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TRUMP ON BRINK Hillary Clinton does not concede; some states still counting / A11

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STATE’S ATTORNEY

Kenneally wins state’s attorney race

Republican Patrick Kenneally scored a decisive victory in the race to succeed three-term State’s Attorney Lou Bianchi, who is retiring. Kenneally won with 63 percent of the votes over Democrat Ray Flavin.

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McHENRY COUNTY BOARD

11 Republicans, 1 Dem win County Board seats

Paula Yensen was the lone Democrat elected to the County Board on Tuesday, with Republicans winning the 11 other seats.

Yensen will join County Board Chairman-elect Jack Franks as the only Democrats on the board.

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REFERENDUMS

Majority oppose CL library referendum

A majority of Crystal Lake voters opposed a nonbinding referendum recommending the City Council borrow $30.1 million to build a new library. Countywide, voters were in favor of shrinking the size of the McHenry County Board.

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Presidential race surprises; McHenry County ones do not

Well, I didn’t see that coming.

As I write this up early Wednesday, Republican Donald Trump appeared on his way to defying the odds, the polls and his own party’s establishment by winning the White House in stunning fashion. The race wasn’t called as of 1 a.m., but Democrat Hillary Clinton’s hopes were slim, at best.

As you read this, in fact, it might now be over.

If it wasn’t clear before, it certainly is now that a vast number of Americans are fed up with business as usual in Washington, D.C. They’re so fed up that they decided to cast their ballot for a candidate who, in the words of the Northwest Herald Editorial Board, “is a shallow, narcissistic – perhaps sociopathic – bully who treats women as sex objects, belittles the handicapped, and has skin so thin he lashes out on Twitter against anyone who opposes him.”

But that was then, and this is now. Trump likely will be our next president. He deserves a chance to succeed. Given his history, however, he also deserves our careful scrutiny. It should be an interesting next four years.

Since there still is a slight bit of uncertainty in that race, I’ll turn my attention to the local contests, where there is no doubt.

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FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK Dan McCaleb

Congratulations to Patrick Kenneally, Jack Franks and Joe Tirio for their easy victories in races for McHenry County state’s attorney, County Board chairman and recorder, respectively.

Franks, a Democrat, faces the tough task of leading a 24-member board that likely will sit 23 Republicans. Tirio wants to merge the recorder’s office with the clerk’s office. Kenneally has the smoothest transition, as he is the hand-picked successor of retiring State’s Attorney Lou Bianchi.

Congratulations to all of the winners Wednesday, but also to all of the candidates brave enough to put themselves out there and run for elected office. It’s not an easy task.

• Dan McCaleb is executive editor of the Northwest Herald. Email him at dmccaleb@ shawmedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @Dan_McCaleb.

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TODAY’S TALKER

REFERENDUM ROUNDUP

HERSHEY TO THE RESCUE OVER STOLEN KIT KAT

Crystal Lake voters rejected a library referendum Tuesday. In other referendums in McHenry County, county residents voted in favor of shrinking the current size of the McHenry County Board in a nonbinding advisory referendum and voters in the Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Fire District approved a property tax hike for the fire district. See story, page A9

GOP DOMINATES BOARD

Republicans won 11 of 12 seats on the McHenry County Board on Tuesday. Former County Board member Paul Yensen was the lone Democrat to win, beating Republican newcomer Andrew Snarski in District 5, according to unofficial results. See story, page A6

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Kansas State University student Hunter Jobbins told The Wichita Eagle he left his car unlocked with a Kit Kat in the cup holder last month before running into his dorm building. When he came back, the candy bar had been replaced with a note. The thief wrote, “I love Kit Kats so I checked your door and it was unlocked. Did not take anything other than the Kit Kat. I am sorry and hungry.”

Jobbins’ picture of the note went viral on Twitter, and Hershey responded by sending a representative to the campus with 6,500 Kit Kat bars.

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ON THE COVER Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks Tuesday at a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Mich. Trump leads in the race, but Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton did not concede the election early Wednesday morning. Several states continued counting into the early morning hours Wednesday. See story, page A11.

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CORRECTIONS

• The number of electoral votes needed to win the U.S. presidency is 270. The information was incorrect on page A2 of Tuesday’s edition.

• Johnsburg will play Genoa-Kingston at 7 p.m. Friday in a Class 4A quarterfinal game at Johnsburg High School. The information was incorrect on page B2 of Tuesday’s edition.

The Northwest Herald regrets the errors.

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FRANKS WINS CHAIRMANSHIP

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McHenry County Board chairman candidate Jack Franks greets supporters Tuesday at Offsides in Woodstock while he waits for election results.

McHenry County picks Democrat in first-ever race for chairman

By KEVIN P. CRAVER

kcraver@shawmedia.com A Democratic Party that has made few inroads in a very Republican county scored a historic coup with Jack Franks winning the first-ever race for McHenry County Board chairman.

Franks defeated Republican candidate Michael Walkup with 57.5 percent of the vote compared with 42.5 for Walkup, according to unofficial results Tuesday night. The win marks the first time since 1978 that county voters have elected a Democrat to countywide office. Then they elected Sheriff Art Tyrrell to a third

term, and now Franks will be the first Democratic official elected to a countywide seat in decades.

The Marengo lawyer, who is stepping down from the state representative seat he has held for 18 years, pledged Tuesday night to aggressively pursue the ambitious platform of property-tax relief and accountability that he ran on, and said he wanted the county to be “a model for good government.”

“I’m humbled by the amount of support we received countywide. It was all around the county. I’m really, really excited about the future of our county. I look forward to working with people ready for real reform

and to lower our property-tax burden. As long as people are willing to put partisanship aside, we’re going to achieve great things for our county,” Franks said.

However, he will have to work with a County Board that remains solidly in Republican hands – one Democratic candidate out of 12 won a board seat. While the chairmanship is in fact a leadership role and allows the chairman to set the agendas of meetings, it does not come with a vote or with the sweeping powers of other executive offices.

Walkup did not come out of Tuesday empty-handed – the Crystal Lake lawyer won re-election to his seat

on the County Board representing District 3, according to unofficial results. Walkup ran for both seats, which is allowed under state law, so that Michael he would be able to Walkup vote on issues like the chairman can under the existing power structure can.

Tuesday’s election was the first in which McHenry County voters popularly elected the board chairman, after they approved a 2014 referendum to end the practice of the

See CHAIRMAN, page A13

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McHENRY COUNTY STATE’S ATTORNEY

KENNEALLY WINS BIG

Republican to focus on budget cuts, creating electronic warrant program

By JORDYN REILAND

jreiland@shawmedia.com Republican candidate and McHenry County First Assistant State’s Attorney Patrick Kenneally will head the office after a decisive victory over challenger Ray Flavin.

Kenneally held 85,828 votes, or about 63 percent of votes, according to unofficial results Tuesday night.

Democratic candidate Ray Flavin held about 49,418 votes, or about 36.5 percent of votes.

Kenneally will succeed current State’s Attorney Lou Bianchi, who decided against seeking a fourth term.

After Bianchi chose not to run late last year, Ray Flavin Kenneally subsequently gathered the signatures to run and defeated Republican challenger Dan Regna in the March primary.

“I’m feeling terrific, thrilled, humbled and honored that the people in McHenry County did me this wonderful honor of electing me the next state’s H. Rick Bamman – hbamman@shawmedia.com attorney,” he said Tuesday evening.

He said the long year of campaign- Retiring McHenry County State’s Attorney Lou Bianchi and State’s Attorney-elect Patrick Kenneally celebrate Kenneally’s win Tuesday ing has taught him a lot about politics at Marzano’s in McHenry. and the issues that face the McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office.

Kenneally plans to “hit the ground running” as early as next week. Two of his priorities for the beginning of next year include getting an electronic warrant pilot program off the ground and an amnesty program for those who use drugs but want treatment – similar to Lake County’s Way Out program.

Flavin, a Woodstock lawyer with 23 years of experience, was chosen by the county’s Democratic Party in July Patrick Kenneally, newly elected to face Kenneally for the position after McHenry County state’s attorney attorney James Harrison dropped out to care for an ailing family member.

“I’m obviously disappointed, but it looks like it is the year for the RepubliFlavin, who has said he undercans,” he said late Tuesday. stands the need for efficiency, consisFlavin said he was happy to have H. Rick Bamman – hbamman@shawmedia.com tently stressed the fact that any cuts run for the position because many of McHenry County State’s Attorney-elect Patrick Kenneally checks Republican results made by the state’s attorney’s office the things he wanted to see the state’s during a watch party Tuesday at Marzano’s in McHenry. would not be significant to the taxpayattorney’s office do now are being coner. sidered, including budget cuts and the positions, reducing the need for outThe office currently costs each taxpossible expansion of drug courts and every job in the office.

His goal at the end of his first term of-county office training, eliminating payer about $9. Flavin planned to conmental health and veterans programs.

Throughout his campaign, Ken- is to cut the state’s attorney’s office the need for outside counsel for labor solidate the state’s attorney’s office, cases and cutting the number of coun- where he said staffing has increased neally stressed his experience in the budget by 10 percent, or $300,000. state’s attorney’s office, doing almost He plans to do so by cutting staff ty-owned vehicles used by the office. despite smaller caseloads.

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“I’m feeling terrific, thrilled, humbled and honored that the people in McHenry County did me this wonderful honor of electing me the next state’s attorney.”

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McHENRY COUNTY BOARD

Republicans win 11 of 12 seats

Former Democratic board member Paula Yensen wins election KEVIN P. CRAVER

“It’s an honor to be serving the people of the county and the 5th District, and I will work hard to represent them McHenry County’s voters again in a way that we can lower their taxgranted the Democratic Party a mi- es,” Yensen said. nority presence on the County Board, She said that she was “delighted” but a minority of one, according to un- that Franks won the chairmanship, official vote totals. and that she looked forward to workFormer County ing with him.

Board member Paula But in the County Board’s other Yensen won election five districts, Republican candidates Tuesday evening in Disdefinitively won their election bids trict 5, beating RepubliWednesday morning. Among other can newcomer Andrew things, the Democratic Party was hamSnarski, according to Paula pered by having to find replacement unofficial results. But Yensen candidates as several withdrew and she was the only Demoone died. cratic County Board candidate of 12 who prevailed, not counting Democrat District 1 Jack Franks’ victory in the first-ever In District 1, County Board Vice race for County Board chairman.

Chairwoman Yvonne Barnes and newYensen, a Lake in the Hills trustee, comer Tom Wilbeck won with 12,493 said she was excited to win. The Dem- and 11,192 votes, compared with 8,413 ocratic Party had held a small minori- and 8,055 for Democratic challengers ty for eight years until voters in 2014 Kerri Barber and Kathryn Potter. returned the 24-member board to to- District 2 tal Republican control. Yensen served Republican board member Jeff from 2008 to 2014.

Thorsen and newcomer John Reinert kcraver@shawmedia.com

won in District 2 with 11,400 and 10,599 District 6 votes, ahead of Democratic challengVoters in rural District 6 re-elected ers Dominique Miller and Jim Roden, Republican incumbent Mary McCann who had 8,646 and 7,678 votes. and newcomer James Kearns, who is Grafton Township supervisor. They reDistrict 3 ceived 12,555 and 13,158 votes compared While Republican Michael Walkup with Democratic challengers Andrew lost his bid to become Georgi, who won 6,417 votes, and Cathy County Board chairman Johnson, who won 8,620 votes. to Franks, he sailed to re-election to his board Board newcomers seat in District 3, as did Counting Christensen, seven of newly appointed Rethe County Board’s 24 members will publican member Chris be freshmen when the new board is Christensen. sworn in next month. Two Republicans Michael W a l k u p r e c e i v e d Walkup lost their re-election bids in the March 11,382 votes and Chrisprimary, two decided against seeking tensen 12,003 votes, compared with re-election, one stepped down to take 8,332 for Diane Johnson and 8,568 for a job with a congressman, and two unKathleen Bergan Schmidt. successfully ran for other offices.

Bergan Schmidt, Waltmire and District 4 Cathy Johnson were replacement canRepublican newcomers Craig Wil- didates. Bergan Schmidt replaced a cox and Kay Bates handily won their candidate who died, and Johnson reraces in District 4, receiving 12,764 and placed one who moved out of state. In 12,335 votes compared with 7,241 and Waltmire’s case, he replaced a replace5,732 votes for Democratic challengers ment – a candidate dropped out, folRobert Rosenberg and Arne Waltmire. lowed by the one appointed in his place.

McHENRY COUNTY RECORDER

Tirio wins on platform to eliminate office

By HANNAH PROKOP

hprokop@shawmedia.com Republican candidate Joe Tirio has won the race for McHenry County recorder, according to unofficial vote counts Tuesday, and he plans to make his first term in the position his last.

Tirio, of Woodstock, faced Democratic opponent Lynn Gray, of Joe Tirio Marengo, in the election.

Tirio had about 77,532 votes, or about 58 percent, according to unofficial tallies. He ran with the intention of eliminating the office and merging it with the county clerk, as has been done

“There’s an opportunity to not only eliminate the role, but also examine the work being done. It will provide career growth opportunity for the staff of both the recorder and county clerk’s office.”

Joe Tirio, McHenry County recorder-elect in several other counties with independent recorder’s offices.

“There’s an opportunity to not only eliminate the role, but also examine the work being done,” Tirio said Tuesday night. “It will provide career growth opportunity for the staff of both the recorder and county clerk’s office.”

In the beginning, though, Tirio said he will take time to understand the mechanisms of the office and get to

know the people on his team.

Gray, a certified Illinois title professional with Fidelity National Title in Crystal Lake, has said eliminating the office is a bad idea. She received about 55,579 votes, according to unofficial results.

Gray could not immediately be reached for comment Tuesday night.

Tirio will succeed current Recorder Phyllis Walters, who is retiring after

more than 30 years.

The recorder’s office is responsible for recording, retrieving and maintaining land records and real estate transactions, subdivision plats, military discharge certificates and other records. The recorder’s annual salary is $104,750, not counting benefits.

Eliminating the office must be done by voter referendum. Tirio, owner of Monarch Senior Care in Woodstock, said he will persuade the McHenry County Board to put the question on the ballot in 2018 – if it does not, he said, he will gather the signatures necessary to do so.

Tirio has been active in recent years in creating and participating in anti-tax groups, most recently Illinois Tax Revolution.

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32ND ILLINOIS SENATE

McConchie looking to Althoff set to serve focus on property taxes 4th full Senate term

By NATE LINHART

nlinhart@shawmedia.com Republican incumbent Dan McConchie beat Democratic candidate Kelly Mazeski by more than 15,000 votes in the 26th Illinois Senate District race, according to unofficial results Tuesday.

McConchie, a senior adviser for a business that applies private-sector purchasing to the government, served in the Army National Guard for eight years as an infantryman and a military police officer before a hit-and-run driver put him in a wheelchair nine years ago.

McConchie, of Hawthorn Woods, has held the seat since being appointed to finish the remaining term of Republican Dan Duffy of Lake Barrington, who served two terms before stepping down early.

“The first thing I’m planning to do

is see what we can do about property taxes,” McConchie said.

McConchie, who rejected the state lawmaker pension, said Illinois needs to test the constitutionality of moving current employees into defined contribution plans while still protecting the pension benefits they have accumulated.

Mazeski, a former financial adviser and self-described fiscal conDan servative, finished with McConchie about 40 percent of the vote, according to the unofficial results.

The district covers southeastern McHenry County, southwestern Lake County, and small areas of Kane and Cook counties, including parts of Crystal Lake, Cary, Fox River Grove, Algonquin, Oakwood Hills, Island Lake, Trout Valley and Barrington Hills.

63RD ILLINOIS HOUSE

By NATE LINHART

nlinhart@shawmedia.com Republican incumbent Pam Althoff defeated Democratic candidate Melissa Coyne by about 33,000 votes in the 32nd Illinois Senate District race, according to unofficial results posted early Wednesday.

This will be Althoff’s fourth full term serving in the Illinois Senate, where she has served since 2003.

Althoff, a former elementary school teacher, serves on several legislative committees as well as task forces.

She also serves as the Senate Republican Caucus chairwoman and has been a crucial voice in Springfield representing McHenry County’s interests during her tenure.

“It’s always wonderful to know that the people you represent appreciate what you’ve done,” Althoff said.

“I’m so grateful, especially because this is my last term.”

Althoff said she wants to bring some accountability to the state’s budgeting process and work toward education funding reform.

“The first thing I will be working on is to conclude the Grant Accountability and TransPam Althoff parency Act,” Althoff said.

Her opponent, Coyne, who finished with about 30 percent of the votes, is a Fox Lake resident and a small-business owner who has been active in charity work and youth sports.

The 32nd District covers the majority of McHenry County except for Grafton and Algonquin townships.

The district also covers the northwestern part of Lake County, including the Chain O’ Lakes.

66TH ILLINOIS HOUSE

Republican Reick wins Skillicorn set to serve Franks’ seat in House working-class families

By KEVIN P. CRAVER

kcraver@shawmedia.com Republican Steve Reick won election to a 63rd House District seat that had been in Democratic hands for almost two decades, according to unofficial results.

Reick, a tax attorney from Woodstock, defeated Democratic opponent John Bartman with 56.7 percent of the vote to 43.3 percent.

The seat became a winnable one for the GOP after Democratic state Rep. Jack Franks, who was first elected in 1998, withdrew to run for McHenry County Board chairman instead.

Bartman, a farmer from Marengo, was chosen by the Democratic Party to run in Franks’ place.

Reick, who unsuccessfully ran against Franks in 2014, said Tuesday evening that “a new day is dawning in

Illinois,” given that early returns indicated that Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan would lose his House supermajority.

Reick said he looks forward to going to Springfield and supporting Gov. Bruce Rauner’s reform initiatives.

“Michael Madigan is going to have to come to the table and negotiate rather than lord over the Steve Reick Legislature as a person who can override anything that the governor vetoes,” Reick said.

The 63rd District covers western and northern McHenry County and includes all or parts of Harvard, Hebron, Marengo, Union, Woodstock, Johnsburg, McCullom Lake, McHenry, Wonder Lake, Ringwood and Richmond.

By BRITTANY KEEPERMAN

bkeeperman@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – Allen Skillicorn has won the 66th Illinois House District seat previously held by Mike Tryon, according to unofficial vote totals with all precincts reporting.

Skillicorn held the lead over Democratic challenger Nancy Zettler by almost 6,000 votes. As of 12:15 a.m., Skillicorn had 18,876 unofficial votes to Zettler’s 12,946.

The 66th District includes parts of southeastern McHenry and northern Kane counties, including parts of Crystal Lake, Lakewood, Lake in the Hills, Huntley, Algonquin and Carpentersville. If official results are in line with preliminary numbers, Skillicorn will succeed Tryon, who is retiring.

Skillicorn said he wants to reduce taxes and reform state government while improving the business climate

for middle-income workers. An East Dundee trustee, Skillicorn points to a property tax freeze resolution implemented and passed under his term in village government.

“I’m interested in serving those in need and protecting working-class families.

We can move Springfield forward in two ways: First, by bringing bipartisan balance back to the Legislature,” he said in a previous statement to Allen the Northwest Herald.

Skillicorn “Second, Springfield needs new, independent leadership that is focused on serving our interests, not protecting their own power.”

Zettler, an Algonquin attorney, said she has run on a grass-roots campaign and would have remained independent in order to work as a bipartisan on issues that affect the people of District 66.

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Duckworth focused on middle class

By SARA BURNETT

The Associated Press

CHICAGO – Pledging to fight to rebuild the middle class, Democratic U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth recalled her own victories over adversity as she spoke after unseating Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk to become the second woman to represent Illinois in the chamber.

Duckworth spoke about growing up in a family that had to use food stamps after her father lost his job, and also recounted the day 12 years ago when the helicopter she was co-piloting in Iraq was shot down. She lost both legs but survived thanks to members of her unit who carried her lifeless body to safety, she said at Tuesday’s victory party in Chicago. One of those men was in the crowd to help celebrate.

“I wake up every morning now, trying to be worthy of my crew and their struggle, to be worthy of this miraculous second chance,” said Duckworth, who planned to make stops in Chicago, Springfield and Peoria on Wednesday.

Democrats had counted on a win in Il-

too close to call.

The two-term congresswoman from Hoffman Estates entered the race a heavy favorite; Illinois has long backed Democrats for statewide office, especially in presidential election years.

Kirk, a first-term senator, had worked for months to convince voters that he’s independent of his party by criticizing GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump as “racist” and “delusional” and talking up his record of breaking from Republicans on issues such as gun control and gay marriage.

But he hurt his own campaign with a series of controversial statements, including last month, when he had to apologize to Duckworth after mocking her immigrant background – she was born in Bangkok to a Chinese-Thai mother and American father – and her family’s military history during a debate. Two AP photo organizations withdrew their endorseSen.-elect Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois, celebrates her win Tuesday over incumbent Sen. ments, calling the remarks racist.

That was enough to persuade Charles Mark Kirk, R-Illinois, during her election night party in Chicago.

Hawley, a psychiatrist from the central linois as they looked to retake control of gaining the majority slipping away, with Illinois town of Mahomet, to cast his balthe U.S. Senate, but as of early Wednes- losses in several key states, including lot for Duckworth. “It just sort of stuck day, the party was seeing its odds of Wisconsin and Florida, and other races with me,” the 49-year-old said.

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Roskam to keep seat in Hultgren to continue House, enter 6th term fight for jobs, families Beats out Democratic challenger Howland

By BRITTANY KEEPERMAN

bkeeperman@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – Preliminary voting tallies indicate that incumbent Peter Roskam will keep his congressional seat.

Roskam, R-Wheaton, has served as representative in the U.S. House of Representatives for the 6th District of Illinois since 2007 and could now enter his sixth term, according to unofficial vote totals late Tuesday.

Roskam had the lead as of about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday with an unofficial vote count of 44,439. Democratic challenger Amanda Howland had 29,572 unofficial votes.

Howland, of Lake Zurich, is an attor-

ney, former chairman of the College of Lake County board and current community college trustee.

The 6th Congressional District includes Algonquin Township and parts of Crystal Lake, Lake in the Hills, Algonquin, Cary and Fox River Grove.

“I am honored by the trust my friends and neighbors have placed in me to represent them in our nation’s capital,” Peter Risks said in a statement.

Roskam “I am deeply grateful to have received such an outpouring of support and pledge to work hard every day to fulfill this great responsibility. Election days are about coming together as a nation to make choices about the kind of country we want to be, and today I am reminded of what an incredible privilege that is.”

By BRITTANY KEEPERMAN

bkeeperman@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – Unofficial vote totals indicate that incumbent Randy Hultgren, R-Winfield, will likely maintain his seat as congressional representative in Illinois’ 14th District.

Hultgren had about 141,929 unofficial votes compared with Democratic challenger Jim Walz’s 98,143. Votes were counted from different counties the district covers including McHenry, Lake, Will, Kane, DeKalb and Kendall.

Hultgren has held the seat as representative for Illinois’ 14th Congressional District since 2011 and said he puts small families and businesses first. He also wants to prioritize infrastructure and transportation. If elected, he said he would continue to fight for jobs, families and limited government.

“I have consistently said ‘no’ to policies that grow government and burden our children with more debt,” he said in a previous statement to the Northwest Herald. “I believe we all agree on 80 percent of the issues facing the nation. Building relationships and working on common goals can help us address the other 20 percent.”

The 14th Congressional District covers Randy most of McHenry CounHultgren ty excluding Algonquin, Cary, Lake in the Hills and parts of Crystal Lake.

Walz ran on a platform of representation for middle- and working-class people with a focus on wage raises and preserving social services such as Social Security and Medicare.

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Library referendum rejected by CL voters

By JORDYN REILAND

jreiland@shawmedia.com McHenry County voters saw a number of advisory and binding questions on the ballot on Election Day. Here’s a look at how they fared:

County Board size

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Voter Ann Erpelding (right) of Cary walks her ballot over to the electronic counter Tuesday after voting at Cary Fire Station No. 2.

Some residents report ballot problems; county clerk calls complaints ‘minutiae’

By HANNAH PROKOP

hprokop@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – About 66 percent of registered voters in McHenry County cast ballots in the 2016 general election, according to the McHenry County Clerk’s Office, the same turnout as in the 2012 general election.

This year, there were 218,178 registered voters in McHenry County, and in 2012 there were 203,225, according to the clerk’s office.

McHenry County Clerk Mary McClellan said before the election that communication and technical issues identified in the days after the March 15 primary election, and in an Illinois State Board of Elections report requested by an angry state legislator, were addressed.

While there were some problems reported Tuesday by residents of electronic ballots changing votes and people receiving the wrong ballots, McClellan said early in the evening that the complaints were “minutiae.”

As of about 12:20 a.m. Wednesday, unofficial votes for all precincts had been counted. In the March primary, re-

sults weren’t posted until the next day.

“I think the communication was a great improvement,” McClellan said.

“And I think that assisted in resolving any issues that may have arose, so I’m pleased.”

McClellan said paper and electronic ballots were available at polling locations, and unfamiliarity with machines and human error may be why some reported problems.

There were 41,672 McHenry County residents who voted early this year, McClellan said.

“I think they have local races, they have a lot to vote for, and the president as well, so it’s a great turnout,” McClellan said.

Election judge Emily Parrent said residents who voted at Bethany Lutheran Church in Crystal Lake were passionate about this presidential election.

“Some people who haven’t voted in decades decided this is the election they want to vote in,” Parrent said. “So that’s really good to see people coming out feeling like they have something to vote for, whether it’s for or against [a candidate], this time.”

In a nonbinding advisory referendum, McHenry County residents voted in favor of shrinking the current size of the McHenry County Board.

About 101,353 voters, or 77 percent, voted “yes” and 30,008 voters, or 23 percent, voted “no,” according to unofficial results.

Supporters have said the job could be done with fewer members, and that other similarly sized counties took action to reduce their sizes after the 2010 U.S. Census. Those opposed to the idea argued that reducing the size of the board could put more power into fewer hands.

The next time the County Board would be able to make a change in the number of board members is following the 2020 Census, with changes taking effect for the 2022 midterm election.

Anti-corruption laws

Voters approved of an advisory referendum that would take the power of money out of politics.

