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ON THE COVER The victim and four suspects are seen in stills taken from the video streamed live on Facebook that show a duct-taped teen from Crystal Lake being tortured in Chicago, police said.

See story on page A3.

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Police: Crystal Lake teen ‘traumatized’ after being tortured in Chicago

By NATE LINHART

nlinhart@shawmedia.com Four teens face felony charges after a video of a duct-taped teen from Crystal Lake being tortured in Chicago was streamed live on Facebook, police said.

“It’s sickening,” Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said. “It makes you wonder what would make individuals treat someone like that.”

The Streamwood Police Department said the 18-year-old victim in the video, who suffers from a mental health illness, was a high-risk missing person from Crystal Lake, although Crystal Lake police could not confirm that.

In the video, the victim is seen being beaten, getting his hair cut with a knife and having ashes from what appear to be cigarettes dumped on him.

Throughout the video, the suspects made profane comments about Donald Trump and “white people,” and Chicago police said they are investigating the case as a possible hate crime.

Chicago police said the alleged assault took place Tuesday in an apartment in the 3400 block of West Lexington on the West Side of Chicago.

Officers found the victim wandering the neighborhood in a state of trauma.

Authorities later drew the connection with the Facebook video, according to Chicago police.

“They saw that the individual was in distress, and they cared enough to do something about it,” Chicago Police Capt. Steve Sesso said.

The officers learned that the individual they encountered in distress was reported missing from a suburban town, Chicago police said.

“So during the course of talking to this individual, who was in distress, they were able to determine the location ...” Sesso said.

Four teenagers – two men and two women – are in custody, and criminal charges are expected. Three of the suspects are from Chicago, and a fourth is from Carpentersville, Chicago police said.

The victim was an acquaintance of one of the suspects, and they knew each other from school, but Chicago police said they are unsure how the other three subjects became involved.

The suspects stole a van and brought the victim to Chicago, where the victim is believed to have been with the suspects for 24 to 48 hours, police said.

“It’s quite a possibility this is a kid-

“It’s sickening. It makes you wonder what would make individuals treat someone like that.”

Eddie Johnson, Chicago police superintendent

napping,” Chicago Police Cmdr. Kevin Duffin said. “And that’s certainly one of the charges we’ll be seeking if it turns out to be that.”

Upon initial investigation, it appears the suspects eventually unbound the victim and let him go, Chicago police said.

After being treated at the hospital, the victim was released.

“He’s traumatized by the incident, and it’s very tough to communicate with him at this point,” Duffin said.

See TORTURED, page A7

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ABOVE: The victim of an alleged kidnapping and assault is seen in a still from a video streamed live on Facebook. ABOVE RIGHT: One of the suspects ashes a cigarette on the victim.

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RIGHT: Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson (left) watches as Capt. Steve Sesso talks Wednesday during a news conference in Chicago.

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CRYSTAL LAKE

City Council nixes request for library referendum do-over

By KEVIN P. CRAVER

kcraver@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – The Crystal Lake Public Library District will not get a doover April 4 of its failed Nov. 8 advisory building referendum.

Without discussion, the City Council on Tuesday indefinitely tabled the library board’s request to again ask voters whether the city should borrow $30.1 million to build a new library. Member Ellen Brady Mueller added the motion to table to the council’s routine consent agenda, which passed on a 7-0 vote, as part of a meeting that’s regular session lasted only 14 minutes.

In doing so, the three council members up for re-election April 4 dodged a potential political bullet. While few candidates would desire to put a tax increase referendum on a ballot on which they appear, the two newcomer candidates for City Council opposed the library referendum.

Voters on Nov. 8 rejected the advisory question by a 56-44 margin in a presidential election in which two-thirds of registered voters in McHenry County cast ballots. Had the City Council acqui-

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esced to the library board, the question would have appeared again, not even five months later, in an election in which only a fraction of eligible voters participate – turnout in the last odd-year election in 2015 was less than 11 percent.

The library referendum was advisory – the appointed library board does not have the power to borrow money, and the City Council would not need voter approval to do so. But the library board had hoped that its passage would generate support on the council to replace a 50-year-old library they allege is crumbling.

The library board and its supporters have long argued that the problems with the 126 W. Paddock St. library are so acute that the only financially sensible solution is to build a new one. Besides space issues, supporters state that parking is limited, steps and other infrastructure are crumbing, and the building cannot accommodate modern heating, venting, air conditioning, lighting and technology.

Voters rejected the ballot proposal to build a 75,000-square-foot library, about double the size of the existing

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40,000-square-foot facility, which would increase property taxes an average of $132 a year for the owner of a $200,000 home that qualifies for the homestead exemption.

Library Board President Teresa Reece argued in a Dec. 22 letter to the city that “numerous residents” said they were confused by the question’s wording because it referred to a home’s “market value” rather than the phrase “fair cash value” that is found on property tax bills. Reece also wrote that some residents claimed that the question did not appear on their ballots – headers for referendum questions on the Nov. 8 ballot only included the name of the government asking it.

While last year the City Council voted, 7-0, to put the advisory question on the Nov. 8 ballot, the request for an April 4 referendum would have been politically awkward, and not just from the perception issues arising from a taxing body that was told no by voters requesting a do-over. Incumbents Ralph Dawson Cameron Hubbard and Haig Haleblian are facing challenges from candidates Sally Munn and Stefano Liparoto, both of whom opposed the library referendum.

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Police arrest 2 in car burglary investigation

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WOODSTOCK – Two men were charged Tuesday with allegedly burglarizing motor vehicles in Woodstock.

Woodstock police said they responded to numerous incidents involving motor vehicle burglaries in October and November. The vehicle burglaries took place in multiple regions of the city and occurred mostly during overnight hours, police said.

As the investigation progressed, police said they identified two primary suspects,

Michael V. Samuelson, 25, and Colin M. Surma, 19, both of Woodstock.

On Tuesday, warrants were issued for their arrest. Samuelson was charged with two counts of burglary and two counts of possession of stolen property, and Surma was charged with one count of burglary, police said.

Both men are being held at the McHenry County Jail. Samuelson’s bond is set at $100,000, while Surma’s bond is set at $40,000.

Both are next due in court at 9 a.m. Friday.

Cary Travel Express holding free travel show Sunday

CARY – Local residents are invited to attend the 19th annual McHenry County cruise, tour and honeymoon travel show Sunday.

Presented by Cary Travel Express, this free event will be from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn in Crystal Lake, 800 S. Route 31.

Destination seminars will be about Alaska, Tahiti and Hawaii, among other popular vacation spots. Featured vendors at the travel show will include Aruba Tourism Beach House, Celtic Tours, Disney Destinations, Elegant Hotels of Barbados and Outrigger Resorts.

Additionally, there will be a drawing during the event to determine the grand prize winner of a customized adventure to Costa Rica.

Founded in 1989, Cary Travel Express is a family-owned business run by Cary resident Neelie Kruse that helps people plan their ideal vacations. For information, email Kruse at neelie@carytravelexpress.com.

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Advisory anti-tax referendums to go to voters in McHenry, Kane counties

By KEVIN P. CRAVER

kcraver@shawmedia.com Voters in McHenry and Kane counties will get an opportunity to tell local governments on April 4 what they already know but may not take seriously enough – that they’re tired of their high property taxes continuing to increase.

Incoming Republican state Rep. Allen Skillicorn, whose 66th Illinois House District includes parts of both counties, filed the signatures for both nonbinding referendums Tuesday. The referendum will ask voters whether taxing bodies within the counties should be required to seek voter approval by referendum if they want to increase their property tax levies. Under the tax cap law, governments do not have to go to referendum to raise taxes within the annual rate of inflation as defined by the Illinois Department of Revenue.

The referendum was put before voters Nov. 8 in Lakewood, Cary and Fox River Grove, and it passed in all three with more than 90 percent approval.

“Until we reform the way bureaucracy drives up costs, our property

tax bills will continue going up every year, forcing working-class families and seniors out of their homes. This is the first step to give that power back where it belongs – to the people. Voters deserve a chance to vote on freezing property taxes,” Skillicorn said in a statement.

Several studies put Illinois’ property tax burden at the highest or second highest in the nation. The Tax Foundation, a Washington, D.C., think tank, places McHenry County’s burden at the 29th highest by county in the nation. Kane County is right behind it at 30th. At just less than 7,000, Illinois has far more units of local government than any other state, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.

Both Kane and McHenry counties are under the tax cap, which limits the increase than non-home rule governments can get over the previous year’s extension to either 5 percent or the rate of inflation, whichever is less.

But while the tax cap did its intended job when home values were rising, it became the friend of taxing bodies and the enemy of homeowners when home values plummeted during the Great Recession.

When home values decrease, a scenario state lawmakers never imagined when they imposed the tax cap on the collar counties 25 years ago, the tax cap guarantees that taxing bodies can receive the inflationary increase.

In short, most homeowners’ property tax bills have increased despite the fact that their homes are worth significantly less. While some local governments have kept their levies flat and rejected the inflationary increase, most collect it each year.

Gov. Bruce Rauner, who is locked in a years-long budget impasse with Democratic leaders of the General Assembly, has made a statewide property tax freeze a condition of approving new revenue as part of a budget deal.

Skillicorn, an East Dundee village trustee, will be sworn in Wednesday with the new General Assembly. Voters chose him to succeed Rep. Mike Tryon, R-Crystal Lake, who decided not to run for re-election after 12 years.

The 66th District covers parts of southeastern McHenry and northern Kane counties, including parts of Crystal Lake, Lake in the Hills, Huntley, Algonquin and Carpentersville.

Trial set for man accused of drug-induced homicide in Port Barrington man’s death

By JORDYN REILAND

jreiland@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – A Wauconda man who allegedly sold a fatal dose of heroin that killed a Port Barrington man will face a jury in March.

Rolando R. Aguilar, 28, will go before a jury March 27, a McHenry County judge ordered Wednesday. He is charged with drug-induced homicide, a Class X felony that typically carries a sentence of six to 30 years in prison.

Assistant State’s Attorney Randi

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Freese said Aguilar declined an offer of eight years in prison in exchange for a guilty plea.

For that reason, she said, the office no longer will provide any offers Rolando R. to Aguilar and instead Aguilar demanded a trial.

The charges stem from an incident in February 2015, when he allegedly sold heroin to 28-year-old Michael Marudecki. Marudecki was found dead in the basement of his Port Barrington home, where

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McHenry County sheriff’s deputies searched the residence and found evidence consistent with a drug overdose, authorities have said.

At a bond reduction hearing last year, Assistant State’s Attorney Robert Zalud told the court that Aguilar sold heroin to an undercover officer after Marudecki died. He allegedly acknowledged that he sold drugs to the decedent, and he told the officer to go slow because the heroin was strong, Zalud said.

Aguilar is in custody at the McHenry County Jail in lieu of $500,000 bond.

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By NATE LINHART

McHENRY – A McHenry man and an East Troy, Wisconsin, man are in custody at the Walworth County Jail in Wisconsin for their alleged connection to an East Troy homicide Monday.

East Troy police responded to a report of gunshots at 12:28 p.m. Monday at 2090 Emery Court. Upon arriving, they found 36-year-old David A. Bauspies of McHenry dead.

According to East Troy police, Robert Sterling, 31, of McHenry and Tyler Odell, 22, of East Troy were taken into custody. Their charges are under review, according to the Walworth County District Attorney’s Office.

The GazetteXtra reported that Sterling was referred to the district attorney’s office on charges of reckless homicide and homicide by negligent handling of a dangerous weapon, while Odell was referred on suspicion of being a party to reckless homicide.

This investigation is ongoing, and the Walworth County Sheriff’s Office is assisting.

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Chicago police said they don’t believe the victim was under the influence of any drugs or alcohol.

“We’ll keep investigating. We’ll let the facts guide us on how this concludes,” Johnson said. “I’ve said time and time again, if you commit an act of violence in the city of Chicago, you will feel the full weight of the Chicago Police Department. And tonight, four individuals have experienced the consequences of their actions.”

Chicago police said there’s nothing at this time that would indicate the incident was politically motivated.

“I really can’t say what’s in the mind of four individuals that would do something as sickening as this,” Johnson said. “Who knows; who knows.”

Crystal Lake Deputy Police Chief Tom Kotlowski said the victim from the live Facebook video could have been from Crystal Lake, but he wasn’t certain because he did not have detailed information about the case.

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The games, set for Jan. 28, will consist of the Chili Open Golf Classic and the new four-on-four pond hockey tournament. Last year was supposed to be the inaugural year for the hockey game, but warm weather resulted in the cancellation of both events.

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The Ice Games will take place at Main Beach, 300 Lakeshore Drive.

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In the event of uncooperative weather, the alternate date is Feb. 11.

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Born: June 28, 1998 Died: January 3, 2017

Corey James Baumbich, 18, of Algonquin, died unexpectedly on January 3, 2017.

Visitation will be on Friday, from 4:00 to 8:00pm at DeFiore Jorgensen Funeral Home10763 Dundee Road, Huntley. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Saturday at 2:00pm at St. Mary Catholic Church-10307 Dundee Road, Huntley.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to Pi Lambda Phi Fraternity c/o University of Wisconsin/Madison.

Corey was born June 28, 1998 in Arlington Heights, Illinois the son of Greg and Karen Baumbich. He graduated from Jacobs High School and was currently attending University of Wisconsin/Madison. Corey enjoyed learning and being with people. He enjoyed traveling and all things German. Corey loved Wisconsin and college life and was an avid Badger fan. He was a loving son, brother and grandson who will be greatly missed.

He is survived by his parents, Greg and Karen Baumbich; his brothers, Nicholas and Scott Baumbich; by his grandparents, Brenda Bruno and James Baumbich, Richard (Merilyn) Schnell; and by his aunts and uncles, Bill and Susan Groves, Eric and Lindsey Baumbich; and by many cousins. He was

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of Evanston will be held at the Center for Independent Futures office, 1015 Davis Street, Evanston Illinois, on Sunday, January 15, 2017 from 1:00 to 4:00pm.

Patrick graduated from Barrington ConJUDITH ANN BLONDIN solidated High School. He was a long time Born: June 27, 1962; in Oak Park, IL loyal employee of Jewel Osco working for the Died: January 1, 2017; in McHenry, IL company in both Woodstock and Evanston.

Patrick is survived by his sisters, Margaret Judith Ann Blondin, age 54, passed away (Douglas) Fox-Hawthorne, Nora (Bruce) Sunday, January 1, 2017 at her home, surHandler, Julie Fox, Mary (Gil) Fox-Geiman, rounded by her loving family.

Kathleen (Ward Green) Polizzi; and his brothShe was born June 27, 1962, the daughter of ers, Martin Fox and Michael Fox. Richard and Arlene (Goodey) Zolinski. On July PATRICK VICTOR FOX He was preceded in death by his parents, 5, 1986, she married Greg Blondin.Judy cared Born: February 6, 1963 Dr. Donald Fox and Mary Lu Fox. and touched so many lives. She rescued Died: December 18, 2016 In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made many dogs and cats over the years. She loved to the Center for Independent Futures. dolphins, vacationing in Florida and the color Patrick Victor Fox was born February 6, For more information 847-328-2044 or purple. She enjoyed camping and loved to 1963 in Chicago, he passed away at his apart- www.independentfutures.com. work in her garden. Her family will miss her ment building on December 18, 2016. very much.

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She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Allen and Elise Goodey and Paul and Loretta Zolinski; in-laws, Bernard and Charlotte Blondin; and brother-in-law, Loren Blondin.

Visitation will be held from 3:00 to 8:00pm on Friday, January 6, 2017 at Colonial Funeral Home & Crematory, 591 Ridgeview Dr., McHenry. Service will begin at 7:00pm.

Memorials in Judy’s name may be made to Pets in Need, P.O. Box 58, Ringwood, IL 60072.

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

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at Judson College, BlackHawk Camp and Lake Springfield, often taking his younger grandsons along with him. One of his proudSTEPHEN H. OTIS est accomplishments was overseeing the Born: November 9, 1936; in Belvidere, IL construction of a teacher housing project Died: January 2, 2017; in Marengo, IL for the Hopi Mission School in Arizona in 1986. He also taught bible study. Every May Stephen H. Otis, 80, of Marengo, passed away sud- you could also find him as the head egg chef denly at his home on January at the annual May breakfast.

He had a love for the community in 2nd, 2017. which he lived serving as a member of the Born November 9th, 1936 Marengo Planning and Zoning Commision, in Belvidere Illinois, he was the Marengo Township Assessor for seven the son of Elsa (Behm) and Stephen W Otis. He married years, on the Board of Education of Marengo his high school sweetheart, Community High school from 1970 to 1979, on the SEDOM (Special Education District Dorothy A Slaughter, on of McHenry County) executive board from January 28th, 1956 in the 1970 to 1974, the McHenry County Regional parsonage of the United Board of School Trustees and the McHenry Methodist Church. He grew up in the heart County College Board of Trustees. of Marengo and at an early age he started He enjoyed spending time with his at a lifelong passion of construction with his father. A veteran of the United States Naval grandchildren attending their sporting Reserve as a Seabee, he broadened his skills events and working on projects in his shop.

In retirement, he was a founding member of achieving the rank of builder second class. the Dino’s breakfast club and a gentleman He continued this passion through Otis farmer on his ancestral homestead where Construction and Otis Building Supply by building hundreds of homes in the Marengo his manger scene will be greatly missed. He area. He provided an opportunity for young will be remembered for his great sense of humor,caring ways and his willingness to students to learn a lifelong trade through lend a helping hand. His love of life was his the high school CWT (Cooperative Work trademark.

Training Program) from 1968-1984.

He is survived by his wife of 61 years; He was an active member of the First Children, Stephen J Otis, Elizabeth A (JoBaptist Church, in Marengo. Serving as the regional president of the American Baptist seph) Henning and Jennifer W L (William) Men, he participated in building projects Hoeske; Grandchildren, Ryan Carr, Stephanie • Continued from page A9

(Dave) Fanthorpe, J. Benjamin Henning, Trae Hoeske, Jesse Henning, Lynsey Hoeske; Great-grandchildren, Kerrigan Carr and June Fanthorpe; Sisters, Jeanne (Jim) Schaefer and Midge (Lowell) Wagner; Two special dogs, Mable and Sparkle.

He was welcomed into his Heavenly home by his parents; and several other loved ones.

Memorials can be made to the Marengo Society for Historical Preservation at PO Box 506, Marengo or the United Methodist Church: McGill Redevelopment Fund at 119 E. Washington St., Marengo.

Visitation will be Friday January 6th, from 3:00pm to 8:00pm at the First Baptist Church, 320 E. Washington St in Marengo.

Visitation will continue on Saturday from 10:00am until the service at 11:00am. Interment will be at the Marengo City Cemetery following the service.

Arrangements by Fredrick Funeral Home, Hampshire, IL 847-683-2711.

daughter of Ralph and Meta Klonowski.

Irene is survived by her husband, Stephen J. Gnat; her children, Christine (Salvatore) Errera, Judy (Paul) Bouschard, Marianne (Joseph) Lurie and Angela (James) Winstead; as well as 18 grandchildren; 11 great grandchildren; and a sister, Marie Kozial.

Irene volunteered her time for many years at the Catch Penny of Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington, she was also an usher at Sts. Peter & Paul Church in Cary for more than 20 years.

Visitation will be held on Sunday, January 8, 2017 from 2:00 PM until 6:00 PM at the Kahle-Moore Funeral Home, 403 Silver Lake Rd., Cary. A Funeral Mass will be offered on Monday, January 9th at 10:30 AM at Sts. Peter & Paul Church, 410 First St., Cary and will be followed by burial at St. Michael the Archangel Cemetery.

Memorials would be appreciated to Sts. Peter & Paul Church.

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IRENE V. GNAT

Born: May 9, 1928; in Chicago, IL Died: January 3, 2017; in Cary, IL Irene V. Gnat, age 88 of Cary passed away January 3, 2017 at her home.

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DILLON JAMES ROEWER

WAYNE R. THIEDE

Dillon James Roewer, 22, of Crystal Lake passed away unexpectedly on Wednesday, December 28, 2016.

He was born on October 5, 1994 in Woodstock, IL to Russell and Anita (nee Rapp) Roewer. Dillon worked hard and played hard.

He loved to fish on Crystal Lake and in the Hollows. A favorite pastime was hanging out and walking with friends and family in Veteran’s Acres, 3 Oaks and Lippold Park. Dillon wanted everyone to be happy and went to great lengths to make you laugh and smile.

Dillon will be deeply missed by his parents; his sister, Samantha; his grandmothers, Astrid Rapp and Rose “Peggy” Contos; his grandfather, Ronald Roewer; aunts and uncles, Melinda (Rapp) & Brian Wolfe, Sue Pecoraro, James Rapp, and Ron Roewer; so many cousins; and the love of his life, girlfriend Lawren Hansen and her family.

He will be greeted in Heaven by Grandpa James Rapp; Grandma Arlene Roewer; and Jack, Steven, Tim and more.

A celebration of life memorial service will be held on Saturday, January 7 from 10:00am until 11:00am, followed by fellowship and lunch until 1:00pm at First Congregational Church, 461 Pierson St., Crystal Lake, IL. Interment will be private.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to A Man in Recovery Foundation -http://

Wayne R. Thiede, 63, of Marengo, passed away from his battle of cancer on Tuesday, January 3, 2017 with his loving family by his side.

He was born on January 11, 1953 in Melrose Park to Clarence and Bonita Thiede. He was married to his true companion and loving wife, Marge Thiede, for 45 wonderful years.

Wayne worked for Meyer/Aggregate for many years. He was a hard worker with a strong ethic for doing things the right way.

He loved classic cars “only Chevy’s”, good music, and quality time with family and friends. He will always be remembered for his great sense of humor and his joy of life.

He is survived by his wife, Marge Thiede; his son, Shawn (Sarah) Thiede; and his grandsons, Slade Thiede and Andrew Thiede.

He was preceded in death by his parents; and his son, Robert Thiede.

A memorial gathering will be held on Saturday, January 7, 2017 from 3:00 to 5:00pm at the Schneider Leucht Merwin & Cooney Funeral Home, 1211 N. Seminary Ave, in Woodstock. All other services will be private.

In lieu of flowers, Wayne’s family requests you enjoy a meal with your loved ones in his memory.

For more information, call the Funeral Home at 815-338-1710, or visit our website at www. slmcfh.com.

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A celebration of Elaine’s life will be held on Saturday, January 7 at Schneider Leucht Merwin & Cooney Funeral Home, 1211 N Seminary Ave, Woodstock, IL. Visitation will be from 10:30 am until the noon service.

In lieu of flowers, her family requests donations to the McHenry County Illinois Genealogical Society, http://www.mcigs.org/ donate.html.

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

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Cole, Jax and Eli Obenchain, Krista and Sammy Obenchain, and Milo and Skyler McLeer.

Cherished daughter of the late Janet and H. LEONARD T. JOHANSON Ralph Higgins and sister of Frances Proctor of Born: August 30, 1931 Ridgefield, WA, and Brian Higgins of NorthDied: January 3, 2017 ville, MI. Sister in law of Gloria O. Russell of Kansas City, KS, Nancy Obenchain of Rogers, Leonard T. Johanson, age AR, and Mary Higgins of Northville, MI. 85, of Hoffman Estates was Elaine was born on March 22, 1934, and born on August 30, 1931 in grew up in Grand Rapids and East Grand Chicago, IL, son of Fritz and Rapids, MI, and Evanston, IL, where she gradEsther Johanson. He passed uated from Evanston Township High School. away on Tuesday, January 3, 2017. He was a She spent two years at DePauw University, veteran of the US Army. where she was a member of Pi Beta Phi Visitation for Leonard will be held on Friday, January 6, 2017 from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM at sorority, and two years at the University of Minnesota, where she earned a bachelor of The Orchard, 1301 S. Grove Ave., Barrington, IL and also on Saturday, January 7, 2017 from arts in psychology in 1955. After college she 9:00 AM until time of funeral service at 10:00 moved back to Evanston and worked as a claims adjuster in Chicago. She met her husAM. band Ralph on the Chicago & Northwestern Leonard was married to Marilyn Johanson, commuter train. Their story about the train who passed away on October 25, 2016. playing Cupid was written up in the Chicago He is survived by his son, Kevin (Mimi) Tribune.

They married in October 1957 and Johanson; and grandchildren, Zachary & began their life together in Evanston, later Kiersten. moving to Wilmette in 1966 and rural WoodFor funeral info, 847-358-7411 or visit www. stock in 1980.

