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Right now, my life is in boxes.

And bins. And storage units.

And it’s dispersed throughout the Chicago suburbs.

We have mattresses in one place and lamps in another. On second thought, maybe we don’t have lamps at all.

And, before we go any further ... I’ll stop pretending I had very much to do with it.

While I’ve been in Joliet most days working over the past few months, my wife has been busy packing up our lives in Crystal Lake while battling our kids to stay sane.

By the end of next week, we’ll be settled in and my drive home from work will be measured in minutes instead of hours.

I’m looking forward to getting my life back, and hopefully I’ll finally get over this awful illness that’s been dragging along for the past month or two (it seems longer).

Maybe, soon enough, I’ll also figure out if I live in Joliet or Plainfield. Or JoField, as Senior Reporter Bob Okon tells me people call it.

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Jon Styf We’ll pay property taxes to some entities in both and I’m pretty sure the utility companies I’ve called have a different ZIP code than the one I thought I had.

Either way, I’m looking forward to not living – and eating – out of boxes every day.

It hasn’t been that great for my stress level, or my waistline.

And I’m looking forward to starting our life in this community.

On Friday, I signed my kids up for school.

On Wednesday, we bought a new refrigerator.

Hopefully one of these days we get around to buying a couch so we have somewhere to sit in the new place, too.

I’ll be sad to say goodbye to all of my friends at the area’s hotels, storage facilities and U-Haul affiliates, but I won’t

miss repetitiously walking up and down the stairs at our homes, carrying stuff and trying not to hit the walls.

I’m pretty clumsy, so I don’t often succeed.

Hopefully most of our stuff makes it without too much damage, and we can start to figure out which grocery store, pediatrician, family doctor, gas station, Jimmy John’s, Chili’s and Dunkin’ Donuts will be our favorite.

Because that’s the real important stuff in life.

I’ve already signed up to join the YMCA. Hopefully I can find the time to make it there now, too.

And hopefully I’ll find more time to get to know you better.

So keep calling and sending emails.

I steered clear of mentioning Donald Trump this week, so I’m sure there will be less.

• The Herald-News Editor Jon Styf can be reached at jstyf@shawmedia. com, on Twitter @JonStyf or at 815-2804119. Styf is also the editor of the Herald Life and the Morris Herald-News.

Police: Man cuts 3 people with knife in shoplifting confrontation in Shorewood

By ANNA SCHIER

aschier@shawmedia.com SHOREWOOD – Three people at a Shorewood grocery store were injured Thursday evening when a confrontation over stolen liquor led one shoplifting suspect to draw a knife.

The incident occurred at the Jewel-Osco near the intersection of Route 52 and Route 59, when store personnel tried to detain a couple attempting to steal highend liquor, Shorewood Deputy Chief Jason Barten said.

As a security guard and two other employees tried to stop the pair, David L. Knight, 46, became combative and a physical altercation ensued, Barten said. The incident ended with Knight brandishing

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a large knife and cutting three people, Barten said.

Police, who had been called earlier about the theft, arrived about the same time Knight drew his weapon, Barten said.

Officers then quickly took Knight, and Stephany L. Ingram, 31, into custody.

None of the injuries sustained by the victims were life-threatening, but one person was transported to Presence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet.

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to 10-inch blade.

He said that before Thursday’s incident, Knight already had been under investigation for several liquor thefts from the Shorewood Jewel-Osco.

Knight, of the 400 block of Sherman Street in Joliet, was charged with aggravated battery, theft, retail theft, drug possession and possession or use of a firearm, according to Will County court records.

Ingram, of the 400 block of Hickory Street in Joliet, was charged with theft, retail theft, obstructing justice and obstructing identification, court records stated. Barten said Ingram initially gave false identifying information to police.

Both Knight and Ingram were booked into the Will County Jail.

Emma Prucha and team captain Ryan Clemente prepare dishes during Saturday’s American Culinary Federation regional competition, hosted at the new Joliet Junior College City Center Campus.

See story on page 3.

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Visit this article at TheHerald-News. com to view a video of Friday’s and Saturday’s competition.

LEFT: Emma Prucha mixes ingredients in a pot during Saturday’s American Culinary Federation’s regional competition hosted at the new Joliet Junior College City Center Campus. BELOW: JJC team member Hector Gonzalez prepared a dessert.

Photos by Paul Bergstrom for Shaw Media

A VERY CLOSE RACE

JJC wins gold medal, second place in regional culinary competition

By DENISE M. BARAN–UNLAND

“I’m extremely proud of them.”

JOLIET – “Four seconds, Ryan!”

Michael Rodriguez called out this reminder to Ryan Clemente, captain of the Joliet Junior College culinary competition team, as deadline loomed.

Keeping track of the time was just one job Rodriguez performed as the alternate for the five-member team during the American Culinary Federation’s regional competition, which was held Friday and Saturday at JJC’s new downtown building.

Andy Chlebana, a JJC chef instructor and one of the floor judges, said JJC came in second place with a gold medal.

“They lost by half a point,” Chlebana said.

ACF Chefs de Cuisine Association of St. Louis Inc. won first place and will

JJC culinary arts department chairman

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Michael McGreal

compete in July at Walt Disney World in Florida.

Michael McGreal, JJC culinary arts department chairman, said that judges said the food was some of the best

they’ve tasted, and the student’s floor skills – the way they worked as a unit – were flawless.

“I’m extremely proud of them,” McGreal said.

Although the loss is disappointing, McGreal said the praise from the judges means the students demonstrated talent far above many professional chefs working in the industry.

Hector Gonzalez, who prepared the dessert for JJC, said the team scheduled many practice runs in the last five weeks. Each team had a total of 70 minutes for the skills competition Friday and 90 minutes for the cooking competition Saturday.

Gonzalez said the JJC team did cooking runs twice a day Mondays and

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D-111 board OKs property tax abatements

By JEANNE MILLSAP

Shaw Media correspondent MINOOKA – The Minooka Community High School District 111 school board Thursday evening approved granting property tax abatements to two Minooka businesses as recommended by the Grundy Economic Development Council, district Chief School Business Official John Troy said.

One abatement was for the 52,851-square-foot, four-story TownePlace Suites by Marriott, to be constructed at 600 Bob Blair Road in Minooka. Troy said that the developer,

Minooka Hotel Associates LLC, plans to begin one year of construction this spring.

The hotel is proposed as a select service hotel with 87 guest rooms, an indoor swimming pool and a meeting room.

The second abatement was approved for the expansion of United States Cold Storage Inc. at 601 Twin Rail Drive in Minooka. The facility would provide temperature-controlled, refrigerated warehousing and distribution services According to GEDC documents, the company plans to construct the 100,000-square-foot steel frame ware-

house on 19.57 acres.

Both of the three-year property tax abatement agreements will be abated at 75 percent the first year; 50 percent the second year; and 25 percent during year three.

Also during the meeting, Troy told the board he attended the Illinois Association of School Business Officials Delegate Advisory Committee recently and that members discussed the potential of a two-year property tax freeze that he said has bipartisan support in the Illinois legislature.

Such a freeze, he said, would have a negative effect on the school district’s

financial situation.

“We are heavily reliant on residential property taxes,” Troy said after the meeting, “and during the recession, the district lost significant tax revenue as a result of declining [equalized assessed value]. We are just now starting to recoup that lost revenue.”

Also approved at Thursday’s meeting was the 2017-18 school calendar, which places the first day of student attendance on Aug. 14. Veterans Day next year falls on a Saturday, but Principal Ronald Kiesewetter said the school would be sure to have recognition for the area’s veterans during a school day.

Lincoln-Way D-210 candidates discuss North, budget cuts

By FELIX SARVER

fsarver@shawmedia.com NEW LENOX – Six of the 13 candidates running for the Lincoln-Way District 210 board talked last week about what they wanted to see happen with the closed North high school and how they would make cuts to the budget.

Board President Dee Molinare and board members Christopher Lucchetti, Joseph Kosteck and Joseph Kirkeeng, along with Aaron Janik and Robert Ripp, were asked at Thursday’s candidate forum what should be done with North.

In 2015, the board voted, 5-2, to close North by fall 2016 as a cost-saving measure to reduce multimillion-dollar deficits in its budget.

Lucchetti said he didn’t have an answer for what should be done with North but recommended the district become more financially stable and

officials develop a long-term view on the district before deciding to move students again.

Molinare said she would support a discussion with the community, board and staff on the possible use of all of the district’s facilities, including North. She said it would have to be a strategic process.

Ripp said the district needs to develop a long-term strategic plan that takes all of its assets and how best to use them into account.

Janik said the bonds that were issued to build North restrict what it can be used for, and the district’s hands were tied. Kirkeeng said there needs to be a sense of urgency regarding North, a major asset of the district.

“We need to sit down and have some very tough discussions about what the short-, intermediate- and long-term plans are for that asset,” Kirkeeng said.

Kosteck said the board in the future will have to find a way to get some of the restrictions on the bonds lifted. In talking with the district’s lawyers, he said if a private school wanted to rent North, it would not be able to because of the structure of the bonds.

“These schools, when we keep them excellent, that’s what’s going to drive the growth, when the growth comes, we will have the financial means to re-open [North],” he said.

While the candidates were not in favor of cuts to extracurricular activities or reductions that affect the students, they were asked where they might cut the budget if needed.

Janik said he would have to see the whole budget before giving an answer while Kirkeeng said he would make determinations on some line items in the budget on a “zero-based balance.”

Kosteck said if cuts were to happen for extracurricular activities, he would see if parents would be willing

to pay for it before eliminating it.

Lucchetti said the district needs to make sure everything has been bid, along with new contracts. He said he is a big proponent of building up cash reserves and running surpluses but he did not want that goal to affect the students.

For Molinare, the hiring of a new business manager might provide the district with a fresh perspective on the budget to find areas that could be trimmed without affecting students.

Ripp said the first place in the budget he would look at would be auxiliary services the district provides, saying it runs “basically a transportation company for our students and also for the feeder school districts.”

“We need to analyze that situation and see if it still makes sense with today’s financial problems, see if there’s efficiencies that can be made there or if the whole program needs to be restructured,” he said.

Feds investigating former Lincoln-Way employee’s company

By FELIX SARVER

fsarver@shawmedia.com NEW LENOX – A federal grand jury subpoena was issued last month to Lincoln-Way District 210 – this time looking for information regarding a company associated with a former district employee.

Since at least last May, federal grand jury subpoenas have been sent to District 210 from the U.S. Attorney’s Office seeking an array of records and information as part of a criminal investigation.

The Dec. 21 subpoena was sent to the district seeking records – invoices, quotes, payments and communications – related to work done by Evans Custom Lettering for the district from Jan. 1, 2005, to present.

A call Friday to Tom Evans of Evans Custom Lettering was not immediately returned.

Taryn Atwell, district spokeswoman, stated in an email that Evans worked for the district as a contractor first and then was employed as a painter and artist. Superintendent Scott Tingley said Friday that Evans did painting at North

and West high schools during their construction in the late 2000s.

He said Evans was a painter for the district until either 2013 or 2014 and then worked as a security guard, primarily at East High School, until he retired this school year.

Evans also was referenced in a July 13 federal grand jury subpoena sent to the district that sought employment documents related to him as well as Tanya Mikolajczyk and Sandra Heimberg.

Many of the records federal prosecutors are seeking concern controver-

sial former superintendent Lawrence Wyllie, who served at the district for 24 years. Wyllie has not been charged with a crime.

In a statement last year following a report on improper accounting practices, board members stated that a “proper system of checks and balances was not in place” and that Wyllie “took unauthorized action.”

At a board candidate forum Thursday, board President Dee Molinare, who’s running for re-election, distanced

See INVESTIGATION, page 26

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Q&A: New role for Freitag in Will County

By BRIAN STANLEY

islation.

bstanley@shawmedia.com

Stanley: And what skills do you bring to help them do that?

Freitag: Let’s be clear I’m not de-

Attorney Ragan Freitag, R-Wilmington, is leaving her position as a Will County Board member representing District 6 to become the board’s chief of staff in early March. Senior Reporter Brian Stanley recently spoke with Freitag about the change, as well as her personal history and interests.

nouncing anyone’s ability, but sometimes lawyers have a hard time dealing with non-lawyers. The board members are policymakers. When they’re creating or amending a county ordinance, they have to consider how it works with state law or liability concerns. I’ll be able to focus on that.

Stanley: What does the chief of staff do?

Freitag: The chief of staff is a rep-

Stanley: Any other reasons for the career change?

Freitag: I really am happy to be

resentative for all 26 board members.

[I’ll] provide advice, council. My job is to make them look good.

getting out of politics. Running [for re-election last year] was almost like a third job. It’s changed over the years and not for the better. People are a lot more negative. It gets personal when it doesn’t need to be. I’m not going to miss that. I made it through The Citadel [military school], I can get through anything, but it was hard on my family.

Stanley: Obviously you will have to resign from your seat. Are you also leaving [law firm] Kavanagh, Grumley & Gorbold?

Freitag: Yes. I will keep my license

but I won’t be practicing. I’ll be helping, all of Will County, not just District 6. I’m going to work hard, but – obviPhoto provided ously – to go from two jobs to one job is going to be easier. I won’t miss coming Ragan Freitag will become the Will County Board’s chief of staff in early March. home very late or spending nights with Stanley: Though some Democrats contribute towards that. There’s a ris- raised questions about receiving this aptire county board? files open on my bed for all hours.

Freitag: One of them will be to deal ing cost right now and we want to stay pointment right after you were elected Stanley: What do you think will be the with how the county’s going to con- within the budget, and not raise taxes. biggest challenges coming up for the en- tinue to provide health insurance and We have to stay on top of the latest legSee FREITAG, page 8

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Continued from page 6 for a second term [letting Republicans appoint a replacement]?

Freitag: If I’d known [the position]

was coming, I wouldn’t have run again. I wouldn’t have put my family through another campaign. Wouldn’t there already have been a replacement for me if this had been pre-ordained? Up until a few weeks ago, I was setting trial dates for my clients.

Stanley: And Don Gould, R-Shorewood, will have to get new signs? [Freitag and Gould campaigned together for District 6’s two seats and shared signage with both their names.]

Freitag: Yes, he’s got to come pick all of those up out of my garage ... or find another Freitag to run with.

Stanley: Does your sister have any aspirations?

Freitag: No! I think people assume

my family is super political, very conservative. I was born the day before (Ronald) Reagan’s inauguration, but it’s spelled differently. My parents saw it in a name book and thought it was a pretty name for a girl. I hope I’ve made them proud of it.

Stanley: Why did you pick military school and then a law career?

Freitag: I’ve always looked for a challenge. My dad, Roger, was in the military. I [respect] the discipline.

There aren’t a lot of females at The Citadel. I was the first girl to graduate in three years.

As for my career, my dad would say I’ve always argued, now I get paid to do it.

Stanley: The Citadel’s in South Carolina and you went to law school in Jackson, Mississippi. Does the South hold some appeal to a Wilmington girl?

Freitag: Absolutely. My boyfriend

and I love going to Charleston to do nothing more than walk around the town and eat somewhere. Savannah, Georgia, is a great place to go, too. You have to read John Berendt’s “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” then do the tour. The book was much better than the movie.

However, Pat Conroy is my [top Southern] author. I’ve read “Lords of Discipline,” which is based on his experiences at The Citadel five times.

My bookmark is a picture of the two of us from the time I met him.

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Continued from page 3 Tuesdays with additional skills and cooking runs Thursdays. Members also practiced their parts on their own, he said.

“We were busy bees, that’s for sure,” Gonzalez said.

On Friday, the students competed in the areas of pastry skills, knife cuts, and fish and meat fabrication. Gonzalez admitted to occasionally feeling “weak in the knees,” as he zipped back and forth getting whatever his teammates needed, as opposed to Emma Prucha, who said she felt calm while she worked the dough and removed membrane from her oranges.

Having quality product certainly helped.

“The segments were big and easy to work with,” Prucha said of the oranges.

Gonzalez cut all the vegetables.

Josh Durkiewicz filleted a Dover sole in 10 to 12 minutes and said the fish turned out well.

“I took my time,” Durkiewicz said, “and the roe sack stayed intact.”

As the clock wound down, judges reminded the students to continue until they finished, even if time was up.

A polite chorus of, “Yes, Chef,” rose from the students, as they maintained stride.

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“It’s not necessarily about recipes and creating a menu as much as seeing how they handle their tools, coordinate exact cuts, properly fabricate fish and poultry, and make pastry cream.”

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JJC culinary arts department chairman Six minutes after Durkiewicz completed his fish, Clemente had cut up his chicken. He beat the clock with seconds to spare, which Clemente said made him feel good.

“I even had time to wipe up,” Clemente said.

Times for Saturday’s competition were decided by lottery. JJC was the last team in the central region to compete that morning.

According to the ACF website, the central region teams were Pulaski Technical College, Johnson County Community College, Culinary Institute of Michigan (Port Huron), ACF Chefs de Cuisine Association of St. Louis Inc., Metropolitan Community College, North Dakota State College of Science, Grayson College and Fox Valley Technical College.

The teams in the Western region competed in the afternoon. They were Orange Coast College, Pueblo Community College, Kapiolani Community College, Cascade Culinary Institute at Central Oregon Community College

and Bellingham Technical College.

Parents watched the action Saturday from a viewing room. Laura Prucha, Emma’s mother, from Indiana, was one of the supporters. Laura Prucha said she attends all of Emma’s culinary functions and was proud of Emma’s hard work, but nervous that the slightest mistake could cost the team their win.

Still, Laura Prucha felt hopeful.

“They were smiling, calm, and worked well together,” she said.

Rodriguez’s father, Scott Gerken of Bolingbrook, a chef at Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago, said his son did great.

“His job was to hold the team together,” Gerken said. “I think he held up to that responsibility.”

After they brought the food to the judges and cleaned up their stations, the JJC team filed out for photos. JJC chef instructor Paul Bringas, who coached the team along with JJC chef instructor Timothy Bucci, said the team worked very hard.

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Durkiewicz, who prepared the salad, was happy with his squash but wished he’d cooked his pears 30 seconds longer.

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Clemente, who prepared the entree, echoed that sentiment by adding that Saturday’s competition was one of the calmest runs the team ever had. Rodriguez credited the team’s ability to have fun while they competed for their smooth execution.

“We had good enthusiasm and great communication,” he said.

McGreal said culinary students who compete typically acquire skills and confidence well above the typical student.

“It’s not necessarily about recipes and creating a menu,” McGreal said, “as much as seeing how they handle their tools, coordinate exact cuts, properly fabricate fish and poultry, and make pastry cream.”

One of the judges, Alex Darvishi, executive chef from the Houston Country Club in Texas, said ACF promotes student competitions because it gives students the opportunity to refine and perfect their skills.

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“We do need order in how we ask for

indicate that written legal opinion requests are expected to come through the executive committee.

“I agree with that, that we put it in the county board rules,” Moustis said.

He said written legal opinion requests are different than a simple clarification of a statute.

“These would be the more formal,

long-term operational type of opinions that we would formally respond to in writing,” Tatroe said.

She said she keeps a binder of opinions the state’s attorney’s office has issued. Tatroe said it would be best to have the more detailed requests placed

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Weber said Hernandez was taken into custody about 11:30 a.m. at the warehouse with assistance from the Will County Gang Suppression Unit. Hernandez’s Mercury also was seized.

Hernandez, of the 3600 block of North Kedzie Avenue, was arrested on three counts of delivery of drugs and one count of drug possession. He is being held in the Will County Jail on $1.5 million bond.

Jose E. Lopez, 40; Ernesto Zuniga, 50; and Adrian Montanez, 43, were traveling near Interstate 57 and Wilmington-Peotone Road before they were stopped Jose E. Lopez by sheriff’s deputies, according to a sheriff’s news release.

While the deputies spoke, the three appeared evasive in answering routine questions and the sheriff’s Ernesto K-9 unit was called to the Zuniga scene, where the dogs indicated the possible presence of illegal drugs in their vehicles.

Deputies said they performed a search

and recovered cocaine that had a street value of $200,000.

All three were determined to be involved in the incident during questioning, and they were Adrian Montanez arrested and sent to the county jail.

Lopez was charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, using an improper turn signal and driving with an expired license. Zuniga was charged with unlawful delivery of a controlled substance. Montanez also was charged with unlawful delivery of a controlled substance.

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mmallory@shawmedia.com JOLIET – Will County has been chosen to receive $398,202 to supplement emergency food and shelter programs.

That’s about a 6 percent increase from last year, when the United Way of Will County received $373,569 to disperse among nonprofits.

The national board of the Emergency Food and Shelter Program, led by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, decides how much to award counties across the country.

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The local Emergency Food and Shelter Program board, chaired by Hen-

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JOLIET TOWNSHIP – The Laraway School property might be going to auction later this month.

Laraway School District 70C, which received voter approval in November to build a new school, is preparing to sell Laraway School.

The school board meets Feb. 21, when it will likely vote on whether to approve an auction sale of Laraway School, said Superintendent Joe Salmieri.

If the sale is approved, the district would begin taking bids the following week and could approve a buyer before the end of April.

The school property, consisting of 40 acres at 275 W. Laraway Road, has been appraised at more than $5 million.

Laraway School lies along a busy truck route, and the district for several years has been looking to move to a less congested location. But the truck traffic and surrounding warehouse development may provide a good market for the school, Salmieri said.

“Just from general knowledge and seeing the industry popping up with warehouses, we have to think we’re in a good location for an industrial business that wants to have access to highway or rail,” he said.

The Joliet Plan Commission will

consider the school district’s petition to have the property annexed into Joliet under business zoning Feb. 16.

Salmieri said the district wants to prepare the property “for potential buyers, so they know that it’s already been zoned for business.”

The district is following the procedure set by state law for selling school property by selling it through the auction process. But it won’t be the typical one-day auction.

The school board, when it approves the auction, will set a minimum price for the property. Interested buyers will be able to submit bids for nearly two months before the board reviews the offers and decides whether to approve a buyer.

The board has the right to reject all bids, Salmieri said.

If the board approves terms for an auction on Feb. 21, Salmieri said, bidding would likely continue until about April 20, and the board could select a buyer April 25.

Meanwhile, the district plans a groundbreaking for the new school for sometime in April. The new school on Rowell Avenue is slated to open in fall 2018.

A public meeting has been scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday at Laraway School to present site plans for the new school.

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bokon@shawmedia.com JOLIET – Mayor Bob O’Dekirk wants the city to begin preparing for the possibility of future water shortages.

Joliet gets its water through wells from a regional aquifer, which planners see as a declining water source that could dry up in 20 years.

Former Aurora Mayor Tom Weisner will make a presentation to the city council at its meeting at 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday on “Water Challenges Facing Joliet.”

O’Dekirk said he invited Weisner, whom he considers to be a leader on the issue and has experience moving Aurora to other water sources. Both Joliet and Aurora draw water from the same aquifer, but Aurora has begun using water from the Fox River.

“It’s a regional problem. We’re sitting on an aquifer that’s running out of water,” O’Dekirk said. “We’re going to need a long-term solution for the city of Joliet.”

This is not the first time that the future of Joliet’s water supply has been brought into question.

In the 1990s, Joliet began making plans to draw water from the Kankakee River someday. The city even acquired property along the Kankakee River that could be used as a future

pumping site. Joliet still has land along the Kankakee River, but the plans have been shelved.

The future of the regional aquifer has been spotlighted off and on in the media when planning reports that explore the problem are issued.

The 20-year timeline for the aquifer is based on studies done by the Illinois State Water Survey, said Josh Ellis, vice president of the Metropolitan Planning Council.

The Chicago regional planning agency has its own 10-point agenda to address water supply problems in northeastern Illinois.

Ellis said the former Aurora mayor should be a good speaker on the subject because of that city’s experience in shifting away from total reliance on the aquifer.

“Aurora, like Joliet, sits on a river, so Aurora has been getting more water from the Fox River,” he said.

Joliet sits on the Des Plaines River, which generally is not viewed as a source of drinking water – one of the reasons the city looked to connect with the Kankakee River. But water purification technology has improved, Ellis said.

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Harold W. Barker “Bill,” age 86, passed away peacefully on Thursday, February 2, 2017 with his loving family by his side.

Harold is survived by his loving wife of 61 years, Sheila (nee Foster); children, James (Monica) Barker and Catherine Barker; grandchildren, Matthew and Dylan Barker; sister-in-law, Lorraine (the late Grant) Barker; numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.

Preceded in death by his parents, Stanley and Teresa (nee Miller) Barker; 2 brothers, Grant and Leonard Barker; two sisters, Pat Usher and Joan Barker.

Harold was born in North Bay, Ontario. He resided in Joliet since 1959 and was a long time parishioner of the Cathedral of St. Raymond. He will be truly missed.

The family would like to offer a special thank you to Dr. Michael Waszak and Dr. Seif Martini as well as his caregiver, Amy for the wonderful care provided to Harold.

A celebration of Harold’s life will begin on Monday, February 6, 2017 with a visitation at the Cathedral of St. Raymond Nonnatus from 10:00 a.m. until the time of Mass of Christian Burial to be held at 11:00 a.m. Per Harold’s wishes cremation rites will be accorded following Mass. Interment of cremated remains will be held at a later date in Ontario, Canada. There will be no funeral home visitation or services.

Obituary and Tribute Wall for Harold W. Barker at www.tezakfuneralhome.com or for information, 815-722-0524. Arrangements entrusted to:

Harold is survived by his loving wife of 47 years, Margaret (nee Gergacz); children, Brian (Mary Kay) Bessler and Scottie (Melanie) Bessler; grandchildren, Michaela and Margaret Bessler and Annabelle and Abigail Bessler; one sister; four brothers; numerous nieces and nephews.

Preceded in death by his parents, Carl and Agnes (nee Johannson) Bessler; and one brother.

Harold was raised in Lake George, MN and enlisted in the United States Army, serving from 1964 - 1966. During his time in service, Harold was stationed in Germany. Harold obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Business from Bemidji State University. He moved to Chicago to pursue his career with the Internal Revenue Service in 1967. Harold then met his beloved wife, Margaret, in Joliet while on business, marrying in 1969 at S.S. Cyril and Methodius Catholic Church. He was an avid weekly bowler for nearly 40 years at Town and Country Lanes in Joliet. Harold was also a dedicated coach for the Joliet Park District Organization, St. Raymond’s School and Holy Family School.

After nearly 40 years of service, Harold’s retirement in 2002 from the IRS lead him to become Co-Owner of Moonstep Creative Staffing in Joliet with his son, Brian. Harold loved frequenting the Joliet area casinos where he took full advantage of his free vouchers, and enjoyed watching all sporting events. Most importantly, Harold enjoyed spending time with the light of his life, his grandchildren. He will be truly missed by all who knew him.

A celebration of Harold’s life will begin on Tuesday, February 7, 2017 with prayers in the funeral home chapel at 10:30 a.m. then driving in procession to St. Ambrose Catholic Church in Crest Hill for a Mass of Christian Burial to be held at 11:00 a.m. Interment to follow at St. Joseph Cemetery in Joliet. Visitation will be on Monday, February 6, 2017 at Tezak Funeral Home, 1211 Plainfield Road, Joliet from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

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SISTER GESUINA BONGIORNO Sister Gesuina Bongiorno, OSM, age 79, was called home to the Lord on February 3, 2017at Marian Lake Convent in Plainfield, IL, after a courageous battle with cancer.

Sister Gesuina was a member of the Mantellate Sisters Servants of Mary for 62 years.

Sister Gesuina will be greatly missed by the Mantellate Sisters Servants of Mary, especially her Sisters at Marian Lake; her family: her sister, Phyllis(Salvatore) Buttadaurro; her brother, Joseph (Margaret) Bongiorno; her nephew, Jeffrey (Nahrin) Radogna; her nieces, Maria Buttadaurro, Julia and Marie Bongiorno; many cousins, the Secular Servite Members and so many friends and people she served and ministered with, especially the “Holy Rollers”.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Philip and Marie (nee Termini) Bongiorno; and her niece, Mary Patricia Bongiorno ininfancy.

Through the years, she totally dedicated herself to God, the Church and the Congregation. She was a talented Religious Education teacher at Mother of Sorrows High School, Blue Island. She also taught at schools in Melrose Park, IL and Hobart, IN. In the Joliet Diocese she was involved in various ministries serving the Church as a catechist, Religious Education Consultant and retreat/ workshop facilitator. Sister Gesuina shared her gifts and talents with her Congregation and the Community as Regional Superior, Provinical/Regional Councilor, Mistress of the Juniorate Sisters in Formation and Coordinator of Vocation promotion. She was a crafter of rosaries and memorial items made from roses. This ministry is a part of the Community’s “bereavement” ministry. Sister Gesuina also initiated the St. Peregrine Ministry at Marian Lake, Plainfield. Everything that she did was done with ‘single mindedness’, her love for God and those she served. Everything she did was done with “heart”.

Visitation will be Monday, February 6, 3:00 until 8:00 PM at the Overman-Jones Funeral Home & Cremation Services, corner of Routes 30 & 59, Plainfield. Prayers will begin Tuesday, February 7, 9:45 AM at the funeral home and all will then proceed to the 10:30 AM Mass of Christian Burial at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, 2500 Arbeiter Rd., Joliet.

Rev. William Dewan will officiate. Interment will follow at St. Mary Immaculate Cemetery, Plainfield.

For those who would like to leave a lasting tribute to Sister Gesuina’s life, memorials to the Mantellate Sisters Servants of Mary would be greatly appreciated in lieu of flowers.

The Mantellate Sisters deeply appreciated the care and support given to Sister Gesuina and the Community during her illness, especially the outstanding care she received from the Joliet Area Community Hospice staff.

For more information please call 815/4369221 or visitwww.overman-jones.com.

MARIE I. COOK Marie I. Cook (Irwin), age 103, of Joliet, former resident of Lockport, passed away Sunday, January 22, 2017 at Sunny Hill Nursing Home in Joliet.

Marie is survived by her nieces, nephews and a host of longtime friends. She was known as an “Aunt” to Ben, James, Alice and Tom Farnsworth, Larry, Frank Dorr Jr., Susan Darnell, Frank Meyers, Kathleen Nasenbenny, Ann Therese Goolsby and late Mary Meyers and late Pat Meyers.

Marie was preceded in death by her parents, Thomas & AnnaIrwin (Haag); husband, Farrell Cook; siblings, John “Jack” Irwin, Patrick Irwin; and Harry Irwin; her beloved nephew, Thomas Irwin; and dear friends, Dorothy Farnsworth, Marion Dorr and Kathryn Meyers.

Marie graduated from the University of St. Francis in 1935. She owned and operated several businesses in Lockport for 65 years, including the Lockport Hotel, Volz News Agency, Cookie’s Clothing and Worldly Things. Marie served on the city of Lockport’s Zoning and Planning Board for 42 years. She was the Parade Marshal for Canal Days in 2013 and has been a member of St. Dennis Church since 1940; where she was an honorary member of the CCW. A memorial mass is scheduled for Friday, February 10th, 2017 at 10:00 AM at St. Dennis Church, 1214 S. Hamilton Street, Lockport, IL 60441. Interment will be private.

In lieu of flowers, donations to St. Dennis Church would be appreciated.

