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BOND REDUCTION DENIED IN SEX CASE WOODSTOCK – A Wonder Lake man accused of having sex with a teenager has the name of the girl tattooed on his body, prosecutors said.

Michael E. Allen, 33, was charged with three counts each of criminal sexual assault and abuse. The more serious charge carries a sentencing range of four to 15 years in prison.

Allen and the 15-year-old alleged victim had sexual relations on three occasions when the girl came home early from school, Assistant State’s Attorney David Metnick said.

In asking that his bond be reduced to $40,000, Allen’s attorney, Assistant Public Defender Kim Messer, argued Allen maintains steady employment and no longer lives with the girl.

McHenry County Judge Gordon Graham rejected the request.

Allen has been held in McHenry County Jail on $100,000 bond since his Dec. 3 arrest. His next court date is Dec. 30.

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Modest growth for D-300 Study: Student increase won’t cause immediate boundary changes

By STEPHEN Di BENEDETTO sdibenedetto@shawmedia.com ALGONQUIN – Student growth at the state’s sixth-largest school district will increase by roughly 600 students during the next 10 years, a modest trend that won’t force District 300 officials to immediately redraw attendance boundaries.

Chuck Bumbales, assistant

superintendent of operations, detailed the enrollment forecast to District Board members Monday in a much-anticipated demographic study.

In the 251-page report, the Carpentersville-based district’s enrollment is projected to grow by 577 students in the next 10 years, totaling 21,247 students by 2023.

From 2019 to 2023, the district is projected to grow by a mere 80

students mainly because of slow housing growth from the economic recession, Bumbales said.

“It doesn’t appear that there is anything we have to do for the ’14-’15 school year that involves a major attendance boundary change,” Bumbales said. “We then will take a look at how we are programming at the buildings.”

The demographic study is

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meant to help administrators determine how to use future classroom space and lower class sizes based on a teacher contract that caused a one-day labor strike nearly a year ago.

The modest projections would stave off attendance boundary changes in the near future, Bumbales said. The district would

See DISTRICT 300, page B3

Chuck Bumbales Assistant superintendent of operations

Frigid temps set in, more snow expected

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GARDENERS HOST CHRISTMAS PARTY Countryside Garden Club will host its annual Christmas party at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at 3415 Oak Ridge Road.

The event will include local storyteller Jim May and a white elephant gift exchange.

For information, email florenceann@gmail.com.

SANTA TO VISIT CARY FIRE STATION The Cary Lions Club will host its annual Santa’s House on Saturday.

Santa will ride a fire engine through town from 9 to 10 a.m., returning to Cary Fire Station 1 at 400 Cary-Algonquin Road to feed his reindeer from 10 to 10:30 a.m. Santa, who is fluent in Spanish, Greek and Polish, then will visit with children from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. For information, visit www.carylions.org.

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Mark Trebes with the McHenry County Conservation District clears the stairs Monday leading to the Prairie Trail in Algonquin. The National Weather Service in Chicago recorded 3.1 inches of snowfall at O’Hare International Airport and some weather spotters reported more than 4 inches of snow in McHenry and Crystal Lake.

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ENTRIES SOUGHT FOR ESSAY CONTEST FaithBridge is seeking entries for an essay contest honoring the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech.

The theme of the contest, open to sixth- through eighthgrade students in Crystal Lake and the surrounding area, is “My dream for the world is ...” Essays between 300-350 words should be emailed to faithbridgeessay@gmail.com

by Sunday.

One winner will be awarded $50 plus two tickets to the 2014 Martin Luther King Jr. Interfaith Prayer Breakfast, to be Jan. 20 at D’Andrea Banquets.

The winner will read his or her essay as part of the breakfast program

8LOCAL DEATHS Tracy L. Ballstaedt 49, McHenry Douglas J. Bruce 70, McHenry Rose Marie Moon 78 Constance Brandt Osborne 85 Andrea Reilly 60, Island Lake Milton S. Whitney 92, Garden Prairie OBITUARIES on page B4

John Vanantwerp clears his sidewalk Monday in Algonquin. McHenry County had its first significant measurable snowfall of the winter season Sunday.

A couple inches of snow could fall Tuesday night into Wednesday after several inches were dropped on McHenry County over the weekend, according to the National Weather Service in Chicago.

The entire fleet of McHenry County snowplows hit the roadways at 10 a.m.

Sunday and worked until 10:30 p.m., said Mark DeVries, maintenance superintendent for the McHenry County Division of Transportation. Crews started work again at 3:30 a.m. Monday to clear any trouble spots.

“It was a good first measurable snowfall for us,” DeVries said. “There were a few trouble spots with the wind blowing the light snow, but no big

State’s attorney says no to probe amid criticism Furor linked to Woodstock cop’s alleged conduct

“Any notion that we’re not charging him because he’s a police officer is just not true.”

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WOODSTOCK – The McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office will not reopen the investigation into an embattled Woodstock police sergeant, as public outrage over an inappropriate text message sent to a young girl extends beyond McHenry County.

Criticism over the handling of the investigation into a text message Charles

“Chip” Amati sent to his former girlfriend’s 12-yearold daughter was propelled by international hacker group Anonymous. In the message, Amati asked the girl to send “sexy pictures.”

On Friday, the group asked its more than 1 million Twitter followers to demand that Amati be fired or charged.

Amati received a 30-day unpaid suspension from the department after the Illinois State Police investigation also revealed he misused the LEADS system by running a background check on the girl’s mother, whom he had been dating.

The McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office declined to pursue charges against Amati, saying that the evidence didn’t support a criminal activity, Assistant State’s Attorney Michael Combs said.

An online petition asking that Combs’ office further investigate Amati had 182 signatures by Monday

See CRITICISM, page B3

drifts. The conditions were not too difficult to take care of for the first time out.”

The National Weather Service in Chicago recorded 3.1 inches of snowfall at O’Hare International Airport on Sunday. Snowfall at Chicago Rockford International Airport was 2.8 inches.

Across the county, more than 4 inches of snow fell in Crystal Lake, Bull Valley and Lakemoor, and 3.5 inches fell in Woodstock, preliminary totals showed.

Antioch in Lake County received more than 5 inches.

Frigid temperatures are expected to continue across the area until Friday, with temperatures hovering in the lowto mid-teens. Wind chills will make it feel much colder.

See WEATHER, page B3

Ringwood apartment building damaged in fire to be torn down

By EMILY K. COLEMAN ecoleman@shawmedia.com RINGWOOD – A long vacant apartment building is set to be demolished.

The Ringwood Village Board voted unanimously in favor of hiring a contractor to demolish the apartment building at 5204 Barnard Mill Road if the owner, Debbie Foster of Crystal Lake, doesn’t meet the March deadline to have the building demolished.

Trustee Gary Reinwall was absent from Friday’s special meeting.

An appellate court decision in March ended a legal battle that dates to July 2007, in which Foster tried to fight

“It was a beautiful historic home in Ringwood, but it’s destroyed now.”

Rick Mack Village president

the demolish order. She hoped to repair the two-story structure, which contained one studio and seven single-bedroom apartments.

See BUILDING, page B3

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Dundee-Crown’s Sam Baker, 17, paces while practicing his speech during Saturday’s Cary-Grove Winter Invitational speech tournament in Cary.

Students sport silver tongues

By JOSEPH BUSTOS jbustos@shawmedia.com

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hen Woodstock High School senior Liz Sullivan practices her speech on choosing abstinence, she makes eye contact with different people around the room, uses hand gestures to add emphasis and throws in an intentionally awkward dance and some jokes.

Her speech is geared toward a sophomore health class, and in 7 minutes, 55 seconds, she walks from side to side when she transitions to different points of her argument.

It’s a memorized speech, which cites news articles and statistics, she gives on weekends at speech tournaments and is something she started writing over the summer.

Sullivan is a member of a speech team, a competitive high school activity that helps students learn to speak in public and helps them gain confidence.

On Saturdays from November through February, hundreds of students dressed in professional attire come to high schools to participate in speech tournaments, which have acting, informative speaking and poetry reading events, among others.

During the tournaments, the students are judged on the content of their speeches, as well as the delivery. Judges look for eye contact, whether students speak smoothly, whether the speech is well or-

Speech teams can help give students more confidence

Huntley’s Ronit Ved, 17, practices his speech during Saturday’s speech tournament. McHenry County has some of the state’s best speech/ forensic teams, including Huntley which has won national acclaim. ganized and proves its point, said Kyle McCoy, speech team coach for Woodstock District 200.

After Sullivan is done

practicing her speech, she receives notes from McCoy. “You’ve got to watch your pace within sentences,” McCoy said. “You have nice

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For Sullivan, who practices three days a week at school, being on the speech team since her freshmen year has helped her improve her speaking ability and her confidence.

“It’s as serious as you take it,” Sullivan said. “It can be fun and light, that’s what’s great. ... You meet kids from all over and some of my best friends are from other schools. It’s great to get to know them.”

To encourage students to join the team, which has about 20 students, McCoy tells them they can become more effective communicators, he said.

“It’s all about communication to me,” McCoy said.

“Not just public speaking, but practicing and getting better at the ability to communicate a message to someone, whether it’s one person, or a group of people, or an employer ... or a teacher.”

Over the past six years, the Cary-Grove High School speech team has grown from two students to 50, coach Stephanie Sukow said.

The speech team goes to tournaments 13 times a year, each one being a 12-hour commitment, Sukow said.

Add on top of that the practices every day after school for three hours.

“People don’t realize how

See SPEECH, page A5

McHENRY – School District 156 and its teachers union are “light years” from where they were 10 days ago, the district’s superintendent said.

About 10 days ago was when the school board voted to declare an impasse in ongoing negotiations, starting a process that requires both sides to post their last offer and opening up the opportunity for the union to vote on striking.

Since then, the two sides had another mediator-attended negotiation session, Superintendent Mike Roberts said.

Another one is scheduled for Friday.

Roberts is “real confident” that the district is not headed for a strike, adding that recent negotiations have “really closed the gap.”

Greg Eiserman, co-president of the McHenry Community High School Teachers Association, did not return a call for comment Monday, but in a

For a full breakdown of final offers from District 156 and the teachers union, see PAGE A5.

conversation Nov. 29, he said the union had not discussed a strike.

The last offers, which were posted Monday to the Illinois Education Labor Relations Board website, showed the district and the union disagreed on salary increases, how much teachers pay for family health insurance coverage, tuition reimbursement, summer school pay, stipends for teachers that travel between campuses and early retirement incentives.

Many of the changes proposed by the board seek to tie increases to the rate of inflation and shift some health-insurance costs onto employees.

“There’s no question that from a district standpoint

See NEGOTIATIONS, page A5

Tech companies lash out at gov’t snooping

By MARCY GORDON and MICHAEL LIEDTKE

At a glance

The Associated Press WASHINGTON – Silicon Valley is escalating pressure on President Barack Obama to curb the U.S. government surveillance programs that vacuum personal information off the Internet and threaten the technology industry’s financial livelihood.

A coalition that includes Google, Apple, Yahoo, Facebook and Microsoft lashed out in an open letter printed Monday in major newspapers and a new website, reformgovernmentsurveillance.com.

The crusade united eight

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REPORT SHOWS MODEST GROWTH

AMANTI CASE WILL NOT BE REOPENED

In the 251-page report, District 300’s enrollment is projected to grow by 577 students in the next 10 years, totaling 21,247 students by 2023.

From 2019 to 2023, the district is projected to grow by a mere 80 students mainly because of slow housing growth from the economic recession. For more, see page B1.

The McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office will not reopen the investigation into an embattled Woodstock police sergeant. Criticism over the handling of the investigation into a text message Charles “Chip” Amati sent to his former girlfriend’s 12-year-old daughter was propelled by international hacker group Anonymous. For more, see page B1.

HUNTLEY: Red Raiders defense shuts down C-G, gives team its 10th win of the season. Sports, C2

These tech companies penned an open letter requesting curbed government surveillance: n Twitter Inc. n LinkedIn Corp. n AOL Inc. n Google Inc. n Apple Inc. n Yahoo Inc. n Facebook Inc. n Microsoft Corp companies that often compete fiercely against each other, but now find themselves

See SURVEILLANCE, page A5

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How to be a successful wait watcher I’m not a very good waiter.

No, not the food-serving kind, but the my-life-is-slowly-slipping-awaybecause-this-stupid-line-isn’t-moving type of waiter.

Have you ever felt that way?

Well, get in line as we spend a few minutes whining about the unavoidable and we acquiesce to the inevitable.

Well, first of all, I’ve found out that there’s lot more to the waiting game than I thought. Evidently there’s a whole field of study about the psychology of waiting in lines called Queueing Theory that comes complete with its own vocabulary. For example, a “queue” is a line of people waiting for something. A “node” is where you get taken care of. So, if you went to Walmart and were waiting in line to check out, you actually were in a queue that led you to a node that took your money.

But all that scientific mumbo-jumbo doesn’t really make waiting in line any more enjoyable. And it doesn’t help when we learn that Americans spend 37 billion hours a year waiting in a line. I know where that line is

JUST HUMOR ME Michael Penkava because that’s the one I always find myself waiting in. And I think I saw you there, too.

What makes line-waiting so frustrating is that there really isn’t anything to do. You just stand there.

Waiting. I mean, if there was something productive to do during that time, it would be much more bearable. Operations researchers know this, and they’ve actually done something about it.

For example, at one airport, they were receiving tons of complaints about the long waiting time at the baggage claim area. So, to solve this problem, they didn’t need to speed up the baggage service. All they did was move the baggage carousels as far away from the arrival area as possible. Then the people had to walk for several minutes to get their luggage.

By the time they got there, they hardly had to wait, and the complaints

disappeared. Why? Because the people were given something to do. They walked. And, let’s face it, we’d rather walk to get somewhere than just stand in a line going nowhere, right?

Well, that gave me an idea. Why don’t the stores give their customers something to do while they wait to pay for their purchases? Sure you can peruse Star magazine for photos of celebs without makeup or scan the National Enquirer to read about how Hilary Clinton adopted an alien baby that survived a UFO crash in Arkansas. But that’s too passive and unfulfilling, unless there’s an article about Dr. Phil and his wife in a public screaming match.

No, what I mean is that we all get a number and then are assigned a real job to do. Like, if we’re at Jewel, then we’re sent to stack the cans of green peas on a shelf. Then they call your number, and you go right to the front and boom, no waiting. Maybe they’d let you drive a forklift at Home Deport. Or bus a table at Chili’s. Or set up a video game display at Best Buy. The possibilities are endless.

In this way, we’re never waiting.

We’re always doing something. Gone is the aimless standing and rocking on our heels, the dawdling shuffling of our feet, the wistful gazing at the extra large Snickers bar.

Instead, time seems to pass faster because we are actually accomplishing something. Plus, you will be helping the Jolly Green Giant give peas a chance.

Until my idea is implemented, however, chose your queues wisely.

Remember that long lines moving quickly are not always better than short lines moving slowly.

Know that there is no justice in the world of multiple queues, otherwise we’d all be in the fast lane. And never forget that sometimes it’s just better to take it easy, stay at home and remain queueless.

• Michael Penkava is a retired teacher who taught for 35 years at West Elementary School in Crystal Lake. He endorses Steven Wright’s concept of “speed waiting.” With practice, you can wait for an hour in only 10 minutes. He can be reached at mikepenkava@comcast.net.

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NASA: Ancient Mars lake may have supported life

By ALICIA CHANG The Associated Press LOS ANGELES – NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered signs of an ancient freshwater lake on Mars, which scientists say could have been a perfect spot for tiny primitive organisms to flourish if they ever existed on the red planet.

The watering hole near the Martian equator existed about 3.5 billion years ago around the time when life evolved on Earth. Scientists

say the Martian lake was neither salty nor acidic, and contained life-friendly nutrients.

“This just looks like a pretty darn ordinary Earth-like lake in terms of its chemistry,” said project scientist John Grotzinger of the California Institute of Technology. “If you were desperate, you could have a drink of this stuff.”

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• An editorial on page A13 of Sunday’s Northwest Herald incorrectly reported that Woodstock Sgt. Charles Chip Amati would serve his 30-day suspension incrementally at his leisure. The suspension will be served on days the department deems it won’t affect the operations of the police department or the city.

• A scoreline on page C2 of Saturday’s Northwest Herald incorrectly reported that Alden-Hebron won its boys basketball game. A-H lost, 7445, to Luther North.

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Rev. Jackson among Mandela tribute visitors

By SOPHIA TAREEN The Associated Press CHICAGO – The Rev. Jesse Jackson and Republican U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock are among leaders from Illinois attending a tribute to Nelson Mandela in South Africa.

Since Mandela’s death last week, there have been numerous memorials, vigils and church services dedicated to him, including in Chicago.

The memorial Tuesday in Johannesburg is expected to draw numerous world leaders.

Jackson was in Capetown in 1990 when Mandela was released from prison after 27 years. The two men met several times over the years, including when Mandela visited Chicago three years later.

Jackson said there are parallels between the struggle for civil rights in the U.S. and the dismantling of the apartheid system in South Africa. He described Mandela as having an “internal will and dignity” that seemed unshakeable.

“He was a powerful, intellectual man,” Jackson said.

Jackson was set to travel with members of his Chicago-based Rainbow PUSH Coalition, which hosted a vigil for

“[Mandela] was a powerful, intellectual man.”

Rev. Jesse Jackson Describing Nelson Mandela at a tribute in South Africa Mandela in Chicago last week.

Schock, a third-term congressman from Peoria, said he’s leading a congressional delegation of about 20 people.

Schock said he has great respect for Mandela.

“His example of servant leadership – voluntarily leaving office after one term – set an example of Democratic change for South Africans and the world over,” Schock said in a statement. “Nelson Mandela’s forgiveness, leadership, and class will always inspire me.”

While U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush wasn’t traveling to South Africa – he has been on leave from Congress as his wife recovers from major surgery – he planned to host a tribute Sunday at the church where he preaches. The afternoon service at Beloved Community Christian Church of God & Christ has been described as an “all Chicago celebration” of Mandela’s life.

8STATE BRIEFS Illinois volunteers catalog lost tornado documents MORTON – A central Illinois public library is working to reunite storm victims with their lost family documents that were scattered during last month’s tornadoes.

More than 1,000 items have been collected and catalogued at the Morton Public Library in Tazewell County, The Peoria Journal Star reported. Another 1,000 or so documents still need to be sorted by volunteers and more are arriving by mail.

Officials say the material started arriving at the library several days after two dozen twisters hit the state on Nov. 17.

Memorial set for Rockford medical helicopter crash ROCKFORD – Three chimes will ring out Tuesday in Rockford, one for each victim of a medical helicopter crash that killed a pilot and two nurses in northern Illinois a year ago.

The one-year anniversary memorial will be at Rockford Memorial Hospital. It will include a moment of silence, remarks from the hospital chaplain and then the three chimes, the Rockford Register Star reports.

Employees will wear blue along with ribbon pins, wristbands and T-shirts.

Jim Dillow, Karen Hollis and Andy Olesen were members of

the medical flight crew who died in the rural Compton crash on Dec. 10 last year. The helicopter crashed in Lee County on the way to pick up a patient in Mendota.

Sen. Mark Kirk has gallbladder removed SPRINGFIELD – Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk, who returned to Congress after suffering stroke last year, had his gallbladder removed Monday because of an unrelated medical issue.

Kirk underwent surgery around 9:30 a.m. Monday at Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital and was resting comfortably by early afternoon, Dr. Kim Sobinsky, who performed the procedure, told The Associated Press.

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Pension crisis risks Chicago’s future

By SARA BURNETT The Associated Press CHICAGO – It’s not the vision of a world class city that Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel typically likes to portray.

More teachers losing their jobs, thousands fewer police and firefighters on duty, less frequent trash collection and miles of potholed roads going unrepaired – all as property taxes soar.

But that’s the scenario Emanuel and others have said could befall the nation’s third-largest city if the state Legislature – which passed a landmark measure last week to address Illinois’ severe public pension shortfall – doesn’t deal with Chicago’s own multibillion-dollar pension problem.

The economic capital of Illinois and the Midwest, Chicago holds the dubious distinction of having the worst-funded public pension system of any major U.S. city.

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Striking Chicago Public School teachers picket Sept. 10, 2012, as Mayor Rahm Emanuel visits with students taking part at the Safe Haven program during a teachers strike in Chicago.

It’s a crisis that’s putting in peril Chicago’s reputation as “the city that works,” and its vision of being a modern transportation hub in the midst of a high-tech boom.

“Chicago sticks out for all the wrong reasons,” said Rachel Barkley, a municipal credit analyst at Morning-

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Gov. Quinn heads to D.C. CHICAGO – Gov. Pat Quinn is in Washington, D.C., for meetings with the Democratic Governors Association and White House officials.

He’s set to be in meetings Monday and Tuesday.

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Congress renews undetectable gun ban for decade

By ALAN FRAM The Associated Press WASHINGTON – Narrowly beating a midnight deadline, Congress voted Monday to renew an expiring ban on plastic firearms that can evade airport detection machines.

But Republicans blocked an effort to toughen the restrictions – the latest defeat for gun-control forces in the year since the grade school massacre in Newtown, Conn.

President Barack Obama signed the law before midnight, using an auto pen as he traveled to Africa for ceremo-

nies honoring the late South African President Nelson Mandela. The device Obama used to sign the bill has been used for the signatures of traveling presidents since the administration of President George W. Bush.

By voice vote, the Senate gave final congressional approval to a 10-year extension of the prohibition against guns that can slip past metal detectors and X-ray machines.

The House voted last week for an identical decade-long renewal of the ban.

GOP senators rejected an effort by Sen. Chuck Schumer,

“Who in God’s name wants to let plastic guns pass through metal detectors at airports or stadiums?”

Sen. Chuck Schumer D-N.Y.

D-N.Y., to strengthen the ban by requiring that such weapons contain undetachable metal parts. Some plastic guns meet the letter of the current law with a metal piece that

can be removed, making them a threat to be slipped past security screeners at schools, airports and elsewhere.

“Who in God’s name wants to let plastic guns pass through metal detectors at airports or stadiums?” Schumer said in an interview Monday.

The National Rifle Association, which has been instrumental in blocking gun restrictions, expressed no opposition to renewing the law.

But the gun lobby said it would fight any expanded requirements, including Schumer’s, “that would infringe on our Second Amend-

ment rights” to bear arms.

Underscoring the issue’s political sensitivity, both of Monday’s votes were by voice only, meaning no individual senators’ votes were recorded.

For a handful of Democratic senators seeking re-election next year in GOP-leaning states, the day’s votes could have been difficult.

The rejection of stricter curbs highlighted the repeated setbacks for gun-control advocates in Congress since last Dec. 14.

On that day, a gunman fatally shot 20 first-graders and six staff members at Sandy

GOP blocks Obama’s Senate nominees

By ALAN FRAM The Associated Press

Dempsey urges Congress to act on defense bill

By DONNA CASSATA

WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans blocked immediate approval of a mountain of mostly minor nominations

by President Barack Obama late Monday in the aftermath of last month’s Democratic move weakening the minority party’s traditional ability to block most presidential appointments.

The action demonstrated that the GOP was intent on exacting a price for the changes majority Democrats muscled through the Senate in filibusters, or procedural delays minority senators can use to delay or kill nominations or bills.

Since last month’s changes mean that Democrats can win approval of Obama’s picks without GOP votes, Monday’s blockage does not imperil any of the nominations.

Included in the stack of 76 nominations was that of Janet Yellen, who Obama wants to head the Federal Reserve.

Her Senate confirmation is still considered a virtual certainty.

Monday’s confrontation came as the Senate returned to work for the first time since Democrats made those changes on Nov. 21.

That Democratic move had angered Republicans, both because it weakened the GOP’s ability to wage filibusters and because Democrats made the change with a simple major-

Study finds some lung cancers to be harmless

By LINDSEY TANNER The Associated Press CHICAGO – Harmless lung cancer? A provocative study found that nearly 1 in 5 lung tumors detected on CT scans are probably so slow-growing that they would never cause problems.

The analysis suggests the world’s No. 1 cause of cancer deaths isn’t as lethal as doctors once thought.

In the study, these were not false-positives – suspicious results that turn out upon further testing not to be cancer. These were indeed cancerous tumors, but ones that caused no symptoms and were unlikely ever to become deadly, the researchers said.

Still, the results are not likely to change how doctors treat lung cancer.

For one thing, the disease is usually diagnosed after symptoms develop, when tumors show up on an ordinary chest X-ray and are potentially life-threatening.

Also, doctors don’t know yet how to determine which symptomless tumors found on CT scans might become dangerous, so they automatically treat the cancer aggressively.

The findings underscore the need to identify biological markers that would help doctors determine which tumors are harmless and which ones require treatment, said Dr. Edward Patz, Jr., lead author and a radiologist at Duke University Medical Center.

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President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks June 4 in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington where he announced the nominations of Robert Wilkins (from left), Cornelia Pillard and Patricia Ann Millet to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. ity of votes. Republicans said Democrats should have been required to win a two-thirds majority to make the change, which is more commonly used to make major rules changes.

On Monday, Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., objected to a request by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., for unanimous approval of the 76 nominees. Most were minor, though, besides Yellen the list includes Jeh Johnson to head the Department of Homeland Security and Deborah Lee James, Obama’s choice to be secretary of the

Air Force.

“Until I understand better how a United States senator is supposed to operate in a Senate without rules, I object,” Alexander said.

Most of the nominees were for mid- and lower level posts like ambassadors and federal judges. Others included posts like an undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness and a pick for the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board.

The quick approval for those nominees that Reid was seeking required the consent

of all senators, so Alexander’s objection was enough to stop them – for now.

The dispute came to a head last month after Republican blocked Obama picks for three vacancies for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Those nominees were not included in the group blocked Monday.

That court is extremely powerful because it rules on administration actions. Its eight judges currently are divided evenly between those picked by past Democratic and GOP presidents.

WASHINGTON – The nation’s top military leader pleaded with Congress on Monday to complete the defense bill before year’s end as Democrats and Republicans on the Armed Services committees reached agreement on compromise legislation to pay for warfighters, ships and aircraft.

Ramping up the pressure on House and Senate leaders, the panels’ top members unveiled a comprehensive, $632.8 billion bill that increases personnel pay by 1 percent, covers the cost of the war in Afghanistan and takes steps to address the epidemic of sexual assault in the military.

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That plan drew strong opposition from the Pentagon as well as several men and women in the Senate.

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Despite that – and other recent mass shootings, including at the Washington Navy Yard just blocks from the Capitol – supporters of expanded gun control are nearing the end of a year in which they have been unable to push any new firearms restrictions through Congress.

“We’re several decades behind the NRA,” said Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn. “This is a long game, and it’s going to take us some time to build up the resources necessary to compete.”

“This is the only way we can pass a bill this year.”

Sen. Carl Levin D-Mich. tive and the compromise the only path forward for a measure that Congress has passed every year since the Kennedy administration.

“Allowing the bill to slip to January adds yet more uncertainty to the force and further complicates the duty of our commanders who face shifting global threats,” Dempsey wrote to House and Senate leaders.

The House plans to adjourn by week’s end and the Senate is scheduled to leave town Dec. 20.

With a few legislative days remaining, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., the Armed Services Committee chairman, and the panel’s top Republican, Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, along with their House counterparts, Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon, R-Calif., and Rep. Adam Smith of Washington state, reconciled differences between the House-passed bill and the Senate committee measure.

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D-156, union began discussions in June Students research current, historic • NEGOTIATIONS Continued from page A1 uncertainty places a huge part in this,” Roberts said. “No question, whether it is simply are our reimbursements from the state or where medical benefits are headed. Even if you’re running a business today, you better be concerned about those two things. They’re huge unknowns right now.”

lieve that time is now and will continue to negotiate for what is fair for all involved.”

Negotiations began in June, once the newly elected school board took office and Roberts began to assume some of the superintendent duties. He officially took over as superintendent in July.

To read the full offers, go to the Illinois Education Labor Relations Board’s website at www2.illinois.gov/elrb.

After taking what the union argues amounted to a pay cut during contract negotiations two years ago, it is looking for pay increases for its members while not incurring more costs in other areas.

“This contract was ratified overwhelmingly with the understanding that when the district could afford it, we would be given a contract that helps us move forward again,” the union’s final offer said. “We be-

D-156, UNION MAKE FINAL OFFERS D-156

UNION SALARIES

Year 1: n Base salary increased 1.5 percent. n Teachers move up a half-step on experience scale. n Most experienced teachers with a master’s degree receive a lumpsum payment based on 50 percent of the consumer price index, at least 0.5 percent but not more than 2 percent. Only those teachers with bachelor’s degrees who are currently receiving these payments will continue to receive them. (By changing the payments to bonuses,

they do not compound like they currently do.)

Year 1: n Continue to pay 7.5 percent for individual coverage. n Increase contribution for family coverage to 22.04 percent.

Year 2: n Continue to pay 7.5 percent for individual coverage. n Increase contribution for family coverage to 27.86 percent.

n Total amount of reimbursable tuition capped at $100,000 for contract period, $50,000 per year. (Total is currently capped at $250,000.) n Limits tuition reimbursement to teachers who have not earned a master’s degree or who were enrolled in a cohort

program as of June 1. n Reimbursement needs superintendent approval and work must be deemed “necessary to advance educational goals of district.” n Those that leave the district voluntarily within three years of receiving reimbursement must pay back the district.

Year 2: n Teachers in years one through six receive a full-step increase. n Teachers in years seven through 19 receive an increase based on inflation (75 percent of the consumer price index, at least 0.5 percent but not more than 2 percent). n Lump-sum payments to the most experienced teachers will increase at the same rate as the previous year. Conditions remain the same.

Year 1: n No increase to base salary. n Teachers move a full step on experience scale. n Most experienced teachers with a bachelor’s degree receive a 3 percent increase to previous year’s salary and those with a master’s degree receive a 4 percent

increase.

Year 2: n Base salary increased based on consumer price index. n Teachers move a full step on experience scale. n Most experienced teachers receive same percent increases as in year one.

Year 2: n Continue to contribute at same levels.

TUITION REIMBURSEMENT

n Total amount of reimbursable tuition capped at $160,000 for contract period. (Total is currently

• SPEECH Continued from page A1 much of a sport it is and how rigorous it is,” Sukow said.

To prepare for each tournament, Sukow has students gather information on current events and review information on historical references, music and movies.

She has students read news websites, and listen to podcasts from National Public Radio.

In the acting events, students may perform the same script throughout the season, hoping to improve each time. The students can’t use props, except for a table and two chairs, Sukow said.

In the extemporaneous speaking events, students receive topics the day of the tournament and come up with a speech in 45 minutes.

There also is an impromptu speaking event where students come into a room, receive a topic and then have two minutes come up with a six-minute speech.

Sammantha Dellaria has been on Cary-Grove High School’s speech team for

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Woodstock speech team captain Liz Sullivan, 17, talks with team coach Kyle McCoy after practicing her Special Occasion Speaking monologue in front of him Tuesday at Woodstock High School in Woodstock. Sullivan originally joined the speech team as a social outlet as a freshman. three years. The senior, who lives in Cary, is a captain and participates in impromptu, informative speaking and dramatic duet acting, which is new for her this year.

“I was intrigued to do something that was stepping out of my boundaries, and pushing my own limits,” Dellaria said.

Before being on the speech team, she was shy, but now she has no problem

speaking in front of people.

“It’s night and day,” Dellaria said. “I’m so much more outgoing than my sophomore and freshman years.”

Christine Loo is a junior at Cary-Grove, and joined speech team her freshmen year.

“Everytime is a new chance to make it better and have people listen to what I have to say,” Loo said.

Competitors band together in NSA lobby

HEALTH CARE INSURANCE Year 1: n Continue to pay 7.5 percent for individual coverage and 16.3 percent for family coverage.

events to prepare for tournaments

capped at $250,000.) n Does not limit tuition reimbursement based on education.

• SURVEILLANCE Continued from page A1 banding together to limit the potential damage from revelations about the National Security Agency’s snooping on Web surfers.

Twitter Inc., LinkedIn Corp. and AOL Inc. joined Google Inc., Apple Inc., Yahoo Inc., Facebook Inc. and Microsoft Corp. in the push for tighter controls over electronic espionage. The group is immersed in the lives of

just about everyone who uses the Internet or a computing device.

As the companies’ services and products have become more deeply ingrained in society, they have become integral cogs in the economy. Their prosperity also provides them with the cash to pay for lobbyists and fund campaign contributions that sway public policy.

Monday’s public relations offensive is a by-product of documents leaked over the past six months by former

NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

The records reveal the NSA has been obtaining emails and other personal data from major tech companies under secret court orders for the past five years.

Monday’s letter and the new anti-snooping website represent the technology industry’s latest salvo in an attempt to counter any perception that they voluntarily give the government access to users’ email and other sensitive information.

SUMMER SCHOOL PAY

n Keep 2012-13 pay schedule: Teachers with no summer school or District 156 experience receive $45.47 an hour; one year of experience

n All teachers to be paid $35 an hour.

receive $49.29 an hour; two years of experience receive $53.09 an hour; and three or more years of experience receive $56.89 an hour.

TRAVELING TEACHER STIPEND

n Stipend for teachers who travel between campuses is eliminated. Teachers receive only mileage reimbursement.

n Teachers offered choice between no supervision duties (lunch, study halls, etc.) or the stipend, which was $802.75 per semester in the 2012-13 school year.

EARLY RETIREMENT INCENTIVES n Teachers who submit an intent to retire receive a 3 percent salary increase each year

for a maximum of four years. n Insurance benefits are discontinued.

n Keep current language, which is 4 percent increases over a maximum of four years. n Under insurance portion of the early retirement

policy, the district pays approximately $2,000 per retiree to go towards their health insurance until their Teacher Retirement System benefits kick in.

PROVISIONS BOTH UNION AND DISTRICT AGREE ON SICK AND PERSONAL DAYS

n Remain the same with 13 sick days, two days for funeral leave and two personal days

COACHING AND OTHER STIPENDS Year 1: n $100 increase for coaches n $50 increase for co-curricular advisers

Year 2: n $50 increase for coaches n $25 increase for co-curricular advisers

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Central African Republic mobs launch sectarian attacks

By KRISTA LARSON The Associated Press BANGUI, Central African Republic – Dozens of young men stood waiting for storm clouds to pass, as wind stirred up swirls of red dust on the largely deserted street in Central African Republic’s capital.

Through the drizzle, they spotted a man in a flowing white robe traditionally worn by Muslims, hand-in-hand with his adolescent son.

The style of dress was enough to confirm that this was their enemy.

Hungry for revenge, the crowd descended upon the pair. The man’s terrified son

broke away, and fled on foot, abandoning his father as the knife-wielding mob clutched the middle-aged man.

Muslim rebels known as Seleka overthrew the government of this majority Christian nation nine months ago, sparking mounting sectarian violence that prompted former colonizer France last week to deploy troops to Bangui in an effort to stop the bloodshed.

In a city where more than 400 people died last week in two days of tit-for-tat violence between Christians and Muslims, it was clear Monday there still is enough pent-up rage left that a crowd will try to kill a man on sight.

The angry mob insisted their victim served as a general in the rebel movement accused of carrying out atrocities against the nation’s Christian population, including tying victims together and throwing them off bridges to drown. “Seleka! Seleka! Seleka!” screamed the men as they encircled the Muslim man in a tornado of anger.

In this case, French forces intervened just in time, firing into the air as a warning. “I am a merchant! I am a merchant!,” the man cried as the French pulled him away, his back covered in dirt and his gown ripped off. His tearful son came back, his white

shirt covered in blood, and the French ferried them to safety.

Other Muslims were not as fortunate. In the Benzvi neighborhood, a mob descended upon two ex-Seleka leaders leaving their home Monday afternoon. One got away. The crowd took up the only weapons they had against the other, witnesses said.

“People picked up rocks from the ground and stoned him to death,” said Junior Dagdag, 28, pointing to the pool of blood and stones in the middle of the road, where the victim’s car burned and smoke plumed into the sky. “Some brought his body to the hospital while others set his car on fire.”

AP photo

A French soldier screams at mobs of Christians attacking suspected Seleka members Monday before firing warning shots near the airport in Bangui, Central African Republic.

Ukraine’s east backs closer ties Thai PM dissolves Parliament with Russia, oppose protesters

By GRANT PECK and JINDA WEDEL

The Associated Press

BANGKOK – Desperate to defuse Thailand’s deepening political crisis, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra dissolved Parliament’s lower house on Monday and called early elections. But protesters seeking to topple her vowed to carry on their fight, saying they cannot win the polls because of corruption.

A decree from King Bhumibol Adulyadej scheduled the elections on Feb. 2 and named Yingluck as interim prime minister until then.

Protesters demanded she resign as caretaker and rejected the election date, putting the royalist movement at odds with the royal decree.

By YURAS KARMANAU The Associated Press

AP photo

Stray dogs wander around a street market Friday in a town of Ukrainsk, eastern Ukraine. hard-won independence will be crippled if it moves back too tightly into Russia’s orbit.

But in eastern Ukraine, the country’s industrial heartland, most people are openly resentful of the pro-Western protesters, many of whom are students.

The Kremlin has exploited this deep east-west divide in its determined efforts to thwart the EU deal and keep Ukraine in its political and economic sphere of influence.

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their giant neighbor as essential for Ukraine’s economic survival.

The protesters rose up against President Viktor Yanukovych after Nov. 21 when he spiked a deal for closer integration with the 28-nation European Union and decided to restore trade ties with Russia instead.

Opinion polls show that the EU is more popular among Ukrainians than Russia, and many fear that the country’s

– would work to end corruption in politics and keep Yingluck and her brother, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, from returning to power.

The opposition Democrat Party, allied with the protest movement, has been defeated

by Thaksin-allied parties in every election since 2001, and is unlikely to win new polls.

Thaksin, a former telecommunications billionaire, was toppled by a 2006 military coup that laid bare a deeper conflict between Thailand’s elite and largely urban middle class on one side, and Thaksin’s power base in the countryside on the other.

The two sides have been dueling for power, sometimes violently, since Thaksin was ousted for alleged corruption.

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YENAKIYEVO, Ukraine – In the Ukrainian president’s eastern hometown, the buildings are grimy with black soot from the surrounding coal mines. The air is thick with pollutants. The men here die young, sometimes from industrial accidents.

And residents have about had it with the protesters who have besieged Kiev, the capital, and its central square – the Maidan – for three weeks.

“It’s time to disperse the Maidan and force those sponges to work,” said Alexei Dzhugastranskiy, a 46-year-old coal miner in Yenakiyevo.

“While we are working at the mine and risking our lives, they are striking in Kiev and killing Ukraine.”

The battle over Ukraine’s future has deepened the divide between the western part of this nation of 46 million and its east, where most people still speak Russian, watch Russian television and see ties with

Protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban, who faces an arrest warrant on insurrection charges, spoke to more than 150,000 followers at a stage outside Yingluck’s offices, challenging authorities to “Come get me!”

He claimed his movement was assuming some functions of government, citing a clause in the constitution stating that “the highest power is the sovereign power of the people.”

“This means that from now on the people will appoint the prime minister of the people and appoint the government of the people,” he told the cheering crowd.

He said a new prime minister and a non-elected “people’s council” – which has no basis in the constitution

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Give planet a present This year, lighting America for the holidays will consume more than 6 trillion watt-hours of electricity, or, using U.S. Department of Energy figures, roughly enough to power every home in New Hampshire for one month. To produce the extra electricity, utilities will have to burn huge quantities of natural gas and, in some cases, coal. The annual luxury of lights offsets some of the efforts being made to combat climate change, so this year give the For the record planet a present and swap at least Change to LED lights and some of those swap smoke detector batteries strings of tiny into have a safe, and a green, candescent lights holiday season. for LED lights, which use up to 90 percent less energy and last decades, not just a season or two.

Every year, Americans buy an estimated 100 million strands of decorative holiday lights, usually for prices too low to justify making the maddening effort to resuscitate a 100-light strand that has one dead bulb somewhere along its length. Some big box stores and other lighting vendors collect the dead strands for recycling, but generally only during a short window. Home Depot’s website, for example, says that last year the chain recycled more than 272,000 strands or the equivalent of 7.2 million plastic water bottles. Some state and municipal recycling programs also accept the lights.

