NWH-12-29-2015

TUESDAY

FALLING BEHIND

December 29, 2015 • $1 .0 0

NORTHWEST

HERALD

Huntley girls can’t overcome early deficit, suffer first loss of season in tournament quarterfinal / C1 NWHerald.com

THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN McHENRY COUNTY

HIGH

LOW

34 24 Complete forecast on page A8

Facebook.com/NWHerald

@NWHerald

Candidates to speak at forums before election

Dates set in January, February

By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – Candidates for contested federal, state and county races will have a chance in the coming months to make their cases directly to McHenry County voters.

The McHenry County League of Women Voters is holding five candidate forums in January and February in advance of the March 15 primary in Illinois.

All five will begin at 7 p.m. on their respective dates at the Luecht Conference Center in Building B of McHenry County College, 8900 Route 14, Crystal Lake.

Candidates for the 6th and 14th congressional districts will appear at the first forum Jan. 21. The 6th Congressional District, which includes Algonquin Township, has both Republican and Democratic contested races.

Incumbent Republican Peter Roskam is facing challenges from candidates Gordon Kinzler and Gerald Drabik, and Democratic candidates Robert Marshall and Amanda Howland are running against each other.

In the 14th District, which includes the rest of McHenry County, Democratic candidates Jim Walz, John Hosta and Jesse Maggitt are running against one another in the primary.

The winner will face incumbent Republican Rep. Randy Hultgren in the Nov. 8 election. Hultgren does not have a primary challenger.

Candidates running for McHenry County Board Districts 4, 5 and 6 will appear at the second forum Jan. 26.

There are two open seats in each County Board district.

In District 4, Republican incumbent Sue Draffkorn, R-Wonder Lake, and challengers Kay Bates and Craig Wilcox are running.

Incumbent Michael Skala, R-Huntley, and challengers Joseph Calomino and Andrew Snarski are running in the GOP primary in District 5.

Five Republican candidates – Kelly Liebmann, Ersel Schuster, Preston Rea, James Kearns and incumbent Mary McCann, R-Woodstock – are running in District 6.

If you go The McHenry County League of Women Voters has arranged five candidate forums for local elected offices.

Jan 21 – The 6th and 14th congressional districts Jan. 26 – McHenry County Board Districts 4, 5 and 6 Jan. 28 – McHenry County Board Districts 1, 2 and 3 Feb. 2 – McHenry County recorder, County Board chairman and state’s attorney Feb. 4 – Illinois House Districts 63 and 66 All forums start at 7 p.m. at the Luecht Conference Center, Building B, McHenry County College, 8900 Route 14, Crystal Lake.

Democratic candidates Alex Wimmer, running in District 5, and Allison Barnard, running in District 6, are running unopposed in their respective primaries.

Candidates running for McHenry County Board Districts 1, 2 and 3 will appear at the third forum Jan. 28.

In District 1, Republican incumbents Anna May Miller and Yvonne Barnes, both of Cary, and challengers Tom Wilbeck and Terence Ferenc are running.

Candidates John Reinert, Cameron Hubbard and newly appointed board member Jeff Thorsen, R-Crystal Lake, are running in the GOP primary in District 2.

Four Republican candidates – incumbents Nick Provenzano, R-McHenry, Michael Walkup, R-Crystal Lake, and challengers Cherie Rickert and Nancy Gonsiorek – are running in District 3.

The winners will run in November against Democratic opponents Kerri Barber in District 1, Dominique Miller in District 2 and Kenneth Miller in District 3.

Candidates for all contested countywide races will appear at the fourth forum Feb. 2.

Photos by H. Rick Bamman – hbamman@shawmedia.com

ABOVE: Woodstock Police Detective George Kopulos checks one of the storage bins in the evidence room at police headquarters.

Violent crime jumped in Woodstock from 2013 to 2014, according to a recently released report from the Illinois State Police that details the crime trends for cities across McHenry County. BELOW: An evidence bag is stored in the evidence room at the Woodstock Police Department.

McHenry County crime rate sees dip

By KATIE DAHLSTROM kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com

McHenry County residents have requested police service more frequently this year than they did last year, a trend that has some local police agencies wondering whether they will see a corresponding increase in the number of crimes reported in their towns.

If the number of reported crimes does increase, it will follow a year that saw a dip in crime despite jumps in offenses such as aggravated assault or battery and theft, according to the Uniform Crime Report issued this fall by Illinois State Police.

Crime was down 6 percent in

Report shows 6 percent decrease from 2013 to 2014 McHenry County in 2014, the report showed. McHenry County’s dip lagged behind the state’s drop of 10 percent between 2013 and 2014.

However, McHenry County’s crime rate remained less than half of the state’s at about 114 crimes per 10,000 residents.

Crystal Lake, McHenry County’s

largest municipality, was among those where crime increased from 2013 to 2014. Crime jumped about 7.3 percent, state police data show, with thefts making up most of the increase.

There were 701 thefts in 2013 and 770 in 2014, which Deputy Chief Tom Kotlowski said was because of identity thefts being included in that category in 2014.

The calls for service in Crystal Lake are up about 7.5 percent this year when compared to 2014, Kotlowski said. That doesn’t necessarily mean crime has increased, although it could be a contributing factor to any jump.

See CRIME RATES, page A5

On the Web: To view the Uniform Crime Report from 2013 and 2014 for McHenry County, which was issued this fall by Illinois State Police, visit NWHerald.com.

News sent to your phone:

To receive text alerts from the Northwest Herald to your mobile phone, sign up at NWHerald.com.

See FORUMS, page A5

Advocates: Chicago police crisis training has become weak

By SARA BURNETT

Latonya Jones, 19, holds a photo of her mother, Bettie Jones, during a vigil Sunday in Chicago. Jones and Quintonio LeGrier, 19, were killed Saturday by police responding to a domestic disturbance on the city’s West Side, police said.

The Associated Press CHICAGO – In the wake of another police shooting, Mayor Rahm Emanuel called for an immediate review of how the Chicago Police Department trains officers to respond to calls involving people in crisis or with mental health problems.

But advocates for what’s known as crisis intervention team training say Chicago’s program has been “starved” of resources, with only about 15 percent of officers completing the 40-hour course. Advocates say they tried to get meetings with Emanuel early in his first term to stress the importance of

Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP

More inside A grand jury Monday ruled against the indictment of the white police officer who killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland PAGE B3 the training and ask the city to invest more in it, but were ignored. Illinois’ budget crisis also created a lapse, not just in Chicago but elsewhere.

The issue resurfaced last weekend, after officers responding to a domestic disturbance shot and killed a 19-yearold man and a 55-year-old woman. The deaths of Bettie Jones – who police

LOCAL NEWS

LOCAL NEWS

SPORTS

WHERE IT’S AT

Winter storm

Next step

Building up

Crashes, downed power lines seen across county as rain, sleet hits / A3

Permits expected soon for Pedcor affordable housing complex in Cary / A3

Arkush: Win over Bucs doesn’t solve all Bears’ problems / C1

Advice ................................ C6 Buzz.....................................C8 Classified........................ D1-3 Comics ............................... C7 Community ........................B1 Local News.....................A2-7 Lottery................................ A2 Nation&World...............B3-4

say was accidentally hit by gunfire – and Quintonio LeGrier occurred just weeks after the Department of Justice opened a civil-rights investigation into Chicago police practices.

Here’s a look at Chicago’s training program and what its supporters describe as the city’s “shameful” response to a growing crisis:

The cases

LeGrier’s father said the Northern Illinois University student appeared to be a “little agitated” and later tried to bust open his door, prompting Antonio LeGrier to call police. He said Jones,

See CHICAGO POLICE, page A5

Obituaries ......................... A7 Opinion...............................B2 Puzzles ........................... D3-4 Sports..............................C1-5 State ................................... B3 Stocks................................. A7 TV listings .........................D4 Weather .............................A8

PAGE 2 TUESDAY

Get text alerts Text the keyword NWHNEWS to 74574 to sign up for breaking news text alerts.

Message/ data rates apply.

NWHerald.com

December 29, 2015 Northwest Herald Section A • Page 2 Facebook.com/NWHerald

@NWHerald

CRYSTAL LAKE

MCC offers noncredit sustainability classes NORTHWEST HERALD CRYSTAL LAKE – Sustainability classes are being offered by McHenry County College’s Continuing Education Department where residents can learn about tree identification, beekeeping, essential oils and hydroponics. The following courses are accepting registration: • Winter Tree Identification: Learn how to identify tree and shrub species by looking at the bark, buds and twigs.

Class will begin indoors, then move outside to test your skills on the wide variety of tree and bush species growing in the park.

The class will be from 9 to 11:50 a.m.

Jan. 16 at the Hennen Conservation District in Woodstock. Cost is $7. Use course code: NPG S32 002 to register.

• Beekeeping 101: The demand for

LOTTERY

bees for pollination is up, so this is a good time to learn about bees and beekeeping.

Local bee expert Larry Krengel will cover bee biology, modern beekeeping techniques, construction of hives and how to acquire bees. Keep bees for the fun of it, as a sideline job or to help your garden and orchard. The class will be from 7 to 9:20 p.m. Mondays, Feb. 1 to 22 in Room A102 at MCC. Cost is $59. Use course code: NPG S38 005 to register.

• Introduction to Essential Oils: Learn the history of essential oils and how they were used throughout the years.

The basics of how, when and why to use essential oils to enhance your everyday life also will be explained.

Participants will bring home a sachet of salts scented with the oil of their choice, along with handouts on how to

use the oils at home. The class will be from 6 to 6:50 p.m. Feb. 18 in Room A117 at MCC. Cost is $15. Use course code: NHE S45 004 to register.

• Seven Ways to Raise a Queen: The number of small-scale beekeepers is increasing, and the demand for locally raised queen bees is growing. Gain information and seven simple methods of raising healthy honeybee queens.

With a few insights and a small amount of equipment, the backyard beekeeper can raise locally adapted queens from bee stock with a great record of winter survival, good temperament and excellent honey production.

The class will be from 7 to 9:20 p.m.

Feb. 29 in Room A103 at MCC. Cost is $22. Use course code: NPG S83 006 to register.

• Introduction to Hydroponics: Grow whatever you want, wherever you

want, whenever you want with hydroponics. This class will teach the basics needed to successfully grow your own food.

From seed to harvest, gardening without soil is the way to go. See what this growing trend is about and how easy it is. The class will be from 6:30 to 8:20 p.m. March 7 in Room C104 at MCC. Cost is $20. Use course code NPG S25 002 to register.

• In March, look for more sustainability classes, including Eating the Rainbow: Nutrient Density, Introduction to Permaculture, Green Cleaning with Essential Oils and Burn Training for Landowners and Volunteers.

To register, call 815-455-8588. For information, visit www.mchenry.edu/ community or call Claudia Terrones at 815-455-8782 or cterrones@mchenry. edu.

Himana Aviles, 4, stands in line with her family Dec. 22, bundled up for the cold weather as free food from the Northern Illinois Food Bank is handed out at United Way in McHenry.

ILLINOIS LOTTERY Pick 3 Midday: 9-4-3 Pick 3 Evening: 6-8-8 Pick 4 Midday: 4-1-9-9 Pick 4 Evening: 9-1-6-6 Lucky Day Lotto Midday: 1-3-28-40-44

Matthew Apgar – mapgar@shawmedia.com

Lucky Day Lotto Evening: 1-4-5-21-31

LIKE WHAT YOU SEE? Check out our photo galleries of images made by award-winning Northwest Herald photographers on the Northwest Herald website at: http://www. nwherald. com/lists/.

Photos can also be purchased at http:// photos. nwherald. com/ photostore.

Lotto: 7-10-16-17-23-51 (22) Lotto jackpot: $18.75 million MEGA MILLIONS Est. jackpot: $117 million POWERBALL Est. jackpot: $300 million INDIANA LOTTERY Daily 3 Midday: 6-1-5 Daily 3 Evening: 1-0-5 Daily 4 Midday: 4-5-0-3 Daily 4 Evening: 4-8-3-2 Cash 5: 11-13-14-28-30 Est. Lotto jackpot: $12.2 million WISCONSIN LOTTERY Pick 3: 9-9-7 Pick 4: 5-5-5-2 SuperCash: 5-16-21-25-29-30 Badger 5: 9-11-19-28-31

NEWS ALERTS

NWHALGONQUIN NWHCARY NWHCRYSTALLAKE NWHHUNTLEY NWHLITH NWHMCHENRY NWHWOODSTOCK To sign up for more alerts – including school news, prep sports and severe weather alerts – or to manage your text alerts – visit http://shawurl.com/textalert.

Message and data rates apply.

Northwest Herald Web Poll Question

LOCAL BRIEFS Learn about nature at Glacial Park

RINGWOOD – “Lost Valley Nature Detectives,” a self-guided drop-in program for families, is available from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays at the Lost Valley Visitor Center in Glacial Park, Route 31 and Harts Road.

The program includes indoor displays and outdoor exploration. Free exploration backpacks, including binoculars and field guides, can be checked out. Each month features a different topic, including “Animal Tracks” in January and “Coyotes” in February.

For information, call 815-479-5779.

Count on Me...

The Northwest Herald invites you to voice your opinion. Log on to www.NWHerald.com and vote on today’s poll question:

Bob Sharp

How many Christmas gifts have you returned?

Monday’s results as of 11 p.m.:

How would you grade the Bears’ performance Sunday?

38% C

...We Take the Time to Know You

31% B F

10% A

7% D

Bob Sharp

Vice President Commercial Lending 611 S. Main St. Crystal Lake, IL 60014

(815) 788-3457 Member FDIC

adno=0332509

14%

OFFICE 7717 S. Route 31, Crystal Lake, IL 60014 815-459-4040 Fax: 815-477-4960 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday NEWSROOM 815-459-4122 Fax: 815-459-5640 tips@nwherald.com SUBSCRIBER SERVICES 800-589-9363 subscriptions@shawmedia.com 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday 7 to 10 a.m. Saturday and Sunday Missed your paper?

If you have not received your paper by 6 a.m. Monday-Friday, or by 7 a.m. Saturday/Sunday, call 800589-9363 by 10 a.m. for same-day redelivery.

SUBSCRIPTIONS Monday-Saturday: $1.00 / issue Sunday: $1.50 / issue Basic weekly rate: $7.50 Basic annual rate: $390 To subscribe, make a payment or discuss your delivery, contact Customer Service.

CLASSIFIED SALES 877-264-CLAS (2527) Fax: 815-477-8898 classified@shawsuburban.com LEGAL NOTICES publicnotice@nwherald.com 877-264-2527 Fax: 630-368-8809

NORTHWEST OUTTAKES

Get news from your community sent to your phone. Text the following keyword to 74574 for your community text alerts:

NWHerald.com

McHenry County Conservation District offers nature programs

The McHenry County Conservation District offers the following programs. Registration is required at www.mccdistrict.org.

• “Nature Play Open House,” for infants through 5-year-olds accompanied by an adult, will be from 10 a.m. to noon Jan. 7 at Prairieview Education Center, 2112 Behan Road, Crystal Lake.

The program includes nature puzzles, games, puppets, crafts and more. There also will be a guided hike at 11 a.m. Free for county residents, $3 nonresidents. The registration deadline is Jan. 3.

• “Winter Scavenger Hunt” will be from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Jan. 9 at The Hollows Conservation Area, 3804 Route 14, Cary.

Participants in the free, family-friendly event will look at winter plant life and search for signs of animal activity. The registration deadline is Jan. 5.

• “It’s a Wonderful Time of the Year!” will be from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Jan. 10 at Prairieview Education Center, 2112 Behan Road, Crystal Lake. The family-friendly program will include a hike, winter games and a campfire. Free for county residents, $5 nonresidents. The registration deadline is Jan. 6.

– Northwest Herald

RETAIL ADVERTISING 815-459-4040 OBITUARIES 815-526-4438 obits@nwherald.com Publisher Kate Weber 815-526-4400 kweber@shawmedia.com President John Rung Editor Jason Schaumburg 815-526-4414 jschaumburg@shawmedia.com News Editor Kevin Lyons 815-526-4505 kelyons@shawmedia.com

Northwest Herald and NWHerald.com are a division of Shaw Media.

All rights reserved.

Copyright 2015

• Relevant information • Marketing Solutions • Community Advocates

CONTACT US Do you have a news tip or story idea? Please call us at 815-459-4122 or email us at tips@nwherald.com.

CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS Accuracy is important to the Northwest Herald, and we want to correct mistakes promptly. Please call errors to our attention by phone, 815-459-4122; email, tips@ nwherald.com; or fax, 815459-5640.

CRISIS LINE Don’t know where to turn for help? Call the McHenry County Crisis Line at 800892-8900. The phone line is open 24 hours a day. It’s confidential and free. You also can visit the crisis line on the Web at www.mchenry-crisis. org.

Have a news tip?

Email tips@ nwherald.com

LOCAL BRIEFS Portion of True Value warehouse collapses

HARVARD – No one was injured when a portion of the True Value Distribution Center collapsed Monday night, Harvard Fire Protection Battalion Chief Don Davidson said.

The building at 306 S. Division St. already was evacuated when fire personnel responded to the call around 6:20 p.m., he said.

The collapse affected a portion of the warehouse roof that measured about 75 feet by 150 feet, and likely was caused by a heavy amount of snow on the building’s roof, Davidson said.

ComEd and Nicor both arrived to the scene shortly after to shut off the building’s gas and utilities, he said, because the collapse caused a gas leak.

Fire officials will be back at the scene Tuesday to investigate the collapse and assess the damage, Davidson said.

Officials from Hebron, Marengo and Woodstock and the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office helped with the response because two of Harvard’s vehicles were responding to a call of power lines down, Davidson said.

LOCAL NEWS TUESDAY NWHerald.com

CONTACT: Kevin Lyons • kelyons@shawmedia.com

December 29, 2015 Northwest Herald Section A • Page 3

Facebook.com/NWHerald

@NWHerald

Pedcor plan moves forward Permits for affordable housing project in Cary likely to be issued soon

By CAITLIN SWIECA cswieca@shawmedia.com CARY – Building permits for the bulk of Pedcor Industries’ Garden Place Apartments affordable housing complex are likely to be issued this week or early next week, Village Administrator Chris Clark said.

The permits will apply to a revised site plan submitted by Pedcor in November after the

Board of Zoning, Planning and Appeals denied the company’s appeal regarding lot coverage calculations.

Village officials and the McHenry County Stormwater Management Commission have reviewed and approved the plan, Clark said.

The permits issued in the coming days will cover the six-building plan that makes

up the bulk of the complex, Clark said.

The 1,600-square-foot clubhouse, which was significantly downsized in Pedcor’s revised plan, likely will be permitted and constructed later because village officials still are working out the new details of that plan with the company, Clark said.

Pedcor also will be required

to submit associated permit fees when permits are issued.

Including the delayed permit for the clubhouse, Clark said those fees are expected to total about $850,000.

Those fees will be dispensed to various taxing bodies in the village, per standard procedure, Clark said.

The long-discussed project initially was approved by the

Village Board in June 2014 before the permit process stalled when a miscalculation was discovered in lot coverage.

After a subsequent variance request and appeal were denied by the zoning board, Pedcor submitted the revised plan it is now moving forward with. It could break ground on the complex at First and Pearl streets in 2016.

Car vs. semitruck crash sends three to hospital

– Caitlin Swieca

LOCAL DEATHS OBITUARIES ON PAGE A7

Thomas M. Braje 69 Betty Lou Frederick 90, Crystal Lake Gary Grams 60, Fontana, Wis. James Edward Ule 75, Woodstock

H. Rick Bamman – hbamman@shawmedia.com

Jason Berg works Monday morning to clear a wintry mix of snow, sleet and ice pellets from handicapped parking spaces at 800 McHenry Ave. in Crystal Lake. A mix of precipitation is expected again Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service.

Storm causes crashes around county

By HANNAH PROKOP hprokop@shawmedia.com

and CAITLIN SWIECA

cswieca@shawmedia.com Emergency personnel responded to numerous vehicle crashes and downed power lines across McHenry County on Monday as the area

faced freezing rain, sleet and high winds throughout the day.

McHenry County was under a winter storm warning for 15 hours after the National Weather Service extended its initial notice expiration from 6 to 9 p.m.

Charles Mott, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service,

said the warning was extended because the freezing rain lasted longer than anticipated. Initial forecasts predicted the precipitation would become rain in the afternoon, but the transition did not happen until the late evening.

As of late Monday afternoon, Mott said the Chicago area had seen

an average of 2 inches of accumulated precipitation between sleet and snow.

While calls for emergency personnel came throughout the day, Crystal Lake Fire Rescue District Battalion Chief Tom Pollnow said

See STORM, page A5

Ex-Hebron police officer sentenced to four years Man sold drugs while on duty from his squad car, department, testimony reveals while on duty from his squad car and at the department.

Ryszard T. Kopacz, 32, was WOODSTOCK – Testimony found guilty in August of illeat a sentencing hearing for a gally possessing weapons from former Hebron police officer the department’s evidence revealed he sold marijuana locker. He was charged sepa-

By CHELSEA McDOUGALL

cmcdougall@shawmedia.com

rately in a drug case and pleaded guilty Monday before a sentencing hearing.

His guilty plea was accept- Ryszard T. ed by McHenry Kopacz County Judge Michael Feetterer, who later sentenced him to four years in prison.

A confidential informant testified that Kopacz, of Wauconda, had given her drugs eight or nine times, often in small amounts, but as much as 2 ounces. He often was on duty and in uniform when he gave her the drugs that officials said he acquired from his brother.

Kopacz was fired from Hebron in June 2014 for “budget-

ary reasons,” village officials said. He later went to work for Richmond, and police officials there said they “heard nothing bad” about the officer. They also had conducted a background check before hiring Kopacz part time. He worked there three days.

While on duty with the

After Christmas Sale

See OFFICER, page A7

Colleciton being taken

75% off Most merchandise

HOURS: Monday thru Saturday 10 - 4 Closed Sunday

815-337-2509

5211 Swanson Road • Woodstock, IL (sw corner of Rt. 47 & 176) adno=0338197

HEBRON – Three people were taken Monday to Centegra Hospital – Woodstock, including one in serious condition, after a car collided with a semitruck on Route 173, a Hebron fire official said.

Hebron Fire Assistant Chief Tom Linneman said all three people were in the car that appeared to lose control while traveling west over a hill on Route 173 west of Johnson Road around 1:30 p.m. The car collided with a semi that was traveling east, he said.

One person was in serious condition, another in fair condition and the third had minor injuries, he said. The driver of the truck refused transport, Linneman said. Linneman said this was the only vehicle crash the Hebron department had responded to Monday, but added that road conditions were “very, very poor.”

www.gardensofwoodstock.com *In-stock items only. Excludes previous markdowns.

adno=0338196

4 LOCAL NEWS • Tuesday, December 29, 2015 • Section A • Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com

CRYSTAL LAKE

Court reverses county judge’s opinion Sides with city in property tax levy dispute

ing on the lawsuit, which was filed by a group of business and property owners who argued the three “yes” votes by the City Council in December 2013 to approve the levy were not enough to pass it under state law.

The city of Crystal Lake,

By EMILY K. COLEMAN however, is a home rule comecoleman@shawmedia.com munity, which means it can CRYSTAL LAKE – The establish its own voting procedures, which it has, and which property tax levy voted on by it followed when passing the the Crystal Lake City Council 2013 levy, Justice Mary Semtwo years ago was valid, an inara-Schostok wrote in the appellate court has ruled. decision, which criticized the The decision reversed a way an attorney representMcHenry County judge’s rul- ing the taxpayers selectively

quoted a state statute.

“When a party fails to accurately quote the entire statutory provision as occurred here, it leads to one conclusion – that the party is attempting to mislead the court,” Seminara-Schostok wrote. “Unfortunately, it appears this attempt was successful in the trial court. This behavior will not be tolerated.”

Timothy Dwyer, the attorney representing the taxpayers, was out of town Monday morning and had not seen the opinion, so he declined to comment on its contents.

Dwyer was surprised to

get the news, however, and he plans on asking the Illinois Supreme Court to consider the case, something that often takes months to hear back on.

“It’s always a long shot to have the Supreme Court take a case,” said the city’s attorney, Victor Filippini.

The taxes collected on the contested levy are being held by the McHenry County Treasurer’s Office, Filippini said.

Those cannot be released until the appellate court’s mandate is handed down.

The tax objection lawsuit also called into question the property tax levies passed by

Crystal Lake-based Community High School District 155 and Crystal Lake Elementary School District 47, arguing the school districts each had more than a year’s worth of cash on hand.

A hearing on a request for summary judgment filed by Dwyer is scheduled Jan. 21.

The school districts both argued in their responses to Dwyer’s arguments that their cash reserves do not meet the levels laid out in a 1969 Illinois Supreme Court decision.

The districts’ reliance on a single formula “conveniently ignores a century of case

law directly on point,” Dwyer wrote. “Here, the district is eager to characterize this case as an ‘excess accumulation’ matter when the law and the facts demonstrate it is not that simple.”

The taxpayers don’t just get to “unilaterally change the Miller standard,” the districts’ attorneys wrote in their reply to Dwyer’s argument, adding, “The plaintiffs’ gut tells them that District 47 has accumulated too much money. The plaintiffs’ gut feeling, however, is not the legal standard.”

CARY

Affordable senior housing proposal moves to board

By CAITLIN SWIECA cswieca@shawmedia.com

Sarah Nader – snader@shawmedia.com

Wilbur Kemp (left) and his son, Wolfgang Kemp, sit in the communal dining area Sept. 16 at their home in Woodstock PADS transitional housing. Wolfgang plays football for Woodstock North and also is on the track and wrestling teams.

5 most buzzed-about McHenry County stories

By NICOLE FRANZ nfranz@shawmedia.com Web Editor Nicole Franz compiled a list of five of the most buzzed about Northwest Herald stories you shared on social media in 2015:

2. Mom fired rifle at TV as kids watched music video

An Algonquin woman told authorities she was upset with what her children were watching and how much TV they consumed when she allegedly shot the TV set in February.

Algonquin Deputy Police Chief Andrew Doles said the children – ages 15, 11 and 6 – were watching a music video by the rock band Primus when Jennifer S. Ullery, 40, entered the room and fired “multiple rounds” at the TV. Thanks to a share from the band’s Facebook page and a comment from lead singer Les Claypool, the story went viral.

Ullery was charged with discharge of a firearm, a felony, and other misdemeanors, and her case remains pending.

Public library to host classes, talks, movie ‘Mr. Holmes’ NORTHWEST HERALD Matthew Apgar - mapgar@shawmedia.com

Cancer patient Meghan Korbecki and husband, Bill Korbecki, of Crystal Lake become overwhelmed with emotions Oct. 22 as they discuss Meghan’s stage IV brain tumor at their home in Crystal Lake.

On the Web See all of our year-end review stories and photos at NWHerald. com/review/2015

3. Centegra to treat only vaccinated children

On Dec. 1, Centegra Health System announced Centegra Physician Care would treat only children who are vaccinated, according to the schedule developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Pediatrician Pasquale Bernardi, who also is the senior vice president and chief operating officer of Centegra Physician Care, stressed the policy does not apply to the emergency department.

With more than 500 comments on our Facebook post linking to the story and nearly as many shares, everyone seemed to have an opinion on the policy.

4. Woman fighting brain cancer for third time

Meghan Korbecki has been through a lot since her first brain tumor was found in 2002. The Crystal Lake woman endured Ironman races and shared her story of triumphs and struggles.

Now 40 years old and working as a personal trainer, Korbecki has been diagnosed with brain cancer for the third time.

The mother of 3-year-old twins has an inoperable stage IV brain tumor, and she and her husband are wading through their options.

5. Earthquake hits LITH; residents report impact

Shortly after 6 p.m. March 25, a 2.9-magnitude earthquake hit Lake in the Hills, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

It was a minor one with weak to light shaking, according to the USGS, and no one reported damage from the earthquake.

LOCAL BRIEF Park district’s Racket Club top 250 in the world on the ATP to host tennis tournament Tour.

ALGONQUIN – Some of the Midwest’s best pro tournament tennis players, teaching pros, college players and high school players, will be competing at The Racket Club over the New Year’s weekend for their share of a $5,000 total purse.

Last year’s singles winner was Marek Michalicka, ranked in the

Concerns from the zoning board included the height of the building, which some board members said would be visible far down the Route 14 corridor, and the fact this land was intended for commercial use in the village’s comprehensive plan.

PIRHL has chosen to complete the process with the current proposal despite the negative recommendation, although there could be back and forth between the developer and trustees about potential changes to the plan, Clark said.

“It may be possible for the developer to make some amendments to that from a unit count standpoint,” Clark said. “However, the comprehensive plan is what it is. It’s a senior use, not a business park. That’s a substantive issue for the zoning board.”

CRYSTAL LAKE

1. Homeless football player provides inspiration

Woodstock North senior football player Wolfgang Kemp is homeless. He and his father, Wilbur Kemp, stay at the McHenry County’s PADS (Public Action to Deliver Shelter), and Sportswriter Joe Stevenson helped tell his inspiring story in September.

Once Wolfgang’s story was out, our readers responded in a big way. Thousands of dollars were crowd-funded through a GoFundMe page, a donated car and more.

CARY – The Village Board will decide whether to move forward with an affordable senior housing project near the Route 14 Jewel-Osco in January, but it would need to vote over the negative recommendation of the zoning board to advance the project in its current form.

A 68-unit apartment building is being proposed for a 3.91-acre site at the southwest corner of Three Oaks Road and Feinberg Drive. The Committee of the Whole moved the project forward in a 4-3 vote after a conceptual review in October.

On Dec. 10, the Board of Zoning, Planning and Appeals heard a presentation from David Burg of the developer, PIRHL, which was seeking an

amendment to the land’s B-P Business Park District zoning and three variances.

The board voted, 4-2, in favor of the amendment and a setback variation, but voted, 4-2, to reject variations for density and an increase in the number of units on the ground floor.

While the zoning board voted on each amendment individually, the Village Board will vote on the project as one item at the Jan. 19 board meeting, Village Administrator Chris Clark said. The motion will require a supermajority of trustees to pass.

Concerns raised by trustees at the October meeting included the need to modify the zoning of the land, the fact the proposed commitment only was 30 years and the income restrictions would exclude a number of seniors.

The tournament begins at 1 p.m. Friday, and 10 a.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Crystal Lake Park District’s Racket Club, 9101 S. Route 31, Algonquin, with matches wrapping up around 9 p.m. each day.

Spectators can watch the matches courtside or through wall-to-wall windows from the

lounge.

General admission is $2 a day. Proceeds benefit the Walt Herrick Memorial Foundation scholarship fund, providing local children with tennis lessons at The Racket Club.

Questions can be directed to club manager and tournament director Rob Laue at 847-6585688, ext. 2014.

CRYSTAL LAKE – A retired Husmann Elementary school teacher will talk about her time living in Antarctica at an upcoming Crystal Lake Public Library program.

The program is among several being offered in January by the Crystal Lake Public Library: • First Saturday Storytime: 1:30 p.m. Saturday. Children ages 3 to 8 years old with an adult can attend a storytime designed for children with special needs. The children are engaged through movement, music, stories and hands-on activities. Siblings are welcome. Registration required.

• Drop-in Crafts: 3:30 to 5 p.m. Jan. 4 and 18 in the Storytime Room. Kindergartners through third-graders can learn how to make a new

and fun craft to take home at this drop-in program.

• Drop-in Drawing Frenzy: 3:30 to 5 p.m. Jan. 7. Thirdthrough eighth-graders can explore different art forms at this monthly class. The program will focus on drawing snowflakes using the Zentangle method, which involves repetitive patterns.

• Drop-in LEGO Monday: 3:30 to 5 p.m. Jan. 11 and 25 in the Storytime Room. Children 4 years old and older can grab a bucket and fill it with LEGOs to build whatever they dream.

• Antarctic Adventures: 7 to 8 p.m. Jan. 11. The entire family can hear Betty Trummel, a retired Husmann Elementary school teacher and world explorer, talk about her time living in Antarctica as part of the library’s kickoff to its winter reading program.

The program will delve

into the world’s two polar regions, their similarities and their differences, the types of research scientists are doing in Antarctica and the tools, specialized equipment and cold weather gear they use.

This program is open to library card holders only.

Registration required for all attendees, including adults.

• Tuesday with Movies: 6 to 8:30 p.m. Jan. 12. The Crystal Lake Public Library will be screening “Mr. Holmes,” a PG-rated movie released in 2015.

The movie follows Sherlock Holmes, now retired and dealing with early dementia, as he tries to solve his final case. Attendees can bring their own dinner to enjoy during the showing.

Registration can be completed online at www.clpl. org or by calling 815-459-1687.

NEW YEAR’S DAY GUN AUCTION

2 6 0 1 L A K E L A N D B LV D . M AT T O O N , I L FRIDAY JANUARY 1ST - - 9:00 A.M. “900 Firearms” 1945 Military Jeep; 2 Old Towne Canoes; Ammo; Reloading; Military & Knives; 900 Firearms incl.

Kreighoff K-20 & KX5; Civil War Carbines; Win. Lever 73 Atlanta Police; 86 Deluxe; 95 Flatside; 66’s; 73 .22 Short; 94’s & 94 Big Bores; Colt Snake Guns BOA NIB; 12 – Pythons; 6 Diamond Backs; Viper; Cobras; Colt 1911’s; U.S. 1911’s incl. S/A 1911 NRA; US & S; Rem Rand; Ithaca; Kimbers; Rugers; HI Standard; Colt SAA’s incl. 2 U.S. Calvary; Colt SAP Open Top; M1 Carbine & Garands; AR-15’s; Lugers; Mauser Broom Handle; Collection of Walther Hand Guns; Great S & W Revolvers; S & W 52 Targets; Win. 12’s incl. 3 Barrel Pigeon Grade Set; Win 42’s incl. SR Pigeon Grade; German & Belgian Dbl. Rifles; Merkle 20 ga. Dbl.; Greener Hi Grade Dbl.; Rem. 1100 Matched Pair; Win, 63 Deluxe; Win. 61 .22 shot; Sako Quad; Cape Gun; S & W 41’s; Browning Superposed 20 ga.; Colt Sauer; Woodsman MT w/ Elephant Grip; Dakota 10 250-3000; Rem. 700 Etronx; Webly Revolver; Win. 70’s incl. .22 Hornet; & much more!

Preview Thursday Dec. 31st 5 PM – 8 PM !"" #$%&'"(" #)()'$* + ,-$($. )( ///01)2"3)24(5$604$% 7 8$6 9):"3; <<= >?@A>@BACDCE Bauer Auction Service, LLC. Lic. #440000242 (217) 259-5956

NEW YEAR’S DAY AUCTION!