For information, http://www.kurtzmemorialchapel.com/www.goodalememorialchapel. com or 815-838-1533.

GREGORY E. DULNY Gregory E. Dulny, age 55, died January 29th after a courageous battle with diabetes and multiple subsequent strokes.

Born in Joliet and a lifelong Joliet resident. A graduate of Joliet Central High School, Class of 1980. As his parents were in the restaurant business operating Frank & Mary’s Restaurant in Joliet, Greg followed the tradition when he opened Heroe’s & Legends Sports Bar and later went on to open Glory Days Sports Bar & Grill. He loved spending time talking to his customers about anything, and he also loved fishing and

playing golf.

Preceded by his father, Frank Dulny (1979).

Survived by his loving mother, Mary (nee Bucciarelli) Dulny-Duchene of Joliet; step-father, Roy Duchene of Joliet; three sisters, Ann (Bob) Sterioti of Shorewood, Sue (Chuck) Skeldon of Shorewood and Mary Lou (Dr. Robert) Larson of Joliet; two brothers, Dave (Jennifer) Dulny of Kansas and Mike (Toni) Dulny of Shorewood; and two daughters, Casey and Katie Dulny of Joliet. Numerous nephews, nieces, cousins and his ever faithful dog and companion Shaggy also survive.

The family would like to express their heartfelt appreciation to Greg’s caregivers for the last few years, Rochelle and Yvette. Your loving care will always be remembered.

Funeral services for Gregory Dulny were private as was his wish. Cremation Rites have been accorded. Fred C. Dames is in charge of arrangements. For more information, please call (815) 741-5500 or visit his Memorial Tribute at www.fredcdames.com.

JUNE MARILYN GALLAWAY June Marilyn Gallaway (nee Krueger), age 78, of Manhattan, passed away peacefully on Thursday, February 2, 2017 with family at her side.

She is survived by her loving husband of 60 years, James “Mike”Michael Gallaway; her children, Mike (Sharon) Gallaway, Tammy (Mark)Santangelo, Colleen Gallaway, Patrick (Debbie) Gallaway, Sean (Vicky) Gallawayand Timothy (Brenda) Gallaway; 12 grandchildren, 7 great grandchildren, her brother, Herb Krueger; her sister, Darlene Dewar; and numerous nieces, nephews and her two faithful canine companions, Little Guy and Buddy.

June is preceded in death by her parents, Martin and Frieda Krueger; her son, Martin Gallaway; her twin sister, Jean Watts; two sisters, Margarite Burns and Elaine Krunkel; and two brothers, Don Krueger and Willis Krueger.

June loved spending time with her family, floating in the river and looking at the mountains, and she enjoyed her time living in Arkansas.

Visitation for June will be Monday, February 6, 2017 from 4:00 to 8:00 P.M. at Forsythe Gould Funeral Home, Manhattan, IL. Funeral service will be 10:30 A.M. Tuesday, February 7, 2017 from the funeral home in procession to St. Joseph Catholic Church, 235 West North Street, Manhattan, IL for 11:00 A.M. Mass of Christian Burial. Interment St. Joseph Cemetery, Manhattan, IL. Donations in June’s name to Gassville Therapy and Living Center, 203 Cotter Rd, Gassville, AR, 72635 would be most appre-

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Forsythe Gould Funeral Home, 507 S. State St. (Rt. 52), Manhattan, IL 60442, 815-478-3321, www.forsythegouldfh.com

JAMES RUSSELL HANCOCK James Russell Hancock, age 89, late of Bradenton, FL formerly of New Lenox, IL passed away on Sunday, January 29, 2017.

Jim was preceded in death by his wife, Mary J. Hancock (nee Gelsomino); son, Hugo Miller; and one grandson, James Miller.

He is survived by his children, Vince (Carol) Miller, Dianna (Jim) Kubina, Russell Hancock, Ronnie (Cheri) Hancock, Robert (Mary) Hancock; eighteen grandchildren, twenty one great grandchildren. Four great great grandchildren; one sister, Opal Arduino; numerous nieces and nephews.

Jim was a Korean War Veteran and a retired member of Will County Carpenters Union.

Funeral services took place Saturday at Flora Funeral Chapel Rock Mountain, VA. Interment in Antioch Church of the Brethren Cemetery.

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BRIAN J. HEURUNG

Born: May 24, 1951; in Morrison, IL Died: January 30, 2017; in Galena, IL Brian J. Heurung, 65, of Galena, IL and formerly Mokena, IL passed away unexpectedly Monday, January 30, 2017 at Midwest Medical Center, Galena.

A celebration of his life will be held from Noon until 3:00 PM, Saturday, February 4, 2017 at Fried Green Tomatoes, 213 North Main Street, Galena. The Furlong Funeral Chapel, Galena is assisting the family.

He was on born May 24, 1951 in Morrison, IL the son of John and Barbara (McCulloh) Heurung. Brian graduated from Lockport High School in 1969 and went on to attend Northern Illinois University, DeKalb where he received his B.A. in music education. He was united in marriage to Michelle Mussatto on September 18, 1982 at Shephard of the Hill Church, Lockport. Currently, he was employed by CNA

RICHARD E. JURICIC

Born: August 9, 1936 Died: January 29, 2017

Richard E. Juricic, 80, of Henderson, NV died Sunday, January 29, 2017. Richard was born August 9, 1936 in Joliet, the son of Joseph and Marie Juricic.

Surviving are his spouse of 53 years, Charlene; two daughters and son-in-laws, Terri and Steven Morrical of Lexington, KY and Laura and Tom Duvall of Long Grove, IL; three grandchildren, Chase, Blake and Katlyn; two sisters, Marie Gulas and Dorothy Brown. Preceded in death by his parents ,Joseph and Marie; brother, Joseph R.; and sister, Mildred Juricic.

Richard was a Naval Officer and Top Gun Aviator. He attended the Cathedral of St. Raymond School and graduated from Purdue University.

Richard married Charlene in 1963 in Lafayette, IN. He worked as a business executive in the food and consumer products industry while living in Kankakee, IL and Mequon, WI. He retired from Power Packing Inc and was living in Henderson, NV at the time of his death. He was an avid golfer and football fan.

Visitation will be held Monday, February 6th from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. at Blackburn-Giegerich-Sonntag Funeral Home in Joliet, IL. Funeral from the Blackburn-Giegerich-Sonntag Funeral Home Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at 9:30 a.m. to the Cathedral of St. Raymond for a Mass of Christian Burial at 10:00 a.m. Burial with military funeral honors will be at Resurrection Cemetery in Romeoville.

JOHN CARL KOGA

Born: November 20, 1963 Died: January 31, 2017 John Carl Koga, age 53, at rest peacefully Tuesday, January 31, 2017 at home surrounded by his loving family and his canine companion, Koko.

Born November 20, 1963 in Chicago. He was an avid Chicago sports fan who also enjoyed golfing, Nascar racing and cooking. His favorite time of the year was the summer, when he could be found sun tanning and enjoying family time floating in his pool. John enjoyed spending time with family and friends and was always laughing, he was truly the life of the party.

Survived by his wife, Laura Anne (nee DeZee); three children, Nick DeZee, Ashley Koga and Anthony Koga; two grandchildren, Jayce and Bella Koga; one brother, Michael Donna) Koga; two nephews, Robert (Liz) Filipow and Louis (Jessica) Filipow; aunts, uncles, cousins also survive. Preceded by his father, Michael Koga; his mother, Janet (nee Olson) Ponzevic; and his step father, Patrick Ponzevic.

Funeral Services will be held on Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at 9:45 a.m. from the Fred C. Dames Funeral Home 3200 Black at Essington Roads Joliet to St. Mary Immaculate Catholic Church where a Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m. Cremation rites will follow the Mass. Inurnment will take place at a later date at St. Mary Immaculate Cemetery.

Visitation Monday 3:00 to 8:00 p.m. For further information please call 815-741-5500 or visit his Memorial Tribute at www.fredcdames.com.

JOAN G. KOMBOL

Born: August 31, 1941; in Plainfield, IL Died: February 1, 2017; in Joliet, IL Joan G. (nee Green) Kombol, age 75, of Crest Hill, IL, formerly of Joliet, IL, passed away peacefully, Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at Presence St. Joseph Medical Center, Joliet, IL. She was born August 31, 1941 in Plainfield, IL to the loving late parents, Tracy and Marjorie Green. Beloved mother of Ronald (Mary Lynn) Kombol of Cape Coral, FL, Tracy (Roberto) Verdin of Ft. Myers, FL and Christine (Rolando) Garcia of Channahon, IL; adored Grandmother of Erica (nee Verdin) Lucio, Andrew Garcia and Morgan Garcia; loving great-grandmother of three; longtime companion of the late William Tiemann.

Memorial donations may be made to The Humane Society of the United States.

All services are private. Arrangements entrusted to Overman-Jones Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 15219 S. Joliet Road, Plainfield, IL 60544. For more information, please call 815-436-9221 or www.overman-jones.com.

GERALD LACHOWICZ Gerald Lachowicz “Jerry,” age 66. Passed away peacefully on Thursday, February 2, 2017 at his home surrounded by his loving family.

Born in Chicago and residing in Shorewood since 2006. Retired from Building Computer Data Centers in 2004. One of Jerry’s greatest professional accomplishments was building the data center for Orbitz. He was a proud veteran of the United States Marines with three tours in Vietnam.

Playing cards was his passion with Three Card Poker, Let It Ride, and Caribbean Stud as his favorites.

Survived by his beloved wife and best friend of 28 years, Susan Shannon (nee Lamphere); stepchildren, Christine (Adam) Smuczerowicz, Dan Shannon and Samantha Lachowicz; one sister, Collette Schevic; one brother, Alan Holda; nieces, Barb Janus, Toni Janus, Bridgette Janus; and nephews, John Janus (whom Jerry could never thank enough for the gift of his kidney given to him by John in 2010), and Greg Janus.

Many great-nieces and great-nephews also survive.

A sincere thank you for your continued support, love, and friendship to his brothers in the PTSD Chapter One, Joliet, IL group.

Preceded by his mother, Dorothy Vizzio (nee Kezon); twin brother, Larry Lachowicz; brother, Joseph Lachowicz Jr.; and sister, Cathy Monahan.

Family and friends of Gerald “Jerry” Lachowicz will gather on Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. at the Fred C. Dames Funeral Home, 3200 Black at Essington Rds., Joliet, IL 60431 to process to Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery. Committal Service with full military honors under the auspices of the United States Marines will be held at 12:00 NOON. Visitation Wednesday from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. For more information, please call 815-741-5500 or visit his Memorial Tribute at www.fredcdames.com.

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Josefa Herrera, age 86, of Joliet, IL, passed away peacefully at home, Friday February 3, 2017. She was born in Durango, Mexico to the late Ladislada (Rodriguez) and Jose Martinez.

Beloved wife of Miguel Herrera; loving mother of Guadalupe Herrera, Estela Rodriguez and Jesus Herrera; devoted grandmother of Norma Herrera, Miguel Rodriguez, Saul Rodriguez, Cesar Herrera, David Herrera, the late Daniel Rodriguez (2008), Oscar Herrera and Jessica Padilla; dearest great-grandmother of Crystal Rodriguez, Mariano Terrazas, Yariel Terrazas, Estrella Rodriguez, Saul Rodriguez, Jr., Alonso Rodriguez, Cesar Leonardo Herrera, Catalina Herrera, Carolina Herrera, Danica Herrera, Eligio Herrera, Ivan Padilla and Daniela Padilla; proud great-great grandmother of Daniel Arroyo.

Also surviving are one sister, Alicia Martinez; one brother, Jesus Martinez; and many nieces, nephews and cousins.

In addition to her grandson and parents, she is also preceded in death by her sister, Angelina Martinez; and brothers, Rodolfo and Miguel Martinez.

Funeral services for Josefa Herrera will be held Wednesday February 8, 2017, 9:30 a.m. at the Fred C. Dames Funeral Home, 3200 Black Rd. (at Essington Rd.) in Joliet to St. Mary Immaculate Catholic Church, 129 S. Division St. (Rt. 59) in Plainfield, IL where a Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m.

Interment will follow in St. Mary Immaculate Parish Cemetery. Visitation will be Tuesday February 7, 2017, from 4:00 to 9:00 p.m. at the funeral home. For further information, please call (815) 741-5500 or visit her Memorial Tribute at www.fredcdames.com.

Surety Company, a position he has held for the past 33 years. In July of 2016, he and his wife Michelle followed their dream of owning a bed and breakfast and moved to Galena.

He is survived by his mother, Barbara Heurung of Lockport; his wife, Michelle of Galena; two sons, Brad (Lisa) Heurung of Aurora, IL and Callan (fiancee’, Katie Wolf) Heurung of St. Louis, MO; first grandchild to be born this spring; a sister, Lori (James) Hubbs of Lockport; a niece, Nikki Hubbs; and two nephews, Josh and Jeremy Redmon. He was preceded in death by his father; and a sister, Kristi.

Online condolences maybe left at www. furlongfuneralchapel.com.

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JOAN E. LEWANDOWSKI

Born: May 26, 1923 Died: January 30, 2017

Joan Elizabeth Lewandowski (nee Batson), age 93, of Joliet, IL, passed away on Monday, January 30, 2017 at her residence.

Joan was born May 26, 1923, in Leicester, England, the daughter of John Thomas and Kate Jones Batson. She married Walter Lewandowski, a member of the U.S. Air Force stationed in England, on October 21, 1944, at Holy Cross Church in Leicester, England. Joan came to the U.S. in 1946 with her infant son Vincent via the S.S. Cristobal, one of many World War II transport ships that carried war brides and their children from England to the States.

Survivors include her son, Vincent Lewandowski of Joliet, IL; two grandsons, Scott (Nancy) Lewandowski of Joliet, IL and Steven (Michelle) Lewandowski of Rockdale, IL; 5 great-grandchildren, Abigail, Blake, and Cara Lewandowski and Logan and Kylie Lewandowski; a brother, Lawrence Batson of Leicester, England; dear friend and former daughter-in-law, Barbara (Baron) Westphal of Crest Hill, IL; dear friend and caring neighbor, Georgene Williams of Joliet, IL; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Joan was preceded in death by her parents, her husband and 10 brothers and sisters.

Joan worked for S.O.S. and Miles Laboratory in Bedford Park, IL, for over 20 years and was also a housekeeper for several business and offices in downtown Joliet. While she truly enjoyed her work years, she was happiest in her roles as loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. While Joan never drove a car a day in her life, she wore out the wheels on strollers, since she “walked” her grandsons Scott and Steve all over town during their pre-school years. Up until just this past fall, she took daily walks with her walker to stay active and fit. She was also fond of playing bingo, cards and chatting with folks, even strangers, who found both she and her cute English accent most endearing. Joan will be so very, very missed. To know her was to love her.

A celebration of Joan’s life will begin on Friday, February 10, 2017 with prayers in the funeral home chapel at 9:20 a.m. then driving in procession to Holy Cross Catholic Church, 826 Elizabeth Street, Joliet, IL, for a Mass of Christian Burial to be held at 10:00 a.m. Interment to follow at Holy Cross Cemetery in Joliet. Visitation will be on Thursday, February 9, 2017 at Tezak Funeral Home, 1211 Plainfield Road, Joliet from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Obituary and Tribute Wall for Joan Elizabeth Lewandowski at www.tezakfuneralhome.com or for information, 815-722-0524.

Arrangements entrusted to:

CELIA LINDSEY

Born: May 17, 1930 Died: January 29, 2017 Celia Lindsey, was born May 17, 1930 in Heidelberg, MS to Caleb Lindsey and Organ Lindsey. She departed this life on Sunday, January 29, 2017.

She was a great fan of the Tim Jones show.

She is preceded in death by her father, Caleb Lindsey; mother, Organ (Jones) Lindsey; five sisters, Priscilla Morgan, Wilma Green, Addie May Clayton, Ethel Lee Lockhart and Henriola Lindsey; and one brother, Caleb Lindsey.

She leaves behind; two sisters, Johnny Mae Andrews and Sarah Lindsey; three sons, Larry W. Lindsey, Oliver M. Lindsey and Clifton Lindsey; one daughter, Helene Doss. She also leaves behind numerous grandchildren, great grandchildren, nieces and nephews whom she adored.

Visitation will be on Tuesday, February 7, 2017 10:00 to 11:00 AM at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 402 Singleton Pl., Joliet, IL. Service at 11:00 AM, Dr. David G. Latimore, officiating.

Interment following at Elmhurst Cemetery, Joliet, IL. Minor-Morris Funeral Home, Ltd. 112 Richards St. (815) 723-1283

GARY EVAN McGOWAN Born: October 2, 1940 Died: February 3, 2017

Gary Evan McGowan, age, 76. At rest Friday, February 3, 2017 at Central DuPage Hospital.

Born on October 2, 1940 in Peoria, IL to William and Ruth (nee Olson) McGowan.

Gary was an avid sportsman who loved trap shooting. He always admired the beauty of an antique car. Retired in 2004 after 40 years of service from GAF Corp.

Preceded by his parents and his sister, Kathleen Frelichowski.

Survived by his loving wife of 54 years, Suzanne (nee Theobald); his children, Julie (Joel) Winchester, Rebecca (Dave) Fariss and William (Nicole) McGowan; grandchildren, Michael (Pattie) Winchester, Stephanie (Mark) Gregory, Tony Winchester, Adam Winchester, Molly McGowan, Madeline Fariss, Alivia Fariss and Emily Fariss; great grandchildren, Owen Gregory and Jacob Winchester; and his brother-in-law, Dave Frelichowski.

Funeral services for Gary Evan McGowan will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at the Fred C. Dames Funeral Home, 3200 Black at Essington Roads, Joliet, IL. Interment Woodlawn Memorial Park.

In lieu of flowers, memorials in his name to the Charity of the donor’s choice.

Visitation Monday 3:00 to 8:00 pm.

For further information please call 815-7415500 or visit his Memorial Tribute at www. fredcdames.com.

WILLIAM MERRELL

Born: February 12, 1952 Died: January 30, 2017

Celebrating the life of Captain William Merrell, U.S. Marine Corps.

Born February 12, 1952 to Byrd and Vernell Merrellin Vossburg, Mississippi. An Alumni of Fairmont Elementary School, Lockport High School, and the U.S. Naval Academy. He received a congressional appointment, a degree in political science, and received his commission as 2nd lieutenant in U.S. Marine Corps in ‘75. He received a master’s degree in HR Management from Pepperdine University. He served with honor until 1987. He worked as an HR manager for Zimmer Orthopedics and for ISAC. He passed away on Monday, January 30, 2017.

He is remembered by his wife, Marilyn; children, Marcel, Robert, Ayanna, Michele, and Jaren; 10 grandchildren; and brother, John. His memory is cherished by a special childhood friend, Cliff McFarland; and lifelong friends, Ron,

Roscoe, and James.

Visitation will be held on Monday, February 6, 2017 from 5:00 to 7:00 PM at the funeral home and Tuesday, February 7, 2017 10:00 to 11:00 AM at Shiloh M.B. Baptist Church, 18101 Oak Ave., Lockport, IL. Service at 11:00 AM, Pastor Richard D. House, officiating. Interment following at Abraham Lincoln Cemetery, Elwood, IL. Minor-Morris Funeral Home, Ltd. 112 Richards St. (815) 723-1283

KATHLEEN A. MIHELICH Kathleen “Kay” A. Mihelich nee Mallaney, age 83, passed away on Wednesday, February 1, 2017.

Kathleen is survived by her loving husband of 59 years, Leroy Mihelich; children, Karen (Ken) Henrickson, Michael (Jean) Mihelich, Sally (Rick) Sterioti and Tracy (Tony) Taranto.

Beloved grandchildren; Alyssa Sterioti, Nolan Henrickson, Anna Mihelich, Andrew Sterioti, Casey Henrickson, Erin Mihelich, Ava and Giada Taranto. Numerous nieces and nephews also survive.

Preceded in death by her parents, Edward and Ida Mallaney; siblings, Monica, Bernard, James, Edward, Patrick, Norene, Jean, and Joan.

Kay was a loving wife, mother, and grandmother. She loved to cater to all of her family and friends making sure she had your favorite candy. She was very proud of her Irish heritage.

She loved to shop, see a good movie, and go to the casinos. She will be dearly missed by all who knew her.

Donations in Kathleen’s name may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

A celebration of Kathleen’s life will be held on Wednesday February 8, 2016 with a memorial visitation from 9:00a.m to 11:00a.m. at Tezak Funeral Home, then processing to St. Ambrose Catholic Church for a Mass of Christian Burial at 11:30a.m. Cremation rites have been accorded.

Obituary and Tribute Wall for Kathleen A. Mihelich at www.tezakfuneralhome.com or for information, 815-722-0524.

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OBITUARIES MARY LOU NIZNIK

Born: September 27, 1933; in Joliet, IL Died: January 30, 2017; in Plainfield, IL

of Will and Grundy Counties

FLORENCE ELIZABETH PAGE Born: November 2, 1927 Died: February 1, 2017

Florence Elizabeth Page (nee Lamprecht), age 89, a 53year resident of New Lenox, went to be with her Lord on Wednesday, February 1, 2017.

Florence was born in Hammond, IN on November 2, 1927 to the late August and Katherine (nee Stoeber) Lamprecht.

Beloved wife of 68 years of the late Paul Page; loving mother of Robert Allen (Aimee)Page of Moultonborough, NH, Karen (Cliff) Alexander of Morrisville, NC, MargoSue (Robert) Marsh of Fort Wayne, IN, and Donna White of Joliet, IL; proud grandmother of Ryan, Olivia, Elizabeth and Alexis Page, Malcolm Alexander and Kari Alexander, Katrina (Curtiss) Myers, Johnathan Marsh and the late Nathan Lewis Marsh (in infancy), Eric White, April (Habib) Ahmad, and Aaron White; great grandmother of six; dear sister of the late August (Ginny)Lamprecht.

Florence was a member for many years at First Baptist Church, Hammond, IN and Ridgewood Baptist Church, Joliet. She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother.

A family visitation will be held Kurtz Memorial Chapel on Monday, February 6, 2017 from 9:00am until time of Funeral Service at 11:00am. Private interment will be held at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, Elwood. www.kurtzmemorialchapel.com or 815485-3700 for info.

FRED F. RIGONI JR. Fred F. Rigoni Jr.”Fritz,” age 93. Passed away peacefully on Thursday, February 2, 2017 at Presence St. Joseph Medical Center.

Born in Joliet and a lifelong area resident calling The Timbers of Shorewood home since 2012.

Preceded by his parents, Fred Sr. and Mae, first wife, Mabel (nee Zolla) Rigoni (1964); his second wife, Mayvis (nee Wenzel) Rigoni (2013); his infant daughter, Melissa Ann and granddaughter, Jill Walsh.

Survived by his two devoted daughters, Gina

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HELEN TROUTMAN Born: March 3, 1930 Died: February 1, 2017

Helen Troutman, age 86, passed away Wednesday February 1, 2017 at her home surrounded by family. She was a longtime resident of the Ridgewood area.

Preceded in death by her mother and father, husband, 2 brothers and 4 sisters.

Survived by her son, Lester Troutman; sister, Carol Miller; 3 grandchildren, Nicole Jadron, Melissa Troutman, Boe Troutman; and many nieces & nephews, and they brought great joy in her life.

Born March 3, 1930 in Plainfield, the 5th of 8 children. Worked at Silver Cross Hospital as a Unit Clerk until her retirement in 1989.

Helen loved her son, grandchildren and family members, traveling, polka dancing, was a member of the Joliet Area Theatre Organ Enthusiasts and American Legion Auxiliary and attended Trinity Methodist Church in Ridgewood.

Her sweet smile and laugh was contagious to everyone around her.

Inurnment at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery at a later date.

The Carlson Holmquist-Sayles Funeral Home of Joliet has been entrusted with arrangements.

For information call (815) 744-0022 or visit www.CHSFUNERAL.com.

IN LOVING MEMORY

Lucilla M. Vertin wife and mother Born: September 15, 1928 Died: February 5, 2011

Anna C. Vertin

wife and mother Born: December 12, 1889 Died: February 3, 1989

Steve G. Vertin father and husband Born: July 26, 1888 Died: February 21, 1938

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Mary Lou Niznik, age 83, peacefully entered into eternal life on Monday, January 30, 2017 from her home in Plainfield, IL Born Mary Lou Perona on September 27, 1933 in Joliet, IL. Mary Lou worked as a Certified Medical Technician in Chicago and later received a Bachelor of Arts degree Summa cum laude from College of St. Francis Joliet, IL in 1978.

She was beautiful, loving and witty woman, who lived life with grace and purpose. She inspired everybody she met, especially students of the Plainfield school system where she was a generous art teacher for 20 years. She enjoyed nurturing creativity in others. And herself.

Mary Lou was a highly creative and clever DIYer, decades before it became popular. She put her interior design skills to use remodeling homes to showroom quality. She designed and sewed exquisite coats and dresses for her only granddaughter, Natalie. Her theatrical Halloween themes were an annual event for Plainfield trick or treaters, with the entire family in her handcrafted costumes. It started as a family birthday party for her eldest grandson, Mario.

Mary Lou lived her entire life in Illinois, but was drawn to the water. It made her Irish blue eyes sparkle even more. She and her husband, Gilbert, spent much of their summers at their Lake Geneva house in Williams Bay, Wisconsin.

She loved sailing and watching the sunsets from the pier with all of their grandkids around.

She and Gilbert also enjoyed their favorite resort in Siesta Key, Florida for many winters.

Always the caring and loving wife, mother and grandmother, she will be greatly missed by her family and friends.

She is survived by her husband of 57 years, Gilbert L. Niznik; her children, Maria K. (Paul) Behnen, Julie A. (Dino) Persico and Riley F.(Suzanne) Niznik; her grandchildren, Mario and Anthony Persico, Louis and Natalie Behnen, Gavin and Jarrett Niznik.

Preceded by her parents; and her son, Christopher L. Niznik.

The family will be holding a private memorial at a later date.

They would like to thank Villa Franciscan in Joliet, along with Joliet Area Community Hospice.

Memorials in her name can be made to Joliet Area Community Hospice, 250 Water Stone Circle Joliet, IL 60431 For further information please call Fred C. Dames Funeral Home at 815-741-5500 or visit her Memorial Tribute at www.fredcdames.com.

(Gordie) Carrier of Shorewood and Carla (Alan) Schumacher of Elgin; five stepchildren, Thomas “Tom” (Debbie) Walsh of Florida, Cynthia “Cynde” (Ben) Kahn of Mount Prospect, IL, Ronald “Ron” (Donna) Walsh of Shorewood, Jean “Jeannie” (Ned) Lamey of Roselle, IL and Robert “Bob” (Diana) Walsh of Shorewood; 14 grandchildren; brother, Arthur Rigoni of Rockdale, IL; Further survived by many great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews and cousins.

A graduate of Joliet Township High School, Class of 1938. A proud WWII U.S. Army Veteran.

Former co-owner and operator of the Crown Liquor Store and former owner of the Appliance Repair Store both in Crest Hill, IL. Fritz was left to raise his two young daughters with the help of his parents after the death of his first wife, Mabel (1964). His daughters remember him studying at a table in their Crest Hill home for the Electrical Apprentice Program which became his career until his retirement in 1994.

Fritz remained a proud union member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local #176 for 49 years.

He enjoyed and participated in many of the activities offered at the Timbers. However, his favorites were those involving music. He was especially fond of the accordion which he had played himself in his early years and looked forward to those scheduled events when Rich Stanley would play. He established his own dress code by which he was known, plaid shirt with a must have pocket (never to be buttoned completely), white t-shirt (exposed), sweat pants, white crew socks (never black), and white gym shoes. To top the look he put a white napkin in the shirt pocket, never a handkerchief! Special thanks to his caregivers Oscar and Roly (Fritz referred to as Oscar’s big brother); former Plainfield neighbors, John and Betsy Sullivan and barber Jerry. Fritz had a quick wit and humor, he would tell Jerry cut the left side a bit shorter because that is the side that gets fertilized.

Funeral services for Fred F. Rigoni will be held Wednesday, February 8, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. from the Fred C. Dames Funeral Home, 3200 Black at Essington Rds., Joliet to the Cathedral of St. Raymond Nonnatus for a Mass of Christian Burial to be celebrated at 10:00 a.m. Interment Resurrection Cemetery where full military honors will be accorded under the auspices of the United States Army. In lieu of flowers, memorials in his name to the Cathedral of St. Raymond or the Wounded Warrior Project would be appreciated. Visitation Tuesday 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the funeral home. For more information, please call 815-741-5500 or visit his Memorial Tribute at www.fredcdames.com.

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U.S. suspends enforcement of travel ban, DOJ moves to appeal

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The Associated Press WASHINGTON – The government on Saturday suspended enforcement of President Donald Trump’s refugee and immigration ban and filed notice it would appeal a judge’s order, plunging the new administration into a crisis that has challenged Trump’s authority – and ability to fulfill campaign promises.

The stand-down, a day after a federal judge in Washington state temporarily blocked the ban, marked an extraordinary setback for the White House. Only a week ago, the president had acted to suspend America’s refugee program and halt immigration to the U.S. from seven Muslim-majority countries that the government said raise terrorism concerns.

As the White House worked to reinstate the ban, Trump mocked U.S. District Judge James Robart, appointed by President George W. Bush, as a “so-called judge” whose “ridiculous” ruling “will be overturned.” He added in a subsequent tweet: “Because the ban was lifted by a judge, many very bad and dangerous people may be pouring into our country. A terrible decision.”

Trump’s direct attack recalled his diatribes during the campaign against a federal judge of Mexican heritage who was overseeing a Trump University case. Justice Department lawyers could be called upon to answer for his words as the travel ban case reaches the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The order had caused unending confusion for many foreigners trying to reach the United States, prompted protests across the United States and led to multiple court challenges.

Demonstrations took place outside the White House, in New York and elsewhere. One was planned later Saturday near the estate in Palm Beach, Florida, where Trump was spending the weekend and where the American Red Cross scheduled its annual fundraising gala.

Robart’s ruling, which the White House said the Justice Department would challenge,

led federal agencies to unwind enforcement of Trump’s executive order. Justice filed notice Saturday it would appeal the ruling.

“We’ll win,” Trump told reporters Saturday night as he attended the annual gala of the American Red Cross at his private club. “For the safety of the country, we’ll win.”

The State Department, after initially saying that as many as 60,000 foreigners from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia or Yemen had their visas canceled, reversed course on Saturday and said they could travel to the U.S. if they had a valid visa.

The department on Saturday advised refugee aid agencies that refugees set to travel before Trump signed his order will now be allowed into the United States. A State Department official said in an email obtained by The Associated Press that the government was “focusing on booking refugee travel” through Feb. 17 and working to have arrivals resume as soon as Monday.

The Homeland Security Department no longer was directing airlines to prevent visa-holders affected by Trump’s order from boarding U.S.-bound planes. The agency said it had “suspended any and all actions” related to putting in place Trump’s order, which the White House argued was “intended to protect the homeland.”

The Justice Department was expected to ask the 9th Circuit to set side Robart’s ruling so the ban could go back into effect.

Trump made clear what he thought of Robart’s action.

