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JOLIET – City officials say they don’t know yet whether the annual budget deficit turnaround will occur again this year.

Joliet for several years has budgeted deficits only to find that they ended the year with a surplus.

As of November, the city had a $6 million deficit, which is down from the $9.3 million deficit projected at the beginning of the year.

It’s still too early to tell whether late-arriving revenues will erase the deficit, Finance Director James Ghedotte told the city council’s finance committee Tuesday.

“Every year, it’s the same thing. We show a deficit before the accruals,” Ghedotte told the committee.

Revenues counted for the 2016 financial year, including casino taxes, will continue to arrive as late as February and March, he said.

Ghedotte noted that the city was showing a $4.6 million deficit at the end of November a year ago and ended up with a

we came in at a surplus. I think that’s a product of the staff budgeting conservatively, which they should.”

John Gerl

Member of Joliet City Council’s finance committee $4 million surplus when all the bills and revenue for the year finally were counted.

While that’s a lot of money, it’s not necessarily a wild swing from the city’s original budget estimates, said Councilman John Gerl, a member of the finance committee.

If the budget is off by 5 percent, Gerl said, it amounts to about $10 million.

“Last year at this time, we budgeted a deficit as well, and we came in at a surplus,” he said. “I think that’s a product of the staff budgeting conservatively, which they should.”

Gerl by mid-December a year ago said the city’s deficit was likely to be erased by

Joliet approves expansion of downtown tax

By BOB OKON

bokon@shawmedia.com JOLIET – A property tax applied to downtown businesses will be spread to neighboring commercial corridors in 2017.

The city council this week approved the extension of the downtown Special Service Area to business districts along Cass, Collins and South Chicago.

City officials said this week that only two objections were filed against the tax, which will be applied to 1,224 parcels of property.

One matter still to be resolved is how to handle business-zoned residences within the Special Service Area.

Assistant City Manager Steve Jones said city staff plans to develop a pro-

“They have been paying this tax for the last 20 years.”

Jim Hock

Joliet city manager gram in the next few months to address residents who do not stand to benefit from the tax, which is aimed at funding economic development.

“There are folks who are living in homes that have business zoning,” Jones said. The city will develop some form of tax relief for properties where the owner lives.

The tax will amount to 95 cents for each $100 in assessed valuation. Joliet officials have said property owners will

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late revenues. But he said Wednesday that he has not looked at the numbers closely enough to project what would happen this year.

As of Nov. 30, gaming tax revenue for the city stood at $15.4 million. The city has budgeted for $18.9 million.

State and local sales taxes so far total $35.2 million. The city budgeted for nearly $46 million.

The city has received $33.7 million from property taxes, which is about $282,000 more than was budgeted.

One revenue category far ahead of budget already this year is licenses and permits, which has generated $3.2 million.

The city budgeted for $1.7 million.

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see an 8.6 percent increase in the city portion of their property taxes.

The Special Service Area was created to help develop and market the downtown business district. The revenue funds the Joliet City Center Partnership.

City Manager Jim Hock said that downtown businesses already in the Special Service Area will not see an increase.

“They have been paying this tax for the last 20 years,” he said.

One of the proposed uses for the additional revenue is to pay for artificial turf at the Joliet Slammers’ baseball stadium, which is owned by the city.

Jones said the city will begin seeking input from businesses in the new corridors regarding what projects they would like to see in those areas.

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City ranked as third in state; community leaders discuss experiences

By MIKE MALLORY

mmallory@shawmedia.com JOLIET – Gini Lester is queer.

“I’m a human being, and people like me are human beings,” Lester said.

“And in this United States, we belong and we deserve full, equal rights.”

In Joliet and the state of Illinois, people of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community have more rights than in most areas.

The city of Joliet was ranked in a recent study as the third-most LGBTQ-friendly city in the state.

In October, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation – the educational arm of the nation’s LGBTQ civil rights organization – partnered with the Equality Federation Institute to release the fifth annual Municipal Equality Index rankings, which assess LGBTQ equality in 506 cities across the nation and nine in Illinois.

The Municipal Equality Index is the only nationwide rating system of LGBTQ inclusion in municipal law and policy. Joliet, with a rating of 78 out of 100, came in third in the state behind Chicago and Aurora. It’s above the national average score of 55.

Leaders of the LGBTQ movement in the Joliet area, such as Lester – board president of the Community Alliance and Action Network – agree that the ranking is accurate.

“I’m glad,” Lester said of the ranking. “We have one college and two universities [in the area], so we have a lot of young people coming in who are wonderful, with open minds. Young people know what’s right and what’s wrong. I just wish they would stay in Joliet rather than move into the city.”

The city of Joliet has earned praise from the LGBTQ community in recent years.

LGBTQ people commended the Joliet Police Department in April 2015 for its naming of a liaison officer in an effort to strengthen the relationship between the department and the LGBTQ community. Veteran officer Shawn Carnes was one of several to volunteer for the role.

But Carnes, a gay man, retired this year and created an opening in the position. Some, including Lester, were concerned the role would go away completely.

Joliet Police Chief Brian Benton said Wednesday there were inquiries in recent months from City Council

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Russell Lipari (from left) of Shorewood takes a photograph of Patricia Ferchland and Fara Bingham on June 2, 2014, while the three waited for the Will County Clerk’s Office to open in Joliet on the first day the office issued same-sex marriage licenses. members, who were contacted by constituents, as to whether a new LGBTQ liaison would be named. Benton said Deputy Chief Al Roechner has volunteered for the role, which was filled in the last month.

But Joliet hasn’t always been accepting, according to some.

Gary Magruder is gay.

He and his spouse, Ed Hamilton, lived near M.J. Cunningham Elementary School in Joliet between 1973 and 1978. It was during that time, Magruder said, that they experienced several hate crimes such as slashing of tires, busted-out windows and graffiti.

Before that, they lived in Lockport and didn’t encounter any discrimination. Magruder said he and Hamilton were together at least 10 years living in the Joliet area before they met another gay person.

They were active in the Universalist Unitarian Church of Joliet, which is known to welcome people of all backgrounds. In 2012, Magruder and Ham-

“I’m a human being, and people like me are human beings. And in this United States, we belong and we deserve full, equal rights.”

Gini Lester

Board president of the Community Alliance and Action Network

ilton – now in their 70s – were part of a local effort within the American Civil Liberties Union that pushed for samesex marriages to be recognized in the state of Illinois.

It was successful.

Civil unions were established in Illinois in 2011 and same-sex marriages were established in 2014.

But Magruder and Lester are concerned, because many of the original activists in the area are aging. Magruder said some have died or moved away.

Both are concerned about a possible fight for rights with the new, conservative presidential administration taking over in January.

Lester is worried that protections of LGBTQ people will be wiped away with socially conservative Vice President-elect Mike Pence coming into office.

“Yeah,” Lester said, with a long pause. “I’m worried.”

But because of people such as Magruder, Hamilton and Lester, it is easier for the newest generation of LGBTQ leaders to come out.

University of St. Francis junior Natalie Welch is a lesbian.

She said longtime activists were brave to speak out, back when it was harder to come out. She said they’ve made things better for the LGBTQ community not only in Joliet, but in Illinois and the rest of the country.

“I would ask them to look at how

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Man shot in Joliet gang attack Tuesday

By BRIAN STANLEY

bstanley@shawmedia.com JOLIET – A 37-year-old man was shot in the leg Tuesday morning after an apparent gang confrontation in Joliet.

The incident occurred about 10:50 a.m. as the victim was walking with a juvenile in the 700 block of Collins Street, Joliet Police Department Lt. Kevin LaBolle said.

“A white two-door Pontiac Grand

Prix pulled up and a passenger got out with a chrome revolver and yelled gang slogans. The victim yelled gang slogans back and was shot in the thigh and calf,” LaBolle said.

The victim was hospitalized with leg injuries that were not life-threatening. His attacker was described as a Hispanic man, about 5-foot-8 with a heavy build. He was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt.

The Pontiac was being driven by another man, according to police reports.

Police seize bags of marijuana, arrest 2 men at Joliet hotel

By BRIAN STANLEY

bstanley@shawmedia.com JOLIET – Police seized more than 160 pounds of marijuana and arrested two men Monday night at a Joliet hotel.

Joliet Police Department Capt. Jeff Allbert said that at about 11:40 p.m. tactical officers were at Comfort Inn, 1520 Commerce Lane, when Guillermo they saw two vehicles A. Villasenor pull into the parking lot.

Guillermo A. Villasenor, 28, arrived in a gray BMW, parked and got into a maroon Toyota driven by Michael Biggane, 33, according to police reports.

The maroon Toyota then drove up next to a white Toyota SUV.

“They got out, broke the window of the SUV and started transferring the duffel bags from one vehicle to the other,” Allbert said.

Police arrested Villasenor and Biggane, reportedly finding 74 pounds of marijuana in a duffel bag that had been removed from the SUV and 87 pounds of marijuana in a duffel bag still inside it.

Villasenor, of the Michael 19600 block of BeechBiggane nut Drive in Mokena, and Biggane, of the 9100 block of Robin Court in Orland Hills, were arrested and booked into the Will County Jail on charges of possession of marijuana with intent to deliver, burglary to a motor vehicle and vandalism.

Woman sentenced in fatal DUI crash

By BRIAN STANLEY

bstanley@shawmedia.com JOLIET - A Joliet woman was sentenced this month to spend six years in prison for a fatal DUI crash last year.

Jamie L. Walsh, 31, pleaded guilty Dec. 7 before Judge Amy Bertani-Tomczak on a charge of aggravated driving under the influence in exchange for having four other counts dismissed.

At 7:21 p.m. on Dec. 26, 2015, Walsh was driving a 1997 Plymouth Neon on Route 171 in Lockport Township when the vehicle was involved in a rollover crash at Nobes Avenue. Walsh was not

injured, but her passenger, Joseph O. Essary, 33, was ejected and pinned beneath the vehicle, according to police reports.

Will County Assistant Public Defender TimoJamie L. thy Specht said Walsh Walsh and Essary had been a couple for more than a decade and were on their way home after they’d spent several hours drinking at a friend’s house.

If Walsh had been convicted on all charges filed after her arrest, she could have served up to 35 years in prison.

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Gini Lester, board president of Joliet-based Community Alliance and Action Network, is seen Friday in Joliet.

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Continued from page 3 things were back then and look now,” Welch said. “It’s because of people like them that things have gotten better.

I’d ask them to talk to people my age – in their teens and 20s – and let them know we’re not where we want to be, but we’ve made substantial progress.”

Welch has gone from member to president of the Spectrum Club at St. Francis in less than a year. The club provides a safe place for LGBTQ students and their straight allies to meet, support each other, talk about issues related to sexual orientation and work together to end homophobia.

“Spectrum accepts everyone through love manifested by our Franciscan values of respect, service, in-

tegrity and compassion,” the club’s description reads. “Through this acceptance God’s unconditional love for all will be revealed.”

Welch said the Spectrum Club cannot be defined as an activist group because it would not correspond with Catholic ideals. It’s solely a support group.

And if Welch were ever to take part in any LGBTQ-related activism, it would have to be on her own with no attachment to the Spectrum Club or the university.

That said, she’s felt extremely welcome at the university and in the club.

Welch said she feels comfortable both on campus and in Joliet.

“I felt comfortable walking down the street when I had a girlfriend,” Welch said. “We could openly hold hands, with no harassment.”

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Thirteen compete for five Lincoln-Way board seats District 210 candidate list

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The candidate list from the Will County Clerk’s Office for the April 4 elections show five candidates running for two seats with unexpired two-year terms and eight candidates running for three seats with four-year terms.

Those candidates include incumbent board President Dee Molinare and board members Joseph Kosteck, Christopher Kosel, Christopher Lucchetti and Joseph Kirkeeng.

Challenging the current board is the Citizens For 210 slate: Karen Town, Lee Talley, Cathy Pleasant, Gus Yiakos and Ben Yomtoob.

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Kosteck has said that despite recent financial challenges, the district is on the right track and he sees “things only improving in the coming years.”

Kosteck – along with Kirkeeng and Luchetti – were appointed to the board this year following the resignations of Christopher McFadden, Kevin Molloy, Arvid Johnson and Kathleen Casey.

Janik said his experience as an attorney and Mokena School District 159 Board vice president would benefit the district.

The Citizens For 210 slate held a meet-and-greet event Dec. 14, at which they said they wanted to pursue more transparency, accountability and financial integrity at the district while also maintaining its academic achievements.

Ripp stated in a Dec. 20 LWATU news release that he is running as “an independent, with no slate affiliation,” and that he resigned his position with the group.

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lottery at 9 a.m. Wednesday to determine their ballot position.

April’s election will be the first one since a series of controversies that began at District 210 when the Illinois State Board of Education gave it the lowest state financial rating in spring 2015 and rumors spread that of one of its four schools would close.

By August of that year, the board settled on closing North as part of a deficit reduction plan.

LWATU sued the district by the end of 2015 to block the closing of North, but the lawsuit was unsuccessful.

The FBI and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission have opened investigations into the district.

Molinare, Kosteck and Janik announced their candidacy through public relations firm Newsmakers on Dec. 12, the first day of the candidate filing period.

Molinare, who was appointed to the board in 2011, has said she is “asking voters to allow me to finish the job I started.”

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The Safe Ride Home program is sponsored by the Michael P. Gordon Foundation, and will run midnight to 4 a.m. Jan. 1 for residents who feel they would not be able to drive home safely. Pick-up and drop-off locations must be in one of the participating towns.

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JOLIET – A Will County assistant public defender has been appointed to be a Cook County judge.

Litricia Payne, who handles felony cases, was appointed Dec. 14 by the state supreme court to replace the recently retired Eileen Brewer at the end of the month. Payne’s term will run through December 2018.

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Judicial vacancies are filled by supreme court appointment. Kilbride will make a recommendation to the full court after applicants undergo an evaluation and screening process. Notice of the vacancy has been posted at the Will County Courthouse. The application form and instructions may be obtained by visiting www.illinoiscourts.gov and following the instructions on the Latest News scroll announcing the vacancy.

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The normal collection schedule will resume the week of Jan. 9.

City Hall also will be closed Monday in observance of the Christmas holiday and Jan. 2 in observance of the New Year’s Day holiday. On Monday and Jan. 2, the parking decks will be free, and there will be no enforcement of the parking meters.

For those who have a real Christmas tree, set it out after Christmas at your normal pick-up location on your regular trash day for pickup. Set it out in one piece if it’s 5 feet in length or less and cut it in half if it measures more than 5 feet. Trees will be collected until Jan. 31.

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aschier@shawmedia.com CREST HILL – The Crest Hill City Council took action on several items during its meeting Monday, including the approval of the city’s 2016 tax levy.

All council members present voted in favor of the levy, Interim City Administrator Heather McGuire said Tuesday. Alderwoman Barbara Sklare was absent.

The levy has a lower tax rate than the previous year’s, McGuire has said.

The 2015 rate was 0.6511 percent of a property owner’s equalized assessed value, while the 2016 rate is 0.6311 percent.

Under the 2016 levy, city property taxes will be $468.59 for the owner of a $225,000 home, with a $117.15 rebate.

Twenty-five percent of the levy amount is rebated each year.

The levy amount is about $2.14 million, and Crest Hill’s net equalized assessed value is about $340.26 million.

The council also approved Monday an abatement ordinance stating that the city will pay its outstanding bonds using city revenue rather than tax dollars, McGuire said.

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Crest Hill Police Department’s 30th full-time officer, Conor Sweeney, will begin work Tuesday.

Industry groups recommend a city Crest Hill’s size have 31 officers, McGuire said, and Mayor Ray Soliman has made that a goal throughout his time in the office.

Soliman said, when he became mayor in 2009, the city had 24 officers, and that a non-home rule sales tax referendum passed in 2012 has helped the city hire more police.

“Everybody should be proud of this,” Soliman said.

The council Monday voted in favor of an ordinance for the regulation of unattended donation or collection boxes in the city, McGuire said.

Such boxes were previously prohibited in Crest Hill, she said, and Monday’s approval was the result of a lawsuit filed against the city by clothing and textile recycling business USAgain.

The company at one point had a collection box in the city, McGuire said, until the city forced the business to remove it.

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• Terrance D. Brooks, 38, of the 900 block of Sudbury Drive in Joliet, was arrested by Joliet police Dec. 13 on a charge of delivery of drugs.

• Giovanni Alejandre, 25, of the 200 block of Pleasant Street in Joliet, was arrested by Joliet police Dec. 14 on charges of reckless discharge of a firearm and carrying a concealed firearm while under the influence of alcohol.

• Preston E. Moore, 38, of the 34300 block of Hickory Avenue in Wilmington, was arrested by Joliet police Dec. 14 on charges of home invasion, robbery, domestic battery, residential burglary and theft.

• Kahli J. Banks, 24, of the 800 block of Woods Avenue in Joliet, was arrested by Joliet police Dec. 15 on a charge of domestic battery.

• Michael D. Boland, 44, of the zero block of Circle Drive in Montgomery, was arrested

by Naperville police Dec. 15 on a charge of driving with a suspended license.

• Ronald L. Cieslak, 45, of the 200 block of Williamsburg Court in Romeoville, was arrested by sheriff’s police Dec. 15 on a charge of auto theft.

• Danny Diego, 21, of the 5700 block of South California Avenue in Chicago, was arrested by state police Dec. 15 on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol, driving without a license, driving without insurance and obstructing justice.

• Brian C. Kenworthy, 34, of the 10500 block of O’Connell Avenue in Mokena, was arrested by Joliet police Dec. 15 on charges of aggravated driving under the influence of alcohol, driving with a suspended license, driving without insurance, hit-and-run and drug possession.

• John P. Patete, 64, of the West 21000 block of Winthrop Avenue in Lombard, was arrested by sheriff’s police Dec. 15 on a charge of auto theft.

• Joshua W. Schaun, 39, of the 300 block of Loveland Drive in Chicago Heights, was arrested by sheriff’s police Dec. 15 on a charge of identity theft.

• Santo Barr, 20, of the 14300 block of South Shephard Drive in Dolton, was arrested by Steger police Friday on charges of armed robbery and unlawful use of a weapon.

• Jamal L. Dorsey, 28, of the 4700 block of South Forestville Avenue in Chicago, was arrested by Steger police Friday on a charge of obstructing justice.

• Kenneth D. Haywood, 24, of the 200 block of Highpoint Drive in Romeoville, was arrested by sheriff’s police Friday on a charge of identity theft.

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By FELIX SARVER

fsarver@shawmedia.com NEW LENOX – In the face of a “junk” status bond rating from Moody’s Investors Service, Lincoln-Way District 210 Superintendent Scott Tingley said the district needs to continue stabilizing its daily financial operations.

Moody’s announced it downgraded the district’s bond rating from Baa3 to Ba1, or “junk” status, which reflects the district’s narrowing financial position that is increasingly reliant on short-term debt to support its operations and its rising debt service costs.

On April 29, Moody’s downgraded District 210’s bond rating five levels – from A1 to Baa3, one step above Ba1.

Tingley said the current bond rating was because the district had about a $4 million deficit in its fiscal 2016 budget and it needed to borrow about $5 million as result of an Agreed-Upon Procedures report of bond proceeds that found improper accounting practices. He said the biggest priority of the district is to continue stabilizing daily financial operations and getting the district to a point where it’s not reliant on short-term debt.

“It’s taking a while to get to this position and it will take a while to get out, but we’re on the right track,” Tingley said.

District officials have put together a list of items covering accounting practices that are in need of improvement before the next audit. Several on the list have already been completed, according to the district.

Accounting firm Wermer, Rogers, Doran and Ruzon performed an audit for fiscal 2016 that identified practices in need of improvement, such as those concerning the general ledger, capital assets, debt service payments and more.

Once the district has stabilized its daily finances and has more positive audit review than the one for fiscal 2016, Tingley said they will present

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Tingley said the district plans to finish fiscal 2017 with $2 million surplus.

Moody’s has stated that although district officials are projecting significantly improved financial operations in fiscal 2017, District 210 has a “history of negative variances, and any unexpected revenue or expenditure pressure would place additional strain on district liquidity.”

District 210 has been working on resolving its financial crisis after accumulating multimillion-dollar deficits over the years. One of the district’s newer high schools, North, was closed, and district officials have been engaged during the years in shortterm borrowing to keep its operations afloat.

In September, the board approved the issuance of $20 million in tax anticipation warrants, or short-term debt that finances operations, before property tax revenues are received.

In fiscal 2016, the district issued $30 million in tax warrants, according to the district.

Moody’s stated its negative outlook also considers the district’s elevated debt burden with debt service costs that are schooled “to grow substantially.” According to the district, its total debt service from its outstanding bonds will steadily increase from $15 million to $41.3 million between fiscal 2017 and fiscal 2033.

