeral Home, 1211 Plainfield Thomas E. Scott, with her husband at a later date.

Road, Joliet from 4:00-8:00 p.m. age 58, passed away Memorials in her name to Angels Obituary and Tribute Wall for Paul Friday, April 25, 2014 Grace Hospice, 440 Quadrangle F. Lucas at peacefully in his www.tezakfuneralhome.com or for Drive, Suite G, Bolingbrook, IL home in Phoenix, 60440 would be appreciated. information, 815-722-0524.

Arizona. Devoted Visitation Friday from 4:00 to Arrangements entrusted to: Father, Son, Brother 8:00 p.m., and Saturday morning January 7, 1945 - May 2, 2013 and Friend. from 11:00 a.m. until time of Survived by his daughter, services at 12:15 p.m. at the funeral Alexandra Scott of Phoenix, AZ; home chapel. mother, Agnes Scott of Joliet, IL; For information: 815-741-5500 or sisters, Theresa Zak of Crest Hill, IL , www.fredcdames.com Cecilia (David) Stanfel of Coronado, CA. and Mary Frances (Stephen) We can’t believe that a year has Matichak of Nuevo Arenal, Costa already gone by. Not a day goes by Rica; nieces, Nicole (Scott) Dunbar, that we don’t think of you.

Gina Zak and Elizabeth Stanfel.

Preceded in death by his father, We love and miss you so much.

Kenneth E. Scott (Nov. 2013); and brother-in-law, Joseph Zak. Graduated from Joliet Catholic Love, Rose, girls and family

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JULIA PASCARELLA

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By CHACOUR KOOP The Associated Press SPRINGFIELD – With the help of wealthy donors and a bipartisan group of politicians, a petition to end the gerrymandering of Illinois election districts was presented Thursday, but it faces a stiff constitutional challenge that could keep the question off the November ballot.

A group called “Yes for Independent Maps” submitted more than half a million signatures to the state Board of Elections, proposing a ballot question that would take the job of creating legislative districts away from lawmakers and give it to an independent commission of experts.

It faces powerful opposition, including a lawsuit filed Wednesday by allies of House Speaker Michael Madigan, the state Democratic Party chairman, which also seeks to stop voters from imposing term limits in Illinois.

Advocates of reform say the current method of allowing politicians to draw the state’s political maps leads to the majority party in Springfield unfairly accumulating power that can last a decade, by adjusting a district’s lines to protect incumbents and

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House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, speaks April 1 during a House committee hearing at the Capitol in Springfield. limit votes for political foes.

Democrats now hold supermajorities in both the state House and Senate, partly due to maps their party drew after the 2010 Census.

“Democrats have done it.

Republicans have done it. If they didn’t do it, we would think something was in the water in Springfield,” said Mike Kolenc, the campaign’s manager. “We really feel that this will actually allow voters to choose their legislators, rather than the other way around.”

The initiative would set up an 11-member commission to draw the maps, similar to recent reforms in California and Arizona. The group has 532,000 signatures, but only needs about 300,000 to get the proposal on the general election ballot.

Past efforts to overhaul the process have failed. The most recent in 2011 by The League of Women Voters, which supports the current measure, did not gather enough signatures.

Opponents of reform say

the current process is fair, and is a way to protect the interests of racial minorities and other constituent groups from having their influence diluted.

At a hearing last week in Springfield, Madigan dismissed the proposal as an effort by “angry” Republicans to regain influence in the state.

“Put the Republicans in charge of something and there’s going to be an adverse effect on minorities,” Madigan said.

But other influential Democrats are lining up in support of reform, including David Axelrod, the political consultant who helped President Barack Obama get elected. Among those donating funds to the campaign are wealthy Illinois businessman and Republican donor Ken Griffin and billionaire former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

State Sen. Heather Steans, a Chicago Democrat, donated to the campaign.

“Fundamentally, it’s to help restore faith in our political system,” Steans said.

“It changes the incentive for people to work together, not to go to the extremes, which is a healthy dynamic.”

Feds probing Quinn’s anti-violence program The ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO – Federal prosecutors have asked for information related to Gov. Pat Quinn’s troubled anti-violence program which has also been the subject of a scathing state auditor’s report and a probe by the Cook County state’s attorney.

Illinois Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka’s spokesman Brad Hahn confirmed Thursday that the U.S. Department of Justice called the office in March to ask for details related to the Neighborhood Recovery Initiative Program

and information was turned over. He declined to give further details.

“It’s a legal matter,” he said. “We can’t comment.”

Q u i n n spokeswoman Brooke Anderson said Gov. Pat Quinn’s office Quinn hadn’t been contacted by federal officials.

“If there is an inquiry, we fully support it,” she said in an emailed statement. “We have zero tolerance for any mismanagement at any state agency.”

Word of the new probe comes as Quinn, a Chicago Democrat, is facing a tough re-election challenge from Republican Bruce Rauner.

The businessman has blasted Quinn over the allegations of mismanagement along with a recent federal complaint’s claims of improper hiring at Quinn’s Department of Transportation. Quinn has said he moved swiftly to correct the transportation department problems.

The details of what federal officials were seeking about the program haven’t been made public. The comptrol-

ler’s office pays the bills for the state.

Despite Illinois’ history of state officeholders under federal investigation – both of Quinn’s predecessors George Ryan and Rod Blagojevich were sentenced to prison on corruption charges – experts warned of jumping to conclusions with the federal involvement.

“It’s certainly not routine, but you also can’t assume that an indictment is forthcoming,” said Jeff Cramer, a former federal prosecutor and head of the Chicago office of the investigation firm Kroll.

Insurance signups exceed target in Ill. CHICAGO – More than 217,000 Illinois residents chose health plans in the new insurance marketplace under President Barack Obama’s health care law, far exceeding the administration’s goal for the state, federal officials announced Thursday.

In its report, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that enrollment nationwide was 8 million. California had the most enrollees, with 1.4 million. Illinois’ numbers exceeded by more than 70,000 the Obama administration’s original goal of 143,000.

The federal report also shows that among Illinois residents who voluntarily disclosed their race or ethnicity, 69.1 percent were white, followed by African Americans, who made up 10.5 percent of those who voluntarily disclosed that information.

Senator: Fund Obama library via tax refunds SPRINGFIELD – Republicans opposed to using $100 million in taxpayer money to build Barack Obama’s presidential library pitched an alternative funding method Thursday, saying they support luring the library to Chicago but not forcing taxpayers to foot the bill.

Sen. Bill Brady, of Bloomington, introduced legislation that would enable Illinois taxpayers to donate a portion of their tax refund starting in 2015 to a capital development fund that would cover building costs.

If less than $100,000 is collected, the check-off box on tax return forms would be removed from the forms in October 2015, Brady said.

– Wire reports

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NATION&WORLD NATION BRIEFS More than 600 gang suspects arrested WASHINGTON – More than 600 suspected gang members have been arrested in the Homeland Security Department’s largest crackdown on street gangs, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said Thursday.

ICE agents, along with local authorities in 179 cities, arrested 638 suspected gang members over a monthlong period in March and April.

ICE said 78 suspected gang members were arrested on federal charges while 447 others currently face only state charges. ICE arrested 113 others on administrative immigration charges.

More than 400 of those arrested had violent criminal histories, including seven people wanted on murder charges. ICE did not identify all those arrested or the charges they face.

NYC strikes deal with city teachers union NEW YORK – New York City and its largest teachers union struck a deal on a new contract Thursday, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced, ending a nearly five-year labor dispute and potentially setting a template for negotiations with the city’s other unions.

Teachers will receive back pay equivalent to nearly 8 percent of their salaries and a series of additional small raises through 2018 under the nine-year contract.

The contract will offer bonus pay for well-reviewed teachers and aim to save the city $1 billion in health care costs over the length of it, an important point among city negotiators wary of the budgetary strain caused by rising health care costs across the municipal labor force.

– Wire reports

Schools face federal sex assault scrutiny The ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON – From huge state universities to small colleges and the Ivy League, 55 schools across America are facing federal investigation for the way they handle sexual abuse allegations by their students.

For the first time, the Education Department revealed its list of colleges under investigation on Thursday – though no details of the complaints – as the Obama administration sought to bring more openness to the issue of sexual violence on and around the nation’s campuses.

The schools range from public universities, including Ohio State, the University of California, Berkeley and Arizona State, to private schools including Knox College in Illinois, Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and Catholic University of America in the District of Columbia.

Ivy League schools including Harvard, Princeton and Dartmouth are also on the list.

The government emphasized the list was about investigations of complaints, not judgments. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said there was “absolutely zero presumption” of guilt.

Few details of individual cases are known, but some are. One, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, involves allegations of mishandling of a matter involving a football player. The investigation began after federal authorities received complaints related to the expulsion of Brendan Gibbons, a former placekicker.

A student group examined the school’s student sexual misconduct policy and last month determined the university failed to explain a yearslong delay between the alleged incident and Gibbons’ expulsion in December.

Spokesman Rick Fitzgerald says the university has been “fully cooperating.”

Schools on the list, for the most part, were unwilling to talk about specific incidents but said they have been working with the federal department to be more responsive to student complaints.

“We are hopeful at the end of this there will be a resolution that will strengthen our internal processes and result in a safer community,” said Dartmouth spokesman Justin Anderson. “There’s always something we can learn and ways to get better.”

Some of the investigations go as far back as 2010. Three universities – Michigan State, Wittenberg in Ohio and Southern Methodist in Texas – face more than one.

The Obama administration’s effort to bring more attention to the issue of sexual assaults is not limited to colleges.

Separately on Thursday, the Pentagon said that reports of assaults by members of the military have risen 50 percent since the beginning of a campaign to persuade more victims to come forward. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said he is ordering six initiatives to deal with sexual assaults, including efforts to get more male victims to speak up.

The college investigations are done under Title IX of a U.S. law, which prohibits gender discrimination at schools that receive federal funds. It is the same law that guarantees girls and women equal access to sports, but it also regulates institutions’ handling of sexual violence and increasingly is being used by victims who say their schools failed to protect them.

The agency previously would confirm such Title IX investigations when asked, but students and others were often unaware of them.

Florida jail explosion kills 2, injures about 180 The ASSOCIATED PRESS PENSACOLA, Fla. – The jail already had two feet of water in the basement from the record-setting rains when an apparent gas explosion leveled the inside of the building, killing two inmates and injuring more than 180 other people, officials said Thursday.

In the rubble and chaos, inmates were trapped and had to be rescued. Others were treated for their injuries in the parking lot.

In all, 600 inmates rushed out of the jail. The injured were taken by bus to hospitals while the others were sent to nearby jails.

Authorities lost track of three inmates in the confusion, but by late afternoon, they were confident everyone was accounted for.

Inmate Monique Barnes told The Associated Press by telephone that she was knocked off her fourth-floor

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Damage to the Escambia County Jail is seen after an explosion Thursday in the facility in Pensacola, Fla. Two inmates were killed and more than 180 others were injured in the explosion, according to an Escambia County spokeswoman. bunk.

“The explosion shook us so hard it was like we were in an earthquake,” Barnes said. “It was like a movie, a horrible,

horrible movie.”

Pieces of glass, brick and inmates’ flip-flops were strewn about on the ground outside the jail. The front of

the building appeared bowed, with cracks throughout.

Barnes, who spoke to AP after she was taken to another jail, said she and other inmates complained of smelling gas ahead of the blast, and some reported headaches.

County spokesman Bill Pearson said they didn’t receive any 911 calls about gas nor did they have any reports of an odor.

Investigators said it could take days to determine what caused the explosion.

They were having a hard time getting to the epicenter in the back of the building because there was so much damage.

Joseph Steadman, the head of the state fire and arson bureau, described it as a “collapse of concrete floors between the basement and upper floors.”

He said it was still too early to say if the weather had anything to do with it.

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Scientists urge delay in destroying last smallpox WASHINGTON – More than three decades after the eradication of smallpox, U.S. officials say it’s still not time to destroy the last known stockpiles of the virus behind one of history’s deadliest diseases.

The world’s health ministers meet later this month to debate, again, the fate of vials held under tight security in two labs – one in the U.S. and one in Russia.

The virus is being used for carefully limited research to create drugs and safer vaccines in case this killer ever returns, through terrorism or a lab accident or if all the world’s stocks aren’t really accounted for. Member countries of the World Health Organization long ago agreed that eventually

the last virus strains would be destroyed.

White House calls for more privacy laws WASHINGTON – The White House is asking Congress to pass new privacy laws that would add more safeguards for Americans’ data and provide more protections for emails sought in the course of a law enforcement investigation.

The recommendations are among six offered by President Barack Obama’s counselor John Podesta in a report released Thursday. While large sets of data make Americans’ lives easier and can help save lives, the report noted, they also could be used to discriminate against Americans in areas such as housing and employment.

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DAVIDSON, N.C. – As Republicans try to win control of the Senate in the 2014 elections, they may be forced to confront runoffs in key states that could expose conservative-vs.-establishment rifts and allow relatively tiny numbers of voters to pick the nominees.

In North Carolina, Republican Thom Tillis hopes to capture at least 40 percent of the vote on Tuesday’s primary to avoid a mid-July runoff. Tillis, the GOP establishment’s preferred candidate, would rather focus on Sen. Kay Hagan, among the most targeted Senate Democrats seeking re-election this year.

In Georgia, a large field of Republicans makes a runoff election likely, potentially helping Democrat Michelle Nunn in a state that hasn’t elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1996. And in Iowa, the winner of a crowded GOP Senate primary on June 3 will need to capture 35 percent to avoid a state GOP convention, a process that often favors the

most conservative candidate.

The outcome of the three Senate campaigns could help determine whether Republicans gain Senate control during President Barack Obama’s final two years. They need to pick up six seats for a majority in the 100-member chamber.

Primary runoff elections traditionally draw small turnouts under the best of circumstances. The problem expands in the summer, when many families are on vacation and paying scant attention to politics and other news.

A North Carolina runoff would fall on July 15, and Georgia’s would come a week later. Given the timing, “if you had a 15 percent turnout, that would be miraculous,” said Marcus Kindley, a former Republican Party chairman for North Carolina’s Guilford County, which includes Greensboro.

Results of low-turnout elections are harder to predict.

The most motivated voters – who can include tea partyers and other strongly ideological conservatives – tend to have proportionately more influence in such elections.

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Victim’s kids hope Adams charged in Belfast murder

By SHAWN POGATCHNIK The Associated Press BELFAST, Northern Ireland – For decades, Helen McKendry has demanded that Sinn Fein chief Gerry Adams come clean about the Irish Republican Army’s abduction, slaying and secret burial of her mother in 1972, and his alleged role as the outlawed group’s Belfast leader who ordered the killing.

As detectives interrogated Adams for a second day over the unsolved slaying of the 37-year-old widowed mother of 10, who was falsely branded a British spy, the daughter who led a campaign for the truth says she’s praying for a murder charge.

“I’m hoping against hope that he doesn’t walk out free,” McKendry told The Associated Press. “Everybody, the dogs in the street, knew he was the top IRA man in Belfast at that time.”

McKendry, alongside her husband Seamus, launched an often-lonely protest campaign in 1995 against Adams’ denial of IRA involvement in the slaying of Jean McConville.

On Thursday, the 56-year-old said she found it hard to believe he was finally in custody and facing police questions.

Under British anti-terror law, Adams, 65, must be charged or freed by Friday night, unless police seek a judicial extension to his interrogation.

Northern Ireland has met news of Adams’ arrest for the 42-year-old crime with a mixture of resignation and cynicism. Supporters and detractors alike agree on one thing, though: Adams is too important a figure in the peace process to go to jail, and he’s never going to talk honestly about his past command positions in the Provisional IRA. The underground army killed nearly 1,800 people – including scores of Catholic civilians and IRA members branded spies and informers – before calling a 1997 ceasefire so Sinn Fein could pursue peace with Britain and Northern Ireland’s Protestant majority.

Two decades ago, Adams

initially insisted in brief faceto-face meetings with the McKendrys that the IRA was not involved. Finally in 1999, the IRA admitted responsibility for the slayings of nine long-vanished civilians and IRA members, including McConville, and offered to pinpoint her unmarked grave on a beach 60 miles south of Belfast in the Republic of Ireland.

That effort failed despite extensive digging. Then in 2003, a dog walker stumbled across her skeletal remains, with its bullet-shattered skull, protruding from a bluff above a different beach.

It was the bitterest of victories for the orphaned McConville children, whose lives were indelibly scarred by her disappearance. At the time, they ranged in age from 6 to 17; McKendry was 15. Since their father had died of cancer in 1971, authorities placed them in different foster homes and the children grew up strangers to each other.

Some siblings became IRA supporters themselves and believed the IRA’s depiction of their mother as a British Army scout armed with a walkie-talkie who passed along sightings of IRA gunmen in her neighborhood.

McKendry says her mother’s background as an outsider – she was raised a Protestant in east Belfast but moved to Catholic west Belfast after her marriage to the children’s father, a Catholic – fueled irrational IRA suspicions. Northern Ireland’s independent police complaints watchdog investigated the IRA’s spying claims and cleared McConville’s name in a 2006 report.

Some of the siblings were relieved they finally had a mother to bury.

But McKendry kept pressing to get the IRA members allegedly behind her mother’s disappearance convicted of murder, particularly Adams, who according to former IRA members commanded the unit responsible for making suspected Belfast informers and spies vanish in the early 1970s.

If criminal prosecutions fail, she plans to sue Adams for civil damages.

By PETER LEONARD The Associated Press

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A Pro-Russian activist (right) speaks with police officers Thursday during clashes in front of the regional administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine. Anti-government demonstrators in Donetsk have stormed the local prosecutor’s office. strued as an outright demand.

Oleksandr Turchynov’s conscription order marked a turnaround for the country, which last year announced plans to end military conscription in favor of an all-volunteer force. His order did not

specify where conscript-bolstered forces could be deployed. The renewal of military conscription affects only men 18 to 25 years old.

Earlier in the week, the acting president said police and security forces had been

Heartbreaking video shows teens on sinking ferry

By FOSTER KLUG and HYUNG–JIN KIM The Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea – Soon after the ferry began to tilt, there was nervous laughter, jokes about the Titanic and talk of selfies and Facebook posts from the doomed high school students huddled below deck.

But the lighthearted atmosphere soon turned serious as the listing worsened. Fear began building, and one student asked, “Am I really going to die?”

The shaky video – at times poignant and heartbreaking as the teens said last words to their loved ones – was found on the cellphone belonging to 17-year-old Park Su-hyeon when his body was recovered after the disaster on the morning of April 16 off South Korea.

The boy’s father, Park Jongdae, provided it Thursday to The Associated Press, saying he wanted to show the world the conditions aboard the Sewol as it sank. He earlier released it to

select South Korean media. Information such as video can be recovered from micro SD cards in cellphones even if the device is submerged.

More than 300 people are dead or missing in the disaster, which has plunged South Korea into mourning and touched off anger and shame. About 220 bodies, mostly from inside the submerged vessel, have been recovered. More than 80 percent of the victims were students from a high school in Ansan, south of Seoul, on their way to the tourist island of Jeju for a school trip.