!"#$%& '%()%"& *+, **%- . /01 233 +,4 $3+ 52%#(3+6 #2 Preview December 31st 11:00am-5:00pm !"#$ % &'#()* +),)#*- . /"'01 . 203'45) 65*0'35*) . 7"-8*9:3 6*)08; <*"0=)1 >",$)* <"?)1 . >)*:5@) <"33#)1 . <%A B""* &3"C1 % <""D E0$1 . /#"8D1 . &9:)1 &#"3 F98;'0) >"33)*- . 6"#D 2*3 &3)9@ E0G'0) . H9@C1 . I'::90- /#"8D . E@C'*) I9J#)1 2*3,"*D . /"##)839J#)1 . &,9*"(1D' /*-139# % &K FL/A FK7EM

– Northwest Herald

5%73 %)7,#8(+ 9 /01 2:: +;4 $:< 5=>?@:<6 #2 AB1/C D0EFG//H 9 III4J>K:>@;?LM:<4KNO

COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE ONLINE ONLY AUCTION

“SUNRISE RESTAURANT”

4 CAVALRY DR. WENONA, IL (ALONG I-39, HIGH TRAFFIC) ENDS: MON. JAN. 11 @ 6PM OPEN HOUSE: SUN. JAN. 3 1-3PM ** SELLS ABSOLUTE** SITUATED ON 1.18 ACRES 4,400 SQ. FT. BUILDING BUILT 1996 !"#$ %&' ()&#*!+($ , -+!' "!+.+!+&/ VERY CLEAN WITH ALL EQUIP. & FICTURES INFO @ www.corycraig.com

Auction Center: 409 North St, Edinburg, IL 62531 Mailing: 1840 Timbercrest Dr, Taylorville, IL 62568 !"#$%& '()*+ ,(-.///) 0 1%22& '()*+ 3*).///4 Fax: (217) 623-4488 corycraig.com

Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com • Section A • Tuesday, December 29, 2015 •

NEWS 5

HARVARD

LOCAL BRIEFS

Coventry Home one step closer to local historic landmark status

Participants should dress MCCD to host outdoor fun at conservation area for the weather. Registration

By HANNAH PROKOP hprokop@shawmedia.com HARVARD – Harvard’s William H. Coventry Home and Barn off Route 14 is in the process of becoming a local historic landmark in an attempt to save the deteriorating building, McHenry County Historical Society Administrator Kurt Begalka said.

“If we don’t do something with this building soon, there’s going to be nothing left,” Begalka said.

The historical society recommended to the McHenry County Historic Preservation Commission that the farmstead become a landmark, Begalka said.

At its Dec. 15 meeting, the McHenry County Board approved an intergovernmental agreement with the city of Harvard, a step that was nec-

“It is the north entrance to town, and it has both architectural and historical significance.”

Charles Eldredge Harvard Economic Development Corp. executive director essary for the county to move forward with the landmark designation, Sean Foley said.

Foley, staff liaison for the McHenry County Historic Preservation Commission, said making the farmstead a landmark would make it harder to be demolished. Currently, the power to demolish it rests with the owners of the property, Optima Harvard Facility LLC, Foley said.

The home is on the Most Endangered Historic Places in Illinois list. Built in 1855,

the house and its outbuildings are part of the embattled Motorola campus in Harvard, which has sat vacant since 2003.

Optima Ventures, the Miami-based company that owns the manufacturing plant and 287 acres it sits on, has been sued by ComEd for more than $545,000 in unpaid electric bills. The property also has a tax lien against it after the owners failed to pay $300,000 in property taxes in 2014.

Owners did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Charles Eldredge, executive director of the Harvard Economic Development Corp., said the city is very interested in restoring and preserving the farmstead. The city approved its part of the intergovernmental agreement regarding the home at its City Council meeting Nov. 24, ac-

cording to meeting minutes.

“It is the north entrance to town, and it has both architectural and historical significance,” Eldredge said.

He said the corporation has reached out to the owners of the farmstead, hoping they will donate it or let a nonprofit restore it, but has not heard from them.

Foley said the Historic Preservation Commission will review the application at its Jan. 6 meeting. After that, it still would need a public hearing and to be reviewed by the County Board.

Even if the farmstead gets landmark status, it doesn’t necessarily mean the structure will be saved, Begalka said.

“All it does is it provides an extra threshold that somebody has to go through before they tear something down,” he said.

Forecasts call for temps near freezing Tuesday • STORM

Continued from page A3 his department only dealt with two or three crashes.

“I expected more, to be honest with you,” Pollnow said. “I think the salt trucks and everybody are doing their job. It was coming down fast, but they’re working hard.”

Precipitation on roads caused several closures around rush hour, including closures of southbound Route 31 at Half Mile Road and southbound Route 47 at Route 176.

Among the day’s biggest crashes was a car-semi collision in Hebron that sent three to the hospital Monday afternoon, Hebron Fire Assistant

Chief Tom Linneman said.

Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Fire Protection District Assistant Chief Mike Kern said they also responded to a minor crash where a vehicle hit a tree. In Huntley, one person was transported to the hospital from a two-vehicle crash on Algonquin Road, a fire official said.

A rollover in Bull Valley off Country Club Road sent one person to the hospital Monday. A Fox Lake fire official said the department responded to two minor weather-related crashes Monday afternoon.

In Crystal Lake, Pollnow said a closure on Maple Street for a downed power line and a crash on Ridgefield Road were among the weather-related calls they handled Monday af-

ternoon.

Fox River Grove Fire Department responded about 11:25 a.m. to a crash on Route 14 near Lincoln Avenue when a westbound semitruck slid sideways because of slick road conditions and hit two parked vehicles, Fox River Grove Chief Bob Kreher said.

One vehicle had a male driver in it, who was taken to Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington with injuries that were not considered to be life-threatening, Kreher said. The other vehicle was unoccupied, he said, and the truck driver was not injured.

Jamie Enderlen, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Romeoville, said there might be some flooding in yards near the river start-

ing about midnight Wednesday. The flood warning could last until Jan. 4 or later, she said.

As of 9 p.m. Monday, more than 1,300 flights had been canceled at O’Hare International Airport in the preceding 24 hours.

There was some good news on the horizon: Mott said meteorologists expected overnight temperatures to stay above freezing, which should help with road conditions.

There’s a possibility of rain and snow during the Tuesday morning commute, he said.

Forecasts called for temperatures near freezing Tuesday, a possibility of morning snow showers on Wednesday and a cloudy day with temperatures in the 20s for New Year’s Eve.

Spokesman: Department to hold training for 910 officers in 2016 • CHICAGO POLICE

Continued from page A1 who lived downstairs, told him Quintonio LeGrier had a baseball bat.

Relatives of both shooting victims have questioned why police opened fire and if the situation could have been handled another way. On Monday, Antonio LeGrier filed a lawsuit against the city, saying his son never was a threat and that officers used excessive force.

Family members of another man, Philip Coleman, had similar questions after officers arrested the 38-year-old in 2012.

He later died in police custody.

Coleman’s family said they told officers that he was mentally ill and experiencing some type of breakdown. A video released this month shows officers later entering Coleman’s jail cell, using a stun gun on him and then dragging him away.

He later died after being given an anti-psychotic drug.

Emanuel has said an investigation into how police handled the case is being reopened.

What is crisis intervention team training?

In CIT training, officers learn to identify a person who is in crisis and to de-escalate situations in which someone is agitated or exhibiting other signs of mental trouble.

That may mean taking more time for the person to calm down, talking with the person about what’s happening or finding other resources such as a case manager or mental health clinic rather than making an arrest.

There are more than 2,700 CIT programs across the U.S. Amy Watson, an associate professor of social work at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has been involved with the Chicago Police Department’s program since it formed in 2005 and has conducted two studies on its effectiveness.

Her research and other

AP file photo

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, accompanied by Interim Chicago Police Superintendent John Escalante, speaks during a news conference Dec. 7 in Chicago. In the wake of another police shooting, Emanuel called for an immediate review of how the Chicago Police Department trains officers to respond to calls involving people in crisis or with mental health problems. studies have found that officers trained in CIT methods use less force, are better equipped to defuse crises and reduce the risk of injury.

Alexa James, executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Chicago, called the program “fabulous.”

Any deficiencies, Watson and James agree, are in how it’s been implemented in the Chicago Police Department.

“Every officer is trained in how to use a firearm, but not every officer will use their weapon,” James said. She said the likelihood of an officer encountering a person in crisis is far greater.

Training also has been inconsistent at the city’s 911 center, where dispatchers should ask questions to determine if a situation involves someone with a mental health issue, then dispatch a CIT-trained CIT in Chicago officer if one is needed. That About 1,860 officers, or ap- training hasn’t been happening proximately 15 percent of the often enough, they said. police force, have received the training, Chicago police Lack of resources spokesman Anthony Guglielmi Watson said she and other said Monday. academics, as well as advocaWatson and James say the cy groups, attempted to speak percentage should be closer to with Emanuel after he was 25 or 35 percent – enough so elected about committing more that there’s a CIT-trained offi- resources to CIT. cer on every shift in every po“We couldn’t even get a call lice district who can respond to back,” she said. calls as needed.

Around that same time, Right now, that kind of cov- the city closed several mental erage is “spotty,” Watson said. health centers because of budIt’s particularly difficult to find get problems. And this year, a trained officer on the over- with state lawmakers and Gov. night shift.

Bruce Rauner unable to agree

on a budget, there was no money to conduct the training in the first half of the fiscal year.

That means about 200 Chicago officers missed out on the class, James said.

The department plans to hold 26 CIT training sessions in 2016, providing the course to an additional 910 officers, Guglielmi said.

Emanuel spokesman Adam Collins said Monday that the mayor directed the interim police superintendent and a police oversight agency to conduct a thorough review, determine what gaps exist in training and to act on them immediately.

“It is clear from recent incidents that substantive changes are needed in our police department, particularly around use of force and de-escalating conflicts, including interactions with individuals in crisis,” Collins said.

Emanuel’s office said he was returning early from a family vacation to Cuba to address the latest crisis, and would be back in Chicago on Tuesday.

MARENGO – A winter adventure is awaiting families at the Marengo Ridge Conservation Area.

McHenry County Conservation District staff will get families started exploring from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday at the conservation area’s Shelter No. 1, 2411 N. Route 23, Marengo.

Stop by anytime or stay for the whole three hours to check out various stations, including making a home for a mouse, playing in the snow or leaves and looking for tracks. Hot chocolate will be provided.

is not required.

For information, call Prairieview Education Center at 815-479-5779 or visit www.

MCCDistrict.org.

McHenry program for toddlers to start Jan. 14

McHENRY – The McHenry Parks & Recreation Department will host “Super Tots” from 10 to 11 a.m. Thursdays, Jan. 14 through Feb. 25, at the Lakeland Park Community Center, 1717 N. Sunset Ave. For information, contact Cindy Witt at cwitt@ci.mchenry. il.us or 815-363-2160.

– Northwest Herald

Year-to-year increase in Woodstock crime comes after declining 2 years • CRIME RATES

Continued from page A1 In some ways, police also are being reached more because they want to be.

“For one, we’re trying to make it easier,” Kotlowski said. “We have a tool available for online reporting.

People can send tips anonymously. Sometimes, now things are reported on social media.”

Theft reports also increased in Lake in the Hills, going from 76 in 2013 to 112 in 2014. Police Chief Dave Brey said he thinks identity theft will continue to drive an increase in theft reports as more people report it, and there’s little local police can do to protect residents’ identities, he said.

“You’re only as safe as the server that holds that information,” Brey said.

Eight police agencies in McHenry County reported a drop in motor vehicle thefts – Algonquin went from 10 in 2013 to 1 in 2014, the report shows. Algonquin also was one of seven communities where robberies dropped.

About 11 municipal police agencies did not have any robberies during the two years included in the report.

At the same time, aggravated battery and assault were up 10 percent across the county.

With a 500 percent jump, Marengo saw the largest percentage increase in aggravated batteries and assaults.

There were two reported in 2013 and 12 reported in 2014.

“It’s difficult to put your finger on how it fluctuates,” Marengo Police Chief Robert Hallman said. “Maybe it was a tavern fight, or people are using weapons. Our officers are reporting it, and that’s not subjective.”

Meanwhile, McHenry’s aggravated batteries and assaults dropped by more than half. The city also had a nearly 28 percent drop in thefts, the report shows. Crime in McHenry dropped by 24 percent overall, according to state data.

In Cary, the crime rate also dropped by about 3 percent, although the number of reported rapes went from one

“We’re trying to make it easier. We have a tool available for online reporting. People can send tips anonymously.

Sometimes, now things are reported on social media.”

Tom Kotlowski Crystal Lake deputy police chief to seven. Cary Police Chief Patrick Finlon said generally with sexual assaults the offender is known to the victim, noting the definition of rape expanded from 2013 to 2014.

Overall in Cary, as is true in McHenry County, property crime dominates. Finlon said residents can thwart those crimes in simple ways.

“Taking those common steps to safeguard your property, hide your valuable property,” Finlon said. “And if you see something suspicious to call somebody – call us.”

Woodstock experienced the largest increase in the number of reported aggravated batteries and assault.

Woodstock police reported aggravated batteries and assaults jumped from seven in 2013 to 21 in 2014, a 200 percent increase.

“Typically those things are disagreements in the area of liquor establishments,” Woodstock Police Chief Robert Lowen said. “It’s nobody being attacked on the street randomly.”

Overall, crime in Woodstock climbed 15 percent from year to year, but Lowen said the increase comes after two years of decreases.

As of Nov. 30, Lowen said there had been a 5 percent increase in crime compared with 2014. He said police monitor the statistics throughout the year and respond by boosting the police presence in areas with spikes in crime.

“You always like to see those reductions,” Lowen said. “You’d certainly like to see stagnant or reduced crime, that’s for sure.”

4 GOP candidates running for 66th Illinois House seat • FORUMS

Continued from page A1 Walkup, who is running for his District 3 board seat, also is running for County Board chairman against incumbent Joe Gottemoller, R-Crystal Lake.

Republican candidates Dan Regna and Patrick Kenneally are running for state’s attorney, and candidates Joe Tirio, Joni Smith and Tina Hill are running for the GOP nod for county recorder.

No Democratic candidates have filed for any of those offices.

The fifth and last forum,

featuring contested Illinois House of Representatives seats, will take place Feb. 4.

Four GOP candidates – Paul Serwatka, Carolyn Schofield, Allen Skillicorn and Dan Wilbrandt – are running for the 66th Illinois House seat.

The winner will run against Democratic opponent Nancy Zettler in November. Republican candidates Steven Reick and Jeffery Lichte are running for the GOP nod in the 63rd House District.

The winner will take on Democratic Rep. Jack Franks of Marengo, who is unopposed in the primary.

6 LOCAL NEWS • Tuesday, December 29, 2015 • Section A • Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com

adno=0333134

Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com • Section A • Tuesday, December 29, 2015 •

Business

PRAIRIE GROVE

PUBLIC ACCESS

$napshot Village lowers property tax levy THE MARKETS

By EMILY K. COLEMAN

23.90 17,528.27

7.51 5,040.98

4.49 2,056.50

OIL

$36.72 a barrel -$1.38

THE STOCKS Stock

Close

45.03 Abbott Labs 58.75 AbbVie 63.50 AGL Resources 62.64 Allstate 762.51 Alphabet American Airlines 43.23 106.82 Apple 73.71 AptarGroup 36.50 Arch Dan 34.76 AT&T Bank of America 17.13 Bank of Montreal 56.40 38.14 Baxter 35.47 Berry Plastics 144.54 Boeing 68.58 Caterpillar 91.89 CME Group 43.49 Coca-Cola 57.19 Comcast 17.61 Dean Foods 52.23 Dow Chemical 27.76 Exelon 78.74 Exxon 105.93 Facebook 14.18 Ford 30.90 General Electric 34.51 General Motors 132.68 Home Depot 137.61 IBM 93.73 ITW 66.38 JPMorganChase 72.87 Kellogg 47.24 Kohl’s Kraft Heinz Company 73.42 24.90 Live Nation 118.75 McDonald’s 77.18 Medtronic 55.95 Microsoft 9.16 Modine 69.18 Moto Solutions 117.11 Netflix 5.60 Office Depot 100.68 Pepsi 18.10 Pulte Homes 20.71 Sears Holdings 172.10 Snap-On 43.82 Southwest Air. 7.12 Supervalu 72.87 Target 228.97 Tesla Motors 22.53 Twitter 59.01 United Contint.

78.53 Visa 60.75 Wal-Mart 85.84 Walgreen 53.91 Waste Mgmt.

49.27 Wintrust Fincl.

Change

-0.07 +0.29 +0.24 -0.50 +14.11 -0.58 -1.21 +0.41 -0.15 +0.10 -0.14 -0.40 -0.01 -0.10 +1.01 -0.80 -0.01 -0.05 -0.11 -0.23 -0.08 +0.01 -0.59 +0.91 -0.13 +0.07 -0.09 -0.22 -0.64 -0.40 -0.22 no chg +0.11 -0.54 no chg +0.18 -0.45 +0.28 -0.16 +0.12 -0.22 no chg +0.14 -0.12 -0.08 +0.24 -0.08 +0.11 -0.30 -1.60 -0.44 -0.77 +0.27 -0.08 -0.62 +0.48 no chg

COMMODITIES Metal

Close

Gold Silver Copper

1068.00 13.925 2.084

Grain (cents per bushel) Close

Corn Soybeans Oats Wheat

361.00 865.00 223.75 466.50

Livestock

Close

Live cattle Feeder cattle Lean hogs

135.75 158.65 59.025

Change

-7.90 -0.454 -0.04 Change

-3.50 -10.25 +4.25 -1.00 Change

-1.275 -1.475 +0.725

STAY CONNECTED Find news and photos at facebook.com/ nwherald For breaking news, follow us on Twitter @nwherald

ecoleman@shawmedia.com PRAIRIE GROVE – With sales tax higher than expected and expenses coming in under budget, the village of Prairie Grove is asking to collect less in property taxes next year, its village president said.

The Prairie Grove Village Board voted, 5-1, to approve a $360,000 property tax levy, 1.37 percent less than it collected in property taxes last year and more than 10 percent less than the high of about $400,000 the village collected in 2009.

The sole no vote came from Trustee David Robak, who said the reduction was “more symbolic than it was material.”

The move means that with the value of taxable property

LOCAL NEWS 7

Learn more about levies The Northwest Herald took an in-depth look at property taxes in McHenry County and the issues surrounding them for taxing entities and residents.

Read the whole series at www.

NWHerald.com/propertytaxes. in the village set to rise an estimated 3.09 percent next year, residents could see their tax rates fall more than 4 percent, Prairie Grove Village President Stan Duda said.

“It’s not insignificant by any means,” Duda said. “We’re honestly working really hard at it.”

Duda expects the village’s operating expenses to remain in the black next year despite

the decrease, although improvements to the Justen Road bridge will be paid for out of the village’s savings. The board also is considering putting any surplus the village runs next year toward paying down debt, he said.

The village has built up its reserves by being more frugal, some projects coming in under budget and sales tax revenues coming in higher than expected, Duda said.

But sales tax revenue can disappear as quickly as it appears, Robak said, which is why he favored keeping the levy flat this year.

“Our board is healthy and we try to vote our conscience,” he said. “You make a symbolic reduction and something goes wrong, you may regret that.”

MONDAY, JAN. 4

5600 Hunter Drive

Crystal Lake Public Library Planning and Public Relations Committee When: 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 4 Where: Crystal Lake Public Library, 126 Paddock St.

Richmond Finance Committee When: 4 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 5 Where: Richmond Village Hall, 5600 Hunter Drive

McHenry City Council When: 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 4 Where: McHenry City Hall, 333 S. Green St.

Lake Management Board of Island Lake When: 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 7 Where: Island Lake Village Hall, 3720 Greenleaf Ave.

THURSDAY, JAN. 7

TUESDAY, JAN. 5

Richmond Village Board When: 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 7 Where: Richmond Village Hall, 5600 Hunter Drive

Island Lake Board of Police and Fire Commissioners When: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 5 Where: Island Lake Village Hall, 3720 Greenleaf Ave.

TUESDAY, JAN. 12 Lakewood Village Board When: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 12 Where: Lakewood Village Board, 9600 Turnberry Trail

Richmond Community Development Committee When: 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 5 Where: Richmond Village Hall,

83-year-old woman testifies she was scared of Kopacz • OFFICER Continued from page A3 Richmond Police Department in July 2014, he went doorto-door in a senior living community asking for prescription drugs, testimony revealed. He approached four elderly women’s apartments asking for medication for a

toothache. At least one resident gave him a hydrocodone pill, authorities said.

One woman testified she was scared of Kopacz and that he was pacing her apartment and acting nervous.

“He almost looked like he was casing the joint,” the 83-year-old said.

In regard to the weapons case, authorities had found

three long guns in his bedroom that belonged to the Hebron Police Department. The guns weren’t immediately discovered missing from Hebron, and it wasn’t until Richmond asked the State Police to investigate their claims that the weapons were uncovered.

Assistant State’s Attorney Michael Combs has said Kopacz was angry about being

OBITUARIES great-grandchildren.

She is survived by her three children, Roger (Sherri) Frederick, Linda (Richard) Scobee and David Send obituary information (Linda) Frederick; grandchildren, to obits@nwherald.com or Brian (Daenon) Scobee, Melissa call 815-526-4438. Notices (Anthony) Petersen, Michael (Kelly) are accepted until 3 p.m.

Frederick, Jill (Brian) Friedman, for the next day’s edition.

Christine Scobee, Laura FrederObituaries also appear online ick; step-granddaughters, Kelli at NWHerald.com/obits, (Michael) Clayton, and Leann Croft, where you may sign the guest great-grandchildren, Cole, Jase, book, send flowers or make a Piper, Madelynn, Jack, Cameron, memorial donation.

Ava, Sean, Reese, Maeve; 8 step great-grandchildren, and brother Ben Griswold.

THOMAS M. BRAJE She was preceded in death by her Born: March 25, 1946; in Wichita husband, a brother, and two sisters.

Falls, TX Visitation will be Wednesday, Dec. Died: Dec. 25, 2015 in Barrington, IL 30, 2015 from 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm at Davenport Family Funeral Home, Tom was born March 25, 1946, 419 E. Terra Cotta Ave. (Route 176), in Wichita Falls, TX. He passed away peacefully Dec. 25, 2015, in Crystal Lake, IL 60014.

Barrington.

The funeral service will be held at Tom served in the U.S. Army as 10 am, Thursday, December 31 at a Green Beret during the Vietnam the funeral home. Burial in Crystal War. Lake Memorial Park will be held He is survived by his children; privately.

Kimberly Braje,and Brian Braje, their In lieu of flowers memorial mother Madi Braje, grandson Trey, donations may be made to Bethany brothers; Craig (Sharon) Braje and Lutheran Church, 76 W. Crystal Mark Braje, and significant other, Lake Ave, Crystal Lake, IL 60014.

Krista Henry.

For information, please contact Tom was preceded in death by his Davenport Family Funeral Home parents Alois and Opal Braje.

815-459-3411. For online condolencA memorial service for Tom will es please visit: www.davenportfambe held privately. ily.com.

Memorial donations in Tom’s name may be made to: Vietnam Veterans of America, 8719 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910.

Please visit www.davenportfamily.com to send condolences to the family.

Born: Nov. 5, 1925; in DeKalb, IL Died: Dec. 27, 2015; in Crystal Lake, IL

Goldman, has argued the state provided no evidence that Kopacz intended to keep the guns.

Further, there was no written or verbal policy stating Kopacz couldn’t take them home.

The four-year sentence must be served at 50 percent, meaning he could be released in two years. Kopacz is out on bond. He will be remanded Jan. 4 to begin serving his sentence.

FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS

How to submit

BETTY LOU FREDERICK

fired in Hebron and knew that no one would notice the missing guns.

“He knew no one would ever know because no one was checking,” Combs said at Kopacz’s August trial.

Kopacz told investigators he brought the guns home to clean them, but he intended to bring them back.

His defense attorney, Steven

GARY GRAMS

Born: Sept. 16, 1955; in Aurora, IL Died: Dec. 25, 2015; in Fontana, WI

Gary Grams was born on September 16, 1955 in Aurora, Betty Lou FrederIllinois, to Edward ick, age 90, of Crysand Delores (Schintal Lake, passed del) Grams. away peacefully in He passed away her home on Dec. on December 27, 2015.

25, 2015, at his home in Fontana, She was born Wisconsin. on Nov. 5, 1925, Gary enjoyed greeting his in DeKalb, IL, to Bert and Esther daughters Erin and Leslie with iced Griswold. oatmeal cookies right as the school Betty was very active in Crystal Lake Women’s Club, Book Club and bus would drop them off.

He cherished the time he spent was a long time member of Bethany with his son Daniel fixing and Lutheran Church. She was an avid golfer at Crystal Lake Country Club, tinkering with his cars or anything as well as a frequent bowler. Betty to do with the house.

He also treasured playing school greatly enjoyed spending time with her family and friends, especially with his youngest son Tyler, even going out to dinner with her lady though he could never be the friends. She now joins her late hus- teacher. Gary worked for Nicor gas band, Paul H. Frederick, who was for 20 years in Crystal Lake. actively involved in the Crystal Lake Earlier in life he enjoyed spending community and past president of time outdoors, hunting and fishing, Home State Bank of Crystal Lake. later on spending time on Geneva Throughout her lifetime, Betty Lake. touched many lives and will be Gary is survived by his wife Tamdeeply missed by everyone who my (Turnbaugh), whom he married knew her. There was no limitation on June 2, 1989, in Las Vegas, NV; to the love Betty extended to his children Daniel Grams, Tyler her children, grandchildren and Grams, Leslie (Dan) Kipper, and Erin

Grams; grandchildren Sophia Parisi and Jarad Kipper; parents Edward and Delores Grams; brothers, Mark (Sandy) Grams and Jay (Kristi) Grams and sister-in-law Ruth Grams, as well as many nieces, nephews, cousins, and dear friends He was preceded in death by his brother Brad Grams.

Visitation will be held on Wednesday from 4:00 PM until 8:00 PM at Toynton’s Walworth Funeral Home, 328 Kenosha St. (just east of Rt. 14).

Funeral Mass will on celebrated at 11:30 AM on Thursday, December 31, 2015 at St. Benedicts Catholic Church, 137 Dewey Ave., Fontana, WI. Burial will follow at Walworth Center Cemetery.

For more information contact Toynton Funeral Home at 262-2752171.

JAMES EDWARD ULE

Born: Oct. 11, 1940; in Wisconsin Rapids, WI Died: Dec. 25, 2015; in Walworth, WI James Edward Ule, 75, of Woodstock, died on Friday, Dec. 25, 2015, at Mercy Hospital Walworth.

He was born in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. on Oct. 11, 1940, to Frank and Mildred (Schiller) Ule. He married Phyllis Conley on July 27, 1963, in Belvidere.

James enjoyed being in the outdoors especially his times hunting in Auburndale, Wisconsin. He was a corvette enthusiast, and loved going to car shows and driving his 61 Corvette. He was a member of the Woodstock Moose Lodge. He was a Green Bay Packer fan, and Wisconsin Badger fan.

But mostly he was a family man, a loving husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather. He was loved, and will be missed.

He is survived by his wife of 52 wonderful years, Phyllis Ule; a daughter Traci (Anthony) Belmonte; five grandchildren, Courtnie (Adam) Gabala, Zachary (Kayla) Shannon, Alex Shannon, Christine (Matt) Drzewiezki, Anthony (Jessica) Belmonte; two great grandchildren, Francesca Belmonte, Anthony Belmonte and a third great grandchild on the way; three brothers Norman (LaVerne) Ule, Frank (Mary Ellen) Ule and Lyle (Mary) Ule; three sisters Shelby Conley, Sharon (Jim) McCarty and Sheila (Richard) Zimmerman.

He was preceded in death by his parents, and a brother Gerry Ule. A memorial gathering will be held Saturday January 2, 2016 starting at 10 am until the 1 pm memorial service at the Redeemer Lutheran Church 1320 Dean Street Woodstock.

Burial will be private.

For information call the Schneider, Leucht, Merwin & Cooney Funeral Home at 815-338-1710 or visit the website at www.slmcfh.com.

David Dale Blay: The memorial visitation will be from 2 to 4 p.m., with a time for remembrance at 3 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 2, at Miller Funeral Home, West Dundee. For information, call the funeral home at 847-426-3436.

James R. Connelly: The funeral service will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 29, at Justen Funeral Home & Crematory, 3700 W. Charles J. Miller Road, McHenry. Burial will be in Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, Elwood. For information, call the funeral home at 815-385-2400.

Denise Erickson: The visitation will be from noon until the 2 p.m. memorial service Saturday, Jan. 2, at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, 1702 Three Oaks Road, Cary. For information, call Kahle-Moore Funeral Home at 847-639-3817.

Vernie M. Fitch: The celebration of life will be from 4 to 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 30, at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 1601 Garfield Road, Harvard.

Betty Lou Frederick: The visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 30, at Davenport Family Funeral Home, 419 E. Terra Cotta Ave., Crystal Lake. The funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 31, at the funeral home. Burial will be private in Crystal Lake Memorial Park. For information, call the funeral home at 815-459-3411.

Gary Grams: The visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 30, at Toynton’s Walworth Funeral Home, 328 Kenosha St., Walworth, Wisconsin. The funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 31, at St. Benedict’s Catholic Church, 137 Dewey Ave., Fontana, Wisconsin. Burial will follow in Walworth Center Cemetery.

For information, call the funeral home at 262-275-2171.

Norman K. Kazluski: The visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 30, at DeFiore-Jorgensen Funeral Home, 10763 Dundee Road, Huntley.

The visitation will continue from 9 a.m. until the 10 a.m. funeral Mass celebration Thursday, Dec. 31, at St. Mary Catholic Church, 10307 Dundee Road, Huntley.

Burial will be in Huntley Cemetery. For information, call the funeral home at 847-515-8772.

Barbara J. Knutter: The visitation will be from 10 a.m. until the 11 a.m. Mass of Christian Burial on Wednesday, Dec. 30, at Saint Francis de Sales Catholic Church, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.

Stuart Levin: The chapel service will be at 12:15 p.m. Tuesday,

Dec. 29, at Shalom Memorial Funeral Home, 1700 W. Rand Road, Arlington Heights. Interment will be in Shalom Memorial Park. For information, call 847-255-3520.

Robert W. Lewis: The visitation will be from 3 p.m. until the 7:30 p.m. funeral service Tuesday, Dec. 29, at Justen Funeral Home & Crematory, 3700 W. Charles J. Miller Road, McHenry. For information, call the funeral home at 815-385-2400.

Wilma Rae Owens: The visitation will be from 10 a.m. until the 11 a.m. funeral service Tuesday, Dec. 29, at Schneider-Leucht-Merwin & Cooney Funeral Home, 1211 N. Seminary Ave., Woodstock. Burial will be in Genoa Township Cemetery, Genoa. For information, call the funeral home at 815-338-1710.

Ray “Buttercup” Perkins: The visitation will be from 10 a.m. until the 11 a.m. memorial service Tuesday, Dec. 29, at Grace Lutheran Church – Brill. Burial will be in Milltown Cemetery.

Barbara Rose Rogers: The memorial service will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 16, at Park Place Banquet Facility, 406 W. Woodstock St., Crystal Lake.

Virginia Ruppel: The visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m., with a prayer service at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 29, at Kahle-Moore Funeral Home, 403 Silver Lake Road, Cary.

Virginia Shriver: The visitation will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 30, at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 11008 N. Church St., Huntley. A memorial service and luncheon will follow.

Rosanne V. Spears: The visitation will be from 4 p.m. until the 7:30 p.m. funeral service Wednesday, Dec. 30, at Justen Funeral Home & Crematory, 3700 Charles J. Miller Road, McHenry. For information, call the funeral home at 815-385-2400.

Unyong B. Stepp: The funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 29, at Willow Funeral Home, 1415 W. Algonquin Road, Algonquin.

James Edward Ule: The memorial gathering will be from 10 a.m. until the 1 p.m. memorial service Saturday, Jan. 2, at Redeemer Lutheran Church, 1320 Dean St., Woodstock. For information, call Schneider-Leucht-Merwin and Cooney Funeral Home at 815338-1710.

Mary Ann Tranberg: A memorial Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 29, at St. John the Baptist Church, 2302 Church St., Johnsburg. For information, call 815-385-0063.

Providing healthcare for the uninsured of McHenry County 40113707 E. Congress Parkway, Crystal Lake, W. Jackson St., Woodstock, IL IL 779-220-9300 815-334-8987, ext. 24 www.hpclinic.org

WEATHER TUESDAY

Get a daily forecast Text the keyword NWHWEATHER to 74574 to sign up for daily weather forecast text alerts from the Northwest Herald. Message and data rates apply.

NWHerald.com

December 29, 2015 Northwest Herald Section A • Page 8

Facebook.com/NWHerald

@NWHerald

at Chicago through 4 p.m. yesterday

TODAY

WED

Mostly cloudy with a snow shower

THU

Cloudy and cooler with a snow shower

FRI

Mostly cloudy and cold

SAT

SUN

MON

Partly sunny, breezy Mix of sun and clouds; Mostly sunny and a Partly sunny and more and very cold continued cold little warmer seasonal

3424 3020 2410 22 9 2713 2919 3120 Wind: W 10-20 mph

W/SW 5-10 mph

W 5-15 mph

W/SW 10-20 mph

W 10-15 mph

N/NW 5-10 mph

Belvidere 34/23

Crystal Lake 34/24

Rockford 34/22

Hampshire 33/24

Algonquin 34/24

88

Sandwich 35/25

Oak Park 37/27

Today

Wednesday

Thursday

Hi/Lo/W

Hi/Lo/W

Hi/Lo/W

Arlington Hts Aurora Bloomington Carbondale Champaign Chicago Clinton Evanston Galesburg Joliet Kankakee Mt. Vernon Naperville Peoria Princeton Rockford Rock Island Springfield Waukegan Wheaton

35/24/c 34/25/c 34/24/c 43/31/c 34/26/c 35/24/c 35/27/c 37/27/c 30/21/c 36/26/c 34/25/c 41/29/c 35/26/c 34/24/c 33/23/c 34/22/sf 30/20/c 35/25/c 36/22/sf 35/25/c

30/21/sf 30/22/sf 31/22/sf 43/26/c 34/24/c 30/21/sf 33/24/c 32/23/sf 27/20/sf 31/23/sf 31/24/sf 41/25/c 30/22/sf 31/21/sf 29/21/sf 28/18/sf 27/18/sf 33/23/c 30/20/sf 30/22/sf

25/11/c 26/10/c 29/14/pc 37/23/c 30/17/pc 26/12/c 30/16/pc 27/14/c 24/9/pc 28/12/c 29/14/c 35/22/c 26/10/c 29/13/pc 26/10/c 23/7/c 22/8/pc 31/17/pc 24/11/c 25/10/c

Today

-10s

Hi/Lo/W

City

Hi/Lo/W

Acapulco Amsterdam Athens Baghdad Beijing Berlin Brussels Buenos Aires Cairo Cancun Dublin Geneva Hong Kong Islamabad Istanbul Kabul Kingston Lima London Madrid

87/74/pc 50/42/c 63/48/s 62/44/pc 40/23/pc 42/29/pc 51/42/c 90/72/pc 70/53/s 85/77/pc 51/48/r 44/32/sh 66/58/pc 70/42/pc 54/39/pc 50/22/s 89/76/s 82/69/pc 54/49/pc 54/36/pc

Manila Melbourne Mexico City Montreal Moscow New Delhi Paris Rome Santiago Sao Paulo Seoul Singapore Stockholm Sydney Tel Aviv Tokyo Toronto Vancouver Vienna Warsaw

85/75/s 78/50/s 75/42/pc 24/18/sn 21/17/pc 76/48/pc 53/41/pc 57/33/s 88/59/s 75/67/t 35/23/pc 88/78/pc 32/26/s 73/61/s 70/55/s 50/40/pc 43/34/r 39/25/s 37/30/c 33/22/s

Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice

32°

Normal low

18°

Record high

69° in 1984

Record low

-13° in 1924

24 hours through 4 p.m. yest.