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mmallory@shawmedia.com JOLIET – The Will County Board made changes last week to the Will County Land Use Department’s Elderly Cottage Housing Opportunities ordinance.

The board approval will allow the land use department to require a special-use permit and public hearing when property owners apply to have an ECHO housing unit. The units are intended to house elderly and disabled relatives of the property owner.

The ordinance passed, 22-2. The property owner must renew eligibility each year.

The ordinance also limited the ECHO units to 1,000 square feet. The previous limit was 1,200 square feet. The updated ordinance prohibits ECHO housing in small residential zones.

Board member Steve Balich, R-Homer Glen, said he supported the special-use permit, but made a motion to amend the ordinance to make all zoning classifications eligible for an ECHO unit.

Balich said a small residential lot will not meet certain zoning requirements 99 percent of the time, but was against excluding those residential lots completely.

Board member Judy Ogalla, R-Monee, said there are 19 ECHO houses in agricultural zoning, one in estate zoning and one in a residential lot.

She said it’d be a very rare case, if any, if someone could pass through the special-use permit requirements on a small residential lot but as a strong proponent of property rights, she was in favor of Balich’s motion.

The motion failed. Board member Ray Tuminello, R-New Lenox, has been

outspoken against including residential lots in the ordinance in several meetings. He said there would be negative effects to adding small ECHO units to the county’s more densely populated, yet unincorporated, areas.

Mike Fricilone, R-Homer Glen, said he’d like to support Balich’s motion but was concerned that people would go through a lot, especially financially, just to be told they can’t have an ECHO unit on a residential lot.

“I’d much prefer a property owner knows up front it’s not going to happen in an area,” Fricilone said.

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USAgain, which used a similar lawsuit against a Michigan municipality as legal precedent, out of court by agreeing to allow the boxes.

Under the ordinance, the city requires a $100 application fee for a one-year collection box permit.

McGuire said USAgain intends to apply for a permit in the area of Webb Street and Route 30, where its previous box was located.

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Also Monday, the council voted to hire Christopher B. Burke Engineering for a $63,820 no-bid contract for work on Wilcox Street.

Water main and pavement improvements will take place in the summer on Wilcox Street between Elsie Avenue and Theodore Street.

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OBITUARIES GEORGENE T. BANKROFF

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Georgene T. Bankroff (nee McCanna), age 87, late of Lockport passed away peacefully Tuesday, December 20, 2016.

Born in Lockport lifelong resident. Employed as a 7th and 8th grade Social Studies and Language Arts teacher at Kelvin Grove Grade School from 1967 until her retirement in 1992 after 25 years of service. A graduate of St. Francis College, Joliet, receiving her Bachelor’s Degree in 1967. Lifelong member of St. Dennis Church, Lockport, where she was a commentator and member of Altar and Rosary Society; past President of LAGHS, Lockport Area Genealogical and Historical Society, member of Delta Kappa Gamma, past President Tri County Credit Union. Den Mother of Cub Scouts pack #53 and Girl Scouts Leader. Georgene loved to knit, crochet, was an avid reader, loved to travel with her husband and children. She was a devoted Teacher where she touched and inspired many lives, but above all she was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother. She will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved her.

Preceded in death by her parents, Thomas and Christine (Rodeghero) McCanna; beloved granddaughter, Colleen Smith; a brother, Thomas McCanna; two sisters, Shirley (James) Needham and Patricia Beller.

Survived by her devoted husband of 67 years, James H.; four children, K. Sue of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Timothy (Laurel) of Crown Point, IN., Scott of Lansing, MI. and Barry Bankroff of Lockport; four grandchildren, Melissa and Daniel Williams and Timothy (Antonia) and Taylor Bankroff; one great granddaughter, Samantha Barnaby; sister-in-law, Serena McCanna and brother-in-law George Beller; Numerous nephews, nieces, friends and St. Dennis Church family also survive.

In lieu of flowers, memorials to Joliet Area Community Hospice 250 Water Stone Circle Joliet, IL 60431 would be appreciated. Services will be held Friday December 23, 2016 at 12:00noon in the O’Neil Funeral Home Chapel 1105 E. 9th St. Lockport, Il 60441 proceeding to St. Dennis Church Lockport for Mass of Christian Burial at 12:30pm. Interment Resurrection Cemetery, Romeoville. Visitation Thursday, December 22, 2016 in the funeral home chapel from 3:00 pm until 7:00 pm.

David Dudek, of Homer Glen, passed away November 19, 2016 at the age of 74.

His fondest memories were growing up on his family’s farm in Palos Park, IL. He continued farming until he joined Union Oil. After his retirement, he became an entrepreneur.

David enjoyed life and the great outdoors.

Survived by his brother, Wes Dudek; a niece, D’Ann Hu; a grandnephew, Thomas Hu and a grandniece, Kimberly Hu. In loving memory, a Memorial Gathering celebrating David’s life will be held Wednesday, December 28, 2016.

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DOUGLAS HADDEN Born: February 13, 1949 Died: December 19, 2016

Douglas Hadden passed away on December 19, 2016.

Memorial Service will be held on Thursday, December 22, 2016 at 7:00 PM at St. James Community COGIC, 415 Parks Ave., Joliet, IL. Minor-Morris Funeral Home, Ltd. 112 Richards St. (815) 723-1283

DIANE M. MARENCHE Diane M. Marenche (nee Hibler), age 68, entered into eternal life on Friday, December 16, 2016 surrounded by her loving family and friends.

Diane is survived by her loving daughter, Georgene Marenche; loving son, Jay Marenche; loving mother, Josephine Hibler (nee Minarich); dear sister, Elaine (Mel) Smith; dear brother, Ron (Jan) Hibler; as well as numerous nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends.

Preceded in death by her father, George Hibler.

Diane was fond of crossword puzzles, cards, game shows, and Law and Order SVU. She was a “kid at heart.” Diane’s love for her family and friends has and will continue to extend from generation to generation.

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In lieu of flowers, memorials to the family would be appreciated.

The family would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to the doctors, nurses, and staff of Presence St. Joseph Medical Center and JOHA, especially Dr. Suh, for the compassionate care and love provided.

A Celebration of Diane’s life will begin on Friday, December 23, 2016 with prayers in the funeral home chapel at 9:30 a.m. then driving in procession to the Cathedral of St. Raymond Nonnatus for a Mass of Christian Burial at 10:00 a.m. Interment to follow at St. Mary Nativity Cemetery in Crest Hill.

Visitation will be Thursday, December 22, 2016 from 4:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at Tezak Funeral Home, 1211 Plainfield Rd, Joliet, IL 60435.

Obituary and tribute wall for Diane M. Marenche at www.tezakfuneralhome.com or for information, 815-722-0524.

Arrangements entrusted to:

MARYLOUISE DOHMAN TEEL

Born: November 16, 1925; in Saunemin, IL Died: December 20, 2016; in Pontiac, IL

MaryLouise Dohman Teel, 91 of Pontiac, formerly of Chatsworth, IL, passed away at 6:00 am on Tuesday, December 20, 2016 at Evenglow Lodge, Pontiac, IL. Her Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:00 am on Friday, December 23, 2016at St. John’s Catholic Church in Cullom with Father William Keebler officiating. A visitation will be held from 3:00 to 8:00 pm on Thursday, December 22, 2016 at Calvert & Martin Funeral Home in Chatsworth. Burial will follow services on Friday at St. John’s Catholic Cemetery in Cullom.

Memorials may be made to St. John’s Catholic Church in Cullom.

MaryLou was born November 16, 1925 on a farm near Saunemin, Illinois, the daughter of the late Frank and Anna (Drenkelfuss) Dohman who emigrated from Germany in 1910. Mary Lou attended Oatmiller Country School for 8 years and was a 1943 graduate of Cullom High School. In the early 1960’s she graduated from auctioneer school. At the young age of 62, Mary Lou attended William Raney Harper College and earned an Associate’s degree in Art. She was a member of Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church, the Altar and Rosary Society, and Vice President of the Charlotte Home Extension. She also was a member of Livingston County Senior Advisory Board, served on the board of directors for the Central Illinois Area Agency on Aging, and served on the Chatsworth Town Board for 8 years.

MaryLou loved to crochet and sew. She made quilts for each daughter and crocheted baby Afghans for every baby born in her family. She held art classes in her basement studio. She loved playing pinochle, scrabble, solving crossword puzzles and painting pictures. She decorated cakes for all occasions and was known for her baking and cooking skills. She was an avid Cubs fan. She was proud of her heritage and compiled a cookbook of family recipes and history. Twice she visited cousins in Germany.

MaryLou is survived by her daughters, Diane (Ulf) Olsen, Linda Arquette, Beth AnnMay, Mary Jo (Mark) See; one son, Larry Zeller; fifteen grandchildren; thirty-five great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren; and one sisterin-law, Jackie Dohman. She is also survived by her stepchildren, PaulTeel, Laura Kracker, and Jo Ellen (John) Shoenbrun.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, John Teel; son, David Zeller; two grandsons, Marco DeAngeles and David Eric Zeller; three sisters, Elizabeth Wallrich, Anna Deany, and Charlene Dohman (who died at birth); five brothers, Francis “Frankie” Dohman, William “Bill” Dohman, Richard Dohman, George Dohman, and Gary Dohman.

This obituary may be viewed and condolences sent to the family at calvertmemorial. com.

Michael J. Matuszewski December 22, 1936 – February 24, 2015

Happy 80th Birthday to you in Heaven Wish you were here to celebrate.

We also want to wish you a Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year in Heaven again this year.

We miss you very much but you are always in our heart and thoughts.

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The ASSOCIATED PRESS ROCKFORD – An Illinois judge has suspended a state requirement that health care providers who oppose abortion must give information or referrals to patients seeking the procedure.

Winnebago County Judge Eugene Doherty granted an injunction Tuesday in a lawsuit brought by medical providers who oppose abortion, saying they “raised a fair question as to whether their right to be free from government compelled speech is violated.” The ruling applies to northern Illinois clinics that brought the law-

suit, including Aid for Women, which has centers in Chicago, Cicero and Des Plaines. The injunction stands until the case is decided or there’s a further court order. Doherty has said he anticipates the case would be appealed regardless of how he ruled.

The group of clinics filed the lawsuit against Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and the secretary of the Illinois Department of Financial and Profession Regulation in August after a state law was amended in July to include the new requirements. The amended law was slated to take effect on Jan. 1.

The medical providers asked Doherty to prevent the state from pe-

nalizing doctors and medical staff who cite objection to abortion as the reason for not providing such information or referrals.

The group’s attorney, Matt Bowman, commended the judge’s ruling and called it a “victory for free speech and the freedom of conscience.” Bowman has noted that the punishment for not providing information about abortion can result in a fine of $10,000 or revocation of a health care provider’s medical license. He said such punishment “chills our speech.”

Terry Horstman, a spokesman for the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, said the

ILLINOIS

Illinois atheist who fought in court to keep church and government affairs separate.

Robert I. Sherman of Poplar Grove died at age 63 when his light sport aircraft crashed in a farm field. The Chicago Tribune reported Sherman was heading to a party Dec. 9 at Schaumburg Regional Airport for the Experimental Aircraft Association when he crashed.

The gathering to remember Sherman will be Thursday at the airport in Schaumburg.

Sherman was an outspoken atheist and critic of using state money for religious purposes and having religious displays in public spaces.

ROUNDUP

News from across the state

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Ex-Gov. Blagojevich again appeals prison term

CHICAGO – Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich is asking a U.S. appeals court to nullify his 14-year prison term and order a third sentencing hearing.

Attorneys for the Chicago Democrat filed the 50-page appeal late Tuesday night with the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The filing follows Blagojevich’s resentencing Aug. 9, when trial Judge James Zagel refused to lower the original 14-year sentence.

The 7th Circuit had ordered that August resentencing after tossing five of Blagojevich’s 18 convictions. The 60-year-old’s remaining convictions include trying to trade an appointment to President Barack Obama’s old Senate seat for campaign cash.

The latest appeal argues Zagel should have considered Blagojevich’s good behavior in prison. It cites more than 100 letters from fellow inmates who describe Blagojevich helping them, including as a history tutor.

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Illinois lawmakers discuss education funding overhaul

SPRINGFIELD – Despite a standstill over the Illinois budget, a group of bipartisan lawmakers has been meeting more often in recent weeks to devise a plan to overhaul state funding for public

state could not comment on pending litigation.

Officials with the Illinois attorney general have said the statute is triggered only when a patient asks for information and that the law was amended to ensure a patient’s rights are not violated because of someone else’s religious objections.

Under the amended law, patients who ask for and aren’t provided with information or a pamphlet on abortion may file a complaint with the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. A complaint must be filed with the department before it can investigate a doctor or clinic.

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Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich arrives at the federal courthouse July 15, 2011, in Chicago.

Blagojevich is asking a U.S. appeals court to nullify his 14-year prison term and order a third sentencing hearing.

schools.

Although Illinois’ top leaders aren’t meeting to discuss the state budget, members of Gov. Bruce Rauner’s education funding reform commission told the Springfield Bureau of Lee Enterprises newspapers they’re optimistic that the group will be able to come up with at least outlines of a new school funding formula.

“We’ve made meaningful progress on an incredibly difficult issue,”Republican state Sen. Jason Barickman said.

Rauner set a Feb. 1 deadline for the group to complete its work when he announced its formation in July.

Barickman said that if reform is going to happen, the group, and ultimately the

Legislature, must come to a consensus on complex issues, such as property taxes and achieving parity among school districts.

The point person for Senate Democrats on school funding issues, Sen. Andy Manar, said he believes the group will be able to at least complete “a set of specific recommendations that could be the framework of legislation.” He’s optimistic the commission can produce a bill before Feb. 1.

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Memorial for Illinois atheist to be held at airport

SCHAUMBURG – A memorial gathering is planned for a well-known

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Jury finds Texas man guilty in death of grandmother

ST. CHARLES – A jury in suburban Chicago has found a Texas man guilty of first-degree murder in a plot that involved driving across the country to kill his grandmother in order to inherit half her estate.

The jury in Kane County returned its verdict Tuesday against 44-year-old Richard Schmelzer, who lives in the Dallas suburb of Frisco. Prosecutors during his trial said Schmelzer lived an extravagant lifestyle that left him behind on his mortgage and deeply in debt.

They argued Schmelzer in July 2014 drove hundreds of miles to East Dundee to stab 85-year-old Mildred “Dodie” Darrington in her bed.

Schmelzer, the married father of four children, stood to inherit at least $300,000 upon her death.

He faces up to 60 years in prison when he’s sentenced next month.

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NATION & WORLD BRIEFS Trump: Germany incident is ‘attack on humanity’

PALM BEACH, Fla. – President-elect Donald Trump declared Wednesday that the deadly truck attack on a Christmas market in Germany was “an attack on humanity and it’s got to be stopped.” He also suggested he might go forward with his campaign pledge to temporarily ban Muslim immigrants from coming to the U.S. “You know my plans. All along, I’ve been proven to be right, 100 percent correct,” Trump said when asked if the attack in Berlin had caused him to re-evaluate the proposal. “What’s happening is disgraceful.”

Trump proposed the Muslim ban during the Republican primary campaign, prompting criticism from both parties. He shifted his rhetoric during the general election to focus on temporarily halting immigration from an unspecified list of countries with ties to terrorism, although he did not disavow the Muslim ban. A transition spokesman said later Wednesday that Trump’s plans “might upset those with their heads stuck in the politically correct sand.”

Mom faces manslaughter in 2nd baby sleep death WINTER HAVEN, Fla. – A mother charged with methamphetamine possession while

pregnant is accused of the aggravated manslaughter of her 18-day-old boy.

It’s the second baby to die while sleeping in bed with Erin PichePitts. The report on her Tuesday arrest said her 13-day-old daughter died after she fell asleep while breastfeeding in 2009. That death was ruled an accident.

This time, she told deputies she fell asleep while bottle-feeding after her baby woke up crying, and found him unresponsive when she woke up hours later.

5 malnourished children found living in a car

GREENACRES, Fla. – A man and woman are facing child neglect charges after a sheriff’s deputy found five malnourished children living in a car parked outside a Wal-Mart store.

The Palm Beach Post reported Donell Barron and Rikki Hart – both 34 – were arrested Sunday.

An arrest report said the deputy looked inside the car after detecting a strong odor “similar to that of homeless camps.” Baron told the deputy the family lost their home and lived in motels until they ran out of money two months ago.

Baron told the deputy the kids bathed at a nearby park. Authorities said children are underweight, but the 14-year-old boy’s bones “were clearly visible.”

– Wire reports

Officials had monitored suspect in Berlin attack

By FRANK JORDANS The Associated Press

BERLIN – German officials had deemed the Tunisian man being sought in a manhunt across Europe a threat long before a truck plowed into a Christmas market in Berlin – and even kept him under covert surveillance for six months this year before halting the operation.

Now the international manhunt for Anis Amri – considered the prime suspect in Monday’s deadly rampage – is raising questions about how closely German authorities are monitoring the hundreds of known Islamic extremists in the country.

The issue puts new pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is running for re-election next year. Critics are lambasting her for allowing hundreds of thousands of asylum-seekers to enter the country, allegedly without proper security checks.

Among them was Amri, a convicted criminal in both Tunisia and Italy with little chance of getting asylum who successfully evaded deportation from Germany even as German authorities rejected his asylum application and deemed the 24-year-old a possible jihadi threat.

He is suspected in the attack that left 12 people dead and 48 injured Monday evening in Berlin. Health officials said 12 of the injured had very serious wounds.

After German media published photos of him and a partial name, federal prosecutors issued a public appeal for information along with the promise of a 100,000-euro ($105,000) reward for his arrest.

Within hours it emerged that the man authorities warned could be “violent and armed” had in fact been known to them for months as someone with ties to Islamic extremists who used at least

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Candles burn between flowers Wednesday in Berlin, Germany, two days after a truck ran into a crowded Christmas market nearby and killed several people. six different names and three different nationalities.

“People are rightly outraged and anxious that such a person can walk around here, keep changing his identity and the legal system can’t cope with them,” said Rainer Wendt, the head of a union representing German police.

Authorities had initially focused their investigation on a Pakistani man detained shortly after the attack, but released him a day later for lack of evidence. After finding documents belonging to Amri in the cab of the truck, they issued a notice to other European countries early Wednesday seeking his arrest.

According to Ralf Jaeger, the interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia state, Amri arrived in Germany in July 2015 as the influx of asylum-seekers was nearing its peak.

Although registered in the west of the country, near the Dutch border, Amri had moved around Germany regularly since February, living mostly in Berlin, said Jaeger.

Within months of his arrival, authorities had added Amri to a growing list of potentially violent Islamic extremists, not all of them asylum-seekers.

“Security agencies ex-

changed information about this person in the joint counter-terrorism center, the last time in November,” said Jaeger.

State prosecutors in Berlin even launched an investigation of Amri on March 14 following a tip from federal security agencies, who warned that he might be planning a break-in to finance the purchase of automatic weapons for use in a possible future attack.

Surveillance showed that Amri did deal drugs in a notorious Berlin park and was involved in a bar brawl, but no evidence was found to substantiate the original warning.

The surveillance measures were called off in September, by which time Amri had disappeared from his regular haunts in Berlin, prosecutors said.

Separately, Amri’s asylum application was rejected in July. German authorities prepared to deport him but weren’t able to do so because he didn’t have valid identity papers, Jaeger said. In August they started trying to get him a replacement passport.

“Tunisia at first denied that this person was its citizen, and the papers weren’t issued for a long time,” Jaeger said. “They arrived today.”

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Mexicans seek answers in deadly fireworks blast

By MARIA VERZA

The Associated Press TULTEPEC, Mexico – Relatives of workers at a fireworks market flattened by a deadly chain-reaction explosion searched hospitals for loved ones Wednesday as attention focused on apparent lax security that allowed vendors to display their dangerous wares in the passageways between stalls.

Health Secretary Cesar Gomez Monge of Mexico State, where the San Pablito Market is located, said another victim died in a hospital, raising the fatal toll to 32. About 46 people remained hospitalized, five of them in such serious condition that they were fighting for their lives, he added. Ten of the injured were minors including one girl with burns over 90 percent of her body.

Juana Antolina Hernandez, who has run a stand for 22 years in San Pablito next to one operated by her parents, escaped the market in a mad dash when the explosions began Tuesday afternoon. The following day she was one of the disconsolate residents waiting outside a local morgue.

“I can’t find my father, and my mother is very badly burned,” said Hernandez, 49. “I am waiting here for them to tell me if my father is here, but up to this point, nothing.”