The group of teens in Park Su-hyeon’s video alternated between bluster, attempts at humor and unmistakable fear.

Only one could be seen wearing a life jacket at the beginning of the clips, which started at 8:52 a.m. and ended, with a small break between them, at 9:09 a.m., when everyone appeared to be wearing them.

Some of the students struggled as they tried to buckle the life jackets. As the listing wors-

ened, they joked about “final commemorative pictures” and “defying gravity” by trying to walk on the walls.

“It’s like we’re becoming the Titanic,” one student said.

At 8:53 a.m., less than two minutes into the video and two minutes before a crew member on the bridge made the ferry’s first distress call, one student said: “Am I really going to die?”

At the start the video, a message blared from the ferry’s loudspeakers: “Don’t move away from your places and brace for any possible accidents.”

In subsequent announcements, passengers were again told to stay put, even as some questioned whether they should flee.

The last message from the bridge came at 9:08: “We’re again announcing: For passengers who can wear life vests, please wear them now. Never move away from your places.”

That warning came eight minutes after a Sewol crew member told a marine traffic official, “The body of the ship

has tilted, and it’s impossible to move,” according to a transcript of communications with the ferry.

After the passengers were ordered to stay in their cabins, Capt. Lee Joon-seok took at least a half-hour to order an evacuation. It is unclear whether that order was ever relayed to passengers. Lee has said he delayed the evacuation because of worries about sending passengers into cold waters and fast currents before rescuers arrived.

Lee could be seen in a separate video released by the coast guard leaping from the ferry in his underwear onto a rescue boat while many passengers were still in the sinking ship.

He and 14 other crew members responsible for the ferry’s navigation have been detained on suspicion of negligence and abandoning people in need.

Prosecutors are investigating whether stability issues related to too much cargo or a redesign that added more cabins to the ship contributed to the sinking.

URUMQI, China – Chinese authorities said Thursday that two religious extremists carried out a terror attack at a train station in far-western Xinjiang region by detonating explosives, in an apparent suicide bombing that also killed one other person and wounded 79.

The strike late Wednesday in Urumqi was the third high-profile attack in seven months blamed on Xinjiang extremists that targeted civilians. These attacks, two of them outside the region, have marked a departure from a previous pattern of primarily targeting local authorities in a long-simmering insurgency.

The official website for Xinjiang’s regional government said police identified two suspects with a history of religious extremism, including a 39-year-old man from southern Xinjiang.

Toronto mayor takes leave, heads to rehab TORONTO – Toronto Mayor Rob Ford began a leave of absence and headed for a rehab center Thursday, leaving his scandalized city in the dark about his political future after a report surfaced of second video of him apparently smoking crack cocaine.

Ford announced Wednesday that he would take leave for an unspecified amount of time from both his mayoral post and his re-election campaign, but he did not abandon his bid for a second term as mayor of Canada’s second largest city. One of his campaign rivals and other Toronto politicians demanded he resign. Toronto police said they were looking into the new video.

A day after announcing his decision, Ford boarded a plane for Chicago headed for a treatment program that will last at least 30 days, his lawyer Dennis Morris told The Associated Press.

– Wire reports

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DONETSK, Ukraine – Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Ukraine should withdraw its military from the eastern and southern regions of the country, a statement that could bolster anti-government insurgents who are seizing buildings.

Hours later, Ukraine’s acting president ordered that the military draft be renewed, citing “threats of encroachment on the nation’s territorial integrity” and interference by Russia in its internal affairs.

Moscow has consistently denounced Ukrainian security forces’ largely ineffectual operation against the eastern insurgents and warned they should not commit violence against civilians.

In a telephone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Putin said the removal of military units was the “main thing,” but it was unclear if that could be con-

effectively “helpless” against insurgents in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, the heart of the unrest, and that efforts should be focused on preventing the instability from spreading to other parts of the country.

In the regional capital city of Donetsk, anti-government demonstrators took over the regional prosecutor’s office Thursday. Several dozen riot police standing guard at the office fired stun grenades and tear gas when some at the front of the crowd of several hundred people attempted to force their way into the building.

As the confrontation escalated, some in the crowd threw rocks and managed to wrest away shields from police. An Associated Press reporter saw a handful of officers being dragged away and beaten by members of the crowd.

Hundreds of onlookers accompanying the protesters shouted slogans and hurled abuse.

China points to suicide blast in Urumqi attack

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Judge right, strikes down voter ID law Wisconsin’s voter ID law suffered another welcome blow Tuesday when a federal judge struck it down, ruling that it violated the Voting Rights Act and the Constitution. The law, ruled Judge Lynn Adelman, “results in the denial or abridgment of the right of black and Latino citizens to vote on account of race or color.”

As we’ve argued for years, Adelman found that there really isn’t any voter fraud in Wisconsin that a voter photo ID could address – one of the key arguments of supporters of the law.

Instead, a photo ID law places an undue burden on low-income people.

A “substantial number” of the 300,000 eligible voters in the state who lack an ID are low-income, the judge found, concluding that many of them “will be deterred from voting.”

“Detecting and preventing in-person voter-impersonation fraud is a legitimate state interest,” he wrote. “However ... because virtually no voter impersonation occurs in Wisconsin and it is exceedingly unlikely that voter impersonation will become a problem in Wisconsin in the foreseeable future, this particular state interest has very little weight.”

Indeed, Act 23 was never really about voter fraud. It was always about raw politics – an attempt to tamp down the voting constituencies of the Democratic Party by the Republicans who control the governor’s chair in Wisconsin and both houses of the Legislature. The people most affected by the law tend to vote for Democrats.

“But no matter how imprecise my estimate may be, it is absolutely clear that Act 23 will prevent more legitimate votes from being cast than fraudulent votes,” he wrote. Adelman issued an injunction barring the law from being enforced.

State Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen said he would appeal Adelman’s decision to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, has said he would call a special legislative session on voter ID this spring or summer if courts ruled against the law.

And they are certainly free to pursue their legal remedies. But a better approach would be to simply drop this charade. Lynn Adelman got it right.

– Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Can Obamacare carry the GOP? WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama asked for a national debate on health care, and he got his wish. The problem for the Democrats, and consequently for the president, is that the national debate is still going on.

Technically called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, sometimes referred to as the ACA and often described as Obamacare, the overhaul of the American health care system was signed into law almost exactly four years ago. And yet the debate rages on – and will continue to do so if Republican lawmakers, strategists and potential presidential candidates have their way.

Other issues in American life have persisted politically for more than four years – slavery, of course, monopolized the political debate for a third of a century, and Vietnam for a decade – but such endurance is rare, and in ordinary circumstances the likelihood of an issue with high political attention in April remaining at the top of the mind in November is very small.

The Republicans are wagering that health care will be different, and they surely take comfort in polls that show continuing public skep-

National perspective David M. Shribman ticism if not hostility toward the health care law. Overall, Americans disapprove of the 2010 act by a 54 to 43 margin, a range that in the Gallup poll has remained generally consistent since last fall.

It is true that disapproval of the health care law varies substantially by party identity. Look carefully at those Gallup numbers and you will see that Republicans are as much as 17 times more likely to disapprove of the law than are Democrats. That is a stunning figure but, given the contemporary political atmosphere, not out of synch with the polarized national conversation.

In ordinary times Democrats might actually take comfort from those findings. If the overall margin against the law were 11 points and their partisan rivals were 17 times more likely to oppose it than Democrats themselves, then there might be a glimmer of hope for them. But Gallup also tells us that independents are as much as five times more likely to oppose the law

as Democrats. That’s trouble.

But it is not a surprise, and the Democrats have their talking points ready. They are saying, though not everybody is believing, that in this fall’s midterm congressional elections they can run on Obamacare, not run away from it. Here’s the argument, provided in an interview last week with Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the party chair: “Are Republicans really going to ask 8 million people to give back their insurance and to take their kids under 26 off their health care and to deny affordable coverage to people with pre-existing conditions? They’re obsessed with opposing the president, even if opposing the president hurts the middle class.”

She acknowledged that Democratic candidates in some races may prefer to express skepticism of the health care law – “It will be an individual decision,” she said – but insisted that the issue is a winner, even in her state, where in January a Republican won a special election in a Tampa-area district carried by Obama in both 2008 and 2012. “That was truly a special election,” she said.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Mark Turk Joliet

Thank you for the support in the primary Dear District 9 and Will County residents, I would like to thank those of you who supported me in the March primary election.

Unfortunately, I was unsuccessful in moving forward to the November general election, however I remain committed to

doing my best to represent your interests until the conclusion of my term on the Will County Board.

While the overall voter turnout in this primary election was markedly low, being a nonpresidential election year, I would strongly encourage you to educate yourselves on the candidates running this November and please exercise your constitutional right to vote. Remember, early and absentee voting are options that are readily available, making the voting process much easier then in years past.

I would like to once again thank Nancy Schultz-Voots, as well as her staff, for executing the insurmountable task of handling each election with precision and grace; and for those of us from the outside looking in, making this task look much easier than what it truly is.

Again, I encourage you to get know your candidates, who they are and what they bring to

the table. Do not rely on your neighbor to make the choices for you or the number of signs a candidate places in parkways and yards. Ask questions and require answers. … As a voter, that is your right!

Thank you again for having given me the honor and privilege to serve as your District 9 Will County Board member for the past five and a half years. I remain available for any questions or concerns that you may have.

Yours in Service, Diane Zigrossi Crest Hill

We must put a stop to endangering wild horses To the Editor: I hope you will publish this so the public can learn about the BLM’s rounding up of the wild horses and burros even though there was a law passed in 1971 to protect them.

I know this because I helped wild horse Annie get it passed by

writing letters to the newspapers to let people know what was going on.

The BLM has rounded up between 45 to 50 thousand horses and is holding them in pens and corrals with no cover from the elements.

How would you like your nose to be up the horse in front of you’s rump? The stallions fight and hurt themselves and other and the foals are separated from their mothers.

Can you imagine how much it costs the tax payers to pay for their feed and the cruel round USO? We need to put a stop to this cruelty!

The big business company’s want that public land. The gas company’s for fracking and the rancher for their cattle!

Please people put a stop to this and plans to reopen slaughter houses. The horses can’t speak for themselves but we can.

Mrs. Marlene Spatafora Romeoville

Might it be better for the GOP to fall short of Senate majority?

Continued from page 22 The importance of health care in November depends in some measure on the magnitude of two issues – the level of the law’s applicability and the level of the law’s opposition.

Though the Obama administration has highlighted the 8 million people who have signed up, the newly insured constitute only 4 percent of the country and, given established voter participation patterns, represent an even smaller part of the voters in a midterm election. Though these newly insured skew Democratic by a 54 to 24 margin, they are generally younger than the population overall and thus are far less likely to vote.

Plus these factors: Democrats hope the opposition to the health law will wither away much the way the opposition to Social Security disappeared over time. The GOP ran against Social Security in the 1936 election and their nominee, Gov. Alf Landon of

Kansas, lost all but two states.

The difference, however, is that virtually everyone paid into Social Security, giving almost all Americans a stake in the system and, eventually, benefits from the system, an advantage not replicated in the health law.

In addition, the people who dislike the Obama health law have a higher level of political intensity and involvement than do the people who support it.

Obama and his allies will portray the plan as a success, arguing that 15.6 percent of Americans now are uninsured, down from 18 percent a year ago. (Within March alone, according to Gallup, the rate of uninsured dropped more than a point.)

True – but as recently as the beginning of the 2008 general election, when Obama was the Democratic nominee, the rate was even lower (14.4 percent).

Team Obama is going to have to have an answer for that.

In fact, the Democrats may continually have to provide health care answers, or a

series of revolving answers.

There is every indication that the Republicans who hope to ride into a Senate majority on the health care issue also hope to ride into the White House on it. Most of the likely presidential candidates have stated unequivocal opposition to the Obama health care bill.

All this raises a vital strategic question for the Republicans: Might it actually be better for the GOP to fall just short of a Senate majority in November than to win a

majority in the chamber?

The answer may be yes.

If they inch up against the Democrats but don’t actually seize Senate control, they’ll have little hope of overturning the Obama plan or, given the president’s certain veto of any repeal legislation, substantially weakening or defunding it.

They will force Democratic senators who supported the legislation to squirm as they affirm their 2010 vote and leave the health care plan in place as a pinata: something

they can bludgeon to their advantage in the 2016 primaries and the presidential general election.

The Republicans can win by losing. And the Democrats can lose by winning. It’s a cynical outlook, to be sure. But it is perfectly suited to an age of cynicism.

• David M. Shribman is executive editor of the Post-Gazette and can be reached at dshribman@post-gazette.com or 412 263-1890.

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To the Editor: Recent discussions are emerging concerning the Presidential Library, I agree it would be prestigious for Illinois to host the future Obama Library since the president is basically from our state. However, it does no good to try gain the library and, then as a state, slip more into a financial breakdown, or worse, bankruptcy.

The governor pledged $1 million and maybe more, with a final cost of $500 million to $600 million. Where is the money for this, in a state that is approximately $8 billion in unpaid vendor invoices, huge pension deficits, ultra-high taxes, and a sinking bond rating?

It is good to work for the niceties, but first you must put your house in order with future balanced budgets, fully funding pensions and paying current bills on time.

In order to straighten out our condition, we must go through the budget and cut all waste, freeze personnel and contractor hiring, and cost-of-living pension payments, while concentrating on creating private-sector jobs.

Our elected officials have danced around the issues while not expending the energy to tackle the hard issues. We need legislators who care enough to do their jobs, walk the talk, and work together on issues that affect us all.

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BOYS VOLLEYBALL: MINOOKA 2, PLAINFIELD NORTH 1 (25-20, 23-25, 27-25)

Indians narrowly escape Tigers in wild match

By DICK GOSS dgoss@shawmedia.com PLAINFIELD – Minooka boys volleyball coach Janel Grzetich said Thursday’s Southwest Prairie match against Plainfield North could not have ended in a more satisfying manner.

Sophomore defensive specialist Jeff Dames served an ace to give the league-leading Indians a thrilling 25-20, 23-25, 27-25 victory.

“I really loved seeing that from Jeff Dames,” Grzetich said. “I could see in his face.

He was a little shaky. It was a scary experience. But his confidence has been building, and this will help it.”

Minooka (13-5, 8-0) has been to state three times in the past four years, two fourth-place finishes included. This year’s

team largely is a combination of seniors and sophomores who needed time to grow together.

“Before this year, we had guys who played club for years together,” said senior right-side hitter Mitch Perinar, who led the victory with 18 kills and three blocks. “We had chemistry.

“This year not as much.

We have guys with experience and some without much. The sophomores are in school at the other campus. It has taken awhile. We lost a lot of height from last year, too, but we didn’t lose heart. That helped us win this one.”

Justin Toth, a 6-foot-10 senior hitter who will play at Cal State-Northridge, chipped in nine kills and two blocks.

The return of senior outside hitter Mason Novak,

who has been out of the lineup recently, also was a key, Grzetich said. He contributed nine kills and four aces. Sophomore setter Brandon Baranski totaled 33 assists and senior defensive specialist Armani Zuniga added three aces.

“Mitch is an outstanding player,” Grzetich said of Perinar, who is headed to Lewis. “I can’t say enough good things about him.

“Mason Novak being back gave us another go-to-guy and Justin Toth made some good adjustments. He played rightside, which he doesn’t normally do, and there’s an adaption he has to go through.”

North (14-6, 5-3) served match point once in the third set, but a serving error tied it and opened the door for Minooka. Perinar’s kill put the Indians up, 26-25, and Dames’

serve ended it.

“It was a tight match beginning to end,” North coach Kevin Vesper said. “The most intense team was going to win, but both teams were very intense. Both played great.

I’m proud of our team.”

Senior hitter Alex Robles had 13 kills and junior Mitch Chapman chipped in 11 for the Tigers. Shane Yeo contributed 29 assists, Chris Paige 14 blocks and Evan Robeck and Noah Wood two blocks each.

“Robles has stepped up this year as a senior captain,” Vesper said.

The Tigers were without standout middle hitter Doug Aremka, a four-year varsity player who is out for the season after tearing his ACL last weekend, and hitter Greg Rash, a junior defensive specialist in his second varsity

season. Still, they hung tough.

“We’ve had three different lineups the last two weeks,” Vesper said. “Everything that could happen has happened this year. But our kids worked well together. They easily could have been blown out, but they didn’t let it happen.”

Instead, they gave the fans all the thrills they could handle.

“I just talked to my dad and he said he almost had a heart attack about three times that last game,” Perinar said.

“This was definitely a wild one. North came ready to play. But in the end, our seniors took over.”

“Our season has been a little rough, back and forth,” Grzetich said. “But it’s always a good match with North.

They took us to three the last time, too.”

• Friday, May 2, 2014

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Minooka’s Mason Novak tips the ball over the net to score a point as Plainfield North’s Noah Wood (3) and Alex Robles (7) attempt to block during Thursday’s match at Plainfield North High School.

Minooka won, 2-1.

BOYS VOLLEYBALL: LINCOLN-WAY WEST 2, LOCKPORT 1 (25-23, 23-25, 25-15)

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By CURT HERRON cherron@shawmedia.com NEW LENOX – Lincoln-Way West’s boys volleyball team obviously has much to be proud of after it entered May with a perfect record.

But the Warriors also realize they’re entering the toughest part of their schedule, starting with this weekend’s Lincoln-Way East Invite.

That’s why having one of its closest calls yet in Thursday’s SouthWest Suburban Conference home match against Lockport should prove to be beneficial for coach Rory Olson’s 17-0 squad.

West overcame a late fourpoint deficit to win the opener, and then bounced back from a loss in the second set with a strong start in the finale, which helped it claim a 25-23, 23-25, 25-15 victory over the Porters.

“We’ve had a couple of injuries and illnesses in the past week, so lineups have shifted a little bit, so it was

nice to be able to work some things out before East’s Invite, and then its Sandburg and the Lincoln-Way battles,” Olson said. “We had a lot of unforced errors in Game 2, but Lockport didn’t give up and really challenged us on defense. It was definitely a tough match and showed us we have some things that we need to work on.

“It was good to see some consistency while players are adjusting to new spots or are stepping in for someone else.

We have a very hard-working group and they are definitely students of the game. They follow game plans extremely well and also work together.”

After watching the Porters (14-10, 1-4) score the final three points to capture the middle set, the Warriors (170, 5-0) jumped out to a quick 7-2 lead in the finale and built their advantage to 16-6, and then never saw the lead get smaller than six points.

Scott Christensen, Michael Wexter (34 assists) and Tony Prospero finished with

12 kills each, and helped West get off to a fast start in the third set.

“Lockport is a great team with strong attackers,” Prospero said. “But credit to our defense. Jake Martin was huge with all of the digs on serve-receive. Scott was coming off of an injury and he played phenomenally. But we all meshed and pulled ourselves together.