0.89”

Month to date

4.20”

Aurora 34/25

2.07”

Year to date

39.18”

Normal year to date

36.71”

The patented AccuWeather.com RealFeel Temperature®is an exclusive index of effective temperature based on eight weather factors

Tue.

Wed.

Thu.

Fri.

Sat.

Sun.

Mon.

?

If a cold front reverses its direction, what would it then be called?

46

-0s

0s

10s

20s

30s

40s

50s

60s

70s

80s

90s

100s 110s

Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.

Sunrise

7:22 a.m.

Sunset

4:29 p.m.

Moonrise

9:12 p.m.

Moonset

9:57 a.m.

Last

New

First

Full

Jan 1

Jan 9

Jan 16

Jan 23

Monday’s reading

0-50 Good; 51-100 Moderate; 101-150 Unhealthy for sensitive groups; 151-200 Unhealthy; 201-300 Very Unhealthy; 301-500 Hazardous Source: http://www.epa.state.il.us/air/aqi/index.html

Today

City

31°

Normal high

WATER TEMP: Chicago Winds: WSW 12-25 kts.

35/24 Waves: 2-4 ft.

Orland Park 36/27

City

Low

A warm front.

39

90

Waukegan 36/22

St. Charles 34/24

DeKalb 34/24 Dixon 32/22

McHenry 34/22

35°

Normal month to date

Cloudy and breezy conditions will remain in place throughout the day as our storm system that moved through yesterday is slow to exit east. This will keep a slight chance of a passing snow shower. A clipper system will swing through Wednesday bringing a snow shower across the area.

Some cold air arrives Thursday and continues into the weekend, but dry air will prevail.

Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

Harvard 32/21

N/NE 5-10 mph

High

Showers T-storms

City

Albany Albuquerque Amarillo Anchorage Atlanta Atlantic City Austin Baltimore Billings Birmingham Bismarck Boise Boston Buffalo Charlotte Chattanooga Cincinnati Cleveland Dallas Dayton Denver Des Moines

Today

Hi/Lo/W

39/34/i 32/18/sf 30/19/sn 40/34/pc 67/59/pc 64/49/r 55/34/s 64/44/r 18/9/sn 62/52/pc 20/8/sf 25/14/pc 42/34/sn 46/36/r 72/59/sh 61/49/pc 47/35/c 50/31/r 48/33/s 45/31/c 23/8/c 24/17/c

Rain

Flurries

City

Detroit Duluth El Paso Fairbanks Fargo Flint Grand Rapids Green Bay Hartford Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas City Knoxville Las Vegas Los Angeles Louisville Memphis Miami Milwaukee Minneapolis

Snow

Today

Ice

Front

Front

Front

Cold

Warm

Stationary

Hi/Lo/W

City

43/31/r 21/15/sn 42/27/c 26/21/c 19/11/sn 43/32/r 37/30/r 30/18/sn 39/33/i 83/71/s 57/46/s 40/29/c 84/66/pc 26/12/pc 61/46/pc 48/30/s 61/40/s 51/39/c 51/40/pc 84/75/pc 35/23/sf 26/16/sn

Nashville New Haven New Orleans New York Norfolk Oklahoma City Omaha Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland, OR Raleigh Reno Richmond Rochester, MN Sacramento Salt Lake City San Antonio San Diego San Francisco Savannah

Today

Hi/Lo/W

55/44/c 47/37/r 64/58/pc 54/44/r 79/59/c 36/24/s 23/15/pc 85/68/pc 64/45/r 57/36/s 53/34/r 41/31/r 76/61/c 36/19/pc 75/52/sh 26/15/c 50/31/s 27/17/c 59/42/pc 61/45/s 52/41/s 82/66/c

City

Seattle Shreveport Sioux Falls Spokane St. Louis St. Paul Syracuse Tacoma Tallahassee Tampa Toledo Topeka Tulsa Tucson Wash., DC Wichita Winston-Salem Worcester, MA

Today

Hi/Lo/W

39/28/pc 54/39/s 23/14/sn 25/18/pc 39/28/c 27/16/sn 43/35/i 39/25/pc 78/67/c 84/70/pc 43/29/r 26/14/s 38/23/s 53/32/s 64/46/r 30/17/s 72/57/sh 36/31/i

Forecasts and graphics, except WFLD forecasts, provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2015

The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.

9a

10a 11a Noon 1p

2p

3p

4p

5p

0-2 Low; 3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very high; 11+ Extreme as of 7 a.m. yesterday Flood

Fox Lake

--

Current

4.27

24hr Chg.

-0.19

Nippersink Lake

--

4.41

none

New Munster, WI

10

9.86

-0.33

McHenry

4

3.83

+0.06

Algonquin

3

1.66

-0.02

An assault by Union forces on the wellfortified town of Vicksburg, Miss., was interrupted by flooding on Dec. 29, 1862.

The heavy rain helped Confederates to successfully thwart the invasion.

adno=0337136

Nation inside

Texas begins recovery after tornadoes; Midwest gets ice, snow B3

COMMUNITY TUESDAY

NWHerald.com

Contact: Valerie Katzenstein, vkatzenstein@shawmedia.com

December 29, 2015 Northwest Herald

Facebook.com/NWHerald

B

@NWHerald

B I G S H OT S

Local moments by Northwest Herald’s award-winning photographers

The daily

THINGS TO DO IN & AROUND McHENRY COUNTY

TWEET @NWHerald

1

WINTER BREAK LEGOS DROP-IN

“#Bears enter home finale w/ 1 Soldier Field win. Haven’t had less than 2 since 1973, when they were 3-11 (1-6 home) in 14-game slate.”

WHEN: 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m. Dec. 29 WHERE: Crystal Lake Public Library, 126 W. Paddock St., Crystal Lake COST & INFO: Is there a Lego project you would like to build? The library will make thousands of Legos available for whatever you would like to design and construct. Free. Information: www.crystallakelibrary.org or 815-459-1687.

@ArthurArkush, ChicagoFootball.com writer

The daily

POST

Facebook.com/NWHerald

“Seniors I know are already thinking of getting out of this over taxed state.”

2

MONOPOLY TOURNAMENT

Claudine King on the potential Illinois retirement income tax

The daily

DIGIT

114

The number of crimes in McHenry County per 10,000 residents in 2014, less than half the Illinois crime rate, according to the Uniform Crime Report issued by the Illinois State Police

COMMUNITY

CALENDAR Dec. 29

• 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Habitat restoration work day, Trout Valley Fen, Turkey Run Road, Trout Valley. The Land Conservancy of McHenry County seeks volunteers to help restore a rare ecosystem.

Information: www.conservemc.org or 815-337-9502.

• Noon to 6 p.m. – Baby-sitting training, McHenry Municipal Center, 333 S. Green St., McHenry.

Continues from noon to 6 p.m. Dec. 30. The American Red Cross Baby Sitter’s Training Course is designed to provide youth ages 11 to 15 with the knowledge and skills to safely and responsibly care for infants and children. Cost: $50 residents, $60 nonresidents. Information: 815-3632160 or cwitt@ci.mchenry.il.us.

• 2 to 3 p.m. – Wacky Team Challenge Game Show, Wauconda Area Library, 801 N. Main St., Wauconda. An interactive event featuring trivia and zany physical challenges. Open to youth of all ages.

Information: 847-526-6225 or www. wauclib.org.

• 7 to 8:30 p.m. – Men’s Christian 12-step, Willow Crystal Lake, 220 Exchange Drive, Suite A, Crystal Lake. Men struggling with alcoholism will find weekly support and opportunities for spiritual growth in a safe environment. Free. Registration is not required. Information: 224-512-1860 or dcollings@willowcreek.org.

Matthew Apgar – mapgar@shawmedia.com

Hannah Beardsley Middle School sixth-graders Brandon Lloyd (from left), Nathaniel Dutkin and John Blake participate in the Google Expeditions Pioneer Program as they use Mattel View-Master goggles fitted with Android smartphones to experience a virtual stereoscopic and interactive tour of international locations such as the Pantheon, the Colosseum and the Great Barrier Reef Nov. 19 in Crystal Lake. ment center. Information: 815-3857529 or www.gigisplayhouse.org/ mchenry.

• 7 p.m. – Bingo, Woodstock Moose Family Center, 406 Clay St., Woodstock. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. with food available from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Information: 815-338-0126.

Dec. 31

• 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Oak rescue, Wright Oak Rescue, 17711 McGuire Road, Harvard. The Land Conservancy of McHenry County seeks volunteers to help remove invasive species from under an ancient oak tree. No experience necessary. Food, hot drinks and equipment will be provided. Information: 815-337-9502 or www.conservemc.org.

• 6:30 to 9 p.m. – “New Year’s Eve in Greenland,” Tree of Life Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 5603 Bull Valley Road, McHenry. The event will offer a safe and early New Year’s celebration featuring Chinese

food, beer, wine, soft drinks, tea, coffee and water. Paper hats, streamers and noisemakers are included. At the stroke of 9 p.m. (midnight Greenland time) attendees will sing “Auld Lang Syne.” Cost: $20 adults, free for children. Registration required.

Information: office@treeoflifeuu.org or 815-322-2464.

Jan. 1

• 1 to 9 p.m. – Walt Herrick Memorial Men’s Open Prize Tournament, The Racket Club, 9101 S. Route 31, Crystal Lake.

Continues from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Jan. 2 and 3. Featuring professional tournament players, teaching pros, college players and high school players competing in singles and doubles tennis matches.

Spectator admission: $2 a day.

Proceeds benefit the Walt Herrick Memorial Foundation scholarship fund to provide tennis lessons to local youth. Information: 847-

COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: Woodstock

Tree features Victorian touch

Dec. 30

• 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Habitat restoration work day, Lynda Clayton Conservation Area, 5020 Brookshire Drive, McHenry. The Land Conservancy of McHenry County seeks volunteers to help clear out invasive species. Information: www. conservemc.org or 815-337-9502.

• 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. – “Noon” Year’s Eve Party for Kids, McHenry Public Library, 809 Front St., McHenry. Children ages 3 to 6 accompanied by an adult will ring in the New Year at noon with stories, games and crafts. Free. Registration required. Information: 815-385-0036 or www.mchenrylibrary.org.

• 11 a.m. – Ring in the New Year, Lake County Discovery Museum, 27277 N. Forest Preserve Road, Wauconda. Children of all ages will celebrate the New Year with crafts, party favors and a ball drop at noon.

Free with museum admission of $6 for adults, $2.50 for ages 4 to 17.

Information: www.lcfpd.org/events/ ring-in-the-new-year2/.

• Noon – Bingo, VFW Post 4600, 3002 W. Route 120, McHenry. Play bingo to help support Gigi’s Playhouse, a Down syndrome achieve-

658-5688, ext. 2014, or www. theracketclub.org.

Jan. 2

• 8:30 a.m. – Crystal Lake Toastmasters Club meeting, Exemplar Financial Network, 413 E. Terra Cotta Ave., Crystal Lake. Develop communication and leadership skills while having fun. Information: www. crystallake.toastmastersclubs.org.

• 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Woodstock winter farmers market, McHenry County Fairgrounds, Building D, 11900 Country Club Road, Woodstock. Information: www.woodstockfarmersmarket.org.

• 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Practice ACT test, McHenry Public Library, 809 Front St., McHenry. A fully proctored practice ACT test will show students what to expect on test day.

Results will be emailed to students a week after the testing date. Students must bring No. 2 pencils and an approved calculator. Presented by Kaplan Test Prep. Free. Registration required. Information: 815-385-0036 or www.mchenrylibrary.org.

• 10 a.m. to noon – DAR genealogy workshop, Woodstock Public Library, 414 W. Judd St., Woodstock.

Volunteer genealogists from the Kishwaukee Trail Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution will help prospective members with applications. Free. Registration required.

Information: 815-527-5049.

• Noon to 3 p.m. – Winter Explorations, Marengo Ridge Conservation Area. Shelter No. 1, 7400 Somerset, Marengo. Hosted by the McHenry County Conservation District. The family-friendly drop-in program will feature stations for exploring winter’s wonders. Hot chocolate will be provided. Free.

No registration required. Information: 815-479-5779 or www. mccdistrict.org.

Jan. 3

Photo provided

Members of the Woodstock Garden Club decorated the club’s tree for the Woodstock Opera House Christmas Tree Walk with handmade Victorian-style ornaments. Pictured (from left) are Lydia Donohue, Susan Gullotto and Sondra Matterness.

• 1 p.m. – Bingo, Nativity Lutheran Church, 3506 E. Wonder Lake Road, Wonder Lake. Proceeds benefit Nativity Lutheran Church and the Wonder Lake Neighbors Food Pantry.

Includes a 50/50 raffle. Snacks available. Information: 815-355-5459 or kimhalper@wlfoodpantry.com.

• 1 p.m. – Bingo, Harvard Moose Lodge, 22500 Route 173, Harvard.

Play bingo for money. There also will be a progressive raffle and pull tabs.

Doors open at 11:30 a.m. with lunch available for purchase. Information: 815-943-5925.

• 5 to 6:30 p.m. – Sunday evening community dinner, First United Methodist Church, 236 W. Crystal Lake Ave., Crystal Lake. A free dinner for those in need. Information: elycem57@gmail.com.

Jan. 4

• 7:30 to 9 p.m. – Fox Valley Rocketeers meeting, Woodstock

North High School, 3000 Raffel Road, Woodstock. Local club of model rocketry enthusiasts. Free.

Information: 815-337-9068 or www. foxvalleyrocketeers.org.

Jan. 5

• 6 to 8 p.m. – HAPL Writers Group, Huntley Area Public Library, 11000 Ruth Road, Huntley. Writers ages 15 and older, beginning through experienced, are invited to network and share their writing in a friendly setting.

Participants will receive feedback and helpful critique from other members. Information: 847-6695386 or www.huntleylibrary.org.

• 7 to 8 p.m. – Lifetree Café, The Pointe, 5650 Route 14, Crystal Lake. The program, “Follow Your Dreams: Even When You Think You Can’t,” features a filmed interview with Mandy Harvey, a jazz vocalist whose sudden hearing loss nearly derailed her dream of becoming a professional singer. Free. Information: Bob Dorn, 815-575-4745 or rdorn@ immanuelcl.org.

• 7 to 9 p.m. – Crystal Lake Camera Club meeting, Home State Bank, 611 S. Main St., Crystal Lake. Free. Information: www. crystallakecameraclub.org.

Jan. 6

• 10 to 11:30 a.m. – Drop-in Family Fun, McHenry Public Library, 809 Front St., McHenry.

The program offers a variety of activity stations for children of all ages to try at their own pace.

Free. Information: 815-385-0036 or www.mchenrylibrary.org.

• 11:30 a.m. – McHenry Senior Citizens Club’s Lunch Bunch, Applebee’s, 1700 N. Richmond Road, McHenry. Visitors welcome.

Call for reservations. Information: 815-578-1224.

• 1 to 2 p.m. – Coloring Club for Grown-Ups, Wauconda Area Library, 801 N. Main St., Wauconda. Enjoy a welcoming environment with soothing music and refreshments. All supplies will be provided. Open to adults only.

Free. Information: 847-526-6225 or tsuda@wauclib.org.

• 7 to 8 p.m. – “The Financial Aid Process,” McHenry Public Library, 809 Front St., McHenry.

Representatives of the Illinois Student Assistance Commission will discuss college financial aid, including grants, scholarships and student loans. Parents are encouraged to attend with teens.

Free. Information: 815-385-0036 or www.mchenrylibrary.org.

Have an event to share?

Submit your information online at PlanitNorthwest.com.

Photos may be emailed to neighbors@nwherald.com.

WHEN: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Dec. 29 WHERE: McHenry Public Library, 809 Front St., McHenry COST & INFO: A ninth annual event open to tweens and teens. Featuring a qualifying round in the morning, snack break and the final game in the afternoon to crown the Monopoly champion. Free. Registration required. Information: 815-385-0036 or mplyps@ mchenrylibrary.org.

3

THE ORIGINAL HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS

WHEN: 2 & 7 p.m. Dec. 29 and 1 p.m. Dec. 30 WHERE: Allstate Arena, 6920 N. Mannheim Road, Rosemont COST & INFO: The iconic Harlem Globetrotters present their most epic tour in history, as the team celebrates its 90th anniversary world tour. A star-studded roster will have fans on the edge of their seats to witness the ball-handling wizardry, basketball artistry and one-of-a-kind family entertainment that thrills fans of all ages. Join Globetrotter stars after the game, where they will stay for an autograph, photograph and high five session for fans (subject to availability). Tickets start at $31. Information and tickets: www.harlemglobetrotters.com or www.ticketmaster.com.

4

LIFETREE CAFE

WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. Dec. 29 WHERE: The Pointe, 5650 Route 14, Crystal Lake COST & INFO: The program features a film of Leon Leyson, Oskar Schindler’s youngest Holocaust survivor. Free. Information: Bob Dorn, 815-575-4745 or bdorn@immanuelcl.org.

Find more local events at PlanitNorthwest.com.

Northwest Herald Editorial Board John Rung, Kate Weber, Dan McCaleb, Jason Schaumburg, Kevin Lyons, Jon Styf, John Sahly, Val Katzenstein

OPINIONS TUESDAY

NWHerald.com

ANOTHER VIEW

December 29, 2015 Northwest Herald Section B • Page 2

Facebook.com/NWHerald

@NWHerald

SKETCH VIEW

To win, war on poverty demands centrism The main casualty of Washington’s endless partisan squabbling is a pragmatic approach to policy – meaning one that prefers results to noise.

Ideological warriors of left and right say centrism of this kind is mere cover for cynical deal-making, splitting the difference and substituting platitudes for principles. They’re wrong, and proof is at hand.

A working group convened by the (conservative) American Enterprise Institute and the (liberal) Brookings Institution has just produced an excellent report on poverty. Its recommendations don’t take a weak-willed average. They combine the strongest parts of what Democrats and Republicans in Congress think on this issue.

Crucially, the group began by accepting three general truths that often derail debate before it begins: Able-bodied adults should work, two committed parents are better than one, and schools must do more to prepare students for careers. In each of those areas, the group managed to reach consensus on policy.

To encourage work, the group endorses some traditionally liberal ideas: modestly raising the minimum wage, increasing state payroll taxes to fund paid medical and family leave, offering child-support debt forgiveness for fathers who work, “banning the box” that is used to screen out job applicants with criminal records and subsidizing wages for low-income workers and the hard-to-employ. Traditional conservative ideas also won support: creating stronger incentives for workers not to claim disability benefits, tying housing benefits and food stamps to work and expanding “workfare” programs for those unable to find jobs.

Incidentally, one of these recommendations – increasing the value of the earned income tax credit for single adults – has been backed by President Barack Obama and House Speaker Paul Ryan. That’s great. The question is why the entire program hasn’t been backed by both.

On education, the group’s approach was no less catholic: It called for increasing and improving pre-K and early learning opportunities, as liberals want, and expanding school choice and teacher evaluations, as conservatives want. The group wants more focus on “socialemotional learning” – standards of behavior that are essential to workplace success. It calls for expanding career and technical-education opportunities by encouraging community colleges to offer more employment-oriented classes and businesses to offer more apprenticeships.

Even on policy toward the family, where disputes over values can get heated, the group was able to agree. It called for expanding programs that offer counseling and birth control to young men and women, child-rearing guidance to lowincome parents, and employment opportunities and parenting support to fathers.

The group also backs a monumental endeavor: changing cultural norms around single parenthood, recognizing children raised in single-parent families are far more likely to end up in poverty and prison than those raised in a home with married parents. Up to now, government efforts to promote marriage haven’t amounted to much, but the group notes correctly campaigns to change public opinion on smoking and other health issues have worked.

Given the stakes for children, it’s worth a try.

Taken in isolation, each of these policies is likely to arouse opposition from one party or the other. Bundled together, they form a package both sides can support. This new report, excellent in its own right, makes an even larger point. The most effective way to make policy is not from the left or the right, but from the radical center.

Bloomberg View

Information is democracy’s destabilizer

By VIRGINIA POSTREL Bloomberg View For most of Martin Gurri’s 29 years working for the CIA’s open-media group (now the Open Source Center), the world was very different from the one we now inhabit. “When I started out in government,” Gurri recalls in an interview, “it was a perfectly reasonable expectation that an analyst could absorb all the meaningful political information coming out in a day from even a very developed country like Britain or France. And, of course, now if you tried to do that your head would explode.”

Information used to be scarce.

Now it’s overwhelming. In his book “The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium,” Gurri considers the political implications of this change. He argues the shift from information scarcity to abundance has destroyed the public’s established trust in institutional authorities, including media, science, religion and government.

“Once the monopoly on information is lost, so too is our trust,” Gurri writes. Someone somewhere will expose every error, every falsehood, every biased assessment, every overstated certainty, every prejudice, every omission – and likely offer a contrary and equally refutable version of their own.

The result is the pervasive distrust the columnist Anne Applebaum recently decried as “the terrible damage done by Facebook and other forms of social media to democratic debate and civilized discussion all over the world.” Gurri is less nostalgic for the past. Although he describes himself as an “uncomplicated defender of our system of government,” his experience

makes him acutely aware of officials’ mutual protection practices, unwillingness to acknowledge uncertainty and rewards for failure. The CIA, he pointedly notes, “demanded and received a bigger budget after 9/11.”

Over history, Gurri argues, information has grown “in great pulses or waves” as technologies have changed – from writing to the alphabet to the printing press to mass media to today’s digital networks. Each of these great waves has brought with it new institutions and sometimes great political and social upheavals, most notably in the case of the printing press.

We are in the very early days of what he calls the Fifth Wave.

Institutions that developed in the age of industrialized, top-down mass media are losing legitimacy while new arrangements have yet to evolve. The challenge is to manage the hazardous transition to a new stage without falling into nihilistic chaos and destruction.

Neither celebrating nor denouncing the collapse of authority, Gurri seeks to understand its implications. He offers a disturbingly convincing model uniting such disparate phenomena as the Arab Spring, the 2011 protests in Spain and Israel, the tea party and Occupy Wall Street, and, although he doesn’t discuss them, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter and Islamic State.

As information becomes abundant, he writes, “the regime accumulates pain points.” By this he means that problems like police brutality, economic mismanagement, foreign policy failures and botched responses to disasters “can no longer be concealed or explained away.”

Instead, “they are seized on by the newly empowered public,

and placed front and center in open discussions. In essence, government failure now sets the agenda.”

Yet the public’s expectations for government are at least as great as before. And those high expectations – not merely for justice or prosperity but for happiness and meaning – engender even greater anger.

“The public now takes it for granted that government could solve any problem, change any undesirable condition, if only it tried,” he writes. “The late modernist urge to intervene, with its aimless meandering, has been interpreted by the public as either tyranny or corruption – never, somehow, as the ineffectual pose of a kindly uncle.” In short, “The public has judged government on government’s own terms, but added bad intentions.” The result is a crisis of legitimacy.

Central to Gurri’s analysis is the contrast between the onceauthoritative “center” and increasingly vocal “border sects,” a dichotomy he adapts from the 1983 book “Risk and Culture” by the cultural theorists Mary Douglas and Aaron Wildavsky.

Sects coalesce in opposition to the center; they are, Douglas and Wildavsky wrote, “essentially critical of some defined other part of human society where power resides.” A sect’s message is one of negation.

In Gurri’s view, digital communities form sectarian publics whose only shared agenda is opposition to the status quo.

Negation holds their coalitions together. If the Tahrir Square “protesters had sought to replace the regime with a specific set of people, programs, and principles, the weak bonds of the digital world would have been insufficient,” he writes. “But that’s not what brought out the

variegated Egyptian public to the streets. They just wanted to get rid of Hosni Mubarak.” Once they succeeded, they couldn’t govern.

Lacking a clear positive agenda, a sectarian triumph creates a vacuum. The coalition breaks down or, standing outside the give-and-take of politics, simply loses interest.

Something like that happened to President Barack Obama, Gurri argues. Obama ran against the status quo not only in 2008, when he was the insurgent, but in 2012 when he was the incumbent. Positioning himself as “a denouncer rather than a fixer of problems,” he identified with the public’s discontent and distanced himself from the workings of the federal government, eschewing responsibility for its mistakes and misdeeds and abandoning the give-and-take of political negotiation.

Obama, Gurri suggests, “represented a new and disconcerting development in democratic politics: the conquest of the Center by the Border, and the rise of the sectarian temper to the highest positions of power.” It’s easy to imagine a President Ted Cruz, representing a different brand of border sectarian, pursuing a similar approach.

Then there’s Trump. By stoking magical thinking about what government can do, elite distrust of what the public wants, and sectarian rage at government failures, Trump feeds the nihilism that makes this period of transition so perilous. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

• Virginia Postrel, a Bloomberg View columnist, writes about commerce and culture, innovation, economics and public policy.

ANOTHER VIEW

Illinois only has itself to blame for an underperforming economy Regardless of which direction the national economy takes in 2016, Illinois continues to take the path of underperformance.

It does not feel like the best of times. It certainly is not the worst of times. But with a new year approaching, the U.S. economy is not sending any clear signals on which way it is headed.

Some economists see accelerating growth in 2016, the most robust growth since the end of the Great Recession in mid-2009. Those experts point

THE FIRST

AMENDMENT

to more jobs being created, a historically low unemployment rate of 5 percent, remarkably low prices for gasoline and greater spending on housing and autos.

Other economists, however, are less optimistic and have their own statistics to back up their case.

While the U.S. is growing, it is not putting any upward pressure on wages. Therefore, inflation remains low – too low for these experts and for the Federal Reserve, which would like to see prices rising

at an annual rate of 2 percent.

The global economy, they say, is keeping a lid on the American business environment. U.S. companies can and do move overseas for lowercost labor – one reason for stagnant wages here. America’s trading partners, especially China, play a key role in how well the U.S. economy performs. If Chinese growth is slowing, the rest of the world tends to do the same.

Finally, the naysayers point to low unemployment, low interest rates and low

gas prices and ask: With such strengths, where’s the boom?

Indeed, there has been no great expansion so far to wipe away the last recession’s damage.

Illinois has its own low gear: itself. To be more specific, the leadership the people have elected.

In the years between 2010 and 2015, Illinois lagged in growth because the rest of the country recognized the Land of Lincoln lacked fiscal discipline. Why expand business in a state that has

chosen a path of unsustainable government spending?

Budget deficits, unpaid bills and grossly underfunded pension funds equal a sea of red ink that can be absorbed only by higher taxes and lower spending. There are less risky states to do business in.

This year, the situation is even worse. On top of the ongoing fiscal problems, Illinois government is at a standstill as the Republican governor and the Democratic Legislature cannot even fashion a spending-and-tax plan. A reso-

lution in 2016 – while hoped for – is far from certain.

A lot of people have a dog in this fight: students, universities, private agencies, vendors, municipalities, courts and public employee unions.

But longer term, the fate of the state relies on a successful compromise.

Either this state finds its way back to the path of growth, or it will be setting up its citizens for the worst of times.

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

The (Champaign) News-Gazette

STATE&NATION STATE BRIEFS Management leaves Ill. museum amid closure

SPRINGFIELD – Most of the management team at the Illinois State Museum has retired or taken other jobs amid the museum’s closure because of a lack of a state budget. Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration closed the museum to the public on Oct. 1 and has laid off about a dozen members of the museum’s management team, the State Journal-Register reported.

Museum board chairman Guerry Suggs said only three or four members of the management team would be available to return should the museum reopen. He said the others have retired or gotten new jobs.

Union employees working for the museum have spent their time doing curation work and other duties since the museum was closed.

A lawsuit filed by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees temporarily halted layoffs of about 150 people at the museum and other state agencies.

A bill designed to keep the museum open has been passed by the state House and Senate, and Suggs said the bill was delivered to Rauner on Dec. 9.

TUESDAY

Metra: 2 dead, 4 others hurt in train-car crash

CHICAGO – A spokesman for Chicago’s commuter train service said two people were killed and four others injured when a Metra train struck a car on Chicago’s southwest side.

Metra spokesman Michael Gillis said Monday night that an 18-year-old woman and a 20-year-old woman died from their injuries. He said the injured included a 3-year-old male, a 17-year-old male and a 17-yearold female. Their injuries weren’t considered life-threatening.

Gillis said a 20-year-old male was in serious condition.

Kentuckians identified as Illinois drowning victims

PATOKA – A Kentucky couple and their three children headed to visit family in Minnesota have been identified as the weekend drowning victims caught in a rain-swollen southern Illinois creek. Todd County, Kentucky, Coroner Timothy Wells said Monday that Adam Schutt and his wife Erin of Elkton died Saturday night after attempting to cross a low-lying bridge near the town of Patoka, Illinois, about 60 miles east of St. Louis.

Logan, Robbyn and Chad Schutt also died. Wells did not release the victims’ ages.

– Wire reports

Northwest Herald Section B • Page 3

NWHerald.com

Facebook.com/NWHerald

@NWHerald

No charges in Ohio police shooting

By MARK GILLISPIE CLEVELAND – A grand jury on Monday declined to indict a white rookie police officer in the killing of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old black boy who was shot while playing with what turned out to be a pellet gun.

In explaining the decision, Cuyahoga County prosecutor Tim McGinty said it was “indisputable” that the boy was drawing the pistol from his waistband when he was gunned down. McGinty said Tamir was trying to either hand the weapon over to police or show them it wasn’t real, but the officer and his partner had no way of knowing that.

“Simply put, given this perfect storm of human error, mistakes and miscommunications by all involved that day, the evidence did not indicate criminal conduct by police,” McGinty said.

He said patrolman Timothy Loehmann was justified in opening fire: “He had reason to

A grainy surveillance camera video of the November 2014 shooting provoked outrage nationally, and together with other killings of black people by police in places such as Ferguson, Missouri, and New York City, it helped fuel the Black Lives Matter movement.

There was no immediate comment from Loehmann after the decision. An attorney for Loehmann’s partner, patrolman Frank Garmback, called the shooting a “tragic incident” but said it’s clear the officers “acted within the bounds of the law.” The grand jury also declined to indict Garmback.

Tamir was shot by Loehmann within two seconds of the officers’ police cruiser skidding AP file photo to a stop near the boy. Loehmann and Garmback were rety courthouse in Cleveland sponding to a 911 call about a in case of protests, and about “guy” pulling a gun out of his two dozen people gathered in pants and pointing it at people. the cold rain at the recreation Tamir was carrying a borrowed center where Tamir was shot, airsoft gun that looks like an some holding signs with photos actual firearm but shoots nonof the boy and others killed by lethal plastic pellets. It was police in the U.S. missing the orange tip that is

Tomiko Shine holds up a picture Dec. 1, 2014, of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy fatally shot Nov. 22 by a rookie police officer in Cleveland, Ohio, during a protest in Washington, D.C.

The Associated Press

fear for his life.”

Tamir’s family condemned the decision but echoed the prosecutor in urging those who are disappointed to express themselves “peacefully and democratically.” Barricades were set up outside the coun-

supposed to show that it’s not a real weapon. The grand jury had been hearing evidence and testimony since mid-October.

In detailing the decision not to bring charges, McGinty said police radio personnel contributed to the tragedy by failing to pass along the “all-important fact” that the 911 caller said the gunman was probably a juvenile and the gun probably wasn’t real.

Assistant prosecutor Matthew Meyer said it was “extremely difficult” to tell the difference between the pellet gun and the firearm its modeled after. And he said Tamir was big for his age – 5-foot-7 and 175 pounds – and appeared much older than 12.

McGinty also noted that the neighborhood has a history of violence and that a short distance away are memorials to two Cleveland police officers fatally shot in the line of duty.

McGinty said the city has taken steps to prevent this kind of shooting from happening again.

Texas cleans up after twisters, snow and ice pelt Midwest

Iowa woman dies in bus crash in Chicago

CHICAGO – An Iowa woman was killed and four other passengers were injured in a Burlington Trailways bus accident on Interstate 55 in Chicago on early Monday, Illinois State Police said.

The bus was carrying 33 passengers when it lost control at 6:40 a.m. and struck a construction arrow board sign, police said. Burlington Trailways said the bus departed Omaha, Nebraska, on Sunday evening for downtown Chicago. The bus line said it is “fully cooperating” with law enforcement.

The driver, who state police identified as a 53-year-old man from Omaha, told authorities he was trying to avoid a pickup truck that moved into the bus’ lane as the bus was getting ready to exit, Burlington Trailways officials said.

They also said their onboard GPS system shows the bus was traveling 49 mph in a 55 mph zone. The victim was identified as 21-year-old Nicole M. Underwood of Des Moines. The four other passengers had injuries that were not life-threatening and were taken to hospitals.

December 29, 2015

By DAVID WARREN The Associated Press

AP photo

Republican presidential candidate businessman Donald Trump acknowledges the crowd before speaking Dec. 21 in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Chances of unsettled GOP race are high

By NANCY BENAC The Associated Press WASHINGTON – ’Tis the season – no, not THAT season.

It’s that point in the presidential election cycle when speculation starts swirling that the primaries won’t produce a clear winner and one of the parties’ big nominating conventions will dissolve in chaos. This time, it’s the Republican side of the race that’s looking particularly unsettled.

After a crazy year in which Donald Trump’s ability to stay on top in a supersized pack repeatedly has confounded the conventional wisdom, the what-if chatter is wilder and louder than usual.

What if no one gets a majority of delegates in the primaries and caucuses? What if Trump leads the delegate count but party elites want to derail his route to the nomination? What if delegates to the Cleveland convention deadlock on multiple votes and then try to turn to someone completely new, perhaps House Speaker Paul Ryan?

Ridiculous, Ryan said.

Silly, said Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus.

“I don’t think that’s going to happen,” Trump said.

Veteran politicos agree such scenarios are unlikely.

The outlook will clarify once people start voting in February, they insist.

But they also acknowledge that the chances of an unsettled outcome are higher than usual in the current unconventional political environment.

Ben Ginsberg, the lawyer who served as counsel to the Mitt Romney and George W. Bush presidential campaigns, says that because this GOP election cycle offers three lanes of candidates instead of two – a “Trump” lane in addition to the traditional “establishment” and “conservative” lanes – “it becomes more like-

ly that no one will have a majority of delegates.”

“The odds are still really small,” Ginsberg continues, then offers this caveat: “I did say on the day before the 2000 election that there would never be another presidential recount.”

This from the man who went on to play a central role in the Florida recount at the heart of the Bush v. Gore battle for the presidency.

The large field of GOP candidates and Trump’s wildcard candidacy aren’t the only factors at play in speculation that the 2016 primaries could end in uncertainty. The GOP in recent years has been shifting to a more proportional way of allocating delegates from each state than the old winner-takeall approach.

And that means the momentum Romney achieved after winning a couple of big states in 2012 “is just not going to be as likely” this time, says Mark Stephenson, a Republican consultant who handled delegate strategy for Scott Walker’s short-lived presidential campaign and worked on the Romney campaign in 2008.