White incandescent Christmas lights emit 95 percent of the energy they consume as heat rather than light. Colored lights create even more heat and less light. Knowing that the greenhouse gases emitted to power the lights are helping to melt the snow under Santa’s sleigh – not to mention the ice under polar bears – takes a bit of the warm holiday glow off the annual festival of lights that occurs in almost every neighborhood. Switching to LED lights saves energy and money. According to the online retailer ChristmasLightsEtc, a heavy user with a light-outlined home would spend $115.26 per holiday season to run incandescent mini-lights but just $15.32 for LEDs. Last week, yet another august panel released yet another dire warning about climate change.

At current emission levels, a rapid increase in the extinction rate of plant and animal species could occur, the world’s coral reefs could disappear, and summer sea ice in the Arctic become a thing of the past, a panel of the National Research Council warned. Swapping out holiday lights won’t prevent any of that from happening, but it would, according to one estimate, prevent 1 billion pounds of greenhouse gases from being emitted each year. Make this the season to make the switch, if only by a few strands at a time.

And now, continuing this message of holiday cheer, we implore households to do all they can to ... prevent home fires during the holidays. Many of these fires are caused by unattended candles, according to statistics compiled by the insurer Allstate. Coming in a close second: fires from failed attempts to deep fry a turkey, a procedure that should be carried out outdoors and away from structures. The average claim for a candle fire, the insurer said, was $50,000; for a turkey conflagration, $29,000.

That’s a lot of Christmas cheer up in smoke.

And speaking of smoke, no household should be without at least one, and preferably several, working smoke detectors.

Swap the lights and smoke detector batteries, and have a more energy-efficient and disaster-free holiday.

The Concord (N.H.) Monitor

8IT’S YOUR WRITE New chapter To the Editor: In response to the recent articles about the McHenry County Mental Health Board and its storied past, Pioneer Center would like to set the record straight on its perception of and relationship with the MHB. Pioneer Center, its board and staff would like to acknowledge the efforts of the new board in its determination to become an effective, transparent organization.

Over the course of the past year, the MHB has taken measurable steps to ensure that the allocation of taxpayer dollars is used for the purpose intended – to support those with mental illness and developmental disabilities. For this, we commend the organization’s board and staff.

I have great faith in the direction of the new board leadership.

The board of directors and staff have made significant, impressive changes over the last few months and we commend their actions.

Since joining Pioneer Center in 2011, I have held firm to a commitment of building bridges throughout the community to ensure that the limited, yet vital resources remain accessible to those in need. In addition to supporting the MHB’s recent changes, I also sit on the MHB’s executive director

search committee.

A new chapter of collaboration started when Rob Routzahn stepped in as president, and we continue to see the same commitment from now president, Rev. Carrie Smith.

Patrick Maynard President and CEO, Pioneer Center for Human Services

Strong military moms To the Editor: On Thanksgiving, we set our first table without our Marine.

We gave thanks for our families, the ones still here, the ones lost too soon, the ones not related by blood who became families by bond the day our son put on a uniform. We band together, share our hopes and fears, support our men and women in military service, and with nerves of steel we never knew we had. We are the moms of our service men and women.

There is no greater family, no greater bond, than that of these mothers, these wives, these fathers, these sisters and brothers.

“My son has many brothers, therefore, I have many sons” is our creed.

We give thanks to them all and to each other. If you know one or meet one, please don’t compare.

Don’t judge, and don’t despair. You have no idea. There is no way you

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could! A smile and a thought is all we ask. Don’t worry yourself! Our boys and girls have your backs.

Bonnie Stipetic Crystal Lake

Representing capital To the Editor: Proof that government represents the interests of capital and capitalists, rather than working people, is the 2010 Citizens United decision that allows independent political election spending to buy broadcast ads to promote or oppose candidates without the advice of candidates or political parties. And one percent of Americans have 95 percent of the wealth. Unions do not compete. Let’s seek a constitutional amendment to overthrow Citizens United.

A new Supreme Court case, filed

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parties.

If the court strikes down the individual contribution limit, a person could donate up to 70 times the median household income to one party’s candidates.

In the government shutdown, our government also represented capital interests rather than working people. Those making more than $400,000 are not paycheck dependent. People who work paycheck to paycheck suffer in the shutdown.

The shutdown aimed to overthrow three types of health care: Affordable Care Act; Medicaid for working poor/unemployed; and Medicare. Conservatives prefer reinstalling 10-year tax cuts for the wealthiest.

Recover representative government for majority. Outlaw the NSA. Abolish Citizens United with a constitutional amendment.

Bernice Russell Crystal Lake

Money influences pension votes, governor candidates in GOP By now, it should be self evident that Bruce Rauner has locked up pretty much all the big money in the Republican primary race for governor.

Last week’s pension reform vote provides even more evidence.

Rauner has built an impenetrable fortress of high-dollar campaign contributors. Ron Gidwitz, long known in GOP circles for being the gateway to bigtime cash from the wealthy, has fully joined in, as has the richest man in Illinois, Ken Griffin.

Gidwitz was with Sen. Kirk Dillard in the 2010 gubernatorial primary, but Gidwitz and Rauner have sucked up so many dollars – including more than $250,000 from campaign fundraising committee member Griffin and lots more from Griffin’s friends – that Dillard hasn’t been able to raise any cash from rich people he’s known for years, even decades. Dillard’s financial predicament has become so desperate that he voted against last week’s pension reform bill in the obvious hope that he can now raise some dough from

public employee unions.

Dillard’s vote is even more bizarre when you realize that he voted against a union-negotiated pension bill back in May and twice voted in favor of House Speaker Michael Madigan’s pension reform bill in May and June. He really had no choice last week. It was sink or swim time.

Whether a gubernatorial candidate can win a 2014 Republican primary with union backing remains to be seen, but it appears highly unlikely from this vantage point. If Dillard does win any public worker union endorsements, Rauner can then whack him with a “pay to play” charge and beat him over the head for taking “big government union boss” dollars.

The same goes for Treasurer Dan Rutherford. The treasurer isn’t facing a gubernatorial campaign cash crisis like Dillard, but he hasn’t been able to raise the big bucks to compete with Rauner, who is reporting new six figure contributions almost every day. Rutherford said not long ago that a pension reform bill should

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VIEWS Rich Miller be passed so that its constitutionality could be litigated in the courts.

Last week, Rutherford sided with the unions and said that he opposed the bill because he believed it to be unconstitutional.

For three solid years, state Rep. Tom Cross constantly insisted to his caucus that pension reform absolutely had to be passed, even though the majority of his members sided with the unions. That split eventually became so bitterly intense that Cross could no longer effectively continue as House Republican Leader.

Yet, when push came to shove, Cross voted “no.”

Huh? Well, he could’ve gone for the easy newspaper endorsements and the “regular” statehouse money, but Cross knows that his best fundrais-

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ing year as House GOP Leader came in 2010 – when Griffin and his independently wealthy wife, Ann, contributed huge dollars to his cause and helped him raise even more money from their super-rich friends.

A “yes” vote could’ve meant no Griffin cash for Cross (Griffin penned a recent Chicago Tribune oped slamming the pension bill with Rauner campaign talking points and his wife reportedly made several phone calls to House Republicans last week). So, Cross went with the money.

U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk has been courting the Griffins and their bank accounts for several years. One of Kirk’s top political guys is now working for Rauner. So, in retrospect, Kirk’s aggressive statement opposing the pension bill last week should’ve been no surprise. But it sure as heck freaked out a lot of legislative Republicans, particularly in the House. Twenty-two House Republicans voted for Speaker Madigan’s pension bill in May, but only 15 voted for a similar bill last

week that had been negotiated by their own newly elected Leader, Rep. Jim Durkin. Kirk’s opposition was crucial to that precipitous decline.

Speaker Madigan claimed last week that Rauner had made a “political mistake” when he tried and failed to “blow up” the process and kill the pension bill.

Governmentally, Rauner’s behavior was appalling. It showed that he would be a needlessly confrontational and even irresponsible governor. But this was no political loss. Instead, it officially heralded a new era in GOP politics.

Griffin told the Tribune last year that the ultra wealthy “actually have an insufficient influence” on politics. And now, Griffin, Rauner and the rest of the ultra-wealthy are making a big play to take over the party and then the governor’s mansion. Everybody else had better pay attention.

• Rich Miller publishes Capitol Fax, a daily political newsletter, and CapitolFax.com.

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WOODSTOCK: TWO-VEHICLE CRASH

Woman dies after accident sends 9 to hospital

By LAWERENCE SYNETT lsynett@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – A woman has died from injuries she suffered as part of a two-vehicle accident that sent nine people to the hospital Sunday in Woodstock, according to the Woodstock Police Department.

Woodstock firefighters and police officers responded to a report of a head-on collision along Route 14 between Doty and Lily Pond roads at 1:23 p.m.

Sunday, according to a news release. Witnesses saw a 2001 silver Dodge Durango swerve from the eastbound lane on Route 14 to the westbound lane, striking a 2004 blue Mercury Marquis head on.

The driver of the Durango, Ramon Castillo, 33, of McHenry appeared to lose control of the vehicle on the snow and ice covered roadway, the news release stated. The driver of the Mercury, a 77-year-old man from an unincorporated area

of the county near Woodstock, was unable to avoid the collision because of the roadway conditions.

The snowy weather and failure to adjust speed were the main causes of the accident, Woodstock police Sgt. Dennis Leard said. Nine people – including five children ages 2, 5, 6, 8 and 10 – were injured in the accident.

Law enforcement officials said Julia Jessie, 77, the lone passenger in the Mercury,

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Castillo was cited for failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident, no valid driver’s license and operating an uninsured vehicle. He and Maria Hernandez-Simon, 34, a passenger in the Durango, were treated at Centegra Hospital – Woodstock and released.

The condition of the other children involved in the collision is unknown. All five children were passengers in the Durango.

Dale Jessie, the driver of the

was pronounced dead at 4 p.m.

Sunday at Centegra Hospital – Woodstock.

Two of the children were taken by ambulance to Rockford Memorial Hospital. Under better weather conditions, they would have been taken via Flight for Life, Woodstock Police Chief Robert Lowen said.

The conditions of the two children originally was reported as critical. An update was unavailable Monday afternoon.

Mercury, was at Centegra Hospital – Woodstock in fair condition as of Monday afternoon.

Crews from Lakewood, Crystal Lake, Huntley, Marengo, McHenry Township and Nunda Rural assisted with the incident.

The road was closed for 90 minutes as officials cleared the scene.

• Stephen DiBenedetto and Shawn Shinneman contributed to this report.

LAKEMOOR: NOVEMBER VOTE WAS 4-0

Village officials approve 5 percent levy increase

By EMILY K. COLEMAN ecoleman@shawmedia.com LAKEMOOR – The Lakemoor Village Board has approved a 5 percent increase on its tax levy.

Much of the increase will be covered by new growth on the Lake County side of the village, including 18 new homes built in the Rockwell Place subdivision, Village Administrator David Alarcon said.

Unlike last year, howev-

FISH Food Pantry volunteer Sue Kapraun (top left) gives a tour of the pantry Monday to Riverwood Elementary School students and others, including Andrew Harris, 3, (from bottom left) Jenna Harris 6, Carter Nieman, 7, and Brandin Amelio, 7, in McHenry.

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FOX LAKE – Drop-off recycling containers for holiday lights have been placed at the Fox Lake Village Hall and police department.

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iverwood second-graders donated $600 worth of groceries as part of the Kids Give Back curriculum, courtesy of Peapod, an online grocery delivery service. The FISH Food Pantry provides more than 12,000 pounds of food to 600 local families in need each week.

plus new growth. The rate of inflation, as measured by the consumer price index, was 1.7 percent in 2012.

The cap – which applies to park districts, school districts and non-home rule municipalities – was passed in 1991 to reign in escalating property taxes in the suburbs.

The levy increase was approved by a 4-0 vote in November. Trustees Colin McIntyre and Jeff Nykaza were absent.

lights, C9 lights, rope lights, LED lights and extension cords of all lengths can be dropped off at the containers.

Garlands, live greens and wreaths are not accepted.

The recycling containers can be found outside the front entrance of the Village Hall,

66 Thillen Drive, and inside the main entrance of the Fox Lake Police Department, 301 S. Route 59.

For information, visit the village’s website, foxlake.org, or call the village at 847-5872151.

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er, the board also decided to take the increase its allowed under the state property tax cap, which means property owners may see an increase on the portion of their tax bill headed to the village.

“Unfortunately, everything is increasing,” Village President Todd Weihofen said. “The cost of services is increasing.”

The tax cap limits how much more money local governments can bring in each year by tying it to inflation

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Parents and second-grade teachers, including Jennifer DeBlok (top right), Lisa MicklingHoff (center) and Cheri Ryba (right), unload groceries.

RICHMOND: PROPERTY TAXES

Village Board approves flat levy

By EMILY K. COLEMAN ecoleman@shawmedia.com RICHMOND – Pointing to the sluggish economy, the Richmond Village Board voted unanimously to keep its levy flat.

The board wanted to give village residents a break, Village Clerk Karla Thomas said.

A flat levy means that the amount the village collects in property taxes will remain the same, although the amount each property owner pays may change because of reassessments.

The board approved a 4.8 percent increase last year citing climbing costs and a $7 million loan with the Illinois

Environmental Protection Agency that was used to build a wastewater treatment plant.

The village has been negotiating with the state agency to lower its payments.

While the village’s financial future is uncertain, it continues to operate with a surplus, ending the 201213 fiscal year with an extra $273,500 in its general fund, according to the annual financial statements it filed with the state.

The Richmond Village Board also is looking at increasing trustee pay, which hasn’t been adjusted since 1989, Trustee Craig Kunz said.

Currently, trustees receive $50 for each Village Board meeting they attend and $25

for each committee meeting, Thomas said. They are paid bi-annually.

One proposal would increase the stipend to $150 for each Village Board meeting, $50 for each committee meeting and $25 for each sub-committee meeting. Trustees also discussed including a cost-ofliving increase.

While Village President Pete Koenig said he thought the increases would bring trustee pay in line with other area communities, he added that he thought the automatic cost-of-living increase was going “too far.”

Any changes would not go into effect until the trustees elected in April 2015 took office.

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Official: Demolishing building to cost village $32K Enrollment trends align with population • BUILDING Continued from page B1

• DISTRICT 300 Continued from page B1 examine educational programs at the district’s 27 schools in the coming months to determine whether changes could be made to help manage enrollments and classroom space at individual schools, he said.

The district’s western schools around Hampshire should see most of the modest growth, according to the study.

Gary D. Wright Elementary and Hampshire Elementary, both in Hampshire, are expected to add 112 total students by 2019. The five remaining elementary schools – in Algonquin, Carpentersville, Gilberts, Lake in the Hills and West Dundee – projected to see positive growth are expected to add 138 combined students in that time.

At the middle school level, Hampshire Middle is expected to add 109 students by 2023.

Algonquin Middle is the only other school at the level expected to see growth, totaling 68 students.

Of the district’s three high schools, Hampshire High is the only one projected to add

students. The district’s western high school is projected to add 602 students by 2023, while Jacobs High is slated to lose 263 students. Dundee-Crown should remain relatively flat, projected to lose four students.

The future enrollment trends align with general population trends within the district’s boundaries. Western villages such as Gilberts should double in population, while Pingree Grove and Hampshire should triple and quadruple in size by 2030, the study found.

Overall, by 2030, the district’s nine largest villages are expected to see 16,570 more housing units, representing 62,518 more people than now within the district’s boundaries.

The demographic study is a response to try and lower class sizes, according to classroom caps mandated by a teacher contract that went into effect last year. The issue forced a teacher strike last December.

The district hired 65 new teachers this school year to successfully lower class sizes under the first year of the caps. Nearly half of the threeyear, $13 million teacher contract went to the new hires.

The apartment building has been vacant since a fire left it uninhabitable in 2006, Village President Rick Mack

said. The cost of demolishing the building is estimated at $32,000, which the village hopes to recoup by putting a lien on the property.

Another property, a single-family home at 5107 Barnard Mill Road, was demol-

Cop’s actions ‘demonstrates a complete lapse in judgment’ • CRITICISM Continued from page B1 evening.

“Any notion that we’re not charging him because he’s a police officer is just not true,” said Combs, who was quick to point to former police officers Dale Hojnacki, Phillip Held and Greg Pyle, all of whom the State’s Attorney’s Office charged with unrelated felonies.

Prompted by the phone calls and emails, City Hall drafted a letter signed by

the mayor and city manager that it will send to concerned citizens. The city provided the letter to the Northwest Herald.

“While the text message is egregious, inappropriate, absolutely unacceptable, and demonstrates a complete lapse in judgment, the Illinois State Police determined this incident was isolated,” the letter stated.

Amati’s 30 days can be taken incrementally and at the discretion of Police Chief Robert Lowen.

ished Monday by the village after a fire in January left it uninhabitable.

The demolition cost the village about $15,500, and the village is in the process of putting a lien on the property, Mack said.

The homeowner, Diane E. Wagner, didn’t have the funds to repair it or tear it down, he said.

“Unfortunately, it was a beautiful historic home in Ringwood, but it’s destroyed now,” Mack said.

Snow could continue Wednesday departure from the mild December weather the Chicago area experienced the previous two Decembers, according to the National Weather Service. The winter of 2012 to 2013 was marked by a slow start to the snowfall season.

The first measurable snowfall was last season on Dec. 20. Two-plus inches of snow didn’t fall for the first time last season until February.

• WEATHER Continued from page B1 New snow accumulation could reach 1 or 2 inches starting Tuesday after midnight, and there is a 50 percent chance of snow Wednesday, before temperatures dip again and the wind picks up.

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OBITUARIES TRACY L. BALLSTAEDT Born: Jan. 11, 1964; Chicago Died: Dec. 7, 2013 ; Woodstock Tracy L. Ballstaedt age 49, of McHenry, passed away Saturday, December 7, 2013 at Journeycare in Woodstock.

She was born January 11, 1964, in Chicago to Lenard J. and Irene (Faber) Duncan. On October 8, 1988, she married Dan Ballstaedt at St. Mary's Church in McHenry.

Tracy was employed at Baxter for fifteen years. She received a Bachelors degree in international Business at Columbia College, in the class of 2011. She received a second degree black at McHenry Flying Dragons and assisted teaching classes.

She loved traveling to anywhere with a beach, and Christmas Markels in Chicago. She loved Chicago Sports, the Cubs, Bears and the Blackhawks. She cherished her children more than anything else, including her black lab, Gunnar.

She was a big fan of Jimmy Buffett, and was always known for her contagious smile and positive attitude on life itself.

Survivors include her husband, Dan; her father, Lenard; her children, Toni Ballstaedt of Chicago and Jeff Ballstaedt of McHenry; her brothers, John Duncan and Scott (Tammy) Duncan all of Spring Grove.

She was preceded in death by her mother.

Visitation will be Wednesday, December 11, 2013, from 4:00 to 8:00PM, at Colonial Funeral Home and Crematory, 591 Ridgeview Dr., McHenry. Interment will be private.

If desired, memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, http://main.acsevents.org/ goto/Tracy_Ballstaedt For information: 815-385-0063

, 20 at Maple Crest Nursing Home, in How to submit Belvidere.

Born: April 8, 1953; Highwood He was born August 8, 1921, in Died: Dec. 6, 2013; Island Lake Kennebec, South Dakota, to Send information to obits@ Clarence and Anna (McGee) nwherald.com or call 815-526-4438.

Andrea "Andi" Whitney.

Notices are accepted until 3pm for Reilly (nee Milt served in the 8th Army Air CONSTANCE BRANDT Westgard) age 60, the next day’s paper.

Force from 1943-1945. He was in of Island Lake, OSBORNE the 379th Bomb Group and was passed away Obituaries also appear online at ROSE MARIE MOON Born: Sept. 1928; in Elizabeth, N.J. stationed in Kimbolton, England.

December 6, 2013 nwherald.com/obits where you may Died: Dec. 4, 2013 Born: Oct. 13, 1935; On May 25, 1945, he married surrounded by her loving family. sign the guestbook, send flowers or Garden Prairie, IL Regina Sweeney, in Kennebec.

She was born on April 8, 1953 in make a memorial donation.

Died: Nov. 16, 2013; Belvidere, IL Constance Work was a very important part of Highwood to Ray and Shirley Brandt Osborne Milt's life, he worked until he was Westgard. died at home with Rose Marie (Shisler) Moon, age Andi was a graduate of McHenry 80 years old. After retirement, he DOUGLAS J. BRUCE her loving sons 78. Born October 13, 1935 in Garden worked on small engines for High School's class of 1971, and on present Prairie, Illinois to Thomas and Born: June 15, 1943; Glendale, CA September 8, 1973, she married the neighbors and friends. He also December 4th Dorothy Shisler. She was taken to Died: Dec. 5, 2013; Waukegan love of her life, and spent 40 happy enjoyed gardening and raising 2013 from heaven on November 16, 2013 in chickens on his son, Bill's farm. years with Edward. complications He is survived by his children, Belvidere, Illinois.

Douglas Jerry Andi was employed at True Serve She was preceded in death by her due to Parkinson's. Born in Elizabeth in Cary for 19 years. She enjoyed Barbara (Donald) Bland, Melvin Bruce, age 70, of NJ September 1928 daughter of the camping and boating. parents; a sister, Lois Abel; and a (Kristine) Whitney, Sue (John) McHenry, passed late Stephen and Corrine Comba.

Cannegieter, Lorna (Michael) away on Thursday, brother, William Shisler.

A special Thank You to her sister, Connie Graduated with a BA from Marcia O'Halleran for all the love, She is survived by two brothers, Reschke, and Bill Whitney; his December 5, 2013 Bucknell University. She moved to Charles (Pansy) Shisler of grandchildren, Kathy (Mike) Kirane, in Waukegan. help and support.

Washington DC, met her late Fredricksburg, Texas and Kenneth Kenny (Julie) Zenter, Donnie (Dana) Born on June 15, Andi is survived by her husband, husband George and relocated to Bland, Katie Whitney, Monica (Jeff) Shisler of Taylor, Arizona; and a 1943 in Glendale, Edward; son Edward; daughter, sister, Betty (Charlie) Gatewood of Cary around 1960. She taught California, he was Krystal; five sisters and one brother; Diedrich, Justin Randall, Elizabeth Sunday school at St Barnabas on Randall, Bonnie Cannegieter, Erin the son of Burtrand Siloam Springs, Arkansas. She is many nieces and nephews; and Reschke, and Craig Reschke; his and Beverly Bruce. also survived by a daughter, Tamara First Street. several aunts and uncles.

She worked many different jobs (Scott) McMackin of Marengo, great-grandchildren, J.D., Jack, Douglas was a She is preceded in death by her graduate of Embry- Illinois and Thomas (Sandra Knake) including Oak Industries, Opus and parents, Ray and Shirley Westgard; Emily, Amberlee, Kenny, Brooke, Hobbitt. George and Connie Moon of Capron, Illinois; five Riddle Aeronautical University in and her in-laws, Charles and Aurelia Brittney, Brennon, Robbie, Gage, volunteered at the McHenry Wildlife Reilly.

Devon, Leah, Jeff, Kerry, Ashley, California and proudly served in the grandchildren, Zachary, Brett and Center which became some of the Jake McMackin, Hannah and Holly Nicole, and Mikey; and his special U.S. Air Force. He was a pilot for Services were private. best years of their lives.

Moon; and one great grandgreat-great granddaughter, Aubrey.

American Airlines and was an In lieu of flowers, donations to An animal lover, she bred Dogs He was preceded in death by his daughter, Leyna Rose. She was also independent insurance agent for Advocate Hospice, 265 Surryse survived by her best friend of many and enjoyed a home grooming wife, Regina; his grandson, Mike New York Life. He was passionate Road, Suite 120, Lake Zurich, IL business. Connie was loveable and 60047 are appreciated. years, Rose Glover; and many Cannegieter; and his siblings. about boating and was very made friends easily. We are grateful nieces and nephews.

Visitation will be from 4:00 to involved with the Lyons Club.

Arrangements were entrusted to for all her friends and the Journey She worked for many years at 8:00pm, on Wednesday, December He is survived by his twin sons, Kisselburg-Wauconda Funeral Health Care Workers.

Union Special in Huntley, Illinois.

11, 2013, at Marengo-Union Funeral Ryan Bruce and Joel Bruce; his Home. Please sign the guest book Survived by sons Douglas and She was a longtime member of the Home, 505 E. Grant Hwy., Marengo. grandson Riley Bruce; and his at, www.kisselburgwauconda John both of Cary. Her beloved past funeralhome.com.

The Funeral Mass will be celebrated nephew and niece, J.D. and Jennifer. Union Lioness Club, and was a pets, Miss Peach, Twist-pet, Star, member and it's namesake of the at 10:30am on Thursday, December Preceding him in death were his Rose Petals Cancer Team. She had a Drifter, Bertha, Thistle, Barney, 12, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, parents, his brother Larry Bruce, 323 N. Taylor St., Marengo. love of music, and loved to sing and Gomer, Pussycat, Lucy, Bartok, and his sister, Susan Kennedy.

MILTON S. WHITNEY Sibyl, Freddy, Sam, Gina, the Interment will be in Sacred Heart The visitation will be from 4:00pm dance. She was a beloved mother, Born: Aug. 8, 1921; Kennebec, SD animals she rescued, her parents, Cemetery. until 8:00pm, Thursday, December sister, grandmother, aunt and Died: Dec. 8, 2013; Belvidere, IL husband, lifelong friends TJ, Reni friend.

In lieu of flowers, masses may be 12, 2013 at Davenport Family and many more will be waiting for given in Milt's honor.

Please join the family in Funeral Home, 419 E Terra Cotta Milton S. Whitney, her. remembering Rosie, on December For information, call the funeral Ave (IL Rt. 176), Crystal Lake. age 92, of Garden Donations may be made to 15, 2013, from 12:00 – 3:00pm, at home at 815-568-8131.

Online condolences may be sent Prairie, passed Journey Health Care.

Online condolences may be made the American Legion in Belvidere, to his family at www.davenport away Sunday, A private service was held with an Illinois. at www.marengounionfuneral family.com.

December 8, 2013 open house planned for the spring.

Memorials may be sent to the home.com.

For information, please call at Maple C Nursi Hom i 815-459-3411.

Rose Moon Memorial Fund at Blackhawk Bank, 290 West Main Street, Capron, Illinois, 61012.

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8FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS Arnold F. Hay: The visitation will be from 10 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 11, until the noon funeral service at Schneider-Leucht-Merwin & Cooney Funeral Home, 1211 N. Seminary Ave., Woodstock.

Interment will follow in the Alden Cemetery in Alden. For information, call the funeral home at 815-338-1710.

Tracy Ballstaedt: The visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 11, at Colonial Funeral Home and Crematory, 591 Ridgeview Drive, McHenry.

Interment will be private. For information, call the funeral home at 815-385-0063.

Douglas J. Bruce: The visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m.

Thursday, Dec. 12, at Davenport Funeral Home, 419 E. Terra Cotta Ave. (Route 176), Crystal Lake.

For information, call the funeral home at 815-459-3411.

Ruth L. Hisel: The visitation and fellowship will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14, with a celebration of life service following at 2 p.m. at Fellowship of Faith Lutheran Church, 6120 Mason Hill Road, McHenry.

Jan M. Iverson: Friends may greet the family from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, Dec. 14, at Saunders & McFarlin Funeral Home, 107 W. Sumner St., Harvard. The memorial service will follow at noon at the funeral home. Inurnment will be in Jerome Cemetery. For information, call the funeral home at 815-943-5400.

Hubertus J. Janssen: The visitation will be from 9 to 10 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 10, at St. Margaret Mary Church in Algonquin. This will be followed by a funeral Mass celebration at 10 a.m. Burial service will follow in St. John Nepomucene Cemetery in Algonquin. For information, call the funeral home at 847-458-1700.

Clarence A. May: The funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 11, at Haase-Lockwood & Associates Funeral Home, 620 Legion Drive, Twin Lakes, Wis. The family will receive friends from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 10, at the funeral home.

Rose Marie Moon: A gathering to remember Rose Marie will be from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec.

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15, at the American Legion in Belvidere.

Michael Q. O’Brien: Family and friends will gather for an open house from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 19, until the celebration of life ceremony at 6:30 p.m. at the McHenry Country Club, 820 N John St, McHenry. For information, call the funeral home at 224-770-2484.

Yvonne R. Rockenbach: The visitation will be from 1 p.m. until the 2 p.m. memorial service Thursday, Dec. 26, at Querhammer & Flagg Funeral Home, 500 W. Terra Cotta Ave., Crystal Lake. Following the service, there will be refreshments served at the funeral home. For information, call the funeral home at 815-459-1760.

Linda K. Russell: The visitation will be from 4 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 12, followed by the memorial service at Justen Funeral Home & Crematory, 3700 W. Charles J. Miller Road, McHenry.

For information, call the funeral home at 815-385-2400.

Dorothy M. Sturgeon: The visitation will be from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 10, at Sts. Peter & Paul Catholic Church, 410 N. First St., Cary. The funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. For information, call the funeral home at 815-459-1760.

Milton S. Whitney: The visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 11, at Marengo-Union Funeral Home, 505 E. Grant Highway, Marengo. The funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 12, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 323 N. Taylor St., Marengo. Interment will be in Sacred Heart Cemetary. For information, call the funeral home at 815-568-8131.

John M. Wozniak: The visitation will be from 4 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 19, at Haben Funeral Home & Crematory, 8057 Niles Center Road, Skokie. The funeral will be at 10:15 a.m. Friday, Dec. 20, at the funeral home, proceeding to St. Peter Catholic Church, Skokie, for a 10:30 a.m.

Mass celebration. Interment will be in St. Peter Catholic Cemetery, Skokie. For information, call 847-673-6111.

• 7 p.m. – Cultured Purls Knitting Guild of McHenry County meeting, Holy Cross Lutheran Church, 2107 Three Oaks Road, Cary. Group meets second Tuesdays. Yearly dues: $15. Information: www.culturedpurls.com.

Tuesday through Saturday • 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. – Heavenly Attic Resale Shop, 307 S. Main St., Algonquin. Offering books, clothing, housewares, toys, linens, jewelry, sporting goods and more. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Sponsored by

the Congregational Church of Algonquin to benefit those in need.

Information: 847-854-4552.

Wednesday • Noon – Bingo, GiGi’s Playhouse, 5404 W. Elm St., McHenry.

Come play bingo and help support the Playhouse, a Down Syndrome Achievement Center. Information: 815-385-7529 or www.gigisplayhouse.org.

• Noon – Cary Area Book Club meeting, Crystal Lake Country Club, 721 Country Club Road, Crystal Lake. Sarah Connor will review “Bringing in Finn” by Sara Connell. Guests and new members welcome. Information: 847-639-

TUESDAY

School library, 3225 Route 176, Crystal Lake

Algonquin Committee of the Whole When: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday Where: Ganek Municipal Center, 2200 Harnish Drive

Fox Lake Village Board When: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday Where: Fox Lake Village Board, 66 Thillen Drive

Burton Township Board of Trustees When: 7 p.m. Tuesday Where: State Bank of the Lakes, 1906 Holian Drive, Spring Grove

Johnsburg Planning and Zoning Commission When: 7 p.m. Tuesday Where: Village Hall, 1515 Channel Beach Ave.

Cary Committee of the Whole When: 6 p.m. Tuesday Where: Cary Village Hall, 655 Village Hall Drive

Johnsburg Community Affairs Committee When: 7 p.m. Tuesday Where: Village Hall, 1515 Channel Beach Ave., Johnsburg

District 12 policy committee When: 6 p.m. Tuesday Where: Johnsburg Junior High School north learning center, 2220 W. Church St. District 12 school board When: 7 p.m. Tuesday Where: Johnsburg Junior High School north learning center, 2220 W. Church St. District 15 school board When: 7 p.m. Tuesday Where: District office, 1011 N. Green St., McHenry District 46 school board When: 7 p.m. Tuesday Where: Prairie Grove Junior High

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THURSDAY Cary Fire Protection Board of Trustees When: 4 p.m. Thursday Where: Station One, 400 Cary-Algonquin Road

Algonquin Historic Commission When: 7 p.m. Wednesday Where: Historic Village Hall, 2 S. Main St.

Huntley Village Board When: 7 p.m. Thursday Where: Huntley Village Hall, 10987 Main St.

District 50 Finance Committee When: 5:15 p.m. Wednesday Where: District office, 401 N. Division St.

Lake in the Hills Board of Trustees When: 7:30 p.m. Thursday Where: Village Hall, 600 Harvest Gate

Fox Lake Zoning Board of Appeals When: 6:30 p.m. Wednesday Where: Fox Lake Village Hall, 66 Thillen Drive

Lakemoor Village Board When: 7 p.m. Tuesday Where: Lakemoor Village Hall, 28874 Route 120, Suite

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Audience-style reading to connect to the other side with loved ones, past/future self and animal totems. Cost: $25.

Registration and information: 815308-5170 or www.mixinmingle. com.

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Consumers should decline gadget protection at the register

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An iPad has a cracked screen in this studio photo. Many protection plans can be started within 30 days of buying your phone, TV, camera or other gadget.

By RYAN NAKASHIMA - The Associated Press LOS ANGELES – So, you’ve selected the gadgets to give your loved ones, and you’re at the checkout line.

Suddenly you’re asked if you want an extended warranty or protection plan for a modest sum, and the line is piling up behind you. Do you opt for the foot-long receipt with terms and conditions that you’ll have to keep in a secure place?

Even if such a plan is right for you, just say no.

Many plans can be started within 30 days of buying your phone, TV, camera or other gadget. Some online outfits will cover gadgets starting a year or more after purchase. Waiting will let you shop around to make sure you get the right coverage at a reasonable price. In many cases, you might conclude you don’t even need it.

Here’s a quick thumbnail of what’s at stake:

What’s what Most products already come with a warranty covering factory defects and other problems that are not of your own doing. With an extended warranty, you pay a service provider, typically an outside company, to cover problems that arise after the manufacturer’s warranty period ends. Such extended warranty plans won’t cover accidents and other problems if it’s your fault, though.

Typically, they cover what manufacturers’ warranties cover, but do so for several months or a few years longer.

For accidents, you’ll need a protection plan. These plans can extend

paying $500 or more to replace your gadget if something terrible does happen. And for phones, even though cracked screens are common, they will typically still work until your next upgrade.

the warranty, but also cover accidental drops, spills and dunks, which have become more frequent thanks to the rising number of mobile devices these days. They often don’t cover loss and theft. For that, you’ll need insurance, which is offered by wireless carriers if you are getting a mobile device.

The fine print

Do you really need it?

Retailers will push such plans because it’s another revenue stream for them. Consumer Reports magazine doesn’t believe buyers need them.

It says the “vast majority” of repairs that qualify for warranty coverage occur within the standard warranty period. It also says the cost of the extra coverage – a median $73 for items purchased in-store and $64 for online purchases – is too high given the very low risk something will happen outside that period. Also, credit card companies will often extend the warranty for free.

Senior Editor Jim Willcox said you should even forego extra warranty coverage on lesser-known TV makers.

“Before you add on the cost of an extended warranty, why not just buy a better TV from a major brand?” he said.

Consumer Reports also doesn’t believe protection plans are worth it.

Plans for gadgets such as phones and tablets typically run $7 to $11 a month, or up to $264 over two years.

On top of that, if you do make a claim, you’ll end up paying a deductible of $49 to $200. In many cases, you’re better off accepting the risk of

Every plan is different, and each has its own minefield of exceptions.

The Advanced Geek Squad Protection Plan at Best Buy covers liquid spills, but not complete submersion – just in case you’re thinking of going kayaking with your iPad. Some plans don’t start coverage right away.

For instance, Protect Your Bubble’s coverage doesn’t kick in until 14 days after you sign up. SquareTrade may offer you a refurbished item if a new one isn’t in stock. Few plans cover loss of data.

It’s one big reason not to buy such plans at the register. Take the time to research what’s covered and what’s not.

The bottom line Keep in mind that if your product breaks, you might be able to repair it for less than the cost of replacing the product outright. Many of these plans do take away the hassles of finding the right repair shop and figuring out whether it makes better sense to repair or replace. But you’re paying a price for that convenience.

If you’re not up for a pricey protection plan, you can also take other reasonable precautions, such as backing up your data frequently and buying a sturdy case.

CRYSTAL LAKE – Mama Rini’s Restaurant, 177 Route 14, Crystal Lake, closed last month.

The family owned, familystyle restaurant served breakfast, lunch and dinner. It is unclear if ownership plans to reopen the business.

On Dec. 7, the restaurant posted to its Facebook page: “Thanks for all the kind messages and support. We hope to open soon.”

On Monday the lights were off in the restaurant and it had two “closed” signs on its doors. The restaurant’s phone number was disconnected.

Crystal Lake Chamber of Commerce President Gary Reece said he is aware that the business has closed, but he hasn’t spoken with the owner and doesn’t know whether the restaurant will reopen.

Attempts to reach Mama Rini’s ownership were unsuccessful Monday.

Woodstock calendar shows older homes WOODSTOCK – Copy Express has announced the publication of its 2014 wall calendar, “The Porches of Woodstock.”

The calendar highlights some of the community’s beautiful, older homes. Many of the photographs are credited to Jim DeWane of DeWane Studio.

The calendars are available through the Woodstock Chamber of Commerce office on the Woodstock Square and at the printing company’s facility, 301 E. Calhoun St., in downtown Woodstock. One copy is free to each customer.

Additional copies are available for $5 each.

– Northwest Herald

New American Airlines emerges as deal closes FORT WORTH, Texas – American Airlines emerged from bankruptcy protection and U.S. Airways culminated its long pursuit of a merger partner as the two completed their deal Monday to create the world’s biggest airline.

American’s old parent, AMR Corp., is gone, replaced by the new American Airlines Group Inc. In their first day of trading, shares of American Airlines Group rose 65 cents, or 2.7 percent, to close at $24.60.

– The Associated Press

Let’s make 2014 the year of the super employee We have a couple of skylights in our bedroom, and as I woke up Saturday morning, out into the barely lit clear early morning winter sky, through the leaveless trees, I saw a single bright star.

Not another one anywhere.

Maybe it was a supernova.

What is a supernova? Well, according to an article in “Universe Today” (yes, there is a magazine for just about everything), “nova” means “new star”, and “super” means “really big,” such as supermarket. So a supernova is a really bright new star. That’s where the word comes from, but today it has a rather more precise meaning, namely a once-off variable star that has a peak brightness similar to, or greater than, that of a typical galaxy.

Now everybody knows there are millions, maybe billions, of shining stars out there. Who knows how many supernovas there are.

Really great employees are like supernovas. Let’s call them “Super Employees.”

In an article, Jon Olsen writes about recognizing the potential and creating employees he calls “super employees”: “Super employees are a combination of an employee wanting to perform and our recognizing this and acting on it. Too often, valued

CHAMBER NEWS Gary Reece employees are not recognized for their many skills. Sometimes, we just aren’t observant enough to see what we have in front of us. The most important assets we have may be right under our noses.”

Olsen writes how employers can help make sure that any employee who wants to can be a “super employee.” How? 1. Stimulate productivity. “Let’s start with being productive. So many people hate the start of the work week. You know the Monday morning blues. In reality, most of your workers show up because they need a paycheck; not necessarily because they love their job. If work becomes stale or boring, we run the risk of our employees becoming nonproductive.

“What can be done? The first step to making a super employee is to let them know you appreciate their efforts. Let them know what their hard work has accomplished.

Give them scenarios of what you see happening if all do their part.

Communication plays a huge role in employees being productive.”

2. Establish an identity. “Devel-

oping an identity helps employees keep focused. What is your company about? Do you care what others think about you? What do your industry counterparts think about you? If your company has a good reputation, your employees are going to feel good about that. Having an identify starts with you. Do you work hard? How do you respond to crisis? How do you treat customers? Your employees feed off of this.

Who wants to be part of a company that doesn’t care how they are perceived? Not many super employees will be found that way.”