San Pablito was especially well stocked for the holidays and bustling

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Soldiers and investigators walk through the scorched rubble of the open-air San Pablito fireworks market Wednesday in Tultepec on the outskirts of Mexico City. with hundreds of shoppers when the blast reduced the market to a stark expanse of ash, rubble and the scorched metal, casting a pall over the Christmas season. Dramatic video of the explosion showed a towering plume of smoke that was lit up by a staccato of bangs and flashes of light, the third such incident to ravage the market on the northern outskirts of Mexico’s capital since 2005.

Refugio Leon, who spent years work-

ing at the market and whose family ran seven stalls there, said vendors commonly stacked displays of bottle rockets and firecrackers outside their establishments in the passageways – even though the rules supposedly forbade putting merchandise in what was supposed to be a safety buffer to prevent chain-reaction explosions.

“Everybody did it,” Leon said, speculating that it may have played a role in

the rapid spread of the explosions.

Video and photos of the stalls from previous years showed concrete-block enclosures with open dirt passageways between them; later photos showed the passageways filling up with fireworks and awnings.

Officials in Mexico State, which borders Mexico City, said it was too early to identify a cause of the massive series of blasts.

On Dec. 12 the city of Tultepec, where the market is located, issued a statement calling San Pablito “the safest market in Latin America.” It said 100 tons of fireworks were expected to be sold during the high season, which runs from August to New Year’s.

The city quoted Juan Ignacio Rodarte Cordero, the director of the state’s Fireworks Institute, as saying “the stalls are perfectly designed and with sufficient space between them to avoid any chain of fires.” City officials said the stalls were equipped with trained personnel, sand, shovels and fire extinguishers.

But during a recent visit to the market, little of that safety equipment could be seen. And when Tuesday’s explosion began, vendors and customers didn’t have time to look for it – or even, in many cases, to run.

In a fireworks market in Jaltenco, about 30 minutes away from the San Pablito market, business was slow on Wednesday.

• Thursday, December 22, 2016

RALEIGH, N.C. – A deal to undo the North Carolina law known as the “bathroom bill” fell apart Wednesday night when legislators couldn’t agree on a plan to the repeal the measure, a sign of the bitter political divide within the state.

The North Carolina General Assembly was called into a special session about nine months after they passed the law, which tarnished the state’s national image as major corporations decided to pull up stakes, entertainers canceled concerts and the NCAA and ACC moved sporting events away.

The wide-ranging law’s bestknown provision required transgender people to use restrooms in many public buildings corresponding to the sex on their birth certificates. Opponents of the law called it discriminatory.

The special session was set in motion this week when Democratic Gov.-elect Roy Cooper successfully

Republican Gov. Pat McCrory called a special session Wednesday, but the deal fell apart when the GOP added a six-month moratorium on cities passing nondiscrimination ordinances for LGBT people. That caused Democrats to back away, calling it only a partial repeal.

“This wasn’t the deal,” said Sen. Jeff Jackson, a Charlotte Democrat.

“This bill breaks this deal. Charlotte would have not repealed its ordinance is this was the deal.”

Republicans have defended the bathroom provisions as providing privacy and safety by keeping men out of women’s restrooms.

The law also was seen as a referendum on McCrory, who became its AP photo national face.

State Sen. Jay Chaudhuri, D-Wake, speaks Wednesday on the Senate floor during a speHe lost by about 10,000 votes while cial session of the North Carolina General Assembly called to consider repeal of NC HB2 fellow Republicans U.S. Sen. Richin Raleigh, N.C. ard Burr and President-elect Donald lobbied the Charlotte City Council to For months, Republicans had said Trump comfortably won the state. gut a local nondiscrimination ordi- if Charlotte repealed its ordinance, McCrory was the first sitting North nance that Republicans had blamed the legislature would consider repeal- Carolina governor elected to a fouring HB2. for necessitating the statewide law. year term to lose re-election.

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WRITE TO US: Letters must include the author's full name, address, and phone number. Letters are limited to 300 words; must be free of libelous content and personal attacks; and are subject to editing for length and clarity at the discretion of the editor. Send to news@TheHerald-News.com or The Herald-News, Letters to the editor, 2175 Oneida St., Joliet, IL 60405.

OUR VIEW

Christmas gift from Capitol?

The sentiment “Peace on Earth, good will toward all” doesn’t seem to apply to Illinois politics, does it? But in this season of Christmas, we believe it should.

Illinois state government needs a successor agreement to the half-year stopgap budget that took effect July 1 and will run out on Dec. 31.

While the stopgap budget funds K-12 schools through June 30, 2017, other major areas will soon be left out in the cold.

That is, if Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and leaders of the Democratic majority in the Legislature, House Speaker Michael Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton, don’t come to an agreement before the first of the year.

People who face domestic violence, have disabilities, need transportation to medical appointments, or simply need an education have come to rely on the state helping to pay for services, which will be threatened anew if a reliable source of funding isn’t forthcoming in two weeks.

We get it that Rauner and Madigan, who also is the state Democratic Party chairman, are bitter rivals. The governor, who took office in January 2015 with the slogan “Shake up Springfield; bring back Illinois,” might compromise and support an income tax increase –something we oppose – but only if the Democratic-controlled Legislature approves some of his “turnaround agenda” reforms.

Longtime leaders Madigan and Cullerton, who have been party to many legislative deals in the past, don’t want to agree to any of Rauner’s proposals.

Thus, there’s been no annual budget since July 1, 2015.

And now, the 12.8 million residents of Illinois must wait apprehensively for another deal, makeshift or otherwise, that will help state government to run better than it has.

If the spirit of Christmas won’t warm the cold hearts of our state leaders, what will?

We hope they finally see that treating budget victims with Scrooge-like indifference during protracted political standoffs does the public an incredible injustice.

A compromise budget agreement would go a long way toward warming hearts and boosting spirits across our state.

Governor, Mr. Speaker, and Mr. Senate President: In this season of hope and joy, it’s not an unreasonable request that you do your jobs and produce a new budget before the stopgap runs out.

Unless, of course, you believe that peace on earth and good will toward all don’t apply in your line of work.

THE FIRST

AMENDMENT

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Make sure we don’t disrupt coverage if ACA is repealed

To the editor: While Congress prepares to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act, it’s important to remember what’s really at stake – the health and well-being of people – including over 1 million Illinoisans who depend on coverage under the ACA. We can’t afford to take action that disrupts healthcare coverage and the Illinois economy. Any repeal of ACA coverage should not take effect until the replacement plan takes effect.

If Congress does not make repeal of coverage contingent on adoption of a replacement plan, then Congress should also repeal the hospital payment cuts that help pay for ACA coverage. Illinois hospitals have experienced over $1 billion in ACA payment cuts.

Otherwise, people won’t be able

to get the care they need, local economies will suffer and jobs will be lost. Facing revenue losses, hospitals will be forced to cut spending by reducing services and staff, delaying new technology and facilities or shifting costs to privately insured patients.

If Congress repeals coverage and does not replace it, the preliminary estimate is that the loss of this revenue in Illinois will result in a potential loss of $11.6 billion to $13.1 billion in annual economic activity which translates to a potential loss of 84,000 to 95,000 jobs.

On behalf of our 200 hospitals and 50 health systems, and the patients and communities they serve, IHA looks forward to working in a bipartisan manner with our state and federal officials to improve our health system.

Remember the first lesson of medicine – First, do no harm.

A.J. Wilhelmi

President and CEO, Illinois Health and Hospital Association, Naperville

Thanks to the Joliet Area Community Hospice House

Our daughter was recently a patient at Joliet Area Community Hospice House. She was treated with respect and dignity from the first interview by the intake nurse until after her last breath.

The nurses, CNAs, volunteers and the other staff were so very kind to her. They showed Jesus’ love to her and us when we needed it most.

Dr. Wright, the director, demonstrated genuine compassion and concern for her. We cannot express how grateful we are. Joliet is fortunate to have this jewel of a facility and the people who work there.

John and Marsha Pester

Joliet

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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SPORTS

GIRLS BASKETBALL: JOLIET WEST 44, PROVIDENCE CATHOLIC 40

STRONG FINISH

Joliet West rallies late to edge Providence

By CURT HERRON

cherron@shawmedia.com NEW LENOX – For much of Wednesday’s nonconference girls basketball game between Joliet West and Providence Catholic, the numbers weren’t adding up for a Tigers win.

Freshman guard Jazzpher Evans was held scoreless during the opening half, the Celtics opened the final quarter with a 7-0 run to grab a fourpoint lead midway through that period and West made good on only 9 of 22 attempts from the free throw line during the game.

But coach John Placher’s team made up for all of those negatives by closing with an 8-0 run, with Evans supplying six of those points, while they kept Providence scoreless through the final 3:56 to help them rally for a 44-40 victory at Sacred Heart gym.

Evans wound up with 11 points to lead the Tigers (9-4), who received four or more points from seven players.

Ryann O’Garek paced the Celtics (8-4) with 15 points, but only two of those came after the intermission because of her being in foul trouble throughout the second half.

“We missed some layups early, and I know that we were for 1-for-8 in the first half on free throws,” Placher said. “We talked about at halftime about how we had to make our layups and free throws, and I think we did a better job in the second half and we also got some break-outs on long rebounds. Jazz is a freshman, so she’s going to have her growing pains. She played like a freshman in the first half and like a junior or senior in the second half.

“We had a great team effort and

Larry W. Kane for Shaw Media

Joliet West’s Jazzpher Evans drives to the basket on a fast break as Providence Catholic’s Molly Hallberg (10) defends Wednesday at Providence Catholic High School in New Lenox. every girl that played scored, and I can’t be happier about how our bench played, and that’s a good sign for the future for a good team. That way if a couple of girls are sick or whatever other reason, we have girls who can step in. It was a good win for us against a very scrappy team. They spread the corners out so we played a little differ-

ently, and our wing covered the skip pass on the corners and that really helped us.”

After West’s Shenea Best made a layup to open the final quarter, the Celtics responded with layups from both Courtney Mahalik and Meghan Morrissette (10 points, five rebounds) and a three-pointer from Molly Hall-

berg to claim a 40-36 advantage with 3:56 remaining.

But Providence wasn’t able to score the rest of the way and West tied things on a layup by Dasia Norris (eight points) and then a jumper from Evans with 2:32 to go. They moved in

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Joliet West cheerleaders hope to become just the third area squad to win back-to-back large-team titles.

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CHEERLEADING

Joliet West cheerleaders hope to defend title

By CURT HERRON

cherron@shawmedia.com JOLIET – After advancing to the state finals for five straight years, Joliet West’s competitive cheerleading team not only broke through by winning its initial trophy last season, but also made sure that it ended up on top of the awards stand.

Coach Amy DiForti’s Tigers posted a 94.7 total to defeat runner-up Providence Catholic by 1.57 points for first place in the large-team division. As a result, West joined Lockport, Providence and Lincoln-Way East as area schools who captured titles in that class.

After its historic season, the Tigers would not only like to extend the area’s run of large-team championships to five in a row but also hope to become just the third program to win consecutive large-team titles, joining Lockport (2007-08) and Lincoln-Way East (2014-15).

West got to demonstrate to a large crowd at Sunday’s Cheer Fest Invitational where it’s at right now. Although they weren’t going to accept a trophy at their own meet, the Tigers still turned in the day’s best score, a 91.29, which was nearly two points bet-

ter than champion Lincoln-Way East, runner-up Lockport and third-place Providence Catholic.

Team members are Kennedy Aubry, Brynn Becker, Hope Benavidez, Kelsey Bishop, Megan Carbaugh, Leah Combs, Lea Delattre, Sandra Egizio, Makayla Hurd, Brooklynn Johnson, Karalyn Johnson, Taylor Latta, Rachel Macdowell, Lindsey McCrea, Mario McGowan, Jazmin Morales, Jessica Orr, Lauren Peters, Tia Roland, Lydia Schrock, Lexi Stariha, Ashley Styrczula, Taylor Styrczula and Julia Todd. Becky Stortz is West’s assistant coach.

Sixteen individuals also were part of last season’s squad, which graduated only six seniors. Becker, Benavidez, Combs, Delattre, Egizio, Hurd, Brooklynn Johnson, Latta, McGowan, Morales, Orr, Roland, Schrock, Stariha, Taylor Styrczula and Todd all competed last season.

With so many competitors back, it’s easy to see why the Tigers are so optimistic about their chances this season.

But it’s also safe to say that they’re not taking anything for granted.

“It’s really hard making it to the top, but in my opinion, it’s even harder staying at the top,” senior Becker said. “That’s kind of what coach em-

phasizes to us, that if we really want it again that we’re really going to have to work for it and put it all on the mat and don’t hold back every time we perform. We have to take advantage of every moment that we have.

“Some of the other teams that were here are amazing and are just as hungry as we are and having all of this competition is what keeps us all going.

Now we have the name, but there’s a lot more work ahead since the judges won’t hand it to us just for winning state last year. We have to work just as hard, if not harder, and we all also have to be on the same page.”

The momentum gained from last season’s championship has carried over into this year, which has resulted in a good start. But that alone will not assure West of another title.

“I’m really happy since we’ve started out really strong by hitting another deduction-free routine,” senior Brooklynn Johnson said. “I’m really excited to see where this takes us for the rest of the season. We’re looking to repeat, so hopefully we can do that. It was great to win it once like we did, but we also want to win it again so we definitely have to keep working.

“Experience-wise, it’s easier to do it again, but having the team and the

motivation to do it again is the hard part. Chemistry is kind of the No. 1 thing that we want to work on because we have to be a family. The thing I love the most about our team is that we’re all so hardworking and dedicated to the sport and when we perform, we all leave it on the mat.”

It’s a big difference being a program searching for its first title and one that’s trying to defend its championship. That’s one of the reasons why it has been so difficult to repeat.

“One of the big differences is that last year we were so hungry because everyone was beating us since we started out kind of rocky,” senior Schrock said. “This year we’ve started out so strong and have been winning our competitions. So we have to make sure that we’re confident, but not cocky, and keep reminding ourselves that everyone is coming after us.

“Our practices are great since everyone is putting their hearts into it and every time we perform, everyone leaves everything they have on the mat. We’re working on our team chemistry and we’re getting a lot closer. Taking first felt so good and once you do it once, you don’t want anything else. We know what we have to do and we’re just trying to do it again.”

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front for good when Evans hit a free throw 25 seconds later. She made it 43-40 with two charity tosses with 10 seconds left and converted another free throw three seconds after that.

“We did some nice things, but we needed to hit a couple of more shots and we just didn’t close it out,” Celtics coach Eileen Copenhaver said. “I thought that it was a real nice, physical game and good basketball, but as a coach you always want a few more calls to go your way. Ryann getting that fourth foul was huge and we had to sit her a lot in the second half.

“I thought our captains, Claire (Paciga), Meghan and Molly did a nice job and really worked hard out there. Ryann is obviously having a real good year with the points and rebounds and Abby Ragusa is also doing a nice job. I’ve got two kids hurt, so we’re changing things up a bit, but we’re happy with our kids. We just have to get them to play a little harder for four quarters. I didn’t think that we played real hard the whole

time, we just had spurts.”

West took a 13-12 lead after one quarter, but Providence answered with a 12-5 advantage in the second period to build up a 24-18 cushion at the break. The Tigers quickly closed the gap in the third quarter and carried a 34-33 lead into the final quarter.

The Tigers also got six points and seven rebounds from Alyssa Betlejeski and 13 boards from Raven Reed, while Claire Paciga added six points and 10 rebounds for the Celtics.

“Even though she didn’t score in the first half, we had a lot of faith in our point guard, Jazzpher,” Reed said. “We trusted each other and came out of halftime with a lot of energy and intensity. Coach told me that I had to go in strong, and I’ll basically do anything to help my team get the ‘W.’ “We’re having a great season, so I’m super proud of my teammates, and I can’t wait to see how the rest of the season is going to go. What I like the most about our team has to be how we’re super-dedicated to each other and how we motivate each other to be better and we come out and play hard. That’s all that I can ask for.”

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LEFT: Joliet West’s Raven Reed (center) eyes the basket with Providence Catholic’s (4) Meghan Morrissette defending Wednesday at Providence Catholic High School in New Lenox.

West won, 44-40. RIGHT: Providence Catholic’s Abby Ragusa (23) drives to the basket with Joliet West’s Shenea Best in pursuit Wednesday at Providence Catholic High School in New Lenox.

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Lewis athletics announces new Flyers app SUBMITTED REPORTS

ROMEOVILLE – The Lewis University Athletics Department, in conjunction with SIDEARM Sports, announced the release of the new Lewis Flyers App. The app is free and allows Flyers’ fans one-click access to all the latest Lewis athletics information.

The new app focuses on easily delivering content, marketing and fan-centric messaging while creating a unique and immersive game day experience, all wrapped within a stateof-the-art native app user interface.

The app’s feature list allows you to utilize the LewisFlyers.com dataset to provide deep native integration with news, rosters, schedules, calendar subscriptions, dynamic photo usage, social integration, photo galleries, statistics, native live audio and video, real-time and customizable menus, links and content.

COLLEGE SIGNINGS De La Rosa will attend USF: Olivia

De La Rosa, a senior at Romeoville, has signed a letter of intent to attend St. Francis and join women’s soccer

coach John Nikchevich’s team in 2017.

De La Rosa earned three varsity girls’ soccer letters and was an All-Southwest Prairie Conference selection and honorable mention all-sectional pick a season ago. She was Romeoville’s offensive MVP and team captain each of the past three years.

Fuessel signs with St. Francis: Thomas Fuessel, an outfielder who is a 2013 Lincoln-Way East graduate, has signed a letter of intent to attend St. Francis and join baseball coach Brian Michalak’s team in 2017. Fuessel lettered two years in baseball and football at East.

In baseball, he was a second-team all-area selection and team captain as a senior. The leading rusher in school history, he was a two-year member of the football team at Northwestern.

Green-May headed to Wisconsin:

Bolingbrook senior Izayah GreenMay signed a national letter of intent to play football at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Green-May, a 6-foot-6, 215-pound defensive end who is expected to play linebacker in col-

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BOYS BASKETBALL Dwight 54, Gardner-South Wilmington 52: Justin Fox (24 points) and

Blake Graham (19 points) led the Trojans, while Junior Schultz (12 points), Austin Kavanaugh (11 points), Walker Eutsey (10 points) and Nathan Wozniak (eight points) paced the Panthers.

Bradley-Bourbonnais 43, Coal City 21:

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na Wilkey (24 points, 10 rebounds), Val Guzman (nine points, eight steals) and Antionette Hill (eight points) led the Comets.

Peotone 55, Manteno 27: The Blue Devils (8-4, 6-0) were led by Josie Graffeo (15 points, eight rebounds, six steals), Cameron Hunter (10 points) and Elizabeth Coffey (nine points).

GYMNASTICS Romeoville gymnasts fare well: The

Romeoville Tumbleweeds Gymnastics Team, which represents the Village of Romeoville Parks and Recreation Department, competed in its initial Gymnastics of Illinois Junior Organization meet since changing divisions in June.

A total of 37 girls represented the Tumbleweeds at the Fox Valley Winter Whiteout in Aurora. Levels 2,3,4 and 5 all took second place, while Level 6 claimed fourth place.

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Lewis volleyball signs three: Lewis women’s volleyball coach Lorelee Smith has inked Jamie Poppen (Ballwin, Mo.), Haley Sobieralski (Indianapolis, Ind.) and Lizzy Sokeland (Bloomington, Ind.) to national letters of intent to play for the Flyers beginning in 2017.

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL: ILLINOIS 75, MISSOURI 66

By STEVE OVERBEY The Associated Press

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ri from 2000-2008, the longest streak in the 36-year history of the event. The series has featured five one-point games.

Missouri: The Tigers’ three-game losing streak is their longest of the season.

Up next: Illinois: The Illini open Big Ten Conference play Dec. 27 at Maryland.

Missouri: The Tigers host Lipscomb on Dec. 29 before opening Southeast Conference play at home against LSU on Jan. 4.

Notre Dame hires Wake Forest’s Elko as defensive coordinator The ASSOCIATED PRESS

SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Notre Dame has hired Mike Elko as its defensive coordinator, hoping he can turn around a unit that struggled at the beginning of last season and was blamed in part for a down year for the Fighting Irish.

Elko has spent the past three seasons as the defensive coordinator at Wake Forest after two years at Bowling Green. The former Ivy League safety at Penn had the Demon Deacons’ defense ranked in the top 20 of the Football Bowl Subdivision in fumbles recovered (third), turnovers forced (10th), sacks (12th), defensive TDs (17th), red zone defense (17th) and scoring defense (20th).

Brian VanGorder was fired as defensive coordinator on Sept. 25, the day after a 38-35 loss to Duke dropped Notre Dame to 1-3 in what ended up being a 4-8 season. The Irish were ranked 103rd out of 128 teams in total defense at the time, giving up 456 yards a game. Things improved after coach

Brian Kelly simplified the defensive schemes, but the Irish still surrendered more than 30 points six times.