Even if the field of candidates has been winnowed to three or four after the first four states award 130 delegates in February, the winner in the big Super Tuesday round of voting on March 1 still might come up with just 300-400 delegates of the 600-plus to be awarded that day, says Stephenson. That’s a far cry from the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the nomination.

Stephenson agrees that a contested convention is unlikely, but says that between the unusual campaign dynamics at play this year and the proportional delegate allocation rules, “as people start playing with the math, it’s certainly an interesting exercise to come up with scenarios” under which nobody gets to a majority before the convention.

GARLAND, Texas – Jacqui Gordon spent Monday sifting through the debris that had been her home, searching for old family photographs – especially of her father, who died two years ago.

She and nine others were enjoying a holiday gathering when winds began to rattle her home in suburban Dallas.

They all dashed into closets and suffered only bumps and bruises, but Gordon’s roof was torn away and her house destroyed.

“I just got divorced, and this is all I had,” she said.

With rain all day Sunday keeping people away, residents worked on a dreary and frigid Monday to salvage what they could, with the American Red Cross distributing items like tarps, rakes and work gloves to help them.

At least 11 people died and dozens were injured in the tornadoes that swept through the Dallas area Saturday. Snow from New Mexico through the Midwest, plus flooding in Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois, added to the succession of severe weather events across the country in the last week that led to about four dozen deaths.

The storm system brought heavy snow, ice and blustery winds to several states in the nation’s midsection, as well as heavy rain in already-waterlogged areas. More than 2,800 flights across the U.S. were canceled Monday – more than half of them at Chicago’s two main airports – and around 4,800 were delayed, according to flight-tracking service FlightAware. A typical day sees about 150 cancellations and 4,000 delays.

Highways turned icy and treacherous in New Mexico, while Oklahoma Gov. Mary

AP photo

Floodwater surrounds a home Monday in Eureka, Mo. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has declared a state of emergency because of widespread flooding around the state that has closed many roads after a storm system dropped more than half a foot of rain and left several dead.

Fallin declared a state of emergency after blizzard conditions affected parts of the state and heavy rains fell.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said the body of a 22-year-old man was recovered in northern Oklahoma but a second man, the lead singer of the country-rock band Backroad Anthem, was still missing after the two went duck hunting and their boat capsized.

The body of a 36-year-old man who tried to cross a creek in his pickup near the town of Arpelar was also recovered Monday afternoon, the patrol said.

Officials in Arkansas said a 31-year-old man died in a storm-related drowning.

Several inches of rain caused flooding in Illinois and Missouri, where Gov. Jay Nixon also declared a state of emergency. Nixon says the state’s death toll from days of pounding rainfall has risen to 10, and he expects that number to grow. The Mississippi River neared a potential record crest, after an unusual amount of late-fall rain had the river already high before torrential downpours that began Saturday.

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant said Monday the state is

seeking a federal disaster declaration for some or all of the seven counties hit by a tornado last week. Authorities in Georgia said they recovered the body of a man whose car was swept away when floodwaters overtook it.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott made disaster declarations Sunday for four counties – Dallas, Collin, Rockwall and Ellis.

Officials estimated as many as 1,450 homes in North Texas were damaged or destroyed by at least nine tornadoes.

The National Weather Service has said an EF4 tornado, which is the second-most powerful with winds up to more than 200 mph, hit Garland.

Eight people died there, 15 were injured and more than 600 structures, mostly single-family homes, were damaged.

“I’ve never seen anything like this, with this scale of destruction,” Police Chief Mitch Bates said Monday.

He said authorities believe all eight of the tornado victims there, which included a 1-yearold, died when their vehicles were thrown from overpasses in the area of Interstate 30 and the George Bush Turnpike, a major route in the region.

adno=0336904

4 WORLD • Tuesday, December 29, 2015 • Section B • Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com

S. Korea, Japan reach deal on WWII sex slaves

By HYUNG–JIN KIM and FOSTER KLUG The Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea – An apology from Japan’s prime minister and a pledge of more than $8 million sealed a breakthrough deal Monday in a decades-long impasse with South Korea over Korean women forced into Japanese military-run brothels during World War II. The accord, which aims to resolve the emotional core of South Korea’s grievances with its former colonial overlord, could begin to reverse decades of animosity and mistrust between the two thriving democracies, trade partners and staunch U.S. allies. It represents a shift for Tokyo’s conservative government and a new willingness to compromise by previously wary Seoul.

A statement by both countries’ foreign ministers said Prime Minister Shinzo Abe “expresses anew his most sincere apologies and remorse to all the women who underwent immeasurable and painful experiences and suffered incurable physical and psychological wounds as comfort women,” the euphemistic name given the women.

Historians say tens of thousands of women from around Asia, many of them Korean, were sent to front-line military brothels to provide sex to Japanese soldiers.

It wasn’t immediately clear if Abe would be issuing a separate written statement or if it would be directly delivered to the 46 surviving former Korean sex slaves, now in their 80s and 90s. The language mirrored past expressions of remorse by other prime ministers, although it was seen by some in Seoul as an improvement on previous

AP photo

Former South Korean sex slaves, who were forced to serve for the Japanese Army during World War II, wait for results of a meeting of South Korean and Japanese foreign ministers Monday in Gwangju, South Korea. comments by Abe’s hawkish government, which has been accused of whitewashing wartime atrocities.

Another deciding factor was that the $8.3 million – to create a foundation to help provide support for the victims – came from the government, not private sources, something Tokyo has resisted in the past.

South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se said Seoul considers the agreement “final and irreversible,” as long as Japan faithfully follows through with its promises.

Later Monday, Abe called South Korean President Park Geun-hye and reiterated his apology. He said Tokyo would implement the deal and called the issue settled irreversibly.

Park said she hoped the two countries will build mutual trust and open a new era in ties based on the agreement.

After phoning Park, Abe told reporters that the agreement was based on his commitment to stop future generations from having to repeatedly apologize.

WORLD BRIEFS Iraqi troops advance in Ramadi, IS troops remain

BAGHDAD – Iraqi forces backed by U.S.-led airstrikes drove Islamic State militants out of the center of Ramadi on Monday and seized the main government complex there, according to military officials, who said insurgents still are dug into pockets of the city west of Baghdad.

Ramadi, the provincial capital of the sprawling Anbar province, fell to IS in May, marking a major setback for Iraqi forces and the U.S.-led campaign. Ramadi and nearby Fallujah, which is controlled by IS, saw some of the heaviest fighting of the eightyear U.S. intervention in Iraq.

In recent months Iraqi forces launched several offensives to retake Ramadi, but all had stalled. Iraqi troops began advancing into some parts of the city, located about 80 miles west of Baghdad, earlier this month. But their progress was slowed by snipers, booby traps and the militants’ destruction of bridges leading into the city center.

The heavy fighting and limited access to front-lines made it difficult to follow the troops’ progress, and Iraqi officials issued a string of sometimes contradictory statements.

Brig. Gen. Ahmed al-Belawi told The Associated Press that IS militants stopped firing from inside the government complex at around 8 a.m. Monday and said troops were encircling it as engineering teams cleared booby traps.

Boko Haram attacks Nigerian land, 80 killed

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria – Boko Haram Islamic extremists struck a city and a town in northeastern Nigeria with rocket-propelled grenades and multiple suicide bombers Monday, killing at least 80 people, witnesses said.

In Maiduguri, the capital of Bor-

42nd ANNUAL

MODEL RAILROAD SHOW

At McHenry Savings Bank’s Financial Center on Route 31 north of Bull Valley Rd. in McHenry

no state, at least 30 were killed and more than 90 wounded in overnight blasts and shootouts, and another 20 died in a bombing outside a mosque at dawn Monday, said Muhammed Kanar, area coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency.

A twin suicide bombing also killed at least 30 people in Madagali, a town 95 miles southeast of Maiduguri, witnesses said.

Danladi Buba said two women blew themselves up at a market near a busy bus station at about 9 a.m. Brig. Gen. Victor Ezugwu, the officer commanding in northeast Adamawa State, confirmed the attack but said casualties have yet to be established.

The attacks appear to be a challenge to President Muhammadu Buhari’s declaration last week that Nigerian security forces have “technically won the war” against Boko Haram and that it is now capable of no more than suicide bombings on soft targets.

Puerto Rico policeman fatally shoots 3 officers

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – A Puerto Rico policeman fatally shot two high-ranking officers and a policewoman on Monday following an argument and hostage taking at work that temporarily shut down the station in the U.S. territory’s second largest city, authorities said. The suspect was immediately placed under arrest.

The suspect, Guarionex Candelario Rivera, Guarionex held a female Candelario lieutenant, a Rivera male commander and a policewoman hostage in an office before he killed them, police spokeswoman Mayra Ayala told The Associated Press.

She said authorities were about to start negotiations with the

50-year-old suspect when the victims were killed. She said police did not yet have information on a motive.

Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla told reporters that the suspect was injured during the shooting and remains hospitalized. Garcia declined to say what kind of injuries the officer received and how they were inflicted.

“This took us completely by surprise,” Col. Hector Agosto said in a quiet voice at a press conference while still wearing a shirt stained with blood, explaining that he tried to help the victims. “We are a family. I am trying to stay strong.”

“This is a very tragic situation that appalls us all especially because it occurred during the holidays,” said police spokesman Axel Valencia.

The shooting occurred inside the lieutenant’s office at the police headquarters in the southern coastal city of Ponce. Authorities evacuated the station to investigate threats of a possible explosive device at the station, but they did not say whether anything was found.

Police said at a news conference that the suspect previously had been stripped of his weapon but received a psychological evaluation nearly two years ago and his weapon was returned.

received from a senior Russian diplomat earlier in the day.

That envoy, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to be cited by name, said Iran had permitted Russia to take possession of and ship out most of its low-enriched uranium. Low-enriched uranium is suitable primarily to generate nuclear power and needs substantial further enrichment for use John Kerry in the core of a nuclear warhead. But Kerry said that the shipment also included the remaining stock of Iranian uranium that already had been enriched to higher levels, just a technical step away from what is needed to form the fissile core of a nuclear bomb.

The July 14 deal aims to reduce Iran’s ability to make nuclear weapons – something Tehran says it has no interest in.

Police: Man dies blowing up condom machine

BERLIN – Police in Germany say a man has died after he and two others blew up a condom machine and he was hit in the head by a flying piece of metal.

Officers were alerted to the explosion Friday in Schoeppingen, near the Dutch border, and found cash and condom packets lying on the ground apparently untouched.

A local hospital informed police that a 29-year-old had died after being brought in by two other men. They initially said he had fallen down stairs, but police said Monday one of them later admitted the victim’s injuries were related to the explosion.

They said the three men apparently got into a car after triggering the explosion, but the 29-year-old didn’t close his door and was hit by debris when the machine exploded.

– Wire reports

Russia removes Iran’s enriched uranium

VIENNA – A landmark nuclear deal with Tehran moved closer to implementation Monday, with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announcing that tons of enriched uranium that could potentially be turned to use in atomic arms were on a ship heading from Iran to Russia.

Kerry hailed the development as “one of the most significant steps Iran has taken toward fulfilling its commitments” under the July 14 nuclear agreement, in comments that expanded on information The Associated Press

YEAR END SPECIAL EVENT CLEARANCE SALE! Now Thru Dec. 31st

Featuring

View it in our Lobby

December 14- 31, 2015 TRAIN SHOW HOURS: Monday to Thursday 9 am to 5 pm* Friday 9 am to 6 pm Saturday 9 am to 1 pm *Thursday, 12/24 9 am to 1 pm *Thursday, 12/31 9 am to 3 pm

FREE DRAWING TO WIN A

LIONEL O-GAUGE TRAIN SET!

DRAWING TO BE HELD DECEMBER 31st When it comes to safeguarding your valuables, nothing is more secure, convenient, and accessible than a safe deposit box. Boxes not FDIC insured.

815.385.3000

www.mchenrysavings.com 353 Bank Drive McHenry, Illinois

and many more!

NEW MODELS • SCRATCHED MODELS • DENTED MODELS • LAST YEAR’S MODELS

DON’T MISS OUT! HURRY IN FOR BEST SELECTION 424 W. Terra Cotta Ave (Rte. 176 & Oak St.) Crystal Lake

815-459-4380 www.gulgren.com

SPORTS TUESDAY

Hoops legend Harlem Globetrotters’ “clown prince” Meadowlark Lemon dead at age 83 / C5

OUTSIDE THE BOX SCORE UNSUNG HERO

Madilyn Tripp Dundee-Crown, so., C

Tripp finished with six points and a team-high 11 rebounds. The sophomore center had eight rebounds in the first half, which helped the Chargers lead at halftime.

THE NUMBER

5

3-pointers by D-C’s Melissa Barker out of seven attempts.

AND ANOTHER THING ...

The Chargers will continue play in the consolation bracket Tuesday with a 9:30 a.m. game against Barrington.

NWHerald.com

CONTACT: Jon Styf • jstyf@shawmedia.com

December 29, 2015 Northwest Herald

Facebook.com/McHenryCountySports

@McHenryCoSports

GIRLS BASKETBALL: DUNDEE-CROWN CHARGER CLASSIC

Prospect rallies past D-C

By TIM SIECK sports@nwherald.com CARPENTERSVILLE – Monday’s girls basketball game between Dundee-Crown and Prospect was a perfect summary of the Chargers’ season to date: Play well for 60 to 70 percent of the game, miss an opportunity to put the game out of reach, and lose a close game in the fourth quarter.

D-C again was on the short end of a game it controlled for

almost three quarters as the Chargers lost to Prospect, 5647, in a consolation bracket game in the 33rd annual Charger Classic at D-C. D-C (7-11) opened Monday’s game with a tight defensive effort, and the Knights didn’t have much of an answer. Prospect was held to 18 first-half points and shot 29 percent from the field. The Chargers won the rebounding battle, shot 47 percent and although they committed 12 turnovers,

still held a three-point lead at intermission.

“We have seemed to do this a lot this season where we start off pretty strong but fail to put teams away,” D-C’s Melissa Barker said. “We really need to work on playing a full four quarters and start winning some of these games.”

The third quarter was close the entire way and saw the offense pick up for both teams.

See D-C, page C2

H. Rick Bamman – hbamman@shawmedia.com

Dundee-Crown’s Anna Kieltyka (center) and Prospect’s Kendra Gancarz (left) go after a rebound in the second quarter in the Charger Classic on Monday at D-C in Carpentersville. More photos at NWHerald.com

BEARS INSIDER Hub Arkush

GIRLS BASKETBALL: MONTINI CHRISTMAS TOURNAMENT

Huntley suffers first loss Early deficit too much vs.

Hersey in quarterfinal

Don’t read too much into win It would be a real mistake to try to take too much from the Bears’ 26-21 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday.

It was big because it snapped a three-game skid in which the Bears had gotten progressively worse each week, and even bigger because it gave last year’s 5-11 team its sixth win Timely win this year with an allEnding losing new coachstreak a needed ing staff and confidence boost front office. for Bears. PAGE C3 When you’re climbing from the bottom up, progress is huge, and Sunday was a big step.

But if you start assuming the Bears solved all kinds of personnel questions with nice performances from so many youngsters, you can delude yourself into a real fool’s paradise.

The Bucs are also a 6-9 team that has lost three straight and four of its past five, all to losing teams.

The Bears won in large part because the Bucs gave them three really bad turnovers.

The Bears also caught a break when, trailing 7-0 less than two minutes into the second quarter, Jay Cutler had a pass tipped by Gerald McCoy and intercepted by William Gholston at the Bears’ 39 and returned to the 15, but it was overturned by a Bucs facemask penalty, allowing the Bears to drive 68 yards to a game-tying score.

That said, there was much to feel good about.

General manager Ryan Pace and coach John Fox were

By ALEX KANTECKI akantecki@shawmedia.com LOMBARD – Huntley’s Kayla Barreto came away with three steals and forced another turnover as the Red Raiders worked desperately to cut into Hersey’s lead in the second half.

Hersey led by as many as 14 points as the Raiders scored only 18 points through the first three quarters. In the fourth, the Raiders finally found life and the basket, cutting Hersey’s lead to five with 2:57 left.

But, despite scoring more points in the final eight minutes than it did in the first 24, Huntley ran out of gas and the Huskies converted 13 of 16 free throws in the fourth to hold off the Raiders, 47-38, in a quarterfinal of the Montini Christmas Tournament on Monday.

The fifth-seeded Raiders (121) suffered their first loss of the season and will play Batavia at 3 p.m. Tuesday in the fifth-place bracket.

“It was really inexplicable to me how we played tonight,”

See HUNTLEY, page C2

OUTSIDE THE BOX SCORE UNSUNG HERO

Kayla Barreto Huntley, sr., G

Barreto (illness) played at less than 100 percent after missing Huntley’s first game of the tourney. She finished with seven points and three steals in the second half.

THE NUMBER

18

C

Points for Huntley in the first three quarters (20 in the fourth).

See ARKUSH, page C3

AND ANOTHER THING ...

The Red Raiders lost their quarterfinal matchup for the second straight year.

Huntley went on to win its last two games a year ago, including the fifthplace game against Neuqua Valley.

Mark Busch – mbusch@shawmedia.com

Huntley’s Morgan Clausen battles for a rebound against Hersey during a quarterfinal game of the Montini Christmas Tournament on Monday in Lombard. Huntley lost, 47-38.

More online Visit ChicagoFootball.com for the latest Bears and NFL news.

BULLS 104, RAPTORS 97

Noah’s name in latest trade rumors Bulls defeat Toronto without injured center

about the trade rumors hovering over the Bulls. “That’s always going to happen. Ninety-nine percent of them go nowhere. They’re not serious. It’s just people throwing things

By JOE COWLEY against the wall.” jcowley@suntimes.com That wall is getting a lot of work CHICAGO – Calls are being made. as far as the Bulls (17-12) were conBut as Fred Hoiberg pointed out, cerned lately.

Even with another impressive calls are always being made. win in beating the 19-13 Toronto Hoiberg would know.

Before deciding to make a living Raptors, 104-97, Monday night at the as a head coach, he spent almost five United Center, not only have the seasons in the front office for the names of Pau Gasol and Taj Gibson AP photo Minnesota Timberwolves. been floating around, but according “Teams are always talking,” to one NBA source, Joakim Noah’s The Bulls’ Pau Gasol and Tony Snell celebrate Snell’s basket late in the fourth quarter Hoiberg said Monday, when asked name was picking up steam despite against the Toronto Raptors on Monday at the United Center. The Bulls won, 104-97.

the big man being on the shelf with a sprained left shoulder.

Noah was seen putting up shots after the team’s morning shootaround, and the source indicated the Bulls were hoping next week’s re-evaluation will bring good news. Not only because Noah was actually starting to play well before the injury, but also so that prospective teams could see Noah was alive and well moving forward.

The concern the Bulls have with the injury was a small tear in the shoulder will heal without surgery,

See BULLS, page C3

2 SPORTS • Tuesday, December 29, 2015 • Section C • Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com

Big Ten basketball powerful at top, lacks depth The Big Ten is riding almost as high as could be imagined in football this time of year, with Michigan State preparing for the four-team playoff, Iowa for the Rose Bowl and Ohio State for a sexy Fiesta Bowl date with Notre Dame. Strong stuff for a league with 10 bowl teams altogether.

In basketball? With Big Ten openers set for Tuesday and Wednesday nights, it’s a far different story.

The league is as potent as any at the top; unbeaten Michigan State carries the No. 1 national ranking heading into Tuesday’s game at Iowa, and one-loss Maryland is a rock-solid No. 4. Only 14th-ranked Purdue, however, joins them in the top 25, which included six Big Ten squads in Week 1 of the season.

No other team looks remotely capable of contending for the conference

title, and that’s what has knocked the Big Ten down a peg or two. The ACC and Big 12 – each with five teams in the current top 25 – and the Big East have performed better thus far. Of course, a lot could change between now and mid-March.

Five things to keep an eye on during the early flurry of Big Ten action:

1. The Spartans sans Denzel Valentine: Mr. Triple Double, the leading

candidate for national player of the year, will miss as least two league games – at Iowa and at Minnesota – as he recovers from minor surgery on his left knee.

If Eron Harris keeps performing like he did in his first fill-in start, MSU won’t have any trouble. Harris, a West Virginia transfer, scored 27 points in a comeback victory over Oakland.

VIEWS Steve Greenberg Don’t be surprised, however, if there’s a bump in the road or two for the Spartans before Valentine gets back to full speed.

2. Maryland’s ideal balance: All five Terps starters – Melo Trimble, Robert Carter, Jake Layman, Rasheed Sulaimon and Diamond Stone – are scoring in double figures this season, making this team a true rarity. The unselfishness of guys like Duke transfer Sulaimon and blue-chip freshman big man Stone has been a joy to watch.

Will it continue as the games get more meaningful?

All five starters have the NBA in

their futures, too. That level of talent plus team-first vibes equals an easy decision to stick with the Terps as my pick to win not only the Big Ten, but the national title.

3. Backsliders: Is five-loss Wisconsin even going to make the NCAA tourney this season? The Badgers have perhaps the toughest early slate of league games in the Big Ten, starting with Tuesday’s test against Purdue in Madison.

I expected a lot more of 10-3 Indiana. The Hoosiers open at Rutgers and at Nebraska, games they absolutely should win. If they stumble, that “soft” label won’t be going away any time soon. And what say you, Michigan?

Iowa? Ohio State? I’m simply looking for pulses here.

4. Go Cats? It’s great to see Northwestern at 12-1, but let’s tell it like it

PREP ROUNDUP

NORTHWEST HERALD

BOYS BASKETBALL McHenry 49, Lane Tech 23: At the York Jack Tosh

Holiday Tournament in Elmhurst, the Warriors advanced to the consolation bracket quarterfinals with a win over Lane Tech.

The Warriors held Lane Tech to seven points in the first half. Colton Klein led McHenry with 13 points and Giovanni Calabrese added 10.

McHenry will play De La Salle at noon Tuesday.

Faith Lutheran 76, Alden-Hebron 72 (OT): At the Alden-Hebron Christmas Tournament, Jordan Warrdner scored 33 points to lead the Saints to victory. Niko Ricardi scored 16 points and Ben Gritton added 15 for Faith Lutheran. The Saints will play Harvard at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Hebron.

Trevor Redlin led the Giants (1-11) with 21 points, and Taylor Glenn added 16. A-H plays New Jerusalem at 6 p.m. Tuesday.

Harvard 53, New Jerusalem 43 (OT): At the Alden-Hebron Christmas Tournament, the Hornets opened the tournament with an overtime win. After losing the lead in the fourth quarter, the Hornets outscored New Jerusalem, 13-3, in overtime.

Ryo Fog led Harvard with 11 points and Roy Amaya added eight.

Sterling 66, Hampshire 55: At the DeKalb Chuck Dayton Holiday Tournament, the Whip-Purs fell to 0-2 at the tournament with the loss. Danny Duchaj led Hampshire with 12 points and Luke Tuttle and Deion Garcia each added 11.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL: BOWL ROUNDUP

Gophers, Middies earn bowl victories The ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT – For most of the game, Minnesota could rely on its defense. When the Golden Gophers briefly fell behind in the fourth quarter, quarterback Mitch Leidner responded.

Leidner ran 13 yards for a touchdown with 4:26 remaining, and the Golden Gophers held on for a 21-14 win over Central Michigan in the Quick Lane Bowl on Monday night.

Minnesota (6-7) ended a trying season on a positive note. Coach Jerry Kill retired in late October because of continued difficulty managing his epilepsy and his job. The Gophers were 5-7 after the regular season but were able to play on because not enough teams reached six wins to fill all the bowls.

All three teams that went to bowls at 5-7 – Minnesota, Nebraska and San Jose State – won them.

Central Michigan (7-6) took a 14-13 lead with 11:08 remaining on a 13-yard touchdown run by Romello Ross. Minnesota responded by driving 74 yards in 13 plays.

Leidner ran for the go-ahead touchdown, then threw to KJ Maye for a 2-point conversion.

MILITARY BOWL Navy 44, Pittsburgh 28: At Annapolis, Maryland,

Keenan Reynolds wrapped up his record-setting college career at Navy in spectacular fashion, running for three touchdowns and throwing for another to lead Navy past Pittsburgh (8-5).

Reynolds ran for 144 yards on 24 carries, completed 9 of 17 passes for 126 yards and had a reception for 47 yards on a trick play.

The 5-foot-11 senior leaves Navy (11-2) as the NCAA career leader with 88 touchdowns and 530 points. His 4,559 yards rushing are the most by a quarterback in NCAA history.

• Steve Greenberg is a Chicago SunTimes sports reporter. Write to him at sgreenberg@suntimes.com and follow him on Twitter @slgreenberg.

Inside Girls Basketball

CLS girls reach D-C semifinals The Crystal Lake South girls basketball team advanced to the semifinals of the Dundee-Crown Charger Classic with a 50-40 win over Resurrection on Monday in Carpentersville.

The Gators outscored Resurrection, 26-12, in the first half before hanging on for the win.

Chanel Fanter led South with 21 points on 9-of-18 shooting and Annika Sevcik added 11 points.

The Gators will play New Trier at 8 p.m. Tuesday for a chance to reach the title game.

Tiger Holiday Classic: At Edwardsville, McHenry went 0-2 on the day with a 51-37 loss to Chicago Simeon and a 56-49 loss to Springfield Sacred-Heart Griffin. Kaleigh Johnson led the Warriors (7-10) against Simeon with 12 points and Isabel Gscheidle added 11.

Elizabeth Alsot scored 14 in McHenry’s second game and Johnson added 10.

is: The list of vanquished nonleague foes isn’t all that impressive. Wednesday’s opener at Nebraska is extra-important, because Maryland will be in Evanston three days later. The Wildcats can’t afford to fall in yet another early Big Ten hole.

5. John Groce’s attitude: Illinois’ coach is sunnier than ever despite his injury-ravaged team’s 8-5 record. Can the Illini change the nature of their season with a couple of league-opening victories over beatable Michigan and Ohio State? On the other hand, will Groce be able keep things from completely imploding if the Illini start off 0-2?

H. Rick Bamman – hbamman@shawmedia.com

Dundee-Crown’s Allison Michalski (front) works to get open against Prospect defenders Clare O’Carroll (left) and Emily Frasco during the Charger Classic on Monday in Carpentersville.

Chargers trailed Prospect by 1 to start 4th quarter • D-C Continued from page C1 Prospect did a better job on the glass and also hit 50 percent of its shots. Barker hit three 3-pointers to keep the game close, and D-C trailed by a point heading into the fourth quarter.

D-C struggled with shots in the fourth and went more than four minutes without a point, which allowed the Knights to pull ahead for good. The Knights’ Angela Roman was a perfect 4 for 4 shooting, and

Prospect went 9 for 12 from the foul line in the final quarter to put the game out of reach.

“Prospect outplayed us in the last quarter in every area of the game,” D-C coach Sarah Miller said.

“They got all the loose balls, and that is something to expect from a good scrappy team like that. On offense, we weren’t patient enough, turned the ball over too much, and were too inconsistent. We need to play better.”

The Chargers were led by Barker with 17 points and Allison Michalski with 12 points.

Andrews scores 18 for Raiders • HUNTLEY Continued from page C1 Huntley coach Steve Raethz said.

“I feel like Hersey just outworked us and outplayed us and outhustled us in every facet of the game. It’s really difficult to overcome that deficit, and credit to our kids to make the effort to come back, but we just spent a lot of energy getting back to that point.”

No. 4-seed Hersey held Huntley to 26.7 percent (8 of 30) from the field in the first three quarters before the Raiders rallied with 20 points in the fourth on 6-of-11 shooting.

Illinois signee Ali Andrews led Huntley with 18 points, scoring nine of the team’s 12 first-half points and adding nine in the final quarter. But even she struggled from the field, hitting only four of her first 12 shots as the Raiders finished with a season low in points.

“They (Hersey) were doubling down low,” said Andrews, who also grabbed seven rebounds. “They were just playing hard down low and not letting us get any easy shots. We’ve had slow starts the past two games, and we need to come back next game and play a full 32 minutes.”

Hersey (12-1) led, 30-18, entering the fourth before the Raiders went on a 12-5 run, cutting the Huskies’ lead to five on a pair of Andrews free throws.

Hersey responded at the freethrow line, missing only three times in the fourth as the Raiders were

Mark Busch – mbusch@shawmedia.com

Huntley’s Kayla Barreto plays defense against Hersey on Monday in a Montini Christmas Tournament game. forced to foul late. An intentional foul called against Huntley’s Morgan Clausen (six points, five rebounds) and the resulting free throws pushed Hersey’s lead back to eight points with 1:57 remaining.

“They are a solid team. They are a top-10 team in the state,” said Barreto, who returned to the Raiders’ starting lineup after missing the first game of the tournament with an illness. “They wanted it more than us in this game. I feel like they put out the effort that we needed to have, and we didn’t give it. And we paid for it.”

Gina Miklasz led Hersey with 16 points, while Huntley got seven from Barreto and four from Paige Renkosik.

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK KALEIGH JOHNSON McHenry, sr., G Johnson led the Warriors in the championship bracket of the Northern Illinois Holiday Classic, coming up with a pair of key defensive stops in the fourth quarter and scoring 15 points in a semifinal win over Wauconda, 5046. In the championship, the senior had a game-high 16 points in a 51-41 loss to Johnsburg. Johnson is second on the Warriors (7-8) with 10.3 points a game, and leads the team in assists (48) and steals (32). McHenry went 4-1 in the tournament after starting the year 3-7.

Proud Sponsor of Athlete of the Week

Johns was walking around without crutches during the final game of the Northern Illinois Holiday Classic and accepted the tournament trophy with junior Cortland Sommerfeldt. Johns, the Skyhawks’ 2015 Defensive Player of the Year, is averaging 11.5 points, 8.4 rebounds and 1.4 blocked shots a game.

“We did it for our big girl (Johns), who is out, unfortunately,” Sommerfeldt said after beating McHenry in the final. “But she’ll be back, and we’re excited.”

NORTHWEST HERALD Buzzer beaters and close POWER RANKINGS calls: Prairie Ridge freshman Sam (Records through Sunday) Lockwood had 17 points and hit the 1. Huntley (12-0): Ali Andrews game-winning shot as time expired dropped 28 points – including 20 in a thrilling, 57-55, overtime win in the second half – to lead the Red against Rockford Auburn at the Raiders to a comeback win against tournament in Mundelein on Dec. Bolingbrook, 53-43, in their opening 22, advancing the Wolves to the game of the Montini Christmas semifinals.

Tournament.

In the semifinals, it was Conant 2. Johnsburg (15-1): The Skyhawks that returned the favor and made beat McHenry for the second time a last-second shot in a 34-33 win this year, capturing the Northern to send the Cougars to the chamIllinois Holiday Classic title with a pionship. Prairie Ridge had one last 5-0 record. Johnsburg has won 11 in chance, but its final shot clanked off a row. the front rim.

3. Crystal Lake South (12-4): The In the-third place game against Gators won the second-place bracket Grayslake North, Aly Clark’s 3-point at the Northern Illinois Holiday Classic attempt in the closing seconds and handed Burlington Central its first rimmed out as the Knights avenged loss of the season, 42-39, to open the a four-point loss to Prairie Ridge in Dundee-Crown Charger Classic over conference play. the weekend. South has won 11 of 12 Tournament gains: Cary-Grove after a 1-3 start. entered the Mundelein tournament 4. Hampshire (10-3): The with a 1-11 record, but rattled off three Whip-Purs started the Lisle Holiday straight victories against StreamCage Classic with a 50-19 win over wood, Hoffman Estates and Vernon Hinckley-Big Rock. Hampshire has Hills to win the consolation champiwon 8 of 9, with its only loss coming onship. to Prairie Ridge.

Coach Rod Saffert credited the 5. Prairie Ridge (10-6): The Wolves Trojans’ defense for the turnaround, lost to Grayslake North, 38-36, in as C-G (4-12) didn’t allow more than the third-place game at the Lady 48 points in any of the four games in Mustangs Holiday Tournament in the tournament. The Trojans held on Mundelein. for a 43-42 victory over Vernon Hills (9-8) in the consolation final.

NOTEWORTHY Elsewhere, Jacobs (5-9) won its Johns mending: Johnsburg’s Jazza final game of the Bill Neibch Falcon Johns, a 5-foot-11 center, rolled her Classic at Wheaton North to finish 2-2 left ankle in the last 20 seconds of the in the tournament for the first time first half in the Skyhawks’ final pool since 2009. game at the Northern Illinois Holiday Classic against Woodstock on Dec. 19. THIS WEEK’S TOP GAMES Johnsburg went on to beat the Blue Huntley at Montini Christmas Streaks and defeated McHenry in the Tournament tournament final.

When: Monday through Wednesday Johns, a senior, was one of two local area players to average a double-douHampshire at Lisle Holiday Cage ble last season and ranks second allClassic time for Johnsburg in rebounds with When: Monday through Wednesday 586, trailing only Paige Fiedorowicz (678).

Crystal Lake South and Dundee“We’re hoping to get her back for Crown at Dundee-Crown Charger Burlington Central,” Johnsburg coach Classic Brad Frey said. “We’ve got some When: Monday through Wednesday heavy lifting to do and figure some things out.”

McHenry at Tiger Holiday Classic in Frey said Johns’ initial reaction to Edwardsville the injury made it look worse than it When: Monday and Tuesday really was, and he is hopeful she’ll be out only two weeks. Johnsburg plays Alden Hebron and Harvard at Burlington Central, last season’s Big Alden-Hebron Christmas Northern Conference East Division Tournament champion, on Jan. 5. The Skyhawks When: Monday through Wednesday finished runner-up to Burlington Central a year ago, losing both conference – Alex Kantecki games to the Rockets and going 12-2. akantecki@shawmedia.com

SPORTS BRIEFS Yankees get Chapman from Reds for 4 minor leaguers

Dodgers fell through during baseball’s winter meetings three weeks ago when it was learned Florida NEW YORK – The New York police investigated an accusation Yankees bolstered an already of domestic violence involving the dominant bullpen Monday, acquirCuban left-hander. ing hard-throwing All-Star closer Aroldis Chapman from the Cincinna- Major League Baseball is investigating, and Chapman could face ti Reds for four minor leaguers. suspension under the league’s new Chapman became available after the Reds’ deal with the Los Angeles domestic violence policy.

Norwegian skiing great Eriksen dies at 88

Norwegian skiing great Stein Eriksen, the Olympic champion who helped usher in modern skiing, died Sunday at his home in Park City, Utah. He was 88.

Eriksen rose to prominence at the 1952 Winter Olympics in his hometown of Oslo when he captured gold

in the giant slalom and silver in the slalom.

The charismatic Eriksen became the face of the sport and portrayed it in a new, exciting way. He could perform all sorts of stunts on skis, including somersaults – an early prelude to the tricks in freestyle skiing.

– Wire reports

Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com • Section C • Tuesday, December 29, 2015 •

SPORTS 3

BLACKHAWKS

Effort earns Shaw chance to play on top line

By MARK LAZERUS mlazerus@suntimes.com For about three weeks, the Blackhawks were slowly starting to resemble the Blackhawks again. They were getting scoring from their bottom-six forwards. They were scoring three or four goals a night. They had a real fourth line again, balancing out the minutes. They were camping out in the offensive zone for entire shifts at a time. And they were winning, too – seven out of nine, to be exact.