3. Goal Development. “Lastly, goals are so important. Giving goals that matter to employees is another building block when developing super employees. Remember, it should be goals that are important to them. It could be giving assignments that, if accomplished, will lead to a raise. Or maybe they would be a great manager in the shop, but there are areas you would like to see improvement.”

The basic fundamentals Olsen recognizes in a potential super employee are that they are driven: they show a desire to work hard; attentive: they listen to direction; responsible: they have a good attendance record; positive: they aren’t openly critical of the company; flexible: they find a way to do what

they are asked to do.

So as we approach the new year, let’s pledge to do what we can to turn our people into those bright, shining stars. Let’s make 2014 the year of the “super employee.”

••• Join us Tuesday night as Dalman’s Evergreens Landscaping, 7417 W. Hillside Road, Crystal Lake, hosts an afterhours mixer from 5 to 7 p.m. Chamber members are encouraged to attend for great relationship building opportunities.

••• Beginning Jan. 9, the Crystal Lake Chamber’s Leaders in Action program, now in its 38th consecutive year, will provide world-class training by eight presenters each of which are dynamic experts in their respective fields. Worth more than $5,000, the Chamber is proud to be able to present Leaders for $195 for Chamber members (scholarships available from the Chamber Foundation) and $245 for nonmembers.

Your investment includes breakfast each week and all materials. Class size is limited to 50 people, so get signed up today at www.clchamber. com.

• Gary Reece is president of the Crystal Lake Chamber of Commerce. Email him at garyreece@ clchamber.com.

DiCaprio supporting race cars

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Catch him if you can: Leonardo DiCaprio is getting into the electric race-car business.

The Oscar-nominated actor announced Monday he’s partnering with Venturi Automobiles and will enter a team in the FIA Formula E Championship, which is the first series exclusively for electric cars.

The DiCaprio-backed entry is the 10th and final entrant for the open-wheel series set to launch next year.

“The future of our planet depends on our ability to embrace fuel-efficient, clean-energy vehicles,” DiCaprio said in a statement. “Venturi Grand Prix has shown tremendous foresight in their decision to create an environmentally friendly racing team, and I am happy to be a part of this effort.”

BUZZWORTHY

Miley is MTV’s artist of the year Here’s something to wag a tongue at: MTV says Miley Cyrus is the best artist of the year.

The former child star twerked her way to the top. Her eye-popping duet with Robin Thicke on the MTV Video Music Awards was one of the year’s most talked about cultural events.

MTV said Monday the VMA duet on “We Can’t Stop” and “Blurred Lines” was the year’s most watched video on MTV websites. Similarly, the MTV artist site devoted to Cyrus had more visits than any other artist’s.

Final ‘Californication’ season announced

Fans pay tribute to late Walker The sounds of high-performance car engines filled the air Sunday as thousands of fans, friends and car enthusiasts headed to the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Clarita to pay tribute to Paul Walker at the site where the “Fast & Furious” actor died in a car crash.

The memorial, planned through social media, was scheduled to begin at noon, but mourners began arriving hours beforehand to leave flowers, candles, stuffed animals and other tributes.

By the afternoon, about 5,000 people, including entire families with children, dropped by, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Capt.

Mike Parker said, adding that the gathering was mostly peaceful. A man was arrested after deputies spotted him carrying a partially hidden, loaded gun, and 40 citations were issued for illegal parking, Parker said.

Many arrived in cars built for speed, and the sounds of engines revving echoed close to where Walker and his friend died Nov. 30.

The event concluded Sunday evening with a cruise through the area 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.

Walker, 40, was killed when the Porsche Carrera GT he was riding in smashed into a light pole and tree and then burst into flames. The actor’s friend and financial adviser, Roger Rodas, who was driving, also died. Authorities say speed was a factor in the crash.

The party will soon be over for David Duchovny and the television series “Californication.”

Showtime said Monday the series, which stars Duchovny as overly active Hollywood writer Hank Moody, will conclude after a 12-episode final season that begins in April.

That will be the show’s seventh season.

“Californication” has steadily gained in the ratings, and its sixth season was its most-watched.

Showtime didn’t give any reason for the series ending.

Showtime President David Nevins says producers have promised a “beautiful and satisfying conclusion” for Moody.

Singer Boyle relieved to hear diagnosis Singer Susan Boyle says she has been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, a form of autism – and feels relief at finally having the right label for her condition.

Boyle told the Observer newspaper she saw a specialist a year ago, who told her she had Asperger’s and an above-average IQ.

Boyle, 52, had learning difficulties as a child, which she was told were the result of brain damage from oxygen deprivation at birth.

She struggled in school and was bullied by other children.

“I have always known that I have had an unfair label put upon me,” Boyle said in the interview, published Sunday.

“Now I have a clearer understanding of what’s wrong, and I feel relieved and a bit more relaxed about myself.”

The church volunteer from a small Scottish town became a global sensation when she sang the “Les Miserables” number “I Dreamed a Dream” on TV contest “Britain’s Got Talent” in 2009.

The contrast between her shy manner and soaring voice won Boyle legions of fans.

She has sold more than 14 million records around the world and recently released her fourth album, “Home for Christmas.” She makes her big-screen debut in the holiday movie “The Christmas Candle.”

Boyle occasionally has struggled with the pressures of fame, and was treated for nervous exhaustion soon after her stint on “Britain’s Got Talent.”

The singer said she was glad she, and others, would now have a better understanding of the struggles she experiences.

“I would say I have relationship difficulties, communicative difficulties, which lead to a lot of frustration. If people were a bit more patient, that would help,” she told the newspaper.

“Asperger’s doesn’t define me. It’s a condition that I have to live with and work through, but I feel more relaxed about myself. People will have a much greater understanding of who I am and why I do the things I do.”

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS Singer Chad Stuart of Chad and Jeremy is 72. Actress-singer Gloria Loring is 67. Drummer Walter “Clyde” Orange of The Commodores is 67. Singer Ralph Tavares of Tavares is 65. Singer Jessica Cleaves of Friends of Distinction is 65.

Country singer Johnny Rodriguez is 62. Actress Susan Dey is 61. Musician Paul Hardcastle is 56. Actor-director

Kenneth Branagh is 53. Actress Nia Peeples is 52. TV chef Bobby Flay is 49. Singer-guitarist J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. is 48. Country singer Kevin Sharp is 43. Bassist Scot Alexander of Dishwalla is 42. Drummer Meg White of The White Stripes is 39. Bassist Noah Harmon of Airborne Toxic Event is 32. Actress Raven-Symone is 28.

BEARS EXTRA

BEARS 45, COWBOYS 28

WEEK 14

* SECTION C Northwest Herald Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Bears wide receiver Brandon Marshall runs for a first down after a catch in the second quarter Monday against the Dallas Cowboys at Soldier Field.

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UNSTOPPABLE Bears follow McCown, Ditka: Tough on outside, offense to lopsided win never happier on inside Just a few weeks back, Dallas Cowboys owner and erstwhile general manager Jerry Jones announced that he believed this edition of his team represented some of his best work as GM. Really? I wonder what his bad work looks like?

In an absolute must-win situation to keep their playoff hopes alive, the Bears showed up on Monday night and gave their best performance of the season, a 45-28 defeat of the Cowboys.

The domination was so complete that the Bears had rolled up 27 first downs to Dallas’ 13 at the end of the third quarter, outgaining them 403-185, converting 7 of 9 third-down opportunities while running up a 35-14 lead.

Thirty-six seconds into the fourth quarter, the Bears scored again on a 17-yard Josh Mc-

BEARS INSIDER Hub Arkush Cown to Michael Bush pass that stuck a fork in the Cowboys and sent the 56,000-plus Bears faithful who’d braved 10 degrees below zero wind chills scurrying for their car heaters.

The closest thing to a defense Dallas put up all night long was forcing the Bears to execute long, time-consuming drives every time they touched the ball in the first half.

The Bears’ four first-half possessions started with a 12-play, 78-yard drive that took 7:27 to tie the score at 7.

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CHICAGO – Danny Randall could not stop grinning.

Randall, a 49-year-old police officer in Chicago’s 2nd district, was working his second job Monday as a security guard at Soldier Field. He was part of a three-man crew stationed outside of the Bears’ interview room when his eyes opened big and his smile stretched wide.

Walking toward him was Coach.

Before Randall knew what had happened, Mike Ditka had paused for a picture with the security crew. As Ditka smiled and walked away, Randall’s voice traveled through the stadium’s lower concourse.

“Coach just made me feel like a kid!” he exclaimed. “Coach just made me feel like a kid!”

Keep in mind that Randall’s next birthday will be his 50th.

BEARS INSIDER Tom Musick A few minutes later, after Randall’s heart rate had dropped below approximately 1,000 beats a minute, he chuckled at his reaction to meeting Ditka.

“I’m a Chicago cop,” Randall said. “You’d figure we would be all tough. But I about passed out.”

No need to apologize.

It’s perfectly OK to be happy and tough at the same time.

For evidence, look no further than Ditka, the 74-year-old franchise icon who was

See MUSICK, page C5

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Josh McCown threw for a career-high four touchdowns, and the Bears (7-6) scored on their first eight possessions to grab a share of the NFC North lead with a 45-28 victory over the Dallas Cowboys (7-6) on a frigid Monday night at Soldier Field.

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GIRLS BASKETBALL: PRAIRIE RIDGE 57, JACOBS 31

No letdown

by Wolves in Valley win

8INSIDE BOYS BASKETBALL Athlete of the Week

By MAUREEN LYNCH sportsdesk@nwherald.com CRYSTAL LAKE – Prairie Ridge’s girls basketball team knew it passed two big tests last week when the Wolves beat perennial contenders Crystal Lake South and Cary-Grove.

Jacobs presented a two-part challenge Monday. The Golden Eagles had been playing better than their record indicated, and the Wolves hadn’t had much time to prepare since they played C-G on Saturday and did not practice Sunday.

The matchup was exactly the exam Wolves coach Rob Baker hoped it would be.

Prairie Ridge came out with tenacity immediately in a 57-31 win against Jacobs in Fox Valley Conference Valley Division play.

“I was a little scared tonight,” Baker said. “You hope there isn’t any [letdown] after wins like that and the girls responded very well. To come out on a Monday without a practice and play the way we did, I was very happy with how we handled it.”

Jacobs led 4-2 in the first two minutes, but Wolves senior guard Sarah LeBeau came off a low screen and drained the first of her four 3-pointers to make it 5-4. The shot started an 18-point run that included four points from sophomore forward Kirsten Voel-Pel (14 points), two from senior center Maddie Drain (13 points) and six more from LeBeau (game-high 16 points).

“We have a lot of fight,” LeBeau said.

“We knew we were going to be underdogs this year because we graduated a lot of good players, but we’re never going to give up and we showed that tonight.”

Prairie Ridge (5-3 overall, 3-0 FVC Valley) led 22-9 at the end of the first quarter and extended its lead to 30-14 with back-toback threes from LeBeau and junior guard Kelly Klendworth with 2:17 left in the second quarter. The Wolves advantage swelled to 20 points, 37-17, at halftime.

Jacobs (2-7, 1-1) was more patient in the second half and picked at the Wolves’ zone defense, breaking it enough for junior guard Glenita Williams to run in a layup 1 minute into the third. But the Wolves used an 8-1 run to go ahead 45-20 and all but put the game away.

“It was just one of those nights where we lacked some energy and passion to play the game the right way,” Jacobs coach Joe Benoit said. “We know in this conference if you don’t shoot well it’s going to be a long night.”

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Cary-Grove’s Katie Barker (right) is guarded by Huntley’s Bethany Zornow during the fourth quarter Monday in Huntley. Huntley won, 58-48.

HUNTLEY 58, CARY-GROVE 48

Zornow, defense do job Senior guard leads effort to contain C-G’s Barker

By MEGHAN MONTEMURRO mmontemurro@shawmedia.com HUNTLEY – Huntley girls basketball senior guard Bethany Zornow was given a tough assignment Monday against Cary-Grove.

Zornow was in charge of trying to slow down the Trojans’ leading scorer, versatile junior Katie Barker, who entered the game averaging 21.5 points a game. Zornow’s effort helped the Red Raiders take a 12-point lead in the first quarter and then carry that momentum, never letting C-G get closer than seven points.

With senior forward Sam Andrews and sophomore forward Ali Andrews combining to match the Trojans’ total points, the Red Raiders stayed undefeated with a 58-48 Fox Valley Conference Valley Division win against C-G. Sam Andrews finished with a game-high 25 points, and Ali Andrews scored 23 for Huntley (10-0, 3-0 FVC Valley).

“I can’t say enough about our ef-

“I love defense, and I love being able to shut people down.”

Bethany Zornow Huntley guard fort tonight,” Huntley coach Steve Raethz said. “It’s been great all season long. We just need to keep it rolling.”

Zornow, aided by her teammates providing help defense, was able to keep Barker scoreless in the first quarter and held her to five made field goals. Barker finished with 15 points, and Abby Glaysher added 12 points for the Trojans (6-4, 1-2). Zornow said, going into the game that she knew she was assigned to track Barker and focused on face-guarding the 5-foot-10 guard-forward.

“I love defense, and I love being able to shut people down,” Zornow said. “I’d rather [play] defense more than offense any day. I love that part

of basketball.

“Towards the end of the game [Barker] was getting more physical with me, but I couldn’t let it get to me because I can’t get in foul trouble,” Zornow added. “I was able to keep my composure and guard her.”

A slow start doomed C-G, which has been an issue this season. The Trojans were able to pull within 3629 of the Red Raiders on Glaysher’s layup with 4:03 left in the third quarter. But Huntley answered with six consecutive points to extend its lead back to double digits, which the Red Raiders would maintain through the end of the game.

C-G managed only 15 points in the first half, including five in the first quarter.

“We’ve been putting up single digits in the first quarter game after game after game because, I don’t know why, for some reason we just don’t show up in the first quarter,” C-G coach Rod Saffert said. “If they do, this is a game regardless of Sam and Ali getting 48 of their 58 points.”

PREP ROUNDUP

SOCCER

Brazil tries to ease fears of World Cup violence McHenry

By TALES AZZONI The Associated Press SAO PAULO – As video of Brazilian fans kicking, beating and using metal bars to pummel supporters of a rival team spread across the globe, officials moved quickly to assure people considering coming to the 2014 World Cup that they won’t see that type of violence at the global tournament.

A day after four people were hospitalized after clashes in a key match in the final round of the Brazilian league, World Cup organizers said Monday that fan safety will not be a problem during soccer’s showcase event.

“We can assure that the safety of this event will be guaranteed,” said Andrei Augusto Passos Rodrigues, one of the Brazilian government’s officials in charge of security during major events. “The lamentable scenes such as the ones that happened yesterday will not be repeated.”

But violence around Brazilian football is growing, including about 30 deaths this year.

In July, a referee in a village match fatally stabbed a player

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An injured fan is carried on a stretcher Sunday after clashes between fans during a Brazilian league soccer match between Atletico Paranaense and Vasco da Gama in Joinville, southern Brazil. after an argument. The referee was then stoned and decapitated by the crowd.

In the Brazilian league this year, police and fans clashed in and outside stadiums at least once a month. In most Brazilian games, anyone with a ticket can sit anywhere in the stadium. Rival fans take up separate sections, and taunting and physical confrontations often erupt where the two groups meet.

On Sunday, hundreds of supporters from first-division clubs Atletico Paranaense and Vasco da Gama charged against each other in the southern city of Joinville on Sunday, exchanging punches, kicks and using homemade weapons in the fight that stopped the match for more than an hour. A police helicopter had to land on the field to airlift a man with a serious head injury.

Sunday’s match was played in Joinville instead of Atletico Paranaense’s base in Curitiba because the club had been punished for fan fighting earlier this year.

The disturbing images from the fight came just two days after FIFA held the draw for the World Cup with an extravagant ceremony in a luxurious resort in northeastern Brazil.

“This is very sad for Brazilian football,” FIFA said in a statement. “FIFA and the local organizing committee condemn any form of violence and such incidents should not happen in any football stadium.”

But the scenes were not new to Brazilians. Authorities are unable to contain rival fan groups that go to stadiums mostly to fight. A recent study

by Rio de Janeiro sociologist Mauricio Murad showed that at least 30 people have been killed in incidents across the country this year.

Confrontations are likely in nearly every match, from the most high-profile ones to the least watched. Cruzeiro’s title celebrations a few weeks ago had to be canceled because of fan fighting.

8SPORTS SHORTS Patriots’ Gronkowski out for remainder of season FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – The New England Patriots placed tight end Rob Gronkowski on injured reserve Monday with a damaged right knee, ending his season.

Gronkowski was hurt midway through the third quarter of the Patriots’ 27-26 win over the Cleveland Browns on Sunday when he was hit on the knee by safety T.J. Ward after a 21-yard reception.

Gronkowski missed the first six

bowlers still perfect NORTHWEST HERALD Steve Churchill rolled a 700 series Monday as he helped the McHenry boys bowling team stay undefeated with a 2,976-2,462 win over Woodstock co-op at Wayne’s Lanes in Woodstock.

Churchill bowled a matchhigh 709 series to lead the Warriors (8-0). Paul Colomer (616) and Thomas Reinhardt (611) each added a 600 series for the Warriors.

Zach Myers led Woodstock co-op with a 596 series, and Greg Rowan added a 561.

GIRLS BASKETBALL Woodstock North 43, Harvard 27: At Harvard, Ashley Jones led the Thunder with 14 points, and teammate Haley Ahr scored nine in their nonconference victory.

Kaylee Bischke scored a game-high 15 points for Harvard. Abigail Linhart added six.

AUSTIN ROGERS Crystal Lake South, sr.

Rogers had games of 26 and 32 points as the Gators defeated Woodstock and Crystal Lake Central to remain unbeaten.

The 6-foot-2 forward scored 26 in South’s 70-50 victory Wednesday at Woodstock.

Rogers came back with 32 points in the Gators’ 77-65 win against Central on Saturday, scoring 14 in the pivotal third quarter when South took a double-digit lead. He finished that game hitting 10 of 13 field goals and 12 of 17 free throws.

Noteworthy Family affair: Sophomore guard Payton Otto gives Prairie Ridge a solid ballhandler and shooter in its backcourt, and comes with a high pedigree. Otto is the son of former Cary-Grove head coach Dave Otto, who coached the Trojans from 1990 through 2001.

The Ottos are together this season, Dave as an assistant to Wolves coach Corky Card, but that’s not unusual.

“He’s coached me since fifth grade,” Payton said. “I played FCA Wolves through eighth grade and with Kessel Heat last year, and he coached me there.”

Payton said his father helped him develop as a player and with his character as a person. Otto, who is 6-foot, has played a big part in the Wolves’ 3-2 start.

“Sometimes he can be a little hard on me, but that’s good because it pushed me to work harder and become a better player,” Payton Otto said. “It’s nice because my dad’s at all my games and he’s encouraging me.”

Quick starts: Crystal Lake South remains the area’s only unbeaten team, while McHenry is off to a 5-1 start.

South likes to play at a fast tempo and relies on forward Austin Rogers inside. The Gators also have 6-9 Josh Friesen and 6-6 Wes Buckner inside, and just keep bringing guards off the bench who can hit 3s.

Crystal Lake Central coach Rich Czeslawski, whose teams were 71-15 in the three previous seasons, was impressed. “[South] is a good, good team,” Czeslawski said. “I’ve coached some good teams the last three years, and they have all the pieces. That team is loaded.”

McHenry again thrives with 3-pointers and is led by guard Greg Johnson at 16.2 points a game. Cody Freund add 13.7 a game.

This week’s top games Woodstock North at McHenry 7 p.m. Tuesday, McHenry West Campus The Warriors are hitting 37.6 percent on 3-pointers and will try to get to 6-1; North is 1-4.

Richmond-Burton at Woodstock 7 p.m. Saturday, James M. Shipley Gymnasium Two of the area’s biggest players – R-B’s Joey St. Pierre (6-8, 240) and Woodstock’s Damian Stoneking (6-7, 260) – will battle inside in this game.

– Joe Stevenson joestevenson@shawmedia.com

PCA Winter Camps games this season after forearm and back surgeries, and the Patriots went 5-1. In the next six games, he led all NFL tight ends with 37 catches and 560 yards receiving. They were 4-2 in those games, but the offense was much more productive.

Gronkowski suffered a torn ACL and damaged MCL, a person familiar with the injury said Monday. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the team did not release those details.

Vikings’ Peterson avoids more serious injury

No. 23 Iowa thumps Fairleigh Dickinson

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. – Vikings running back Adrian Peterson walked through the locker room with a boot on his right foot Monday on his way to get a CT scan. X-rays previously revealed no broken bones. Peterson said the medical staff has ruled out the type of Lisfranc injury that can keep a player sidelined for months, rather than weeks.

Peterson was injured Sunday against the Baltimore Ravens.

IOWA CITY, Iowa – Gabe Olaseni tied a career high with 14 points and had 10 rebounds as No. 23 Iowa pulled away to a 92-59 victory over Fairleigh Dickinson (3-9) on Monday.

Melsahn Basabe had 12 points and 11 rebounds for the Hawkeyes (10-1), who broke the game open with an early 19-0 run and led by at least 20 points for the entire second half.

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HEISMAN TROPHY FINALISTS

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Lynch makes more NIU history Record-setting QB first Huskies player to earn Heisman invite

By ROSS JACOBSON rjacobson@shawmedia.com

Northern Illinois senior Jordan Lynch’s 1,881 yards rushing this season are the most by a quarterback in major college history.

Jordan Lynch can’t wait to head to New York.

The Northern Illinois senior quarterback was named a finalist for the Heisman Trophy on Monday. He was so excited that he tweeted he was a finalist about five minutes before the official announcement was made on ESPN by 1996 winner Danny Wuerffel.

“NYC here I come!! Thanks to the coaches teammates and media relation couldn’t of did it wt out them!” he posted.

Lynch then deleted the tweet and re-sent a different version later.

He will join Auburn running back Tre Mason, Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron, Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston, Texas A&M quarterback Johnny

Manziel and Boston College running back Andre Williams.

It is the first time since 1994 that more than five finalists have been chosen to attend the Heisman’s presentation ceremony, which will be at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Best Buy Theater in Times Square.

Lynch becomes the first player in NIU history to be named a finalist for the Heisman.

The Huskies have had standout players in the past, but none of them made it to New York. Running back LeShon Johnson finished sixth in 1993 after leading the nation in rushing and Michael Turner failed to crack the top 10 during NIU’s 10-2 season in 2003.

Lynch’s Heisman campaign began this summer when NIU made “Lynch for 6” lunchboxes as a way to stir up publicity for its senior quarterback. In addition to Lynch’s staggering numbers, he also benefited from national TV exposure over the past four weeks of the season, something Johnson and Turner didn’t have when they played.

“It’s a great honor and a great accomplishment, but I couldn’t do it without my coach-

Winston tops 6-man field

By RALPH D. RUSSO The Associated Press NEW YORK – Jameis Winston will have plenty of company at the Heisman Trophy ceremony – though he’s not expected to have much competition.

The Florida State quarterback was among a record-tying six Heisman finalists revealed Monday, along with Northern Illinois’ Jordan Lynch, Texas A&M’s Johnny Manziel, Alabama’s AJ McCarron, Auburn’s Tre Mason and Boston College’s Andre Williams.

Six finalists invited to New York for the presentation are the most since 1994. The winner will be announced Saturday night.

Winston is the overwhelming favorite to win the award now that a sexual assault complaint against him in Tallahassee, Fla., has been

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Florida State’s Jameis Winston is the front-runner to win the Heisman Trophy. closed without charges being filed.

He could also become the second freshman to win the award. Manziel was the first last year. Famous Jameis, like Johnny Football last season, is a redshirt freshman.

Manziel will try to join another exclusive Heisman

club by becoming the second player to win the award twice.

Ohio State’s Archie Griffin won the award in 1974 and 1975. The Aggies’ quarterback is third in the nation in total offense with 368 yards a game.

Lynch led Northern Illinois (12-1) to within a victory of a BCS bid and has set the major college record for yards rushing for a quarterback this season with 1,881.

McCarron completed 67 percent of his passes for 2,676 yards and 26 touchdowns for the No. 4 Crimson Tide (11-1).

Mason helped No. 2 Auburn reach the BCS title game, running for 304 yards and four TDs in the SEC championship game. He is ninth in the country in rushing (124 yards a game).

Williams is the nation’s leading rusher at 175 yards per game and the 16th player in FBS to run for 2,000 yards in a season.

es, teammates, family and the support staff,” Lynch said. “It’s hard [to be selected from a nonautomatic-qualifier school]. One of the biggest things is you have to win games, have a winning team and your stats have to separate you from the bigger schools. I knew if I had a chance to get there, it would be a good individual season, and I knew it would take a great year as a team for us.”

Lynch led the Huskies to a 12-1 record this season and a berth in the Poinsettia Bowl.

He broke his single-season record for rushing yards by an FBS quarterback with 1,881 yards and has accounted for a school-record 46 touchdowns this season.

Lynch finished seventh in the voting last year after leading the Huskies to their first Bowl Championship Series bowl game in program history. They lost to Florida State, 31-10, in the Orange Bowl.

“This is a great honor for him and it recognizes the great career he has had,” NIU coach Rod Carey said in a news release. “It is so well-deserved that he gets to go to New York.”

New York-bound The six Heisman Trophy finalists: Jordan Lynch Northern Illinois, QB Johnny Manziel Texas A&M, QB Tre Mason Auburn, RB AJ McCarron Alabama, QB Andre Williams Boston College, RB Jameis Winston Florida State, QB

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BEARS 45, COWBOYS 28 Dallas Bears

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TEAM STATISTICS Dal 20 480 25-135 345 2-8 3-87 1-49 23-36-0 4-10 7-35.6 2-1 6-51 34:08

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Matt Forte Forte carved up the Cowboys’ defense for 102 yards rushing (5.1 yards a carry) and 73 yards receiving, including a touchdown. He averaged 6.5 yards a touch and had a 4-yard receiving touchdown.

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M. Forte M. Bush J. McCown A. Jeffery RECEIVING B. Marshall A. Jeffery M. Forte M. Bennett E. Bennett M. Bush D. Rosario FUMBLES

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Red-zone offense – We’re nitpicking here on the offense’s best game of the year, but it could have been better. Twice, the Bears got into the red zone and had to settle for field goals.

Stopping DeMarco – Despite all the good that came out of this game, the Bears’ run defense didn’t look much better, with Murray rushing for 145 yards on 18 carries, an average of 8.1 yards a touch.

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The Cowboys had plenty of time and two timeouts to score before halftime, but after backto-back drops, they faced a third-and-10. Tony Romo targeted Terrance Williams, and Zack Bowman had tight coverage. The incomplete pass led to a punt, and with all three timeouts, the Bears marched right back, with McCown hitting Jeffery for the end-of-half score.

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McCown was testing his luck to start the second half, with fans breathing deep sighs of relief as the Cowboys dropped a few opportunities at an interception. On third-and-10 with 9:03 to go and a 13-point lead, he threw a pass to Marshall that was tipped and intercepted by Sterling Moore, who returned it to the Bears’ 18-yard line. But Brandon Carr’s defensive holding penalty negated the interception, giving the Bears the ball back, and Forte scored 11 plays later.

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When Michael Bush gets involved, you know the rout is on. Bush had a 17-yard catch-andrun touchdown at the start of the fourth quarter to put the Bears up 42-14, their largest lead of the season and putting it out of reach for the Cowboys.

Record: 7-6 What it means: The Bears gained a game on the Lions, and trail by just the tiebreaker in the NFC North with three games to go.

Next: The Bears head to Cleveland to play the 4-9 Browns, who lost to the Patriots on Sunday.

– Kevin Fishbain, kfishbain@shawmedia.com

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H. Rick Bamman – hbamman@shawmedia.com

Bears receiver Alshon Jeffery (left) and tight end Martellus Bennett celebrate Jeffery’s touchdown in the second quarter of Monday night’s game against the Dallas Cowboys at Soldier Field. Jeffery had five catches for 84 yards and a touchdown in the win.

BEARS NOTES

Jeffery does it again in Bears’ win Wideout has 2 sensational grabs in 1st half

By KEVIN FISHBAIN kfishbain@shawmedia.com CHICAGO – In the span of three minutes, the legend of Alshon Jeffery got a new chapter Monday night.

The second-year wideout can’t surprise anyone anymore – he broke his own franchise record with 249 yards receiving last week against the Vikings – but it doesn’t seem to matter who covers him.

Jeffery made two sensational catches in the first half of the Bears’ 45-28 win over the Cowboys.

On first-and-10 with 3:10 to go in the second quarter from the Bears’

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N/A KICKOFF RETURNS M. Ford D. Hester B. Marshall PUNT RETURNS

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41-yard line, Josh McCown lofted a pass down the left sideline in the frigid air. Jeffery leaped and showed off the incredible strength in his forearms, wrists and hands to catch the 23-yard pass.

It was the play only 2:53 later that will be remembered most from this game.

An hour or so before the Bears took on the Cowboys in a game that had windchill temperatures as low as nine below zero, McCown practiced 45-yard throws to the south endzone. That would come into play.

With 17 seconds left in the first half, the Bears had no timeouts and a three-point lead from the Cowboys’ 25-yard line. McCown had to go for the endzone, and he avoided pressure, then launched a pass to the deep right corner of that south endzone, where only one man on the field – and maybe one of only a handful in the league – could catch it.

Jeffery leaped at the pylon to

catch the ball above Cowboys cornerback B.W. Webb with safety Jeff Heath coming over. Somehow, Jeffery got both feet in-bounds for a touchdown that left everyone stunned, with the “how did he do it?” face. The Bears went into the locker room with a 10-point lead.

On a night celebrating the records of Mike Ditka, Jeffery continued to make his mark on this Bears team, finishing with five catches for 84 yards.

Protecting McCown: The Bears’ quarterback had to scramble at times, but he generally had room in the pocket to pick apart Dallas’ woeful secondary.

The Cowboys notched only one sack, and it came in the fourth quarter in a situation where McCown normally may have just thrown it away, but he didn’t want to take any chances.

According press box stats, Dallas had zero QB hits on the night.

The performance came a week after allowing four sacks to the Vikings and is the sixth time this season the Bears have allowed zero or one sack in a game, a feat that occurred 10 times in the last two years combined.

Harassing Romo: James Anderson was just a split-second away from stopping the Vikings on fourthand-11 last week, and he made up for it by helping the defense get after Tony Romo, especially on third down. On third-and-7 to start the second quarter of a tie game, Anderson blitzed the A-gap and sacked Romo. He got a pressure on Romo to help force an incomplete pass on 4th down in the 3rd quarter.

Boring night: Since joining the Bears in 2011, Adam Podlesh punted twice in a game only once, Dec. 25, 2011. He punted zero times Monday night, which may have been a long one for him in the cold.

Bears look, play like a playoff team against Romo, Cowboys

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Lathan Goumas – lgoumas@shawmedia.com

Bears running back Matt Forte celebrates his third-quarter touchdown Monday night.

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In those days, we flew on the team plane. I was afraid to board but had no choice. I walked

by Ditka and, as I was five feet past him, he said “Hey Hub.” I turned to face my death and he smiled and said “Now that was some big-time radio, wasn’t it?”

– Hub Arkush, harkush@shawmedia.com

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First-quarter defense – It looked like déjà vu when DeMarco Murray rushed for 66 yards on eight carries in the first quarter, with the Cowboys becoming the eighth team to get a first-quarter touchdown against the Bears this season. Last year, the Bears allowed only three first-quarter touchdowns.

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to-toe, as his cheeks went from pink to crimson. He started, “I just lost a game and you . . .” and as he threw his arms in the air he accidentally caught my microphone cord, ripped it out of my hands and stormed off.

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Ditka even looks tough in frigid temperatures BEER OF THE WEEK

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INT 0

YDS 100 84 73 43 18 17 13

Ditka looked at me and slowly began to rock back and forth, heel-

Pass defense – Tony Romo threw for 104 yards on 11-of-20 throwing, although he did have three touchdown passes, the Bears stifled him on some third downs. Dez Bryant was held to two catches for 12 yards.

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Spreading the wealth – Brandon Marshall and Jeffery starred, but McCown used an arsenal of weapons. Four players had at least five catches, and four different players caught a touchdown.

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I moved into the Bears radio booth to do color commentary in 1987. In Week 9 of the 1988 season, we were in New England and the Bears were 7-1. Early in the second quarter, Jim McMahon went out with a serious injury. Mike Ditka spent the rest of a 30-7 loss alternately playing and berating Mike Tomczak and Jim Harbaugh. I had to interview “Da Coach” live on the radio in the locker room. I began the interview with “Well coach, do we have a quarterback controversy?”

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PASSING J. McCown RUSHING

A story on Ditka’s night

Third-down offense – In the loss to the Vikings, the Bears were an abysmal 2 for 11 on third down.

Against the Cowboys, they were 8 for 11, including 6 for 7 before halftime. On a couple of thirdand-shorts, which have been a bugaboo for the Bears, McCown used his arm to find the open man.

3 moments that mattered

N/A DEFENSE K. Wilber B. Carter B. Church O. Scandrick G. Selvie S. Lee B. Carr D. Ware J. Heath D. Nevis N. Hayden J. Hatcher E. Sims J. Wilcox S. Moore J. Wynn

Special

Alshon Jeffery Jeffery made two highlightreel catches in the 2nd quarter, with one coming for a touchdown.

He had 84 yards receiving on the night.

3 things that worked

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS COWBOYS T. Romo K. Orton RUSHING

Josh McCown The best “backup” in football completed 27of-36 passes (75 percent) for 348 yards and four TDs, averaging 9.7 yards a pass. He finished with a passer rating of 141.9. He also juked a Cowboys defender and rushed for a TD.

Holiday

3 AND OUT

Their second possession was a 10-play, 65-yard drive for a 14-7 lead.

The Cowboys did stop the Bears on their third possession after a nine-play, 68-yard drive took just 3:49 off the clock and ended in a 27-yard Robbie Gould field goal that made the score 17-14.

Then came the turning point of the game. The Bears defense forced the Cowboys to punt for just the second time in the

game and gave the ball back to the offense at its own 40 with just 47 seconds remaining.

McCown got the Bears to the endzone in just 37 seconds on five plays, with the dagger coming on a 25-yard pass to Alshon Jeffery, who mustered another near–unbelievable catch in the back corner of the South endzone.

The Bears’ domination was so complete that, with 3:47 remaining, they had eight possessions on the evening and scored on all eight with five touchdowns and three field goals.

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The only real drama was the halftime ceremonies, during which Mike Ditka’s No. 89 was retired with the promise it would be the last Bears number ever put out to pasture.

If you expected Da Coach to shed a tear, he didn’t.

The focus of the tribute was a succession of many of the most notable Bears to have played for Ditka offering their congratulations on video tributes on the Jumbotrons in Soldier Field.

By the time Kyle Orton came on for some cleanup work, with

just more than three minutes remaining, the Cowboys had long ago quit and there were no more than a few thousand fans left in the stands.

Those who stayed were left to wonder if they’d witnessed the beginning of a Bears drive to the playoffs and the emergence of McCown as a hot quarterback just too good to sit down, or the meeting of two mediocre teams in miserable conditions with the home club holding a huge edge in their own house.

Most would agree the Bears

were just too good on this evening to shed doubt on their offensive firepower or character.

This was an evening when it would have been easy for everyone to quit and roll over and play dead to get in out of the cold as soon as possible.

Instead, the Bears looked and played like a playoff team and left with their chances to be just that very much alive.

• Hub Arkush covers the Bears for Shaw Media and HubArkush.com. Write to him at harkush@shawmedia.com.

honored during a fast, frigid ceremony during halftime of the Bears’ game against the Dallas Cowboys. A sellout crowd roared as the Bears retired Ditka’s No. 89, honoring the hard-nosed tight end who was selected to five Pro Bowls and the spitfire coach who delivered a Super Bowl championship.

Ditka looked tough, too, as stood on the field and waited to be introduced.

The wind chill, which was minus-9 at kickoff, surely had dipped into the negative double digits by this point. Yet Ditka wore no winter hat, no earmuffs, not even an old helmet, as a freezing wind coming in off of Lake Michigan whipped his hair and burned his ears.

After a video presentation and a brief speech by Bears chairman George McCaskey, Ditka grabbed the microphone. He thanked his fans.

He thanked his teammates. He thanked his players.

Then he booked it for the semi-warmth of the stadium’s tunnels.

Ditka’s next stop was the interview room, where the team had arranged a news conference.

“OK, we’re going to do this like the old days: Real quick” Ditka barked as he climbed a small stage in front of dozens of reporters and a handful of TV cameras. “Come on.”

Surely, a few of us straightened in our seats.

Yes, sir.

But in the seven-plus minutes that followed, Ditka quickly shed his gruff exteri-

or. He joked about how tough it was to stand in the cold – “Don’t forget, now, I’m pretty old” – and smiled at how his persona has thrived through the decades – “Going through airports is pretty interesting.”

By the time Ditka reminisced on his rookie season in 1961, he was on a roll.

“I was a 22-year-old kid when I came to Chicago,” Ditka said.

“I met Mr. Halas. I was dazzled by that $12,000-a-year contract, and then I went out and bought a new car. I had it going.

“A $6,000 signing bonus, and – shoo! – I went out and bought me a ’62 Olds Starfire convertible.”

Good stuff.

By now, Ditka can have anything he wants. He has his own restaurants, wine, salsa, cigars, radio show, you name it. And now he has his number retired, one of only 14 Bears players to receive such an honor.

Most importantly, Ditka has perspective.

He’s still tough, mind you.

But just like Randall, the big-city cop, Ditka is not afraid to share his happiness.

“I’m just having fun with it,” Ditka said. “I can tell you, honestly, probably the best thing that happens is when you stop taking yourself so [darn] serious.

“And I quit. I don’t take myself serious. …

“What else you want to know?”

Nothing. You said it all.

Keep smiling.

• Northwest Herald sports columnist Tom Musick can be reached at tmusick@shawmedia.com and on Twitter @tcmusick.

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WHITE SOX

Reinsdorf scoffs at Sale trade talk

By DARYL VAN SCHOUWEN dvanschouwen@suntimes.com LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Not far from here, where Chris Sale makes his home, the White Sox lefthander’s ears had to be ringing.

The Florida native probably shouldn’t concern himself too much with rumors that he could be traded, though.

“I know if we don’t give you guys news you have to make it up,” chairman Jerry Reinsdorf said to reporters on the morning of the first day of the winter meetings. “I just kind of laugh about it.”

A national column spelling out reasons why Sale could be dealt

kicked the rumor mill into high gear for a few hours, even though it’s believed Sale is close to untouchable. He’s 24, a two-time AllStar and Cy Young candidate and his contract – which could pay him up to $60 million through 2019 with option years for the Sox on the last two years – is a good one for the Sox. Whether another team is willing to part with the caliber of perhaps three prospects and two players that it might take to pry Sale away is another thing. While saying Sale is no Michael Jordan, Reinsdorf said he’d be surprised if Hahn shipped his prized lefty away.

“I just heard that rumor,” Rein-

sdorf said. “I only had one player in my 33 years of sports who couldn’t be traded. He wore No. 23 – and 45 when he played baseball [Jordan].

I never had another player that couldn’t be traded so I can’t tell you when I see Rick and [vice president] Kenny [Williams] today they don’t tell me they want to trade him. But I would be very surprised.”

Hahn was still en route from Chicago when Reinsdorf spoke.

After he arrived, he opened his session with Chicago media by breaking policy of speaking to specific names by basically quelling the Sale rumors. He characterized them as “a dog bites man story.”

“We have to be open minded,

but at the end of the day there are certain integral parts of this club that if they ever were to be moved, it would to be for a return that we felt was overwhelming,” Hahn said.

Hahn, who made a small move by signing pitcher Felipe Paulino on Monday, is looking for upgrades at catcher (the Rays’ Jose Lobaton is available), third base (former Sox Juan Uribe was the most intriguing rumor) and perhaps in the outfield (the Yankees Brett Gardner is a center field-leadoff fit but is AP file photo a free agent after 2014) to improve an offense which ranked last in the White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf said he’d be surAL in numerous categories. Hahn prised if pitcher Chris Sale were part of trade talks could use a lefty reliever, too. during the current winter meetings.