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Elaine was a lifelong scholar and an accomplished writer who in 1977 published The Complete Catalog of Ampico Reproducing Piano Rolls. Later she wrote and illustrated a five-volume set of books on McHenry County cemeteries, which were published by the McHenry County Illinois Genealogical Society.

She loved animals, raising Rocky Mountain horses, many cats, and beef calves; was an avid flower and vegetable gardener and a gifted photographer who won several awards JANET ELAINE OBENCHAIN for her photos at the McHenry County Fair; Born: March 22, 1934 and was an avid fisherwoman, landing Died: January 2, 2017 several muskies that weighed more than 20 pounds. She had many talents, ranging Janet Elaine Obenchain from sewing her daughter wedding dress (née Higgins), age 82, passed to re-upholstering furniture to making the away peacefully on January world’s best Yorkshire pudding. She lead a 2, 2017 in Woodstock, Illinois, vibrant and active life till the very end, in with the love of her family all her later years taking on challenges such as around her. translating Spanish-language books on AsturDearly loved wife of the ian horses into English and mastering pedal late Ralph R. Obenchain Jr. for 57 years. kayaking. Her greatest joy was watching her Beloved mother of R. Riley Obenchain, Edith grandchildren learn to fish, tube, ski, play Obenchain, Samuel Obenchain (Denise), and bean bag, shoot, and drive tractors and boats Valerie McLeer, all of Woodstock, and Abigail at her rural home in Woodstock and her cotObenchain (William Cole) of Sault Ste. Marie, tage in northern Wisconsin. She never gave ON. Adored grandma to Mason and Avery up on muskie fishing, always hopeful that the

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WHEN: 7 to 8:30 p.m. Jan. 5 WHERE: McHenry Township Complex, Building B, 3519 N. Richmond Road, Johnsburg COST & INFO: Hosted by the McHenry B&B and Woodstock Squares square dance clubs.

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WHEN: 4 to 5 p.m. Jan. 5 WHERE: Crystal Lake Public Library, 126 W. Paddock St., Crystal Lake COST & INFO: Open to sixththrough eighth-graders. Featuring “Roller Girl” by Victoria Jamieson. Library cardholders only. Free. Registration required. Information: www.clpl. org or 815-459-1687.

HOLIDAY MEALS DRIVE – McHenry Knights of Columbus Council No. 1288 hosted volunteers from four area parishes – The Church of Holy Apostles, St. Mary, St. Patrick and Christ the King – who helped pack Thanksgiving meals and distribute coats and winter accessories to local families in need Nov. 19. The packing for the Knights’ 10th annual Holiday Meals Drive was completed efficiently in assembly line style by volunteers of all ages. Funds were raised by the parishes, and through a partnership with Meijer stores, 375 Thanksgiving meals were packed and 460 meals were ordered for Christmas distribution.

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DAR IS GROWING – Meeting the goal of a 10 percent increase in membership for the year was celebrated during the Fox River Valley Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution holiday luncheon Dec. 10 at Pinecrest Golf Club. Mary Siebert and Martha Schuelke were inducted into the chapter, and the program, “Christmas in the DAR Period Rooms,” was given by Karen Mason, Cheryl Winter and Jamie Herrmann, who recently toured DAR facilities at the National Continental Congress in Washington, D.C. DAR is a women’s service organization that promotes patriotism, historic preservation and education. For information, visit www.dar.org, call 815-245-5717 or email frvdar@gmail.com. Pictured (from left) are Barb Pagano, Cathy Carlton, Joan Longmire, Schuelke, Siebert and Pat Holcomb.

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Park district to host preschool open house for parents and kids The Cary Park District will host a preschool preview from 9 to 11 a.m. and 6:30 to 8 p.m. Jan. 16 at the school, which is at Lions Park, 1180 Silver Lake Road.

During the open house, parents and children can meet the teachers, tour the classrooms and receive program and registration information for the 2017-18 school year. Programs offered include morning and afternoon classes for 3- to 5-year-olds.

Resident registration begins Jan. 23; nonresident registration begins Feb. 6.

For information, visit www.carypark.com or call 847-639-7448.

Crystal Lake

Volunteers sought for literacy tutoring McHenry County College seeks volunteers, age 18 and older, to help adult students with reading, math and/or English language skills.

Free literacy tutor information sessions will be from 1 to 3 p.m.

Jan. 19 in Room A370 and from 9 to 11 a.m. Jan. 21 in Room A372 at the college, 8900 Route 14.

Literacy tutors do not have to speak a second language or have any teaching experience. They receive free basic training that provides the information and skills needed to work with literacy students. Instructional materials also are provided, along with support from MCC’s Adult Education staff and faculty.

For information, call Marie Day at 815-455-8542 or visit www. mchenry.edu/volunteer.

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Newspaper Enterprise Association TODAY – Keep a clear head and an open mind as you navigate your way forward. Don’t let your confusion or uncertainty cause you to make an impulsive move or hasty assumption. Focus on gathering facts and making every step you take count.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – You’ll be torn between what you want to do and what you should do. If you decide to make a move, be sure to seek any approval you may need as you go forward.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – Get in touch with someone from your past. It will remind you of old dreams and spark a renewed interest in

something you used to enjoy doing.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – Look for alternative ways to bring in more cash. You will have to make compromises to reach your goals.

Moderation and putting a set budget in place will help you excel.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) – Stay active and stick with it until you finish what you start.

Leaving anything undone will lead to complaints and criticism. Show how valuable you are and aim to please.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – Get involved in something you find rejuvenating or helpful.

Learn as you go and build experience that will encourage you to be a better person. Romance is highlighted.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – Set reasonable

goals and get into a routine that will help you reach them. Taking care of personal business and affairs of the heart will give you peace of mind.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) – Making last-minute decisions or changes based on your emotions will backfire. Keep your life simple and be moderate in all that you do. Do your utmost to protect partnerships.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – Don’t hesitate. If you want something, go after it wholeheartedly.

Strive for excellence and productivity to surprise and impress someone who can influence your future.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – Changes at home could be unnerving and cause friction, stress and overspending. Step back from whatever

situation you face and consider what you want before moving forward.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – Keep your life simple to avoid backlash. Refuse to let anyone talk you into something you don’t want to do. A change of heart will lead to a change in lifestyle.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – Positive changes at home or to your methods will help you establish what you want to do next personally and professionally. A move or lifestyle change is apparent.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – Make a change that will encourage you to do what’s best for you instead of acting in accordance with others’ wishes. If you are true to yourself, you will excel.

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Family Funeral Home, 815-459-3411. Online Friday, January 6, 2017 at 7:00PM at the funeral home. Family and friends will meet at condolences can be given at www.davenportMcHenry County Memorial Park in Woodstock family.com.

GERALD E. SCHILLER on Saturday, January 7, 2017 for 11:00am Born: August 9, 1927; in Marshfield, WI graveside service.

Died: January 4, 2017; in McHenry In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be directed to the family. For more informaGerald E. Schiller, 89, of tion contact the funeral home at 815-385McHenry, passed away 0063 or visit our website at www.colonialmpeacefully Wednesday January 4, 2017 at home surround- chenry.com. ed by his loving family.

He was born on August 9, GEORGE A. SCHULTZ 1927 in Marshfield, WI to Paul WILLIAM J. SCHUERMANN Born: February 22, 1941 and Lillian (Stover) Schiller.

Died: December 29, 2016 Born: June 21, 1972; in Elgin, IL He married Lola M. Goldman Died: January 2, 2017; in Huntley, IL on July 4, 1952. Mr. Schiller George A. Schultz, 75, of was a veteran, serving in the Marengo, IL, passed away William J. “Jimbo” Schuermann, 44, of United States Army during suddenly, December 29, 2016.

Crystal Lake was born June 21, 1972 in Elgin to the Korean War. He retired as an operating Born February 22, 1941, in Ronald Davis Schuermann and Marcia Behrns. engineer of McHenry Sand & Gravel. He was Belvidere, IL, son of Amos He passed away on Monday, January 2, 2017 a heavy equipment operator and a life time and Wannetta (Hammond) in Huntley. member of International Union of Operating Schultz. He graduated from Jimbo was a long time resident of Crystal Engineers Local 150, as well as, a member of Belvidere High School, class Lake, a graduate of Crystal Lake Central High the Chuck Wagon Riders Saddle Club. In addi- School. He worked at Crystal Lake Pit Stop for of 1960. George married the tion, Gerald was a member of the Woodstock over 20 years. Jimbo was known to be a very love of his life, Rita Young in moose lodge for many years. He enjoyed his July of 1962. He was proud kind and generous person that always was home, work, horses and camping. He was a to have served his country there for his friends and family. Jimmy’s greatloving husband, father, brother, grandfather est joy was being with his children. He enjoyed in the United States Army. George worked and great grandfather. He took great pride in bowling and playing bags in his spare time. He for Ipsen Industries for 45 years. He was a his life, home and family. member of the VFW, Coon Creek Casters,and loved life and will be missed by many.

He is survived by his wife, Lola Schiller; the Rockford Area Coin Club. George was the He is survived by his children, Jeremy Children, Lamar (Nancy) Schiller, Lavern(Japast commander for the American Legion in Schuermann and Maxine Schuermann; his nine) Schiller, Christine (Frank) Boeckmann, Marengo. He was an avid collector of many mother, Marcia Behrns; his sibling, Ronald Geraldine (Robert) Eilert; Eight Grandchildren, (Vicki) Schuermann; and his fiancé, Mandy things, enjoyed fishing and golfing. George Jason (Rebecca) Boeckmann, Collin (Kelli) never met a stranger and always had a smile Slater and her children, Promise Slater, and Boeckmann, Sheryl (John) Matthews, Ryan and a joke for everyone. He never missed an Jason, and Chance Asbury.

Eilert, Connor Eilert, Timothy Eilert, Olivia He is preceded in death by his father, Ronald activity for his children and grandchildren.

Schiller, Liliana Schiller; Great-Grandchild, George is loved and missed by his children, D. Schuermann; and his sister, Hollie (nee Sebastian Boeckmann; Brother, Vern (Jean) Jeff (Lisa)Schultz, and Brian (Sandi) Schultz; Schuermann) Fuentes.

Schiller of McHenry; Sister, Lorraine (the late grandchildren, Elliot and Tim Schultz,Nathan The family will be receiving guests from Tom) Sheridan of Rockford. and Evan Schultz; brothers, Darrell Schultz, 4:00pm until time of funeral service at He was preceded in death by his parents, 7:30pm, Friday, January 6, 2017 at Davenport and Michael (Linda) Butz; sister-in-law’s, Paul and Lillian Schiller; Six Brothers, RayFamily Funeral Home, 419 E. Terra Cotta Ave., Margaret Schultz, Sharon Stanton, and Bevmond, Clifford, Glen, Dale, Larry, Clayton; Two Crystal Lake, IL 60014. Burial will be held erly Goodman; brother-in-law, Elvin (Marge) Sisters, Arlene and Mildred.

Young; numerous nieces, nephews, cousins, privately.

Visitation will be held on Friday, January In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made and special friends.

6, 2017 from 4:00PM till 8:00PM at Colonial He is preceded in death by his wife, Rita; his to the Schuermann Family c/o Ronald Schuerparents, stepfather, Charles Butz; twin brothFuneral Home & Crematory 591 Ridgeview mann to assist in his children’s future. er, Gerald Schultz; brothers, James, and John Dr. McHenry, IL. Funeral service will be held For information, please contact Davenport

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Calls to 911 were made before DuPage Co. deputy killed teen

VILLA PARK – Calls to 911 were made shortly before a 17-year-old boy was fatally shot while getting into an altercation with a sheriff’s deputy in suburban Chicago.

The DuPage County Sheriff’s Office said the deputy responded Monday to a domestic incident near Villa Park and shot the teen. He was pronounced dead at a hospital, according to authorities, and

identified by family as Trevon Johnson. The deputy has been placed on paid administrative leave and hasn’t been identified.

One call from the home said he had a knife. A second call also described the scene, apparently including the shooting.

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Illinois man cleared in 1991 rape after 25 years in prison

WAUKEGAN – A northern Illinois man who spent 25 years in prison for a rape has been cleared of the charge by a Lake County judge.

William Carini was convicted in 1992 and sentenced to 26 years in prison in the sexual assault of a woman who was attacked after she fell asleep in her car on the shoulder of the Tri-State Tollway near Gurnee.

Lake County State’s Attorney Michael Nerheim announced in December forensic testing revealed none of the physical evidence collected in the rape case matched Carini.

On Tuesday, Nerheim appeared before Judge Daniel Shanes to argue the evidence testing results are, at a minimum, grounds for granting Carini a new trial. However, Nerheim said he does not intend to retry Carini on the sexual assault charge.

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Chicago alderman says he’ll challenge Rauner in 2018

CHICAGO – Chicago Alderman Ameya Pawar said he’s running to unseat Republican Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner in 2018.

The Democrat and second-term alder-

“Jack” Schultz; sister-in-law’s, Kathleen and Harriet Schultz; and brother-in-law, Richard Goodman.

Memorial Service will be held at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, January 7, 2017 at Anderson Funeral and Cremation Services, 218 W. Hurlbut Ave, Belvidere, IL 61008 with Rev. Tom Hay officiating. A visitation will be held from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m., Friday, January 6, 2017 at the funeral home, and from 9:30 to 10:15a.m., prior to the service.

In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to a Veterans related charity of your choice. To light a candle or share a condolence, please visit www.AndersonFCS.com.

MARGARET M. SUNDBY Born: August 8, 1928 Died: December 30, 2016

Margaret M. Sundby, 88, of Petersburg, passed away on Friday, December 30, 2016 at Sunny Acres Nursing Home.

Margaret was born on August 8, 1928, in Chicago the daughter of Caesar and Mary Kalck LeClercq. She married Robert George Sundby on April 21, 1951 in Chicago; he preceded her in death on February 8,1982.

Margaret worked for Northern Illinois Medical Center and retired as the Director of Human Services.

She was also preceded in death by her parents; one son, Robert George Sundby; and sister, Jeannette Bessler.

She is survived by two sons, Don (Carla) Sundby of Petersburg and David (Renee) Sundbyof Janesville, WI; nine grandchildren; and seven great grandchildren.

Cremation will be accorded and private graveside services will be held at a later date at Windridge Cemetery in Cary, IL. Memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association.

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man said Wednesday he would provide “a progressive counter-balance to the governor’s agenda.”

Pawar said he would push for Illinois to impose an additional tax on incomes over $1 million.

He also wants to expand subsidized day care – a program Rauner cut amid Illinois’ budget crisis – and would decriminalize more drug offenses.

Illinois Republican Party spokesman Steven Jaffe called Pawar an “out-of-touch, tax-hiking politician,” noting he’s supported several Chicago tax increases.

Pawar starts with a massive fundraising disadvantage. His campaign account has about $50,000. Rauner just gave his own campaign $50 million.

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NEW YORK – It could take days before it is known why a Long Island Rail Road train crashed at the end of a platform as it pulled into a major transportation hub, injuring 100 people, federal transportation investigators said.

The packed, rush-hour train crashed as it entered Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn on Wednesday morning, hurling passengers onto the floor and slamming them into each other. Many had been standing as they prepared to get off the train at the last stop.

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foremost historians of the 1960s, told The Associated Press in an email Wednesday. “But if hippie paradise was a myth, it was a myth that a lot of people believed in. Manson damaged it gravely.”

On Wednesday, Manson, now a grizzled, shuffling 82-year-old, lay hospitalized with an undisclosed illness after being taken from California’s Corcoran State Prison, where he was serving a life sentence, according to news reports that correction officials would not confirm, citing privacy laws.

Student: Girl slammed to ground trying to stop fight

ROLESVILLE, N.C. – A student who was slammed to the ground by a police officer at a North Carolina Charles Manson’s cult left high school was trying to break up 7 dead, killed a dream too a fight involving her sister, said the LOS ANGELES – The seven grisly 15-year-old who posted video of the incident on social media. murders carried out by Charles Ahunna Akpuda recorded a brief Manson’s disciples during the video of an officer surrounded by summer of 1969 did more than turn the hippie cult leader into the students at Rolesville High School. leering face of evil on front pages The officer lifts and drops a girl on her left side, then pulls her to her across America.

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Obama, Pence harden ‘Obamacare’ battle lines

By ALAN FRAM

The Associated Press WASHINGTON – Hardening battle lines for the brawl to come, President Barack Obama urged congressional Democrats to “look out for the American people” in defending his legacy health care overhaul, while Vice President-elect Mike Pence stood firm Wednesday in telling Republicans that dismantling “Obamacare” is No. 1 on Donald Trump’s list.

“We’re going to be in the promise-keeping business,” Pence declared at two separate Capitol news conferences. Only 16 days before Trump takes over the Oval Office, he said repealing and replacing Obama’s law will be the president-elect’s “first order of business.”

“The American people voted decisively for a better future for health care in this country, and we are determined to give them that,” Pence said.

Outnumbered in the new Congress, Democrats didn’t sound confident in stopping the Republicans cold but signaled they wouldn’t make the GOP’s job any easier.

New Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said that if the Republicans do scuttle the health care law, they will have to come up with a replacement plan before Democrats consider whether to help them revamp the system.

That adds pressure on Republicans, who for years have battled among themselves over what a new law would look like, including how to finance its programs and whether to keep Obama’s expansion of Medicaid for more lower-income people.

“They’re repealing, we’re not. It’s their obligation to come up with a replacement,” Schumer said, a sentiment he said he believed Democrats shared unanimously.

Obama and Pence held dueling strategy sessions with

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President Barack Obama, joined by Rep. Frederica Wilson (from left), D-Fla.; Rep. Joseph Crowley, D-N.Y.; Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer of N.Y.; and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. arrives Wednesday on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., to meet with members of Congress to discuss his signature health care law. lawmakers at the Capitol as the new Republican-led Congress commenced its drive to dissolve the health care statute. The 2010 overhaul, which has extended coverage to 20 million people and reshaped the nation’s $3 trillion-ayear health care system, has long stood as one of Obama’s proudest triumphs and the ascendant GOP’s top target for extinction.

“Despite the negativity you have a big chunk of the country that wants this thing to succeed,” Obama told Democrats, according to an aide who attended Wednesday’s session.

The two sides traded insults through the day.

“Don’t let the Schumer clowns out of this web,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

Said Schumer: “The Republican plan to cut health care wouldn’t make America great again, it would make America sick again.”

Previewing an attack line sure to be heard again in this year’s debate, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said the GOP is aiming to also scuttle Medicaid and Medicare, going after programs that are “very personal in the

lives of the American people.”

Even with White House and congressional control, annulling “Obamacare” and replacing it looms as a daunting task for the GOP. Leaders hope to have legislation voiding much of the law on Trump’s desk by late next month, Republicans said.

But after six years of failing to unite behind an alternative, GOP leaders are discussing postponing when repeal would take effect for 18 months or longer, allowing more time to craft replacement legislation.

Underscoring the law’s widespread constituency, the Obama administration said at least 8.8 million people signed up through Dec. 31 for coverage in 2017. Even so, outside experts doubt the administration will meet its nationwide target of 13.8 million signups.

Millions more have coverage under the statute’s Medicaid expansion.

Trump has provided few details about how he would redesign the law, but has said he wants to retain popular provisions such as ensuring coverage for people with pre-existing medical problems.

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Trump challenging intel agencies he’ll oversee

By JULIE PACE and EILEEN SULLIVAN The Associated Press

WASHINGTON – President-elect Donald Trump escalated his blunt public challenge to the U.S. intelligence agencies he soon will oversee Wednesday, appearing to embrace WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s contention that Russia did not provide his group with the hacked Democratic emails that roiled the 2016 election.

Trump’s defiance has increased the pressure on intelligence officials to provide decisive evidence of Russian election interference. A full report ordered by President Barack Obama last month is expected to be finalized by week’s end, with high-level intelligence officials heading to New York on Friday to brief Trump on the classified findings. The Obama administration also plans to make an unclassified version public before the president leaves office on Jan. 20.

Russia not only meddled in the election, but did so to help Trump win, according to the intelligence agencies’ assessment. But the administration has so far released only limited information to support that conclusion. And in the absence of such public evidence, the president-elect has seized on some

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President-elect Donald Trump speaks to reporters Dec. 28 at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. Americans’ skepticism of U.S. intelligence in general, citing high-profile missteps that led to the Iraq war.

But this Trump campaign has so far been a lonely one in Washington.

His views put him at odds with Obama and leaders in his own party who see Moscow as a growing threat. And they put him in line with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Assange, whose

organization has been under criminal investigation for its role in classified information leaks. Since 2012, Assange has been in the Embassy of Ecuador in London, unable to leave without being arrested for breaching his bail conditions.

Taking to Twitter on Wednesday, Trump noted that Assange “said Russians did not give him the info” – refer-

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Vice President-elect Mike Pence commended Trump for his “very sincere and healthy American skepticism.”

“Given some of the intelligence failures of recent years, the president-elect’s made it clear to the American people that he’s skeptical of conclusions from the bureaucracy, and I think the American people hear him loud and clear,” Pence said after a meeting on Capitol Hill with Republican lawmakers.

Trump is to be briefed on the hacking report Friday by CIA Director John Brennan, FBI Director James Comey and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Brennan, in an interview Tuesday with PBS NewsHour, said the report will include “what was collected, what was disclosed and what the purpose and intent of that effort was.”

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Charleston shooter tells jury he’s not mentally ill Emanuel AME Church in the June 2015 attack. He sat with church members for about 45 minutes and waited until their eyes were closed in prayer before opening fire. He told Polly Sheppard that he wanted to leave her alive to tell the world that he attacked a historic black church because blacks were “raping our women and taking over the nation.”

Two other people also survived.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Nathan Williams said the “horrific acts justify the death penalty.”

“He killed nine people. ... He killed them because of the color of their skin.

He killed them because they were less than people,” Williams said.

The panel has heard from Roof before in the form of his confession to the FBI and his racist manifesto. And on Wednesday, prosecutors read from the journal found in Roof’s jail cell six weeks after his arrest. His handwritten words were projected on screens in the courtroom.

“I remember how I felt when I did these things and how I knew I had to do something and then I realize it was worth it,” he wrote. “I would like to make it crystal clear. I do not regret what I did.

I have not shed a tear for the innocent people I killed.”

From his writings, it’s clear that Roof does not believe in psychology. In one of his journals, he called the field “a Jewish invention” that “does nothing but invent diseases and tell people they have problems when they don’t.”

Prosecutors plan to call up to 38 people related to the slain and the survivors.

The first witness to testify was Jennifer Pinckney, the widow of Clementa Pinckney, a state senator and pastor at Emanuel AME. During more than two hours on the stand, Pinckney described her husband as an affable figure who was widely respected as a state legislator and preacher and who was a goofy family man in private with his two young daughters.

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CHARLESTON, S.C. – Dylann Roof spoke Wednesday for the first time to the jurors who will decide whether he should be executed for fatally shooting nine black parishioners during a Bible study, insisting that he is not mentally ill and forgoing a chance to plead for his life.

The soft-spoken 22-year-old white man told the jury that he was not trying to keep any secrets from them. He did not offer remorse or seek forgiveness or ask them to spare him from a lethal injection.

“My opening statement is going to seem a little bit out of place,” Roof said calmly as he delivered the brief remarks at a podium, occasionally glancing at notes. “I am not going to lie to you. ...

Other than the fact that I trust people that I shouldn’t and the fact that I’m probably better at constantly embarrassing myself than anyone who’s ever existed, there’s nothing wrong with me psychologically.”

Shortly before Roof’s statement, prosecutors presented a jailhouse journal in which he wrote that he did not regret the massacre or “shed a tear” for the dead.

Roof’s attorneys have indicated that he chose to represent himself during the sentencing phase of his trial because he was worried his legal team might present embarrassing evidence about himself or his family. As early as last summer, they said they planned to introduce evidence that Roof suffers from mental illness, and they hinted at that idea again during closing arguments of the trial’s guilt-or-innocence stage.

“I would ask you to forget it,” Roof told jurors, referring to what his lawyers said then.

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Duckworth takes office

The Land of Lincoln got a new U.S. senator this week; best of luck Illinoisans got a new U.S. senator Tuesday.

That’s when Tammy Duckworth, 48, a Hoffman Estates Democrat, was sworn in to succeed one-term Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk.

Duckworth is a war hero who has overcome the loss of two legs from combat injuries in Iraq in 2004 to continue serving the public, first in an appointive governmental capacity, and later as a member of the U.S. House from suburban Chicago.

That region is For the record where Duckworth is better known.

We encourage Sen. Tammy In downstate rural Duckworth to listen to her sections of the state, constituents and represent the she might not be so needs of all Illinoisans, regardwell known. less of party or region.