“Mike has consistently coordinated defenses that keep the points down, negate big plays, create negative plays, excel in the red zone and, quite simply, force opposing offenses to execute at an extremely high level to move the football,” Kelly said Tuesday. “This rare combination of consistent success in those facets of defense, along with a proven ability to develop talent and fit it into his system, really places Mike in a class by himself among defensive coordinators across the country.”

Elko thanked Wake Forest, but said he was looking forward to joining Notre Dame and competing for a national championship.

“We hope to dictate the pace of the game with an attacking and aggressive style of defense, mix physicality and toughness with exceptional fundamentals and, lastly, play with great effort at all times,” he said.

North W L T Detroit 9 5 0 Green Bay 8 6 0 Minnesota 7 7 0 Bears 3 11 0 East W L T x-Dallas 12 2 0 N.Y. Giants 10 4 0 Washington 7 6 1 Philadelphia 5 9 0 South W L T Atlanta 9 5 0 Tampa Bay 8 6 0 New Orleans 6 8 0 Carolina 6 8 0 West W L T y-Seattle 9 4 1 Arizona 5 8 1 Los Angeles 4 10 0 San Francisco 1 13 0

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Pct .643 .571 .500 .214

PF 301 363 264 248

PA 285 339 259 320

Pct .857 .714 .536 .357

PF 366 272 345 316

PA 258 250 343 299

Pct .643 .571 .429 .429

PF 469 313 406 337

PA 358 322 392 352

Pct .679 .393 .286 .071

PF 298 340 197 264

PA 235 325 328 434

WEEK 16 Thursday’s Game N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia, 7:25 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Washington at Bears, noon N.Y. Jets at New England, noon San Diego at Cleveland, noon Miami at Buffalo, noon Tennessee at Jacksonville, noon Minnesota at Green Bay, noon Tampa Bay at New Orleans, noon Atlanta at Carolina, noon Indianapolis at Oakland, 3:05 p.m.

Arizona at Seattle, 3:25 p.m.

San Francisco at Los Angeles, 3:25 p.m.

Cincinnati at Houston,7:25 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 3:30 p.m.

Denver at Kansas City, 7:30 p.m.

Monday’s Game Detroit at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

East W L T Pct PF y-New England12 2 0 .857 365 Miami 9 5 0 .643 315 Buffalo 7 7 0 .500 358 N.Y. Jets 4 10 0 .286 242 South W L T Pct PF Houston 8 6 0 .571 250 Tennessee 8 6 0 .571 340 Indianapolis 7 7 0 .500 362 Jacksonville 2 12 0 .143 260 North W L T Pct PF Pittsburgh 9 5 0 .643 341 Baltimore 8 6 0 .571 306 Cincinnati 5 8 1 .393 288 Cleveland 0 14 0 .000 220 West W L T Pct PF x-Oakland 11 3 0 .786 377 Kansas City 10 4 0 .714 319 Denver 8 6 0 .571 299 San Diego 5 9 0 .357 366 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division

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Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 32 21 7 4 46 101 70 Ottawa 33 19 11 3 41 86 88 Boston 34 17 14 3 37 80 83 Tampa Bay 33 16 14 3 35 95 92 Florida 33 15 13 5 35 81 90 Buffalo 31 12 11 8 32 69 83 Detroit 33 14 15 4 32 79 93 Toronto 31 12 12 7 31 87 94 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 33 21 7 5 47 116 92 N.Y. Rangers 35 23 11 1 47 115 82 Columbus 30 21 5 4 46 101 63 Philadelphia 35 20 11 4 44 110104 Washington 31 19 8 4 42 83 69 Carolina 31 13 11 7 33 82 87 New Jersey 32 12 13 7 31 75 98 N.Y. Islanders 32 12 14 6 30 85 101 2 points for a win, 1 point for OT loss.

Wednesday’s Results Philadelphia 3, Washington 2, SO Edmonton at Arizona (n) Thursday’s Games Philadelphia at New Jersey, 6 p.m.

Carolina at Buffalo, 6 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Columbus, 6 p.m.

St. Louis at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Montreal, 6:30 p.m.

Boston at Florida, 6:30 p.m.

Anaheim at Ottawa, 6:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Nashville, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Colorado, 8 p.m.

Winnipeg at Vancouver, 9 p.m.

Friday’s Games Colorado at Blackhawks, 7:30 p.m.

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

Tampa Bay at Washington, 6 p.m.

Montreal at Columbus, 6 p.m.

Buffalo at N.Y. Islanders, 6 p.m.

New Jersey at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Boston at Carolina, 6:30 p.m.

Detroit at Florida, 6:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Toronto at Arizona, 8 p.m.

Vancouver at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Edmonton at San Jose, 9:30 p.m.

PA 294 323 339 359 PA 276 263 293 408 PA 336 274 258 366

WEEK 17 Sunday, Jan. 1 Bears at Minnesota, noon New England at Miami, noon Cleveland at Pittsburgh, noon Green Bay at Detroit, noon Carolina at Tampa Bay, noon Dallas at Philadelphia, noon Houston at Tennessee, noon Buffalo at N.Y. Jets, noon Baltimore at Cincinnati, noon Jacksonville at Indianapolis, noon New Orleans at Atlanta, noon N.Y. Giants at Washington, noon Seattle at San Francisco, 3:25 p.m.

Kansas City at San Diego, 3:25 p.m.

Arizona at Los Angeles, 3:25 p.m.

Oakland at Denver, 3:25 p.m.

NHL Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Blackhawks 35 22 9 4 48 101 84 Minnesota 31 19 8 4 42 91 60 St. Louis 34 18 11 5 41 96 98 Nashville 32 15 12 5 35 94 90 Dallas 34 13 14 7 33 86 104 Winnipeg 35 15 17 3 33 91 104 Colorado 31 11 19 1 23 65 99 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA San Jose 33 20 12 1 41 84 73 Edmonton 34 17 12 5 39 100 92 Anaheim 34 17 12 5 39 95 97 Calgary 35 17 16 2 36 90 102 Los Angeles 32 16 13 3 35 81 81 Vancouver 33 14 16 3 31 84 101 Arizona 32 11 16 5 27 72 101

PA 233 314 314 358

Central Division W L Pct Cleveland 21 6 .778 Indiana 15 15 .500 Bulls 14 14 .500 Milwaukee 13 14 .481 Detroit 14 17 .452 Atlantic Division W L Pct Toronto 20 8 .714 Boston 16 12 .571 New York 15 13 .536 Brooklyn 7 20 .259 Philadelphia 7 21 .250 Southeast Division W L Pct Charlotte 16 13 .552 Atlanta 14 15 .483 Washington 13 15 .464 Orlando 13 17 .433 Miami 9 20 .310

GB — 7½ 7½ 8 9 GB — 4 5 12½ 13 GB — 2 2½ 3½ 7

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Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio 23 5 .821 Houston 22 8 .733 Memphis 19 12 .613 New Orleans 10 21 .323 Dallas 7 21 .250 Northwest Division W L Pct Utah 18 12 .600 Oklahoma City 17 12 .586 Portland 13 17 .433 Denver 12 17 .414 Minnesota 9 19 .321 Pacific Division W L Pct Golden State 25 4 .862 L.A. Clippers 21 8 .724 Sacramento 12 17 .414 L.A. Lakers 11 20 .355 Phoenix 8 21 .276

GB — 2 5½ 14½ 16 GB — ½ 5 5½ 8 GB — 4 13 15 17

Wednesday’s Games Washington 107, Bulls 97 Cleveland 113, Milwaukee 102 Memphis 98, Detroit 86 Minnesota 92, Atlanta 84 Oklahoma City 121, New Orleans 110 Houston 125, Phoenix 111 Sacramento 94, Utah 93 Thursday’s Games Boston at Indiana, 6 p.m.

Golden State at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m.

Orlando at New York, 6:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Miami, 7 p.m.

San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Boys basketball Lockport at Rock Island, 7:30 p.m.

Romeoville at Joliet West, 6:30 p.m.

Girls basketball Dwight at Gardner-South Wilmington, 7 p.m.

Wrestling Bolingbrook, Plainfield East, Plainfield South, Providence at Harlem Dvorak Invite, 9:30 a.m.

DeKalb at Lockport, 5:30 p.m.

Homewood-Flossmoor at Lincoln-Way Central, 4 p.m.

Lincoln-Way West at Bradley-Bourbonnais, 5 p.m.

WHAT TO WATCH Thursday College basketball Noon: Texas A&M-CC at Oklahoma St., FSN 3:30 p.m.: Diamond Head Classic, first round, Tulsa vs. Stephen F. Austin, at Honolulu, ESPNU 5:30 p.m.: UNC-Greensboro at Georgetown, FS1 6 p.m.: Furman at Michigan, BTN 6 p.m.: Marshall at Cincinnati, CBSSN 6 p.m.: Diamond Head Classic, first round, San Diego St. vs. Southern Miss., at Honolulu, ESPN2 6 p.m.: Yale at Temple, ESPNU 6 p.m.: Morehead St. at Mississippi St., SEC 7:30 p.m.: Las Vegas Classic, DePaul vs.

Wyoming, at Las Vegas, FS1 8 p.m.: Delaware St. at Iowa, BTN 8 p.m.: Kansas at UNLV, CBSSN 8 p.m.: UNC-Asheville at Ohio St., ESPN2 8 p.m.: LSU at Wake Forest, ESPNU 8 p.m.: South Alabama at Mississippi, SEC 10 p.m.: Diamond Head Classic, first round, Utah vs. San Francisco, at Honolulu, ESPNU 10 p.m.: Las Vegas Classic, Southern Cal vs.

Missouri St., at Las Vegas, FS1 12:30 a.m. (Friday): Diamond Head Classic, first round, Illinois St. vs. Hawaii, at Honolulu, ESPN2 College football 6 p.m.: Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, Colorado St. vs. Idaho, at Boise, Idaho, ESPN Cricket 1 a.m. (Friday): Big League Bash, Sydney Sixers vs. Hobart Hurricanes, NBCSN NBA 7 p.m.: L.A. Lakers at Miami, TNT 9:30 p.m.: San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, TNT NFL 7:20 p.m.: N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia, NBC, NFL

NCAA FOOTBALL BOWL SCHEDULE Wednesday Poinsettia Bowl San Diego BYU vs. Wyoming (n) Thursday Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Boise Idaho (8-4) vs. Colorado State (7-5), 6 p.m. (ESPN) Friday Bahamas Bowl Nassau Eastern Michigan (7-5) vs. Old Dominion (9-3), noon (ESPN) Armed Forces Bowl Fort Worth, Texas Navy (9-3) vs. Louisiana Tech (8-5), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) Dollar General Bowl Mobile, Ala. Ohio (8-5) vs. Troy (9-3), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl Honolulu Middle Tennessee (8-4) vs. Hawaii (6-7), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Dec. 26 St. Petersburg (Fla.) Bowl Mississippi State (5-7) vs. Miami (Ohio) (6-6), 10 a.m. (ESPN) Quick Lane Bowl Detroit Boston College (6-6) vs. Maryland (6-6), 1:30 p.m. (ESPN2) Independence Bowl Shreveport, La. NC State (6-6) vs. Vanderbilt (6-6), 4 p.m. (ESPN2) Tuesday, Dec. 27 Heart of Dallas Bowl Army (6-5) vs. North Texas (5-7), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Military Bowl Annapolis, Md. Wake Forest (6-6) vs. Temple (10-3), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN) Holiday Bowl San Diego Minnesota (8-4) vs. Washington State (8-4), 6 p.m. (ESPN) Cactus Bowl Phoenix Boise State (10-2) vs. Baylor (6-6), 9:15 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Dec. 28 Pinstripe Bowl Bronx, N.Y. Northwestern (6-6) vs. Pittsburgh (8-4), 1 p.m. (ESPN) Russell Athletic Bowl Orlando, Fla. Miami (8-4) vs. West Virginia (10-2), 4:30 p.m. (ESPN) Foster Farms Bowl Santa Clara, Calif.

Indiana (6-6) vs. Utah (8-4), 7:30 p.m.

(FOX) Texas Bowl Houston Kansas State (8-4) vs. Texas A&M (8-4), 8 p.m. (ESPN)

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Illinois’s Maverick Morgan (left) reaches for a rebound as teammate Leron Black and Missouri’s Reed Nikko fight for the ball during the first half Wednesday in St. Louis.

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Hill scores 21, Morgan adds 19, Illinois tops Missouri ST. LOUIS – Malcolm Hill scored 21 points and Maverick Morgan had a double-double to lead Illinois to a 75-66 win over Missouri on Wednesday.

Morgan hit 7 of 8 free throws and finished with 19 points and 11 rebounds. Jalen Coleman-Lands scored 12.

The Illini (10-3) have won six in a row including the last four in the border series.

Kevin Puryear led Missouri (5-6) with 17 points. Terrence Phillips had 14 points and Jordan Geist added 12.

Illinois jumped out to a 15-5 lead and never trailed, holding off a pair of second-half rallies that saw Missouri pull within four points.

Michael Finke hit a 3-pointer to push the lead to 67-59 after the Tigers made it 63-59 just 79 seconds earlier.

Illinois hit 10 of its first 15 shots to take control early as Missouri missed 10 of its first 12.

Illinois has won 24 of 36 games since the series was moved to St. Louis.

Big picture: Illinois: The Illini won nine successive games against Missou-

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Wall scores 23, bench helps Wizards turn back Bulls

By PAUL LADEWSKI The Associated Press

CHICAGO – John Wall had 23 points and nine assists, and the Washington Wizards rallied past the Bulls, 107-97, on Wednesday night for their third road victory of the season.

Trey Burke and Marcus Thornton came off the Washington bench to spark a decisive fourth-quarter burst. After the teams entered the period tied at 77, Burke and Thornton combined for 10 points to give the Wizards a 91-85 lead.

The Bulls closed to 97-93 with less than 3 minutes left, but Bradley Beal, Marcin Gortat and Wall followed with baskets to seal it.

Beal finished with 21 points, while Gortat had 14 points and 11 rebounds.

Burke scored 10 and Thornton six.

Wall did not attempt a shot in the opening 9:30, then scored 19 points in the final three quarters.

The Bulls’ Dwyane Wade (3) shoots as Washington Wizards’ Jason Smith tries to defend during the first half Wednesday at the United Center.

Jimmy Butler led a balanced Bulls offense with 20 points, and Dwyane Wade added 19. Rajon Rondo had 10 assists.

The Wizards overcame an early 13-point deficit to post their fourth victory in the last five games. They are 3-9 on the road.

The Bulls lost for the fourth time in five games to conclude a 1-2 homestand.

The Bulls jumped out to a 33-22 lead on the strength of 62.5 percent shooting from the field. Butler and Taj Gibson led the way with nine and eight points, respectively.

In the second quarter, Wall capped a late 9-0 run with a fast-break dunk that gave his team a one-point advantage.

After a timeout, the Bulls regrouped to take a 56-55 lead at halftime.

Tip-ins: Bulls: G Michael Carter-Williams (sprained left wrist) could resume 2-on-2 drills this week.

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2014 1st-round pick practiced for 3 weeks but deemed not ready to play

By KEVIN FISHBAIN

kfishbain@profootballweekly.com LAKE FOREST – The Bears officially shut down 2014 first-round pick Kyle Fuller for the season, keeping him on injured reserve, John Fox announced Wednesday.

“We just evaluate what we see,” Fox said. “I think desire for guys to be out there, it’s hard to measure. I would say just evaluating where he was or is right now as compared to the players we have out there, didn’t feel it was the best move for us.”

Fuller’s role in this decision came into question based on Vic Fangio’s comments from Tuesday. Was the cornerback who was once thought to be the franchise’s future at the position not champing at the bit to return to

the field?

“That was definitely not true,” Fuller said when asked about the defensive coordinator’s comments. “I think I’ve been communicating with the team and just letting them know how much I want to be back, showing them I’m working and trying to get back. It really just came down to not quite being ready to play. I think that’s all it was.”

Fuller said he “definitely didn’t anticipate it getting to this level” after arthroscopic knee surgery in August.

“But that’s out of my control,” he said. “I’ve got to keep working to get back.”

Fuller is under contract for 2017, and the team has a club option for 2018 it needs to decide on by May. Fuller said he wants to be back in Chicago next season and expects to remain

with the team, although his future is unclear under a regime that didn’t draft him.

“It’s disappointing because you want to be out there,” he said. “I guess I’ve got to listen to my body. I’m not quite there yet. And just go from there.”

Jeffery vs. Norman: It’s possible that Washington will use its top cornerback to shadow the Bears’ top receiver Saturday, pitting two South Carolina natives against one another in the form of Josh Norman against Alshon Jeffery.

“It always excites me,” Jeffery said about the matchup. “At the same time, I put on my pads just like him. It is what it is. I look forward to the matchup, though. … He’s a great competitor.

He loves to compete. We both love to

compete.”

Jeffery had six catches for 89 yards and a score in his first game back from a PED suspension against Green Bay. Norman has 14 passes defensed this season.

Barkley impressing with his feet: No one will confuse Matt Barkley for an athletic specimen, which is why his footwork in the pocket is beneficial to his play.

“He’s not a fast guy, but what he is is he’s instinctive in the pocket and he does have good feet,” offensive coordinator Dowell Loggains said. “That allows him to move around and create, and Matt will take this as a slight, but it hides some of your lack of athleticism that way because he is instinctive in the pocket. That’s a trait that’s God-given.”

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Pope Francis receives the President of Malta, Marie Louise Coleiro Preca, Saturday during a private audience at the Vatican.

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Pope eats with homeless on 80th birthday, gets 70,000 emails The ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis celebrated an active if low-key 80th birthday on Saturday, sharing breakfast with eight homeless people before celebrating Mass with cardinals as greetings poured in from around the world.

The pontiff received more than 70,000 email messages wishing him a happy birthday, as well as telephone calls and telegrams from world leaders and religious figures.

His predecessor, 89-year-old Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, sent a “very affectionate” written greeting that the Vatican said was “particularly appreciated,” followed by a personal call in the afternoon and three small gifts that the bore “very personal and significant meaning for both.” The Vatican did not otherwise divulge the nature of the gifts.

At breakfast, Francis chatted individually with each of the homeless

guests – four Italians, two Romanians, a Moldovan and a Peruvian – at the Vatican hotel where he resides, and shared Argentinian cakes with them before heading to Mass.

The guests offered the pope a bouquet of sunflowers. They were invited from among those staying around St. Peter’s Square and at nearby showers for the homeless established by the pope’s almsgiver. The pope also sent enough birthday cakes for 1,500 people to kitchens serving the poor and homeless in Rome.

Speaking to the cardinals, Francis contemplated the aging process.

“For some days now, I have had in mind a word that seems ugly: Old age, a thought that frightens,” he said.

But then he recalled his own words during his first papal greeting in 2013, when he said: “Old age is the thirst for knowledge.”

He added: “I hope it will be the same for me.”

Saturday is a working day at the

Vatican and Francis kept up his usual pace. He met with Malta’s president and held an audience with members of the Nomadelfia community, a secular group whose lifestyle emulates early Christians, who sang “Happy Birthday” to the pontiff.

The pope experienced the day “with great joy. He was particularly happy by the presence of many children and youths at the audience with the Nomadelfia community,” the Vatican said.

Greetings arrived from all corners of the globe, both personal messages and succinct tweets with the hashtag #Pontifex80.

U.S. President Barack Obama said Francis “has inspired people around the world with his message of compassion, hope and peace,” while Italian President Sergio Mattarella recalled that the pope has called on Europeans to show solidarity with the less fortunate, in particular “migrants and all those who live at soci-

ety’s margins.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin sent Francis a telegram and followed it up with a phone call in which he “remarked on the big contribution he has personally made to strengthen ties between Russia and the Vatican, which moved to a significantly new level in the recent years,” the Kremlin said.

The Kremlin said Putin and the pope “exchanged opinions” on the plight of Christians caught in armed conflicts around the world and the importance of an interfaith dialogue.

Earlier this year, Francis met with Russian Patriarch Kirill in the first meeting of the head of the Roman Catholic Church and the leader of the world’s largest Orthodox Christian flock.

The patriarch’s office said Saturday that Kirill had sent a congratulatory message to Francis and lauded him for improving ties between the Russian Church and the Vatican.

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FAITH CALENDAR Ongoing • Adoration Chapel – 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Monday through Friday, St. Patrick’s Church, 710 W. Marion St., Joliet. For information, call 815-727-4746.

• Aluminum tabs – St. Mary Nativity Catholic School’s Team Green is collecting aluminum tabs from beverages for the Ronald McDonald House in Winfield. For information, call 815-722-8518.

• Joliet Catholic Academy Winter Athletic and Activity Camps – For junior high school students. Baseball, softball and football programs available. For information and to register, visit www.jca-online.org/ wintercamps.