BASEBALL HALL OF FAME

Torre, La Russa, Cox elected by expansion committee

By HOWIE RUMBERG The Associated Press LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Joe Torre, Tony La Russa and Bobby Cox spent decades trying to beat each other, no holds barred. On this day, however, they were a mutual admiration society.

And why not? They were going to the Hall of Fame together.

With a combined eight World Series titles and more than 7,500 wins, the managerial trio made it to Cooperstown

in results announced Monday.

Each was unanimously selected when the 16 voters on the expansion era committee met a day earlier.

“They’re not the easiest guys to manage against, that’s for sure. But it was fun. It was always a battle,” Cox said Monday at the winter meetings. “And I consider them enemies on the field, but friends off the field.”

All three exceeded the magic benchmark of 2,000 wins – only Connie Mack and John McGraw have won more.

“Managing against them, you certainly learned things,” said Torre, now an executive vice president for Major League Baseball. “I am honored to go into the Hall with these two guys.”

Induction ceremonies will be held July 27 in Cooperstown, N.Y. Candidates needed 12 votes for election. No one else on the 12-person ballot that included former players’ union head Marvin Miller and late New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner got more than

six votes.

Torre became the fifth manager to win four World Series championships, leading the Yankees to titles in 1996 and from 1998-00 – beating Cox’s Braves twice. After making only one trip to the playoffs in 14 seasons with the New York Mets, St. Louis and Atlanta, Torre guided the Yankees to the postseason in all 12 of his years in New York with a cool, patient demeanor. His popularity rankled Steinbrenner.

Torre finished his career by leading the Los Angeles

Dodgers to two NL West titles in three seasons, retiring after 2010 with a record of 2,3261,997. He’s the only manager to have more than 2,000 hits as a player – he was the 1971 NL MVP – and 2,000 wins in the dugout.

The savvy La Russa won World Series titles with Oakland in 1989 and with St. Louis in 2006 and ‘11, retiring days after beating the Texas Rangers in a seven-game thriller.

Of the nine managers with three or more World Series titles, the other seven all have

been inducted.

Cox’s managerial career began in 1978 with Atlanta, but he was fired after four seasons – only one above .500. A fouryear run in Toronto ended in 1985 with an AL East title, and Ted Turner lured him back to the Braves as their GM. Cox returned to the dugout in 1990, and following one losing season he went on one of the most successful regular-season runs by any skipper, leading the Braves to 14 straight division titles and a World Series championship in 1995.

MLB NOTES

Ordonez elected mayor of city in Venezuela; Halladay retires The ASSOCIATED PRESS CARACAS, Venezuela – A year after retiring from baseball, former White Sox star Magglio Ordonez was elected as the mayor of a city in his native Venezuela.

Ordonez’s victory in the city of Sotillo in eastern Venezuela was announced by President Nicolas Maduro at a rally Sunday for pro-gov-

ernment candidates who won the majority of 335 races nationwide.

The socialist president has turned to celebrity candidates such as the six-time All-Star to overcome rising anger with his handling of the economy. Maduro prevailed in his first electoral test since narrowly winning the presidency in April after the death of Hugo Chavez.

Ordonez retired in 2012 with a

career .309 average over 15 seasons with the Sox and Detroit Tigers. The right fielder’s 294 homers are the second-most by a Venezuela-born player, trailing only Andres Galarraga’s 399.

Halladay retires: Citing a desire to avoid surgery for an ailing back and wanting to spend more time with his family, two-time Cy Young Award winner Roy Halladay retired Mon-

day after 16 seasons in the major leagues with the Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies.

Halladay signed a one-day contract to retire as a member of the Blue Jays, where he spent the first 12 years of his career. He choked up and held back tears while making the announcement at a news conference at the winter meetings in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

“As a baseball player, you realize that’s something you can’t do the rest of your life,” Halladay said. “I really don’t have any regrets. You realize there’s other things for you to accomplish in life.”

Halladay pitched a perfect game and also a postseason no-hitter. But never made it to the World Series and leaves without the ring he badly wanted.

FINE PRINT

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FIVE-DAY PLANNER

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NFL NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Philadelphia 8 5 0 .615 334 Dallas 7 6 0 .538 357 N.Y. Giants 5 8 0 .385 251 Washington 3 10 0 .231 279 South W L T Pct PF New Orleans 10 3 0 .769 343 Carolina 9 4 0 .692 298 Tampa Bay 4 9 0 .308 244 Atlanta 3 10 0 .231 282 North W L T Pct PF Detroit 7 6 0 .538 346 Chicago 7 6 0 .538 368 Green Bay 6 6 1 .500 316 Minnesota 3 9 1 .269 315 West W L T Pct PF x-Seattle 11 2 0 .846 357 San Francisco 9 4 0 .692 316 Arizona 8 5 0 .615 305 St. Louis 5 8 0 .385 289 AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 10 3 0 .769 349 Miami 7 6 0 .538 286 N.Y. Jets 6 7 0 .462 226 Buffalo 4 9 0 .308 273 South W L T Pct PF y-Indianapolis 8 5 0 .615 313 Tennessee 5 8 0 .385 292 Jacksonville 4 9 0 .308 201 Houston 2 11 0 .154 250 North W L T Pct PF Cincinnati 9 4 0 .692 334 Baltimore 7 6 0 .538 278 Pittsburgh 5 8 0 .385 291 Cleveland 4 9 0 .308 257 West W L T Pct PF x-Denver 11 2 0 .846 515 Kansas City 10 3 0 .769 343 San Diego 6 7 0 .462 316 Oakland 4 9 0 .308 264

PA 301 348 334 407 PA 243 188 291 362 PA 321 360 326 395 PA 205 214 257 308 PA 287 276 337 334 PA 316 318 372 350 PA 244 261 312 324 PA 345 224 291 337

x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Thursday’s Game Jacksonville 27, Houston 20 Sunday’s Games Green Bay 22, Atlanta 21 Baltimore 29, Minnesota 26 Kansas City 45, Washington 10 Tampa Bay 27, Buffalo 6 Miami 34, Pittsburgh 28 Philadelphia 34, Detroit 20 Cincinnati 42, Indianapolis 28 New England 27, Cleveland 26 N.Y. Jets 37, Oakland 27 Denver 51, Tennessee 28 San Francisco 19, Seattle 17 San Diego 37, N.Y. Giants 14 Arizona 30, St. Louis 10 New Orleans 31, Carolina 13 Monday’s Game Bears 45, Dallas 28

COLLEGE AP TOP 25 The Top 25 teams in The Associated Press college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 30, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and previous ranking: Record 13-0 12-1 11-1 12-1 11-2 11-1 12-1 10-2 11-2 10-2 10-2 10-2 10-2 9-3 11-1 10-3 9-3 11-1 9-3 8-4 11-1 10-3 8-4 12-1 8-4

Pts 1,496 1,444 1,376 1,278 1,217 1,185 1,130 1,099 1,066 880 878 848 797 726 629 614 544 525 383 282 227 201 196 144 76

Friday, Dec. 27 Military Bowl At Annapolis, Md. Marshall (9-4) vs. Maryland (7-5), 1:30 p.m. (ESPN) Texas Bowl At Houston Minnesota (8-4) vs. Syracuse (6-6), 3 p.m. (ESPN) Fight Hunger Bowl At San Francisco BYU (8-4) vs. Washington (8-4), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Dec. 28 Pinstripe Bowl At New York Notre Dame (8-4) vs. Rutgers (6-6), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Belk Bowl At Charlotte, N.C. Cincinnati (9-3) vs. North Carolina (6-6), 2:20 p.m. (ESPN) Russell Athletic Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Miami (9-3) vs. Louisville (11-1), 5:45 p.m. (ESPN) Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl At Tempe, Ariz.

Kansas State (7-5) vs. Michigan (7-5), 9:15 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Dec. 30 Armed Forces Bowl At Fort Worth, Texas Middle Tennessee (8-4) vs. Navy (7-4), 10:45 a.m. (ESPN) Music City Bowl At Nashville, Tenn.

Mississippi (7-5) vs. Georgia Tech (7-5), 2:15 p.m. (ESPN) Alamo Bowl At San Antonio Oregon (10-2) vs. Texas (8-4), 5:45 p.m. (ESPN) Holiday Bowl At San Diego Arizona State (10-3) vs. Texas Tech (7-5), 9:15 p.m. (ESPN) Tuesday, Dec. 31 AdvoCare V100 Bowl At Shreveport, La. Arizona (7-5) vs. Boston College (7-5), 11:30 a.m. (ESPN) Sun Bowl At El Paso, Texas Virginia Tech (8-4) vs. UCLA (9-3), 1 p.m. (CBS) Liberty Bowl At Memphis, Tenn.

Rice (9-3) vs. Mississippi State (6-6), 3 p.m. (ESPN) Chick-fil-A Bowl At Atlanta Texas A&M (8-4) vs. Duke (10-3), 7 p.m. (ESPN)

Thursday, Dec. 12 San Diego at Denver, 8:25 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 15 Bears at Cleveland, noon Philadelphia at Minnesota, noon Washington at Atlanta, noon San Francisco at Tampa Bay, noon Seattle at N.Y. Giants, noon Houston at Indianapolis, noon Buffalo at Jacksonville, noon New England at Miami, noon Kansas City at Oakland, 3:05 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Carolina, 3:05 p.m.

Arizona at Tennessee, 3:25 p.m.

New Orleans at St. Louis, 3:25 p.m.

Green Bay at Dallas, 3:25 p.m.

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 16 Baltimore at Detroit, 7:40 p.m.

1. Florida St. (56) 2. Auburn (4) 3. Alabama 4. Michigan St. 5. Stanford 6. Baylor 7. Ohio St. 8. South Carolina 9. Missouri 10. Oregon 11. Oklahoma 12. Clemson 13. Oklahoma St. 14. LSU 15. UCF 16. Arizona St. 17. UCLA 18. Louisville 19. Wisconsin 20. Texas A&M 21. Fresno St. 22. Duke 23. Georgia 24. N. Illinois 25. Notre Dame

Oregon State (6-6) vs. Boise State (8-4), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Dec. 26 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl At Detroit Bowling Green (10-3) vs. Pittsburgh (6-6), 5 p.m. (ESPN) Poinsettia Bowl At San Diego Northern Illinois (12-1) vs. Utah State (8-5), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Pv 1 3 4 10 7 9 2 8 5 12 18 13 6 14 15 11 17 19 21 22 24 20 25 16 NR

Others receiving votes: Southern Cal 74, Iowa 48, Miami 47, Vanderbilt 25, Texas 22, Cincinnati 11, Bowling Green 10, Washington 9, Rice 7, N. Dakota St. 4, Minnesota 2.

BOWL SCHEDULE Saturday, Dec. 21 New Mexico Bowl At Albuquerque Washington State (6-6) vs. Colorado State (7-6), 1 p.m. (ESPN) Las Vegas Bowl Fresno State (11-1) vs. Southern Cal (9-4), 2:30 p.m. (ABC) Famous Idaho Potato Bowl At Boise, Idaho Buffalo (8-4) vs. San Diego State (7-5), 4:30 p.m. (ESPN) New Orleans Bowl Tulane (7-5) vs. Louisiana-Lafayette (8-4), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Dec. 23 Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl At St. Petersburg, Fla. Ohio (7-5) vs. East Carolina (9-3), 1 p.m. (ESPN) Tuesday, Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl At Honolulu

Wednesday, Jan. 1 Heart of Dallas Bowl At Dallas UNLV (7-5) vs. North Texas (8-4), 11 a.m. (ESPNU) Gator Bowl At Jacksonville, Fla. Nebraska (8-4) vs. Georgia (8-4), 11 a.m. (ESPN2) Capital One Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Wisconsin (9-3) vs. South Carolina (10-2), noon (ABC) Outback Bowl At Tampa, Fla. Iowa (8-4) vs. LSU (9-3), noon (ESPN) Rose Bowl At Pasadena, Calif.

Stanford (11-2) vs. Michigan State (12-1), 4 p.m. (ESPN) Fiesta Bowl At Glendale, Ariz.

Baylor (11-1) vs. UCF (11-1), 7:30 p.m.

(ESPN) Thursday, Jan. 2 Sugar Bowl At New Orleans Alabama (11-1) vs. Oklahoma (10-2), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Jan. 3 Orange Bowl At Miami Ohio State (12-1) vs. Clemson (10-2), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Cotton Bowl At Arlington, Texas Missouri (11-2) vs. Oklahoma State (10-2), 6:30 p.m. (FOX) Saturday, Jan. 4 BBVA Compass Bowl At Birmingham, Ala. Vanderbilt (8-4) vs. Houston (8-4), noon (ESPN) Sunday, Jan. 5 GoDaddy.com Bowl At Mobile, Ala. Arkansas State (7-5) vs. Ball State (102), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Jan. 6 BCS National Championship At Pasadena, Calif.

Florida State (13-0) vs. Auburn (12-1), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 18 East-West Shrine Classic At St. Petersburg, Fla. East vs. West, 3 p.m. (NFLN) Saturday, Jan. 25 Senior Bowl At Mobile, Ala. South vs. North, 3 p.m. (NFLN)

STANDINGS Big Ten Conference Legends Conference All Games W L PF PA W L PF PA Michigan St. 8 0 238 88 12 1 387 165 Iowa 5 3 187 157 8 4 328 225 Nebraska 5 3 218 196 8 4 391 304 Minnesota 4 4 150 188 8 4 317 268 Michigan 3 5 253 234 7 5 405 318 Northwestern 1 7 149 230 5 7 314 325 Leaders Ohio St. 8 0 368 182 12 1 602 277 Wisconsin 6 2 279 129 9 3 429 178 Penn St. 4 4 211 256 7 5 344 314 Indiana 3 5 283 335 5 7 461 466 Illinois 1 7 195 326 4 8 356 425 Purdue 0 8 104 314 1 11 179 456

BCS STANDINGS

1. Florida St. 2. Auburn 3. Alabama 4. Michigan St. 5. Stanford 6. Baylor 7. Ohio St. 8. Missouri 9. South Carolina 10. Oregon 11. Oklahoma 12. Clemson 13. Oklahoma St. 14. Arizona St. 15. UCF 16. LSU 17. UCLA 18. Louisville 19. Wisconsin 20. Fresno St. 21. Texas A&M 22. Georgia 23. N. Illinois 24. Duke 25. Southern Cal

Rk 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 8 12 10 11 13 17 15 14 18 16 19 20 21 23 22 24 27

Harris Pts Pct 2617 .9970 2527 .9627 2405 .9162 2242 .8541 2102 .8008 2058 .7840 2048 .7802 1850 .7048 1866 .7109 1499 .5710 1517 .5779 1512 .5760 1430 .5448 909 .3463 1098 .4183 1267 .4827 907 .3455 1091 .4156 673 .2564 579 .2206 471 .1794 318 .1211 408 .1554 291 .1109 53 .0202

USA Today Computer Rk Pts Pct Rk Pct 1 1550 1.0000 1 .990 2 1486 .9587 2 .970 3 1414 .9123 t3 .890 4 1342 .8658 5 .860 7 1188 .7665 t3 .890 5 1275 .8226 9 .710 6 1211 .7813 7 .750 9 1088 .7019 6 .770 8 1108 .7148 8 .720 12 887 .5723 10 .600 10 913 .5890 12 .560 11 899 .5800 13 .510 13 845 .5452 14 .480 17 602 .3884 11 .590 15 658 .4245 15 .460 14 719 .4639 17 .350 18 520 .3355 16 .430 16 611 .3942 23 .150 19 408 .2632 20 .190 20 344 .2219 26 .060 21 247 .1594 21 .160 24 135 .0871 18 .270 23 149 .0961 19 .220 21 247 .1594 25 .070 28 33 .0213 21 .160

BCS Avg Pv .9957 1 .9638 3 .9061 4 .8600 10 .8191 7 .7722 9 .7705 2 .7256 5 .7152 8 .5811 12 .5756 17 .5553 13 .5233 6 .4416 11 .4343 16 .4322 15 .3703 18 .3199 19 .2365 21 .1675 23 .1663 24 .1594 22 .1572 14 .1134 20 .0672 NR

Explanation Key The BCS Average is calculated by averaging the percent totals of the Harris Interactive, USA Today Coaches and Computer polls. Team percentages are derived by dividing a team’s actual voting points by a maximum 2625 possible points in the Harris Interactive Poll and 1550 possible points in the USA Today Coaches Poll.

Six computer rankings are used to determine the overall computer component. The highest and lowest ranking for each team is dropped, and the remaining four are added and divided to produce a Computer Rankings Percentage. The six computer ranking providers are Anderson & Hester, Richard Billingsley, Colley Matrix, Kenneth Massey, Jeff Sagarin, and Peter Wolfe. Each computer ranking accounts for schedule strength in its formula.

EASTERN CONFERENCE Central Division W L Pct Indiana 18 3 .857 Detroit 10 11 .476 Bulls 8 10 .444 Cleveland 7 13 .350 Milwaukee 4 16 .200 Atlantic Division W L Pct Boston 10 12 .455 Toronto 7 12 .368 Philadelphia 7 15 .318 Brooklyn 6 14 .300 New York 5 14 .263 Southeast Division W L Pct Miami 16 5 .762 Atlanta 11 10 .524 Charlotte 10 11 .476 Washington 9 11 .450 Orlando 6 15 .286 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio 15 4 .789 Houston 15 7 .682 Dallas 13 8 .619 Memphis 10 10 .500 New Orleans 9 10 .474 Northwest Division W L Pct Portland 18 4 .818 Oklahoma City 15 4 .789 Denver 13 8 .619 Minnesota 9 11 .450 Utah 4 19 .174 Pacific Division W L Pct L.A. Clippers 14 8 .636 Phoenix 11 9 .550 Golden State 12 10 .545 L.A. Lakers 10 10 .500 Sacramento 5 13 .278

GB — 8 8½ 10½ 13½ GB — 1½ 3 3 3½ GB — 5 6 6½ 10 GB — 1½ 3 5½ 6 GB — 1½ 4½ 8 14½ GB — 2 2 3 7

Monday’s Games L.A. Clippers 94, Philadelphia 83 Denver 75, Washington 74 Charlotte 115, Golden State 111 Memphis 94, Orlando 85 Portland 105, Utah 94 Dallas at Sacramento (n) Tuesday’s Games Milwaukee at Bulls, 7 p.m.

Miami at Indiana, 6 p.m.

New York at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

San Antonio at Toronto, 6 p.m.

Boston at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Phoenix at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m.

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Opponent December MILWAUKEE at New York at Milwaukee TORONTO ORLANDO at Houston at Oklahoma City CLEVELAND at Brooklyn DALLAS at Memphis TORONTO January BOSTON ATLANTA PHOENIX at Milwaukee CHARLOTTE WASHINGTON at Orlando at Washington PHILADELPHIA L.A. LAKERS at Cleveland L.A. CLIPPERS at Charlotte MINNESOTA at San Antonio

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MEN’S COLLEGE AP TOP 25 Record 1. Arizona (63) 9-0 2. Syracuse (2) 9-0 3. Ohio St. 8-0 4. Wisconsin 10-0 5. Michigan St. 7-1 6. Louisville 8-1 7. Oklahoma St. 8-1 8. Duke 7-2 9. UConn 9-0 10. Villanova 9-0 11. Kentucky 7-2 12. Wichita St. 9-0 13. Kansas 6-2 14. Baylor 8-1 15. Oregon 8-0 16. Memphis 6-1 17. Iowa St. 7-0 18. North Carolina 6-2 19. Florida 6-2 20. Gonzaga 8-1 21. Colorado 9-1 22. UMass 8-0 23. Iowa 9-1 24. Missouri 9-0 25. San Diego St. 7-1

Pts Prv 1,623 2 1,522 4 1,453 5 1,318 8 1,311 1 1,262 7 1,160 9 1,040 10 981 12 938 14 926 3 884 11 862 6 843 20 831 13 768 16 606 17 450 — 434 15 365 19 330 — 326 21 207 23 203 — 159 24

Others receiving votes: UCLA 104, New Mexico 62, Pittsburgh 47, Boise St. 34, Michigan 26, VCU 17, Dayton 11, Cincinnati 5, Harvard 5, Indiana 3, Saint Mary’s (Cal) 3, Creighton 2, George Washington 2, Oklahoma 1, Toledo 1.

TOP 25 FARED Monday 1. Arizona (9-0) did not play. Next: vs.

New Mexico State, Wednesday.

2. Syracuse (9-0) did not play. Next: at St. John’s, Sunday.

3. Ohio State (8-0) did not play. Next: vs. Bryant, Wednesday.

4. Wisconsin (10-0) did not play. Next: vs. Milwaukee, Wednesday.

5. Michigan State (7-1) did not play.

Next: at Oakland, Saturday.

6. Louisville (8-1) did not play. Next: vs.

Western Kentucky, Saturday.

7. Oklahoma State (8-1) did not play.

Next: vs. Louisiana Tech, Saturday.

8. Duke (7-2) did not play. Next: vs.

Gardner-Webb, Monday.

9. UConn (9-0) did not play. Next: vs.

Stanford, Wednesday, Dec. 18.

10. Villanova (9-0) did not play. Next: vs. La Salle, Sunday.

11. Kentucky (7-2) did not play. Next: vs. Boise State, Tuesday.

12. Wichita State (9-0) did not play.

Next: vs. Tennessee, Saturday.

13. Kansas (6-2) did not play. Next: at No. 19 Florida, Tuesday.

14. Baylor (8-1) did not play. Next: vs.

Northwestern State, Wednesday, Dec. 18.

15. Oregon (8-0) did not play. Next: vs.

Illinois, Saturday.

16. Memphis (6-1) did not play. Next: vs. UALR, Friday.

17. Iowa State (7-0) did not play. Next: vs. No. 23 Iowa, Friday.

18. North Carolina (6-2) did not play.

Next: vs. No. 11 Kentucky, Saturday.

19. Florida (6-2) did not play. Next: vs.

No. 13 Kansas, Tuesday.

20. Gonzaga (8-1) did not play. Next: at West Virginia, Tuesday.

21. Colorado (9-1) did not play. Next: vs.

Elon, Friday.

22. UMass (8-0) did not play. Next: vs.

Northern Illinois, Saturday.

23. Iowa (10-1) beat Fairleigh Dickinson 92-59. Next: at No. 17 Iowa State, Friday.

24. Missouri (9-0) did not play. Next: vs.

Western Michigan, Sunday.

25. San Diego State (7-1) did not play.

Next: vs. Southern Utah, Wednesday, Dec. 18.

WOMEN’S COLLEGE AP TOP 25 Record 1. UConn (36) 10-0 2. Duke 10-0 3. Tennessee 7-0 4. Notre Dame 8-0 5. Kentucky 9-0 6. Stanford 7-1 7. Louisville 9-1 8. Maryland 8-1 9. Baylor 7-1 10. South Carolina 9-0 11. Colorado 8-0 12. Penn St. 6-2 13. LSU 7-1 14. Oklahoma St. 7-0 15. North Carolina 7-2 16. Georgia 8-0 17. Iowa St. 8-0 18. Purdue 5-2 19. Nebraska 7-2 20. Oklahoma 5-3 21. Iowa 10-1 22. California 6-2 23. Gonzaga 7-1 24. Texas A&M 6-2 25. Syracuse 8-1

Pts 900 864 804 774 765 728 678 646 628 507 505 496 459 395 360 304 293 260 237 211 189 187 141 123 85

Prv 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 12 11 10 13 14 18 19 20 16 15 17 25 21 24 23 22

Others receiving votes: Florida St. 69, Arizona St. 33, Arkansas 14, Texas 10, West Virginia 8, Georgia Tech 6, UTEP 6, Michigan St. 5, BYU 3, San Diego 3, Middle Tennessee 2, Bowling Green 1, Saint Joseph’s 1.

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

x-at Philadelphia NFL Thursday FAVORITE TODAYO/U UNDERDOG at Denver 10 (55) San Diego Sunday at Cleveland 2 (43) Bears at Atlanta 5½ (51) Washington San Francisco 5 (41) at Tampa Bay Arizona 2½ (41½) at Tennessee New Orleans 5½ (50) at St. Louis Seattle 7 (41) at N.Y. Giants at Indianapolis 6 (45½) Houston Buffalo 2 (43) at Jacksonville New England 2½ (45½) at Miami Philadelphia 4½ (51½) at Minnesota at Carolina 11 (40½) N.Y. Jets Kansas City 4 (41) at Oakland at Dallas OFF (OFF) Green Bay Cincinnati 3 (40½) at Pittsburgh Monday at Detroit 6 (48) Baltimore Off Key Green Bay QB questionable

NBA LINE O/U UNDERDOG 9 (186) Milwaukee 2½ (192½) Miami 1 (192) New York 6½ (196½) at Toronto 1 (204½) at Detroit 4½ (191½) Boston 4½ (201½) at Atlanta 4 (205½) Phoenix

NHL FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG Blackhawks -130 at Dallas at Montreal -130 Los Angeles at Columbus -135 New Jersey Ottawa -145 at Buffalo at Washington -140 Tampa Bay at Florida -110 Detroit at N.Y. Rangers -175 Nashville St. Louis -155 at Winnipeg at Colorado -130 Phoenix Boston -150 at Calgary at Edmonton -130 Carolina at San Jose -320 N.Y. Islanders

PHILADELPHIA 7 p.m.

NBCSN AM-720

MILWAUKEE 7 p.m.

CSN+ AM-1000

at N.Y. Knicks 7 p.m.

ESPN, CSN AM-1000

at Milwaukee 7:30 p.m.

CSN AM-1000

TORONTO 7 p.m.

CSN AM-1000

at Grand Rapids 6 p.m.

WCUU

at Texas 7:30 p.m.

WCUU

at San Antonio 7 p.m.

WCUU

at Toronto 6 p.m.

WGN AM-720

ON TAP TUESDAY 8 p.m.: NJIT at Seton Hall, FS1

PRO BASKETBALL 7 p.m.: Milwaukee at Bulls, CSN+, AM-1000

NHL HOCKEY

MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL

6:30 p.m.: Nashville at N.Y. Rangers, NBCSN 7:30 p.m.: Blackhawks at Dallas, CSN, AM-720

6 p.m.: Kansas at Florida, ESPN 6 p.m.: Oakland at Indiana, ESPN2 6 p.m.: Evansville at Xavier, FS1 7 p.m.: South Dakota St. at Minnesota, BTN 7 p.m.: South Dakota at Kansas St., FSN 8 p.m.: Boise St. at Kentucky, ESPN 8 p.m.: Gonzaga at West Virginia, ESPN2

HOCKEY NHL WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Blackhawks 32 21 6 5 47 116 89 St. Louis 28 19 6 3 41 98 66 Minnesota 32 18 9 5 41 77 75 Colorado 28 20 8 0 40 82 65 Dallas 28 14 9 5 33 81 80 Winnipeg 31 14 13 4 32 82 88 Nashville 30 13 14 3 29 67 88 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 32 20 7 5 45 101 84 San Jose 30 19 6 5 43 101 75 Los Angeles 30 19 7 4 42 79 62 Vancouver 32 17 10 5 39 86 81 Phoenix 29 16 8 5 37 94 93 Calgary 29 11 14 4 26 78 98 Edmonton 31 10 18 3 23 84 105 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Boston 30 20 8 2 42 84 61 Montreal 31 19 9 3 41 85 65 Detroit 31 15 9 7 37 85 82 Tampa Bay 29 17 10 2 36 80 70 Toronto 31 16 12 3 35 86 87 Ottawa 31 12 14 5 29 91 103 Florida 31 9 17 5 23 70 104 Buffalo 30 6 22 2 14 51 91 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 32 21 10 1 43 98 71 Washington 30 16 12 2 34 92 85 Carolina 30 13 12 5 31 71 84 N.Y. Rangers 31 15 15 1 31 69 80 New Jersey 31 12 13 6 30 69 77 Philadelphia 30 13 14 3 29 68 78 Columbus 30 12 15 3 27 73 82 N.Y. Islanders 30 8 17 5 21 75 104 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Monday’s Games Ottawa 5, Philadelphia 4, SO Pittsburgh 2, Columbus 1 Carolina at Vancouver (n) N.Y. Islanders at Anaheim (n) Tuesday’s Games Blackhawks at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Ottawa at Buffalo, 6 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Washington, 6 p.m.

New Jersey at Columbus, 6 p.m.

Los Angeles at Montreal, 6 p.m.

Detroit at Florida, 6:30 p.m.

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

St. Louis at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.

Phoenix at Colorado, 8 p.m.

Boston at Calgary, 8:30 p.m.

Carolina at Edmonton, 8:30 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at San Jose, 9:30 p.m.

AHL WESTERN CONFERENCE Midwest Division W L OL SL Pts GF Grand Rapids 17 4 1 1 36 89 Rockford 13 11 2 0 28 76 Milwaukee 11 5 4 1 27 56 Wolves 11 10 0 2 24 64 Iowa 8 12 1 0 17 48 North Division W L OL SL Pts GF Hamilton 12 10 0 3 27 68 Toronto 12 9 1 0 25 61 Lake Erie 12 10 0 1 25 64 Rochester 10 10 2 2 24 72 Utica 6 14 1 1 14 48 West Division W L OL SL Pts GF Abbotsford 19 6 1 1 40 92 Texas 14 8 2 2 32 89 Oklahoma City 10 12 0 4 24 71 San Antonio 10 12 0 2 22 65 Charlotte 8 14 0 1 17 60 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L OL SL Pts GF Manchester 16 5 1 4 37 79 Providence 13 8 1 2 29 87 St. John’s 12 10 1 2 27 71 Worcester 10 8 1 1 22 51 Portland 8 9 1 3 20 55 East Division W L OL SL Pts GF W-B/Scranton 14 6 1 2 31 73 Binghamton 14 7 0 2 30 82 Norfolk 12 8 0 4 28 63 Syracuse 11 8 1 2 25 60 Hershey 8 8 2 3 21 63 Northeast Division W L OL SL Pts GF Springfield 16 4 1 1 34 69 Albany 14 7 1 1 30 72 Adirondack 11 10 0 2 24 54 Bridgeport 9 10 1 3 22 65 Hartford 9 13 0 2 20 59

GA 53 90 57 65 59 GA 70 57 70 80 73 GA 74 75 81 72 74

GA 68 80 70 56 67 GA 58 66 60 59 65 GA 51 63 56 78 79

NOTE: Two points are awarded for a win, one point for an overtime or shootout loss.

Monday’s Games No games scheduled Tuesday’s Games Albany at Bridgeport, 10 a.m.

Syracuse at St. John’s, 5 p.m.

San Antonio at Charlotte, 6 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Syracuse at St. John’s, 5 p.m.

Providence at Portland, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Grand Rapids, 6 p.m.

Springfield at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, 6:05 p.m.

Lake Erie at Rochester, 6:05 p.m.

Hershey at Binghamton, 6:05 p.m.

Iowa at Abbotsford, 9 p.m.

SOCCER 1:30 p.m.: UEFA Champions League, Paris at Benica, FSN 1:30 p.m.: UEFA Champions League, Shakhtar Donetsk at Manchester United, FS1

TRANSACTIONS

PREPS BOYS BOWLING

PROS LINE +110 +110 +115 +125 +120 -110 +155 +135 +110 +130 +110 +250

SATURDAY

at Dallas 7:30 p.m.

CSN AM-720

TV/Radio

NCAA Basketball FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG at Florida 3 Kansas Green Bay 1½ at E. Michigan at Xavier 11 Evansville at Indiana 19½ Oakland at Illinois 18½ Dartmouth Gonzaga 2 at West Virginia at Kentucky 12½ Boise St. at California 15½ Nevada at Bradley 5 IPFW at Minnesota 17 S. Dakota St. at Kansas St. 16 South Dakota at Utah 16½ I daho St. at Tulsa 8½ UALR at Seton Hall 16 NJIT

FRIDAY

Next Game: Sunday at Cleveland

NCAA Football Saturday TODAYO/U UNDERDOG 11½ (55) Army

FAVORITE at Bulls at Indiana at Cleveland San Antonio Minnesota at Brooklyn Oklahoma City at L.A. Lakers

BULLS SCHEDULE Date

FAVORITE Navy-x

TUESDAY

BASEBALL American League

MCHENRY 2,976, WOODSTOCK CO-OP 2,462

WHITE SOX — Agreed to terms with RHP Felipe Paulino on a one-year contract.

BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Assigned INF Cord Phelps outright to Norfolk (IL).

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Agreed to terms with 1B David Cooper.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Signed RHP Roy Halladay to a one-day contract and announced his retirement.

National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Named Jon Weisman director of digital and print content.

Frontier League ROCKFORD AVIATORS — Signed 1B Kenny Bryant to a contract extension.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Fined Minnesota F Corey Brewer $5,000 for violating the league’s anti-flopping rules for the second time this season.

CLEVELAND CAVALIERS — Recall G/F Carrick Felix and C Henry Sims from Canton (NBADL).

TORONTO RAPTORS — Traded F Rudy Gay, C Aaron Gray and F Quincy Acy to Sacramento for Gs John Salmins and Greivis Vasquez, F Patrick Patterson and C Chuck Hayes.

FOOTBALL National Football League INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Placed RB Chris Rainey on injured reserve. Agreed to terms with RB Tashard Choice.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Placed RB Justin Forsett and WR Stephen Burton on injured reserve. Released WR Marcus Jackson. Signed RB Delone Carter. Signed WR Chad Bumphis to the practice squad.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Placed TE Kyle Rudolph on injured reserve.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Placed TE Rob Gronkowski on injured reserve.

Re-signed TE D.J. Williams Canadian Football League CFL — Named Glen Johnson vice president, officiating.

WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Announced the retirement of LB Pierre-Luc Labbe.

HOCKEY National Hockey League BLACKHAWKS — Recalled G Kent Simpson from Rockford (AHL). Placed F Bryan Bickell on injured reserve, retroactive to Nov. 19.

NHL — Suspended Pittsburgh F James Neal five games for kneeing Boston F Brad Marchand during Saturday’s game.

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Recalleed D Tim Erixon from Springfield (AHL).

DALLAS STARS — Recalled F Colton Sceviour from Texas (AHL).

MINNESOTA WILD — Assigned C Erik Haula to Iowa (AHL).

NEW YORK RANGERS — Assigned F J.T. Miller to Hartford (AHL). Recalled Arron Asham from Hartford.

PITTSBURGH PENGUINS — Placed D Brooks Orpik on injured reserve. Recalled D Brian Dumoulin from Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton (AHL).

American Hockey League AHL — Suspended Syracuse D J.P. Cote two games.

LAKE ERIE MONSTERS — Recalled Fs Cam Reid and Michael Schumacher from Denver (CHL).

PEORIA RIVERMEN — Assigned F Garrett Vermeersch to Greenville (ECHL).

SOCCER Major League Soccer COLUMBUS CREW — Re-signed F Dominic Oduro.

FC DALLAS — Traded M Jackson to Toronto FC for a conditional 2015 secondround draft pick and allocation money.

PORTLAND TIMBERS — Exercised 2014 contract options on Ms Will Johnson, Michael Nanchoff, Rodney Wallace and Ben Zemanski; Ds Futty Danso, Andrew Jean-Baptiste, Pa Modou Kah and Rauwshan McKenzie; and G Jake Gleeson.

Declined 2014 contract options on Ds David Horst and Ryan Miller. Waived D Dylan Tucker-Gangnes and F Brent Richards.

McHenry: McClaughry 590, Churchill 709, Colomer 616, Reinhardt 611, Hudjera 450. Total: 2,976.

Woodstock co-op: Black 329, Rowan 561, Brown 507, Geske 469, Myers 596.

Total: 2,462.

GIRLS BASKETBALL PRAIRIE RIDGE 57, JACOBS 31 Jacobs Prairie Ridge

9 8 6 8 - 31 22 15 15 5 - 57

JACOBS (31) Williams 3 1-2 8, Sidor 1 3-4 5, Powell 0 1-2 1, Barnec 0 1-2 1, Grady 1 1-1 3, Mangieri 0 0-0 0, Surges 0 2-2 2, Richman 1 0-0 3, Frighetto 2 0-0 5, Lach 0 1-2 1, Hernandez 1 0-0 2, Totals 9 10-15 31.

PRAIRIE RIDGE (57) Klendworth 3 1-2 8, Le Beau 6 1-1 16, Voel-Pel 6 2-3 14, McNally 1 0-2 2, Drain 5 3-3 13, Clark 2 0-1 4, Ridge 0 0-0 0, Wing 0 0-0 0, Lockwood 0 0-0 0, Totals 23 7-12 57.

Three-point goals: Jacobs 3 (Williams, Richman, Frighetto), Prairie Ridge 5 (Le Beau 4, Klendworth). Total fouls: Jacobs 12, Prairie Ridge 14.

HUNTLEY 58, CARY-GROVE 48 Cary-Grove Huntley

5 10 15 18 - 48 17 9 16 16 - 58

CARY-GROVE (48) Barker 5 3-4 15, Glaysher 5 1-2 12, Cunningham 1 4-4 6, Kendeigh 3 0-0 8, Pilut 1 0-0 2, Sopchyk 1 0-0 3, Wilczynski 0 0-0 0, Clemment 0 0-0 0, Jakubicek 0 1-2 1, Priester 0 0-1 0, Josefowicz 0 0-0 0, Jones 0 1-2 1. Totals: 15 10-15 48.

HUNTLEY (58) Barreto 1 0-0 3, Brock 1 0-1 3, Zornow 1 0-0 2, A. Andrews 7 8-9 23, S. Andrews 7 11-12 25, Zobott 1 0-0 2, Renkosik 0 0-0 0, Clausen 0 0-0 0, Const 0 0-0 0. Totals: 18 19-22 58.

Three-point goals: C-G 6 (Barker 2, Kendeigh 2, Glaysher, Sopchyk), Huntley 3 (Barreto, Brock, A. Andrews). Total fouls: C-G 17, Huntley 14. Technical fouls: S. Andrews (H).

WOODSTOCK NORTH 43, HARVARD 27 Woodstock North 12 17 Harvard 7 8

5 9 - 43 9 3 - 27

WOODSTOCK NORTH (43) J. Crain 2-1-3-6, Jones 5-4-4-14, Zieman 1-2-2-5, Schaffter 0-0-1-0, S. Crain 0-1-21, Ahr 4-1-4-9, Bates 1-4-6-6, Chamberlain 1-0-2-2. Totals: 14-13-23-43.

HARVARD (27) Powell 1-0-1-2, Bischke 6-3-10-15, Mercado 0-0-2-0, Trebes 0-0-4-0, Irais 1-0-4-2, Jacobs 1-0-3-2, Linhart 1-3-6-6.

Totals: 10-6-30-27.

Three-point goals: Woodstock North 2 (J. Crain, Zieman), Harvard 1 (Linhart).

SCHEDULE TUESDAY Boys Basketball: Woodstock North at McHenry, 7 p.m.

Girls Basketball: Hampshire at Crystal Lake Central, Grant at Dundee-Crown, Johnsburg at Grayslake Central, 7 p.m.

Boys Swimming: Belvidere co-op at Woodstock co-op, 4:30 p.m.

Wrestling: Johnsburg at DundeeCrown Triangular, Marengo at Rochelle, 5:30 p.m.; Woodstock North at Hampshire, 6:30 p.m.

Boys Bowling: Huntley at Johnsburg, 4:30 p.m.

Girls Bowling: Marengo at Winnebago, 3:45 p.m., Huntley at Grayslake Central, 4 p.m.; Grayslake North at Woodstock co-op, Dundee-Crown at McHenry, Johnsburg at Jacobs, 4:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY Girls Basketball: Faith Lutheran vs.

GOLF

THURSDAY Boys Basketball: North Boone at Woodstock North, Rockford Christian at Marian Central, Grayslake North at Prairie Ridge, Dundee-Crown at DeKalb, Johnsburg at Crystal Lake South, Woodstock at Jacobs, Hampshire at CaryGrove, Crystal Lake Central at Huntley, Alden-Hebron at Marengo, 7 p.m.

Girls Basketball: Harvest Christian at Alden-Hebron, 7 p.m.

Boys Swimming: Huntley at West Aurora, 5 p.m.