We encourage her to alleviate that deficiency by reaching out to her new constituents, listening to them, and representing the needs of all Illinoisans, regardless of party or region, to the best of her ability.

The seat she now holds has turned over more frequently than the seat that longtime U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Springfield, holds.

Tammy In fact, Duckworth is the 10th Duckworth person to hold it since 1951, when Everett McKinley Dirksen was first sworn in.

Upon Dirksen’s death in 1969, Ralph Tyler Smith was named to the Senate seat.

Following Smith were Adlai E. Stevenson III (1970), Alan J. Dixon (1981), Carol Moseley Braun (1993), Peter Fitzgerald (1999), Barack Obama (2005), Roland Burris (2009) and Mark Kirk (2010).

By comparison, Durbin’s seat has had relatively little turnover; only four people – Paul Douglas, Charles Percy, Paul Simon and Durbin – have held it since 1949.

Now it’s Duckworth’s turn to represent Illinoisans to the best of her ability in the U.S. Senate. We wish her good luck.

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An ethics lesson for Donald Trump What happened this week among House Republicans carries a useful and important lesson.

The incoming GOP conference voted secretly to emasculate the independent House ethics watchdog, and when the action became public, a torrent of protests erupted. Even President-elect Donald Trump expressed doubt, and the lawmakers backed down. People expect their representatives to meet high ethical standards, no exceptions.

Rather quickly, House Republicans realized the folly of their secret vote to end the independence of the Office of Congressional Ethics, which has the power to probe malfeasance and has exposed numerous cases of impropriety.

The office does not sit in judgment, but its powers to investigate wrongdoing have proved valuable. A good example was the report in May 2015 revealing that the state-owned oil company of Azerbaijan secretly funded an

all-expenses-paid trip to a conference in Baku for 10 members of Congress and 32 staff members, who received hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of travel expenses, silk scarves, crystal tea sets and Azerbaijani rugs. It surely caused the members heartburn when the facts were disclosed, but the story was based on a 70-page report by the ethics office and performed a valuable public service.

As a new Congress begins, pressures on House members by vested interests are as great as they have ever been, and an independent watchdog serves as a bulwark against what otherwise might become unfettered influence-peddling.

Trump, champion of “drain the swamp” in Washington, expressed his concern in two tweets that said “weakening” the ethics watchdog was not the “number one act and priority” of Congress right now. He also called the ethics office “unfair”; his expressed

doubts were about timing, not the substance of the vote. But Trump should take a cue from the events of the day and get serious about transparency and conflict of interest in his own affairs.

Trump has yet to disclose his tax returns despite promises.

He has not provided sufficiently detailed disclosure of his far-flung commercial empire, including ties to Russia, if any. Nor has he yet told the American people how he intends to cut himself off from his business once he becomes president. He must try to sever these ties because he will soon be a public servant, working for more than 320 million Americans, not for his own gain.

Trump should not leave himself exposed. If he does, he will get mired in years of questions about conflict of interest, sapping his political capital and hurting his presidency.

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Our government’s growth

To the Editor: The current services baseline budget now stands at $4.2 trillion, which is just another way of pointing out that our government has grown immensely. It’s hard to argue that even during the years following the Great Recession of 2008 that government jobs didn’t increase dramatically. Can anyone point to a government agency that has been a victim of manpower reduction in the past 30 years? Have any of the 72 welfare type programs been eliminated? Has the War on Poverty of 1965 ceased?

Since some of my liberal friends like specifics (unless they fail to bolster their position), here is some food for thought: In 1962, there were 17 bureaucratic layers at the top of government keeping 450 people employed. In 2016, there are 63 layers at the top of government keeping approximately 3,000 people employed. In my own work environment, there are three levels of management and sometimes navigating toward the solution of a problem is slow and difficult.

The Energy Department (started in

VIEWS Jennifer Rubin To be clear, there is no doubt that the hacking occurred. CIA Director John Brennan rebuffed Trump’s claim that the intelligence community’s error on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction makes it unreliable.

“It’s been light-years since that report on Iraq WMD has been done and there has been tremendous further development, I think, of our analytic capabilities as well as our intelligence-collecting capabilities,” Brennan said. “I would suggest to individuals that have not yet seen the report, who have not yet been briefed on it, that they wait and see what it is that the intelligence community is putting forward before they make those judgments.”

Trump would be wise to listen to Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. “Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” Schumer told Rachel Maddow. “So even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he’s being really dumb to do this.”

1977) employs about 60,000 people who are steadily working toward energy independence by giving loans to failing companies like Solyndra. Now just who thought it would be a good idea for a government agency to become a loan department? Wasn’t one of the primary purposes of this agency to work toward the goal of never having the gas lines of the late 1970s occur in this country again? Just asking.

Rick Justen Wonder Lake

Warm, fuzzy feeling of hate

To the Editor: Merry Christmas!

Yes, actually, the Christmas season runs from Dec. 24 through Jan. 9, until Jesus is baptized.

Thank God we Democrats do not think that Donald Trump is the second coming of Jesus Christ.

Some poorly informed white male GOPers, over this great Christmas holiday, seem to have mistaken a billionaire for “The King.”

Trump has proven time and time

Trump, if he keeps this up, is heading for a collision with both sides of the aisle in Congress and constant political fencing with the intelligence agencies.

If Cabinet nominees support Trump’s pro-Russian stance, they run the risk of getting blocked. And worse, if and when a national security crisis hits, the intelligence community will have every reason to let it be known that the president was out to lunch.

Trump seems determined to prove his critics right – he is not temperamentally or intellectually up to the job. His family and closest advisers had better tell him to get a grip, or his presidency will have a rocky start and may never fully recover.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., will begin a hearing on Thursday looking into the Russian attacks on democratic elections. Witnesses will include James R. Clapper Jr., director of national intelligence; Marcel J. Lettre II, undersecretary of defense for intelligence; and Adm. Michael S. Rogers, commander of the U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency. When sober, experienced officials begin laying out the case against Russia, the public may fully appreciate just how absurd Trump is being. His reflexive defense of Russia will rightly be seen as anything but “America First.”

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again, he knows nothing about running anything. Many GOPers look at him as a “successful” businessman. Really?

The fact is his businesses lost nearly $1 billion in a one-year period. Successful?

Really?

In the United States of America, your résumé means nothing. Maybe we can have electricians deliver babies, congressmen repair our cars, farmers represent us in court.

You get the picture.

Why not?

This past year has proven that Americans have no idea what they want. They say they want lower energy prices. They say they want jobs, They say they want smaller government.

Just as interesting as the testimony in McCain’s hearing will be the conduct of Republican committee members, who include national security hawks Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Ben Sasse, R-Neb., and Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, who has both military and State Department service. None of these men likely will run interference for Trump. That leaves Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Tom Cotton, R-Ark., who have tried periodically to play down differences with Trump but whose reputations would suffer considerably if they take up the Putin-Trump line.

We will get our first indications as to how determined the Senate is to take on Trump and his advisers’ pro-Putin positioning.

Here, there is no middle ground: It is either obvious that the Russians did it or the entire intelligence community (including Trump favorite FBI Director James Comey) is dangerously incompetent and should be replaced. Unfortunately for the country, if the first is true (the facts are incontrovertible), then it is Trump’s competence and sobriety that become suspect.

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Energy costs are down from eight years ago. We added at least 150,000 jobs monthly for many months. Retired Americans got all their Social Security as promised for the past eight years.

Therefore, 43 percent of Americans voted against all that.

The kicker: The candidate that got 2.8 million more votes lost. Only in America in 2016.

I can certainly see how scammers are so successful in this country. Many will believe anything just to get a warm, fuzzy feeling of hate toward someone who is a little different than themselves.

Susan Gena Woodstock

• Thursday, January 5, 2017

President-elect Donald Trump insists on dumping on the intelligence community that he will need to depend upon in less than three weeks. On Tuesday, he falsely claimed that the briefing on Russian hacking was postponed until Friday. (Intelligence officials say it was already set for that date.)

He openly mocked the professionals who provide vital intelligence to the country: “The ‘Intelligence’ briefing on so-called ‘Russian hacking’ was delayed until Friday, perhaps more time needed to build a case. Very strange!”

On Wednesday, Trump openly sided with WikiLeaks’s Julian Assange, widely seen as a partner with Russia in undermining the West. Trump tweeted: “Julian Assange on U.S. media coverage: ‘It’s very dishonest.’ ... More dishonest than anyone knows.” (Assange was given free rein on Sean Hannity’s show, highlighting the Russian sycophantic triumvirate of Assange, Trump and Fox non-News hosts.) A senior Democratic Senate aide tells us: “In less than 24 hours, Mr. Trump has disparaged the intelligence community twice by misleadingly saying that his upcoming briefing was postponed, and then citing Julian Assange’s statements as fact. It’s so dangerous and the American people better wake up to what’s happening.”

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U.S. auto sales hit a record 17.55M in 2016

By DEE-ANN DURBIN The Associated Press

DETROIT – U.S. consumers bought a record number of new cars and trucks in 2016. A repeat performance in 2017 could be a tall order.

Low gas prices, rising employment and low interest rates kept buyers coming to car dealerships last year. There was also the lure of new technology – such as backup cameras, automatic emergency braking and Apple CarPlay – and new vehicles like the Chrysler Pacifica minivan, the Honda Civic and the all-electric Chevrolet Bolt.

U.S. vehicle sales totaled 17.55 million, beating the previous year’s record of 17.47 million, according to Autodata Corp. It was the seventh consecutive year of year-over-year sales gains, an unprecedented string, said Tom Libby, an analyst with the consulting firm IHS Markit.

That string could be in jeopardy, however. The National Automobile Dealers Association expects U.S. sales to drop to 17.1 million vehicles in 2017 as interest rates and vehicle prices rise. Large numbers of cars coming off leases will hit the used-car market next year, putting pressure on new car sales.

And more buyers are opting for longer loans, so they won’t be returning to dealerships anytime soon.

Political issues could also impact sales. President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to impose a 35 percent tariff on vehicles made in Mexico and exported to the U.S., which would impact every major automaker. But he also has prom-

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Chevy trucks line the lot of a dealer Jan. 9, 2013, in Murrysville, Pa. Demand may be slowing, but U.S. consumers still bought a whole lot of cars and trucks in 2016. ised more spending on infrastructure, which could boost pickup truck sales.

For now, however, the market has plateaued at a high level. Nissan Motor Co.’s U.S. sales rose 5 percent in 2016 to more than 1.5 million, a company record. The Subaru brand also set an annual record, with sales up 6 percent to 615,132. Honda Motor Co.’s sales jumped 3 percent to more than 1.6 million.

Hyundai Motor Co.’s sales rose 2 percent to 775,005. Ford Motor Co.’s sales were up less than 1 percent to more than 2.6 million. Fiat Chrysler’s sales were flat at 2.2 million.

General Motors Co. said its year-

over-year sales were down 1.3 percent to just more than 3 million cars and trucks. That was partly because the company cut back on low-profit sales to rental-car firms. Toyota Motor Corp.’s full-year sales fell 2 percent to 2.4 million. Volkswagen brands sales dropped 8 percent to 322,948, hurt by the company’s diesel mileage cheating scandal.

Here are some details of 2016 sales: WINNERS AND LOSERS: Ford’s F-Series pickup remained the best-selling vehicle in America in 2016, with 820,799 trucks sold. That’s the equivalent of 93 trucks sold every hour. The Toyota Camry was the best-selling car, despite

a 9.5-percent dip in sales to 388,618. Jaguar saw the biggest sales increase of any brand, with sales more than doubling over 2015 thanks to its new XE sedan. Fiat Chrysler’s Italian brands, Fiat and Alfa Romeo, declined more than 20 percent each as customers scratched small cars off their shopping lists in favor of SUVs. LUXURY CROWN: Mercedes-Benz held onto its title as the top-selling luxury brand. Mercedes sales were up less than 1 percent to 374,541, edging BMW and Lexus.

SUV TAKEOVER: Toyota’s U.S. sales chief, Bill Fay, said consumers’ shift from cars to SUVs is one of the most dramatic the industry has ever seen.

Three years ago, trucks and SUVs represented 50 percent of the U.S. market.

They closed 2016 at 63 percent of total sales, and analysts don’t see that changing anytime soon. Boomers and Millennials both like the space SUVs offer and their higher ride, and improvements in fuel economy make them competitive with cars. The Honda CR-V was the best-selling SUV in the U.S. last year, with sales up 3 percent to 357,335.

PILING ON THE DEALS: Incentive spending reached a record of $4,000 per vehicle in November before falling a bit in December. Buyers were walking away with thousands of dollars in bonus cash or financing deals. Autotrader said Ford was offering as much as $13,000 off its C-Max plug-in hybrid in certain markets in December. But the deals can hurt the industry in the long term, since they damage vehicles’ resale values and automakers’ profits.

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LOS ANGELES – Michael Keaton has revealed the reason behind his departure from the “Batman” franchise after two films.

Keaton starred as the superhero in 1989’s “Batman” and 1992’s “Batman Returns.” Both of those films were directed by Tim Burton. Joel Schumacher was hired to direct 1995’s “Batman Forever,” and Keaton decided to pass on starring in that film.

Keaton said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter’s “Awards Chatter” podcast that the script for the film “never was good.” He said he didn’t understand why Schumacher “wanted to do what he wanted to do” with the film, which was lighter in tone than the first two films.

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Drake leads iHeartRadio Music Awards nods with 12

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Mariah Carey performs Saturday at the New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square in New York. Carey told Entertainment Weekly in an interview that she was was “mortified” in “real time” during the disastrous live performance.

Mariah Carey discusses ‘horrible New Year’s Eve’ performance Mariah Carey said she was “mortified” in “real time” during her disastrous live performance moments before the ball dropped on ABC’s “Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Year’s Eve.” Carey spoke to Entertainment Weekly in her first interview since the show in which she stumbled through her songs. At many points she stopped singing, even while a prerecorded vocal track played in the background.

Carey’s publicist blamed show producer Dick Clark Productions earlier this week for not addressing technical difficulties before the performance, including a malfunctioning earpiece. Carey reiterated that stance to EW and praised the late Clark.

“I’m of the opinion that Dick Clark would not have let an artist go through that, and he would have been as mortified as I was in real time,” she said.

While she described the night as “a horrible New Year’s Eve,” Carey said the experience wouldn’t stop her from doing another live TV performance.

“But it will make me less trusting of using anyone outside of my own team,” she added.

Dick Clark Productions has called the Carey camp’s claims “absurd” and said an internal investigation showed the company it had no involvement in the issues affecting Carey’s performance.

“Rockin New Year’s Eve” co-host Jenny McCarthy defended Dick Clark Productions on her SiriusXM radio show Tuesday, saying “for Mariah to defame them was so incredibly insulting.”

“The truth of the matter is Mariah didn’t do a sound check,” McCarthy said.

‘Moonlight,’ ‘Deadpool’ land WGA Award nominations

NEW YORK – Oscar favorites “Moonlight,” ‘’La La Land” and “Manchester by the Sea” landed Writers Guild Award nominations on Wednesday, but so did the R-rated “X-Men” spinoff “Deadpool.”

The Writers Guild of America announced its nominees for the best screenplays of the year with selections that largely stuck to awards season regulars. The best original screenplay nominees were Kenneth Lonergan’s script for “Manchester by the Sea,” Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight,” Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land,” Taylor Sheridan’s “Hell or High Water” and Jeff Nichols’ “Loving.”

While the WGA Awards can be strong predictors of the Academy Award screenplay nominees, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences already has deemed “Loving” (inspired by Nancy Buirski’s documentary) and “Moonlight” (based on Tarell Corden mourns ‘Carpool Alvini McCraney’s play) adapted scripts.

Karaoke’ pioneer Michael The nominees for best adapted screenplay LOS ANGELES – James Corden said he were “Arrival,” penned by Eric Heisserer; feels like he has loved George Michael as “Fences,” by the late playwright August long as he’s loved music.

Wilson; “Hidden Figures,” by Allison The “Late Late Show” host paid tribute to the late singer on his program Tuesday night. Schroeder and Theodore Melfi; “Nocturnal Animals,” by Tom Ford; and “Deadpool,” by He showed a 2011 skit with Michael that he did for a charity event in their native England. Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. The snarky The skit featured Michael and Corden singing superhero film, easily the most unexpected choice of the bunch, earlier scored two nods in a car and was a precursor to Corden’s wildly popular “Carpool Karaoke” segments. for this Sunday’s Golden Globes.

The WGA will name the winners to its 69th Corden said he showed the skit to Mariah Carey in order to convince her to appear in annual awards on Feb. 19 in simultaneous his first “Carpool Karaoke” segment. Corden ceremonies in New York and Los Angeles. said Carey told him, “If it’s good enough for Television nominations were announced earlier.

George, then it’s good enough for me.”

NEW YORK – Drake leads the nominations for the 2017 iHeartRadio Music Awards with 12, including male artist of the year, while electronic duo The Chainsmokers has 11 nominations, including song of the year for “Closer” with Halsey. iHeartMedia and Turner announced the nominees Wednesday. It also was announced that Bruno Mars will perform at the fourth annual awards show, to be held March 5 in Los Angeles and televised on TBS, TNT and truTV, as well as simulcast on iHeartMedia stations.

This year’s show has been expanded to more than 30 categories. Other multiple nominees include twenty one pilots, Rihanna, Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Beyonce, Daya, Halsey, Nicky Jam and Sia.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS Actor Robert Duvall is 86. Singer-bassist Athol Guy of The Seekers is 77. Talk-show host Charlie Rose is 75. Actress Diane Keaton is 71. Actor Ted Lange (“The Love Boat”) is 69. Drummer George “Funky” Brown of Kool and the Gang is 68. Guitarist Chris Stein of Blondie is 67. Actor Clancy Brown (“Highlander,” “SpongeBob SquarePants”)

is 58. Actor Vinnie Jones (“X-Men: The Last Stand”) is 52. Dancer and judge Carrie Ann Inaba (“Dancing with the Stars”) is 49. Singer Marilyn Manson is 48. Actor Derek Cecil (“House of Cards,” “Treme”) is 44. Actor Bradley Cooper is 42. Actress January Jones is 39. Actress Brooklyn Sudano (“My Wife and Kids”) is 36.

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26 Smartphone use at bedtime hinders sleep Dear Doctors: I sent my mom an email at midnight, and ever since then she’s been after me to stop using my smartphone at bedtime. She insists the light from the screen interferes with sleep. Is that really true?

Dear Reader: Your mother is right. The ways in which the “blue light” emitted by smartphones, tablets and computer screens affects sleep patterns is a hot topic in scientific circles. And according to the scores of studies done in recent years, the answer consistently is the same: Yes, these devices do have a negative effect on your nightly rest.

This is troubling because insufficient sleep is associated with serious conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, coronary heart disease, depression and even obesity. About one-third of all Americans don’t get the seven hours of sleep that are recommended to maintain good mental and physical health. In fact, the sleep deficit in the United States is so severe the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now identify it as a public health problem.

So how do the multiple screens in our lives figure into the epidemic of insufficient sleep?

Light is the cue your brain relies on to sync itself with the outside world. It regulates your circadian rhythms, which influence sleep patterns, hormone releases, body temperature and other vital functions.

Smartphones, tablets and computers all emit high-energy light in the blue spectrum.

This particular wavelength, which is similar to sunlight, has been shown to suppress the release of melatonin, a hormone produced by the pineal gland in the brain that makes you feel sleepy.

When you use your smartphone at night, even up to 90 minutes before you go to sleep, you’re confusing your body clock. The blue light from the screen is telling your brain it’s still daytime. That suppresses the release of

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Once you do drift off, the disruption to your circadian rhythm is profound enough that it’s difficult to stay asleep. What sleep you do manage to get often is of poor quality.

Instead of feeling refreshed when you wake up, you face the day tired.

Some smartphone makers have introduced an option to move the self-illuminated screen from bright blue to a warmer yellow/ red spectrum, as with Apple’s “Night Shift.”

And while this may a have modest effect on sleep, we recommend putting your phone away at bedtime is a better idea.

To give yourself the best chance at a good night’s sleep: • Read from a printed book rather than an illuminated screen.

• Make your bedroom as dark as possible.

Use curtains to block exterior light, and eliminate inside light from clock dials, TV sets and, yes, smartphones.

• Do what you can to block out sound – earplugs or a white noise machine can help.

• Keep your bedroom cool; 65 to 68 degrees is ideal.

• Steer clear of large meals before bedtime.

• Be aware caffeine and alcohol can interfere with sleep.

Remember – how you feel during the day has a lot to do with how well you slept the night before.

• Send your questions to askthedoctors@ mednet.ucla.edu or write Ask the Doctors, c/o Media Relations, UCLA Health, 924 Westwood Blvd., Suite 350, Los Angeles, CA 90095.

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family member keeps setting up fundraisers every time she wants to buy something for her family. If a child needs a special class, she asks the relatives to pitch in to pay for it. When her husband wanted to return to college, she brought all the extended family together to see who could contribute.

She now has set up a fundraiser to raise $6,000 to send her teenaged daughter to an expensive performing arts camp. I think if they can’t afford it, they should select a camp they can afford or have the 16-year-old go out and earn the money. I also think they should be saving for college rather than camp.

This woman’s father was a preacher, and sometimes I think she never got the message fundraising usually is for charity, not for those who happen to need some cash. Am I wrong to be embarrassed by what she’s doing, or is this a new normal? – Embarrassed In Texas Dear Embarrassed: You say your relative is the daughter of a preacher. There is a saying in the Bible, “Seek and ye shall find.” Another way of putting it is, “It never hurts to ask.” If you feel your relative is using others for something that should be her responsibility, you are free to just say no, and to do so without embarrassment.

Dear Abby: I’m retired and have the time to sew and quilt projects, which I give as gifts. I presented a “Quilt of Valor” to my father to honor his military service. I also gave a sibling one of my personalized projects as a birthday gift.

When we visited their home, I was horrified to see one of their dogs sleeping on the pillow I had made for them. When the dog woke up, it scratched itself and dragged the hair-covered pillow through the house. I have been asked to make a quilt for a disabled child living at home who has a dog that sleeps on her bed.

I no longer want to invest my time and energy after what happened to my gift. Would it be wrong to refuse the request and say something about “gift abuse”? – Sew Perplexed Dear Sew Perplexed: Verbalizing your refusal would be undiplomatic. Even though your hard work wasn’t appreciated as you hoped it would be, I do not recommend you accuse the family of “gift abuse.” It appears they’re dealing with more important issues right now.

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During last year’s holidays, I pleaded yet another “sudden illness” on his behalf. When I cancel plans we’ve made, he generally “feels better” after we cancel. While I am sympathetic, I’m tired of making excuses knowing he’s probably fine. – Social Butterfly Dear Butterfly: I think you should go without him, and stop making excuses.

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Huntley’s Morgan Clausen shoots under pressure from a Dundee-Crown defender in the second quarter of Wednesday’s game against Dundee-Crown at Huntley High School. The Red Raiders won, 35-27.

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Huntley’s Morgan Clausen passes the ball in the first quarter of Wednesday’s game against Dundee-Crown at Huntley High School. The Red Raiders won, 35-27.

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Allen played tough interior defense for the Red Raiders, helping to limit DundeeCrown’s top offensive weapons. The 6-foot-1 freshman finished with eight rebounds and five points.

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akantecki@shawmedia.com HUNTLEY – Dundee-Crown had limited the damage done offensively by Huntley’s Morgan Clausen in the first quarter.

In the second quarter, the Red Raiders senior forward put the finishing touches on an eight-minute stretch of dominance, reaching out and stealing the ball at one end of the court and coasting to the other end with three Chargers trailing behind.

Clausen beat them all to the basket, pouring in her 11th and 12th points of the quarter to help Huntley build a

12-point lead at halftime as the Raiders defeated Dundee-Crown, 35-27, in their Fox Valley Conference girls basketball game Wednesday night.

Clausen finished with a game-high 18 points on 7-of-15 shooting as Huntley (7-6 overall, 4-1 FVC) climbed above .500 for the first time this season.

With the win, the Raiders also kept pace with conference leader CaryGrove (5-1 FVC).

“I was just seeing what they gave me and maximizing my opportunities,” Clausen said.

“The Fox Valley (Conference), everybody is pretty tight right now. Every team has some solid players, so I think with each game, we’re going to match up well. There’s not going to be any gimmes or anything like that.”

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Inside Wrestling by fall. The third-place match was a bit of redemption for Ziegler, as he pinned Wauconda’s Michael Turzynski, the same opponent who had beaten him by a 6-2 decision in the second round of the tournament.