About 129,898 voters, or 94.5 percent, voted in favor and 7,594 voters, or 5.5 percent, voted against, according to unofficial results.

Voters were asked whether they support prohibiting politicians from taking campaign money from entities doing business with government; increasing campaign funding transparency; placing limits on how much super PACs and unions can raise and spend; and prohibiting elected officials and their senior staff from participating in lobbying activity for five years after leaving office.

Crystal Lake library

A majority of Crystal Lake voters opposed an advisory referendum recommending the City Council borrow $30.1 million to build a new library. The vote gives direction to council members who have the pow-

er to borrow the money without a binding referendum.

About 10,579 voters, or 56 percent, voted “no” and 8,453 voters, or 44 percent, voted “yes,” according to unofficial results.

Building and equipping a new library would increase property taxes about $132 per year for the owner of a home assessed at $200,000.

Library supporters want to build a new, 75,000-square-foot facility at its existing 126 W. Paddock St. site, about two times the size of its current 40,000-square-foot home. Supporters argued that the 50-year-old library is inadequate for future technology. Opponents believed the project was too ambitious and expensive.

Greenwood tax

Voters in Greenwood said no to levying a property tax for its roads.

About 123 voters, or 83 percent, voted “no” and 26 voters, or 17 percent, voted “yes,” according to unofficial results.

Algonquin-LITH fire tax

Voters accepted a proposal that would raise the property tax rate by 10 cents per $100 in assessed valuation.

About 7,790 voters, or 54 percent, voted “yes” and 6,593 voters, or 46 percent, voted “no,” according to unofficial results.

District voters rejected this question in the March primary by a margin of 53 percent to 47 percent. Fire officials have contended the district needs the extra money to balance its budget.

Anti-tax referendums

Voters in three taxing bodies voted “yes” for an advisory referendum to limit local governments’ power to collect more taxes.

Cary and Fox River Grove voted “yes” with roughly 91 percent of the vote, and Lakewood voted “yes” with about 92 percent of the vote, according to unofficial results.

Voters in Lakewood, Cary and Fox River Grove were asked whether taxing bodies with any boundaries in village limits should be required to seek voter approval by referendum if they want to increase their levy.

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Voters talk about election decisions, tensions as they hit the polls

By ADAM GELLER

The Associated Press Soon after Roy Brook voted Tuesday at a community center in Bessemer, Alabama, he grabbed an American flag and set out to persuade others to do the same.

“I’m not telling anyone what to do,” said Brook, 67, who resumed the place alongside local roads he has occupied for much of the last year, with a sign urging passers-by to vote. “The idea is to reach as many people as I can with the message of America...

If you’re here, love it, be a part of it.”

On Tuesday, millions of Americans marked the end of a bitterly divisive presidential campaign by joining him to do just that. They expressed both strong support and deep dislike for Brook’s candidate, Republican Donald Trump, as well as for Democrat Hillary Clinton. But if they agreed on one thing it was that, after a presidential campaign laced with vitriol, they would at least have the final word.

“I’m excited to be here and have it matter so much,” said Gabby Formica, 24, a graduate student who cast a ballot for Clinton on Tuesday in South Philadelphia, noting that Pennsylvania was a swing state.

Voters’ determination to be counted was evident from the moment the first polls opened in the darkness of midnight in northern New Hampshire, and dawn elsewhere. Throughout the day, long lines and passionate opinions confirmed the stakes.

They waited outside churches and synagogues, community centers and schools, often with snacks and children in tow.

In Los Angeles, they voted alongside the lap lanes of the Echo Park Pool and in Chicago, they cast ballots in a bowling alley over the racket of downed pins.

They voted at a county fairgrounds in Moscow, Idaho, a strip mall recently swamped by 10-foot floodwaters in Denham Springs, Louisiana, a Buddhist temple in Long Beach, California, and on the run in Colorado, Oregon and elsewhere where special drop boxes accepted ballots from joggers and motorists.

Some celebrated their votes, confident of the outcome.

“We’re the United States of Ameri-

AP photos

Roy Brook, 67, of Bessemer, Ala., waves to passing cars Tuesday as he stands near a busy highway intersection and encourages people to get out and vote in Hoover, Ala. Cori Jahns fills out her general election ballot Tuesday while her daughter, Adalynn, stands by her side at a polling place in Bradfordton, Ill. ca. We can overcome anything,” said Melanie Draheim of Houston, after casting her vote for Trump.

Others described the election as an albatross weighing on them.

“I’ve been really stressed out about this election,” said Belinda Hedrick, 62, of Mission, Kansas, who came straight from a spin class, and was still sweating, when she cast a vote for Clinton. “It’s the first time

I’ve ever woke up at night worrying about stuff.”

In Indianapolis, biologist Scott Salmon, 32, said he, too, woke up anxious, before biking to the polls.

“We have a bottle of champagne if Hillary wins and a bottle of rum if Trump wins – that kind of anxious,” he said.

Many voting Tuesday hewed to their established politics. But some

said the accusations of the campaign had pushed them across party lines.

Lisa Moore, a Republican from Glen Rock, New Jersey, said she voted for Clinton. “I think the Republican Party has gone way right of the majority of at least the residents of this section of the country,” said Moore, an exercise instructor.

“As a woman, in good conscience, and as the mother of a daughter, I can’t vote for somebody who’s so morally reprehensible” as Trump, she said.

Meanwhile, Democrat Jim Eul, 61, a retired plumbing inspector for the city of Chicago, said his intense dislike for Clinton had persuaded him to vote for Trump. He said he couldn’t bear sitting out the election, but expressed disappointment in the choices. “You’ve got two big political organizations and these are the only two they can come up with?”

Regardless of party, voters agreed the stakes of the election were tremendous.

In Anchorage, Alaska, Jeanette O’Brien, 72, said she voted for Trump because he is capable of rebuilding schools and cities that she blames President Barack Obama for letting decay. But whoever wins, she expects unrest, even a possible civil war.

“Millions of Americans will stand up to take the country back if they have to,” she said.

A fellow Alaskan, Warren Urda, explained his vote for Clinton was also about long-term consequences.

“I believe that person will select the next four Supreme Court justices and that will affect us for the next 50 years, not just for the next four years,” said Urda, a retired dentist.

Many voters expressed worries that merely counting the votes will not heal the country’s divide.

On Tuesday, Elizabeth Gil, a law student in Miami Lakes, Florida, would not say who she voted for, but expressed hope for what comes next.

“I think people want to move forward,” said Gil, who avoided early voting because she treasures the experience of going to the polls on Election Day. “There’s too much division. If we’re going to work with one another, to hear each other’s different points of views, that is how we can move forward together as a country.”

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Trump wins crucial battles in Ohio, Florida in race to White House

By JULIE PACE and ROBERT FURLOW The Associated Press

WASHINGTON – Donald Trump moved within reach of the White House on Tuesday night, capturing crucial victories over Hillary Clinton in Florida, Ohio and North Carolina, a remarkable show of strength by the celebrity businessman and political novice who upended American politics with his bombastic rhetoric and calls for sweeping change.

He also stunningly carried Pennsylvania, breaking through a Democratic firewall in a state that had not backed a Republican for president since 1988. His victories left Clinton with a perilously narrow path and no margin for error in battleground states where votes were still being counted.

As the race lurched well past midnight, Trump inched closer to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House. Trump stood at 264 to Clinton’s 215.

Dow Jones futures and Asian markets tumbled, reflecting investor alarm over what a Trump presidency might mean for the economy and global trade.

A New York real estate developer who lives in a gold-plated Manhattan penthouse, Trump forged a striking connection with white, working-class Americans who feel left behind in a changing economy and diversifying country. He cast immigration, both from Latin America and the Middle East, as the root of the problems plaguing many Americans.

A victory for Trump would threaten many of President Barack Obama’s major achievements. The Republican has vowed to repeal Obama’s landmark health care law, revoke the nuclear agreement with Iran, and rewrite important trade deals with other countries, particularly Mexico and Canada.

Clinton’s stunned advisers went silent for long stretches of the night.

As the results rolled in, the candidate tweeted to supporters, “Whatever happens tonight, thank you for everything.”

Top Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway touted the campaign’s achievements, writing on Twitter that “rally crowds matter” and “we

AP photos

Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump cheer as they watch election returns during an election night rally Tuesday in New York.

In this photo combination, Hillary Clinton greets supporters after voting in Chappaqua, N.Y., and Donald Trump waves after voting Tuesday in New York. expanded the map.”

Exit polls underscored the deep divisions that have defined the 2016 contest. Women nationwide supported Clinton by a double-digit margin, while men were significantly more likely to back Trump. More than half of white voters backed the Republican, while nearly 9 in 10 blacks and two-thirds of Hispanics voted for the Democrat.

If Trump pulls off the stunning upset, he’ll govern with a Congress fully under Republican control. The GOP

fended off a Democratic challenge in the Senate, winning key races in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and the party also extended its grip on the House.

Democrats, as well as some Republicans, expected Trump’s unconventional candidacy would damage down-ballot races and even flip some reliably red states in the presidential race. But Trump held onto Republican territory, including in Georgia and Utah, where Clinton’s campaign confidently invested resources.

The 45th president will inherit an anxious nation, deeply divided by economic and educational opportunities, race and culture. The economy has rebounded from the depths of recession, although many Americans have yet to benefit. New terror threats from home and abroad have raised security fears.

Clinton asked voters to keep the White House in her party’s hands for a third straight term. She cast herself as heir to President Barack Obama’s legacy and pledged to make good on his unfinished agenda, including passing immigration legislation, tightening restrictions on guns and tweaking his signature health care law.

But she struggled throughout the race with persistent questions about her honesty and trustworthiness.

Those troubles flared anew late in the race, when FBI Director James Comey announced a review of new emails from her tenure at the State Department. On Sunday, just two days before Election Day, Comey said there was nothing in the material to warrant criminal charges against Clinton.

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Dems’ path to Senate majority narrows

By ERICA WERNER

The Associated Press WASHINGTON – Democrats’ chances of retaking the Senate majority were slipping away early Wednesday as Republicans hung onto key seats in Wisconsin, North Carolina, Indiana and Florida. Democrats kept their seat in Nevada, where Catherine Cortez Masto’s win will make her the first Latina U.S. senator.

Democrats also grabbed a Republican-held seat in Illinois, but the outcome in Wisconsin was a surprise as both parties had expected it to flip for the Democrats. Wisconsin GOP Sen. Ron Johnson’s victory over former Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold forecast a grim night for the Democrats, who could be consigned to minority status on Capitol Hill for years to come.

Races in GOP-held Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and Missouri remained too close to call as Republicans defended a slim 54-46 majority in an unpredictable election year. But Democrats would have to win all of those, and could then only claim majority status if Democrat Hillary Clinton wins the White House. The vice president casts tie-breaking votes in a 50-50 Senate.

The outcome in Nevada was a victory for Minority Leader Harry Reid,

AP photo

Rep. Patrick Murphy (left) and Sen. Marco Rubio shake hands before the start of a debate Oct. 26 at Broward College in Davie, Fla. Rubio defeated Murphy on Tuesday. whose retirement after five terms created a vacancy. Reid maneuvered to fill it with his hand-picked successor, Cortez Masto, Nevada’s former attorney general who spoke often of her family’s immigrant roots in a state with heavy Latino turnout.

Cortez Masto beat Republican Rep. Joe Heck, who struggled with sharing the ticket with Donald Trump, first en-

dorsing and then un-endorsing Trump to the disgust of some GOP voters.

As the night wore on, Democratic operatives struggled to explain why their optimistic assessments of retaking Senate control were so mistaken. Some were blaming FBI Director James Comey’s bombshell announcement that he was reviewing a new batch of emails connected with Clinton

for breathing life into GOP campaigns.

Some Republicans, too, had feared they would have a bad night Tuesday, and were taken by surprise as they racked up win after win.

In North Carolina, Democrats had high hopes of unseating entrenched GOP incumbent Sen. Richard Burr, who infuriated even his own party with his laidback campaign style. But in the end he had little trouble holding off a challenge from Democrat Deborah Ross, a former state legislator and director of the North Carolina ACLU. In Indiana, GOP Rep. Todd Young beat former Democratic senator and governor Evan Bayh, who mounted a much-ballyhooed comeback bid, but wilted under scrutiny.

And in Florida, GOP Sen. Marco Rubio beat Democratic Rep. Patrick Murphy, giving Rubio a platform from which he could mount another bid for president in 2020. The outcome was not unexpected since Murphy had been abandoned by his own party in the final weeks of the campaign.

In Arizona, meanwhile, GOP Sen. John McCain, at age 80, won his sixth term in quite possibly his final campaign. The 2008 GOP presidential nominee was re-elected without much difficulty despite early predictions of a competitive race, and struck a reflective note ahead of the outcome.

Republicans win 2 more years of House control

By ALAN FRAM

The Associated Press WASHINGTON – Republicans retained their lock on the House for two more years early Wednesday as GOP candidates triumphed in a checkerboard of districts in Florida, Virginia and elsewhere that Democrats had hoped Donald Trump’s divisive comments about women and Hispanics would make their own.

Democrats who’d envisioned big gains in suburban and ethnically diverse districts instead seemed on track for modest pickups. Republican contenders were buoyed by the GOP presidential candidate’s tight battle against Democrat Hillary Clinton.

While expectations were nearly zero that Democrats would win the 30 seats they’d needed to capture House control for next year, both sides had anticipated they’d cut into the histor-

ic GOP majority by perhaps a dozen seats. Republicans currently hold a 247-188 majority, including three vacant seats, the most the GOP has commanded since their 270 in 1931.

By late evening, Republicans had won at least 218 seats – guaranteeing control – and just four of their incumbents had lost. The GOP retained seats in Minnesota, New York, Colorado, Iowa and Wisconsin that Democrats sought to grab, and Republicans prepared to build on their current six-year run of House control.

“This could be a really good night for America,” House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., who won a 10th term, told supporters in his hometown of Janesville, Wisconsin.

In Florida, freshman GOP Rep. Carlos Curbelo won a race that underscored how Trump’s damage to Republicans would be limited. With around 7 in 10 of the Miami-area district’s voters

Hispanic, Democrats targeted it and the race became one of the country’s most expensive with an $18 million price tag. But Curbelo distanced himself from his own party’s nominee and held on.

Virginia freshman Rep. Barbara Comstock kept her seat in the Washington, D.C., suburbs despite Democrats’ relentless attempts to tie her to Trump. The two sides spent more than $20 million on that contest in a district of highly educated, affluent voters that both sides had viewed as vulnerable to a Democratic takeover.

Democrats defeated two Florida GOP incumbents, but those results seemed due to local circumstances.

Rep. John Mica, 73, a 12-term veteran from the Orlando area, was criticized by GOP strategists for a lackluster campaign and lost to Democrat Stephanie Murphy, a political neophyte. Democratic challenger Char-

lie Crist, once the state’s Republican governor, defeated Rep. David Jolly in a St Petersburg district that had been redrawn to favor Democrats.

Democrats spent $4 million and beat GOP Rep. Scott Garrett, a member of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus from a northern New Jersey suburb of New York City. And they defeated Rep. Bob Dold, a GOP moderate from the Chicago suburbs where Democratic strength proved overpowering.

Both parties’ candidates and outside groups spent nearly $1.1 billion combined on House campaigns, shy of the $1.2 billion record in 2012, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan research group. Republicans had only a slight financial edge.

While Trump hurt Republicans in some areas, his appeal to working-class white voters and their antipathy to Clinton were helping GOP candidates in others.

Executions back in Nebraska; Colorado approves assisted suicide

By DAVID CRARY

The Associated Press NEW YORK – California, Massachusetts and Nevada voted to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, giving a huge boost to the campaign to allow pot nationwide. Six more states also voted on marijuana measures, while others voted on gun control and capital punishment.

In Nebraska, voters reinstated the death penalty, reversing the Legisla-

ture’s decision last year to repeal capital punishment. Nebraska has not executed an inmate since 1997; 10 men currently sit on death row.

Colorado voters approved a measure that will allow physicians to assist a terminally ill person in dying. That’s already a practice in five other states. Coloradans defeated a proposal that would have set up the nation’s first universal health care system.

In all, there were more than 150 measures appearing on statewide ballots.

California led the pack with 17 ballot questions, including one that would require actors in porn movies to wear condoms during filming of sexual intercourse.

Five states, including Arizona and Maine, considered whether to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. The results were hailed as historic by legalization activists, given that California is the most populous state. Massachusetts became the first state east of the Rockies to join the movement.

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“I’m really, really excited about the future of our county. I look forward to working with people ready for real reform and to lower our property-tax burden. As long as people are willing to put partisanship aside, we’re going to achieve great things for our county.”

24-member County Board electing the chairman themselves every two years. Franks’ win sets up a 25-member board, with 24 members and the chairman.

Walkup narrowly edged out current Chairman Joe Gottemoller with 51.5 percent of the vote in the March primary.

Franks subsequently announced his intention to run against Walkup, and withdrew from seeking a 10th term in the 63rd Illinois House seat that represents northern and western McHenry County.

Franks has survived and thrived as a lawmaker in a Republican county through Jack Franks a track record of opposing tax and fee in- McHenry County Board chairman-elect creases and unbalanced budgets, and supporting government consolidation, property-tax relief and other initiatives.

The Republican Party on Tuesday eveThe County Board last year updated ning picked up the 63rd District seat that its rules to account for a popularly elected Franks currently holds, according to unofchairman. ficial vote totals.

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• American Red Cross of Greater Chicago – 800-448-3543 for general blood services; 312-729-6100 general questions.

• Heartland Blood Centers – 800-7864483; 630-264-7834 or www.heartlandbc. org. Locations: 6296 Northwest Highway, Crystal Lake, 815-356-0608; 1140 N. McLean Blvd., Elgin, 847-741-8282; 2000 W. State St., Unit 1E, Geneva, 630-208-8105; 1200 N. Highland Ave., Aurora, 630-892-7055.

• LifeSource Blood Center – Crystal Lake Community Donor Center, 5577 Northwest Highway, Crystal Lake, 815-356-0672; 815356-5173 or www.lifesource.org. Hours: noon to 7:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

• Rock River Valley Blood Center – 419 N. Sixth St., Rockford, 877-778-2299; 815-9658751 or www.rrvbc.org. Hours: 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 6:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Fridays; 7 to 11 a.m. second Saturdays.

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• 4 to 7 p.m. Nov. 9 – Snap Fitness, 10743 Dundee Road, Huntley. Appointments and information: Camille Piazza, 847-305-9998 or www.heartlandbc.org.

• 3 to 7 p.m. Nov. 9 – Eder, Casella & Co., 5400 W. Elm St., Suite 203, McHenry. Appointments and information: Carrie Futchko, 815-271-2910 or www.heartlandbc.org.

• 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 10 – Centegra Specialty Hospital - Woodstock, 527 W. South St., Woodstock. Appointments and information: Carrie Futchko, 815-271-2910 or www.heartlandbc.org.

• 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 10 – Woodstock North High School, 3000 Raffel Road, Woodstock.

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• 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Nov. 12 – Memorial Blood Drive for James P. Johnson, 10852 Preston Parkway, Huntley. Appointments and information: Camille Piazza, 847-305-9998 or www.heartlandbc.org.

• 8 a.m. to noon Nov. 12 – Sacred Heart Church, 323 N. Taylor St., Marengo. Appointments and information: Camille Piazza, 847-305-9998 or www.heartlandbc.org.

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• 8 a.m. to noon Nov. 12 – Resurrection Catholic Church, 2918 S. Country Club Road, Woodstock. Appointments and information: Carrie Futchko, 815-271-2910 or www. heartlandbc.org.

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NORTHWEST HERALD HUNTLEY – Donations for veterans are being accepted through Nov. 18 for the Lions Club of Sun City Huntley and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary.

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‘Wait until next year’ now has nice ring to it A week has passed, and I still feel the need to remind myself that the Chicago Cubs won the World Series.

“It happened, baby.” Or so Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo reminded us all at that incredible rally Friday in Chicago. Still, it’s having a hard time sinking in.

I also feel the need to keep talking about it. After all, die-hard Cubs fans have been talking about the Cubs’ collapses of 1969, 1984, 2003 and the like for far longer than that.

Yet this year’s Cubs team, led by guru-manager Joe Maddon, embraced the target like no other. Not only did they have the best record in Major League Baseball, but they did it with joy. More than once during the playoffs, I found myself asking what could possibly be missing from this team to keep them from winning it all.

The answer, in the end, was nothing. They had great hitters, an awesome starting rotation and dependable relief pitchers – not to mention jaw-dropping defensive ability.

I’ll admit to being more than a little nervous when the team was staring

VIEWS Joan Oliver down elimination in Game 5 against the Cleveland Indians.

Possible? Sure, my beloved Blackhawks had pulled off an epic comeback a few years back against the Detroit Red Wings.

Game 5 was close, so the blowout in Game 6 was a pleasant surprise. Then came Game 7. One friend on Facebook summed it up like this: “This is the Cubsiest game that ever Cubs-ed.”

What does that mean? Well, that epic game had just about everything.

First, great hope when the Cubs started hitting early against Indians ace Corey Kluber and amassed a fourrun lead.

Then the Cubs blew that lead. A passed ball allowed two Indian runs to score. Closer Aroldis Chapman gave up a home run that tied the game in

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the eighth inning. “No, no, no, no,” I yelled at the TV. The Cubs failed to score in the ninth. All Cleveland had to do was get a run across and that would be it.

Could it really end like this?

And then, improbably, there was that 17-minute rain delay.

Hope mixed with dread. Cubs designated hitter Kyle Schwarber starts the top of the 10th inning with a single.

Third baseman Kris Bryant flies out, but pinch runner Albert Almora Jr. advances to second. The Indians intentionally walk Rizzo.

That brings up outfielder Ben Zobrist, who doubles in Almora. Rizzo is now at third. Shortstop Addison Russell is intentionally walked, bringing up catcher Miguel Montero.

Clearly, the Indians have failed to realize how clutch Zobrist and Montero are. Montero singles in Rizzo. Cubs now lead, 8-6.

Yet, this being a Cubs game, there was more.

Reliever Carl Edwards Jr. replaces Chapman as the Cubs’ pitcher. He gets

the first Indian batter to strike out and the next to ground out. Then he gives up a walk. The runner advances to second, and outfielder Rajai Davis, who hit the tying homer, comes to the plate. He singles, and a run scores to make it 8-7. Why, why, why?

One out away from victory, and the Cubs just can’t seem to get it done.

Maddon makes another pitching change, bringing in Mike Montgomery. The first batter he faces grounds out to Bryant and the rest, as they say, is history – a beautiful end to 108 years of futility.

I could hardly see the TV screen through the sobs. I cried so hard I couldn’t breathe. At last, all those “wait until next years” were gone.

No more lovable losers. No more “long-suffering” to be put in front of the word “fan.” No more talk of curses and goats and fan interference.

Hey, hey, holy mackerel! No doubt about it. The Cubs had found a way.

At last.

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OBITUARIES DAVID C. BROITZMAN

In addition to his parents, Dave was preceded in death by his in-laws, Henry & Jane Reko; Born: September 5, 1948 and brother-in-law, Dave Reko.

Died: November 7, 2016 Funeral Services will be held on Friday, November 11, 2016 at 11:30 A.M. at Immanuel David C. “Dave” Broitzman, Evangelical Lutheran Church 310 E. Main St age 68, of East Dundee passed away peacefully sur- East Dundee with Rev. Phillip Baerwolf officiating. Burial will follow in the Dundee Twp. rounded by family under the East Cemetery, East Dundee. Visitation will care of JourneyCare Hospice be held on Thursday, November 10, 2016 from in Barrington on Monday, 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Miller Funeral Home, November 7, 2016.

He was born in Elgin on September 5, 1948 West Dundee and again on Friday morning at and was the son of the late Harold & Jacque- church from 10:30 A.M. until the time of the service. line (nee Lawrence) Broitzman. Dave was Please omit flowers, memorials may be a lifelong resident of the Dundee Elgin area and a 1966 graduate of Elgin High School. He made to either to JourneyCare Hospice or worked in the death care industry for all of his Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran School New Playground Fund. professional career and was former 40 year To leave an online condolence, please visit owner and operator of Broitzman Professional Cemetery Services, Co. Inc which has been www.millerfuneralhomedundee.com.

For info, please call (847) 426-3436. involved in thousands of interments in Kane & McHenry Counties since it’s inception.

Dave was a longtime faithful and active member of Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran THOMAS A. DWYER Church in East Dundee and served his church for many years as Properties Chairman. He Thomas A. Dwyer, 87, of Huntley, formerly also served as a Communion Assistant. Dave of Arlington Heights passed away on Friday, was a believer in Christian Education and Nov. 4, 2016. was a longtime volunteer and supporter of Arrangements are pending with the James Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran School. He A. O’Connor Funeral Home in Huntley. For Info and Cindy were also longtime members of (847) 669-5111. the Dundee Crown Booster Club and Were co-founders of the Charger 5000. Dave served an 8 year consecutive Presidency LAWRENCE KENSICK of the booster club. During his tenure, the Born: July 17, 1937 board’s efforts were responsible for lighting Died: November 7, 2016 the Dundee-Crown Bowl. Most of all, Dave was a loyal and trusted friend. His death Lawrence “Ken” Kensick, leaves a large void in many people’s lives. of Crystal Lake, was born Survivors include his beloved wife and July 17, 1937 in Winnipeg, best friend of 49 years, Cynthia “Cindy” (nee Manitoba to John and KathReko) whom he married on Nov. 11, 1967. His leen (nee Robel) Kensick. He daughters, Elizabeth “Buffy” (Tim) Anderson passed away peacefully on and Emily (Mark) Christopherson. Dave is November 7th, 2016 at home also survived by his 5 grandchildren all whom surrounded by his wife and sons. he adored and was very proud of, Madeline, Ken joined the Royal Canadian Air Force MacKenzie, and Margaret Anderson and (RCAF) in 1955 as an officer and fighter pilot Gavin Charles, and Dylan Christopherson. flying the F-86 and F-104. During his service, Other survivors include his brother-in-law, he deployed to Germany and France as part Roger Reko; his brother and two sisters; as of the NATO defensive operations against the well as countless good and faithful friends.

Soviet Union. After leaving the RCAF in 1965,

Ken was hired as a pilot at United Airlines.