“This is a good indication of where we are going into East’s tournament. We have to step it up and do things better, and I think that this match got us ready for this weekend. Our team is not like some others since we keep it loose on the court. We keep the jokes coming even when we’re down and we’re always smiling and looking to have a great time.”

Part of West’s second big surge in the last set came courtesy of kills from Prospero and Christensen, as well as consecutive blocks from Brendan Ahern (three blocks). Another big key for

West was the defensive play of libero Jake Martin (15 digs).

“I was just trying to get blocks to help our team get momentum so that we could keep rolling,” Ahern said. “It was good to have a hard match against a team that’s pretty equal to us heading into this weekend. After losing four seniors from last year, we kept the mindset to push to be the best that we could be and we keep trying to get even better in practice.”

After seeing his team bounce back from a tough first-set defeat, Porter coach Nick Mraz felt good about their chances following a comeback victory in the middle game. However, Lockport got off to a bad start in the finale and could not recover.

“We were up 21-17 in the first game and then got sloppy,” Mraz said. “It’s hard to bounce back from that, but we did and won the second game. Then we came out flat in game three and made too many mistakes. You can’t

play like that against an undefeated team.

“Our guys know their potential and what we can do, and we just didn’t put a full match together. We have to know that you can’t go on stretches like that in our conference. When we’re playing good and hitting on all cylinders, we can hang with anyone. Even on a night like this where we were kind of sloppy, we still were able to take them to three games,” Leading the way for the Porters were Matt Sadler (10 kills), Adam Krzos (six kills), Danny Woulfe (14 digs), Gabe Perez (11 assists) and Ryan Sadler (11 assists).

In the opener, Lockport owned a 21-17 lead but West rallied as five different players got kills, including Jake Gasparich, who also served up an ace.

The Warriors rallied to go up 23-22 in the middle game but the Porters bounced back with blocks from Matt Sadler and Jon Wheaton to keep things going.

SOFTBALL: KANELAND 8, MORRIS 6

Morris’ six-run sixth not enough to overcome Kaneland

By RYAN WOODEN Shaw Media Correspondent Trailing by a score of 8-0 heading into Thursday’s sixth inning, the chance of the Morris softball team improving to 17-1 looked bleak.

And despite a six-run sixth that would give them new life, the Redskins would drop their first conference game of the season against the visiting Kaneland Knights, 8-6.

It was a dreary day at the MCHS softball diamond, and the Redskins hadn’t been in action in nearly a week, which might of had something to do with Morris’ slow start.

“We got to learn and we have to find a way to come out ready to go,” Morris head coach Jen Lowery said. “We can’t come out in the fifth, sixth and seventh inning and

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Morris freshman Abby Burns (left) tosses a grounder to Morris senior first baseman Alex Cook for the out during Thursday’s game against Kaneland in Morris. Kaneland won, 8-6. start waking up. We’ve talked about that and that’s been an issue all season, not just [Thursday] after all that time off.”

Morris and Kaneland traded zeros for the first two innings before Kaneland exploded with a five-run third inning that put the home

team in a major hole.

Senior outfielder Lanie Callaghan had a two-run single that started the scoring for the Knights, but it was Hayley Contorno’s three-run home run off Morris freshman Abby Burns that really broke things open for Kaneland.

“We know that Kaneland’s always one of the top teams in our conference, and their record [10-9] doesn’t say much about how good of a ball club that actually is,” Lowery said of her Northern Illinois Big 12 East rivals.

Kaneland was able to add to the lead with a pair of runs in the fifth and a run in the sixth that extended its lead to 8-0 before Morris’ bats finally came alive.

Morris led off the inning with what appeared to be a leadoff strikeout, but senior first baseman Alex Cook was

able to beat out a drop third strike. It would be the first of five consecutive base runners to start off the sixth inning, and all five would eventually score.

Three straight singles by Emily Moore, Burns and Taya Torkelson would push Cook across for the first run. Before the inning ended, a pair of errors and a walk would inevitably plate six Redskin runs.

In the seventh, Burns was able to battle out of a tight spot with runners on second and third to hold the score at 8-6.

However, a seventh inning rally wasn’t to be for Morris.

The Redskins put the tying run on first when Leah Lines laced a two-out single into left field, but Morris would go down on strikes for its final out to end the game.

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Joliet Slammers players, including Plainfield South graduate Tony Sanchez (second in middle row), exercise Thursday, the opening day of spring training at Silver Cross Field.

However, there also is a game Sunday. The Slammers scheduled at open tryout from 9 a.m. until noon. The best players from the tryout will form a team and play a game against the Slammers beginning at 1 p.m.

“I believe we are the only club in independent ball having a tryout camp at this time,” Isom said. “But doing it this way, with the tryout guys playing against our team, that gives me a chance to see what they’ve got.”

The Slammers have 31 players in camp. They must

be down to 28 by May 11 and 22 to 24 by May 14. If they keep 24 players, 11 must have rookie status. If 23, then 10 and if 22, then 9. Assuming no one is added to the roster in the meantime, between seven and nine players will be cut over the next two weeks.

“A manager has to win in independent ball, but you also develop players,” Isom said.

“You have guys who were in affiliated ball, got released and want a second chance. And you have guys who never had that chance and want that opportunity.”

The Slammers picked up power hitting first baseman/ designated hitter Russell Moldenhauer this week from Lake Erie in exchange for standout relief pitcher Zac Treese.

“Moldenhauer is a middleof-the-lineup guy, an impact type guy,” Isom said. “He was a big part of our success at Lake Erie last year. It will be an easy transition bringing him in here.”

Isom hated to part with Treese, “but we felt our bullpen was the strength of our team, so we were dealing from strength.”

Former Plainfield South catcher gets shot with hometown team

By DICK GOSS dgoss@shawmedia.com JOLIET – The way Tony Sanchez sees it, he has a shot.

That’s all he asks.

The Joliet Slammers selected the former Plainfield South all-state catcher, plus former Sandburg pitcher Troy Jozsa, this week in the Frontier League draft. He was at Silver Cross Field on Thursday with the rest of the Slammers as they began spring training.

“I was hoping the Slammers would take me with

them being my hometown team,” said Sanchez, who played briefly with the Slammers in 2012. “We have four catchers here. I’m competing with the others.”

Manager Jeff Isom said the team will start the season with either two or three catchers.

He said as long as Sanchez has a uniform, he is on equal ground.

“I told them when we drafted them that they would have every opportunity to make the team,” Isom said. “I believe we have eight exhibi-

tion games for them to show what they can do. If they’re better than what we have, they’ll be on the club.”

Sanchez, Isom said, “is hungry. He wants an opportunity. He’s a good receiver and can hit. From a team perspective, it’s great to going into spring training with an extra body (catcher) because we have a lot of pitchers who need to get in their throwing.”

A graduate assistant coach at North Central, where he was an NCAA Division III all-American, Sanchez was

away from professional baseball last summer.

“I took a year off because I had business to take care of,” he said. “I played some summer ball with a local team.

But I always wanted to play professional baseball.

“I worked out in the offseason at North Central. I feel comfortable behind the plate.

The hitting is more timing than anything. So it will be a matter of getting used to the higher velocity and better breaking pitches than I saw in college.”

Sanchez is looking for-

ward to having friends and family see him play. In his short stint with the Slammers in 2012, he got a taste of what that can be like.

“It’s amazing, the friends and family,” he said. “I’d hear people calling my name from the stands.

“I definitely feel blessed to have a chance to play pro ball again with all the great players out there who don’t get that chance. I will try to do my best.”

That’s all Isom and the Slammers’ coaching staff expect.

• Friday, May 2, 2014

JOLIET – The Joliet Slammers finished 38-57 last season.

However, that has nothing to do with how they may fare in the Frontier League this season. For the most part, it was a new roster of players that met Thursday with new manager Jeff Isom and his staff – hitting coach Matt Kennedy and pitching coach Pascual Santiago – at Silver Cross Field.

The opening day of spring training was not what Isom hoped because of – what else? – wet weather.

Yet Isom, whose resume includes two years managing the Joliet JackHammers (in 2004-05), several years coaching and managing in the Milwaukee Brewers organization and last year guiding the Lake Erie Crushers to the Frontier League Championship Series, has a good feeling.

“I’m very happy with where we’re at right now,” he said.

“Of course, the focus is on the season, and we will have roster decisions to make. We play a lot of exhibition games, and it’s easier to evaluate guys in games than in batting practice or when they’re throwing on the side.”

The first exhibition game against another team is at noon Monday, when the Slammers entertain the Windy City Thunderbolts.

Slammers veteran Chase Doremus along with Jordan Wellander, the closer in Lake Erie last year, will head the bullpen. Santo Manzanillo should be fun to watch, as well.

“I had him with the Brewers, when he was the best pitcher in the Florida State League,” Isom said. “He threw 96 to 100 mph and got on the Brewers’ 40-man roster.

“But then he got in a car accident in the Dominican and had surgeries. His velocity is back up but his walks increased.

“It will be exciting to see him back on the mound. Hopefully he will get back on track where he is throwing strikes.

If so, he won’t be here long [a major league organization will sign him].”

Danny Hernandez, formerly in the Royals organization, and Blair Walters, the 2011 Pioneer League Pitcher of the Year, will head a starting staff that has six candidates for the other three spots.

Nick Akins and Marquis Riley, familiar to Slammers fans, are back to help lead the offense. Adam Giacalone will provide another big bat to with Moldenhauer in the first base/DH platoon.

With Jose Garcia and Max Casper in the mix, defense up the middle could be sound.

As Isom said, right now he feels good.

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STAFF REPORTS JOLIET – The Joliet Junior College baseball team swept a doubleheader from College of Lake County on Thursday, winning the opener, 4-2, and the nightcap, 5-1.

The sweep gives the Wolves 10 wins in their past 13 games as they improve to 35-16 overall.

Josh Jimenez (Minooka) pitched a complete game and allowed just one earned run on six hits in the opener.

Colton Trager, Ben Kirchler and Ron Sessler (Lockport) all had two hits, while Nick Fleishchauer (Minooka) had a two-run single in the fifth to give the Wolves the lead.

In Game 2, Kevin Ruff (Minooka) allowed one earned run on seven hits to go with six strikeouts and no walks in the complete game win.

Tyler Thorson (Minooka) was 2 for 3 and Matt Filkins (Lincoln-Way Central) was 1

for 3 with two RBIs.

HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL Plainfield North 10, Plainfield South 6: Josh Garner went five innings for the win, allowing four runs – one earned – on three hits and 12 strikeouts for the Tigers (19-2, 12-0) in the Southwest Prairie win.

Josh Garner also starred at the plate, going 3 for 5 with two doubles and two RBIs. Kyle Strepek and Matt Welch each had two hits for North.

Plainfield Central 10, Oswego 4: Josh Tesch and Nick Rana homered to lead a 14hit attack for Central. Tesch went 3 for 4, Rana 2 for 4 and both knocked in three runs.

Austin Blazevic went 3 for 3, including a double, and drove in two runs. Christian Armstrong went 3 for 4, including a double and an RBI. Matt Ryan pitched four innings, allowing four hits and one run, for the victory.

Lincoln-Way West 7-10,

Thornwood 3-0: Chase Starcevich had two hits and three RBIs, Bailey Magruder two hits and two RBIs, Jake Robbins doubled twice and Jake Rossborough had two hits in the opener for West.

John Saffrahn pitched four innings and gained the victory, striking out six.

Andy Clavenna pitched the six-inning shutout in the nightcap, allowing four hits and three walks while striking out seven. Zach Speaker went 3 for 3 with a home run and drove in three runs.

Luke Morgan also went 3 for 3, including a double, and knocked in three. Robbins tripled and Ryan Hastings doubled.

Lemont 12, Oak Lawn 0 (5 inn.): Jake Terrazas had two hits and three RBIs as the Indians took the South Suburban Blue decision. Garrett Acton allowed five hits and struck out three. Eric Tucker, Ryan Folliard and Matt

Monaco all had two hits, while Jake Latz doubled.

Morris 15, DeKalb 3: The Redskins (14-7, 5-3) won the Northern Illinois Big 12 rubber game of the series behind a 3-for-3 performance from Austin Conrod. Conrod doubled, had four RBIs and scored three times. Cody Niewinski got the win on the mound, striking out four in four innings.

BOYS VOLLEYBALL Sandburg 25-26, Lincoln-Way Central 18-24: Adam Sargis led Lincoln-Way Central (14-7, 3-2 SouthWest Suburban Red) with eight kills.

HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL Sandburg 8, Joliet West 7: Joy Treasure was 3 for 3 to lead Joliet West (18-5, 6-1) in the SouthWest Suburban Blue loss, which ended an 18-game Tiger win streak.

Kylie Robb was 2 for 4 with two RBIs, while Julia Liceaga

was 2 for 2 with an RBI.

Plainfield Central 10, Oswego 7: Gretchen Egly went 4 for 4 and drove in three runs and Sammy Sabor went 2 for 2 and drove in three for Central. Brooklyn Daly pitched 61⁄3 innings for the victory.

GIRLS SOCCER Lemont 3, Richards 0: Kim Jerantowski, Aleksandra Mihailovic and Lauren Lumsden all scored for the Indians (10-0-2, 8-0 South Suburban Blue). Goalkeeper Kelly Fritz recorded her 10th shutout.

Naperville Central 1, Lincoln-Way Central 0: Naperville Central scored with 9:23 left to record the victory against the Knights (8-6-3).

Coal City 3, Reed-Custer 0: Brittany Jezik scored all three goals for Coal City (71, 6-1 Interstate Eight), with assists coming from Gabby Sander and Courtney Torino. Britta Spelde made three saves for the shutout.

AREA SPORTS SCHEDULE FRIDAY’S EVENTS Baseball Bradley-Bourbonnais at Lincoln-Way Central, 4:30 p.m.

Lincoln-Way West at Thornridge, 4:30 p.m.

Stagg at Lincoln-Way East, 4:30 p.m.

Plainfield East at T.F. South, 4:30 p.m.

Reed-Custer at Coal City, 4:30 p.m.

Peotone at Seneca, 4:30 p.m.

Gardner-South Wilmington at Iroquois West, 4:30 p.m.

Sandwich at Dwight, 4:30 p.m.

Homewood-Flossmoor at Lockport, 7 p.m.

Boys Tennis Coal City, Romeoville, Minooka at Yorkville Doubles Tournament, 4 p.m.

Boys Track Morris at Mendota, 4 p.m.

Dwight, Reed-Custer, Coal City at Herscher Invitational, 4 p.m.

Lincoln-Way Central at Lincoln-Way North Invitational, 4:30 p.m.

Romeoville, Providence Catholic at Lincoln-Way West Invite, 4:30 p.m.

Lincoln-Way East at Rich Central Invitational, 4:30 p.m.

Boys Volleyball Bolingbrook, Lincoln-Way West, Minooka, Lincoln-Way Central at

Lincoln-Way East Invite, 4:30 p.m.

Plainfield Central at Benet Invite, 5 p.m.

Boys Water Polo Lincoln-Way Central at Lockport, 5 p.m.

Girls Soccer Joliet Central at Winnebago Invitational, 4 p.m.

Lincoln-Way Central, Plainfield North at Naperville Invitational, 4 p.m.

Plainfield Central at Bartlett, 4:30 p.m.

Lockport at Burlington Invitational, 4:30 p.m.

Coal City at Streator, 4:30 p.m.

Girls Track Morris at Mendota, 4 p.m.

Dwight, Reed-Custer, Coal City at Herscher Invitational, 4 p.m.

Minooka at Conant Twilight Invitational, 4:30 p.m.

Lockport at Glenbard North, 4:30 p.m.

Bolingbrook, Lincoln-Way West, Lincoln-Way Central at Oak Forest Invitational 5 p.m.

Softball Lincoln-Way Central at Thornridge, 4:30 p.m.

Lockport at Stagg, 4:30 p.m.

Andrew at Lincoln-Way West, 4:30 p.m.

Lincoln-Way East at Bolingbrook, 4:30 p.m.

Homewood-Flossmoor at Joliet Central, 4:30 p.m.

Plainfield East at Downers Grove North, 4:30 p.m.

Reed-Custer at Coal City, 4:30 p.m.

Peotone at Seneca, 4:30 p.m.

Gardner-South Wilmington at Iroquois West, 4:30 p.m.

Sandwich at Dwight, 4:30 p.m.

College Baseball JJC at Olive-Harvey College, 3:30 p.m.

Men’s Track & Field USF at CCAC Championships at Olivet Nazarene Women’s Track & Field USF at CCAC Championships at Olivet Nazarene SATURDAY’S EVENTS Badminton Southwest Prairie Tournament at Oswego Baseball Plainfield Central at Lincoln-Way East, 10 a.m.

Lincoln-Way West at Lemont (DH), 10 a.m.

Seneca at Fieldcrest, 10 a.m.

Plainfield South at Honenegah (DH), 11 a.m.

Oswego at Joliet Central (DH), 11 a.m.

Providence Catholic at St. Rita, 11 a.m.

Plainfield East at Sandburg (DH), 11 a.m.

Carmel at JCA, 1 p.m.

Boys Tennis Lockport, Minooka, Lincoln-Way Central, Plainfield Central at Lincoln-Way East Invitational, 8 a.m.

Romeoville at Oswego Invite, 8:30 a.m.

Lincoln-Way West at Oak Lawn Invite, 9 a.m.

Bolingbrook at Proviso West Quad, 9 a.m.

Boys Track Minooka at Waubonsie Valley Invitational, 10 a.m.

Lockport at Glenbard West Arnold Invitational, 9 a.m.

Bolingbrook at Palatine Relays, 8:30 a.m.

Boys Volleyball Plainfield Central at Benet Invite, 8 a.m.

Bolingbrook, Lincoln-Way West, Minooka, Lincoln-Way Central at Lincoln-Way East Invitational, 8:30 a.m.

Girls Soccer Lincoln-Way Central, Plainfield North at Naperville Invitational

Lockport at Burlington Invitational Joliet Central at Winnebago Invitational, 9 a.m.

Marian Catholic at Providence Catholic, noon Lincoln-Way East at Stagg, noon Lake Park at Plainfield East, noon Girls Track Lincoln-Way East at Thornton Invitational, 10 a.m.

Softball Lake Park at Lockport, 9 a.m.

Seneca at Princeton (DH), 10 a.m.

Lincoln-Way Central at Lemont (DH), 11 a.m.

Nazareth Academy at Providence (DH), 11 a.m.

Plainfield East vs. Lake Park at Lockport, 11 a.m.

Carmel at JCA (DH), 1 p.m.

Plainfield East at Lockport, 1 p.m.

Plainfield Central at Marengo (3 games), TBA College Baseball Bellarmine at Lewis (DH), noon Elgin Community College at JJC, noon Men’s Track & Field USF at CCAC Championships at Olivet Nazarene Women’s Track & Field USF at CCAC Champiohships at Olivet Nazarene

NBA

NHL PLAYOFFS SECOND ROUND (Best-of-7, x-if necessary) Thursday’s Results Montreal 4, Boston 3 (2OT), Montreal

leads series 1-0 Friday Minnesota at Blackhawks, 8:30 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Saturday Montreal at Boston, 11:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Anaheim, 7 p.m.