EVENT TO WATCH McHenry at Huntley, 6:30 p.m. Thursday This will be a good measuring stick for each Also for Huntley, Juan Quiroz (160) placed team. Huntley has started the season undefifth, Sammy Spencer (106) was seventh, Luke feated in conference duals and is coming off Loprieno (138) took seventh and Zach Spencer strong showings in a pair of competitive win(126) finished eighth. The Red Raiders remain ter break tournaments, but McHenry could ranked as an honorable mention in 3A. provide a tough test for the Red Raiders. The 2. Crystal Lake Central (7-2, 5-0 FVC): The Warriors, who have started the season well Tigers had the week off from competition, and have plenty of top-end talent, will be NOTEWORTHY but remain ranked second in 2A. They return Chargers’ Pin King: Dundee-Crown heavy- looking to see how they stack up to Huntley, to action Thursday with an FVC dual against weight Isaiah Ziegler put together one of the which is both talented at the top and one Dundee-Crown. more impressive tournament runs of the sea- of the deepest teams around. A matchup to 3. Jacobs (9-3, 3-2 FVC): The Golden watch could be at 126, where Lucas Busse vs. son last week at the Whitewater Mid-States Eagles’ only action over the past week was Classic. After winning his opening match and Zach Spencer would be a meeting of 3A state a nonconference quad at Grant. The Golden then losing in the second round, Ziegler won qualifiers from a year ago. This one also could Eagles are ranked as an honorable mention six consecutive consolation matches to come feature three of the area’s best freshmen – team in 3A and return to conference wresHuntley’s Sammy Spencer and David Ferrante back and place third at 285 in the 42-team and McHenry’s Jaden Glauser. tling Thursday, hosting Prairie Ridge. tournament. Even more impressive, Ziegler got all seven of his wins in the tournament 4. McHenry (11-6, 3-2 FVC): The Warriors – John Wilkinson, jwilkinson@shawmedia.com Proud Sponsor of Athlete of the Week

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Jacobs’ Carly Sidor scored 11 points to lead all scorers. Maggie Grady and Kerri Healy each added seven points for the Golden Eagles (6-8, 4-2 Fox Valley Conference).

Avalon Henderson led McHenry (11-5, 4-2 FVC) with six points. Madi Kaempf and Julia Rice each added five points.

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in Loves Park, Jacob Smith bowled a team-best 603 series for the Skyhawks, including games of 175, 180 and 248.

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Gardner tossed in 21 points, with three 3s, as Woodstock defeated South Beloit in a nonconference game.

Evan Bridges added 12 points, all on four 3s, and Josh Turner scored 11, with 10 coming in the second half for the Streaks (5-7).

• RED RAIDERS-CHARGERS Continued from page 2

Outside of Clausen’s 12-point outburst in the second quarter, neither team could get much going offensively. Huntley finished with 28 turnovers, while D-C (8-10, 2-4) committed 24 and was held to five, four and five points in the first three quarters.

Clausen and 6-foot-1 freshman Janelle Allen drew the defensive assignment on Chargers senior forward Allison Michalski, holding her to two points.

Madi Tripp (6-2) was held to four points, senior Paige Gieseke led the team with eight, and freshman Payton Schmidt had six on two 3s.

The Chargers shot 12 of 35 (34.3 percent) from the field, while Huntley was 14 of 32 (43.8 percent).

“I thought overall we did a really good job on their two best scorers (Gieseke and Michalski),” Raiders coach Steve Raethz said. “Michalski is a very versatile player, inside and out, and I thought Morgan did a really nice job on her for most of the game.

“I’m a little disappointed how we finished the game, but D-C did a good job of forcing some turnovers and capitalizing. I’m just pleased to protect our home court and come out with a conference win.”

Clausen grabbed 10 rebounds with four blocks and five steals, and Allen (eight rebounds) and

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Dundee-Crown’s Allison Michalski (left) and Huntley’s Janelle Allen both grab the ball during the first quarter of Wednesday’s game at Huntley High School. The Red Raiders won, 35-27. senior guard Abbey Brown had five points apiece.

Chargers coach Sarah Miller said her team focused on offense in practices leading up to Wednesday’s game, making the result even more frustrating.

“The one thing we worked on all week was offense,” Miller said. “I’m frustrated because we go up against a physical team like Huntley and we don’t execute anything that we worked on.

“We have set offenses, and we couldn’t get any rhythm. I felt

like we kind of beat ourselves in terms of offense. We couldn’t get anything going because we were rushing everything.”

Huntley, which finished 2-2 at the Montini Christmas Tournament over winter break, travels to Prairie Ridge on Friday to continue FVC play.

“It was very important to get this win,” Allen said of beating D-C. “I felt like we learned a lot from the Montini Tournament and came back and played harder. You can’t take any team for granted.”

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POWER RANKINGS 1. Huntley (11-6, 4-0 Fox Valley Conference): The Red Raiders finished a strong winter break by taking 10th at the 31-team Granite City William “Red” Schmitt Holiday Tournament. Huntley was the fourth-highest placing team from Illinois. Josh Stenger led Huntley, reaching the third-place match at 120 pounds, finishing fourth after losing an overtime decision. Stenger had five pins in the tournament.

didn’t wrestle this week, but return to competition Thursday with a big FVC dual when they face Huntley.

5. Marengo (7-1): The Indians finished 13th out of 23 teams at the Lincoln Tournament, with four placers, including two finalists. Joe Mier won the title at 170, getting three falls along the way and winning the final in overtime. Landen Pfeiffer made the final at 106 before losing to the No. 2-ranked 106-pounder in 2A and finishing as runner-up. James Mier took third at 195, and O’Neil Swanson placed eighth at 120. Marengo fell one spot to No. 17 in the 2A team rankings.

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ATHLETE OF THE WEEK CADIN KOEPPEL Cary-Grove, Jr., 195 pounds Koeppel took second place at the Whitewater Mid-States Classic last week in Wisconsin, the only local wrestler to reach the tournament’s finals. Koeppel got through his first two bouts with pins, then beat the No. 7-ranked wrestler in Class 2A in a semifinal, and eventually lost in the final to the No. 3 195-pounder in 3A. Koeppel is 19-4 and ranked as an honorable mention in 3A.

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LAKE FOREST – Bears Nation clearly has more than its share of questions and complaints about the 2016 Bears and what is next for “the Beloved.” Three specific concerns rise above the others.

First, what are they going to do about the BEARS quarterback INSIDER position?

There Hub was no way Arkush the people in charge could have answers 72 hours after the final game, so I had no expectations of enlightenment when general manager Ryan Pace and coach John Fox held their season-ending news conference Wednesday.

No. 2, however, is: although it was obvious to everyone who ever has watched a football game, the Bears’ greatest assets are rookie running back Jordan Howard and their ground game, and the team and offensive coordinator Dowell Loggains chose to ignore it most of the season, begging the questions, why, and is Loggains the right guy to run the offense?

Fox made it clear he intends to retain Loggains – although he did not rule out adding to his offensive staff – so I asked him this question: When Adam (Gase) left last year, you described the offense as your offense. Only six teams in the league ran the ball less than you, and until two weeks ago only two teams had. Is that how your offense is supposed to work, and if not, how do you fix it?

Fox’s answer was, “I think situational football – you know the situation of games, I think, adjust that. If you look at, we were top six in yards per carry, all right so, we were 17th in the league in yards.

“I think when you’re behind like in as many games as we were, too many games, I think that affects that.

Just like in turnovers or takeaways, I think affects that.

“But I think we’re very efficient running the ball. So our struggles weren’t running the ball.”

Because Fox clearly didn’t answer my question, I tried following it up with this; “No they weren’t, and that’s the point of the question. Is [the lack of runs] the reason you were behind in as many games as you were?”

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Bears general manager Ryan Pace (right) and coach John Fox talk to reporters as team president Ted Phillips (back left) and chairman George H. McCaskey look on during an end-of-season news conference Wednesday in Lake Forest.

NFL calendar Saturday and Sunday: Wild-card playoff games Jan. 14-15: Division playoff games Jan. 21-22: Conference championships Jan. 29: Pro Bowl, Orlando, Fla. Feb. 5: Super Bowl, Houston Feb. 28-March 6: Combine, Indianapolis March 1: Deadline for clubs to designate franchise or transition players March 9: Free agency begins March 26-29: Annual league meeting, Phoenix April 21: Deadline for restricted free agents to sign offer sheets April 26: Deadline for prior club to exercise right of first refusal to restricted free agents April 27-29: NFL draft, Philadelphia May 22-24: Spring owners meetings, Chicago Aug. 3: Hall of Fame game Aug. 5: Pro Football Hall of Fame inductions This time Fox replied, “Well, very much so. There’s no doubt that ball security is critical. Inconsistency at quarterback is part of that, it’s not an excuse; it’s reality.

“You know we went in the regular season with three different starting quarterbacks, you know not starting the preseason. So, that’s an area that we need to get more consistent at and, that’s going to be a big part of moving forward and having success moving forward.”

Fox never did answer either question but does appear to acknowledge they have to do better. However, he gave no indication as to how and/or

why it will improve under Loggains, and at other points in the news conference he insisted play-calling wasn’t an issue. Having struck out on an answer to No. 2, I moved to the last of the big three, asking Pace: “We were told when you and John got here that you had complete control of the football operation, including the hiring and firing of the head coach, and that John as the head coach has control of the staff.

“Is that the case, and if so, are you satisfied with John’s staff?”

Pace responded, “I’m comfortable with that, and you’re correct, that is how it is set up, and so, obviously, John and I have a tight, close relationship and we talk about staff all the time, and it’s not just the coaching staff, it’s all the department heads in football ops. But I’m confident in this coaching staff. I am.

“Of course, every year, win or lose, there’s some changes with position coaches and even some scouts, and I think it happens, but I’m confident in this staff going forward.”

Can we be confident that Pace has the unfettered authority to do whatever he has to to get this fixed?

Yes, I think we can.

Can we feel comfortable these guys understand and have what it takes to fix this offense?

Unfortunately, we weren’t given much reason Wednesday to believe we can.

• Hub Arkush is the editor of Pro Football Weekly. He can be reached at harkush@profootballweekly.com, or on Twitter @Hub_Arkush.

LAKE FOREST – Ryan Pace has a pretty good understanding that the quarterback decision he makes in the next few months will define his legacy as general manager of the Bears and affect the direction of the team.

The most important position on the field, and one that has eluded the Bears in terms of consistency for decades, was a hot topic for Pace at his end-ofseason news conference Wednesday.

“In my mind, there is no more important position than the quarterback,” he said. “It is a critical, critical position. And I know and I recognize that the decision that we make on that quarterback is going to be Jay Cutler significant for all of us for the direction that this organization is going to head.”

During their 3-13 season, the Bears used three starting quarterbacks and had three on injured reserve. Jay Cutler, Matt Barkley and Brian Hoyer combined to throw 18 touchdowns and 19 interceptions.

Hoyer and Barkley are out of contract, as is Connor Shaw, who impressed in the preseason before a leg injury. The quarterback decision, however, starts with Cutler, who still has three years remaining on his contract. Pace said he met with Cutler on Monday and will let Cutler and his agent, Bus Cook, know right away when a decision is made.

For what it’s worth (maybe something to other teams interested in a potential trade), Pace said Cutler is “significantly ahead of schedule” after shoulder surgery.

Entering his third offseason as GM, Pace won’t rule out free agency or trades, the draft or the players returning to fix the position.

“Everything’s on the table, and we’ve got to analyze all that, and the next two months are going to be huge for that,” he said. “It’s critical that we get that right.”

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BEARS NOTES

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Pace on how to fix the injury situation:

“I’ve been thinking about that constantly. It was a significant thing for us. I think the wrong thing to do is for me to put our heads in the sand and say, ‘Oh,

Fox on reported coaching changes (per go full speed.’ ” Pace on the lack of takeaways: “I honthe Chicago Tribune, the Bears fired offensive line coach Dave Magazu and assistant estly think we need to add more playDBs coach Sam Garnes): “There’s a lot of makers to our secondary. We need to

changes. I can tell you that our coordinators are intact. There were different reports throughout the season; again it’s probably too early to say, almost like who you’re going to sign as a player. We’re in that process, guys are under contract, I know it was publicized (running backs coach) Stan Drayton got an outstanding opportunity. His goal in life was to be a head coach in college, and it was a great opportunity for him.

Those kinds of things happen when you have good coaches, but we’re excited for Stan in that new opportunity, but right now, that’s all I’ve got for you.”

Pace on Kevin White: “He’s such a positive outlook guy and was the same leg, but it was two different injuries.

So I feel he’s in a really good spot with that right now. ... Kevin is like is wanting to go, go, go, go. And I’m always like, ‘Slow down on this, let’s make sure we’re doing this right so when you come back everything is in line: your gate, your hips, your hamstrings, everything is in line so you’re ready to

add more ball skills to our secondary.

That’s on me, and we’ll do that.”

Pace on why they didn’t add more defensive backs last offseason: “We re-

signed Tracy Porter. I had high expectations that Fuller would be healthy this year. Tracy battled some things this season; obviously (Kyle) Fuller wasn’t available. (Bryce) Callahan was another player that we had high expectations for, and he was in and out of the lineup.”

Pace on Kyle Fuller: “You know, I think he’s frustrated, and we are, too. I think we opened up that three-week window with the full expectation that by the end of that he would be ready to go. And he’s trying to get stronger and he is trying to do all of the little things right. I’m not giving up on Kyle Fuller. He was a high draft pick by this organization, and it’s on us to do everything we can to get him playing back at a top level. You guys know it’s a position of need for us, and getting him back where he can play would be huge for this organization. So he’s got to have an important, big offseason. He knows that.”

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Here are some of the news and notes we heard from the trio of Bears decision-makers, including several thoughts from Pace on Bears players: Pace on Alshon Jeffery: “He’s an extremely talented player that has high expectations for himself. I don’t feel like this season he really got into a rhythm that he would have liked to have gotten into. I think that was because of a lot of different quarterback play. And also he missed four games. It’s hard for him to get in a rhythm and showcase what he can do. … I think he’s a good player.

And that’s a big decision for us.”

man, it was bad luck. Maybe better luck next year.’ We’re not going to do that.

We’re going to research and analyze.

“We have meetings set up. We’re going to look at other teams, other sports, everything – from the training room to the strength-and-conditioning room, to what we do on the field, the practice schedules – everything’s going to be analyzed. Whenever you lead the league in something, or you’re close to leading the league, I mean jeez, you better Alshon Jeffery pay close attention. And there’s a lot of valuable assets that were on IR. I don’t want to make excuses for that, but I also want to understand the importance of getting that right.”

Fox on the injuries: “Like I said, on the injuries just to touch on that again. A lot is made, we’ve been here two years and we had some injures in practice last year, we looked at the fields, the organization did a great job in creating a safe environment there. More of our injuries happened in games, we’re looking very hard in analyzing all that from start to finish of everything we do.”

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by Hub Arkush

WHO ARE THE TOP NFL HEAD COACH PROSPECTS? In the immediate aftermath of the final day of the regular season, it is difficult to sort out who the hottest head-coaching candidates are around the NFL because the bulk of the most successful assistants are still working in the playoffs.

Some of the top prospects including Kyle Shanahan (Atlanta), Josh McDaniels and Matt Patricia (New England) and Dave Toub (Kansas City) are currently hop-scotching around the country getting in as many interviews as they can with their clubs on byes this week, but they will be expected to be back hard at work with their current teams on Monday to get ready for the divisional playoffs.

But while Shanahan is reported to be talking to the Broncos, Jaguars, Rams and 49ers; McDaniels has interviews with the Jaguars, Rams and 49ers; Patricia will meet with the Rams and Chargers; and Toub is on the list for the Broncos and 49ers, it would be highly unusual for one of them to actually accept a job before completing their work with their current club, and they become unavailable for second interviews as long as they keep winning in the playoffs.

Then there is the group that includes Vance Joseph of the Dolphins, who’s reported to be set to interview with the Broncos and Chargers; the Lions’ Teryl Austin and Jim Bob Cooter; Pittsburgh’s Todd Haley; Oakland’s Bill Musgrave; and Seattle’s Darrell Bevell, who are all thought to be top head coach prospects but haven’t been able to talk with the six clubs with vacancies yet because they are focused on their current clubs’ wild-card games this weekend.

In the meantime, there are a few more pos-

Build the Best Playoff Lineups and Win! Visit FanDuel. com/PFW sibilities including Harold Goodwin (Cardinals), who is meeting with the Bills, Jaguars and Rams; Sean McDermott (Panthers), who’s set to interview with the Bills; Steve Wilks (Panthers) is interviewing with the Rams; Mike Smith (Bucs) is interviewing with the Jaguars; and Sean McVay (Washington) is interviewing with the Rams, all with a serious head start on playoff assistants as they are free to devote all their energies to securing one of the open jobs.

McDermott is a classic example of one of the biggest hurdles all of these top assistants face, as he was a red-hot candidate last year after the masterful job he did coordinating the Panthers defense, but while he was busy working through the Super Bowl, all of the open jobs filled with coaches whose clubs were out of the playoffs.

More often than not, teams are in a hurry to fill their vacancies and are rarely willing to wait until after the Super Bowl.

The Way We Hear It, Tom Coughlin is still the frontrunner for the Buffalo job, but there are no high-profile college coaches likely to make the leap to the NFL this season, and recently canned Rex Ryan, Gus Bradley, Jeff Fisher, Chip Kelly and Mike McCoy are highly unlikely to be candidates for the other five openings.

We believe those jobs will be filled from the list of candidates presented above.

SHANAHAN TOPS A NUMBER OF LISTS The Way We Hear It, Kyle Shanahan is the most sought after of all of this year’s top head coaching candidates and he may be the leader in the clubhouse right now in Denver and Los Angeles.

While the Broncos’ job is thought to be the

Kyle Shanahan

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plumb of the list of openings, there are reports around the league that John Elway may not be the easiest boss for a head coach to work for, plus it is unclear whether or not the quarterback of the future is currently on the roster and the offensive line needs to be rebuilt.

That said, it’s not exactly a news flash that Elway won two Super Bowls and earned a spot in Canton playing for Shanahan’s dad, although it is unclear whether or not Elway

and or Shanahan will view that as an asset or liability.

The Rams’ job could be equally attractive to Shanahan depending on whether owner Stan Kroenke deems him to be high profile enough to fill what he is selling as one of the top “celebrity coaching openings,” and whether or not Shanahan believes Jared Goff was worth the No. 1 overall pick in last year’s draft.

There would be far less pressure on Shanahan to win immediately in Los Angeles, even though he would start on Day One with some of the best defensive talent in the NFL and a running back in Todd Gurley with All-Pro, build-an-offense-around-him potential.

We can’t rule out the Jaguars or 49ers, either, but according to our sources, Shanahan is the surest thing among the top coordinator candidates to get a job this year.

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These teams squared off in Mexico in Week 11 with the Raiders winning 27-20.

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This game is continuing a time-honored tradition of the Saturday, AFC wild-card game being the least desirable of the four weekend games, with neither team appearing to be a threat to the top seeds. It’s a game of questionable quarterbacks. Brock Osweiler regains his starting spot because of Tom Savage’s concussion. Matt McGloin had been the option for the Raiders, but his injury in Week 17 has opened the door for rookie Connor Cook to make his first NFL start. Derek Carr’s injury marred what had been one of the NFL’s best stories in Oakland, but the Raiders still have plenty of talent on both sides of the ball. The Texans, sans J.J. Watt, still boasted the league’s best defense, which it needed to help lift the 29thranked offense, thanks in large part to Osweiler’s struggles, into the playoffs.

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The Texans’ best chance to get the offense going will be with Lamar Miller. The good free-agent acquisition quietly posted 1,073 rushing yards this season. That total would have been higher, but Miller missed the final two games of the season with an ankle injury. He’s expected to return against a Raiders defense that gave up 4.47 yards per carry this season, the eighth-highest rate in the NFL. In Week 11 at Estadio Azteca, Miller had 104 yards on 24 carries and a touchdown. Linebacker Malcolm Smith is the Raiders’ tackles leader, but the edge players will need to be key to prevent Miller from getting to the open field. He has the speed to take any run for a long gain on one cut. The Raiders gave up five carries of 40 yards or more, the second-most in the NFL.

It’s the surprise team in the AFC playoffs against a staple in the conference’s postseason. An eight-year playoff drought ended for one, while the other has been .500 or above for 13 consecutive seasons. The Dolphins had been written off following a 1-4 start, with their only win coming in overtime against the Browns. New head coach Adam Gase righted the ship, though, thanks in large part to breakout running back Jay Ajayi, an efficient passing attack and Cameron Wake’s strong season. The Dolphins rattled off six in a row and won nine of their next 10 to make the playoffs for the first time since 2008. The Steelers might be the most dangerous AFC team playing on wild-card weekend. The AFC North champs enter the playoffs having won their final seven games with one of the league’s most high-powered offenses.

These teams met in Week 6, when the

Dolphins began their win streak with a 30-15 victory at home. Ajayi ran for 204 yards in the victory.

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Ben Roethlisberger engineers the league’s fifth-best passing attack. It helps to have dual-threat back Le’Veon Bell, lethal wideout Antonio Brown and a pretty good offensive line – not to mention the two-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback. Pittsburgh, for all its passes, allowed sacks on only 3.52 percent of those throws, the second-best rate in the NFL. On the other side of the ball, the Dolphins are strong up front, but young and banged up in the secondary. Cameron Wake (11.5 sacks, 24 QB hits), Ndamukong Suh (five sacks, 17 QB hits) and Andre Branch (5.5 sacks, 12 QB hits) will have to find a way to get past the Steelers’ O-line, but bringing down Roethlisberger is easier said than done.

Miami sacked him twice and hit Roethlisberger six times in their Week 6 win.

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LIONS VS. SEAHAWKS

Saturday, 7:15 p.m. CT, FOX, CenturyLink Field OVERVIEW

The goal of every NFL club is to arrive at the postseason playing their best football; Seattle and Detroit will have to settle for the former part of the equation.

The Lions went from a potential firstround bye entering Week 14 to losers of three consecutive games and forced to make the vaunted visit to the “Clink.”

Matthew Stafford went from MVP candidate with an 8-4 mark and 21 touchdowns with just five picks to 1-3 with a dislocated middle finger, three TDs and five INTs. The Seahawks went 3-3 in their final six games, struggling to adjust to the loss of Earl Thomas, whose Week 13 broken leg preceded the defense surrendering an average of 25 points per game – up nearly 10 over the first 12 outings.

Seattle was 7-3-1 with Thomas and 2-2 without him. Nonetheless, Pete Carroll’s club captured its fourth NFC West crown and the right to host a home playoff

game. The Seahawks have great luxuries in a Super Bowl-winning quarterback and elite front-seven, not to mention the rowdy backing of the “12’s.”

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It probably won’t be another defensive struggle similar to Seattle’s 13-10 Monday-night triumph in Week 4 last season. Since Week 1, the Seahawks haven’t been below 24 points at home, where they’re 7-1 and 48-13 overall under Carroll. Moreover, Detroit lacks the pass rush to attack Wilson’s leaky front wall – though Ezekiel Ansah and Kerry Hyder storming Wilson’s blind side might be the Lions’ best shot at an upset. They’ll also need far better play at the nickel, where Adairus Barnes was elevated this week from the practice squad and could be thrown into the fire against one of Seattle’s top wideouts and one of the game’s best slot machines, Doug Baldwin. Aaron Rodgers relentlessly attacked the slot and Asa Jackson, then safety Don Carey after Jackson went down, Sunday night.

GIANTS VS. PACKERS Sunday, 3:40 p.m. CT, FOX, Lambeau Field OVERVIEW

A wild-card weekend that opened with two quarterbacks making their playoff debuts culminates in a QB pairing with 25 combined postseason starts and three Super Bowl rings. Both of Eli Manning’s Giants world championships (2007 and 2011) included upset victories at Lambeau along the way. Yet, unlike Aaron Rodgers’ Packers, appearing in an NFL-high eighth consecutive postseason, the G-Men haven’t been to the playoffs since their Super Bowl XLVI victory.

GM Jerry Reese’s masterful offseason, wherein he reshaped the NFL’s 30thranked scoring ‘D’ into the league’s second stingiest, catalyzed New York’s return and provides hope of another upset against the NFC’s hottest team and passer. While New York’s ‘D’ lifted a surprisingly sloppy Manning-led offense, Rodgers was extraordinary in making good on his Week 12 promise, sitting

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Bulls, waist deep in drama, top Cavs

By JOE COWLEY

jcowley@suntimes.com CLEVELAND – Dysfunction derails most teams.