“The opinion of this so-called judge, which essentially takes law-enforcement away from our country, is ridiculous and will be overturned,” Trump tweeted. “When a country is no longer able to say who can and who cannot come in & out, especially for reasons of safety & security - big trouble!”

After a pause of several hours, the president returned to Twitter: “What is our country coming to when a judge can halt a Homeland Security travel ban and anyone, even with bad intentions, can come into U.S.?”

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CHICAGO – Visa holders from seven majority-Muslim countries affected

by President Donald Trump’s travel ban hurried to board U.S.-bound flights Saturday, fearing they might have only a slim window through which to enter the country after a federal judge temporarily blocked the ban.

Those who could travel immediately were being urged to do so because of uncertainty over whether the Justice Department would be granted an emergency freeze of the order issued Friday by U.S. District Judge James Robart in Seattle. The government on Saturday suspended enforcement of the week-old ban as it scurried to appeal Robart’s order.

The Justice Department on Saturday night asked a federal appeals court to set aside a judge’s order that temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s travel ban. The Justice Department has alerted a court in Washington state that it is appealing the judge’s ruling from a day earlier.

The appeal was filed Saturday night with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

The ruling from U.S. District Judge James Robart temporarily halted a

Trump administration executive order that suspended America’s refugee program and halted immigration to the U.S. from seven Muslim-majority countries.

President Donald Trump has lashed out at Robart on Twitter, calling him a “so-called judge.”

Rula Aoun, director of the Arab American Civil Rights League in Dearborn, Michigan, said her group is advising people to hurry.

“We’re telling them to get on the quickest flight ASAP,” said Aoun, whose group filed a lawsuit Tuesday in federal court in Detroit asking a judge to declare Trump’s immigration order unconstitutional.

Aoun said some people have had to make hard choices, including a Yemeni family expected to arrive at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Sunday from Egypt without two of their children. The father and two of the children are U.S. citizens, the mother has an immigrant visa, but the other two children did not yet have theirs and were left behind with relatives.

“They just don’t want to take a chance of waiting,” she said.

U.S. officials have said up to 60,000 foreigners had their visas “provision-

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Continued from page 4 herself from Wyllie, saying she worked with him briefly, and he announced his retirement six months after she came on the board. She was seated on the board December 2011. Wyllie’s retirement was accepted by the board about a year later, and he retired June 2013.

After the forum, Molinare said people feel she has ties to him but she does not know him “very well at all.”

District officials also have been subpoenaed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as part of a

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Continued from page 13 on the committee agenda for a following meeting. Requests aren’t always revisited at subsequent meetings.

Moustis said the board can’t have its members walking up to Tatroe in the hallway and asking for a legal opinion.

The resolution is likely to move forward for a vote this month. No public hearing is required for the change to be made by the board.

In other news, the county’s information technology director, Mike Shay, discussed with the executive committee the latest happenings in the county’s technology department.

“nonpublic, fact-finding inquiry” to determine if federal securities laws have been violated.

Records sought by the SEC include: 2009 bonds; 2013 bonds and an escrow agreement; 2015 bonds; and communication concerning the district’s budget from past employees, such as Wyllie and former business official Ronald Sawin.

Last year, the board approved an accelerated retirement agreement with Sawin that acknowledged the two parties were in dispute over his performance.

Another federal subpoena from May 10 sought records for Frankfort Square Park District’s relationship with SuShay said the only one of the 21 recommendations from the county’s 2011 Executive Branch Information Technology Assessment that he has no intention of implementing is a help desk system.

“People want us to have a help desk system, where you call in, get your ticket, check the ticket and have these metrics you can use on your employees,” Shay said.

But Shay said he would rather have staff fixing a request on the spot than monitoring numbers that come in.

“The reason we do not have that system is: When you implement it, you lose 15 to 20 percent of your staff time on implementation and tracking of it; the other thing is, it mis-incentivizes your employees,” he said.

perdog Obedience Training School and Wyllie’s use of it.

The facility was identified in the Lincoln-Way Area Taxpayers Unite group’s unsuccessful lawsuit against the district to block the closing of North High School.

Federal prosecutors also have re-

quested records regarding drivers education fee waivers; life safety renovations; student scholarship accounts and funds; and email communication between Wyllie, former board members Arvid Johnson and Kevin Molloy, and current members Molinare, Christopher Kosel and Christine Glatz.

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Two doctors my husband and I see socially outside the hospital know about Accelerate. They like the concept, but each has reminded me of the startup called Theranos. Theranos offered comprehensive blood test results using a blood sample from a finger prick, costing one-fourth of the usual lab cost.

Both of these doctors lost a bundle as Theranos insiders. The news reports said Theranos was faking the test results. My lawyer husband says it’s out

TAKING STOCK Malcolm Berko of business, though our doctor friends say it’s still in business. – JS, Oklaho-

ma City Dear JS: For all intents and purposes,

Theranos is dead as a rock. Founded by the brilliant Elizabeth Holmes and financed with hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of feverish and frenetic venture capital, Theranos is now all but kaput.

This was a highly exciting concept, and many in the medical community went bonkers over charming Elizabeth, who left Stanford to become a capitalist. But in July 2016, federal regulators locked the doors, claiming that the test results were fiddled, and Theranos quickly became a zombie company.

Your husband is right. Tell your doctor friends that the problem with zombies is they don’t know they are zombies.

I’ve written about some boopers during the 40 years this column has been published in your paper. I’ve also called stockbrokers lots of names over those years (and I believe that what’s

suitable for the goose is suitable for the gander). However, your broker may be right as rain and sunshine.

Accelerate Diagnostics (AXDX$19.88) is an obscene speculation with no earnings in sight. The company uses a proprietary technology to eliminate time-consuming preparation steps prior to blood testing. It also forgoes the intense, time-consuming delays from microbiology labs; traditional culture-based tests often take two to three days to complete.

So “using a proprietary phenotypic and molecular detection system, Accelerate significantly reduces the time that clinicians must wait for the quantitative, antimicrobial susceptibility results necessary for optimal antibiotic selection, dosing and infusion therapy.” That’s a mouthful. And if you’ve got that in your head, you’ve got it in a nutshell.

Frankly, I don’t know what all of this means, but two docs I know tell me AXDX “could be revolutionary.”

However, the operative words there are “could be.”

AXDX, a Tucson, Arizona-based company, has had no revenues to speak of in the past decade. This year, rumor suggests that AXDX could report reve-

nues of $850,000, though there probably won’t be any profits. AXDX lost $15 million in 2013, $30 million in 2014 and $45 million in 2015. Losses for 2016 have not been posted yet, but the guesses are that AXDX lost between $55 million and $81 million.

So there have got to be some very deep-pocketed investors who ardently believe they’ll get their investment back plus a lot more. Vanguard, Fidelity, William Blair, Loomis Sayles, BlackRock, State Street, J.P. Morgan and UBS must agree, because together, they and a few others own 50 percent of the company.

A purchase of 200 shares might be a reasonable risk for you. J.P. Morgan is unabashedly bullish, and other brokerages also believe that AXDX has substantial appreciation potential in the next dozen months. I think I agree.

But don’t antagonize your broker, who is probably a good guy. Tell him that you’ll speculate by buying just 100 shares because it’s possible that he is right.

• Please address your financial questions to Malcolm Berko, P.O. Box 8303, Largo, FL 33775, or email him at mjberko@yahoo.com.

BUSINESS BRIEFS Culver’s set to open on Monday in Joliet

reconfigure the checkout area.

“It is great to see existing retailers reinvest in our community and grow their operation. An expansion is proof that the company cares about their customers and wants to offer more space, quality products and an improved shopping experience,” Romeoville Mayor John Noak said in a press release.

Construction is anticipated to begin this spring.

Culver’s of Joliet, at 219 S. Larkin Ave., will open for the first time from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Monday. Owners Baron and Bryon Waller also own Culver’s restaurants in New Lenox and Lockport.

“We’re thrilled to bring custom, madeto-order, high-quality meals and desserts to Joliet, all served with a friendly smile,” Baron Waller said in a press release.

“We’re excited to become a supportive member within the community, and proud Thornton’s in Channahon offers upgraded food options to have added more than 65 jobs to the The Thornton’s at Route 6 and Interstate local workforce.”

55 in Channahon is one of four new stores Aldi in Romeoville set to expand to offer the chain’s “Real Kitchen. Real At Wednesday’s Romeoville Village Food.” concept with hot menu items, Board meeting, village officials gave including breakfast and lunch burritos, approval for grocery retailer Aldi to salted pretzels and pepperoni pizza sticks. construct an addition to its store at 398 S. Weber Road. The store first opened at this Romeoville’s Paragon Business location in 2009.

Park to get new Opus building The village board approved the site plan The Opus Group plans to construct a for the 2,060-square-foot expansion. The 111,345-square-foot speculative industrial expansion will add square footage to the development located in the Interstate front of the store, allowing them to offer 55 industrial corridor in Romeoville. This more refrigerated space inside and to will be the second and final phase of its

Courtesy of Brandon Stengel, Farm Kid Studios

One of Opus’ completed buildings in the Paragon Business Park in shown. The new facility will look very similar.

project at the Paragon Business Park after constructing and selling two other speculative industrial developments in 2016.

The building will feature 30-foot clear height and can accommodate a single user or up to three tenants. Additionally, the building will have 12 loading docks (expandable to 28), 16 trailer parking positions against the building, up to 88 car parking spaces and an ESFR (Early Suppression Fast Response) sprinkler

system.

Opus’ recent portfolio of work includes more than 6.8 million square feet of industrial developments currently under construction or completed in the past 24 months across the United States, including 1325 Remington Blvd. in Bolingbrook.

Construction of 101 Paragon is scheduled to begin this spring with completion in late August 2017.

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OPINIONS OUR VIEW: THUMBS UP, THUMBS DOWN

Good idea to hire Munger in new role Thumbs up: To Gov. Bruce Rauner for hiring Joliet West grad Leslie Munger, the former state comptroller, to a position of deputy governor to focus on long-term budgeting and work with human services organizations.

Munger’s experience, spending 20 years as a volunteer and a board member of a nonprofit organization that helps developmentally disabled adults, makes her an appropriate fit in this important area of state leadership.

Thumbs down: To the lie behind a decades-old story of racial injustice.

Emmett Till of Chicago was a 14-year-old black boy who was tortured and killed in Mississippi in 1955, no one ever was convicted of his murder although two men admitted to doing it.

Last week, we learned that the story that led to Till’s killing had been fabricated. Historian Timothy B. Tyson said he interviewed the woman who made the original allegations, that Till had bragged about dating white women in Chicago and grabbed her. The woman, Carolyn Donham, admitted the allegations as reported were not true. At least Donham has finally admitted this so that history can properly note that unchecked racial hatred – and nothing more – was the only cause of Till’s death.

Thumbs up: To the continued work being done in Lockport to make the Prologis industrial park more equitable to all.

While residents are not happy with the potential economic implications on home values, increase in truck traffic and noise or diesel fumes/smoke that could impact neighbors such as Big Run Wolf Ranch, the complaints are clearly being heard and adjustments have been made to the Prologis plan based upon those issues.

Thumbs down: To six more weeks of winter. Considering Punxsutawney Phil at Gobbler’s Knob and Woodstock Willie on the Square in Woodstock both reported, in Groundhogese, that they saw their shadow on Thursday, looks like there’s no getting out of several more cold, gray weeks.

On the upside, at least it’s been a relatively mild winter so far.

THE FIRST

AMENDMENT

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Simple ways to preserve Social Security

2. Social Security could increase the Social Security payroll tax, which currently is 6.2 percent on employers To the Editor: and employees to 7.7 percent. By lifting I’m sure we all heard that Social Security reserves will run out in 18 years. or eliminating the “earnings cap” and Afterward, yearly reserves would allow increasing the payroll tax, Social Securithe government to pay about 70-75 ty would be solvent for another 80-plus percent of Social Security benefits to years with no other changes, and it those now who receive 100 percent. would allow for some benefit increases, If they’re saying 18 years, I believe the as well. more realistic years would be about 10 3. Redirecting existing government to 12. spending. This is a must! The governThere are ways to fix this immediate- ment must redirect billions in foreign ly, but Congress should not wait until aid we’re presently sending to hostile the 11th hour to address the fiscal chal- countries. These billions should go into lenges. When it comes to tax increases, Social Security’s coffers. That’s where there are only a couple solutions: it’s needed for the American people.

1. We should “lift or eliminate” the With millions of jobs resourced earnings cap for Social Security taxes. overseas, payroll taxes are not going in Beginning January 2017, only the first the systems, but benefits are continu$127,200 in earned income is taxable ally being paid out. We must demand for Social Security purposes. By increas- that Congress eliminates the earnings ing the money flowing into the system, cap on Social Security, and increases benefit cuts become less necessary. the Social Security payroll tax from 6.2 Just think how many people are earning percent to 7.7 percent immediately. millions, tens of millions and hundreds of millions and are paying nothing over Robert J. Pollack the $127,200 for Social Security taxes? Shorewood

Political correctness has gone too far

To the Editor: Here’s an update on an old joke I heard in the early sixties. Two politically correct people were on a dude ranch watching two horses in the corral.

One said he favored the taller horse to ride. The other asked if he thought the taller one was the one on the left or right. The first P.C. man said the taller one was on the right. The second man said he thought the black one on the left was taller than the white one on the right.

If that sounds silly, think about the white singer or actor in a Popeye’s restaurant. One server asked another who was next. The second said the white boy was. In the sea of black faces it was the obvious remark to make.

Isn’t it silly to make a big deal out of trying to differentiate who is next by the color of skin and not by the color of socks or height? I say political correctness has gone too far when you can’t

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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MIDLIFE CIRCUS Bill Wimbiscus fried chicken from the local tavern.

The only other option was the Sicilian pizzeria downtown and the Chinese restaurant in the next city over. But we never got food from there because we were, you know, American.

Fast food barely existed back then.

McDonald’s didn’t come in until late in the decade, when the chain was still trumpeting “2 Billion Served.” Even then it took months of whining by me and my five siblings to convince our parents to splurge on six 28-cent hamburgers and two 46-cent large packs of french fries.

Which were picked up and brought back home so we could consume them at the dinner table. With milk. And, afterwards, dessert.

Twenty years later, when it came time to feed my own kids, I figured I’d stick with the program: the 7-12-5:30 rotation, home-cooked meals, dinner table, meat, milk. But things fell apart pretty quickly.

For one thing, my wife and I usually worked opposite shifts, so feeding time quickly turned into a one-person chore. For another, the kids often had after-school sports or activities, so logistics eventually nuked the nuclear family dinner table. Meals were sometimes home-cooked, but more times than not microwaved at times outside the regular mastication rotation.

And McDonalds … well, I think we helped push them over the “100 Billion Served” mark.

The rules had changed.

And now that I’m a grandparent, it’s apparent the rules have changed even more.

First off, my oldest daughter has decided to switch sides. She swore off meat and married a vegetarian. Now she tells me milk is bad, too. At least if it comes from a cow.

Second, our identical twin granddaughters have non-identical tastes.

One drinks milk (the kind that comes from an almond), the other water.

One likes bread and butter, the other just the butter. One loves hamburger dills and pickled beets, the other won’t touch ’em.

Fortunately they both like meat,

which they don’t often get at home.

That, and chocolate.

I say chocolate because my wife has decided that her grandkids should eat whatever they want whenever they want it. Chocolate before dinner?

No problem in her book. Followed by more after dinner for good measure.

I think it’s a notion she picked up from her parents.

I remember one weekend years ago when they babysat while we attended a wedding. Up late and hung over, we both slept in while her dad took over victual responsibility for our three girls, ages 9, 8 and 5.

“Your kids were up early so I had to feed them breakfast,” he announced irritably when we stumbled out of bed at 10:30 a.m. “I didn’t know what to feed them, so I fed them what they wanted.”

“So what did they want?” my wife asked.

“Cake and ice cream,” he explained.

• Bill Wimbiscus, former reporter and editor for The Herald-News, has lived in Joliet for 25 years. He can be reached at news@theherald-news.com.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR investigation of Hillary Clinton. As such, Congressman Lewis chose to boycott the inauguration.

Donald Trump didn’t find the congressman’s remarks very favorable, so Mr. Trump proceeded to blast Congressman Lewis, which caused a major backlash in Congress, which then caused roughly 60 additional congressmen to support Congressmen Lewis and also boycott the inauguration.

Vernon Lemke Lockport Mr. Trump has repeatedly said that he Thomas Onofrey Shorewood was going to “unite the country.” ThereDonald Trump is not a leader fore, it would have been quite noble and to look up to Donald Trump bringing the presidential of Mr. Trump to have said change that he promised To the Editor: something like: Congressmen Lewis and The president of the United States is To the Editor: I had a difference of opinion over my without any doubt considered to be the Thanks to Obama and all the liberal presidency and, as a result, he and many congressmen have chosen not to attend progressives for the help they gave us so leader of the free world. In fact, other my inauguration. I would like to publicly countries look to the United States as that the folks could tee it up for Donald ask Congressmen Lewis and the other a symbol of leadership, freedom and Trump upon entering office as our presicongressmen to reconsider; I would like dent. In eight short years, the Democrats democracy and it’s our president at the them to attend my inauguration. forefront of that symbol. lost 1,042 seats to the Republicans naNow that is what a leader who wants In the days leading up to Trump’s inautionwide, giving the Republicans control guration, a civil rights icon, Congressman to “unite the country” would have said. of everything for the first time since the Instead, Mr. Trump said “I hope these John Lewis, publicly voiced his opinion 1920s.

This complete repudiation of liberal pro- about the incoming president as it related congressmen left their tickets because we’re going to need them.” gressive policies turned the country from to the breaking news that Trump won Donald Trump is no leader; he failed in azure Democratic blue in 2008 to crimson the election with the help of both Russian his first opportunity to prove otherwise. hacking and a letter put out 11 days before Republican red in 2016. the election by FBI Director James Comey Ken Yanko We now finally have the change agent regarding “additional findings” in the in Washington who will, at long last, Joliet

Even low-lifes,” that would be no problem if they used the same caption with the use skin color to identify a person. That’s selfie of the group of celebs that Ellen why the news gives a detailed description took at the Oscars ... Well, that would be of a criminal people should be looking for considered treason against the United and leaves out skin color.

States of Meryl Streep!

Shee-Haw Hil-liary lost. Move on. ComChuck Johnson promise.

Morris Elect the Kardashians in 2020 and call it Your corruption is showin’, a wrap.

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Illinois

To the Editor: Mike Mad-Again, and again, and again...

I believe that any state that is considered a “Sanctuary State,” like Illinois, exploits the problems and the chaos caused by an excessive illegal population as a smokescreen to cover up the antics and excesses of their crooked politicians.

Illegals are governed by rules which were meant to be broken, or at least altered at the whim of self-patronizing politicians.

Everyone else is governed by laws.

By your rivers gently flowing, Illinois, Illinois Your corruption is showin’, Illinois, Illinois

Then you have the Oscar-nominated “La La Land.”

If the media ran a picture of our president with the caption “All Lives Matter ...

drain that swamp of the politicians and the lobbyists who never got anything done except waste taxpayer dollars.

What a breath of fresh air to hear and watch Donald Trump doing all the things he promised us he would do after he became president. It has taken only two days for us to really have hope and really see change!

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After raising three kids, I thought I knew everything in the book about how to feed them.

Apparently I missed a few chapters.

What I learned, I learned from my parents, mostly in the ’60s. Back then, you ate whatever they put on the plate, whenever they put it there.

Breakfast was at 7 a.m., lunch at noon and supper at 5:30 p.m. No exception.

Show up late and there was hell to pay.

A glass of milk was consumed with every meal, except at breakfast when you ate it out of a bowl of heavily sugared cold cereal. Hardly anyone drank water with meals back then, and if you did it only came in one flavor: tap. Soft drinks … at meal time? Never.

Meals were always home-cooked, or at least home-prepared. For lunch, you got a sandwich. For supper, something that more times than not came out of a cow, pig or chicken. And then, if you kept your mouth shut (except to eat), you got dessert.

Meals were always eaten at the kitchen table, though on very rare occasions you’d get to go out to eat.

Carryout was almost non-existent except when my dad brought home

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SPORTS

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WRESTLING : CLASS 3A LOCKPORT REGIONAL

PORTER POWER

Lockport wins own regional by 98.5 points over Providence

By CURT HERRON

cherron@shawmedia.com LOCKPORT – Even though Lockport’s wrestling team is top-ranked in Illinois, it was difficult to imagine that it might win its own Class 3A regional on Saturday in a romp.

But that’s precisely what coach Josh Oster’s Porters did in what was regarded as one of the best regionals in the state.

Lockport qualified 13 for next weekend’s Class 3A Normal Community Sectional after advancing 11 to the title mat and winning eight championships to defeat No. 5 Providence Catholic by a 275.5-177 margin to claim first in the 10-team tournament.

The Porters won eight of 11 title matches and also had two third-place finishers to capture their third-straight regional championship. As a result, Lockport will advance to the dual team sectional on February 21 against Edwardsville, which won the Granite City Regional.

Winning titles for Lockport were Matt Ramos (106 pounds), Anthony Molton (113), Abdullah Assaf (132), Brandon Ramos (138), Baylor Fernandes (145), Trevell Timmons (160), Payton Fernandes (182) and Ronald Tucker Jr. (285) while James Pierandozzi (120), Nicholas Dado (170) and Yousif Salah (220) all finished second.

In title matches, Matt Ramos won, 3-2, over Providence’s Jacob Lindsey, Molton followed with a 16-4 victory over Neuqua Valley’s Anand Shah, Assaf was a 6-4 winner over Oswego’s Gannon Hughes and Brandon Ramos prevailed, 4-3, over Plainfield North’s Luke Smiley.

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“We’ve faced a lot of criticism since some people don’t want to believe how good we are. We want to show them that we want we want. This team is like a

family. These guys are my brothers.

We’re as motivated as it comes right now.”

In the finals, Baylor Fernandes won, 7-0, over Providence’s Juan Bazaldua, Timmons won by technical fall in 5:42 over Oswego’s Dan Majewski, Payton Fernandes got a fall in 1:12 over Neuqua’s AJ Lighthall and Tucker won

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lead, but Morris got a layup by Stutzki, a basket by Shaw and a pair of free throws by Nathaniel Halcomb to take a 17-16 lead with 2:31 to play in the first half. After Sulaver, who led Sycamore with 15 points, scored underneath, Tyler Spiezio, who led Morris with 15, scored on a putback and was fouled, making the free throw for a 20-18 lead.

Spiezio, who also had a team-high seven rebounds, scored again before halftime to put the Redskins up four at intermission.

Spiezio asserted himself in the third quarter, going 4 for 4 from the field while Boxley and Shaw each hit a three-pointer to help Morris’ lead reach 10 points. Sycamore answered with a 6-0 run to cut it to 34-30, but Spiezio made a tip-in at the buzzer to hand Morris a 36-30 lead heading into

the fourth.

Spiezio scored from the block with just over six minutes to play to give Morris a 38-32 lead, but it was the last time the Redskins moved the scoreboard. With 3:45 left, Stallworth got a steal and went the length of the floor for a layup before Sulaver scored the game’s final five points on a basket and three free throws down the stretch.

“We played a little bit not to lose,” Blumberg said. “We have some guys dealing with nagging injuries that missed some practice time this week, but I thought guys like Payton Voitik and Kameron Dransfeldt came in and played well when we asked them to.

“We only took nine shots in the fourth quarter and several of those were forced. We need to focus on shot selection, ball security and rebounding.”

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“This shows what we’re doing and how hard we’re working. We really want the title, so if anyone’s in our way, we’ll have to move them out. This is my last year. Getting hurt last year got to me so this year, I don’t want any regrets.”

Providence had two champions, Cole Smith (152) and Logan Anderson (220), and advanced a total of eight to the sectional. In the finals, Smith won, 5-1, over Plainfield Central’s Jared Ellingwood while Anderson recorded a pin in 37 seconds over Lockport’s Yousif Salah.

“Things are going pretty well,” Smith said. “Each time I go out to wrestle I try not to get taken down since if I don’t get taken down, I’ll win since I’ll get to my offense and score.”

Plainfield East also had a pair of champions, Michael McGee (120) and Anthony Zamora (126). McGee won, 11-4, over Lockport’s James Pierandozzi while Zamora was a winner by injury default over Bolingbrook’s Dylan Burnoski.

“I don’t want to make any little mistakes since when I start wrestling guys at a higher caliber that they’ll make me pay for them,” McGee said.

“I’m still working hard every day and not taking anything for granted since I can always improve.”

Plainfield North received a championship from Matt Hennessey (195), who pinned Plainfield Central’s Tommy Gustafson in 3:13 in the finals.

“I came in here pretty confident since I’m ranked third and have only lost to two nationally-ranked kids,” Hennessey said. “I see highly-ranked

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Lockport’s Anthony Molton wrestles Neuqua Valley’s Anand Shah at 113 pounds during Saturday’s Lockport Regional at Lockport Township High School. kids lose all of the time so I just keep my head up and stay on the attack.

Right now I’m competing at a pretty high level so I’m confident into next week. If I keep putting in work in the

room, I know that it will pay off.”

The other champion was Oswego’s Josh Torres, who rallied from a 3-1 deficit in the final period to claim a 6-4 win over Lockport’s Nicholas Dado.

Oswego took third with 123 points while Bolingbrook was fourth with 106 points. Plainfield East (91.5), Plainfield Central (85) and Plainfield North (77) were next in line.

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MORRIS – If close losses are character builders, then the Morris boys basketball team ought to have plenty after Saturday night’s 41-38 Northern Illinois Big 12 loss to Sycamore.

The Redskins (9-12, 1-7) had built a 10-point lead, 34-24, with 2:35 to play in the third quarter after Matt Shaw hit a 3-pointer. Unfortunately for Morris, they were able to score only four points the rest of the game as Sycamore, led by Ty Sulaver, manufactured a late comeback to secure the victory.

“That’s three home conference losses by one, two and three points,” Morris coach Joe Blumberg said. “It starts to wear on a team, confidence wise.”

The Redskins didn’t lack for confidence in the first three quarters, as a tough defense and solid execution offensively boosted them from an 11-8 lead at the end of the first quarter to a 22-18 halftime lead and a 36-30 edge after three quarters.

Morris got off to a quick 3-0 lead after JaQuan Boxley scored on an early drive that resulted in a threepoint play. Shaw, who finished with 10 points, followed with a short jumper and, after Sycamore took a brief 6-5 lead, Shaw drained a 3-pointer to put Morris ahead 8-6. Delaney Stutzki followed with a three-pointer to make it 11-6 before Keyshawn Stallworth ended the period for Sycamore with a basket.

The Spartans opened the second quarter on a 7-0 run to take a 15-11

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Lemont, Lincoln-Way East best at state The HERALD-NEWS

BLOOMINGTON – Lemont High School’s competitive cheerleading squad entered the second day of state finals competition knowing that if it performed its difficult routine to its potential, a state title could be in sighs.

Coach Dave Erlenbaugh’s Indians came through with their best performance of the year, scoring an 89.62 to win the Medium-Team championship at U.S. Cellular Coliseum. Lemont captured the program’s fifth state title and earned a state trophy for the 11th time in 12 seasons.

In the Large-School division, meanwhile, Lincoln-Way East was nearly flawless, scoring a 94.46 to dethrone defending champion Joliet West and win its third title in four years. The Tigers did not go down without a fight, however, as they scored a strong 92.71 to finish second. Sandburg was third (90.71), followed by Providence (90.13), Neuqua Valley (89.33) and Lockport (87.00).

Morris finished sixth in Medium Team (84.87). Columbia (88.84) finished second to Lemont. Defending state champion Oak Forest (86.84), Antioch

(86.60) and Yorkville (85.16) rounded out the top five.

In the Co-Ed division, Belvidere North claimed the title with a 93.29.

Plainfield South was ninth (83.19).

Reed-Custer was the runner-up in Small Team with an 84.04. Champion Breese Central scored 86.31.

Lemont’s previous state titles came in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2014. The Indians also were second in 2007, 2008, 2013 and 2016 and third in 2006 and 2012.

Lemont never has finished lower than fourth in the state cheerleading finals competition, and its 11 state trophies are the most for any school.

The Lemont roster includes seniors Claudia DeSantis, Alyssa Gorski, Caitlyn Henry, Olivia LaDuke, Morgan Pukula and Gianna Sabanov; juniors Gia Baldassano, Rebecca Bertram, Katie Boyle, Andrew Gonzalez, Julie Hughes, Claudia Kociubinski, Lucy Kraker and Stephanie Pinczes; sophomores Lizzie Adell, Juliana DeSantis and Kate Roenitz, and freshman Hailey Dennis.

Minooka, Plainfield East, Wilmington and Dwight also competed Friday at the state finals but did not make the cut for Saturday’s competition.

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The Indians came through with their best performance of the year at the perfect time, earning them the 2017 IHSA Medium Division State Championship at U.S. Cellular Coliseum in Bloomington. Lemont captured the program’s fifth state championship and earned a state trophy for the 11th time in 12 seasons.

WRESTLING: CLASS 3A LINCOLN-WAY EAST REGIONAL

Lincoln-Way West depth keys regional title

By DICK GOSS

dgoss@shawmedia.com FRANKFORT – The Lincoln-Way West wrestling team is all about team.

That was brought to the forefront on Saturday afternoon, when all the Joliet-area entries enjoyed some success in the Class 3A Lincoln-Way East Regional.

The top three finishers in each weight class qualify or next weekend’s Normal Community Individual Sectional. Lincoln-Way West qualified 12 of its lineup of 14 to win the team title going away and also qualify for a dual-team sectional, where Plainfield South will be the opponent.

The Warriors scored 232 points to 179.5 for runner-up Marian Catholic.

Lincoln-Way East (168.5), Lincoln-Way Central (139) and Joliet West (136) rounded out the top five. Youthful Joliet Central was eighth in the 10-team field with 61.

“We had seven make the finals and won every third-and-fourth-place match,” Lincoln-Way West coach Brian Glynn noted. “That was huge. That

happened because of the schedule we wrestle all year. Those third-place matches are the fun ones.”

“In a way, it is more motivating to have so many teammates who are good wrestlers,” Warriors 220-pound champ Jake Dudeck said. “We didn’t really have that last year [at Lincoln-Way Central]. There basically were three of us in all the finals.”

With the closing of Lincoln-Way North, Dudeck was among the transfers to West.

“Jake has been a nice addition, for sure,” Glynn said. “He’s the only one in our lineup that we picked up, and we didn’t lose anybody.”

Glynn said the only reason he was a bit apprehensive about the regional was because “Marian is loaded with top guys, but we knew they didn’t have the depth. Our guys won in the places they should have, and then we won all the third-place matches, so we won it pretty comfortably.”

Kyle Quinn (170) and Dudeck (220) claimed titles for the Warriors. Payton Geigner (113), Chris Kennedy (120), Tom Buell (126), Trevor Schmidt (182)

and Robert Noga (195) all were second.

Garrett Geigner (106), Gehrig Simon (132), Joey Schloegel (145), Josh Bohne (160) and Nick Stentzos (285) delivered victories in their third-place matches to advance.

Meanwhile, Joliet West senior Austin Poch put some early excitement into the finals when he beat the top seed, Kennedy, 13-4, for the title at 120.