That year Ken married Maureen Ann Kensick of Vancouver, British Columbia whom he met in Marveille, France where she was a school teacher at an RCAF military base. Ken first moved to Detroit, Michigan to begin his flying career with United. As his career progressed he also moved to Seattle in 1966. His eldest son Steve was born there in 1967. Finally, in 1968, Ken moved to Crystal Lake where he and Maureen remained through his entire career. His middle son Michael (1969) and youngest son David (1971) were both born in McHenry County. Ken had a diverse flying career at United Airlines, flying the DC-7, DC-8, 727, DC-10, 757, 767, and finishing up on the 747. Ken retired in 1997 from United, logging over 20,000 hours.

Growing up in Winnipeg, Ken had an enduring interest in hockey. He played in an adult league, was one of the founding members that started the Crystal Lake Hockey Club, was Club president and coached his three sons in hockey. Lastly, he enjoyed watching his two grandsons beginning their hockey career.

After retiring, he remained in Crystal Lake, pursuing his passions of motorcycle riding, flying his Cessna 170 and restoring a 1929 Model A. He was seen almost daily working out at Health Bridge and later in life developed a love of fishing and golf. In the last few years, Ken and Maureen began to split their

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Lawrence is survived by his wife, Maureen (nee Croxton) Kensick; his sons, Stephen (Julie) of Waunakee, Wisconsin, Michael (Robyn) of Yorktown, Virginia, and David (Anita) Kensick of Chicago, Illinois; his grandchildren, Rachel, Grace, Eric, Jared, Holden, and Calvin; and his siblings, Stan (Thelma), Evelyn, and Jerry.

He is preceded in death by his siblings, Walter, Millie, Marg, and Eileen; and his parents.

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Thomas J. Kotovsky, age 57, of McHenry, passed away Sunday, November 6, 2016, at Centegra Hospital-McHenry.

Arrangements are pending at Justen Funeral Home & Crematory, 3700 W. Charles J. Miller Road, McHenry, IL 60050. For information, please call the funeral home at 815-3852400, or visit www.justenfh.com

RUTH M. PETERSEN

Born: July 17, 1929; in Chicago, IL Died: October 24, 2016; in McHenry, IL

BONNIE L. PILGARD

Born: February 22, 1947; in Chicago, IL Died: November 3, 2016; in LaCrosse, WI Bonnie L. Pilgard, age 69, most recently of Decorah, Iowa, passed away Thursday, November 3, 2016, at Mayo Clinic Health System-Franciscan Medical Center in LaCrosse, Wisconsin.

She was born February 22, 1947 in Chicago to Alois and LaVergne (Scherzer) Klein.

Raised and educated in Barrington, Illinois, Bonnie was a graduate of Barrington High School. She met the love of her life, Dennis R. Pilgard, when Bonnie’s brother, Kent, introduced a high school friend of his to Bonnie. On September 10, 1966, Bonnie and Dennis married, and they recently celebrated their 50th anniversary. After their marriage, they resided in San Antonio, Texas and Altus, Oklahoma, both for approximately 18 months each while Dennis served in the Air Force, as well as Lake Zurich, Illinois for 29 years and Pine, Colorado for 16 years.

During her lifetime, Bonnie was a member of the Lutheran Church and was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Ladies Auxiliary. She most enjoyed gardening, crafts and quilting, cooking and baking, as well as nature, traveling, having pets, and spending time with friends and family. She received her greatest reward in life through her role as a good mother and wife.

Survivors include her loving husband of 50 years, Dennis; two sons, David A. Pilgard of McHenry, Illinois and Mark A. Pilgard of Fort Collins, Colorado; two brothers, Kent (Genie) Klein of Scottsdale, Arizona and Rick Klein of Cary, Illinois; two sisters-in-law, Joan (Ziggy) Kuziak of Mosinee, Wisconsin and Mary (Rich) Sabot of McHenry; and her aunt, Gloria Keteri of Grand Rapids, Minnesota.

She was preceded in death by her parents; and her brother-in-law, John (Gloria) Pilgard.

Visitation will be from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Saturday, November 12, 2016, at Justen Funeral Home & Crematory, 3700 Charles J. Miller Road, McHenry, IL 60050. The funeral service will follow at 4:00 p.m. in the funeral home. Interment will be in Fort Logan National Cemetery, Denver, Colorado.

While flowers are always welcome by her family, they also suggest to those interested that memorials as a tribute to Bonnie may be made to the Amyloidosis Foundation,

MARGIE REBEL

Born: April 23, 1933; in Tomahawk, WI Died: November 7, 2016; in McHenry, IL Margie Rebel, age 83, of McHenry, passed away Monday, November 7, 2016, at Centegra Hospital.

Margie was born April, 23, 1933, to the late Henry and Mamie (neé Ostrander) Slaughter. On February 4, 1956, she married the love of her life, Anton P. Rebel. Margie enjoyed cooking and baking for her family.

She had a love for flowers, reading, old country music, and reading the Bible. She often went out to lunch with friends, but her favorite times were those spent with family, especially grandchildren. She will be remembered for being a loving caretaker, her giving spirit, and for always putting her family first.

Margie is survived by her children, Ronald (Francis) Rebel and Anita Rebel; grandchildren, Jason Yeninas, Stephanie Campos, Steven Yeninas, Michael Rebel, Alicia Szewczyk, and Ryan Szewczyk; and great-grandchildren, Jaylene Ramirez and Oliver Campos. She is further survived by many brothers, sister, nieces, and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her loving husband, Anton.

Visitation will be held on Friday, November 11, 2016, from 9:00 am to the time of service at 11am, at Colonial Funeral Home, 591 Ridgeview Drive, McHenry. Interment will follow at Woodland Cemetery.

Arrangements were made by Colonial Funeral Home & Crematory. For information call 815-385-0063 or log on at www.colonialmchenry.com.

VICTORIA A. STANN

Born: January 31, 1953 Died: November 6, 2016

Victoria A. Stann, 63, of Marengo passed away Sunday, November 6, 2016 at Centegra Hospital in Woodstock.

She was born January 31, 1953 the daughter of Chester and Frances (Lysogorski) Stann. Victoria was a 1971 graduate of Marillac High School. She worked as a clerk at Jewel. She loved to play the Piano, singing and dancing and loved her dog Muffin. Victoria was a member of the St. Mary Rosary Club and a faithful member of St. Mary Catholic Church in Huntley.

She is survived by her sister, Pam Predmore; brother, Ron (Barb) Stann; nieces and nephews, Tracy (GiGi) Predmore, Sabrina (Steve) Girty, Jaclyn (Nathan) Dye, and Ariel Stann.

She was preceded in death by her parents; and brother, Kenneth A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Friday, November 11, 2016 at 10:00 am at St. Mary Catholic Church, 10307 Dundee Road, Huntley. Entombment will follow at All Saints Cemetery in Des Plaines. Visitation will be prior to services Friday at the church from 9:00 to 10:00 am.

In Lieu of flowers, memorials in her name may be directed to the American Cancer Society.

The James A. O’Connor Funeral Home in Huntley is assisting the family.

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• Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Ruth M. Petersen, age 87, of McHenry, IL passed away peacefully on Monday, October 24, 2016 in her home after an extended illness.

She was born to Karl and Pauline Ziegler on July 17, 1929 in Chicago, IL. Ruth graduated from Kelvyn Park High School in Chicago and attended St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN. She was united in marriage to Edward H. Petersen on August 2, 1952 at St. Timothy Lutheran Church in Chicago.

Ruth was involved in music and the church for over 70 years of her life. She was a piano teacher for more than 40 years and served in various leadership roles in the Northwest Suburban Music Teacher’s Association and the Illinois State Music Teacher’s Association. She also served in many leadership and volunteer positions at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church, including Worship and Music Chairperson, Church Council, Assistant Organist and singing in the choir for 50 years.

Survivors include her loving companion, James Cavanaugh of McHenry, IL; her daughters, Cheryl (Dan) Boncher of Carpentersville, IL, Leslie (Scott) McGough of McCullom Lake, IL, and Karen (Scott) Banach of Algonquin, IL; her grandchildren, Brian Boncher, Christine (Roman) Savchenko, Rebecca McGough, Jessica McGough and Michelle Banach; and her great-grandchildren, Cameron Boncher and Kyra Savchenko.

Ruth was preceded in death by her husband, Edward Petersen in 1994; and her sisters, Elsie Gall and Mary Jane Boelens.

A Memorial Service to celebrate Ruth’s life will take place on Saturday, November 12th at 10:30 am at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church, 1234 N. Arlington Heights Road, Arlington Heights, IL 60004 with Pastor Gail Heidtke officiating. Friends and family are invited to visit with the family from 9:30 am until the time of the service on November 12th. Interment is private.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials to be given to Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church.

Arrangements entrusted to Justen Funeral Home & Crematory, 815-385-2400, or visit www.justenfh.com where friends may leave an on-line condolence message for her family.

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McHenry County

THINGS TO DO IN & AROUND McHENRY COUNTY

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MOVIE SCREENING

WHEN: 7 p.m. Nov. 9 WHERE: PM&L Theatre, 877 Main St., Antioch COST & INFO: Teens and families are invited to see “Listen,” which tells the story of nearly every high school in this country where students hide their pain, friends ignore each other’s cries for help and adults are too overwhelmed to stop and listen. For the past 16 years, writer/director Erahm Christopher has been using his films to inspire youth around the world to open up.

By listening, sharing their experiences and giving them creative outlets for their pain, he hopes to teach communities how to become a part of the solution. “Listen” is a partnership with producer Brooke Dooley, who after making her own mistakes as a teen, has produced more than 70 projects before the age of 30. Free. Information: www. listenthemovie.com.

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WHEN: 8 to 10 p.m. Nov. 9 WHERE: D.C. Cobb’s, 226 Main St., Woodstock COST & INFO: T Citty is described as “Chicago’s premiere stupid comedy rock band, sharing the stage with such acts as Hannibal Burress, Marc Maron, Pete Holmes and a homeless dude who just rushed the stage one time.”

Free admission. Band information: 217-714-6094 or tittycittyband@ gmail.com.

CELEBRATION DONATION – Planet Fitness celebrated the grand opening of its Crystal Lake location Oct. 8 by making a donation to Habitat for Humanity of McHenry County. Pictured (from left) are Tenssa Davenport of Planet Fitness, Dawn Schepler of Habitat for Humanity’s Woodstock ReStore, Barb Swanson of Habitat for Humanity, Planet Fitness general manager Monica Davenport, Planet Fitness regional manager Steve Smith, Planet Fitness chief financial officer Cindy Krowl and 2013 “The Biggest Loser” winner Danni Allen.

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CALENDAR Nov. 9

• 9 a.m. – Senior coffee, games and lunch, St. John’s Lutheran Church, 9812 St. Albans St., Hebron. Coffee and games at 9 a.m., Salvation Army Golden Diner lunch at 11 a.m., other activities at noon. Call 630-232-6676 to reserve a meal. Information: 815-648-2671 or www.stjlutheran.com.

• 12:30 p.m. – Island Lake Area Seniors meeting, Senior Center at Island Lake Village Hall, 3720 Greenleaf Ave., Island Lake. Entertainment provided by The Kitchen Klangers. New members welcome. Free.

Information: 262-237-2961.

• 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. – Paralegal career information session, McHenry County College, Room E217, 8900 Route 14, Crystal Lake. Learn about MCC’s paralegal studies Associate of Applied Science degree program.

Includes information on paralegal earning potential, job outlook and more. Free. Information: www.mchenry.edu/paralegal.

• 2 to 3:30 p.m. – Soft skills workshop, McHenry County College, 8900 Route 14, Crystal Lake. The MCC Career Services Department presents tips and techniques needed to do well on job interviews. Free. Information: 815-4558576 or www.mchenry.edu/careerservices.

• 3:30 to 5 p.m. – National Novel Writing Month program, McHenry Public Library, 809 Front St., McHenry. Sixththrough 12th-graders are invited to work toward their writing goals through writing contests and games. Free. Registration required. Information: 815-385-0036 or www. mchenrylibrary.org.

• 7 p.m. – “Finding the Best Fit College,” Dundee Library, 555 Barrington Ave., East Dundee. Students and their parents will learn how to make the best choice for a college. Free. Registration required. Information: 847-428-3661 or www.frvpld.info.

• 7 to 8 p.m. – “Make Friends with Your Freezer,” Crystal Lake Public Library, 126 W. Paddock St., Crystal Lake. Amanda Olsen from Preservation School will demonstrate the best ways to preserve food to maintain maximum flavor, color and texture. Program presented in partnership with the McHenry County Health Department. Free. Information: 815-459-1687.

• 7 to 9 p.m. – “Homeschooling 101: Special Needs,” Johnsburg Public Library, 3000 N. Johnsburg Road, Johnsburg. A panel of local experts will discuss meeting children’s unique needs and accessing available services. Free. Information: 815-344-0077 or www.johnsburglibrary.org/event.

Have an event to share? Submit your information online at PlanitNorthwest.com.

Photos may be emailed to neighbors@nwherald.com.

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Seminar to offer support after loss of loved one GriefShare: Surviving the Holidays will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Nov. 19 at Grace Fellowship Church, 200 Cairns Court.

The seminar features suggestions and reassurance for those facing the holidays after a loved one’s death. It will include video interviews with counselors and grief experts, and discussion of dealing with emotions, what to do about traditions, how to survive social events and where to find comfort and strength. Attendees will receive a Survival Guide filled with practical tips, encouraging words, journaling ideas and exercises for daily help through the holiday season. The cost is $5. Child care will not be available.

Registration is requested. For information, call 815-337-6510 or email graceful@sbcglobal.net.

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Cubs fans sign ‘friendly chalkboard’ at Wrigley

By ANDREW SELIGMAN

Chalk messages in support of the Cubs’ championship and in remembrance of those who never saw the Cubs win the World Series are seen Monday on an outer wall at Wrigley Field in Chicago.

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CHICAGO – Matt Ridley climbed his ladder, scrawled a tribute to his deceased loved ones and high-fived his mom when his feet hit the sidewalk.

The Cubs winning it all still seemed a bit surreal to him. Yet, there he was writing “Ridley Nation” high on the brick bleacher wall along Waveland Avenue in honor of his brother, father and uncle.

“Every time I hear the call of the last out, it almost sounds like it’s not real – like it’s a joke,” Ridley said Monday.

No joke, the Cubs at long last won the World Series when they beat the Cleveland Indians last week. And their first championship in 108 years stirred all sorts of emotions.

Fans who weren’t sure they ever would see it happen have been thinking about loved ones who never got to witness it. They’ve been flowing to Wrigley Field in a steady stream, turning the walls and sidewalks outside the famed ballpark into one gigantic chalkboard.

The bricks beyond the ivy are jammed with names and notes to family members. There are messages encouraging the team, and drawings, too.

It’s all in chalk, and it’s all about to go away.

The Cubs announced Monday that they need to remove the messages and artwork because of offseason construc-

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Trooper injured in altercation with driver leaves hospital

CHICAGO – Authorities said an Illinois State Police trooper who was injured during an altercation with an armed motorist at a suburban Chicago expressway toll plaza has been released from the hospital.

State police said the trooper, who was not identified, was injured in the neck during the Monday incident. He was taken to a hospital, and police said Tuesday he is doing well.

Authorities said the incident began when the trooper observed an alleged “suspicious

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tion. Fans had until 5 p.m. Tuesday.

After that, final photographs would be taken and displayed publicly at a later date.

Fans started writing encouraging messages to the team in chalk on the walls outside the bleachers during the run to the Cubs’ first championship since 1908, and they have continued in such a steady stream there is little room left anywhere outside the ballpark, be it outside the bleachers or near the marquee.

Along Sheffield Avenue, beyond right field, Kathleen and Bob Dove of Evanston found a spot a few feet up the wall to pay tribute to her mother. They colored a brick in light blue chalk and wrote “Dorothy McGuire” in white.

“The whole time I grew up, it revolved around the Cubs game – meals,”

person” at the toll plaza on Interstate 294 in South Holland.

When he confronted the man, a struggle occurred, resulting in the man’s gun discharging several times. Neither man was struck by bullets.

Police said the suspect fled on foot and still was at large Tuesday morning. A person of interest was questioned and cleared.

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Judge: Hastert abuse victim can proceed with lawsuit

YORKVILLE – An Illinois judge said a lawsuit filed by a sexual abuse victim against former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert can go forward.

The Chicago Sun-Times reported that Kendall County Judge Robert Pilmer filed a ruling Monday saying the plaintiff established what was needed

Kathleen Dove said. “She knew all the players every year. She would tell me all the statistics, this will be the year.

She was a very typical die-hard – I mean, just brutally die-hard – Cubs fan.

She would be really amazed at this.”

Bob Dove, a retired sound technician for Chicago PBS affiliate WTTW, recalled working on a documentary about Bill Veeck Jr. during the last year of his life. And he has little doubt that Veeck would have loved the scene playing out along the streets outside Wrigley.

“We have all of this angst about immigrants and racial animus and all that stuff,” Bob Dove said. “The Cubs’ victory is the greatest thing to happen in Chicago right now because everything else that’s going on right now is so negative. Veeck would love this wall because it’s representative of his philosophy of

to allege “a claim for contract.”

The suit was filed in April by a man who contends the former Illinois Republican congressman owes him $1.8 million of the $3.5 million he was promised to stay silent about the abuse.

Hastert’s attorneys had asked Pilmer to dismiss lawsuit.

The 74-year-old Hastert is serving a 15-month prison sentence for violating banking laws in trying to silence the victim, who said he was abused decades ago while Hastert was a high school wrestling coach.

Court documents don’t identify the man.

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Bloomberg spends on ads to back Cook County soda tax bid

CHICAGO – New York City’s former mayor is spending $1 million in Illinois to support the effort to impose a penny-an-

being a team for everyone. And he was the person that integrated the American League.”

Bill Veeck went to work for the Cubs when his father, Bill Sr., was team president and was responsible for the ivy being planted in 1937. He also integrated the American League as owner of the Cleveland Indians when he signed Larry Doby, and he frequently hung out in the Wrigley Field bleachers after selling the White Sox to Jerry Reinsdorf in 1981.

Kim Bresnahan of Evanston was on the phone with her friend, Nana Sedor, in Homer, Alaska, as she looked for space on the wall along Sheffield.

Bresnahan was there to pay tribute to her ex-husband’s father as well as her friend’s brother, Chris, a loyal fan who died at 16.

“This victory was for every underdog in the world,” Nana Sedor said.

The two friends have been following the Cubs for decades, going back to the black cat and the collapse against the New York Mets in 1969. They recalled ditching school to go to Wrigley Field as teenagers and cheer on those “Lovable Losers.” In some ways, this championship run was like a shock to the system – a glorious shock to the system.

“In our lives, we don’t have a lot of hope,” Bresnahan said. “There’s a lot of bad stuff going on. And it’s like, ‘Oh my God, if the Cubs can do it in 108 years, we can do anything.’ Right?”

ounce tax on sugary drinks in Cook County.

Michael Bloomberg is paying for a campaign of TV and online advertisements in the Chicago market to counter the spending on advertising by the American Beverage Association, which opposes the tax. The ads supported by Bloomberg feature images of children and suggest money generated by the tax could be used to fund anti-violence initiatives.

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle said the tax is necessary to plug a budget gap, but also will have positive health benefits. County commissioners are scheduled to vote on the tax Thursday.

The issue is favorite cause of Bloomberg’s, who pushed for the passage of a ban on giant sodas that was struck down by the courts.

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Man celebrating Cubs’ win dies after fall from light pole

IOWA CITY, Iowa – Authorities said a college student from Illinois who fell while celebrating the Cubs’ World Series victory has died in an Iowa City hospital.

Johnson County authorities said 21-year-old Kyle Leeney died Monday. The exact cause of death has not been released.

Authorities said Leeney fell after climbing a light pole outside a bar on the Iowa City pedestrian mall last week as the Cubs ended their long quest for a World Series title. Police said he was taken to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.

University of Iowa officials said Leeney was a sophomore from Lockport who was majoring in mechanical engineering.

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Jurors in Ga. hot-car-death and 1,000-rupee notes, worth trial dismissed to go vote about $7.50 and $15, will have

BRUNSWICK, Ga. – After brief deliberations in the murder trial of a Georgia man whose toddler son died after being left for hours in a hot car, Cobb County Superior Court Judge Mary Staley Clark adjourned court at noon to give members of the jury time to cast Election Day ballots.

The jury started weighing evidence Tuesday morning in the monthlong trial of Justin Ross Harris. Prosecutors say Harris intentionally left his 22-month-old son, Cooper, to die in his SUV in the parking lot of his suburban Atlanta workplace on June 18, 2014.

Jurors heard about five hours of closing arguments on Monday.

Defense attorney Maddox Kilgore told jurors that police rushed to judgment in concluding a crime had been committed.

Prosecutor Chuck Boring told the jury it is impossible to believe Harris forgot about his son.

no cash value, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a televised address.

“A few people are spreading corruption for their own benefit,” he said in the speech. “There is a time when you realize that you have to bring some change in society, and this is our time.”

Court: Dictator can be buried at heroes’ cemetery

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines’ Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos can be buried at a heroes’ cemetery, a decision that opponents said rolled back the democratic triumph of the “people power” revolt that ousted the strongman three decades ago.

“While he was not all good,” the 15-member court said in passing judgment on one of Asia’s most infamous strongmen, “he was not pure evil, either.”

Court spokesman Theodore Te said the justices voted, 9-5 India scraps high currency with one abstention, to dismiss petitions opposing President notes to fight corruption NEW DELHI – India’s highest-de- Rodrigo Duterte’s approval of the Marcos family’s plea for the dicnomination currency notes are tator to be buried at the Heroes’ being withdrawn immediately from circulation, the country’s Cemetery in metropolitan Manila, prime minister said Tuesday where former presidents, soldiers night, a surprise announcement and national artists have been designed to fight corruption and interred. The decision, which has target people who have stashed divided the poor Southeast Asian away immense amounts of cash. nation, can be appealed.

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Iraqis displaced by fighting in Mosul carry mattresses at a camp for internally displaced people Tuesday in Hassan Sham, Iraq.

Investigators probe mass grave in field near Mosul

By BRIAN ROHAN

The Associated Press BAGHDAD – The stench of death drew Iraqi soldiers to the unsettled plot of land freshly liberated from Islamic State fighters.

When a bulldozer scraped the ground, bones poked from just beneath the surface, along with clothing scraps, garbage bags, human remains swarming with flies – and even a child’s stuffed animal.

About 100 bodies, many of them decapitated, are suspected to be buried in what is likely the latest mass grave left by the retreating jihadis, officials said.

Investigators on Tuesday began their probe of the site, located near an agricultural school in the town of Hamam al-Alil.

The gruesome discovery by troops advancing on militant-held Mosul fits a pattern in territory retaken from IS. The extremist group killed hundreds as it swept across northern and central parts of Iraq in 2014 and is believed to have carried out a brutal crackdown since the Oct. 17 start of an offensive to recapture the country’s second-largest city.

“Investigators flew in this morning,” said Haider Majeed, a Cabinet official in charge of mass grave inquiries. “They’re conducting examinations to determine the cause of death.”

It was unclear who the victims were, although the discovery of a stuffed animal raised the harrowing possibility that children may be among the dead.

In Geneva, the U.N. human-rights office said it was investigating whether the site was connected to reports about the alleged killing

of police in the same area.

“We had reports that 50 former Iraqi police officers had been killed in a building outside Mosul,” spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said. “This building was actually the same agricultural facility, agricultural college, that has been cited right now as the site of these mass graves.”

She also said the U.N. had received information alleging that IS last week abducted at least 295 former security forces personnel from villages around the northwestern town of Tal Afar, as well as the western part of the village of Mawaly. The fate of the men is unknown.

About 30 sheikhs also reportedly were taken from the Sinjar district, with one report saying more than half of them were killed. The militants are alleged to have forcibly moved about 1,500 families to Mosul’s airport from Hamam al-Alil, she added.

Iraqi troops and Kurdish peshmerga forces are converging on Mosul, although their deepest advance into an eastern sliver has stalled after militants counterattacked from populated areas.

To the northeast, about 8 miles from the city, the peshmerga continued their push on the town of Bashiqa, believed to be deserted except for dozens of IS fighters. Mortar fire, automatic weapons and explosions echoed through the morning as a thick plume of smoke hung over parts of the town, obscuring the view of warplanes from the U.S.-led coalition.

More than 34,000 people have been displaced from Mosul, the U.N. said, with about three-fourths of them settled in camps; the rest are in host communities.

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Prince Harry condemns ‘abuse’ from media on new American girlfriend

By SYLVIA HUI and DANICA KIRKA The Associated Press

LONDON – It’s the British royals versus the press – again – and Prince Harry thinks enough is enough.

In a highly unusual statement, the prince on Tuesday lashed out at the media for intruding on the privacy of his new girlfriend, American actress Meghan Markle. The 32-year-old royal said the media had crossed a line with articles that had “racial undertones,” and pleaded: “This is not a game.”

The condemnation was the latest in an often uneasy dance between Britain’s royals and an international press hun- Prince Harry gry for any tidbit about royal scandal or courtship. Both Harry and his brother, Prince William, have spoken candidly about their distrust of the media: Their mother, Princess Diana, died Meghan in a 1997 car accident Markle while being pursued by paparazzi, and William’s wife, Kate, was relentlessly scrutinized for years before the couple married in 2011.

It looks like nothing has changed.

Kensington Palace described how journalists tried to break into Markle’s home, how newspapers offered “substantial bribes” to her ex-boyfriend, and said nearly everyone she knows has been bombarded for information.

Markle’s mother couldn’t even get to her front door without jostling reporters.

“What is extraordinary about this letter is the level of ethical conduct

breaches it details,” said Steven Barnett, a communications professor at the University of Westminster. “You have to feel something for Harry, who is presumably thinking of his mother and what she had to put up with.”

Markle, 35, is best known for her role as a feisty paralegal in the U.S. television drama “Suits.”

Many tabloids alluded to her mixed-race heritage – she has an African-American mother and a white father. One Daily Mail headline described her ancestors as “a tailor, a teacher and a cleaner in racially-divided Jim Crow South.” Another dubbed her a “saucy divorcee.”