Wrestling: Marengo at Burlington Central, 6 p.m.; Dundee-Crown at Cary-Grove, 6:15 p.m.; Grayslake North at Johnsburg, Woodstock North at Woodstock, Prairie Ridge at Crystal Lake South, Crystal Lake Central at Huntley, McHenry at Jacobs, 6:30 p.m.

Girls Bowling: Huntley at Jacobs, 4 p.m.; Woodstock co-op at Grayslake Central, Dundee-Crown at Johnsburg, 4:30 p.m.

FRIDAY Boys Basketball: Alden-Hebron at Christian Life, Lake Zurich at Johnsburg, Prairie Ridge at Crystal Lake Central, 7 p.m.; Lakes at Cary-Grove, 7:30 p.m.

Girls Basketball: Woodstock North, Crystal Lake South, Cary-Grove, DundeeCrown, Johnsburg, Woodstock, Harvard, Marian Central, Marengo at Northern Illinois Classic at McHenry, Round Lake at Richmond-Burton, 7 p.m., Huntley at Whitney Young, 8 p.m.

Girls Gymnastics: Prairie Ridge at DeKalb Invitational, 6 p.m.

Wrestling: Crystal Lake South at Marian Central, 6 p.m.; Johnsburg at Woodstock North, Rockford Auburn at Woodstock, Grayslake Central at Hampshire, 6:30 p.m.

Boys Bowling: Marengo at Rockford Lutheran, 3:45 p.m., Woodstock at Westminster Christian, 4:30 p.m.

Girls Bowling: Marengo at Rockford Lutheran, 4:30 p.m.

SATURDAY Boys Basketball: Dundee-Crown at Highland Park, 4 p.m.; Huntley at Rockford Boylan, Richmond-Burton at Woodstock, Marengo at North Boone, Genoa-Kingston at Harvard, 7 p.m.; Marian Central at Chicago Christian, 7:15; McHenry at Lake Park, 7:30 p.m.

Girls Basketball: Cary-Grove at Stevenson, 5:30 p.m., Prairie Ridge at Huntley, 7 p.m., Cary-Grove, McHenry, Dundee-Crown, Johnsburg, Woodstock, Harvard, Marian Central, Woodstock North, Crystal Lake South, Marengo at Northern Illinois Classic at McHenry Boys Swimming: Huntley at Libertyville Invite, 10 a.m.; Jacobs co-op, Dundee-Crown, Cary-Grove co-op at Rolling Meadows Invite, 10:30 a.m.; Woodstock co-op at Glenbrook North, McHenry at West Chicago Relays, 1 p.m.

Wrestling: Harvard at Grant, Crystal Lake Central at Downers Grove South, Cary-Grove at Sycamore Quad, McHenry at Prospect, Prairie Ridge at Dick Mudge Memorial Invite, Woodstock, Marengo, Marian Central at Gary Swanson Tournament, 9 a.m., Crystal Lake South at St. Rita Quad, Dundee-Crown vs. Hersey/Larkin/Foreman, Richmond-Burton, Huntley at Glenbard East Quad, 10 a.m.

Boys Bowling: Marengo, McHenry at Rockford Guilford Tournament, Girls Bowling: Jacobs at Streamwood Tournament, 9 a.m.; Evanston at Woodstock co-op, 10 a.m.

BASEBALL

WORLD GOLF RANKINGS

MLB

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REMAINING FREE AGENTS

1. Tiger Woods USA 2. Adam Scott AUS 3. Henrik Stenson SWE 4. Justin Rose ENG 5. Phil Mickelson USA 6. Rory McIlroy NIR 7. Matt Kuchar USA 8. Steve Stricker USA 9. Zach Johnson USA 10. Brandt Snedeker USA 11. Jason Day AUS 12. Graeme McDowell NIR 13. Jason Dufner USA 14. Ian Poulter ENG 15. Dustin Johnson USA 16. Luke Donald ENG 17. Charl Schwartzel SAF 18. Jim Furyk USA 19. Sergio Garcia ESP 20. Keegan Bradley USA 21. Webb Simpson USA 22. Jordan Spieth USA 23. Hideki Matsuyama JPN 24. Lee Westwood ENG 25. Thomas Bjorn DEN 26. Bubba Watson USA 27. Ernie Els SAF 28. Jamie Donaldson WAL 29. Bill Haas USA 30. Nick Watney USA 31. Hunter Mahan USA 32. Victor Dubuisson FRA 33. Ryan Moore USA 34. Louis Oosthuizen SAF 35. G. Fernandez-CastanoESP 36. Graham DeLaet CAN 37. Francesco Molinari ITA 38. Miguel Angel JimenezESP 39. Martin Kaymer GER 40. Rickie Fowler USA 41. Jonas Blixt SWE 42. Matteo Manassero ITA 43. Billy Horschel USA 44. Kevin Streelman USA 45. David Lynn ENG 46. Thongchai Jaidee THA 47. Jimmy Walker USA 48. Peter Hanson SWE 49. Branden Grace SAF 50. Richard Sterne SAF

Mooseheart, 5:30 p.m., Prairie Ridge at Marian Central, 6:30 p.m., McHenry at Cary-Grove, Jacobs at Crystal Lake South, Woodstock at Richmond-Burton, Harvard at Marengo, 7 p.m.

Boys Swimming: Jacobs co-op, Huntley, Dundee-Crown at St. Viator, 5 p.m.

Wrestling: Kaneland, Cary-Grove at Crystal Lake Central, 5 p.m.; Byron at Harvard, 5:30 p.m.

Boys Bowling: Johnsburg at McHenry, Marengo at Winnebago, 4:30 p.m.

Girls Bowling: McHenry at New Trier, 4:30 p.m.

12.34 10.00 9.01 7.53 7.44 6.82 6.47 6.04 5.71 5.52 5.50 5.28 5.28 5.26 5.02 4.87 4.82 4.81 4.68 4.55 4.52 4.29 4.01 3.94 3.81 3.76 3.75 3.72 3.55 3.45 3.40 3.30 3.28 3.22 3.06 2.97 2.91 2.84 2.83 2.77 2.75 2.74 2.74 2.70 2.69 2.59 2.58 2.54 2.41 2.40

AMERICAN LEAGUE WHITE SOX (1) — Gavin Floyd, rhp.

BALTIMORE (8) — Alexi Casilla, 2b; Jason Hammel, rhp; Nate McLouth, of; Michael Morse, of; Brian Roberts, 2b; Francisco Rodriguez, rhp; Chris Snyder, c; Tsuyoshi Wada, lhp.

BOSTON (5) — Stephen Drew, ss; Joel Hanrahan, rhp; John McDonald, ss; Mike Napoli, 1b; Matt Thornton, lhp.

CLEVELAND (5) — Matt Albers, rhp; Rich Hill, lhp; Ubaldo Jimenez, rhp; Jason Kubel, of; Kelly Shoppach, c.

DETROIT (6) — Joaquin Benoit, rhp; Jeremy Bonderman, rhp; Octavio Dotel, rhp; Omar Infante, 2b; Ramon Santiago, 2b; Jose Veras, rhp.

HOUSTON (1) — Erik Bedard, lhp.

KANSAS CITY (4) — Bruce Chen, lhp; Carlos Pena, 1b; Ervin Santana, rhp; Miguel Tejada, 2b.

MINNESOTA (1) — Mike Pelfrey, rhp.

NEW YORK (10) — Robinson Cano, 2b; Joba Chamberlain, rhp; Curtis Granderson, of; Travis Hafner, dh; Boone Logan, lhp; Lyle Overbay, 1b; Andy Pettitte, lhp; Mark Reynolds, 1b-3b; Mariano Rivera, rhp; Kevin Youkilis, 3b.

OAKLAND (3) — Grant Balfour, rhp; Bartolo Colon, rhp; Kurt Suzuki, c.

SEATTLE (7) — Endy Chavez, of; Franklin Gutierrez, of; Raul Ibanez, of; Kendrys Morales, dh; Oliver Perez, lhp; Humberto Quintero, c; Joe Saunders, lhp.

TAMPA BAY (7) — Jesse Crain, rhp; Roberto Hernandez, lhp; James Loney, 1b; Fernando Rodney, rhp; Luke Scott, dh; Jamey Wright, rhp; Delmon Young, of.

TEXAS (4) — Lance Berkman, dh; Nelson Cruz, of; Matt Garza, rhp.

TORONTO (4) — Rajai Davis, of; Munenori Kawasaki, ss-2b; Darren Oliver, lhp; Ramon Ortiz, rhp.

NATIONAL LEAGUE CUBS (3) — Scott Baker, rhp; Kevin Gregg, rhp; Matt Guerrier, rhp.

ARIZONA (2) — Eric Chavez, 3b; Will Nieves, c.

ATLANTA (7) — Luis Ayala; rhp; Scott Downs, lhp; Freddy Garcia, rhp; Reed Johnson, of; Kameron Loe, rhp; Paul Maholm, lhp; Eric O’Flaherty, lhp.

CINCINNATI (6) — Bronson Arroyo, rhp; Shin-Soo Choo, of; Zach Duke, lhp; Cesar Izturis, ss; Nick Masset, rhp; Manny Parra, lhp.

COLORADO (5) — Rafael Betancourt, rhp; Jeff Francis, lhp; Todd Helton, 1b; Roy Oswalt, rhp; Yorvit Torrealba, c.

LOS ANGELES (8) — Chris Capuano, lhp; Mark Ellis, 2b; Jerry Hairston Jr., 3b; J.P. Howell, lhp; Carlos Marmol, rhp; Juan Uribe, 3b; Edinson Volquez, rhp; Michael Young, 3b.

MIAMI (4) — Matt Diaz, of; Austin Kearns, of; Juan Pierre, of; Placido Polanco, 3b.

MILWAUKEE (3) — Yuniesky Betancourt, 1b; Mike Gonzalez, lhp; Corey Hart, of-1b.

NEW YORK (7) — David Aardsma, rhp; Tim Byrdak, lhp; Pedro Feliciano, lhp; Frank Francisco, rhp; Aaron Harang, rhp; Daisuke Matsuzaka, rhp; Johan Santana, lhp.

PHILADELPHIA (1) — Roy Halladay, rhp.

PITTSBURGH (6) — Clint Barmes, ss; John Buck, c; A.J. Burnett, rhp; Kyle Farnsworth, rhp; Jeff Karstens, rhp; Justin Morneau, 1b.

ST. LOUIS (3) — Carlos Beltran, of; Chris Carpenter, rhp; Jake Westbrook, rhp.

SAN DIEGO (3) — Ronny Cedeno, ss; Mark Kotsay, of; Jason Marquis, rhp.

SAN FRANCISCO (3) — Chad Gaudin, rhp; Andres Torres, of; Barry Zito, lhp.

WASHINGTON (1) — Chad Tracy, 3b-1b.

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BULLS

Bulls still struggle to stop 3s

By JOE COWLEY

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jcowley@suntimes.com It was right there for all to see Opening Night in Miami.

The Heat shot 11 for 20 (55 percent) from the 3-point line on their way to the 107-95 win over the Bulls.

It had to be an aberration.

After all, this is a Bulls team that snacks on hustle and dines on defense. A Bulls team that was sixth-best in the NBA last season in holding opposing teams to a .346 shooting percentage from beyond the 3-point line, and third best (.325) two seasons ago.

Some aberration. Eighteen games in this is now a trend, with the Bulls the second-worst in the Association, allowing the opposition to shoot .403 percent from 3-point land, and still searching for answers on why it’s been happening consistently.

“It’s effort, man,” big man Taj Gibson said Saturday

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night, following a game against the Pistons in which Detroit shot 12-for-19 from 3-point land.

“We just have to have the will to play the possession to the end.”

Yes and no.

Tom Thibodeau-coached teams always play with will and effort. They don’t know any other way.

This unit hasn’t done as good a job of finishing off defensive possessions as recent Bulls teams, but there’s also been some other reasons, including long offensive rebounds off misses, as well as injuries forcing different looks on the floor that just aren’t

communicating with each other as well as they should.

“That usually requires multiple effort,” Thibodeau said of guarding 3-pointers. “What [was] mentioned is a big part of it: the scramble 3, the transition 3. Those are the things you have to eliminate. The initial part of our defense I think has been very, very good. The finish of the defense, particularly the scramble three … the long rebound we have to get to quicker.”

Thibodeau has been addressing the problem in practice for weeks, insisting that they have drills to work on it.

Long rebounds for the offense aren’t just bad luck. There’s a breakdown in technique at times.

“We also have to have the discipline of not running in,” Thibodeau said. “Sometimes our guards have to get to the elbow area so they can chase down that long rebound. It’s been that part of it. We’ve done

a pretty good job of challenging shots on the initial one. And the rebounding has been off the charts all year.

“But the defensive transition and rebounding, those are two things we can be great at.

If we do that, this is a team that has a lot of toughness.”

And a team that feels like it’s due for some statistical correctness in that category sooner than later.

“We look at it, we talk about it, we have a concentrated effort to try and take away the three, but it seems like it just keeps killing us,” guard Kirk Hinrich said. “We’ll keep working at it.

I think a lot of it is transition, second shots – there’s been an unbelievable amount of times where there’s been a loose ball and teams pick it up and hit a three against us. It seems like here at home it’s happened a lot to us. It’s just one of those things. We work on it every day and hopefully we’ll get that down.”

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Detroit Pistons forward Kyle Singler lines up a 3-point shot against the Bulls on Saturday at the United Center.

BLACKHAWKS

Crisis of confidence: Penalty-killing numbers plummet

By MARK LAZERUS mlazerus@suntimes.com There has to be a technical explanation, right? There has to be some kind of a mechanical reason, something that can be diagrammed with X’s and O’s, something that clearly and concisely can explain how one of the best penalty-killing units in the NHL became one of the worst penalty-killing units in the NHL. There has to be something – or someone – to blame for what Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville termed a ‘‘disaster.’’

Right?

“It’s not that guys aren’t trying or aren’t working,” de-

fenseman Sheldon Brookbank said. “It’s just that things aren’t really working out for us for some reason.”

Some reason. But what?

The Hawks are at a loss to explain how a unit that killed 87.2 percent of opposing power plays last season has killed only 73.3 percent this season, even after a 5-for-5 effort Sunday against the dismal Florida Panthers. After all, it’s the same coaching staff using the same structure and scheme with largely the same personnel.

There are some obvious flaws. The Hawks are winning only 45.8 percent of faceoffs when short-handed, compared

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Tuesday, CSN, AM-720 with 51.9 percent the rest of the time. A won draw and a quick clear can kill 20 or 30 seconds right off the bat; a lost draw is an instant structured setup for the opponent.

The Hawks are allowing more shots through and seem to be a step slow into shooting lanes, and goalie Corey Crawford isn’t bailing them out

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when that happens. He has a .925 save percentage at even strength and a .784 save percentage short-handed.

And the Hawks aren’t making clean clears early in power plays, which leaves them scrambling in their own end for 30, 45 or even 60 seconds at a time, leaving them “dead tired, twisting themselves into the ice as the lactic acid gets into your legs and you’re kind of stuck there,” according to radio analyst Troy Murray, a longtime penalty-kill specialist.

More than anything else, though, the Hawks don’t have any confidence in themselves.

The snowball has been rolling downhill for too long, and they

appear to have psyched themselves out.

“It seems like last year, we had a little more confidence when we went out there,” center Marcus Kruger said.

“Now, we’re maybe a little on our heels and don’t want to get scored on.”

At first, it sounds silly to think that pro athletes at the highest level – even those on a team coming off a championship and leading the league in points – can have such a crisis of confidence, that a player’s mental state so clearly can affect his play on the ice.

But players are human. And right now, the Hawks almost are expecting the worst on the

penalty kill, which prevents them from playing their best.

A split-second of thought gives opponents a split-second of an open shooting lane.

“You start to think more, and when you think, you’re not reacting,” Murray said.

“In your mind, you’re saying: ‘Where am I supposed to be?

What am I supposed to be doing? If the puck goes here, I’m supposed to be going here.’

It’s too much thinking in your head. Last year, it was just instinctive.”

Last season, the Hawks couldn’t wait to hop over the boards and kill a penalty. This season, they’re just waiting for the other skate to drop.

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Spine health The most common mistakes leading to a bad back are poor body mechanics and unhealthy habits.

How you move objects, your posture, not stretching before exercising and wearing the wrong kind of shoes all can contribute to one of the most common medical problems today, with back pain affecting eight out of 10 people in their lifetime, according to the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Douglas Won, founder and director of Minimally Invasive SpineCARE and Star Medical Center in Plano, Texas, offers some tips to improve overall back health: First, maintain proper body mechanics ! Stretch before exercising or doing any strenuous activity. ! Push heavy objects across the floor instead of pulling or lifting them. ! When lifting is necessary, lift with your knees, not your back. ! Avoid sudden movements and “twisting” motions when carrying objects. ! If you work in an office, check your chair and desk to make sure they are the right height for you. Your feet should touch the ground; your spine should be straight; your shoulders should be back; and your hands should rest comfortably just above your waist. ! Maintain good posture as often as possible. When standing, your weight should be balanced evenly on both feet to avoid straining your muscles and joints. ! Wear proper footwear.

Next, adopt healthy habits: ! Don’t smoke: Smoking can restrict blood flow to vital spinal tissues, depriving them of oxygen and important nutrients, which decreases your body’s natural ability to heal. ! Exercise regularly: The best programs for back health include core strengthening and cardiovascular exercises. ! Lose weight: Excess weight can significantly increase back pain and cause back conditions such as herniated discs. ! Reduce stress: When stressed, the body tightens its muscles. This can result in spasms, “muscle knots” and pinched nerves.

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Insurers and employers join the website and app bandwagon

By ANKITA RAO Kaiser Health News When Michelle Kuecker was looking to shed some weight two years ago, she turned to a website her friend had suggested: MyFitnessPal. The 26-year-old counselor started logging in her diet and exercise on a personal online account. She also shared the daily ups-and-downs with her sister and roommate, who were using the site. Six months later, Kuecker reached her goal of losing 25 pounds.

Consumers such as Kuecker aren’t the only ones noticing the benefits of programs like MyFitnessPal, which also functions as a smartphone app. In September, the insurance company Cigna announced it will offer services from MyFitnessPal, which has reported more than 40 million users, to the insurer’s customers.

“The goal here is to break down artificial barriers between most people and their insurance companies,” Joe Mondy, director of public relations at Cigna, said about the partnership.

And while they tout the overall benefits of a healthy body and mind, both insurers and employers also could benefit financially: Healthier consumers can mean lower health costs and more productivity at work.

Building app wellness Companies and insurers have taken different approaches to building their wellness programs. But most contain some common elements: a social networking component, health trackers and some sort of incentive. Incentives can be virtual, such as points and prizes that give users little more than bragging rights; or very concrete, like discounts on insurance premiums.

Cigna’s use of MyFitnessPal is part of a trend. A Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida subsidiary is working out a deal to offer its beneficiaries Zensey, an online system that uses competition to engage people.

Aetna, another large insurer, tapped Get Active!, an online program created by wellness company Shape Up that includes exercise and diet trackers, and competition with other users. Employers that offer Aetna can choose to add these wellness components to their workers’ plans, along with products such as iTriage, a mobile app that lets users research symptoms and find doctors.

“I think insurance companies are part of a larger community where we all have responsibility to think of community health,” said Susan Kosman, the chief nursing officer at Aetna, one of the country’s largest health insurance companies.

United Healthcare has worked with health technology company Novu to provide an interactive platform just for its Medicare beneficiaries. The online portal offers health evaluations

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and “LifeScores” to engage its consumers.

For the wellness companies, partnerships can help market their product and add new features.

Marybeth Thomson, head of business development at MyFitnessPal, said she could not disclose the business relationship with Cigna, but that it was equally beneficial to both sides of the arrangement.

“We share the same goal of helping people live a healthier lifestyle,” she said.

The next level For consumers such as Kuecker, the websites and apps, regardless of how they are introduced, often open the door to a new level of

awareness.

Kuecker said she had never counted calories until she started using MyFitnessPal. That successful effort made her willing to try new wellness incentives offered by her employer’s health insurance plan.

“This is something doctors should recommend – it’s something that shows people how to achieve their goal, not just make a goal,” she said. “I think it’s great.”

• Kaiser Health News is an editorially independent program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan health policy research and communications organization not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

More healthy living apps FLEETY: Competitive much? Try this app. You can earn points for completing your workouts, as well as compete against athletes at all levels. Fleetly works great for long-distance running activities, but it also supports yoga, weight training, table tennis and more.

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The first signs of autism may be visible as early as the first month of a child’s life, according to a study published Nov. 6 in the scientific journal Nature, CNN Health reports.

Researchers followed 110 children from birth to age 3, at which point a diagnosis of autism was ascertained.

Fifty-nine babies were considered “high risk” for developing an autism spectrum disorder because they had siblings with autism; 51 were considered “low risk” because they did not have first-, second- or third-degree relatives with ASD.

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Is body mass index screening necessary at schools?

The main purpose of schools is to educate students.

However, over the years schools have served other functions that include entering the medical arena.

For example, being involved in screening for hearing loss. Parents of children who “failed” their hearing test are informed of this so they can then have their child undergo a more formal hearing examination.

Another example is screening for scoliosis or curvature of the spine. There has not been too much of a parent uproar over these tests, although some people have questioned if they are really beneficial.

VIEWS Dr. Murray Feingold A much bigger furor has been raised over schoolchildren being screened for their body mass index, or BMI. This is a measure of body fat based on the child’s height and weight.

In certain states, parents of children whose BMI findings indicate they are overweight or obese are sent letters informing them of this finding. These letters have been referred to by some people as “fat letters.”

Recent studies have shown about a third of all children and adolescents are overweight or obese. These findings are significant because of the association between obesity with medical problems such as heart disease.

Health officials are hopeful when parents are informed about the presence of obesity, measures will be taken to help prevent it.

However, many parents and others have raised objections to such “fat letters.” They are concerned about things such as bullying, inappropriate dieting and the emergence of an eating disorder. It also may have an affect on the child’s emotional

and psychological well-being.

Others believe it is one more example of government getting involved in an issue that should be between the patient and his or her doctor.

Those who are in favor of school BMI testing point out other school public health programs have been successful, such as mandatory school entrance requirements of having proper vaccinations and vision and hearing tests.

A recent article in favor of BMI screening points out most of the surveys in Arkansas, where BMI screening programs have been present for more than four years, have not shown any negative

consequences.

What we know is being overweight and obese are associated with medical problems.

And, the majority of times, although not always easy, obesity is preventable.

Now we need to determine the most effective way that does the most good and least amount of harm to the child to detect the presence of obesity.

It is a worthwhile endeavor.

• Massachusetts-based Dr. Murray Feingold is the physician in chief of The Feingold Center for Children, medical editor of WBZ-TV and WBZ radio and president of the Genesis Fund.

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Eli Waldman of Arlington, Va., who has been diagnosed with celiac disease, has his own space in the pantry for gluten-free foods. Celiac disease affects about 1 percent of Americans.

Skipping cake When you’re a kid with celiac disease, saying no to treats at school, birthday parties can be isolating

By DANA SCARTON The Washington Post Last year, Eli Waldman’s fifth-grade science class built a model from graham crackers, marshmallows and cake icing to demonstrate how the Earth’s tectonic plates shift.

Afterward, students were given permission to, well, consume their work. As the kids dug in, Eli, 11, was the odd man out. He has celiac disease, so those foods were not safe for him.

“He had to sit there and watch,” said his mother, Alison Waldman of Arlington, Va. “Eli came home that day and was just devastated.”

Stories like Eli’s are common among children with celiac disease. The disorder, which affects about one in 100 American adults and children, is defined by an immune reaction to gluten, a protein found in bread, pasta, pizza crust, cookies, crackers and many other foods containing wheat, barley or rye.

Gluten, which often serves as a binder, is even present in many ice creams, sauces and salad dressings, as well as in some lip balm and vitamins.

The immune reaction causes an inflammation in the small intestine, which can lead to a host of problems: abdominal pain, small intestine damage, muscle cramps, fatigue, weight loss and stunted growth. Left untreated, celiac disease also may trigger nervous system diseases and reproductive problems.

Children’s National Medical Center follows about 200 children with celiac disease and saw 40 to 50 new cases last year, said John Snyder, chief of gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition there. There is no medication for celiac disease. The treatment is lifelong avoidance of all foods that contain gluten, which can be hard enough for adults;

Go gluten-free Alison Waldman created a gluten-free recipe for chocolate chip cookies for her son, Eli, that has become one of his favorites. Get the recipe at PlanitNorthwest.com/ healthandfitness.

for children with birthday celebrations, school functions, sleepovers and play dates, the regimen poses inordinate challenges.

“Oftentimes, kids who are diagnosed with celiac disease feel that they are the only ones out there,” said Aaron Rakow, a clinical psychologist and director of psychological services in the gastrointestinal division at Children’s. “That feeling of isolation is a major risk, both in terms of leading to feelings of depression and to anxiety disorders.”

Addressing such risks was an impetus behind the hospital’s launch this spring of a celiac disease support group for elementary-school children. A teen group will be organized later this year.

For an hour on three consecutive Monday evenings, Eli, Riley McHose, 10, Dana Musser, 10, and Caroline Wilkes, 9, met with Rakow in a tiny conference room at the medical center. Each child attends a different school, although Dana and Caroline, who live in Arlington, were friends beforehand. (Riley lives in Bowie, Md.) “It’s the first time I’ve met with a group of kids that have the same issue as I have,” Eli said. “It feels good. It’s like they are speaking the same language.”

A recent session resembled one of those parties that can be so troublesome for a kid with celiac disease: Eli, Riley, Dana and Caroline sat at a

rectangular table, laughing and discussing friends, school, vacations and sports. Blanketing the tabletop were potato chips, fresh-baked cookies, snack bars, popcorn, cheese, strawberries, bread and candy.

But these foods were gluten-free.

“This allows the kids to be kids without having to be vigilant and without having to worry about what’s going into their mouths,” Blair Raber said.

She founded the celiac disease program at Children’s five years ago, after her daughter Kate, then 15, received a celiac diagnosis.

In additional to medical and nutritional care, the program provides individual therapy.

Support groups were a natural progression, Rakow said.

The groups offer the unique benefit of peer support.

“What we realized with this peer group [at Children’s National Medical Center] is that the level of candor is really robust,” Rakow said. “The kids are giving each other tips and strategies.”

While the kids learn, their parents have essentially formed their own support system as they wait in an adjacent room, exchanging ideas on gluten-free snacks and the best grocery stores for celiac diets. All noted benefits of the children’s program.

“I think it helps Dana to feel that she’s not alone and that she can handle this,” said her mother, Jennifer Musser.

Dana’s father, Duane, also has celiac disease.

Michelle Wilkes said her daughter Caroline, who received her diagnosis at 6, has become more confident ordering at restaurants. Kimann McHose likes that her daughter “is seeing how other kids manage celiac and getting support other than me just saying, ‘You can’t eat that.’ ”

Dear Abby: I am a single 25-year-old man with a 15-month-old son. I didn’t plan on having any children, but my son is everything to me. His mother and I did not work out well living together. We had different priorities and personalities and could not comfortably coexist.

I have no ill will toward “Andrea.” She’s a great person and a phenomenal mom.

My dilemma is I constantly regret not working harder to stay with her. I see her new boyfriend with my son, and it kills me. I see my son only on my two days off. I wish I could see him more than that, but the only way I could see it happening is if Andrea and I got back together.

Everyone I know says we made the right choice for the three of us, but they may be biased toward my side of the situation. I’m afraid of not being there for my boy like my father wasn’t there for me when I was a kid. I don’t think 18 hours a week with my child will be enough to prevent him from feeling the same way I did. – Torn

to Andrea to try to get back together only to spend more time with your son. Consider asking her how she’d feel about you having him one night during the week in addition to your days off.

Because the breakup wasn’t acrimonious, she may welcome the idea and agree.

Dear Abby: I live in a condo complex and am appalled at the disgusting mess some residents leave behind in the laundry room. It’s hard to fathom people are unaware they are expected to empty the lint screen after using the dryer. My husband says they just don’t care.

Why should I have to empty it just so I can use the machine? People also leave the tops and insides of the machines dirty with lint, hair and what looks like mites. Don’t you agree people should wipe the laundry area down if they’ve left a mess? – Tidy In Northamp-

Father In Connecticut Dear Torn: You have some

ton, Mass.

Dear Tidy: Whether I

serious thinking to do. Feeling as you do, that you didn’t try hard enough to save your relationship, discuss it with your ex and see how she feels about the possibility of a reconciliation.

HOWEVER, while I admire your desire to be a good father, it would be unfair

agree is less important than whether the board of directors of your condominium association does. Bring this up at the next homeowners meeting and ask that some rules be set and a sign posted in the laundry room “reminding” those who use it to PLEASE be sure

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips

the machines are left clean when they are finished using them. I can’t guarantee this will eliminate the problem, but it may help.

P.S. If you are correct about seeing mites in the laundry room, the manager should be informed so an exterminator can visit the complex and eradicate the infestation.

Dear Abby: What’s the proper response when a woman tells you, “You’re a lucky woman to have such a good husband who loves you so much?” That phrase bothers me because I feel it is a slap in my face – like what am I, chopped liver? Am I not worthy of a wonderful marriage and family?

It is usually said by women who are unfamiliar with our lives and the struggles we have both endured since we met each other. Do I say thank you? Smile? Ignore it?

I would never tell another woman she is lucky to have her man because I feel it’s an insult. Am I overreacting? –

He’s Lucky, Too, In Colorado Dear He’s Lucky, Too: Yes. The women who acknowledge how lucky you are may be comparing the way your husband treats you in public to the way they are treated by their husbands. Instead of being defensive, smile and say, “I agree. We’re lucky to have EACH OTHER.”

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

A spouse’s support has positive effects during chronic illnesses Dear Dr. K: I read about a study that said married cancer patients do better than those who aren’t married.

Why does marriage have such a positive effect?

Dear Reader: You’re probably talking about a study that was published earlier this year in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. The study included about 735,000 people diagnosed with 10 different types of cancer. Married men were 23 percent less likely to die of cancer than those who were single, widowed or divorced. For married women, the advantage was 16 percent. For five of the 10 types of cancer, the survival benefits of marriage were stronger than the benefits of chemotherapy.

A spouse can provide such support as: • Encouraging you to get cancer screening tests that detect cancer early; • Helping care for you at times of poor health; • Helping to keep track of medicines; • Making sure you eat right and stay active; • Following up with your care providers; • Making sure you stick to the treatment plan; • Providing moral support, love and affection.

Even if you are single, you

ASK DR. K Dr. Anthony Komaroff can call on social supports when you are sick: • Reach out for help. Being sick is hard. Ask friends and family for help when you need it, such as accompanying you to doctors’ appointments.

• Stay in touch with friends and family. Being connected can have a big impact on your overall health.

• Ask your doctors for help. Social workers, home health aides and other services may all be available and may be covered by insurance.

In my opinion, there’s one more reason married people do better with cancer. I can’t prove it – and I can’t see how anyone could prove it. I think very sick people can influence when they die. Which, in turn, depends on what they have to live for. If they want to throw in the towel, they can increase the likelihood they will die soon. And if they are determined to live as long as possible, they can beat the odds.

My wife’s great-aunt was an independent, socially active woman in her 90s. When her husband died, she said if

she ever learned she had a fatal disease, she would seek no treatment except pain relief.

Instead, she would promptly “join my hubby.”

When she learned she had advanced stomach cancer, she refused surgery and chose hospice. She invited 15 living relatives to visit her.

She kept the names on a list.

When we all had arrived, she checked our names off the list, told us she loved us and asked us to say a prayer. She then fell into a deep sleep.

The next day she was gone.

My brother-in-law was diagnosed with cancer and told he had a year to live.

His daughter told him that she and her fiancé wanted to wait three years to get married, when they finished school. He told his wife and daughter, “I’ll be there.” He was there, thin as a rail. He danced the first dance with the bride, his smile lighting up the room. A few weeks later, he was gone.

Like my wife’s great-aunt, he had kept a vow to his spouse, had determined the time of his passing and was at peace.

• Write to Dr. Komaroff at www.askdoctork.com or Ask Doctor K, 10 Shattuck St., Second Floor, Boston, MA 02115.

Heart attacks: Know the signs

By NANCY SZOKAN The Washington Post You’ve seen enough heart attacks in the movies that you’re pretty sure you know what one looks like, right?

The person gasps for air, feels a sudden sharp pain in the chest, falls to the floor ...

Nope. The “Hollywoodstyle heart attack” is misleading, writes Paige Fowler of Men’s Health magazine, citing a study of 900 heart attack patients. Researchers at Trinity College in Ireland found just more than a third had cinematic symptoms; the others experienced slower, subtler signals of trouble: gradually growing pain in

the chest and left arm, shortness of breath, a sense of fatigue.

The magazine advises – especially if you have risk factors for heart disease – watching out for heart attack cues that are not quite as dramatic: a cold sweat, a sudden feeling of nausea and symptoms that feel like heartburn. If in doubt, call 911 – and chew an aspirin to attack the possible blood clot.

Source: Mens’Health.com

Living Well Randi Zuckerberg (sister of Mark; ex-marketing director of Facebook) doesn’t have all that much advice that you didn’t hear from your

mother or couldn’t have figured out for yourself.

Example: “If we want to really live in the moment with the people we’re with, then we have to turn off the phone and disconnect.”

Still, Zuckerberg’s book on how to keep your emotional and psychological bearings in a super-wired, instantly communicating, relentlessly demanding world turns out to be amiable and readable.

She offers a simple mantra: “Work. Sleep. Family. Friends. Fitness. – Pick three.” In other words, make choices.

Source: “Dot Complicated” by Randi Zuckerberg

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TODAY - Stay focused if you want to reach your destination. Don’t let emotional issues lead you astray.

Muster up the confidence you need to follow through with your plans, and refrain from letting your critics stand between you and victory. Welcome changes and challenges.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- It’s a good day to engage in activities that will improve your surroundings and make you more comfortable at home or work.

Do your own research and make decisions based on what you discover.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Move along at your own speed. Refrain from letting anyone push you into something that you have reservations about. The less you leave unfinished, the better you will feel about your future.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Issues involving honesty or integrity are likely to arise. Speak up and set anyone straight who may not fully understand what you want or think. A judicious compromise will help you avoid trouble.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Offer favors and address issues concerning contracts, loans or settlements. Getting together with someone from your past will pay off. A change is heading your way.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Unpredictable behavior can work for and against you. Stick to your usual means and methods at work, but use the element of surprise when socializing or taking part in physical activities.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Offer your skills to someone you want to impress. Expanding your interests and knowledge will also encourage new friendships or a reconnection with someone from your past.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Empty promises are likely. Take precautions and get what you want in writing. Don’t be afraid to make an unexpected change in your plans if it will help you achieve your aims.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Readdress a situation that is constantly changing. Let go of the past to give yourself the freedom to take advantage of a situation that could improve your life.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Try new things, meet new people and enjoy being a participant today. Don’t let anyone dictate what you can and cannot do. Jealousy could be behind a problem you have with a colleague or family member.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Be proactive when dealing with health or financial concerns. Changes going on at home may not be to your liking at first, but be patient. Self-improvement projects will bring good results.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- If you face unexpected situations with grace, dignity and sound common sense, you will come out ahead. Don’t jump to conclusions about a situation or make assumptions about someone.

Take one step at a time.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Do whatever it takes to finish what you start. Dedication will count for much when it comes to making an impression. Travel or revisiting old friends or places will be eventful.

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White liberals meet their daughter’s black fiance. (CC) duke plots death for eight heirs, played by Guinness. (CC) Heflin, Glenn Ford, Felicia Farr. (CC) (TLC) Toddlers & Tiaras ’ (CC) Bakery Boss ’ (CC) Little People, Big World ’ (CC) Little People, Big World (N) (CC) Little Couple Little Couple Little People, Big World ’ (CC) Little Couple Little Couple Little People, Big World ’ (CC) Castle “Tick, Tick, Tick ...” (CC) Castle “Boom!” (CC) (DVS) Boston’s Finest (N) (CC) Marshal Law:Texas (N) (CC) Boston’s Finest (CC) Marshal Law:Texas (CC) Cold Justice (CC) (TNT) Castle ’ (CC) (DVS) Andy Griffith Andy Griffith Andy Griffith Andy Griffith Andy Griffith Andy Griffith Love-Raymond Love-Raymond Love-Raymond Love-Raymond Love-Raymond King of Queens (:12) The King of Queens (CC) King of Queens King of Queens (TVL) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Modern Family Modern Family Modern Family Modern Family Modern Family Modern Family Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (USA) “Bixby’s Back” “Fizbo” (CC) “Haunted” ’ (CC) “Identity” ’ (CC) “Serendipity” ’ (CC) ’ (CC) ’ (CC) ’ (CC) ’ (CC) “Mother” ’ (CC) “Bound” ’ (CC) Black Ink Crew Black Ink Crew ’ Chrissy & Jones Chrissy & Jones Chrissy & Jones Love & Hip Hop ’ (VH1) Mob Wives ’ (CC) Movie: ›› “Dance Flick” (2009, Comedy) Shoshana Bush. ’ Love & Hip Hop ’ Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Trust Me, I’m Conan (N) (CC) Pete Holmes Conan (CC) Pete Holmes (WTBS) Seinfeld (CC) Seinfeld (CC) Seinfeld (CC) Family Guy ’ Big Bang PREMIUM 5:00 5:30 6:00 6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 The Secret Life Sarah Silverman:We Are Miracles Treme “This City” Lambreaux’s Ja’mie: Private The Battle of (12:15) Movie ›› “Savages” (:15) Movie ›› “Clear History” (2013, Comedy) Larry David, Bill Hader.

Movie ›› “Stoker” (2013, Horror) Mia Wasikowska, (HBO) of Walter Mitty ’ (CC) School Girl ’ amfAR (CC) cancer has spread. ’ (CC) (2012) Taylor Kitsch. ’ ‘R’ (CC) A man seeks revenge against his former boss. ’ (CC) Matthew Goode. ’ ‘R’ (CC) (:40) Zane’s Sex Chronicles Feature 8: Envy A compilation of episodes. Movie ›› “Code (4:50) Movie ››› “Match Point” (2005, Drama) Scarlett Johansson.

A Movie ›› “Gangster Squad” (2013, Crime Drama) Josh Brolin.

Cops try Movie ›› “The Campaign” (2012, Comedy) Will (MAX) 46” ‘R’ man obsesses over his brother-in-law’s fiancee.‘R’ (CC) ’ (CC) to bring mobster Mickey Cohen to justice. ’ ‘R’ (CC) Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis. ’ ‘R’ (CC) Masters of Sex Masters accepts Homeland “Big Man in Tehran” Masters of Sex Masters accepts Homeland “Big Man in Tehran” Movie ››› “Team America:World Police” (2004, (:45) Movie › (4:30) Movie ››› “The Way Back” (2010) Jim Sturgess.

Escaped POWs (SHOW) Libby’s offer of help.

Libby’s offer of help.

“Mother’s Day” trek through the Himalayas on foot to freedom.‘PG-13’ (CC) ’ (CC) ’ (CC) Comedy) Voices of Trey Parker. ’ ‘R’ (CC) (12:05) Movie “The Family Tree” (:10) Movie ››› “Tomorrow,When the War Began” (2010) Caitlin Movie › “The Cold Light of Day” (2012, Action) (:35) Movie › “A Dark Truth” (2012, Suspense) Andy Garcia. Premiere. Movie “National Lampoon’s Dirty Movie” (2011, (TMC) (2010) Dermot Mulroney.‘R’ (CC) Stasey. Eight teenagers band together to fight an invading army.‘R’ A former CIA agent investigates a cover-up of a massacre.‘R’ Comedy) Christopher Meloni. ’ ‘R’ (CC) Henry Cavill. Premiere. ’ ‘PG-13’ (CC) CBS 2 News at CBS Evening ^ WBBM 5:00PM (N) ’ News/Pelley NBC5 News 5P NBC Nightly % WMAQ (N) (CC) News (N) (CC) ABC7 Eyewit- ABC World _ WLS ness News (N) News WGN News at Five (N) ’ (CC)

CBS 2 News at Entertainment 6PM (N) (CC) Tonight (N) ’ NBC5 News 6P Access Hollywood (N) (CC) (N) (CC) ABC7 Eyewit- Wheel of Forness News (N) tune (N) (CC) Two and a Half Two and a Half Men ’ (CC) Men ’ (CC) Curious George PBS NewsHour (N) ’ (CC) (CC) (DVS) Nightly Busi- Charlie Rose (N) ’ (CC) ness Report (N) The Cleveland The Simpsons Family Guy ’ (CC) Show ’ (CC) ’ (CC) Are We There Are We There Tyler Perry’s Yet? Yet? House of Payne Dish Nation (N) The Simpsons Modern Family Journal (CC) PBS NewsHour (N) ’ (CC)

CLASSIFIED

Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com

PRAYER to ST. JUDE

MECHANIC – FLEET MAINTENANCE Excellent opportunity for experienced heavy duty mechanic to join an established Transportation Company on a 2nd shift.