Sunday Minnesota at Blackhawks, 2 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh, 6:30 p.m.

Monday Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers, 6:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Anaheim, 9 p.m.

Tuesday Blackhawks at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Boston at Montreal, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, May 7 Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, May 8 Boston at Montreal, 6:30 p.m.

Anaheim at Los Angeles, 9 p.m.

Friday, May 9 Blackhawks at Minnesota, TBD x-N.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh, TBD Wednesday’s Results N.Y. Rangers 2, Philadelphia 1, New York

tied 3-3 L.A. Clippers at Golden State (n), Los

Angeles leads series 3-2 Friday Toronto at Brooklyn, 6 p.m.

San Antonio at Dallas, 7 p.m.

Houston at Portland, 9:30 p.m.

Saturday Atlanta at Indiana, TBD x-Memphis at Oklahoma City, TBD x-Golden State at L.A. Clippers, TBD Sunday x-Brooklyn at Toronto, TBD x-Dallas at San Antonio, TBD x-Portland at Houston, TBD Tuesday Results Washington 75, Bulls 69, Washington wins

series 4-1 Memphis at Oklahoma City (n), Memphis

leads series 3-2 L.A. Clippers 113, Golden State 103, Clippers

lead series 3-2 Wednesday’s Results San Antonio 109, Dallas 103, San Antonio

leads series 3-2

wins series 4-3

Toronto 115, Brooklyn 113, Toronto leads

Minnesota at Colorado 4 (OT), Minnesota

series 3-2

wins series 4-3

Houston 108, Portland 98, Portland leads

Los Angeles 5, San Jose 1, Los Angeles

series 3-2

wins series 4-3

American League CENTRAL DIVISION W L Pct Detroit 14 9 .609 Kansas City 14 13 .519 White Sox 14 15 .483 Minnesota 12 13 .480 Cleveland 11 17 .393 EAST DIVISON W L Pct New York 15 12 .556 Baltimore 13 12 .520 Toronto 13 15 .464 Tampa Bay 13 16 .448 Boston 13 16 .448 WEST DIVISION W L Pct Oakland 18 10 .643 Texas 15 13 .536 Los Angeles 14 13 .519 Seattle 12 14 .462 Houston 9 19 .321

GB — 2 3 3 5½ GB — 1 2½ 3 3 GB — 3 3½ 5 9

Thursday’s Results Tampa Bay 2, Boston 1, 1st game L.A. Dodgers 9, Minnesota 4, 1st game Baltimore 5, Pittsburgh 1, 1st game Seattle 4, N.Y. Yankees 4 Tampa Bay 6, Boston 5, 2nd game Toronto 7, Kansas City 3 L.A. Dodgers at Minnesota (n), 2nd game Pittsburgh at Baltimore (n), 2nd game Friday’s Games White Sox at Cleveland, 6:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 6:05 p.m.

Toronto at Pittsburgh, 6:05 p.m.

Oakland at Boston, 6:10 p.m.

Detroit at Kansas City, 7:10 p.m.

Baltimore at Minnesota, 7:10 p.m.

Seattle at Houston, 7:10 p.m.

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

National League CENTRAL DIVISION W L Pct Milwaukee 20 9 .690 St. Louis 15 14 .517 Cincinnati 13 15 .464 Pittsburgh 10 17 .370 Cubs 9 17 .346 EAST DIVISION W L Pct Atlanta 17 10 .630 New York 15 12 .571 Washington 16 12 .571 Philadelphia 13 13 .500 Miami 14 14 .500 WEST DIVISION W L Pct San Francisco 17 11 .607 Los Angeles 16 12 .571 Colorado 17 13 .567 San Diego 13 16 .448 Arizona 9 22 .290

GB — 5 6½ 9 9½ GB — 1½ 1½ 3½ 3½ GB — 1 1 4½ 9½

Thursday’s Results L.A. Dodgers 9, Minnesota 4, 1st game Baltimore 5, Pittsburgh 1, 1st game Cincinnati 8, Milwaukee 3 Miami 5, Atlanta 4 L.A. Dodgers at Minnesota (n), 2nd game Colorado 7, N.Y. Mets 4 Pittsburgh at Baltimore (n), 2nd game Friday’s Games St. Louis at Cubs, 1:20 p.m.

Washington at Philadelphia, 6:05 p.m.

Toronto at Pittsburgh, 6:05 p.m.

Milwaukee at Cincinnati, 6:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Miami, 6:10 p.m.

San Francisco at Atlanta, 6:35 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Colorado, 7:10 p.m.

Arizona at San Diego, 9:10 p.m.

9. Vinceremos 10. Wildcat Red 11. Dance With Fate 12. Chitu 13. Medal Count 14. Tapiture 15. Intense Holiday 16. Commanding Curve 17. Candy Boy 18. Ride On Curlin 19. Wicked Strong 20. Pable Del Monte

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WHAT TO WATCH NHL playoffs Western Conference semifinals, Game 1, Minnesota at Blackhawks, 8:30 p.m., NBCSN Pro baseball St. Louis at Cubs, 1:20 p.m.,

Home-ice advantage. No Semyon Varlamov. An opponent down to its third- and possibly fourth-string goalies. And the big, bad Kings and Ducks beating each other up for the next two weeks.

On paper, everything’s coming up Blackhawks. Of the eight teams left in the Stanley Cup playoffs, the Minnesota Wild have the longest odds of winning it all, according to Las Vegas bookmakers. But while the draw is opening up for the Hawks after their grueling first-round victory over the St. Louis Blues, this second-round series won’t be a gimme. The Hawks largely sleepwalked through a five-game victory over the Wild last spring in the first round, but this year’s model is deeper, more experienced and better.

Here are three X-factors that could decide this Western Conference semifinal series:

Who’s in goal?

Noteworthy: First, Josh Harding was sidelined with a setback related to his multiple sclerosis. Then Niklas Backstrom was shut down for the season with lower-body injuries. Now Darcy Kuemper is nursing an injury suffered late in the Wild’s Game 7 victory over the Colorado Avalanche.

That leaves the enigmatic and occasionally brilliant Ilya Bryzgalov in net for Min-

nesota in Game 1, with John Curry – a 30-year-old with six NHL games to his credit – as his backup. Bryzgalov was acquired at the trade deadline for insurance but won the starting job down the stretch, before losing it back to Kuemper in Game 2.

Quoteworthy: “I’m not sure exactly how it’s going to unfold [Friday] night, but we’ll talk about either goalie, how you can exploit them or any advantage you can get by where you put the puck and going to the net,” coach Joel Quenneville said. “But I think that the simplicity of getting to every goalie, you find out about them by just making sure that we put pucks and bodies at the net.”

Star power Noteworthy: Neither Patrick Sharp nor Marian Hossa had a bad series against St. Louis.

But they each had only one goal in six games. It wasn’t for a lack of chances, however, which is why neither player was terribly concerned. Eventually, though, the Hawks will need their biggest stars to start producing, not just generating. Sharp was the Hawks’ most consistent scorer in the 2010 and 2013 Stanley Cup runs, and when Hossa gets hot, he tends to score in bunches.

Both are eager to break out in a big way.

Quoteworthy: “I think it’s tougher for everybody to score in the playoffs, but you’re asking me about my game,” Sharp

said. “I feel like I’ve scored a lot in the playoffs in the past, and I know I’ll score in the future.”

Special delivery Noteworthy: The Hawks proved last year (just as the Los Angeles Kings and Boston Bruins did before them) that you can win the Stanley Cup with a lousy power play, just as long as you have a strong penalty kill. That formula worked just fine against the Blues – the Hawks lead the postseason with a 93.1 percent kill rate, while scoring only three power-play goals on 20 chances. But just imagine if the Hawks could find the power-play groove that had them in the top five of the league for most of the season.

Quoteworthy: “In the last game [against St. Louis], we killed off a bunch of big penalties to pretty much win that hockey game, and then our power play comes out and scores a big goal, so special teams is important,” goalie Corey Crawford said. “There are huge momentum swings in the playoffs when you take a penalty, and then you get it back when you kill it.”

Prediction This Wild team is better than the one the Hawks saw last year, but the Hawks reasserted themselves as the team to beat in the West with their handling of St. Louis.

Hawks in 5

Napravnik chasing history in Kentucky Derby

HORSE RACING 140th Kentucky Derby Louisville, Ky. Purse: $2.2 million Distance: 1¼ Saturday, May 3 1. Vicar’s in Trouble 20-1 2. Harry’s Holiday 50-1 3. Uncle Sigh 30-1 4. Danza 8-1 5. California Chrome 5-2 6. Samraat 15-1 7. We Miss Artie 50-1 8. General a Rod 15-1

By MARK LAZERUS mlazerus@suntimes.com

CSN White Sox at Cleveland, 6:05 p.m., CSN Golf PGA Tour, Wells Fargo Championship, second round, at Charlotte, N.C., 2 p.m., TGC

By BETH HARRIS The Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky.– She started out her career disguising her gender, riding under the initials A.R. Napravnik.

In the male-dominated world of horse racing, Anna Rose Napravnik figured she’d have better luck if nobody noticed a woman’s name in the program.

With her red hair tucked under her helmet, she blended in with the male jockeys in their brightly colored silks, white pants and polished black riding boots.

Nine years later, Rosie Napravnik is one of the rising

stars in the sport, having long ago discarded her ruse. Now the 26-year-old from New Jersey will try to make history this weekend and become the first woman to ride a Kentucky Derby winner.

She’s achieved firsts before.

She was the first woman to win the Louisiana Derby, and did it twice. She also was the highest-placing female rider in the Kentucky Derby, finishing fifth last year aboard Mylute. She was the first woman to win a riding title at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans in 2011, with 34 more victories than the runner-up.

She was the first woman to

win the Kentucky Oaks, a $1 million race run on Derby eve, and has a strong chance to win it again Friday with early 4-5 favorite Untapable. Her mount in the Derby on Saturday is 20-1 long shot Vicar’s In Trouble.

“When I think about the things I’ve done in my career, it seems like I just started yesterday,” said Napravnik, a winner in her very first race just days after finishing her junior year in high school.

“I’ve been in so many different places. I’ve been so lucky to have ridden some of the horses I’ve ridden. It keeps building, and getting better and better and better.”

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‘A CHORALE EXPERIENCE’ Second annual Broadway, Motion Picture and Pop Music Spectacular set for Sunday

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ing along. Raise your hands. Speak up.

These are some of the commands Nicholas Thomas, music director with the Diocese of Joliet, may give during the second annual Broadway, Motion Picture and Pop Music Spectacular, scheduled for Sunday.

The idea, said Thomas, producer and director of the show, is to engage patrons in the performance.

“There’s a lot of back and forth banter between me and the audience,” Thomas said.

“This is not a regular concert.

It’s a chorale experience.”

The show is a fundraiser for the Joliet Township Alumni Association, JTHS alumni director Lynne Lichtenauer said. Money raised helps support the Alumni Association Legacy Scholarship fund.

“The scholarship is awarded annually to both a Joliet Central graduating senior and a Joliet West graduating senior,” Lichtenauer said.

The show features the 70-member Moraine Chorale and a 10-piece orchestra, as well as 2012 Rialto Idol Winners Agne Giedraityte (known as Agne G), 12, of Downer’s Grove and Larry Crawford, a truant officer for Joliet Grade School District 86 and vocalist and keyboardist with Positive Xchange, Lichtenauer said.

Not only will the two soloists provide the chorale an opportunity to rest their voices, Thomas said, Giedraityte and Crawford are talented entertainers in their own right.

“Larry has done so much singing and different types of singing,” Thomas said, “from singing in church to performing with groups.”

Since last year’s show, Agne won first place representing the United States in the Baltic Voices competition

Picture and Pop Music Spectacular n When: 3 p.m. Sunday n Where: Joliet West High School, 401 N. Larkin Ave., Joliet n Cost: $15 each, $7 for students and children 12 and younger. n To register: Call 866-967-8167 or visit www.Showtix4U.com

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Nicholas Thomas will bring his Moraine Valley Chorale to Joliet West High School on Sunday to raise money for the Alumni Association Legacy Scholarship Fund.

Nicholas Thomas and the Moraine Valley Chorale. for her age category at the International Lithuanian Music festival, Lichtenauer said.

Agne also won first place in her age category in the American Protégé International Vocal Competition.

In December 2013, she performed at Carnegie Hall in New York, Lichtenauer said.

“When you see this little girl on stage, you think, ‘Oh, this is going to be a cute little girl,’ until she opens her

mouth,” Thomas said. “She has a big mature voice.”

Concert selections, Thomas said, will include a medley from the longest-running Broadway musicals, songs from hit movies, pop hits and a Beatles tribute, in honor of the group’s 50th anniversary appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in 1964.

The 90-minute event is family friendly, Thomas said, for individuals age 8 and older.

“There’s no heavy music,” Thomas said, “just a nice fun and light afternoon.”

Still, there is nothing “light” about the man producing this show. Thomas is an associate professor of music and chairman of the fine arts and humanities department at Moraine Valley Community College in Palos Hills.

Thomas, who directs both the Moraine Chorale and the Moraine Chamber Singers, also is the former music director/organist at the Cathedral of St. Raymond in Joliet and the current music director at St. Isaac Jogues in Hinsdale, which is part of the Diocese of Joliet.

He has led concert tours in Europe, taken the Moraine Chorale to sing at Carnegie Hall in New York and brought the cathedral chorus to the Vatican in Rome, where they sang before Pope John Paul II. And yet, Thomas is down to earth enough to pause and

share a few facts about the songs.

“I want [the audience] to feel part of the action,” Thomas said.

Thomas also raved about his accompanist Beverly Holt, whom he called “accomplished.” Holt is the organist at Grace United Methodist Church in Joliet and “on faculty here at the college,” Thomas said.

The Broadway, Motion Picture & Pop Music Spectacular is the result of Thomas having helped judge the 2011 and 2012, Rialto Idol competition, as that’s how he met Lichtenauer, co-producer (along with Lori Carmine, Rialto Square Theatre’s technical director) of the Rialto Idol and Rialto Junior Idol competitions.

When Lichtenauer asked Thomas to bring his chorale for a performance to benefit the JTHS Alumni Association, Thomas liked the idea since it also gave the chorale an extra opportunity to sing the songs it had worked so hard to perfect.

Adding two Rialto Idol winners to the event lineup underscored the extent Thomas had enjoyed judging those competitions. How refreshing, was Thomas’ rationale, to critique singers performing something other than classical or religious pieces – or so he thought.

“During one contest,” Thomas said, “two people sang opera arias.”

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“The Amazing Spider-Man 2” STARRING: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx

PLOT: Peter Parker runs the gauntlet

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“Brick Mansions” STARRING: Paul Walker, David Belle PLOT: An undercover Detroit cop navigates a dangerous neighborhood that’s surrounded by a containment wall with the help of an ex-con in order to bring down a crime lord and his plot to devastate the entire city.

RATED: PG-13 for gunplay, violence and action throughout, language, sexual menace and drug material TIME: 1 hour, 30 minutes VERDICT: Adrenaline runs high in the entertaining, action-heavy remake of the 2004 French film “District B13.” Starring the late Paul Walker in one of his last roles, “Brick Mansions” packs gunfights, car chases, acrobatic stunts and humor into one stylized package. In the urban ghetto of Detroit, which has been surrounded by a containment wall,

narcotics officer Damien (Walker) goes undercover and teams with ex-con Lino (David Belle) to infiltrate a crew of criminals and defuse a confiscated bomb. Originally set for a February release, the film comes five months after Walker’s death in a car accident. His love for action roles comes through clearly in this movie. “Brick Mansions” was directed by newbie Camille Delamarre and written by Luc Besson, who also wrote “District B13.” Like the original, “Mansions” is set in the near future, although there’s really nothing in the film that shows us we’re a few years ahead other than the “2018” that is flashed on the screen. The many fight sequences were choreographed using a technique called Parkour.

Parkour incorporates vaulting, flipping, swinging, rolling, etc., to move through various obstacles in a scene. At the heart of the film is the social commentary focusing on a community divided. This is not a film that will shift anyone’s moral compass. But it’s worth it to see Walker in the last film he was able to complete.– The Associated Press

“Captain America: The Winter Soldier” STARRING: Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson

PLOT: Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world and battles a new threat from old history: the Soviet agent known as the Winter Soldier.

RATED: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence, gunplay and action throughout TIME: 2 hours, 16 minutes VERDICT: For the latest Marvel release, “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” most fan boys might prefer a Consumer Reports-style product review. New character introductions: Smooth. Action sequences: Excellent if sometimes lacking finesse. Viewer satisfaction: Likely high. Box-office prospects: Bankable. Teasers for future Marvel installments: Yes, two. With slick design and plushy interiors, “The Winter Soldier” is an excellent product. But is it a good movie? The earlier “Captain America: First Avenger” was a mostly clever period film, set in the 40s. “Winter Soldier” brings Steve Rogers – the weakling recruit made a brawny Greatest Generation icon, played by Chris Evans – up to present day for a Washington D.C. conspiracy thriller.

Fittingly, Marvel has attracted the default hero of such films, Robert Redford. Nick Fury (Samuel Jackson) believes something is amiss with the agency’s latest project. Captain America is left to investigate with only a few trustworthy friends: Scarlett Johansson’s scarlet-haired former KGB agent Natasha Romanoff, a.k.a. the Black Widow (an “Avengers” toss-in, added like a dash of paprika) and Anthony Mackie’s veteran Sam Wilson (a welcome newbie). The best thing “Winter Soldier” has going for it is its cast, a uniformly likable bunch. So while “The Winter Soldier” succeeds as finely engineered merchandise, it has a shelf life that won’t last much past its running time. – The

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“The Other Woman” STARRING: Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, Kate Upton

PLOT: After discovering her boyfriend is married, Carly soon meets the wife he’s been cheating on. And when yet another affair is discovered, all three women team up to plot mutual revenge.

RATED: PG-13 for mature thematic material, sexual references and language TIME: 1 hour, 49 minutes VERDICT: On its surface, “The Other Woman” is a very welcome thing: A movie starring talented, funny women with their own punch lines and everything. In the movies, this is bizarrely rare.

But what do the stars in “The Other Woman” – Cameron Diaz and Leslie Mann, along with a side of model-turned-actress Kate Upton – do the whole movie? Gab about a guy. “The Other Woman” is a slick hell-hath-no-fury comedy of female revenge, peppered with cheap and unimaginative toilet humor, but it’s elevated somewhat by the fine comic duo of Diaz and Mann.

Its simple concept – the banding together of a wife (Mann) and two of her husband’s unwitting mistresses – is dispiritingly sitcom-y, and its womanly uprising is a farce of female empowerment predicated on the characters’ shallow lives revolving around a man. But it’s also light and snappy, thanks largely to the chemistry between Mann and Diaz. Cassavetes seemingly tries to sap any energy that Mann and Diaz give the film. Any time music kicks in, terrible filmmaking results, usually in montage form. The wealthy interiors – Manhattan, Fairfield

County, the Hamptons – increase the artificiality of the film, which climaxes crudely. The real question is: Why, exactly, would these three women think twice about this guy?