The match was scoreless after one period, but Poch led, 9-3, after two periods.

“I had faced that kid before,” Poch said. “I beat him once and lost to him once. In the end, it was came down to how well you wrestled. This was big because I could get a better matchup in the sectional, which will be tough.”

Next came highlights for Lincoln-Way Central as Liam Meagher knocked off No. 1 seed Buell, 6-4, for the 126 title and Jason Stokes downed Marian’s Carlos Champagne, 6-3, for the 132 crown. Champagne entered with a 37-1 record.

“That’s probably my biggest win,” Stokes said. “When it was 0-0 in the first period, I knew the match was open. It gave me a lift when Liam [Mea-

gher] won his match and the crowd got behind me.”

“We had seven alive before the finals, and we’re a young team, so that was good,” said Central coach Jason DePolo, who also advanced 160 runner-up Ryan Gillooley. “It was nice that Meagher avenged a loss to Buell, and that Marian kid [Champagne] hardly ever loses in Illinois. Those were nice back-to-back wins. It was a good day.”

In addition to Poch, Joliet West qualified Jeremy Pullen (138) and Robert Ford (285), who finished second, and Eric Davis-Smith (126) and Jake Aharrah, who were third. Ford lost in the final to Lincoln-Way East’s Sam Diehl on a 46-second pin.

Diehl’s teammates advancing to sectional included 195 champ Chris Wilder and Dylan Conway, who lost, 4-0, to Quinn in the 170 final. Griffins’ third-place finishers were Jacob Abeja (113), Adam Aguirre (152), Nick Mihajlovich (182) and Jaden Hacha (220).

Joliet Central’s Isaiah Davis pinned Lincoln-Way Central’s Mason Sargent in 5:43 in the 195 third-place match to reach the sectional.

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Lockport’s Matt Medina (12) defends a layup from Bolingbrook’s Joseph Yesufu Friday at Lockport Township High School.

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BOYS BASKETBALL: BOLINGBROOK 55, LOCKPORT 49

Bolingbrook holds off Lockport upset bid

By CURT HERRON

cherron@shawmedia.com LOCKPORT – When you put all the numbers on paper, it appeared rather unlikely that Lockport’s boys basketball team had much of a chance of upsetting top-ranked Bolingbrook.

After all, the Raiders had won all 19 of their games, including a 25-point win in the teams’ first meeting, while the Porters entered with a 10-11 mark after losing their last four contests.

But when the two sides met up on Friday in Lockport’s Porters vs. Cancer Night benefit game, the records, rankings and past performances didn’t really mean a whole lot.

That’s because the Porters hung tough throughout, trailing by six points at halftime and seven going into the fourth quarter before the Raiders finally were able to open things up in the final period and settled for a 55-49 SouthWest Suburban Conference Blue Division win.

“A lot of teams play their best game against us and that happened again tonight,” Raiders coach Rob Brost said.

“They made some big threes and were fired up to play us, as they should be.

“I thought that Lockport played really, really well and Brett (Hespell) had his guys ready to go and it’s a credit to him and his kids. We played poorly by our standards and still got a road victory in a really tough place.

We were fortunate to get out of there with a win.”

While coach Brett Hespell liked a lot of things that he saw from his Porters (10-12, 1-5), he was a bit disappointed that the Raiders (20-0, 6-0) were able to score late in each of the first three quarters, and those six points proved to be the difference in the game.

“We executed better tonight,” Hespell said. “We ran our offense better and had better possessions. We got a lot more shots than we wanted to get and got post touches and open jump shots. I thought that we controlled

how the game was played for a large majority of it.

“We made them work, which is how we have to play if we want to win games down the stretch. It’s encouraging to see that since we’re not going to play an opponent better than them. They’re so talented and so wellcoached that you have to play perfect to beat them.”

The first sign that the Raiders might be in for some trouble came just over five minutes into the game when Malik Binns (14 points, nine rebounds) got his second foul after scoring all nine of his team’s points and grabbing four rebounds. He did not return until the second half.

Isaiah Clemons hit a 3-pointer to give Bolingbrook a 17-11 lead after one quarter, but Lockport was able to close to within 20-18 on a layup by Chase Travis (seven points). The hosts looked like they might go into the break down by just four points but Joseph Yesufu (eight points) hit a jump-

er in the late going to make it 29-23 at the intermission.

The Porters closed to within 29-27 2:16 into the second half on a jumper from Patrick Cooper (eight points), but the Raiders pulled out to a 40-31 lead on a 3-point play from Kaleb Thornton (10 points) and then got a late free throw from Binns to take a 41-34 advantage into the final eight minutes.

Bolingbrook used a layup from Tyler Cochran (seven points), a rebound bucket from Binns and a layup from Yesufu to build its biggest lead at 49-36, but Lockport closed out the game with a 13-6 spurt as Deondre Cooper scored all five of his points while Patrick Cooper and Jacob Karli (nine points) both connected on 3-pointers.

The Raiders, who only connected on 10-of-21 tries from the free throw line, also received 13 points from Nana Akenten. Lockport also got seven points from Matt Medina, six from John Meyer and five from Matt Smietanski.

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34 BOYS BASKETBALL: JOLIET CENTRAL 73, PLAINFIELD SOUTH 53

Saunders, Joliet Central down Plainfield South

By DICK GOSS

dgoss@shawmedia.com JOLIET – Ryan Saunders is all about energy and confidence.

“When Ryan came into the game, we were just starting to get our energy up,” Joliet Central boys basketball coach Lawrence Thompson Jr. said.

“He’s always an energy guy, and he put us over the top energy-wise.”

Saunders, a 6-foot-3 junior, scored 12 of his 14 points in the second quarter, when he hit 2 of 4 shots from 3-point range, to help the visiting Steelmen run away from Southwest Prairie Conference foe Plainfield South, 73-53, Friday night.

Central (19-3, 9-1) scored the last six points of the first quarter as Marcellus Hornsby stepped off the bench and nailed a 3-pointer and Jason Bingham converted a buzzer-beating runner along the baseline for a 20-10 lead.

Saunders took command offensively in the second quarter, when he scored his team’s first eight and final four points en route to a 37-20 halftime advantage.

“When coach puts me in, I’m always ready,” Saunders said. “If I get in and hit the first shot, every time I touch the ball I feel like it’s going

down. But if I don’t get hot, I still have to crash the boards, block out, rebound.”

Bingham led a parade of 11 Steelmen who scored with 18 points. Jose Grubbs chipped in 13 and a team-high nine rebounds.

“Talk about an unselfish player,” South coach Tim Boe said of Grubbs.

“All he cares about is winning. If I were a college team, I would want a guy like that.”

Saunders referenced Grubbs when he spoke of how comfortable he is when his number is called.

“Everyone on the team looks for me just like they look for Jose Grubbs, or our shooters like Jason [Bingham] or Cameron [Blackmon],” Saunders said. “I know I have to rebound and help on defense besides score. If I don’t get in the game, I have to cheer my teammates on. Everyone has an important part to play on our team.”

Senior forward Tyrell Hundley, who has not played often this season, delivered six points and three rebounds in the fourth quarter. Senior forward Tylan Fuller knocked down a 3-pointer shortly after entering in the fourth quarter. Junior guard Don Joachim, a valuable reserve, was sidelined with an ankle injury, and the

rest of the bench filled the void.

“Our practices are competitive,” Thompson said.

South (4-20, 1-9), which was coming off a 65-59 double-overtime loss Tuesday night at Sandburg, provided the Steelmen an opportunity to work on their zone offense as the young Cougars played a 1-2-2 defense most of the way.

Central opened the second half on an 8-0 run to lead, 45-20, and it was a back-and-forth game from that point as Thompson allocated more quality minutes to his bench.

“Plainfield South is well coached and well-organized,” Thompson said.

“They have the hard-work part down, start to finish.

“With them playing the zone, we got to work on our zone offense, playing inside out, when to shoot the jumper and when not to shoot it. It was a good game to get everyone in.”

“Larry and Greg [Smith, the Central assistant] are having a great first year,” Boe said. “We didn’t play with the intensity we needed to play with against them in the first half. When you don’t play with intensity against their pressure, you are going to have turnovers. We had far too many.”

The Cougars committed 16 of their

24 turnovers in the first half. When they did get into their offense and get shots, they were efficient. They finished 22 of 45 from the floor, 48.9 percent. The Steelmen shot 41.1 percent (30 of 73), but attempted 28 more shots.

Devin Smith had 14 points for South. Joey Saracco, a 6-6 junior, chipped in 11 and Diamond Presniakovas, a 6-3 sophomore, added 10. Saracco grabbed a game-high 14 rebounds, although Central outrebounded South, 38-29. “(No.) 5, 35 and 22 are pretty good,” Thompson said, referring to Smith, Saracco and Presniakovas. “When their young guys get more varsity experience, they will be better.

“With a team like ours, we have to rely on pressure so our lack of height doesn’t get exposed against size like they have inside.”

Boe said the Steelmen applying pressure was expected, but facing that quickness live is a chore.

“If I were playing a team with a big kid inside, I’d make ‘em work to get it over half-court, too,” he said.

“Our young guys, the five or six guys who were playing in the second half, showed some heart. That’s encouraging. That’s something you can’t teach.”

BOYS BASKETBALL: MINOOKA 52, PLAINFIELD CENTRAL 48

The Butler does it with big 4th quarter for Minooka

By DRAKE SKLEBA

Shaw Media correspondent PLAINFIELD – Jonny Butler.

Minooka’s 6-foot-3 senior would not allow his Indians to lose to Southwest Prairie Conference foe Plainfield Central on Friday night.

All Butler did was score 18 of his game-high 27 points in the fourth quarter, leading Minooka (18-6, 7-2) to a 5248 victory. Butler, who scored all but three – a John Carnagio 3-pointer – of the Indians’ 21 fourth-quarter points, was a man possessed down the stretch.

With four minutes remaining, Butler scored on a feed from junior Kyle Graebner for a 43-39 Indians lead. Wildcats junior guard Sedrick Brooks (11 points, two rebounds, two steals) nailed a pair of free throws. Ten seconds later, Brooks’ steal and 3-point play gave the Wildcats a 44-43 lead with 3:14 left Butler hit a pair of free throws to put the Indians on top again, 45-44, with 2:34 left. Matthews Morganfield (10 points, four rebounds, two blocks) scored to put the Wildcats up, 46-45,

with 2:04 left.

With 1:24 left, Butler nailed two more free throws for a 47-46 Minooka lead. Brooks’ driving layup with a minute left gave Central its last lead, 48-47.

With 37.9 seconds remaining, Butler’s power move for two made it 4948 Minooka. The 3-point attempt of Wildcats senior Kameron Williams (17 points, eight rebounds) fell into the hands of the Indians’ Aurelius Lennon-Rios (four points, six rebounds) with four seconds left. Butler made three of four free throws to finish it.

“My teammates did a great job getting me the ball in good positions to score,” Butler said. “I struggled in the first half and we started to knock down some threes, which opened up the inside for me in the fourth quarter. I was then able to go to work inside. We feel we still have a shot at winning the SPC again.”

In the first quarter, which had four lead changes, Morganfield scored six points to give the Wildcats an 11-10 lead.

The Indians’ bench, led by Zach

Schultz (five points, two rebounds, one steal) and Lennon-Rios, sparked Minooka in the second quarter to a 2116 halftime lead. Schultz’s personal 5-0 run gave the Indians a 15-11 lead with 4:12 on the clock. Lennon-Rios added four points and a huge blocked shot before the half expired.

“I got the opportunity to help my team get the win,” Schultz said. “I got a layup and a perfect feed from Keegan [Graebner] on the three.”

“All 13 players on our team really help all of us to be better players,” Lennon-Rios said.

Central’s Williams lit up the gym in the third quarter, scoring 12 of his team-high 17 points. With a minute left in the quarter, his third three of the game gave Central its largest lead, 34-26. A Rios basket and junior Kyle Graebner’s 25-foot bomb brought the Indians within 35-31 after three quarters.

“We battled to the end,” Williams said. “I tried to do everything I could to help us win.”

“Once again, as it has happened to

us in so many close losses, little things we didn’t do cost us this game,“ Brooks said. “We played well and we played hard. Butler is a great player and we couldn’t stop him.”

For Central coach Steve Lamberti, it was another heart breaking loss.

Nine of Central’s 16 defeats have been by six points or fewer.

“Once again we played a great team and battled to the end,” Lamberti said.

“Our margin for error is so small against Minooka. They make all the plays. I am so proud of my kids. The character they show night in and night out is amazing.”

Minooka remained two games behind Joliet West and one behind Joliet Central in the SPC race.

“Jonny Butler is truly a great player,” Minooka coach Scott Tanaka said.

“We were really challenged by Plainfield Central. They have been playing really well as of late. We were able to get some stops late and J.B. carried us to victory. Zach Schultz and Aurelius Lennon-Rios had huge contributions off the bench.”

BOYS BASKETBALL: JOLIET WEST 59, PLAINFIELD EAST 39

By MIKE FITZGERALD

Shaw Media correspondent

Larry W. Kane for Shaw Media

Joliet West’s Tabyous Casterberry passes the ball on Jan. 27 at Romeoville High School. we came out and played like we did in that first half.”

Casterberry has been supplying the muscle and the scoring threat in the post all season.

“When he gets going, he’s a really good offensive player,” DiForti said.

“His work allowed us to get second and third chances to score and that’s

been a key for us. He’s been kind of the focus of other teams’ game plans.

You can see teams put two bodies on him and double-team him in the post just to try and get him away from the basket.”

The play of the West starters allowed DiForti to give extended minutes to his bench.

BOYS BASKETBALL: JOLIET CATHOLIC 52, NAZARETH ACADEMY 45

Joliet Catholic hot early, holds off Nazareth comeback

By TIM CRONIN

Shaw Media correspondent JOLIET – Good teams hang in during tough stretches.

Joliet Catholic Academy hung in there Friday night, scoring a 52-45 East Suburban Catholic Conference victory over Nazareth in a game that began as a rout and almost went the other way.

Hanging in wasn’t the phrase that came to mind after nine minutes, when the Hilltoppers (10-11, 2-4) enjoyed a 22-5 advantage. But the Roadrunners (4-15, 0-6) made the hosts work for their victory.

“The first quarter won the game,” Hilltoppers coach Joe Gura said.

The seven points scored by senior Pete Ragen in the final quarter didn’t hurt. With 17 points as the games’s

leading scorer, he opened the quarter with the only Hilltopper field goal of the frame, a 3-pointer from the top of the key, then hit four free throws before fouling out of the physical contest with 29.7 seconds left.

“We got a little bit too complacent,” Ragen said. “We got sluggish, stopped playing to our strengths. But we came back in the second half, played defense, and matched or did better than them shot-for-shot.”

Aside from the final score and a 2114 rebounding advantage, most of the numbers hardly complimented Joliet Catholic’s effort. But the key, aside from the first quarter, in which the Hilltoppers were 9 of 11 from the floor, was a 14-of-22 free-throw reading in the final quarter. Gura wanted more, but that was enough.

“I’m most heartened that we played

good defense, especially in the first half and near the end,” Gura said.

Jack Surin scored eight of his 14 points in the second half, while Donavan Finch added seven of his 10 after the intermission. Sub Jack Santi’s 10 points led Nazareth.

The Hilltoppers had dropped consecutive outcomes to Marist, St. Viator and McNamara, all quality teams.

Ragen said a players-only meeting Monday got the team back on track.

“Without that players meeting, we wouldn’t have come out as strong as we did,” Ragen said. “We really got together and talked about what we needed to do better.”

The Roadrunners presented an opportunity to bounce back, but were hardly road kill for JCA. The toughness gained by playing hardened Class 4A quintets may carry the Hilltoppers

further than a near-.500 record would predict when the Class 3A playoffs commence.

“I liked the bounce-back effect by these kids,” Gura said. “We’re getting back to where we were at Christmas time, when we won a tournament, won six out of seven. It’s hard to get beat by quality teams and just keep coming back and working.”

At times, it was a game of extremes. Nazareth went 10:53 between field goals in the first half, allowing the Hilltoppers to build their 17-point advantage, but burst out of the slump with nine points in 2:45. Then JCA went 8:54 without a point, the Roadrunners cutting the lead to five points.

When the parade to the foul line began, the Hilltoppers prevailed.

“We’re showing signs of how good we can be,” Gura said.

• Sunday, February 5, 2017

JOLIET – Tabyous Casterberry’s relentless play on the boards helped the Joliet West boys basketball team beat Southwest Prairie Conference foe Plainfield East, 59-39, Friday.

The 6-foot-6 senior grabbed 10 rebounds, five on the offensive end, and scored nine points for the league-leading Tigers (19-3, 10-0).

“That’s my role, to control the glass.

That’s really what I do,” Casterberry said. “I have to start off fast because if I start off fast, they start off fast.”

“They” are fellow West starters Trevian Bell, Elijah Ward, Teyvion Kirk and Eddie Creal. They did start fast, rolling out to an 18-11 lead after one quarter.

Bell scored eight points in the quarter. He sank two 3-pointers and a soft jumper. The Tigers increased their lead to 31-13 at halftime.

Casterberry slammed home one shot and then dunked a Kirk miss midway through the second quarter as West clicked on both the offensive and defensive ends. The Tigers did not give up a basket to the Bengals (3-18, 1-9) in the second quarter until sophomore forward Yamini Shareef slid in for a layup with a minute remaining before halftime.

“We’ve been stressing defense all week,” West coach Nick DiForti said.

“We had a full week of practice, so that was our focus. I’m really happy

“Most of the time, Michael Smith and Charles McKinney are the ones eating up most of the bench minutes, but today you saw some good out of Derren Williams, and Darien Bosby was able to handle the point for us,” DiForti said. “Everybody played well.

They practice against the starting five every single day, and they are getting better.”

As the regular season starts to wind down, the time to round a team into a playoff contender grows shorter.

Both DiForti and Casterberry believe West is becoming a team capable of making a deep run into March.

“At this time of the season, we’re fortunate to have more practices than games,” DiForti said. “These are kind of the dog days for us, so we’re able to fine-tune some of the things we feel we are not doing well.”

“We’re still building,” Casterberry said. “We’re still getting better. We’re not in the position we want to be yet.

By the time the playoffs start, we’ll be there.”

Kirk led West with 16 points. Bell finished with 12. Shareef, a sophomore, led Plainfield East with 17 points.

Shareef said the Bengals, who have three seniors and 10 underclassmen on the team, are trying to take some positives out of this season.

“We know what it feels like to lose, and next year we don’t want that feeling,” he said. “We have a lot of good young guys, and I think we’ll be good the next couple of years.”

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36 GIRLS BOWLING REGIONALS

Minooka, Lockport roll to regional titles at T&C

By JEFF DE GRAW

Shaw Media correspondent JOLIET – The high school regional girls bowling tournaments were held Saturday around the state.

Joliet-area teams were at two different regionals, but in a unique setup, both were held at Town & Country Lanes.

Minooka and Plainfield South were the host schools with 13 teams in each regional. It had the feeling of one big tournament, but with two different sets of results.

In each regional, the top four teams and top 10 individuals not on a qualifying team advanced to next Saturday’s Andrew Sectional at Orland Bowl in Orland Park.

MINOOKA REGIONAL

The host Indians used a strong afternoon to overtake Andrew for the regional crown. Minooka rolled a six-game series of 6,000 to outdistance Andrew (5,884) by 116 pins. Lincoln-Way West (5,526) was third and Lincoln-Way East (5,170) grabbed the final qualifying spot.

Lincoln-Way Central placed sixth and Joliet Central was seventh.

Minooka, which trailed Andrew after the morning three games, bowled a regional high game of 1,087 in the fourth and never looked back in the final two games to secure the victory.

“We had our highest morning set

all season and we were still behind,” Minooka coach Frank Yudzentis said. “But after lunch, we came out and bowled even better. I know it’s cliche, but you need to be peaking at the right time and this will give us so much confidence going into the sectional next week.”

The individual champion was Andrew’s Amber Furman (1,327).

But the Indians had three in the top five and were led by the second- and third-place finishes of sophomores Kristina Sickler (1,319) and Gina Russell (1,263). Senior Carmelia Russell placed fifth with a 1,218.

“This does a lot for our confidence, knowing that the two sophomores can step up and bowl well in this type of situation,” Sickler said. “We are the babies of the team and this feels good to win as a team.”

West also had three top-10 individual finishes with Mackenzie Ullian (1,190) finishing sixth, Cara Dudeck (1,188) seventh and Haley Jablonski (1,126) 10th.

“We have to build off this weekend even though we didn’t bowl that well,” West coach Scott Jablonski said. “We struggled at times but recovered. We have some work to do this week in practice.”

The Griffins were led by the ninthplace finish of senior Mary Toman (1,148).

“We bowled well today,” East coach Carlie Premo said. “We have

had the capability all season and today we showed it. I’m very pleased.”

Five individuals qualified from the area for the sectional and they were from two schools. Lincoln-Way Central had three – seniors Maddy Willson (1,095) and Maria Buck (1,044) along with sophomore Kalei Bass (987). Joliet Central qualified two, both sophomores, Tara Tindall (995) and Sarina Lucas (947).

PLAINFIELD SOUTH REGIONAL

As expected, Lockport easily won the regional title with a 6,381 total over the six games. Oswego East (5,736), Oswego (5,662) and Yorkville (5,465) were the other qualifiers.

Plainfield Central (5,415) finished fifth, only 50 pins out of the fourth spot. Joliet West (5,376), the defending state champion, was sixth, followed by Plainfield South eighth and Plainfield North ninth. Lemont finished 10th and was followed by Plainfield East, Romeoville and Bolingbrook.

The Porters rolled games of 1,082, 1,171, 1,052, 1,072, 1,155 and 849, along with using eight bowlers on the day.

“The sky is the limit for this team, or maybe I should say there is no limit,” Lockport coach Art Cwudzinski said. “We bowled great again today. We don’t rely on just one or two bowlers. We are a total team with depth. We had six kids bowl great today. I call them my super six.”

After the fifth game, Lockport had four of the top six individuals. Cwudzinski then substituted two others to give them the opportunity to bowl on a regional champion team.

Hannah Jaros from Yorkville was the individual winner with a 1,373 series. But the Porters had the next two individuals with seniors Monica Colon (1,329) and Marissa Ramirez (1,324) second and third, respectively.

“We pick each other up from week to week,” Colon said. “We all have good days and bad, but that is why we are such a good team. We are there for each other.”

Nine individuals will represent the Joliet area at the sectional. Joliet West qualified Karlee Barton (1,242) and Alexis Robbins (1,187).

“This will be a much different vibe without the team going,” Barton said.

“Alexis and I will be together, but you don’t have that full team effect with the cheering and noise. We had a big fan base here today and that helped.

We really fought to the end and I’m proud of how this team improved this year after losing so many from the title team of last year.”

Plainfield North will send Bekah Syers (1,202) and Jenna Sussenbach (1,114). Heather Petkewicz (1,187), Esmeralda Flores (1,168) and Megan Allensworth (1,127) will represent Plainfield Central. Erin Cosner (1,183) from Romeoville and Kyla Owens (1,128) from Lemont also qualified.

AREA ROUNDUP

Wilmington wrestling edges Coal City in Class 1A regional The HERALD-NEWS WILMINGTON – Coal City’s wrestlers entered Saturday’s Class 1A Wilmington Regional as the state’s top-ranked team and had beaten No. 5 Wilmington twice recently, in the Interstate Eight Conference tournament and in a dual meet.

But with advancement in the dual-team series at stake, the Wildcats turned the tables on the Coalers and beat them, 198-192, for the title, depriving Coal City of trying to improve upon last year’s second-place showing in Bloomington.

Wilmington got titles from Robert Shields (145 pounds) and Josh Jones (285) while Coal City’s champions were Alex Friddle (113), Jake Hiles (120), Ryan Wasielewski (132) and Danny Norton (160). The Wildcats had 13 sectional qualifiers while the Coalers had 10.

Peotone got titles from Chase Emer-

son (126) and Chandler Gartner (170).

3A Rock Island Regional: Plainfield South edged Minooka, 171.5-169.5, for the title. The Cougars got regional titles from Enzo Silva (106), Zach Kolb (120), Erik Santiago (152) and Lalo Palomares (195), with the latter three beating Indians in champion matches.

2A Lemont Regional: The host Indians won the title with 223.5 points. Winning titles for Lemont were Kyle Schickel (106), Jack Leffler (113), Drew Nash (120), Grant LaDuke (126), Egan Berta (145), Jake Kirkman (152), Damyen Gothard (170) and Alex Oruna (182).

BOYS BASKETBALL Bolingbrook 85, Belleville East 70: The

No. 1-ranked Raiders (21-0) got 31 points and 16 rebounds from Nana Akenten, 18 points and four assists from Kaleb Thornton and 16 points and seven rebounds from Malik Binns.

Lincoln-Way East 52, Homewood-Floss-

moor 50: Sam Shafer (18 points) and

ence Tournament, 73-44, to South Newton. Fox scored 18 and Blake had 15.

Dorian Aluyi (13 points) led the Griffins, who snapped a long drought against the Vikings.

Reed-Custer 87, Westmont 83: Russell Paige (23 points), Bryce Martis (14 points) and Dylan Hutchison (11 points) led the Comets.

Lemont 63, Oak Forest 51: PJ Pipes (21 points) and Paul O’Leary (16 points) led Lemont.

Brooklyn Bachmann had 21 points lo lead the Indians.

Marco Pettinato (18 points) and Austin King (12 points) led the Warriors.

GYMNASTICS Lincoln-Way East Regional: Lin-

Thornton 47, Lincoln-Way West 46:

Thornwood 63, Lincoln-Way Central 54:

Aaron Michalak scored 17 points for the Knights.

Herscher 54, Coal City 39: Blake Harseim (13 points, seven rebounds) paced the Coalers.

Watseka 64, Dwight 59: Justin Fox (23 points) and Blake Graham (20) led the Trojans, who then lost the third-place game in the Sangamon Valley Confer-

GIRLS BASKETBALL Lockport 51, Stagg 29: Taylor Hopkins

(11 points), Taylor Shingler (10 points) and Treasure Thompson (11 rebounds, three blocks) paced the Porters.

Minooka 51, Plainfield Central 28:

coln-Way won the title with 145.475 points as Una Farrell took first in the all-around (36.875) and balance beam (9.175), Gabby DeVito won the floor exercise (9.5) and uneven parallel bars (8.9) and Korina Jarosz won the vault (9.475).

Downers Grove South Regional: Lemont’s Gabrielle Saloman advanced in all four events as well as in the all-around.

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Lotanna Onua added 11 points, and Smoldt 10. Senior guard Sidman chipped in nine, junior guard Creal seven and senior center Ashley Lewis-Banks and Neal four each.

“It’s hard to pick one player to shut down,” Waznonis said. “When we’re doing well, we’re shooting the ball, we’re making that extra pass. We have five people on the floor that can score somehow, some way.”

Sarah Gersch scored 14 points, Jazzpher Evans 12 and Nicole Gal 10 for West. Gersch scored seven in the first quarter, and she and Evans played consistently in the second half. Gal scored all of her 10 in the final quarter.

The effort was there. The Tigers just couldn’t recover from the second quarter.

“That pressure from Plainfield East really ate us up in the second quarter; we didn’t score a point,” West coach John Placher said. “Against a team that good, you can’t have a quarter like that. That was the difference in the game. They’re very good. We just didn’t match their intensity. That’s what happens when you don’t match the intensity of the other team, you get beat by 30. “[Rebounding is] one thing that we

talked about at halftime. What type of team are we made of. Are we going to sit back and take that? Or are we going to come out and play hard? Give the girls credit, they came out and played hard. We cut into the lead a little bit.

They really didn’t miss a shot in the second half. When you’re trying to come back and they don’t miss a shot, it’s hard to do.”

East still sees room for improvement.

Entering the season, the Bengals’ goal was to win conference. With that out of reach the goal has changed. One tough obstacle will be Lockport, which the Bengals will see in a Plainfield East Regional semifinal Feb. 14.

“I felt like we had a few mental lapses along the season, which resulted in those (conference) losses,” Collins said.

“I think now we really have our head on straight and are focused on one main goal. Since we can’t win conference, we can really focus on our regional.

“I’ve been playing with some of these girls since seventh grade, others since freshman year. We’ve really jelled together as a team with all of the stuff that we’ve been through. I really think that we can reach the main goal that we’ve set.”

COLLEGE BASKETBALL: GOLDEN GOPHERS 68, ILLINI 59

Minnesota defeats Illinois to end 5-game losing streak

By MICHAL DWOJAK The Associated Press

CHAMPAIGN – Reggie Lynch scored 15 points to lead Minnesota to a 68-59 win over Illinois on Saturday to end a five-game losing streak.

Akeem Springs added 14 points and Nate Mason and Amir Coffey had 13 apiece for the Golden Gophers (16-7, 4-6 Big Ten).

Minnesota scored the first seven points of the second half to take a 42-35 lead for good. Mason’s jumper made it 54-44 at the 12:29 mark.

Coffey had two free throws with a minute left to put the lead at 10. Kipper Nichols hit a 3-pointer for the Illini with 33 seconds left, but that was their only basket in the last seven shots.

Nichols led the way for Illinois (13-11, 3-8) with a career-high 16 points. Malcolm Hill added 13 points and four rebounds.

Neither team shot well, but Minnesota went 7 of 19 from 3-point range to 4 of 22 for Illinois.

Big picture: Minnesota: The schedule gets lighter for a couple of games for Minnesota to make a push for the NCAA tournament.

Illinois: It just continues to crumble for the Illini. Illinois travels to Evanston to play rival Northwestern before a lighter schedule.

Up next: Minnesota will a few days to relax before hosting Iowa on Wednesday.

Illinois only has a few days to prepare for its rival when it travels to No. 25 Northwestern on Tuesday.

Illinois forward Michael Finke goes for a rebound Saturday against Minnesota in Champaign.

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• Sunday, February 5, 2017

PLAINFIELD – Lightning strikes quickly. Unfortunately for Joliet West, the Plainfield East girls basketball team strikes faster.

The Southwest Prairie Conference teams battled point-for-point in the first quarter Friday night, with the Bengals taking a 15-14 lead. Then East had a dominating 29-0 second quarter, that led to a 75-46 win over West.

“We made some small adjustments to what they were doing, and I was beyond pleased,” Bengals coach Tony Waznonis said. “I mean, 29-0. That’s a great quarter against a team who in the first game that we played them was up by four at halftime. We’ve come a long way.”

“Once we get our defense going, it flows into our offense,” East senior guard Kennedy Collins said. “I think we’re virtually unstoppable when we get that defense and that energy up and play together as a team on defense and on offense.”

Junior forward Olivia Jenkins scored a basket to start the second quarter, and shortly after sunk two free throws to make it 19-14.

Then Jenkins got possession and drove to the basket. Instead of taking a shot, she dished to an undefended Collins, who hit her first 3 of the night.

Collins followed with a layup seconds later to make it 24-14.

East (21-7) kept forcing turnovers and turning them into easy buckets.

The Tigers finished with more than 20.

Senior guard Jada Neal converted a steal into a layup with less than four minutes remaining in the half.