Weekend work will be required.

Please apply in person or call 815-455-6161.

W. Smith Cartage Co.

7013 Sands Rd, Crystal Lake

MOLD SET UP

ANIMAL CARE

Full Time Must have open availability.

Weekends & holidays.

Physical labor involved, including outside time walking dogs.

Apply online at: www.animalhouseshelter.com Online Application Page Phone: 847-961-5541 Animal House Shelter, Huntley

BUS DRIVERS WANTED ASAP DAILY TAKE HOME PAY! 30 drivers wanted ASAP. Training provided. $12.50/hour with benefits. Clean MVR/background required. Exciting opportunity with steady income. Apply at: MV Transportation 6230 W. Gross Point Rd, Niles, IL 60714

www.mvtransit.com

Lab Technician Aptar Cary has an opportunity for a person experienced in a lab environment and testing, data collection, interpreting test data, and developing lab reports in Word or Excel.

If you meet experience requirements, send resume to rob.revak@aptar.com.

Aptar - Cary, Illinois EOEMF

GM Technician

Martin Chevrolet seeking an experienced GM Technician. 5 yrs. GM experience preferred. Excellent pay and benefits. Paid holidays, Paid Vacation, Health, Dental, Life and disability ins. available. Competitive pay. Must have good driving record & pass drug test.

Please email resume to: dhill@martin-chevy.com or call: 815-459-4000 or apply in person: 5220 NW Hwy. Crystal Lake IL.

MAINTENANCE HVAC-R experience (EPA license) required with BAS background. Full time. Min. $22.29/hr plus excellent benefits. Apply at 227 West Judd St., Woodstock or call: 815-337-5144. EOE Buying? Selling?

Renting? Hiring?

To place an ad, call 800-589-8237 Northwest Herald Classified

Electric Small Presses.

1st/2nd Shift.

SHIPPING/RECEIVING/ PURCHASING Computer experience and able to lift 25 lb. boxes.

MAILBOX & POST SALES & INSTALLATION

Call: 815-344-3333

815-653-7095 ~ 815-341-7822 www.mailboxpostman.com

PROJECT ACCOUNTANT

CARPET INSTALLED

Established construction company in Barrington, IL seeks Project Accountant to assist with daily accounting tasks for ongoing projects in the Chicagoland area. Job cost accounting experience or BS in Accounting/ Finance required.

Sage 300 Construction knowledge a plus.

Email resume to: hr@4idi.com

STABLE HELP Part time experienced stable help for show horses. Spring Grove Il area. Must have references. 815-675-6676.

Engineering

Wonder Lake - West Side

Winter Break Daycare Avail.

815-347-5766

Repaired and Re-Stretched 815-219-2823

HANDYMAN Anything to do with Wood We can Fix or Replace Doors and Windows Sr. Disc. 815-943-4765 MS. BUSY: Party Help, Shopping, Light Cleaning, Errands, Laundry and more. Senior Discounts.

Call Linda at 815-459-6758

Oh, Holy St. Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need, to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg “you” to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance. Help me in my present and urgent petition.

In return, I promise to make your name known, and cause you to be invoked.

Say three Our Fathers, three Hail Marys and Glories, publication must be promised.

St. Jude pray for us all who invoke your aid. Amen.

This Novena has never been known to fail.

C. K.

We are looking for experienced and dedicated professionals to assume these key positions on our nursing team.

RN RN/LPN RN/LPN

FT PT PT

11-7:30 7-3:30 3-11:30

We offer an excellent starting wage, benefits, advancement opportunities, and much more!

Call Samuel at 815-459-7791 or email / fax your resume in confidence to 815-459-7680 or CrystalPines@Tutera.com

Crystal Pines Rehab and Health Care Center 335 North Illinois St Crystal Lake, IL

Algonquin Area. Established Pizzaria . Solid carry-out business.

Turn-key. Call Tony Bellino-Re/Max of Barrington. 847-343-2342.

Carpentersville. Established Mexican Restaurant. Full Liquor License.

Owner Retiring. $25k cash. 2,000 sq.ft. Turn-key operation. Call Tony Bellino, Re/Max of Barrington.

847-343-2342.

! RN / LPN !

All shifts. Pediatric exp. Wknds.

McHenry & Kane Co. 815-356-8400 JOBS ANNOUNCEMENTS STUFF VEHICLES REAL ESTATE SERVICES LEGALS Find it all right here in Northwest Classified

Check out Working World's website for new job opportunities!

www.work-world.com

NEWSPAPER DISTRIBUTION ACI Midwest is seeking qualified applicants for full and part-time positions to assist in the distribution of local newspapers in Kane, DeKalb & McHenry counties.

District Contract Manager (DCM) The DCM will manage the distribution within a geographic area for ACI Midwest, LLC responsible for negotiating contracts with Independent Contractors, managing delivery fees, and achieving service targets. This is a salaried position. Market salary provided commensurate with experience. Previous supervisory experience required. Previous newspaper distribution experience is a plus.

Must have reliable transportation, proof of insurance and valid driver's license. Typical work schedule begins at 1 am.

District Assistant District Assistant will assist in all aspects of the daily distribution of the newspaper, including the delivery of open routes, ride-alongs with Independent Contractors and assisting with service issue.

Typical work schedule begins at 1 am. This is an hourly position with mileage reimbursement. Must have reliable transportation, proof of insurance and valid driver license.

ACI Midwest is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Please submit resume and work history to: dstamper@acicirculation.com

Special Education

TEACHER AIDE The Allendale Association. a Child Welfare, Mental Health and Special Education facility has a full-time Teacher Aide position available within our high end Special Education School on our Lake Villa, IL campus.

Candidate will have a minimum of an Associates Degree in Education or Special Education and Paraprofessional Certificate, minimum of one year related experience, preferably in a special education environment, and valid driver's license w/good driving record. Per DCFS regulations must be at least 21 years of age.

Starting At $770 Located off Rt. 14 in Woodstock

MOVE-IN SPECIALS $300 OFF 1st Month Rent Limited Time Only!

*Income Restricted Community*

Call for Rates

Office Hours M-F 9:00-5:30 Applicants that move in by 1/30/14 are eligible to win a 42” flat screen TV Call for an Appointment to See Your New Home Today!

815-337-9600 Intentionally Quiet 2 Bedroom $650 incl heat, available immed.

815-206-4573

Woodstock Small Studio

Crystal Lake 1BR $760

Quiet building, hardwood floors, heat and water incl. No pets.

815-455-6964

CRYSTAL LAKE 1BR, 2nd FLOOR Small building, $800/mo. No pets/ smoking, heat incl, near metra.

Garage available. 815-344-5797 Close to metra, water and gas incl.

Laundry in basement, no pets.

Call for details. 312-953-7987

1st floor, laundry, parking, no pets/smkg. $700/mo + sec + ref.

847-669-3691

ISLAND LAKE 2 BEDROOM Quiet building, no pets. $825 + sec. 847-526-4435

Island Lake Luxury Apt. Spacious 2BR, 2BA, D/W. W/D, C/A. Approx 1000 sq ft. $875/mo & up. 847-875-7985 Marengo Large 1 & 2 BR most utilities included $640 & UP Broker Owned 815-347-1712

CRYSTAL LAKE Large & Spacious 2BR First floor, $850/mo.

Heat, gas, water, D/W incl.

Pets extra. 847-707-3800

Name is Derek, 8 yr old neutered male. Microchipped, wearing black collar, and a tag with our phone # He has been missing since 7am 12/4 crom Woodbine Drive in Crystal Lake We miss him very much! Please call w/any info.

815-356-8324

CRYSTAL LAKE OPEN HOUSE SAT, DEC 14 10AM-4PM

Grey male cat lost near Riley Rd. West side Wonder Lake, Please call 815-575-5254 if seen

No pets, no smoking. $900/mo + security. 608-474-1960 or 608-564-7960

Renovated 1 & 2BR, FREE HEAT. 815-353-1759

CRYSTAL LAKE ~ 2BR, 2BA

ILLINOIS CONCEALED CARRY CLASSES Professional firearm training will qualify you for for the new Illinois CC permit. Train on an 80 acre country setting 15 minutes north of McHenry. Instructor is NRA certified pistol, NRA range safety officer, Utah certified CC instructor, former law enforcement officer with 50 years of pistol experience.

More info: www.jonesandassociatesconcealedcarry.com

815-759-1900 / mjones@mc.net Education

SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST

Marengo Large 4BR, 2 Full BA

Large kitchen, WD, large backyard deck, fenced-in yrd, 2 car gar. Pets OK, $1100/mo. 815-354-0386 Marengo: 610 E. Grant Hwy. & 1060 Briden Dr., 1BR $600-$645 or 2BR $700-$780 Roberto 773-317-3364 Sandra 815-568-6672 Marengo: Lg 2 bdrm unit avail Immed. $750. All appl W/D, Dishwasher & micro furnished.

Cent Air. No pets/no smoking.

Sec dep, lease req. Tenant pays electric, cable. 224-858-7377

McHenry $199 Move-In Special Large 1BR, from $699. 2BR, 1.5BA from $799. Appl, carpet and laundry. 815-385-2181 McHenry -1 & 2BR some utilities included, balcony $700 & UP Broker Owned 815-347-1712

McHenry 2BR, 2BA Deluxe Apt. ½ MO FREE! Near town, clean, C/A, laundry, no pets.

815-690-1614 or 708-436-0035

MCHENRY / HOLIDAY HILLS FOR RENT IMMACULATE 3 BEDROOM 1 BATHROOM HOUSE FOR RENT. FULL UNFINISHED BASEMENT. FENCED IN BACKYARD. NO GARAGE. DISHWASHER. WASHER / DRYER. HARDWOOD FLOORS. AVAIL. IMMEDIATELY. ONE YEAR LEASE. $1050.00.

CALL 815-790-1490

MCHENRY 3 BEDROOM, 2 BATH Tri-level in Fox Ridge. Fenced yard, sidewalks, $1250/mo + sec + util.

815-575-6919

MCHENRY 3-5BR, 2-3BA Newly remodeled, security and pet deposit req. $1350-$1500/mo.

815-219-1836

McHenry 3BR Ranch Fenced back yard, 2 car garage. $1200/mo. Agent Owned.

K. D. Schaid Appraisal 815-363-2449

WOODSTOCK

McHenry Lrg ranch 3BR, 1.5 BA on crawl space. Living rm, family rm, eat in kitchen counter, 2.5 car att garage, covered deck, shed, fenced yard. Long term lease. The Shores, 807 Pearl Ave. $1245 mo.

Land Management Properties 815-678-4771

Studio, 1 & 2 Bedrooms FREE Pool & Fitness Center

815-338-2383

Attached garage, pets welcome. $1200/mo. 815-759-8533

McHenry Patriot Estates & Prairie Lake Townhomes Ask About our 1BR Special 2BR Starting at $1250.00. .

2 Car Garage, Pet Friendly Free Health Club Membership.

www.cunat.com

815-363-5919 or 815-363-0322

WOODSTOCK WINTER SPECIAL 2BR APTS Starting @ $730

McHenry/Ringwood, 2 BR, 1 BA, Fin. Bsmt. with Fplc., Possible 3rd Br., 1st & Last Mo. Sec. $1175/mo 847-812-1927

Autumnwood Apt. Elevator Building 815-334-9380 www.cunat.com Woodstock: 2, 3 & 4BR, main floor & lndry, $710 & up, Broker Owned 815-347-1712

Woodstock: 2BR apt. $800/mo.+sec. dep Roberto 773-317-3364

WONDER LAKE LARGE 2 STORY 3 bedroom, fenced in yard, 2 car garage, $1350/mo.

815-509-5679 Wonder Lake: nice 2BR w/3 car gar., & lndry $890/mo Broker Owned 815-347-1712 Wonder Lake~Lake Front House Beautifully Remodeled 2BR, 1BA Huge deck & pier, $1150+ utilities, no dogs.

Agent Owned 815-814-3348 Woodstock 2 & 3BR, new paint, fenced yard, 2 car gar., $850 & UP Broker Owned 815-347-1712

HEBRON 2BR CONDO'S

HARVARD, Large Home, quiet/ friendly. Walk to Metra. $415/mo, utilities, cable/wifi & laundry incl. no smoke/no drink 815-916-9804

Woodstock 2 story TH, 2BR, 1.5BA, bsmnt, gar., no pets, sec. dep., lease $875+utilities 815-347-0349

Crystal Lake Warehouse

Appls, W/D, patio/deck, private ent, $745-$875. 815-482-8163

Woodstock ranch 2BR, 2BA, bsmnt, gar., no pets, sec. dep.,

Woodstock -1BR, Den, Utility Rm Close to Sq, living rm, kitchen, no pets/smoking. $725/mo + utilities.

Security + ref req. 815-338-1734

2500 sq ft heated. $3.95/sq ft.

815-236-7045

Incl. all utils + High Speed DSL. $295/mo. 815-790-0240

WOODSTOCK 3 BEDROOM

MCHENRY - ROUTE 31

1.5 Bath, A/C, Stove, Refrigerator, Garage, No Pets. Broker Owned.

847-683-7944 HURRY!!

IRISH PRAIRIE APTS

1 & 2 Bedrooms W/D and Fitness Center 815/363-0322

Attn: HR Dept, P.O. Box 1088, Lake Villa, IL 60046 Fax: 847-356-0290 AA/EEO www.allendale4kids.org

Antioch Long Term Lease. Large 3BR, 2BA tri-level. 2.5 car attchd garage, fenced yard, deck, shed.

Hardwood floors and all kitchen/ laundry appls. $1395.00 mo.

Land Management Properties 815-678-4771

CARY 2 BEDROOM, 1 BATH W/D, D/W, garage, $975/mo+sec.

847-899-7587

Social Service

Crystal Lake 3 Bedroom Ranch 2 bath, finished basement, large fenced yard, 1 car garage, no pets. $1400/mo.

815-236-7191

YOUTH CARE WORKER aka MENTAL HEALTH SPECIALIST

LINE AD DEADLINE: Tues-Fri: 3pm day prior, Sat: 2pm Fri, Sun-Mon: 5pm Fri OFFICE HOURS: Mon-Fri, 8am-5pm PHONE: 815-455-4800

McCullom Lake 2BR, 1BA

$725/mo + sewer,1st & sec dep.

Managing Broker Owned.

Call Shawn 224-577-5521

Crystal Lake CHEAP & CLEAN Office Suite. 300 SF.

ALLENDALE ASSOCIATION

ALLENDALE ASSOCIATION

1 acre, 3BR, 1.5BA, dinette.

Large 2 car garage, pet with dep. $1050/mo. 815-291-9456

lease, $900+utils 815-347-0349

The Allendale Association, a multi-service child welfare agency seeks a part time (6 - 10 hours per week) Speech Therapist for our day education treatment program located in Woodstock, IL. Candidate will provide individual and group therapy to students with communicative disorders & consultation to classroom teachers and will also conduct speech and language screenings and evaluations. Master's Degree in Speech-Language Pathology required. We offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits & an education assistance plan.

Please visit www.allendale4kids.org to download application and send with a copy of your resume to:

Attn: HR Dept, P.O. Box 1088, Lake Villa, IL 60046 Fax: 847-356-0290 AA/EEO www.allendale4kids.org

MARENGO RURAL SETTING

MCHENRY 3BR. 1.5BA

$710 HUNTLEY 1 BEDROOM

Marengo 2 & 3BR, 2.5 BA, 2 car gar., $950-$1075/mo.

Broker Owned 815-347-1712

Near Sq, 1st floor, all utilities incl.

No pets, $450/mo.

815-703-8442 ~ 815-568-8742

Rents Starting at

Please visit www.allendale4kids.org to download application and send with a copy of your resume to:

ALLENDALE ASSOCIATION

Spacious 1, 2 & 3BR Apts

ALGONQUIN - 2 BEDROOM

Quiet & clean building w/ storage, laundry & parking. 1 mo free rent. $800/mo. 847-401-3242

Please visit www.allendale4kids.org to download application and send with a copy of your resume to:

Attn: HR Dept, P.O. Box 1088, Lake Villa, IL 60046 Fax: 847-356-0290 AA/EEO www.allendale4kids.org

WOODSTOCK COMMONS

WILLOW BROOKE

We offer a competitive salary and excellent benefit package as well as a generous tuition assistance plan.

TEACHER AIDE

FOX RIVER GROVE ~ 1 BEDROOM Utilities included, clean. No pets, near metra and shopping.

815-690-1614 or 708-436-0035

WOODSTOCK 3BR, new carpet paint, storage, quiet, clean $775+sec. 815-354-6169

Woodstock Studio $585/mo+sec.

Efficiency $550/mo + sec.1-BR $650/mo + sec, all 3 furn'd w/all utils incl. No Pets. 815-509-5876

Allendale Association a Child Welfare, Mental Health and Special Education facility currently has full time rotating second shift positions for Youth Care Workers aka Mental Health Specialists at our Allendale-Daisy's North Chicago location and our Main Campus in Lake Villa to work actively with high end “at risk” children & adolescents ages 8 to 18 years of age within our Residential Units. Ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology, Sociology, Social Work, or related Human Service field, or 5 years of related equivalent social service experience, Per DCFS regulations, must have valid driver's license w/ good driving record and be at least 21 years of age.

We offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits and a generous education assistance program.

The Allendale Association has a full-time Teacher Aide position available with our LINC Educational Program in Woodstock, IL. Candidate must have a minimum of an Associates Degree in Education or related field, minimum of one-year experience as a Teacher Aide preferably in a special education environment; Paraprofessional Certificate and valid driver's license w/good driving record. Per DCFS regulations must be at least 21 years of age.

$475/mo + all utilities, across from metra. 224-622-1859 or 847-516-8437

HARVARD AREA Huge 3BR, 2BA loft apt. Quiet. Frplc, W/D, C/A. Fish/Swim. Pets ok. $1025/mo.

815-648-2716

CRYSTAL LAKE 2 BEDROOM Cat lost $100 REWARD

FOX RIVER GROVE STUDIO

WOODSTOCK – 2BR, 1BA, 1st Flr. 118 Donovan. Spacious, Kitch appliances incl, Laundry hkups.

Pets negot. $750/mo+$750 sec.

815-382-0015 WOODSTOCK 2BR. Rogers Hall. $800-$825/mo. Move-in special: $300 off 1st mo. Offer good thru 12/31. NO PETS! 815-482-4909

Woodstock Holiday Special

POLISH LADY will clean your Home/Office. FREE ESTIMATES.

Contact the Better Business Bureau www.chicago.bbb.org - or Federal Trade Commission www.ftc.gov

FOX LAKE: remodled unit, 780 sf Very lrg 1BR, dining, balcony, strge & lndry in building, no dogs, utils incl. except elec., $750 & $695mo Agent Owned 815-814-3348

Rev Anne 847-431-4014 Special on Weddings Before End of 2013

Polish Lady Cleaning Large or Small, I can do it all 815-382-5614 FREE ESTIMATES

ALWAYS INVESTIGATE BEFORE INVESTING ANY MONEY

Crystal Terrace Apts. located in Crystal Lake, Illinois has reopened its waiting list for (1) & (2) bedroom Section 8 apartments. Accepting names of interested persons commencing 12/09/13 from 9:00am to 5:00pm. First 150 applicants for the 1 bedroom & 150 applicants for the 2 bedroom units. Interested persons MUST CALL (815) 338-5151. (NO WALK-INS WILL BE ACCEPTED.)

❤Ceremonies of the Heart❤

Great References. 224-858-4515

RN / LPN

CRYSTAL TERRACE APTS.

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Round Lake – Long Lake, 3 BR., Free Buildable Lot, 3 Car Garage, New Windows, Corian Countertops, Dead End Street, Very Private, Fairfield/Rollins. $129,000 Call: 847-875-6739 WONDER LAKE Updated Kitchen. $800.

Linda Clark Prudential First Realty 815-236-2934

Crystal Lake 4BR On Fox River 200 ft waterfront, boat, dock, deck.

1.5 ac, 2BA, new carpet, tile, C/A. $1395/mo.

708-296-4476 Crystal Lake Move In Ready 3BR 1BA Ranch in quiet neighborhood.

Appl,1.5 car garage, Prairie Grove schools, $1250. 847-833-5104

CRYSTAL LAKE ~ 2BR, 2BA

WOODSTOCK

SILVERCREEK 1 & 2 Bedroom Rents Starting $735 ❍ ❍

Affordable Apts.

Garage Included

815-334-9380 www.cunat.com Woodstock 1BR $645, 2BR $745 All appliances, wall to wall carpet.

A/C, balcony On site laundry.

No pets. 847-382-2313 708-204-3823

BREAKING NEWS available 24/7 at NWHerald.com

FR, LR, DR, kitchen, wet bar, appls, W/D. No pets, $850/mo + security.

815-477-7175 HUNTLEY - HOUSE FOR RENT 2 bed, 1 bath, 2 car garage, walk to park and pool, large kitchen, all appl & wash/dryer, softnr, firpl, nice yard, $1100/mo. 815-378-2090

HUNTLEY 3 BEDROOM On 2.5 acres, garage not incl. $1300/mo+utils. 847-417-6056

Huntley Northbridge Sub. 3600 sf, cul-de-sac, 4BR, 2.5BA, htd 3 car, frplc, bsmt, patio/porch. $2500/mo. 847-648-9230 Lake in the Hills 3BR, 1BA, lr, dr, kitchen, gar. Newly remodled, all new appl, lrg fenced yrd, walking distance to school. 847-658-4951

Lakewood estate lot 1.7 acres, no restrictions, previously sold for $130,000 now only $38,500 Broker Owned 815-347-1712

EARN IMMEDIATE INCOME Own a Pepperidge Farm local distributorship for $89K w/10-15% down. Weekly sales $4900 plus.

Call Ralph 815-301-5912

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS Bank of America, N.A., as successor by merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP Plaintiff, Vs. Scott A. Krause a/k/a Scott Krause; et. al.

Defendants, 11 CH 2068 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on FEBRUARY 25, 2013 LENDER SALES OF ILLINOIS LLC will on JANUARY 6, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 AM., or soon thereafter, at the front doors of the McHenry County Courthouse located at 2200 N. Seminary, Woodstock, IL 60098, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: The common address of said real estate is: 6411 Lakewood Drive, Cary, IL 60013 PIN:19-02-278-001 Description of premises: RESIDENTIAL Sale Terms: 25% down by certified funds at the close of the auction: The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "as is" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney." If the property is a condominium, the purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessments and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information: Sales Clerk, Codilis and Associates, P.C., Plaintiff' Attorney 15 W. 030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527 Attorney Number 0468002, (630) 794 5300, File No: 14-11-26580 I577643 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 10, 17, 24, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS Bank of America, N.A. Plaintiff, Vs. Greg Wunderle a/k/a Greg M. Wunderle; et. al.

Defendants, 12 CH 2286 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on MARCH 26, 2013 LENDER SALES OF ILLINOIS LLC will on JANUARY 6, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 AM., or soon thereafter, at the front doors of the McHenry County Courthouse located at 2200 N. Seminary, Woodstock, IL 60098, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: The common address of said real estate is: 40 John Street, Crystal Lake, IL 60014 PIN:19-04-127-008 Description of premises: RESIDENTIAL Sale Terms: 25% down by certified funds at the close of the auction: The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "as is" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney." If the property is a condominium, the purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessments and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information: Sales Clerk, Codilis and Associates, P.C., Plaintiff' Attorney 15 W. 030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527 Attorney Number 0468002, (630) 794 5300, File No: 14-12-26547 I577644 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 10, 17, 24, 2013)

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PUBLIC NOTICE Pierce & Associates File Number # 1221507 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, vs.

SHANNON HERLIHY A/K/A SHANNON P HERLIHY A/K/A SHANNON PATRICIA HERLIHY; PNC BANK, N.A., S/I/I TO MID AMERICA BANK, FSB, S/I/I TO ST FRANCIS BANK, FSB; JP MORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. S/I/I TO WASHINGTON MUTUAL BANK F/K/A WASHINGTON MUT*; WINDSTONE CROSSING TOWNHOME ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 12 CH 2673 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on September 19, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: P.I.N. 19-28-252-067.

Commonly known as 24 SIERRA COURT, LAKE IN THE HILLS, IL 60156.

The improvement on the property consists of a townhouse residence.

The purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by subdivisions (g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9 of the Condominium Property Act Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

For Information: Visit our website http://service.atty-pierce.com. at Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only.

Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 1221507.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I575163 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE Pierce & Associates File Number # 10-37215 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. Plaintiff, vs.

ANDREW HOLMES A/K/A ANDREW JOSEPH HOLMES; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICA'S WHOLESALE LENDER; Defendants, 12 CH 2702 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on September 26, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: P.I.N. 09-34-227-001.

Commonly known as 4117 WEST CRYSTAL LAKE ROAD, MCHENRY, IL 60050.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real

bj gage estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

For Information: Visit our website at http://service.atty-pierce.com.

Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only.

Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 10-37215.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I575164 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE Pierce & Associates File Number # 1220830 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, vs.

THEODORE RYCZEK A/K/A THEODORE B. RYCZEK A/K/A THEODORE BENARD RYCZEK; CINDY L RYCZEK; ARBOR HILLS HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 12 CH 2743 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on October 3, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: P.I.N. 19-29-378-012.

Commonly known as 6 BEDFORD COURT, ALGONQUIN, IL 60102.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

For Information: Visit our website http://service.atty-pierce.com. at Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only.

Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 1220830.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I575165 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE Pierce & Associates File Number # 1222314 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO WACHOVIA BANK, ASSOCIATION, AS NATIONAL TRUSTEE FOR GSMPS MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2005-RP3

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR THE NOTEHOLDERS OF CWHEQ INC. CWHEQ REVOLVING HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST, SERIES 2005-L, Plaintiff, -v.MAC MOSTELLER Defendant 12 CH 1803 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 16, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on January 6, 2014, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 103 ROSEBUD AVENUE, Crystal Lake, IL 60014 Property Index No. 18-02-427-006. The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $159,503.05.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale.

The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701 (C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: KOZENY & McCUBBIN ILLINOIS, LLC, 105 WEST ADAMS STREET, SUITE 1850, Chicago, IL 60603, (312) 605-3500. Please refer to file number 12-0705.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

KOZENY & McCUBBIN ILLINOIS, LLC 105 WEST ADAMS STREET, SUITE 1850 Chicago, IL 60603 (312) 605-3500 Attorney File No. 12-0705 Case Number: 12 CH 1803 TJSC#: 33-26280 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I577715 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 10, 17, 24, 2013)

Plaintiff, vs.

CHARLES MCKINSEY A/K/A A/K/A CHARLES L MCKINSEY CHUCK MCKINSEY; MICHELLE MCKINSEY A/K/A MICHELLE L MCKINSEY A/K/A MICHELLE LUCILLE MCKINSEY A/K/A MICHELLE MILANO; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 12 CH 2836 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on September 19, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: P.I.N. 18-02-260-010.

Commonly known as 75 DELLA STREET, CRYSTAL LAKE, IL 60014.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

For Information: Visit our website at http://service.atty-pierce.com.

Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only.

Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 1222314.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I575166 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS U.S. BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.HARRIS R. ZIDE A/K/A HARRIS REX ZIDE, et al Defendants 12 CH 00306 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 10, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on January 13, 2014, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 605 COUNTRY BROOK, HARVARD, IL 60033 Property Index No. 06-02-326010 (06-02-300-002 U/L). The real estate is improved with a condo/townhouse.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the sidential al tate io

ght the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., NORTH FRONTAGE 15W030 ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-11-35734.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 Attorney File No. 14-11-35734 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 12 CH 00306 TJSC#: 33-22898 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I577497 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 10, 17, 24, 2013)

est community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

For Information: Visit our website at http://service.atty-pierce.com.

Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only.

Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 1225693.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I575315 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS NA WELLS FARGO BANK, Plaintiff, vs.

BARBARA DAWN STASEK AKA BARBARA STASEK; ROBERT W. STASEK AKA ROBERT STASEK; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 13 CH 22 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on August 19, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: Commonly known as 3510 Church Drive, Wonder Lake, Il 60097.

P.I.N. 09-18-402-003.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No re-

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The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call Mr. Anthony Porto at Plaintiff's Attorney, Freedman Anselmo, Lindberg LLC, 1807 West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois 60563-1890. (866) 402-8661.

For Bidding instructions visit www.fal-illinois.com 24 hours prior to sale. F12120160 I575170 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE Pierce & Associates File Number # 1226513 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR GMACM MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2005-AR6 Plaintiff, vs.

DAN THRASHER A/K/A DANIEL GENE THRASER; CHERYL THRASHER A/K/A CHERYL SUE THRASER; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 13 CH 434 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on September 26, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: P.I.N. 14-26-302-019.

Commonly known as 4701 BARREVILLE ROAD, CRYSTAL LAKE, IL 60012.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

For Information: Visit our website

at http://service.atty-pierce.com.

Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only.

Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 1226513.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I575317 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE Pierce & Associates File Number # 1301278 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR STRUCTURED ASSET SECURITIES CORPOMORTGAGE PASSRATION THROUGH CERTIFICATE, SERIES 2007-BC2 Plaintiff, vs.

ALAN ATCHISON A/K/A ALAN J ATCHISON; TERI ATCHISON A/K/A TERI A ATCHISON; KAREN ATCHISON A/K/A KAREN D ATCHISON; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 13 CH 0491 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on September 19, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: P.I.N. 19-13-226-019.

Commonly known as 306 NORTH 1ST STREET, CARY, IL 60013.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after con-

PUBLIC NOTICE Pierce & Associates File Number # 1225693 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, vs.

CHRISTIE FRAVELETTI A/K/A CHRISTIE L. FRAVELETTI A/KA/ CHRISTIE LYNN FRAVELETTI; ANTHONY FRAVELETTI A/K/A ANTHONY F. FRAV; Defendants, 13 CH 126 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on October 3, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: P.I.N. 18-12-451-004-0000.

Commonly known as 1113 WINDRIDGE DRIVE, CRYSTAL LAKE, IL 60014.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common intert ity the has of th

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS REGIONS BANK D/B/A REGIONS MORTGAGE S/B/M TO UNION PLANTERS BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.KEITH CHUIPEK A/K/A KEITH ALAN CHUIPEK, KIM CHUIPEK A/K/A KIM ANNE CHUIPEK, CLIFFORD C. LOTHERY, DONA L. LOTHERY, VIRGINIA ROAD CONDOMINIUMS ASSOCIATION Defendant 13 CH 868 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 9, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on January 13, 2014, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 627 VIRGINIA ROAD, UNIT 212, Crystal Lake, IL 60014 Property Index No. 19-08-202-040. The real estate is improved with a condominium.

The judgment amount was $73,003.78.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale.

The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701 (C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: The sales clerk, FISHER AND SHAPIRO, LLC, 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301, Bannockburn, IL 60015, (847) 498-9990 between the hours of 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. only. Please refer to file number 13-066140.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

FISHER AND SHAPIRO, LLC 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301 Bannockburn, IL 60015 (847) 498-9990 Attorney File No. 13-066140 Case Number: 13 CH 868 TJSC#: 33-24695 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I577663 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 10, 17, 24, 2013)

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Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 1301278.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I575318 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

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PUBLIC NOTICE Pierce & Associates File Number # 1225740 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS CITIMORTGAGE, INC. Plaintiff, vs.

RABIA AHMED; SALMAN AHMED; ADNAN SALEEM; 1ST FARM CREDIT SERVICES, PCA, LEGEND LAKES MASTER ASSOCIATION F/K/A SHAMROCK FARMS MASTER ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 13 CH 573 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on June 20, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: P.I.N. 09-32-376-009.

Commonly known as 6509 WATERFORD DRIVE, MCHENRY, IL 60050.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

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Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 1225740.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I575319 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE Pierce & Associates File Number # 1304004 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, vs.

EMILY J PASS AKA EMILY P. NIEDERMEYER; JEFFRY A NIEDERMEYER; CITIBANK, N.A.; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 13 CH 580 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on September 26, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: P.I.N. 08-14-482-012.

Commonly known as 9210 VINE AVENUE, WONDER LAKE, IL 60097.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

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Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 1304004.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I575320 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE Pierce & Associates File Number # 1305605 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, vs.

CHRIS QUARLES A/K/A CHRIS L. QUARLES; FIRST AMERICAN BANK; EVELYN QUARLES A/K/A EVELYN M. QUARLES A/K/A EVELYN M. QUARLES; SHADOW CREEK CLUSTERS HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 13 CH 634 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on September 26, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: P.I.N. 06-02-105-012.

Commonly known as 404 TIMBER DRIVE, HARVARD, IL 60033.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

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Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 1305605.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I575322 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE Pierce & Associates File Number # 1305118 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE

ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, vs.

DUANE BEESE A/K/A DUANE W BEESE; JANET L BEESE; FIRST AMERICAN BANK; SOMERSET CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION OF CRYSTAL LAKE; UNKNOWN OWNAND NON RECORD ERS CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 13 CH 652 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on September 26, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: P.I.N. 19-08-253-133.

Commonly known as 590 SOMERSET LANE UNIT 5, CRYSTAL LAKE, IL 60014.

The improvement on the property consists of a condominium residence. The purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by subdivisions (g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9 of the Condominium Property Act Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

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Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 1305118.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I575323 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC; Plaintiff, vs.

ALMAS BERSHED; THE UNITED STATE OF AMERICA; MANCHESTER LAKES HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 13 CH 660 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on October 7, 2013,

Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: Commonly known as 4451 Whitehall Lane, Algonquin, IL 60102.

P.I.N. 18-26-478-017.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call Mr. Anthony Porto at Plaintiff's Attorney, Freedman Anselmo, Lindberg LLC, 1807 West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois 60563-1890. (866) 402-8661.

For Bidding instructions visit www.fal-illinois.com 24 hours prior to sale. F13030339 I575324 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE 13-006381 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS FIFTH THIRD MORTGAGE COMPANY Plaintiff, vs.

JEFFREY O. KAMINSKI; ROSEMARIE MARCANTONIO Defendants, 13 CH 864 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on October 3, 2013 Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014 at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the law offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: Commonly known as 3422 Highland Drive, Island Lake, Il 60042.

P.I.N. 15-20-280-067.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No re-

funds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

For information call Sales Department at Plaintiff's Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (312) 651-6705. 13006381 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I575326 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.; Plaintiff, vs.

JEFFERY SUGDEN AKA JEFFREY SUGDEN; MELISA G. SUGDEN AKA MELISA SUGDEN; THE MEADOWS AT CREEKSIDE HOMEOWNERS' ASSOCIATION; THE VILLAS AT CREEKSIDE HOMEOWNERS' ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 13 CH 919 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on September 23, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: Commonly known as 568 Woods Creek Lane, Algonquin, IL 60102.

P.I.N. 19-30-378-018.

The improvement on the property consists of a townhouse residence.

The purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by subdivisions (g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9 of the Condominium Property Act Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call Mr. Anthony Porto at Plaintiff's Attorney, Freedman Anselmo, Lindberg LLC, 1807 West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois 60563-1890. (866) 402-8661.

For Bidding instructions visit www.fal-illinois.com 24 hours prior to sale. F13030406 I575327 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

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PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS MIDWEST COMMUNITY BANK, AN ILLINOIS CORPORATION; Plaintiff, vs.

KEVIN A. WILGENBUSCH; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 13 CH 93 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on September 23, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: Commonly known as 3609 Anne Street, Mchenry, IL 60050.

P.I.N. 09-35-327-011.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call Mr. Anthony Porto at Plaintiff's Attorney, Freedman Anselmo, Lindberg LLC, 1807 West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois 60563-1890. (866) 402-8661.

For Bidding instructions visit www.fal-illinois.com 24 hours prior to sale. F12110216 I575171 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.; Plaintiff, vs.

MARILYN A. BUSH, INDIVIDUALLY; PARKWAY BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE UNDER TRUST AGREEMENT DATED MARCH 5, 2007 AND KNOWN AS TRUST NUMBER 14334 AND NOT INDIVIDUALLY; WOODSCREEK OF CRYSTAL LAKE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION FKA WOODSCREEK ASSOCIATION; HOMEOWNERS SUBASSOCIATION UNIT 3 WOODSCREEK HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN BENEFICIARIESOF TRUST AGREEMENT DATED THE 5TH DAY OF MARCH 2007 AND KNOWN AS TRUST NUMBER

14334; UNKNOWN BENEFICIARIES; Defendants, 13 CH 94 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on October 7, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: Commonly known as 1459 Magnolia Drive, Crystal Lake, IL 60014.

P.I.N. 18-13-477-006.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call Mr. Anthony Porto at Plaintiff's Attorney, Freedman Anselmo, Lindberg LLC, 1807 West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois 60563-1890. (866) 402-8661.

For Bidding instructions visit www.fal-illinois.com 24 hours prior to sale. F12120174 I575173 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE Pierce & Associates File Number # 1308343 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE, LLC; Plaintiff, vs.

JORGE JIMENEZ AKA JORGE J JIMENEZ; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 13 CH 982 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on August 29, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: P.I.N. 01-35-284-002.

Commonly known as 605 NORTH DIVISION STREET, HARVARD, IL 60033.

The improvement on the property

pro prop ty consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

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Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 1308343.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I575329 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS Bank of America, N.A., as successor by merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP Plaintiff, Vs. Scott A. Krause a/k/a Scott Krause; et. al.

Defendants, 11 CH 2068 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on FEBRUARY 25, 2013 LENDER SALES OF ILLINOIS LLC will on JANUARY 6, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 AM., or soon thereafter, at the front doors of the McHenry County Courthouse located at 2200 N. Seminary, Woodstock, IL 60098, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: LOT 5 IN BLOCK 9 IN LAKE KILLARNEY UNIT NO.1, A SUBDIVISION OF PARTS OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 1, AND THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 2, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED JULY 10, 1959 AS

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Page D8• Tuesday, December 10, 2013 DOCUMENT NO. 356643, IN BOOK 14 OF PLATS, PAGE 25, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. The common address of said real estate is: 6411 Lakewood Drive, Cary, IL 60013 PIN:19-02-278-001 Description of premises: RESIDENTIAL Sale Terms: 25% down by certified funds at the close of the auction: The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "as is" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney." If the property is a condominium, the purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessments and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information: Sales Clerk, Codilis and Associates, P.C., Plaintiff' Attorney 15 W. 030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527 Attorney Number 0468002, (630) 794 5300, File No: 14-11-26580 I577643 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 10, 17, 24, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS Bank of America, N.A. Plaintiff, Vs. Greg Wunderle a/k/a Greg M. Wunderle; et. al.

Defendants, 12 CH 2286 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on MARCH 26, 2013 LENDER SALES OF ILLINOIS LLC will on JANUARY 6, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 AM., or soon thereafter, at the front doors of the McHenry County Courthouse located at 2200 N. Seminary, Woodstock, IL 60098, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: LOT 24 IN BLOCK 2 IN CRYSTAL HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION, A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF LOT 2 OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 4, AND PART OF LOT 2 OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 4, ALL IN TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TOTHE PLAT THEREOF, RECORDED JANUARY 16, 1928 AS DOCUMENT NO 81577 IN BOOK 6 OF PLATS, PAGE 14, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS The common address of said real estate is: 40 John Street, Crystal Lake, IL 60014 PIN:19-04-127-008 Description of premises: RESIDENTIAL

pt pr DENTIAL Sale Terms: 25% down by certified funds at the close of the auction: The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "as is" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser shall receive a Certificate of Sale, which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee's attorney." If the property is a condominium, the purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessments and legal fees due under The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If the property is located in a common interest community, purchasers other than mortgagees will be required to pay any assessment and legal fees due under the Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information: Sales Clerk, Codilis and Associates, P.C., Plaintiff' Attorney 15 W. 030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100, Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527 Attorney Number 0468002, (630) 794 5300, File No: 14-12-26547 I577644 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 10, 17, 24, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE Pierce & Associates File Number # 1221507 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, vs.