They’re all so out of his league.

– The Associated Press

“The Quiet Ones” STARRING: Jared Harris, Sam Claflin, Olivia Cooke

PLOT: A university professor and a team of students conduct an experiment on a young woman, uncovering terrifyingly dark, unexpected forces in the process.

RATED: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and terror, sexual content, thematic material, language and smoking throughout TIME: 1 hour, 38 minutes VERDICT: Paying homage in style and theme to the vintage horror movies of the 1970s, “The Quiet Ones” is the latest stylish shocker from Hammer, the recently reactivated classic U.K. studio imprint. Mixing creaky haunted-house and exorcism tropes with a nod to the contemporary found-footage subgenre, the film relies on high production values and sense-battering shock tactics to make up for wooden performances and an illogical, silly script. As an exercise in retro pastiche, it impresses. But as a postmodern genre reinvention, it fails to deliver. The sophomore feature of Washington-born screenwriter-turned-director John Pogue, “The Quiet Ones” boasts the usual vague claims to be “inspired by actual events.” It draws very loosely on the “Philips Experiment” of 1972, in which a group of Toronto academic researchers tried to prove ghosts and poltergeists are constructs of the human mind. Set in 1974, the film stars “Mad Men” veteran Jared Harris as Joseph Coupland, an Oxford University psychology professor. Coupland hires amateur cameraman Brian McNeil (“Hunger Games” regular Sam Claflin) to document his controversial experiments on Jane Harper (Olivia Cooke), a mentally unstable young woman who appears to be possessed by a diabolical alter ego named Evey. The professor believes Jane is creating Evey purely through her own telekinetic powers. “The Quiet Ones” is not very original, nor even especially scary. Creaky and predictable, it should serve as comfort food to the huge and undemanding global fan base for old-school horror, the heavy metal of movie genres.

– The Associated Press

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as the mysterious company Oscorp sends up a slew of supervillains against him, impacting his life.

RATED: Rated PG-13 for sequences of sci-fi action/violence TIME: 2 hours, 22 minutes VERDICT: Deep into “The Amazing Spider-Man 2,” my 11-year-old companion was confused about a certain plot point– justifiably, I’d say – and demanded an immediate and thorough explanation. “Shh, not now. Later!” I hissed. Because, though I didn’t admit it, I really didn’t want to miss an Andrew Garfield-Emma Stone kiss. With great chemistry, you see, comes great kissing. Let’s just say this unequivocally: Whether my young Spidey fan would agree, the best thing about the “The Amazing Spider-Man 2,” the second installment of director Marc Webb’s series reboot, is that infectious chemistry between Garfield and Stone. In fact, given this overstuffed, overly long film is a sequel to a sequel, and that it spends a gazillion dollars retelling a story (in 3-D and IMAX) that the world already knows, you could argue that the Garfield-Stone dynamic is the real justification for the whole enterprise. This isn’t just because the two happen to be real-life partners – though it can’t hurt. Garfield is a sensitive actor who brings a quirky blend of intelligence and goofiness to Peter Parker, and a welcome hipster edge to the role that the wide-eyed Tobey Maguire didn’t have in the earlier incarnation of the Marvel character. As for Stone, she’s just so darned charming. And though it’s again a stretch to imagine her as a high school student, heck, we’ll take it. (In fact, Stone is 25 and Garfield is 30, so we’re just gonna have to give them a pass on this. At least they get their diplomas this time.) Another winning presence is that of Sally Field, touching as the now-widowed Aunt May. There are not one, not two, but three villains (at least!) here, and all sorts of backstories – something for everyone, which means too much.

The most important backstory involves Peter’s parents, and what really happened to them once they abandoned him as a tot (hint: it involves a very fast-paced plane ride).

Back on terra firma, we start with an even faster-paced urban chase involving Spider-Man, a hammy,

Russian-accented Paul Giamatti, and some plutonium, distracting Peter/ Spidey from Gwen, who’s anxiously awaiting Peter’s arrival at their graduation. Peter does arrive, but we quickly learn that the key obstacle to their relationship remains in place: Peter’s fear of putting Gwen in harm’s way. Haunted, Peter just can’t commit. Not surprisingly, Gwen gets very charmingly annoyed, and kinda sorta breaks up with him. But these two can’t stay apart for long. Meanwhile, there are big goings-on at Oscorp, that huge bioengineering corporation headed by Norman Osborn. With Norman on his deathbed, son Harry (Dane DeHaan) Peter’s old buddy, returns from boarding school. The pale, wiry DeHaan is entertainingly creepy as he descends into desperation. Then there’s the unappreciated Oscorp employee Max Dillon (Jamie Foxx). When he falls into a vat of mutant electric eels, he morphs into Electro, a glowing monster who can manipulate electricity and suck the power from a whole city (Foxx is more convincing as the villain than the self-effacing scientist). In this age of multi-tasking, Peter/Spidey sure has his work cut out for him – taking care of New York, of Gwen, and of the endearingly curious Aunt May, who, in a funny moment, wonders why, when Peter does the laundry, he turns all the clothes red and blue? Where will it all end? Well, at least two more sequels are planned, and any number of future confrontations loom. Which of the villains will re-emerge to challenge Spidey? Shh, not now. Later!

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Morris Theatre Guild, 516 W. Illinois Ave. Morris. For reservations, call 815-942-1966, email tickets@ morristheatreguild.org or visit morristheatreguild.org.

• JJC Fine Arts Hosts Annual Spring Jazz Concert – 7:30 p.m. in the Fine Arts Theatre on Main Campus, 1215 Houbolt Road, Joliet. The concert will feature the college’s jazz band, under the direction of Charles Morgan. Guest band Plainfield South High School jazz band, under the direction of Christopher Jamrose, will open the concert.

• Live Music Fridays – 9 p.m. to midnight, 735 N. Center Blvd., Romeoville. Fireside Bar & Grill (located in Brunswick Zone XL).

Downtown Charlie Brown Blues Band. Must be 21 years old.

Saturday • North Central College presents artwork of Ian Wright – 6 to 8 p.m.

Meiley-Swallow Hall Gallery, 31 S. Ellsworth St. Meet the artist during a reception in the gallery; light refreshments will be served. Wright’s exhibit showcases charcoal on wood panel drawings, video art, sculpture and photography capture the essence of Iceland’s volcanic environment. For information, contact Christine Rabenold at 630-6375543 or cmrabenold@noctrl.edu.

• Old Quarry Art Show – noon to 4 p.m. Fridays and Sundays and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays, through May 11, at 1243 State St. Lemont.

Lemont Center for the Arts will host a reception from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday. For information, contact Jean Dorrance at 630-257-2286, ext.

4259, or jdorrance@sd113a.org.

Sunday • St. Joseph Altar & Rosary Bingo Party – 1 to 4 p.m., at St. Joseph Park, 1500 N. Raynor Ave., Joliet.

Free refreshments will be available after bingo. Call Rosemary Konopek, president, at 815-730-3936.

• JJC Fine Arts Hosts Annual Community Band Spring Concert – 3 p.m. in the Fine Arts Theatre on Main Campus, 1215 Houbolt Road.

The public is invited.

Tuesday • Spring luncheon – 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Assumption Catholic Church 245 S. Kankakee St., Coal City.

Following the luncheon, bunco and euchre will be played with prizes to be awarded. Tickets are $8 for the luncheon and $5 for bunco and euchre. Tickets will be sold at the door the day of the luncheon. Carry outs available. All are welcome.

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JOLIET – Gorgeous Artistry will hold an open casting call from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, at Legends II sports bar, 1220 Richards St., Joliet.

Participants, males and females, must be ages 16 to 35.

No modeling experience necessary but must be wellgroomed, wear little to no makeup, wear white T-shirts and have clear skin. Head shots are preferred. All ethnicity welcome.

Benefits include experience, monetary amount to be announced and head shots.

JJC offers Summer Strings class JOLIET – From July 7 to Aug. 13, Joliet Junior College Fine Arts Department will offer a new class this summer called Summer Strings (MUS 160).

This offers string instrument instruction that is open to the public.

The class will meet from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays during the third summer session.

Summer Strings is specifically designed for the violin, viola, cello and bass.

For information about how to apply at JJC, visit www.jjc. edu/admissions.

USF senior thesis exhibit at Rialto through May 23 JOLIET – Through May 23, the University of St. Francis,

Senior Thesis Exhibition will be on display from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., at the Rialto City Center Gallery, 25 E. Van Buren St., Joliet. Students also will show digital portfolios, the first virtual/live exhibition in the university’s history.

This annual capstone exhibition presents work by students currently completing a Bachelors of Arts with a focus in art education, graphic design, photography and studio art.

• Amanda Cichoracki, children’s book illustration & the first masters of visual arts education participant.

• Jeffrey Brown, installation of pagan iconography.

• Evan Griffin, restaurant branding and design.

• Peter Hernandez, art game using wordplay and icons.

• Carlos Mendoza, comic book illustration.

• Jesus Reyes, fitness branding and design.

• Egzon Shaqiri, series of International brandings and designs.

For information, contact Emily Green, curator, at egreen@stfrancis.edu

Anniversary of ‘Wizard of Oz’ to be celebrated MOKENA – The Curtain Call Theatre Emily McCabe Summer Theatre program decided to follow the yellow brick road this summer when they realized it was the 75th anniversary of the classic

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Country music artist Sara Evans will perform Friday at the Rialto Square Theatre in Joliet.

“You’ll walk away from it having had an awesome experience.”

Sara Evans Country singer food, “life with kids” and travel, Evans said.

“We’re slowly building it and having a great time,” Evans said. “I feel like I’m a writer in every sense. I love to sit down at the computer and just go, especially if I’m all about something.”

One topic Evans is “all

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“You’ll walk away from it having had an awesome experience,” Evans said.

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Evans’ children are so accustomed to eating healthy, Evans said they balk when

According to Sara Evans’ management company, Evans has: • Nearly 6 million records sold • Five No. 1 country singles • Awards from the Country Music Association • Won the Academy of Country Music Award for female vocalist and Billboard Music Award • Garnered nominations for Grammy Awards (two), American Country Awards (10) and CMT Music Awards (five)

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JOLIET – Platinum-selling RCA Nashville recording artist Sara Evans is excited to share tracks from her seventh studio album with a Joliet audience Friday.

“It takes so long to make a record,” Evans said, “that when you do have one out there, you just can’t wait for everyone to hear it.”

Evans said she wrote three of the tracks: “Sweet Spot” (about her current marital climate), “If I Run” (should the woman bolt, would her man track her down?) and “You Never Know” (about losing, instead of finding, love).

All three songs complement the album’s title, “Slow Me Down,” Evans said. The album, released March 11, debuted to second place on the Country Album Chart and Top 10 on Billboard, according to a news release from Evans’ management company.

Evans is especially fond of “Sweet Spot.”

“It’s not that typical for me to write that personally about my life, but the song was easy and fun,” Evans said. “It just talks about where Jay and I are now.”

These days, Evans isn’t simply writing song lyrics. She and her sister-inlaw, Kaelin Evans, recently launched, “A Real Fine Place,” a fun lifestyle blog covering beauty, fashion,

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This week, we have been studying strong jump shifts.

To check that you have the idea, look at today’s South hand. North opens one heart and East passes. What should South bid?

While you decide, I have said that a strong jump shift should promise 13-16 high-card points. In the days of yore, responder needed 17-19 highcard points. As I explained three days ago, this was not best. But if responder has a two-suiter, by the time he adds shortage points, his hand will probably be worth 17-19 support points: high-card plus shortage points.

In this deal, though, South must respond one spade, not two spades. Don’t make a strong jump shift with a two-suiter unless partner opened in one of your suits.

A sensible sequence is one heart - one spade - three spades - four no-trump - five diamonds - five no-trump - six hearts - six spades. It is difficult to bid seven no-trump (the best contract) or seven spades with confidence when a king is missing.

However, let’s assume that West leads the club jack against seven spades. How should South plan the play?

Declarer has 13 top tricks: five spades, five hearts, one diamond and two clubs. So, he does not need to risk the diamond finesse. He should win trick one in his hand with the club ace, draw trumps (leaving the ace or king in the dummy as an entry), unblock the heart ace and king, cross to dummy with a trump, and cash those lovely winners (the heart Q-J10 and club king), discarding his four diamond losers.

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Kids are collateral damage in war on marriage Dear Abby: My wife and I both served in the military. When she returned from Egypt 19 months ago, she dropped a bomb on me, saying she didn’t want to be married anymore. She said she had settled for second best all her life and that’s what she had done with me. She went on to say she knows there’s someone better than me out there, and she’s going to find him.

All the evidence points to an affair, which she denies – constant trips out of town, emails and phone calls. We are now living paycheck to paycheck. We have no more savings and I’m paying all the expenses when it comes to the kids. She retired a year ago and refuses to get a job worthy of her experience. The worst part is, our kids have suffered.

We have been separated ever since she got back. She says our kids aren’t worth her trying to save our marriage. Our close friends and family are still shocked, but no one more than me. It has been a struggle, which almost caused me to have a

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips breakdown. Everything I do now is to lessen the impact on our kids.

What advice can you offer me? – Trying To Cope In Virginia Dear Trying To Cope: Please accept my sympathy. Your marriage is over and you have to accept it.

If you haven’t consulted a lawyer, you should do it NOW to figure out what your responsibility – and HERS–-- will be to the children once your divorce is final.

They should be cared for by the parent who is willing and able to give them stability, and the lawyer can help you determine this. From your description of your wife, that would be you, while she searches for someone she “deserves.”

Personally, I hope she finds him, because the way she has treated you has been brutal.

Dear Abby: I’m a student in a community college. I enjoy the diversity of the students here;

many are adults who are changing careers or getting the education they’ve always wanted.

One woman in my class has a habit of bringing her toddler with her. I understand that sitters can be unreliable and child care is expensive, but this disrupts the class – and I know it distracts the mother, as well. She often has to get up mid-lesson when her child needs to use the restroom.

I don’t want to step on toes or intrude in people’s personal lives, but college is no place for an unruly toddler. How can I handle this? – Student In New York Dear Student: I wholeheartedly agree with you that toddlers do not belong in college lectures where they distract the students.

This is something that should be discussed with whomever is conducting the class, and if that doesn’t fix the problem, with the dean.

P.S. Some colleges have baby-sitting facilities on campus.

• Write Dear Abby at www. dearabby.com.

For low back pain, find a mattress that works for you Dear Doctor K: I have chronic low back pain. What type of mattress should I use?

Dear Reader: Considering that we spend roughly a third of our lives lying in bed, this is a very good question. And you’d think medical science would have a very good answer.

I asked my colleague, Dr. Jeffrey Katz, professor of medicine and orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School, for his thoughts. He noted that there’s not a great deal of research on this topic, but a few studies offer some guidance.

In the past, doctors often recommended very firm mattresses for people with back pain. These are sometimes called “orthopedic mattresses” because they were widely recommended by orthopedic surgeons when I was in medical school. That was at a time when virtually no research had been done on the question.

Doctors simply had opinions -- sometimes strong opinions.

And sometimes the worst kind of strong opinions: wrong strong opinions.

Dr. Katz cited one study in which 313 people slept on a medium-firm or firm mattress for three months. Those with the medium-firm mattresses reported

ASK DOCTOR K Anthony L. Komaroff less pain when lying in bed as well as less pain-related disability compared with those with the firm mattresses.

Another report surveyed 268 patients with low back pain and found that patients sleeping on orthopedic (very hard) mattresses experienced the poorest sleep quality. But patients experienced no difference in sleep quality between medium and firm mattresses.

A softer mattress that conforms to your body’s natural curves may help your joints align favorably. “Memory foam” mattresses fit this description well. But you might also sink in so deeply that your joints twist and become painful during the night.

Dr. Katz usually advises his patients to try sleeping on many different mattresses and beds to see which type feels best. For example, if you spend a night at a hotel or someone else’s house, note how you feel after sleeping on the “new” bed. You might also try placing a plywood board under your current mattress to

dampen any movement from bedsprings. Or put your mattress on the floor to simulate the feeling of a firm bed. Before buying a new bed, go to a mattress showroom and try a variety of different models.

Finally, pay attention to your sleeping position. Sleep on your side if you can, and bend your knees toward your chest a bit.

Also, choose a pillow that keeps your head level with your spine.

Your pillow shouldn’t prop your head up too high or let it droop.

You asked what type of mattress is best for people with low back pain. My basic answer is: Try different types of mattresses and see which seems best for you.

You may be thinking: Dr. K spent all those years in medical school so that he could tell me that?

But all those years of medical training have taught me one thing: People are different. Studies tell us what’s best for the average patient in the study. But like the children of Lake Wobegon, you are certainly not average!

• Dr. Komaroff is a physician and professor at Harvard Medical School. Visit www.AskDoctorK. com to send questions and get additional information.

Don’t risk losing best friend over boy Dr. Wallace: Sara and I have been best friends ever since first grade and love each other like sisters. We do practically everything together.

We both had boyfriends and often double-dated until I broke up with my boyfriend. She continued to date Ken until a couple of weeks ago when they broke up because Ken wanted his freedom to date other girls. Sara was really upset about this until she figured out that she is also now free to date other guys. She is very pretty and charming so she will have lots of dates.

So, here is my problem: I got to know Ken when we double-dated and I always thought he was nice, but I didn’t think about him in a romantic way.

Last night he called and told me he had won two tickets in a contest and asked me to go to an Atlanta Braves baseball game in a couple of weeks. I told him I would have to have a couple of days to think about it, and he understood.

After I hung up with Ken, I called Sara and told her about the invitation and asked her what she thought I should do. She said she’d give it some thought and call me back. She called me back in half an hour and told me she thought I should go to the game with him.

I’m really not a baseball fan, but I think I would like to spend time with Ken. I’m a little hesitant about dating Ken, so that’s why I’m writing for your thoughts about this.

Please give me your advice as soon as possible.

– Nicole, Atlanta, Ga. Dear Nicole: Your dilemma is a common one. I often receive let-

’TWEEN 12 & 20 Robert Wallace ters like yours and my response never changes: Dating a best friend’s ex-boyfriend is the fastest way to wind up with an ex-best friend.

Even though Sara has told you to go to the game with Ken, she would be disappointed and possibly really irritated if you did. Your friendship with her is extremely important to both of you. Don’t risk it!

Dr. Wallace: I’m a high school football player and will be a senior next year. This year I played defensive tackle and I weighed 278 pounds. My coach has suggested that I lose 18 pounds because at 260 pounds I’d be quicker and be a better player. He said it might give me a good chance to play in a major college football program.

He asked me if I drank whole milk and I told him I drank a half-gallon a day. He told me that if I stopped drinking milk and substituted it with water that I’d lose these 18 pounds by next September. I thought milk was the perfect food and that it was healthy for me.