Less than five seconds later she did it again. Ashley Smoldt and Maiya Creal also converted steals to layups, and Madelyn Sidman stole a page out of Neal’s book. To end the third quarter, Sidman scored consecutive baskets after turnovers to make it 62-27.

“I really think that it’s our energy,” Jenkins said. “Once we get going, it’s hard to stop us because we lock down on defense. It’s really hard with our ball pressure and our defense to get any type of good shot. Once we get a rebound, we’re out and gone, so it’s hard for teams to run with us.”

West (14-10) could not contain Collins or Jenkins.

Collins hit a pair of 3s and scored 16 points. Jenkins had 14, and her defense shined.

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Late Van Riemsdyk tally wins it The ASSOCIATED PRESS

DALLAS – Trevor van Riemsdyk put in a rebound with 4:03 left to lift the Blackhawks over the Dallas Stars 5-3 on Saturday night.

Dallas goalie Kari Lehtonen stopped a close-range shot by Artem Anisimov, but van Riemsdyk followed to put the puck under Lehtonen and make it 4-3.

Jonathan Toews added an empty-net goal in the final second.

The third period of this one was dominated by scoring stars. Goals by Jamie Benn and Tyler Seguin gave the Stars a 3-2 lead at 9:24, but Patrick Kane tied the game just 35 seconds after Seguin scored.

Radek Faksa also scored for Dallas, and Lehtonen made 31 saves.

Corey Crawford stopped 31 shots for the Hawks and is 4-0 against Dallas

this season. Ryan Hartman and Gustav Forsling scored in the second period for the Hawks.

To start the second, Faksa chased down the puck low in the left faceoff circle and sent a shot from a sharp angle behind Crawford eight seconds in.

The Hawks dominated the rest of the period, outshooting the Stars, 1912.

Hartman took a pass from Tanner Kero on the edge of the left circle and beat Lehtonen at 6:34.

With the score tied, Lehtonen stopped a breakaway by Kane at 8:08.

Just 26 seconds later, Forsling fired a shot from the blue line through the slot and over a screen by Marcus Kruger, who ducked as the puck passed him.

It was the second goal in 35 games for the rookie.

Benn’s tying goal was on a backhand from the left of the goal.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP

No. 23 Purdue beats No. 17 Maryland The ASSOCIATED PRESS COLLEGE PARK, Md. – What a week it was for Purdue.

After celebrating contrasting victories over two ranked teams, the Boilermakers are poised to make a significant move in the Top 25.

Carsen Edwards made two free throws with 2.1 seconds left, and No. 23 Purdue rallied to beat No. 17 Maryland, 73-72, on Saturday and knock the Terrapins out of first place in the Big Ten. Four days earlier, the Boilermakers blew out No. 25 Northwestern at home.

“It’s huge,” Purdue coach Matt Painter said. “Obviously for us to get two Top 25 wins this week is key.”

Caleb Swanigan scored 26 points for the Boilermakers (19-5, 8-3), who are off to their best start in the conference since 2010-11. They have won five of six, none bigger than this one, especially since Purdue trailed by 12 points in the second half.

After Melo Trimble missed a jumper for Maryland (20-3, 8-2) with 7 seconds left, the Boilermakers got the rebound, took the ball down court and called a timeout to set up a play. Edwards took the inbounds pass on the side, dribbled around the key and was fouled on a drive to the basket.

Ohio State 70, Michigan 66: At Ann Arbor, Mich., Marc Loving scored 17 points, and Ohio State overwhelmed Michigan around the basket in an up-

set victory over the Wolverines on Saturday night.

Trevor Thompson had 13 points and 11 rebounds for the Buckeyes (14-10, 4-7 Big Ten), who outrebounded Michigan, 42-24, and won despite shooting only 40 percent from the field.

Derrick Walton Jr. scored 25 points for the Wolverines (14-9, 4-6).

Rutgers 70, Penn St. 68: At Universi-

ty Park, Pa., Corey Sanders scored 25 points, with six rebounds, four assists, and three steals to lead Rutgers past Penn State on Saturday for the Scarlet Knights’ first-ever Big Ten road win.

Shep Garner scored 24 points for Penn State (12-12, 4-7) and made 6 of 9 3-pointers.

Wichita St. 86, Illinois St. 45: At Wichita, Kan., Conner Frankamp scored 18 points and Shaquille Morris had 11 points and 11 rebounds and Wichita State put a beat down on Illinois State in a win on Saturday night.

Wichita State led, 35-22, at halftime and used a 19-2 run to start the second half pushing the lead to 30 points in less than six minutes. Wichita State (21-4, 11-1) shot 8 for 9 from the floor during that span.

The Shockers shot 57 percent from the floor (30 for 53) to 33 percent (18 for 54) for Illinois State (19-5, 11-1). The Redbirds were a paltry 4 for 22 from behind the 3-point line and didn’t have one player in double-figure scoring.

Phil Fayne led the Redbirds with nine points.

NBA

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts Minnesota 50 33 12 5 71 Blackhawks 54 32 17 5 69 Nashville 52 25 19 8 58 St. Louis 52 25 22 5 55 Winnipeg 55 25 26 4 54 Dallas 53 21 22 10 52 Colorado 49 14 33 2 30 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts San Jose 52 33 17 2 68 Anaheim 54 28 16 10 66 Edmonton 54 28 18 8 64 Los Angeles 52 27 21 4 58 Calgary 54 27 24 3 57 Vancouver 51 23 22 6 52 Arizona 50 16 28 6 38

GF 166 152 142 147 161 147 99

GA 116 141 135 162 172 169 168

GF 142 141 155 132 143 120 113

GA 118 135 141 123 153 144 159

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF Montreal 53 30 16 7 67 158 Ottawa 50 27 17 6 60 137 Boston 55 26 23 6 58 143 Toronto 50 24 17 9 57 155 Florida 52 23 19 10 56 124 Detroit 52 22 21 9 53 132 Buffalo 51 21 20 10 52 125 Tampa Bay 53 23 24 6 52 144 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF Washington 52 35 11 6 76 170 Pittsburgh 51 33 13 5 71 184 Columbus 51 33 13 5 71 170 N.Y. Rangers 51 32 18 1 65 173 Philadelphia 53 26 20 7 59 144 Carolina 51 24 20 7 55 138 N.Y. Islanders 50 22 18 10 54 147 New Jersey 53 22 21 10 54 125

GA 133 135 149 149 143 152 143 157 GA 114 147 127 136 162 146 148 152

Saturday’s Results Blackhawks 5, Dallas 3 Washington 3, Montreal 2 Los Angeles 1, Philadelphia 0, OT Colorado 5, Winnipeg 2 Carolina 5, N.Y. Islanders 4, OT Buffalo 4, Ottawa 0 Toronto 6, Boston 5 Tampa Bay 3, Anaheim 2, SO New Jersey 5, Columbus 1 Detroit 1, Nashville 0 Pittsburgh 4, St. Louis 1 Minnesota at Vancouver (n) Arizona at San Jose (n) Sunday’s Games Los Angeles at Washington, 11 a.m.

Edmonton at Montreal, noon Calgary at N.Y. Rangers, 1 p.m.

Monday’s Games St. Louis at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

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

Buffalo at New Jersey, 6 p.m.

EASTERN CONFERENCE Central Division W L Pct Cleveland 34 15 .694 Indiana 28 22 .560 Bulls 25 26 .490 Detroit 23 28 .451 Milwaukee 22 28 .440 Atlantic Division W L Pct Boston 32 18 .640 Toronto 30 21 .588 New York 22 30 .423 Philadelphia 18 32 .360 Brooklyn 9 41 .180 Southeast Division W L Pct Washington 30 20 .600 Atlanta 30 21 .588 Charlotte 23 28 .451 Miami 21 30 .412 Orlando 20 33 .377 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio 39 11 .780 Houston 37 17 .685 Memphis 31 22 .585 Dallas 20 30 .400 New Orleans 19 32 .373 Northwest Division W L Pct Utah 32 19 .627 Oklahoma City 29 22 .569 Denver 22 28 .440 Portland 22 29 .431 Minnesota 19 32 .373 Pacific Division W L Pct Golden State 43 7 .860 L.A. Clippers 31 19 .620 Sacramento 19 31 .380 L.A. Lakers 17 36 .321 Phoenix 16 35 .314

NFL GB — 6½ 10 12 12½ GB — 2½ 11 14 23 GB — ½ 7½ 9½ 11½

GB — 4 9½ 19 20½ GB — 3 9½ 10 13 GB — 12 24 27½ 27½

Saturday’s Results Atlanta 113, Orlando 86 Indiana 105, Detroit 84 Washington 105, New Orleans 91 Miami 125, Philadelphia 102 Cleveland 111, New York 104 Milwaukee 137, Phoenix 112 San Antonio 121, Denver 97 Utah 105, Charlotte 98 Memphis 107, Minnesota 99 Golden State at Sacramento (n) Sunday’s Games Toronto at Brooklyn, 11 a.m.

L.A. Clippers at Boston, 1 p.m.

Portland at Oklahoma City, 2 p.m.

NCAA BASKETBALL BIG TEN CONFERENCE

Conference W L PCT Wisconsin 8 1 .889 Maryland 8 2 .800 Purdue 8 3 .727 Northwestern 7 3 .700 Michigan St. 6 4 .600 Indiana 5 5 .500 Iowa 5 5 .500 Minnesota 4 6 .400 Michigan 4 6 .400 Nebraska 4 6 .400 Ohio St. 4 7 .364 Penn St. 4 7 .364 Illinois 3 8 .273 Rutgers 2 9 .182

Overall W L PCT 19 3 .864 20 3 .870 19 5 .792 18 5 .783 14 9 .609 15 8 .652 13 10 .565 16 7 .696 14 9 .609 10 12 .455 14 10 .583 12 12 .500 13 11 .542 13 11 .542

Saturday’s Results Purdue 73, Maryland 72 Rutgers 70, Penn St. 68 Minnesota 68, Illinois 59 Ohio St. 70, Michigan 66 Sunday’s Games Indiana at Wisconsin, noon Nebraska at Iowa, 1 p.m.

HOW AP TOP 25 FARED

Saturday’s Results 1. Gonzaga (23-0) vs. Santa Clara (n).

Next: at Loyola Marymount, Thursday.

2. Baylor (20-3) lost to Kansas State 56-54. Next: at Oklahoma State, Wednesday.

3. Kansas (20-3) lost to Iowa State 9289, OT. Next: at Kansas State, Monday.

4. Villanova (22-2) beat St. John’s 9279. Next: vs. Georgetown, Tuesday.

5. Arizona (21-3) lost to No. 13 Oregon 85-58. Next: vs. Stanford, Wednesday.

6. Louisville (19-4) beat Boston Col-

lege 90-67. Next: at No. 9 Virginia, Monday.

7. West Virginia (18-5) lost to Oklahoma State 82-75. Next: at Oklahoma, Wednesday.

8. Kentucky (18-5) lost to No. 24 Florida 88-66. Next: vs. LSU, Tuesday.

9. Virginia (17-5) lost to Syracuse 6662. Next: vs. No. 6 Louisville, Monday.

10. Wisconsin (19-3) did not play.

Next: vs. Indiana, Sunday.

11. UCLA (20-3) at Washington. Next: vs. No. 13 Oregon, Thursday.

12. North Carolina (20-4) did not play.

Next: vs. No. 20 Notre Dame, Sunday.

13. Oregon (21-3) beat No. 5 Arizona 85-58. Next: at No. 11 UCLA, Thursday.

14. Cincinnati (21-2) beat UConn 8268. Next: vs. UCF, Wednesday.

15. Florida State (19-4) did not play.

Next: vs. Clemson, Sunday.

16. Butler (18-5) did not play. Next: at Marquette, Tuesday.

17. Maryland (20-3) lost to No. 23 Purdue 73-72. Next: at Penn State, Tuesday.

18. Saint Mary’s (21-2) beat San Diego 71-27. Next: vs. Portland, Thursday.

19. South Carolina (19-4) beat Georgia 77-75. Next: vs. Alabama, Tuesday.

20. Notre Dame (17-6) did not play.

Next: at No. 12 North Carolina, Sunday.

21. Duke (18-5) beat Pittsburgh 72-64.

Next: vs. No. 12 North Carolina, Thursday.

22. Creighton (20-4) lost to Xavier 8280. Next: at DePaul, Saturday.

23. Purdue (19-5) beat No. 17 Maryland 73-72. Next: at Indiana, Thursday.

24. Florida (18-5) beat No. 8 Kentucky 88-66. Next: at Georgia, Tuesday.

25. Northwestern (18-5) did not play.

Next: vs. Illinois, Tuesday.

MLB CALENDAR

Through Feb. 21: Salary arbitration hearings, St. Petersburg, Fla. Feb. 17: Voluntary reporting date

for pitchers, catchers and injured players.

Feb. 22: Voluntary reporting date for other team’s other players.

SUPER BOWL Sunday At Houston Atlanta vs. New England, 5:30 p.m.

(FOX) CALENDAR Feb. 28-March 6: Combine, Indianapolis March 1: Deadline for clubs to designate franchise or transition players March 9: Free agency begins.

March 26-29: Annual league meeting, Phoenix April 21: Deadline for restricted free agents to sign offer sheets April 26: Deadline for prior club to exercise right of first refusal to restricted free agents

WHAT TO WATCH Sunday NFL 5:30 p.m.: Super Bowl LI, Atlanta vs. New England, at Houston, FOX NBA 1 p.m.: L.A. Clippers at Boston, ABC NHL 11 a.m.: Los Angeles at Washington, NBC Bowling 1 p.m.: PBA, Terrell Owens Super Clash, at Katy, Texas, ESPN Men’s college basketball 11 a.m.: Lafayette at Boston U., CBSSN 11:30 a.m.: Clemson at Florida St., ESPNU Noon: Indiana at Wisconsin, CBS Noon: Notre Dame at North Carolina 1 p.m.: Nebraska at Iowa, BTN 3:30 p.m.: Colorado at California, ESPNU Golf Noon: PGA Tour, Waste Management Phoenix Open, final round, at Scottsdale, Ariz., TGC 2 p.m.: PGA Tour, Waste Management Phoenix Open, final round, at Scottsdale, Ariz., CBS Rugby 7:30 p.m.: Americas Championship, United States vs. Uruguay, at San Antonio (taped), ESPN2 Skiing 2 p.m.: U.S. Freeskiing Grand Prix, Men’s & Women’s Halfpipe, at Mammoth Mountain, Calif. (taped), NBC 3 p.m.: FIS Freestyle, USSA Freestyle International, Men’s & Women’s Dual Moguls, at Deer Valley, Utah (taped), NBC Soccer 7:30 a.m.: Premier League, Swansea City at Manchester City, NBCSN 8:30 a.m.: Bundesliga, Augsburg vs. Werder Bremen, FS1 10 a.m.: Premier League, Manchester United at Leicester City, NBCSN 10:30 a.m.: Bundesliga, Eintracht Frankfurt vs. Darmstadt, FS1 Women’s college basketball 11 a.m.: Maryland at Indiana, ESPN2 11 a.m.: Vanderbilt at Kentucky, SEC 1 p.m.: Temple at Tulane, CBSSN 1 p.m.: South Carolina at Arkansas, ESPN2 1 p.m.: Auburn at Texas A&M, SEC 1:30 p.m.: Missouri at Mississippi St., ESPNU 3 p.m.: St. Joseph’s at Saint Louis, CBSSN 3 p.m.: Tennessee at Georgia, ESPN2 3 p.m.: Alabama at LSU, SEC 5:30 p.m.: South Florida at Memphis, ESPNU

SUPER BOWL LI: PATRIOTS VS. FALCONS, 5:30 P.M. SUNDAY, FOX

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HOUSTON – When Super Bowl LI kicks off Sunday in Houston, it will be two years, three days and about 20 hours since the Patriots’ Malcolm Butler made one of the most famous plays, and became one of the unlikeliest heroes, in Super Bowl history.

Entering Super Bowl XLIX, Butler was an undrafted rookie free-agent cornerback out of West Alabama who had played in only 11 games and totaled 15 tackles – nine of them coming in two games – and four passes defensed.

It was his stunning interception at the goal line with 20 seconds to play that gave those Patriots their rings.

Butler said he was as surprised as anybody when his moment arrived.

“We all fantasize and have a vision of making a big play and things like that,” he said, “but sometimes we think if we dream too big, it’s never going to happen.

“It most definitely happened to me.

I didn’t have it in my mind that way, but it happened that way.”

The unexpected star is a bit of a tradition in Super Bowl lore dating all the way to Super Bowl I, when a 34-year-old Max McGee, an 11-year veteran with only four regular-season receptions, had to replace Boyd Dowler, after the starter injured his shoulder on the third play of the game, and went on to catch seven passes for 138 yards and two touchdowns.

Adding to the moment, McGee had starred in spite of breaking Vince Lombardi’s curfew the night before and staying out until 6:30 Sunday morning with two flight attendants he met in the team’s hotel bar.

Over the years, others such as Raiders linebacker Rod Martin (XV), Washington rookie running back Tim Smith and backup quarterback Doug Williams (XXII), Rams linebacker Mike Jones (XXXIV), Tampa Bay DB Dexter Jackson (XXXVII), the Pats’ Deion Branch (XXXIX) and Giants wideout David Tyree (XLII) have carried on the tradition of emerging from relative obscurity to dictate the outcome of the world’s biggest sporting event.

New England, in particular, lends itself to the unexpected star thanks to

the way Bill Belichick constructs his ballclubs around the team-first and everyone-do-your-job mantras.

He said of the process, “We have acquired a lot of players by trade that we fit into our roster the last few years.

“It is a process where team building can come from a lot of different ways – waiver wire, draft, draft choices, trades, free-agent signings, street free agents and so forth.

“We just try to make the best decisions that we can at whatever point and time those decisions are available to be made.”

With all of that in mind, the question of the moment would be, do the Pats have another superstar in waiting – and just who might it be?

An informal poll of NFL coaches, players and media this week has yielded the names of James White, Dion Lewis, Malcolm Mitchell, Michael Floyd, Shea McClellin, Elandon Roberts and Eric Rowe as being among New England’s likely unlikeliest Super Bowl heroes in waiting.

White told me he hasn’t thought about the possibility, but he does have a plan to make it happen.

“Just know my role. When I step on the football field, just try to do the right thing to help this team win.

Everybody on this team knows their role.”

Although Floyd is relatively new to the “Patriot Way,” he also has a gameplan.

“You just have to make sure that you’re prepared to, whatever happens, that you’re the next man up that can go in there. The speed of the game, there won’t be any letdown on that.”

Lewis isn’t expecting it to be him, but he won’t be at all surprised if it happens for one of the Patriots.

“Whoever is ready to step up. We have a great offense; a great group of guys. We have an explosive group, so any given day it could be any player.”

Have we found the next McGee or Butler, who knows?

What we do know is as balanced as this Super Bowl matchup appears to be, there is a good chance a still-unknown traveler once again will be the difference in the end.

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Local group supports Fair Tax Act of 2017

By DENISE M. BARAN–UNLAND dunland@shawmedia.com

JOLIET – Dozens of Joliet area people packed the banquet room on Jan. 21 for the monthly meeting of “A Fair Tax” at the Silver Spoon Restaurant in Joliet.

This meeting is a “lively discussion to abolish the IRS.” Or, more precisely, income tax as most people know it.

Participants ranged from people attending for the first time to learn more about the concept to one who spent jail time for not paying his taxes.

Anyone can grumble about taxes, of course. But this group also supports the proposed Fair Tax Act of 2017, which was introduced in the House of Representatives as H.R. 25 and in the U.S. Senate as S.18 on Jan. 3.

The reform would include “a national sales tax on the use or consumption in the United States of taxable property or services in lieu of the current income and corporate income tax, employment and self-employment taxes, and estate and gift taxes.”

Basically, said Marilyn Rickert, president at Fair Tax Nation, which is based in Oak Forest, the proposed fair tax is a simple sales tax on new items, not used items. For instance, one would pay tax on a new car, but not a used car.

“You go and buy something only for personal use and you pay the tax once and only once,” Rickert said, “so you are not double, triple, quadruple taxed as you are under the current system.”

Jan Nahorski of Joliet, who also attends the meetings, said a fair tax would mean an instant pay raise since people would be “keeping their whole paychecks.” This would benefit consumers.

“If the Fair Tax bill law came in today, at your next pay period you would have 23 percent more money. It’s oversimplifying, but it’s that simple,” said Jan Nahorski of Joliet. “People would now be able to save up for a down payment on their house quicker, be able to save up to buy that newer vehicle and be able to pay off old debts faster. That’s money in our pocket.”

But doesn’t the government need tax money to operate?

“The government is going to get theirs through the imposition of the fair tax,” Nahorski said. “When you go to the cash register, you pay the tax.

You’re in charge. You’re not going to

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Dozens of Joliet area people packed the banquet room on Jan. 21 for the monthly meeting of a “A Fair Tax” at the Silver Spoon Restaurant in Joliet. The group supports the proposed Fair Tax Act of 2017, which was introduced in the U.S. Senate on Jan. 3.

“If the Fair Tax bill law came in today, at your next pay period you would have 23 percent more money. It’s oversimplifying, but it’s that simple.

People would now be able to save up for a down payment on their house quicker, be able to save up to buy that newer vehicle and be able to pay off old debts faster. That’s money in our pocket.”

Jan Nahorski, Joliet resident have someone tell you, ‘You’re going to pay this amount, and if you don’t, we’re going to put you in jail.”

Nahorski said individuals would no longer report to the IRS. Businesses and states would report to the federal government, he added.

“It’s something we see as so simple,” Nahorski said. “Why isn’t a light bulb going over our politicians heads?”

Rickert said she met with Barack Obama when he was president to explain the concept, but “he was not interested in tax reform.” Rickert said she plans to ask for an appointment with President Donald Trump.

“Whether he will talk to me or not, I don’t know,” Rickert said.

Glenn Gornik of Joliet, who organizes the monthly meetings, said he’s uncertain how much Trump knows about Fair Tax but he, too, is interested in finding out.

“Just because someone is a big-time

politician, we assume they know everything about it,” Gornik said. “But when we started asking them questions, they don’t have a clue.”

What else would a Fair Tax law impact? For one, savings would not be taxed, Rickert said. Moreover, education should be free, whether one’s child attends a Christian preschool or works toward a doctorate at a state university, Rickert added.

While concepts like tax reform may sound dry to the average person, who may not be interested in government, the group’s feeling is that government is interested in the average person, from the time he is born until the time someone files his last income tax return after his death.

Rickert feels it’s important people work together to affect government and how taxes are regulated.

“So you don’t have to be a victim,” Rickert said.

If you go n WHAT: A Fair Tax meeting n WHEN: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 18 n WHERE: Silver Spoon Restaurant, 1601 W. Jefferson St., Joliet. n ETC.: Food and beverages at own expense. All meetings are the third Saturday of the month. n FOR MORE INFORMATION: Call 815-474-4385. n WHAT: Joliet Region Chamber of Commerce Expo & Job Fair 2017 n WHEN: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Feb. 24 and Feb. 25 n WHERE: Louis Joliet Mall, 3340 Mall Loop Drive, Joliet n ETC.: A Fair Tax group will be present both days with information. n FOR MORE INFORMATION: Call 815-474-4385.

More online Visit this article at TheHeraldNews.com to view a video of attendees expressing their interest in fair tax.

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GOTTA DO IT Feb. 5 • Super Bowl Tamale Fest – 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., St. Mary Immaculate Parish gym, 15629 S. Route 59, Plainfield. Pork, chicken or beef tamales served with red or green sauce.

Hosted by Knights of Columbus Good Shepherd Council #5573. Preorder by calling John Arduino at 815-524-5868 or Steve Zimmer at 815-436-0458.

Feb. 6 • St. Patrick’s Food Pantry – 9 to 11:30 a.m., 710 W. Marion St., Joliet. For those living in the 60436 ZIP code. For information, call the St. Patrick parish office at 815-727-4746.

• Will County Mobile Workforce Center – 9:30 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3:30 p.m., Fountaindale Public Library, 300 W. Briarcliff Road, Bolingbrook. Visit www.jobs4people.org.

• Career Coach – 10 to 11 a.m., Grundy Workforce Services, 725 School St., Door 27, Morris. Call 815-942-0566.

• Conversational ESL – 10 a.m., Fountaindale Public Library District, 300 W. Briarcliff Road, Bolingbrook. Call 630-759-2102 or visit fountaindale.org.

• OJT Orientation – 1:30 p.m., also Feb. 9, Workforce Center of Will County, 2400 Glenwood Ave., Joliet. For information, visit www. jobs4people.org or call 815-727-4444.

• Industry Orientation – 1:30 p.m., also Feb. 9, Workforce Center of Will County, 2400 Glenwood Ave., Joliet. Register at www. jobs4people.org or call 815-727-4444.

• Microsoft Word – 1:30 p.m., Workforce Center of Will County, 2400 Glenwood Ave., Joliet. How to use Microsoft Word in job searches. For information, visit www. jobs4people.org or call 815-727-4444.

• After School Program – 2 to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, Boys and Girls Club, 226 E. Clinton St., Joliet. Ages 6 to 18. For rates and information, call 815-723-3434.

• Premier Pro Jumpstart – 6:30 p.m., Fountaindale Public Library District, 300 W. Briarcliff Road, Bolingbrook. Learn the workflow of importing and working with video inside of Premiere Pro. Call 630-759-2102 or visit fountaindale.org.

• Technology Security for Business Owners – 6:30 p.m., Fountaindale Public Library District, 300 W. Briarcliff Road, Bolingbrook.

Call 630-759-2102 or visit fountaindale.org.

Feb. 7 • Electronics Recycling – 6 to 11 a.m., Lockport Public Works, 17112 Prime Blvd., Lockport. For information, visit www.willcountygreen.com.

• “Low Cost Mailing Options for Nonprofits” – 8:30 to 10 a.m., Community Foundation of Grundy County, 520 W. Illinois Ave., Morris. Speaker: Thomas Kimes, Morris postmaster. Call Julie Buck at 815-941-0852.

• Industry Orientation – 9:30 a.m.; also Feb. 8, Workforce Center of Will County, 2400 Glenwood Ave., Joliet. Register at www.jobs4people.org or call 815-727-

4444.

• Living Life Skills Educational Workshop – 9:30 to 11 a.m., Will-Grundy Center for Independent Living, 2415 W. Jefferson St., Joliet. Call 815-729-0162 (voice) or 815-7682582 (VRS) • Illinois JobLink – 10 a.m.; also 10:30 a.m.

Feb. 10, Workforce Center of Will County, 2400 Glenwood Ave., Joliet. For information, visit www.jobs4people.org or call 815-7274444.

• Career Café – 10:30 a.m., Workforce Center of Will County, 2400 Glenwood Ave., Joliet. For information, visit www.jobs4people.org or call 815-727-4444.

• Design Fliers, Brochures and More – 11 a.m., Fountaindale Public Library District, 300 W. Briarcliff Road, Bolingbrook. Call 630-7592102 or visit fountaindale.org.

• Math Review – 2 p.m., Workforce Center of Will County, 2400 Glenwood Ave., Joliet.

For information, visit www.jobs4people. org or call 815-727-4444.

• Microsoft Word Basics – 2 to 3 p.m., White Oak Library District, Romeoville Branch, 201 W. Normantown Road, Romeoville. For more information, call 815-552-4230 or visit www.whiteoaklibrary.org.

• Bingo – 5 p.m., Harry E. Anderson VFW Post 9545, 323 Old Hickory Road, New Lenox.

Call 815-485-8369 or visit vfwpost9545.org.

• Electronics Recycling – 5 to 7 p.m., Romeoville Public Works, 615 Anderson Drive, Romeoville. For information, visit www. willcountygreen.com.

• “Credit Ability: Build a Strong Credit History”– 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., New Lenox Park District, 701 W. Haven Ave., New Lenox. Free.

Registration recommended. Call NuMark Credit Union at 815-729-3211 or register online at newlenoxparks.org.

• Bingo – 6:45 p.m., Knights of Columbus, 100 S. Infantry Drive, Joliet. Call 815-7250746.

• Minooka Women’s Club – 7 p.m., Minooka Village Hall, community room, Minooka. Women in Minooka, Channahon and Shorewood invited. Make and enjoy chocolate-covered pretzels. For information on the club, visit minookawomensclub.com or email MWC60447@gmail.com.

Feb. 8 • Free AARP Tax Preparation Service – Lockport Branch Library, 121 E. Eighth St., Lockport. For seniors and low-income individuals. By appointment only. Visit whiteoaklibrary.org or call 815-552-4260.

• Coffee & Company – 8 to 9 a.m., Grundy Bank, 201 Liberty St., Morris. Business networking event. Call 815-942-0113.

• Re-employment Workshop – 9:30 a.m., Workforce Center of Will County, 2400 Glenwood Ave., Joliet. For information, visit www. jobs4people.org or call 815-727-4444.

• Will County Mobile Workforce Center – 9:30 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 3:30 p.m., Plainfield Public Library, 15025 S. Illinois St., Plainfield. Visit www.jobs4people.org.

• How to Develop a Resume – 10 to 11

a.m., Grundy Workforce Services, 725 School St., Door 27, Morris. Call 815-942-0566.

• Standout Resumes – 2:30 p.m., Workforce Center of Will County, 2400 Glenwood Ave., Joliet. One hour. Free. For information, visit www.jobs4people.org or call 815-7274444.

• ESL Conversation Group – 3 p.m., White Oak Library District, Crest Hill Branch, 20670 Len Kubinski Drive, Crest Hill. Call 815-5524185 or visit whiteoaklibrary.org.

• Electronics Recycling – 5 to 7 p.m., 1100 S. Cedar Road, New Lenox. For information, visit www.willcountygreen.com.

• After Effects Jumpstart – 6:30 p.m., Fountaindale Public Library District, 300 W. Briarcliff Road, Bolingbrook. Create a basic composition, apply transform tools and animate elements. Call 630-759-2102 or visit fountaindale.org.

Feb. 9 • Job Fair – 9 to 11 a.m., Workforce Center of Will County, 2400 Glenwood Ave., Suite 100, Joliet. Employers will be looking for bus drivers, customer service representative, drivers, inside sales customer service representatives, inside sales supervisor, package handlers, quality assurance specialist and security officers. Visit www.jobs4people.org.

• Will County Mobile Workforce Center – 9:30 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m., Wilmington Public Library District, 201 S. Kankakee St., Wilmington.

• English as a Second Language Conversation Club – 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m., Plainfield Public Library District, 15025 S. Illinois St., Plainfield. Call 815-263-8145 or email thess@plainfieldpubliclibrary.org.

• Jamie McGee Elementary School PTO Savers fundraiser – 4 to 7 p.m., Bolingbrook Recreation and Aquatic Complex, 200 S. Lindsey Lane, Bolingbrook. Bring clothing, shoes, accessories, books, linens and small household items. PTO will receive money from Savers in exchange for donations. For more information, email jmgvicepres@gmail. com.

• Microsoft PowerPoint – 6:30 p.m., Fountaindale Public Library District, 300 W. Briarcliff Road, Bolingbrook. Call 630-7592102 or visit fountaindale.org.