The Daily Mirror linked Markle with an online pornography site, saying clips of her from “Suits” featured on the adult site.

Markle has so far not responded, but has in the past written about how she came to terms with being a “biracial woman.”

“While my mixed heritage may have created a gray area surrounding my self-identification, keeping me with a foot on both sides of the fence, I have come to embrace that,” she wrote in an essay for Elle magazine in 2015.

Royal officials said the harassment has “been very public,” citing “the smear on the front page of a national newspaper; the racial undertones of comment pieces; and the outright sexism and racism of social media trolls and web article comments.”

Harry said the commentators will say this is “the price she has to pay” and “this is all part of the game.” But, the palace said, Harry “strongly disagrees.”

“This is not a game – it is her life and his,” the statement said.

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Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu speaks Tuesday during a joint news conference with his Bosnian counterpart, Igor Crnadak, in Ankara, Turkey.

the ground, is best placed to decide what forces are needed to liberate the city.

A U.S. defense official said that the agreement Dunford made with his Turkish counterpart was not explicitly a U.S. prohibition on Syrian Kurdish fighters going into Raqqa. The official said it was rather a U.S. commitment to “work with” Turkey on the ultimate composition of what is expected to be a predominantly Sunni Arab force to seize and hold the city. The official was not authorized to discuss details of Dunford’s talks in Ankara and spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Ahmed said U.S officials have not yet raised the possibility of Turkish or Turkey-backed forces taking part in the Raqqa offensive.

“I think [Ankara] is trying to pressure the Americans to bring in allied groups into Raqqa. We are the main party that decides if we need such troops to be involved,” she said. “We are self-sufficient. There is no need.”

The U.S. Central Command says coalition warplanes have carried out more than 30 air raids north of Raqqa since Sunday. SDF spokesman Talal Sillo told the Kurdish news agency Hawar that the coalition has also provided fresh arms, including anti-tank missiles.

A Raqqa-based Syrian activist group, known as Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, said IS militants have prevented residents of a nearby village that was bombed by coalition forces from leaving and imposed a curfew there.

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• Wednesday, November 9, 2016

ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey said Tuesday that the U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led forces leading an assault on the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa should not enter the city itself but merely help encircle it, a suggestion dismissed by the Kurds.

The dispute between the two U.S. allies threatens to complicate efforts to drive IS out of Raqqa, the de facto capital of the extremist group’s self-described caliphate.

The U.S.-backed Syria Democratic Forces, which include Kurdish, Arab and Turkmen fighters, have driven IS from large swaths of territory, but Turkey views the Syrian Kurds who dominate the group as an extension of the Kurdish insurgency raging in its southeast.

Turkey has sent its own forces across the border to back Syrian opposition fighters, and has suggested they lead the offensive to retake Raqqa. The Turkey-backed forces, now pushing toward the IS stronghold of al-Bab, have clashed with IS as well as the SDF. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Turkey-backed opposition fighters captured six villages near al-Bab on Tuesday and are now about 4 miles from the town.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters that the U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Joseph Dunford, told Turkish officials during a recent visit that Kurdish-led forces would only have a role in encircling Raqqa and would not enter the city.

“We hope that this will be the case and we expect that our partners keep their promises,” Cavusoglu said. He said “local” fighters aided by Turkish special forces should drive IS out of Raqqa, and suggested that residents of the mainly Sunni Arab city might not welcome Kurdish forces.

“We should not force the people to choose between two evils,” he said.

The SDF has made some gains since the Raqqa offensive began Sunday, taking over nearly a dozen villages. Ilham Ahmed, a senior official in the political arm of the SDF, said the same forces leading the offensive will enter Raqqa.

“The campaign will continue to be in that form until it enters the city,” Ahmed told The Associated Press. She said the Kurdish-led SDF, as the main force on

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NORTHWEST HERALD EDITORIAL BOARD:

Dan McCaleb

Kevin Lyons

Valerie Katzenstein

John Sahly

ANOTHER VIEW

Expect little from Illinois

President Timothy Killeen has a good idea on how to restore budget certainty to the University of Illinois. Someone needs to remind the University of Illinois president that when he left New York to come here, he entered an alternative universe, one not likely to accept his impending plea for budget certainty.

Killeen told members of the UI’s faculty senate this week he supports legislation that would provide five years of guaranteed funding in exchange for the UI’s pledge to meet certain educational benchmarks.

Well, good luck with that.

It’s not, of course, that Killeen’s idea isn’t a good one. The problem is he’s promoting a serious budget plan to a state whose leadership is not as serious about governing as it is about playing politics. How, in a state that hasn’t shown lately it can pass a single-year budget, does Killeen propose to persuade the Legislature to pass a plan that provides a fiveyear spending plan for the UI? Killeen estimates the UI has lost $750 million in state funding over the past two years, a reduction in resources that Killeen said puts the institution “under huge stress.”

“Rome is burning around us,” he said.

Killeen is right. But it’s not just the UI that is in danger of being engulfed in flames, but the entire state. The problem is the inability/refusal of Republican Gov. Rauner and Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan to reach a compromise agreement.

With power divided, what other kind of agreement can one realistically expect them to reach?

Maybe this year’s bitter legislative election battles will produce an accommodation. It seems, however, just as likely that Madigan, ever-ready to rumble, immediately will shift his attention to the 2018 gubernatorial election, with the aim of running Rauner out of state government and restoring himself as the ruler of Illinois. Perhaps that explains why Democrats already are spending millions in 2016 campaign ads attacking Rauner.

It’s instructive to note Killeen’s proposal isn’t just about money. He’s proposing to meet certain specific benchmarks in exchange for budget certainty. But Killeen also is seeking changes in regulatory and procurement rules, proposals that would not cost the state one thin dime but could save the taxpayers many millions of dollars.

Why hasn’t the state already acted on regulations and procurement? After all, money saved by the UI means money saved by the state. The answer is, the Legislature doesn’t want to act. These common sense measures are caught up in Madigan’s showdown with the governor.

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ANOTHER VIEW

Cruz selective with Constitution Following Senate Republicans’ unprecedented decision early this year to refuse consideration of Democratic President Barack Obama’s nominee for a U.S. Supreme Court vacancy on the grounds the next president should make that selection, an effort now is underway to refuse consideration of any nominee put forward if Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is inaugurated to the highest office in the land.

And is anyone surprised Texas’ flip-flopping, self-serving junior senator is at the bottom of this dirty deck?

Besides making a lie of Republicans’ original rationale last spring, this latest suggestion would introduce a true constitutional crisis. If a president elected by majority will of the people – Republican, Democrat or independent – is not allowed simple constitutional rights afforded him or her by the Framers, then Republicans make a complete mockery of the U.S. Constitution.

They could well create a chaotic hodgepodge of basic rights across the United States. Some of us will be a little more equal than others.

If a law is interpreted one way by a lower federal court in one region and a different way by another lower federal court in another region, the matter can wind up at the Supreme Court to resolve. The high court can decide matters because it ordinarily has nine members (or has since 1869), thus precluding a tie vote. Like it or not, a firm decision is made one way or the other. But if the high court has a tie vote (as is possible with the current court), that leaves each lower court to apply the law very differently in one part of the land than in another.

We can understand why Senate Republicans are afraid.

Clinton is likely to nominate ideologically liberal justices to the Supreme Court. That’s why we so vigorously pressed Senate Republicans months ago to put aside political showmanship

and promptly confirm Obama’s eminently reasonable nominee – a 63-year-old, ideologically moderate, much-respected justice.

Senate Republicans chose showmanship to prudence, integrity and political courage.

Americans should be wary of Cruz, who struts about as a self-declared constitutional authority but demonstrates disregard for that document whenever it suits his interests.

We’re getting weary of supposed constitutional champions such as Cruz who prove over time they’re only champion cherry-pickers. The Framers designed the provisions contained in the Seven Articles of the Constitution to work in unison.

Senate Democrats too should recognize the same consideration: Nominees should be judged strictly on legal qualifications and good behavior – not ideology or political labels. Standards must apply equally.

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

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VIEWS Scott Reeder reportedly arrived in the mailbox of her grandmother and great-grandmother.

It doesn’t get any sleazier than that.

So instead of talking about the issues, Bourne spent too much of the final days of her campaign responding to this disgusting attack.

Just who would do such a thing?

I don’t know. All eyes turned to her Democratic opponent Mike Mathis. He denies it. And, frankly, it would have made little sense for him to have done such a thing.

So who did it?

Police are investigating, but we

still don’t know.

But we do know whoever did the mailing has some degree of political knowledge. According to news reports, political donors and interest groups also received the mailings.

It’s the sort of attack I can’t fathom being used against a man.

Imagine someone pasting Mike Madigan’s face onto a photo of a naked man and mailing it out.

No, it just wouldn’t be an effective smear campaign. But, unfortunately, women in public life are held to a different standard. Rumors are spread, lies are told and usually it pertains to their personal lives.

In fact, I’ve known several young women holding legislative office who have been the subject of these kind of rumors.

Men on the other hand are given a pass.

In the case of Bourne, if you take a close look at her life you’ll be pretty bored.

She dropped out of a top-tier law school to serve in the General Assembly. One of her favorite pastimes is quilting. Yes, quilting – something you expect grandmas, not twentysomethings, to enjoy.

But despite such a conservative lifestyle, she was an easy target for this misogynistic attack.

When folks ask me about the low point of the 2016 election, it won’t be something that Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton said – it will be this shameful attack on Avery Bourne.

• Scott Reeder is a veteran statehouse journalist. He works as a freelance reporter in the Springfield area and can be reached at scottreeder1965@gmail.com.

IT’S YOUR WRITE Keep influence out of classroom

To the Editor: As a parent, my job is not to provide counter evidence to a teacher’s socio-political or religious beliefs. If every teacher chose to inject their disparate opinions into my child’s education, I would be forced to spend every evening providing research to defend our familial beliefs and practices.

I’d be interested to know where you find the audacity to tell parents if you present a biased cultural viewpoint which I disagree with then I “should counter with good evidence of [my] own.” The only evidence I need to provide is this: I am the parent and principal educator of my child and you are not. I don’t want you or any teacher attempting to unduly influence my child’s belief system with whatever you happen to find compelling and fashionable.

Your particular dreams and missions need to be kept far away from the public education classroom.

Richard Perkins Crystal Lake

Sad to see book sale go

To the Editor: I was very sad to learn the Friends of the Crystal Lake Library book sale will be no longer. It was one of the high-

lights of our summer every year, and a source for our ever-growing classroom libraries, DVD, video and book collections. Treasures were found and long-forgotten memories of cherished stories and books were restored.

Thank you to all those volunteers and organizers who over the years created those weekend sales and fundraisers.

We applaud your dedication and hard work. We’ll miss you.

Regina and Farling Daniels Crystal Lake

Register for Turkey Trot

To the Editor: It’s time again for the fifth annual McHenry Turkey Trot for Hospice 5K Run/Walk. This year we are presented

by Jett’s Heating and Air Inc. Please come and join us on Thanksgiving morning at McHenry High School East Campus. The race begins at 8 a.m. sharp.

All net proceeds will be donated to the angels at JourneyCare Hospice, which serves the greater McHenry area.

Over the past four years, we have donated $92,000 to the angels.

Please go to our website, www. mchenryturkeytrot.com, to register, volunteer and/or donate.

Runners, walkers, children in strollers

HOW TO SOUND OFF We welcome original letters on public issues. Letters must include the author’s full name, home address and day and evening telephone numbers.

We limit letters to 250 words and one published letter every 30 days. All letters are subject to editing for length and clarity at the sole discretion of

and leashed dogs are welcome.

There will be awarded a $200 prize to first overall male and female runners, running shoes to second place and many raffle prizes for all.

T-shirts and goodie bags will be provided for all pre-registered runners.

Scott R. Siman McHenry

Thank you for trunk or treat, food pantry collection success To the Editor: St. Paul’s United Church of Christ in Crystal Lake recently held its Trunk or Treat community event. Our goal is to provide a free experience of fun and fellowship for those in Crystal Lake and the surrounding communities.

Families enjoyed trick-or-treating from 23 “trunks,” a free meal, hayride,

the editor. We no longer are accepting election-related letters.

Submit letters by: • Email: letters@nwherald.com • Mail: Northwest Herald “It’s Your Write” Box 250 Crystal Lake, IL 60039-0250

cookie-decorating, face-painting and an outdoor showing of “It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie, Brown.”

We are blessed to have the support of area businesses who donate items for the event. Therefore, a big thank you to Jersey Mike’s Subs of Crystal Lake, Dolphin Swim Club of Crystal Lake, Dave’s Bait, Tackle & Taxidermy of Crystal Lake and Ascot Prime Meats of Prospect Heights.

St. Paul’s UCC also is committed to giving back to the community and is excited to announce that at the 2016 Trunk or Treat, 468 pounds of food were collected for the Crystal Lake Food Pantry. We are so grateful for everyone’s contributions.

Michele Eich

Director of communications, St. Paul’s United Church of Christ, Crystal Lake

• Wednesday, November 9, 2016

SPRINGFIELD – Some days I don’t know why anyone would want to run for public office.

You’ll be lied about. Vilified. Privacy will be a distant memory. And you’ll be a target, not just by your opponent, but by just about anyone with an ax to grind.

A case in point is state Rep. Avery Bourne.

The 24-year-old is the youngest person ever to serve in the Illinois General Assembly.

Not only is she bright and hard-working, but she is a genuinely nice person.

That’s why I feel especially sad to see her the target of a vile attack.

Someone took a picture of her face and Photoshopped it on to the naked body of another woman and mailed the phony image to people throughout her legislative district. It even

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BUSINESS U.S. stocks close broadly higher as investors eye election

By ALEX VEIGA

The Associated Press Investors remained in a buying mood on Election Day, sending U.S. stocks broadly higher and building on big gains from a day earlier.

Safe-play stocks such as utilities and phone companies were among the biggest gainers Tuesday. Energy companies were essentially flat.

Investors focused on the U.S. presidential election, which rattled financial markets in recent weeks as polls between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump tightened.

Wall Street has largely seen Clinton as more likely to maintain the status quo, while viewing Trump’s polices as less clear. Tuesday’s rally, coupled with Monday’s market gains, which marked the end of a nine-day losing streak and the best day for stocks since March, suggest the market anticipated a Clinton win.

“The market has been looking for the status quo result, and the polling in the last couple of days shows that result is a good likelihood,” said Mike Baele, senior portfolio manager at the Private Client Reserve at U.S. Bank.

“That’s the reason why the market is bouncing here.”

The Dow Jones industrial average rose 73.14 points, or 0.4 percent, to 18,332.74. The average was briefly up as much as 140 points. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index gained 8.04 points, or 0.4 percent, to 2,139.56. The Nasdaq composite index added 27.32 points, or 0.5 percent, to 5,193.49.

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The American flag flies Nov. 13, 2015, above the Wall Street entrance to the New York Stock Exchange. Global stock markets were steady Tuesday after strong Wall Street gains the day before, as investors focused on the final hours of a tight U.S. presidential race.

Trading got off to a downbeat start, weighed down by disappointing earnings from Valeant Pharmaceuticals, CVS Health and other companies. But the market recovered by midmorning as investors’ sized up news reports on early voting trends.

Clinton entered Election Day with multiple paths to victory, while Trump needed to prevail in most of the battleground states to reach 270 Electoral College votes. Control of the Senate was also at stake.

Investors have been expecting Clinton to win the presidency, the Demo-

crats to take back the Senate and the Republicans to hold onto the House of Representatives, said Erik Davidson, chief investment officer for Wells Fargo Private Bank.

“That’s sort of the base case,” he said. “A Trump victory, the markets are not fully ready for that. That could certainly cause some volatility in the markets tomorrow if we have that outcome, and if it’s conclusive.”

Beyond the election, investors monitored the latest batch of company earnings.

Priceline Group climbed 6.6 per-

cent after the online travel booking company reported quarterly earnings that easily beat analysts’ forecasts. The stock gained $97.80 to $1,578.13.

Marriott International gained 2.7 percent after the hotel chain posted a big increase in earnings and revenue for the most recent quarter. The stock added $1.92 to $73.02.

SeaWorld Entertainment jumped 8.1 percent after the embattled parks operator said it has been able to stem falling attendance after a bruising fight with animal-rights activists that led to the closure of its orca breeding program.

The stock gained $1.16 to $15.41.

Other companies’ latest quarterly report cards failed to impress investors.

Hertz plunged 22.5 percent after the car rental company’s latest quarterly earnings came up far short of what analysts anticipated. The stock, which was down more than 50 percent at one point, slid $8.04 to $27.70.

CVS Health tumbled 11.8 percent after the drugstore chain and pharmacy benefits manager’s third-quarter revenue fell short of Wall Street’s expectations. The company also trimmed its outlook. The stock shed $9.86 to $73.53.

Depomed sank 17 percent after the drugmaker reported lower-than-anticipated quarterly earnings. The stock dropped $3.88 to $19.01.

Valeant Pharmaceuticals International slumped 21.7 percent after the Canadian drugmaker reported a third-quarter loss. The company also slashed its guidance as it continues to face scrutiny over its business practices. The stock lost $4.15 to $14.98.

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2016

LOS ANGELES – Garth Brooks is getting into the advice business.

NBC said Monday that Brooks will be a key adviser on “The Voice” next week, mentoring the show’s top 12 contestants.

Brooks, back in music after a 13-year break, was honored as Entertainer of the Year at the recent Country Music Association Awards. He’s on an extended world tour with his wife, Trisha Yearwood.

Brooks will appear on the Monday, Nov. 14, episode of “The Voice.”

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Pitt-Jolie children will remain in Angelina’s care

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A Tate member of staff poses Tuesday next to American photographer Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother,” from 1936, at the press view of “The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection” exhibition at the Tate Modern gallery in London. John calls the photo, “the ‘Mona Lisa’ of photographs.”

Elton John’s photo trove displays beauty in black and white LONDON – He’s one of the most colorful figures in rock ’n’ roll, but when it comes to photography, Elton John embraces black and white.

Scores of vintage images from the musician’s collection are on display in “The Radical Eye,” an exhibition opening this week at London’s Tate Modern.

The show displays more than 190 photos that usually line the walls of John’s 18,000-square-foot Atlanta apartment, one of his several homes.

If stark black and white seems too plain a palette for a musician famed for outrageous outfits and opulence, fear not – there is playfulness and pizazz aplenty in the show.

John, who once embraced a life of rock ’n’ roll excess, began buying photographs after he became sober in 1990. In the exhibition catalog, the musician says he replaced alcohol with “a much healthier addiction” that has seen him amass 8,000 images, one of the largest troves of 20th-century photography in private hands.

The images on display, taken between 1915 and 1950, reflect the period when photography began stretching itself as an artistic medium, and include work by masters of the evolving form.

There are two dozen photos by surrealist Man Ray, including positive and negative versions of his mask-and-face image “Noire et Blanche” that usually hang above John’s bed.

An early purchase was Man Ray’s “Glass Tears,” a close-up of a mannequin’s face crying glass beads. John bought it at a Sotheby’s auction in 1993 for almost $200,000, which was then a record for a photograph. The market has moved on, and photos can now fetch millions.

LOS ANGELES – Angelina Jolie Pitt will continue to have sole custody of her six children with Brad Pitt in a joint agreement reached by the actors, a representative for the actress said Monday.

The voluntary agreement calls for the former couple’s six children, who range in ages from 8 to 15, to continue to have “therapeutic visits” with Pitt for the time being. It is unclear what therapeutic visits entailed, and Jolie Pitt’s representatives said they could not provide additional details.

A representative for Pitt declined to comment.

Monday’s statement said the agreement was reached more than a week ago, although Pitt told a court on Friday that he is seeking joint custody.

Jolie Pitt filed for divorce in September, days after Pitt was involved in a disturbance during a private flight with his family. She cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for the breakup, and an attorney said at the time she filed for divorce “for the health of the family.”

The statement makes no mention of an investigation by child welfare workers into the plane incident.

Madonna plays surprise concert in park for Clinton

NEW YORK – Madonna belted out some of her biggest hits on Monday night as she treated people in the city to a surprise outdoor concert in support of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

About 300 people jammed into Washington Square Park, in the heart of Manhattan,

to watch the pop singer perform “Express Yourself,” “Don’t Tell Me,” “Imagine,” “Like a Prayer” and “If I Had a Hammer” while they sang along.

Madonna opened the 30-minute performance by urging the crowd to vote Tuesday.

“This is a concert that is about unifying us, and it’s about keeping America great, not making America great again,” Madonna said.

“Tomorrow we’re going to keep America great. We’re going to elect a president that does not discriminate.”

World Series a boon for Fox; 40.5 million watching finale

NEW YORK – The Chicago Cubs’ thrilling World Series victory dominated television last week, with the 40.5 million people who watched the Game 7 contest with the Cleveland Indians representing the most-watched Fall Classic game since 1991.

The World Series matchup proved to be a boon for Fox, the network that carried the games, because it went the distance.

Fox averaged 12.3 million viewers in prime time. CBS finished second with an average of 8.7 million, NBC had 6.9 million, ABC had 6.1 million, Telemundo had 1.7 million, Univision had 1.6 million, the CW had 1.4 million and ION Television had 1.1 million.

Fox News Channel was the week’s most popular cable network, averaging 3.1 million viewers in prime time. ESPN had 2.31 million, Hallmark had 1.91 million, MSNBC had 1.64 million and USA had 1.36 million.

ABC’s “World News Tonight” topped the evening newscasts with an average of 8.1 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly News” had 7.9 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 6.5 million.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS Actor Charlie Robinson (“Night Court”) is 71.

Actor Robert David Hall (“CSI”) is 68. Actor Lou Ferrigno (“The Incredible Hulk”) is 65. Gospel singer Donnie McClurkin is 57. Drummer Dee Plakas of L7 is 56. Rapper Pepa of Salt-N-Pepa is

47. Rapper Scarface of Geto Boys is 46. Musician Susan Tedeschi is 46. Actor Eric Dane is 44. Singer Nick Lachey of 98 Degrees is 43. Bassist Barry Knox of Parmalee is 39. Singer Sisqo (Dru Hill) is 38. Actress Nikki Blonsky (“Hairspray”) is 28.

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HEALTH

Addicted generation

Conference highlights drug abuse epidemic’s effects on kids

By ANDREW WELSH–HUGGINS The Associated Press

CINCINNATI – The country’s addictions epidemic has created a generation of children affected by their parents’ problems, a doctor who works with infants born addicted to heroin told a gathering of experts struggling with the issue last week.

The effect includes the physical problems of the addicted newborns and the chaos older children experience as a result of their parents’ addictions, said Dr. Kathy Wedig, a neonatologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.

Such children “cannot have what we would consider is a normal childhood,” Wedig said.

Wedig said the epidemic is affecting society overall because of the cost of treating and helping such children.

The conference at Xavier University drew hundreds of doctors, nurses, social workers and addiction specialists.

Cases of children suffering from “toxic stress,” a condition caused by exposure to trauma or neglect, are both increasing and more severe because of the addictions epidemic, said Dr. Jennifer Bowden, a child psychiatrist in Cincinnati.

tions, according to the association.

The group says placing the children of addicts in protective custody is costing taxpayers $45 million a year.

Last year, the state saw a record 3,050 overdose deaths, a 20 percent increase, with many of those attributed to painkillers and heroin abuse.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says opioid overdose deaths, including addictive painkillers and heroin, hit record levels in 2014, with a 14 percent increase in just one year.

In eastern Ohio, Cindy King-Anderson and her husband are raising their 5-year-old grandson following his father’s death from a heroin overdose last year. The boy was born addicted and needed six weeks of detox in the hospital.

The boy is autistic with anger issues and requires work with a AP photo speech therapist and other specialDr. Kathy Wedig, a neonatologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, discusses the impact ists. King-Anderson said people need of the country’s painkiller and heroin epidemic on children. to understand the problems faced by children like her grandson are ongoToxic stress can inhibit physiing long after their birth addiction is The Public Children Services cal, emotional, social and language addressed.

Association of Ohio said the number development and put children at risk of children taken into custody has “Our biggest challenge? It’s basically being grandparents and trying for health issues such as emphysema, risen 19 percent over the past seven to be a parent at the same time,” said diabetes and cardiac problems, she years. The increase is largely due to King-Anderson, 53, of Columbiana. said. parents’ painkiller and heroin addic-

Have a kid with migraines? Sugar pills work as well as drugs

By LINDSEY TANNER The Associated Press

CHICAGO – Sugar pills worked as well at preventing kids’ migraines as two commonly used headache medicines, but had fewer side effects, in a study that may lead doctors to rethink how they treat a common ailment in children and teens.

It’s the first rigorous head-to-head test in kids of two generic prescription drugs also used for adults’ migraines: topiramate, an anti-seizure medicine, and amitriptyline, an anti-depressant.

The idea was to see whether either drug could reduce by half the number of days kids had migraines over a month’s time. Both drugs worked that well – but so did placebo sugar pills.

The results “really challenge what is typical practice today by headache

specialists,” said study author Scott Powers, a psychologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital’s headache center.

The study was released online in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development paid for the research.

“The fact that it shows that two of the most commonly used medications are no more effective than a placebo and have adverse effects makes a very clear statement,” said Dr. Leon Epstein, neurology chief at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.

Epstein said it should lead neurologists to rely on other prevention strategies; he advises lifestyle changes including getting more sleep and reducing stress, which he said can help

prevent migraines in teen patients.

Up to 10 percent of U.S. school-aged kids have migraines; the debilitating headaches tend to persist into the teen years and adulthood. Over-the-counter anti-inflammatory medicines including ibuprofen and acetaminophen can help reduce symptoms. The only government-approved migraine medication for kids is topiramate, which is known by the brand names Topamax and Qudexy, but it is approved only for those 12 and older.

The two study drugs are inexpensive and used in children and teens in part because of benefits seen with adults, but there’s no strong research showing they are effective in kids, Powers said.

The study included about 300 kids ages 8 to 17, enrolled at 31 centers.

They had 11 migraines on average in

the month before the study began and randomly were assigned to take either of the drugs or placebo pills daily for six months. Migraine frequency in the study’s last month was compared with what kids experienced before the study. At least half of kids in each group achieved the study goal, reducing migraine frequency by half.