What do you think about this? – Nameless, Somewhere in Texas.

Dear Nameless: Milk is, indeed, the “perfect food.” It’s chock-full of proteins, carbohydrates, minerals, vitamins and is high in calcium. But whole milk has a very high fat content. Switch to skim milk. It contains all the good stuff without the not-so-good stuff – fat. Your coach is 100 percent correct.

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

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By ED SYMKUS More Content Now If you sat down at “Fading Gigolo” without knowing anything about it, you’d no doubt think you were watching a new Woody Allen movie.

It’s all about love and sex and insecurity and jealousy; there’s jazz spinning through the soundtrack; men and women tend not to understand each other’s motivations; and one of the lead characters is an older, very talkative Jewish fellow from Brooklyn who’s, by the way, played by Woody Allen.

But this was written and directed by, and co-stars John Turturro, who is no doubt a big fan of Allen. No, this is not a Woody rip-off. Turturro manages to get his own creative voice in there, playing a likeable,if confused, character who just can’t figure out how to play the cards that life has dealt him.

He’s Fioravante, a nice guy who’s eking by as a part-timer at a flower shop. His best friend is Murray (Allen), who has just been forced to shut down his once successful book shop.

Murray is a family man, but Fioravante is alone. Both men are a bit lost, both are trying to figure out what to do next.

What they come up with sounds, at first, pretty far-fetched. Murray’s wealthy, married dermatologist, Dr. Parker (Sharon Stone) casually mentions she’d like to try a three-way.

Business-minded Murray thinks he might be able to set something up, for a lot of money, and feels that Fioravante might be the right guy to get involved in this “business.”

Murray is a man with amoral tendencies, and he hatches a plan to become his lonely pal’s pimp. The three-way goes by the wayside, but Murray finds that a lot of women who happen to have a lot of cash are interested in a safe little fling with an OK-looking, energetic nice guy.

Never mind that Fioravante has no self-esteem, and doesn’t even think he’s attractive.

But while that story gets cooking, another one begins, again with Murray at the center. He needs some assistance from his late rabbi’s beautiful, deeply religious, and still-grieving young wife Avigal (Vanessa Paradis), a woman who, it’s said by others in

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Woody Allen (left) and John Turturro star in the film “Fading Gigolo.” the neighborhood, hasn’t smiled in the two years her husband has been gone.

Maybe, suggests Murray some massage therapy would help, and maybe Fioravante is the guy to provide it.

Don’t bother trying to figure out where all of this is going, because while the pimping business grows and the money starts flowing in, and while Avigal considers taking that advice, the action goes back to Dr. Parker, who has told her excitable friend Selima (Sofia Vergara) about her time spent with the stud she’s been hiring.

This news, wouldn’t you know, interests Selima.

But even that story doesn’t get to develop much before another plot strand is introduced, one about Dovi (Liev Schreiber), the Chassidic leader of the local neighborhood patrol who is becoming concerned that Avigal has started leaving her house, is dressing more fashionably, and is smiling as she travels somewhere with an odd little man named Murray.

This is a sweet and funny film with some serious issues going on at its core, a couple of almost surreal and ridiculous moments about a Jewish “trial,” and a few really moving scenes that ring true concerning human nature.

It’s aimed at a sophisticated adult audience who will understand that the characters are all good people and are all worth caring about.

There are wonderful performances by everyone, with Allen, Schreiber, and the French actress Paradis standing out. Turturro turns in a typically fine role with his Fioravante, but it’s his script and direction that should really be noted.

The script doesn’t reveal much of what’s going on behind closed doors, leaving us to wonder about much of that.

And Turturro likes to let cameras linger on people’s faces, in those cases letting us wonder what they’re thinking about.

It turns out to be a very romantic film featuring all sorts of lonely people who are keeping their hopes alive.

A very nice move on Turturro’s part is that he gives it a gentle ending that closes off a couple of stories while, at the last moment, opening up another one.

• “Fading Gigolo” is written and directed

by John Turturro. The film stars John Turturro, Woody Allen, Vanessa Paradis, Live Schreiber, Sharon Stone and Sofia Vergara.

It is rated R.

• Friday, May 2, 2014

TODAY – Nothing will be too difficult for you to take on this year. Your courage and insight will carry you to the finish line, and you’ll be able to overcome many obstacles and achieve your goals. Don’t waste time when you should be taking action.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – Get serious about your career goals. The position you desire is there for the taking. Get working to obtain whatever qualifications you need to pursue your dreams. Believe and achieve.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – Things may not turn out as you expected. Avoid an emotional outburst by taking a step back from whatever situation you face, and look at the facts objectively.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) – Rumors and speculation could seriously hurt your reputation.

Choose your confidants carefully, or you could set yourself up for a real problem both personally and professionally.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – Examine your motives before offering your leadership services. The situation should be of benefit to all concerned, not just to you. Sharing and a willingness to take responsibility will be required.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – You need to work on solitary projects today. Keep a low profile.

Confrontations are likely if you are trying to deal with friends, relatives or your peers.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – This will be an educational day for you. Be prepared to listen to people with more experience. You could learn about valuable strategies that can improve your future and help you achieve your objectives.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – Carefully deal with authority figures regarding legal or health issues. Ask questions and do your best to obtain the necessary information to efficiently solve whatever problem you face.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – Tensions will mount if your intentions are misunderstood. Be considerate toward others, but clear and concise about what you want and are willing to offer.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – A prospective career move should be put on hold for the moment. Your peers will be glad to give you a hand if you are willing to ask for help.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – It’s time for a little pampering. You will feel revived if you get together with someone you love.

A change of scenery will do you a world of good.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – A current personal dilemma should be shared with a close friend. If a family situation has deteriorated, an outside perspective may shed some light on a solution.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) – Don’t hesitate to delve into unfamiliar territory. Keep your mind open to new experiences. Lucrative possibilities could be the result of an educational trip, excursion or conference.

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He’s Just Not That Into You (’09) ›› Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston.

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Humanity fights back against Skynet’s machine army. Å (DVS) (2:32) 8:00 p.m. CMT ››‡ “The Cable Guy” (1996, Comedy) Jim Carrey, Matthew Broderick. Premiere. A cable television technician invades an architect’s life. Å (2:30) FAM ››› “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs” (2009, Comedy) Voices of Bill Hader, Anna Faris. Animated. An inventor finds a way to convert water into food. (2:00)

BEST BETS ± 8 p.m. CBS 2 Hawaii Five-0: McGarrett and Catherine (Alex O’Loughlin, Michelle Borth) are a long way from Hawaii in this new episode. They’re in Afghanistan on a mission to stop the Taliban from harming a boy whose family once saved Catherine’s life.

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her on a ride-along with Hank (Russell Hornsby). Their investigation of a young woman’s murder hits close to home for her. Adalind (Claire Coffee) makes a promising discovery in the new episode “My Fair Wesen.”

± 8 p.m. WGN 9 Hart of Dixie: Zoe (Rachel Bilson) tries to stay under Wade’s (Wilson Bethel) radar and help George (Scott Porter) straighten out his problems with Lemon (Jaime King). Wade and Lemon decide to take a break from their respective relationship issues. AnnaBeth (Kaitlyn Black) introduces her new boyfriend to her parents, who conclude that they prefer to spend time with Lavon (Cress Williams).

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OXY ››‡ “The Princess Diaries” (2001, Comedy) Julie Andrews, Anne Hathaway. A grandmother teaches etiquette to an heir apparent.

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BEST BETS ± 3 p.m. NBC 5 140th Kentucky Derby: Held for the 140th time at Churchill Downs in Louisville, the first leg of Thoroughbred racing’s coveted Triple Crown is run at 1 1/4 miles, with a field of up to 20 of the sport’s top 3-year-olds. No horse has won the Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes consecutively since Affirmed ran the gauntlet in 1978 — though contenders that could include California Chrome, Wicked Strong and Vicar’s in Trouble will certainly give it their all.

± 7 p.m. ABC 7 Movie: Transformers: The long-popular toys come to life, and quite effectively, in action-specialist director Michael Bay’s (“Armageddon”) loud and flashy fantasy-adventure. The Autobots and the Decepticons, rival robot factions from another planet, make Earth their battleground while fighting for an object that will give its holders ultimate power.

± 7 p.m. on LIFE Movie: A Daughter’s Nightmare: Ariel (Emily Osment, “Hannah Montana”) is a college freshman who worries about her mother (Victoria Pratt, “Day Break”), a lonely widow.

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JOLIET NEW LENNOX CHERRY HILL SUBDIVISION

FRIDAY & SATRUDAY MAY 2 & 3 9AM - 3PM Area includes Rt. 80 to Gougar Rd and Rt. 30 to Cherry Hill Rd

50 + HOMES Looking For Vendors for our Sale Event Garage/Vendor/Craft Saturday June 7th 8am – 2pm

Electric Massage Chair w/ Ottoman, both have separate Joliet – Holy Cross Area, new Plainfield – Office/Retail WANTED ~ massagers & many features, remodel, 2 Br, 1 Ba, C/A, deck, established Rt. 59 location, approx working or not, prefer older audio 3 way positioning, Like New, fncd yard, W/D hook-up, Bsmt 500 sf. Generous build out terms. stereo equipt. Ham, CB, Short wave $150/obo. Call for info 815-436-3783 $850/mo.+ dep 815-719-0862 radios, Musical instruments ~ 815-436-6717 or Email guitar, amps & drums, JOLIET ~ SMALL STUDIO cbar577329@aol.com Call - Wayne 708-927-1871 $500/mo, utilities included.

Kiln and 300+ molds, plus pouring table and paints, moving must See Barber, 1524 N. Raynor Ave. 859-620-4348 sell $2,100/obo 815-404-4944 Thurs, Fri & Sat 3 Drawer Nightstand PLAINFIELD ~ 2BR, 1BA May 1, 2 & 3 TELESCOPE Beautiful & Unique 2nd floor, stove, refrig, D/W, A/C. 8AM-2PM 26”H x 28”W x 14”D Pole Pruner, $15. 815-725-8285 Coin laundry, $1,050/mo + util.

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Excellent Condition - $75.

Available 6/1. 815-478-4316 Must See to Appreciate Twin Oaks West, Clean Remodeled ROCK RIDGE at SPRINGBANK 815-922-8896 1BR, appl, D/W, ceiling fan, South of Renwick off Drauden Rd. BASS GUITAR Cherry Wood Headboard, mirrored closet drs, walk-in-closet.

Dean 4-string bass, Foot Board & Rails, Twin Size Free heat, no pets. 815-744-5141 Dual pickups; lue; in good condiNeighborhood garage sale!

Pick up in Romeoville Channahon/Meadowland Sub. tion. $130. 815-212-3649. In the Furniture, electronics, kids $100/OBO - Call/Text Michelle 4 bedroom, 3.5 bath, main evenings please leave a message.

708-774-0724 for pictures clothes and toys, antiques floor master, bonus room, and much more! full basement, 3 car garage, Coffee & End Table – Solid Wood Must Sell – Moving - $45/OBO gazebo and deck. FSBO JOLIET 2 BEDROOM CONDO 815-436-4222 Pet/Cat Carrier, Rubbermaid $289,900 815-474-2637 Across from St. Joe Hospital.

ROCKDALE very heavy duty straps & mesh, No pets, $800/mo + security.

Daybed, twin white metal very nice Airline approved as carry on C.C.W. 815-474-8372 with twin pillowtop mattress Wilmington Ranch On Water 16”l x 12”w x 12”h - $20 Like New $250 630-297-9474 JOLIET ! 2BR TOWNHOME RUMMAGE SALE 815-436-4222 after 3pm.

1575 sq ft, 2+ large bedrooms, 2 bath, appl, W/D, 2 car garage.

2 bath, jacuzzi, hardwood and Double Dresser Near 55 & 80, $1350/mo + sec. slate floors, full basement, 1.5 No Mirror - $50 Thurs & Fri st .

815-791-9446 Available May 1 car garage. Boat dock & decks, 815-436-4222 May 1 & 2 100 x 300' fenced lot. FSBO WE BUY TREES – Spruce and JOLIET ~ 1 BEDROOM C0NDO HUTCH $185,000 815-791-0340 Pine, branched to the ground 1 bath, laundry facility, no pets/ 8 am – 2:30 pm.

Beautiful arched, top lighted & mirrored glass hutch, warm Call BigTrees 815-475-4665 smoking, 1 parking place. $725/mo + sec. 773-531-6540 maple color, plenty of storage St. Josephs Gym w/ 3 shelves in upper portion, Joliet/West Side 2BR Condo 1329 Belleview Ave 77”T x 52.5”L x 17”D Nice secure building. $150. 815-467-5898

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US Rt. 52 south of Rt. 80 $20 for a 12' x 16' space with one table. Set up at 6am day of event. You must provide extra tables and chairs and a pop-up tent for shade or shelter.

Event will be held outside ~ rain or shine ~ To register call 815-727-4811 for a vendor space application.

Must be registered

by May 29, 2014.

New Lenox SUB DIVISION Gougar & Coventry Rds

by Woodruff Golf Course May 2 & 3 Friday and Saturday 9am – 3 pm Patio & garden, power washer, new tools, fishing gear, freezers, furniture, baby & kid items, estate stuff, household, misc.

Plainfield – Multiple Sales Fri & Sat ~ May 2, 3 8am – 4pm Rt 126 to Prairie-Xing in the Reserve Sub-Division

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Cubs Jersey, Size XL Blue w/ red trim - $25 815-436-4222

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Sofa Bed, $200 Glass and Marble Coffee Table, $100, Glass Sofa Table $75.

ALL MUST GO! 815-953-1438

Wool Area Rug Burgundy Color, 8' x 11' smoke & pet free home $40. 815-436-4222

Gas Fireplace System– you'd never know its not a real fire!

Ventless 36” w/screen and logs, never used, excellent condition $400 815-344-4384 TRIM – 13 pieces 8' x 3.25”, white colonial trim - $65; 19 pieces 8'L white shoe base (7/16 x 11/16) - $38, Selling as Bundles Only. 815-341-9253

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2.5 bath, appliances, W/D, C/A. 2 car garage, no pets/smoking, $1400/mo + sec. 847-707-0603 MINOOKA ! SPACIOUS CONDO! 3 Bedroom, 3 full bath, W/D, frplc, 2 car heated garage. No pets/ smoking, $1,750. 815-954-9600 http://chicago.craigslist.org/wcl/ata/ 4439801318.htnl

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Die Cast Cars – Johnny Lightning 3 Sets - 1 Hemi Set, 16 in a set In original packaging, All new $100 for all. 815-405-1724

Baby Items Baby High Chair - $25; Play Pen - $35; Walker - $25.

815-436-4222 Wooden Baby Cradle $30. 815-436-4222

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2006 JEEP COMMANDER Loveseat, Beige with darker brown.

Black, 97K miles, 6 cyl, auto, $100.

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Custom, black wooden table with 4 chairs, $400.

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Baby Changing Table White - $40. 815-436-4222

Joliet: very nice 2BR condo, across St. Joe's Hospital, incl. appl., secure bldg, Laundry on site 630-699-2399

2 piece and oversized chair, chocolate brown, $400.

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Antique Vintage Climax Cast Iron food & meat grinder w/wood handles & 3 Discs. Clean, No Rust $25/OBO. 815-436-4222

Dishes - Currier and Ives.

White and blue. $300. for all. obo.

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Lighted 5 Shelf Unit w/ glass door on top & wooden doors on bottom $50. 773-315-1700

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10' UD Camper, Sleeps 5 includes, stove, heater, A/C, fridge, canopy $4,500/obo. 815-467-4735 Lockport – 2 Bdrm in older 2 flat, Very Clean, in nice neighborhood, $800/mo+sec. Avail. Immediately no pets, Joanne 630-863-8611 With fold-down ramp & side rails. $1200/obo.

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RockDale – 2 Bdr., Bsmt, C/A, Garden Wagon 2 car gar, appl, very clean, no 30”W x 48”L Tilt Bed, smkg-pets - Avail June $875/mo.

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LEAF BLOWER ~ CULLOCH Electric, 7AMPS, light weight. 6.5 lbs, $25. 815-725-8285

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PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION HSBC BANK USA, NA AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE FOR THE REGISTERED HOLDERS OF THE FIRST NLC TRUST 2005-1, CALLABLE MORTGAGE-BACKED NOTES, SERIES 2005-1 Plaintiff, -v.WILLIAM HESTER, et al Defendants JUDGE GEORGE M. MAROVICH 1 : 11 CV 2096 NOTICE OF SPECIAL COMMISSIONER'S SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 11, 2011, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, Special Commissioner appointed herein,will at 9:30 AM on May 16, 2014, at the office of Attorneys' Title Guaranty Fund Inc., One Old Frankfort Way, Suite 9, FRANKFORT, IL, 60423, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1223 FAIRVIEW AVENUE, Joliet, IL 60432 Property Index No. 07-02-113052-0000.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $100,781.41.

Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

by Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: POTESTIVO & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 223 WEST JACKSON BLVD, STE 610, Chicago, IL 60606, (312) 263-0003. Please refer to file number C14-95359.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

POTESTIVO & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 223 WEST JACKSON BLVD, STE 610 Chicago, IL 60606 (312) 263-0003 Attorney File No. C14-95359 Case Number: 1 : 11 CV 2096 TJSC#: 34-5718 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I602013 (Published in the Herald-News April 18, 25, May 2, 9, 2014)

PUBLIC NOTICE

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The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $227,665.83.

Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: POTESTIVO & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 223 WEST JACKSON BLVD, STE 610, Chicago, IL 60606, (312) 263-0003. Please refer to file number C14-97662.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

POTESTIVO & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 223 WEST JACKSON BLVD, STE 610 Chicago, IL 60606 (312) 263-0003 Attorney File No. C14-97662 Case Number: 1 : 13 CV 612 TJSC#: 34-6921 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I605240 (Published in the Herald-News May 2, 9, 16, 23, 2014)

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION HSBC BANK USA, N.A., AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE FOR THE REGISTERED NOTEHOLDERS OF RENAISSANCE HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST 2005-4, RENAISSANCE HOME EQUITY LOAN ASSET-BACKED NOTES, SERIES 2005-4 Plaintiff, -v.GEOFFREY S. ENDRES, ROSE L. ENDRES Defendant JUDGE JOAN B. GOTTSCHALL 1 : 13 CV 612 NOTICE OF SPECIAL COMMISSIONER'S SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on November 20, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, Special Commissioner appointed herein,will at 9:30 AM on June 2, 2014, at the office of Attorneys' Title Guaranty Fund Inc., One Old Frankfort Way, Suite 9, FRANKFORT, IL, 60423, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: PUBLIC NOTICE Commonly known as 915 WEST BRIARCLIFF ROAD, BolingSTATE OF ILLINOIS, brook, IL 60440 Property Index No. 02-08-479- COUNTY OF WILL, ss.

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In the Circuit Court of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit, Will County, Illinois.

U.S. Bank, National Association, as Trustee for GSR Mortgage Loan Trust 2006-2F, Plaintiff, vs.