Feb. 10 • Successful Interviewing – 9 a.m., Workforce Center of Will County, 2400 Glenwood Ave., Joliet. May schedule individual, digitally recorded mock interview. One hour. Free. For information, visit www.jobs4people.org or call 815-727-4444.

• Will County Mobile Workforce Center – 9:30 a.m. to noon, Frankfort Public Library District, 21119 S. Pfeiffer Road, Frankfort.

• Communication Skills – 10 to 11 a.m., Grundy Workforce Services, 725 School St., Door 27, Morris. Call 815-942-0566.

• Microsoft Word – 10:30 a.m., Workforce Center of Will County, 2400 Glenwood Ave., Joliet. How to use Microsoft Word in

job searches. For information, visit www. jobs4people.org or call 815-727-4444.

• Fish Fry – 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Knights of Columbus Council 4400, 1813 E. Cass St., Joliet. Fish, chicken and shrimp. Carryout. Call 815-723-3827.

• Fish Fry – 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., Stone City VFW Post 2199, 124 Stone City Drive, Joliet.

Dining room opens 4 p.m. Carryouts available. Call 815-722-7122.

• Will County Mobile Workforce Center – 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., Mokena Public Library, 11327 W. 195th St., Mokena.

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

• Fish Fry/Karaoke – Fish fry is 4 to 8 p.m.

Karaoke is 8 p.m. to midnight, Cantigny VFW Post 367, 826 Horseshoe Drive, Joliet. Call 815-722-5398.

• Fish Fry – 4 to 7:30 p.m., Croatian Cultural Club, 1503 Clement St., Joliet. Baked or fried cod, shrimp, catfish or fried chicken breast. Dine-in or carryout. Music starts at 7:30 p.m. For carryout, call 815-723-3154.

• Fish Fry – 5 p.m., Harry E. Anderson VFW Post 9545, 323 Old Hickory Road, New Lenox.

Karaoke begins at 8:30 p.m. Call 815-4858369 or visit vfwpost9545.org.

Feb. 11 • Pancake Breakfast – 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., New Lenox Fire Protection District’s Station 1, 261 E. Maple St., Joliet. Free. Donations to food pantry encouraged.

• The New Story for People with Disabilities – 10 a.m. to noon, Will-Grundy Center for Independent Living, 2415 W. Jefferson St., Joliet. Workshop for parents of children with disabilities. Topics include explanation of guardianship. Speakers: Consuelo Puente and Maria Castillo of Family Resource Center on Disabilities. Offered in Spanish. R.S.V.P. at 815-729-0162 (V), or 815-768-2582 (VRS).

• Forest Preserve District of Will County Volunteer Workday – 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Sugar Creek Preserve, Joliet. For more information, email rgauchat@fpdwc.org or call 815-722-7364.

• Intro to Computers – 11 a.m. to noon, White Oak Library District, Romeoville Branch, 201 W. Normantown Road, Romeoville. For information, call 815-552-4230 or visit www.whiteoaklibrary.org.

• Early Childhood Education Registration – 9 to 10:30 a.m., Program Center, 10925 W. La Porte Road, Mokena. For more information, call Mokena Park District at 708-390-2401 or visit www.mokenapark.com.

• Fish Fry – 4 to 8 p.m., Knights of Columbus Council 4400, 1813 E. Cass St., Joliet.

Carryout. Call 815-723-3827.

Feb. 12 • Forest Preserve District of Will County Volunteer Workday – 8 a.m. to noon, Lockport Prairie Nature Preserve, Lockport. For more information, email rgauchat@fpdwc. org or call 815-722-7364.

The HERALD–NEWS PLAINFIELD – Nine District 202 high school seniors have been named “commended” students in the 20162017 National Merit Scholarship Program. These District 202 students were named for 2016-2017: Photos provided

ABOVE: Pictured are (top row, from left) Hilary Gansauer, Elizabeth Ihrke, Mairghread Ebel, Bailey Tincher, Joseph Isdonas, Danny Rymut, Dylan Humiston, Dominic Terrones, Sara Davy, (bottom row, from left) Lisa Yanule, Michael Mauer, Sydney Fornnarino, Madison Smith, Emily Parker, Jessica Bowers, Madeline Jones and Colleen Sweeney. BELOW LEFT: Paul Buldak (left) and Alec Burgren (right). BELOW RIGHT: Eric Ullian (left) and Abigail Sutter (right).

Plainfield South High School • Alexander Hurtado

Plainfield North High School • Brendan Kelly • Thomas Robey • Casey Slezak • Robert Sparks

Plainfield East High School • Madeline Haymond • Alexandra Kiszluk • Colleen McCann • Alexandra Thill

Essay contest winners named The HERALD–NEWS

• Colleen Sweeney • Bailey Tincher

NEW LENOX – On Nov. 1, 2016, students who participated in the Voice Teacher Hilary Gansauer’s students: of Democracy essay contest were re• Joseph Isdonas quired to submit their entries.

• Emily Parker Students from Lincoln-Way Central • Dominic Terrones and Lincoln-Way West participated in the annual essay contest, which is Teacher Lisa Yanule’s students: promoted by the Veterans of Foreign • Jessica Bowers Wars. This year, the contest asked • Mairghread Ebel students to write about their person• Sydney Fornnarino al responsibility to America. Students • Elizabeth Ihrke from Lincoln-Way Central submitted • Madeline Jones over 200 essays and students from Lincoln-Way West submitted over 70.

There were four winners of the esThere were 14 winners from Lin- say contest from Lincoln-Way West. coln-Way Central, including two stu- The winners are: dents who were also named winners of the essay contest last year: Madison Teacher Mary Hilbert’s students: Smith and Bailey Tincher. The win• Paul Buldak ners are: • Eric Ullian

Teacher Sara Davy’s students: • Dylan Humiston • Michael Mauer • Danny Rymut • Madison Smith

Teacher Michelle Cartolano’s student: • Abigail Sutter

Teacher Michael Franta’s student: • Ryan Burggren

Principals for a Day at Joliet Public Schools District 86 The HERALD–NEWS JOLIET – Joliet Public Schools District 86 recently welcomed business and community members into their schools for their 13th annual Principal for a Day Celebration.

“Honorary Principals” included: • T.E. Culbertson Elementary: Amanda Gregory, Joliet Public Library; • M.J. Cunningham Elementary: Miguel Crino, International Teams; • Dirksen Junior High: Mike Trafton, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Will & Grundy County; • Eisenhower Academy: Dave Laketa, University of St. Francis; • Farragut Elementary: Thomas Casey, Will County Health Department; • Forest Park Individual Education (I.E.) School: Tom Carsten, Joliet Park District; • Gompers Junior High: Gloria Dollinger, Will County Board member; • Hufford Junior High & I.E. Program: Tyler Marcum, Will County Board member; • Thomas Jefferson Elementary: Claudia Lopez, VNA Health Care;

• Edna Keith Elementary: Paris Wilhite, Bounce Back Social Services; • A.O. Marshall Elementary: Joliet Councilwoman Brooke Hernandez-Brewer; • Marycrest Early Childhood Center: Ericka Williams, Catholic Charities; • Pershing Elementary: Kurt Schackmuth, Lewis University; • Sator Sanchez Elementary: Anna Miller, Smith Family YMCA; • Carl Sandburg Elementary: Debbie Greene, Billie Limacher Bicentennial Park; • Isaac Singleton Elementary: R. Dale Evans, Housing Authority of Joliet; • Taft Elementary: Rick Cronholm, Johansen & Anderson Inc.; • Lynne Thigpen Elementary: Mary Jaworski, Joliet Region Chamber of Commerce; • Thompson Instructional Center: Paul Lauridsen, Stepping Stones Inc.; • Washington Junior High & Academy Program: Joe Pecora, Heroes West Sports Grill; • Woodland Elementary: Dr. Yolanda Isaacs, Joliet Junior College.

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Joliet Public Schools District 86 recently welcomed business and community members into their schools for their 13th annual Principal for a Day Celebration.

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Seaman John Franklin is a gunner’s mate aboard the forward-deployed Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer operating out of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii.

A Navy gunner’s mate is responsible for all the weapons aboard the ship and making sure they are functioning properly. Gunner’s mates get people qualified on the weapons and teach them how to shoot.

The USS Chung Hoon measures approximately 500 feet and is powered by four gas turbines that allow the destroyer to achieve more than 30 mph in open seas.

According to Navy officials, destroyers are tactical multi-mission surface combatants capable of conducting anti-air warfare, anti-submarine warfare and anti-surface warfare, as well as provide humanitarian assistance. Fast, maneuverable and technically advanced, destroyers provide the required war-

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Seaman John Franklin, a Bolingbrook native, is a gunner’s mate aboard the USS Chung Hoon, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer operating out of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. fighting expertise and operational flexibility to execute any tasking overseas.

Approximately 30 officers and 300 enlisted men and women make up the ship’s company. Their jobs are highly specialized and keep each part of the cruiser running smoothly, according to Navy officials. The jobs range from maintaining engines and handling weaponry to washing dishes and preparing meals.

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Students were given the task of sorting through and packaging potatoes into fivepound bags in preparation for packing holiday meals.

NHS students at LTHS help feed hungry people The HERALD–NEWS LOCKPORT – National Honor Society students at Lockport Township High School took part in the organization’s annual service day by helping feed the hungry on Nov. 2.

NHS board members Brendan O’Dwyer, Tomi Jo Mansell, Mary Kate Buchheit, McKenzie Ebel and Kayla

Janssen went to the Northern Illinois Food bank for the NHS, SWSC annual service day. Students were given the task of sorting through and packaging potatoes into five-pound bags, in preparation for packing holiday meals. On Nov. 2, the NHS, SWSC packaged 11,400 pounds of potatoes, which provided 9,500 meals for hungry neighbors in northern Illinois.

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Eichelberger Elementary School fifth-grader Rena Haile and her sister, third-grader Lydia Haile, write on a worksheet during an afternoon Science, Technology, Engineering and Math or STEM club at Elizabeth Eichelberger Elementary School on Dec. 5. The Haile sisters were working on an activity called Snap Circuits, in which they had to create a circuit to power a plastic disc into the air.

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for the club that began on Nov. 28. Engineering for Kids STEM Educational PLAINFIELD – Elizabeth Eichel- Enrichment brought the club to the berger Elementary School in Plainfield school. now offers a Science, Technology, EnStudents who enrolled learned gineering and Math or STEM club. about various kinds of engineering Students in all grades could sign up through age-appropriate activities.

JOLIET – Joliet Central High School senior Amanda Affrunti was nominated and attended the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards, a fourday leadership program in Wisconsin in partnership with Rotary International, due to her exemplary leadership and her willingness to keep learning and growing.

Affrunti is actively involved as the public relations chair for the Key Club, as Fearless Females vice president, as human relations secretary, and as a member of the strategic planning team, the disciplinary committee, school improvement team, and National Honor Society.

She is also a Ms. J Top Ten Finalist at Joliet Central High School.

Passionate about helping people, Affrunti is interested in pursuing a master’s degree in social work.

She enhanced her leadership skills through a variety of intense physical, mental and team-building activities, including group discussions, rock-climbing and a reality simulation.

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Joliet Central High School senior Amanda Affrunti attended the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards, a four-day leadership program in Wisconsin in partnership with Rotary International.

Guest speakers and students shared their stories about self-identity, essential worthiness, ultimate authority, self-trust, constructive control, opportunity, personal relationships and personal growth.

The HERALD–NEWS A former Valley View School District 365U student will soon embark on a five-month study abroad program at China’s Xi’an Jiaotong University next month.

Ja’ami Mock, who attended Lukancic Middle School in Romeoville and Bolingbrook High School, will head to China on Feb. 10 courtesy of a study abroad program at Iowa

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The HERALD–NEWS PLAINFIELD – Five Plainfield Central High School and Plainfield North High School students placed in the top 10 at the second annual Fall Classic speech tournament on Nov. 19.

PNHS hosted the tournament. Speech teams from 20 District 202-area high schools competed, including Plainfield East High School, Plainfield North and Plainfield Central.

Individual team members competed in 14 categories including Dramatic Interpretation, Humorous Acting Duet, Original Comedy, Poetry Reading and Radio Speaking.

Scores from each category were used to determine the final team score.

Plainfield Central finished ninth overall and Plainfield

East came in 16th out of 20 teams. As the host team, Plainfield North’s finish was not counted in the final standings.

The top five high schools were: Wheaton North, Lemont, Joliet West, Lyons and Joliet Central.

Individual tournament winners from District 202 include:

JOLIET – U.S. Air Force Airman Perla H. Carrillo graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas.

The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare

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Plainfield Central

• Kaiya Hietikko and Nicholas Prah (seniors) – third place, Humorous Acting Duet • Nicholas Prah (senior) – third place, Impromptu Speaking • Jacob Hawkins (senior) – sixth place, Original Oratory

Plainfield North

• Divya Francis (senior) and Joe Nuzzi (junior) – sixth place, Humorous Acting Duet.

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Girl Scouts receive the Journey World assignments.

Participants take on roles such as mayor, radio DJ, bank president and much more in an attempt to save the city from impending doom.

principles and skills.

Airmen who complete basic training also earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.

Carrillo is the sister of Miguel A. Reynoso of Joliet, niece of Carmen and Jose Reynoso of Addison and cousin of Julissa Reynoso of Addison.

She is a 2014 graduate of Joliet Central High School.

Area Girl Scouts save the day The HERALD–NEWS JOLIET – A new, immersive program from Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana (GSGCNWI) is Journey World.

In the Journey World Challenge, participants take on new roles, such as mayor, radio DJ, bank president and much more in an attempt to save the city from impending doom.

Once roles have been assigned, participants tackle fun and exciting challenges, such as becoming superheroes or saving the city from a zombie apocalypse.

Recently, girls in kindergarten through third grade participated in the Journey World Challenge at GSGCNWI’s Joliet Gathering Place and they were assisted by special guests David Velazquez of M&M Bank and Monica Bibian of D’Arcy Automobiles, who is also a DJ for WJOL in Joliet, along with volunteers and staff from the Girl Scout office.

The girls also received a visit from Joliet Mayor Bob O’Dekirk, and presented him with the key to their Super Hero City. Later in the afternoon, Theresa Rouse, superintendent of Joliet Public Schools District 86, visited as well.

During the program, the girls learned essential financial literacy and entrepreneur-

Girl Scouts present Joliet Mayor Bob O’Dekirk with the key to their Super Hero City. ship skills.

Journey World is also available for school field trips, youth group events, corporate team-building events and adults who just want to have fun.

For more information and to register, visit www.girlscoutsgcnwi.org.

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State University, where he is a freshman studying mechanical engineering.

Mock, who is the grandson of BHS special education teacher Pat Jones, will stay in China until mid-summer.

He will be one of the first students to participate in the recentlylaunched Xi’an JiaoTong University Foreign Exchange Program. Visit his GoFundMe page at www.gofundme.com/jaami.

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Former BHS student to spend 5 months in China

Ja’ami Mock, who attended Lukancic Middle School in Romeoville and Bolingbrook High School, will head to China on Feb. 10 courtesy of a study abroad program at Iowa State University, where he is a freshman.

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Lockport Jewel, customers donate to ‘Holiday Cash’ The HERALD–NEWS LOCKPORT – Lockport’s Jewel-Osco and area people participated in the “Holiday Cash” campaigns.

Local Jewel customers donated cash, which was used to purchase dinners for Will County veterans and their families. Jewel-Osco helped raise cash donations as well as donate money at their store’s Holiday Cash Event, which ended Nov. 21.

The proceeds were used entirely to purchase Thanksgiving dinners from their deli, which the VFW distributed to local veterans and their families.

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Several dinners were delivered to local veterans’ group homes. Store manager Phil Ireland, front end manager Kelly Wilson and Joanna Gregory and Denise Michalowicz of Jewel-Osco organized the donations at the store checkouts with VFW members assisting in the collections at the entrances.

The same “Holiday Cash” campaign continued in December at the Lockport Jewel-Osco to provided ham dinners to veterans for Christmas.

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ASK THE DOCTORS Elizabeth Ko and Eve Glazier Still, scientists are beginning to find answers. In studies of psoriasis patients whose diets included fish oil supplements to add omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, a measurable number of participants reported fewer and less severe flare-ups. When they stopped following the diet, the benefits also waned.

Gluten sensitivity also may play a role.

In a study of individuals with antibodies to gliadin, one of the proteins that are present in wheat, following a gluten-free diet lessened psoriasis symptoms. When gluten was reintroduced to the diet, flare-ups became more frequent.

If you’re interested in modifying your own diet, the National Psoriasis Foundation offers some guidelines. Foods to add to your diet include leafy green vegetables and colorful fruits such as spinach, kale, broccoli, squash and blueberries. Foods that are a natural source of omega-3 fatty oils also are on the list. They include cold-water fish, olive oil, walnuts and pumpkin seeds.

The foundation recommends people with psoriasis avoid processed foods, refined sugar and fatty red meat. Research shows maintaining a healthy weight is important as well.

The idea is when you have an inflammatory disease, steering clear of foods with inflammatory effects can help. Whatever the outcome, the result is a more healthful diet.

• Eve Glazier, M.D., MBA, is an internist and assistant professor of medicine at UCLA Health. Elizabeth Ko, M.D., is an internist and primary care physician at UCLA Health.

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Dear Doctors: I’ve had psoriasis for close to seven years, and lately it has been flaring up more often. Is there anything I can do with my diet to control this, or even prevent it from happening?

Dear Reader: That’s a good question.

Thanks to the growing body of research detailing the link between inflammation and chronic disease, there are some equally intriguing answers. To explore it further, let’s start with what psoriasis is.

When you have psoriasis, your immune system has gone a bit haywire. It’s sending faulty danger signals that cause skin cells to grow at 10 times their normal rate. That’s much faster than your body can process and shed them, and the result is raised and itchy patches of red skin, often covered with silvery scales. Typically, these appear on the knees, elbows and scalp, but may also be present on the palms of the hands, soles of the feet and along the torso.

Although there is a complex genetic component to psoriasis, environmental factors also are at play. Stress, infection, certain medications, smoking and alcohol use all have been shown to be potential triggers for flare-ups.

The results of that research we mentioned make it increasingly clear inflammation is a factor in many chronic and degenerative diseases, including heart disease, diabetes and many cancers. Since inflammation plays a significant role in psoriasis, a lot of attention now is being paid to your question of whether diet may affect the disease.

Due to the way psoriasis behaves, drawing conclusions can be difficult. Flare-ups are followed by periods of dormancy, which give way again to subsequent flare-ups. Since the nature of the disease is to fluctuate, connecting the dots between a specific dietary or behavioral change, and the absence or presence of flare-ups, is a challenge.

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Undiscovered infidelity results in friend’s death from AIDS Dear Abby: On July 13, you responded to someone asking whether friends should tell friends anonymously their spouse is cheating. You advised if someone is not willing to include their name, they should mind their own business.

One of my dear friends from church didn’t get a letter or a phone call during her marriage to her husband, who cheated on her constantly. What she did get was HIV-positive status, later full-blown AIDS and then death. Her husband was positive when she became pregnant, and her son also was born positive.

I believe if someone knew and had told her, she might have been able to use protection. I’m sure she wouldn’t have minded the person not revealing his or her name as much as she minded being blindsided by her husband concealing his illness.

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with it. I dealt with it as soon as I knew, but if someone had disclosed it to me earlier, perhaps I wouldn’t have experienced the humiliation of an STD, or the lies of a spouse telling me how much he loved me while sleeping around behind living a daily life based on lies and decep- my back. The truth is always the best tion. Had someone spoken up, perhaps policy. – Michelle In Utah my friend still would be alive. – Mimi In Dear Abby: I feel the best way to save California a marriage involving a cheating spouse Dear Mimi: Please accept my sympathy is to directly address it with the cheater. for the loss of your friend. And thank you This allows the person to “come clean” for sharing your compelling story. Other to the spouse. When the unsuspecting readers responded to that letter with spouse hears it from another source, it’s equal passion. Read on for a sample: like a double blow – everyone else knows Dear Abby: My ex-husband was a but the one being cheated on. cheater who ended up “sharing” his STD The marriages I have seen survive with me. I would have been eternally are those in which the cheater is able grateful to anyone who stepped up and to confess to the infidelity, own up to told me about the affairs. the indiscretions and promise not to Unlike the wives you referenced in interact with the other offender. From your answer, I was in a position to deal experience, I know it is not an easy road

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married young. They were immature and struggled to find their footing in the relationship. During the first year, unbeknownst to each other, they both had one-night stands, which they confided to me separately. I believed imparting that information to anyone only would hurt people for no purpose, so I kept it to myself.

They wound up growing as individuals and as a couple, and they have been happily married for 20 years. I have no doubt if I had spilled the beans, it promptly would have ended the union. –

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Newspaper Enterprise Association TODAY – You’ll see clearly this year. Don’t second-guess yourself or wait for someone else to take the lead. Be forward with your intentions and don’t hesitate to let others know how you feel and what you expect. Being in control will be liberating and will encourage you to be your very best.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – If you take an energetic, enthusiastic approach to life and what you want to accomplish, you won’t be disappointed. Love is in the stars, and positive changes can be made.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – Emotional deception can set you back. Be honest with yourself about what has transpired and the part you’ve played,

instead of living in denial or walking away. Truth and honesty rule.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) – You must take time to pamper yourself and rest up for what lies ahead.

Feeling good about your appearance will give you the boost you need to take chances and succeed.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – Hidden matters will be revealed if you are too open about your past or personal plans. Protect your reputation and position.

Offer to help others instead of displaying your vulnerabilities.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – Making personal gains, updating your appearance and having passionate encounters will make your day something special.

Positive change is within reach, and being emotionally open will speed up the process.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) – Too much of anything will lead to disaster. Engaging in excessive behavior or making unrealistic promises will be imprudent.

Moderation and good sense will help you reach your creative goals.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – Send out your resume or start your own small business. A day trip will rejuvenate you and help you discard any threat of leading a dull, routine life.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – Good fortune is within reach. Explore new possibilities, but don’t consider a joint venture. You will do best if you go it alone.

Personal improvements are favored.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – Don’t swim upstream.

Getting along with people and finding ways to accommodate both your needs and the needs of

others will put you in a good position. Romance is highlighted.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – Keep an open mind, but don’t cave under pressure. You have to do what’s right for you, even if it’s at the expense of someone else. Follow your heart.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – You should stick close to home today. Travel or dealing with people who have ulterior motives will lead to frustration and dead-ends. Physical exercise and a nutritious diet will improve your health and appearance.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – You need to keep your life simple and moderate. Use your intuition to help you avoid getting involved with people who lack discretion or tend to be hotheaded. Do your own thing and prosper.

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SUNSET LAKES HOME OFFERS A UNIQUE BLEND OF CUSTOM STYLE, COMFORT AND CONVENIENCE

109 S. Jackson Street, Elwood

2817 Peachtree Circle, Aurora

central air conditioning.

Children in the home would attend Manhattan and Lincoln-Way schools.

ABOUT THIS PROPERTY Address: 24014 Sunset Lakes Drive, Manhattan Size: 3,000 square feet, with 4 bedrooms, 2½ baths Room Sizes: Family room, 18by-15 feet; dining room, 16-by-13; kitchen, 21-by-15; office, 12-by-12; loft, 11-by-7; mudroom, 7-by-7; laundry, 8-by-7; master bedroom, 16-by-13; other bedrooms, 12-by12, 12-by-11, 12-by-10 Price: $469,900 Directions: Take Cedar Road to Baker Road, east to Bay to Bay Road, south to Sunset Lakes Drive Tour: By appointment Realtor: Lee and Cindy Hansen, of Coldwell Banker Honig-Bell, at (815) 478-3872 (office), or (815) 685-5487 (Lee cell) or (815) 258-0928 (Cindy cell), or via email to lee@lee-hansen. com. Visit the Website at www.LeeHansen.com.

3 bed, 1 1/2 bath 2story. Main floor den and laundry. 7x7 room off master could be WIC, sitting room or nursery. Full bsmt.

Offered at $108,900 Thomas Mulvey, Managing Broker, 730-1900 x22MLS# 09356699 2 bed, 2 1/2 bath townhome in great location.

LR with fireplace and sliding door to patio.

Great master suite. 2nd floor laundry. Full bsmt.

Offered at $239,900 Thomas Mulvey, Managing Broker, 730-1900 x22MLS# 09384852

3052 Jeffrey Drive, Joliet

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This custom two-story home in Sunset Lakes in Manhattan is better than new, loaded with upgrades and special features, and enhanced with a prime homesite with lake view.

Upon entry, a stylish and elegant wood-rail switchback staircase to the second floor flanks the foyer, leading to an even more impressive open-flow design from kitchen to dining area to family room with fireplace. The dining area opens via doors to the pergola-covered deck, built of durable composite materials, overlooking the fenced yard and water.

The spacious kitchen offers a work island/ breakfast bar, granite countertops, butler’s pantry, walk-in pantry and stainless steel appliances.

Also on the first floor is a dining room with tray ceiling and plantation shutters, a home office/den with coffered ceiling and French doors, and a convenient mudroom and laundry.

Upstairs are the four bedrooms, including a master suite with large walk-in closet and spa-like bath. At the top of the stairs is a cozy loft area.

Other special touches include hand-scraped wood flooring on the first floor, 4-inch trim, crown moldings, and wainscoting in the entry, office, dining room and upstairs hallway. The long list of upgrades includes new shutters, shades and window treatments, professional landscaping; custom master closet organizer; and aluminum fencing.

Flexibility is built-in with a three-car garage and full, unfinished English basement.

The home also has a security system and

3 bed, 3 bath home.

Open concept with 2-story vaulted ceilings in LR & DR. Open staircase, 2nd floor landing. Finished bsmt.

Offered at $242,500 Thomas Mulvey, Managing Broker, 730-1900 x22 MLS#09404906

Dow Realty, Inc. DowCompanies.com

815-730-1900 1300 W. Jefferson St. Joliet, IL 60435

1125 Olympus Drive, Naperville 4 bed, 2 bath split level.

Main floor master.

Large kitchen opens to heated sunroom.

Minutes to downtown Naperville. Offered at $285,000 Thomas Mulvey, Managing Broker, 730-1900 x22 MLS# 09402921

Thomas Mulvey

CRB, CRS, GRI Managing Broker 815-730-1900 x22 tmulvey@dowcompanies.com

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REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS

BOLINGBROOK

$179,000, 168 S Orchard Dr, Bolingbrook 60440-2672, 02-16-104-025-0000, Sean Khan to Jose S Canales, November 1 $219,000, 14 Lindsey Ct E, Bolingbrook 60440-1689, 02-08-427-004-0000, Rene Morales to Tommy L Seay III, December 19 $255,000, 1535 Somerfield Dr, Bolingbrook 60490-3225, 02-19-302-020-0000, Kyle J Martinez to Kelsey B Casey, November 21 $408,000, 1851 Snead St, Bolingbrook 60490-2078, 01-13-410-002-0000, Did Bun Wong to Risheesh Kumar Beerakayala & Himaja Reddy Moolamalla, December 2 $157,000, 147 Enclave Cir E, Bolingbrook 60440-7851, 02-11-314-021-1001, Janet I Anikapla to Ying Yimmermann & Derek Timmermann, September 8 $219,000, 197 Penny Ln, Bolingbrook 60440-5202, 02-08-428-006-0000, Michael Dobbs to Jeffrey D Bear & Emily S Bear, December 1 $129,000, 146 Enclave Cir C, Bolingbrook 60440-7835, 02-11-303-026-1003, US Bank NA Trustee to Richard Pan & Jennifer Pan, November 23 $115,000, 211 Riverside Dr, Bolingbrook 60440-2327, 02-11-304-040-0000, John Langley to Luis E Gonzalez, September 7 $139,000, 113 Park Ct, Bolingbrook 604402403, 02-12-304-009-0000, Larry L Clark to Gilberto Alcantara & Maribel Alcantara, November 3 $233,000, 1085 Churchill Dr, Bolingbrook 60440-1451, 02-08-301-025-0000, Earl L Miller III to Khiem M Nguyen, November 18 $206,500, 108 Rockhurst Rd, Bolingbrook 60440-2349, 02-11-104-041-0000, Daniel J Smith to Kara C Foley, November 7 $100,000, 19 Elm Ct, Bolingbrook 604401929, 02-10-211-047-0000, Ashok Bansal to Bruce L Petersen & Sharon S Petersen, November 8 $105,000, 18g Fernwood Dr, Bolingbrook 60440-2923, 02-15-210-022-0000, Dmytro Proskochylov to Sandra C Stafford, December 21 $178,000, 1024 Commonwealth Ct, Bolingbrook 60440-1639, 02-08-406-025-0000, Chicago Title Land Trt Co Trustee to Josue Garcia & Roxanne M Huante, November 16 $196,000, 248 Butte View Dr, Bolingbrook 60490-1518, 02-18-208-008-0000, Fannie Mae to Alvin K Abraham & Abraham K Thomas, December 6 $228,500, 551 Springwood Ln, Bolingbrook 60440-1480, 02-08-208-011-0000, Shaun P Saculla to William Hicks & Helen Sanchez, November 22 $163,500, 6 Hidden Valley Ct, Bolingbrook 60490-5537, 01-12-401-009-0000, Bank of New York Mellon Trustee to Surendra K Ramanapudi, August 30 $150,000, 436 Cumberland Ln, Bolingbrook 60440-2850, 02-15-102-022-0000, Michael S

Patsch to Vladislav Kalitka, December 16 $146,000, 513 Racine Ln, Bolingbrook 60440-2052, 02-02-312-029-0000, Christian Chase Ltd to Bilal Mirza, November 1 $165,000, 333 Hanover Dr, Bolingbrook 60440-3032, 02-14-208-001-0000, Conscious Properties LLC to Jose Antonio Madera Jr, November 22 $260,000, 250 Christine Way, Bolingbrook 60440-6139, 02-09-312-017-0000, Johny Ulmilla to Julie Andrea Saldana & Jonathan A Saldana, October 30

BRAIDWOOD

$161,000, 135 W 1st St, Braidwood 604081615, 24-08-303-036-0000, Grundy Bank Trustee to Kenneth R Adams & Susan D Adams, December 5 $176,000, 284 Partridge Dr, Braidwood 60408, 24-08-221-009-0000, Scott W Schneider to Joseph Murphy, November 2 $141,000, 371 N Center St, Braidwood 60408-1607, 27-08-204-031-0000, Hardwood Floors By Hall Inc to Martha Jean Pritchard, December 15

60403-1819, 04-31-109-002-0000, Peet Trust to Susana Barba Ascencio & Stephanie Calderon, November 30 $77,629, 2212 Parkrose Ave, Crest Hill 60403-1808, 04-31-110-009-0000, Bank of New York Mellon Trustee to Maricarmen Carrillo, November 22 $72,577, 801 Sullivan Ct, Crest Hill 604032341, 04-32-409-005-0000, Paul Terdich to Paul Terdich, July 14