• Mary’s Prayer Warriors – A ministry of the St. Mary Nativity Lay Apostolate in Joliet. For information, call 815-723-7141.

• Recycling – Joliet Jewish Congregation collects inkjet/laser cartridges and cellphones to recycle. Drop them off at the office. It has a newspaper/magazine recycling container at the Campbell St. entrance. For information, call 815-741-4600.

Dec. 22 • Lunch and Learn – Noon to 1:30 p.m.; also Dec. 29, Joliet Jewish Congregation, 250 N. Midland Ave., Joliet. Torah study. $5.

RSVP at 815-741-4600. Visit www.jolietjewishcongregation.com.

• “The Center” – 6:30 to 9 p.m.; also Dec. 29, The Hub, 1303 Schoolhouse Road, No. 3, New Lenox. Free food, games, hang time, music, inspirational talk for teens.

For information, call 815-474-2569, email info@thecenteryouth.org or visit www. thecenteryouth.org or www.facebook.com/ cycteennight.

• Family night – 6:45 to 8 p.m.; also Dec. 29, Crystal Lawns Church of the Nazarene, 2424 Caton Farm Road, Joliet. For information, call 815-436-3380.

Dec. 23 • Women’s Bible Study – 9:30 a.m.,

United Methodist Church, 339 W. Haven Ave., New Lenox. For information, call 815485-8271.

• Bingo – Doors open at 4 p.m. Cards begin at 6 p.m., St. Mary Nativity School, 702 N. Broadway St., Joliet.

• Fish fry – 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Knights of Columbus Council 4400, 1813 Cass St., Joliet. Fish, chicken and shrimp. Carryout.

Call 815-723-3827.

• Círculo de Oración (prayer group in Spanish) – 7 p.m., St. Patrick’s Church, 710 W. Marion St., Joliet. For information, call 815-727-4746.

Dec. 24 • Saturday services – 9 a.m., Joliet Jewish Congregation, 250 N. Midland Ave., Joliet. Call 815-741-4600 or visit www. jolietjewishcongregation.com.

• Christmas Mass – 3:30 p.m. (church), 3:31 p.m. (gym), 3:45 p.m. (Central), 3:45 p.m. (Ira Jones), 6 p.m. (church), 8:30 p.m.

(Polish, church), midnight (church), St. Mary Immaculate Parish, Cana Hall, 15629 S. Route 59 in Plainfield. For information, call 815-436-2651 or visit www.smip.org.

• Special-Needs Mass – 2 p.m., St. Mary Immaculate Parish, Cana Hall, 15629 S. Route 59 in Plainfield. Families needing ease of access to Cana Hall can use the drop-off drive at door No. 15 behind the church on Frederick St. For information, call 815-4362651 or visit www.smip.org.

• Christmas Eve Polish Mass – 4 p.m. and midnight, Holy Cross Catholic Church, 826 Elizabeth St., Joliet. For information, call 815-726-4031.

• Christmas Eve Mass – 3 p.m. and midnight, St. Mary Nativity Catholic Church, 706 N. Broadway St., Joliet. For information, call 815-726-4031.

• Christmas Eve services – 4 and 7 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1015 Winthrop Ave., Joliet. The Sacrament of Holy Communion will be observed at both services. Our church celebrates an open

communion, so all believers are welcome to Christ’s table. For information, call 815-7256687 or visit www.westpresjoliet.org.

• Live Nativity Service – 4 p.m., St. Edward’s and Christ Church of Joliet, Christ Campus, 2800 Grove Road, Joliet. Candle-lit service with live creche scene. For information, call 815-725-6800.

• Midnight “Christ-Mass” – Traditional ‘carol sing’ and choir anthem is 9:45 p.m.

Mass is at 10 p.m., St. Edward’s and Christ Church of Joliet, St. Edward’s Campus, 206 N. Midland Ave., Joliet. For information, call 815-725-6800.

• Christmas Eve service – 10 p.m., First Lockport United Methodist Church, 1000 S. Washington St., Lockport. For information, call 815-838-1017 or visit www.1umclockport.org.

Dec. 25 • Christmas Mass – 7 a.m., 10 a.m. and noon, St. Mary Nativity Catholic Church, 706 N. Broadway St., Joliet. For information, call 815-726-4031.

• Christmas Mass – 7:30 a.m. (church), 9 a.m. (church), 9 a.m. (Polish, Cana), 10:45 a.m. (church), 12:15 p.m. (church) and 12:15 p.m. (Spanish, church). No 6 p.m.

Mass today, St. Mary Immaculate Parish, Cana Hall, 15629 S. Route 59, Plainfield.

For information, call 815-436-2651 or visit www.smip.org.

• Christmas Day service – 9 a.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1015 Winthrop Ave., Joliet. Fellowship follows.

For information, call 815-725-6687 or visit www.westpresjoliet.org.

• Christmas Eve Polish Mass – 9 and 10:30 a.m., Holy Cross Catholic Church, 826 Elizabeth St., Joliet. For information, call 815-726-4031.

• Traditional Christmas Day service – 10 a.m., St. Edward’s and Christ Church of Joliet, St. Edward’s Campus, 206 N. Midland Ave., Joliet. For information, call 815-7256800.

Dec. 26 • St. Patrick’s Food Pantry – 9 to 11:30 a.m., 710 W. Marion St., Joliet. For the 60436 zip code. For information, call the St. Patrick parish office at 815-727-4746.

• Menorah Lighting – 5 p.m., Grundy County Courthouse, Morris. Hosted by Lubavitch Chabad of Skokie. For information, call Joliet Jewish Congregation at 815-741-4600.

• “The Wesleyan Way” Small Group – 6:45 p.m., United Methodist Church of New Lenox, 339 W. Haven Ave., New Lenox. For information, call 815-485-8271.

• Chapel Bible Study – 7 p.m., United Methodist Church of New Lenox, 339 W. Haven Ave., New Lenox. New members encouraged. For current topic and information, call 815-485-8271.

• Erich Deptolla’s Bible Study – 7 p.m., United Methodist Church, 339 W. Haven Ave., New Lenox. For current topic and information, call 815-485-8271.

• Michael Johnston’s Bible Study Group – 7 p.m., United Methodist Church, 339 W. Haven Ave., New Lenox. For current topic and information, call 815-485-8271.

Dec. 27 • Bible Study – 9:15 to 11 a.m., St. Mary Nativity, Nativity Room, 706 N. Broadway St., Joliet. RSVP to Joyce Traina at 815-726-9138.

Dec. 28 • Confession – 3 to 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., St. Patrick’s Church, 710 W. Marion St., Joliet. For information, call 815-727-4746.

• AWANA – 6:15 p.m., Parker Road Bible Church, 18512 Parker Road, Mokena. Kids learn Bible verses, sing songs and play games. For information, call 708-463-1125.

• Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults – 7:30 to 9 p.m., Wednesdays through May 24, St. Mary Immaculate Parish, upper meeting room, 15629 S. Route 59, Plainfield.

For information, email Brian Trishman at itsinthefinish@sbcglobal.net.

Employees give day of service to Catholic Charities, Diocese of Joliet JOLIET – On Dec. 9, more than 80 employees from J.C. Restoration in Rolling Meadows provided a day of service to Catholic Charities, Diocese of Joliet. They tackled projects at four separate facilities, including homeless shelters, an apartment building and a donation center.

Projects were completed in Addison, Villa Park, Lockport and Joliet and included painting and deep cleaning. Catholic Charities’ staff and clients were thankful for the work that J.C. Restoration completed.

For information about Catholic Charities, Diocese of Joliet, visit catholiccharitiesjoliet.org.

For information on J.C. Restoration Inc, visit www.jcr24.com. For more photos, visit this story at www.theherald-news.com.

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On Dec. 9, more than 80 employees from J.C. Restoration in Rolling Meadows provided a day of service to Catholic Charities, Diocese of Joliet. One of those sites was The Giving Tree in Lockport. This is a donation center where Catholic Charities’ low-income clients receive basic needs. The Giving Tree is at 3016 S. State Street (behind Norma’s Cafe) in Lockport.

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Basic living essentials, educational devices, toys and baby supplies were sorted, wrapped and lovingly prepared in a spirit of true community and charity.

HEALTH BRIEFS Menorah lighting at Grundy County Courthouse on Monday

MORRIS – Join Lubavitch Chabad of Skokie at 5 p.m. Monday at the Grundy County Courthouse in Morris for the menorah lighting. It is free and open to the public.

Chanukah, also known as Hanukkah, starts Saturday this year and will continue for eight nights.

For information, call Joliet Jewish Congregation at 815-741-4600.

Our Lady of Angels Retirement Home hosted Christmas Walk

JOLIET – Our Lady of Angels Retirement Home Christmas Walk welcomed many familiar faces and Joliet community friends on Sunday, despite the winter weather and cold temperatures.

Guests enjoyed the wintry wonder that awaited them along with hot chocolate and Christmas cookies. Seven halls were transformed into themed “streets” such as Candy Cane Lane and Bells Boulevard and were decorated accordingly to theme. From door decorations, center pieces and ceiling hangings to the smallest of details on all 23 trees, OLA twinkled with Christmas spirit.

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those families in need.

Christmas Eve music will resound at Lockport church

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George Block (from left), Sister Carol Jander, Carolyn Johnston and Sister Margaret McGuckin.

with Sister Carol Jander, Carolyn Johnston and Sister Margaret McGuckin, all previous teachers from Joliet’s Franciscan Learning Center.

All three women began raising money for OLA’s new Christmas decorations through community donations and individual tree sponsorships. Their efforts, paired with the kind and generous donations of OLA friends and families, allowed for all of OLA’s Christmas decorations to be fully funded at zero cost to OLA. The OLA Christmas Walk event has concluded, but the community still is encouraged to stop over and enjoy the OLA Christmas decorations.

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Pictured with the Marines are Lucy L. and Aidan M. This is one of many pickups the Marines did at St. Mary Immaculate Parish/School, 15629 S. Route 59 in Plainfield.

For information, call 815-725-6631 or visit www.olaretirement.org.

For more photos, visit this story at www.theherald-news.com.

Religious education program collects for Toys for Tots

PLAINFIELD – St. Mary Immaculate Religious Education Program and school joined together this Advent season to collect toys for the U.S. Marine Corps annual “Toys for Tots” collection.

As families attended their children’s Christmas and advent programs, they first dropped off a donation for the drive to help spread some Christmas cheer to

LOCKPORT – Originally built of roughhewn stone in the 1850s – and still incorporating those original stones in its education wing – the First Lockport United Methodist Church, at 1000 S. Washington, Lockport, will host its annual Christmas Eve service at 10 p.m.

Saturday.

The service will be preceded by a 15 minute mini-concert featuring Diaconal Minister of Music Bonnie Johansen-Werner and Mr. Antonio Gonzalez performing “Carols for Tuba and Organ.”

The service will feature a women’s ensemble and a solo of “O Holy Night” sung by Taylor Marshall.

Music during the worship will include traditional carols such as “Joy to the World” and “O Come All Ye Faithful” accompanied by organ, tuba and soprano descant.

A highlight of the evening will be the congregational singing of “Silent Night” while lit candles are held and passed.

For information, call the church at 815838-1017 or visit www.1umclockport. org.

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LEMONT – Everest Academy Lemont hosted the 2016 Christmas Miracle on Dec. 11.

Friends and families prepared gifts for 1,000 people in need in the community.

About 250 volunteers provided meals for more than 2,000 people, and more than 400 children received brand-new toys.

Recognizing their responsibility to be strong Christian leaders, Everest Academy students have been putting their faith into action for weeks, as each class campaigned for and collected pre-assigned items.

More than 5,000 clothing items, including 4,000 new outfits, 700 new winter coats and 200 new blankets were distributed. More than 150 families received a small household appliance, box of toiletries, fresh food and a reminder that they matter.

More than 2,500 heartfelt Christmas cards were made by Everest Academy students and sent to the sick, poor and elderly in the community.

Auxiliary Bishop Andrew P. Wypych (Chicago) identified families in need at more than six local parishes, three homeless shelters and other Catholic missions.

Everest Academy is an independent Roman Catholic school educating children from preschool through eighth grade. For information, visit www.everestadvantage. org.

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127 S. Briggs St. Joliet 815-722-7653

Masses:

Saturday Vigil......................4:00pm Sunday ............. 7:30 and 10:30 am Daily .........Mon, Tu, Th, Fri.7:30 am

Confessions . Saturday 3:15 - 3:45 pm

www.stmarymagdalenechurch.com

ST. PETER EV. LUTHERAN CHURCH & SCHOOL

LCMS 310 N. Broadway, Joliet (815) 722-3567 www.stpeterjoliet.org www.stpeterschool-joliet.org 8:00 am & 10:45 am Sunday Divine Services 9:30 am Sunday School & Bible Study 10:00 am Sunday Service on WJOL 1340 AM Rev. Karl Hess, Pastor HISTORIC ST. JOSEPH CHURCH 416 N. Chicago St., Joliet 815-727-9378 Saturday 4:00 p.m.

Sunday 8:30, 10:00 & 11:30 a.m.

Weekdays 8:30 a.m. www.stjosephjoliet.org

PLYMOUTH

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

24022 W. Lockport Street, Plainfield, IL 60544 (corner of Lockport & Illinois) Service: Sunday - 10:30am to 11:45am with fellowship immediately after Bible Study: Sunday - 9:30am to 10:15am Weekdays – please inquire Youth Sunday School: Sunday 10:45am to 11:45am James 1:27 Project - Continuous Family Movie Night – Monthly Call us at: 815-439-3409 Visit our website at: www.plymouthcongregational.org

CHURCH OF ST. ANTHONY 100 N. Scott St., Joliet, IL 60432 815-722-1057 Tuesday & Thursday Masses 12:05pm Sunday Mass 9:00 am Saturday Mass 4:00pm Holydays 12:05pm Our Mother of Perpetual Help Novena adoration following novena Every Tuesday following 12:05pm Mass Please Join Us! Father Timothy P. Andres Father James Lennon Very Reverend William Dewan Handicap Accessible

Corner of Glenwood & Midland

353 N. Midland Ave., Joliet 815-725-4213 www.faithjoliet.com

Sunday Worship Service 9:30 am Pastor Rebekkah Lohrmann

ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH 410 S. Jefferson St., Lockport

815-838-0187 Saturday 5:00 p.m.

Sunday 6:30, 8:00, 10:00 & 11:45 a.m.

ST. DENNIS CHURCH 1214 S. Hamilton St., Lockport Church Phone 815-838-2592 Sat.- 4:30pm Sun.- 7:30am, 9:15am, 11am www.saint-dennis.org

LEMONT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

25 W. Custer, Lemont Church Phone & Prayer Hotline 630-257-5210 Pastor Hyo Sun Oh Sunday Worship 8:30 am and 10:45am Happy Hands Methodist Pre-School 630-257-3112 lemontumc@gmail.com

Sunday Service 10:00am Plainfield Academy Rt 59 & Lockport St. Plainfield Pastor Dennis Taylor www.lakesideworshipcenter.org

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FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

ST. JOSEPH CHURCH ROCKDALE

1000 S. Washington Street, Lockport (815) 838-1017

The Latin Mass Community Diocese of Joliet

Open Hearts. Open Minds. Open Doors.

Email: lumclockport@ameritech.net www.lumclockport,org Pastor Phil Sheets

Come pray the Mass of all time.

Sunday School 9:00 a.m.

Sunday Worship Service 10:30 a.m.

ST. JOHN VIANNEY CATHOLIC CHURCH

401 Brassel, Lockport 1 Block So. of Bruce Rd. Church Phone 815-723-3291 Sat.-4:15 p.m., Sun.-9:30 a.m., 11:30 (Polish) Handicap access w/covered entry

MASS SCHEDULE: Saturday 4:15 PM (English) Sunday 10:00 AM (Latin) Weekdays 7:30 AM (Latin) Saturday 8:00 AM (Latin) except every 3rd Saturday when the 8:00 AM Mass is celebrated at the Poor Clares Monastery in Minooka Sunday 5:30 PM (Latin) at Ss. Peter & Paul in Naperville CONFESSIONS: Saturday 3:30 - 4:00 PM & ½ hour before all other Masses except on Mondays HOLY HOUR with BENEDICTION: Thursday 6:00 PM Latin-English Missals are provided to guide you to a fuller, more prayerful participation.

PRIESTLY FRATERNITY OF ST. PETER

Broadway & Ruby St., Joliet • 815-726-4031

Masses: Saturday Vigil: 4:00 p.m.

Sunday: 7:00, 10:30,12:00 Noon & 5:30 p.m.

Weekday Mornings: (M,W,F) 8:30 a.m.

Church open daily for Eucharistic Adoration 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CHURCH Kosciol Sw. Krzyza Elizabeth and Ross St, Joliet • 815-726-4031

Masses: Saturday Vigil: 4:00 p.m.

Sunday: 9:00 a.m., 10:30 a.m. (Polish) Weekday Mornings: (T,TH) 8:30 a.m.

FIRST & SANTA CRUZ LUTHERAN CHURCH

55 W. Benton Street, Joliet 9am Holy Communion 10am Sunday School & Adult Bible Study 11am Misa Bilingüe Blessing Bench Food Pantry (Wed) Pastor Keith Forni 815 722 4800

ST. EDWARD AND CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH

206 N. Midland Joliet, IL 60435 www.SECEC.net (815) 725-6800 7:30 & 9:30 AM Sundays All are welcome to belong and become Everyone is invited to communion at God's table MESSIAH LUTHERAN CHURCH L.C.M.C.

Jefferson St. & Houbolt Rd., Joliet 815.741.4488 mlcjoliet.org Sunday Morning Worship: 8:00 & 9:30 Traditional 11:00 Family Praise & Worship Sunday School: 9:30 Christian Education for Adults & Children

Wednesday Evening Worship: 7:15 Rev. David Nygard, Senior Pastor Pr. Kurt Hoover, Associate Pastor Pr. David Stier, Youth Pastor

SAINT BERNARD

Service Times

Sterling Ave. & High St. • Joliet, IL

5:30 pm Sundays 8:00 am 10:45 am

Saturdays

Catholic Church

815-726-4474

Saturday Vigil Mass...............4:15 PM Sunday Mass .........................9:00 AM Monday to Friday..................7:30 AM

1910 Black Road Joliet, IL 60435 (815) 725-1606

Call Kelly at 815-280-4111 to share your worship times

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ASK THE DOCTORS Elizabeth Ko and Eve Glazier Some strategies: • Stock the fridge with plenty of vegetables, fruits and whole-grain products.

• Clear out the processed foods and the fatty, salty snacks.

• Serve lean meats, poultry, fish, beans and legumes for protein.

• Make sure serving portions are a reasonable size.

• Make the home a no-soda zone. This includes diet drinks.

• Steer clear of sugar and sweets.

The goal is moderation, and your best chance at success is to get creative. Instead of being forbidden, let the fried foods your children love become special-event treats.

That way, they’ll be less likely to feel deprived and sneak-eat. Cooking together – scouting recipes, shopping, preparing the food and eating as a family – can go a long way to cementing the new eating behavior.

Exercise makes a big difference, not just to teens but for adults as well. There’s no better way than to lead by example.

Start taking family hikes or bike rides.

Pick out a local race to train for and set an in-family competition with personal goals and rewards.

If you market these changes as something that’s fun for your children and for yourself, you’re far more likely to create healthy habits that will last for life.

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• Thursday, December 22, 2016

Dear Doctors: My teenagers refuse to eat vegetables unless they’re fried. Are they doomed to obesity and ill health?

Dear Reader: We wish we could reassure you and say it’ll all be OK, but studies long have been clear on the matter. What your children eat now will shape their health for years – and maybe decades – to come.

Poor eating habits have caused a spike in childhood obesity in the past few decades.

Today, more than 17 percent of kids ages 2 to 17 qualify as obese. That’s double what it was 20 years ago.

Being overweight has put young people at increased risk of all kinds of health problems and led to a sharp increase in the diagnosis of conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure, elevated blood cholesterol, fatty liver and even asthma and sleep disorders.

But before you confront your children with a list of “don’ts,” which teens naturally are primed to resist, be aware the newest study on youth nutrition has some great news. It arms you with the information you need to right the nutritional course while encouraging your teens in a positive way.

Here’s the gist: Young people who ate fruits, vegetables, lean proteins and whole grains, and who steered clear of sugar, red meat and processed foods, gained significantly less weight as they entered young adulthood.

The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Minnesota, followed the eating habits of 2,500 adolescents from the time they were 15 until they turned 25.

Researchers found by eating well at age 15, young people developed the habit of good nutrition, and it carried on into their 20s and beyond.

The takeaway? You can guide your children to a more healthful adulthood by helping them establish good eating habits while they are in their teens.