Side effects from the drugs were common, including fatigue, dry mouth and forgetfulness. Almost one-third of kids on topiramate also had tingling sensations in their hands, arms, legs or feet. There was one suicide attempt in the topiramate group, another known side effect of that drug.

The side effects were not unexpected, but given the risks, the results suggest the drugs shouldn’t be “firstline prevention treatments” for kids’ migraines, Powers said.

By LINDA A. JOHNSON The Associated Press

Nurses’ Health Study, showed no increased risk of ovarian cancer in talc users.

What experts say

If there were a true link, Dr. Hal C. Lawrence III says large studies that tracked women’s health for years would have verified results of the smaller ones.

“Lord knows, with the amount of powder that’s been applied to babies’ bottoms, we would’ve seen something,” if talc caused cancer, said Lawrence, vice president of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

The National Cancer Institute’s Dr. Nicolas Wentzensen says the federal agency’s position is there’s not a clear connection.

“It is very hard to establish causal relationships,” he said, adding, “A lot of ovarian cancers occur in women who have never used talc, and many women have used talc and not gotten ovarian cancer.”

Research director Elizabeth Ward of the American Cancer Society says it is unusual to have so much discrepancy between studies.

“The risk for any individual woman, if there is one, is probably very small,” Ward said.

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TRENTON, N.J. – For the third time, Johnson & Johnson has been hit with a multimillion-dollar jury verdict over whether the talc in its iconic baby powder causes ovarian cancer when applied regularly for feminine hygiene.

A St. Louis jury awarded $70.1 million to Deborah Giannecchini of Modesto, California, who was diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer in 2012. Giannecchini, then 59, said she had used Johnson’s Baby Powder for more than 40 years to keep her genital area dry, as many women do. She blamed it for her cancer and accused J&J of negligence.

Two other jury trials in St. Louis reached similar outcomes earlier this year, awarding the plaintiffs $72 million and $55 million.

But in J&J’s home state of New Jersey, a judge recently threw out two other cases, ruling there wasn’t reliable evidence talc causes ovarian cancer, a relatively rare disease.

Johnson & Johnson says its product is safe, and it is appealing all three losses. And investors don’t seem worried J&J is in financial trouble, even though the company

faces an estimated 2,000 similar to be diagnosed in the United States lawsuits. this year.

The next trial is set to start in JanFactors that are known to increase a women’s risk of ovarian uary, also in St. Louis.

Here’s what experts say about talc cancer include age, obesity, use of estrogen therapy after menopause, not and cancer. having any children, certain genetic mutations and personal or family What is talc? history of breast or ovarian cancer.

Talc is a mineral that is mined from deposits around the world, including the U.S. The softest of miner- What research shows als, it’s crushed into a white powder.

The biggest studies have found no It’s been widely used in cosmetics link between talcum powder applied and other personal care products to to the genitals and ovarian cancer. absorb moisture since at least 1894, But about two dozen smaller studies over three decades mostly have when Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder was launched. But it’s main- found a modest connection – a 20 ly used in a variety of other products, percent to 40 percent increased risk including paint and plastics. among talc users.

However, that doesn’t mean talc causes cancer. Several factors make Does it cause ovarian cancer? that unlikely, and there’s no proof Like many questions in science, talc, which doesn’t interact with there’s no definitive answer. Findchemicals or cells, can travel up the ing the cause of cancer is difficult. reproductive tract, enter the ovaries It would be unethical to do the best and then trigger cancer. kind of study, asking a group of One large study published in women to use talcum powder on June that followed 51,000 sisters of their genitals and wait to see if it breast cancer patients found genicauses cancer, while comparing tal talc users had a reduced risk of them to a group who didn’t use it. ovarian cancer, 27 percent lower While ovarian cancer often is than in nonusers. An analysis of two fatal, it’s relatively rare. It accounts huge, long-running U.S. studies, the for only about 22,000 of the 1.7 milWomen’s Health Initiative and the lion new cases of cancer expected

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38 Single-payer health care covers everyone Dear Dr. K: I’ve heard the term “single-payer health care” a lot in recent years. What does it mean?

Dear Reader: Single-payer health care is a term used to describe a single, unified health care insurance system. It means all of your medical and health care expenses are covered by one organization – the government.

But a single-payer system does not mean the health care professionals (like doctors) and institutions (like hospitals) are owned and run by the organization that pays for care. Most single-payer systems proposed for the U.S. anticipate the health care professionals and institutions would remain in the private sector. It’s like Medicare for seniors: Seniors get their care from private doctors and hospitals, but the single payer (the federal government) pays most of the bills, with patients paying a fraction.

In contrast, the existing health care system in the United States is a multi-payer system. There are several insurance programs funded by the government, such as Medicare and Medicaid. There are many private health insurance companies. Many people have their health expenses covered by more than one insurance company, often a combination of a government program supplemented by a private insurance program.

And, of course, 30 million people have absolutely no health insurance, government or private. That’s true even though the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – informally called Obamacare – has provided insurance to more than 20 million previously uninsured people.

But it never was designed to cover everyone, and it hasn’t.

In a single-payer health care system, a single public or semi-public agency finances health care. In most models of a single-payer system, everyone is covered. This generally includes expenses for doctors, hospitals, long-term care, prescription drugs, dentists

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ASK DOCTOR K Anthony L. Komaroff and vision care.

Some people think the U.S. would be better off under a single-payer system. Why? For one thing, we spend a lot of money administering our complex health care system.

Between 20 to 30 percent of every health care dollar goes toward administration. So that money is not available to pay the doctors and hospitals, or to pay for diagnostic tests or medicines.

In countries with single-payer systems, the administrative expenses are much lower.

More of their health care dollar actually pays for what it’s supposed to: health care.

Opponents of a single-payer system are concerned about two things. First, they are worried the total costs of health care might rise. That’s because, they argue, the current multi-payer system encourages competition, and competition drives down costs.

Second, they worry the quality of health care might suffer, because competition also drives improved quality of care. Whether these concerns are valid is the subject of heated debate among health experts.

For us as individuals, would a single-payer system cost us more or less? It surely would require higher taxes, since the government needs the revenue to pay our health expenses. But today most of us get health insurance through our employers, and those expenses would be reduced. Several single-payer proposals calculate taxpayers actually would save money. That could be true, but the devil is in the details.

• Dr. Komaroff is a physician and professor at Harvard Medical School.

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Jacobs quarterback Chris Katrenick throws for a first down against Hampshire on Oct. 21 in Hampshire. The Golden Eagles will play host to Fenwick in a Class 7A quarterfinal game at 3 p.m. Saturday.

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Jacobs junior running back Loren Strickland (right) outruns Batavia defender Connor Oroni on Saturday in a Class 7A second-round playoff game in Algonquin. The Golden Eagles will play host to Fenwick in a quarterfinal game at 3 p.m. Saturday.

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What to watch NHL: Blackhawks at St. Louis, 7 p.m., NBCSN After a strong bounce-back game following two sub-par efforts, Jake Allen will be back in goal for the Blues (16 points) in a key Central Division game against the Hawks (19). Allen needed to play well in his last game Sunday night against Colorado after allowing a combined nine goals in regulation losses last week on the road against the New York Rangers and Dallas Stars.

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Mix of youth, experience and belief paying off for historic Jacobs team

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jwilkinson@shawmedia.com It has been an unpredictable road to school history for the Jacobs football team this season.

“We’ve come a long way as the season has gone. We’ve had our peaks and valleys, and now, hopefully, we’re still on that roller-coaster ride going up,” Jacobs coach Bill Mitz said.

A little less than a month ago, Jacobs was sitting at .500, coming off a lopsided loss to Prairie Ridge and in need of a Week 9 win to reach playoff eligibility.

It wasn’t all doom and gloom for the Golden Eagles, however. They were happy with the first half they had played against Prairie Ridge, recently had gotten some key players back from injury and knew they would have the playoff points to get in if they won their final regular-season game.

“It’s been a growing year for us,” senior quarterback Chris Katrenick said. “Being 4-4 we weren’t looking too far ahead. I don’t know if we were all thinking we’d be in the quarterfinals,

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up, and a lot of the older guys know that time is running out here, so we’re riding it out here as long as we can. I think that Times and days this week for quarterfinal football playoff games involving local teams: we’re playing really well when it matters, and this past weekend was our best Class 8A game as a whole unit by far, and practice No. 1 Loyola (11-0) at No. 24 Huntley (8-3), each week has been getting more intense.

1 p.m. Saturday We’ve been getting more work done, and Class 7A I think having a young team, they see that No. 4 Fenwick (10-1) at No. 28 Jacobs (7-4), they’ve made a lot of progress, as well.”

3 p.m. Saturday Playoff wins over Lincoln Park and Class 6A Batavia put Jacobs into the quarterfiNo. 12 Lake Forest (8-3) at No. 1 Prairie nals for the second time in school hisRidge (11-0), 1 p.m. Saturday tory, and the first since the brackets No. 3 Cary-Grove (10-1) at No. 7 DeKalb expanded. It is the first Jacobs team to (9-2), 1 p.m. Saturday win two playoff games.

Class 5A “It’s very special,” Katrenick said.

No. 14 Marian Central (7-4) at No. 7 Vernon “On paper, we’re probably going down Hills (8-3), 1 p.m. Saturday as the best team at Jacobs, just for what Class 4A we’ve done in the postseason, and that’s No. 3 Genoa-Kingston (11-0) at No. 2 Johns- something special. Last week at practice we had a former player come in talking burg (11-0), 7 p.m. Friday about how his team [was] satisfied just being in the playoffs, so I think that’s our but we knew we were getting better big motto is not to be satisfied yet. We’re each week, which is something that going to keep fighting as long as we can.” happens with a young team.

See GOLDEN EAGLES, page 3 “A lot of the young guys have stepped

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Here is a list of local senior athletes who can sign their National Letters of Intent with NCAA Divisions I or II schools starting Wednesday for all sports other than football, soccer or water polo: Hailey Baker, Prairie Ridge, Illinois (D-I) Payton DeChant, Hampshire, Loyola (D-I) Rylie Porretto, Huntley, Lewis (D-II) Swimming Player, School, School (Div.) Hailey Grieser, Marian Central, Kentucky (D-I) Volleyball Player, School, School (Div.) Morgan Clausen**, Huntley, Brown Ally Dion, Huntley, Southeast Missouri State (D-I) Becca Elrod, Cary-Grove, Maryland-Baltimore County (D-I) Lauren Hanlon, Marian Central, Houston Baptist (D-I) Sydney Nemtuda, Marian Central, Florida Atlantic (D-I) McKayla Wuensch, Marian Central, Nevada-Reno (D-I)

Note: If there is an athlete who should be on this list and is not, please email information to joestevenson@shawmedia.com. *–Also track and field **–Ivy League schools are NCAA Division I, but do not award athletic scholarships, so no NLI will be signed.

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Continued from page 2 On Saturday, the Golden Eagles will try to improve on their historic run, hosting 10-4 Fenwick, the fourth-seeded team in Class 7A. “It really hasn’t sunken in yet, because I think, and the whole team thinks, (we) could win a couple more games and make it to state,” junior defensive end Eric Schutt said. “...

We know we made history, but we want to keep building it and building it and make it a tradition going on and on to make it far in the playoffs.”

Schutt, leading the team in sacks, is part of a junior class that has helped propel a relatively inexperienced Jacobs team.

The Golden Eagles only start a handful of seniors, including Katrenick. Beyond that, there are a couple juniors, such as lineman Jimmy Wormsley, running back Loren Strickland and defensive back Trevor Fitzsimmons, who have previous varsity experience.

The rest of the lineup, however, is guys such as Schutt or sophomore fullback Stephen Kavanaugh, playing their first year of varsity football.

“Starting out Week 1, 2 and 3, really you could see a lot of the nervousness because some of the guys, they’ve only played the freshman and sophomore level, so they’re not used to the lights on Friday night,” Wormsley said. “It’s a big thing for your first experience. I remember it, too; it’s very nerve-wracking. As the season went on, you could see everyone get used to it and grow into it, and they were able to get the nerves out and just play football like they know how to do.”

Mitz credited the strength of the Fox Valley Conference – four teams are in the quarterfinals in various classes – with helping the Golden Eagles improve throughout the year.

“I think it speaks volumes of the league and getting you ready for the postseason that you hopefully earn the right to get in,” Mitz said. “I think the strength of our schedule got our

kids a lot better.”

Although its youth could mean great things are ahead for Jacobs next year, this group isn’t looking that far, believing that this could just as easily be its year.

“I don’t think there’s a doubt about it, just like we told them today, we told them last week in our Monday morning meeting, ‘Hey, we all believe we’re going to do this; we all expect to win this game,’ and they’re believing it. They’re hungry,” Mitz said.

“They weren’t satisfied with getting the first playoff win. Today, I could see that they’re hungry for this opponent this week, which is what you want.

“It’s a great group of kids, seniors, juniors and sophomores, and we’ve got two or three freshmen that are up with us now.

That stuff is priceless when you have your younger kids up with you for these runs and they get three extra weeks, four extra weeks, whatever, of practice.

Ken Koontz for Shaw Media It’s always going to help you for the future. But all we’re con- Jacobs’ John Farrissey (left) makes a catch while being covered cerned about right now is Fen- by Batavia’s Patrick Castellano on Saturday in a Class 7A second-round playoff game in Algonquin. wick, quite honestly.”

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Baseball Player, School, School (Div.) Mike Addante, Jacobs, Nebraska (D-I) Mike Lasiewicz, McHenry, N. Illinois (D-I) Matt McCumber, Cary-Grove, N. Illinois (D-I) Bobby Miller, McHenry, Louisville (D-I) Nick Wolski, Crystal Lake South, Mo.-St. Louis (D-II) Women’s Cross Country Player, School, School (Div.) Abigail Jones*, Marian Central, St. Joseph’s (Indiana) College (D-II) Men’s Basketball Player, School, School (Div.) Cameron Krutwig, Jacobs, Loyola (D-I) Softball Player, School, School (Div.)

Crystal Lake South senior Nick Wolski took the college baseball recruitment process into his own hands.

Near the end of the summer, Wolski and Gators coach Brian Bogda produced a recruiting video, about three minutes in length, in which Wolski fielded ground balls at first base, took fly balls and threw to the infield, and took batting practice.

Nick Wolski Bogda and Wolski found Midwest schools that fit Wolski’s needs and emailed the video to those coaches. University of Missouri-St. Louis coach Jim Brady and his staff liked what they saw.

“They set up a visit, and I got to scrimmage with the team,” Wolski said. “It was a multiple-day event. I got to stay with the team.

I liked their chemistry, and the way they played the game is what I look for in a team.”

Wolski, a first baseman-outfielder who hits and bats right-handed, will sign his National Letter of Intent with the NCAA Division II Tritons on Wednesday. UMSL plays in the Great Lakes Valley Conference, which also has two other schools he visited, Truman State and Missouri Western.

Wolski hit .333 last season for the Gators, who shared the Fox Valley Conference Valley Division title with Cary-Grove. He scored 20

runs, drove in 29 and had an on-base percentage of .416. Wolski was a Northwest Herald All-Area honorable-mention selection.

“Nick has worked very hard on the field, in the weight room and in the classroom to get where he is today,” Bogda said. “I couldn’t be happier for him and with him the best at UMSL.” Heavily armed: Three area pitchers will sign, two of whom are from McHenry, Bobby Miller (Louisville) and Mike Lasiewicz (Northern Illinois University). Cary-Grove’s Matt McCumber will join Lasiewicz at NIU. The two have been travel teammates with the Pro Player Canes.

Miller will be joined in two years at Louisville by Richmond-Burton junior Jake Rosing.

Krutwig to Ramblers: Jacobs’ 6-foot-9 center Cameron Krutwig, who passed 1,000 career points last season, will be the first area boys basketball player in three years to go NCAA Division I when he signs with Loyola.

Krutwig played against the last area D-I boys player, Huntley’s Amanze Egekeze, in the 2014 season. Egekeze, a 6-8 forward, is a junior at Belmont in Nashville, Tennessee.

Krutwig is a dominant presence inside for the Golden Eagles, who finished 23-7 and won a Class 4A regional championship last season.

On hold: Marian Central’s volleyball players have three D-I signees and two players attending D-III schools who will have a signing celebration Monday. The Hurricanes are defending their Class 3A volleyball state tournament championship in Normal this weekend.

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Chasing Giants, Yankees? #dynasty

By GORDON WITTENMYER gwittenmyer@suntimes.com

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – By the end of next week, Kris Bryant could have his first MVP award, and either Jon Lester or Kyle Hendricks could have his first Cy Young Award.

All three of those Cubs are under club control for at least four more years. And four more former All-Stars are under club control through at least 2019.

That doesn’t even count Jake Arrieta, Kyle Schwarber, Jorge Soler or John Lackey.

“They might be the first team in the history of projections to come in with 115-win expectations,” said Neal Huntington, the general manager of the Cubs’ division-rival Pittsburgh.

“They’re going to be a great team.

They’re going to be a force to be reckoned with for a while.”

Less than a week removed from the team’s first championship in 108 years, the temptation among front office leaders at the general managers’ meetings this week in Arizona when talking about these young Cubs is to add a #dynasty.

They averaged 100 wins the past two seasons, advanced through five playoff rounds over those two years and set a World Series record when they started six players age 25 or younger in a

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Cubs general manager Jed Hoyer (left) and manager Joe Maddon celebrate after Game 7 of the World Series on Thursday in Cleveland. game.

“They’ve got a lot of good, young talent under control, and, obviously, now they’re postseason proven,” Yankees GM Brian Cashman said. “So the sky’s the limit.”

Cashman should know. His Yankees were the last in the majors to repeat – winning three of four champion-

ships from 1996 to 2000 during a run of six World Series appearances in eight years.

Eleven different teams have won the past 16 World Series.

“It’s probably harder than ever,” said Huntington, whose Pirates made the playoffs from 2013 to ’15. “There’s so much movement in the game, and so much variability and volatility, with player injuries, bad years, good years, and there is some randomness to the game.”

Not to mention the second wild-card team added in each league.

In fact, 21 of the 30 teams have made the playoffs in the past four seasons – only the Dodgers having done it all four (without so much as an appearance in the final round).

“Baseball’s a funny game,” said Mariners GM Jerry DiPoto, who worked with Cubs president Epstein and Cubs GM Jed Hoyer in Boston when the Red Sox won in 2004. “On paper, the Cubs have the type of roster, in particular with their young position players, to, in theory, just go out and dominate the league for the next five, six years. But it still has to actually happen.”

Huntington and Cardinals GM John Mozeliak said they’re not changing how they do business for the near-term because of the Cubs’ look of long-term strength. But neither sounds like a man who thinks he’s a piece or two

from overtaking the Cubs, either.

“We’re not waving any white flag, but we’re also not going to do something that’s going to make us go backward just to say we took one step forward,” Mozeliak said.

The Cubs’ pitching will require reinforcements for any type of dynasty they would hope to extend beyond 2017.

But Epstein doesn’t shy away from comparisons to the Giants or Yankees.

“You look at those organizations that can repeat the next year or in a relatively short period of time and you can’t help but admire them,” he said.

“It does validate the initial title if you can back it up. I think every organization strives to be like that.

“But for us really, the goal is to be the type of organization that national baseball fans think of when you think of October baseball.”

Like the Braves with their 14 playoff appearances in a row through 2005.

Like the Cardinals with 12 appearances in the past 17 years.

Maybe even like Cashman’s Yankees?

“I would not be shocked if that were the Cubs and we look up in the next five years and they’ve got multiple World Series rings,” DiPoto said. “But this is all I’ve ever done in my life, and I can tell you that very rare is the time where the best team just rules the roost forever anymore.”

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Cubs not likely to pursue big-ticket free-agent closers

Rizzo wins his 1st, Heyward grabs his 4th Gold Glove

By GORDON WITTENMYER gwittenmyer@suntimes.com

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Closer Aroldis Chapman’s free-agency departure leaves the most conspicuous hole on the Cubs’ playoff roster as they head into the offseason trying to retool for a repeat.

But that doesn’t mean they’ll take a conspicuous approach to filling it.

“We’ll explore every avenue,” general manager Jed Hoyer said Tuesday during baseball’s annual GM meetings. “Obviously, there’s appealing guys on the free-agent market that have had great track records, but I think that closers come from all over,

and, in general, when you start looking where those guys come from, some of them had some bumps along the road and established themselves later on.”

That was the case with Indians bullpen ace Andrew Miller, Hoyer said.

The bottom line is, don’t expect the Cubs to be aggressive bidders for the top three closers on the free-agent market: Chapman, the Anthony Rizzo Dodgers’ Kenley Jansen or the Nationals’ Mark Melancon.

All three are expected to command big, multiyear commitments – including whispers of as much as $100 million (five years) for Chapman.

The Cubs have the resources to splurge on a closer, especially after the windfall of revenues this postseason brought. But it’s not in the DNA of a front office that in Boston let All-Star Jonathan Papelbon walk rather than

offer a multiyear deal.

“It’s a volatile position,” Hoyer said.

“All three of those guys have done an exceptional job and been really steady for the last three, four years, but it’s a volatile role, for sure.”

The Cubs are more likely to look at inhouse depth and at potential trades or lower-level free agents to backfill through depth.

And don’t forget HecJason Heyward tor Rondon. He struggled with a triceps injury at the end of the season, but at the time of the July trade for Chapman, the former Cubs closer had similar numbers – better in several key areas – to Chapman’s over the previous two calendar years.

“He’s had a great run with us,” Hoyer said. “That trade was not made because we didn’t have confidence in him. It was made because of the way baseball is played in October.”

Gold rush: Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo won his first career Gold Glove and right fielder Jason Heyward won his fourth in voting announced Tuesday night.

It’s the 11th time the Cubs have had two Gold Glove winners – first since pitcher Greg Maddux and first baseman Derrek Lee in 2005 and first time two nonpitchers have won since outfielder Andre Dawson and second baseman Ryne Sandberg in 1988.

“Our defense is a big part of our success this year,” Hoyer said. “And people around the game probably didn’t realize how much until the playoffs.”

The Cubs, who had four Gold Glove finalists, never have had three winners in the same season.

The other Cubs finalists, pitcher Jake Arrieta and shortstop Addison Russell, were beaten for the award by Arizona’s Zack Greinke and San Francisco’s Brandon Crawford, respectively.

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The Rockets came into the season with a pair of talented running backs, but it’s been quarterback Logan Woodside who has stolen the show offensively.

The numbers for Woodside, who redshirted last season, are among the top in the country – including a 70.9 completion percentage (fourth in the nation), 3,042 yards (sixth), 338 yards per game (fifth) and 34 touchdowns (tied for first).

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DeKALB – Although the Northern Illinois football team will make history against Toledo on Wednesday, a win is more important.

The Huskies will play in the first football game in the stadium of the White Sox – now called Guaranteed Rate Field – and need another victory over the Rockets to keep their hopes for a bowl game alive when the two teams face off at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Chicago.

As far as the logistics of playing football in a baseball stadium, Northern Illinois coach Rod Carey said there wasn’t any fear that it would

“You can’t prepare for tightened, back-of-the-end zone stuff. They’ve done a good job – I went down there – they’ve done a good job with padding and spacing and all the things,” Carey said. “You know it’s a baseball stadium when you walk in, but they’ve done a great job with the grass, the sod has really taken and the dimensions and everything.

It’s not like – no offense to the Cubs fans – it’s not like playing a game in Wrigley where you’re only playing one way.”

The Huskies (3-6 overall, 3-2 in MAC West) are riding their first winning streak of the season, with back-to-back lopsided victories over Buffalo and Bowling Green – the bottom Jesse Severson – jseverson@shawmedia.com two teams in the MAC East.

A field diagram handed out at a news conference at U.S. Cellular Field The Huskies have won six in – now Guaranteed Rate Field – on Feb. 17, about Wednesday’s Huskie a row over Toledo (7-2 overall, 4-1 in MAC West) but the RockChi-Town Showdown between Toledo and NIU. ets are playing for a chance to be a disaster like when North- that had the offenses only go in keep their hopes alive for a diwestern played Illinois at one direction because of size vision title. The Rockets face unbeaten Western Michigan Wrigley Field in 2010 – a game restraints.

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Eaton, who shifted to right field in 2016 after playing Adam Eaton center in ’14 and ’15, led major league outfielders with 18 assists and ranked second behind Betts with 22 defensive runs saved in 2016. Betts had 32 runs saved.

Voting was based on 75 percent voting by AL managers and coaches and 25 percent on defensive metrics.

– Daryl Van Schouwen, dvanschouwen@suntimes.com so he’s well-suited for a young club like he had when he was over on the North Side – but he has the strategic ability and intellect and feel for the game to certainly take a championship-caliber roster deep into the postseason.”

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“But we aren’t going to continue to take half-measures, so to speak, in order to, hopefully, in some instances, catch lightning in a bottle or catch some upside here on a short-term basis in order to win,” he said. “We want to put ourselves in the best and firmest position to win on a sustainable basis going forward. If that requires a longer-term view or perhaps some shortterm hardships along the way, we realize it’s going to be for the greater good.”

The Cubs’ success, Hahn admits, is a driving force but also offers an up-close example of the potential rewards for “taking that step back” that the Cubs and several other rebuilding teams have in recent years.

“I don’t know if those explanations would resonate more greatly now that the Cubs have had success, and people in Chicago have seen that,” Hahn said. “But I think it would certainly be something that, again, if we go down that path, that we would be able to justify based on what’s coming back in exchange as well as how we view this coming together in the future.”

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – On Tuesday, Cubs general manager Jed Hoyer called manager Joe Maddon’s hire two years ago one of the most significant keys to the Cubs turning a rebuilding, last-place team into a World Series champion as quickly as they did.

In the same ballroom on the same day of the general managers meetings, White Sox GM Rick Renteria Rick Hahn called Rick Renteria – the man the Cubs kicked to the curb to hire Maddon – the kind of manager capable of doing the same thing on the South Side as the Sox embark on what looks like a similar tank-and-rebuild process as the Cubs.

Could Renteria have won that Cubs championship if he hadn’t been fired?

“Oh, I don’t know,” Hahn said. “If you’re asking me if Rick Renteria is capable of winning a championship? Absolutely. There is zero doubt in my mind about that. Ricky not only has deep player-development roots and is a teacher –

will the Sox’s newly hired manager get that chance?