Well, two bad games and Joel Quenneville’s already back to the drawing board.

After the Hawks avoided being

shut out for the second straight game by three seconds Sunday against the mediocre Carolina Hurricanes, Quenneville did what he always does when he’s unhappy with the offense: He tinkered. So Andrew Shaw, one of the few players who brought his best against Dallas and Carolina, is back on the top line, and Teuvo Teravainen, who barely a week ago looked like the long-term solution on the top line at left wing, is on the third line at right wing.

“It could be permanent, or it could be short term,” Quenneville said.

“We’ll see. But [it’s] more like a reward. Shaw deserves a chance to get up there.”

On top of that, the Hawks finally

Next Blackhawks at Arizona, 8 p.m. Tuesday, CSN, AM-720 seem to have given up on defenseman David Rundblad, who has watched 28 of 37 games this season in a suit – healthy, available and eager to play, but essentially unwanted by Quenneville. He was put on waivers Monday, with promising rookie Erik Gustafsson called up. If Rundblad clears, he will be sent to Rockford. He also can be claimed by another team, as Viktor Tikhonov was earlier in the season.

General manager Stan Bowman

gave up a second-round pick to get Rundblad at the trade deadline in 2014, then re-signed him to a two-year contract worth an average of $1.05 million a season this past summer. But the offensive-minded defenseman never won over Quenneville.

Gustafsson, who was impressive during an earlier six-game stint, will get a chance to be an everyday player, which will allow Quenneville to rotate veterans Michal Rozsival and Rob Scuderi to keep them fresh.

“I try to play the game as Chicago wants to play,” Gustafson said. “They like to move the puck, and I tried to show them that I can move the puck.”

The way the Hawks really want to

play is high-flying, showtime hockey.

With so much skill on the roster, it’s not hard to see why the Hawks often eschew the safe play for the highlight play. But Duncan Keith said the Hawks did that too much Sunday – “too pretty,” is how he put it – and Quenneville wasn’t happy with the lack of traffic and second chances in front of the opposing net.

Enter Shaw, the undersized but overaggressive net-crashing specialist.

“I just think it’s the skill set our team has,” Shaw said. “Eighty-two games is a long season to play gritty.

Sometimes, we let our skill take over too much. We’ve got to get back to our roots and get back on track here.”

BRONCOS 20, BENGALS 17 (OT)

BEARS NOTES

Goldman unlikely to need surgery

OT fumble puts Denver in playoffs The ASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER – DeMarcus Ware beat AJ McCarron to a fumbled snap in overtime, sending the Denver Broncos into the playoffs with a 20-17 win over the Cincinnati Bengals on Monday night.

Ware’s recovery followed a 37-yard field goal by Brandon McManus, whose pulled 45-yarder at the end of regulation made necessary the extra drama.

The Broncos (11-4) overcame a 14-0 first-half deficit in clinching their fifth consecutive playoff berth and denying the Bengals (11-4) their first road win on a Monday night since 1990.

Cincinnati also blew a chance to earn a bye in the playoffs.

Denver can earn the top seed in the AFC with a win over San Diego and a loss

by New England at Miami next weekend.

Denver, which was in danger of becoming the first team since the 1970 merger to miss the playoffs after starting 10-2, snapped a two-game skid with its third overtime win of the season.

McManus has missed a kick in five consecutive games, and this one wasn’t even close. It sailed wide left to the astonishment of 74,511 fans even though the flags atop the goal posts revealed a complete lack of wind.

AP photo

Broncos defensive end Derek Wolfe celebrates his tackle of Bengals quarterback AJ McCarron in the second half Monday in Denver. The Broncos won, 20-17, in overtime.

By KEVIN FISHBAIN kfishbain@chicagofootball.com

AP photo

Outside linebacker Willie Young celebrates while leaving the field after the Bears’ 26-21 victory against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday in Tampa, Fla.

BEARS

Perfect timing

Victory gave Bears much-needed confidence boost

By NATE ATKINS natkins@shawmedia.com Even at the end of a losing season, wins have a way of lifting spirits in the NFL, instilling confidence in the present but even more so in the future. As Bears players returned to work Monday, that’s what some felt in the most recent one, a 26-21 win over the Buccaneers that ended a three-game losing skid.

“It was huge; a big confidence boost for us as a team, big confidence boost for us as a line because that wasn’t an easy front,” Matt Slauson said. “We need to carry that over into this week and hopefully get a win so that springs us into the spring feeling good and feeling like we have something really solid to build on.”

Indeed, the offensive line had a resurgent day. After a couple of challenging weeks in the running game, the three-headed attack of Matt Forte, Jeremy Langford and Ka’Deem Carey combined for 37 carries for 153 yards and a touchdown against a Tampa Bay defense that was allowing only

94 yards a game coming in. The success happened in tandem with Vlad Ducasse unseating Pat Omameh at right guard and Slauson sliding from left guard to center to fill in briefly after Hroniss Grasu injured his knee.

Likewise, the defense had a bounce-back of its own. A week after Minnesota’s Teddy Bridgewater set a Bears record for opposing quarterback rating, the Bears held No. 1 overall pick Jameis Winston to 15 of 29 passing and the Bucs to only 21 points.

Performances like these are obviously good for the morale of the unit but also for the individual players who make them happen. On defense Sunday, Pernell McPhee fought through a lingering knee injury for his first sack since Week 8 against the Vikings, and a collection of undrafted rookies made plays in John Timu, Jonathan Anderson and Harold Jones-Quartey.

For undrafted rookies and impending free agents, the final couple of games of a losing season can hold a special value.

“I think what’s crept in the locker

room as far as the season coming to an end is the fact that a lot of us want to stay together,” said Sam Acho, who joined Jarvis Jenkins and Tracy Porter, among others, on a one-year “prove it” deal. “I think we all see that we’re building toward something.

Yeah, our record is 6-9 at this point, but we see the hope, and we see that we’re building toward something.”

Acho said he doesn’t have a feel for his situation, as general manager Ryan Pace and the front office have sent the message that they’ll wait until the end of the season to make decisions on which players to bring back.

That makes a game and especially a win over Tampa Bay crucial. It also sets up Sunday’s finale against the Lions at Soldier Field as one last shot to prove something for players who want to stay.

It’s bittersweet, really.

“The games that we’ve lost, we essentially gave those games away,” Acho said. “People talk about those kinds of phrases, euphemisms or whatever. But we gave those games away. We lost.”

Brooks, Snell come up Carey scored 2 TDs, did little else big for Bulls off bench • ARKUSH Continued from page C1

• BULLS Continued from page C1 but could also lead to a more serious tear.

Then there’s the Bobby Portis factor in all of this, as the emergence of the rookie would make life without Noah – who will be a free agent after this season – a bit easier to handle.

“Ever since I was a kid I was always the guy that always went out there and worked as hard as I can, always played as hard as I can to provide my team with positive energy,” said Portis, who scored 12 points and grabbed nine rebounds in the win over Toronto. “That’s what I’ve been trying to do ever since Joakim got hurt. I’m not trying to replace him, I’m just trying to fill in the lost void.”

While Hoiberg has been outspoken about his dislike for social media and all of the rumors that seem to branch out from it, his way of dealing

with the trade talk and how it relates to his players was to simply ignore it.

“I don’t talk about them,” Hoiberg said. “These guys, what they’ve done is shown up every day and been ready to go to work. That’s what great teams do. That’s what professional teams do. We’ve got a lot of pros on this team.

“The big thing is you don’t pay attention to them. There are so many rumors, especially in today’s age with social media where it is. A lot gets thrown out there. Maybe a 14-year-old kid in his basement throws a rumor out there. It’s the era we live in.

You try to ignore it and play.

Trade rumors have been going on as long as this game has been in existence. You ignore it the best you can.’’

What couldn’t be ignored in the latest win for the Bulls was the bench. Besides Portis’ night, Aaron Brooks scored 17 points, while Tony Snell scored 16 of his 22 points in the fourth quarter.

here almost two full months before they confirmed whether Cutler would even be a Bear this year.

The Bucs game was Cutler’s fifth of the season with a passer rating of better than 100 and the sixth in which he didn’t throw an interception.

He now appears to be a lock as the quarterback of the present and future.

Both Jeremy Langford and Matt Forte played really well in Tampa behind an excellent run-blocking effort from the offensive line.

But the perception that Ka’Deem Carey’s recent success in the red zone and short-yardage situations has made Forte expendable when his contract expires at the end of the season is a dangerous conclusion.

Carey touched the ball once in the first three quarters – his 1-yard touchdown run – and then again for his touchdown reception on the first play of the fourth quarter.

Carey’s remaining six

carries for 15 yards came only after Forte was out with a back problem and Langford was gassed during the final 6:28 of the game.

Carey still is a long way from a comfortable enough insurance policy to send Forte packing.

As good as the line was on the run – particularly Vladimir Ducasse and Kyle Long – they were mediocre in pass protection, and Ducasse is a real liability in that facet of the game.

Matt Slauson continued to impress, moving seamlessly from guard to center and back.

Wide receiver play was again below average at best, and it’s time they all started begging offensive coordinator Adam Gase to mothball the bubble screen before somebody gets killed.

The front seven on defense was solid with John Timu and Jonathan Anderson in particular raising some cautious optimism at inside linebacker. Both were aggressive and explosive, which has been lacking at that position all season, enough so they demand another look against

the Lions.

Adrian Amos struggled a bit for the third week in a row, and Kyle Fuller and Tracy Porter were average-to-mediocre, but Harold Jones-Quartey was active, exciting and, like the rookie linebackers, demands another look this Sunday.

For 60 minutes in Tampa, Jones-Quartey was more effective than Antrel Rolle was at any point this season before his knee injury.

Robbie Gould had a big bounce-back game, perfect on four field goal attempts and allowing only one kickoff return, but Pat O’Donnell suffered a punter’s worst nightmare, a punt blocked, which led to a touchdown, because of a huge breakdown in his protection.

When the special teams are directly accountable for points allowed, their day is a failure.

Fortunately for them, this was a day for the defense to keep taking the ball away, which can cover a lot of ills.

• Chicago Football editor Hub Arkush can be reached at harkush@chicagofootball.com or on Twitter @Hub_Arkush.

LAKE FOREST – Bears coach John Fox said Monday he doesn’t think the ankle injury that cut short second-round nose tackle Eddie Goldman’s day in Tampa, Florida, will require surgery.

After suffering what appeared to be a right ankle injury in the second half Sunday against the B u c c a n e e r s , Eddie Goldman Goldman was spotted in a walking boot in the visitor’s locker room.

“I don’t think it’s surgical,” said Fox, adding he’s still waiting for more information. “I think he’s had a good rookie season. I really do. I know I’m excited about working with him moving forward. And I think he’s excited about working with us.”

Goldman’s four sacks rank third on the Bears and fourth among NFL rookies. The Florida State product has appeared in all 15 games, including 12 starts.

Will Sutton helped fill in at nose after Goldman’s exit.

Fox said an update on Matt Forte (back) and Jarvis Jenkins (ankle), both of whom departed early Sunday and are being evaluated, will come Wednesday.

Cutler-to-Mariani on money downs: The Bears converted 6

of 15 third downs (40 percent) against Tampa Bay, a tick below their 41.6 percent success rate on the season (ninth in the NFL), but Fox praised the work of quarterback Jay Cutler, who made several outstanding plays to move the chains on third-andlong, including an off schedule 25-yard completion to Marc Mariani on third-and-13 midway through the fourth quarter.

“It’s an art he’s good at. He’s good at it and done it a lot,” Fox said of Cutler’s improved thirddown acumen. “... He’s been way better in his pocket presence all season long, finding holes, buying time. In that case it was Marc.

Marc’s done a great job having a feel; they’re developing a chemistry.”

Fifteen of Mariani’s career-high sixteen catches have resulted in first downs.

Youth movement already paying dividends: The Bears have

reaped the benefits of inserting undrafted rookies into the lineup over the past two weeks.

In his first NFL start, in Week 15, John Timu led the Bears in tackles, and he recovered two fumbles Sunday. Starting for the first time since Week 6, Harold Jones-Quartey factored in on two of three defensive takeaways Sunday.

“Regardless of how old they are, the key is to perform,” Fox said. “And I think it’s always beneficial when we’ve gotten younger. We were one of the oldest rosters in the league a year ago. We made a conscious effort to get younger and I think some of those guys’ cases, it will help us moving forward.”

4 SPORTS • Tuesday, December 29, 2015 • Section C • Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com

$AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

E E E E E E E E V V V V V V V V A A A A A A A A $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! E! $FOR AVE! $AVE! $AVE!$$AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AV% Plus UP TO ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

E E E E E E E E V V V V V V V V A A A A A A A A Holiday y Bonus Cash available on the $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ APR Financing Months !

‘15 Focus,V‘16 Fusion ,V ‘16EEscape ! $AVE! ! ! ! ! !

E E E E E E V V V V V A A A A A A A $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

E E E E E E E E V V V V V V V V A A A A A A A A $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! ! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE** $ $ ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

E E E E E E E E V V V V V V V V A A A A A A A A $ $ $ $ FROM $ $ $ $ $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

E E E E E E E E V V V V V V V V A A A A A A A A $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ Plus TOM PECK SUPERSTORE MAXIMUM SAVINGS! ! ! ! ! ! !

E E E E E E V V V V V V A A A A A A A $ $ $ $ $ $ $ VE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

E E E E E E E E V V V V V V V V A A A A A A A A $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ MEANS ON NEW ! ! ! ! ! ! !

E E E E E E E V V V V V V V $A $A $A $A $AVE! $AYOU $A $A FORDS! VE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $APLUS 86 CERTIFIED PRE-OWNED FORDS! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

E E E E E E E E V V V V V V V V A A A A A A A A $ • 13$Fusions $ $ $ 4 Fiestas • 5$ Focus •$2 C-Max$• 6 Mustangs 6ETaurus ! Escapes ! $AV•E10 E! $AVE•!7 Expeditions VE! $•A5VExplorers VE! •$4AEdges VE! $AVE! A A $ $5AVFlex $ • 8 F-150s • 3 Super Dutys • 3 Transit Connects • 5 Transits E! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! VE!QUALITY VE! $A89 $AVE! $AVPRE-OWNED $APLUS VEHICLES! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

E E E E E E E E V V V V V V V V A A A A A A A A $ TO$CHOOSE $ ON$5 ACRES $ $ $ 343 VEHICLES $ FROM! ! to ! $ASection E! allows E! $AOwners, VE! 179, VE! $don’t VE! up$to AVEforget AVE! $AVEyou $AVwhich $AVBusiness $Adeduct $25,000.00 on New or Used Equipment purchased & putV into service by 12/31/15. ! ! ! ! ! ! !

E E E E E E E V V V V V V $A $A $A $A $A $AVE! $A $A ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

E E E E E E E E V V V V V V V V A A A A A A A A $ $ ALL TRADE-INS! $ $ $TOP DOLLAR $ $ $ PAID FOR Turn that old car intoE cash today! We will buy yourE vehicle even ifE you don’t buy E from us. Our expert appraisers ! ! ! ! ! ! !

E E E V V V V V V V A A A A A A A $ vehicles no $matter their condition $ We pay top$ dollar for any$and all trade-in $AVorE! $will give you a$quote on the spot! mileage! Owe money on your old vehicle? No problem. We can pay it off and give you the difference in cash!

AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! $CREDIT SPECIALISTS WILL BE ON-HAND! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

E E E E E E With over 20 lenders available, our credit and finance expertsA have the experience ofEworking with allEsituations, V V V V V V V V A A A A A A A $ restructures$and discharged bankruptcies. $ mortgage $including previous$foreclosures,short-sales, $ $ $ VE! $AVE! $AVE! $AVE! VE!Mall$Drive Auto A A $ $AVE! $AVE! $AVE!13900 Huntley, IL 60142

0

1,000

60

*

500- 5050

Ford Rebates

SAVE THOUSANDS

Consult your tax advisor for details.

WE WILL BUY YOUR USED VEHICLE EVEN IF YOU DON’T BUY FROM US!

QUICK LANE HOURS:

Located next to the Huntley Outlet Center

847-669-6060

M-F: 7:00am – 7:00pm, Saturday: 7:00am – 3:00pm

FOR SALES, SERVICE & PARTS

AT Rt. 47 & I-90

SALES HOURS: Mon. - Fri. 9AM - 9PM, Saturday: 9AM - 5PM SERVICE HOURS: Mon.-Fri. 7:00AM to 7:00 PM, Saturday: 7:00AM to 12:00PM

ALL Makes & Models, “RIGHT ON THE CORNER,, RIGHT ON THE PRICE”

NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY!

www.TomPeckFord.com

*ON SELECT NEW FORDS. ALL PRICES PLUS TAX, TITLE, LIC. & DOC FEE. 0% APR for 60 = $16.67 per $1,000 financed. Not all will qualify.

See dealer for details. **Manufacturer sponsored program, Factory and Credit rebates available. ALL OFFERS EXPIRE 01/04/16.

* Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com • Section C • Tuesday, December 29, 2015 •

MEADOWLARK LEMON: 1932-2015

FIVE-DAY PLANNER TUESDAY

TEAM

‘Clown prince’ of basketball spread joy as Globetrotter

Hampshire Sterling

16 11 15 13 – 55 19 14 19 14 – 66

HAMPSHIRE (55) Tuttle 4 2-2 11, Duchaj 5 2-2 12, Bennett 3 0-0 7, Garcia 4 2-2 11, Woods 3 0-0 7, Cork 2 0-0 5, Diete 1 0-0 2. Totals: 22 6-6 55.

3-point goals: Hampshire 5 (Tuttle, Bennett, Garcia, Woods, Cork).

YORK JACK TOSH HOLIDAY TOURNAMENT

MCHENRY 49, LANE TECH 23 McHenry Lane Tech

13 10 15 11 – 49 3 4 5 11 – 23

McHENRY (49) O’Toole 1 1-2 3, Markgraff 3 0-0 7, Mohr 2 0-0 4, Wilson 3 0-0 7, Klein 6 0-0 13, Calabrese 4 0-0 10, Lersch 1 1-2 3, Bellich 1 0-0 2. Totals: 21 2-4 49.

at Arizona 8 p.m.

CSN AM-720

3-point goals: McHenry 5 (Calabrese 2, Markgraff, Wilson, Klein).

ALDEN-HEBRON CHRISTMAS TOURNAMENT

HARVARD 53, NEW JERUSALEM 43 (OT) Harvard 8 9 13 10 13 – 53 New Jerusalem 11 4 12 13 3 – 43

EASTERN CONFERENCE Central Division W L Pct Cleveland 20 9 .690 Indiana 18 12 .600 Bulls 17 12 .586 Detroit 17 14 .548 Milwaukee 12 20 .375 Atlantic Division W L Pct Toronto 19 13 .594 Boston 18 13 .581 New York 14 18 .438 Brooklyn 9 22 .290 Philadelphia 2 31 .061 Southeast Division W L Pct Atlanta 20 13 .606 Miami 18 12 .600 Orlando 18 13 .581 Charlotte 17 13 .567 Washington 14 15 .483

GB — 2½ 3 4 9½ GB — ½ 5 9½ 17½ GB — ½ 1 1½ 4

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 27 6 .818 — Dallas 18 13 .581 8 Memphis 17 16 .515 10 Houston 16 16 .500 10½

NATIONAL CONFERENCE North W L T Pct PF x-Green Bay 10 5 0 .667 355 x-Minnesota 10 5 0 .667 345 Detroit 6 9 0 .400 334 Bears 6 9 0 .400 315 East W L T Pct PF y-Washington 8 7 0 .533 354 Philadelphia 6 9 0 .400 342 N.Y. Giants 6 9 0 .400 390 Dallas 4 11 0 .267 252 South W L T Pct PF y-Carolina 14 1 0 .933 462 Atlanta 8 7 0 .533 322 Tampa Bay 6 9 0 .400 332 New Orleans 6 9 0 .400 388 West W L T Pct PF y-Arizona 13 2 0 .867 483 x-Seattle 9 6 0 .600 387 St. Louis 7 8 0 .467 264 San Francisco 4 11 0 .267 219 AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF y-New England 12 3 0 .800 455 N.Y. Jets 10 5 0 .667 370 Buffalo 7 8 0 .467 357 Miami 5 10 0 .333 290 South W L T Pct PF Houston 8 7 0 .533 309 Indianapolis 7 8 0 .467 303 Jacksonville 5 10 0 .333 370 Tennessee 3 12 0 .200 275 North W L T Pct PF y-Cincinnati 11 4 0 .733 395

8 p.m.: Premier Boxing Champions, Omar Douglas vs.

PA 356 400 407 340 PA 298 325 379 459 PA 277 271 311 371 PA 295 292 342 379 PA 307 384 418 393 PA 263

Fort Worth, Texas, ESPN 4:30 p.m.: Russell Athletic Bowl, North Carolina vs.

Baylor, at Orlando, Fla., ESPN

MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL

8 p.m.: Texas Bowl, Texas Tech vs. LSU, at Houston,

Noon: Tulane at Memphis, ESPNU AP file photo

Meadowlark Lemon of the Harlem Globetrotters offers a pretzel to a referee during a game Feb. 18, 1978, at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Lemon, known as the Globetrotters’ “clown prince” of basketball, died Sunday in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 83. a year during his prime, that luminous smile never dimming.

“Meadowlark was the most sensational, awesome, incredible basketball player I’ve ever seen,” NBA great and former Globetrotter Wilt Chamberlain said shortly before his death in 1999. “People would say it would be Dr. J or even (Michael) Jordan. For me it would be Meadowlark Lemon.”

Lemon spent 24 years with the Globetrotters, doing tours through the racially torn South in the 1950s until he left in 1979 to start his own team.

He was one of the most popular athletes in the world during the prime of his career, thanks to a unique blend of athleticism and showmanship.

Playing against the team’s nightly foil, the Washington Generals, Lemon left fans in awe with an array of hook shots, no-look passes and the nifty moves he put on display during the Globetrot-

ters’ famous circle while “Sweet Georgia Brown” played over the loudspeaker.

He also had a knack for sending the fans home with a smile every night, whether it was with his running commentary, putting confetti in a water bucket or pulling down the pants of an “unsuspecting” referee.

“We played serious games too, against the Olympic teams and the College All-Stars,” Lemon said.

“But that didn’t stop us from putting the comedy in there.”

Lemon became an icon in the 1970s, appearing in movies, including “The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh,” numerous talk shows and even a stint in the cartoon “Scooby Doo,” with Scatman Crothers doing his voice.

After leaving the Globetrotters, Lemon started his own team, The Bucketeers, and played on a variety of teams before rejoining the Globetrotters for a short tour in 1994.

DUNDEE-CROWN CHARGER CLASSIC

PROSPECT 56, DUNDEE-CROWN 47 Prospect Dundee-Crown

Alden-Hebron 14 20 16 13 8 – 72 Faith Lutheran 13 24 12 16 12 – 76 ALDEN-HEBRON (72) Mindum 2 2-2 6, LeJune 4 0-4 8, Stauss 4 2-5 10, Petersen 0 1-2 1, Judson 5 0-0 11, Redlin 9 5-9 21, Glenn 5 6-10 16. Totals: 29 16-30 72.

FAITH LUTHERAN (76) Gritton 6 1-2 15, Ricardi 4 6-6 16, Chapel 0 0-2 0, Rolnicki 1 0-0 2, Zachary 2 1-6 6, Warrdner 14 5-8 33, Giles 2 0-2 5. Totals: 29 14-28 76.

3-point goals: Dundee-Crown-5 (Barker 5) Total Fouls: Prospect 14, Dundee-Crown 12.

CL SOUTH 50, RESURRECTION 40 10 16 15 9 – 50 9 3 13 15 – 40

CRYSTAL LAKE SOUTH (50) Jozefowicz 4 0-0 9, Gaede 3 1-2 7, Fanter 9 3-4 21, Sevcik 4 3-4 11, Schoen 1 0-0 2. Totals: 21 7-10 50.

GIRLS BASKETBALL MONTINI CHRISTMAS TOURNAMENT

HERSEY 47, HUNTLEY 38 11 10 4 8

8 10 17 21 – 56 9 12 13 13 - 47

DUNDEE-CROWN (47) White 1 2-2 4, Barker 6 0-0 17, Gieseke 3 2-3 8, Michalski 4 4-6 12, Tripp 3 0-1 6.

Totals: 17 8-12 47.

CL South Resurrection

3-point goals: Faith Lutheran 6 (Gritton 2, Ricardi 2, Zachary, Giles).

Alden-Hebron 1 (Judson).

9 17 – 47 6 20 – 38

HUNTLEY (38) Barreto 3 1-2 7, Renkosik 2 0-0 4, Clausen 2 2-2 6, Andrews 6 4-4 18, Mallory Moffett 1 0-0 3. Totals: 14 7-8 38.

3-point goals: Hersey 1 (Miklasz), Huntley 3 (Andrews 2, Mallory Moffett).

Total fouls: Hersey 11, Huntley 15.

New Orleans 10 21 .323 Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 21 10 .677 Utah 13 16 .448 Portland 13 20 .394 Denver 12 19 .387 Minnesota 11 20 .355 Pacific Division W L Pct Golden State 28 1 .966 L.A. Clippers 19 13 .594 Sacramento 12 18 .400 Phoenix 12 21 .364 L.A. Lakers 5 27 .156

3-point goals: CL South 1 (Jozefowicz).

EDWARDSVILLE TIGER HOLIDAY CLASSIC TOURNAMENT

SIMEON 51, MCHENRY 37 Simeon McHenry

11 15 11 14 – 51 8 6 14 9 – 37

McHENRY (37) Gscheidle 4 0-0 11, Johnson 4 4-4 12, Kaempf 1 1-2 4, Rice 1 0-1 2, Alsot 2 4-6 8.

Totals: 11 9-13 37.

9 6 0 5 10 0 3 12 0 West W L T x-Denver 11 4 0 x-Kansas City 10 5 0 Oakland 7 8 0 San Diego 4 11 0

GB — 7 9 9 10 GB — 10½ 16½ 18 24½

Milwaukee at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Cleveland at Denver, 8 p.m.

BULLS 104, RAPTORS 97 TORONTO (97) Carroll 4-11 0-2 10, Scola 6-10 1-2 13, Biyombo 0-2 0-0 0, Lowry 9-15 7-8 28, DeRozan 7-14 5-8 19, Valanciunas 4-7 1-2 9, Ross 3-9 0-0 6, Johnson 1-4 0-0 2, Joseph 1-3 1-2 3, Patterson 3-13 0-0 7.

Totals 38-88 15-24 97.

CHICAGO (104) Gibson 2-7 0-2 4, Mirotic 1-6 0-0 2, Gasol 8-14 6-8 22, Rose 7-16 3-4 20, Butler 2-7 1-2 5, Portis 6-10 0-1 12, Brooks 6-13 4-5 17, Snell 8-14 2-2 22, Hinrich 0-0 0-0 0.

Totals 40-87 16-24 104.

Toronto Chicago

32 20 21 24 — 97 23 26 29 26 — 104

3-Point Goals–Toronto 6-20 (Lowry 3-4, Carroll 2-5, Patterson 1-5, Johnson 0-1, DeRozan 0-1, Ross 0-4), Chicago 8-21 (Snell 4-5, Rose 3-5, Brooks 1-3, Portis 0-1, Butler 0-3, Mirotic 0-4).

Fouled Out–None. Rebounds–Toronto 54 (Biyombo 9), Chicago 60 (Gibson 11).

Assists–Toronto 23 (Lowry 9), Chicago 23 (Butler, Brooks 5). Total Fouls–Toronto 19, Chicago 15. A–21,898 (20,917).

.600 395 307 .333 312 377 .200 266 404 Pct .733 .667 .467 .267

PF 328 382 342 300

PA 276 270 376 371

y-clinched division x-clinched playoff spot Monday’s Game Denver 20, Cincinnati 17, OT Thursday’s Game Oakland 23, San Diego 20 (OT) Saturday’s Game Washington 38, Philadelphia 24 Sunday’s Games Bears 26, Tampa Bay 21 Houston 34, Tennessee 6 Kansas City 17, Cleveland 13 N.Y. Jets 26, New England 20, OT Indianapolis 18, Miami 12 Detroit 32, San Francisco 17 Buffalo 16, Dallas 6 Atlanta 20, Carolina 13 Baltimore 20, Pittsburgh 17 New Orleans 38, Jacksonville 27 St. Louis 23, Seattle 17 Arizona 38, Green Bay 8 Minnesota 49, N.Y. Giants 17

COLLEGE BOWL SCORES AND SCHEDULE Monday’s Games Military Bowl Annapolis, Md. Navy 44, Pittsburgh 28

3-point goals: McHenry 4 (Gscheidle 3, Kaempf).

SACRED-HEART GRIFFIN 56 MCHENRY 49 Sacred-Heart McHenry

12 12 24 8 – 56 12 12 11 14 – 49

McHENRY (49) Gscheidle 2 0-0 6, Johnson 4 2-3 10, Bessler 1 0-0 3, Kaempf 1 0-0 3, Hartfield 0 4-4 4, Rice 2 1-2 7, Funk 1 0-0 2, Alsot 3 8-11 14. Totals: 14 15-20 49.

3-point goals: McHenry 6 (Rice 2, Gscheidle 2, Kaempf, Bessler).

SCHEDULE Tuesday Boys Basketball: McHenry vs. De La Salle at York Invite, noon; Harvard at Alden-Hebron Christmas Tournament, Hampshire at DeKalb Chuck Dayton Holiday Tournament, TBA Girls Basketball: McHenry at Edwardsville Tournament, Huntley at Montini Christmas Tournament, Harvard at Alden-Hebron Tournament, Hampshire at Lisle Holiday Classic, TBA, Crystal Lake South vs. New Trier at Dundee-Crown Charger Classic, 8 p.m.

Wrestling: Huntley, Harvard at Granite City Holiday Tournament, 8 a.m.; Cary-Grove, Dundee-Crown at Mid-States Classic at UW-Whitewater, 8:30 a.m.; Marengo at Lincoln Tournament, Richmond-Burton at Berman Classic at Palatine, 9:30 a.m.; Crystal Lake South, Johnsburg at DeKalb Tournament, 4 p.m.

Boys Swimming: Woodstock co-op, Huntley at Boylan Invite, 10 a.m.

Quick Lane Bowl Detroit Minnesota 21, Central Michigan 14 Tuesday’s Games Armed Forces Bowl Fort Worth, Texas Air Force (8-5) vs. California (7-5), 1 p.m. (ESPN) Russell Athletic Bowl Orlando, Fla. North Carolina (11-2) vs. Baylor (9-3), 4:30 p.m. (ESPN) Arizona Bowl Tucson Nevada (6-6) vs. Colorado State (7-5), 6:30 p.m. (ASN) Texas Bowl Houston Texas Tech (7-5) vs. LSU (8-3), 8 p.m.

(ESPN) Wednesday’s Games Birmingham (Ala.) Bowl Auburn (6-6) vs. Memphis (9-3), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Belk Bowl Charlotte, N.C. NC State (7-5) vs. Mississippi St. (8-4), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN) Music City Bowl Nashville, Tenn.

Louisville (7-5) vs. Texas A&M (8-4), 6 p.m. (ESPN) Holiday Bowl San Diego Wisconsin (9-3) vs. Southern Cal (8-5), 9:30 p.m. (ESPN)

ESPN

Noon: Tennessee St. at Tennessee, SECN

NBA

2 p.m.: Temple at Cincinnati, ESPN2 2 p.m.: Texas Southern at Baylor, ESPNU

7 p.m.: Milwaukee at Oklahoma City, NBAN

2:30 p.m.: Stephen F. Austin at Alabama Birmingham,

NHL

CSN 4 p.m.: SMU at Tulsa, ESPN2

7 p.m.: Nashville at St. Louis, NBCSN

4 p.m.: Liberty at Notre Dame, ESPNU

8 p.m.: Blackhawks at Arizona, CSN, AM-720

4 p.m.: Richmond at Texas Tech, FSN

SOCCER

6 p.m.: Purdue at Wisconsin, BTN 6 p.m.: Florida St. at Florida, ESPN2

1:45 p.m.: Premier League, Manchester City at Leicester

6 p.m.: Wake Forest at LSU, ESPNU

City, NBCSN

6 p.m.: Robert Morris at Georgia, SECN

WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL

8 p.m.: Michigan St. at Iowa, BTN 8 p.m.: UConn at Texas, ESPN2

6 p.m.: St. John’s at Creighton, FS2

8 p.m.: UC Irvine at Kansas, ESPNU

7 p.m.: Marquette at DePaul, CSN+

HOCKEY

BETTING ODDS

NHL

PREGAME.COM

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Dallas 37 27 7 3 57 129 91 St. Louis 38 22 12 4 48 95 90 Minnesota 35 19 10 6 44 95 84 Blackhawks 37 20 13 4 44 97 89 Nashville 35 17 12 6 40 92 89 Colorado 36 17 17 2 36 100 99 Winnipeg 35 16 17 2 34 93 104 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Los Angeles 34 21 11 2 44 88 79 Arizona 35 17 15 3 37 95 109 Vancouver 37 14 14 9 37 93 104 San Jose 34 17 15 2 36 93 94 Calgary 35 17 16 2 36 96 116 Edmonton 37 15 19 3 33 95 113 Anaheim 34 13 15 6 32 66 87 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 38 21 14 3 45 110 95 Florida 36 20 12 4 44 98 83 Detroit 36 18 11 7 43 93 94 Boston 35 19 12 4 42 108 94 Ottawa 36 18 12 6 42 108105 Tampa Bay 37 18 15 4 40 95 88 Buffalo 36 15 17 4 34 85 94 Toronto 34 13 14 7 33 89 94 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Washington 35 27 6 2 56 110 72 N.Y. Rangers 36 20 12 4 44 104 93 N.Y. Islanders 36 19 12 5 43 97 85 New Jersey 36 17 14 5 39 84 90 Pittsburgh 35 17 15 3 37 79 86 Philadelphia 35 15 13 7 37 76 96 Carolina 36 15 16 5 35 85 103 Columbus 38 13 22 3 29 92 120 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Monday’s Games Montreal 4, Tampa Bay 3, SO Washington 2, Buffalo 0 Nashville 5, N.Y. Rangers 3 Minnesota 3, Detroit 1 Los Angeles at Vancouver (n) Colorado at San Jose (n) Tuesday’s Games Blackhawks at Arizona, 8 p.m.

Ottawa at Boston, 6 p.m.

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

Carolina at New Jersey, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Columbus, 6 p.m.

Montreal at Florida, 6:30 p.m.

Nashville at St. Louis, 7 p.m.

Detroit at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.

Anaheim at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Los Angeles at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

TRANSACTIONS 16

Monday’s Games Bulls 104, Toronto 97 Indiana 93, Atlanta 87 Orlando 104, New Orleans 89 L.A. Clippers 108, Washington 91 Charlotte 108, L.A. Lakers 98 Brooklyn 111, Miami 105 San Antonio 101, Minnesota 95 Dallas 103, Milwaukee 93 Utah 95, Philadelphia 91 Cleveland 101, Phoenix 97 Sacramento at Golden State (n) Tuesday’s Games Detroit at New York, 6:30 p.m.