The Bulls players seem to wrap themselves in it like it’s a warm blanket on a cold night.

Call it familiarity thanks to a front office that can’t help but deal in the art of drama.

So on a night in which players such as Dwyane Wade continued to question the decision-making of the very public Rajon Rondo benching, the Bulls still managed to go out and handle the first-place Cleveland Cavaliers, 106-94, Wednesday night at Quicken Loans Arena.

As for Rondo, he didn’t see the floor for a third consecutive game – coach’s decision.

“It’s a tough situation,” Wade said. “There are a lot of players on this team that don’t really understand. But it’s not for us to understand. It’s our job to play. He’s a teammate of ours.

You never know what happens.

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Bulls guard Dwyane Wade passes the ball behind Cavaliers defender Channing Frye in the first half Wednesday night in Cleveland. The Bulls defeated the first-place Cavs, 106-94.

We stick together. He’s been doing a great job of [handling] it.”

Rondo did call for a meeting with the Bulls’ front office over the weekend, and got it, meeting with both general manager Gar Forman and VP of basketball operations John Paxson.

Not much was resolved for the

veteran, however, as he made it clear to both that continuing to sit him means that Rondo wants to be elsewhere.

Rondo left it as an almost to be continued.

And although the front office is open to listening to the likes of Wade and star Jim-

my Butler, both seem willing to stay out of it, focusing on making sure Rondo mentally remains in a good place.

Wade was the latest to insist that he got out of the business of front office suggestions long ago.

“When I was a young player in Miami and I was making my way up the ranks, I think they got me involved in certain things,” Wade said. “And then it started becoming very uncomfortable. When guys that you’re teammates of and they start talking about trades and all this stuff, and I just said, ‘You know what? Don’t involve me in it.’

“When it comes to obviously calling guys trying to help better your team and all those things, I’ve always been involved in that. But when it comes to decisions that have to be made on players and stuff like that, I don’t get paid to do that.”

No, the pay is in the play, and that was on full display by Butler in the fourth quarter against the Cavs. After a slow start in which

Butler was 2 for 11 for only six points through three quarters, the two-time All-Star took over with 6:24 left in the game.

The Cavs (26-8), who were without Kyrie Irving (hamstring) and Kevin Love (flu), cut the deficit to one, and Butler drew the charge on LeBron James, followed by a 3-pointer.

He then hit a mid-range jumper and two free throws to grow the lead back out to eight.

By the time the smoke cleared, Butler scored 14 in the final quarter to finish with 20, and get the Bulls (18-18) back to the .500 mark.

“The guy that wears No. 3 (Wade) on this team came to me and was like, ‘Win the game,’ ” Butler said of his performance.

“So I guess the switch cut on.

Get a couple baskets and try and get some stops on the defensive end. I think I did all right in that.

“I can’t let D-Wade down.

D-Wade’s been doing that for years. I think it was my time to step up.”

BULLS NOTES

Wade’s knee issues to be tested in next week

By JOE COWLEY

BULLS 106, CAVALIERS 94

jcowley@suntimes.com CLEVELAND – Dwyane Wade’s maintenance plan is about to get tested.

Yes, the 34-year-old veteran was able to answer the bell Wednesday, making the start against Cleveland despite dealing with swelling in his left knee, but credit the adrenaline of facing off against good friend LeBron James for that.

Moving forward?

Dwyane Wade It’s about to get interesting.

Wade was asked how long he’s been dealing with this latest injury, and said with a smile, “It started about 14 years ago.”

It was in his Marquette days that Wade tore his meniscus, and rather than have it repaired, which was a longer rehabilitation process, he opted to have it removed. The problem with removal is lingering setbacks such as swelling of the knee.

“This ain’t nothing new,” Wade said. “This is the first time they’ve pub-

CHICAGO (106) Gibson 9-10 0-0 18, Lopez 3-5 0-0 6, Carter-Williams 6-13 1-2 13, Butler 7-20 3-4 20, Wade 3-9 1-2 10, McDermott 6-9 2-2 17, Felicio 0-2 1-2 1, Mirotic 6-12 1-1 16, Grant 1-5 2-2 5.

Totals 41-85 11-15 106.

CLEVELAND (94) James 12-21 6-9 31, Frye 6-11 0-0 15, Thompson 1-5 0-0 2, Liggins 1-5 0-0 2, McRae 7-15 6-7 21, Jefferson 2-7 1-2 7, Felder 3-11 3-3 9, Jones 1-3 0-0 3, Shumpert 1-5 2-3 4. Totals 34-83 18-24 94.

Chicago Cleveland

16 36 23 23

31 28

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3-Point Goals–Chicago 13-30 (McDermott 3-4, Wade 3-4, Mirotic 3-7, Butler 3-8, Grant 1-4, Carter-Williams 0-3), Cleveland 8-25 (Frye 3-6, Jefferson 2-5, James 1-2, Jones 1-2, McRae 1-5, Shumpert 0-1, Liggins 0-2, Felder 0-2).

Fouled Out–None. Rebounds–Chicago 43 (Gibson 7), Cleveland 44 (Thompson 11). Assists–Chicago 23 (Butler 8), Cleveland 13 (James 7). Total Fouls–Chicago 18, Cleveland 16. Technicals–McDermott. A–20,562 (20,562).

licly made a statement. But I’ve had three knee surgeries, so I get swelling in my knee sometimes. It’s not a big deal.

“I’ve been dealing with it for a long time. I’ve learned how to handle it.”

The schedule is about to test that.

Wade missed the Monday win over Charlotte with the knee, and now will have two days off to get ready for the next six games. In that time the Bulls will play two back-to-backs, as well as

face the likes of Toronto, Oklahoma City, Washington and the Knicks in the Garden.

Wade already has been held out of several back-to-backs this season to get a breather, and swelling with the knee will further complicate that.

Coach Fred Hoiberg said there still is no exact plan in place for Wade except daily communication with his guard and getting frequent updates on how he feels.

What Wade continued to stay away from is looking back and questioning his decision in college to have the meniscus removed.

“Yeah, that was a different time,” Wade said. “Technology is a little different. But, yeah, that would’ve been ideal. At the time, it was about getting me out of pain. They did it the way they did it. It’s whatever. I’ve still had a good career. So it didn’t hurt me too bad.”

Consistently inconsistent: One of the few teams in the Eastern Conference that the Cavaliers have had regular-season problems with since LeBron James returned has been the Bulls.

Hoiberg’s continual frustration

with his team, however, has been bottling up that intensity level that they show against the Cavs and carrying it to other games.

“It’s something you strive for, and we talk about it all the time, is the consistency,” Hoiberg said. “A lot of teams in this league are striving for that. The top teams are the ones that are getting it done on a nightly basis. A lot of us are trying to figure out how to get it on a nightly basis.”

It was a real problem for last season’s team as it went a combined 7-1 against Cleveland and Toronto and didn’t make the playoffs.

“We watch a lot of film, we talk about it in practice, and now it’s going out and stringing together some consistent games,” Hoiberg said of a solution. “We need to see more of that.”

Injury front: While Wade is a gameby-game decision these days, it could be quite some time before first-round pick Denzel Valentine (left ankle) returns. The rookie injured the same left ankle that he injured in the preseason, and that cost him almost a month.

Hoiberg wasn’t about to put a timetable on this latest injury.

BLACKHAWKS

By MARK LAZERUS

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Red Wings center Dylan Larkin (left) drives the puck up the ice against Blackhawks right wing Spencer Abbott on Oct. 2 in Detroit. Abbott on Tuesday was called up from Rockford and will play on Marian Hossa’s line Thursday against the Sabres. man minor-leaguer – three years with the AHL’s Toronto Marlies and two half seasons with the IceHogs sandwiched around a stint in Sweden – he’s an intriguing one. Abbott has produced at every level. He had 42 goals and 41 assists in 48 games in his final junior season in his hometown of Ham-

ilton, Ontario. He had 21 goals and 41 assists in 39 games in his senior season at the University of Maine. And last spring, he had an head-turning 12 goals in 19 games with the IceHogs.

Even in training camp this season, he had two goals in the intrasquad scrimmage at the United Center and had an assist

MEN’S BASKETBALL ROUNDUP

Butler ends No. 1 Villanova’s win streak The ASSOCIATED PRESS INDIANAPOLIS – Kethan Savage scored five of his 13 points during a decisive seven-point run to give No. 18 Butler a 66-58 victory over No. 1 Villanova on Wednesday night, ending the Wildcats’ 20game winning streak.

Butler (13-2, 2-1 Big East) improved to 4-0 against ranked opponents this season and extended its home winning streak to 12 games by beating a top-ranked team for the second time in school history.

The Bulldogs did it by upending the defending national champions and stopping the longest winning streak in Villanova history. Jalen Brunson had 23 points, and Josh Hart scored 13 on a rugged shooting night for the Wildcats (14-1, 2-1), beaten for the first time since a 6967 loss to Seton Hall in the Big East championship game last March.

Loyola 77, Northern Iowa 66: At Chicago, Donte Ingram scored 25 points, and Milton Doyle flirted

with a triple-double with 13 points, eight rebounds and eight assists as Loyola defeated Northern Iowa.

Ingram was 9 of 13 from the field, making a career-high five 3-point shots and finished at 20 points or more for the third time in five games. Doyle has scored in double figures every game this season for the Ramblers (11-5, 1-2 Missouri Valley Conference). Ben Richardson added 15 points as Loyola made 13-of-19 field goals in the second half (68 percent) and finished the game shooting 57 percent.

Juwan McCloud scored 16 to lead Northern Iowa (5-9, 0-3), and Jordan Ashton added 11. Leading scorer Jeremy Morgan was held to seven points on 2-of-7 shooting, and the Panthers shot 40 percent from the field.

Southern Illinois 80, Indiana St. 74 (OT): At Carbondale, Sean O’Brien

scored a career-best 28 points and grabbed 14 rebounds as SIU (9-7, 2-1 MVC) rallied late in overtime.

SIU’s Thik Bol swatted away an attempted layup by Indiana

State’s (6-9,0-3) Emondre Rickman with 1:05 left, and Mike Rodriguez nailed a 3-pointer at the other end from deep in the wing to grab the lead for good, 74-71.

Illinois St. 74, Missouri St. 71 (OT):

At Normal, MiKyle McIntosh scored 21 points, Deontae Hawkins had 20, Paris Lee had a double-double and Illinois State (11-4, 3-0) edged Missouri State (11-5, 2-1) in overtime.

Bradley 74, Evansville 63: At Evansville, Indiana, JoJo McGlaston scored a career-high 24 points as Bradley upset Evansville (10-6, 1-2) in a MVC matchup.

McGlaston was 7 of 11 from the field and 8 of 10 from the free throw line for the Braves (7-9, 2-1).

W. Illinois 82, S. Dakota St. 74: At Macomb, Garret Covington scored 22 points with six 3-pointers and seven assists, Dalan Ancrum added 16 points with a career-high four 3s, and Western Illinois (5-9, 2-1 Summit) rallied for its first win over South Dakota State (8-10, 1-2) since 2009.

avainen and Nick Schmaltz – it can be difficult in practice.

Especially for a guy such as Abbott, who admitted he had doubts he ever would play in the NHL again after his one game with the Maple Leafs in October 2013. Even Abbott said he was surprised by the callup Tuesday, saying, “It kind of came out of nowhere.”

“I have to stay within myself and play my game,” he said. “I can’t try to do too much. You have a tendency to look for them when you get the puck, and get rid of the puck and give it to them as much as you can. I’m going to try my best not to play like that.

Just try to play my game, and, hopefully, things work out.”

Coach Joel Quenneville, who has tossed a handful of rookies into the deep end with Toews, said Abbott will dictate how long a leash he gets by how well he plays “They’re obviously both very, very high-end guys,” Abbott said. “It’s a privilege to be out there on the same line as them. I’ll do what I can to keep up.”

• BEARS

Continued from page 4 Much of the news conference for a team that had 19 players on injured reserve focused on two qualities Pace wants at the quarterback position.

“You know, this year it was about consistency and availability,” he said. “We played with so many different quarterbacks it was hard to find continuity. But I think we’re looking for consistency and productivity from that position, and I think we’ll find it this offseason.”

Pace and coach John Fox were openly disappointed in the team’s turnover ratio (11 takeaways, 31 giveaways, minus-20 ratio tied for last in the NFL), so add decision-making to important QB qualities Pace seeks.

“We’ve got to get out of that category,” Pace said about turnover margin. “It starts with not throwing interceptions.”

The Bears will get a close look at the senior quarterbacks when they coach the Senior Bowl this month. They’ll meet with the top QBs at the combine and explore veteran options when free agency opens in mid-March. There is more to come as the Bears hope to fix their ongoing problem at the most important position in sports.

“I understand the magnitude of that decision going forward,” Pace said. “That’s a critical, critical decision for me and this whole building.”

• Thursday, January 5, 2017

Welcome to Chicago, Spencer Abbott. Here’s your Blackhawks workout shirt, your official team hoodie, your newly stitched jersey and your two Hall of Fame linemates.

Good luck out there.

“It’s a little bit nerve-wracking,” Abbott said Wednesday afternoon after skating alongside Jonathan Toews and Marian Hossa in his first practice since being recalled from Rockford.

“Obviously, (they are) two of the best players in the world.

It’s going to be intimidating.”

This is what it’s come to for the sputtering Hawks, who have lost five of six and have scored only one goal in three of their past five games. In their search for offense, the Hawks are turning to a player with 515 goals in 1,270 career games (Hossa) and a 28-year-old rookie who has played in only one NHL game, when they play the Buffalo Sabres on Thursday at the United Center.

But although Abbott’s the very definition of a journey-

in his lone preseason outing in Detroit. If he weren’t 28 – ancient in prospect years – he probably would have earned the kind of long look the rest of the Hawks rookies have this season.

“I like what I see from him,” said Hossa, who will return to the lineup Thursday after missing five games with an upper-body injury. “Seems like he’s a smart player and he tries to set up guys, so that’s not a bad thing to have a guy like that. You can say they’re throwing him in the water and now we have to swim. On the other hand, we’re just going to try to help him. (From) what I heard, he’s got a good hockey IQ, and I like to play with players like that. Hopefully, we can click right away and keep it simple, don’t try to complicate things too much.”

That’s Abbott’s plan. Of course, it’s easy to say you’re going to play your game and not try to force pass after pass to the two superstars to your right.

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FIVE-DAY PLANNER TEAM

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

BUFFALO 7:30 p.m.

CSN, NBCSN AM-720

CAROLINA 7:30 p.m.

CSN, NHLN AM-720

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

MONDAY

NASHVILLE 6 p.m.

WGN AM-720 TORONTO 7 p.m.

WGN AM-890

OKLAHOMA CITY 7 p.m.

CSN AM-890

WHAT TO WATCH Pro hockey 7:30 p.m.: Buffalo at Blackhawks, CSN, NBCSN Pro basketball 7 p.m.: Oklahoma City at Houston, TNT 9:30 p.m.: L.A. Lakers at Portland, TNT Men’s basketball 6 p.m.: Purdue at Ohio St., ESPN 6 p.m.: Connecticut at Memphis, ESPN2 6 p.m.: Davidson at George Washington, ESPNU 6 p.m.: New Mexico St. at Missouri Kansas City, CSN+ 8 p.m.: Minnesota at Northwestern, ESPNU 8 p.m.: Iowa at Nebraska, BTN 8 p.m.: California at UCLA, ESPN 8 p.m.: Gonzaga at San Francisco, ESPN2

8 p.m.: Fairleigh Dickinson at Wagner, CBSSN 9 p.m.: Utah at Arizona, FS1 10 p.m.: BYU at Saint Mary’s (Calif.), ESPNU Women’s basketball 4 p.m.: UT Martin at Belmont, ESPNU 6 p.m.: Missouri at Kentucky, SEC 6 p.m.: Richmond at VCU, CBSSN 8 p.m.: Tennessee at Vanderbilt, SEC Golf 5 p.m.: PGA Tour, SBS Tournament of Champions, first round, TGC Motor sports 5:30 p.m.: Dakar Rally, Stage 3 (San Miguel de Tucumán to San Salvador De Jujuy, Argentia), NBCSN (taped)

SPORTS BRIEFS

Crystal Lake Central’s Orvis, Doerr Woods also committed to the Honda Classic, which is near his home in Florida. earn cross country honors Crystal Lake Central’s Janine Orvis and Kelly Doerr were honored last month as co-recipients of Dyestatil.com’s Most Improved Runner of the Year in Class 2A girls cross country.

Orvis and Doerr led the Tigers to fourth place in Class 2A girls at the IHSA cross country state meet Janine Orvis in November. Orvis finished 10th and Doerr was 17th as Central finished with 124 points.

Both runners knocked off 45 seconds from their state meet times in 2015 and achieved Class 2A Kelly Doerr All-State status. Orvis improved by 30 places; Doerr improved by 37. Both were selected to the Northwest Herald All-Area first team.

Central girls coach Brett Willhoit was considered as Class 2A Girls Coach of the Year, although the honor went to Belvidere North’s Ken Husser.

Woods missed all of 2016 recovering from two back surgeries, returning last month at the Hero World Challenge. He finished 15th in a 17-man field in the Bahamas.

Hester jumps at chance to join playoff team in Seattle

RENTON, Wash. – When Devin Hester was released by Baltimore late in the season, he made it clear to his representation that he would only consider offers from potential playoff teams.

It took until the postseason for an offer to arrive that fulfilled Hester’s wish of trying to finally win a title.

“With the career that I’ve had, I don’t have a Super Bowl ring. And what a great opportunity I have now standing in front of you guys and be able to play for the Seattle Seahawks,” Hester said on Wednesday after his deal with the Seahawks became official.

Hockey hall of famer Milt Schmidt, 1951 NHL MVP, dies at 98

BOSTON – Milt Schmidt, the hockey hall of famer who led Boston to two Stanley Cup championships as the center of the “Kraut Line,” served Canada in World War Woods to start new year II and returned to the NHL to win its MVP at Torrey Pines SAN DIEGO – Tiger Woods is starting the award and two more titles as the Bruins new year at a familiar place – Torrey Pines, general manager, died on Wednesday, the team said. where he has won eight times as a pro.

He was 98.

The Farmers Insurance Open announced Schmidt had been the oldest living NHL Wednesday that Woods has committed player. He was the only person in Bruins to playing Jan. 26 to Jan. 29. It will be his franchise history to serve as on-ice capfirst official PGA Tour event since he tied for 10th in the Wyndham Championship in tain, coach and general manager.

August 2015.

– From staff, wire reports

NHL

NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Central Division GP W L OT Pts Blackhawks 40 23 12 5 51 Minnesota 36 23 9 4 50 St. Louis 38 20 13 5 45 Winnipeg 41 19 19 3 41 Dallas 39 16 15 8 40 Nashville 37 16 14 7 39 Colorado 38 12 25 1 25 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts San Jose 38 23 13 2 48 Anaheim 40 20 12 8 48 Edmonton 39 19 13 7 45 Calgary 40 21 17 2 44 Los Angeles 38 19 15 4 42 Vancouver 40 19 18 3 41 Arizona 38 11 22 5 27

NFL

GF 109 113 108 113 100 103 77

GA 98 76 111 122 117 102 129

GF 95 109 111 109 94 100 82

GA 82 109 104 112 92 116 124

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 39 24 9 6 54 119 90 Ottawa 37 20 13 4 44 94 98 Boston 40 20 16 4 44 95 97 Toronto 37 17 12 8 42 113 109 Tampa Bay 39 19 16 4 42 113 111 Florida 39 16 15 8 40 93 108 Detroit 38 16 17 5 37 93 109 Buffalo 37 14 15 8 36 82 102 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Columbus 36 27 5 4 58 126 74 Pittsburgh 38 25 8 5 55 133 107 N.Y. Rangers 41 27 13 1 55 141 103 Washington 37 23 9 5 51 105 83 Philadelphia 40 20 15 5 45 118 125 Carolina 37 16 14 7 39 95 101 New Jersey 39 16 16 7 39 92 115 N.Y. Islanders 36 15 15 6 36 104 113 Note: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Wednesday’s Results Winnipeg 4, Florida 1 N.Y. Rangers 5, Philadelphia 2 Montreal 4, Dallas 3 (OT) Calgary 4, Colorado 1 Vancouver 3, Arizona 0 Anaheim 2, Detroit 0 Thursday’s Games Buffalo at Blackhawks, 7:30 p.m.

Edmonton at Boston, 6 p.m.

Columbus at Washington, 6 p.m.

Nashville at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.

Carolina at St. Louis, 7 p.m.

Detroit at Los Angeles, 9:30 p.m.

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

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

Nashville at Florida, 6:30 p.m.

Toronto at New Jersey, 6:30 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Colorado, 8 p.m.

Calgary at Vancouver, 9 p.m.

Arizona at Anaheim, 9 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Tampa Bay at Philadelphia, noon Winnipeg at Buffalo, noon Minnesota at Los Angeles, 3 p.m.

Montreal at Toronto, 6 p.m.

Washington at Ottawa, 6 p.m.

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

Boston at Florida, 6 p.m.

Edmonton at New Jersey, 6 p.m.

Dallas at St. Louis, 7 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Arizona, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Calgary, 9 p.m.

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

Central Division W L Pct Cleveland 26 8 .765 Milwaukee 18 16 .529 Indiana 18 18 .500 Bulls 18 18 .500 Detroit 16 21 .432 Atlantic Division W L Pct Toronto 23 11 .676 Boston 21 14 .600 New York 16 19 .457 Philadelphia 9 24 .273 Brooklyn 8 25 .242 Southeast Division W L Pct Charlotte 20 16 .556 Atlanta 19 16 .543 Washington 16 18 .471 Orlando 16 21 .432 Miami 11 26 .297

PLAYOFF GLANCE

GB — 8 9 9 11½ GB — 2½ 7½ 13½ 14½ GB — ½ 3 4½ 9½

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio 28 7 .800 Houston 27 9 .750 Memphis 22 16 .579 New Orleans 14 22 .389 Dallas 11 24 .314 Northwest Division W L Pct Utah 22 14 .611 Oklahoma City 21 15 .583 Portland 15 22 .405 Denver 14 21 .400 Minnesota 11 24 .314 Pacific Division W L Pct Golden State 31 5 .861 L.A. Clippers 24 14 .632 Sacramento 15 20 .429 L.A. Lakers 13 25 .342 Phoenix 11 25 .306

GB — 1½ 7½ 14½ 17 GB — 1 7½ 7½ 10½ GB — 8 15½ 19 20

Wednesday’s Results Bulls 106, Cleveland 94 Atlanta 111, Orlando 92 Charlotte 123, Oklahoma City 112 Milwaukee 105, New York 104 Golden State 125, Portland 117 L.A. Clippers 115, Memphis 106 Miami 107, Sacramento 102 Thursday’s Games Brooklyn at Indiana, 6 p.m.

Charlotte at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Utah at Toronto, 6:30 p.m.

Atlanta at New Orleans, 7 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Houston, 7 p.m.

Phoenix at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

San Antonio at Denver, 8 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Portland, 9:30 p.m.

Friday’s Games Houston at Orlando, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Washington, 6 p.m.

Cleveland at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Boston, 6:30 p.m.

New York at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Sacramento, 9:30 p.m.

Memphis at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

Miami at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Toronto at Bulls, 7 p.m.

New York at Indiana, 6 p.m.

New Orleans at Boston, 6:30 p.m.

Denver at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Utah at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Atlanta at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Charlotte at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.

NCAA BASKETBALL BIG TEN CONFERENCE

Conference W L PCT Michigan St. 3 0 1.000 Wisconsin 2 0 1.000 Nebraska 2 0 1.000 Maryland 1 1 .500 Minnesota 1 1 .500 Purdue 1 1 .500 Northwestern 1 1 .500 Illinois 1 1 .500 Michigan 1 1 .500 Iowa 1 1 .500 Penn St. 1 2 .333 Ohio St. 0 1 .000 Rutgers 0 3 .000 Indiana 0 2 .000

Overall W L PCT 11 5 .688 13 2 .867 8 6 .571 13 2 .867 13 2 .867 12 3 .800 12 3 .800 11 4 .733 11 4 .733 9 6 .600 9 7 .563 10 4 .714 11 5 .688 10 5 .667

Wednesday’s Results Michigan St. 93, Rutgers 65 Michigan 72, Penn St. 69 Thursday’s Games Purdue at Ohio St., 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Northwestern, 8 p.m.

Iowa at Nebraska, 8 p.m.