The Sox are poised for a Cubs-like teardown and a long-term rebuild as they enter the offseason. They’re in perhaps the best position of any team to exploit a weak free-agent market by shopping controllable, affordable, high-caliber starting pitching (Chris Sale, Jose Quintana), two years of a veteran closer (David Robertson) and a Gold Glove outfielder who can lead off (Adam Eaton).

“Our goal is to put ourselves in position to win on a sustainable basis,” Hahn said. “We’ve taken the approach the last several years – obviously some years more successfully than others – where we’ve been focused on a short-term benefit. I think we’ve gotten to the point where we’ve had our conversations internally with (chairman) Jerry (Reinsdorf), (top baseball exec) Kenny (Williams) and our staff and scouts, where we realize putting ourselves in a better position for the long term is the more prudent path.”

Hahn spent a lengthy part of a media session Tuesday alluding to a full tankand-rebuild process and expressing “frustration” about not being able to “put ourselves in a position with this current

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Wade looks forward to returning to Miami Veteran has no plan to conserve energy Wednesday vs. Hawks

By JASON LANGENDORF For the Sun-Times

CHICAGO – Dwyane Wade isn’t giving it a second thought. Not now. Not yet.

But sure, he knows it’s out there.

Thursday. Miami. Bulls vs. Heat.

Wade, now playing for his hometown team, returns to the house he built in South Beach – a fixer-upper franchise he spent 13 years flipping into a threetime champion.

Just don’t be surprised if he throws a brick through the front window.

“I’ll deal with Miami when I get there,” he said. “I’ll deal with all that.”

“All that” is left open to interpretation, although it’s pretty clear that Wade left a Heat franchise that drafted him out of Marquette in 2003 on lessthan-ideal terms when he signed with the Bulls over the summer. Wade had elevated Miami from playoff contend-

er to hoops supernova with his play and sense of sacrifice – financial, metaphysical and otherwise. Although he has claimed he never expected to be rewarded by the Heat for past glories, but rather simply paid what he’s worth, Wade was seeking one last big score over the summer, and clearly believed Miami would find a way to settle it.

When the Heat didn’t, Wade took his ball and went home.

It might well work out for all parties involved. The marriage with the Bulls is still very much in the honeymoon phase, with Wade playing the part of mentor and team leader while performing at a level roughly in line with his recent post-peak years in Miami. Wade talked of helping navigate his teammates through their recent three-game losing streak, then helped end it Monday night at the United Center with 16 points, four assists, two steals and two blocks in 25 minutes in a walkover against Orlando.

But eyes are going to be constantly trained on the odometer of a 34-yearold perimeter player who has missed at least 20 games in three of his past five seasons. Wade’s balky knees and occasional struggles in back-to-backs in re-

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We’re gonna try to do our jobs and get a win.”

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Bulls forward on Dwyane Wade cent years (see Saturday’s four-point, 1-for-9 shooting output at Indiana) are legitimate concerns.

“He and I have had a very open line of communication about how his body is feeling,” Bulls coach Fred Hoiberg said. “And it’s going to have to continue to be that way throughout the season.”

In the short term, Wade’s virtual cameo in the Magic blowout is a miniboon for his fitness. But no ongoing minutes restrictions or back-to-back protocols have been established for Wade, according to coach and player.

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uled to play Wednesday at Atlanta, that no special playing-time dispensations have been made with an eye toward the next day’s showdown with the Heat.

“We’re trying to win,” he said. “It’s one ballgame. My goal is to get back on track and to do what I can to help my team. Nah. It’s not that big of a game for me to be thinking about taking time off.”

But then there’s this: “I’m not worried about the backto-back in Miami, energy-wise,” Wade said. “I mean, if you ain’t got energy for that game – for me – what are you gonna have energy for?”

In other words, don’t misinterpret Wade’s laconic demeanor when discussing Thursday’s return to his old stomping grounds. “Low-key” doesn’t mean “no beef.”

Asked if Wade had talked to teammates about the Miami game, Taj Gibson offered a wry smile and hinted at the competitor simmering below the surface.

“He just said, ‘Y’all better be ready to play on Thursday,’ I’ll tell you that much,” Gibson said. “We’re gonna be there for him. We’re gonna try to do our jobs and get a win. But first things first: We gotta try to beat Atlanta.”

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ST. LOUIS – Four minutes into the second game of the Rockford IceHogs’ season last October, Ryan Hartman took a roughing penalty. Six minutes after that, he ran over the opposing goalie and went back to the penalty box. Two minutes into the second period, he slashed a guy and took a seat.

Early in the third, he boarded an opponent, then earned yet another penalty on his way back to the box.

“The fifth one was me mouthing off to the ref,” Hartman said with a grin. “I was ready to get out of that game. That was an over-the-line moment, for sure.”

That line – the border between aggressive and reckless, between ferocious and foolish – is where Hartman lives. His game is predicated on irritating opponents, on throwing himself into hits with abandon, on energizing both himself and his teammates.

And if you squinted hard enough during Saturday night’s game in Dallas, you could have seen Andrew Shaw in Hartman’s No. 38 sweater. In 11 adventurous minutes, Hartman goaded Stars captain Jamie Benn into a skirmish near the benches, made three big

Kane said. “You saw in Dallas there, he was special. He was doing something every shift. He was running guys over, he was creating chances, scored a big goal for us, had a lot of time in the offensive end, as well. You need that.”

It’s a fine line, however, and one that Hartman – a West Dundee native who was a first-round pick by his hometown Hawks in 2013 – has been learning to toe since turning professional near the end of the 2013-14 season. In his two full seasons in Rockford, he had 28 goals and 44 assists. He also had 249 penalty minutes.

“There were times in Rockford when I went over the line, and there were times where I wasn’t going close enough to the line,” Hartman said. “Those two years in Rockford helped me to find that line. I think I finally found it.”

The numbers back that up. Through nine games this season, Hartman hasn’t taken a single penalty. Meanwhile, he’s second among Hawks in penalties drawn per game, averaging 2.07 minors drawn per 60 minutes of ice time.

Hartman hasn’t had enough games like he had in Dallas, but he’s shown that ability to make a massive impact on a game in a variety of ways.

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10 MLB: GM MEETINGS

Verlander, Cabrera, Sale could be available on trade market

By RONALD BLUM

The Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Detroit Tigers ace Justin Verlander and slugger Miguel Cabrera could be available for the right price. The White Sox might be prepared to deal Chris Sale, too.

Not even a week has passed since the Cubs won their first World Series title in more than a century, and teams already are involved in trade talk as they position themselves for 2017 Chris Sale and beyond.

“The conversations this year with GMs started earlier and had more substance to them than I recall in the past,” Philadelphia general manager Matt Klentak said Tuesday on the first full day of the GMs’ annual meeting.

A weak free-agent market at many positions has driven deal dialogue.

Frustrated they have not won the World Series since 1984 despite a payroll that is among baseball’s highest, the Tigers sound ready to embark on a rebuild.

“We have an open mind to listen on any player on our roster,” GM Al Avila said. “We’re going to try to make this organization good for the long run, not the short run. We’re looking at it as allin for the long haul. And so the transition, that first step, might be a little bit tough here.”

A six-time All-Star right-hander who turns 34 in February, Verlander went 16-9 with a 3.04 ERA this year in his best season since 2012. He is owed $28 million in each of the next three seasons.

Cabrera, an 11-time All-Star who plays mostly first base these days, turns 34 in April. He will be paid $28 million next year, $30 million in each of the next four seasons and $32 million annually in 2022 and ’23.

Detroit’s payroll was about $199 million this year, trailing only the Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees and Boston, and the Tigers likely will pay a luxury tax of just less than $4 million.

An 86-75 record, eight games behind AL Central champion Cleveland, prompted Detroit to reconsider its methods.

“If anybody thinks that you just can continue to add and add, where does the payroll get to?” Avila said.

On the South Side of Chicago, the Sox sprinted to a 23-10 start, creating visions of a Windy City World Series

against the Cubs, then sank to a 78-84 record. After winning the 2005 title, the Sox have not even reached the playoffs since 2008.

Sale, a left-hander who turns 27 in March, was an All-Star in each of the past five seasons and has a contract that pays him $12 million next year and includes club options at $12.5 million for 2018 and $15 million for 2019.

Sox GM Rick Hahn said other teams ask him about Sale, but Hahn also discusses the future with owner Jerry Reinsdorf and executive vice president Kenny Williams.

“I think our goal is to put ourselves in a position to win on a sustainable basis,” Hahn said. “We’ve been focused on a short-term benefit. We’ve gotten to the point when we have had our conversations internally with Jerry and Kenny where we realize a better position for the long term is a more prudent path.”

Given the tendency of baseball executives to follow the leader, they seek to mimic the Cubs. Seeking their first title since 1908, the Cubs hired Theo Epstein as president of baseball operations and Jed Hoyer as GM after the team went 71-91 in 2011.

As they overhauled the roster, the Cubs lost 101 games the next year, 96 in 2013 and 89 in 2014. As top draft picks reached the major league team, the Cubs added free agents during the past two offseasons and won 97 games in 2015 and a big league-high 103 this year, when they beat Cleveland in a seven-game World Series.

“Any time you’re trading away really good veterans like that, you’re setting yourself up for some really long summers,” Hoyer cautioned. “The messaging in your clubhouse is really difficult. The messaging to your fan base is really difficult. Fans grow to like players on their team, and when you trade away the guy whose jersey they just got for Christmas or you trade away a guy’s friend and mentor in the clubhouse, whoever that might be, that’s hard messaging.”

Going young, building a core group and then adding veterans to peak with a title is the goal. But making the right decisions on draft picks and swaps is the hard part.

“The idea that you rip the Band-Aid off, be bad for a couple of years, make some trades and always end up on the positive side, I don’t think that’s realistic,” Hoyer said.

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Posey was joined on the Gold Glove roster by a pair of Giants teammates, the double-play combination of shortstop Brandon Washington moved into fourth in the College Football Playoff rankings, putting Crawford and second baseman Joe Panik.

Colorado third baseman Nolan Arenado the four remaining unbeaten teams from won for the fourth consecutive year, and the Power Five conferences at the top of the selection committee’s second top 25. Arizona pitcher Zack Greinke took his third straight prize.

Alabama, Clemson and Michigan still Other winners in the NL were Atlanta hold the top three spots. center fielder Ender Inciarte, Pittsburgh left The committee’s first ranking of the fielder Starling Marte, and first baseman season caused a bit of a stir because the unbeaten Huskies were behind Texas A&M Anthony Rizzo and right fielder Jason Heyward from the World Series champion Cubs. last week. The Aggies then went out and Young shortstop Francisco Lindor from lost at Mississippi State to clear up the AL champion Cleveland was a first-time mini-controversy.

Ohio State is behind Washington at fifth. winner, along with Texas first baseman Mitch Moreland, Detroit second baseman Ian Kinsler, New York Yankees left fielder Posey, Rizzo, Lindor among Brett Gardner and Boston right fielder Gold Glove winners Mookie Betts.

NEW YORK – Catch this: Buster Posey Kansas City catcher Salvador Perez won is the new Gold Glove backstop in the his fourth Gold Glove in a row, Houston National League.

The San Francisco Giants star unseated pitcher Dallas Keuchel took his third Yadier Molina behind the plate Tuesday straight and Tampa Bay center fielder when Rawlings announced its annual Kevin Kiermaier repeated from last year. honors for fielding excellence. Posey was Rangers third baseman Adrian Beltre was picked as the NL catcher, ending Molina’s rewarded for the fifth time overall.

– Wire reports eight-year reign with St. Louis.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL MID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE

WEST MAC W L PF PA W. Michigan 5 0 232 91 Toledo 4 1 182 120 N. Illinois 3 2 178 130 E. Michigan 2 3 121 153 C. Michigan 2 4 126 193 Ball St. 1 4 121 163

All Games W L PF PA 9 0 407 174 7 2 363 205 3 6 280 288 5 4 267 261 5 5 284 293 4 5 244 255

EAST MAC W L PF PA Ohio 5 1 146 104 Miami (Ohio) 4 2 143 124 Akron 3 3 138 195 Kent St. 2 3 122 107 Buffalo 1 4 99 173 Bowling Green 0 5 130 185

All Games W L PF PA 7 3 293 230 4 6 225 248 5 5 298 356 3 6 198 234 2 7 155 288 1 8 191 406

Tuesday’s Results E. Michigan at Ball St., 6 p.m.

W. Michigan at Kent St., 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 9 Toledo vs. N. Illinois at Chicago, 7 p.m.

Bowling Green at Akron, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Miami (Ohio) at Buffalo, noon

PLAYOFF RANKINGS

1. Alabama 2. Clemson 3. Michigan 4. Washington 5. Ohio St. 6. Louisville 7. Wisconsin 8. Texas A&M 9. Auburn 10. Penn St. 11. Oklahoma 12. Colorado

9-0 9-0 9-0 9-0 8-1 8-1 7-2 7-2 7-2 7-2 7-2 7-2

13. Oklahoma St. 7-2 14. Virginia Tech 7-2 15. Utah 7-2 16. West Virginia 7-1 17. North Carolina 7-2 18. Florida St. 6-3 19. Nebraska 7-2 20. Southern Cal 6-3 21. Western Michigan 9-0 22. Boise St. 8-1 23. Washington St. 7-2 24. LSU 5-3 25. Arkansas 6-3 The College Football Playoff Selection Committee will issue weekly rankings each Tuesday, with the final rankings being announced Sunday, Dec. 4 (11 a.m.).

The playoff semifinals will match the No. 1 seed vs. the No. 4 seed, and No. 2 will face No. 3. The semifinals will be hosted at the Fiesta Bowl and Peach Bowl on Dec. 31. The championship game will be played Jan. 9 at Tampa, Florida.

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

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Pct .625 .556 .500 .250

PF 155 205 198 131

PA 126 206 187 179

Pct .875 .625 .563 .500

PF 223 161 186 202

PA 140 164 189 145

Pct .667 .500 .375 .375

PF 305 242 180 204

PA 259 238 232 206

Pct .688 .438 .375 .125

PF 162 179 130 167

PA 134 140 167 260

WEEK 10 Thursday’s Game Cleveland at Baltimore, 7:25 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Bears at Tampa Bay, noon Atlanta at Philadelphia, noon Denver at New Orleans, noon Houston at Jacksonville, noon Los Angeles at N.Y. Jets, noon Kansas City at Carolina, noon Minnesota at Washington, noon Green Bay at Tennessee, noon Miami at San Diego, 3:05 p.m.

San Francisco at Arizona, 3:25 p.m.

Dallas at Pittsburgh, 3:25 p.m.

Seattle at New England, 7:30 p.m.

Monday’s Game Cincinnati at N.Y. Giants, 7:30 p.m.

Off: Detroit, Buffalo, Indianapolis, Oakland

East W L T New England 7 1 0 Miami 4 4 0 Buffalo 4 5 0 N.Y. Jets 3 6 0 North W L T Baltimore 4 4 0 Pittsburgh 4 4 0 Cincinnati 3 4 1 Cleveland 0 9 0 South W L T Houston 5 3 0 Tennessee 4 5 0 Indianapolis 4 5 0 Jacksonville 2 6 0 West W L T Oakland 7 2 0 Kansas City 6 2 0 Denver 6 3 0 San Diego 4 5 0

Pct .875 .500 .444 .333

PF 217 173 237 173

PA 132 182 203 235

Pct .500 .500 .438 .000

PF 154 184 167 168

PA 153 171 189 273

Pct .625 .444 .444 .250

PF 137 217 239 153

PA 167 226 256 215

Pct .778 .750 .667 .444

PF 245 185 214 268

PA 223 151 166 247

WEEK 11 Thursday, Nov. 17 New Orleans at Carolina, 7:25 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 20 Bears at N.Y. Giants, noon Baltimore at Dallas, noon Jacksonville at Detroit, noon Tennessee at Indianapolis, noon Arizona at Minnesota, noon Pittsburgh at Cleveland, noon Buffalo at Cincinnati, noon Tampa Bay at Kansas City, noon Miami at Los Angeles, 3:05 p.m.

New England at San Francisco, 3:25 p.m.

Philadelphia at Seattle, 3:25 p.m.

Green Bay at Washington, 7:30 p.m.

Monday, Nov. 21 Houston at Oakland, 7:30 p.m.

Open: San Diego, Atlanta, Denver, N.Y. Jets

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EASTERN CONFERENCE

Central Division GP W L OT Pts Blackhawks 13 9 3 1 19 St. Louis 13 7 4 2 16 Minnesota 11 6 4 1 13 Winnipeg 14 6 7 1 13 Nashville 12 4 5 3 11 Dallas 13 4 6 3 11 Colorado 12 5 7 0 10 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts Edmonton 14 9 4 1 19 San Jose 13 7 6 0 14 Los Angeles 13 7 6 0 14 Anaheim 13 6 5 2 14 Calgary 14 5 8 1 11 Vancouver 14 5 8 1 11 Arizona 12 5 7 0 10

GF GA 47 33 31 34 33 22 42 43 31 36 33 46 24 37 GF GA 43 35 30 32 35 32 35 30 36 51 27 41 35 44

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Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 13 11 1 1 23 42 30 Tampa Bay 13 7 5 1 15 41 38 Detroit 14 7 6 1 15 38 37 Ottawa 12 7 5 0 14 30 31 Boston 13 7 6 0 14 32 35 Florida 13 6 6 1 13 35 33 Toronto 13 5 5 3 13 37 48 Buffalo 12 5 5 2 12 25 29 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 13 9 2 2 20 41 34 N.Y. Rangers 14 10 4 0 20 58 34 Washington 12 8 3 1 17 33 27 New Jersey 12 6 3 3 15 29 27 Philadelphia 14 6 6 2 14 49 51 Columbus 10 5 3 2 12 32 21 N.Y. Islanders 13 5 6 2 12 37 40 Carolina 12 3 5 4 10 31 41 Note: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Tuesday’s Results San Jose 3, Washington 0 Pittsburgh 4, Edmonton 3 New Jersey 3, Carolina 2 (SO) Detroit 3, Philadelphia 2 (SO) Vancouver 5, N.Y. Rangers 3 Montreal 3, Boston 2 Los Angeles 7, Toronto 0 Nashville 3, Ottawa 1 Winnipeg 8, Dallas 2 Arizona 4, Colorado 2 Wednesday’s Games Blackhawks at St. Louis, 7 p.m.

Anaheim at Columbus, 6 p.m.

Ottawa at Buffalo, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Minnesota at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Anaheim at Carolina, 6 p.m.

Columbus at Boston, 6 p.m.

Vancouver at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Montreal, 6:30 p.m.

San Jose at Florida, 6:30 p.m.

St. Louis at Nashville, 7 p.m.

Dallas at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Winnipeg at Arizona, 8 p.m.

Central Division W L Pct Cleveland 6 1 .857 Detroit 4 3 .571 Bulls 4 3 .571 Milwaukee 4 3 .571 Indiana 3 4 .429 Atlantic Division W L Pct Toronto 4 2 .667 Boston 3 3 .500 Brooklyn 3 4 .429 New York 2 4 .333 Philadelphia 0 6 .000 Southeast Division W L Pct Charlotte 5 1 .833 Atlanta 5 2 .714 Orlando 3 4 .429 Miami 2 4 .333 Washington 1 5 .167

GB — 2 2 2 3 GB — 1 1½ 2 4 GB — ½ 2½ 3 4

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Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio 5 2 .714 Houston 4 3 .571 Memphis 4 4 .500 Dallas 2 5 .286 New Orleans 0 8 .000 Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City 6 1 .857 Portland 5 3 .625 Utah 5 3 .625 Denver 3 4 .429 Minnesota 1 5 .167 Pacific Division W L Pct L.A. Clippers 6 1 .857 Golden State 5 2 .714 L.A. Lakers 4 4 .500 Sacramento 4 5 .444 Phoenix 2 6 .250

GB — 1 1½ 3 5½ GB — 1½ 1½ 3 4½ GB — 1 2½ 3 4½

Tuesday’s Results Atlanta 110, Cleveland 106 Brooklyn 119, Minnesota 110 Memphis 108, Denver 107 Portland 124, Phoenix 121 Dallas 109, L.A. Lakers 97 Sacramento 102, New Orleans 94 Wednesday’s Games Bulls at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m.

Boston at Washington, 6 p.m.

Brooklyn at New York, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Orlando, 6 p.m.

Philadelphia at Indiana, 6 p.m.

Utah at Charlotte, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Detroit at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Houston at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.

Dallas at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

Portland at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Bulls at Miami, 7 p.m.

New Orleans at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.

Golden State at Denver, 8 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Sacramento, 9:30 p.m.

ALL-FOX VALLEY CONFERENCE BOYS SOCCER TEAM

Here is the All-Fox Valley Conference boys soccer team, released Tuesday: Cary-Grove: Luis Lemus, M, sr.; Sergio Lemus, jr, G; Patrick Kingdon, sr., F. Crystal Lake Central: Ryan Nottoli, F, sr.; Cade Klusendorf, M, sr.

Crystal Lake South: Andrew Grabowski, F, sr.; Nikolas Getzinger, J, jr.; Ryan Yazel, D, jr.

Dundee-Crown: Jeremy Jareckyj, M, sr.; Julian Ajroja, F, jr.; Luis Cruz, G, sr.; Ivan Aviles, D, so.; Jabari Washington, D, so.; Gerardo Estrada, M, jr.

Hampshire: Jose Cruz, M, sr.; Nico Barrientos, F, sr.; Tyler Fairwood, F, sr.; Braeden Frenette, D, jr.

Huntley: Aaron Ruddner, F, sr.; Andrew Meyer, D, sr.; Zach Whitaker, F, sr.; Jacob Kranz, M, sr.; Michael Parks, G, sr.

Jacobs: Noah Melick, F, jr.; Colin Walsh, M, jr.; Gabe Swarthout, M, jr.; Dan Buirge, M, jr.; Ethan Pickering, G, sr.; Jacob Moser, D, sr.

McHenry: Jake King, G, sr.; Alex Lee, D, sr.; Zach Gorniak, D, sr.; Zach Ruppenthal, D, sr.

Prairie Ridge: Bill Keaty, F, sr.; Matthew King, M, jr.

SCHEDULE

WEDNESDAY Boys bowling: Marengo at Woodstock, 4:30 p.m.

THURSDAY Boys bowling: Grayslake North at Marengo, Grayslake Central at McHenry, 4 p.m., Woodstock at Johnsburg, 4:30 p.m.

STATE FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS

CLASS 8A No. 1 Loyola Academy (11-0) at No. 24 Huntley (8-3), 1 p.m. Saturday No. 20 Glenbard West (9-2) at No. 12 Edwardsville (10-1), 1 p.m. Saturday No. 26 Maine South (8-3) at No. 18 Lincoln-Way East (9-2), 6 p.m. Saturday No. 6 St. Charles East (11-0) at No. 3 Palatine (11-0), 5 p.m. Saturday CLASS 7A No. 8 Rockford Auburn (10-1) at No. 16 Plainfield North (9-2), 2 p.m. Saturday No. 4 Fenwick (10-1) at No. 28 Jacobs (7-4), 3 p.m. Saturday No. 2 East St. Louis (11-0) at No. 23 Willowbrook (8-3), 2 p.m. Saturday No. 11 Benet Academy (9-2) at No. 3 Rolling Meadows (11-0), 6 p.m. Saturday CLASS 6A No. 12 Lake Forest (8-3) at No. 1 Prairie Ridge (11-0), 1 p.m. Saturday No. 3 Cary-Grove (10-1) at No. 7 DeKalb (9-2), 1 p.m. Saturday No. 1 Lemont (11-0) at No. 12 St. Laurence (8-3), 5 p.m. Saturday No. 2 Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin (11-0) at No. 11 Rock Island (9-2), 3 p.m.

Saturday CLASS 5A No. 1 Sterling (11-0) at No. 13 Sycamore (7-4), 1 p.m. Saturday No. 14 Marian Central (7-4) at No. 7 Vernon Hills (8-3), 1 p.m. Saturday No. 4 Washington (9-2) at No. 1 Peoria (10-1), 7 p.m. Saturday No. 10 Metamora (8-3) at No. 3 Morris (9-2), 3 p.m. Saturday CLASS 4A No. 4 Chicago Phillips (10-1) at No. 1 Herscher (11-0), 6 p.m. Saturday No. 3 Genoa-Kingston) (11-0) at No. 2 Johnsburg (11-0), 7 p.m. Friday No. 5 Rochester (10-1) at No. 1 Belleville Althoff (11-0), 7 p.m. Saturday No. 11 Breese Mater Dei (7-4) at No. 7 Canton (9-2), 7 p.m. Friday CLASS 3A No. 4 Wilmington (11-0) at No. 1 IC Catholic (11-0), 5 p.m. Saturday No. 2 Farmington (11-0) at No. 6 Monticello (11-0), 2 p.m. Saturday No. 4 Carlinville (10-1) at No. 1 Newton (11-0), 3 p.m. Saturday No. 10 Tolono Unity (9-2) at No. 3 Virden North Mac (10-1), 2 p.m. Saturday CLASS 2A No. 4 Deer Creek-Mackinaw (10-1) at No. 1 Sterling Newman Central Catholic (11-0), 1 p.m. Saturday No. 2 Kewanee Wethersfield Coop (101) at No. 6 Fulton (9-2), 2 p.m. Saturday No. 8 DuQuoin (9-2) at No. 5 Maroa-Forsyth (10-1), 2 p.m. Saturday No. 14 Champaign St. Thomas More (8-3) at No. 10 Shelbyville (8-3), 2 p.m.

Saturday CLASS 1A No. 1 Ottawa Marquette (11-0) at No. 4 Freeport Aquin (10-1), 1 p.m. Saturday No. 2 Forreston (11-0) at No. 6 Lena-Winslow (9-2), 1 p.m. Saturday No. 12 Hardin Calhoun Coop (8-3) at No. 1 Tuscola (11-0), 2 p.m. Saturday No. 14 Warrensburg-Latham (7-4) at No. 2 Decatur St. Teresa (10-1), 1:30 p.m. Saturday

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When craft beer’s postmodern landscape of barrel-aged beasts and sour everything starts to result in palate-fatigue, there’s always the beautifully simple respite found in well-crafted pilsner – a ubiquitous type of pale lager of moderate strength named after the Bohemian city Pilsen where it was first brewed in 1842.