SHANNON HERLIHY A/K/A SHANNON P HERLIHY A/K/A SHANNON PATRICIA HERLIHY; PNC BANK, N.A., S/I/I TO MID AMERICA BANK, FSB, S/I/I TO ST FRANCIS BANK, FSB; JP MORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. S/I/I TO WASHINGTON MUTUAL BANK F/K/A WASHINGTON MUT*; WINDSTONE CROSSING TOWNHOME ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 12 CH 2673 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on September 19, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: PARCEL 1: THE NORTHEASTERLY 26.20 FEET OF THE SOUTHWESTERLY 106.97 FEET OF LOT 18 IN WINDSTONE CROSSING SUBDIVISION, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF SECTION 28, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 8, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED OCTOBER 18, 1994 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 94R59777, AND CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION CO 21, 1995

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR THE NOTEHOLDERS OF CWHEQ INC. CWHEQ REVOLVING HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST, SERIES 2005-L, Plaintiff, -v.MAC MOSTELLER Defendant 12 CH 1803 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 16, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on January 6, 2014, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT 7 IN BLOCK 4 IN CRYSTAL LAKE GARDENS, A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE WEST HALF OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 1, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, AND PART OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 2, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED FEBRUARY 1, 1928 AS DOCUMENT NO. 81777, IN BOOK 6 OF PLATS, PAGE 15, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 103 ROSEBUD AVENUE, Crystal Lake, IL 60014 Property Index No. 18-02-427-006. The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $159,503.05.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale.

The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701 (C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: KOZENY & McCUBBIN ILLINOIS, LLC, 105 WEST ADAMS STREET, SUITE 1850, Chicago, IL 60603, (312) 605-3500. Please refer to file number 12-0705.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

KOZENY & McCUBBIN ILLINOIS, LLC 105 WEST ADAMS STREET, SUITE 1850 Chicago, IL 60603 (312) 605-3500 Attorney File No. 12-0705 Case Number: 12 CH 1803 TJSC#: 33-26280 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I577715 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 10, 17, 24, 2013)

RECORDED FEBRUARY 21, 1995, AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 95R005952, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. PARCEL 2: A NON-EXCLUSIVE PERPETUAL EASEMENT FOR INGRESS AND EGRESS OVER LOTS 46, 47 AND 48 AS SET FORTH IN DECLARATION OF COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS RECORDED OCTOBER 18, 1994 AS DOCUMENT NO. 94R59778.

P.I.N. 19-28-252-067.

Commonly known as 24 SIERRA COURT, LAKE IN THE HILLS, IL 60156.

The improvement on the property consists of a townhouse residence.

The purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by subdivisions (g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9 of the Condominium Property Act Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

For Information: Visit our website at http://service.atty-pierce.com.

Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only.

Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 1221507.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I575163 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE Pierce & Associates File Number # 10-37215 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. Plaintiff, vs.

ANDREW HOLMES A/K/A ANDREW JOSEPH HOLMES; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICA'S WHOLESALE LENDER; Defendants, 12 CH 2702 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on September 26, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: THAT PART OF SECTIONS 27 AND 34, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A STAKE ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE PUBLIC HIGHWAY KNOWN AS CRYSTAL LAKE ROAD, 157.65 FEET WESTERLY FROM THE NORTHEASTERLY CORNER OF LOT 1 OF HANLEY'S SECOND ADDITION TO THE VILLAGE OF MCHENRY; THENCE SOUTHWESTERLY ALONG THE SOUTHERLY LINE OF SAID CRYSTAL LAKE ROAD, 157.65 FEET; THENCE SOUTHERLY AND PARALLEL WITH THE EASTERLY LINE OF SAID LOTS 1 AND 2 OF HANLEY'S SECOND ADDITION, 214.50 FEET; THENCE EASTERLY PARALLEL WITH THE SOUTHERLY LINE OF SAID CRYSTAL LAKE ROAD, 157.65 FEET; THENCE NORTHERLY AND PARALLEL WITH THE EAST-

ERLY LINE OF LOTS 1 AND 2 OF SAID HANLEY'S SECOND ADDITION, 214.50 FEET TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING, IN TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS..

P.I.N. 09-34-227-001.

Commonly known as 4117 WEST CRYSTAL LAKE ROAD, MCHENRY, IL 60050.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

For Information: Visit our website http://service.atty-pierce.com. at Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only.

Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 10-37215.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I575164 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE Pierce & Associates File Number # 1220830 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, vs.

THEODORE RYCZEK A/K/A THEODORE B. RYCZEK A/K/A THEODORE BENARD RYCZEK; CINDY L RYCZEK; ARBOR HILLS HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 12 CH 2743 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on October 3, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: LOT 57 IN ARBOR HILLS SUBDIVISION UNIT 3, (FORMERLY REFERRED TO STONEGATE SUBDIVISION), BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE EAST HALF OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER AND THE WEST HALF OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 29, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 8, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED SEPTEMBER 23, 1994 AS DOCUMENT NO 94R55464, AND CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION RECORDED AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 95R9064, AND CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION RECORDED AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 95R55257, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. P.I.N. 19-29-378-012.

Commonly known as 6 BEDFORD COURT, ALGONQUIN, IL 60102.

The improvement on the property

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS REGIONS BANK D/B/A REGIONS MORTGAGE S/B/M TO UNION PLANTERS BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, -v.KEITH CHUIPEK A/K/A KEITH ALAN CHUIPEK, KIM CHUIPEK A/K/A KIM ANNE CHUIPEK, CLIFFORD C. LOTHERY, DONA L. LOTHERY, VIRGINIA ROAD CONDOMINIUMS ASSOCIATION Defendant 13 CH 868 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 9, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on January 13, 2014, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: UNIT 212 IN VIRGINIA ROAD CONDOMINIUMS, AS DELINEATED ON SURVEY OF THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED LAND: LOTS 21, 22, 23, 24 AND THE SOUTHEASTERLY 169 FEET OF LOT 25 AS MEASURED AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE CENTER LINE OF VIRGINIA STREET ON A LINE PARALLEL WITH THE SOUTHEASTERLY LINE OF SAID LOT, ALL IN TECKLER'S GRAND VIEW SUBDIVISION, A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 8, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED JUNE 6, 1928 AS DOCUMENT NO. 83659, IN BOOK 6 OF PLATS, PAGE 64, WHICH SURVEY IS ATTACHED AS EXHIBIT ''D'' TO THE DECLARATION OF CONDOMINIUM RECORDED SEPTEMBER 30, 1993 AS DOCUMENT NO. 93R58648, TOGETHER WITH THEIR UNDIVIDED PERCENTAGE INTEREST IN THE COMMON ELEMENTS, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 627 VIRGINIA ROAD, UNIT 212, Crystal Lake, IL 60014 Property Index No. 19-08-202-040. The real estate is improved with a condominium.

The judgment amount was $73,003.78.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale.

The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701 (C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, contact Plaintiff's attorney: The sales clerk, FISHER AND SHAPIRO, LLC, 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301, Bannockburn, IL 60015, (847) 498-9990 between the hours of 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. only. Please refer to file number 13-066140.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

FISHER AND SHAPIRO, LLC 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301 Bannockburn, IL 60015 (847) 498-9990 Attorney File No. 13-066140 Case Number: 13 CH 868 TJSC#: 33-24695 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I577663 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 10, 17, 24, 2013)

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pro prop ty consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

For Information: Visit our website at http://service.atty-pierce.com.

Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only.

Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 1220830.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I575165 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

NOW, THEREFORE, you are further notified to file your appearance in the Office of the Clerk of the Court above stated on or before January 6, 2014, and if you fail to do so or do not otherwise make your appearance on or before said date, this cause may be heard and judgment entered as prayed for in said Complaint without further notice.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at my office in Woodstock, Illinois, this 13th day of November, 2012.

Clerk of the Circuit Court McHenry County, Illinois FRANKS, GERKIN & McKENNA, P.C. Our File No. 15168.264 Attorney for Plaintiffs 19333 E. Grant Hwy. PO Box 5 Marengo, IL 60152 (815) 923-2107 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 3, 10, 17, 2013. #A2342)

PUBLIC NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT McHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS HOME STATE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff, vs.

ROBERT G. JACKSON, DARLENE L. JACKSON and HANSEN ROAD CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, Defendants.

No. 12 CH 2828 PUBLICATION NOTICE The requisite Affidavit having been duly filed herein, NOTICE IS HEREIN GIVEN YOU, ROBERT G. JACKSON, DARLENE L. JACKSON and HANSEN ROAD CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, Defendants in the above-entitled action, that an action is now pending in this Court as shown above, wherein the Plaintiff seeks to foreclose a mortgage made to HOME STATE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, with respect to the following described real estate: UNIT NUMBER 12303 HANSEN ROAD, UNIT #5 IN THE HANSEN ROAD CONDOMINIUMS, AS DELINEATED ON A SURVEY OF THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED TRACT OF LAND: LOTS 18, 19, 20 AND 21 IN HEBRON INDUSTRIAL PARK, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 8, TOWNSHIP 46 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED OCTOBER 20, 1997 AS DOCUMENT NO. 97R51623, AND CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION RECORDED NOVEMBER 21, 1997 AS DOCUMENT NO. 97R57794, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. PIN No.: 03-08-480-007 Commonly known as: 12303 Hansen Road, Unit 5, Hebron, IL 60034.

PUBLIC NOTICE Pierce & Associates File Number # 1222314 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR GSMPS MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2005-RP3 Plaintiff, vs.

CHARLES MCKINSEY A/K/A A/K/A CHARLES L MCKINSEY CHUCK MCKINSEY; MICHELLE MCKINSEY A/K/A MICHELLE L MCKINSEY A/K/A MICHELLE LUCILLE MCKINSEY A/K/A MICHELLE MILANO; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 12 CH 2836 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on September 19, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: LOT 8 IN BLOCK 14 IN WESTMOOR GARDENS, A SUBDIVISION OF LOT 1 OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER ALSO THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 2, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED JUNE 20, 1931 AS DOCUMENT NO 97824 IN BOOK 8 OF PLATS, PAGE 46, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. P.I.N. 18-02-260-010.

Commonly known as 75 DELLA STREET, CRYSTAL LAKE, IL 60014.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real tate is unit of inte

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22nd JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS GOLDEN EAGLE COMMUNITY BANK, an Illinois Banking Institution, Plaintiff, vs.

WARNER BUILDING, LLC a Limited Liability Company, STAN J. LATOS, as Trustee under the Stan J. Latos Declaration of Trust dated June 28, 1995, STAN J. LATOS, individually, R. BRIAN LOPRINO, individually, JOHN M. JACOBS, individually, and THE LOPSEN GROUP, INC., an Illinois Corporation, RBS CITIZENS BANK, an Illinois Banking Institution, MARK SCHILLER, RONALD WEIDNER, CRYSTAL LAKE BANK AND TRUST, an Illinois Banking Institution, BOTTO, GILBERT, SCHOTLAND & ANDERLE, PC, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, a Governmental Body, The STATE OF ILLINOIS, a Governmental Body, Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants, Defendants.

Case No.: 10 CH 3293 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to Judgment of Foreclosure by the Court in the above entitled cause the property herein after described or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy the judgment, will be sold to the highest bidder. a. The name, address and telephone number of the person to contact for information regarding the real estate is: Kurt Parker, Executive Vice President, 7910 US Hwy. 14, Crystal Lake, IL 60012. Phone number: 815-893-5026. b. The real estate is commonly known and numbered as: 83 N. Williams St., Crystal Lake, IL 60014. c. The legal description of the real estate is: THE NORTHEASTERLY 36 FEET OF LOT 4 IN BLOCK 13 IN ORIGINAL PLAT OF NUNDA, BEING A PART OF THE EAST 1/2 OF THE SOUTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 32, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED AUGUST 13, 1868 IN BOOK 43 OF DEEDS, PAGE 296, EXCEPTING THEREFROM THAT PORTION DEDICATED FOR PUBLIC ALLEY BY INSTRUMENT RECORDED JUNE 11, 1945 IN BOOK 30 OF MISCELLANEOUS RECORD, PAGE 224, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Permanent Index Number: 14-32-480-007-0000 d. The time and place of the sale are: Public sale at 10:00 a.m. on January 9, 2014, at the McHenry County Government Center, Room 262, 2200 N. Seminary Ave., Woodstock, Illinois 60098.

The property will NOT be open for inspection. e. The terms of the sale are: Cash or certified check or the equivalent thereof. f. Title will be conveyed without warranties, subject to all general real estate taxes which are a lien upon the real estate, but have not yet become due and payable; special assessments, if any; other exceptions, if any, set forth in the title insurance company and easements, covenants and restrictions of record. g. IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(c) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. h. Pursuant to 735 ILCS 5/15-1507.1, entitled “Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund,” upon and at the sale of residential real estate under Section 15-1507, the purchaser shall pay to the person conducting the sale pursuant to Section 151507 a fee for deposit into the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, a special fund created in the State Treasury. The fee shall be calculated at the rate of $1.00 for each $1,000.00 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser to the person conducting the sale, as reflected in the receipt of sale issued to the purchaser, provided that in no event shall the fee exceed $300.00. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. Upon confirmation of the sale under Section 15-1508, the person conducting the sale shall remit the fee to the clerk of the court in which the foreclosure case is pending.

The clerk shall remit the fee to the State Treasurer as provided in this Section, to be expended for the purposes set forth in Section 7.31 of the Illinois Housing Development Act.

bj gage estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

For Information: Visit our website http://service.atty-pierce.com. at Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only.

Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 1222314.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I575166 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS U.S. BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.HARRIS R. ZIDE A/K/A HARRIS REX ZIDE, et al Defendants 12 CH 00306 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 10, 2013, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on January 13, 2014, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: LOT 129 IN PASQUINELLI'S COUNTRY BROOK UNIT 2, BEING A SUBDIVISION IN THE SOUTHWEST 1/4 OF SECTION 2, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 5, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED SEPTEMBER 23, 2004 AS DOCUMENT 2004R0085732, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 605 COUNTRY BROOK, HARVARD, IL 60033 Property Index No. 06-02-326010 (06-02-300-002 U/L). The real estate is improved with a condo/townhouse.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/ or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any rt judg nt edito

by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., NORTH FRONTAGE 15W030 ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876. Please refer to file number 14-11-35734.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 Attorney File No. 14-11-35734 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 12 CH 00306 TJSC#: 33-22898 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

I577497 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 10, 17, 24, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE Pierce & Associates File Number # 1225693 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, vs.

CHRISTIE FRAVELETTI A/K/A CHRISTIE L. FRAVELETTI A/KA/ CHRISTIE LYNN FRAVELETTI AN

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22nd JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS GOLDEN EAGLE COMMUNITY BANK, an Illinois Banking Institution, Plaintiff, vs.

WARNER BUILDING, LLC a Limited Liability Company, STAN J. LATOS, as Trustee under the Stan J. Latos Declaration of Trust dated June 28, 1995, STAN J. LATOS, individually, R. BRIAN LOPRINO, individually, JOHN M. JACOBS, individually, and THE LOPSEN GROUP, INC., an Illinois Corporation, RBS CITIZENS BANK, an Illinois Banking Institution, MARK SCHILLER, RONALD WEIDNER, CRYSTAL LAKE BANK AND TRUST, an Illinois Banking Institution, BOTTO, GILBERT, SCHOTLAND & ANDERLE, PC, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, a Governmental Body, The STATE OF ILLINOIS, a Governmental Body, Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants, Defendants.

Case No.: 10 CH 3293 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to Judgment of Foreclosure by the Court in the above entitled cause the property herein after described or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy the judgment, will be sold to the highest bidder. a. The name, address and telephone number of the person to contact for information regarding the real estate is: Kurt Parker, Executive Vice President, 7910 US Hwy. 14, Crystal Lake, IL 60012. Phone number: 815-893-5026. b. The real estate is commonly known and numbered as: 1401 Seneca Ct., Woodstock, IL 60098. c. The legal description of the real estate is: LOT 23 IN WESTWOOD UNIT TWO, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF THE SOUTH HALF OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 12, (EXCEPTING THEREFROM ALL THAT PART THEREOF WHICH LIES EAST OF THE WEST LINE OF WESTWOOD UNIT ONE, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN THE RECORDER'S OFFICE OF MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS ON JANUARY 11, 1978 AS DOCUMENT NO. 720264), AND ALSO OF THE EAST 105.0 FEET OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 12, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 6 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED MAY 24, 1988 AS DOCUMENT NO. 88R14773, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Permanent Index Number: 12-12-252-002 d. The time and place of the sale are: Public sale at 10:00 a.m. on January 9, 2014, at the McHenry County Government Center, Room 262, 2200 N. Seminary Ave., Woodstock, Illinois 60098.

The property will NOT be open for inspection. e. The terms of the sale are: Cash or certified check or the equivalent thereof. f. Title will be conveyed without warranties, subject to all general real estate taxes which are a lien upon the real estate, but have not yet become due and payable; special assessments, if any; other exceptions, if any, set forth in the title insurance company and easements, covenants and restrictions of record. g. IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 151701(c) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. h. Pursuant to 735 ILCS 5/15-1507.1, entitled “Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund,” upon and at the sale of residential real estate under Section 15-1507, the purchaser shall pay to the person conducting the sale pursuant to Section 151507 a fee for deposit into the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, a special fund created in the State Treasury. The fee shall be calculated at the rate of $1.00 for each $1,000.00 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser to the person conducting the sale, as reflected in the receipt of sale issued to the purchaser, provided that in no event shall the fee exceed $300.00. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. Upon confirmation of the sale under Section 15-1508, the person conducting the sale shall remit the fee to the clerk of the court in which the foreclosure case is pending.

The clerk shall remit the fee to the State Treasurer as provided in this Section, to be expended for the purposes set forth in Section 7.31 of the Illinois Housing Development Act.

GOLDEN EAGLE COMMUNITY BANK, an Illinois Banking Institution

GOLDEN EAGLE COMMUNITY BANK, an Illinois Banking Institution

By: Ward G. Brown -- Attorney for Plaintiff

By: Ward G. Brown -- Attorney for Plaintiff

Prepared By: Michling Hofmann Plaza & Wick, PC Ward G. Brown - 06180688 101 N. Throop St. Woodstock, IL 60098 815/338-9600 wbrown@woodstocklawpros.com

Prepared By: Michling Hofmann Plaza & Wick, PC Ward G. Brown - 06180688 101 N. Throop St. Woodstock, IL 60098 815/338-9600 wbrown@woodstocklawpros.com

(Published in the Northwest Herald December 3, 10, 17, 2013. #A2339)

(Published in the Northwest Herald December 3, 10, 17, 2013. #A2340)

CLASSIFIED

Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com CHRISTIE LYNN FRAVELETTI; ANTHONY FRAVELETTI A/K/A ANTHONY F. FRAV; Defendants, 13 CH 126 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on October 3, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: LOT 114 IN UNIT SEVEN OF FOUR COLONIES, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 12, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED JULY 29, 1983 AS DOCUMENT NO. 860888, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. P.I.N. 18-12-451-004-0000.

Commonly known as 1113 WINDRIDGE DRIVE, CRYSTAL LAKE, IL 60014.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

For Information: Visit our website at http://service.atty-pierce.com.

Betw 3 and 5 onl

ttp tty-pie Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only.

Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 1225693.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I575315 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK ILLINOIS JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Assocation, Plaintiff, vs.

Afsheen Shahid; Faisal Waseem; JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association; Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants; The Crystal in the Park Homeowners Association, Defendants.

pending and undetermined in said Court.

NOW, THEREFORE, unless you file your answer or otherwise make your appearance in said action in this Court, by filing the same in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court on or before December 31, 2013, AN ORDER OF DEFAULT MAY BE ENTERED AGAINST YOU. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court on November 19, 2013. /s/ Katherine M. Keefe Clerk of the Circuit Court (SEAL) Alan S. Kaufman MANLEY DEAS KOCHALSKI LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff One East Wacker, Suite 1250 Chicago, IL 60601 Telephone: 312-651-6700 Fax: 614-220-5613 Attorney. No.: 6289893 /s/ Alan S. Kaufman One of Plaintiff's Attorneys ARDC #6289893

Case No. 13 CH 1775

(Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013. #A2305)

1503 Hollytree Lane Crystal Lake, IL 60014

PUBLIC NOTICE

PUBLICATION NOTICE The requisite affidavit(s) having been duly filed herein, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL DEFENDANTS IN THE ABOVE ENTITLED ACTION, that said action has been commenced in said Court by the plaintiff(s), naming you as a defendant(s) therein and praying for a judgment of foreclosure and sale and other relief, that summons has been issued out of this Court against you as provided by law, and, that this action is still pending

PUBLIC NOTICE ANNUAL TREASURER'S REPORT VILLAGE OF LAKEMOOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING APRIL 30, 2013

Matrix Financial Services Corporation, Plaintiff, vs.

David M. Marciniec; Diane F. Marciniec; The United States of America, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Lake in the Hills Sanitary District, an Illinois Municipal Corporation; The Spring Lake Farm South Celebrity Series Single Family Homeowners Association; Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants Defendants.

Case No. 13 CH 17779

REVENUE SUMMARY: Property Taxes - 578,624; Vehicle Sticker Sales - 32,896; Replacement Tax - 2,963; Sales Tax - 640,761; Income Tax - 634,138; Gaming Tax - 2,854; Utility Tax - 227,876; Amusement Tax - 141; Business Licenses - 4,760; Liquor Licenses - 14,500; Misc Licenses 157; Solicitors Licenses - 180; Building Permits - 19,999; Commercial Building Permits - 20,810; Rental Inspections - 35,900; Infrastructure Maint-Telecom - 30,510; Cable Franchise Fee - 69,732; Municipal Facility Impact Fees - 6,600; Royalties - 29,474; Mowing 1,650; Circuit Court Fees - 164,538; Ordinance Violation Fines 47,114; DUI Fines – 189; Police Vehicle Fund Fee - 584; Police DT Equip Fine Fee - 864; Police SupFee - 885; Police New Hire App Fees - 150; Police Reports - 525; Red Light Camera Enforcement 2,478,747; Tow Service Fee - 2968; Admin Tow Fees - 42,881; Electronic Citation Fees - 1,774; Court Supervision Fees - 9,155; Interest Income - 14,397; Other Income - 4,786; Lakemoorfest Income 39,931; Soda Machine - 111; Asset Sale Proceeds - 17,706; Park Rental - 385; General Donations – 270; Concession Stand - 0; Lakemoorfest Donations - 14,223; Park Rental Fields - 825; FOIA Requests - 0; Park Sponsorship - 2,200; NSF Fees – 35; Park Programs 9,221; Cell Tower Lease Payments - 43,241; Interfund Transfers 2,888; Garbage Service - 4,826; Motor Fuel Tax - 173,914; Water Service - 322,139 TOTAL REVENUES: $5,744,284 COMPENSATION SUMMARY: Range - Under $25,000.00: Dennis Rogers; Joseph Szamlewski; Kimberly Jakubik; James Johnson; Barbara Patterson; Charles Martin; David Krueger; Patrick O'Connell; Kimberly Beach; Colin McIntyre; Ralph Brindise; Kathleen Lennon; Phillip Vavalle; Ryan Weihofen; Jeffrey Nykaza; Matthew Dabrowski; Joanna Maher; Kerri L. Weihofen; Sean Kelly; Michael Espinoza; Michelle Anderson; Anthony Pecoraro; Thomas Rovetuso; Fred Manetti; Timothy Gwinn; Walter Szarowicz; Joseph Seinitz; John Guenther; John Lemaster; Jaclyn Ashbrook; Melissa Hull; Ronald Geary; Donald Leavitt; Anthony Musur; Range $25,000 to 49,999.99: Kevin Parker; Jesus Carrillo; Terry Counley; Scott Moline; Robert Wszolek; William Rantz; Terry Gaylord; Lisa Borchardt; Kevin Rourke; William Atwater; Willam Kushner; Rocky Westcott; Thomas Schaffer; David Godlewski. Range $50,000.00 $74,999.99: Ken Henderson; Richard Free; Gary Spoerry; Richard Reece; Mark Paglini; Brian Maculitis; Rodney Erb; Bonnie Sikora; Robert Peters. Range $75,000.00 - $99,999.99: David Alarcon; Charles, Schmidt; TOTAL COMPENSATION: $1,435,349.

EXPENDITURE SUMMARY: Payne & Dolan - $245,339; Blue Cross/Blue Shield - $220,101; Prime Law Group - $172,106; Jetco Limited - $170,260; F.H. Paschen, SN Neilsen - $151,363; Nationwide Retirement Solution $110,000; I.G. Consulting Inc - $102,844; Manhard Consulting LTD - $73,559; Travelers Insurance - $62,970; Thornton's Inc - $58,572; Voyager Fleet Systems Inc - $55,214; Comed - $54,457; Morrow Brothers Ford, Inc - $54,108; Brenda Kirkpatrick CPA - $58,471; Wauconda Police Department - $51,765; Zanck, Coen & Wright $50,026; American Express - $47,189; Illinois Public Risk Fund $44,128; Sotos Law Firm - $36,892; Edgar Bank - $35,541; Fredy's Landscaping & Construction - $34,830; Morton Salt, Inc - $29,200; The Resort of Fairmont Shores - $25,000; Ancel, Glick, Diamond, Bush - $22,806; Northern Moraine Wastewater - $21,536; Henry Tonigan - $20,358; Principal Financial Group - $18,579; Clarke Environmental, Inc - $18,342; International Union of Operators $18,153 SAE Customs Inc 17,954; Partner Tek, Inc - $16,024; Waggoner Law Firm PC - $15,899; J&D Concrete LLC - $15,792; United Health Care - $15,579; Tomcat Consultants - $15,272; Dennis D Pearson - $14,942; Law Works PC - $14,808; Napa Auto Parts McHenry - $13,294; Active Alarm Company, Inc - $12,843; Quill $12,010; Lake County Collector - $11, 608; AT&T - $10,340; William Ryan Homes, Inc - $10,000; Franz Discount - $9,657; Dearborn National - $9,566; FMG Architects - $9.500; Lake County Major Crime - $9,000; Brian Zabel & Assoc - $8,875; IDOT Agreement $8,813; Purchase Power - $8,804; Petty Cash - $8,789; American Heating & Cooling - $8,660; Evoy Kamschulte, Jacobs & Co $7,980; Industrial Systems LTD - $7,550; Sprint - $7,259; American Legal - $6,800; Timothy Mullarkey - $6,550; Power Electric Inc $6,507; Comcast Cable - $6,492; Chas Hendrich & Son, inc $6,414; Ace Pyro - $6,250; P.F. Pettibone & Co - $6,051; Waukegan Safe and Lock Service - $5,875; Stan's Office Technologies - $5,858; Nicor - $5,646; Menard's - $5,633; Me Uniforms $5,476; AFLAC - $5,149; Verison Wireless - $5,148; Tyler Technologies Inc - $5,087; Public Safety Direct Inc - $5,071; South Shore Oil $4,757; JPJ Construction - $4,710; Motorola Solutions, Inc $4,680; Badger Meters, Inc - $4,538; Brownlee Data System $4,500; Personnel Strategies, LLC - $4,500; H Brown Investigations LTD - $4,488; McHenry Firestone - $4,403; Hydrite Chemical $4,235; Burris Equipment Co - $4,133; A to Z Rental Center $3,996; McHenry Analytical Water - $3,743; Streicher's - $3,518; Ray O'Herron - $3,471; Randy Myatt - $3,440; George Fleischli $3,376; Groot - $3,345 Village of Lakemoor - $3,141; Sawvell's Mulch-it - $3,120; Althoff Industries, inc - $3,038; Powerdyne Electric Utility - $3,013; Illinois Public Pension Fund - $3,000; Hoving Pit Stop - $2,999; Midwest Fence Corp - $2,875; Debra Schaffer $2,837; B&F Technical Code Service, Inc - $2,745; William Rantz $2,744; McHenry Township Highway Dept - $2,669; Highway Technologies, Inc - $2,652; Lakemoor Transmission - $2,650; County Collector - $2,594; Signs By Fry - $2,552; Midwest Ecological $2,500. All other distributions less than $2,500 - $130,351 TOTAL VENDORS: $2,703,836 (Except from Comptroller Report) Special Revenue General Revenues 5,274,165 174,234 Expenditures 3,483,679 282,162 Excess of Revenues Over/(Under) (107,928) Expenditures 1,790,486 Transfers In 0 0 0 Transfers Out ________0 Net Increase/(Decrease) in Fund Balance 1,790,486 (107,928) Previous Year Fund Balance 2,909,334 596,396 Fund Balance Adjustments 0 0 Current Year Ending 488,468 Fund Balance 4,699,820

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK ILLINOIS

Enterprise 326,964 552,849 (225,885) 0 0 (225,885) 5,056,191 0 4,830,306

Subscribed and sworn on this 6th day of December 2013. /s/ Brenda Kirkpatrick Treasurer I, Bonnie Sikora, Clerk of the Village of Lakemoor, Illinois, do hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the Annual Treasurer's Report for the fiscal year ending April 30, 2013. /s/ Bonnie Sikora - Clerk (Published in the Northwest Herald December 10, 2013. #A2375)

361 Windermere Way, Lake In The Hills, IL 60102 PUBLICATION NOTICE The requisite affidavit(s) having been duly filed herein, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL DEFENDANTS IN THE ABOVE ENTITLED ACTION, that said action has been commenced in said Court by the plaintiff(s), naming you as a defendant(s) therein and praying for a judgment of foreclosure and sale and other relief, that summons has been issued out of this Court against you as provided by law, and, that this action is still pending and undetermined in said Court.

NOW, THEREFORE, unless you file your answer or otherwise make your appearance in said action in this Court, by filing the same in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court on or before January 11, 2014, AN ORDER OF DEFAULT MAY BE ENTERED AGAINST YOU. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court on December 31, 2013. /s/ Katherine M. Keefe Clerk of the Circuit Court (SEAL) Alan S. Kaufman MANLEY DEAS KOCHALSKI LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff One East Wacker, Suite 1250

Chicago, IL 60601 Telephone: 312-651-6700 Fax: 614-220-5613 Attorney. No.: 6289893 /s/ Alan S. Kaufman One of Plaintiff's Attorneys ARDC #6289893 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013. #A2299)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS Nationstar Mortgage LLC PLAINTIFF Vs. Daniel Spears; River Pointe Homeowner's Association, Inc.; Maximus Collections as assignee of Washington Mutual Finance a/k/a Franks, Gerkin & McKenna, P.C.; Midland Funding, LLC; Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Claimants DEFENDANTS 13 CH 01789 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU: Daniel Spears Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Claimants That this case has been commenced in this Court against you and other defendants, praying for the foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying the premises described as follows, towit: LOT 13 IN RIVER POINTE SUBDIVISION, A SUBDIVISION OF GOVERNMENT LOT 1 IN THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 5, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 9, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED NOVEMBER 16, 1990 AS DOCUMENT 90R42778, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 1010 Hickory Nut Grove Cary, IL 60013 and which said Mortgage was made by: Daniel Spears the Mortgagor(s), to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as Nominee for Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp., as Mortgagee, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of McHenry County, Illinois, as Document No. 2006R0003996; and for other relief; that summons was duly issued out of said Court against you as provided by law and that the said suit is now pending.

NOW, THEREFORE, UNLESS YOU file your answer or otherwise file your appearance in this case in the Office of the Clerk of this Court, Katherine M. Keefe Clerk of the Circuit Court 2200 N. Seminary Woodstock, IL 60098 on or before January 2, 2014, A DEFAULT MAY BE ENTERED AGAINST YOU AT ANY TIME AFTER THAT DAY AND A JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRAYER OF SAID COMPLAINT. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100 Burr Ridge, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 DuPage # 15170 Winnebago # 531 Our File No. 14-13-22558 NOTE: This law firm is deemed to be a debt collector.

I576729 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 3, 10, 17, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS NA WELLS FARGO BANK, Plaintiff,

vs.

BARBARA DAWN STASEK AKA BARBARA STASEK; ROBERT W. STASEK AKA ROBERT STASEK; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 13 CH 22 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on August 19, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: LOT 17 IN BLOCK 6 IN PARKER'S HIGHLANDS, A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE NORTHWEST 1/4 OF THE SOUTHEAST 1/4 AND PART OF THE SOUTHWEST 1/4 OF THE NORTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 18, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 8, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED AUGUST 10, 1954 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 281648, IN BOOK 11 OF PLATS, PAGE 120 IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 3510 Church Drive, Wonder Lake, Il 60097.

P.I.N. 09-18-402-003.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call Mr. Anthony Porto at Plaintiff's Attorney, Freedman Anselmo, Lindberg LLC, 1807 West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois 60563-1890. (866) 402-8661.

For Bidding instructions visit www.fal-illinois.com 24 hours prior to sale. F12120160 I575170 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE Pierce & Associates File Number # 1226513 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR GMACM MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2005-AR6 Plaintiff, vs.

DAN THRASHER A/K/A DANIEL GENE THRASER; CHERYL THRASHER A/K/A CHERYL SUE THRASER; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 13 CH 434 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on September 26, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: LOT 1 IN DAVIES SUBDIVISION, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHWEST 1/4 OF SECTION 16, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE

Tuesday, December 10, 2013 • Page D9 8, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED NOVEMBER 27, 1996 AS DOCUMENT 96R-060509, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. P.I.N. 14-26-302-019.

Commonly known as 4701 BARREVILLE ROAD, CRYSTAL LAKE, IL 60012.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

For Information: Visit our website http://service.atty-pierce.com. at Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only.

Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 1226513.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I575317 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE Pierce & Associates File Number # 1301278 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR STRUCTURED ASSET SECURITIES CORPOMORTGAGE PASSRATION THROUGH CERTIFICATE, SERIES 2007-BC2 Plaintiff, vs.

ALAN ATCHISON A/K/A ALAN J ATCHISON; TERI ATCHISON A/K/A TERI A ATCHISON; KAREN ATCHISON A/K/A KAREN D ATCHISON; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 13 CH 0491 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on September 19, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: LOT 17 IN THE RE-PLAT OF LOTS 2 TO 17, BOTH INCLUSIVE, IN BLOCK 1 IN FRANKE'S ADDITION TO THE VILLAGE OF CARY, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE NORTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 13, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 8, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED DECEMBER 7, 1948 AS DOCUMENT 216636 IN BOOK 10, PAGE 104, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. P.I.N. 19-13-226-019.

Commonly known as 306 NORTH 1ST STREET, CARY, IL 60013.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by

pay quire by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

For Information: Visit our website http://service.atty-pierce.com. at Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only.

Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 1301278.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I575318 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE Pierce & Associates File Number # 1225740 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS CITIMORTGAGE, INC. Plaintiff, vs.

RABIA AHMED; SALMAN AHMED; ADNAN SALEEM; 1ST FARM CREDIT SERVICES, PCA, LEGEND LAKES MASTER ASSOCIATION F/K/A SHAMROCK FARMS MASTER ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 13 CH 573 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on June 20, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: LOT 49 IN SHAMROCK FARMS SUBDIVISION-NEIGHBORHOOD 9, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 31 AND PART OF THE SOUTH HALF OF SECTION 32, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 8, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, AND PART OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 5, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 8, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED NOVEMBER 7, 2002 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 2002R0103434, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. P.I.N. 09-32-376-009.

Commonly known as 6509 WATERFORD DRIVE, MCHENRY, IL 60050.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

For Information: Visit our website http://service.atty-pierce.com. at Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only.

Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street,

ys Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 1225740.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I575319 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE Pierce & Associates File Number # 1304004 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Plaintiff, vs.

EMILY J PASS AKA EMILY P. NIEDERMEYER; JEFFRY A NIEDERMEYER; CITIBANK, N.A.; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 13 CH 580 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on September 26, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: LOT 16, THE WEST 1/2 OF LOT 15 BLOCK 12 HIGHLAND SHORES WONDER LAKE UNIT 6, A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE S.W. 1/4 S.W. 1/4 SECTION 13, THE EAST 25 ACRES S.E. 1/4 S.E 1/4 SECTION 14, PART OF THE N.W. 1/4 S.W. 1/4 SECTION 13, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 7, EAST OF THE 3RD P.M., ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED JUNE 11, 1953 AS 266428, BOOK 11 OF PLATS, PAGE 80, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. P.I.N. 08-14-482-012.

Commonly known as 9210 VINE AVENUE, WONDER LAKE, IL 60097.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

For Information: Visit our website http://service.atty-pierce.com. at Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only.

Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 1304004.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I575320 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE Pierce & Associates File Number # 1305605 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION

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By PHILLIP ALDER Newspaper Enterprise Association

Who were the most proliic authors?

Two who came to my mind were Isaac Asimov and P.G. Wodehouse (although it seems that many have outwritten P.G.W.).

But as Asimov said, “If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.”

His keyword for this deal is “six.” South is in six spades. West leads the diamond ace. How should declarer proceed after ruffing?

This week, we are looking at six deals from one of my classes about handling the trump suit correctly.

This is the hardest, in my opinion -- unless you have seen the theme before.

In the auction, North’s rebid is a double negative, showing a really bad hand.

In the old days, pairs used two no-trump; now, three clubs is popular. Each has pluses and minuses.

Over three spades, it is reasonable for South to bid six spades, hoping that he will not have two heart losers. If North has three hearts, maybe the suit will break 3-3; and if he has a doubleton, there is a chance

for a ruff or two on the board.

Some of my students immediately cashed their two top hearts, then ruffed a heart with the spade nine.

That would have been correct in seven spades, but here it cost the small slam. East overruffed and returned a trump, leaving South with a heart loser.

The careful declarers ruffed the third heart with dummy’s spade jack. Then they returned to hand and ruffed their last heart. It did not matter that East overruffed, because South had the rest.

Contact Phillip Alder at pdabridge@prodigy.net.

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CHRIS QUARLES A/K/A CHRIS L. QUARLES; FIRST AMERICAN BANK; EVELYN QUARLES A/K/A EVELYN M. QUARLES A/K/A EVELYN M. QUARLES; SHADOW CREEK CLUSTERS HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 13 CH 634 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on September 26, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: LOT 102 IN SHADOW CREEK, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF GOVERNMENT LOTS 1 AND 2 OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 2, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 5 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED SEPTEMBER 10, 1999 AS DOCUMENT NO. 1999R64036 AND CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION RECORDED OCTOBER 5, 1999 AS DOCUMENT NO. 1999R69511, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. P.I.N. 06-02-105-012.

Commonly known as 404 TIMBER DRIVE, HARVARD, IL 60033.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

For Information: Visit our website at http://service.atty-pierce.com.

Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only.

Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 1305605.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I575322 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE Pierce & Associates File Number # 1305118 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, vs.

DUANE BEESE A/K/A DUANE W BEESE; JANET L BEESE; FIRST AMERICAN BANK; SOMERSET CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION OF CRYSTAL LAKE; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 13 CH 652 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on September 26, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: UNIT 590-5 IN SOMERSET CONDOMINIUM AS DELINEATED ON SURVEY OF THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED REAL ESTATE: PART OF LOTS 15 AND 16 IN PLAT OF FARMS OF CRYSTAL LAKE, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF SECTION 8, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED OCTOBER 6, 1858 IN BOOK 22 OF DEEDS, PAGE 1, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS, WHICH SURVEY IS ATTACHED AS EXHIBIT A TO THE DECLARATION OF CONDOMINIUM RECORDED SEPTEMBER 11, 1973 AS DOCUMENT NO. 603023, AS AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME, TOGETHER WITH ITS UNDIVIDED PERCENTAGE INTEREST IN THE COMMON ELEMENTS. P.I.N. 19-08-253-133.