MEN’S TOP 25 SCHEDULE

Wednesday’s Results No. 18 Butler 66, No. 1 Villanova 58 No. 2 Baylor 65, Iowa St. 63 No. 8 Duke 110, Georgia Tech 57 No. 23 Notre Dame 77, No. 9 Louisville 70 No. 10 Creighton 85, St. John’s 72 Pittsburgh 88, No. 11 Virginia 76 (OT) No. 15 Oregon 83, Washington 61

N.C. State 104, No. 21 Virginia Tech 78 Thursday’s Games No. 4 UCLA vs. California, 8 p.m.

No. 5 Gonzaga at San Francisco, 8 p.m.

No. 17 Arizona vs. Utah, 9 p.m.

No. 19 Saint Mary’s vs. BYU, 10 p.m.

No. 20 Purdue at Ohio St., 6 p.m.

No. 25 Southern Cal vs. Stanford, 10 p.m.

Friday’s Schedule No games scheduled Saturday’s Games No. 1 Villanova vs. Marquette at Wells Fargo Center, 6:30 p.m.

No. 2 Baylor vs. Oklahoma St., 6 p.m.

No. 3 Kansas vs. Texas Tech, 6:15 p.m.

No. 5 Gonzaga at Portland, 9 p.m.

No. 6 Kentucky vs. Arkansas, 7:30 p.m.

No. 7 West Virginia vs. TCU, noon No. 8 Duke vs. Boston College, 1 p.m.

No. 9 Louisville at Georgia Tech, 1 p.m.

No. 10 Creighton at Providence, 1 p.m.

No. 12 Florida St. vs. No. 21 Virginia Tech, 1 p.m.

No. 14 North Carolina vs. N.C. State, 7 p.m.

No. 15 Oregon at Washington St., 6 p.m.

No. 16 Xavier vs. St. John’s, 1:30 p.m.

No. 17 Arizona vs. Colorado, 8:30 p.m.

No. 18 Butler at Georgetown, 11 a.m.

No. 19 Saint Mary’s at San Francisco, 10 p.m.

No. 22 Cincinnati at Houston, 8 p.m.

No. 23 Notre Dame vs. Clemson, 2 p.m.

No. 24 Florida vs. Tennessee, 4:15 p.m.

No. 25 Indiana vs. Illinois, 4 p.m.

WILD-CARD PLAYOFFS Saturday Oakland at Houston, 3:35 p.m. (ESPN) Detroit at Seattle, 7:15 p.m. (NBC) Sunday Miami at Pittsburgh, 12:05 p.m. (CBS) N.Y. Giants at Green Bay, 3:40 p.m.

(FOX) DIVISIONAL PLAYOFFS Saturday, Jan. 14 Seattle, Green Bay or N.Y. Giants at Atlanta, 3:35 p.m. (FOX) Houston, Oakland or Miami at New England, 7:15 p.m. (CBS) Sunday, Jan. 15 Pittsburgh, Houston or Oakland at Kansas City, 12:05 p.m. (NBC) Green Bay, N.Y. Giants or Detroit at Dallas, 3:40 p.m. (FOX) CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS Sunday, Jan. 22 AFC TBD NFC TBD PRO BOWL Sunday, Jan. 29 At Orlando, Fla. AFC vs. NFC, 8 p.m. (ESPN) SUPER BOWL Sunday, Feb. 5 At Houston TBD, 5:30 p.m. (FOX)

PREPS THURSDAY Girls basketball: Marian Central at Wauconda, Richmond-Burton at Burlington Central, Harvard at Woodstock, Marengo at Johnsburg, 7 p.m., Woodstock North at Byron, 7:15 p.m.

Boys swimming: McHenry at DeKalb, Byron at Woodstock co-op, 4:30 p.m.

Boys bowling: Woodstock at St. Edward, Marengo at Belvidere North, Johnsburg at McHenry, 4 p.m.

Girls bowling: Woodstock at St. Edward, Marengo at Belvidere North, Johnsburg at McHenry, 4 p.m.

Wrestling: Prairie Ridge at Jacobs, McHenry at Huntley, Crystal Lake South at Hampshire, Dundee-Crown at Crystal Lake Central, 6:30 p.m.

FRIDAY Boys basketball: Johnsburg at Harvard, Marengo at Woodstock North, Woodstock at Richmond-Burton, Lake Forest Academy at Marian Central, 7 p.m., Alden-Hebron at Mooseheart, 7:30 p.m.

Girls basketball: Alden-Hebron at Mooseheart, 6 p.m., Huntley at Prairie Ridge, Hampshire at McHenry, Jacobs at Dundee-Crown, Richmond-Burton at Crystal Lake Central, Cary-Grove at Crystal Lake South, 7 p.m.

Wrestling: Prairie Ridge at Carmel triangular, 5:15 p.m., Johnsburg at Richmond-Burton quad, Harvard at Woodstock triangular, 5:30 p.m.

NCAA FOOTBALL BOWL SCHEDULE

MONDAY College Football Championship Tampa, Fla. Alabama (14-0) vs. Clemson (13-1), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) SATURDAY, JAN. 21 East-West Shrine Classic At St. Petersburg, Fla. West vs. East, 2 p.m. (NFLN) NFLPA Collegiate Bowl At Carson, Calif.

National vs. American, 3 p.m.

SATURDAY, JAN. 28 Senior Bowl At Mobile, Ala. South vs. North, 1:30 p.m. (NFLN)

PGA TOUR SBS TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS

Site: Kapalua, Hawaii Course: Plantation Course at Kapalua. Yardage: 7,452. Par: 73.

Purse: $6 million (First prize: $1.08 million).

TV: Golf Channel (Thursday-Friday, 6-10 p.m.; Saturday, 6-8 p.m.; Sunday, 5-7 p.m.); NBC Sports (Saturday, 4-6 p.m.; Sunday 3-5 p.m.)

Defending champion: Jordan Spieth Last tournament: Mackenzie Hughes won the RSM Classic at Sea Island.

Notes: The field is only for PGA Tour winners from 2016. ... The six players who chose not to start at Kapalua are British Open champion Henrik Stenson, Masters champion Danny Willett, Rory McIlroy, Sergio Garcia, Charl Schwartzel and Adam Scott.

OUTDOORS Steve Sarley ure yachts down to the smallest of fishing boats, from giant Mackinac-quality sailing vessels to personal watercraft, the Chicago Boat Show has it all.

There is plenty to do for the entire family at the Chicago Boat Show. Try your hand at The “Sailing Simulator,” the “Huck Finn Trout Pond,” the American Sailing Association’s Sailing Challenge, “Paddle Fest,” and many other attractions.

There are workshops aplenty and RV’s are on display, as well. Make sure you bring your camera when your family tries out the incredible “Rockin’ Rollin’ Bubbles. They’ll have a blast.

The Chicago Boat Show runs Wednesday through Jan. 15, and the hours are: 2 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Jan. 12 and 13, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Jan. 14, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Jan. 15.

Admission is $14 for adults, and children ages 15 and younger are free.

McCormick Place is located at 23rd and Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. For more information, visit www.chicagoboatshow.com • • • The venerable All-Canada Show returns to our area Jan. 12 to 15 at the Pheasant Run Mega Center in St. Charles.

The show hours for All Canada are: 5 to 9 p.m. Jan. 12, 3 to 9 p.m. Jan. 13, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Jan. 14, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Jan. 15. Parking is free and the admission is $12 for adults, $10 for seniors and free for children 17 and younger. Also, veterans will be admitted free Sunday.

Everyone attending the All-Canada Show will receive an entry into a raffle for a trip to Lac La Marte Adventures, possibly the top northern

pike destination in North America.

A $5,000 fishing gear package also will be given away to a lucky winner drawn from the names of people who book a Canadian vacation while at the show.

All-Canada has some fine seminars available by Jim Crowley from hook and hunt tv.com, Chase Parsons from the Next Bite TV show, and our own Hall of Famer, McHenry’s Spence Petros.

Next week, I will preview the big Schaumburg and Rosemont shows.

FISHING AND HUNTING REPORTS Northern Illinois: Dave Kranz from

Dave’s Bait, Tackle and Taxidermy in Crystal Lake reports: “The past two weeks have been very good for ice fishing. The current cold snap will only add to the 5 to 9 inches of ice that we already have. Many of our northern Illinois lakes have had good tip-up fishing for northern pike. Use medium or large golden roach minnows for the pike. Panfish are hitting on wigglers, waxworms and spikes. Call 815-455-2040 for an update.”

Wisconsin: You can call Wisconsin’s Lake Michigan Fishing Hotline at 414-382-7920 to hear the latest fishing information for Lake Michigan and its tributaries. Excellent Wisconsin Lake Michigan fishing is posted at dnr. wi.gov/topic/Fishing/lakemichigan/ OutdoorReport.html Illinois: The Illinois Department of Natural Resources offers fishing reports on a number of waterways across the state. The fishing reports for lakes, rivers and streams are updated weekly at www.ifishillinois.org/ fishing_reports/fishing_report_selector.php

NEWS AND NOTES Chicagoland Muskie Hunters to meet:

The Chicagoland Muskie Hunters chapter of Muskies Inc. meets at 7:30 p.m. the second Tuesday of every month at Giuseppe’s La Cantina, 1062

Lee St., in Des Plaines. The meetings feature top speakers, fishing reports, favorite lake presentations by our members, muskie info sharing, door prizes and raffles. All are welcome.

Contact Dean Rosset at 847-256-9322 or chicagolandmuskiehunters@hotmail.com for information. Tuesday’s meeting will feature well-known guide Gregg Thomas on how to catch the big ones.

Fishing swap meet and sale: An “Indoor Fishing Swap Meet & Sale” will be hosted by Walleyes Unlimited at 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 25 at the Fox Lake Legion Hall. The Hall is located at 703 N. U.S. Route 12 in Fox Lake.

The public is invited to attend and there are tables available for those who are interested in selling fishing tackle and boating equipment. The cost for a 6-foot display table is $15 and includes two chairs. To participate or to ask questions, call Capt. Walt Koch at 847-710-5453.

Join the Lake Shelbyville Muskie Club: Lake Shelbyville is one of

the finest muskie fisheries in the Midwest, and probably the finest in Illinois. The lake could use a little help, and you can do that by joining the Lake Shelbyville Muskie Club. It is one of the few organizations that is actively working to maintain and improve the Lake Shelbyville fishery. It has good lines of communications, as well as good working relationships, with the IDNR and Army Corps of Engineers. It publishes a quarterly newsletter that members have found to be enjoyable and informative. The annual $20 membership is a great investment in the future of a fine fishery. For information, contact Bob Kerans at 217-414-0093 or via email at robert_kerans_559@ comcast.net.

• Steve Sarley writes about the outdoors for Shaw Media. He also hosts the WeFishASA podcast at wefishasa.com. Write to him at sarfishing@yahoo.com.

BETTING ODDS FAVORITE at INDIANA at TORONTO at DETROIT at HOUSTON at NEW ORLEANS at DALLAS at PORTLAND San Antonio

NBA Thursday LINE O/U 10½ (218½) 5½ (202) 4½ (204½) 8½ (224) 3 (206) 5½ (204½) 4 (215½) 7 (213)

COLLEGE BASKETBALL Thursday FAVORITE LINE at MEMPHIS 6½ UNC-Wilmington 10 at NORTHEASTERN 12½ at HOFSTRA 8½ at COLL. OF CHARLESTON 8 at MARSHALL 4 Purdue 3½ at WILLIAM & MARY 5½ at LOUISIANA TECH 16

UNDERDOG Brooklyn Utah Charlotte Oklahoma City Atlanta Phoenix LA Lakers at DENVER

UNDERDOG UCONN at DREXEL Delaware James Madison Towson St Old Dominion at OHIO STATE Elon UTEP

Davidson at N. KENTUCKY at WRIGHT ST UTSA Middle Tennessee at W KENTUCKY UAB at UCLA at NORTHWESTERN at NEBRASKA Colorado at SAN DIEGO at ARIZONA at SAINT MARY’S CA Gonzaga at CAL ST.-FULLERTON at SANTA CLARA Loyola Marymount at SOUTHERN CAL

FAVORITE at WASHINGTON

1 11½ 7 3 1½ 3½ 5 11 3 3 1½ 2 10½ 10 15½ 4½ 3 2 9

at GEORGE WASHINGTON Youngstown St Cleveland St at SOUTHERN MISS at RICE Charlotte at NORTH TEXAS California Minnesota Iowa at ARIZONA ST Pacific Utah BYU at SAN FRANCISCO Hawaii Portland at PEPPERDINE Stanford

NHL Thursday LINE UNDERDOG -130 Columbus

LINE +120

at BOSTON at TAMPA BAY at ST. LOUIS at CHICAGO at LOS ANGELES at SAN JOSE

-135 -125 -147 -190 -195 -135

Edmonton Nashville Carolina Buffalo Detroit Minnesota

COLLEGE FOOTBALL Monday OPEN TODAY O/U Championship Game At Tampa 6½ 6½ (50½)

FAVORITE Alabama

FAVORITE at HOUSTON at SEATTLE at PITTSBURGH at GREEN BAY

NFL Playoffs Saturday OPEN TODAY O/U 1½ 3½ (36½) 7½ 8 (42½) Playoffs Sunday 7½ 10 (45½) 7½ 4½ (44½)

+125 +115 +137 +175 +180 +125

UNDERDOG Clemson

UNDERDOG Oakland Detroit

Updated odds available at Pregame.com

Miami NY Giants

815-455-9411 www.assisi.org info@assisi.org

• Thursday, January 5, 2017

You want outdoors shows, my friends? Well, northern Illinois has got plenty of them to satisfy your entertainment, educational and shopping needs coming around in the coming few weeks.

First on the list is the Musky Expo Chicago, running from Friday through Sunday at its new home, the Pheasant Run Resort, in St. Charles.

Pheasant Run is on the south side of North Avenue (Route 64), east of the Fox River and west of Route 59. Musky Expo formerly was staged at the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates, but I think this move to Pheasant Run is the perfect location for this great show.

This show features everything you need to chase down that toothy trophy you always have wanted. Seminars from experts such as Duane Landmeier, Tony Grant, Mike Hulbert and Steve Herbeck will help you to catch the notorious “Fish of 10,000 casts” in a much shorter of time.

This show has all the latest gear, including rods, reels and baits. Many of the best musky guides will have booths, as will some of the finest musky fishing resorts and charter operators.

One of the highlights of Musky Expo Chicago is the “New Product Showcase,” where you will be able to see the latest in musky stuff. Some of these products are no less than mind-blowing and are on the market right now.

The show hours are: 2 to 9 p.m.

Friday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. Discount tickets are available at O’Reilly Auto Parts stores and parking is free.

• • • If you have a wish to find yourself at the helm of a new boat, then the Chicago Boat Show is the show for you. Heck, even if you’re not thinking about a new watercraft, a trip to this show is guaranteed to put that dream into your consciousness.

You’ll see boats of all kinds at this great show. From seven-fig-

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MUSIC OF THE YEAR

Read reviews of the new movies “Hidden Figures” and “Lion.”

There are a lot of events taking place in the county this weekend. We choose the top 10.

Our music reviewer Jason Pfrommer names his top albums of 2016. Plus, a look at picks by the Associated Press.

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CONCERTS & BANDS

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ON THE COVER

A listing of concerts and shows coming to McHenry County in the coming weeks.

With winter camping, candlelit skiing and other activities, the McHenry County Conservation District encourages ventures into the outdoors, even in the winter.

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Brian Fallon’s “Painkillers” is our top 2016 album.

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Theodore Melfi’s buoyant “Hidden Figures” is an old-fashioned feel-good movie with powerful contemporary relevance, spearheaded by a trio of unstoppable actresses playing black women who wouldn’t be stopped.

Set in 1961 Virginia, the fact-based “Hidden Figures,” adapted from Margot Lee Shetterly’s non-fiction book, is about three peripheral characters at NASA who made important contributions to the space race. Their workplace, at Langley, is segregated (with separate bathrooms and drinking fountains) and the offices are uniformly run by white males in suits.

But the talent and smarts of mathematician Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), budding engineer Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae) and computer supervisor Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) are becoming impossible to ignore.

Metaphors are all around. While rockets lift off, the women of “Hidden Figures” strive for their own upward movement. Arithmetic surrounds them, but they’re continuously underestimated.

“That’s NASA for you. Fast with

“HIDDEN FIGURES” STARRING: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe PLOT: Based on a true story. A team of AfricanAmerican women provide NASA with important mathematical data needed to launch the program’s first successful space missions.

RATED: PG for thematic elements and some language RUNNING TIME: 2 hours, 7 minutes rocket ships, slow with advancement,” Kirsten Dunst’s manager says.

Johnson is pulled out of a pool of computers (human ones, though a room-sized IBM makes a late appearance) and brought into the all-white rocket center to check the trajectories and calculations of the scientists rushing to match Sputnik and lift John Glenn (Glen Powell) into space.

Their leader is Al Harrison (a fine, scene-chewing Kevin Costner), who compassionately responds to Johnson’s rise.

But “Hidden Figures,” punctuated by bright original songs by Pharrell Williams (who also collaborated with Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch on the score), avoids many of the typi-

cal notes of a civil rights drama and keeps its focus on its three indomitable leads and their characters’ private lives. Nobody would mistake it for a deeply complicated examination of segregation, and no one will wonder whether Melfi’s film is going to end on a high note.

Instead, “Hidden Figures” is a straightforward, satisfying tale of triumph, full of warmth and crowdpleasing scenes its excellent cast lends spirit and verve to.

Henson fierily delivers the film’s big, cathartic moment, one that surely will resonate for audiences familiar with her plight. In such scenes, “Hidden Figures” feels both of the ’60s and of now. These are figures who often have been hidden from movie screens, too.

But of the formidable threesome, it’s Monae who most stands out. Following her role in Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight” (whose Mahershala Ali also appears here, captivatingly as a military officer and love interest), the R&B singer has made an altogether arresting big-screen debut this fall.

Regal, powerful and tender, she just might be a full-on Movie Star. The real rocket of “Hidden Figures” is Monae.

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The Oscar-roar emanating from “Lion,” a true tale of a young IndianAustralian adoptee using Google Earth to find his birth mother 25 years after being separated from her, is headscratching. The story defies belief but feels so contrived and obvious in the hands of first-time director Garth Davis.

The only thing award-worthy is the performance of Sunny Pawar, who plays the young Indian boy. It’s love at first sight in the opening moments when we meet Saroo (Pawar) and his older brother, Guddu (a terrific Abhishek Bharate). Saroo quickly becomes lost at a train station, wakes up on an empty train running express to Calcutta. Pawar owns the first act, as the young Saroo fights for survival in the slums of Calcutta, where he doesn’t know the language or the direction home. Pawar conveys through his expressive almond-shaped brown eyes and body language all the fear and resiliency of a terrified and homesick 5-year-old boy who just wants his mum. These scenes with Saroo on the streets, sleeping on cardboard and eventually landing in an orphanage, are the film’s strongest.

When an Australian couple played

by Nicole Kidman and David Wenham adopts him, the whole movie

“LION” STARRING: Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara PLOT: A 5-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

RATED: PG-13 for thematic material and some sensuality RUNNING TIME: 1 hour, 48minutes changes – not just in location. It feels like two different films, one gritty and one gauzy. Saroo grows up and is played by a beefed-up Dev Patel (“Slumdog Millionaire”) as a man stuck between two cultures. Rooney Mara (“Carol”) is trapped in the propup-your-man role as Saroo’s girlfriend. Patel, who was terrific earlier this year as a math genius in “The Man Who Knew Infinity,” is a prisoner of a second act padded with scenes of him moping, brooding, Googling and sticking colored push pins into the maps of India strewn about his tiny apartment. His obsession with finding his village soon takes a toll on Saroo’s relationship with his girlfriend and his adoptive parents, from whom he hides his search.

As adoptive mom Sue Brierley, Kid-

In this image released by The Weinstein Company, Nicole Kidman and Sunny Pawar appear in a scene from “Lion.”

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man gets to deliver a Big Speech (read: Oscar bait) about motherhood and family. It’s all rather trite and unaffecting and manipulative. Davis, working from a script by Luke Davies, adapting Saroo’s Brierly’s memoir, “The Long Way Home,” opts for melodrama in all forms – girlfriend problems, troubled siblings, contemplative walks on the beach, all set to a soundtrack that includes Sia’s “Never Give Up.” It’s heavy-handed for

sure. The filmmakers introduce themes of race, identity and class, then tosses them aside.

The final scenes, when the action returns to India, can’t help but pack an emotional punch because it recalls that vastly superior first act when we fell in love with Saroo. However, your tears will dry quickly because this mangy “Lion” is nothing but a paper tiger.

“LA LA LAND”

AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 11:30 a.m., 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 p.m.

Regal Cinemas – 11:00 a.m., 12:20, 2:10, 3:30, 6:30 p.m.

Regal Cinemas – 12:40, 3:20, 6:40, 9:45 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Carpentersville – 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:30 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Woodstock – 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 p.m.

“LION”

“PASSENGERS”

4:40, 7:20, 9:20 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Carpentersville – 11:00 a.m., 12:00, 1:25, 2:25, 3:50, 4:50, 6:15, 7:15, 8:40, 9:40 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Woodstock – 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 p.m.

Regal Cinemas – Jan. 6-7: 2D: 12:10, 1:00, 3:00, 4:20, 6:00, 7:10, 11:05 p.m.; 3D: 11:10 a.m., 9:55 p.m.; Jan. 8: 2D: 11:15 a.m., 12:10, 1:00, 3:00, 4:20, 6:00, 7:10, 11:05 p.m.; 3D: 11:10 a.m., 9:55 p.m.

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The following are showtimes for Jan. 6-8 unless otherwise noted.

“ASSASSIN’S CREED”

AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 2D: 6:40, 9:30 p.m.; 3D: 4:00 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Carpentersville – 11:15 a.m., 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 p.m.

Regal Cinemas – 10:55 p.m.

Regal Cinemas – Jan. 6: 12:35, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 p.m.; Jan. 7: 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 p.m.; Jan. 8: 12:35, 6:00, 10:00 p.m.

“FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM”

AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 6:40, 9:45 p.m.

Regal Cinemas – 11:20 a.m., 2:30, 5:15, 8:50 p.m.

AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 10:50 a.m., 1:50, 4:45, 7:45, 10:30 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Carpentersville – 11:30 a.m., 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Woodstock – 11:20 a.m., 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 p.m.

Regal Cinemas – 2D: 2:00, 5:45, 7:00 p.m.; 3D: 9:40 p.m.

“FENCES”

“THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: NABUCCO”

“ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY”

“CAROUSEL 6Oth ANNIVERSARY” Regal Cinemas – Jan. 8 only: 2:00, 7:00 p.m.

Regal Cinemas – 12:30, 3:50, 7:30, 10:40 p.m.

AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 10:45 a.m., 1:50, 3:00, 6:30, 9:55 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Carpentersville – 12:55, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 p.m.

Regal Cinemas – 12:50, 4:00, 7:15, 10:45 p.m.

“HIDDEN FIGURES”

AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 10:30 a.m., 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 p.m.

Regal Cinemas – 11:50 a.m., 2:50, 6:10, 9:10 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Carpentersville – 11:00 a.m., 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Woodstock – 11:00 a.m., 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 p.m.

“MANCHESTER BY THE SEA”

Regal Cinemas – Jan. 7 only: 11:55 a.m

“MOANA”

AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 10:40 a.m., 1:20, 4:00 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Carpentersville – 11:40 a.m., 2:00, 4:20, 6:40 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Woodstock – 11:40 a.m., 2:00, 4:20, 6:40 p.m.

Regal Cinemas – 11:40 a.m., 2:20, 5:20, 8:10 p.m.

“A MONSTER CALLS”

AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 10:40 a.m., 1:40, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 p.m.

AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 2D: 10:30, 11:40 a.m., 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 p.m.; 3D: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Carpentersville – 11:00 a.m., 12:45, 1:45, 3:30, 4:30, 6:15, 7:15, 9:00, 10:00 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Woodstock – 11:00 a.m., 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:00, 10:00 p.m.

Regal Cinemas – 2D: 12:00, 1:05, 3:05, 4:10, 6:20, 7:20, 9:30, 10:30 p.m.; 3D: 11:30 a.m, 2:40, 5:50, 9:00 p.m.

“SING”

AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 11:20 a.m., 2:00,

“UNDERWORLD: BLOOD WARS”

AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 2D: 11:00 a.m., 4:20 p.m.; 3D: 1:45, 7:00, 10:00 p.m.