Crisp, clean, and slightly bitter, it’s the ultimate in quaffability.

It’s no surprise then, a majority of the beer brewed these days is pilsner, and yet, most bear the name rather dubiously. Here are eight superlative examples of the genre to reach for when you’re wishing brewers just would make beer taste like beer again.

Birrificio Italiano Tipopils: Tipopils is the quintessential modern pilsner, which has created a growing cult-following with kegs getting drained quickly wherever tapped. Four different hop varietals are used in its lagering, giving a perfume-y bouquet and floral, grassy bittersweet flavor. When fresh it’s nearly impossible to consume in modest portions.

Firestone Walker Pivo Pils: Count Firestone Walker brewmaster Matt Brynildson among those with a cultish devotion to Tipopils, who modeled its dry-hopped

Pivo Pils after it. A so-called “brewer’s beer,” there was little room for flaw in the recipe-building. The result is clean and dry, with a subtly New World fruity hop nose.

Half Acre Pony Pilsner: Chicago’s Half Acre has an impressive track-record of drinkability in their well-crafted portfolio, and their Pony Pilsner certainly is no exception. This golden lager is German in style but with the volume turned up a touch in a decidedly American fashion-think sweet maltiness balanced by a nicely cutting hop bite.

Omnipollo Perikles Pilsner: Experimental beers from the ever-cool gypsy-brewing Swedes at Omnipollo often seem more like liquid pastry than “beer” (see: Bourbon Barrel Blueberry Cheesecake Stout).

For their pizza-bar Omnipollos hatt, however, a simple pils was needed to wash artisan slices down. Enter Periklesbrewed with oats and unmalted wheatwith its enticing honey aroma, gentle herbal flavor, and pleasing minerality.

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Pumpkin Cream Cheese Brownies

I decided to take my favorite brownie recipe, the one I published in “The Mom 100 Cookbook” a handful of years ago, and turn it into something that says, “Hi, pumpkin season, how’ve you been?”

The bottom layer is a fudgy brownie, dense and with a serious hit of chocolate. The top layer is a creamy pumpkin cheesecake, scented with those great fall spices. Then a bit of the brownie mixture is dolloped on top and swirled into the cheesecake mixture for a beautiful, brown and pale orange marbled effect.

These are thick, rich and the kind of dessert where you’re going to end up feeling pretty pleased with yourself. It’s a dessert to impress, with no fancy baking techniques required.

You can store these at room temperature in a tightly sealed container for a day, or in the fridge for several days. Let them sit for at least 30 minutes at room temperature before serving.

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Pumpkin Cream Cheese Brownies Makes 24 brownies

For the Brownies: 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter 3 ounces unsweetened chocolate 1/2 cup cocoa powder 2½ cups sugar 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 3 large eggs 1½ cups all-purpose flour For the Pumpkin Cheesecake: 2 (8-ounce) packages cream cheese, at room temperature 3/4 cup sugar 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves 2 large eggs 1 cup puréed canned pumpkin (not pumpkin pie filling) 1/3 cup heavy cream 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Generously butter or spray a 9-by-13-inch baking pan with non-stick spray.

Make the brownie batter: Melt together the butter and chocolate in a medium-sized pot over low heat, stirring until smooth. Remove from the heat and stir in the cocoa powder, sugar and salt, then blend in the vanilla.

Beat in the eggs one at a time, stirring quickly so they don’t have a chance to cook at all before they are blended in. Blend in the flour.

Scrape about 3/4 of the thick batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top with a spatula. Set the pan and the remaining brownie batter (about one cup) aside.

Make the pumpkin cheesecake batter: In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese and sugar with an electric mixer until smooth. Add the cinnamon, ginger, salt and cloves and beat, scraping down the sides, until well combined. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, and then beat in the pumpkin, cream and vanilla until smooth.

Spread the pumpkin cheesecake batter over the brownie batter in the pan, and then use a tablespoon to dollop remaining brownie batter over the top in spots. Use a dull knife to swirl the mixtures together on top, making sure to leave it

very streaky, and not blend too much.

Bake for about 40 to 45 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the middle of the brownies comes out clean.

Allow the brownies to cool completely in the pan set on a wire rack. Cut into 24 squares.

Nutritional information per serving: 283 calories; 166 calories from fat; 19 g fat (11 g saturated; 1 g trans fats); 90 mg cholesterol; 166 mg sodium; 29 g carbohydrate; 2 g fiber; 21 g sugar; 4 g protein.

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Low-calorie whipped cream made from unlikely source Pumpkin Spice Local Whipped Topping

By MELISSA D’ARABIAN The Associated Press

I remember the first time my daughter tried lasagna. She loved pasta, yet it took some serious “trust me” coaxing. Today, I’m going to ask you to have the same faith when I share an amazing little recipe for a lower calorie whipped cream, whose main ingredient is garbanzo bean juice.

Still with me? Awesome.

The liquid leftover from the slow cooking of beans and legumes is called “aquafaba” (“bean water” in Latin), and it’s a scientific miracle if you ask me because it whips up into a pillowy fluff in minutes. You probably have some sitting on your pantry shelf this very minute, and you’ve probably been throwing it away all these years. No longer.

Whipped aquafaba has gazillion uses, particularly in the vegan world, where it’s used as an egg substitute in baked goods and meringues. In fact, if you are vegan, you probably consider this to be old news. My personal favorite way to use aquafaba is as a low-cal whipped topping, which can dress up a dessert, or serve as a base for a fluffy mousse (think pumpkin mousse for the holidays).

Dollop today’s recipe, a pumpkin pie spice version, onto a latté, or onto apple or pumpkin pie. A half cup of aquafaba has approximately 50 calories, and it whips up into about 8 cups of topping. Yes, you will want to add some sugar in there so you don’t top your holiday pies with bean-whip, but still, you come out way ahead over whipped cream’s calorie count.

If you are like me, you already have grabbed

Start to finish: 10 minutes Amount: About 8 cups whipped topping

1 can garbanzo or white beans 1/4 cup powdered sugar 2 tablespoons maple syrup 1/4 teaspoon almond extract 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1/4 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Pumpkin Spice Local Whipped Topping AP photo

a can of beans from your pantry to strain and try this out. Here are a few tips from the trenches.

Light-colored beans work better than dark beans (like black beans). White beans such cannellini or great northern beans have a milder, less tangy taste than garbanzo beans. But garbanzo beans usually have more liquid in the can, which means one can will feed a crowd.

Aquafaba whipped topping will not be as stable as whipped cream, so add a stabilizer, such as powdered sugar or cream of tartar, and serve it within 30-60 minutes of whipping. You’ll need to whip for a full 10 minutes so a stand mixer is really the way to go.

Finally, to address your main concern: you will want to cover the slight bean taste. A mixture of almond and vanilla extracts along with some maple syrup works well, even in small quantities. I think this might become one of your favorite holiday swaps.

Strain the can of beans, reserving all the canned liquid (called aquafaba, or “bean water”) and placing in a stand mixer bowl. (Use beans for another recipe.) Using the wire attachment, mix on high until very foamy, about 2 minutes.

Add the remaining ingredients and whip on high speed until very silky, creamy and firm, about 10 minutes. Resist the urge to stop whipping earlier, as the mixture will be more stable with full whipping. Serve within 30 minutes, refrigerating if not serving right away.

Cook’s Notes: If the cream sits long enough that it starts to break (like for hours or even overnight), simply whip it back up. You can turn this topping into a pumpkin mousse by mixing in 3/4 cup of pumpkin purée and a little more maple syrup. Spoon into parfait cups. Serve right away, or refrigerate for up to 2 hours.

Nutrition information per serving: 54 calories; 7 calories from fat; 1 g fat (0 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 0 mg cholesterol; 104 mg sodium; 10 g carbohydrate; 2 g fiber; 5 g sugar; 2 g protein.

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Many years ago, I made this chipotle sweet potato purée for my good friend, pie and cake expert Rose Levy Beranbaum. Since that day, we have each made it again and again as a great fall and winter side dish.

Rose likes to add Aleppo pepper – a Turkish crushed chili pepper that has an ancho-like flavor but is slightly sweeter and tart. And, for Thanksgiving, I like to add a crust of mini marshmallows as a nod to everyone’s’ favorite, candied yams with marshmallows. In this dish, the marshmallows add a nice counter-balance to the smoky heat of the chipotles in adobo sauce and a beautiful crust. And, unlike candied yams, the dish isn’t cloyingly sweet.

This dish can be made the day before and re-heated before serving, making it ideal to bring to a Thanksgiving feast or to make in advance if you are hosting the holiday. The recipe has just a few ingredients so it is essential to buy the best quality ingredients that you can find. Make sure to buy Garnet sweet potatoes which have a deep orange color and have a silkier texture than other sweet potatoes.

Chipotle Sweet Potato and Maple Syrup Purée Start to finish: One hour and 40 minutes (20 minutes active) Servings: About 8

5-10 Garnet sweet potatoes about 5 pounds total 1 overflowing cup real maple syrup 1 cup sour cream 1 stick unsalted butter, softened 2 to 3 canned chipotles in adobo sauce 3 teaspoons ground cinnamon Fine sea salt to taste Mini marshmallows for topping Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

Chipotle Sweet Potato and Maple Syrup Purée AP photo

Clean any dirt and bad spots off potatoes with a rough brush. Dry well. Coat all over with a little Crisco or olive oil and prick the tops with a fork about three times.

Set the potatoes on a baking sheet lined with a Silpat or aluminum foil. Place in the center of the oven and bake until you can see the sugars oozing out of the fork holes, about 1 hour, or more for larger potatoes.

You also can test for doneness by inserting a small sharp knife in the potatoes – if it slips in easily, they are done. Turn off the heat and let sit in the oven for 30-60 minutes to finish baking. They will be silky soft.

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Peel the potatoes, and add the warm peeled potatoes to the food processor. Process until silky smooth, scraping down the sides as needed.

Taste for seasoning, adding more salt, or maple syrup if needed. If the mixture is too stiff, add a bit more butter and/or sour cream. Transfer to an oven-safe casserole dish.

Just before serving, sprinkle top with mini marshmallows and set in a 400 degrees F.

oven for 5-7 minutes until browned and puffy.

Be sure to watch as the marshmallows can go from brown to black quickly.

If making in advance: Store covered in the refrigerator. Remove and place in a preheated 350 degrees F. oven for 45 minutes or until hot throughout. Just before serving, sprinkle top with mini marshmallows and bake at 400 degrees F. until browned and puffy.

Nutrition information per serving: 406 calories; 147 calories from fat; 17 g fat (11 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 50 mg cholesterol; 250 mg sodium; 61 g carbohydrate; 5 g fiber; 34 g sugar; 3 g protein.

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Old-fashioned spoonbread creates lovely Thanksgiving side dish

By KATIE WORKMAN The Associated Press

Spoonbread is a wonderfully old-fashioned dish that should not be relegated to the tables of old-fashioned cooks.

It’s a perfect holiday side; a pudding-esque interpretation of grits; a softer version of cornbread; perfection alongside a roast of any kind. It’s got the slightest hint of sweetness thanks to the maple syrup (and, you know, the sweet potatoes), but remains firmly a savory side dish.

You could add a bit of nutmeg, cinnamon and/or more cloves for more autumnal flavor, but I happen to like the way the sweet potatoes’ natural flavor carries this dish, so I leave it largely unseasoned, with just a touch of cayenne and cloves.

I can’t think of a lovelier Thanksgiving side dish. It’s a winner alongside a roasted turkey. But don’t stop there. This would turn a roast chicken into a feast, with just a green salad to round things off. Maybe even a rotisserie chicken. Who says you have to make the whole meal? You are busy, I know.

When the spoonbread first comes out of the oven, it will be lovely and puffed. It will settle fairly quickly, and that’s OK – it’s not meant to be served like a soufflé, where time is of the essence. If you can get it to the table straight from the oven when it is at its most majestic, great, but really by the time you serve it up it will have settled into its delicious self anyway.

Sweet Potato Spoonbread Start to finish: 2 hours Servings: 8

4 tablespoons butter, divided 3 sweet potatoes 2½ cups whole milk 2 tablespoons maple syrup 1 teaspoon kosher salt

1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper Pinch ground cloves Pinch cayenne pepper 3/4 cup finely ground cornmeal 4 large eggs, separated 2 teaspoons baking powder Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Use 1 tablespoon of the butter to grease a rectangular or oval 2-quart casserole.

Prick the sweet potatoes with a fork and bake them for about 50 to 55 minutes, until they are very soft. Remove them from the oven and let them sit on a wire rack until cool enough to handle.

While the potatoes are cooling, combine the milk, maple syrup, salt, pepper, cloves and cayenne in a medium-size saucepan.

Bring to a simmer over medium heat. Sprinkle in the cornmeal slowly, whisking all the while, until the cornmeal is all added. Continue to whisk over the heat until the mixture has thickened, about 4 minutes. Remove from the heat. Cool for about 10 minutes.

Peel off the skins and place the potatoes in a bowl. Mash them with a potato masher until fairly smooth (or use a ricer or a fork if that’s what you have). Stir the remaining 3 tablespoons of the butter and the mashed sweet potatoes into the cornmeal mixture.

Stir in the baking powder and then the egg yolks.

In a bowl, using a whisk or electric mixer, beat the egg whites until they just form stiff peaks. Gently fold the egg whites into the sweet-potato-cornmeal mixture, just until barely incorporated.

Gently transfer the batter into the prepared dish and bake for 25 to 35 minutes (depending on how deep the dish is) until puffed and golden brown. The middle will still have the slightest jiggle when you wiggle the pan.

Serve hot.

Nutrition information per serving: 229 calories; 98 calories from fat; 11 g fat (6 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 130 mg cholesterol; 464 mg sodium; 26 g carbohydrate; 2 g fiber; 10 g sugar; 7 g protein.

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Squash is as American as apple pie, so why isn’t this delicious, healthy, and versatile ingredient as prominent at our Thanksgiving tables?

There are so many varieties of winter squash that it’s hard to pick a favorite. And though the chefs at The Culinary Institute of America haven’t come to a consensus about which one is their favorite, this recipe for acorn squash with cranberry-orange compote might just end up being yours.

Acorn squash is a cousin to a wide range of hard-skinned squashes such as butternut, pumpkin, kabocha and hubbard. Each has its own unique qualities and uses, but the acorn stands out.

It is widely available, and you’re likely to see its familiar acorn shape and orange and green skin in most grocery stores and fall farmers’ markets. It’s easy to slice, and when cooked, its skin is tender, flavorful, and colorful – so no need to peel. Even better: Acorn squash contains half the calories of sweet potatoes and is rich in fiber and vitamins.

The flesh is sweet and nutty, with a buttery flavor that perfectly complements the tartness of the cranberry-orange compote. It is most commonly baked, or roasted, as in this recipe, and because of its small size and cuplike shape when halved, it can be filled with stuffings before being baked (a great Thanksgiving idea for the vegetarians in your life).

In addition, its seeds are perfect for roasting plain or seasoned, and can be enjoyed on their own as a cocktail snack or for a crunchy addition to your Thanksgiving salad.

Baked Acorn Squash with Cranberry-Orange Compote AP photo

1 cup Cranberry-Orange Compote Place the squash, cut sides up, on a baking sheet. Sprinkle each piece with the honey, maple syrup, or sugar.

Divide the butter into 4 pieces and place 1 piece onto each quarter. Season with salt and pepper.

Cover the squash with foil and bake in a 400 degrees F. oven for 30 minutes. Remove the foil and continue baking, basting periodically, until tender, about 15 minutes more.

Top each portion of squash with Cranberry-Orange Compote (recipe below) and serve on a heated plate.

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self developing a taste for it. What should I get for this recipe?

With that small amount of whiskey, and in that recipe, the brand won’t matter hugely.

I’d probably go with bourbon in most of the autumnal pies I can think of, and I’d just get a mini-bottle of decent bourbon. Several of the major brands sell itty-bitty bottles, and you can save cash that way – unless you’re expecting an onslaught of holiday guests who feel differently about whiskey!

I bought turnips at the farmers market over the weekend and have no idea what to do with them. Do you have any vegetarian-friendly suggestions?

For starters, they’d be great to boil along with potatoes and just mash together. Our recipe for Silken Turnip Soup (Thanksgiving alert!) at washingtonpost.com/recipes is terrific, and you can make it with vegetable broth instead of chicken broth. Ginger, Carrot and Turnip Casserole With Candied ChestMy daughter will be graduating from nuts also is a keeper. Or try Roasted Turnips college in December. I’m trying to decide on a brunch menu for around 13 people.

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Can I mix brunch and lunch items? I’d like to make it slightly fancier than her high I bought a red bell pepper from the school graduation party. Also, since most farmers market to use in a salad. When attendees are over 21, I would love to I cut open the pepper, I found the seeds incorporate some alcoholic beverages. were coated in white mold, which was To mixing brunch and lunch items, I say rather off-putting. However, the red exyes! I think a mix of nibbles and larger dishes terior flesh of the pepper was mold-free served family-style could be nice. For nibbles, and perfectly firm (and tasted fine). So I proceeded to use it in the salad. Was that maybe hummus and other dips with fresh vegetables or flatbreads. For larger dishes, a bad idea? Should I have just tossed it? how about a strata, which would be perfect You did the right thing. for assembling ahead. For a celebratory I found a pie recipe I’d like to try, and it brunch that’s also in the midst of a holiday calls for a tablespoon of whiskey. I know season, I’d go with a punch. It definitely sets nothing about whiskey and don’t see my- a festive tone.

Nutrition information per serving: 158 calories; 103 calories from fat; 12 g fat (7 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 31 mg cholesterol; 296 mg sodium; 15 g carbohydrate; 2 g fiber; 3 g sugar; 1 g protein.

Cranberry-Orange Compote (Makes 2 cups)

5 cups whole cranberries, fresh or frozen 3/4 cup orange juice 1/2 cup sugar, or as needed 2 ounces orange zest, blanched Salt, as needed Ground black pepper, as needed

Combine the cranberries, juice, and enough water to barely cover the berries in a medium sauce pan. Add the sugar and bring to a Baked Acorn Squash simmer over medium heat. Simmer until Servings: 4 the berries are softened and the liquid is Start to finish: 1 hour thickened.

Stir in the orange zest. Season with salt and 1 acorn squash (about 24 ounces), cut into pepper. Serve hot. quarters, seeds removed 1 tablespoon honey or maple syrup Nutrition information per serving: 154 1/4 cup butter calories; 2 calories from fat; 0 g fat (0 g 1/2 teaspoon salt, or as needed saturated; 0 g trans fats); 0 mg cholesterol; 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper, or as 77 mg sodium; 42 g carbohydrate; 7 g fiber; needed 27 g sugar; 1 g protein.

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CAREGIVER – Part Time. 2 weekends a month for Male quadriplegic. Call for hours and pay: 815-355-8198

Experienced Caregiver Needs PT Work

For the elderly, weekends OK. 773-372-0396

BENEFITS INCLUDE: Competitive Wages Hourly employees receive time & a half for 6 holidays Medical / Dental Insurance available for full & part time Paid Vacation & Sick Leave for full time 401(k) Savings Plan Flexible Spending Accounting Casey's Stock Purchase Plan

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CAREGIVER NEEDED – MATURE, CARING, COMPASSIONATE, RELIABLE CAREGIVER for my mother in my home. Experience in Dementia preferred. Willing to train. Great Pay! Call Lana: 847-727-1889

A TV Antenna Will Save you $1000's .

SUBSTITUTE CUSTODIAN Part Time. $12.90/hr

McHenry Elementary School District 15 Contact Dawn at: dmontalbano@d15.org or (815) 385-7210

FRONT OFFICE POSITION

Full time position open in busy Crystal Lake medical practice Mon-Thurs. Must be able to multi-task, be detail oriented / accurate and have excellent customer service skills. Must be knowledgeable with medical terminology with experience in scheduling, insurance verification, referrals and EMR. Email resume to: comprehensivepain2@yahoo.com or fax to 815-477-0435

MEDICAL ASSISTANT – PART TIME

Busy pediatric practice is expanding to offer a position for a part-time Medical Assistant with reception capabilities. Candidate will have previous medical office experience, be proficient with computers, and have excellent customer service skills. Some knowledge eClinicalWorks software preferred. Flexible hours with some early mornings, evenings & Saturdays required. Only serious LOCAL candidates need apply with resume for consideration to: cmgnwp@yahoo.com

MEDICAL ASSISTANT – PART TIME Internal Medical Office in Crystal Lake.

Mon, Tue, Thur, Fri 9am-2pm Fax resume 815-477-7279 or call after 2pm 815-459-4333 for appointment

RECEPTIONIST – PART TIME

Independent Optometric practice in Woodstock is seeking a friendly & experienced Receptionist.

Applicant must have proficient computer skills, familiarity with EHR a plus & be able to multi task in our busy practice.

Tuesdays, Fridays & every other Saturday morning, as well as the opportunity to work additional hours as a fill in for other staff members.

Email resume to: rwfopt1@gmail.com

EVE'S CLEANING ✦ RESIDENTIAL Works Independently, Exc Ref. 630-430-1523

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Anything to do with Wood

We can Fix or Replace Doors and Windows

Kathy's Office & Home Cleaning Service

Licensed, Bonded, Insured. 815-355-5297 POLISH LADY Will Clean Your Home/Office

FREE ESTIMATES, Great References. 224-858-4515

Lost – Reward Light Red Female Tabby Cat, Short Hair, Small. Lost Near MCC. Chipped.

815-455-9411.

Cat - Adult Male

6 toes on each foot, very affectionate.

Grey with white feet and belly.

Found NW Wonder Lake area.

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When you are a bridge declarer, you try to play smoothly and make your contract. Like a race car driver, you try to steer around bumps in the road.

In today’s deal, which bump should South avoid in three no-trump after winning the first trick with dummy’s heart 10?

In the auction, after North opened with a weak two-bid, South sensibly used the artificial two-notrump inquiry. He planned to pass if partner rebid three spades to show a minimum. Here, though, North replied with three no-trump. In the old days, this guaranteed a suit headed by the ace-king-queen. However, as that happened so rarely, nowadays this rebid indicates a maximum with a suit headed by at least the acequeen-jack. (Note that four spades fails if East leads a club, West shifts to a diamond and West gets a club ruff.)

South understandably wanted to score four club tricks, but just in case the break was bad, he carefully covered dummy’s six with his jack. West now made a very sneaky play -- she shifted to the spade 10!

South never believed West could be underleading the king, so he won with dummy’s ace and successfully ran the club eight, underscoring his key play at trick two. Declarer took another club finesse, then cashed his remaining winners in that suit and hearts. Finally, he led the heart jack and was lucky that he had to score his diamond king.

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Huntley/Del Webb Estate Sale

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CLASSIFIED 9

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Saturday, November 12 from 9:00 am - 3:00 pm.

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Hawthorn Village Christmas Collectibles, $250 Also Flow Blue Plates, $100/ea.

815-334-0018 or 815-382-8981

THURS, FRI, SAT, SUN 8:30-6

Vintage Schwinn Deluxe Breeze Ladies Bike Best Offer. 815-363-1302 Certainteed Cedar Impression Shake ShinglesSiding. #11934, 200sqft, Orig. $320,asking $250/OBO per square. 708-363-2004

Piano with Bench, Works good, $150 815-334-0018 or 815-382-8981

2 y/o Boxer Heeler Mix – Needs GREAT home w/ room to run.

11 month old Pitbull – GREAT temperament, female, needs continued training.

1y/o English Bulldog – Spayed, very happy, needs only dog home.

815-814-8414

Treadmill - Proform

With 6 programs, justable speed and incline.

Excellent condition! $225.

815-451-4745

& So Much More!

Electric Fireplace - 42in x 48in x 23in, Excellent Cond! Golden/Honey Oak. Use W/ Or W/O Heat $175 847-213-9862

HARVARD GARAGE SALE FRI & SAT 9AM-5PM 21315 Dunham Rd

Regular Cord/Oak, Cherry & Birch. 815-943-6960

815-648-2258

Firewood - Mix Cord/Maple, Ash & Oak

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Full Size Sofa, Love Seat – Burgundy/Wine, Great Condition, UPU, 815-728-0972

Sofa Bed - Soft Floral Print

Earth tones, MOVING...... you pick up.

Other furniture available. 815-575-1591 TONS of loose bubble wrap - UPU Richmond 815-529-7597

WAHL APPLIANCE

From the Fontana Abbey Resort.

Hand made copper and glass, $300/ea.

810 Meadow Ln. Marengo IL 60152 Marble Top Coffee Table, End Table & Sofa Table. $125 815-219-6878

MOVING SALE!! LIKE NEW!!

Mahogany Finish Entertainment Center $300, Wrought Iron Tempered Glass Table w/ 4 Wrought Iron Chairs $300, King Wrought Iron Canopy Bed $200.

Island Lake - 847-668-6764

$75/obo.

CAT - WHITE FEMALE

Spayed, 2 years old, front declawed and deaf for a special needs home.

815-814-8414

Toro Power Clear, 163 CC 4 Cycle Engine Recoil start, like brand new, 21”W, $225.

MTD 4.5HP, 21”W, $125.

815-814-8434 or 779-444-2049 - Lv Msg ALL COLLECTIONS, AUTOGRAPHS, MUSIC OLD INVENTORY CASH 815-354-6169

Antique and Modern Guns

Old Lever Actions, Winchesters, Marlins, Savages, etc.

Old Pistols and Revolvers. Cash for Collection.

FFL License. 815-338-4731

81 5-568-7793

Buying Old & Unusual Toys, Antiques Comics Records, RR Items, Meadowdale Raceway Memorabilia.

815-351-4387

Hoover Deep Clean Shampooer In-Box $250/OBO 815-943-2049

Lionel & American Flyer Trains 815-353-7668

TREES - NICE!

Evergreens 6'-8', Buy 3 or More $199/ea, delivered & planted.

815-378-1868 Yard Machine MTD – 13.5hp, 38in Deck, Runs/Cuts Like New! $300. 262-949-2262

Caregiver Equipment

Many pieces for sale, starting @ $25.00 and up.