ELWOOD

$168,000, 825 Eagle Creek Rd, Elwood 60421-6040, 11-20-305-038-0000, Johnson Trust to James M Rossi & Pamela S Rossi, November 2 $184,000, 907 Cottonwood Dr, Elwood 60421-6075, 11-20-104-030-0000, Robert C Evans to Bradley J Hojek Jr & Michelle K Hojek, July 7 $160,000, 909 Laurel Dr, Elwood 604216087, 11-20-201-008-0000, Fannie Mae to Richard Hausler, March 22 $183,000, 902 Cottonwood Dr, Elwood 60421-6097, 11-20-106-011-0000, Cameron L Hansen to Richard Rossolille & Vanessa Rossolille, June 3

60423-3140, 09-32-102-002-0000, Dana J Frazier to Charles C Cobb & Kimberly New, December 15 $575,000, 23018 Toscana Dr, Frankfort 60423-9057, 09-32-305-017-0000, James Esposito to Dana J Frazier & Angela Ruth Frazier, December 13 $320,000, 9095 Arbour Walk Dr, Frankfort 60423-8836, 09-22-413-048-0000, Maley Trust to Anthony A Weber & Sandra L Weber, September 9 $187,000, 7631 W Hickory Creek Dr, Frankfort 60423-8902, 09-24-103-007-0000, Brian J Bethke to Joey L Chesak & Natalie M Chesak, November 29 $390,000, 9041 Charrington Dr, Frankfort 60423-9443, 09-22-406-012-0000, Paul Petrik to Jordan Johnson & Kelly Johnson, May 12

HOMER GLEN

$450,000, 15202 S Ginger Ln, Homer Glen 60491-5639, 05-16-102-009-0000, Beechen & Dill Homes Inc to James Prepura & Nicolette L Prepura, December 16 $499,115, 15235 S Ginger Ln, Homer Glen 60491-5640, 05-16-103-010-0000, Beechen & Dill Homes Inc to Kristin Notter, December CHANNAHON 8 $192,000, 24301 Marble Rd, Channahon $84,000, 15607 Jeanne Ln, Homer Glen 60410-9239, 10-08-104-003-0000, Michael FRANKFORT 60491-7964, 05-15-303-002-0000, Chicago W Giovenco to Clayton E Janicki & Melissa B $375,000, 20765 S Locust St, Frankfort Title Land Trt Co Trustee to Thomas E Wojcik Janicki, December 16 60423-1173, 09-21-127-005-0000, James G $160,000, 22614 S Joseph Ave, Channahon Nickel to Christopher Gsell & Mylene Decamp, & Mary Kay Wojcik, August 26 $275,000, 14542 S Birchdale Dr, Homer 60410-3068, 06-35-108-006-0000, Brad December 20 Glen 60491-7709, 05-10-205-042-0000, Kenney to Peggy Virginia Kelsey, December 13 $312,000, 21694 Higley Ln, Frankfort 60423-2267, 09-28-106-021-0000, Joseph M Fischer Real Estate Sales & Co to Joanna Molek, December 9 Poracky to Michael G Moyzis, December 13 CREST HILL $217,000, 14363 S Boulder Dr, Homer Glen $265,000, 201 Mulberry Rd, Frankfort $205,000, 1913 Connie Dr, Crest Hill 6040360491-7573, 05-10-203-019-0000, Glenn C 60423-1211, 09-21-306-009-0000, Bruce R 0810, 04-31-305-018-0000, Kevin R Ticknor Cozzi to Michael E Zeniecki & Mary J Zeniecki, Pennington to Piotr Pawlik & Sylvia Scehura, to Lamon R Metille & Dawn M Mettille, December 21 December 12 November 1 $269,000, 14336 S Hillcrest Rd, Homer Glen $100,000, 20209 S Graceland Ln, Frankfort $235,000, 16354 Siegel Dr, Crest Hill 60491-9324, 05-09-200-004-0000, Gregory 60423-6938, 09-13-125-004-0000, Paul E 60403-0873, 04-19-405-025-0000, GreyBrynda to Thomas Durso & Beth Durso, Hancock to Ashely Rybarczyk, November 23 stone Homes LLC to Jesus Sotelo, December November 30 $165,000, 20563 S Frankfort Sq Rd, Frank22 $212,900, 14160 Sheffield Dr 102, Homer fort 60423-8125, 09-13-306-009-0000, Greg $230,000, 21406 Mays Lake Dr, Crest Hill Glen 60491-8050, 05-01-305-009-1002, R Gasser to Maximo Zambrano & Amanda 60403-8769, 04-19-101-041-0000, Leroy Standard Bank & Trust Trustee to Charlotte Stephens, November 11 Plett to Charles A Marshall Jr & Cynthia D Bruno, March 7 $530,000, 11856 Granite Ct, Frankfort Marshall, December 16 $213,500, 14150 Sheffield Dr 102, Homer $70,000, 1500 N Rock Run Dr 1D, Crest Hill 60423-9336, 09-31-308-002-0000, Weichert Glen 60491-7854, 05-01-305-008-1002, StanWorkforce Mobility to Anuunziato Walter 60403-3176, 07-06-111-052-1004, Dana M dard Bank & Trust Trustee to Phyllis R Fabiano Perry to Ashley L Huse & Yuricko M Campbell, Vincent Pascale & Monica Lynn Pascale, & Rosie P Fabiano, November 23 December 5 December 14 $236,400, 14130 Sheffield Dr 404, Homer $299,500, 21393 Plank Trail Dr, Frankfort $240,000, 1804 Mia Dr, Crest Hill 6040360423-8872, 09-24-403-018-0000, Zachary Glen 60491-7878, 05-01-305-005-1016, 0932, 04-31-217-012-0000, Brookfield ReloStandard Bank & Trust Trustee to Sheila M cation Inc to Thomas M Kennedy & Rebecca A Alan Langel to Nicholas Brayton & Caryn Kundys, November 22 Brayton, December 1 Kennedy, November 2 $297,500, 13755 S Kickapoo Trl, Homer Glen $425,000, 10455 Sutton Dale Ln, Frankfort $149,500, 16624 Borio Dr, Crest Hill 6040360491-9659, 05-02-103-007-0000, First Mid60423-2233, 09-29-203-001-0000, Brian R 0768, 04-20-207-011-0000, US Bank NA west Bank Trustee to Peter Konow & Sharele Zolecki to Matthew P Trainor, October 26 Trustee to Edward W Lukasik & Steve Brusa, Konow, November 2 $397,000, 10445 Brookridge Creek Dr, December 12 $235,000, 13749 W Carefree Dr, Homer $192,000, 16610 Zausa Dr, Crest Hill 60403- Frankfort 60423-8089, 09-20-404-024Glen 60491-8657, 05-10-408-003-0000, 0000, Gerencher Trust to Brian Kilcoyne & 0774, 04-19-401-106-0000, Robert Joseph Sylvia A Hopkins to Tomasz P Pawlik & Sylwia Lisa M Cheval, July 20 Amschler to Thanh Liem Quach & Thi Le Chi $400,000, 10229 Frankfort Main, Frankfort J Pawlik, December 15 Dinh, December 13 $436,000, 13615 S Beaver Ct, Homer Glen 60423-2245, 09-28-106-013-0000, John J $155,000, 2385 Caton Crest Dr, Crest Hill 60491-8007, 05-02-209-018-0000, Mizwicki Mckinney to Kenneth Guevara & Brigid Gue60403-0673, 03-36-210-146-0000, Rose Trust to Ryan Sitter & Tiffany Jay, December vara, December 10 Marchetti to Linda Cirrincione, December 16 13 $363,000, 21974 Heritage Dr, Frankfort $209,000, 601 Pasadena Ave, Crest Hill $45,000, 13515 Lost Boy Ln, Homer Glen 60403-2465, 04-33-104-040-0000, Millenni- 60423-8519, 09-29-407-008-0000, Robert 60491-9502, 05-02-210-002-0000, Arnold um Investment Partners to Michael Bernhard, Edward Smith to Ebonie J Gist & Stephon Mariel Gist, November 28 November 18 â&#x20AC;˘ Continued on page 55 $420,000, 22313 Autumn Dr, Frankfort $155,000, 2234 University St, Crest Hill

REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS Trust to Adam Kalec & Maria Mietus, June 9 $500,000, 13355 W 167th St, Homer Glen 60491-6193, 05-26-100-053-0000, Arnoldas Blinstrubas to Larry K Richter, November 22 $305,000, 13057 Spring Ct, Homer Glen 60491-8702, 05-14-402-017-0000, Mark E Kirby to Charles Sanders, December 1 $88,000, 12265 Carroll Dr 25, Homer Glen 60491-9214, 05-24-203-013-0000, Orco Investments Inc to Manfred Ayers & Jeanne Ayers, December 15 $188,900, 13869 Stonebridge Woods Xing, Homer Glen 60491-8032, 05-22-208-0050000, Stonebridge Woods Development to Ronald R Kevish & Dana D Kevish, November 18

JOLIET

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Beautiful custom built home located in The Highlands of Channahon. 4 BR/2.5 BA w/full basement.

Enormous kitchen and adjacent breakfast room w/ hardwood floors & wood burning stove leads to spacious family room w/fireplace. Formal living & dining rooms, 2nd floor laundry room & master suite w/dual sinks & whirlpool tub/shower! $285,000.

Call/text Mark Meers (815)347-7900 Additional info: www.MarkMeers1.com

Mark Meers 815-347-7900 www.Markmeers1.com NEW LISTING

ATTENTION INVESTORS!

This fantastic investment property would be ideal for additional income! The 1st floor unit offers a living room, dining room, kitchen, 2 bedrooms & covered porch.

The 2nd floor unit offers a living room, kitchen and 2 bedrooms. All appliances, large yard and full basement with washer & dryer! Tenants pay gas & electric, owner pays water. Call Nancy Hibler at (815) 263-5791 for more details or your private viewing!

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Don’t hesitate - this won’t be on the market long! Great starter home or investment property! 2 BRS, 1 bath, full bsmt, some Nancy appliances, 2 year old roof, newer furnace, Hibler updated electric, 2 car garage & nice 815-263-5791 yard! Call Nancy Hibler for more details!

Lovely 2-story end-unit in great condition offering 2 BRS + loft, 2 baths, open concept main floor w/high volume clngs, Bob kitchen w/Corian tops, breakfast bar, 42” Vergo cabs & SS appls, lower level FR & 2 car 815-954-0233 garage! $149,900 – Call Bob Vergo today!

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Situated in Murphy Acres with Troy Schools offering 3 BRS, 2 baths, formal LR & DR, Nancy large FR, screened room, huge yard w/ Hibler shed & workshop, 2.5 car garage w/work 815-263-5791 area. $162,500 – Call Nancy Hibler today!

This lovely home offers 3BRS, 1.1 baths, a large FR, kitchen w/all appls, updated roof & furnace! 200 ft. deep Mary fenced yard w/dog run, shed, deck, Schild concrete apron & play set! Troy Schools!

815-483-0354 $169,900 – Call Mary Schild today!

Both units offer 2 BRS - the 1st floor unit has a covered porch. All appls, newer roof, large yard & full bsmt w/washer & dryer!

Nancy Tenants pay gas & electric, owner pays Hibler water. Month/month lease - $135,000 815-263-5791 Call Nancy Hibler for more details today!

For lease on highly traveled Jefferson Rd / Rt. 52 we have premium offices for lease. On the 1st floor there’s a large David office, auxiliary office & rest room, the Hufford 2nd floor has 2 large offices & 2nd rest 815-483-7634 room. Call David Hufford for more details!

Outstanding home that’s updated throughout!

This was a 3BR home converted to a 2BR with 1.5 baths, new wood laminate floors, Brian paint, roof, a/c, superbly updated kitchen, Bessler finished bsmt w/office & workshop, more!

815-483-0359 $154,900 – Call Brian Bessler today!

Lovely 2BR, 2 bath unit offering a spacious master w/dressing area, 2 closets & private bath! 2 SGD’s to patio, interior access to garage,updated décor, carpeting, Maggie Karges Watson furnace, air, more! $137,900 - Call 815-210-6075 Maggie Karges Watson today!

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$108,500, 3619 Forest View Dr, Joliet 60431-8994, 06-14-302-009-1003, William P Schumacher to Zachery J Meister, December 1 $230,000, 2252 Verdun Dr, Joliet 604351691, 03-36-128-002-0000, Eric Morris to Kevin Himmelman & Toni Himmelman, November 4 $205,000, 1507 Spring Oaks Dr, Joliet 60431-5344, 06-05-102-023-0000, Darcy Le Maire to Tiffany N Stefanich, November 26 $135,000, 901 Junie Ct, Joliet 60435-3951, 07-05-334-020-0000, Natalie A Lipke to Jonathan D Horvat, April 26

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$179,000, 502 Catherine St, Joliet 604355802, 07-08-218-023-0000, Chicago Title Land Trt Co Trustee to Ricardo Arteaga & Ashley N Arteaga, October 26 $128,000, 1131 Loral Ave, Joliet 604354446, 07-05-421-013-0000, Denes Diaz to Kimberly M Lowry & Brandy N Mcsherry, November 14 $130,000, 900 Manor Ct, Joliet 60436-1510, 07-17-214-013-0000, William Prince Jr to Corinne A Carlson, August 31 $182,000, 900 Thorn Creek Dr, Joliet 60436-9751, 06-24-108-015-0000, Brian Lowe to Juan F Carrixzalez, October 12 $168,000, 901 Farragut Pl, Joliet 604356009, 07-08-231-009-0000, Ryan P Southcomb to Ann L Duval, September 9 $162,000, 1306 Riverview Dr, Joliet 60431-8947, 06-03-201-032-0000, Edward Fitzpatrick to John J Jones & Marc Jones, November 17 $165,000, 1226 Plainfield Rd, Joliet 604354024, 07-05-114-026-0000, Kristina G Skaggs to Daniel Robles, November 17 $50,000, 130 Edison Rd, Joliet 60433-3104, 07-27-112-021-0000, Second Chance Liberty LLC to Gerald N Polykandriotis, November 28 $94,000, 1412 Sehring Ave, Joliet 604363047, 07-21-323-003-0000, Brick House Investments LLC to Leslie Snyder, November 18 $98,000, 1500 Woodbridge Rd 3F, Joliet

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REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS to Ma Veronica Pineda Ibarra, September 24 $335,500, 3931 Autobahn Pkwy W 1 B, Joliet 60436, 11-06-301-033-0000, Autobahn 60436-1381, 07-17-114-001-1023, Phyllis Wood to Stanley Jerome Valentine, December Realty LLC to James J Ferro & Anna M Ferro, December 19 15 $173,000, 3461 Lockner Blvd, Joliet 60431$55,000, 1304 Ridgewood Ave, Joliet 1027, 03-26-302-010-0000, Matthew R 60432-2651, 07-11-224-019-0000, Allyson Melland to Amy L Presley, November 22 Vaughh to Maria G Lopez, December 16 $154,000, 3900 Theodore St, Joliet 60431$126,000, 1220 Nicholson St, Joliet 604354229, 07-04-125-003-0000, Howard J Poulin 2748, 06-02-101-005-0000, Darrin Philp to Jacob M Lamb & Victoria E Drenth, December to Jesus R Ulloa, November 17 $139,000, 15 S Reedwood Dr, Joliet 60436- 8 $85,000, 312 S May St, Joliet 60436-2039, 1454, 07-17-102-011-0000, John C Ahern Jr to 07-17-224-006-0000, Ronald B Colaric to Luis Mario Leon Vasquez & Mario Leon Guerrero, G Hernandez, November 28 December 12 $126,000, 310 Dwight Ave, Joliet 60436$115,000, 127 Oneill St, Joliet 60436-1444, 07-17-108-032-0000, David Garcia to Yoshira 1919, 07-17-112-020-0000, Antonio Torres to John P Mclaughlin & Myrna M Tabios, E Barona, November 16 $112,000, 180 Saenz Ln, Joliet 60436-1053, November 28 $87,000, 2883 Heritage Dr 1C, Joliet 6043506-13-203-084-1004, Olivia A Dziedzinskyj to 4788, 06-12-317-011-1003, Dawn M Gurin to Andrea M Albor, December 9 Shana Williams, December 20 $380,000, 20737 Rock Run Dr, Joliet $166,500, 2625 Chevy Chase Dr, Joliet 60431-9325, 06-22-200-002-0000, Donald 60435-1318, 03-25-301-001-0000, Jesus I W Jungles to Laimonas Meistinis & Loreta Mendoza to Terrence J Mcdonald, September Meistinis, November 21 $95,500, 1420 N May St, Joliet 60435-4050, 8 $205,000, 2616 George Ave, Joliet 07-05-211-005-0000, Joseph H Dause to 60435-2944, 06-01-410-070-0000, Wayne L Robert Mattas, November 14 $130,000, 1402 N Prairie Ave, Joliet 60435- Downen to Terry Joel Christopher, November 7 4126, 07-05-215-013-0000, Janis L Shaw to $200,000, 2610 Brittany Dr, Joliet 60435Dana M Perry, November 30 8757, 03-24-405-035-0000, Joseph A Toma$125,000, 1407 Cleary Ave, Joliet 60435siewicz to Miguel Abarca, November 28 3738, 07-05-101-025-0000, Kathleen M $58,409, 2432 Berry St, Joliet 60435-1407, Lusinger to Lizeth K Saucedo, December 14 $147,500, 1412 Burry St, Joliet 60435-4030, 03-25-414-004-0000, MRF Illinois One LLC to Leonardo Justiniano, December 8 07-05-209-007-0000, James Tibbs to Jose $51,000, 220 Madison St 1D, Joliet 60435Solache, November 21 8210, 07-07-311-011-1011, Jody L Johnson to $100,000, 211 N Joliet St, Joliet 60432John Andel, December 1 4069, 07-09-429-009-0000, M III Chicago $135,000, 2703 Harbor Dr, Joliet 60431LLC to John Corcoran, December 5 1000, 03-26-402-044-1001, Laverne Miller to $148,000, 1012 Wilcox St, Joliet 60435Margaret L Kaufman, December 19 4551, 07-04-310-007-0000, Teresa A $50,000, 525 Meadow Wood Dr, Joliet Valladolid to Julio A Rubio & Alejandra Rubio 60431, 06-11-207-015-0000, Calamos Trust Gutierrez, November 10 to Ellen M Calamos, December 21 $59,000, 1122 Nicholson St, Joliet 60435$50,000, 464 Collins St, Joliet 60432-2340, 1741, 07-04-306-003-0000, Deutsche Bank 07-10-228-002-0000, Rita Blake Hudson to Natl Trt Co Trustee to Leonardo Justiniano, Alfonso Saucedo, November 1 November 11 $235,000, 702 Silver Leaf Ct, Joliet 60431$275,000, 1687 Spencer Rd, Joliet 604338409, 07-24-300-049-0000, Ruby D Edwards 8316, 06-14-407-007-0000, Donald Nurczyk Estate to Gabriela Negrete & Marbella Bedolto Willie Terry, October 21 la, November 4 $79,000, 1023 Ridgewood Ave, Joliet $190,000, 6905 Cornwall Dr, Joliet 6043160432-2513, 07-11-103-018-0000, Ubaldo 5356, 06-06-117-003-0000, Charlotte J Pintor to Abel Andrade & Carolina Andrade Hacker to Christina M Pruim & Brian E Pruim, Ortiz, December 7 December 1 $118,500, 1053 Morgan St, Joliet 60436$232,000, 500 S Midland Ave, Joliet 604361468, 07-17-211-058-0000, James E Ende to 1908, 07-17-318-001-0000, Michael J Noonan Travis H Dalke, November 29 $49,900, 1615 New Lenox Rd, Joliet 60433- to Edward L Macias, August 4 $140,000, 704 Mason Ct, Joliet 604359711, 07-13-308-026-0000, Downey Trust to 5470, 07-07-126-014-0000, Andrew H Little Mario Morales, December 7 $53,000, 107 Logan Ave, Joliet 60433-1262, to Jodi M Little, December 13 $100,000, 704 Williamson Ave, Joliet 07-14-111-004-0000, HUD to Rene Diaz 60432-1257, 07-03-413-003-0000, Maria R Montoy, December 5 Cisneros to Ana K Castillo, December 19 $189,000, 406 Stockton Dr, Joliet 604364504, 11-04-305-015-0000, Dominic M Bowden to Ryan Vota & Sara Pikowski, LEMONT November 30 $582,000, 13091 Klappa Dr, Lemont 60439$69,500, 410 Blackhawk St, Joliet 604324676, 22-31-205-001-0000, Keith D Benson 2761, 07-12-132-011-0000, Brian P Haldorson to Michael R Schuth & Karen S Schuth,

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60441-4716, 04-27-404-021-0000, Georgia L Bradach to Elizabeth Alfaro & Ricardo Alfaro, December 1 $365,000, 16515 S Pinecreek Dr, Lockport 60441-6977, 05-19-311-005-0000, John P Flanagan to Edward R Collins, December 12 $135,000, 2005 S Austrian Pine St, Lockport 60441-3879, 04-26-211-044-0000, Fannie Mae to Ashley Collier, December 7 $62,000, 16625 W 147th Pl, Lockport 60441-2355, 05-07-105-018-0000, Peter Lally to John Miller & Kath Miller, December 15 $169,000, 14657 S 135th Ave, Lockport 60441-2384, 05-07-207-007-0000, Christine J Grady to Nerijus Maksimavicius, November 28 $87,000, 101 Macgregor Rd, Lockport 60441-2711, 04-13-312-028-0000, Wells Fargo Bank NA to Michael Dennis Lawson, November 17 $245,440, 16134 W Coneflower Dr, Lockport 60441-4111, 05-19-413-029-0000, M I Homes of Chicago LLC to Henry Velazquez & Karen Velazquez, November 22 $160,000, 16438 Teton Dr, Lockport 604417693, 05-30-315-054-0000, F & H of Illinois LLC to Christoph G Larson, November 18 $156,000, 1304 Mccameron Ave, Lockport 60441-2710, 04-13-401-028-0000, Raymond D Hannan to Tomasz Gacek & Halina Gacek, November 7 $265,000, 16112 W Coneflower Dr, Lockport 60441-4111, 05-19-413-035-0000, M I Homes of Chicago LLC to R Travis Paul, November 9 $150,000, 16125 Golfview Dr, Lockport 60441-4659, 05-30-413-035-0000, Libberty A Crutchfield to Brian J Maro, December 1 $520,100, 15318 S Oak Run Ct, Lockport 60441-3901, 05-18-100-008-0000, Teton Development LLC to Brian Baleski & Elizabeth Beleski, November 30 $75,000, 1014 S Hamilton St, Lockport 60441-3425, 04-23-334-016-0000, Mobile Electronics Inc to Timothy Veurink, March 16 $330,000, 17110 Sterling Ct, Lockport 60441-3819, 04-26-429-063-0000, Dennis J Gruber to Ryan M Carrasquillo & Tiffany M Millsap, November 3 $415,000, 14462 High Rd, Lockport 604419402, 04-11-201-010-0000, Bryan E Ellis to Richard Kayser & Elyse Bryla, September 3 $133,500, 232 Thornton St, Lockport 604412953, 04-14-421-025-0000, Mark L Ciarlette to Sarah Williams, November 15 $122,000, 613 E 3rd St 5, Lockport 604413178, 04-24-114-022-1001, Nicole M Laporte to Angelique J Kelly, November 18 LOCKPORT $249,000, 1013 Madison St, Lockport $435,389, 16500 W Deerwood Dr, Lock60441-3479, 04-23-406-007-0000, Donald W port 60441-6106, 05-31-303-010-0000, MC Davidson to Holly J Rockey, December 21 Custom Homes Inc to Samantha L Phillips, $144,900, 301 Mccameron Ave, Lockport December 15 60441-2729, 04-13-308-020-0000, Big Star $386,500, 16631 Blackfoot Dr, Lockport Properties Inc to Cynthia T Kroll, November 11 60441-1501, 05-19-407-006-0000, Andrew $130,000, 308 Laurie Dr, Lockport 60441B Dignan to David J Plese & Betsi E Plese, 3211, 04-13-403-007-0000, Illinois Housing October 24 Dev Authority to Daniel Lapuma, November 1 $291,000, 16810 Swift Arrow Dr, Lockport $236,000, 3208 Sunrise Ct, Lockport 60441-4377, 05-30-101-014-0000, Robert A 60441-3988, 03-24-403-005-0000, Brahim Zolecki to Scott N Marvan & Veronica Marvan, October 25 • Continued on page 57 $70,500, 213 Hughes Ave, Lockport

December 21 $458,500, 13300 Bond Cir, Lemont 604398952, 22-34-414-013-0000, M I Homes of Chicago LLC to Lawrence E Smolinski & Erin E Smolinski, November 28 $237,000, 13721 Cokes Rd, Lemont 604394746, 05-05-102-004-0000, Johnson Trust to Rebecca L Walter, December 1 $215,000, 339 Front St 2407, Lemont 60439-7275, 22-20-300-037-1047, Erin Povalish to Timothy Yario, January 6 $375,000, 16215 135th St, Lemont 604394734, 22-31-402-033-0000, James E Noonan to Antonio H Huerta & Maricela Huerta, December 28 $100,000, 12090 Walker Rd, Lemont 60439-4168, 22-28-205-020-0000, Stanislaw Czerwien to Marek S Czerwien & Victoria M Waligora, December 23 $446,500, 13768 Anne Dr, Lemont 604398765, 22-34-412-024-0000, M I Homes of Chicago LLC to Thomas E Krawisz & Diana A Kriz, December 23 $427,500, 12182 Oxford Ct, Lemont 604397336, 22-27-207-023-0000, Roger F Turek to Gerard Haughey & Mary Haughey, December 15 $245,000, 416 Sara Ave, Lemont 604394551, 22-29-423-006-0000, Andy W Zitt to Robert Maroney & Traci Maroney, December 12 $350,000, 12096 Hillcrest Dr, Lemont 60439-4148, 22-28-203-011-0000, Ahlgren Trust to Keelee M Ahlgren, December 15 $410,000, 91 Timberline Dr, Lemont 604393833, 22-30-205-001-0000, Burklow Trust to Christopher C Malik & Amanda Marie Agne, October 7 $245,000, 908 State St, Lemont 604393935, 22-29-119-014-0000, Etzkorn Trust to Adam Fonseca & Kristen Anast, May 12 $368,000, 91 W Logan St, Lemont 604393852, 22-30-206-029-0000, Chin Trust to Brian K Giblin & Theresa M Nelson, May 2 $329,000, 1122 Florence St, Lemont 604392900, 22-29-320-002-0000, Elizabeth G Cardona to Jason P Sternisha & Aimee Sternisha, January 17 $147,000, 12831 Collina Ln, Lemont 60439, 22-14-402-013-0000, RREF II Areg Montefiori JV LLC to Robert Swayka, December 23 $155,000, 11215 Como Ct, Lemont 60439, 22-23-203-004-0000, RREF II Areg Montefiori JV LLC to Gary Daniel Peksa & Monica L Peksa, January 5

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$440,000, 11524 Hummingbird Ct, Mokena 60448-1939, 09-06-103-003-0000, J&T Contemporary Homes LLC to Cynthia Bauer, November 30 $203,000, 18813 S Vanderbilt Dr, Mokena 60448-8885, 09-03-327-055-0000, Kristy G Allen to Heather M Miller, December 16 $226,900, 12259 W Warren Dr, Mokena 60448-9218, 08-01-405-002-0000, Dennis K Raatjes to Kirsten Wilcox, December 12 $370,000, 18863 Caraway Ct, Mokena 60448-5403, 09-05-429-030-0000, Paul S Perez to Atta Khalil Bader, December 21 • Continued on page 58

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& Charles Aynesworth Jenks III, December 16 $113,000, 290 E Prairie St, Manhattan 60442-8112, 12-17-404-009-0000, Michael D Mustapha to Andrea Zukowski, November 9 Dykstra to Mitchell Deval, December 1 $163,000, 569 Parkview Ln, Lockport $251,500, 24510 S Clydesdale Dr, Man60441-4422, 04-26-215-016-0000, Chase Leo hattan 60442-1484, 12-07-406-011-0000, to John M Parypinski, December 15 $350,000, 680 Summit Dr, Lockport 60441- Marquette Bank Trustee to Joseph L Ziems & Monica E Ziems, December 15 3778, 04-24-115-032-0000, Pasch Trust to $137,000, 24949 Clare Cir, Manhattan Gigliola Longo, November 17 60442-1435, 12-17-216-061-0000, Justin Young to Cheryl Stover, December 15 MANHATTAN $135,000, 25269 Shannon Dr, Manhattan $407,000, 13734 W Lake Shore Ct, Man60442-6203, 12-17-317-020-0000, Ryan M hattan 60442-8193, 12-10-206-021-0000, Kenneth J Jawor to Roman Stecko & Michelle Vandewoestyne to Matthew Bergin & Nicole Bergin, October 31 L Stecko, December 20 $380,000, 23734 S Saddle Creek Dr, Man$418,900, 13814 W Memorial Dr, Manhattan hattan 60442-8409, 12-02-302-002-0000, 60442-8191, 12-10-206-024-0000, Lucerne Lily Inc to Jose Carlo Martinez & Juan A Perez, Lawrence A Kozak to Matthew A Novander & Colleen M Novander, November 4 December 19 $241,000, 16012 W Lacy Ct, Manhattan 60442-1502, 12-19-213-027-0000, Marquette MINOOKA $163,000, 414 Grande Dr B, Minooka 60447Bank Trustee to James F Werner & Nancy A 9023, 10-06-302-011-0000, Dale B Eslinger to Werner, December 27 Daniel J Brown, November 1 $254,000, 16238 W Creek Dr, Manhattan $328,000, 25612 Chipwood Dr, Minooka 60442-9345, 12-07-201-004-0000, Clifford A 60447-9284, 10-08-152-004-0000, John K Lutton to Jeffrey D Bettenhausen & Sarah M Plut to Wilson Stonebraker & Christine StoneBettenhausen, December 14 braker, December 16 $390,000, 16165 W Pinto Ln, Manhattan 60442-1493, 12-07-407-025-0000, DistincMOKENA tive Homebuilders Ltd to James J Emerson & $504,700, 12540 Alpine Ridge Dr, Mokena Karie L Emerson, December 22 60448-7538, 08-01-304-067-0000, Tabron $336,500, 24304 S William Dr, Manhattan 60442-8463, 12-10-307-018-0000, K Hovna- Properties LLC to Anthony Olszta & Denise nian at Hanover Estates to Alexis Helen Jenks Olszta, December 2