Miami at Memphis, 7 p.m.

Atlanta at Houston, 7 p.m.

Pittsburgh Baltimore Cleveland PA 303 289 380 373

1 p.m.: Armed Forces Bowl, Air Force vs. California, at

Frank De Alba, junior lightweights, at Bethlehem, Pa., FS1

FOOTBALL NFL

ROCKFORD 7 p.m.

WCUU

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

BOXING

BASKETBALL NBA

NEW YORK 7 p.m.

CSN AM-1000 at Colorado 7 p.m.

CSN AM-720

TV/Radio

FAITH LUTHERAN 76 ALDEN-HEBRON 72 (OT)

Hersey Huntley

SATURDAY

ON TAP TUESDAY

Harvard scorers: Fog 11, Amaya 8, McDowell 7, Perkins 7, Overlee 7.

STERLING 66, HAMPSHIRE 55

FRIDAY

at Rockford 7 p.m.

WCUU

PREPS DEKALB CHUCK DAYTON TOURNAMENT

THURSDAY

INDIANA 7 p.m.

WGN AM-1000

The Associated Press

BOYS BASKETBALL

WEDNESDAY

NEXT GAME: DETROIT Jan. 3 Noon

By JOHN MARSHALL SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Meadowlark Lemon, the “clown prince” of basketball’s barnstorming Harlem Globetrotters, whose blend of hook shots and humor brought joy to millions of fans around the world, has died. He was 83.

Lemon’s wife and daughter confirmed to the team he died Sunday in Scottsdale, Arizona, Globetrotters spokesman Brett Meister said Monday. Meister did not know the cause of death.

Although skilled enough to play professionally, Lemon instead wanted to entertain, his dream of playing for the Globetrotters hatched after watching a newsreel of the all-black team at a cinema house when he was 11.

Lemon ended up becoming arguably the team’s most popular player, a showman known as much for his confetti-in-the-water-bucket routine and slapstick comedy as his half-court hook shots and nolook, behind-the-back passes.

A sign of his crossover appeal, Lemon was inducted into both the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and the International Clown Hall of Fame.

“My destiny was to make people happy,” Lemon said as he was inducted into the basketball hall as a contributor to the game in 2003.

Lemon played for the Globetrotters during the team’s heyday from the mid-1950s to the late-1970s, delighting fans with his skills with a ball and a joke. Traveling by car, bus, train or plane almost every night, Lemon covered almost 4 million miles to play in more than 100 countries and in front of popes and presidents, kings and queens.

Known as the “Clown Prince of Basketball,” he averaged 325 games

SPORTS 5

PROS BASEBALL National League CINCINNATI REDS — Traded LHP Aroldis Chapman to the N.Y. Yankees for RHPs Caleb Cotham and Rookie Davis and INFs Eric Jagielo and Tony Renda.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Suspended Memphis F Matt Barnes two games for engaging in a physical altercation with and threatening New York coach Derek Fisher on Oct. 3, in Redondo Beach, Calif.

HOUSTON ROCKETS — Recalled F Montrezl Harrell and G-F K.J. McDaniels from Rio Grande Valley (NBADL).

MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Reassigned F Jarell Martin to Iowa (NBADL).

PHOENIX SUNS — Fired assistant coaches Jerry Sichting and Mike Longabardi. Promoted Nate Bjorgken to defensive coordinator and Earl Watson to bench coach.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Suspended Oakland FB Marcel Reece four games for violating the league’s policy on performance-enhancing substances.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed LB Cam Johnson from the practice squad. Waived RB Daryl Richardson. Released DB De’Ante Saunders from the practice squad.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Placed G Hugh Thornton and QB Charlie Whitehurst on injured reserve.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Released RB Joey Iosefa.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Placed FB Roosevelt Nix on injured reserve. Signed LB L.J. Fort from the practice squad.

SAN DIEGO CHARGERS — Placed Ss Eric Weddle and Darrell Stuckey, TE Ladarius Green and NT Sean Lissemore on injured reserve. Signed TE Sean McGrath and S Matt Daniels from the practice squad. Re-signed Gs Craig Watts and Michael Huey to the practice squad. Claimed TE Asante Cleveland off waivers from New England.

HOCKEY National Hockey League BLACKHAWKS — Recalled D Erik Gustafsson from the Rockford (AHL). Placed F Marcus Kruger on injured reserve.

ANAHEIM DUCKS — Recalled F Shea Theodore from San Diego (AHL).

DETROIT RED WINGS — Recalled LW Eric Tangradi from Grand Rapids (AHL).

MONTREAL CANADIENS — Traded F Zack Kassian to Edmonton for G Ben Scrivens. Recalled G Eetu Laurikainen from HPK (Finland) and assigned him to Bakersfield (AHL).

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Reassigned F Colton Sissons to Milwaukee (AHL). Activated F Mike Fisher from injured reserve.

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Reassigned Fs Mike Angelidis and Mike Blunden to Syracuse (AHL).

COLLEGES INDIANA — Announced RB Jordan Howard will enter the NFL draft.

MIAMI — Announced DB Artie Burns will enter the NFL draft.

PURDUE — Named Tim Lester quarterbacks coach.

RUTGERS — Named Aaron Henry assistant defensive backs coach.

UCLA — Announced DT Kenny Clark will enter the NFL draft.

COMMUNITY GOLF MCHENRY COUNTY SENIOR LEAGUE The McHenry County Senior Golf League is accepting new members for the 2016 season. Anyone interested should contact Bob Kelly at 847-2208174 for information. Players must be at least 55 years old to play.

The league play is a Chapel Hill Golf Course and will run from May through September on Monday mornings. Rounds are nine holes.

NBA Tuesday FAVORITE LINE O/U UNDERDOG Detroit 1 (198) NEW YORK MEMPHIS OFF (OFF) Miami OKLAHOMA CITY 14 (204) Milwaukee HOUSTON 2½ (210½) Atlanta Cleveland 6½ (197) DENVER COLLEGE BASKETBALL Tuesday FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG MEMPHIS 12½ Tulane CINCINNATI 12 Temple SMU 4½ TULSA MIAMI 16½ Princeton George Washington 5 UCF GEORGIA TECH 9 Duquesne NC STATE 5½ Northeastern FLORIDA 5 Florida St Purdue 6 WISCONSIN WILLIAM & MARY 7 Cent. Michigan N. Illinois 8 ILL.-CHICAGO KANSAS ST 13 Saint Louis TEXAS A&M 15 Cal Poly LSU 6½ Wake Forest TEXAS TECH 4½ Richmond TEXAS PK UCONN KANSAS 16 UC Irvine IOWA 3 Michigan St National Hockey League Tuesday LINE UNDERDOG LINE -160 ARIZONA +150 OFF Dallas OFF -115 TORONTO +105 -135 Carolina +125 -165 Ottawa +155 -140 Montreal +130 -125 Detroit +115 OFF Nashville OFF -120 Anaheim +110 OFF Los Angeles OFF

FAVORITE Blackhawks COLUMBUS NY Islanders NEW JERSEY BOSTON FLORIDA WINNIPEG ST. LOUIS CALGARY EDMONTON

College Football Tuesday Bowls FAVORITE TODAY O/U UNDERDOG Armed Forces Bowl At Fort Worth California 7 (68) Air Force Russell Athletic Bowl At Orlando North Carolina 3½ (70) Baylor Arizona Bowl At Tucson Colorado St 3 (56) Nevada Texas Bowl At Houston LSU 7 (74) Texas Tech Wednesday Bowls Birmingham Bowl At Birmingham Auburn 3 (62) Memphis Belk Bowl

At Charlotte Mississippi St 6 (60) NC State Music City Bowl At Nashville Louisville 4 (47½) Texas A&M Holiday Bowl At San Diego SOUTHERN CAL 3½ (50) Wisconsin More Upcoming Bowls Peach Bowl At Atlanta Florida St 7 (55) Houston Cotton Bowl At Arlington Alabama 10 (46) Michigan St Orange Bowl At Miami Gardens Oklahoma 4 (64½) Clemson Outback Bowl At Tampa Tennessee 8½ (47) Northwestern Citrus Bowl At Orlando Michigan 4 (38½) Florida Fiesta Bowl At Glendale Ohio State 6½ (56½) Notre Dame Rose Bowl At Pasadena Stanford 6½ (54) Iowa Sugar Bowl At New Orleans Mississippi 7 (68) Oklahoma St Taxslayer Bowl At Jacksonville Georgia 6½ (42½) Penn St Liberty Bowl At Memphis Arkansas 12 (55) Kansas St Alamo Bowl At San Antonio TCU 1 (78½) Oregon Cactus Bowl At Phoenix West Virginia 1½ (64) Arizona St NFL Sunday FAVORITE TODAY O/U UNDERDOG BEARS 1 (45) Detroit NY Jets 3 (42½) BUFFALO CAROLINA 10½ (47½) Tampa Bay New England 9 (47½) MIAMI CINCINNATI 7 (42) Baltimore ATLANTA 4 (52) New Orleans HOUSTON 6 (45) Jacksonville Pittsburgh 10 (47) CLEVELAND KANSAS CITY 7 (43½) Oakland INDIANAPOLIS 6 (OFF) Tennessee DALLAS OFF (OFF) Washington NY GIANTS 3 (52) Philadelphia GREEN BAY 3½ (48) Minnesota DENVER 8 (OFF) San Diego St. Louis 3½ (47) SAN FRANCISCO ARIZONA 4½ (48) Seattle

Home teams in CAPS Updated odds available at Pregame.

Three McHenry County agencies net grant money from inaugural GIVE360 Program SPONSORED BY

Amazement.

That’s the feeling Robin Doeden, executive director of the McHenry County Community Foundation, has about the number of people who participated the foundation’s recently launched GIVE360 Program.

“The fact that we had 90 people in the first year jump on board with a program that really had no history to it yet is just overwhelming to me,” she said.

Throughout 2015, residents of McHenry County were invited to join the Foundation’s GIVE360 circle for a contribution of less than $1 per day - $360 per year. Those dollars were pooled and members of the GIVE360 circle were able to select three agencies from a ballot of 62 nonprofit organizations to receive a grant of $5,000 each.

The top vote-getters were Adult & Child Therapy Services in Woodstock, CASA of McHenry County in Crystal Lake, and Family Health Partnership Clinic in Crystal Lake. The organizations were presented with the grant money during a celebra-

tion reception in November at the Woodstock Country Club.

Foundation members created GIVE360 to help meet the needs and interests in the county and to raise philanthropic awareness.

“When you talk to people who join the program they say, ‘This is so easy,’” Doeden said.

“It’s perfect for the person who isn’t quite sure where their passion is yet. This is a great way to get educated as to what nonprofit agencies and programs are actually in the county.”

The gift can be paid monthly, quarterly, or all at once.

“We try to make it as easy for people as possible,” Doeden said.

The donations of those 90 people in 2015 resulted in more than $30,000. The balance of the funds will be used to start the GIVE360 Community Endowment Fund.

For more information, visit the GIVE360 website at www.mccfdn.org/give-360-2/.

McHenry County Community Foundation 620 Dakota Street, Crystal Lake, Illinois 60012 Tel: 815.338.4483 www.mccfdn.org

adno=0301373

6 ADVICE • Tuesday, December 29, 2015 • Section C • Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com

Mother wants her children to Children older than 6 months value character over beauty should get a flu shot annually Dear Abby: All children are beautiful to their parents. My three children are of mixed race and get a lot of attention because of it.

The boys are aloof about random compliments they receive from strangers. However, I’m worried about the pressure it may put on my daughter to be “pretty.”

I care more about my daughter’s character than her looks, but I’m concerned if I say that to these people, it will come off as rude. Also, I don’t want her to think I don’t think she’s pretty.

How can I respond in a way that isn’t rude to well-intentioned strangers, but at the same time allows me to make a statement about the importance of character over beauty? – Mom Of Beauties Dear Mom: When someone

exclaims your child is beautiful, accept the compliment and say something like this: “Yes, my child is beautiful, but more important, she is beautiful on the inside.” It will reinforce the message to your daughter character is equally, if not more important, than physical beauty.

Dear Abby: Isn’t the rule

DEAR ABBY Jeanne Phillips of etiquette when a gift is given, it belongs to the recipient?

My mother sends gifts to our infant daughter. She is the first grandbaby, and my mother is a doting grandparent. My question is what should happen when my child outgrows the items – clothing, shoes, toys, etc. My mother expects me to put them all in a storage bin and return them to her.

There have been times when I have packed up things to give to friends who have younger daughters than ours, or taken them to a resale shop. My mother then becomes upset I’m not returning the items to her. She is saving them for my sister, who isn’t even pregnant yet.

While I have no issue with saving some things for a potential niece, my friends need these things now, and I feel strange essentially being obligated to return them. Is my mom out of line?

It’s off-putting to receive a

gift that comes with a return clause. – Confused In Cen-

tral Texas Dear Confused: It appears

your mother is not only a doting grandma, but also someone who is determined to get a double bang for her buck. Once given, a gift does belong to the recipient.

Otherwise, it’s not a gift but a loan.

And yes, however well-intentioned your mother might be, she is out of line to demand everything she has given be returned to her.

(What will she do if your sister has only boys?)

Dear Abby: When I’m dining out, sometimes the flatware is wrapped and banded in a large paper napkin. Do I use this napkin for cleaning myself, or do I ask for more napkins? – Unsure

In Connecticut Dear Unsure: Place the

napkin in your lap, and if you would like to have more, do not hesitate to ask your server. It is not a breach of etiquette to do so.

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

• Note to readers: This column is an update for one that ran originally in October 2012.

Dear Dr. K: I know my child

is supposed to get a flu shot each year. But how much good does it really do, and is it safe?

Dear Reader: Every fall and winter, parents face the question: Should my child get an influenza (flu) shot?

There are several important reasons why children older than 6 months should get a flu shot every year: • Influenza can be dangerous, even for healthy children. Flu can be dangerous for children, particularly those with asthma, diabetes or other chronic health problems. But even healthy children can get very sick – and possibly die – from influenza. The H1N1 “swine flu” virus that has been circulating since the epidemic of 2009-10 is particularly dangerous for children.

• You can’t catch the flu from a flu shot. The flu shot, given by needle, contains virus that has been killed. Despite misconceptions some parents have, the flu shot cannot infect your child and cause the flu.

There now is a nasal spray

ASK DR. K Dr. Anthony Komaroff flu vaccine made with weakened (but still alive) flu virus, for children who hate shots.

While nasal congestion and a low-grade fever can occur (in about one in 20 children), the illness is milder and briefer than the flu. If your child is between 6 months and 2 years or has a weakened immune system, however, he or she should get the flu shot, not the nasal spray vaccine.

Some children (and adults) who get the flu shot also get a mild fever, an aching muscle where the flu shot was given and feel tired for a day or so. That’s not because the shot gave them the flu; it’s a sign their immune system is responding vigorously to the shot. That’s good news, because that’s what we want the immune system to do.

• The flu shot is safe. Years of experience have shown the flu vaccine is very safe. There is no evidence thimerosal, a common vaccine preservative, is dangerous for children. But preservative-free

preparations are available.

A particular flu vaccine used in 1976 did seem to cause a few cases of the neurological condition called Guillain-Barre syndrome.

But this same condition can follow getting the flu itself.

Indeed, it happens more often after the flu than after getting a flu shot. Since the flu shot protects against the flu, your child is less likely to get this rare condition if they get the flu vaccine.

• The flu shot protects more than your child. Children are germ-producing machines.

Your child may weather the flu fine – but what about others who could catch the flu from your child?

Although there are a few unusual circumstances in which your pediatrician might recommend against a flu shot, the flu shot almost always is a safe treatment. It is not too late to get the shot: Flu season will continue for another three months. And the shot can make all the difference in your child's health.

• Write to Dr. Komaroff at www.askdoctork.com or Ask Doctor K, 10 Shattuck St., Second Floor, Boston, MA 02115.

‘Wild’ teen must seek honest communication with mother Dr. Wallace: My problem is my mom is trying to totally run my life. Her reason is probably my older sister was no angel. She was into everything from staying out late at wild parties, to sex, booze and smoking pot. So now my mom is really trying to prevent me from having any fun at all, and I’m tired of being a goody-goody.

I do have a couple of friends who are thought of as a bit wild, but we are all popular and have fun. Sometimes we go to parties (my mom thinks I’m just over at a friend’s house) and once in a while I drink a little, but I know when to stop and pop a couple of peppermints.

I’m only 15, and my mother is all hyped up because she saw me kissing this guy who is 16, but looks a bit older. Now I’m grounded for two weeks, and she wants

’TWEEN 12 & 20 Dr. Robert Wallace me to promise I won’t see this guy again. I really like this guy and even though I promised, I will see him again because he throws great parties.

My mom also doesn’t like me to hang around the teen hangout (no drinks are allowed there) because there are too many boys there.

Of course there are, that’s why my girlfriends and I go there.

How can I get my mother to just leave me alone to have a little fun? – Name-

less, St. Louis Nameless: Your mother loves you and wants only what is best for you, and

would prefer you were not a “wild child” like your older sister.

I can see extracting promises from you would have no effect because you would have no intention of keeping them. Nor would grounding work for you. This will only cause your relationship with your mother to deteriorate further.

If your mother had written for advice regarding your behavior, I would have recommended she do everything in her power to improve communication with you, including seeing a family counselor or therapist with you. This person could help her set reasonable limits for you that you will honor and respect.

However, since you’re the one who wrote the letter, I only can ask you to take the initiative to improve

your relationship with your mom. She is right (and deep in your heart, you know it) to want to rein you in and control your “little wildness,” which is a bit much for a 15-year-old. You did not mention how your older sister’s life has turned out, but it probably is not as successful and happy as it should have been.

My hope for you and your mother is an honest “mother-daughter communication” can be established.

This is the foundation of a successful family.

You should not make any promise you do not intend to keep. Instead, have an honest discussion to reach a reasonable compromise with Mom: Some partying is OK, but sex, drinking and drugs are off limits. And homework should be completed on a regular basis.

You are heading for a life full of trouble and misery if you do not have limits on your behavior. I feel if you didn’t understand this instinctively, you wouldn’t have contacted me.

Dr. Wallace: I’m only 16, and my boyfriend is constantly pressuring me for sex. I have been denying his wish, but lately he has been asking me if I am a virgin. I keep telling him this is none of his business, but he keeps insisting he has a right to know. He already has told me he is not a virgin.

The other night, he had the gall to tell me I must not be a virgin because if I were a virgin I would have been proud to tell him I was a virgin.

I like this guy, but I don’t know how to handle this problem. It seems as if we spend most of our time

discussing my virginity, or lack of it, and I’m getting upset with this. Please help me deal with this guy. – Upset,

Sulphur, Louisiana Upset: Your personal life

is nobody’s business but yours. He’s pulling a “con” job on you. If you tell him you’re a virgin, he will tell you it’s time to have your first sexual experience because you both “love” each other. If you tell him you are not a virgin, he will use that information to his advantage and keep pressuring you.

Tell this guy you like him, but if he cares about you he will no longer press you for sex, nor will he inquire about your personal life. If he continues, dump him.

• Write to Dr. Wallace at rwallace@galesburg.net.

Text the corresponding Keyword to 74574 to start receiving news from these towns: Local News

Scan to select from a menu of options

• Algonquin – Keyword: NWHALGONQUIN • Cary – Keyword: NWHCARY • Crystal Lake – Keyword: NWHCRYSTALLAKE • Fox River Grove – Keyword: NWHFOXRIVERGROVE • Harvard – Keyword: NWHHARVARD • Hebron – Keyword: NWHHEBRON • Huntley – Keyword: NWHHUNTLEY • Johnsburg – Keyword: NWHJOHNSBURG • Lake in the Hills – Keyword: NWHLITH • Marengo – Keyword: NWHMARENGO • McHenry – Keyword: NWHMCHENRY • Richmond – Keyword: NWHRICHMOND • Woodstock – Keyword: NWHWOODSTOCK Area News and Weather

• Breaking News – Keyword: NWHNEWS • Daily Forecast – Keyword: NWHWEATHER Message and data rates apply.

Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com • Section C • Tuesday, December 29, 2015 •

Pickles

Brian Crane Pearls Before Swine

For Better or For Worse

Non Sequitur

COMICS 7 Stephan Pastis

Lynn Johnston Crankshaft

Tom Batiuk & Chuck Hayes

Wiley The Duplex

Glenn McCoy

Beetle Bailey

Mort Walker Blondie

Dean Young & Denis LeBrun

Frank & Ernest

Bob Thaves Dilbert

Scott Adams

Monty

Jim Meddick Hi and Lois

Rose is Rose

Pat Brady & Don Wimmer Arlo & Janis

Soup to Nutz

The Family Circus

Rick Stromoski Big Nate

Bill Keane

The Argyle Sweater

Scott Hilburn

Brian & Greg Walker

Jimmy Johnson

Lincoln Peirce

Frazz

Jef Mallett

Grizzwells

Bill Schorr

BARON COHEN, WIFE FUND HELP FOR SYRIANS

THINGS

WORTH TALKIN’ ABOUT

* Tuesday, December 29, 2015 • Section C • Page 8

NEW YORK – Actors Sacha Baron Cohen and his wife, Isla Fisher, are donating $1 million to Save the Children and the International Rescue Committee to support victims of the conflict in Syria.

Save the Children has announced that one-half of the sum will fund a program vaccinating more than 250,000 children against a potential measles outbreak in Northern Syria. The other half of the donation will go toward supporting families, with a special concern for women and children, both inside Syria and in neighboring countries.

That money will go toward education, health care, shelter and sanitation, Save the Children said.

AP file photo

BUZZWORTHY

San Francisco demands help investigating Bieber graffiti

AP photo

Chinese fans dressed as “Star Wars” stormtroopers gesture as they arrive Sunday for the premiere of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” in Shanghai, China.

‘Star Wars’ makers have high hopes for China success SHANGHAI – The latest Star Wars movie broke the $1 billion mark before fans in China could see it, but producers anticipate “The Force Awakens” will play “very very well” in the world’s second-biggest film market.

The film opens in China on Jan. 9.

Director J.J. Abrams watched the Chinese premiere in Shanghai with a Chinese audience Sunday night. He told a news conference Monday that he was thrilled to see people “laughing and cheering in exactly the same places that we’ve seen other audiences.”

“It’s a testament to the power of cinema, that it does not matter where you’re from, you can get caught up in a story,” Abrams said.

“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” took 12 days to earn $1 billion worldwide, becoming the fastest movie to achieve such a feat. The previous movie to reach $1 billion the fastest was “Jurassic World,” which did it in 13 days in June – and which had the benefit of record grosses in China.

“Star Wars” producer Kathleen Kennedy said the movie’s success to date was “a huge surprise.”

“We certainly hoped for enormous success but I think the fact that we crossed the billion-dollars ... it’s almost so overwhelming it’s difficult to really process just what the response has been to the movie so far, and it hasn’t even opened here yet,” she said. “Certainly we’re hoping and anticipating that it will play very very well here.”

FREE Estimates!

DEALS

for

COLD DAYS

Servicing McHenry, Lake, Cook and Kane Counties

SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco’s city attorney is demanding that Justin Bieber’s music publisher help determine who is responsible for sidewalk graffiti promoting the pop star’s latest album.

City attorney Dennis Herrera sent a letter to Universal Music Group on Monday, saying the graffiti appears to have been applied with spray paint that has not come off even after recent rainstorms. That contrasts with other recent sidewalk marketing campaigns that have used chalk, according to Herrera.

Herrera said public works crews have removed some of the graffiti at great expense, although he did not provide a figure.

The city attorney’s office released photographs of eight instances of the graffiti and asked for Universal’s help in determining its full scope. Emails seeking comment from representatives of Universal Music Group were not immediately returned.

The graffiti promoting Bieber’s new album, “Purpose,” has been found in Haight-Ashbury and other neighborhoods. City officials have received complaints about it, Herrera said.

“This prohibited marketing practice illegally exploits our city’s walkable neighborhoods and robust tourism, intentionally creates visual distractions that pose risks to pedestrians on busy rights of way, and irresponsibly tells our youth that likeminded lawlessness and contempt for public property are condoned and encouraged by its beneficiaries,” Herrera said in his letter.

Heirs to New Hampshire poet sue ‘Big Bang Theory’ producers

NEW YORK – The heirs to a New Hampshire teacher who wrote a poem about a “soft kitty” eight decades ago said in a lawsuit Monday that TV’s “The Big Bang Theory” is violating their copyrights.

Edith Newlin’s daughters sued CBS and other media-related companies over the copyright to a song the lawsuit said has

repeatedly been used on the hit sitcom.

According to the lawsuit, “The Big Bang Theory,” one of the highest-rated shows on television, used lyrics written

by Newlin in the 1930s without buying the rights. The lyrics begin: “Soft kitty, warm kitty.”

“The Big Bang Theory” characters have periodically sung a lullaby involving that phrase, often to comfort theoretical physicist Sheldon Cooper, played by Jim Parsons.

Messages seeking comment from CBS and other companies sued by Ellen Newlin Chase and Margaret Chase Perry were not immediately returned Monday.

Oscar winning cameraman Haskell Wexler dies at 93

LOS ANGELES – Haskell Wexler, one of Hollywood’s most famous and honored cinematographers and one whose innovative approach helped him win Oscars for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and the Woody Guthrie biopic “Bound for Glory,” died Sunday. He was 93.

Wexler died peacefully in his sleep, his son, Oscar-nominated sound man Jeff Wexler, told The Associated Press.

A liberal activist, Wexler photographed some of the most socially relevant and influential films of the 1960s and 1970s, including the Jane Fonda-Jon Voight anti-war classic, “Coming Home,” the Sidney Poitier-Rod Steiger racial drama “In the Heat of the Night” and the Oscar-winning adaptation of Ken Kesey’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”

He also was the rare cinematographer known enough to the general public to receive a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.

“He was a wonderful father. I owe most of who I am to his wisdom and guidance,” said his son, nominated for Oscars himself for “Independence Day” and “The Last Samurai.”

“Even in an industry where, when you’re working on a movie, there is not much else you can do, he was always there for me,” Jeff Wexler said.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS Actress Mary Tyler Moore is 79. Actor Jon Voight is 77. Country singer Ed Bruce is 76. Flutist Ray Thomas (Moody Blues) is 74. Singer Marianne Faithfull is 69. Actor Ted Danson is 68. Singer-actress Yvonne Elliman is 64. Actress Patricia Clarkson is 56. Comedian Paula Poundstone is 56. Guitarist-singer Jim Reid of the Jesus and

Mary Chain is 54. Actor Michael Cudlitz (“The Walking Dead”) is 51.

Singer-guitarist Glen Phillips (Toad the Wet Sprocket) is 45. Actor Jude Law is 43. Actress Maria Dizzia (“Orange is the New Black”) is 41. Actor Mekhi Phifer is 41. Country singer Jessica Andrews is 32.

Actress Jane Levy (“Suburgatory”) is 26.

The company you’ll REFER!!

Family Owned & Operated for more than 30 years!

We Service All Brands RATED #1 IN RELIABILITY

NO FUEL SURCHARGE

$

79

FURNACE CLEAN & CHECK FREE WATER HEATER INSPECTION GUARANTEED NO BREAKDOWNS

Cannot be combined with any other offer. One coupon per person. Expires 11/30/15.

1/30/16.

BRADFORD WATER HEATER Starting at

$799 Installed

THE MOST COMFORTABLE CALL YOU CAN MAKE!

815.477.7766 • WWW.WEATHERWISEHEATING.COM

Going on

i o t n a ? c a V

Take Us With You!

Start the New Year off right and try any Group Fitness class for FREE! (FREE Week does not include Registration Fitness classes)

Activate your digital subscription today at NWHerald.com/register

For more information, visit

adno=0325643

adno=0335196

www.huntleyparks.org

*All-Access digital subscription included with print subscription.

Questions? Call Customer Service at 800-589-9363.

NORTHWEST HERALD

Group Fitness FREE Week!

January 4th-8th

Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com • Section D • Tuesday, December 29, 2015 •

COMMUNITY

CLASSIFIED

CLASSIFIED 1 “I have your back ” Photo by: K. Wilber

815-455-4800 classified@shawsuburban.com NWHerald.com/classified

Upload your photos at

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2015 DAY, DATE, 2014 • SECTION X • SECTION D

NWHerald.com/myphotos

AT YOUR SERVICE

In print daily Online 24/7

Call to advertise 877-264-2527

ALL HOME REPAIRS Interior/Exterior Carpentry Light Fixtures / Electrical Deck Repairs Doors Hardware Plumbing Bath Kitchen Tile Power Washing & Gutter Cleaning All Jobs Big and Small Serving McHenry County and Surrounding Area

847-344-5713

ABC EXTERIORS, INC. Roofing Siding Gutters & Windows Licensed & Fully Insured Free Estimates Immediate Fast Service New Roofs Complete Tear offs All Types of Flat Roofs 25 Years Experience

Everything Mechanical

Heating And Cooling

BOB EVANS FIREWOOD & MULCH

We sell only the finest seasoned firewood!

Mixed Premium Hardwood $150 F/C Oak $160 F/C Cherry / Hickory $180 F/C

Commercial Residential Heating Cooling Ventilating Boilers Water Heaters Serviced and Installed 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed!

24-hour Emergency Service $69 Cleaning & Inspection Free Estimates 10% Senior Citizen Discount

Call Today 815-212-9171

815-529-7963

Family Owned & Operated Since 1988 Licensed & Insured everythingmechanicalheatingcooling.com

POWER

bobevansfirewoodandmulch.com

Tree & Stump Removal, Inc.

Call Gary 847-888-3599

Serving W. Rt. 59, N. of I-88 &S. of Rt 176

10% OFF

(Expires March, 2016)

815-943-6960, Fully Insured

24 Hour Emergency Cell 815-236-5944

*Trimming & Removal *Specializing Large & Dangerous Trees *Storm Damage *Lot Clearing *Stump Grinding *Pruning

Jim Verhaeghe Seasoned Firewood Mixed Hardwoods (Oak, Hickory, Walnut, Cherry) $100.00 a face cord. Free local delivery.

Stacking available.

847-334-5740 or 847-732-4014

S&W Furniture Refinishing !

Local or Long Distance, Direct Routes to FL & TN Straight Truck or Semi, Residential or Commercial 866-870-4321

815-403-3767

!

1614 S. River Rd, McHenry, IL USDOT 1205997, mc 672989

Advertise here for a successful garage sale!

Call 815-455-4800

MINK STOLE

Lighted Christmas Tree 7 ½' with stand, 815-479-1961

New Balance, size W, 9, width 2E, white, excellent condition! $25.

815-308-5515

Orthopedic Walking Shoes

Chidren's rolltop desk, Eastman Line $125/obo Oak excellent cond.

32H, 22 ¼ x 21 wide 847-515-8012 Huntley.

Two Cycle Gasoline 2 gals.

Free 847-658-4720

Persian Lamb Coat GREAT GIFT!

Dairy Queen Posters Vintage 1972 1981, Sizes 22 x 28, 11 x 14, make great gifts, decorating ideas, colorful, beautiful ! Lg. $30 & Sm $15/each 815-385-1026

ARCH SUPPORTS

Spenco, new, ¾ length, size W 7-8, M 6-7, $10.

815-308-5515

Winter white, has big wide collar that goes front to back, $350.

815-923-2296

Gorgeous black, white fox collar and cuffs. Size 10/12.

New $1700, asking $399/obo.

815-861-1163

RANCH MINK JACKET

Dark sable, women's size 12. $250/cash/obo. 815-354-3849

COATS (2)

Beautiful women's black rabbit fur coat with hood, satin lining, waste length, zipper front, size medium.

Will make lovely Christmas gift, $50. AND a Bermans leather coat women's, waste length, burgandy color, size med, great condition! $25 815-354-4263

COVERALLS Men's full body,insulated, size small, excellent condition, $19.

815-943-4938

FOX FUR

Blonde, ¾ length, size 16. $50. 815-943-2049 Genuine Leather Mens Jacket Size 44, 2 ft. pockets, 4 high quality buttons, partially lined $63 847-757-9505 LADIES WOOL COAT Full length, size 16, taupe, worn once, excellent condition $65. Call 7am-7pm 815-459-3477

LEATHER JACKET ~ WOMAN'S

Brown with fur collar and liner.

Size medium, $150, has matching fur headband for $30, together price is $170. 847-802-4949

Mink Coat

Amana Fridge Side by Side Black 28cf. Excellent Condition $285 815-728-3001

Maytag, Washing Machine top loader $125 Looks/Works Great 815-653-6042

Meat Grinder (Electric) and Food Chopper

Rival, electric, model 2300, new in box, $50.

847-639-4991

MICROWAVE

Sharp, 1200 watt, large capacity, excellent condition, $50/obo.

size 12, $300.

847-854-2773

www.HuskieWire.com All NIU Sports... All The Time

MIXING BOWLS

3 Matching "Hall's Superior Quality Kitchenware - Eureka Homewood Pattern". Lrg 8 5/8", Med 7 3/8".

Small 6 1/8" $39, McHenry.

815-236-1747 United Airlines Happy Meal Display from O'Hare Airport, 63”T x 33”W – Ronald McDonald holding happy meal toys - $250.

815-382-4743 before 9pm

Vanity - Beautiful Antique Pine

W/attached mirror & center drawer.

Brought from England by dealer, 37-1/4"W x 20"D & 29-1/2" to top of vanity. Mirror 22-3/8"W x 35-3/8"H. Center drawer has metal pull. Legs & side mirror supports have charming decorative sculptured detail, $400.

815-236-1747

29.5Wx38”Hx19D, exc cond, $95.00 847-829-4546

Rocker for Child

White Wicker, $60.

847-464-5543

WASHING MACHINE

G. E. White, works great! $175. 815-861-2174 Wine Refrigerator – Magic Chef.

26 bottle capacity $99 815-455-7491

Antique painted cupboard $225 2 East Lake oak dressers $125/ea 815-338-4576 Bev Doolittle "Sacred Ground" 1464/69996 - $300.

815-363-8974

FEEDER BOWL - Vibratory Parts Bowl Works fine, Needs cleaning 2 available, $400 obo.

815-349-0206 HEATER / FURNACE - Multi Fuel Heater / Furnace with thermostat control including 250 gallon drum. $275/obo. 815-349-0206

Book - Legally Sane

1972 First Edition, Very Good Condition - $285 cash only Call 7am-7pm - NO texting 815-404-1587

CIGAR BOXES ~ WOODEN

Nice, you choose 6 for $30.

815-459-7485

COLLECTOR PLATES BRADFORD

In original boxes with certificates.

Many series, $10 - $20/ea.

847-829-4546

Elvis Memorabilia

Clocks, Pictures Plates, Albums, Banks, Record Albums, Monopoly game & More!

Starting @ $10.

847-836-9299 - Aft 10am

HO TRAIN ENGINES

And microwave cart, sold oak.

Full length, size 12, $350,

Car length Mink Coat

HAND TOOLS (57) Antique, on display in garage.

Good condition, $350.