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She’s a sweet girl but lately has been involved in a lot of drama. Recently, my husband and I saw what we believe to be two hickeys on her neck, one on each side. She has denied, denied, denied it, but we know what we know.

I’m worried because a few months ago she was called into her counselor’s office for “roasting.” She was asked to roast two specific girls, and the information got back to them and back to the counselor. Our daughter is not allowed to date, and although she has friends who started dating at 10 or 11, I don’t allow her to go to their homes. I do allow them to come to our home instead.

I just need to know how to handle this situation before it gets out of control. I have tried talking calmly and patiently with her, but it doesn’t work. She believes she knows it all and I know nothing. – Unsure In New Jersey Dear Unsure: Girls who mock others and say cruel things are less “nice” than you would like to believe. It’s a form of bullying. You need to nip this in the bud. A way to handle your daughter’s misbehavior would be to institute consequences for getting called to the counselor’s office and/or lying to you and your husband. By consequences, I mean the removal of privileges – cellphone, television, internet or having friends over – for a period of time.

Also, if your daughter is coming home with hickeys, she might have too much unsupervised time on her hands. So if you haven’t already, involve her in supervised activities such as church youth groups, sports and special-interest clubs if her school offers them.

If she’s going to a friend’s house, be sure an adult will be there.

Parenting is a full-time job. In time your daughter will mature and this, too, will pass.

But for now she needs watching.

Dear Abby: My best friend – who is 19 – was concerned she might be pregnant because her period was late. She told me she and her husband (yes, she’s married) have been having unprotected sex. Lo and behold, she took multiple tests and she is pregnant.

I know they are not ready to have a baby, even though she says she’s excited. They are living in a hotel, and she doesn’t have a job. Her husband’s mom doesn’t even know they’re married. I feel bad, but it makes me not want to be her friend anymore because of the choices she’s made and where she has ended up. Any advice? – Don’t Know What

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A top bridge player is good at visualizing where the missing key cards lie.

West used the Unusual No-trump to show at least 5-5 in the minors.

North’s three-club cue-bid (the cheaper) promised at least game-invitational values in the lower-ranking of the other two suits; here, hearts.

(A response of three hearts would have indicated the values for a single raise. A three-diamond cue-bid would have guaranteed five-plus spades and game-going values. A response of three spades would have been natural but nonforcing.)

After East leapt aggressively to five diamonds, South closed his eyes and bid a slam, hoping that if the opponents could cash the club ace and king, West would start with a diamond.

When West led the club king, South experienced a sinking feeling -- until he saw the club ace on the board. Still, though, he seemed to have two club losers. What did he do?

South possessed a key piece of information: that East had only one club. So, declarer won with dummy’s club ace, drew trumps ending on the board, cashed the diamond ace, ruffed a diamond, took the top spades, ruffed a spade and ruffed the diamond jack. Then he led the spade five and discarded a club from the board.

East took the trick, but on his spade or diamond return, South ruffed in his hand and sluffed dummy’s remaining club to gain the slam bonus.

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16-081179 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 12TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WILL COUNTY, JOLIET, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. PLAINTIFF, -vsSTEVEN HEIY; DONNA HEIY A/K/A DONNA CHRISTINE HEIY; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND CLAIMANTS; NON-RECORD UNKNOWN OCCUPANTS DEFENDANTS 16 CH 1921 PUBLICATION NOTICE The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given you Donna Heiy a/k/a Donna Christine Heiy and Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants; Unknown Occupants.

Defendants in the above entitled suit, that the said suit has been commenced in the Circuit Court of Will County, by the said Plaintiff against you and other defendants, praying for the foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying the premises described as follows, to wit: LOT 11, BROOK FOREST NORTH, A SUBDIVISION OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 9, TOWNSHIP 35 NORTH, AND IN RANGE 9, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, TROY TOWNSHIP, ILLINOIS, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED JANUARY 28, 1972, AS DOCUMENT NO. R72-2337, IN WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 520 Edgebrook Drive, Shorewood, IL 60404 Permanent Index No.: 05-06-09-203-037-0000 and which said Mortgage was made by Steven Heiy and Donna Heiy Mortgagors, to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. as Mortgagee, and recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Will County, Illinois, Document No. R2009146113.

And for other relief; that summons was duly issued out of the said Court against you as provided by law, and that the suit is now pending.

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 January 26, 2017 at 1:00 pm at the Will County Arbitration Center, 57 N. Ottawa Street, 3rd Floor, Joliet, Illinois 60432. 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 MEDIATION WILL BE TERMINATED. Now therefore, unless you, the said above named defendants, file your answer to the Complaint in the said suit or otherwise make your appearance therein, the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Will

40 CLASSIFIED • County, Pamela J. McGuire, 57 N. Ottawa Street, Joliet, Illinois 60432, on or before the 30th day after the first publication of this notice which is January 23, 2017.

Default may be entered against you at any time after that day and a judgment entered in accordance with the prayer of said Complaint.

Clerk Shapiro Kreisman & Associates, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 2121 Waukegan Road, Suite 301 Bannockburn, IL 60015 (847) 291-1717 ILNOTICES@logs.com THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT IF YOUR PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR THIS DEBT HAS BEEN EXTINGUISHED

BY A DISCHARGE IN BANKRUPTCY OR BY AN ORDER GRANTING IN REM RELIEF FROM STAY, THIS NOTICE IS PROVIDED SOLELY TO FORECLOSE THE MORTGAGE REMAINING ON YOUR PROPERTY AND IS NOT AN ATTEMPT TO THE DISCHARGED COLLECT PERSONAL OBLIGATION. I710043

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ry Mediation on 02/07/2017 at 2:15 pm at the Will County Court Floor (Arbitration Annex-3rd Center), 57 N. Ottawa Street, Joliet, Illinois. A lender representative will be present along with a court appointed mediator to discuss options that you may have and to pre-screen you for a potential mortgage modification. For further information on the mediation process, please see the attached NOTICE OF MANDATORY MEDIATION.YOU MUST APPEAR ON THE MEDIATION DATE GIVEN OR YOUR 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, Pamela J. McGuire Clerk of the Court 57 N. Ottawa Street Joliet, IL 60432 on or before January 17, 2017, A DEFAULT MAY BE ENTERED AGAINST YOU AT ANY TIME AFTER THAT DAY AND A JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRAYER OF SAID COMPLAINT. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff 15W030 North Frontage Road, (Published in the Herald-News Suite 100 December 22, 29, 2016 Burr Ridge, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 January 5, 2017) DuPage # 15170 Winnebago # 531 Our File No. 14-15-18329 NOTE: This law firm is a debt collector.

PUBLIC NOTICE I710139 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR (Published in the Herald-News THE 12TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WILL COUNTY - JOLIET, ILLINOIS December 15, 22, 29, 2016) Reverse Mortgage Solutions, Inc. PLAINTIFF Vs. Robert L. Moody; Chicago Title PUBLIC NOTICE Land Trust Company as Trustee u/t/a dated November 28, 2007 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR a/k/a Trust No. 8002349826; United States of America - THE 12TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT WILL COUNTY - JOLIET, ILLINOIS Department of Housing and Urban The Carillon PNC Bank, National Association Development; Lakes Homeowners Association; PLAINTIFF Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Vs. Duane Hanzlovic; Old Plank Trail Claimants Community Bank, NA; Unknown DEFENDANTS Heirs and Legatees of Michael C. 16 CH 01926 Hanzlovic; Unknown Owners and NOTICE BY PUBLICATION Nonrecord Claimants; Richard NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU: Unknown Owners and Kuhn, as Special Representative for Michael C. Hanzlovic (Deceased) Nonrecord Claimants That this case has been DEFENDANTS 16 CH 01927 commenced in this Court against NOTICE BY PUBLICATION you and other defendants, praying NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU: for the foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying the premises Unknown Heirs and Legatees of Michael C. Hanzlovic described as follows, to-wit: Unknown Owners and COMMONLY KNOWN AS: Nonrecord Claimants 21247 Brush Lake Drive That this case has been Crest Hill, IL 60403 and which said Mortgage was commenced in this Court against you and other defendants, praying made by: Chicago Title Land Trust Company for the foreclosure of a certain as Trustee u/t/a dated November Mortgage conveying the premises 28, 2007 a/k/a Trust No. described as follows, to-wit: COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 8002349826 12739 S. Elaine Drive the Mortgagor(s), to Mortgage Plainfield, IL 60585 Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as Nominee for American Advisors and which said Mortgage was Group, as Mortgagee, and recorded made by: Michael C. Hanzlovic executed in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Will County, Illinois, as the mortgage, however this Document No. R2012092557; individual is deceased and is not and for other relief; that summons named as a defendant in this was duly issued out of said Court lawsuit the Mortgagor(s), to National against you as provided by law and that the said suit is now City Mortgage a division of National City Bank, as Mortgagee, pending.

YOU MAY STILL BE ABLE TO and recorded in the Office of the SAVE YOUR HOME. DO NOT Recorder of Deeds of Will County, Illinois, as Document No. IGNORE THIS DOCUMENT. By order of the Chief Judge of the R2008027060; and for other Circuit Court of the Twelfth Judicial relief; that summons was duly Circuit, this case is set for Mandato- issued out of said Court against

agains 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 1/17/2017 at 2:15 pm at the Will County Court Annex-3rd Floor (Arbitration Center), 57 N. Ottawa Street, Joliet, Illinois. A lender representative will be present along with a court appointed mediator to discuss options that you may have and to pre-screen you for a potential mortgage modification.

For further information on the mediation process, please see the attached NOTICE OF MANDATORY MEDIATION.YOU MUST APPEAR ON THE MEDIATION DATE GIVEN OR YOUR 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, Pamela J. McGuire Clerk of the Court 57 N. Ottawa Street Joliet, IL 60432 on or before January 17, 2017, A DEFAULT MAY BE ENTERED AGAINST YOU AT ANY TIME AFTER THAT DAY AND A JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRAYER OF SAID COMPLAINT. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100 Burr Ridge, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 DuPage # 15170 Winnebago # 531 Our File No. 14-16-13251 NOTE: This law firm is a debt collector.

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DESCRIBED TRACT OF LAND: A PART OF LOT ONE, HERITAGE FARM COMMONS P.U.D. NORTH, IN WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS, WHICH SURVEY IS ATTACHED AS AN EXHIBIT TO THE DECLARATION OF CONDOMINIUM TOGETHER WITH THEIR UNDIVIDED PERCENTAGE INTEREST IN THE COMMON ELEMENTS. PARCEL TWO: EASEMENT FOR INGRESS AND EGRESS ACROSS PART OF LOT ONE, HERITAGE FARM COMMONS P.U.D. NORTH THAT IS NORTH THAT IS SHOWN AS COMMON ELEMENT ON THE PLAT OF HERITAGE COMMONS CONDOMINIUMS. COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 2541 Division St., Unit 103, Joliet, IL 60435; PIN# 03-24-402-090-1003. and which said Mortgage was made by:Fayed Yasin and Amna Yasin the Mortgagor(s), to First Bank, as Mortgagee, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Will County, Illinois, as Document No. R2007000322; 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 file your answer or otherwise file your appearance in this case in the Office of the Clerk of this Court, Pamela McGuire Will County Clerk 57 N. Ottawa Street Joliet, IL 60432 on or before January 9, 2017, A DEFAULT MAY BE ENTERED AGAINST YOU AT ANY TIME AFTER THAT DAY AND A JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRAYER OF SAID COMPLAINT. Law firm info Fred R. Harbecke 53 W. Jackson Blvd, Suite 1510 Chicago, IL 60604 312-443-9505 (Published in the Herald-News NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act you are December 15, 22, 29, 2016) 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.

PUBLIC NOTICE I709486 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 12TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT (Published in the Herald-News WILL COUNTY - JOLIET, ILLINOIS December 8, 15, 22, 2016) FIRST BANK PLAINTIFF Vs. Fayed Yasin, Amna Yasin, The PUBLIC NOTICE Heritage Commons Condominium Association, Eternal Jewelers, Inc. Nonrecord Claimants, and IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE Unknown Owners, 12TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DEFENDANTS WILL COUNTY - JOLIET, ILLINOIS 16 CH 02040 FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION ("FANNIE MAE"), A NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU: CORPORATION ORGANIZED AND Unknown Owners and EXISTING UNDER THE LAWS OF Nonrecord Claimants THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, That this case has been PLAINTIFF commenced in this Court against vs. you and other defendants, praying UNKNOWN HEIRS AT LAW AND OF ALGIMANTAS for the foreclosure of a certain LEGATEES Mortgage conveying the premises PASAKARNIS; EMPIRE FUNDING described as follows, to-wit: CORP.; MELANIE PASAKARNIS, AS HEIR OF ALGIMANTAS PARCEL ONE: UNIT 2541-3 IN THE HERITAGE PASAKARNIS; JAMIE PASAKARNIS COMMONS CONDOMINIUMS, AS A/K/A JAMIE YOUNG, AS HEIR SET FORTH IN THE DECLARATION OF ALGIMANTAS PASAKARNIS; OF CONDOMINIUM OWNERSHIP MARTIN PASAKARNIS, AS HEIR AND OF COVENANTS, EASEMENTS OF ALGIMANTAS PASAKARNIS; AND RESTRICTIONS FOR HERITAGE WILLIAM P. BUTCHER, AS SPECIAL COMMON CONDOMINIUM, A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE COMMERCIAL CONDOMINIUM, OF ALGIMANTAS PASAKARNIS; OWNERS AND RECORDED WITH THE WILL COUN- UNKNOWN TY RECORDED AS DOCUMENT NO. NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, R2003267743 ON OCTOBER 23, DEFENDANTS 16 CH 506 2003. AS DELINEATED ON A SURVEY OF THE FOLLOWING PUBLICATION NOTICE

The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given to you, UNKNOWN HEIRS AT LAW AND OF ALGIMANTAS LEGATEES PASAKARNIS; JAMIE PASAKARNIS A/K/A JAMIE YOUNG, AS HEIR OF ALGIMANTAS PASAKARNIS; and UNKNOWN OWNERS AND CLAIMANTS, NONRECORD Defendants in the above entitled suit, that the said suit has been commenced in the Circuit Court of the 12th Judicial Circuit, Will County, Illinois by the plaintiff against you and other defendants, praying for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage conveying the premises described as follows to wit: LOT 135, IN UNIT NO. 6, OF LILY CACHE ACRES SUBDIVISION, A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 22, TOWNSHIP 36 NORTH, AND IN RANGE 9 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED JUNE 15, 1972, AS DOCUMENT NO. R72-16510 AND CORRECTED

BY CERTIFICATE RECORDED AS DOCUMENT NO. R72-27542, IN WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS. COMMON ADDRESS: 23542 W. Grinton Drive, Plainfield, IL 60586 P.I.N.: 06-03-22-407-002 and which said mortgage was signed by mortgagors, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Key Mortgage Services, Inc., as Mortgagee, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Will County as Document No. R2010132979; and for such other relief prayed; that summons was duly issued out of the Circuit Court of Will County against you as provided by law, and that the said suit is now pending.

YOU MAY STILL BE ABLE TO SAVE YOUR HOME. DO NOT IGNORE THIS DOCUMENT. By order of the Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit, this case is set for Mandatory Mediation on January 19, 2017 at 1:30 pm at the Will County Court Annex-3rd Floor (Arbitration Center), 57 N. Ottawa Street, Joliet, Illinois. A lender representative will be present along with a court appointed mediator to discuss options that you may have and to pre-screen you for a potential mortgage modification.

For further information on the mediation process, please see the attached NOTICE OF MANDATORY MEDIATION. YOU MUST APPEAR ON THE MEDIATION DATE GIVEN OR YOUR RIGHT TO MEDIATION WILL TERMINATE. NOW THEREFORE, UNLESS YOU, the said above defendants, file your answer to the Complaint in said suit or otherwise make your appearance therein, in the Office of the Clerk of this Court in Will County at Will County Court House 14 West Jefferson Street, Joliet, IL 60432 on or before the January 17, 2017, 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 Circuit Clerk Johnson, Blumberg, & Associates, LLC 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite 1125 Chicago, Illinois 60606 Email: ilpleadings@johnsonblumberg.com Ph. 312-541-9710 / Fax 312-541-9711

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Beth Ann May Township Clerk (Published in the Herald-News December 22, 2016 December 15, 22, 29, 2016) (Published in the Herald-News December 22, 2016) 1253214

PUBLIC NOTICE

PUBLIC NOTICE

ILLINOIS, WILL BE RECEIVED AT THE WILL COUNTY PURCHASING DEPARTMENT, WILL COUNTY OFFICE BUILDING, 302 N. CHICAGO ST., JOLIET, IL 60432, UNTIL THE HOUR OF 10:00 A.M., FRIDAY, JANUARY, 20, 2017.

BIDS WILL BE PUBLICLY OPENED AND READ BY THE WILL COUNTY EXECUTIVE OR HIS REPRESENTATIVE AT 10:10 A.M., FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2017, AT THE WILL COUNTY OFFICE BUILDING, 302 N. CHICAGO ST., 2ND FL, JOLIET, IL 60432.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CONCERNING THE INTENT OF ADVERTISEMENT OF BID THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF FOR THE LEASE FOR TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES DISTRICT NUMBER 204, ON 53.33 ACRES OF COUNTY WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS LANDFILL PROPERTY SPECIFICATIONS AND CONDITIONS TO SELL $7,000,000 WORKING CASH FUND BONDS SEALED BIDS FOR THE LEASE FOR OF THE BID ARE AVAILABLE AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES ON AT www.demandstar.com AND AS PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN 53.33 ACRES OF COUNTY www.willcountyillinois.com, that Township High School District LANDFILL PROPERTY JOLIET, WELL AS THE PURCHASING Number 204, Will County, Illinois (the "District"), will hold a public hearing on the 17th day of January, 2017, at 7:00 o'clock P.M. The hearing will be held in the PUBLIC NOTICE District Administrative Center, 300 Caterpillar Drive, Joliet, Illinois. The PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE purpose of the hearing will be to Case No. 16-034 receive public comments on the proposal to sell bonds of the District PETITIONER(s): Eco-Site in the amount of $7,000,000 PROPERTIES: 1202 N Independence Blvd. (IL 53) for the purpose of increasing the working cash fund of the District.

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT, the Planning & Zoning Commission of the Village of Romeoville, Will County, Illinois, By order of the President of the (the "Village") will be holding a PUBLIC HEARING in the Village Hall Board of Education of Township Board Room at 1050 W. Romeo Road, on January 10, 2017 at 7:00 High School District Number 204, PM or soon thereafter on the aforementioned date(s) for the purposes of Will County, Illinois. considering testimony and other evidence on the following applications for a Special Use Permit for a Communication Facility (the DATED the 20th day of December, "Applications"), which the applicant filed on or about August 29, 2016.

2016, in accordance with the requirements described by the Romeoville Code of Ordinances, as amended, which governs such Don Dickinson applications.

Secretary, Board of Education, Township High School The properties which are the subject of the "Applications" are generally District Number 204, located as follows: west side of Independence Blvd (IL 53) at 1202 N Will County, Illinois Independence Blvd, and legally described as follows:

(Published in the Herald-News, LOT 2 IN LAMPLIGHTER BUSINESS PARK, A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF December 22, 2016) 1253670 THE WEST 1/2 OF THE NORTHWEST 1/4 OF SECTION 26, TOWNSHIP 37 NORTH, RANGE 10, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS. EXCEPTING THEREFROM THE FOLLOWING: THAT PART OF LOT 2 IN LAMPLIGHTER BUSINESS PARK, A PUBLIC NOTICE SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE WEST 1/2 OF THE NORTHWEST 1/4 OF SECTION 26, TOWNSHIP 37 NORTH, RANGE 10, EAST OF THE THIRD REQUEST FOR SEALED BIDS PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED BULK ROCK SALT SEPTEMBER 24, 1981, AS DOCUMENT R81-23579, DESCRIBED AS JOLIET TOWNSHIP FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF SAID LOT 2; Public Notice is hereby given THENCE NORTH 2 DEGREES 53 MINUTES 03 SECONDS WEST ALONG that the Highway Commissioner of THE WEST LINE OF SAID LOT 2, A DISTANCE OF 250.00 FEET; Joliet Township, Will County, THENCE SOUTH 48 DEGREES 12 MINUTES 53 SECONDS EAST Illinois, does hereby invite sealed 355.61 FEET TO THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID LOT 2; THENCE proposals for bulk rock salt SOUTH 87 DEGREES 06 MINUTES 56 SECONDS WEST ALONG THE specifications in accordance with SOUTH LINE OF SAID LOT 2, A DISTANCE OF 252.90 FEET TO AASHTO Specification M143, THE SOUTHWEST CORNER THEREOF, BEING ALSO THE PLACE OF Sodium Chloride Type 1, Grade 1, BEGINNING IN WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS. or an acceptable approved alternate.