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Colantuono, June 30 $339,000, 887 Karen Ln, New Lenox 604513260, 08-23-116-016-0000, Riemer Trust to $327,000, 19911 Catherine Ln, Mokena Robert W Mcwhinnie Jr & Marie L Mcwhinnie, 60448-1747, 09-08-477-014-0000, Dave February 26 Sandryzk to John J Conley, December 19 $427,000, 900 Bryan Trl, New Lenox 60451$110,000, 10935 Front St 1A, Mokena 3014, 08-13-204-003-0000, Chicago Title 60448-1697, 09-08-314-008-1001, Joseph Land Trt Co Trustee to Shawn Omalley, May A Collado to Robert A Kroll & Teresa K Kroll, 10 December 14 $318,000, 872 Stirrup Ln, New Lenox $465,500, 21307 Prairie Ridge Dr, Mokena 60451-2588, 08-10-203-025-0000, Richard 60448-1950, 09-19-406-005-0000, Nebor Hernandez to Michel Sobrevilla & Maribel Construction Inc to Arthur J Sons & Cherie A Sobrevilla, September 14 Sons, November 23 $319,760, 1737 Glenbrooke Ln, New Lenox $298,000, 19640 Kevin Ln, Mokena 6044860451-3779, 08-25-308-008-0000, DRH 7981, 09-09-303-028-0000, Fannie Mae Cambridge Homes Inc to Michael Torres, to Armando Esparza Jr & Alma D Esparza, November 21 October 24 $218,200, 117 Roberts Rd, New Lenox $322,000, 19624 Tramore Ln, Mokena 60448-8626, 09-10-411-016-0000, Timothy J 60451-1921, 08-22-200-023-0000, SK Investment Group LLC to Kevin M Shea Jr, Ozinga to Anna Maria Coco, December 19 November 30 $215,000, 19328 Midland Ave, Mokena $202,000, 1215 Elm Dr, New Lenox 6045160448-1147, 09-08-106-020-0000, Rycon Cal Inc to Scott Priestman & Julie Priestman, 1120, 08-09-403-028-0000, Robert V Gorski to John C Weitendorf & Sharon M Weitendorf, November 1 December 9 $200,000, 11042 3rd St, Mokena 60448$265,000, 1221 N Marley Rd, New Lenox 1156, 09-08-300-018-0000, Jason G Fox to 60451-1311, 08-11-302-003-0000, Brian Matthew Gonzalez, October 21 Zernia to Darryl Dsouza, October 4 $111,000, 1022 Schoolgate Rd 3, New Lenox NEW LENOX 60451-2681, 08-27-102-045-1003, Kevin Con$346,000, 879 Somerset Ct, New Lenox 60451-3930, 08-23-400-029-0000, Chicago vey Estate to Quinn Walsh & Janet A Narish, Title Land Trt Co Trustee to Joseph T Cannoni- November 1 $334,500, 1785 Glenbrooke Ln, New Lenox to & Sherri L Cannonito, March 14 60451-3779, 08-25-308-001-0000, DRH $430,000, 1106 Stacey Dr, New Lenox 60451-4037, 08-32-411-006-0000, First Bank Cambridge Homes Inc to Justin R Kozlowski & of Manhattan Trustee to William H Denham Jr Jeanine M Kozlowski, November 18 $338,000, 135 Forest St, New Lenox 60451& Mary Denham, November 14 1123, 08-16-205-050-0000, Scott L Phillips $170,000, 604 Ogden Rd, New Lenox to Scott A Milcarek & Natalia Petry Kowska, 60451-2115, 08-21-216-002-0000, Thomas Arroyo III to Rose Marie Poplawski, December November 18 $360,000, 2370 Cattleman Dr, New Lenox 1 60451-3146, 08-32-205-014-0000, William B $366,000, 869 O Connell St, New Lenox Mega to Scott Fitzgibbon & Lindsay Fitzgib60451-1557, 08-23-317-007-0000, Chicago bon, November 10 Title Land Trt Co Trustee to James B Cassidy $310,500, 2325 Alta Vista Dr, New Lenox & Linda M Shebelski, April 22 60451-8805, 08-36-105-016-0000, Mar$303,860, 870 Somerset Ct, New Lenox quette Bank Trustee to Scott D Johnson & Erin 60451-3930, 08-23-412-034-0000, Chicago M Johnson, November 10 Title Land Trt Co Trustee to Sebastian Grzyb $275,000, 661 Dartmouth Ln, New Lenox & Nyssa J Grzyb, April 22 60451-3817, 08-23-210-017-0000, Patricia A $271,000, 9 Honey Ln, New Lenox 604512187, 08-17-401-006-0000, William A Harper Koszela to Peter M Palanca & Talia F Fares, December 20 to Douglas H Abbott & Lois L Abbott, May 31 $323,000, 2260 Alta Vista Dr, New Lenox $267,500, 2950 Foxwood Dr, New Lenox 60451-8643, 08-33-307-014-0000, Standard 60451-8802, 08-36-106-015-0000, MarBank & Trust Trustee to Shane Tucker & quette Bank Trustee to Matthew M Tunzi & Ashley Tucker, November 3 Valerie C Tunzi, November 10 $263,000, 879 Western Ave, New Lenox $424,500, 400 W Michigan Rd, New Lenox 60451-3390, 08-21-309-015-0000, Gina M 60451-2221, 08-21-408-037-0000, Winslow Ruiz to Daniel Beaudry & Carolyn Beaudry, Ventures Corp to Brian W Tracy & Erin N May 25 Tracy, December 23 $147,000, 900 Shagbark Rd, New Lenox $94,500, 218 Manor Dr B, New Lenox 60451-3101, 08-28-301-020-1002, Chicago 60451-1667, 08-16-306-054-1002, Bayzer Title Land Trt Co Trustee to Joyce J BettenTrust to Nicole E Batley, April 30 hausen, October 25 $278,500, 715 S Spencer Rd, New Lenox $273,400, 1816 Tudor Ln, New Lenox 60451-2058, 08-23-300-016-0000, Chicago 60451-2642, 08-26-302-007-0000, Jeremiah Title Land Trt Co Trustee to Joe B Hack & J Gericke to Johnathan Gaura, December 5 Kimberly A Hack, November 17 $165,000, 885 Winter Park Dr, New Lenox $215,000, 700 Wagon Dr, New Lenox 60451-3106, 08-28-304-050-1001, Rodeghier 60451-1358, 08-10-204-001-0000, John A Trust to Raymond Colantuono & Ernestina Singleton Sr to Peter M Wolf & Malgorzata

60544-2754, 03-08-103-005-0000, Matthew J Schauer to Michael Solis & Adrienne Solis, November 18 $243,000, 11711 Glenn Cir, Plainfield 605855794, 01-20-407-036-0000, Edward R Collins to Rebecca K Hinterlong, December 13 $130,500, 13817 S Balsam Ln B, Plainfield 60544-6491, 04-06-182-015-1004, Olga De La Rosa to James H Reibel & Mary Jane Reibel, PLAINFIELD December 20 $155,000, 6610 Morningstar Ln, Plainfield $170,000, 21369 Silktree Cir, Plainfield 60586-6911, 03-30-206-006-0000, Leonard Kaye to Anthony J Gaskin Jr & Andrea Partee, 60544-9360, 02-31-377-002-0000, West Suburban Bank Trustee to Laura A Rossano, December 9 December 12 $443,000, 13447 Wood Duck Dr, Plainfield $146,900, 13952 Edgewater Ct, Plainfield 60585-7776, 01-35-402-076-0000, Nicholas 60544-6085, 04-06-326-132-0000, Beverly E Sakellariou to Edward Nykiel & Barbara Lyn Crum to Aida Ahmedova & Bakhodir Nykiel, December 8 Mardonov, December 14 $200,000, 7000 Astoria Dr, Plainfield $122,000, 21547 Fulton Ct, Plainfield 60586-5833, 03-31-310-028-0000, Scot J 60544-6102, 04-06-303-080-0000, Diana L Colucci to Felix Ibarra & Amanda Howarth, Pageka to Michael J Murray, December 19 November 28 $168,500, 16259 S Peerless Dr, Plainfield $199,000, 15717 S River Rd, Plainfield 60544-8119, 03-16-301-013-0000, Howard W 60586-2341, 03-22-213-021-0000, Cathy A Essig to Scott O Munch & Veronica F Munch, Jones to Daniel E Mekstan, December 21 $495,500, 16602 S Rock Ct, Plainfield December 1 60586-7242, 03-20-309-007-0000, First $162,500, 21105 W Cypress Ct, Plainfield 60544-6333, 02-31-401-069-0000, Michael R Bank of Manhattan Trustee to Darrell Foster & Chandra Allgood Foster, December 16 Riesen to Paula K Keating, December 7 $249,000, 14401 Capital Dr, Plainfield $386,000, 13636 Capista Dr, Plainfield 60544-7949, 03-03-202-030-0000, Daniiel R 60544-4414, 03-08-102-006-0000, Daniel R Mercer to Jason Paul Mathieu Ouelette & Jones to Katherine Hughes, September 28 $203,000, 4501 Sunset Ridge Dr, Plainfield Kristi Renee Oullette, December 9 $385,000, 12625 Coreopsis Ct, Plainfield 60586-6211, 03-34-307-008-0000, Michael 60585-5540, 01-28-410-014-0000, Nader Zirbes to Alex Bromley & Jessica Albano, Soliman to Nathaniel J Hudetz & Jessica L November 9 $242,000, 1702 Cascade Ridge Dr, Plainfield Hudetz, August 5 $169,000, 15015 S Eastern Ave, Plainfield 60586-2641, 03-31-407-008-0000, San Jose 60544-2001, 03-10-315-005-0000, Alfred J Homes LLC to Lauren Carroll, November 16 Pebler III to Julien R Benbir, November 22 $147,000, 2705 River Bend Ln, Plainfield $405,000, 12926 Stellar Ln, Plainfield 60586-6663, 03-28-307-049-0000, Rita J 60585-4250, 01-35-102-011-0000, Kevin P Royko to Laura Montano & Crystal Tagle, Gabel to Robert T Conti & Georgia T Conti, November 17 October 22 $131,000, 22047 W Petoskey Ct, Plainfield $467,500, 12840 Shenandoah Trl, Plainfield 60544-7081, 03-01-103-010-0000, Bank of 60585-4700, 01-31-206-032-0000, James New York Mellon Trustee to Christopher A Cassady to Patrick J Milet & Brandy L Milet, Kahl, November 4 November 21 $185,000, 20914 W Ardmore Cir, Plainfield $573,500, 11636 Century Cir, Plainfield 60544-7308, 04-06-410-004-0000, Gregory D Cavin to Efrain Espinoza & Vanessa Hernan- 60585, 01-20-413-029-0000, AMB Builders Inc to Vatsal N Pathar & Shruti V Pathak, dez, November 9 December 20 $230,000, 20838 W Barrington Ct, Plain$180,000, 15206 S Illinois St, Plainfield field 60544-7370, 04-06-419-048-0000, 60544-2816, 03-16-217-006-0000, Judith Corey R Gass to Nicholas Campione & Marni A Cherry to Brian Minnis & Kelly Minnis, Muersch, November 22 December 19 $501,000, 11628 Century Cir, Plainfield $161,000, 21113 W Cypress Ct, Plainfield 60585-6100, 01-20-413-027-0000, William B Riesner to Gaurav Chhabra & Megha Chhabra, 60544-6333, 02-31-401-071-0000, Dragonlady LLC to Lester Banach, December 7 October 10 $239,000, 14120 Buckner Ct, Plainfield $217,500, 14601 Independence Dr, Plainfield 60544-7357, 04-06-416-016-0000, Nenad 60544-2547, 03-08-203-009-0000, Jared Joksimovic to Christopher Halm & Katie Halm, Wantoch to Patrick A Eulitz & Laura A Eulitz, November 2 October 26 $189,444, 14646 Independence Dr, Plain$172,000, 16058 Fairfield Dr, Plainfield 60586-8998, 03-22-110-019-0000, Norene A field 60544-2506, 03-08-202-039-0000, Medows to Catherine M Mahoney, November MRF Illinois One LLC to Melissa Skoczen, October 27 1 $418,000, 13300 Skyline Dr, Plainfield $143,000, 1210 Courtland Cir, Plainfield 60586-5128, 06-04-204-109-0000, Matthew 60585-1467, 01-31-403-030-0000, Nedal J Gallagher to Kyle N Temen, December 19 $247,500, 14335 Jefferson Ave, Plainfield • Continued on page 59

Wolf, December 7 $309,900, 2940 Royal Ct, New Lenox 60451-2552, 08-32-309-016-0000, David J Andre to Michael P Rogalinski, September 2 $262,000, 620 Root St, New Lenox 604511456, 08-15-301-001-0000, Christopher G Mott to Nancy J Venardi, September 2

REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS Development LLC to Dolores Trevino, December 16 $182,500, 667 Aspen Dr, Romeoville 604463983, 02-32-201-043-0000, Karen M Basek to Juan A Gonzalez, November 23 $138,000, 316 Hickory Ave, Romeoville 60446-1630, 04-04-203-018-0000, Julie Majka to Jorge A Torres & Nancy Mora Rojas, December 10 $134,000, 254 Charleston Ave, Romeoville 60446-4131, 04-05-218-092-0000, Dolores Trevino to Monika L Jedynasty & Lukasz Wolniak, December 16 $207,500, 68 Kenilworth Ave, Romeoville 60446-4276, 04-07-112-021-0000, Richard A Stewart to Joshua Davis & Zaida E Raggs, November 14 $160,000, 611 Hamrick Ave, Romeoville 60446-1624, 04-04-113-009-0000, Eric M Johnson to Michael Majewski, December 9 $161,500, 505 Dalhart Ave, Romeoville 60446-1319, 02-34-105-012-0000, Am United Development Inc to Ruiyu Wu, November 20 $308,500, 513 S Stone Brook Dr, Romeoville 60446-4315, 03-13-107-020-0000, William Ryan Homes Inc to Raymond J Gugala & Carol Gugala, December 22 $115,000, 810 Honeytree Dr, Romeoville 60446-4039, 02-27-124-043-0000, Gabriele Zilinskaite to Sarah A Sandoval, November 14 $210,000, 725 Evergreen Ct, Romeoville 60446-1606, 04-04-120-030-0000, Elisa Herrera to Mark Kutame & Beatrice Domenu Ador, October 31

SHOREWOOD

$285,000, 901 Nightshade Ln, Shorewood 60404-9545, 06-05-403-024-0000, Rosa Nguyen to Gurvinder Kaur, September 28 $260,000, 900 Nightshade Ln, Shorewood 60404-9544, 06-05-401-016-0000, Cartus Financial Corp to Emilio Bibian, September 1 $325,500, 510 Rollingwood Dr, Shorewood 60404-0655, 06-09-106-008-0000, Randall Baudek to Ronald W Leaman & Mary E Leaman, December 1 $205,000, 20953 S River Rd, Shorewood 60404-0679, 06-21-100-020-0000, George C Mccoy to Robert Ramirez & Allison Osborne, December 1 $340,000, 1224 Wildflower Cir, Shorewood 60404-9535, 06-05-405-011-0000, Nancy Lloyd to Derrick Berlin Velez & Richard Berlin Velez, December 9 $170,000, 901 Callaway Dr W, Shorewood 60404-8149, 06-20-205-016-0000, HUD to Beth A Zavadis, June 7 $165,000, 1208 Glen Mor Dr, Shorewood 60404-8977, 06-08-407-073-0000, Natalia Kwiecien to Richard M Kwiecien, November 14 $209,000, 1023 Country Dr, Shorewood 60404-9613, 06-09-301-023-0000, Peter T Cerve to Michelle T Stefanich, December 2 $125,000, 1912 Parkside Dr, Shorewood 60404-0702, 06-17-107-097-1007, Edward T Mittelstaedt to Klint Appel, October 25 $57,000, 21428 Woodland Way, Shorewood 60404-8250, 06-20-407-028-0000, Lord Trust to Gerardo Cortez, December 15

$135,000, 1614 Fieldstone Dr N, Shorewood 60404-8102, 06-20-101-039-0000, Lisa L Strug to Joseph S Carlisle, December 16 $365,000, 21126 Kenmare Dr, Shorewood 60404-8193, 06-21-302-003-0000, Gravitas Capital Investments to Victor E Mccullum & Inita Y Mccullum, December 21 $180,000, 1211 Harvest Dr, Shorewood 60404, 06-09-314-004-0000, Cartus Financial Corp to Aleksandar Markovic & Aleksandra Markovic, July 14 $380,000, 1106 Colonade Rd, Shorewood 60404-9121, 06-16-305-011-0000, Britt C Enix to Allan C Hostert & Elizabeth Hostert, December 22 $321,500, 512 Commons Dr, Shorewood 60404-6804, 06-09-113-008-0000, CalAtlantic Group Inc to Nicholas S Sakellariou & Darla Sakellariou, November 3 $275,500, 514 Commons Dr, Shorewood 60404-6804, 06-09-113-007-0000, CalAtlantic Group Inc to Caresse Johnson & Larry Johnson Jr, November 15 $148,000, 322 N Brookshore Dr, Shorewood 60404-9665, 06-09-404-008-0000, Desiree Riley to Ray A Meador, December 16 $429,000, 24840 Jacob Ct, Shorewood 60404-7658, 06-21-101-021-0000, Michael J Alessio to Lynnette C Hunter, December 1

WILMINGTON

$157,000, 21621 W County Rd, Wilmington 60481-8822, 17-25-427-002-0000, Julie E Mccarthy to David L Cartwright & Colleen Cartwright, November 1 $512,500, 19311 W Goodwin Rd, Wilmington 60481-8743, 25-16-200-020-0000, Ernest P Abderhalden to Beth Hammond & Burge Hammond, December 20 $178,000, 21398 Sea Ray Ln, Wilmington 60481-7704, 18-19-302-101-0000, Laurie S Becker to Lexi Southall, December 16 $97,000, 51 Hole In The Wall Ct, Wilmington 60481-8774, 24-04-104-065-0000, Martha Chlipala to Lisa Ann Piontkowski, December 13 $150,000, 404 Hamilton St, Wilmington 60481-1716, 24-01-106-007-0000, James L Heck to Brian Russell, December 12 $75,000, 34905 S Wurtz Rd, Wilmington 60481-9777, 24-13-402-011-0000, Ann Lynch Estate to Frederick Viano Jr & Valerie Viano, December 21 $158,000, 34116 Rosewood St, Wilmington 60481-8102, 24-12-403-002-0000, Walter F Dampf to Adam Holley, December 16 $105,000, 908 Waterford Ct, Wilmington 60481-2327, 17-36-407-056-0000, Sherry L Carlock to Mark J Shell & Candace L Shell, July 4 $97,500, 902 Luther Dr, Wilmington 604811533, 17-36-212-019-0000, Charles Dennison to Anthony Robinson & Hope Robinson, May 20 $99,900, 905 Wabash St, Wilmington 60481-1465, 17-36-205-013-0000, Lee R Rhoades to Alicia Sanchez, June 24 $95,000, 18216 W Peotone Rd, Wilmington 60481-9441, 18-23-304-006-0000, James R Aagesen to Kelly A Neese, December 16

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S&l Group LLC to Marco Debiasio, December 19 $299,000, 26131 Whispering Woods Cir, Hasan to Dana Merkle & Jason Merkle, Plainfield 60585-2623, 01-31-301-016-0000, November 23 Deutsche Bank Natl Trt Co Trustee to Robert $194,500, 13653 S Jane Cir, Plainfield Emler & Suzanne Emler, December 13 60544-7026, 03-01-206-036-0000, Jeffrey $232,000, 6303 Cedar Ridge Dr, Plainfield L Wilczak to Andrew G Boyd & Jacqueline R 60586-5228, 03-32-106-033-0000, Blair D Boyd, November 9 Hicks to Kimberly J Orlando, December 5 $175,000, 1705 Bitterroot Ct, Plainfield $124,000, 2595 Canyon Dr, Plainfield 60586-5811, 03-31-312-006-0000, Francis R 60586-5922, 03-30-302-004-1003, Jeffrey S Lara to Charles A Silvestri, December 19 Piontek to Ross Merker, November 15 $185,000, 1214 Alene Dr, Plainfield 60586$272,500, 25736 Roundstone Ave, Plainfield 2202, 06-05-207-005-0000, Jeremy R Nelson 60585-4724, 01-30-401-023-0000, Christo Michele L Byrnes & Daniel J Cordova, topher G Mcginnis to Robert Paneagasser & November 29 Randi Buteyn Barkus, December 16 $195,000, 6987 Sierra Ct, Plainfield $210,000, 25403 W Lockport St, Plainfield 60586-6387, 03-30-307-005-0000, Chicago 60544-1501, 03-17-100-026-0000, Nancy Title Land Trt Co Trustee to Lucila Rosales & Rowley to Jacob Compton & Miles Compton, Roxana Rosales Perez, December 28 December 14 $65,000, 25023 W Prairie Grove Ct, Plain$175,000, 25106 W Sandbank Dr, Plainfield field 60585, 01-29-203-040-0000, Michael J Morrissey to Brian S Hurst & Melissa A Hurst, 60544-1569, 03-17-202-017-0000, Dunbar Trust to Brian Reed, November 18 December 15 $275,000, 25034 Edison Ln, Plainfield $385,000, 22906 Weinhold Dr, Plainfield 60585-2240, 01-20-408-018-0000, Michael 60585-4208, 01-35-101-029-0000, Keith Marasovich to Michael J Dobbs & Katherine I Davis to Alic Tiltu, October 27 $187,000, 6601 Neilis Dr, Plainfield 60586Dobbs, July 21 6203, 03-30-414-002-0000, Susan T Jaros to $165,000, 23159 Kristoff Ct, Plainfield 60544-9665, 03-23-112-008-0000, Leonard J Abel Galvez, November 28 $211,000, 24902 Madison St, Plainfield Dulka to Ellen E Landis, December 12 60544-7442, 03-05-204-014-0000, HSBC $715,000, 22659 Marina Dr, Plainfield Bank USA Trustee to Gabriele Gudenaite & 60585-7991, 01-35-402-037-0000, Edward Ilona Gudena, December 6 J Nykiel to Seth Cooper & Brenna M Fazio, $160,000, 24543 George Washington December 1 Dr, Plainfield 60544-4437, 03-09-108-011$279,900, 23818 Greenfield Dr, Plainfield 0000, Kevin C Juhnke to Zenaida Fernandez, 60585-8165, 01-34-104-016-0000, Karina December 6 Sofiakis to Anthony Curgino, September 16 $222,000, 24512 Rockefeller Ct, Plainfield $206,000, 21417 W Juniper Ln, Plainfield 60544-2790, 03-04-102-038-0000, Edmundo 60544-5617, 04-06-114-049-0000, Green D Sabal to Joan P Salcedo, October 10 Trust to David A Zahller & Susan J Mcgrath, October 22 ROCKDALE $302,500, 17556 S Virginia Dr, Plainfield $57,700, 1500 Brandon Rd, Rockdale 60586-9274, 03-31-203-005-0000, Paul A 60436-8532, 07-28-103-006-0000, First Pesavento to Sigifredo Soberanis & Cecilia V Midwest Bank to Nick Dukovac, December 2 Casillas, December 5 $140,000, 2430 Oak Tree Ln, Plainfield ROMEOVILLE 60586-7192, 03-27-403-025-0000, Gary $142,000, 1705 Ramsey Dr, Romeoville Joseph Plano Jr to Mei Bai, November 17 60446-5070, 03-12-410-042-0000, Erin K $155,000, 2308 Woodhill Ct, Plainfield Neidecker to Nader Shahat & Maya Missiha, 60586-6993, 03-34-206-106-0000, Arnulfo November 20 Flores to Patrick H Larocca, October 20 $200,000, 1478 W Flint Ln, Romeoville $157,000, 22262 W Odessa Ct, Plainfield 60544-7058, 03-01-301-243-0000, Timothy J 60446-5239, 04-18-314-008-0000, Kimberly Day to Kenneth Blackman, December 1 Turner II to Esmeralda Russo, November 21 $131,000, 1735 Sierra Trl, Romeoville $160,000, 5506 Maha St, Plainfield 605865674, 06-04-114-005-0000, Snodgrass Trust 60446-5023, 03-12-409-019-0000, MRF Illinois One LLC to Michael Junguo Lin, to Kevin Halleran, November 22 November 2 $215,000, 4507 Sunset Ridge Dr, Plainfield $65,000, 204 Elmwood Rd, Romeoville 60586-6211, 03-34-307-005-0000, Matthew 60446-1012, 02-27-101-011-0000, Dorether J Bozicevich to Collyn Mcilvain & Jessica Peavy to Juan Mata, November 23 Mcilvain, December 15 $210,000, 1089 Birch Ln, Romeoville $203,000, 4703 Chapman Dr, Plainfield 60446-3963, 02-32-214-011-0000, John T 60586-8318, 03-34-302-009-0000, Lasha Tennyson to Dean Goshev & Violetka Goshe- Wojcik to Lue Esther Jackson, December 14 $136,000, 103 Mckool Ave, Romeoville va, October 16 $172,500, 24962 Franklin Ln, Plainfield 60446-1817, 04-03-101-005-0000, Fannie 60585-2200, 01-20-406-016-1002, Laura Mae to Gustavo Lopez & Michele Y Lopez, Rossano to Kevin M Enke, October 22 December 6 $244,000, 5301 Brookshire Estates Dr, $320,000, 713 N Sunrise Dr, Romeoville Plainfield 60586-6238, 03-33-106-032-0000, 60446-5801, 02-28-418-016-0000, Teton

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The City of Joliet is seeking a qualified candidate for the position of Planner. This position performs advanced level planning duties involving coordinating projects, reviewing land-use cases, and providing support to various committees, boards and other departments, while ensuring compliance with professional standards and regulations. Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major course work in planning or related field or minimum of 4 years' experience in municipal planning or a Master's degree with 2 years of experience in the planning profession is required. AICP certification desirable. Candidates must be technological proficient and possess strong interpersonal skills. Must possess a valid driver's license and establish residency in the City of Joliet corporate limits within eighteen (18) months from date of hire. Salary range: $71,566 - $118,156.

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This is a full-time position with excellent benefits and the use of a company vehicle.

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BRIDGE by Phillip Alder 02-04-17

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Restored or Unrestored Cars & Vintage Motorcycles Domestic / Import Cars: Mercedes, Porsche, Corvette, Ferrari's, Jaguars, Muscle Cars, Mustang & Mopars, $$ Top $$ all makes, Etc. Earl Nightingale, who was nicknamed the Dean of Personal Development, said, “All you need is the plan, the road map and the courage to press on to your destination.”

A bridge declarer knows his destination and should always have a plan, but in some deals his road map is clearer than on others. This deal was misplayed by a computer program; I think a human would have done better if West produced the same revealing overcall.

West made a Michaels Cue-bid, showing at least 5-5 in the majors. It was tempting, but debatable opposite a passed partner, because if EastWest did not win the auction, the opponent was being given a great road map. North’s two-spade cue-bid showed a maximum pass with five or six clubs. (A two-heart cue-bid would have been at least game-invitational with diamond support.) South made a strange-looking takeout double over three hearts and ended in five diamonds.

If West had led anything but a spade, the defenders would have come out on top, but he chose the spade 10.

South needs a lot of luck and should assume that West has 5-5-12 distribution. Declarer takes East’s spade king with the ace, cashes the diamond ace (great news!), then turns to the clubs. South pitches the heart eight on the third high club, ruffs a club and leads the spade jack (or eight). West wins and, say, leads another spade. Declarer ruffs with dummy’s diamond king, then discards his last spade on the high club eight.

East ruffs, but that is the second and last defensive trick.

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PUBLIC NOTICE REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP)

BY THE VILLAGE OF DIAMOND FOR MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE, RECYCLING, LANDSCAPE WASTE AND ELECTRONIC WASTE COLLECTION SERVICES AND DISASTER/EMERGENCY DEBRIS REMOVAL SERVICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Village of Diamond, Grundy and Will Counties Illinois, will accept sealed proposals for providing all labor, equipment, vehicles, materials and related services necessary for Municipal Solid Waste, Recycling, Landscape Waste and Electronic Waste Collection Services and Disaster/ Emergency Debris Removal Service, located within the corporate boundaries of the Village of Diamond.

Proposals will be accepted until February 27, 2017 at 4:00 p.m., at the Diamond Village Hall, Village of Diamond, 1750 E. Division Street, Diamond, IL 60416, at which time they will be publicly opened.

Copies of the RFP will be available for pick-up beginning on February 3, 2017 at the Diamond Village Hall, Village of Diamond, 1750 E. Division Street, Diamond, IL, 60416 and will also be posted on the Village of Diamond's website (www.villageofdiamond.org) under Departments tab click on Public Works.

Proposals are to be sealed and marked "Municipal Solid Waste, Recycling, Landscape Waste and Electronic Waste Collection Services and Disaster/Emergency Debris Removal Service" and delivered to: Village of Diamond 1750 E. Division Street Diamond, IL 60416 The Village of Diamond reserves the right to accept or reject any and all Proposals or any part thereof; waive any minor defects, irregularities or informalities; and to decide not to award any contract; or award a contract deemed to be in the best interest of the Village of Diamond.

PUBLIC NOTICE THE WILL COUNTY BOARD WILL HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING THE 2040 TRANSPORTATION PLAN DURING THE PUBLIC WORKS & TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE MEETING ON FEBRUARY 7, 2017 AT 9:00 A.M. IN THE COUNTY BOARD ROOM, SECOND FLOOR OF THE WILL COUNTY OFFICE BUILDING, 302 NORTH CHICAGO STREET, JOLIET, ILLINOIS. THE PUBLIC IS INVITED AND WILL BE ALLOWED TO MAKE COMMENTS AT THAT TIME. A COPY OF THE PROPOSED 2040 TRANSPORTATION PLAN IS AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW IN THE OFFICE OF THE WILL COUNTY CLERK, 302 NORTH CHICAGO STREET, JOLIET, ILLINOIS, DURING THE HOURS OF 8:30 A.M. - 4:30 P.M. MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AT www.willconnects2040.org.

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PUBLIC NOTICE JOLIET PUBLIC SCHOOLS DISTRICT 86 BOARD OF SCHOOL INSPECTORS VACANCY The Board of School Inspectors is seeking candidates to fill avacancy for an East Side seat on the school board. Send a letter of intent and résuméto Stephanie H. T. Phelan, Secretary, Board of School Inspectors, Joliet Public Schools, 420 N. Raynor Avenue, Joliet, IL 60435. The deadline for applying is Friday, February 17, 2017 at 3:00 p.m.

Qualifications: 18 years of age or older; citizen of the United States; resident of District 86 living on the East Side of Joliet (east of the Des (Published in the Joliet Herald- Plaines River) for at least one year; News February 5, 2017) 1263738 and a U. S. registered voter.

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO BIDDERS SEALED BIDS will be received at the Minooka Village Hall until 10:00 a.m., February 21, 2017, followed by a public bid opening at 10:01 a.m. for the Village of Minooka LED Street Light Conversion Phase 2 contract, and at that time publicly opened and read. The specifications are available at the Minooka Village Hall, 121 E. McEvilly Road, Minooka, Illinois 60447 and may be received electronically from Kristi Lamontagna at kristi.lamontagna@ minooka.com The Village reserves the right to accept or reject any and all bids.

BY ORDER OF THE VILLAGE BOARD OF MINOOKA, ILLINOIS KRISTI LAMONTAGNA, VILLAGE CLERK (Published in The Joliet HeraldNews February 5, 2017 Morris Herald-News February 9, 2017 Kendall County Record February 9, 2017) 1263715 Get the job you want at TheHerald-News.com/jobs

If you have any questions, please call Stephanie H. T. Phelanat 815740-3196 ext. 8221.

Stephanie H. T. Phelan, Secretary Board of School Inspectors Stephanie H. T. Phelan Board of School Inspectors & Superintendent Secretary Joliet Public Schools District 86 420 North Raynor Avenue Joliet, IL 60435 815-740-3196 ext. 8221 815-740-6520 (Fax) (Published in the Herald-News on February 3, 5, 6, 2017) 1263537

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