Commonly known as 590 SOMERSET LANE UNIT 5, CRYSTAL LAKE, IL 60014.

The improvement on the property consists of a condominium residence. The purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by subdivisions (g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9 of the Condominium Property Act Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

For Information: Visit our website http://service.atty-pierce.com. at Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only.

Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 1305118.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I575323 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC; Plaintiff, vs.

ALMAS BERSHED; THE UNITED STATE OF AMERICA; MANCHESTER LAKES HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 13 CH 660 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on October 7, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue,

y Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: LOT 181 IN MANCHESTER LAKES PHASE 3, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE WEST HALF OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 25, AND PART OF THE EAST 60 ACRES OF THE EAST HALF OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 26, AND PART OF THE WEST HALF OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 36, ALL IN TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 7, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED AUGUST 29, 2000 AS DOCUMENT NO. 2000R0046436, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 4451 Whitehall Lane, Algonquin, IL 60102.

P.I.N. 18-26-478-017.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call Mr. Anthony Porto at Plaintiff's Attorney, Freedman Anselmo, Lindberg LLC, 1807 West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois 60563-1890. (866) 402-8661.

For Bidding instructions visit www.fal-illinois.com 24 hours prior to sale. F13030339 I575324 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK ILLINOIS Nationstar Mortgage LLC Plaintiff, vs.

Khaleeq Ahmed; The Sweetwater Townhome Assocation, Inc.; Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants; Sumayya Mushtad Defendants.

Case No. 13 CH 743 1846 Roger Road Woodstock, IL 60098 Judge: Suzanne C. Mangiamele PUBLICATION NOTICE The requisite affidavit(s) having been duly filed herein, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL DEFENDANTS IN THE ABOVE ENTITLED ACTION, that said action has been commenced in said Court by the plaintiff(s), naming you as a defendant(s) therein and praying for a judgment of foreclosure and sale and other relief, that summons has been issued out of this Court against you as provided by law, and, that this action is still pending and undetermined in said Court.

NOW, THEREFORE, unless you file your answer or otherwise make your appearance in said action in this Court, by filing the same in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court on or before December 31, 2013, AN ORDER OF DEFAULT MAY BE ENTERED AGAINST YOU. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court on November 19, 2013. /s/ Katherine M. Keefe Clerk of the Circuit Court (SEAL) Alan S. Kaufman MANLEY DEAS KOCHALSKI LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff One East Wacker, Suite 1250 Chicago, IL 60601 Telephone: 312-651-6700 Fax: 614-220-5613 Attorney. No.: 6289893 /s/ Alan S. Kaufman One of Plaintiff's Attorneys (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013. #A2306)

PUBLIC NOTICE 13-006381 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS FIFTH THIRD MORTGAGE COMPANY Plaintiff, vs.

JEFFREY O. KAMINSKI; ROSEMARIE MARCANTONIO Defendants, 13 CH 864 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause on October 3, 2013 Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014 at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the law offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: LOT 26 AND THE NORTH 1/2 OF LOT 27 IN BLOCK 9 IN ISLAND LAKE ESTATES, A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE EAST HALF OF THE EAST HALF OF SECTION 20, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 9 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED MAY 21, 1937 AS DOCUMENT NO. 126782, IN BOOK 8 OF PLATS, PAGE 158, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 3422 Highland Drive, Island Lake, Il 60042.

P.I.N. 15-20-280-067.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

For information call Sales Department at Plaintiff's Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (312) 651-6705. 13006381 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES

CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I575326 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.; Plaintiff, vs.

JEFFERY SUGDEN AKA JEFFREY SUGDEN; MELISA G. SUGDEN AKA MELISA SUGDEN; THE MEADOWS AT CREEKSIDE HOMEOWNERS' ASSOCIATION; THE VILLAS AT CREEKSIDE HOMEOWNERS' ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 13 CH 919 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on September 23, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: ALL THAT CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND SITUATED IN CITY OF ALGONQUIN, MCHENRY COUNTY, STATE OF ILLINOIS, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS THAT PART OF LOT 50 CREEKSIDE OF ALGONQUIN - THE MEADOWS & THE VILLAS PHASE 2, A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE S.W. 1/4 SECTION, PART OF THE N.W. 1/4 SECTION 31, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 8, EAST OF THE 3RD P.M., ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED MAY 25, 2001 AS 01R-35042 DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE MOST WESTERLY CORNER OF SAID LOT 50, THENCE N.E. 97.58 FEET FOR A P.O.B., THENCE N.E. 39.92 FEET, THENCE S.E. 51.03 FEET, THENCE S.E. 14.94 FEET, THENCE S.W. 38.75 FEET, THENCE N.W. 65.92 FEET TO THE P.O.B., IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 568 Woods Creek Lane, Algonquin, IL 60102.

P.I.N. 19-30-378-018.

The improvement on the property consists of a townhouse residence.

The purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by subdivisions (g)(1) and (g)(4) of Section 9 of the Condominium Property Act Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call Mr. Anthony Porto at Plaintiff's Attorney, Freedman Anselmo, Lindberg LLC, 1807 West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois 60563-1890. (866) 402-8661.

For Bidding instructions visit www.fal-illinois.com 24 hours prior to sale. F13030406 I575327 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS MIDWEST COMMUNITY BANK, AN ILLINOIS CORPORATION; Plaintiff, vs.

KEVIN A. WILGENBUSCH; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 13 CH 93 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on September 23, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: LOT 27 IN EDGEBROOK HEIGHTS ADDITION TO MCHENRY, A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 35, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED JANUARY 6, 1953 AS DOCUMENT NO. 260822, IN BOOK 11 OF PLATS, PAGE 68 IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 3609 Anne Street, Mchenry, IL 60050.

P.I.N. 09-35-327-011.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call Mr. Anthony Porto at Plaintiff's Attorney, Freedman Anselmo, Lindberg LLC, 1807 West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois 60563-1890. (866) 402-8661.

For Bidding instructions visit www.fal-illinois.com 24 hours prior to sale. F12110216 I575171 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.; Plaintiff, vs.

MARILYN A. BUSH, INDIVIDUALLY; PARKWAY BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE UNDER TRUST AGREEMENT DATED MARCH 5, 2007 AND KNOWN AS TRUST NUMBER 14334 AND NOT INDIVIDUALLY; WOODSCREEK OF CRYSTAL LAKE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION FKA WOODSCREEK ASSOCIATION; HOMEOWNERS SUBASSOCIATION UNIT 3 WOODSCREEK HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN BENEFICIARIESOF TRUST AGREEMENT DATED THE 5TH DAY OF MARCH 2007 AND KNOWN AS TRUST NUMBER 14334; UNKNOWN BENEFICIARIES; Defendants, 13 CH 94 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above

entitled cause on October 7, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: LOT 54 IN UNIT 3 OF WOODSCREEK UNITS 3 AND 6, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 13, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 7 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN AND A PART OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 18, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED JANUARY 9, 1992 AS DOCUMENT NO. 92R1638 IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 1459 Magnolia Drive, Crystal Lake, IL 60014.

P.I.N. 18-13-477-006.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds.

The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call Mr. Anthony Porto at Plaintiff's Attorney, Freedman Anselmo, Lindberg LLC, 1807 West Diehl Road, Naperville, Illinois 60563-1890. (866) 402-8661.

For Bidding instructions visit www.fal-illinois.com 24 hours prior to sale. F12120174 I575173 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

Case No. 13PR000310 CLAIM NOTICE Notice is given of the death of: DRUSCILLA FORD of: FOX RIVER GROVE, IL Letters of office were issued on: 11/21/2013 to: Representative: MITCHELL B FORD 415 LINCOLN APT B FOX RIVER GROVE, IL 60021 whose attorney is: WAGNER & WAGNER 960 ROUTE 22 – SUITE 210 PO BOX 23 FOX RIVER GROVE, IL 60021 Claims against the estate may be filed within six months from the date of first publication. Any claim not filed within six months from the date of first publication or claims not filed within three months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to Creditor, whichever is later, shall be barred.

Claims may be filed in the office of the Clerk of Circuit Court at the McHenry County Government Center, 2200 North Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, Illinois 60098, or with the representative, or both.

Copies of claims filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered to the representative and to his attorney within ten days after it has been filed. /s/ Katherine M. Keefe Clerk of the Circuit Court (Published in the Northwest Herald December 10, 17, 24, 2013. #A2372)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY

PUBLIC NOTICE Pierce & Associates File Number # 1308343 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE, LLC; Plaintiff, vs.

JORGE JIMENEZ AKA JORGE J JIMENEZ; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 13 CH 982 NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE UNDER ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause on August 29, 2013, Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Thursday, January 9, 2014, at the hour of 10:30 a.m. in the offices of Botto Gilbert Gehris Lancaster, 970 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: LOT 3 AND THE WEST HALF OF THE VACATED ALLEY LYING EAST OF AND ADJOINING SAID LOT, ALL IN BLOCK 12 IN E.G. AYER'S ADDITION TO THE TOWN (NOW CITY) OF HARVARD, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 35, TOWNSHIP 46 NORTH, RANGE 5 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED OCTOBER 25, 1872 IN BOOK 53 OF DEEDS, PAGE 11, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. P.I.N. 01-35-284-002.

Commonly known as 605 NORTH DIVISION STREET, HARVARD, IL 60033.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 25% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale which will entitle the purchaser to a Deed to the premises after confirmation of the sale.

For Information: Visit our website http://service.atty-pierce.com. at Between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. only.

Pierce & Associates, Plaintiff's Attorneys, 1 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. Tel.No. (312) 476-5500. Refer to File Number 1308343.

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122 I575329 (Published in the Northwest Herald November 26, December 3, 10, 2013)

PUBLIC NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT McHENRY COUNTY-IN PROBATE In the Matter of the Estate of DRUSCILLA FORD Deceased

Tuesday, December 10, 2013 • Page D11

In the Matter of the Estate of THOMAS DIPPER, JR Deceased Case No. 13PR000315 NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION -WILL AND CLAIMS Notice is given of the death of: THOMAS DIPPER, JR Letters of office were issued on: 12/6/2013 to independent representative: ORA P MICK 4216 HALE LANE ISLAND LAKE, IL 60042 whose attorney is: JAMES W KAISER 121 E LIBERTY STREET WAUCONDA, IL 60084 Notice is given to heir(s) or legatee(s) who is(are) named in a petition filed in the above proceeding to probate a will and whose name (s) or address(es) is(are) not stated in the petition to admit the will to probate, that an order was entered by the court on 12/6/2013 admitting the will to probate. Within 42 days after the effective date of the original order of admission you

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original yo may file a petition with the court to require proof of the will by testimony of the witnesses to the will in open court or other evidence, as provided in Section 6-21 of the Probate Act (IL. Rev. Stat., ch. 110 ½, S6-21). You also have the right under Section 8-1 of Probate Act (IL. Rev. Stat., ch. 110 ½, S8-1) to contest the validity of the will by filing a petition with the court within 6 months after admision of the will to probate.

Claims against the estate may be filed within six months from the date of first publication. Any claim not filed within six months from the date of first publication or claims not filed within three months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to Creditor, whichever is later, shall be barred.

Claims may be filed in the office of the Clerk of Circuit Court at the McHenry County Government Center, 2200 North Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, Illinois, 60098, or with the representative, or both. /s/ Katherine M. Keefe Clerk of the Circuit Court (Published in the Northwest Herald December 10, 17, 24, 2013. #A2377)

Clerk of the Circuit Court (Published in the Northwest Herald December 10, 17, 24, 2013. #A2373)

PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR BIDS/PROPOSALS McHenry County will accept sealed requests for qualifications for #14-07 PROVIDE ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR PHASE III CHARLES J MILLER ROAD CONTRACT 2 due January 16, 2014, at 2:00 PM (CST), in the office of Donald A. Gray, CPPB, Director of Purchasing, McHenry County Administrative Building- Room 200, 2200 N. Seminary Ave. Woodstock, IL 60098. Prospective bidders may obtain bidding documentation at: www.co.mchenry.il.us or http://www.co.mchenry.il.us/ departments/purchasing/Pages/ index.aspx or by contacting the purchasing department at 815-334-4818. All contracts for the Construction of Public Works are subject to Illinois Prevailing Wage Act (820 ILCS 130/1-12).

(Published in the Northwest Herald December 10, 2013. #A2374)

PUBLIC NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY-IN PROBATE In the Matter of the Estate of BARBARA A WILCOX Deceased Case No. 13PR000325 CLAIM NOTICE Notice is given of the death of: BARBARA A WILCOX of: MARENGO, IL Letters of office were issued on: 12/6/2013 to: Representative: LUCILLE M WILCOX 534 S ANN ST MARENGO, IL 60152 whose attorney is: SCHMITT, THOMAS W 760 BAUMAN STREET MARENGO, IL 60152 Claims against the estate may be filed within six months from the date of first publication. Any claim not filed within six months from the date of first publication or claims not filed within three months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to Creditor, whichever is later, shall be barred.

Claims may be filed in the office of the Clerk of Circuit Court at the McHenry County Government Center, 2200 North Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, Illinois, 60098, or with the representative, or both.

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815-338-4049 ELECTRIC TRAIN: THOMAS KINKADE Christmas Express, metal, 20 pieces. NEVER USED, $300.

815-385-1026 Hand Operator, Morse Code Machine w/original tapes, 1960's, excellent condition, $95 815-578-0212 HIGH CHAIR - Antique Pine, Child's.

39" H x 17" W w/ removable metal tray. Tray arm lifts. $125. McHenry 815-236-1747 High Chair - Oak- Old w/tray in front. $85.

847-515-8012

Hurricane Lamps

Tan pearlized with metal gold foilage, 21”Hx10”W, base 6”. Can light top or bottom, 60 watt, $85/ea, $130/set. 815-861-6119 Japanese Items – Decorative Sake Container, Pot, Bowl, Plate & 14 Figurines - $40 for all 847-587-0119 JAR - Glass w/Metal Lid. Outside red w/ ridges in glass. Top opening 5" diameter. Jar is 7 1/2" diameter & 7" high. $25. McHenry.

815-236-1747 Madame Alexander Dolls 8” Doll – Collectibles Finland & Spain – 2 Dolls for $30 Great Condition 815-455-6201

Perfume Bottles (16)

Miniatures and Lay-Down bottles.

Brand names, not new and for collecting only. $10/all.

815-363-0124 Pillbury Doughboy 12 mugs, by Danbury Mint mint condition, never used $65 847-409-6477 Pillbury Doughboy wood wall calendar, 12 figurines, by Danbury Mint $65 847-409-6477 PLANTER - White wicker planter with hooped top. $100.

815-338-4049

PRECIOUS MOMENTS

All sizes. 815-648-4444

6 Piece Thanksgiving Dinner. $150. 815-382-2455

Free 32" Sony TV w/remote.

Johnsburg area. 847-345-6674

Precious Moments Christmas Wreath, $100.

815-382-2455

Spa Model 1015/Strat4S Outside Spa – 5 Person, 42 Jets, 325 Gals., 79” x 76” x 33” Brand new cover. Cushions, needs one pump replacement – FREE 630-674-8097 or 815-477-4979

Australian Sheepskin Boots Suede & Wool Lining, Size 5, Costs $150, Asking $15 – Gently used; Also have a pair w/Suede & sparkles, Lace-up front, fur top, Size 6, worn once, Cost $180, Asking $40. Both EMU Brand 815-455-6201 BMW Leather Jacket, men's XL, white & black w/logo sleeves and back, $300 value, worn once $175 847-223-8485 Bracelet, vintage, branch coral, $25. See photo on web ad.

815-455-7680.

Brooch & Earring Set, Vintage Lucite Encased Red & Yellow Roses. Screw Back Earrings. Asking $50.

815-455-7680 Necklace fresh water pearl - 16", $8. 815-455-7680

Bike - Children's Trainer

Go-Glider, blue, 16”, orig. $120 like new! $60. 847-476-6771

BIKE ~ HUFFY

Burger King Toys

Star Wars, Toy Story, Simpsons, M&M,1997-99. Original package. $10/ea.

847-807-9156

Old Gumball Machine – 1941 Victor Mod. V – Red & Black -$125 815-356-7879 before 8pm

FREE Canon Scanner CanoScan D646U for older Window/Macintosh 815-459-5663 Yours for free.

BICYCLE – 2013 Girls Specialized Hotrock 20” Coaster Bike, Purple.

Used only 1 summer. $120 815-382-2455

Extension Ladder. Fiberglass. 30 ft. $100.

224-622-9293 Kitchen Faucet: Chrome, w/sprayer & ceramic cartridge, superior quality, new, $175

1990 Artic Cat EXT 530

BOXES

24/15-30 lbs. 24/30-45 lbs. 10 diaper covers. Used 1 yr. $280 value. $100. 847-476-6771

Brand new, Girl's, 10” with training wheels, $35.

815-678-4234

MIXING BOWLS - 3 matching: "Hall's Superior Quality Kitchenware - Eureka Homewood Pattern".

Lg 8 5/8", Med 7 3/8", Sm 6 1/8" $49. McHenry. 815-236-1747

Men's, size large, bibs and jacket.

Yamaha Like new, $400.

847-302-7009

Pre-Fold Cloth Diapers

from 70's & 80's. $150 OBO. 815-385-4353 Bed Frame: Bedroom HaywoodWakefield blonde, single bed frame, plus 4 door dresser, circa 1940 $400 847-961-6626

Great Timber 5x8 with permanent license, $1600/obo.

815-308-5626

El Tigre EXT, $300.00.

815-529-4105 Snowmobile Suit ~ Leather

VANITY Beautiful antique pine vanity w/ attached mirror & center drawer.

Brought from England by the dealer, 37-1/4" W, 20" D & 29-1/2" to top of vanity. Mirror 22-3/8" W by 35-3/8" H. Center drawer has metal pull. Legs & side mirror supports have charming decorative sculptured detail. $450.

815-236-1747 Waterford Crystal Goblets 8 – Kinsale Pattern, Perfect Condition, No Boxes $100.

847-658-6064

Santa Collection: 20 different Santas, $20/all,

815-363-0124 Secretary-bookcase with curved glass, flip-down desk and three drawers. $300. 815-338-4049 SHIP'S HEAD. Restored Jenny Lynn style. Great gift for boater or ship enthusiast. $150. 815-790-9812

Star War Action Figurines Mint condition, never opened.

Dewback/Sandtrooper/ Ronto/Jawa, Luke/Tauntaum, $25/ea. 815-861-6119

Sugar & Creamer Pickard Salt & Pepper, gold floral, $135.

815-459-3822 Vacuum: Sanitaire by Electrolux (Mighty-Mite) - small vac with on-board attachments. Brand new, never used in sealed box.

Asking $75. 847-669-1643 JOBS ANNOUNCEMENTS STUFF VEHICLES REAL ESTATE SERVICES LEGALS Find it all right here in Northwest Classified

Ceiling Fan – 3 Light Kit, Bronze Color - $8, 847-639-1909

Marble Vanity Sink & Top All In One, White, In Excellent Condition - $75. 815-459-6999 Patio Door – 6' White, Vinyl, Reversible, Bought New, Used 1 Month while Re-modeling - $150 OBO 815-459-4093 Stainless Kitchen Sink & Faucet In Very Good Condition - $75 815-459-6999

WESTERN HORSE SADDLE Leather, 16”, Good Condition Beautiful designs! Paid $800, Asking $350 OBO – Pics Avail.

847-331-5594 daytime

Western Saddle ~ Simco Iron Man Inversion Table, adjustable & folds ups for storage, excellent condition. $99. 847-658-4134

MASTER TRAINER HOME GYM Weider CJXT3, model 70092, $100. 815-385-9383

Fireplace. Electric. Remote. Light walnut wood. 52Wx51Hx16D. $150. 224-622-9293

2 Queen Matresses $115/both 847-961-6626 2 twin beds w/frames - $25 each; Ashley glass top dining table w/4 chairs $40; Girls beech finish dresser w/mirror $25; Small 4 pc sectional $25; 2 book shelves $10 each; Must sell-moving.

Johnsburg 847-345-6674.

3 PIECE WALL UNIT Beautiful 3 piece Danish Modern wall unit, side units have glass display cabinets, center unit is closed cabinet and drawers asking $150 obo - call Sue 815-943-7655

BAR STOOLS (3)

30H”, swivel heats, very sturdy.

Oak frame and arm rest with upholstered seats/back, casino print on wine colored tapestry, $150/all 815-308-5626 Bar Stools - set of 4, solid oak, round seat 13", no back, spindle legs, 24"H x 14”W at base, Excellent Condition, $125 set 847-658-5125 Bed: Oak California King bed and all mirrored headboard and side shelves $399 815-679-6178 BEDROOM SET White wood bedroom set. $395.

Algonquin. 847-877-2169

BENCH

Zebra, 60” black and white, like new, $50. 815-404-8173 File Cabinet – 3 Drawer, Drawers 41”L x 18”W Tan Metal, Good Condition You Haul – In Storage in Bensenville, IL - $50 OBO Call 331-551-1421 days

Office Chair ~ Brown

Blue couches $200 815-679-6178 Chair. Leather club chair.

Espresso color, rounded lines, excellent condition. Great chair.

Non-smoking house. Cash please. $175. 815-678-4337.

Swivels, $35. 815-385-4353

China Cabinet

RECORDS – Box Of 100 50's & 60's Rock - 45 w/Sleeves Good condition $25. Call Mike 847-695-9561

Answering Machine: Panasonic w/4 hand sets, talking caller ID, speaker phone $55 847-829-4546 Compact Micro Hi-Fi System Sony Model CMTBX20i – New Front Loading CD Player, Built-in iPod Dock -Old Version, Audio in for other MP3 Players - $50 224-587-5076 Kindle Fire 8GB, pink 360 rotating cover, zebra fashion cover, usb cable, headphones, screen protector, orig. box $100 847-409-6477 Merlin Phone System AT&T Unit w/ 4 Phones - $100 815-385-7550 daytime Mitsubishi Digital Television 62" w/ stand, High definition, pip viewing option, HD upgradeable, Multibrand remote control, Widescreen TV, very good condition. $300 obo.

815-455-3633 or email PHONES - Panasonic 2-line cordless phones. 900 MHz digital spread spectrum, caller ID compatible & has an all digital answering machine. Both sets still work & are in excellent condition. Offering 2 phone sets - asking $50 for one, or $100 for both. Call 224-587-7522 or email buyclassified@yahoo.com to arrange pickup.

Printer ~ Digital Photo Sony

DPP-EX50. Prints wonderful pictures, $45/obo.

847-829-4546 Sony Projection TV - 55" w/cabinet & remote, Very good condition, might need minor work. good for 2nd TV or for kids to play games. $50 obo. 815-455-3633 or email Stereo. Coronado. Turntable.

AM/FM Radio. Excellent cond. $125. 224-622-9293 Stereo. Zenith. Turntable, AM/FM Radio. Excellent condition. $125.

224-622-9293 Switching Power Supply: Used Delta Electronics, 300 watt. Originally used in a Hewitt Packard computer.

Supply still works. Asking price: $30/obo. Call 224-587-7522 or email buyclassified@yahoo.com to arrange pickup.

TV - 32" Emerson flat screen TV $150. 224-587-7522 or email: buyclassified@yahoo.com to arrange pickup.

TV TOSHIBA

20” DVD/VCR combo, excellent working condition! $100 847-829-4546

Elliptical Trainer - Horizon Endurance Pro programmableGood Condition, 13 years old.

Must pick up. $50 obo.

815-455-5074

Exercise Bike ~ Air $35 815-527-7440 Before 2pm or aft 6pm

OPEN HOUSES Watch for the Northwest Classified Open House Directory every Friday, Saturday & Sunday.

Include your listing by calling 800-589-8237 or email: classified@shawsuburban.com

15” with silver conchos, girth/ blanket/stand, good condition! $245. 815-861-6119

Made by Jasper, 5 glass shelves, lighted mirror and center opening. $390 815-923-2296

COFFEE TABLE

Italian Provincial, oval, solid wood with 1” thick Italian marble top.

50”Lx22”Wx16”H, $125.00.

Pics Available. 847-476-6771 CORNER SHELVING Decorative, similar to curio cabinet.

Will email pics $10 815-404-9765 Desk – Custom Made 34”Wx23”Dx29H Formica Top 2 formica book shelves on desk, includes padded chair on wheels $30. 847-639-1909 Dining Room breakfront $200 815-679-6178 Dining Room Buffet $200.00 815-679-6178 Dining Room Table $399.00 815-679-6178

DR Table & 6 Chairs Oblong, gold cushions, 2 leafs. $200/obo 815-236-6947 Dressers (2) in very good condition $150/both 815-679-6178 Entertainment Cabinet 2 Oak Door w/ 4 Sliding Drawers, 55”Hx37”Wx20”D Looks Like New! 32” Mitsubishi TV included; Great for kids room or spare bedroom Pics available via text or email. $200 obo. 847-331-5594 days King size bed $300.00, like new 815-679-6178 Kitchen Tables (2). Wood. 1 oval, 1 rectangular. $50/each.

224-622-9293 Large China Cabinet W/drawers, dark wood, $30 pictures available Lazy Boy Chaise Lounge great condition $200.00 815-679-6178

MOBILE BAR Solid oak home bar with wine rack.

5' L x 4' H x 2' D, $400.

815-344-5677 Ping Pong Table: One Owner, Good condition, Supplies Included, $45. 815-385-3363 aft. 3pm Recliner Chair. Very Clean w/arm covers. Non smoking. Light Blue & Grey color. $40 847-515-8012 Rocker/Recliner – Medium Blue No Tears or Rips. Good Condition Rocks Too! – Very Comfortable $30/obo. 847-409-1838 Roll Top Desk and Chair Dark walnut. $100 815-385-4353 Shelving Unit $30 815-679-6178 Single Twin Bed w/ New Verlo $100 firm. 815-385-5672 aft. 3p Solid Oak Kitchen Table w/ 6 chairs. Beautiful, must see! $400 firm - McHenry area, 815-355-3356 Step 2 FIRE TRUCK toddler bed for toddler mattress - $100 Johnsburg can deliver 815-790-7058 Trunks. Rattan. Can be used for coffee and end tables. 1 w/glass top. $75/all. 815-385-4353

TV STAND

Smoked black glass with shelves.

Fits up to 42” TV, $50.

Can text pics. 847-254-8709

TV STAND/PLANT STAND

BEDSPREAD ~ NEW, FULL

Beautiful, dark, rich gold floral 54x78” $80. 815-459-3822 Crystal Goblets – Waterford Marquis, Set of 4, New in Box $50. 815-385-1969 9am-5pm Dinnerware – 8 Piece Setting Includes Cups, Saucers, Plates, 2 Platters, 3 Bowls, Creamer & Gravy Boat. Light Beige Color w/ Brown Trim - $40 815-385-5109 10am-6pm Home Whirlpool Spa - Dazey Fits in any tub, features a multisetting timer switch, adjustable flow control & temperature readout. $30. Call 224-587-7522 or email buyclassified@yahoo.com to arrange pickup.

ICE CRUSHER

Portable Electric use on counter for drinks or fancy food. Works good, $20. 815-455-3555 INDOOR GRILL George Foreman Lean Mean Fat Grilling Machine. Interchangeable griddle plate & waffle plates. $30. Call 224-587-7522 or email: buyclassified@yahoo.com to arrange pickup.

Kenmore Vacuum Cleaner w/ attachments. very good condition, like new, used very little.

Has inteli, Clean, Suction, Tools, Gentle, floor, dirt sensor $150.

Call 815-455-3633 or email

Lamps

Set of 2 Green, Ceramic Lamps w/ New Shades - $8 815-385-4400 Mirror-Entry Hall gold plated Beveled 66”x 26”. $100.

815-385-4353 Netchi Sewing Machine Pictures Available $25 815-790-3083 New Cocktail Glasses 9 pink, Pierl Martini Glass Stemware, New w/Tags Retails $30, Asking $9 for all 815-455-6201 daytime Pfaltzgraff Winterwood Tall Mugs – Set of 9, $50 total.

815-382-2455 Popcorn Set - Like new - 7 piece ceramic. Includes large bucket for popcorn, 4 serving cups, butter server, and salt shaker. Asking price: $10. Call (224) 587-7522 or email buyclassified@yahoo.com to arrange pickup.

TABLE TOP STONE FOUNTAIN Includes pump & adapter. $10.

224-587-7522 or email buyclassified@ yahoo.com to arrange pickup.

18 HP Cub Cadet Garden Tractor, 46 in. mower deck, 45 in. 2-stage snow thrower, tire chains & wheel wghts.$750 OBO (815)355-6611 Bench Glider Swing - 3 person wide, green metal frame w/ mesh bench complete w/ new full width cushion, $89. 815-236-1747 LAWN MOWER - 19" Neuton, used, battery powered. Includes mulching plug & lawn clipping bag.

Added attachments: weed trimmer, 2 replacement trimmer spools, new replacement blade & striper, 2 batteries & their chargers & extra new charger. $400. email: buyclassified@yahoo.com 224-587-7522

DINNERWARE - 46 PIECES

GUMBALL MACHINE

38” Spiral, $20 815-404-8173 Lawn Reindeer, buck, doe, & 3 fawns, all wood $50 815-385-1432 LO PI WOOD BURNING FIREPLACE INSERT W/BLOWER, BRASS DOORS, GOOD COND. $500 815-338-2951 LUGGAGE 3 Pc Samsonite Set w/wheels. Never Used. $50 OBO. Call anytime, 815-861-9864.

Nesting Luggage Set - Diane Von Furstenberg, 5 pieces, brown tweed Like new. 2 suitcases w/ rollers 1 bag – 21 x 28, other bag 18-1/2 x 26, 2 carry-ons & garment bag. $200 obo 847-658-4944 before 7PM

PORTABLE HEATER

Portable, Natural Gas, Salimander Heater w/ hose. $50.

847-476-6771

PUNCH BOWL

Large, cut glass, 15”Hx10” with 8 glasses, $30. Pics avail.

815-790-3083

PUNCH BOWL SET

With ladle and 12 cups, still in box, never used. Perfect for the Holiday's! $25 815-477-2772

SEWING MACHINE

Necchi, working, $75. Pics avail.

815-790-3083

SEWING MACHINE

Portable, Singer includes all attachments and booklet, $60/obo.

815-382-6379

SEWING MACHINE

Singer with all accessories plus storage stool, $60.

815-385-4353

SNOWPLOW

Myers, 7.5' plow and A frame. $300. 847-302-7009 Tires; 4 Firestone Destination LE SUV or Truck. P245/65/R17.

Have 40% tread - $50 847-344-2750

DRUM SET - PACIFIC 6 piece drums, great shape, includes seat & all stands, 1 bass drum with foot pedal, 1 floor tom, 2 med tom, 2 snare drums, 1 hi-hat (2 cymbals), 1 crash cymbal, burgundy in color, photos available upon request, $250 OBO Call/Text Barb at 815-529-2227

GUITARS (2)

Yamaha base RAX 200, $250.

Ibanez, electric G10, $150.

815-648-4444 PIANO - Used Upright. Free.

You pickup and load.

815-793-1539

815-334-8611

Aquarium: 100 gallon with all equipment and stand and fish $250.00 815-679-6178

Christmas Item for Cat Lovers Fringed throw & matching pillow, made of fleece fabric w/cats wearing Santa hats, NEW! Cash $15 847-639-8572 ENGLISH BULLDOG - AKC 1 yr old male, brown and white, perfect markings.

Asking $1700 OBO. He loves EVERYTHING crystal.montain@comcast.net

42” table, chuck and collets, Kurt vice, power feeds, exc cond! $2600 815-560-1065

MOVING DOLLY

$20

815-404-8173

Salamander Kerosene Heater Craftsman, 35,000 BTU, $40.

815-759-5952

ERNIE 2 month old male Beagle mix.

There are so many competing for my love, how will I choose?

Ah, beautiful indecision.

I can't wait to meet the winner. www.helpingpaws.net 815-338-4400 Kennels 3x2.6” & 3x2.4” $30 815-404-9765

KITTENS HOOVEROUNDS (2) Both less than 2 years old. $200/each. 815-566-5965

Walk-About WHEELCHAIR. NEW. High Quality.

Adj footrest. Black/Chrome. Could Deliver. $100 815-578-0212

Christmas Item for Cat Lovers Fringed throw & matching pillow, made of fleece fabric w/cats wearing Santa hats, NEW! Cash $15 847-639-8572

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Coffee Cups: ceramic from Starbucks 8 ounces, 1 case of 72 cups, $100 815-578-0212

Downsizing, your $200 buys my $1000. 847-804-2999 Christmas Dinner Plates 8 Nikko Dinner Plates – 10-1/2” D “Happy Holidays” Very Old, Protected in Zipper Container $65. 815-385-1969 9a-5p Christmas Tree - Fiber optic tabletop 24” tall, decorated w/ gold fiber optic lanterns & has a gold base.

Asking $30. Call (224) 587-7522 or email buyclassified@yahoo.com to arrange pickup.

CHRISTMAS TREE 7-1/2' – Colorado Pine - Pre-Lit, Must See to Appreciate. $180 New, Asking $40 815-245-0407

CHRISTMAS TREE Green, 7.5 ft, pre-lit, works great! $29.00.

847-736-2838 Fahrenheat Ceiling Mount Automatic Electrical Garage Heater. 7,500W Only used 5 times, in a good condition. Asking $350.

Call 1-815-546-3193 Lighted White Reindeer Italian Lights – One Move Head $30. 815-444-9715 Miniature Lighting for Christmas village, railroad or doll house. 5 trans & misc. $35. 815-790-9812 Ornament – Swarovski Crystal Snowflake Ornament 2001 Annual Crystal in Box w/ Certificate Never Used - $125 815-385-1969 9am-5pm

Antique and Modern Guns Old Lever Actions, Winchesters, Marlins, Savages, etc. Old Pistols and Revolvers. Cash for Collection.

FFL License 815-338-4731

Lionel & American Flyer Trains 815-353-7668

Stamp & Coin Collections CASH PAID Call Bill 847-487-6889 WANTED TO BUY: Vintage or New, working or not.

Bicycles, Outboard motors, fishing gear, motorcycles or mopeds, chainsaws, tools etc. Cash on the spot. Cell: 815-322-6383

CJ QUALITY RESALE STORE CLOSING SALE EVERYTHING MUST GO Clearance 40% off

361 S. Rand Rd. LAKE ZURICH 847-438-4772 Store Open 10am Rt. 12 & 22-Next To Dominicks HUGE accumulation of collectibles, vintage jewelry, figurines, light furniture shelves, china, antiques, lamps & MUCH MORE! NO JUNK!

OUTSIDE NATIVITY SET Includes: Jesus, Manager, Joseph, Three Wisemen, Shepard Boy, Lamb & Donkey. More Outside Decorations Available – Moving $400 Firm for Nativity 815-477-1183 afternoons

ECKEL'S MCHENRY FLEA MARKET

Santa Elves (7)

McHenry

3-5” tall for outside, adorable! $35. 815-477-2772

3705 WEST ELM FRI 11-7 & SAT & SUN 8-5 815-363-3532

SANTA SUIT

One size fits all, cotton, worn once - $20.00.

224-569-2678 The Original “Sleeping Santa” w/Box, Adult Owned – Used Once Excellent Condition - $70 Also other animated items 815-385-1969 9am-5pm

Honda Snowblower 4 Stroke, Auger Switch $200 OBO. 815-344-4385

New Electric DuroStar Snow Demon SD1300 New – Never Used, Buy before the snow flies! $165. 847-395-5795 Snowblower – Craftsman 6Hp., 24”, 2 Stage, Electric Start - Used Very Little, Selling for health reasons - $225 815-451-4392 after 10am

Snowblowers Craftsman, 2Hp, 18” Cut - $125 or 3.5Hp, 20” cut - $150; Toro – 4Hp, 21” Cut, Electric Start - $175; All are Tuned & Ready to go! 815-479-0492 Toro Snowblower - $50.

McHenry area 815-355-3356 Toro/CCR. 3HP. 16” 2 cycle.

Good condition. $120 815-385-3858

Indoor Moving Sale for 10 Days Call Debbie 815-679-6178 Advertise here for a successful garage sale!

Call 815-455-4800

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Air Hockey Game $150.00 815-679-6178 Dirt Bike/ATV Helmet. Youth Med. Blue/Black. Good cond. $10 CASH Crystal Lk. 815-477-3775 Women's, with blade guards, size 6, excellent condition! $15 847-854-7980

SKI PANTS Arctix ,Black

LEO 4 1/2 year old male Orange & White DSH. I know I have to play the cards I'm dealt, but at least I can choose who is at the table. Want to join me at my table? www.helpingpaws.net 815-338-4400 Puggle Golden Retriever Mix Black 8 weeks old. $350.

847-456-7171 Having a Birthday, Anniversary, Graduation or Event Coming Up? Share It With Everyone by Placing a HAPPY AD!

CHRISTMAS TREE Green, 7.5 ft, pre-lit, works great! $29.00.

847-736-2838

Christmas Decorations

Very big, very good condition! $25.

815-382-3952 PlayMobil Victorian Dollhouse 5300! Hundreds of furnishings & fittings! Use this link to view: http://www.amazon.com/PLAYMOBIL%C2%AE-18058-PlaymobilVictorian-House/dp/B00006AN0M Asking $300-a real deal! A little girl's dream this holiday!

815-236-7300 Step 2 Wagon w/Tag-a-long Green w/doors & cup holders Fun times for 3 kids - $10 815-455-6201 Wooden Lego Tray - Includes 2 plates 10x10 & 3 handles for easy carry. Great gift for that Lego kid $40. 847-836-9543

ICE SKATES ~ LAKE PLACID

LIFT CHAIR ~ PRIDE

Lemex, blue, rolls and has a basket, $50. 815-459-7768

China Plates – Royal Copenhagen Set of 8 Christmas Salad Plates 8” D - “Jingle Bells” - Very Old Excellent Condition, Protected in Zippered Container - $240 815-385-1969 9a-5p

Yard Machine, 4.5HP, 21” wide, runs excellent, $150.

Murray Snowblower, Single Stage, 4.5HP, $75. 630-290-1412

FREE TO GOOD HOME! 847-642-0091

Very sturdy, dark brown fabric.

Used 3 weeks, brand new, $900.

847-802-4092 Vibrating Feet Massager Sit comfortably while relieving tired, aching feet. Ease aches & pains w/ this vibrating feet massager, Uses D cell batteries, incl. $25/obo 847-659-9537

TOBY 3 month old male Black DSH What do I love about myself?

I love my persistence, energy, small size and lack of grace.

Hope you feel the same way. www.helpingpaws.net 815-338-4400

SNOWBLOWER

Jet Mill, 2HP, 115/230 Volt

LADDER - Cosco 17' - World's Greatest Ladder. In great shape like new. Has 3 positions as a step ladder, 6 heights as an extension ladder, 3 positions as a stairway ladder, 2 heights as a scaffold, & 2 heights as a wall ladder. $100. To arrange pickup, 224-587-7522 or email buyclassified@yahoo.com.

Minnie Mouse Stuffed Animal

Set of Fairwinds, The Friendship of Salem, brown, exc cond, $350.

847-807-9156

Pianos Quality Pre-Owned Pianos Delivered & Warrantied

Oak, 37”Hx15”Wx12”D. Excellent condition, $85. 847-829-4546 All NIU Sports... All The Time

CURTAIN

50x84, grey and black. Paid $50/panel, sell for $7/panel.

815-404-8173

Size extra large, insulated, brand new, never worn, must see. $32.60 815-459-5663 Snowboard boots, kid's size 6, cobalt blue, worn once. $10 815-477-3775 Treadmill Healthrider Soft Strider EX Needs walking belt - $75 OBO 815-276-7100 after 1pm

Doll Beds -18" - Single or queen size. All wood beds includes bedding. $45 for single bed, $80 for queen size. 847-836-9543

DOLL HOUSE

Gingerbread trim, shingled roof, 4 rooms, 18x12”, newly built. $50.

847-854-7980

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Original doll, still in box, $50.

815-455-2688 Kid's toy wooden kitchen $25 815-307-8149

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