847-639-4991

TOILET ~ KOHLER

White, conserves water per flush, $50. 815-923-2296

26 in. woman's diamondback 21spd. purple/white great condition $125. 630-835-5694 Trek Multitrack 720 Full Chro Moly Steel 20"/51 cm Woman's Bike Blake/Purple, shock absorbing gel seat, used 3 times, Immaculate condition w/ beautiful color combination $220 obo -- 815-349-0206

DUTCH DOOR

4'x 7' PLYCO Aluminum Dutch Door, w/frame. Autumn Red, Cross trim, tudor brown, new in 3 boxes.

Pic avail, $375. 847-476-6771

BREAKING NEWS available 24/7 at NWHerald.com

New in box, unbeatable price, low of $60.

4 rare steam engines plus 1 diesel engine.

Call and give email address or postal address to get list.

815-455-3555 RECORDS – Box Of 200 pre-rock, easy listening, 45's from the 50's & 60's - $10.

Call Mike 847-695-9561

RECRUIT LOCAL!

Target your recruitment message to McHenry County or reach our entire area.

For more information, call 877-264-CLAS (2527) or email: helpwanted@ shawsuburban.com

ROYAL DECORATING & REMODELING Complete Remodeling Painting Room Additions & Improvements Insured Bonded Free Estimates

815-271-5530

LAPTOP DELL

Refurbished Wireless, 15.5” screen.

2.73 ghz, Pentium N, 1gb 533 gmhz of Ram, 40gbz hdd, CD/DVD, Windows XP Professional.

EXCELLENT CONDITION! $79 815-212-9171

LAPTOP ~ DELL

ART PICTURE

Contemporary large art picture with patina brown squares on patina silver background. Perfect on high ceiling wall or over fireplace and makes a great statement for $65.

847-323-7703

BEDFRAME - KING

Heavy duty with castors, excellent condition! $20

Refurbished Wireless 15.5” screen 2.73 ghz, Pentium N, 1 GB 533 gmhz of Ram 40gbz hdd, CD/DVD Windows XP Professional.

Excellent Condition, $75.

815-382-4026

Solid wood, Mediterranean style.

Very good condition! $150 815-459-4675

Nintendo DS Lite, White, with 27 games in original cases. 2 chargers plus car charger & many storage cases. $125.

815-790-8513

Overstuffed armless chair in blue and tan slim stripes.

Perfect condition, $50.

847-323-7703

PlayStation11 Games

(6) $10/ea. 815-385-5147

STEREO RADIO

DeWalt Work Site, good condition, $19.00. 815-943-4938

Treadmill - Rarely used. $50; Barbell weight bench with bars, weights and attached speedbag. $50. 815-477-7429 Crystal Lake

Fireplace Insert

With glass and brass doors, Lopi, $399. 815-338-2951

Firewood for sale

100% Seasoned Oak

$120 delivered $99 pick up

815-477-1742

Indoor Gas/Log Fireplace

Free standing, vent free with oak surround and remote, $250.

847-854-2773 2 white wood bookcases with glass shelves and doors.

Excellent condition for $150/both.

847-323-7703.

McHenryCountySports.com is McHenry County Sports

QUEEN HEADBOARD

CHAIR

Coffee Table ~ Oak

Country, oval with bottom shelf.

Perfect condition, $50.

847-323-7703 Dining Room 60” Rectangle Butcher Block Table with chrome legs with 6 Chairs, $110

Oak dresser with 6 drawers with attached mirror and cork board.

Excellent condition for $150.

847-323-7703 Oak Entertainment Center with room for TV, DVD player, stereo equipment and storage for CDs & DVDs with 3 sets of doors.

Excellent condition $125.

847-323-7703

Rolltop Desk ~ Walnut, $25 Tall Figurine lamp, $50.

847-973-2646

SOFA

6' Davenport, beige with accent colors, like new, $200.

815-943-2049

SOFA

Country green, cranberry, tan plaid overstuffed full size sofa with matching throw pillows, $150.

847-323-7703

TV STAND

Cell # 312-802-2171 Crystal Lk.

Heavy duty, 30”Wx20”Dx17”H. Glass front doors, top quality, $500 new, only $75.

McHenry Area 847-639-2961

DINING ROOM TABLE

TV Stand/Country Pine

Solid dark wood with 6 chairs, 2 leaves with table pads.

Have a new table for a great Christmas dinner! $375.00.

815-459-7236

With shelf for DVD player.

Would make a great liquor cabinet, perfect condition, $40.

847-323-7703

Mates Side Chairs

Need refinishing, 4 chairs for $5.

815-338-2951 ~ Lv Message

Mattress & Box Spring Set ~ Queen

Like new, down comforter included, $225. 847-323-7703

Mattress and Box Spring

Queen size, Simmons Back Care Qualiy. Oak headboard and oak nightstand, rarely used, $400.

847-829-4546 Oak Desk with attached bookcase w/3 shelves and under shelf light.

Has padded matching chair.

Excellent condition for $150.

847-323-7703 Oak dining room buffet with lighted hutch, glass doors on top, 2 drawers and 2 doors on buffet.

Excellent condition for $175 847-323-7703

Horse Trailer, Practically New Calico Brand, 2 slant, 1 double X runabout, extra tall & wide, never used! $4890/obo 224-308-2456

Beveled Mirrors

36x72 inch, $10, 36x36 inch, $5.

847-476-6771

FOLDING TABLE

Samsonite, 6' centerfold. Heavy duty. Holds up to 300 lbs, water and stain proofed, list price $170, selling for $60. 847-829-4546

PICTURES

TROPICAL PALM TREES Set of 2, $40/both.

847-829-4546 Sewing Machine - Portable

New Home, Carson Pirie Scott brand, older-like new-used very little with case, attachments and manual, $85.

847-639-4991 Sewing Machine Singer #621B Model, excellent condition, 3 arm, zig-zag button hole $45 815-477-7916

CANNONS

Civil War & Pirate Type, Production Type, starting @ $195.00 Call Paul Locascio 708-363-2004

Patio Table

Black wrought iron and four chairs with pads, $145.

847-323-7703

Scotts Spreader Turf Builder

´Edge Guard, DLX Like New, Paid $60, Sell for $35. 847-639-4991

Tables - Weathered Cedar

Folding Table With Hole For Umbrella. Coffee & 2 End Tables. This set of 4 tables are weathered & grayish in tone. Cedar folding table: 36"x 36" x 29" high; coffee table: 36" x 19" x 19" high; 2 end tables 18" x 19" x 19" high, $24.00. McHenry 815-236-1747

CHINA

Johnson Bros Snowhite Regency pattern, made in England. Service for 20, including dinner, dessert and salad plates, dessert and salad bowls, cups and saucers, creamer and sugar bowl, coffee server, serving bowls and platters, $125.

847-323-7703 Get Bears news on Twitter by following @bears_insider

BAND SAW

Vertical, varialbe speeds, $60.00. 708-363-2004

CHAIN HOIST 2 Ton. 4-5 to choose from $50/ea. 815-790-8567

DEPTH MIC Starrett #445AZ-6RL New never used - $150.

Call 630-835-5694

2 CLASSIFIED • Tuesday, December 29, 2015 • Section D • Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com ROCKING CHAIR

DRILL ~ MIKITA 18 volt, with light and carrying case, $75.

2 Chain Hoists, $100/both.

815-790-8567

(3) $5/ea.

815-385-5147

TIF INDUSTRIES, MODEL 5500 w/case like new $50

!!!!!!!!

Antique and Modern Guns

A/C Compressor

LADDER

Warner Multi Scaler.

Goes from 17' to 18', $85.00. 847-515-8012 Plumbing tool box, $10; electrical tool box $10; carpenter tools $10; saw $20 includes parts. Call Don 815-895-4659

GABLE

6 month old male Tabby DSH Obstacles have taught me to be creative and to persist.

I've learned to keep positive.

Kitten Adoption Special until 12-30-15. www.helpingpaws.net 815-338-4400

Retaining Ring

5 gallon can full of metric bots, $99/ea. 815-337-3600 Call between 8am-5pm

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

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

Retoother ~ Foley

For saw filing, $100. also saw filing machines, call for details. 847-464-5543

SAWS (2)

18” scroll saw, brand new in box, $75. And a contractors portable rigid saw with brand new extra blade, $275.

815-768-7807

STEP LADDER

Commercial, 8' fiberglass,

OSHA approved, extra heavy duty, $120. 847-829-4546

Porta-Potty

TAFFY

Humidifier, Lasko 9 gal.

Model 1128, 2000sf – 3200 sf coverage $60 815-347-0675

LIGHTS

Custom Liquor Bottle Lights Unique, hand made, plug in and enjoy, $20 and up.

815-236-7492 Musical Song Book

Vintage 1976 Warner Bros Beatles Complete softcover song book for piano, vocal or guitar, exc cond, 479 clean pages, $60/obo.

Family Song Book of Faith & Joy

129 inspirational songs.

1981 hardcover, exc cond, $40.

815-477-4667 Reddy Garage Heater, natural Gas 30,000 BTUs New still in box heats up to 1000sf, $280/new Will Sell for $150 Call: 815-459-5951

ROTISSERIE

Cuisinart, Model CVR1000 Vertical, New in Box. $100.

815-338-9259 Woodstock

SLIDE TRAYS

Kodak Carousel 140.

10 trays for $2/ea. Cost new, over $10/ea. 815-455-3555

SLOT MACHINE

With 500 brass coins, works great, $395.00.

708-363-2004 Stained Glass Window 12-5/8 X 21-1/8 textured clears/blue $125. 815-363-8974 Stained Glass Window, Abstract 16.25 X 12.5 $100. 815-363-8974

Stampin' Up Stamp collection and inks 7 Misc. single stamps, 60 or more stamp sets. Many never used. $325.

815-790-8513 STOVE / FURNACE / HEATER Early 1900's Coal / Wood Burning Stove / Furnace / Heater. Heavy, 3 piece cast iron base, heat box, and 4 ft diameter heat ring. Burns coal or wood. Excellent condition. $400 815-349-0206

SWORD

Double edge with scabbard, 30”L, $19/obo. 815-943-4938 Two – Hunter remote controls for ceiling fans, $15/ea.

815-347-0675

WET DRY VAC

Ridgid, new, $50/obo.

815-790-8567 Wooden Pallets

4 way, used (4) 48x36 inch.

(5) 48x40.25 inches, $3 each.

847-476-6771

XEROX PAPER

Digital color, 8.5x11, 500 sheets, 2nd paper - 3 whole punched, 500 sheets, 8.5x11.

Color Expression Paper, all for $40.

815-477-2772

Pianos Quality Pre-Owned

Pianos, Delivered & Warrantied 815-334-8611

SNARE DRUM

Ludwig with floor stand, very good coondition, $150.00.

708-363-2004 Bird Parrot Play Stand - Fit a large parrot, with ladders and areas for toys to be hung, can keep an active bird happy. 34 x 22 x 44 $65. 815-349-0206

DOG KENNELS

Medium and large, fibeglass, airline approved, starting @ $25.00. 815-404-9765 More people read the Northwest Herald each day than all other papers combined in McHenry County!

Cars

Vintage Motorcycles

Domestic/ Import Cars: Mercedes, Porsche, Corvette, Ferrari's, Jaguars, Muscle Cars, Mustang, Mopars

Cozy and remodeled, $775/mo incl water and garbage. No dogs.

Agent owned. 815-814-3348

Fox Lake Garden Apt, $715

Large 1BR, utilities included except electric, laundry, storage, no dogs.

Agent Owned 815-814-3348 Fox River Grove - Across the Street from metra. Brand new Apartments and store. 1& 2 BR Apt $650/mo.

847-812-9274

Great References. 224-858-4515

Star Shower Lazer Light $40 815-479-1961

TREE SKIRT

Outstanding velvet skirt with pleated ruffle, red or green, $20/ea. 815-923-2296 Snowblower – Cub-Cadet, 20” cut single stage, I'm Waiting For Snow !! $145 Call if interested 815-459-1015

Found – Yellow Lab, no tags or microchip, Found Barrington Area call to describe 847-381-4100

FISH LOCATOR

Fishing Rod Holders

(2) PERKO Chrome fits ¾ 1” rails, paid $90, sell $50/bo.

Condition new. 847-639-4991

ICE AUGER

Strikemaster, 8” with new blades, $27.00.

847-639-6447

Karate Uniforms

Youth, white, S/M, $10 Youth, black, S/M, $15 815-308-5515 POOL TABLE - Brunswick 9 1/2 ft. by 5 1/4 ft. Slate top (3/4" thick in 3 pieces). $150 obo, you move.

815-385-0267 lv msg Razor Scooter, Electric includes, Battery & Charger Hardly Used ! $50 815-403-5598 McHenry

Ski Helmet ~ Child's

Boeri, small, red color.

Great condition, $20.

815-308-5515 SKI'S – ATOMIC 13 meters BINDINGS – MARKER 900 BOOTS – TECNICA sz. 9.5 Great Cond ! $100/set 815-403-5598 (McHenry) No answer, please leave msg.

American Girl Accessories Clothes, Dishes, Bath Items, ETC! Value $200, asking $100/obo.

815-344-5038

FREIGHT TRAIN SET Marx 027 with track and transformer, $35.

815-338-1519

Game Zone Arcade Ball

By Hedstrom, 3 games in one, electronic, skeet bowling, rebound hockey and pool game table, $35.

815-338-1519 LEGO'S - 4 POUND BULK 4 pounds of assorted bulk Authentic LEGO Bricks, Parts and Pieces. These mixed pieces come from years of collections including STAR WARS, CITY, HOBBIT, HARRY POTTER & KNIGHTS, Estimated 1000 pieces, Lots of great specialty pieces, windows, hinges, wings, wheels, control panels etc. $40 each, Text or Call 815-354-2501

Lionel Trains

Ogauge engines, cars, accessories, track and transformers. From $5 and up.

815-338-1519

Powered by:

Woodstock – Farmette 4 bedroom, Large Barn, 5 Acres, $1800.

Hometown Realty 815-347-1712

McHENRY

A-1 AUTO

Pet friendly, Pool & Fitness Membership

MOST CASH WILL BEAT ANY QUOTE GIVEN!! $400 - $2000 “don't wait.... call 2day”!!

MOTORCYCLES WANTED

1998 Volvo S70 GLT

Dark blue with custom paint.

44K miles, call for details and pics. $25,000 847-344-3055

2005 Dodge Neon SXT

! Elevator Bldgs.

Silver Creek

! Garage Incl.

Rents starting at $805 per month

WOODSTOCK 2 BR. Available immediately, water/garbage incl.

Laundry on premise, $730/mo.

815-236-5921 ~ 815-236-8854

WOODSTOCK STUDIO

All utilities incl, W/D on premise.

No pets/smoking, $565/mo.

815-482-1600

Algonquin Townhome, 2BR, 2½ BA, full bsmt, 2 car gar, no smkg, some pets OK, available now $1250/mo. 847-420-6049

CRYSTAL LAKE ~ 1BR RANCH

WOODSTOCK 3 BEDROOM

1.5 Bath, A/C, Stove, Refrigerator, Garage, No Pets. Broker Owned.

847-683-7944 HURRY!!

Crystal Lake Ranch 4BR, 1½ BA, 2 car garage, full basement $1500/mo. With $2000 deposit 815-236-7191

MARENGO FARMETTE

I'll finance ANYONE who has $30,000 down, $500 mo 1 year.

5 ACRES, zoned AG, low taxes.

Gorgeous views, no neighbors House needs complete updating.

Newer septic, well, furnace.

Newer 20x40 metal building. $150,000/Firm 815-568-0008 McHenry, 1406 North Dr. investment property, 3BR, 2BA, 1 Car detached Gar. newly updated $120,000 815-482-8248

Round Lake – Long Lake,

3 BR., Investors Dream with Free Buildable Lot, 3 Car Garage, New Windows, Corian Countertops, Dead End St, Very Private, Fairfield/Rollins. MOVE IN READY! $124,000 Call: 847-875-6739

Find !t here!

PlanitNorthwest.com

PUBLIC NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF McHenry, ss. In the Circuit Court of the 22nd Judicial Circuit, McHenry County, Illinois, Chancery Division National Note Equities LLC, Plaintiff, vs.

John L. Jones, et al., Defendants.

Customer Care Center in Crystal Lake Part-time positions are available for our second shift, averaging 1522 hours per week, covering Monday through Friday 5:30PM 10PM & Saturdays from 9AM - 1PM

2000 Ford E-250 Cargo Van

Flexible daytime hours are available with a minimum of two 2 nights a week and 2 Saturdays a month These roles are responsible for providing presales, ordering, and invoicing support for inquiries received through inbound phone calls, emails, and text messages.

The ability to multi-task is essential in this fun, fast paced environment.

Woodstock Studio $600/mo+sec.

Efficiency $575/mo + sec.1BR $700/mo + sec, all 3 furn'd w/all utils incl. No Pets. 815-509-5876 Buying? Selling?

Renting? Hiring?

To place an ad, call 877-264-CLAS (2527) Community Classified

LINE AD DEADLINE: Tues-Fri: 2pm day prior, Sat: 2pm Fri, Sun-Mon: 4pm Fri OFFICE HOURS: Mon-Fri, 8am-5pm PHONE: 815-455-4800

DANIEL O. BARHAM, (6319903), Attorney, 2644 Kull Road, Lancaster, Ohio 43130.

STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT McHENRY COUNTY-IN PROBATE In the Matter of the Estate of RICHARD E LIND Deceased Case No. 15 PR 000360 CLAIM NOTICE Notice is given of the death of: RICHARD E LIND of: WOODSTOCK IL Letters of office were issued on: 12/4/2015 to: Representative: JOANNE LIND 1623 BULL VALLEY DR WOODSTOCK, IL 60098 whose attorney is: GOSSER, FRANCIS X 105 VAN BUREN STREET WOODSTOCK, IL 60098

Part Time Positions Open at Snap-On Tools

2004 NISSAN TITAN 4x4 SE

5.6L, 39,800 miles. Recent brakes and tires. EXC COND! $16,000 847-658-6172

Mortgagee: National City Mortgage, a division of National City Bank.

Recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of McHenry County, IL, as Document No. 2007R0062438.

Present owner of the property is the above mentioned mortgagor.

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

Now, therefore, unless you, the said above named defendants, file your answer to the Complaint in the said suit or otherwise make your appearance therein, in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of McHenry County, IL, on or before Jan 13th, 2016_, default may be entered against you at any time after that day and a Judgment entered in accordance with the prayer of said Complaint.

This is an attempt to collect a debt pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

PUBLIC NOTICE

Visit today to take a tour of our community.

Call For Details & Specials:

New carpeting & paint, appl, W/D. Big basement, garage, $940/mo.

No pets/smkg.

708-302-0876

High miles, good brakes and tires, needs little TLC! $2,750/obo.

847-293-3355

Mortgagors: John L. Jones, a single person.

Published in the Northwest Herald on December 15, 22, 29, 2015.1141856

829 Ross Lane

779-704-2123

1999 Ford Expedition

P.I.N.: 15-08-476-001-0000

www.cunat.com

Snowmobile Dollies

Custom made, heavy duty one piece stainless steel. $80/ea or $160/pair. 815-236-4590

Publisher's Notice: All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise "any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention, to make any such preference, limitation of discrimination." Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18.

This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law.

Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination call HUD tollfree at 1-800-669-9777. The tollfree telephone number for the hearing impaired is 1-800-927-9275.

815-334-9380

Newly Constructed Townhomes in McHenry.

V-6, 162K highway miles.

Adult-driven, original owner.

Pristine leather interior with power moonroof. Always garage-kept in excellent condition. All service records with vehicle from Honda dealership. $5,600. Call Joe after 6:00 PM, 847-650-2001

1 owner, 72K miles, V6, 7 passenger, front and rear heat and A/C. Newer tires and brakes, looks and runs great!

Free 3 month warranty, $5200.

815-344-9440 Get the job you want at NWHerald.com/jobs

WOODSTOCK 1 and 2 Bedroom Apts Autumnwood

The Villas of Patriot Estates

2007 HONDA ACCORD SEDAN EX-L

2004 Mercury Monterey Mini Van

Studio-One-Two Bedrooms

All makes, cash paid, reasonable.

Will pick-up.

630-660-0571

4 cylinder automatic, power windows, looks and runs great.

Good heat and A/C, only 78K miles. Free 3 month warranty. $3200.

815-344-9440

¾ ton, 5.4L, V8, 1 owner, 84K only. Loaded with shelves and ladder rack, good tires, new brakes, good A/C, and heat, Ready for work. Free 3 month warranty. $4600.

815-344-9440

Water, Sewer & Garbage Removal

Crystal Lake ~ Downtown Beautifully Remodeled, 2 BR, 1.5 BA, Garage, $1400, Broker Owned 815-347-1712

1999 Mazda 626 LX

2002 CHEVY CORVETTE C5

Apartments Include:

815-338-2383

CAR, TRUCK, SUV,

With Waiting Area. Clean, nice office suite incl all util + high speed DSL, $545/mo. 815-790-0240

McHenry In Town Large 3BR

Appl, parking for 2. $800/mo + security deposit, no pets/smoking.

262-705-7220 So. Elgin, Small 1 BR, Ground floor, off street parking, utilities & cable TV included, non-smkr. $550/mo+sec. 847-695-3341

WILLOW BROOKE

Will BUY UR USED

Crystal Lake Approx 400 Sq Ft

Fawn Ridge Trails 815-344-8538

Over $1000 new, fits most pick trucks, adjustable, $400.

815-212-9171

1 owner, well maintained, leather, loaded, heated seats, good heat and A/C, looks and runs great!

Free 3 month warranty, $3300.

815-344-9440 1 owner, 77K miles only.

4 cylinder automatic, sunroof, ps, pw, looks and runs great.

Free 3 month warranty, $3200.

815-344-9440

2 bath, $1200/mo, no dogs.

Agent Owned. 815-814-3348

Woodstock – 3 Bedrooms, 2 Bath, 2 Car Garage, $1350.

Broker Owned 815-814-3700

WeatherTech, black, 2 piece fronts for a 2011 Honda CRV. $50/both. 815-477-9729

815-575-5153

FISHING EQUIPMENT

Wonder Lake 3BR Ranch

Pets OK, W/D hook-up, full bsmt.

Large yard, deck, $1100/mo.

773-510-3643

FLOOR LINERS

GREAT PYRENEES/ SHEPHERD

Male, brown and white, about 100 lbs. Lost Nov 29 on Rt. 173 East and Altenberg Roads. Last seen near Hebron on Fink Rd. REWARD! 815-900-4766

MchenryCountyRentTo OwnHomes.com

Wonder Lake/East Side ~ 3BR

Dodge Ram Quad cab from 2002 to 2009, front window, keys, locks & clamps. Excellent Condition sells for $1500 new, sell for $250/best offer.

815-212-9171

ROOFERS RACK

Lowrance Fish Lo-K-Tor (green box), model LFP300 w/ custom transom tranducer mount and manual also, great for ice fishing exc cond, $85.

847-639-4991

Rods/reels, tackle box, ice fishing items, $350.

815-790-8567

CUSTOM CAP Fiberglass for 6' bed, will fit

(2) Racing slip on 4" mufflers.

Chrome with black ends caps.

Excellent condition. No fuel management or engine modifications required.

Sell for $390/OBO Contact: GWGWREN@COMCAST.NET 847-226-7882

Santa on Sleigh (Plastic)

Choose from 400 listed homes

Wonder Lake ~ 4 Bedroom

HARLEY DAVIDSON RIENHART RACING

Christmas Trees, (2) 7' sprial multi function trees w/ remote control $26/both 815-861-3270 Eight Christmas Tree Stands $5 Each Call 815-748-7693

3 Deers and a 4 ft Frosty, $100/all. 815-790-2064

HEBRON 1 BEDROOM

Washer/ Dryer In Select Units Low Security Deposits Pets Welcome!

Christmas Tree

RENT TO BUY

Gary Swift Berkshire Hathaway Starck Realty

1 & 2 Bedrooms!

Blue Spruce, 6 ft with lights. $50.

815-943-2049

In town, 2 full bath, no dogs. $1075/mo. Broker 815-575-6869

Newly remodeled,1.5 bath, laundry hook-up, C/A, 2 car gaage. $1200 + sec dep. 815-814-1731

MUFFLERS

Christmas Tree

MCHENRY HUGE 4 BEDROOM

815-814-6004

815-653-7095 ~ 815-341-7822

www.mailboxpostman.com

McHenry 4 Bedroom

Flexible Credit Rules

SALES & INSTALLATION

Artificial, green, approx 5 ft. $40/obo. 847-464-5543

DRUM SET

Piano-Baldwin Acrosonic 36" Spinet & bench. Walnut. Good Condition. $395. 815-477-7429 Crystal Lake

2 bath, 2 car gar, no pets/smkg. $1400/mo.

815-861-1257

water, parking included, no pets. $850/mo.

847-846-9597

MAILBOX & POST

5 month old female Buff Tabby DSH I want to live, love, dance, sing, dream, scheme, ponder and plan like there's no tomorrow.

Kitten Special until 12-30-15 www.helpingpaws.net 815-338-4400

Snow Sled, Skis $15 each 815-943-6937

Full set, black, good condition! $299/obo.

847-702-1033

Crystal Lake 2 Bedroom

The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given you, Unknown Owners and Non-record Claimants, defendants in the above entitled suit, that the said suit has been commenced in the Circuit Court of the 22nd Judicial Circuit, McHenry County, Illinois, Chancery Division, by the said plaintiff against you and other defendants, praying for the foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying the premises described as follows: to-wit: Lot 37 in Walnut Glen Subdivision Phase One, being a subdivision of part of the Southeast quarter of Section 8 and part of the Northeast quarter of Section 17, both in Township 44 North Range 9, East of the Third Principal Meridian in McHenry County, Illinois, and part of the Southwest quarter of Section 9, Township 44 North, Range 9 East of the Third Principal Meridian according to the plat of subdivision recorded October 6, 2006 as Document No. 2006R0073851 in McHenry County, Illinois and also recorded on October 4, 2006 as Document No. 6067402 in Lake County, Illinois.

Commonly known as: 1922 Walnut Glen Blvd., Island Lake, IL 60042

!!!!!!!!

POLISH LADY will clean your Home/Office. FREE ESTIMATES.

Or seat in shower, $45 815-338-2951

Champion, 1500 watts, $100/obo 815-790-8567

Cary - 2BR, Carpeting, Heat

Marengo - 2+ bedroom, garage, basement, $790 & $920, 815-347-1712

No pets/smkg, $650/mo + sec, heat included 815-355-2158

Anything to do with Wood We can Fix or Replace Doors and Windows Sr. Disc. 815-943-4765

Like new, $45.

815-477-2772

Brass Embossing Stencils, 90+, Many never used. Light box & stylis included. $100.

815-790-8513 GENERATOR

Restored or Unrestored

all makes, Etc.

JENNY

3 year old female Lab mix I have grace, courage and confidence to be myself.

I feel true power when I trust my soul's voice.

I'm peaceful yet strong. www.helpingpaws.net 815-338-4400

Hospital Adult Toilet Seat

With all lineman tools, $350/obo.

815-790-8567

Case No. 2015 CH 1169

$$ Top $$

HANDYMAN

Belt and Hooks for Lineman

CLASSICS WANTED

Johnsburg Cozy 2BR

$850/mo + utilities. No dogs.

Agent Owned. 815-814-3348

Quiet, clean building w/storage, laundry and parking, $875/mo.

847-401-3242

Trucks ~ Little Tots

Freon Electronic Leak Detecor

Analyzer, (AIRSERCO) Start-OMatic w/reverse, custom case/i nstructions, excel. Cond $85 847-639-4991

ALGONQUIN - 2 BEDROOM

From the 1960's, well made, little chair, $40. 815-404-9765

This is an excellent opportunity! Snap-on provides a highly competitive hourly rate ($14.00 - $18.27) along with the opportunity to earn a sales bonus. Following our paid training period and after meeting qualifying requirements, paid vacation, holidays, 401K (3% match), and employee purchase program are benefits for all Customer Care positions. We have a friendly business denim environment making Snap-on a great place to work! If you wish to reply to one of these positions, please click on the link below to submit your resume.

Visit www1.snapon.com/careers to apply Customer Care Representative - Part-time.

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 15, 22, 29, 2015.)

1141539

PUBLIC NOTICE McHenry Township Fire Protection District is seeking a Request for Proposal for a Security System - Cameras and Access Control. Due: January 29, 2016. See our website for details. mtfpd.org.

(Published in the Northwest Herald December 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 2015) 1144694

PUBLIC NOTICE McHenry County Council of Mayors Meeting Notice The McHenry County Council of Mayors will meet Thursday, January 7, 2016, at McHenry County Division of Transportation office, main conference room, located at 16111 Nelson Road, Woodstock, IL at 2:00 p.m.

(Published in Northwest Herald, December 29, 2015.) 1145015

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF WILLIAM T. KARSTENSON, JR., AS SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE OF THE CAROLE A. KARSTENSON TRUST AGREEMENT DATED AUGUST 9, 2010, OWNER OF RECORD, FOR AN AMENDMENT OF THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE OF McHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS FOR A RECLASSIFICATION. Legal Notice of Public Hearing #2015-038 Notice is hereby given in compliance with the McHenry County Unified Development Ordinance, that a public hearing will be held before the McHenry County Zoning Board of Appeals, in connection with this Ordinance, which would result in a reclassification for the following described real estate.

PART OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 27 AND PART OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 28, ALL IN TOWNSHIP 46 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT ON THE NORTH LINE OF SAID SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 28 LOCATED 343.14 FEET WEST OF THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF SAID SOUTHEAST QUARTER; THENCE NORTH 89 DEGREES 47 MINUTES 47 SECONDS EAST ALONG THE NORTH LINE OF SAID SOUTHEAST QUARTER FOR A DISTANCE OF 343.14 FEET TO THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF SAID SOUTHEAST QUARTER; THENCE SOUTH 25 DEGREES 49 MINUTES 16 SECONDS EAST FOR A DISTANCE OF 1217.29 FEET TO A POINT IN THE CENTERLINE OF PIONEER ROAD; THENCE SOUTH 26 DEGREES 34 MINUTES 12 SECONDS EAST ALONG SAID ROAD CENTERLINE FOR A DISTANCE OF 243.82 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 89 DEGREES 47 MINUTES 47 SECONDS WEST, 983.74 FEET; THENCE NORTH 00 DEGREES 03 MINUTES 29 SECONDS EAST, 1316.10 FEET TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING, ALL CONTAINING 20.00 ACRES, MORE OR LESS, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. PIN #04-28-400-006 AND #04-27-300-005 The subject property is located approximately 1,430 feet southeast of the intersection of W. Solon Road and Pioneer Road, with a common address of 7405 Pioneer Road, Richmond, Illinois, in Richmond Township.

The subject property is presently zoned “A-1” Agriculture District and consists of approximately 20 acres with “A-1” zoning to the North, South, East and West.

The Petitioner is requesting reclassification of the subject property from “A-1” Agriculture District to “A2” Agriculture District.

The Petitioner can be reached through his attorney, Michael J. Smoron, at 50 Virginia Street, Crystal Lake, Illinois.

A hearing on this Petition will be held on the 14th day of January, 2016 at 1:30 P.M. in Conference Room B at the McHenry County Government Center/Ware Rd. Administration Building, 2200 N. Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, Illinois at which time and place any person desiring to be heard may be present.

DATED THIS 23rd DAY OF December, 2015. /s/ Richard Kelly Jr. Richard Kelly Jr., Chairman McHenry County Zoning Board of Appeals 2200 N. Seminary Avenue Woodstock, IL 60098 (Published in the Northwest Herald December 29, 2015) 1144970

WE'VE GOT IT!

Community Classified 877-264-CLAS (2527) www.NWHerald.com

PUBLIC NOTICE Village of Wonder Lake Planning & Zoning Commission 2016 Regular Meeting Dates The Village of Wonder Lake Planning and Zoning Commission will hold its regular meetings at 7:00 pm. each month in the Municipal Center located at 4444 N Thompson Road in the municipality of Wonder Lake in the County of McHenry in the State of Illinois.

January 12, 2016 July 12, 2016 January 26, 2016 August 9, 2016 February 9, 2016 September 13, 2016 February 23, 2016 September 27, 2016 March 8, 2016 October 11, 2016 March 22, 2016 October 25, 2016 April 12, 2016 November 18, 2016 April 26, 2016 November 22, 2016 May 10, 2016 December 13, 2016 June 14, 2016 Posted: Sue Draffkorn, Clerk Planning and Zoning Commission (Published in the Northwest Herald December 29, 2015.) 1144984

EMAIL: classified@shawsuburban.com, helpwanted@shawsuburban.com ONLINE: www.nwherald.com/classified FAX: 815-477-8898

Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com • Section D • Tuesday, December 29, 2015 •

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held before the Board of Zoning, Planning & Appeals of the Village of Cary, McHenry County, Illinois 60013, located at 655 Village Hall Drive, Cary, Illinois 60013 January 14th 2016 at 7:30 p.m. The purpose of the hearing is to consider the Petition of N3 Real Estate for a conditional use permit to construct a drive-through only restaurant and variances to reduce the number of parking spaces required from 12 spaces to 4 spaces, reduce the required setbacks for a vehicle accommodation area, and any other relief from the zoning ordinance as may be required for the property commonly known as 60 Northwest Highway, Cary, IL, 60013 and legally described as: Lot 5 (excepting therefrom that part described as follows: Beginning at the Easterly comer of Lot 5; thence on an assumed bearing of South 75 degrees 59 minutes 56 seconds West along the Southeasterly line of Lot 5, a distance of 52.36 feet; thence North 29 degrees 54 minutes 20 seconds West, 99.34 feet; thence Northwesterly along a tangential curve concave to the Southwest, radius 841.47 feet: central angle 02 degrees 35 minutes 14 seconds, a distance of 37.99 feet to the Northwesterly line of Lot 5; thence North 61 degrees 48 minutes 56 seconds East along said Northwesterly line, 45.29 feet to a paint on a 1005.60 foot radius curve, the center of circle of said curve bears South 53 degrees 34 minutes 19 seconds West from said point; thence Southeasterly along said curve, said curve being the existing centerline of U.S. Route 14, central angle 08 degrees 05 minutes 12

Classified Avenue Ad Network Autos —————————————— AUTO INSURANCE STARTING AT $25/ MONTH! CALL 877-929-9397 —————————————— You could save over $500 off your auto insurance. It only takes a few minutes. Save 10% by adding property to quote. Call Now! 1-888-498-5313 —————————————— Got an older car, boat or RV? Do the humane thing. Donate it to the Humane Society. Call 1-800-430-9398 —————————————— DONATE YOUR CAR – 866-6166266 FAST FREE TOWING -24hr Response – 2015 Tax Deduction – UNITED BREST CANCER FDN: Providing Breast Cancer Information & Support Programs ----———————————-— Employment Opportunities ————————————— HELP WANTED! Make up to $334 A Day! Data entry workers needed online Work From Home. Genuine Opportunity! Register Online Today! www.data-income.com ————————————--PAID IN ADVANCE! Make $1000 A Week Mailing Brochures From Home! NO Experience Required. Helping home workers since 2001! Genuine Opportunity.

Start Immediately! www.MailingProject.net --————————————— Health & Fitness ————————————— Canada Drug Center is your choice for safe and affordable medications.

Our licensed Canadian mail order pharmacy will provide you with savings of up to 90 percent on all your medication needs. Call Today 888- 481-8975 for $10.00 off your first prescription and free shipping.