PIN: 12-02-26-101-003-0000 Material proposal forms may be obtained from the Township The application request, if approved, would allow the development of Clerk's Office, 175 W. Jefferson St., Communication Facility (cell tower) through a Special Use Permit as set Joliet, between the hours of 8:30 forth in the application. a.m. to Noon and from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday through Documentation concerning this matter is available for public inspection Friday, beginning on December in the Department of Community Development, 1050 W. Romeo Road, 23, 2016. Or, by calling the Romeoville, Illinois, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Township Clerk at 815-726-5239. Monday through Friday.

Sealed bids for the bulk rock salt are to be received by the ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN ATTENDING THE HEARING ARE INVITED Township Clerk at the above TO DO SO AND WILL BE HEARD. The meeting is accessible to people address on or before 9:30 a.m., with disabilities. If you need assistance, please contact the Department Thursday, January 12, 2017, at of Community Development at 815 / 886 - 7200. which time they will be opened and publicly read aloud.

The above referenced public hearing may be recessed from time to time The Highway Commissioner to another date or dates, if notice of the time and place of such will make his decision at a later adjourned public hearing is publicly announced at the preceding public date and reserves the right to reject hearing. any and all proposals or to accept any bid or combination of a bid This notice was prepared by the Village of Romeoville, Department of which may be deemed to be in the Community Development in accordance with the requirements of the best interest of the Township of Illinois Compiled Statutes, 2010 State Bar Association Edition and Joliet.

Village Ordinances on December 16, 2016.

All bidders must comply with the Responsible Bidders Act of the David Venn, Chairperson State of Illinois.

Planning & Zoning Commission James J. Maffeo Highway Commissioner

(Published in the Herald-News December 22, 2016) 1253082

The Herald-News / TheHerald-News.com • Thursday, December 22, 2016 • DEPARTMENT, 2ND FLOOR, WILL COUNTY OFFICE BUILDING, 302 N. TYCHICAGO ST., JOLIET, IL 60432, (815) 740-4605 OR EMAIL purchasing@willcountyillinois.com.

RECEIVED IN WHOLE OR PART AS MAY BE SPECIFIED IN THE SOLICITATION.

BY ORDER OF THE WILL COUNTY EXECUTIVE, THE TENDERING OF A BID TO THE LAWRENCE M. WALSH. COUNTY SHALL BE CONSTRUED TYAS ACCEPTANCE OF THE (Published in The Herald-News SPECIFICATIONS. THE BIDDER December 22, 2016) 1253139 ASKNOWLEDGES THE RIGHT OF The LLTHE COUNTY OF WILL TO REJECT Herald-News ANY AND ALL BIDS, AND TO WAIVE Classified ILNON-MATERIAL INFORMALITY It OR IRREGULARITY IN ANY BID works.

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PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE Case No. 16-042 PETITIONER(s): Aldi, Inc. PROPERTIES: 398 S. Weber Road PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT, the Planning & Zoning Commission of the Village of Romeoville, Will County, Illinois, (the "Village") will be holding a PUBLIC HEARING in the Village Hall Board Room at 1050 W. Romeo Road, on January 10, 2017 at 7:00PM or soon thereafter on the aforementioned date(s) for the purposes of considering testimony and other evidence on the following applications for an Amendment to the Special Use Permit for a Planned Unit Development - Final Development Plan (the "Applications"), which the applicant filed on or about October 31, 2016, in accordance with the requirements described by the Romeoville Code of Ordinances, as amended, which governs such applications.

The properties which are the subject of the "Applications" are generally located as follows: Northwest corner of Weber Road and Airport Road at 398 S. Weber Road, and legally described as follows: THE EAST 74 ACRES OF THE EAST HALF OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 7. TOWNSHIP 36 NORTH, RANGE 10 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, LYING SOUTHERLY OF THE CENTERLINE OF MINK CREEK (EXCEPT THE PART CONVEYED TO THE STATE OF ILLINOIS FOR ROAD PURPOSES BY DOCUMENT NUMBER R79-3142 AND R80-26891) DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 7; THENCE NORTH 01' 37' 27" WEST, ALONG THE EAST LINE OF SAID SOUTHEAST QUARTER 1126.14 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 88' 22' 33" WEST, 50.00 FEET FOR THE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE SOUTH 67" 30' 24" WEST, ALONG THE CENTERLINE OF MINK CREEK 1248.53 FEET TO A LINE DRAWN PARALLEL WITH THE EAST LINE OF SAID SOUTHEAST QUARTER; THENCE SOUTH 01' 37' 27" EAST, ALONG SAID PARALLEL LINE 657.39 FEET TO THE NORTHERLY RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF LOCKPORT-PLAINFIELD/AIRPORT ROAD PER DOCUMENT NO. R80-26891; THENCE NORTH 87' 57' 03" EAST, ALONG SAID NORTHERLY LINE, 926.66 FEET; THENCE NORTH 79' 53' 16" EAST, ALONG SAID NORTHERLY LINE, 121.20 FEET; THENCE NORTH 87' 57' 03" EAST ALONG SAID NORTHERLY LINE, 100.00 FEET; THENCE NORTH 23' 22' 43" EAST, 47.61 FEET TO THE WESTERLY RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF WEBER ROAD PER DOCUMENT NO. R79-3142; THENCE NORTH 01' 37' 27" WEST, ALONG SAID WESTERLY LINE, 1033.51 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING; IN WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS. CONTAINING 23.37 ACRES (1017833 SQ. FT.) PINS: 11-04-07-403-015-0000 The application request, if approved, would allow the expansion of the Aldi Store through an Amendment to the Planned Unit DevelopmentFinal Development Plan as set forth in the application.

Documentation concerning this matter is available for public inspection in the Department of Community Development, 1050 W. Romeo Road, Romeoville, Illinois, between the hours of 9:00a.m. and 5:00p.m., Monday through Friday.

ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN ATTENDING THE HEARING ARE INVITED TO DO SO AND WILL BE HEARD. The meeting is accessible to people with disabilities. If you need assistance, please contact the Department of Community Development at 815 / 886 - 7200.

The above referenced public hearing may be recessed from time to time to another date or dates, if notice of the time and place of such adjourned public hearing is publicly announced at the preceding public hearing.

This notice was prepared by the Village of Romeoville, Department of Community Development in accordance with the requirements of the Illinois Compiled Statutes, 2010 State Bar Association Edition and Village Ordinances on December 16, 2016.

David Venn, Chairperson Planning & Zoning Commission (Published in the Herald-News December 22, 2016) 1253098

PUBLIC NOTICE Will County Clerk's Office Assumed Business Name Certificate of Registration of Ownership of Business Name of Business:

GREEN PIONEER ANTIQUES Certificate No.: 31182 Filed: December 6, 2016 Located at: 11523 S. KRISTI DR. PLAINFIELD, IL 60585 Name(s) and residence of address

PUBLIC NOTICE

(s) (es) of the person(s) owning, /s/ Laurel Sims conducting or transacting business: December 6, 2016 LAUREL SIMS 11523 S. KRISTI DR. /s/ Nancy Schultz Voots PLAINFIELD IL 60585 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and Official Seal at my office in Joliet, Illinois.

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Notice of Intent to Request Release of Funds December 19, 2016 County of Will 302 Chicago St Joliet, IL, 60432 815-774-7894 On or about December 30, 2016 the County of Will shall submit a request to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for the release of HOME Investment Partnerships Program funds under Title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act, to undertake the following project: single-family housing rehabilitation program for the purpose of rehabbing housing units in disrepair in the Fairmont area of Will County. The program will assist an estimated 10 households and utilizes program year 2016 funds that total $150,000.

The proposed program is categorically excluded from the National Environmental Policy Act requirements, but subject to compliance with some of the environmental law and authorities listed at 24 CFR §58.6 and §58.5 of 24 CFR Part 58. In accordance with §58.15, a tiered review process has been structured, whereby some environmental laws and authorities have been reviewed and studied for the intended target area listed above. Other applicable environmental laws and authorities will be complied with when individual properties are identified.

Specifically, the target area has been studied and compliance with the following laws and authorities has been established in this Tier 1 review: Airport Hazards, Coastal Barrier Resources Act, Clean Air Act, Coastal Zone Management Act, Endangered Species Act, Explosive and Flammable Hazards, Farmland Protection Policy Act, Noise Control Act, Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974, and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. In the Tiered 2 review, compliance with the following environmental laws and authorities will take place for proposed projects funded under the program listed above: Flood Disaster Protection Act and National Flood Insurance Reform Act, Contamination and Toxic Substances, Floodplain Management, National Historic Preservation Act, Wetlands Protection, and Environmental Justice. Copies of the compliance documentation worksheets are available at the address below.

An Environmental Review Record (ERR) that documents the environmental determinations for this program, and more fully describes the tiered review process cited above, is on file at Will County Land Use Department, Community Development Division, 58 E. Clinton, Suite 100, Joliet, IL and may be examined or copied weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

PUBLIC COMMENTS Any individual, group, or agency disagreeing with this determination or wishing to comment on the project may submit written comments to Will County Land Use Department, Community Development Division, 58 E. Clinton, Suite 100, Joliet. All comments received by November 17, 2016 will be considered by Will County Land Use Department, Community Development Division prior to authorizing submission of a request for release of funds.

RELEASE OF FUNDS Will County certifies to HUD that Lawrence M. Walsh in his official capacity as Will County Executive consents to accept the jurisdiction of the Federal Courts if an action is brought to enforce responsibilities in relation to the environmental review process and that these responsibilities have been satisfied. HUD's approval of the certification satisfies its responsibilities under NEPA and related laws and authorities, and allows Will County to utilize federal funds and implement the Program.

OBJECTIONS TO RELEASE OF FUNDS HUD will consider objections to its release of funds and Will County certification for a period of fifteen days following either the anticipated submission date (cited above) or HUD's actual receipt of the request (whichever is later) only if the objections are on one of the following bases: (a) that the Certification was not executed by the Certifying Officer of Will County (b) Will County has omitted a step or failed to make a decision or finding required by HUD regulations at 24 CFR Part 58; (c) Will County has committed funds or incurred costs not authorized by 24 CFR Part 58 before approval of a release of funds by HUD; (d) another Federal agency acting pursuant to 40 CFR Part 1504 has submitted a written finding that the project is unsatisfactory from the standpoint of environmental quality. Objections must be prepared and submitted in accordance with the required procedures (24 CFR Part 58), and may be addressed to Mr. Ray E. Willis, Director of Community Planning and Development, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 77 West Jackson Blvd., Chicago IL 60604. Potential objectors may contact HUD Environmental Officer, HUD Chicago Field Office to verify the actual last day of the objection period.

Notice of Intent to Request Release of Funds December 19, 2016 County of Will 302 Chicago St Joliet, IL, 60432 815-774-7894 On or about December 30, 2016 the County of Will shall submit a request to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for the release of Community Development Block Grant funds under Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended, to undertake the following project: single-family housing rehabilitation program for the purpose of rehabbing housing units in disrepair in the Fairmont area of Will County. The program will assist an estimated 15 households and utilizes program year 2016 funds that total $211,000.

The proposed program is categorically excluded from the National Environmental Policy Act requirements, but subject to compliance with some of the environmental law and authorities listed at 24 CFR §58.6 and §58.5 of 24 CFR Part 58. In accordance with §58.15, a tiered review process has been structured, whereby some environmental laws and authorities have been reviewed and studied for the intended target area listed above. Other applicable environmental laws and authorities will be complied with when individual properties are identified.

Specifically, the target area has been studied and compliance with the following laws and authorities has been established in this Tier 1 review: Airport Hazards, Coastal Barrier Resources Act, Clean Air Act, Coastal Zone Management Act, Endangered Species Act, Explosive and Flammable Hazards, Farmland Protection Policy Act, Noise Control Act, Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974, and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. In the Tiered 2 review, compliance with the following environmental laws and authorities will take place for proposed projects funded under the program listed above: Flood Disaster Protection Act and National Flood Insurance Reform Act, Contamination and Toxic Substances, Floodplain Management, National Historic Preservation Act, Wetlands Protection, and Environmental Justice. Copies of the compliance documentation worksheets are available at the address below.

An Environmental Review Record (ERR) that documents the environmental determinations for this program, and more fully describes the tiered review process cited above, is on file at Will County Land Use Department, Community Development Division, 58 E. Clinton, Suite 100, Joliet, IL and may be examined or copied weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

PUBLIC COMMENTS Any individual, group, or agency disagreeing with this determination or wishing to comment on the project may submit written comments to Will County Land Use Department, Community Development Division, 58 E. Clinton, Suite 100, Joliet. All comments received by December 29, 2016 will be considered by Will County Land Use Department, Community Development Division prior to authorizing submission of a request for release of funds.

RELEASE OF FUNDS Will County certifies to HUD that Lawrence M. Walsh in his official capacity as Will County Executive consents to accept the jurisdiction of the Federal Courts if an action is brought to enforce responsibilities in relation to the environmental review process and that these responsibilities have been satisfied. HUD's approval of the certification satisfies its responsibilities under NEPA and related laws and authorities, and allows Will County to utilize federal funds and implement the Program.

OBJECTIONS TO RELEASE OF FUNDS HUD will consider objections to its release of funds and Will County certification for a period of fifteen days following either the anticipated submission date (cited above) or HUD's actual receipt of the request (whichever is later) only if the objections are on one of the following bases: (a) that the Certification was not executed by the Certifying Officer of Will County (b) Will County has omitted a step or failed to make a decision or finding required by HUD regulations at 24 CFR Part 58; (c) Will County has committed funds or incurred costs not authorized by 24 CFR Part 58 before approval of a release of funds by HUD; (d) another Federal agency acting pursuant to 40 CFR Part 1504 has submitted a written finding that the project is unsatisfactory from the standpoint of environmental quality. Objections must be prepared and submitted in accordance with the required procedures (24 CFR Part 58), and may be addressed to Mr. Ray E. Willis, Director of Community Planning and Development, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 77 West Jackson Blvd., Chicago IL 60604. Potential objectors may contact HUD Environmental Officer, HUD Chicago Field Office to verify the actual last day of the objection period.

Notice of Intent to Request Release of Funds December 19, 2016 County of Will 302 Chicago St Joliet, IL, 60432 815-774-7894 On or about December 30, 2016 the County of Will shall submit a request to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for the release of Community Development Block Grant funds under Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended, to undertake the following project: demolition of dilapidated, vacant, abandoned, and uninhabitable residences in Will County. The program will assist an estimated 15 households and utilizes program year 2016 funds that total $150,000.

The proposed program is categorically excluded from the National Environmental Policy Act requirements, but subject to compliance with some of the environmental law and authorities listed at 24 CFR §58.6 and §58.5 of 24 CFR Part 58. In accordance with §58.15, a tiered review process has been structured, whereby some environmental laws and authorities have been reviewed and studied for the intended target area listed above. Other applicable environmental laws and authorities will be complied with when individual properties are identified.

Specifically, the target area has been studied and compliance with the following laws and authorities has been established in this Tier 1 review: Coastal Barrier Resources Act, Clean Air Act, Coastal Zone Management Act, Endangered Species Act, Explosive and Flammable Hazards, Farmland Protection Policy Act, Noise Control Act, Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974, and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. In the Tiered 2 review, compliance with the following environmental laws and authorities will take place for proposed projects funded under the program listed above: Airport Hazards, Flood Disaster Protection Act and National Flood Insurance Reform Act, Contamination and Toxic Substances, Floodplain Management, National Historic Preservation Act, Wetlands Protection, and Environmental Justice. Copies of the compliance documentation worksheets are available at the address below.

An Environmental Review Record (ERR) that documents the environmental determinations for this program, and more fully describes the tiered review process cited above, is on file at Will County Land Use Department, Community Development Division, 58 E. Clinton, Suite 100, Joliet, IL and may be examined or copied weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

PUBLIC COMMENTS Any individual, group, or agency disagreeing with this determination or wishing to comment on the project may submit written comments to Will County Land Use Department, Community Development Division, 58 E. Clinton, Suite 100, Joliet. All comments received by December 29, 2016 will be considered by Will County Land Use Department, Community Development Division prior to authorizing submission of a request for release of funds.

RELEASE OF FUNDS Will County certifies to HUD that Lawrence M. Walsh in his official capacity as Will County Executive consents to accept the jurisdiction of the Federal Courts if an action is brought to enforce responsibilities in relation to the environmental review process and that these responsibilities have been satisfied. HUD's approval of the certification satisfies its responsibilities under NEPA and related laws and authorities, and allows Will County to utilize federal funds and implement the Program.

OBJECTIONS TO RELEASE OF FUNDS HUD will consider objections to its release of funds and Will County certification for a period of fifteen days following either the anticipated submission date (cited above) or HUD's actual receipt of the request (whichever is later) only if the objections are on one of the following bases: (a) that the Certification was not executed by the Certifying Officer of Will County (b) Will County has omitted a step or failed to make a decision or finding required by HUD regulations at 24 CFR Part 58; (c) Will County has committed funds or incurred costs not authorized by 24 CFR Part 58 before approval of a release of funds by HUD; (d) another Federal agency acting pursuant to 40 CFR Part 1504 has submitted a written finding that the project is unsatisfactory from the standpoint of environmental quality. Objections must be prepared and submitted in accordance with the required procedures (24 CFR Part 58), and may be addressed to Mr. Ray E. Willis, Director of Community Planning and Development, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 77 West Jackson Blvd., Chicago IL 60604. Potential objectors may contact HUD Environmental Officer, HUD Chicago Field Office to verify the actual last day of the objection period.

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CITY OF JOLIET, WILL AND KENDALL COUNTIES, ILLINOIS PROPOSED APPROVAL OF THE PRESENCE-SAINT JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER AREA REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT AREA TAX INCREMENT FINANCING ELIGIBILITY STUDY AND REDEVELOPMENT PLAN AND PROJECT Notice is hereby given that on the 3rd day of January, 2017 at 6:30 p.m., at Joliet City Hall, 150 West Jefferson Street, Joliet, IL., a public hearing (the 'Hearing") will be held to consider the approval of the proposed Presence-Saint Joseph Medical Center Area Tax Increment Financing Eligibility Study and Redevelopment Plan and Project (the "Plan and Project''), the designation of the Presence-Saint Joseph Medical Center Area Redevelopment Project Area (the "Project Area" or the "Presence-Saint Joseph RPA'') and the adoption of tax increment financing therefore. The Project Area consists of the territory legally described on Exhibit A, depicted on the map attached as Exhibit B and generally described as follows: a majority of the territory in a mixed use area comprising approximately 147 acres and located within a roughly square area bounded by Glenwood Avenue on the North; Jefferson Street on the South; the Joliet Junction Trail on the West; and properties fronting on the east side of Hammes Avenue on the East The overall goal of the Redevelopment Plan and Project is to reduce or eliminate conditions that qualify the proposed Presence-Saint Joseph RPA as a combination of both a "conservation area" and "blighted area," and to provide the direction and mechanisms necessary to establish the Presence-Saint Joseph RPA as a vibrant mixed use district. Implementing the Plan and Project may stimulate the redevelopment of vacant, ill-configured and underutilized parcels, and provide new or improved public infrastructure, facilities and utilities. Redevelopment of the RPA will strengthen the economic base and enhance the quality of life of the City as a whole.

Rehabilitation and redevelopment of the Presence-Saint Joseph RPA is to be achieved through an integrated and comprehensive strategy that leverages public resources to stimulate additional private investment. The underlying strategy is to use Tax Increment Financing ("TIF''), as well as other funding sources, to reinforce and encourage new private investment. At the Hearing, there will be a discussion of the Plan and Project, designation of the Project Area, and the adoption of tax increment allocation financing for the Project Area. The Plan and Project is on file and available for public inspection at the office of the City Clerk at City Hall, 150 West Jefferson Street, Joliet, IL. The Plan and Project is also posted on the City website at www.cityofjoliet.info.

Pursuant to the proposed Plan and Project, the City proposes to facilitate redevelopment of the Project Area by incurring or reimbursing eligible redevelopment project costs, which may include, but shall not be limited to, studies, surveys, professional fees, property assembly costs, construction of public improvements and facilities, building and fixture rehabilitation, reconstruction, renovation and repair, financing costs, and interest costs, all as authorized under the Act. The Plan and Project proposes to provide assistance by paying or reimbursing costs including, but not limited to, site assembly, analysis, professional services and administrative activities, public improvements and facilities, building rehabilitation, capital costs incurred by a taxing district as a direct result of a redevelopment project, the payment of financing and interest costs, and such other project costs as permitted by the Act pursuant to one or more redevelopment agreements.

Tax increment financing is a public financing tool that does not raise property taxes but is used to assist economic development projects by capturing the projected increase in the property tax revenue stream to be created by the increase of the assessed value of the development or development area and investing those funds in improvements associated with the project.