Ross P. Mamaril, a/k/a Ross Papellero Mamaril, et al., Defendants.

Case No. 11 CH 3597 The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given you, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants in the above entitled suit, that the said suit has been commenced in the Circuit Court of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit, Will County, Illinois, by the said plaintiff against you and other defendants, praying for the foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying the premises described as follows, to wit: LOT 102, IN BLOOMFIELD WEST UNIT 2A, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 18, LYING EAST AND WEST OF THE INDIAN BOUNDARY LINE, TOWNSHIP 37 NORTH, RANGE 10, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED JANUARY 30, 2002, AS DOCUMENT NO. R200217617, IN THE VILLAGE OF BOLINGBROOK, IN WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Common address of mortgaged real estate: 1413 Aster Lane, Bolingbrook, Illinois 60490 Tax identification number: 0218-410-057 Mortgagors: Ross P. Mamaril a/k/a Ross Papellero Mamaril and Quennie C. Mamaril a/k/a Maquennie C. Mamaril a/k/a Ma Quennie C. Mamaril Mortgagee: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Nominee for American Lending Group, Inc. Recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds or Registrar of Titles as Document No. R2005149114 Present owner of the property is Ross P. Mamaril a/k/a Ross Papellero Mamaril, Quennie C. Mamaril a/k/a Maquennie C. Mamaril a/k/a Ma Quennie C. Mamaril Notice is also hereby given you that the said Complaint prays for other relief; that summons was duly issued out of said Court against you as provided by law, and that the said suit is now pending.

Now, therefore, unless you, the said above named defendants, file your answer to the Complaint in the said suit or otherwise make your appearance therein, in the office of the Clerk of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit of Will County, 14 West Jefferson Street, Joliet, Illinois, on or before June 2, 2014 default may be entered against you at any time after that day and a Judgment entered in accordance with the prayer of said Complaint.

PAMELA J. McGUIRE, Clerk.

This is an attempt to collect a debt pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and any infor-

any mation obtained will be used for ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15that purpose.

1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORT(Published in the Herald-News May GAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plain2, 9, 16, 2014. HN527) tiff's attorney: POTESTIVO & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 223 WEST JACKSON BLVD, STE 610, Chicago, IL 60606, (312) 263-0003. Please PUBLIC NOTICE refer to file number C14-95359.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORAIN THE UNITED STATES TION One South Wacker Drive, DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can EASTERN DIVISION HSBC BANK USA, NA AS INDEN- also visit The Judicial Sales CorpoTURE TRUSTEE FOR THE REGIS- ration at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day TERED HOLDERS OF THE FIRST status report of pending sales.

NLC TRUST 2005-1, CALLABLE POTESTIVO & ASSOCIATES, P.C. MORTGAGE-BACKED NOTES, SE- 223 WEST JACKSON BLVD, STE 610 Chicago, IL 60606 RIES 2005-1 (312) 263-0003 Plaintiff, Attorney File No. C14-95359 -v.Case Number: 1 : 11 CV 2096 WILLIAM HESTER, et al TJSC#: 34-5718 Defendants NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt JUDGE GEORGE M. MAROVICH Collection Practices Act, you are 1 : 11 CV 2096 advised that Plaintiff's attorney is NOTICE OF SPECIAL deemed to be a debt collector atCOMMISSIONER'S SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIV- tempting to collect a debt and any EN that pursuant to a Judgment of information obtained will be used Foreclosure and Sale entered in the for that purpose. above cause on October 11, 2011, I602013 an agent for The Judicial Sales Cor- (Published in the Herald-News April poration, Special Commissioner 18, 25, May 2, 9, 2014) appointed herein,will at 9:30 AM on May 16, 2014, at the office of Attorneys' Title Guaranty Fund Inc., PUBLIC NOTICE One Old Frankfort Way, Suite 9, FRANKFORT, IL, 60423, sell at IN THE UNITED STATES public auction to the highest bidDISTRICT COURT FOR THE der, as set forth below, the followNORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS ing described real estate: EASTERN DIVISION Lot 460, in Stem Gardens Addition, a subdivision of the East 1/2 HSBC BANK USA, N.A., AS TRUSTEE ON BEHALF OF ACE SEof the West 1/2 of the Northwest 1/4 of Section 2, Township 35 CURITIES CORP. HOME EQUITY North, Range 10, East of the Third LOAN TRUST AND FOR THE REGISPrincipal Meridian, according to TERED HOLDERS OF ACE SECURIthe Plat thereof recorded May 1, TIES CORP. HOME EQUITY LOAN 1922, as document No. 343991, TRUST, SERIES 2007-ASAP2, ASSET BACKED PASS-THROUGH in Will County, Illinois.

Commonly known as 1223 CERTIFICATES FAIRVIEW AVENUE, Joliet, IL Plaintiff, -v.60432 Property Index No. 07-02-113- MIGUEL A. AGUILAR, et al Defendant 052-0000.

The real estate is improved with JUDGE SAMUEL DER-YEGHIAYAN 1 : 12 CV 10397 a single family residence.

NOTICE OF SPECIAL The judgment amount was $100,781.41.

COMMISSIONER'S SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVSale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the EN that pursuant to a Judgment of close of the sale payable to The Ju- Foreclosure and Sale entered in the dicial Sales Corporation. No third above cause on August 16, 2013, party checks will be accepted. The an agent for The Judicial Sales Corbalance in certified funds/or wire poration, Special Commissioner transfer, is due within twenty-four appointed herein,will at 9:30 AM (24) hours. The subject property is on June 2, 2014, at the office of subject to general real estate taxes, Attorneys' Title Guaranty Fund Inc., special assessments, or special tax- One Old Frankfort Way, Suite 9, es levied against said real estate FRANKFORT, IL, 60423, sell at and is offered for sale without any public auction to the highest bidrepresentation as to quality or der, as set forth below, the followquantity of title and without re- ing described real estate: LOT 6, IN BLOCK 6, IN INGALL'S course to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject PARK SUBDIVISION, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE WEST to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the 1/2 OF SECTION 13, IN TOWNSHIP amount bid, the purchaser will re- 35 NORTH, AND IN RANGE 10 ceive a Certificate of Sale that will EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL entitle the purchaser to a deed to MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE the real estate after confirmation of PLAT THEREOF RECORDED MAY 2, the sale. The property will NOT be 1970 AS DOCUMENT NO. open for inspection and plaintiff 244480, IN WILL COUNTY, ILLImakes no representation as to the NOIS. Commonly known as 210 DAVIcondition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to SON STREET, Joliet, IL 60433 Property Index No. 30-07-13check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a con- 117-006. dominium unit, the purchaser of The real estate is improved with the unit at the foreclosure sale, oth- a single family residence. er than a mortgagee, shall pay the The judgment amount was assessments and the legal fees re- $131,157.06.

Sale terms: 10% down of the quired by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) highest bid by certified funds at the and (g)(4). If this property is a close of the sale payable to The Jucondominium unit which is part of dicial Sales Corporation. No third a common interest community, the party checks will be accepted. The purchaser of the unit at the foreclo- balance in certified funds/or wire sure sale other than a mortgagee transfer, is due within twenty-four shall pay the assessments required (24) hours. The subject property is

by The Condominium Property Act, subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special tax765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR es levied against said real estate (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE and is offered for sale without any RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION representation as to quality or FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN quantity of title and without re-

CLASSIFIED quantity course to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: POTESTIVO & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 223 WEST JACKSON BLVD, STE 610, Chicago, IL 60606, (312) 263-0003. Please refer to file number C13-91525.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

POTESTIVO & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 223 WEST JACKSON BLVD, STE 610 Chicago, IL 60606 (312) 263-0003 Attorney File No. C13-91525 Case Number: 1 : 12 CV 10397 TJSC#: 34-6928 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I605264 (Published in the Herald-News May 2, 9, 16, 23, 2014)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION HSBC BANK USA, N.A., AS TRUSTEE ON BEHALF OF ACE SECURITIES CORP. HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST AND FOR THE REGISTERED HOLDERS OF ACE SECURITIES CORP. HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST, SERIES 2007-ASAP2, ASSET BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES Plaintiff, -v.MIGUEL A. AGUILAR, et al Defendant JUDGE SAMUEL DER-YEGHIAYAN 1 : 12 CV 10397 NOTICE OF SPECIAL COMMISSIONER'S SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 16, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, Special Commissioner appointed herein,will at 9:30 AM on June 2, 2014, at the office of Attorneys' Title Guaranty Fund Inc., One Old Frankfort Way, Suite 9, FRANKFORT, IL, 60423, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate:

ing de Commonly known as 210 DAVISON STREET, Joliet, IL 60433 Property Index No. 30-07-13117-006.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $131,157.06.

Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: POTESTIVO & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 223 WEST JACKSON BLVD, STE 610, Chicago, IL 60606, (312) 263-0003. Please refer to file number C13-91525.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

POTESTIVO & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 223 WEST JACKSON BLVD, STE 610 Chicago, IL 60606 (312) 263-0003 Attorney File No. C13-91525 Case Number: 1 : 12 CV 10397 TJSC#: 34-6928 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I605264 (Published in the Herald-News May 2, 9, 16, 23, 2014)

PUBLIC NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS COUNTY OF WILL

The Herald News / TheHerald-News.com Defendant(s) 13 AR 1309 The required affidavit for publication has been filed and notice is given you, Ascencion Esparza, defendant in this action, that this action has been commenced in the Circuit Court of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit, Will County, Illinois by the plaintiff, Tiffanie Sperling against you, requesting relief from an auto accident for which you are alleged to be at fault on or about December 5, 2011, and for other relief. Summons was issued out of the Court against you as provided by law, and the action is still pending.

Unless you, Ascencion Esparza, defendant, file your answer to the complaint in this action or otherwise make your appearance, in the Circuit Court of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit, Will County, Illinois, held in the courthouse in the City of Joliet, Illinois, on or before 30 days from the date of this publication, default may be entered against you at any time after that day and a judgment entered in accordance with the request of the complaint. /s/ Pamela J. McGuire Clerk of Court Jeffrey Sperling/ Sperling & Associates, P.C. Attorney for Plaintiff 24040 West Lockport St. Plainfield, Illinois 60544 815-254-4200/ Facsimile 815-254-4811 Atty No: 6226154 (Published in the Herald-News April 4, 18, May 2, 2014. HN405)

PUBLIC NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS, IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 12th JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WILL COUNTY, JOLIET ILLINOIS. Champion Mortgage Company, plaintiff, vs.

Robert Shreffler, as Successor Trustee of the Ronald G. Shreffler Trust dated 03/10/00; Robert Shreffler; Springleaf Financial Services, Inc. F/k/a American General Finance, Inc.; Unknown Beneficiaries of the Ronald G. Shreffler Trust dated 03/10/00; Unknown Owners and Non Record Claimants, defendants.

13 CH 2461.

NOTICE TO HEIRS AND LEGATEES. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to you, the Unknown Heirs and Unknown Legatees of the Decedent(s), Ronald G. Shreffler. That on April 15, 2014, an Order was entered by the Court naming Kenneth J. Donkel, 7220 West 194th Street, Suite 105, Tinley Park, IL 60487, 815-806-9000, as the Special Representative of the Decedent(s) under 735 ILCS 13-1209 (Death of a Party). The cause of action is for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage upon the premises commonly known as 1614 Oneida Street, Joliet, IL 60435.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWELFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT (Published in the Herald-News April 25, May 2, 9, 2014. HN493) WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS TIFFANIE SPERLING Plaintiff PUBLIC NOTICE -VSASCENCION ESPARZA aka ACEN- KOZENY & MCCUBBIN SION ESPARZA ILLINOIS, LLC.

(6309451) Attorneys 105 W. Adams, Suite 1850 Chicago, Illinois 60603 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 12TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WILL COUNTY JOLIET, ILLINOIS, BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., Plaintiff, vs.

RIAZ GONDAL ,SHAGUFTA S GONDAL AKA SHAGUFA GONDAL, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS, INC., UNKNOWN OWNERS-TENANTS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, et. al., Defendants, 13-CH-3233.

The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given to you: RIAZ GONDAL, SHAGUFTA S GONDAL, UNKNOWN OWNERS-TENANTS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, , defendants in the above entitled suit has been commenced in the IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 12TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WILL COUNTY JOLIET, ILLINOIS, by the said plaintiff against you and other defendants, praying for the foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying the premises described as follows, towit: LOT 32 IN BLOCK 14 IN BOLINGBROOK UNIT NO. 5, A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 14, AND PART OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 13, AND RE-SUBDIVISION OF PART OF BOLINGBROOK SUBDIVISION UNIT 3, ALL IN TOWNSHIP 37 NORTH, RANGE 10, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED MARCH 14, 1962 AS DOCUMENT NO, 952123, IN WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS..

PIN: 12-02-14-213-034-0000.

Commonly known as: 121 Oxford Rd, Bolingbrook, IL 60440, and which said Mortgage was made by RIAZ GONDAL,SHAGUFTA GONDAL,, as Mortgagor(s) to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., as Mortgagee, and recorded as document number R2005089789, and the present owner(s) of the property being RIAZ GONDAL,, and for other relief: that summons was duly issued out of said Court against you as provided by law, and that the said suit is now pending.

Now, therefore, unless you, the said above named defendants, file your answer to the Complaint in the said suit or otherwise make your appearance therein, IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 12TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WILL COUNTY JOLIET, ILLINOIS, Will County Court Annex, 57 N. Ottawa Street, Joliet, IL 60432 on or before June 2, 2014, default may be entered against you at any time after that day and a Judgment entered in accordance with the prayer of said Complaint.

Pamela J. McGuire Clerk of the Will County Circuit Court.

THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT COLLECTION PRACTICES ACT, AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Korin Knutson Attorney for the Plaintiff Kozeny & McCubbin Illinois, LLC 105 West Adams Street, Suite 1850 Chicago, Illinois 60603 Phone: (312) 605-3500 ext. 1533 Service by Email Accepted at: intake@kmi-law.com Attorney ID: 6309451 I603651 (Published in the Herald-News May 2, 9, 16, 2014) The Herald-News Classified It works.

PUBLIC NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS, IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 12th JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WILL COUNTY, JOLIET ILLINOIS. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., plaintiff, vs.

Douglas Brusatte; State of Illinois; Unknown Heirs and Legatees of Arlene B. Brusatte, if any; Unknown Owners and Non Record Claimants, defendants.

13 CH 03982.

NOTICE TO HEIRS AND LEGATEES. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to you, the Unknown Heirs and Unknown Legatees of the Decedent(s), Arlene B. Brusatte. That on March 25, 2014, an Order was entered by the Court naming Kenneth J. Donkel, 7220 West 194th Street, Suite 105, Tinley Park, IL 60487, 815-806-9000, as the Special Representative of the Decedent(s) under 735 ILCS 13-1209 (Death of a Party). The cause of action is for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage upon the premises commonly known as 222 Comstock Street, Joliet IL 60436.

(Published in the Herald-News April 25, May 2, 9, 2014. HN494)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION HSBC BANK USA, N.A., AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE FOR THE REGISTERED NOTEHOLDERS OF RENAISSANCE HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST 2005-4, RENAISSANCE HOME EQUITY LOAN ASSET-BACKED NOTES, SERIES 2005-4 Plaintiff, -v.GEOFFREY S. ENDRES, ROSE L. ENDRES Defendant JUDGE JOAN B. GOTTSCHALL 1 : 13 CV 612 NOTICE OF SPECIAL COMMISSIONER'S SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on November 20, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, Special Commissioner appointed herein,will at 9:30 AM on June 2, 2014, at the office of Attorneys' Title Guaranty Fund Inc., One Old Frankfort Way, Suite 9, FRANKFORT, IL, 60423, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT 3 IN BLOCK 6 IN WILLIAMS GLEN SUBDIVISION, UNIT 3, A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE EAST 1/2 OF SECTION 8, TOWNSHIP 37 NORTH, RANGE 10, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED JANUARY 25, 1991 AS DOCUMENT NO. R91-3989 AND CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION RECORDED APRIL 17, 1991 AS DOCUMENT NO. R91-18666, IN WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 915 WEST BRIARCLIFF ROAD, Bolingbrook, IL 60440 Property Index No. 02-08-479003.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $227,665.83.

Sale terms: 10% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Ju-

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The Herald News / TheHerald-News.com pay dicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: POTESTIVO & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 223 WEST JACKSON BLVD, STE 610, Chicago, IL 60606, (312) 263-0003. Please refer to file number C14-97662.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

POTESTIVO & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 223 WEST JACKSON BLVD, STE 610 Chicago, IL 60606 (312) 263-0003 Attorney File No. C14-97662 Case Number: 1 : 13 CV 612 TJSC#: 34-6921 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I605240 (Published in the Herald-News May 2, 9, 16, 23, 2014)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWELFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS – IN PROBATE ESTATE OF CHARLOTTE M. GENTZ CASE NUMBER 2013 P 0873 Notice is given of the death of Charlotte M. Gentz whose address was 306 N. Larkin, Joliet, Illinois 60435.

Letters of Office were issued on January 24, 2014 to Life's Plan Inc. c/o Scott Nixon, 901 W. Warrenville Rd., Ste. 500, Lisle, IL 60532 as: INDEPENDENT EXECUTOR whose attorney is William S. Wilson, 1023 W. 55th St., Ste. 110,

LaGrange, IL 60525.

Claims against the estate may be filed in the Office of Clerk of the Court, 14 W. Jefferson, Joliet, IL 60432, or with the representative or both on or before October 26, 2014, any claim not filed within that period is barred. Copies of a claim filed with the Circuit Court Clerk must be mailed or delivered to the representative and to the attorney, if any, within ten (10) days after it has been filed with the Circuit Clerk.