————————————— Got Knee Pain? Back Pain? Shoulder Pain? Get a pain-relieving brace

angl gr seconds, a distance of 150.70 feet to the Place of Beginning), In Brunette's Subdivision, being a Subdivision of part of the Northwest Quarter of Section 18, Township 43 North, Range 9 East of the Third Principal Meridian, according to the Plat thereof recorded April 19, 1966 as Document No. 457270, in McHenry County, Illinois.

Copies of the Petition for a Conditional Use Permit and Variances are on file with the Village. The public is invited to attend and participate.

Chairman Joe Tournier Board of Zoning Planning & Appeals (Published in the Northwest Herald December 29, 2015.)1145260

PUBLIC NOTICE The McHenry County Board is accepting applications from persons interested in appointment to the McHENRY COUNTY ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS (ZBA). Two (2) vacancies are available as follows: one vacancy for an alternate member with a term expiring on December 15, 2018 and one vacancy for an alternate member with a term expiring on December 15, 2017.

Applicants must reside in one of the following townships: Chemung, Greenwood, Hebron, Burton, Hartland, Marengo, Seneca, Riley, Coral and Grafton. No two members of the McHenry County Zoning Board of Appeals may be from the same township.

The Zoning Board of Appeals typically conducts public hearings and voting meetings on Thursday afternoons. Meetings typically last one to three hours. Zoning Board of Appeals members are provided a per diem of $110 for each meeting

-little or NO cost to you. Medicare Patients Call Health Hotline Now! 1-800-900-5406 ————————————— VIAGRA and CIALIS USERS! 50 Pills SPECIAL - $99.00. FREE Shipping!

100% guaranteed. CALLNOW! 844-586-6399 ————————————— GET HELP NOW! One Button Senior Medical Alert. Falls, Fires & Emergencies happen. 24/7 Protection. Only $14.99/mo.

Call NOW 888-772-9801 ————————————-CPAP/BIPAP supplies at little or no cost from Allied Medical Supply Network! Fresh supplies delivered right to your door. Insurance may cover all costs. 800-902-9352 ————————————— Home Improvement ————————————— All Things Basementy! Basement Systems Inc. Call us for all of your basement needs! Waterproofing, Finishing, Structural Repairs, Humidity and Mold Control FREE ESTIMATES! Call 1-800-998-5574 ————————————--Find the Right Carpet, Flooring & Window Treatments. Ask about our 50% off specials & our Low Price Guarantee. Offer Expires Soon. Call now 1-888-906-1887 ————————————--BEST SALE EVER!!!! Need New Carpet or Flooring??? All this Special Number for $250.00 off. Limited Time. Free In Home Estimate!! Call Empire Today @ 1-844-369-3371 ————————————--Safe Step Walk-In Tub Alert for Seniors. Bathroom falls can be fatal. Approved by Arthritis Foundation. Therapeutic Jets.

Less Than 4 Inch Step-In. Wide Door. Anti-Slip Floors. American Made. Installation Included. Call 800-715-6786 for $750 Off. ————————————— Misc. For Sale ————————————— Dish Network – Get MORE for LESS! Starting $19.99/month (for 12 months.) PLUS Bundle & SAVE (Fast Internet for $15 more/month.) 800-278-1401 ————————————— VIAGRA and CIALIS USERS! 50 Pills SPECIAL - $99.00.

FREE Shipping! 100% guaranteed.

Call NOW! 855-409-4132

pe day.

g

Application forms, along with the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) Supplemental Application, are available at the County Board Office, Room 209, McHenry County Government Center, 667 Ware Road, Woodstock, IL 60098 (815-334-4221) or at the County's website http://www.co.mchenry.il.us and http://www.co.mchenry.il.us/home/showdocument?i d=12290. Completed applications should be returned to the County Board office no later than 2:00 p.m. on Friday, January 29, 2016. If mailing your application, certified or registered mail is recomapplications mended. Mailed should be sent to the following address: McHenry County Board, 2200 North Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, IL 60098.

(Published in the Northwest Herald December 29, 2015.) 1145046

Dated December 17, 2015

The Illinois Classified Advertising Network (ICAN) provides advertising of a national appeal.

To advertise in this section, please call ICAN directly at 217-241-1700. We recommend discretion when responding.

Please refer questions & comments directly to ICAN.

/s/ Mary E. McClellan County Clerk (Published in the Northwest Herald December 22, 29, 2015, January 5, 2016) 1144180

PUBLIC NOTICE

READER NOTICE:

As a service to you -- our valued readers -- we offer the following information. This newspaper will never knowingly accept any advertisement that is illegal or considered fraudulent. If you have questions or doubts about any ads on these pages, we advise that before responding or sending money ahead of time, you check ith th lo l Atto Ge l'

ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on December 9, 2015, a certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of McHenry County, Illinois, setting forth the names and post-office address of all of the persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as

y yo with the local Attorney General's Consumer Fraud Line and/or the Better Business Bureau. They may have records or documented complaints that will serve to caution you about doing business with these advertisers. Also be advised that some phone numbers published in these ads may require an extra charge. In all cases of questionable value, such as promises or guaranteed income from work-at-home programs, money to loan, etc., if it sounds too good to be true -- it may in fact be exactly that.

Again, contact the local and/or national agency that may be able to provide you with some backnd th ie This

CLASSIFIED 3

pr yo ground on these companies. This newspaper cannot be held responsible for any negative consequences that occur as a result of you doing business with these advertisers.

Share your photos with McHenry County!

McHenryCountySports.com is McHenry County Sports

Send your Classified Advertising 24/7 to: Email: classified@ shawsuburban.com Fax: 815-477-8898 or online at: www.nwherald.com

NWHerald.com /myphotos Upload photos of your family and friends with our online photo album.

Share your sports team, birthday party, big catch, pets, or vacation!

Place your Classified ad online 24/7 at: www.nwherald.com/PlaceAnAd

TODAY'S BUISNESS FUNDING AND CREDIT LLC located at: 5002 SANDBURG DR MCHENRY, IL 60050

PUBLIC NOTICE ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE

Dated December 9, 2015

Public Notice is hereby given that on December 17, 2015, a certificate was filed in the Office of the County Clerk of McHenry County, Illinois, setting forth the names and post-office address of all of the persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as

/s/ Mary E. McClellan County Clerk (Published in the Northwest Herald December 15, 22, 29, 2015) 1141531

January 1st 9am 2601 Lakeland Blvd - Mattoon, IL 900 Guns From Antiques to New in Box! Colt, Winchester, Browning, Military, Rugers, S&W, MORE! www.bauerauction.com

ProActive Home Maintenance Services located at: 1140 Heavens Gate, Lake In The Hills IL 60156

————————————— Computers: $50. LED TV's: $75.

Italian made handbags: $15.

Top brands designer dresses: $10.

Liquidations from 200+ companies. Up to 90% off original wholesale.

Visit: Webcloseout.com ————————————— Miscellaneous ————————————— Get The Big Deal from DIRECTV! Act Now - $19.99/mo. Free 3Months of HBO, Starz, SHOWTIME & CIMEMAX FREE GENIE HD/DVR Upgrade! 2014 NFL Sunday Ticket Included with Select Packages.

New Customers Only IV Support Holdings LLC – An authorized DirecTV Dealer Some exclusions apply – Call for details 1-800897-4169 ————————————— Emergencies can strike at any time.

Wise Food Storage makes it easy to prepare with tasty, easy-to-cook meals that have a 25-year shelf life. FREE SAMPLE. Call: 844-797-6877 ————————————— Acorn Stairlifts. The AFFORDABLE solution to your stairs! **Limited time - $250 Off Your Stairlift Purchase!** Buy Direct & SAVE. Please call 1-800-304-4489 for FREE DVD and brochure.

————————————— SAVE ON HOME INSURANCE WITH CUSTOMIZED COVERAGE. Call for a free quote: 855-502-3293 ————————————— KILL BED BUGS! Buy Harris Bed Bug killer Complete Treatment Program/Kit. Harris Mattress Covers add Extra Protection! Available: ACE Hardware, Buy Online: homedepot.com t————————————— Education & Training ————————————— NEW YEAR, NEW AIRLINE CAREERS GET FAA certified Aviation Technician training. Financial aid for qualified students. Career placement assistance. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance 1-877-818-0783 www.FixJets.com ————————————— EARN YOUR HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA ONLINE. Accredited – Affordable. Call Penn Foster High School: 855-781-1779

—————--———————— Financial ————————————— SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY BENEFITS. Unable to work? Denied benefits? We Can Help! WIN or Pay Nothing! Contact Bill Gordon & Associates at 1-800-706-8742 to start your application today!

————————————— Sell your structured settlement or annuity payments for CASH NOW, You don't have to wait for your future payments any longer!

Call 1-800-283-3601 ————————————— Call now to secure a super low rate on your Mortgage. Don't wait for Rates to increase. Act Now! Call 1-888-859-9539 ————————————— Are you in BIG trouble with the IRS? Stop wage & bank levies, liens & audits, unfiled tax returns, payroll issues & resolve tax debt FAST. Call 844-245-2287 ————————————— Need Funding For Your Business?

Business Loans - $5K-$250K. We work with all types of credit!

To apply, call: 855-577-0314 ————————————— Xarelto users have you had complications due to internal bleeding (after January 2012)?

If so, you MAY be due financial compensation. If you don't have an attorney, CALL Injuryfone today!

800-405-8327 —————————————Personals —————————————— Flirt, Chat & Date! Talk to real singles in your area! Call Now! Free to try! 855-684-7573 —————————————— A PLACE FOR MOM. The nation's largest senior living referral service.

Contact our trusted, local experts today! Our service is FREE/no obligation. CALL 1-800-717-2905 —————————————Wanted to Buy —————————————— OLD GUITARS WANTED! Gibson, Martin, Fender, Gretsch, Epiphone, Guild, Mosrite, Rickenbacker, Prairie State, D Angelico, Stromberg, and Gibson Mandolins/Banjos. 1920's thru 1980's. TOP CASH PAID! 1-800-401-0440

BRIDGE

Crossword ACROSS

36 Who said “It’s hard to be humble when you’re as great as I am”

60 Washer action … or a hint to 1 ___ Games four consecutive letters inside 6 Part of a plant or 18-, 23-, 38- and a wineglass 49-Across 37 ___ Raton, Fla. 10 Colony dwellers 63 Certain 38 Besides Charlie Comedy Central 14 Soul singer Chaplin, only production Adams film director on 64 Wan 15 Cy Young Award Time’s list of winner Sparky the 100 most 65 Word after influential people beauty or blind 16 Thief’s bagful of the 20th 66 Markswoman century 17 Memorable Oakley “Animal House” 42 Repulsive 67 White icing on costumes a gingerbread 43 Kellogg’s Cracklin’ 18 1978 Cheech & house, possibly ___ Bran Chong comedy 68 Lad’s partner 20 Helpful cry during 44 Biblical beasts 69 “Common a rescue mission 45 3-D image Sense” writer in medical 22 Lopsided diagnoses 23 Academy DOWN 47 Tina who won Award winner 1 Chaim who wrote the Mark for “American “The Chosen” Twain Prize for Beauty” American Humor 2 “It’s ___ Thing” 26 Black ___ (some (1981 hit by the military missions) 49 Gilbert and Whispers) Sullivan operetta 27 Weapons set on a ship 3 Israel’s ___ stockpile Desert 55 Very, in music 32 Morocco’s 4 Arcade game capital 59 Days of yore pioneer 5 Love letter ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE 6 Eats noisily 7 High-strung, as a T A R P M I D D A Y A P P personality O D I E N I C E O N E L I L 8 Whitney who F I F T H E L E M E N T O V A invented the U N F A I R C O T S H O T cotton gin F O U R T H E S T A T E 9 Baritones, M A S A I G E E S P A S typically A C T I A L A S E S T E T 10 Charitable T H I R D T I M E S A C H A R M donations H E L L O S D I Y E T N A 11 ___ and cranny L I R E F I G O D E O N 12 Puff on a joint H A L F M A R A T H O N 13 Meat-andO M I T I B M O C U L U S vegetables dish G I F W H O L E S H E B A N G 19 Verbalizes A G E P A T E N T S E M I T 21 Paranormal N O S M I S S U S R A T S ability, for short

Edited by Will Shortz 1

2

3

4

5

6

14

15

17

18

20

7

21

34

35

42

43

45

29

30

31

52

53

54

41 44 47

49 57

13

37

40

46

56

28

36 39

12

25

27

38

11

22 24

33

10

19

26

55

9

By PHILLIP ALDER Newspaper Enterprise Association

16

23

32

8

No. 1124

48

50

58

51

59

60

61

62

63

64

65

66

67

68

69

PUZZLE BY GARY CEE

24 Colombian metropolis 25 Ontario border lake 28 Recedes 29 Dissents 30 Piece of land 31 Tarries 32 Click yes or no on an e-vite, say 33 “___ is like kissing your sister” (sports adage)

34 Heavyweight’s prize 35 Fifth and Park, in N.Y.C. 36 Perceptive, as a pupil 39 Linguist Chomsky 40 ___-serif typeface 41 Show some guile 46 Stylish 47 Steakhouse offerings 48 Call it a day 50 Pullover shirts

51 Grammy winner Apple 52 Native of Muscat 53 Pine exudation 54 ___ Lauder 55 Nile vipers 56 Extend across 57 Structure with a rounded top 58 All over again 61 Designer’s monogram 62 Tax time busy bee

Online subscriptions: Today’s puzzle and more than 7,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year).

Read about and comment on each puzzle: nytimes.com/wordplay.

Crosswords for young solvers: nytimes.com/studentcrosswords.

Contact Phillip Alder at www.bridgeforeveryone.com

4 CLASSIFIED • Tuesday, December 29, 2015 • Section D • Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com

! !

HOROSCOPE

! !

CROSSWORD

! !

SUDOKU

TODAY - Broaden your horizons and explore new territory. If you focus on diversity, you will utilize your skills to the fullest. This is a year of opportunity, but it’s up to you to take advantage of what comes your way.

Now is the time to make personal improvements and gains.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Don’t waste time arguing when you should be expanding your interests and looking for investments and projects that are exciting, challenging and beneficial to your career.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Partnerships should be questioned if you feel apprehensive. Make a point to go over your options and not only look at the facts, but follow your heart as well.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Keep an open mind, but don’t let anyone talk you into something that doesn’t feel right. Offer suggestions, but refrain from making cash donations or lending money or possessions.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Listen carefully before you offer your opinion. You’ll end up in an argument if you are too quick to judge. Put more effort into personal gains than into helping someone else advance.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Business meetings, interviews or updating your resume will pay off. A short trip will result in knowledge that will help you advance.

Romance is in the stars.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Someone’s motives will be questionable. Don’t do something just because someone else does. Pick and choose what you want to do based on your skills. Practicality and reason will help you avoid loss.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Partnerships, your personal environment and the initiation of unusual but beneficial changes are highlighted. A discussion with someone you love will lead to solid plans. Romance will spice up your life.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Don’t be afraid to ask for help. A new acquaintance will make a difference to the way you approach someone or something that can alter your personal or professional future. Embrace change.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Socializing, networking or checking out an interesting project will help you come to an important decision. Positive changes at home can be expected if you are up front about what you want.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- If you volunteer to help a cause you believe in, the people you encounter will brighten your day and encourage you to make the changes that you’ve been putting off making.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- An emotional situation will be a telltale sign regarding the way someone feels about you. Listen, but don’t respond until you have a solid suggestion or compromise.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Stick close to home and work toward making your surroundings more convenient and comfortable. Avoid taking on responsibilities that don’t belong to you. React from the heart.

! !

JUMBLE

TUESDAY EVENING DECEMBER 29, 2015 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

CBS 2 News at CBS Evening CBS 2 News at Entertainment NCIS “Stop the Bleeding” Gibbs The 38th Annual Kennedy Center Honors King, Lucas, Moreno, Ozawa CBS 2 News at (:35) The Late Show With Stephen (:37) The Late Late Show With Comics Un^ WBBM 10PM (N) (CC) Colbert ’ leashed 6PM (N) (CC) Tonight (N) ’ fights for his life. (CC) (DVS) James Corden ’ (CC) 5:00PM (N) ’ News/Pelley and Tyson. (N) ’ (CC) NBC5 News 5P NBC Nightly NBC5 News 6P Access Holly- Hollywood Game Night John Leg- Chicago Med “iNO” Treating a teen Chicago Fire Severide deals with a NBC5 News 10P (:34) The Tonight Show Starring (:37) Late Night With Seth Meyers Last Call With % WMAQ (N) (CC) wood (N) (CC) end; Chrissy Teigen. ’ (CC) News - Holt (N) (CC) (N) (CC) Carson Daly ’ Jimmy Fallon ’ (CC) ’ (CC) who’s just given birth. ’ difficult day. ’ (CC) (DVS) ABC7 Eyewit- (:35) Jimmy Kimmel Live John (:37) Nightline (12:07) Windy City Live David Muir; ABC7 Eyewit- ABC World ABC7 Eyewit- Wheel of For- Fresh Off the The Muppets ’ Beyond the Tank Robert Herjavec Beyond the Tank ’ (CC) _ WLS ness News (N) News ness News (N) Krasinski; Chris Fowler. ’ (CC) ness News (N) tune (N) (CC) Boat ’ (CC) (CC) (N) (CC) checks on Chord Buddy. (CC) Lisa Ling; Elizabeth Dole. ’ Everybody The Middle “The (4:00) WGN Evening News The Two and a Half Two and a Half The Flash Patty and Barry become iZombie “Abra Cadaver” An illusion- WGN News at Nine (N) ’ (Live) WGN News at Friends ’ (CC) Friends ’ (CC) Everybody ) WGN day’s top stories. (N) (CC) Ten (N) (CC) Loves Raymond Loves Raymond Hose” ’ (CC) Men ’ (CC) Men ’ (CC) closer. ’ (CC) ist is murdered. ’ (CC) Nightly Busi- Chicago Tonight ’ PBS NewsHour (N) ’ (CC) Chicago Tonight (N) ’ Prohibition Support for Prohibition diminishes. ’ (Part 3 of 3) (CC) (DVS) Frontline Women who were once BBC World Wild Kratts ’ Wild Kratts + WTTW (EI) (CC) “When Fish Fly” held as sex slaves. ’ (PA) (CC) News ’ (CC) ness Report (N) To the Contrary Nightly Busi- Charlie Rose ’ (CC) Antiques Roadshow Tin toys; Marx Poirot A prince desires to marry an A Very British Murder The golden DW News Democracy Now! Current Events & Tavis Smiley ’ Charlie Rose (N) ’ (CC) 4 WYCC With Bonnie ness Report (N) car and dump truck. (CC) actress. (CC) News in the World.

(CC) age of detective fiction. ’ (CC) Two and a Half Two and a Half The Simpsons College Football: Nova Home Loans Arizona Bowl -- Nevada vs. Colorado State. Nevada and Colorado State, a pair of Mountain The Walking Dead Rick leads the The Walking Dead Rick discovers a Cheaters ’ (CC) Raising Hope 8 WCGV West teams, collide in the first-ever Arizona Bowl. (N) (Live) Men ’ (CC) Men ’ (CC) ’ (CC) group out of Atlanta. ’ possible safe haven. ’ “Bee Story” ’ The King of Lauren Lake’s Judge Faith ’ Mike & Molly Mike & Molly ’ ABC7 Eyewitness News on WCIU, Rules of En- Family Guy ’ 2 Broke Girls ’ 2 Broke Girls ’ Seinfeld “The Seinfeld “The The King of Family Guy ’ Rules of En: WCIU Paternity Court (CC) Queens (CC) Queens (CC) (CC) The U (N) Baby Shower” Watch” (CC) “School Recital” (CC) (CC) (CC) gagement ’ gagement ’ (CC) Modern Family New Girl ’ Grandfathered New Girl ’ Derm Exclusive!

The Grinder ’ Fox Chicago News at Nine (N) ’ Modern Family TMZ ’ (CC) Dish Nation ’ TMZ Live ’ (CC) @ WFLD TMZ (N) (CC) Dish Nation (N) Big Bang BBC World Nightly Busi- Nostra Aetate Concert ’ (CC) Doc Martin Martin is worried about BBC World Adelante PBS NewsHour (N) ’ (CC) PBS NewsHour (N) ’ (CC) Charlie Rose (N) ’ (CC) Tavis Smiley ’ DW News D WMVT (CC) News America ness Report (N) News ’ (CC) the nanny. ’ (CC) Paid Program Paid Program Saving Hope “A New Beginning” Saving Hope ’ (CC) Criminal Minds “Retaliation” ’ Criminal Minds “The Hunt” ’ Criminal Minds “Burn” ’ Criminal Minds ’ (CC) (DVS) F WCPX Criminal Minds “Slave of Duty” Modern Family New Girl ’ Grandfathered New Girl ’ Modern Family Big Bang The Simpsons TMZ (N) (CC) How I Met How I Met The Grinder ’ Eyewitness News at Nine (N) G WQRF Two/Half Men Two/Half Men Big Bang Crazy Talk (N) Crazy Talk ’ Family Feud ’ Family Feud ’ The Walking Dead Rick leads the The Walking Dead Rick discovers a The Big Bang How I Met Your The Simpsons How I Met Your Anger Manage- Anger Manage- Tosh.0 ’ (CC) Paid Program R WPWR Mother (CC) ment (CC) ment (CC) Theory (CC) Mother (CC) “Bull-E” (CC) (CC) (CC) (CC) group out of Atlanta. ’ possible safe haven. ’ ’ (CC) CABLE 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 Married at First Sight (N) (CC) (:01) Married at First Sight (CC) (12:01) Married at First Sight ’ (A&E) Married at First Sight ’ (CC) Married at First Sight ’ (CC) Married at First Sight ’ (CC) (:01) Born This Way (N) ’ (CC) (:02) Born This Way ’ (CC) (4:30) The Walk- The Walking Dead Hershel dis- The Walking Dead “Secrets” Glenn The Walking Dead Secrets are told The Walking Dead Rick and Glenn The Walking Dead Rick, Hershel The Walking Dead Rick and Shane The Walking Dead Rick and Shane The Walking (AMC) ing Dead (CC) agrees with the group’s plan.

Dead (CC) thinks he knows too much. and revealed. (CC) follow Hershel into town. and Glenn try to survive. (CC) are in conflict. (CC) share sides. (CC) (ANPL) River Monsters “Silent Assassin” Mermaids: The Body Found A team claims to have found a mermaid. The Cannibal in the Jungle ’ (CC) (:01) Mermaids: The Body Found ’ (CC) (12:01) River Monsters ’ (CC) All the Best, All the Worst 2015 CNN Newsroom Live (N) Erin Burnett OutFront (N) Anderson Cooper 360 (N) (CC) All the Best, All the Worst 2015 CNN Tonight With Don Lemon (N) Anderson Cooper 360 (CC) (CNN) The Situation Room (N) (:31) Tosh.0 (12:01) Tosh.0 (:33) Tosh.0 Tosh.0 (CC) Tosh.0 (CC) Tosh.0 (CC) Tosh.0 (CC) Tosh.0 (CC) Tosh.0 (CC) Tosh.0 (CC) The Comedy Central Roast “James Franco” (CC) (COM) (4:56) Futurama (:28) Futurama Tosh.0 (CC) SportsNet Cent Blackhawks All Blackhawks Blackhawks SportsNet Cent Fantasy Ftb SportsNet Cent NHL Hockey NHL Hockey: Chicago Blackhawks at Arizona Coyotes. (N) (Live) (CSN) Inside Look SportsTalk Live (N) ’ (Live) (:02) Moonshiners: Outlaw Cuts (12:02) Moonshiners “Still Life” (DISC) Moonshiners “Still Life” ’ (CC) Moonshiners “Rain or Shine” ’ Moonshiners: Outlaw Cuts (N) ’ Moonshiners (N) ’ (CC) (:01) The Ballad of Jim Tom ’ (:01) Moonshiners ’ (CC) Girl Meets World Girl Meets World K.C. Undercover Bunk’d ’ (CC) Movie “Invisible Sister” (2015) Rowan Blanchard. Girl Meets World Best Friends Liv and Maddie Girl Meets World Austin & Ally ’ Jessie ’ (CC) Jessie “Panic Austin & Ally ’ Hannah Mon(DISN) Attack Room” (CC) (CC) tana ’ (CC) Whenever ’ ’ (CC) ’ (CC) ’ (CC) ’ (CC) ’ (CC) Cleo accidentally makes her sister invisible. ’ ‘NR’ ’ (CC) Movie: › “The Fan” (1996) Robert De Niro, Wesley Snipes. iTV. A Movie: ›› “Eraser” (1996) Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Caan. iTV. A Movie: ›››› “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” (1991) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda (:20) Movie: ›› “Fire Down Below” (1997, Action) (ENC) slumping baseball star is stalked by a psychotic admirer. ’ (CC) government agent protects a witness from gunrunners. ’ (CC) Hamilton. iTV. Cyborgs battle over a youth who holds the key to the future. ’ (CC) Steven Seagal, Marg Helgenberger. iTV. ’ (CC) College Football: AdvoCare V100 Texas Bowl -- LSU vs. Texas Tech. (N) (Live) (CC) SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) (ESPN) (4:30) College Football: Russell Athletic Bowl -- North Carolina vs. Baylor. (N) (Live) (CC) SportsCenter NBA Tonight (N) College Football College Basketball: Florida State at Florida. (N) (Live) College Basketball: Connecticut at Texas. (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) (Live) (CC) (ESPN2) College Basketball Movie: “Another Cinderella Story” (2008) Selena Gomez.

(FAM) (4:00) Movie: ›› “Twilight” (2008, Romance) Kristen Stewart. (:15) Movie: ››› “Pitch Perfect” (2012, Musical Comedy) Anna Kendrick, Skylar Astin, Rebel Wilson.

The 700 Club ’ (CC) The Kelly File The Kelly File (N) Hannity Guest host Mark Steyn. The O’Reilly Factor (CC) Hannity Guest host Mark Steyn.

(FNC) Special Report With Bret Baier On Record, Greta Van Susteren The O’Reilly Factor (N) (CC) Chopped “Sports Stars” Chopped Junior (N) Chopped “Tendon Intentions” Chopped “Wild Ride” Chopped “T.G.I. Fry-Day” Chopped “Tendon Intentions” Chopped “Wild Ride” (FOOD) Chopped “Take Heart” (FX) Movie: ›› “Taken 2” (2012, Action) Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace.

Movie: › “R.I.P.D.” (2013, Action) Jeff Bridges, Ryan Reynolds.

Movie: › “R.I.P.D.” (2013, Action) Jeff Bridges, Ryan Reynolds.

Movie: ›› “Taken 2” (2012, Action) Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace.

Movie: “A Christmas Detour” (2015, Romance) Candace Cameron Movie: “Crown for Christmas” (2015) Danica McKellar, Rupert Penry The Middle ’ The Middle “The Movie: “Christmas Under Wraps” (2014, Drama) Candace Cameron Movie: “On the Twelfth Day of (HALL) Bure, Paul Greene. Two travelers become stranded in Buffalo. (CC) Christmas” (2015) Robin Dunne.

Bure. A doctor discovers an Alaskan town’s holiday secret. (CC) Jones. Sparks fly between a European king and a governess. (CC) (CC) Trip” ’ House Hunters Hunters Int’l Fixer Upper (CC) House Hunters Hunters Int’l Fixer Upper (CC) Fixer Upper An old Victorian.

Fixer Upper (CC) Fixer Upper (CC) (HGTV) Fixer Upper (CC) Oak Island: Digging Deeper Oak Island: Digging Deeper (12:01) The Curse of Oak Island The Curse of Oak Island (CC) (HIST) Hunting Hitler ’ (CC) The Curse of Oak Island (N) ’ Hunting Hitler “Hitler’s Plane” ’ (:03) Hunting Hitler ’ (CC) Movie: › “I Don’t Know How She Does It” (2011, Comedy) Sarah JesMovie: ›› “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past” (2009) Matthew McConaughey. (:02) Movie: › “The Ugly Truth” (2009) Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler. (:02) Movie: ›› “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past” (2009) Matthew McCo(LIFE) sica Parker, Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear. (CC) Spirits of ex-lovers show a cad his failed relationships. (CC) A romantically challenged woman faces outrageous tests. (CC) naughey. Spirits of ex-lovers show a cad his failed relationships.

Clash at the Border Caught on Camera Caught on Camera Hardball With Chris Matthews (N) All In With Chris Hayes (N) The Rachel Maddow Show (N) The Last Word (MSNBC) MSNBC Live (N) (MTV) (4:00) Movie: ›› “Little Man” Movie: ›› “Project X” (2012) Thomas Mann, Oliver Cooper. ’ Movie: ›› “I Am Number Four” (2011) Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant. Premiere. ’ Movie: ››› “8 Mile” (2002, Drama) Eminem, Kim Basinger. ’ (CC) SpongeBob SpongeBob (NICK) Alvinnn!!! and Alvinnn!!! and Alvinnn!!! and SpongeBob Full House ’ Full House ’ Full House ’ Full House ’ Friends (CC) Friends (CC) Friends (CC) (:33) Friends ’ Fresh Prince Fresh Prince (4:30) Movie: ››› “Back to the Future” (1985, Comedy) Michael J. Fox, Christopher Movie: ››› “Back to the Future Part II” (1989, Comedy) Michael J. Fox, Christopher Movie: ››› “Back to the Future Part III” (1990, Comedy) Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenbur(SPIKE) Lloyd, Crispin Glover. A boy travels through time to his parents’ teenage years. ’ Lloyd. Marty’s time traveling is threatened by a dangerous rival. ’ gen. Marty McFly visits the Old West to save the imperiled Doc. ’ (4:00) Movie: ››› “The Conjuring” (2013, Horror) Movie: ››› “The Bourne Ultimatum” (2007, Action) Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, Joan Allen. The Expanse “CQB” Holden and The Expanse Holden and crew and The Expanse “CQB” Holden and Movie: ›› “Aliens vs. Predator: (SYFY) crew are in a crossfire. (N) (CC) taken prisoner. (CC) crew are in a crossfire. (CC) Requiem” (2007) John Ortiz (CC) Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson. (CC) Jason Bourne continues to look for clues to unravel his true identity. (CC) (:15) Movie: ››› “Jason and the Argonauts” (1963) Todd Armstrong.

Movie: ›››› “Gigi” (1958) Leslie Caron.

A Gay ’90s Parisian finds he (:15) Movie: ›› “Too Late for Tears” (1949, Crime Drama) Lizabeth Movie: ››› “The Defiant Ones” (1958) Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier.

(TCM) The mythic hero and his crew search for the Golden Fleece. wants to marry his would-be mistress. (CC) (DVS) Scott. A woman’s greed surfaces when stolen cash lands in her car.

Shackled convicts must put aside racial hatred to escape. (CC) Jill & Jessa: Recount Kate Plus 8 “Florida Fun” (CC) Kate Plus 8 “What’s Old Is New” Jill & Jessa: Recount (TLC) Kate Plus 8 (N) ’ (CC) 7 Little Johnstons ’ (CC) Kate Plus 8 ’ (CC) 7 Little Johnstons ’ (CC) Legends (CC) Legends (CC) (TNT) (4:30) Movie: ›› “Now You See Me” (2013) Jesse Eisenberg.

Movie: ›› “Olympus Has Fallen” (2013) Gerard Butler. (CC) (DVS) Movie: ›› “Limitless” (2011) Bradley Cooper. (CC) (DVS) Andy Griffith Andy Griffith Facts of Life Facts of Life (:12) The Facts of Life ’ (CC) Love-Raymond Love-Raymond Love-Raymond Love-Raymond King of Queens King of Queens King of Queens King of Queens Old Christine Old Christine (TVL) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Modern Family Modern Family Modern Family Modern Family Modern Family Modern Family Modern Family Modern Family Mr. Robot “eps1.0hellofriend.mov” (:05) Mr. Robot “eps1.0hellofriend.mov” Elliot meets (:42) Mr. Robot (USA) (CC) (DVS) “Fight or Flight” (CC) (DVS) “Spring Break” (CC) (DVS) “Patriot Games” (CC) (DVS) Elliot meets Mr. Robot.

Mr. Robot. (CC) (DVS) Elliot is torn.

Two murder investigations. ’ “Integrity” ’ (VH1) Black Ink Crew: Chicago ’ Black Ink Crew: Chicago ’ Love & Hip Hop ’ Love & Hip Hop ’ Movie: ››› “Boyz N the Hood” (1991, Drama) Larry Fishburne, Ice Cube. ’ Movie: “Nas: Time Is Illmatic” (2014) ’ Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang 2 Broke Girls Conan (CC) Cougar Town Conan (CC) (WTBS) Seinfeld (CC) Seinfeld (CC) Seinfeld (CC) Seinfeld (CC) 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 REAL Sports With Bryant Gumbel Movie ›› “Dumb and Dumber To” (2014) Jim Carrey. Lloyd and Harry Movie ›› “The Water Diviner” (2014) Russell Crowe. An Australian Boxing’s Best of (:45) Boxing’s Best of 2015 (N) (:35) Movie ›› “A Little Chaos” (2014, Historical (HBO) 2015 (N) ’ ’ (CC) ’ (CC) Drama) Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman. ’ ‘R’ (CC) set out to find the child Harry never knew. ’ ‘PG-13’ (CC) looks for his missing sons after World War I. ’ ‘R’ (CC) (3:30) Movie (:25) Movie ››› “Neighbors” (2014, Comedy) Seth (:05) Movie ››› “Edge of Tomorrow” (2014) Tom Cruise.

A soldier in Movie ››› “Transformers” (2007, Action) Shia LaBeouf, Tyrese Gibson, Josh Duhamel. (:25) Life on Top Feature 1: Innocence A compilation (MAX) “Black Sea” ‘R’ of episodes. ’ (CC) Rogen, Zac Efron, Rose Byrne. ’ ‘R’ (CC) an alien war gets caught in a time loop. ’ ‘PG-13’ (CC) Two races of robots wage war on Earth. ’ ‘PG-13’ (CC) (4:00) “Proph- (:45) Movie ››› “Good Will Hunting” (1997, Drama) Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Inside the NFL Highlights and Inside the NFL Highlights and Play It Forward ’ (CC) Movie ›››› “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991) Jodie Foster.

A mad (SHOW) et’s Prey” ‘NR’ analysis from week sixteen. (CC) analysis from week sixteen. (N) genius helps an FBI trainee pursue a serial killer. ’ ‘R’ (CC) Affleck. A young Boston man must deal with his genius and emotions. ’ ‘R’ (CC) (4:00) Movie ››› “Rampart” Movie ›› “Ping Pong Summer” (2014, Comedy) (:35) Movie ›› “Get Over It” (2001, Romance-Come- (:05) Movie › “Vampire Academy” (2014) Zoey Deutch. A half-human Movie ›› “The Riot Club” (2014, Drama) Sam Claflin, Max Irons. Two (TMC) (2011) Woody Harrelson. ‘R’ (CC) Marcello Conte, Judah Friedlander. ’ ‘NR’ (CC) dy) Kirsten Dunst. ’ ‘PG-13’ (CC) teen trains to be guardian for a vampire royal. ’ ‘PG-13’ (CC) first-year students at Oxford join a secret society. ’ ‘R’ (CC)