At the hearing, all interested persons or affected taxing districts may file written objections with the City Clerk and may be heard orally with respect to any issues regarding the approval of the proposed Plan and Project, designation of the Project Area, and adoption of tax increment allocation financing therefore.

The Hearing may be adjourned by the Mayor and City Council without further notice other than a motion to be entered upon the minutes of the Hearing fixing the time and place of the subsequent hearing.

For additional information about the proposed Plan and Project and to file comments or suggestions prior to the hearing, or to register with the City in order to receive information on the proposed designation of a redevelopment project area or the approval of a redevelopment plan, contact Steve Jones, Deputy City Manager/Economic Development Director, City of Joliet, 150 West Jefferson Street, Joliet, IL 60432, (815) 7243734, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday-Friday; sjones@jolietcity.org EXHIBIT “A” - Boundary Legal Description THAT PORTION OF THE NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST QUARTERS OF SECTION 7 AND THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 18 ALL IN TOWNSHIP 35 NORTH, RANGE 10 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN IN WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF LOT 13 IN BOB HACKER’S SUBDIVISION BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE EAST HALF OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 7 IN TOWNSHIP 35 NORTH, RANGE 10 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN BEING ALSO THE NORTH RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF GLENWOOD AVENUE; THENCE SOUTH 01 DEGREES 57 MINUTES 30 SECONDS EAST, A DISTANCE OF 73.00 FEET TO A POINT ON THE SOUTH RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF GLENWOOD AVENUE BEING ALSO THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF LOT 1 IN THE BRAV0 SUBDIVISION; THENCE SOUTH 01 DEGREES 57 MINUTES 30 SECONDS EAST ALONG THE WEST LINE OF THE EAST 250.00 FEET OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 7 IN TOWNSHIP 35 NORTH, RANGE 10 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, A DISTANCE OF 2,260.73 FEET TO A POINT AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF LOT 6 IN MEDICAL VILLAGE SUBDIVISION; THENCE SOUTH 87 DEGREES 57 MINUTES 00 SECONDS WEST ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF LOT 6 IN MEDICAL VILLAGE SUBDIVISION, A DISTANCE OF 119.63 FEET TO A POINT ON THE EASTERLY LINE OF HAMMES AVENUE; THENCE SOUTH 87 DEGREES 57 MINUTES 00 SECONDS WEST, A DISTANCE OF 80.00 FEET TO A POINT ON THE WESTERLY LINE OF HAMMES AVENUE, THENCE SOUTH 87 DEGREES 57 MINUTES 00 SECONDS WEST, A DISTANCE OF 32.00 FEET TO A POINT ON THE EAST LINE OF LOT 1 IN MARQUETTE & JOLIET, LLC SUBDIVISION UNIT 1; THENCE NORTH 01 DEGREES 48 MINUTES 59 SECONDS WEST ALONG THE EAST LINE OF LOT 1 IN MARQUETTE & JOLIET, LLC SUBDIVISION UNIT 1, A DISTANCE OF 20.16 FEET TO THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF LOT 1 IN MARQUETTE & JOLIET, LLC SUBDIVISION UNIT 1; THENCE SOUTH 88 DEGREES 10 MINUTES 56 SECONDS WEST ALONG THE NORTH LINE OF LOTS 1 & 2 IN MARQUETTE & JOLIET, LLC SUBDIVISION UNIT 1, A DISTANCE OF 187.50 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 88 DEGREES 10 MINUTES 56 SECONDS WEST ALONG THE NORTH LINE OF LOT 2 IN MARQUETTE & JOLIET, LLC SUBDIVISION UNIT 1, A DISTANCE OF 23.63 FEET TO THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF LOT 3 IN MARQUETTE & JOLIET, LLC SUBDIVISION UNIT 1; THENCE SOUTH 88 DEGREES 10 MINUTES 56 SECONDS WEST ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF LOT 3 IN MARQUETTE & JOLIET, LLC SUBDIVISION UNIT 1, A DISTANCE OF 118.75 FEET TO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF LOT 3 IN MARQUETTE & JOLIET, LLC SUBDIVISION UNIT 1 BEING ALSO A POINT ON THE EAST LINE OF LOT 7 IN BLACKHAWK PROFESSIONAL PARK; THENCE SOUTH 01 DEGREES 49 MINUTES 04 SECONDS EAST ALONG THE EAST LINE OF LOT 7 IN BLACKHAWK PROFESSIONAL PARK, A DISTANCE OF 37.72 FEET TO THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF LOT 7 IN BLACKHAWK PROFESSIONAL PARK; THENCE SOUTH 88 DEGREES 05 MINUTES 36 SECONDS WEST ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF LOT 7 IN BLACKHAWK PROFESSIONAL PARK, A DISTANCE OF 156.06 FEET TO A POINT ON THE EAST LINE OF LOT 6 IN BLACKHAWK PROFESSIONAL PARK; THENCE SOUTH 01 DEGREES 41 MINUTES 08 SECONDS EAST ALONG THE EAST LINE OF LOT 6 IN BLACKHAWK PROFESSIONAL PARK, A DISTANCE OF 67.00 FEET TO THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF LOT 6 IN BLACKHAWK PROFESSIONAL PARK; THENCE SOUTH 88 DEGREES 05 MINUTES 36 SECONDS WEST ALONG THE SOUTH LINES OF LOTS 5 & 6 IN BLACKHAWK PROFESSIONAL PARK, A DISTANCE OF 207.00 FEET TO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF LOT 5 IN BLACKHAWK PROFESSIONAL PARK; THENCE NORTH 01 DEGREES 41 MINUTES 08 SECONDS WEST ALONG THE WEST LINE OF LOT 5 IN BLACKHAWK PROFESSIONAL PARK, A DISTANCE OF 67.00 FEET; THENCE NORTH 01 DEGREES 41 MINUTES 08 SECONDS WEST ALONG THE WEST LINE OF LOT 5 IN BLACKHAWK PROFESSIONAL PARK, A DISTANCE OF 154.00 FEET TO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF LOT 5 IN BLACKHAWK PROFESSIONAL PARK; THENCE NORTH 01 DEGREES 41 MINUTES 08 SECONDS WEST ALONG THE WEST LINE OF LOT 5 IN BLACKHAWK PROFESSIONAL PARK EXTENDED NORTHERLY, A DISTANCE OF 60.00 FEET TO A POINT ON THE SOUTHERLY LINE OF LOT 1 IN BLACKHAWK PROFESSIONAL PARK EXTENDED WESTERLY; THENCE NORTH 88 DEGREES 05 MINUTES 36 SECONDS EAST ALONG THE SOUTHERLY LINE OF LOT 1 IN BLACKHAWK PROFESSIONAL PARK, A DISTANCE OF 192.00 FEET TO THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF LOT 1 IN BLACKHAWK PROFESSIONAL PARK; THENCE NORTH 01 DEGREES 41 MINUTES 12 SECONDS WEST ALONG THE EAST LINE OF LOT 1 IN BLACKHAWK PROFESSIONAL PARK, A DISTANCE OF 395.00 FEET TO A POINT OF THE NORTHERLY LINE OF ONEIDA STREET BEING ALSO THE SOUTH LINE OF THE ESLER SUBDIVISION; THENCE NORTH 83 DEGREES 20 MINUTES 28 SECONDS EAST ALONG THE NORTHERLY LINE OF ONEIDA STREET BEING ALSO THE SOUTH LINE OF THE ESLER SUBDIVISION, A DISTANCE OF 17.91 FEET TO A POINT ON THE WEST LINE OF LOT 3 IN THE MEDICAL VILLAGE RESUBDIVISION; THENCE NORTH 01 DEGREES 46 MINUTES 58 SECONDS WEST ALONG THE WEST LINES OF LOTS 2 & 3 IN THE MEDICAL VILLAGE RESUBDIVISION AND ALSO THE WEST LINE OF 2 IN THE RESUBDIVISION OF LOT 1 OF THE MEDICAL VILLAGE RESUBDIVISION, A DISTANCE OF 567.65 FEET TO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE 219 MEDICAL BUILDING LIMITED SUBDIVISION; THENCE NORTH 01 DEGREES 56 MINUTES 04 SECONDS WEST ALONG THE WEST LINE OF THE 219 MEDICAL BUILDING LIMITED SUBDIVISION, A DISTANCE OF 193.44 FEET TO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE 219 MEDICAL BUILDING LIMITED SUBDIVISION BEING ALSO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF LOT 1 IN THE MEDICAL VILLAGE SUBDIVISION; THENCE NORTH 01 DEGREES 56 MINUTES 07 SECONDS WEST ALONG THE WEST LINE OF LOT 1 IN THE MEDICAL VILLAGE SUBDIVISION, A DISTANCE OF 216.76 FEET TO A POINT ON THE SOUTH 360 FEET OF THE NORTH 723 FEET OF THE WEST 360 FEET OF THE EAST 80 ACRES OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 7 IN TOWNSHIP 35 NORTH, RANGE 10 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; THENCE SOUTH 88 DEGREES 19 MINUTES 36 SECONDS WEST ALONG THE SOUTH 360 FEET OF THE NORTH 723 FEET OF THE WEST 360 FEET OF THE EAST 80 ACRES OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 7 IN TOWNSHIP 35 NORTH, RANGE 10 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, A DISTANCE OF 327.02 FEET TO A POINT ON THE EAST LINE OF MADISON STREET RIGHT OF WAY; THENCE SOUTH 01 DEGREES 49 MINUTES 44 SECONDS EAST ALONG THE EAST LINE OF MADISON STREET RIGHT OF WAY, A DISTANCE OF 1,065.14 FEET TO A POINT ON THE SOUTH RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF ONEIDA STREET; THENCE SOUTH 87 DEGREES 36 MINUTES 41 SECONDS WEST ALONG THE SOUTH RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF ONEIDA STREET, A DISTANCE OF 518.95 FEET TO A POINT ON THE EAST LINE OF LOT 3 IN THE SAINT JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER SUBDIVISION EXTENDED SOUTHERLY; THENCE NORTHERLY, WESTERLY, AND SOUTHERLY ALONG THE EASTERLY, NORTHERLY AND WESTERLY LINES OF LOT 3 IN THE SAINT JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER SUBDIVISION FOR THE FOLLOWING 7 COURSES; (1) THENCE NORTH 01 DEGREES 50 MINUTES 12 SECONDS WEST, A DISTANCE OF 315.17 FEET; (2) THENCE NORTH 87 DEGREES 44 MINUTES 53 SECONDS EAST, A DISTANCE OF 100.00 FEET; (3) THENCE NORTH 01 DEGREES 50 MINUTES 12 SECONDS WEST, A DISTANCE OF 64.00 FEET; (4) THENCE SOUTH 87 DEGREES 44 MINUTES 53 SECONDS WEST, A DISTANCE OF 100.00 FEET; (5) THENCE NORTH 01 DEGREES 50 MINUTES 12 SECONDS WEST, A DISTANCE OF 136.00 FEET; (6) THENCE SOUTH 87 DEGREES 44 MINUTES 53 SECONDS WEST, A DISTANCE OF 318.00 FEET TO THE EAST RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF SPRINGFIELD AVENUE; (7) THENCE SOUTH 01 DEGREES 50 MINUTES 18 SECONDS EAST ALONG THE EAST RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF SPRINGFIELD AVENUE, A DISTANCE OF 514.75 FEET T0 THE SOUTH RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF ONEIDA STREET; THENCE SOUTH 01 DEGREES 51 MINUTES 46 SECONDS EAST ALONG THE EAST RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF SPRINGFIELD AVENUE, A DISTANCE OF 341.00 FEET TO A POINT ON THE NORTH LINE OF THE SOUTH 510.00 FEET OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 7; THENCE NORTH 87 DEGREES 49 MINUTES 08 SECONDS EAST ALONG THE NORTH LINE OF THE SOUTH 510.00 FEET OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 7, A DISTANCE OF 407.50 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 01 DEGREES 48 MINUTES 26 SECONDS EAST, A DISTANCE OF 61.11 FEET; THENCE NORTH 88 DEGREES 18 MINUTES 14 SECONDS EAST, A DISTANCE SM-CL0416827

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OF 395.48 TO A POINT ON THE WEST LINE OF THE EAST 80 ACRES OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 7; THENCE SOUTH 01 DEGREES 41 MINUTES 08 SECONDS EAST ALONG THE WEST LINE OF THE EAST 80 ACRES OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 7, A DISTANCE OF 410.00 FEET TO A POINT ON THE NORTH RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF WEST JEFFERSON STREET; THENCE SOUTH 01 DEGREES 41 MINUTES 08 SECONDS EAST ALONG THE WEST LINE OF THE EAST 80 ACRES OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 7, A DISTANCE OF 81.53 FEET TO A POINT ON THE SOUTH RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF WEST JEFFERSON STREET; THENCE WESTERLY ALONG THE SOUTH RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF WEST JEFFERSON STREET FOR THE FOLLOWING 2 COURSES; (1) THENCE SOUTH 88 DEGREES 28 MINUTES 59 SECONDS WEST, A DISTANCE OF 187.76 FEET; (2) THENCE SOUTH 87 DEGREES 55 MINUTES 25 SECONDS WEST, A DISTANCE OF 679.68 FEET TO A POINT ON THE EAST LINE OF LOT 2 IN THE ODQUINA SUBDIVISION EXTENDED SOUTHERLY; THENCE NORTH 01 DEGREES 51 MINUTES 46 SECONDS WEST ALONG THE EAST LINE OF LOT 2 IN THE ODQUINA SUBDIVISION, A DISTANCE OF 230.00 FEET TO THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF LOT 2 IN THE ODQUINA SUBDIVISION; THENCE SOUTH 87 DEGREES 55 MINUTES 25 SECONDS WEST ALONG THE NORTH LINE LOT 2 IN THE ODQUINA SUBDIVISION, A DISTANCE OF 150.00 FEET TO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF LOT 2 IN THE ODQUINA SUBDIVISION; THENCE SOUTH 01 DEGREES 51 MINUTES 46 SECONDS EAST ALONG THE WEST LINE OF LOT 2 IN THE ODQUINA SUBDIVISION, A DISTANCE OF 230.00 FEET TO A POINT ON THE SOUTH RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF WEST JEFFERSON STREET; THENCE SOUTH 87 DEGREES 55 MINUTES 25 SECONDS WEST ALONG THE SOUTH RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF SOUTH JEFFERSON STREET, A DISTANCE 666.30 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 80 DEGREES 13 MINUTES 58 SECONDS WEST ALONG THE SOUTH RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF SOUTH JEFFERSON STREET, A DISTANCE OF 45.65 FEET TO A POINT ON THE EAST LINE OF THE FORMER ROCKDALE, JOLIET & LOCKPORT TERMINAL RAILWAY COMPANY (NOW KNOW AS THE ELGIN, JOLIET & EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY); THENCE NORTH 01 DEGREES 51 MINUTES 43 SECONDS WEST ALONG THE EAST LINE OF THE FORMER ROCKDALE, JOLIET & LOCKPORT TERMINAL RAILWAY COMPANY (NOW KNOW AS THE ELGIN, JOLIET & EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY), A DISTANCE OF 2,658.91 FEET TO A POINT ON THE SOUTH RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF GLENWOOD AVENUE; THENCE NORTH 1 DEGREES 40 MINUTES 40 SECONDS WEST, A DISTANCE OF 66.00 FEET TO SOUTHWEST CORNER OF LOT 8 IN GLENWOOD GREEN SUBDIVISION BEING ALSO THE NORTH RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF GLENWOOD AVENUE; THENCE NORTH 87 DEGREES 53 MINUTES 00 SECONDS EAST ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF GLENWOOD GREEN SUBDIVISION BEING ALSO THE NORTH RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF GLENWOOD AVENUE, A DISTANCE OF 640.00 FEET TO THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF GLENWOOD GREEN SUBDIVISION BEING ALSO THE SOUTH WEST CORNER OF LOT 381 IN BLACK ROAD ACRES SUBDIVISION; THENCE SOUTH 87 DEGREES 52 MINUTES 47 SECONDS EAST ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF BLACK ROAD ACRES SUBDIVISION BEING ALSO THE NORTH LINE OF GLENWOOD AVENUE, A DISTANCE OF 1,090.50 FEET TO THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF BLACK ROAD ACRES SUBDIVISION BEING ALSO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF BOB HACKER’S SUBDIVISION; THENCE SOUTH 87 DEGREES 53 MINUTES 04 SECONDS EAST ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF BOB HACKER’S SUBDIVISION BEING ALSO THE NORTH RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF GLENWOOD AVENUE, A DISTANCE OF 1,070.08 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING; EXCEPT FOR THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PARCEL OF LAND: COMMENCING AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF LOT 1 IN SAINT JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER SUBDIVISION BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF 7 IN TOWNSHIP 35 NORTH, RANGE 10 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN RECORDED AS DOCUMENT NUMBER R90-021522 IN WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; THENCE NORTH 01 DEGREES 49 MINUTES 44 SECONDS WEST ALONG THE EAST LINE OF LOT 1 IN SAINT JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER SUBDIVISION, A DISTANCE OF 653.28 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 88 DEGREES 10 MINUTES 17 SECONDS WEST, A DISTANCE OF 243.56 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE SOUTH 88 DEGREES 09 MINUTES 02 SECONDS WEST, A DISTANCE OF 124.00 FEET; THENCE NORTH 01 DEGREES 50 MINUTES 58 SECONDS WEST, A DISTANCE OF 224.00 FEET; THENCE NORTH 88 DEGREES 09 MINUTES 02 SECONDS EAST, A DISTANCE OF 103.00 FEET; THENCE NORTH 01 DEGREES 50 MINUTES 58 SECONDS WEST, A DISTANCE OF 55.68 FEET; THENCE NORTH 88 DEGREES 09 MINUTES 02 SECONDS EAST, A DISTANCE OF 25.90 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 01 DEGREES 50 MINUTES 58 SECONDS EAST, A DISTANCE OF 6.00 FEET; THENCE NORTH 88 DEGREES 09 MINUTES 02 SECONDS EAST, A DISTANCE OF 21.11 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 01 DEGREES 50 MINUTES 58 SECONDS EAST, A DISTANCE OF 16.69 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 88 DEGREES 09 MINUTES 02 SECONDS WEST, A DISTANCE OF 26.00 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 01 DEGREES 50 MINUTES 58 SECONDS EAST, A DISTANCE OF 32.87 FEET; THENCE NORTH 88 DEGREES 09 MINUTES 02 SECONDS EAST, A DISTANCE OF 26.00 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 01 DEGREES 50 MINUTES 58 SECONDS EAST, A DISTANCE OF 20.00 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 88 DEGREES 09 MINUTES 02 SECONDS WEST, A DISTANCE OF 26.01 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 01 DEGREES 50 MINUTES 58 SECONDS EAST, A DISTANCE OF 204.12 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. EXHIBIT “B” – Project Area Map

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U M S E N R O S C FOOD & LIQUOR STORES

Now With 4 Locations!

SALE GOOD

916 East 9th St. • Lockport • 815-838-8523 1134 Plainfield Rd. • Joliet • 815-723-7331

BUDWEISER Reg. & Light 24 PK. CANS

12/20/16 - 12/31/16

2352 Glenwood Ave. • Joliet • 815-725-5745

BUSCH BEER ABSOLUT VODKA ANDRE Reg., Light 30 PK.

14.99

1607 W. Jefferson St. • Joliet • 815-744-4152

HOT

11.99

REG ONLY

CHAMPAGNE

750 ML

750 ML

17.99

4.98

$

$

$

JACK DANIELS

SKOL VODKA

MILLER HIGH LIFE BAILEYS IRISH CREAM REG OR LIGHT HOT

REGULAR & HONEY 750 ML

19.98

30 PK. CANS

1.75 L

11.98

$

$

TRIPLE CROWN AMERICAN WHISKEY SAVE 10

STELLA ARTOIS

1.75 L

$

13.98

$

MODELO BEER

12 PK.

13.98

13.99

$

CAMARENA TEQUILA

OLD STYLE

13.98

24 PK

10.98

$

BAREFOOT WINE

BUDWEISER

4.98

SM-CL0389913

MILLER OR COORS LITE, DRAFT, 64

Reg. or Light 12 PK. BOTTLES

7.99

$

24 PK CANS

14.98

$

$

$

$

$

CAPTAIN MORGAN SPICED RUM

14.98

E&J BRANDY

750 ML.

19.99

$12.99

750 ML

$

9.98

750 ML

750 ML

12 PK

$

750 ML

$

NEW AMSTERDAM

GIN OR VODKA 750 ML $

9.98

LIVINGSTON CELLARS WINE ALL TYPES 1.5 ML

5.98

$

MILLER OR COORS

12 PK.

7.98

$

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