Regal Cinemas – Jan. 6-7: 1:50, 4:30, 8:30, 9:50 p.m.; Jan. 8: 1:50, 4:30, 8:30 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Carpentersville – 11:00 a.m., 1:05, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:00, 9:40 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Woodstock – 11:00 a.m., 1:05, 3:10, 5:15, 7:30, 9:40 p.m.

“WHY HIM?”

AMC Lake in the Hills 12 – 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Carpentersville – 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 p.m.

Classic Cinemas Woodstock – 12:05, 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45 p.m.

Regal Cinemas – 11:15 a.m., 4:50, 8:00, 9:20 p.m.

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19TH ANNUAL McHENRY COUNTY CRUISE, TOUR & HONEYMOON TRAVEL SHOW

WHEN: 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Jan. 8 WHERE: Holiday Inn Crystal Lake, 800 S. Route 31, Crystal Lake COST & INFO: Presented by Cary Travel Express. Schedule of seminars: 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Alaska & Cruising; 12:30 to 1 p.m. Tahiti; 1:15 to 1:45 p.m. River Cruising; 2 to 2:30 p.m.

Sandals; 2:45 to 3:15 p.m. Hawaii; and 3:15 p.m. grand prize drawing of a customized Costa Rica holiday adventure. Free admission. Information: 847-639-3300, www.carytravelexpress.com or www.facebook.com/carytravelexpress.

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WHEN: 3 p.m. Jan. 8 WHERE: McHenry County College Luecht Conference Center, 8900 Route 14, Crystal Lake COST & INFO: February Sky, based on Trout Lake, Michigan, features traditional singer and Celtic guitarist Phil Cooper and songwriter and singer Susan Urban. The duo returns to MCC with their unique brand of folk music and creative originals, complete with vocal harmony, intricate instrumentation and thoughtful stagecraft. Free. Information: 815-479-7814 or www.mchenry.edu/events.

AMERICAN ENGLISH

WHEN: 8 p.m. Jan. 7 WHERE: Raue Center for the Arts, 26 N. Williams St., Crystal Lake COST & INFO: Relive a magical time in music as American English captures the very essence of John, Paul, George and Ringo with “The Complete Beatles Tribute Show!” Tickets start at $20. Tickets and information: 815-356-9212 or www.rauecenter.org.

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WHEN: 8 to 11 p.m.

Jan. 6 WHERE: Stage Left Café, 125 E. Van Buren St., Woodstock COST & INFO: Experienced and beginner musicians and vocalists welcome to participate in an evening of music, creativity, friends and fun. The nonprofit Jazz on the Square hosts monthly jams in an effort to bring more jazz to the area. Cost: $5 donation requested.

Information: www.jazzonthesquare.com.

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WINTER EXPLORATIONS

WHEN: Noon to 3 p.m. Jan. 7 WHERE: Marengo Ridge Conservation Area – Shelter #1, 2411 N. Route 23, Marengo COST & INFO: Outdoor family fun with stations for exploring winter’s wonders.

Play in the snow, look for tracks, and more. Hot chocolate will be provided.

Stop by any time. No registration required. Free. Information: 815-479-5779 or www.mccdistrict.org. For more on McHenry County winter activities, see Page 12.

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Among the collection at the Volo Auto Museum is this Cadillac station wagon custom built for Elvis Presley.

The museum celebrates Presley’s 82nd birthday Jan. 8 with Elvis impersonator Travis Morris.

WHEN: 1 & 7 p.m. Jan. 9 WHERE: Woodstock Classic Cinemas, 209 Main St., Woodstock COST & INFO: The acclaimed Swedish movie, “A Man Called Ove,” stars Rolf Lassgard (right) as the quintessential grumpy old man, an isolated retiree with a short fuse who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife’s grave. He finally has given up on life just as an unlikely friendship develops with his boisterous new neighbors. The new film club gives movie fans the chance to see art, foreign, classic and documentary films on the second Monday of each month. On Feb. 13, “Papa Hemingway in Cuba” will be shown.

Cost: $6 for the matinee and seniors, $8 for the evening show. Information: www.classiccinemas.com.

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ART FOR THE PAWS 2017

WHEN: Through Jan. 30 WHERE: Helping Paws Animal Shelter, 2500 Harding Lane, Woodstock COST & INFO: Third annual fundraiser in which artists are encouraged to create works of art in a variety of mediums on 6-by-6-inch canvases. Individuals can buy up to two blank canvases for a donation of $5 each at Helping Paws, Material Things in Woodstock, The Studio Art School in McHenry and Fiber & Finds in Crystal Lake. Completed canvases due by 4 p.m. Feb. 28 and will be displayed at Read Between the Lynes and the Woodstock Public Library from March 20 through April 22, with an April 22 reception at Mixin Mingle in Woodstock. Artwork will be available to buy through an online auction. Information: 815-338-4400 or www.helpingpaws.net.

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WHEN: 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Jan. 8 WHERE: D’Andrea Banquets, 4419 Route 14, Crystal Lake COST & INFO: Featuring wedding vendors from throughout Northern Illinois. Free admission. Information: www. dandreabridalshow.com.

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“BEETHOVEN’S EROICA” WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Jan. 7 and 2:30 p.m. Jan. 8 WHERE: Hemmens Cultural Center, 45 Symphony Way, Elgin COST & INFO: Featuring guest artist violinist Angelo Xiang Yu. Concerts will feature Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, “Eroica” and works by Prokofiev and Stravinsky. Tickets start at $30, student tickets $12. Tickets and information: 847-888-4000 or www.elginsymphony.org.

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FREE INTRO TO SQUARE DANCING

WHEN: 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Jan. 5 WHERE: McHenry Township Complex, Building B, 3519 N. Richmond Road, Johnsburg COST & INFO: Hosted by the McHenry B&B and Woodstock Squares square dance clubs. Learn basic steps and be able to dance to a singing call.

Includes snacks. Information: 815-322-9799, www. mchenrybnbsquaredance. com or www.woodstocksquares.wixsite.com/ woodstocksquares.

VOLO – Brian Grams has been looking forward to seeing Travis Morris again ever since he saw him perform “Jailhouse Rock” at Miller’s Dog ’n Suds last summer.

He’ll get his chance at the Volo Auto Museum on Jan. 8, on what would have been Elvis Presley’s 82nd birthday. And you’re invited, too.

Elvis, aka Morris, will enter the building at 27582 Volo Village Road for his 11 a.m. performance and will stick around for a repeat hour-anda-half show starting at 1:30 p.m.

Between sets, museum-goers can take photos with the popular performer against the extremely rare backdrop of the King’s personal, carefully authenticated, 1974, pink and white Cadillac Seville station wagon.

“Elvis had many cars,” said Grams, director of the museum.

“He bought a lot of cars, and he gave many away. Ours is unique because he had this car custombuilt for his personal use, waiting

several months to take delivery.

“Unlike most cars associated with him, which have been in museums and on display at events, this one was out of the public eye and never seen by Elvis fans until we bought it.”

Morris has developed a following as a talented, devoted and detaildriven Elvis impersonator since 1993.

“I was so impressed by his performance I knew I had to invite him to the museum,” Grams said.

“I figured Elvis’ birthday would be perfect.”

In honor of the King of Rock ’n’ Roll’s sweet tooth, the party also will feature free cupcakes – while supplies last.

Normal admission rates apply.

The Volo Auto Museum is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. It features about 400 classic, muscle, Hollywood cars and more. Admission is $15 for adults, $9 for children ages 5 to 12 and free for children 4 and younger. For information, call 815385-3644 or find Volo Auto Museum on Facebook.

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Brian Fallon’s ‘Painkillers’ reflects a rebellion in all of us.

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Album picks for 2016

Plenty of talent despite year of loss, with Fallon’s ‘Painkillers’ topping list VIEWS Jason Pfrommer 2016 has seen the deaths of many talented individuals. We lost David Bowie, Greg Lake, Leonard Cohen, Pete Burns, Prince, David Gest, Sharon Jones, Mose Allison, Leon Russell, Bobby Vee, Dave Cash and Rod Temperton, to name a few. I haven’t even scratched the surfaces of famed actors, writers, photographers and other entertainers who never made it through 2016.

I’m not here to rehash the sad events we endured this past year. I’m here to tell you, for all the talent we’ve lost, we still have an unimaginable supply of it coursing through our culture.

I gave you my top albums of 2015,

MORE ALBUMS OF THE YEAR • For the top albums of 2016 as determined by the Associated Press, see page 10. but this year I want to increase that number and give you my top 25 albums of 2016. Here’s hoping these amazing albums will help usher in a better year in 2017 and lead only to more incredibly talented people creating more fantastic albums.

So many amazing albums surfaced in 2016. It was even harder than last year to single out a top 10 list. I try to be fair and give credit where credit is due, even if I feel I need to step outside my comfort zone and examine albums that may not exactly be my first choice.

This, however, is a double-edged

sword. In expanding my musical appreciation, I open the floodgates and begin reorganizing my list. Finally, I was able to narrow down a list of 25 albums headed by what I believe are the top 10 albums of this year. Here’s hoping these amazing albums will lead only to more incredibly talented people creating more fantastic albums.

• Jason Pfrommer is a former videographer for Shaw Media who graduated from Northern Illinois University with a degree in journalism. Pfrommer is a longtime vinyl collector and lover of music. He often can be heard quoting TV and movies and making pop culture references. He can be reached at jpfrommer@gmail.com.

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• ALBUMS

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Brian Fallon “Painkillers”

Every once in awhile, an artist comes around who’s able to sing about life in such a way it makes you realize how tragically beautiful reality is. Brian Fallon has mastered this ability.

Every album Fallon’s name is attached to brims with the true values of American youth and the rebellion we all feel at one point in our lives. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Fallon forces listeners to realize how fleeting life is and how we all eventually lose our innocence. It isn’t all bleak, though. Fallon knows the rebellion within all of us eventually will rear it’s head again.

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The Marcus King Band

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“Act V: Hymns With the Devil in Confessional”

Sturgill Simpson

“A Sailor’s Guide to Earth”

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Iggy Pop

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“Post Pop Depression”

Maybe it’s not the best Iggy Pop album ever created, but it was a masterful execution of an artist attempting to reinvent himself and open new channels. Contributing artist and frontman of Queens of the Stone Age Josh Homme definitely has a presence on this album, but he doesn’t overshadow Iggy’s creativity.

Wow. “A Sailor’s Guide to Earth” threw me for a hard loop. I was ready for a sleepy album I could put on as background noise. Instead, I was pulled in by Simpson’s voice. This album is very reminiscent of a 1970s Elton John album. The mix of rock, soul and country (not to mention the refreshing take on Nirvana’s “In Bloom”) really make this a worthy contender.

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Pixies

“Head Carrier” I will never stop loving the Pixies. They would have to pull some crazy musical metamorphosis for me not to want to listen them. They deliver in spades with “Head Carrier.” Although Kim Deal no longer is with the band, replacement bassist Paz Lenchantin channels Deal’s essence, allowing the quartet to continue where they left off. The superior music by Frank Black and friends truly is appreciated by this music junky.

David Bowie

“Blackstar”

Was I sad when David Bowie died?

Yes. Did I put him on this list simply because this album essentially was his eulogy and the last piece of art he would leave us with? No. “Blackstar” is here because it made me feel anxious and unsettled throughout. I have never felt that type of emotion while listening to an album. Bowie was able to make his fans feel exactly what he was going through.

He didn’t just sing about. He used notes and tones to really make you feel it.

Thanks for one last ride, Ziggy.

The Dear Hunter

Every time Casey Crescenzo makes a new album, I think to myself, “There’s no way this is going to be better than the last one.” My jaw hits the floor every time. Somehow Crescenzo takes his style and warps it into something that leaves me thinking. I know I’ve heard this before but it’s different than I remember. The Dear Hunter’s ability to call back to harmonies, melodies and lyrics of their previous “Act” albums makes this final album in the series a truly ingenious way to wrap everything up.

“The Marcus King Band”

There are a few albums on my list that really take you back in time when you listen to them.

They may have been created in 2016, but that doesn’t mean they don’t draw from a time when music was made to be something truly meaningful, something that didn’t just top the charts because it was catchy or poppy, music with an almost tangible purpose to it. This album was the first time I had ever heard anything by the Marcus King Band. Looking forward to more of this.

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The Heavy

“Hurt and the Merciless” The Heavy always has put out consistently good albums. “Hurt and the Merciless” surpasses their other albums.

A relentless beat of rock and soul powers through this entire album. Listeners won’t have a single second to catch their breath until the final and fitting track, “Goodbye Baby,” rolls around.

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Radiohead

“A Moon Shaped Pool” It’s been a long time since we’ve heard new Radiohead material. “A Moon Shaped Pool” rehashes sounds heard on “OK Computer” and “Kid A” but gives us those sounds in a whole new way.

This is, far and away, one of the best Radiohead albums to date.

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Aesop Rock

“The Impossible Kid” Aesop Rock changed my opinion of hip hop a long time ago. After listening to “The Impossible Kid,” I had no choice but to give him a spot in my Top 10 for 2016. The lyrics and imagery paint the portrait of an individual you have to immediately decide to love or hate based on the philosophy of how he’s lived by for the past 15 years.

Another 15 albums worth a mention:

11. Highly Suspect – “The Boy Who Died Wolf” 12. Lewis Del Mar – “Lewis Del Mar” 13. Blink 182 – “California” 14. Cait Brennan – “Debutante” 15. Panic! At the Disco – “Death of a Bachelor” 16. CRX – “New Skin” 17. Rival Sons – “Hollow Bones”

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18. Conrad Keely – “Original Machines” 19. Paper Route – “Real Emotion” 20. White Denim – “Stiff” 21. Garbage – “Strange Little Birds” 22. Tiger Army – “V” 23. Daughter – “Not to Disappear” 24. Hot Hot Heat – “Hot Hot Heat” 25. PJ Harvey – “The Hope Six Demolition Project”

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In this Nov. 4, 2016, file photo, Beyoncé performs at a Get Out the Vote concert for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in Cleveland.

Beyoncé’s “Lemonde” is the Associated Press top pick for album of the year in 2016.

According to AP Music Editor Mesfin Fekadu, the album is a “work of art.”

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AP TOP ALBUMS OF 2016

By MESFIN FEKADU The Associated Press

A list of the year’s top 10 albums from the Associated Press.

1. “Lemonade,” Beyoncé

Just when you think Beyoncé has topped herself – she tops herself. She followed the surprise release of 2014’s “Beyonce” with another epic album – “Lemonade” – singing lyrics about a troubled relationship, family life and black pride over songs that were R&B, rap, rock, pop, country and more. The album (below) – a work of art, really – goes from emotional and passionate to playful and upbeat, showcasing Queen Bey’s growth and stamina. She continues her run as the leader in pop music and pop culture.

2. “Anti,” Rihanna

8. “Malibu,” Anderson .Paak

And close behind Bey is Rih. “Anti” (right) comes four years after Rihanna’s last album – her longest break between projects – and the time was used wisely: She’s a firecracker throughout the album, delivering her swag on songs that range from fun (“Work”) to sultry (“Kiss It Better”) to kinky (“Sex With Me.”)

3. “A Seat at the Table,” Solange I want a seat at Solange’s table, just to tell her thank you: Her new album – and guys, she’s been making grand music for ages – is a cohesive, deep and raw look into the soul of an artistic woman navigating in life. She brings interludes back to the album format – something absent for a while – to tell stories that push you to think.

4. “24K Magic,” Bruno Mars

Bruno Mars easily is the most unique and talented pop star on Earth: His new album, a ’90sinspired R&B adventure, proves that while he was a party boy on “Uptown Funk,” he is the party boy on “24K Magic.”

5. “Illuminate,” Shawn Mendes

It’s good that Shawn Mendes is a teen heartthrob, because young girls finally are falling in love with a real musician. The 18-year-old takes it to a new level on his second album, coming off as a bona fide rock star. His guitar playing has advanced, his songwriting has matured and his vocals are crisp: This kid’s the real deal.

Anderson .Paak’s “Malibu” is full of mellow, hip-hop soul songs that can put you in a relaxed mood.

9. “Joanne,” Lady Gaga

Can you please let Lady Gaga live? While she is one of the decade’s most successful pop stars, at times, she is underrated. But on “Joanne,” she ditches the sound that made her famous and further proves she’s not basic. She’s a boss.

10. “Mind of Mine,” Zayn

6. “Coloring Book,” Chance the

Rapper

Kudos to Chance the Rapper, 23, for not signing with a major label, releasing his brilliant music independently and finding success as a major force in music. While labels are helpful, Chance has everything he needs: He’s a talented rapper who marches to the beat of his whole drum, with the youth right behind him.

7. “Hero,” Maren Morris

Maren Morris is a spectacular country singer who blends multiple genres on her major debut album, offering a fresh sound with songs as layered as “My Church,” as playful as “Rich” and as soft as “I Could Use a Love Song.” There’s not a bad tune on “Hero.”

In One Direction, Zayn was a boy; on his solo album, he’s a grown man – brilliantly weaving R&B, soul, pop and other genres together to make one of the year’s best albums (below).

NIGHTLIFE

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TROPIXPLOSION WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Jan. 20 WHERE: The Listening Room at Lakeside Arts Park, 401 Country Club Road, Crystal Lake COST & INFO: Playing much more than the standard steel drum band, Tropixplosion has a wide variety of music – not only your tropical favorites, but many reggae classics and pop/rock party songs re-arranged to feel like the islands. Tickets: $18 in advance online, $23 at the door. Tickets and information: 815-455-8000 or www.lakesideartspark.org.

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Following is a list of area concerts and band performances in the coming weeks.

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JAZZ ON THE SQUARE JAM SESSION, 8 to 11 p.m.

Jan. 6, Stage Left Café, 125 E. Van Buren St., Woodstock. Experienced and beginner musicians and vocalists welcome to participate in an evening of music, creativity, friends and fun.

Cost: $5 donation requested. Information: www. jazzonthesquare.com.

THE ETHAN BELL BAND, 8 p.m. Jan. 7, Trio Grille, 101 Franks Road, Marengo. An acoustic duo from the Chicago area known as a favorite country party band. Free. Information: www.triogrille.com.

AMERICAN ENGLISH, 8 p.m. Jan. 7, Raue Center for the Arts, 26 N. Williams St., Crystal Lake. Relive a magical time in music as American English captures the essence of John, Paul, George and Ringo with “The Complete Beatles Tribute Show!”

Tickets start at $20. Tickets and information: 815356-9212 or www.rauecenter.org.

FEBRUARY SKY, 3 p.m. Jan. 8, McHenry County College Luecht Conference Center, 8900 Route 14, Crystal Lake. Phil Cooper and Susan Urban and friends return to MCC with their unique brand of folk music and creative originals. Free.

Information: 815-479-7814 or www.mchenry.edu/ artevents.

JIMMY NICK SOLO SHOW, 9 p.m. to midnight Jan. 12, Duke’s Alehouse and Kitchen, 110 N. Main St., Crystal Lake. An old-fashioned, guitar-slinging blues prodigy who was developing his chops in famous Chicago clubs when he was only 16. Free.

Information: www.thedukeabides.com.

GEORGIA RAE FAMILY BAND, 7 to 10 p.m. Jan. 13, Cary Area Public Library, 1606 Three Oaks Road, Cary. The band will help kick off the library’s grand re-opening with a mix of the band’s folk, bluegrass, contemporary folk rock and more.

Patrons age 21 and older are welcome to sample wine and local beers from 7 to 9 p.m. Registration and show of ID required. Free. Information: 847639-4210 or www.caryarealibrary.info.

PISTOL PETE, 8 p.m. Jan. 14, Trio Grille, 101 Franks Road, Marengo. Featuring psychedelic blues. Free.

Information: www.triogrille.com.

BLACK CAT BONE, 10 p.m. Jan. 14, Duke’s Alehouse and Kitchen, 110 N. Main St., Crystal Lake. Free.

Information: www.thedukeabides.com.

JIM AND JUSTIN, 8 p.m. Jan. 20, Trio Grille, 101 Franks Road, Marengo. Never the same show twice with a lot of comedy. An interactive acoustic duo playing a wide variety of cover songs from Elvis to Foster the People. Free. Information: www.triogrille.com WAYLAND, 7 p.m. Jan. 21, Offsides Sports Bar & Grill, 680 S. Eastwood Drive, Woodstock. A rock group from Grand Rapids, Michigan, Wayland began touring in 2012 and steadily has built a grass-roots following. In late 2015, the band released it latest single “Bloody Sunrise,” which rose to break the Top 40 mark in the Active Rock Format. For ages 21 and older. Tickets cost $7 at www.ticketfly.com or $10 at the door. Information: www.offsidesbar.com.

JOE MOSS BAND, 10 p.m. Jan. 21, Duke’s Alehouse and Kitchen, 110 N. Main St., Crystal Lake. This year, Moss will be inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. His band features some of Chicago’s finest blues musicians. Free. Information: www. thedukeabides.com.

IRIS (I’M RICK, I’M SUZY), 8 p.m. Jan. 21, Trio Grille, 101 Franks Road, Marengo. A duo featuring Rick Cartwright on keyboards and backup vocals

and Suzy Schwartz on guitar and vocals. Free.

Information: www.triogrille.com THE MUSIC AND INFLUENCE OF JOHNNY CASH FEATURING STEVEN JUSTMAN, 1 to 2 p.m.

Jan. 22, McHenry Public Library, 809 Front St., McHenry. Returning to the library, Justman’s mix of music and history always is a crowd-pleaser.

For age 12 and older. Free. Information: 815-3850036 or www.mchenrylibrary.org.

REGIONAL ARCADA THEATRE, 105 E. Main St., St. Charles.

Schedule: 8 p.m. Jan. 6, Mr. Blotto’s Procrastinator’s Ball; 8 p.m. Jan. 7, Jimmy Page Birthday Bash – A Nite of Led Zeppelin with Kashmir; 7:30 p.m.

Jan. 10, “The McCartney Years!”; 8 p.m. Jan. 13, Infinity with “Heart to Heartbreaker!”; 8 p.m. Jan. 14, Arcada Disco Ball with Boogie Wonder Band; 3 p.m. Jan. 15, The Lettermen. Ticket prices vary per event. Tickets and information: 630-962-7000 or www.arcadalive.com.

ELGIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 7 and 2:30 p.m. Jan. 8, Hemmens Cultural Center, 45 Symphony Way, Elgin. Concerts will feature Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, “Eroica” and works

by Prokofiev and Stravinsky. Tickets start at $30, student tickets $12. Tickets and information: 847888-4000 or www.elginsymphony.org.

ELGIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, 2 to 3 p.m. Jan. 8, Spartan Auditorium at Elgin Community College Arts Center, 1700 Spartan Drive, Elgin. Members of the EYSO faculty and staff and Chamber Music Institute coaches will perform an hour of music featuring repertoire ranging from edgy to accessible. Free but tickets required.

Tickets and information: 847-622-0300 or www. tickets.elgin.edu.

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WINTER SOLACE

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Camping, hiking among MCCD’s seasonal offerings

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By CHRIS MORDI

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For the heartiest of souls, winter offers plenty to do outdoors, even camping.

January in McHenry County might seem like it belongs to the Polar Vortex, staying indoors and eating comfort food.

But some brave souls suggest it’s time to rethink what you’re doing and spend some time outdoors. Just be sure to do it safely, they say.

“Like anything, no one wants to feel homebound and trapped,” said Kurt Kokoruz, committee chair for Boy Scout Troop 131 in McHenry.

The McHenry County Conservation District typically sees two or three Boy Scout troops camping in January or February every year at its winter camping sites in the Thomas Woods area of the Marengo Ridge campground, said Wendy Kummerer, communications manager for the district.

Though the winter campground attracts mainly scouts, it’s open to the public, with the district encouraging others to “enjoy the solace of the winter woods.”

“Sleep under crisp, star-filled skies, hike the trails, follow animal tracks, bring your cross-country skis or snowshoes and stoke the campfire as you enjoy a steaming cup of hot chocolate amidst the quiet, peaceful surroundings,” the district encourages at www. mccdistrict.org.

The attraction is one of numerous activities available at conservation district sites, which offer everything from from cross-country skiing and snowshoeing to snowmobiling, sledding and hiking.

Twenty-five of the District’s 33 sites are open during the winter.

“Outdoor activities happen yearround. There is always something to learn throughout the different seasons,” Kokoruz said.

He said winter is a great time of year to be outdoors because there are no bugs and it gives children a chance to experience nature through all four seasons.

Playing outdoors requires people to think a little bit more about safety, he said.