William S. Wilson ARDC #6186279 Life's Plan Inc. - Executor 1023 West 55th Street, Suite 110 LaGrange, Illinois 60525 708/482-7090 (Published in the Herald-News April 25, May 2, 9, 2014. HN491)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 12TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT CHANCERY DIVISION Chicago Patrolmen's Federal Credit Union PLAINTIFF Vs. Maurice Lyke Jr; Veronica EarlsLyke; Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Claimants DEFENDANTS 14CH 860 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU: Maurice Lyke Jr; Veronica EarlsLyke;Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Claimants. That this case has been commenced in this Court against you and other defendants, praying for the foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying the premises described as follows, towit: LOT 32, IN BLOCK 6, IN WOOD HILL'S RIDGEVIEW SUBDIVISION SECOND ADDITION, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 12, IN TOWNSHIP 34 NORTH, AND IN RANGE 13 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS. P.I.N.: 14-12-409-011-0000 COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 503 Barbara Court, University Park, IL 60466 and which said Mortgage was made by: Maurice Lyke,Jr.; Veronica Earls-Lyke the Mortgagor(s), to Chicago Patrolmen's FCU, as Mortgagee, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Will County, Illinois, as Document No. R2004117848; and for other relief; that summons was duly issued out of said Court 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 June 12, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. 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 file your answer or otherwise file your appearance in this case in the Office of the Clerk of this Court, on or before June 2, 2014, A DEFAULT MAY BE ENTERED AGAINST

ty ($ 0) pape prom y. documents, or upon payment of 2014 Asphalt Repair & Replace- $10 for digital documents on CD The contractor will be required to for each contract document set. pay not less than the prevailing ment & ADA Improvements The contract documents will be is- wage rates on this project as estabat which time the bids will be pub- sued until 4:00 PM on Monday, lished by the United States DepartMay 19, 2014. No refund will be ment of Labor. The contractor shall licly opened and read. made for documents received from also comply with all applicable Federal, State and local regulaBids must be submitted in accor- the Engineer. tions. dance with the Contract Documents. Bid shall be accompanied A bid bond, letter of credit, or certified check/bank draft drawn on a Pre-qualifications will be required by the proper bid security. solvent bank, payable without con- to be submitted to the engineer by This project consists of pavement dition to the Village of Minooka in all potential bidders. If in the opinreplacement and installation of an an amount not less than ten per- ion of the Engineer and the Village asphalt overlay in three parking lots cent (10%) of the bid shall be sub- of Minooka, an applicant would at Forsythe Woods, Hammel mitted with each proposal, as a not be able to serve the best interest Woods, and completion of associ- guarantee that, if the proposal is of the Village, a proposal will not ated ADA related improvements in accepted, a contract will be entered be issued to the applicant. adjacent picnic groves and access into and the performance of the Village of Minooka, areas as outlined in the Infrastruc- contract is properly secured.

Grundy, Kendall, & Will Co., IL ture Maintenance & Replacement Program (IMRP). The project is A performance bond in a sum being bid with an alternate that equal to one hundred percent Published in the Herald-News and may be included in the contract (100%) of the amount of the bid, the Morris Daily Herald April 30, recommendation if funding permits. with sureties to be approved by the May 1, 2, 2014) Contract Documents can be ob- Village of Minooka for the faithful tained between 8:00 a.m. and performance of the contract, must 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday be furnished by the successful bidPUBLIC NOTICE beginning Friday, May 2, 2014 der. All bids or proposals shall contain an offer to furnish bond from: BID INFORMATION FOR CULIupon acceptance of such bid or Forest Preserve District PUBLIC NOTICE NARY ARTS EQUIPMENT CAN BE proposal. of Will County, SECURED BY CONTACTING THE DI17540 West Laraway Road, NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The right is reserved to reject any or RECTOR OF BUSINESS & AUX. Joliet, Illinois 60433.

SPECIAL USE PERMIT FOR all proposals, to waive technicali- SERVICES, 1215 HOUBOLT RD., Phone - 815-727-8700.

AN ANIMAL HOSPITAL ties, to postpone the bid opening, JOLIET, IL; 815.280.6643. BID BOLINGBROOK PLAN The FOREST PRESERVE DIS- or to advertise for new proposals, if DOCUMENTS CAN BE DOWNLOADCOMMISSION TRICT OF WILL COUNTY reserves in the judgment of the Village of Mi- ED FROM THE JOLIET JUNIOR BOLINGBROOK, ILLINOIS the right to accept any bid or any nooka their best interests will be COLLEGE WEBSITE AT THE FOLLOWING LINK: http://www.jjc.edu/ part or parts or combinations there- promoted thereby.

On Wednesday evening, May of, to waive any informalities, and info/purchasing BIDS WILL BE RE21, 2014 at 8:00 p.m., a Public to reject any or all bids.

CEIVED AT THE OFFICE OF BUSIHearing will be held by the Plan Commission of the Village of BolBy Order of the Board of Comingbrook in the Boardroom of Bol- missioners of the Forest Preserve PUBLIC NOTICE ingbrook Village Hall, 375 West District of Will County.

Briarcliff Road, Bolingbrook, Illinois, for the purpose of considering (Published in the Herald-News May NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING and hearing testimony as to a Spe- 2, 2014. HN532) SPECIAL USE PERMIT FOR A PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT cial Use Permit for an Animal HosWITH SIGN VARIANCES pital on a tract of property comprisBOLINGBROOK PLAN COMMISSION ing approximately 9.769 acres of BOLINGBROOK, ILLINOIS PUBLIC NOTICE land located at 475 N. Boling13-475 brook Drive and legally described On Wednesday evening, May 21, 2014, at 8:00 p.m., a Public VILLAGE OF MINOOKA as follows: Hearing will be held by the Plan Commission of the Village of BolingGRUNDY, KENDALL, & WILL brook in the Boardroom of Bolingbrook Village Hall, 375 West BriarPIN #: 12-02-10-219-031-0000 COUNTY, ILLINOIS cliff Road, Bolingbrook, Illinois, for the purpose of considering and NOTICE TO BIDDERS hearing testimony as to a Special Use Permit for a Planned Unit DeA map of the subject property velopment with Sign Variances on a tract of property located at the and a plan which shows the proThe Village of Minooka will reSouthwest corner of Hassert Boulevard and Essington Road and posed development are available ceive sealed proposals for the fol- legally described as follows: for review at the Bolingbrook Com- lowing improvement project at the munity Development Department, Clerk's office, 121 E. McEvilly THAT PART OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 23, TOWNBolingbrook Village Hall, 375 West Road, Minooka, IL 60447 until SHIP 37 NORTH, RANGE 9 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIBriarcliff Road, Bolingbrook, Illi- 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, May 20, AN, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS; COMMENCING AT THE INTERSECnois.

2014.

TION OF THE EAST RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF NAPERVILLE PLAINFIELD ROAD AND THE WEST RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF ESSINGTON ROAD; The foregoing proposal is the reCLARIFIER PAINTING THENCE NORTH 02 DEGREES 33 MINUTES 30 SECONDS WEST sult of a petition by Richard RenALONG THE NORTHERLY EXTENSION OF SAID WEST RIGHT OF WAY schen, M.D. Architects, P.C. Proposals will be publicly read LINE, 21.86 FEET; THENCE NORTH 87 DEGREES 26 MINUTES 30 aloud at the Village Hall on TuesSECONDS EAST, 4.00 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE All interested parties are invited day, May 20, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. NORTH 02 DEGREES 33 MINUTES 30 SECONDS WEST, 20.00 to attend the public hearing and No bid shall be withdrawn after the FEET; THENCE NORTH 87 DEGREES 26 MINUTES 30 SECONDS will be given an opportunity to be opening of the proposals without EAST, 15.00 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 02 DEGREES 33 MINUTES 30 heard. the consent of the Village President SECONDS EAST, 20.00 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 87 DEGREES 26 and Board of Trustees, Village of MINUTES 30 SECONDS WEST, 15.00 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEBy order of the Corporate Author- Minooka for a period of sixty (60) GINNING, ALL IN WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS. ities of the Village of Bolingbrook, days after the scheduled time of Will and DuPage Counties, Illinois. closing of the receipt of bids.

A map of the subject property and a plan which shows the proposed development are available for review at the Bolingbrook Public SerRussell Fletcher, Chairperson All proposals shall be sealed in an vices and Development Department, Bolingbrook Village Hall, 375 Plan Commission envelope, addressed to the Village West Briarcliff Road, Bolingbrook, Illinois. of Minooka, Attn.: Village Clerk.

Dated this 29th day of April, 2014. The name and address of the bid- The foregoing proposal is the result of a petition by Impact Outdoor, der and the name of the project LLC (Published in the Herald-News May shall also appear on the outside of 2, 2014. HN526) the envelope. Proposals must be All interested parties are invited to attend the public hearing and will submitted on the forms provided by be given an opportunity to be heard. the Engineer.

By order of the Corporate Authorities of the Village of Bolingbrook, PUBLIC NOTICE The Contract Documents, including Will and DuPage Counties, Illinois. specifications, are on file at the ofAdvertisement for Bids fice of the Engineer, Robinson En- Russell Fletcher., Chairperson gineering, Ltd., 10045 West Lin- Plan Commission The FOREST PRESERVE DIS- coln Highway, Frankfort, Illinois TRICT OF WILL COUNTY will receive 60423-1267, and may be ob- Dated this 29th day of April, 2014. bids at the District Office until 9:00 tained from the Engineer's office a.m. prevailing time on Friday, upon a non-refundable payment of (Published in the Herald-News May 2, 2014. HN525) May 16, 2014 for: Thirty Dollars ($30.00) for paper

YOU AT ANY TIME AFTER THAT DAY AND A JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRAYER OF SAID COMPLAINT. Present owners of the above property are the above mentioned Mortgagors. Notice is also hereby given you that the said Complaint prays for other relief; that summons was duly issued out of said Court against you as provided by law, and that the said suit is now pending.

Clerk of Court Pamela J. McGuire our file #52859 Trunkett & Trunkett, P.C. 20 N. Wacker Drive, Suite 1434 Chicago, IL 60606 312.324.3101 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act you are advised that this law firm is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose I605344 (Published in the Herald-News May 2, 9, 16, 2014)

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PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING AMENDMENT TO A SPECIAL USE PERMIT FOR A PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT WITH SIGN VARIANCES BOLINGBROOK PLAN COMMISSION BOLINGBROOK, ILLINOIS On Wednesday evening, May 21, 2014, at 8:00 p.m., a Public Hearing will be held by the Plan Commission of the Village of Bolingbrook in the Boardroom of Bolingbrook Village Hall, 375 West Briarcliff Road, Bolingbrook, Illinois, for the purpose of considering and hearing testimony as to an Amendment to a Special Use Permit for a Planned Unit Development with Sign Variances on a tract of property located at the Northeast corner of Boughton Road and Janes Avenue and legally described as follows: THAT PART OF THE NORTHEAST ¼ OF SECTION 1, TOWNSHIP 37 NORTH, RANGE 10, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE NORTHEAST ¼ OF SAID SECTION 1, THENCE NORTH 01 DEGREE 33 FEET AND 16 INCHES WEST ALONG THE WEST LINE OF THE NORTHEAST ¼ OF SAID SECTION 1, A DISTANCE OF 948.58 FEET; THENCE NORTH 88 DEGREES 26 FEET 44 INCHES EAST, A DISTANCE OF 32.70 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE NORTH 88 DEGREES 26 FEET 44 INCHES EAST, A DISTANCE OF 67.30 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 1 DEGREE 33 FEET 16 INCHES EAST, A DISTANCE OF 197.60 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 71 DEGREES 22 FEET 11 INCHES EAST, A DISTANCE OF 74.60 FEET TO THE NORTHERLY RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF BOUGHTON ROAD, THENCE SOUTH 47 DEGREES 51 FEET 6 INCHES WEST ALONG SAID NORTHERLY RIGHT OF WAY LINE, A DISTANCE OF 20.75 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 42 DEGREES 11 FEET 54 INCHES EAST ALONG SAID NORTHERLY RIGHT OF WAY LINE, A DISTANCE OF 31.14 FEET TO A POINT OF CURVATURE; THEN SOUTHERLY ALONG SAID NORTHERLY RIGHT OF WAY LINE BEING A NON-TANGENT CURVE CONCAVE SOUTHEASTERLY WITH A CHORD BEARING OF SOUTH 49 DEGREES 20 FEET 50 INCHES WEST AND A RADIUS OF 2,331.83 FEET, AN ARC DISTANCE OF 14.28 FEET TO A POINT OF TANGENCY; THENCE SOUTH 49 DEGREES 29 FEET 52 INCHES, A DISTANCE OF 74.42 FEET TO A POINT OF CURVATURE ON THE EASTERLY RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF JANES AVENUE; THENCE NORTHERLY ALONG SAID EASTERLY RIGHT OF WAY LINE BEING A NON-TANGENT CURVE CONCAVE NORTHEASTERLY WITH A CHORD BEARING OF NORTH 21 DEGREES 57 FEET 6 INCHES WEST AND A RADIUS OF 300 FEET, AN ARC DISTANCE OF 213.60 FEET TO A POINT OF TANGENCY; THENCE NORTH 1 DEGREE 33 FEET 16 INCHES WEST ALONG SAID EASTERLY RIGHT OF WAY LINE, A DISTANCE OF 120.25 FEET TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING. PER DOCUMENT R2004-135751: THAT PART OF THE NORTHEAST ¼ OF SECTION 1, TOWNSHIP 37 NORTH, RANGE 10 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE SET CONCRETE MONUMENT AT THE EASTERLY OF TWO SOUTHWEST CORNERS OF LOT 2 IN JANES PARK EAST, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF THE NORTHEAST ¼ OF SECTION 1, TOWNSHIP 37 NORTH, RANGE 10 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; THENCE SOUTH 47 DEGREES 53 FEET 8 INCHES WEST ALONG THE NORTHWEST LINE OF BOUGHTON ROAD, 27.56 FEET; THENCE NORTH 71 DEGREES 19 FEET 17 INCHES WEST, 74.95 FEET; THENCE NORTH 1 DEGREE 30 FEET 22 INCHES WEST, 11.37 FEET TO THE SOUTHERLY LINE OF SAID LOT 2, THENCE SOUTH 79 DEGREES 34 FEET 33 INCHES EAST, 93.29 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, IN WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS. A map of the subject property and a plan which shows the proposed development are available for review at the Bolingbrook Public Services and Development Department, Bolingbrook Village Hall, 375 West Briarcliff Road, Bolingbrook, Illinois.

The foregoing proposal is the result of a petition by Impact Outdoor, LLC. All interested parties are invited to attend the public hearing and will be given an opportunity to be heard.

By order of the Corporate Authorities of the Village of Bolingbrook, Will and DuPage Counties, Illinois.

Russell Fletcher., Chairperson Plan Commission Dated this 29th day of April, 2014.

(Published in the Herald-News May 2, 2014. HN524)

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Page 46 • Friday, May 2, 2014 NESS & AUXILIARY SERVICES, A BUILDING ROOM A3100 UNTIL 10:00 AM ON MAY 16, 2014.

JOLIET JUNIOR COLLEGE RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REJECT ANY OR ALL BIDS OR TO ACCEPT ANY BID WHICH MAY BE IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE COLLEGE.

g g ding 1605 South Washington Street this modification on June 2, 2014 Lockport, Illinois 60441-4299 at 7:30 am at Joliet Junior College, 214 N. Ottawa Street, Room 424, (Published in the Herald-News May Joliet, IL. 2, 2014. HN538) (Published in the Herald-News May 1, 2, 4, 2014. HN529)

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(Published in the Herald-News May BID INFORMATION FOR NURS2, 2014. HN535) ING LAB EQUIPMENT CAN BE SECURED BY CONTACTING THE DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS & AUX. SERVICES, 1215 HOUBOLT RD., JOLIET, IL; 815.280.6643. BID DOCUMENTS CAN BE DOWNLOADED FROM THE JOLIET JUNIOR COLLEGE WEBSITE AT THE FOLPUBLIC NOTICE LOWING LINK: http://www.jjc.edu/ info/purchasing BIDS WILL BE RELEGAL NOTICE CEIVED AT THE OFFICE OF BUSIBoard of Education, TAFT NESS & AUXILIARY SERVICES, A SCHOOL DISTRICT 90, will receive BUILDING ROOM A3100 UNTIL sealed bids for the following project 2:00 PM ON MAY 16, 2014.

JOLIET JUNIOR COLLEGE REat TAFT SCHOOL: SERVES THE RIGHT TO REJECT ANY OR ALL BIDS OR TO ACCEPT Masonry Restoration ANY BID WHICH MAY BE IN THE 1959 Addition BEST INTERESTS OF THE COLLEGE. PHASE III - CDB Capital Improvements (Published in the Herald-News May 2, 2014. HN536) Scope of Work: Project consists of masonry restoration in selected areas of the 1959 addition. All work PUBLIC NOTICE shall be bid under the control of the Masonry Contractor and the bid PROPOSALS DOCUMENTS FOR must include all related subconTHIRD PARTY GRANT EVALUATOR tracted work.

OF TRADE ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE COMMUNITY COLLEGE & ALL BIDDERS Sealed bids are to be delivered to CAREER TRAINING GRANT CAN BE Taft District 90 Administrative Of- SECURED BY CONTACTING THE DIfices, 1605 S. Washington Street, RECTOR OF BUSINESS & AUX. Lockport, IL. until 1:00PM, Tues- SERVICES, 1215 HOUBOLT RD., day, May 20, 2014. Bids submit- JOLIET, IL; 815.280.6678. PROted after this time will not be ac- POSAL DOCUMENTS CAN ALSO BE cepted. Verbal, electronic, or faxed DOWNLOADED FROM THE JOLIET bids will not be accepted. Bids JUNIOR COLLEGE WEBSITE AT: must be submitted on the supplied http://www.jjc.edu/info/purchasing PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED bid form in a sealed opaque envelope. The envelope shall be ad- UNTIL 2:00 PM ON MAY 15, 2014.

JOLIET JUNIOR COLLEGE dressed to Taft District 90 and shall carry the project name, the bidders RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REJECT ANY OR ALL PROPOSALS OR TO name and the bidders address.

ACCEPT ANY PROPOSAL WHICH All interested bidders must MAY BE IN THE BEST INTERESTS demonstrate previous experience OF THE COLLEGE. with renovation work in State of Illinois schools in an AIA 305 State- (Published in the Herald-News May ment of Qualifications. The Qualifi- 2, 2014. HN539) cation Statement must be received by the architect before bid docuPUBLIC NOTICE ments can be obtained (please email to: hciurej@spmarchitects. com). Contractors must also proLEGAL NOTICE vide a $100.00 refundable deposit check to receive documents.

ATTENTION: Local Education Agencies, Labor Organizations, A mandatory pre-bid meeting, Community Based Organizations, attended by the architect, SPM Ar- and Interested Persons. The County chitects, Inc, will be held in the of Will and the Workforce Investmulti-purpose room at Taft School, ment Board of Will County under at 1:00PM. on Tuesday, May 6, the provisions of the Workforce In2014. Enter at the main entrance vestment Act (WIA) of 1998, hereon Washington Street. by announces submission of a modification to the WIA Five Year Qualified bids must include a Plan to the Illinois Department of Bid Security in the amount of ten Commerce and Economic Opportupercent (10%) of the Base Bid, nity, Springfield, Illinois. The purwhich shall be a bid bond or certi- pose of this modification is to incorfied check. The school district re- porate PY14 funding allocations serves the right to set aside a bid into the 5 year plan. The PY14 alfrom a contractor who in the school locations are as follows: district's opinion does not exhibit past experience equal to the size PY14 Adult - $1,589,809 and scope of this project.

PY14 Youth - $1,680,836 PY14 Dislocated Worker $2,332,892 The Board of Education reserves the right to accept or reject any or A copy of the modification is all bids. Bidders may not withdraw their bids for a period of sixty (60) available for public review and days after the date set for the open- comment until June 1, 2014 by ing thereof. appointment at the Workforce Investment Board Office, 214 N. Ottawa Street, 4th Floor, Joliet, (815) SIGNED: 727-5670, Monday through FriSecretary Board of Education day, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. A pubTaft School lic hearing will be held regarding

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