815-338-3276

WASHER / DRYER - 2009 24'' GE Spacemaker Gas Stackable. Like NEW, works perfect! No problems with unit. $250. Call 815-403-1551

Weighs 15lbs, Holds up to 300lbs Max, cost over $200, sell for $100.

815-701-7369

Church Pew

KEROSENE HEATER Like new, needs new wick, $100. 815-943-2049

5 feet + some scrolling, $75/obo.

815-759-9591

www.helpingpaws.net 815-338-4400

Sofa w/Mattress Twin size, Black Vinyl

Reconditioned Appliances Sales and Service Lakemoor 815-385-1872 Transport Wheelchair - MedLine, New In Box, 19in Wide,

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Mounted Bridgestone Blizzacks – P235, 65R 18's W/ TMPS, Came Off Cadillac SRX, Less Than 8k Miles, $800/OBO 815-714-4302

1963 Vintage Chandeliers (2)

Clothes, Knick-Knacks, Some Tools, Collectibles & Lots of MISC

Thursday Noon-4 Friday 9-5

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Pool Table, Beautiful, 8', $400/Firm

815-334-0018 or 815-382-8981 Wood Craft Supplies, Discontinuing Business Starting @ $40 and up.

815-385-1432

★MOTORCYCLES WANTED★ www.helpingpaws.net 815-338-4400

Kittens - approx 12 weeks old.

FREE to a loving family/home 847-658-4467

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CLASSIFIED 11

Fox River Grove 2 Bedroom, Close to Metra $725/mo, call for Move in Specials!

815-236-4051 or 815-923-2521

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

CLASSICS WANTED

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1995 Lincoln Town Car, Great Runner

Luxury car, newer tires, brakes, 155K mi, 2 owners.

Great buy at $1,650.

815-675-3201

2001 Sebring Convertible – White & Tan, 103k Miles, Immaculate Inside & Out, Needs Nothing! $3200 815-245-8871 2003 MERCURY MOUNTAINEER – AWD, LEATHER, LOADED, HEATED SEATS, ONE OWNER, 94K, FREE 3MO WARR. FINANCING AVAIL. $5500/OBO 815-344-9440 2003 Toyota Corolla LE- 1 Owner. Looks/Runs GREAT. 93K Only. Free 3mo Warranty. Financing Avail. $4500. 815-344-9440

Restored or Unrestored Cars & Vintage Motorcycles Domestic / Import Cars: Mercedes, Porsche, Corvette, Ferrari's, Jaguars, Muscle Cars, Mustang & Mopars, $$ Top $$ all makes, Etc.

2003 Dodge Ram 1500 4x4 Hemi 5.7 Lit. - 4D, Loots & Runs GREAT, FREE 3mo Warranty, Financing Avail. $9995 815-344-9440 2003 Ford F250 4x4 Diesel – Loaded, Leather, 4D, 1 Owner, Looks & Runs GREAT, FREE 3mo Warranty, Financing Avail. $11,500 815-344-9440 2004 Dodge Ram 1500 – 4x4, 4d, no rust, looks/runs great, free 3mo warranty, financing available. $9100.

815-344-9440

2005 Chevy Silverado Z71, Off-Road Package Ext Cab 4x4, Leather, Loaded, Bose Stereo, On Star, Heated Seats, 1 Owner, Looks & Runs Great! Free 3 Mo Warranty, Financing Available. $9,500.

815-344-9440 2005 Ford F150 Fx4 – Extended Cab. 1 Owner.

Well Maintained. Looks/Runs GREAT. Free 3mo Warranty. Financing Avail. $9995 815-344-9440

A-1 AUTO

and garbage, SEC DEP, no pets, as Low as $625/mo.

847-899-5463

With storage, laundry and parking, $875/mo.

847-401-3242 Crystal Lake 2BR 2nd Flr, Heat, Water, Trash PU

incl, no pets, nr metra. $800/mo + sec. 815-382-4026

CRYSTAL LAKE ~ 3BR, 2BA 2nd Floor Condo

CAR, TRUCK, SUV

MOST CASH

WILL BEAT ANY QUOTE GIVEN!!

$400 - $2000

“don't wait....call 2day”!!

815-575-5153

Marengo 1 Bedroom, $550/mo incl Water

Kit has eating area, W/D, attach gar, storage, no pets. & Garbage, $550 security dep. 815-651-6445 $1600/mo + sec.

630-605-2776 Richmond Lrg Victorian 2BR in a 3 Flat, Hrdwd Flrs

W/D, storage, lrg yard, porch, bsmt, 2 car garage. $850/mo, background check. 815-814-2007 Twin Lakes, WI Lakefront 4BR $850, Pier, Beach Fox River Grove 2 Bedroom, Newly Remodeled FREE MO! 18 min to Rt 120 & 31. 847-256-0986 No pets/smkg, $850/mo + sec. 224-358-6114 More people read the Northwest Herald each day than all other papers combined in McHenry County!

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I BUY CARS, TRUCKS, West Harbor Residences At Reva Bay Now Leasing - Brand New Construction VANS & SUVs 1990 & Newer Will beat anyone's price by $300.

Will pay extra for Honda, Toyota & Nissan.

815-814-1964

or

815-814-1224

★★★★★★★★★★★

2004 Ford Freestar – front & rear heat, 75k only, 1983 Sea Ray Cuddy Cabin, 20', Runs Good looks/runs great, free 3mo warranty, financing Needs interior work, BEST OFFER. 815-245-2348 available $4300. 815-344-9440 2006 Chrysler Town & Country – Sto & Go, rear entertainment system, looks/runs great, free 3mo warranty, financing available. $5200. 815-344-9440

Harvard Quiet Large Studio, Frplc, W/D, C/A

Fish/Swim, Pets OK, $640/mo. 815-648-2716 Harvard - Beautiful Lower 1BR, Incl Partial Heat

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2007 Ford Taurus – Look & Runs Great! 1 Owner. Free 3mo Warranty. Financing Avail. $3200/OBO 815-344-9440

2009 Crysler PT Cruiser – Looks/Runs GREAT, Free 3mo Warranty. Financing Avail. $3900/OBO 815-344-9440

Efficiency $575/mo + sec, 1BR $700/mo + sec. All 3 furnished with all util incl, no pets. 815-509-5876

MOTORCYCLES WANTED

Your new home is almost complete! Units will be available in November. West Harbor Residences at Reva Bay is a brand new apartment community in beautiful Fox Lake, IL. 5 minutes from Metra station. Shopping and entertainment is just minutes away.

Residence is 2 bedrooms with 2 baths in a spacious 1,250 square feet. Larger unit also has dining room and guest bath. All new stainless steel appliances with washer/dryer included. Balconies, patios, covered and open parking. Boat slips available right at your back door. Additional storage available.

Monthly rent begins at $1,425.

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West Harbor Residences at Reva Bay 8300 Reva Bay Lane Fox Lake, IL 60020 Phone: 630-835-4287 Email: westharborppm@gmail.com

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Village of Lakewood

LAKE IN THE HILLS - 2 BR TH $1250. New carpet, paint, appliances. 1 car gar w/ bsmt. Credit check req. 847-894-8920 Marengo, 2BR, 1-½ BA, gas, high eff. heat, C/A, D/W, W/D, $795/mo.+sec. dep, & utilities no dogs. Riley School Dist. 815-540-3295 MCHENRY - First floor unit of 4 unit building, secure entry.

Attached 1 car garage, all appliances, washer/dryer in unit.

Newer flooring & paint. Very quiet, backs up to conservation area.

Dogs under 40# OK. No cats, no smoking. Security / ref required.

815-236-5423 bluedolphin1117@gmail.com

Woodstock – 2BR, Basement, 1 Car Gar, No Pets, $1000mo 815-245-3228

RENT TO BUY 815-814-6004

Gary Swift Berkshire Hathaway Starck Realty McHenryCountyRentToOwnHomes.com

Parklike setting in breathtaking golf community Turnberry this 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath, 3 car garage stately home with everlasting water views.

Tranquil setting amongst the mature landscaping this 3400+ sq ft home with 187 ft of shoreline with private pier. Large country kitchen with island/lots of cabinets/desk area, family room w/wet bar & masonry fireplace, first floor den/5th bedroom , formal living room & dining room freshly painted, screened in room to enjoy the summer evenings, first floor laundry room, master suite w/luxury bath, generous sized secondary bedrooms w/lots of closet space, much desired 3 car side load garage, circular driveway, huge deck for summer entertaining w/gorgeous views of Turnberry Lake and memorable sunsets - bring your personal decorating ideas but everything else is there for you to enjoy!

$418,000

Sharon Gidley RE/MAX Unlimited Northwest 847-812-5081

McHenry - Furnished Apt, Female Only

$500/mo + half electric, no pets. 630-965-4470 Crystal Lake LOW RENT! Approx 200 SF, Great Office Suite incl all util and high speed DSL, $350/mo.

815-790-0240

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BOB EVANS FIREWOOD & MULCH

CLASSIFIED 13

JM SEAMLESS GUTTERS

We sell only the finest seasoned firewood! • Seamless Gutters 5” & 6” • Leaf Protection w/Different Styles Avail.

Mixed Premium Hardwood $150 F/C • Soffit & Fascia • Aluminum Wrap Oak $160 F/C Free Estimates 815-404-9749 Fully Insured Hickory / Cherry $180 F/C www.bobevansfirewoodandmulch.com

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Serving W. Rt. 59, N. of I-88 &S. of Rt 176

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MAYA LAWN LANDSCAPING Weekly Mowing Mulching Planting Brick Pavers Patios Sidewalks & Retaining Walls Fall Clean-up Natural Stone Top Soil & Bobcat work.

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MIKE'S LANDSCAPING Lawn -- Tree Service -- Snow Removal It's Time for Fall Clean Up

An Affordable Electrician 847-566-2663 Free Estimates

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SANDMAN'S PAVING

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PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22nd JUDICIAL CIRCUIT McHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS ARACELI ROMO, and MIGUEL ROMO, Plaintiffs vs.

DIEGO JAIME, minor ARTURO SAGRERO, father Defendants.

No. 16 AD 23 ADOPTION PUBLICATION NOTICE NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU, ADOPTION NOTICE-STATE OF ILLINOIS, County of McHenry, ss.-Circuit Court of McHenry County. In the matter of the Petition for the Adoption of DIEGO JAIME, a male child. Adoption No. 16 AD 23. To Arturo Sagrero, any unknown fathers and to all whom it may concern. Take notice that a petition was filed in the Circuit Court of McHenry County, Illinois for the adoption of a child named DIEGO JAIME. UNLESS YOU file your answer or otherwise file your appearance in this case in the office of the McHenry County Clerk of the Court, McHenry County Government Center, 2200 N. Seminary Avenue, Room 111, Woodstock, Illinois 60098, on or before December 19, 2016, A JUDGMENT OR DECREE

BY DEFAULT MAY BE TAKEN AGAINST YOU FOR THE RELIEF ASKED IN THE COMPLAINT. Witness: November 3, 2016 Katherine M. Keefe (Clerk of the Circuit Court) Name: Joseph C. Panitz Attorney for: Plaintiff Address: 19333 E Grant Hwy City, State Zip: Marengo, IL 60152 Telephone: 815-923-2107

pray g the foreclosure and for other relief of a certain mortgage conveying the premises described as follows: LOT 8 IN BLOCK 8 IN LAKE IN THE HILLS ESTATES UNIT NO. 9, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF SECTION 20, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED AUGUST 6, 1951 AS DOCUMENT NO. 245262, IN BOOK 11OF PLATS, PAGE 28, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Common Address: 1410 Clayton Marsh Dr., Lake in the Hills, IL 60156-1036 P.I.N.: 19-20-105-008-0000 The mortgage was made by MICHAEL A. THOMAS AND BRENDA L. THOMAS and given to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS, INC. on November 28, 2007, and recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds in McHenry County, Illinois, as Document No.: 2007R0079412 Summons was duly issued out of the court against you as provided by law and the action is now pending.

Now, therefore, unless you, as one of the above-named defendants, file your answer to the complaint in the action or otherwise make your appearance in the action, in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of McHenry County, Chancery Division, in the courthouse in the city of Woodstock, Illinois, on or before 12/14/16, a default may be entered against you at any time after that date and a decree entered in accordance with the prayer of the complaint.

Dated: 11/02/16 /s/Katherine M Keefe Clerk (Published in the Northwest Herald on November 9, 16, 23, 2016) 1241124

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22nd JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS

(Published in the Northwest Herald U.S. Bank National Association, as on November 9, 16, 23, 2016) Trustee for Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust, Inc., Mortgage Pass1240987 Through Certificates, Series 2006WF2 PUBLIC NOTICE Plaintiff, vs.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF Unknown Heirs and Legatees of MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS Philip O. Fontana; Unknown OwnCHANCERY DIVISION ers and Nonrecord Claimants; Richard Kuhn, as Special RepreCARRINGTON MORTGAGE sentative for Philip O. Fontana (deSERVICES, LLC, ceased) Plaintiff, Defendants. v.

Case No. 16 CH 00705 MICHAEL A. THOMAS; BRENDA L. THOMAS; UNKNOWN OWNERS Notice to Heirs and Legatees.

Notice is hereby given to you, the and NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants.

Unknown Heirs and Unknown Case No: 16 CH 665 Legatees of the decedent, Philip O. NOTICE OF ACTION Fontana, that on October 13,

BY PUBLICATION 2016, an order was entered by the STATE OF ILLINOIS Court, naming Richard W. Kuhn, COUNTY OF MCHENRY 552 S. Washington Street, Suite In the Circuit Court of McHenry 100, Naperville, Illinois 60540, County, Chancery Division.

CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SER- Tel. No. 630-420-8228, as the VICES, LLC. v MICHAEL A. Special Representative of the above THOMAS; BRENDAL L. THOMAS; named decedent under 735 ILCS UNKNOWN OWNERS and NON- 13-1209 (Death of a Party). The RECORD CLAIMANTS, Case No. cause of action for the Foreclosure of a certain Mortgage upon the 16 CH 665.

The requisite affidavit for service by premises commonly known as: publication having been filed, 4514 W. Wonderlake Drive, Wonnotice is given you, UNKNOWN der Lake, IL 60097.

OWNERS and NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, defendants in the (Published in the Northwest Herald above entitled action, that an action for foreclosure was on November 2, 9, 16, 2016) commenced in the Circuit Court of 1238874 County, Chancery McHenry BREAKING NEWS Division, by the plaintiff against you available 24/7 at and other defendants, praying for NWHerald.com

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, ILLINOIS McHENRY COUNTY JUVENILE DIVISION IN THE INTEREST OF Chambre King A minor.

Case No.: 16JA000047 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION Deangelo King, and any unknown FATHERS and to All Whom It May Concern: Take notice that on the thirteenth day of October, 2016, an abuse and neglect petition was filed under the Juvenile Court Act by ASSISTANT STATE'S ATTORNEY, in the circuit court of McHenry county entitled 'In the interest of Chambre King, a minor', and that in the courtroom of Judge MAUREEN P. MCI NTYRE, or any judge sitting in her stead in Room 101 of the McHenry County Government Center, Woodstock, Illinois, the first day of December, 2016 at the hour of 9:00 AM., or as soon thereafter as this cause may be heard, an adjudicatory hearing will be held upon the petition to have the child declared to be a ward of the court under that Act THE COURT HAS AUTHORITY IN THIS PROCEEDING TO TAKE FROM YOU THE CUSTODY AND GUARDIANSHIP OF THE MINOR, TO TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS, AND TO APPONT A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CONSENT TO ADOPTION. YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILD. IF THE PETITION REQUESTS THE TERMINATION OF YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS, AND THE APPOINTMENT OF A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CONSENT TO ADOPTION, YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THE CHILD. UNLESS YOU APPEAR, you will not be entitled to further written notices or publication notices of the proceedings in this case, including the filing of an amended petition or a motion to terminate parental rights.

Now, unless you appear at the hearing and show cause against the petition, the allegations of the petition may stand admitted as against you and each of you, and an order of judgment entered.

Dorsey, a minor', and that in the courtroom of Judge MAUREEN P. MCINTYRE, or any judge sitting in her stead in Room 101 of the McHenry County Government Center, Woodstock, Illinois, the first day of December, 2016 at the hour of 9:00 AM., or as soon thereafter as this cause may be heard, an adjudicatory hearing will be held upon the petition to have the child declared to be a ward of the court under that Act. THE COURT HAS AUTHORITY IN THIS PROCEEDING TO TAKE FROM YOU THE CUSTODY AND GUARDIANSHIP OF THE MINOR, TO TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS, AND TO APPONT A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CONSENT TO ADOPTION. YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARENTAL RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILD. IF THE PETITION REQUESTS THE TERMINATION OF YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS, AND THE APPOINTMENT OF A GUARDIAN WITH POWER TO CONSENT TO ADOPTION, YOU MAY LOSE ALL PARE NTAL RIGHTS TO THE CHILD. UNLESS YOU APPEAR, you will not be entitled to further written notices or publication notices of the proceedings in this case, including the filing of an amended petition or a motion to terminate parental rights.

Now, unless you appear at the hearing and show cause against the petition, the allegations of the petition may stand admitted as against you and each of you, and an order of judgment entered.

November 1, 2016 /s/ Katherine M. Keefe (Clerk of the Circuit Court) (Published in the Northwest Herald on November 9, 2016) 1241099

PUBLIC NOTICE ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on November 4, 2016, 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

BigSky Solutions, Inc. November 1, 2016 /s/ Katherine M. Keefe located at: (Clerk of the Circuit Court) 1382 Knollwood Cir (Published in the Northwest - Crystal Lake, 60014

Herald on November 9, 2016) 1241103

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, ILLINOIS McHENRY COUNTY JUVENILE DIVISION IN THE INTEREST OF Demars Dorsey A minor.

Case No.: 16JA000048 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION Demars Dorsey, and any unknown FATHERS and to All Whom It May Concern: Take notice that on the thirteenth day of October, 2016, an abuse and neglect petition was filed under the Juvenile Court Act by ASSISTANT STATE'S ATTORNEY, in the circuit court of McHenry county entitled 'In the interest of Demars

Dated November 4, 2016 /s/ Mary E. McClellan McHenry County Clerk (Published in the Northwest Herald on November 9, 16, 23, 2016) 1241003

PUBLIC NOTICE ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that on October 27, 2016, 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 RIVER ROAD RALLY PARK

located at: 1621 S. RIVER RD., MCHENRY IL 60051 Dated October 27, 2016 /s/ Mary E. McClellan McHenry County Clerk (Published in the Northwest Herald on November 2, 9, 16, 2016) 1238849

PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Proposed Boundary Agreement Amendment by and between the City of Woodstock, IL and the City of Crystal Lake, IL Pursuant to 65 ILCS 5/11-12-9 Pursuant to 65 ILCS 5/11-12-9, notice is hereby given that the City of Crystal Lake, an Illinois munici-

ys pal corporation, will consider approval of an agreement which will renew and extend the term of the existing boundary agreement (dated December 3, 1996) between the City of Woodstock and the City of Crystal Lake at the Crystal Lake City Hall, 100 W. Woodstock St., Crystal Lake, IL, on Tuesday, December 20, 2016, at 7:30 p.m. A copy of the proposed boundary agreement amendment, authorized by 65 ILCS 5/11-12-9, is on file in the Community Development Department office in City Hall and is available for review and inspection by the public during regular business hours.

If approved, the agreement will renew and extend the existing boundary agreement entered between the City of Woodstock and the City of Crystal Lake and dated December 3, 1996 which delineated each of their respective jurisdictions for annexations, zoning and certain subdivision review, among other things. The legal description

things legal ptio of the subject territory, which would remain unchanged in this renewal, is included in the attachment to the proposed boundary agreement amendment on review.

Prior to the City Council's consideration of the above-referenced proposed boundary agreement amendment, members of the public will have the opportunity to comment before the City Council regarding same.

Nick Kachiroubas City Clerk City of Crystal Lake

CLASSIFIED 15 CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22nd JUDICIAL CIRCUIT McHENRY COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF Isabella Putman a Minor

by Sarah Chido Parent or Guardian Case Number 16MR682

Public notice is hereby given that on December 12, (Published in the Northwest Herald 2016, at 9:00 a.m. in courtNovember 9, 2016) 1240980 room 204, of the McHenry County Government Center there will be a hearing on my Petition praying for the change of my minor's name PUBLIC NOTICE from Isabella Putman to that of Isabella Chiodo pursuant to the Illinois Compiled ASSUMED NAME PUBLICATION NOTICE Statutes on Change of Names. /s/ Sarah Chiodo STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE Petitioner

PUBLIC NOTICE

VILLAGE OF OAKWOOD HILLS ANNUAL TREASURER'S REPORT FISCAL YEAR ENDED APRIL 30, 2016 I certify that this is a true copy of the Annual treasurer's Report of the Village of Oakwood Hills for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2016, including an itemized list of all disbursements greater than $2,500 and all wages paid by the Village of Oakwood Hills in the fiscal year May 1, 2015 to April 30, 2016 James R. Nowicki Treasurer SPECIAL BUILDERS MOTOR FUEL ASSESSMENT GENERAL CONTRIBUTION TAX FUND TOTAL Revenues: Taxes: Property Taxes 310,247 310,247 State Income Tax 222,419 222419 Motor Fuel Tax 53,842 53,842 Other state taxes 63,997 63,997 Licenses and Permits 65,734 9,053 74,787 Intergovernmental Grant 10,000 10,000 Court Fines and Receipts 40,870 40,870 Cable Franchise 30,224 30,224 Interest 1,208 143 17 1,368 Miscellaneous 7,931 7,931 752,630 9,053 53,985 17 815,685 Expenditures: Legislative 53,527 53,527 Clerk 43,151 43,151 Treasurer 26,020 26,020 Legal 29,503 29,503 Public works 140,336 140,336 Police 268,629 268,629 Village Hall 17,675 17,675 Maintenance Building Dept.

18,457 18,457 Beach 24,524 24,524 Lake and Parks 57,514 57,514 Debt certificates 46,958 46,958 Other 37,799 37,799 717,135 46,958 764,093 Excess (deficiency) of revenues over expenditures 35,495 9,053 7,027 17 51,592 Fund Balance, beginning of year 528,086 6,751 48,492 76,554 659,883 Fund Balance, end of year 563,581 15,804 55,519 76,571 711,475 VILLAGE OF OAKWOOD HILLS VENDOR DISBURSEMENTS (MINIMUM: $2,500.00) ALGONQUIN TOWNSHIP 11,208.00, AMALGAMATED-MASTERCARD 8,468.98, ANGELA COOPER 4,320.00, AT&T 12,620.97, BAXTER AND WOODMAN 3,920.00, CITY OF CRYSTAL LAKE 7,643.72, COMED 15,220.67, COMPASS MINERALS AMERICA 30,072.86, CORE VISION IT SOLUTIONS, LLC 20,219.53, COUNTRY TILE & CARPET 5720.00, EFRAIN'S LANDSCAPING 27,810.96, G&G DIGGERS INC. 6,478.00, HANES GEO COMPONENTS 4179.20, ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE 8,389.08, ILLINOIS COUNTIES RISK MANAGEMENT TRUST 37,799.00, INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE 51,163.00, LANDSCAPE CONCEPTS MANAGEMENT 43,095.20, LIVING WATERS CONSULTANTS 38,700.00, MITCHELL, VAUGHT & TAYLOR, INC 21,036.85, MORROW BROTHERS FORD INC. 32,500, MUELLER CPA 9,420.00, RICHMOND FISHERIES 3,697.50, RICOH USA 2,682.17, SEECOM 27,706.84, THE WAGGONER LAW FIRM, P.C. 27,084.01, WASTE MANAGEMENT 5,040.88, TOTAL: 466,197.42 GRAND TOTAL: 466,197.42 VILLAGE OF OAKWOOD HILLS - APRIL 30, 2016 - SALARIES UNDER 25,000.00 - G. ALLEN, A. BARKER, L.BARKER, R. BARKER, S. BEAUCHAMP, B. BYKER, J. BYKER, K. CAUDLE, W. COTSIOPOULOS, T. DOBBINS, C. DVORACEK, E. EWALD, L. FLORES, N. FREUND, K. FRITZ, T. FRITZ, Z. FRITZ, N. HARE, D. HARTNEY, J. HOHOL, M. JANOWSKI, N. KAPTENA, H. KINOWSKI, D. KLECZKA, K. KOHL, T. LENTZ, C. LOSASSO, R. MAYHER, A. NALEPKA, K. NASH, A. NIRVA, M. PITTL, M. ROBAK, M. ROSE, B. SALVO, G. SARKESIAN, K. SMITH, K. SZKILUK, V. TRAX, T. VARGAS, J. WALKER, J. WEIL 25,000.00 - 49,999.99- P. GOLDMAN, K. LORENZ, B.SEARCY (Published in the Northwest Herald November 9, 2016) 1241024

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Tuesday, December 6, 2016

NWHerald.com • Wednesday, November 9, 2016

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Every person has a story. Every story is important to the world.

Women, more often than not, do not embrace their story nor do they have the courage to share it. Now more than ever, we need to hear as many stories as there are women and people to tell them.

The 2016 Power Women’s Luncheon tour will shine a light on the Power of Your Story. In the keynote address, Denise Barreto will masterfully craft a relevant tale why every person’s story matters in today’s marketplace and challenge everyone in ear shot to find, articulate and lift the stories of every day people, often.

Following the lunch, a special workshop will allow attendees to take action in embracing and articulating their own personal stories for both professional and personal development.

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Managing Partner Relationships Happen Now LLC

Please join us for the fifth annual Women’s Power Luncheon Series featuring guest keynote speaker Denise Baretto. Denise Baretto is an entrepreneur, author and Tedx speaker.

The Women’s Power Luncheon Series has been designed to inform, inspire and engage aspiring women, decision makers and leaders on contemporary business and life topics.

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Hadley Streng

Lynn Caccavallo

Cheryl Kranz

Carmen Boyer

Suzanne Hoban

Robin Doeden

Kathleen Caldwell

VP Strategy & Development Centrega

Executive Director Cary Grove Chamber of Commerce

Financial Advisor Edward Jones

Owner White Oak Interiors

Executive Director Family Health Partnership Clinic

Executive Director McHenry County Community Foundation

President Caldwell Consulting Group

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