“Safety is the number one thing,” he said. “You have to understand the different layers to keep warm during the day and night, and footwear is a big deal.

“When outdoors, you want to wear

Joel Jackson of Harvard (from right) walks with his sons, Tommy and Niklas, last January at the Marengo Ridge Conservation Area.

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something that can sustain the temperatures,” he said.

That means polyester blend or wool socks that can wick moisture away from the feet and layers of clothes that can be taken off or put back on as the temperatures change throughout the day and night.

Winter camping runs through March 31 for individuals and groups, with sites costing $55 for residents or $90 for nonresidents a night. Sites can be reserved daily at 815-338-6223, with information at www.mccdistrict.org.

A good weekend to camp, Kummerer said, would be the weekend of Jan. 20-21, when the district hosts a candlelight ski or hike down the road from Marengo Ridge at Coral Woods Conservation Area in Marengo.

From 5 to 9 p.m. both Friday and Saturday nights, staff from the district will light the trails with candlelight and offer hot beverages by a campfire.

Participants need to bring their own ski equipment.

Among the conservation district’s other attractions are numerous events and activities designed to combine education with fun.

For ages 2 to 6, Discovery Days will take place 10 to 11 a.m Jan. 11 at Prairieview Education Center in Crystal Lake. The event includes games, a craft, a snack and other activities based around a theme of the day.

Other events include a Family Winter Fitness Hike with a hula hoop hustle, a family relay race and other activities from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Jan. 15 at Marengo Ridge and Wonders of Winter for children to learn about animals and plants in the winter from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Jan. 16 at Lost Valley Visitor

Eli Hazelrig, then 12, (left) watches as Zach Trotz, then 12, both of Marengo, insulates a hole in a dead log during the McHenry County Conservation District’s Winter Explorations Program last year at Marengo Ridge. The exercise is designed to teach participants how small animals stay warm during the winter months. This year’s Explorations Program will be Jan. 7.

Center in Ringwood.

From 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Jan. 29, the district will host its Very Chilly Chili Crawl at the Lost Valley Visitor Center in Ringwood. Attendees will go on a hike of up to 1.5 miles with several stops to learn how animals survive during the winter and take in winter’s beauty. After the hike, there will be chili tasting and cooking desserts over a campfire.

Most events require pre-registration, and some have costs.

For information, call 815-479-5779 or visit www.mccdistrict.org, where visitors also can check which conservation district parking lots are plowed and open and those that require visitors to park on the road.

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ONGOING

A LOOK AT AREA EVENTS OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS

LIVE PRO WRESTLING, 7:30 to 10 p.m. every Saturday, Premier Studio, 1230 Davis Road, Woodstock. Tickets: $10 adults general or $12 ringside, $5 children age 12 and younger. Information: 847-347-6632 or www. premierprowrestling.com.

CLAYWORKERS GUILD OF ILLINOIS HOLIDAY POTTERY SALE, through Jan. 7, Old Courthouse Arts Center, 101 N. Johnson St., Woodstock. Featuring the work of 15 members of the guild. Extended hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays. Free. Information: www.clayworkersguild.com.

“THIS MUST BE THE PLACE” PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION, through Jan. 19, Satellite Gallery inside the Old Courthouse Arts Center, 101 N. Johnson St., Woodstock.

Featuring recent photographic work from McHenry County College student artists. Gallery hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday through Wednesday. Information: Matt Irie, 815-455-8552 or mirie@mchenry.edu.

ART FOR THE PAWS 2017, through Jan. 30, Helping Paws Animal Shelter, 2500 Harding Lane, Woodstock. Third annual fundraising event in which artists are encouraged to create art in a variety of mediums on 6-by 6-inch canvases.

Individuals can buy up to two blank canvases for a donation of $5 each at Helping Paws, Material Things in Woodstock, The Studio Art School in McHenry and Fiber & Finds in Crystal Lake. Completed canvases are due by 4 p.m. Feb. 28.

Canvases will be displayed at Read Between the Lynes in Woodstock and the Woodstock Public Library from March 20 through April 22, with an April 22 public reception at Mixin Mingle in Woodstock. Artwork will be available to buy through an online auction with proceeds to benefit Helping Paws. Information: 815-338-4400 or www.helpingpaws.net.

31, Crystal Lake. Featuring more than 25 travel vendors, destination seminars and giveaways. Free admission.

Information: 847-639-3300 or www.business.carygrovechamber.com/events.

D’ANDREA PREMIER BRIDAL SHOW, 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Jan. 8, D’Andrea Banquets & Conference Center, 4419 Route 14, Crystal Lake. Bridal vendors will be on hand to assist couples. Sample hors d’oeuvres, wedding cakes, European pastries and confections. Meet some of the finest Chicago area vendors, including photographers, DJs and florists. See bridal gowns, formalwear, and elegant linen designs. Free admission. Registration and information: 815-459-7234 or www.dandreabridalshow.com.

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JAN. 9

FREE INTRODUCTION TO SQUARE DANCING, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Jan. 5, McHenry Township Complex, Building B, 3519 N. Richmond Road, Johnsburg. Hosted by the McHenry B&B and Woodstock Squares square dance clubs. Learn some basic steps and be able to dance to a singing call. Snacks. Information: 815-322-9799, www. mchenrybnbsquaredance.com or www.woodstocksquares.wixsite.com/woodstocksquares.

SECOND MONDAY FILM CLUB, 1 & 7 p.m. Jan. 9, Feb. 13 & March 13, Classic Cinemas Woodstock Theatre, 209 Main St., Woodstock. Movie fans will have the opportunity to see art, foreign, classic and documentary films on the second Monday of each month. Screening schedule: Jan. 9, the acclaimed Swedish movie “A Man Called Ove”; Feb. 13, “Papa Hemingway in Cuba”; and March 13, an encore showing of “The Carrion Vine.” Admission: $6 for matinees and seniors, $8 evening shows. Information: 815-338-8555 or www. classiccinemas.com.

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WINTER EXPLORATIONS, noon to 3 p.m. Jan. 7, Marengo Ridge Conservation Area, 2411 N. Route 23, Marengo.

Outdoor family fun with stations for exploring winter’s wonders. Hot chocolate provided. No registration required.

Free. Information: 815-479-5779 or www.mccdistrict.org.

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS: AN EVENING WITH A MIND READER, 7 to 8 p.m. Jan. 7, Joe Diamond Studio 215 at the Dole Mansion, 401 Country Club Road, Crystal Lake. Some call Joe Diamond a mind reader, others call him psychic, and still more call him a magician. Only 13 people will be admitted to each show. Minds will be read, predictions will be made and the rest is a mystery. Tickets: $25-$100 general admission. Tickets and information: 815-347-5481 or www.joediamondlive.com/studioseries.

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JAN. 8 19TH ANNUAL CARY TRAVEL EXPRESS TRAVEL SHOW, 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Jan. 8, Holiday Inn, 800 S. Route

MARY FONS – CREATIVE LIVING SERIES WHEN: 10 a.m. Jan. 19 WHERE: Woodstock Opera House, 121 Van Buren St., Woodstock COST & INFO: Fons is the co-host of the PBS show “Love of Quilting” and co-hosts the “Quilt Your Heart Out” podcast with her mother, quilt legend Marianne Fons. She teaches writing and also writes a quilt column. Tickets: $25 all seats. Tickets and information: 815-338-5300 or www.woodstockoperahouse.com.

Cary Area Public Library, 1606 Three Oaks Road, Cary.

Patrons age 21 and older welcome to sample wine and local beers. Registration and show of ID required. The event also will include a performance by the Georgia Rae Family Band from 7 to 10 p.m. Free. Information: 847-639-4210 or www. caryarealibrary.info.

JAN. 14

4TH ANNUAL D155 ART SHOW SPARK, Jan. 11-27, Lakeside Arts Park, 401 Country Club Road, Crystal Lake. Featuring the artwork of Crystal Lake Central, Crystal Lake South, Cary-Grove, Prairie Ridge High Schools and Haber Oaks Campus School with a 6 to 8 p.m. Jan. 27 closing reception.

Information: 815-455-8000 or www.lakesideartspark.org.

BIRD WALK, 8 to 11 a.m. Jan. 14, McHenry Dam, McHenry Dam Road, off River Road, McHenry. Join the McHenry County Audubon and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources for a 2- to 3-mile walk over a variety of habitats.

Adults and attentive children ages 6 and older welcome.

Meet at the south end of McHenry Dam parking lot. Bring your own binoculars or borrow one at the walk site. Bring a bird book. Free. Registration and information: 815-344-1294 or www.friendsofmorainehillsstatepark.org.

OF BOGS & BOOKS, 10 to 11:30 a.m. Jan. 14, Volo Bog State Natural Area, 28478 W. Brandenburg Road, Ingleside. Book discussion group featuring a visit from Jim May, local storyteller and author of “Trail Guide for a Crooked Heart: Stories and Reflections for a Life’s Journey.” Free. Registration and information: 815-344-1294or dnr.volobog@illinois.gov.

WEEKEND OF RESTORATION XI, 1 p.m. Jan. 14 to noon Jan. 15, Lost Valley Visitor Center in Glacial Park, Route 31 and Harts Road, Ringwood. “Back to Basics: Coming Close to Nature” theme for a weekend of removing invasive trees and shrubs from oak savannas, the study of winter ecology, outdoor recreation and more. Those interested can camp out inside the Visitor Center Saturday night. Registration deadline: Jan. 7. Cost: $45 adults, $30 seniors, $20 students, $10 off second registration. Saturday dinner and Sunday breakfast included. Registration and information: 815-479-5779 or www.mccdistrict.org, Code 5292.

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JAN. 15

GET LIT(ERARY), 7 to 8 p.m. Jan. 12, La Petite Marché Café, 19 N. Williams St., Crystal Lake. A reading series presented by Williams Street Repertory. Free. Information: 815-356-9212 or www.rauecenter.org.

WINTERFEST, noon to 4 p.m. Jan. 15, Volo Bog State Natural Area, 28478 W. Brandenburg Road, Ingleside. Winter family fun with cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, snow-sculpting contest, winter nature crafts, hiking, bog tours, photo contest and live music with Mark Cleveland, Jordi Kleiner, Christopher Strong and Wendy Proulx Bruce. Free. Information: 815-344-1294, www.dnr.state.il.us/lands/landmgt/ parks or dnr.volobog@illinois.gov.

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JAN. 13 CARY LIBRARY GRAND RE-OPENING, 7 to 9 p.m. Jan. 13,

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Buying your first home? Follow this New Year’s plan to get fiscally fit (BPT) - So buying a new home tops your list of New Year’s resolutions.

As you picture the big moment - the one where you pull up to your dream home in your moving truck, sprint up and unlock your front door - you probably understand there’s something you need to do first. You need to get your finances in shape.

a budget, eliminating debt, raising your credit score, and saving for your down payment - you’re ready for the final push toward home ownership.

Just like those who make resolutions to run a marathon, making this big investment starts with a plan. Runners know that if they run a certain distance each day, it gets them closer to accomplishing their goal.

“The same is true, in many ways, when it comes to buying a home,” says Eric Hamilton, president of Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance.

“Before taking on a loan, many home buyers find they need to build their ‘financial muscles’ and establish ‘healthy’ money habits.”

By following a few tips to reach financial fitness goals, you, too can achieve the goal of home ownership.

want to knock out with an accelerated payment plan, using the money you freed up by cutting back on unnecessary expenses. Try focusing on one debt at a time, paying close attention to the ones with the highest interest rates to pay off first.

be able to improve your score and get the lowest possible interest rate on a home loan if you follow these “reps” every month: pay all your bills on time, don’t close old credit card accounts and don’t open new lines of credit.

Do those daily sprints

Beef up your credit score

Increase your intake of savings

People who reach their fitness goals begin with a look at their current habits and then make a plan to replace them with better ones. The same is true for homebuyers. First, look at the spending choices you’ve been making, and review three to six months’ worth of bank statements.

Consider what is necessary and what needs to cut back. The goal is to trim the fat in your budget so you can use the extra money to reduce your debt and increase your savings.

The good habits you exercise today will make all the difference on your interest rate later. Put in the extra work to raise your credit score. Your credit score pulls together many details from your past and current debts as well as other financial factors, and helps lenders determine your creditworthiness. Making the effort to raise your score is worthwhile because shaving off even one-quarter of a percentage point from a mortgage loan can potentially save you thousands of dollars in interest over the life of a 30-year mortgage. A credit score factors your history of on-time payments, the amount you owe on your debts, the type of credit you have, the age of that debt and any recently opened new credit lines as well as other factors. You may

Even when paying down debt, it’s still a good idea to start a small savings plan so you have some cash to fall back on if, say, you need to go to the doctor or get new tires for your car.

Start by opening a savings account and set up automatic transfers each month. Even with $50 a month, you’ll have $600 in one year, which could bail you out of a number of small emergencies. Eventually, once your debts are paid off, you can divert those payments right into savings, which also can build your down payment for that new dream home

Crunch your debt Take a look at your debts and consider the monthly payments you make.

Are there any debts standing in the way of making a house payment affordable? Those are the ones you

Prepare for the big event All these steps lead to one main event: buying a home. Once you meet those smaller goals - following

First, figure out how much home you can afford: look at home prices in your area, use an online loan calculator to estimate your payments, and go through your budget. Then gather up the financial documents you’ll need, including proof of employment, bank statements and tax statements.

Finally, choose a lender that is right for you. Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, Inc. has many programs that can fit many kinds of buyers.

Perhaps you’re getting your first mortgage, have perfect credit, and in some cases, less-than-perfect credit.

All loan programs are subject to credit approval and restrictions apply.

Contact Vanderbilt for details. If you are interested in learning more about Vanderbilt, visit, http://www. vmfhomeloan.com. Vanderbilt is a Berkshire Hathaway national housing lender that has been in business for more than 40 years and has helped families just like yours find the right financing program.

“Following these habits can be challenging from a motivation standpoint,” Hamilton says. “It takes patience, but once you’ve followed the steps to get financially healthy, it is a very rewarding experience.”

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REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS ALGONQUIN $308,000, 3212 Woods Creek Ln, Algonquin 601024413, 19-31-152-008-0000, Rtta Investment Group Inc To Jennifer L Crane & Larry G Braasch, November 21

HEBRON $235,000, 6615 Kemman Rd, Hebron 60034-9571, 03-33-200-010-0000, Tove Nor To Michael Dodge & Chari Dodge, November 21

CARY $318,000, 356 Foxford Dr, Cary 60013-1172, 20-06453-003-0000, Jeffrey B Sigler To Michael E Richrdson & Francesa J Richrdson, November 21

HUNTLEY $133,500, 10989 Cape Cod Ln, Huntley 60142-6782, 18-34-305-028-0000, Joshua Theodore Doyle To Pascual Escalera & Juanita I Villareal, November 21 $160,000, 10906 Bonnie Brae Rd, Huntley 601427015, 18-29-477-010-0000, Bc Property Solutions Llc To Michael Barreto & Lora Barreto, November 21

CRYSTAL LAKE $220,000, 599 Monterey Dr, Crystal Lake 60014-8435, 19-07-401-003-0000, Lisa M Cretton To Scott Finnigan & Emily Finnigan, November 21 $400,000, 707 Goldenrod Ct, Crystal Lake 60014-6982, 18-12-254-010-0000, Jerry P Cielak To Emal M Noor & Carlean J Noor, November 21 $283,000, 2420 Behan Rd, Crystal Lake 60014-2240, 14-25-402-004-0000, Nicholas Pirocanac To Jeffrey M Miljan & Terri M Rybicki, November 21 $270,000, 602 Greenbrier Ln, Crystal Lake 60014-7011, 19-07-126-007-0000, Foley Trust To Taylor J Ogilvie & Susan A Ogilvie, November 21

ONLY $129,000!

LAKE IN THE HILLS $227,000, 4655 Heron Dr, Lake In The Hills 60156-1092, 18-23-401-018-0000, Becky S Brunette To Marcus R Lapointe & Emily Lapointe, November 21 $275,000, 410 Course Dr, Lake In The Hills 60156-4482, 19-30-101-017-0000, Janet Vander Kelen To Michael A Richard, December 13 $195,000, 12 Lake Dr, Lake In The Hills 60156-1324, 19-29-277-010-0000, Wagner Trust To Dean Magdalin & Loula Magdalin, November 21

$138,000, 205 Pheasant Trl, Lake In The Hills 601561327, 19-29-253-019-0000, Claire E Mendenhall To Robert C Sanchez & Jennifer L Bulger, November 21 $172,000, 1207 Birch St, Lake In The Hills 60156-1118, 19-20-402-016-0000, Dc3t Llc To Cecilia Canale & Daniele Canale, November 21 $247,500, 4750 Princeton Ln, Lake In The Hills 601566344, 18-14-328-012-0000, David Boroqski To Fernando Ceciliano, December 13 MCHENRY $350,000, 1708 Ballina Ln, Mchenry 60050-6412, 1408-402-005-0000, Jeannine M Giacomino To Douglas W Till & Stacey Till, November 21 $115,000, 1406 Sundyside Dr, Mchenry 60051, 10-18203-011-0000, Juantia Roth To Bria Morris, December 12 $181,000, 612 Tanglewood Trl, Mchenry 60050-5980, 09-33-327-011-0000, Matthew Nellessen To Peter Becker & Joyce Becker, November 21 RICHMOND $314,000, 5119 Bonnie Brae Rd, Richmond 600719747, 04-16-277-001-0000, Joseph T Amore To Michael K

Babros & Priscilla J Roberts, November 21 $300,000, 9617 Hideaway Ln, Richmond 60071-9490, 04-15-152-005-0000, Thomas E Johnstin To Jeffrey B Wells & Shelley Wells, November 21 WOODSTOCK $169,000, 215 Wild Meadow Ln, Woodstock 600987624, 13-20-130-009-0000, Caltatlantic Gropu Inc To Euricle Marrero, December 6 $175,000, 1819 Woodside Dr, Woodstock 60098-2799, 08-33-162-003-0000, Kevin Quinlan To Guillermo C Martinez, December 5 $95,500, 8309 Prospect St, Woodstock 60098-7982, 13-25-226-005-0000, Us Bank Na Trustee To Rhett Wilborn, December 7 $177,500, 955 Greta Ave, Woodstock 60098-7000, 1307-178-013-0000, Kimmet Trust To Patti Klein, December 8 $60,000, 551 Leah Ln 1a, Woodstock 60098-7122, 1309-155-021-0000, Va To Gunnar D Anderson, November 30

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For Better or For Worse

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Hans Christian Andersen wrote, “Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan’s egg.” Which of those words is relevant to this deal? It was reported by the unfortunate declarer, Mike Kamil of Spartanburg, South Carolina.

South was in three no-trump.

West led the diamond king: four, 10, three. West then shifted to a low heart, and East, Geir Helgemo, a Norwegian by birth who now represents Monaco, put in his nine to stop dummy’s king from becoming an entry card. What happened after that?

North ought to have responded one no-trump, but he felt that if his side belonged in three no-trump, it would be better to have the strong hand as the declarer. That was exactly how it panned out.

South’s intention was to take these nine tricks: three spades, two hearts, one diamond and three clubs.

There was no time to lose, so, at trick three, declarer played a club to dummy’s queen.

If Helgemo had taken this trick and, say, returned his second diamond, South could have won with his ace, cashed the club king and played another club to end with those nine winners.

Instead, Helgemo played low, successfully disrupting declarer’s communications.

As declarer had noted a momentary pause from East, he led another club and put up his king, hoping East had started with ace-third. However, South had no chance to make his contract, even if he had put in his club seven. He had only one dummy entry left in the spade queen and needed two.

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Village of Lakewood

Mature Person to Share Crystal Lake Lake Front Home Furnished, Bedrm, Utilities, Internet, Cable, Lake Privledges $550/mo. Ref's Req'd 815-404-1326 Crystal Lake LOW RENT! Approx 200 SF, Great Office Suite incl all util and high speed DSL, $350/mo.

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PUBLIC NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22nd JUDICIAL CIRCUIT McHENRY COUNTY NOTICE OF FILING A REQUEST FOR NAME CHANGE (ADULT) Request of Kelsey Margaret Houlihan Case Number 16 MR 774 Public notice is hereby given that I have filed a Petition for Change of Name and scheduled a hearing on my Petition on February 14, 2017 at 9:00 a.m., Room 204, in the Circuit Court of the Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit, McHenry County, praying for the Illinois, change of my name from Kelsey Margaret Houlihan to that of Kyle Alexander Houlihan pursuant to the Illinois Compiled Statutes on Change of Names. /s/ Kelsey Margaret Houlihan (Published in the Northwest Herald on December 29, 2016, January 5, 12, 2017) 1254839

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NOTICE OF PUBLICATION ABC Bank f/k/a Austin Bank of Chicago, as mortgagee under mortgage filed with the McHenry County Recorder, Illinois, as Document No. 2003R0162376.

The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is given you, Doheny Properties, Inc., Thomas Doheny, Elizabeth Doheny, Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants, defendants in the above-entitled action, that this action has been filed in the Circuit Court of McHenry County by the above-named plaintiff against you and other defendants to foreclose a certain mortgage, conveying the following-described premises: THE EAST 553.3 FEET OF THE NORTH 267 FEET (EXCEPT THE NORTH 102 FEET THEREOF) OF THE NORTHEAST 1/4 OF THE NORTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 29, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 9, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS Commonly known as: 4035 Roberts Rd, Island Lake, IL 60042 PIN: 15-29-200-010 and for other relief A smmnons was duly issued out of the court against you as provided by law and the action is still pending.

Unless you, Doheny Properties, Inc., Thomas Doheny, Elizabeth Doheny, Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants, defendants in the above-captioned action file your answer to the complaint in the action or otherwise make your appearance in the Circuit Court of McHenry County, at 2200 N. Seminary Ave, Woodstock, IL 60098 within 30 days of this publication, default may be entered against you any time after that day, and a judgment entered in accordance with the complaint.

Attorneys for plaintiff: David T. Arena Jordan A. Finfer DiMonte and Lizak, LLC 216 W. Higgins Rd Park Ridge, IL 60068 Tel. 847-698-9600

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT McHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS ABC BANK F/K/A AUSTIN BANK OF CHICAGO, Plaintiff, v.

DOHENY PROPERTIES, INC.; THOMAS DOHENY; ELIZABETH DOHENY; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, /s/ Katherine M Keefe Defendants.

Clerk of the Circuit Court Case No. 16CHOO 1031 Common address: (Published in the Northwest Herald 4035 Roberts Rd on December 29, 2016, January Island Lake, IL 60042 5, 12, 2017) 1254822

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LEGAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING #2016-047 IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF CLOVER INVESTMENT CORP. FOR AN AMENDMENT OF THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE OF McHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS FOR A RECLASSIFICATION Notice is hereby given in compliance with the McHenry County Unified Development Ordinance, that a public hearing will be held before the McHenry County Zoning Board of Appeals, in connection with this Ordinance, which would result in a reclassification for the following described real estate.

LOT 5 IN BLOCK 38 IN SILVER LAKES OAKWOOD HILLS UNIT 1, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 36, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN; ALSO A PART OF THE EAST HALF OF SECTION 1, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED MAY 9, 1950 AS DOCUMENT NO. 231189, IN BOOK 10 OF PLATS, PAGE 130, IN

MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. PIN #19-01-252-006 The subject property is located approximately 245 feet north of the intersection of Hilly Way and Crystal Lake Road, with a common address of 6414 Hilly Way, Cary, Illinois, in Algonquin Township.

The subject property is presently zoned “R-1” Single-Family Residential District and consists of approximately .18 acres with “R-1” zoning to the North, East and West and “B-2” zoning to the South.

The Petitioner is requesting reclassification of the subject property from “R-1” Single-Family Residential District to “B-2” Alcoholic Beverage Business District.

The Petitioner, Michael Morris, as President of Clover Investment Corp., presently resides at 1098 Brown Street, Wauconda, Illinois.

A hearing on this Petition will be held on the 26th day of January, 2017 at 1:30 P.M. in Conference Room C at the McHenry County Government Center/Ware Rd. Administration Building, 2200 N. Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, Illinois at which time and place any person desiring to be heard may be present.

DATED THIS 29th DAY OF January, 2017. by: Richard Kelly Jr., Chairman McHenry County Zoning Board of Appeals, 2200 N. Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, IL 60098

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ORDINANCE NO. 2016-08 ORDINANCE LEVYING AND ASSESSING TAXES OF THE MCHENRY TOWNSHIP FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS FOR 2016 BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Trustees of the McHenry Township Fire Protection District, McHenry County, Illinois, as follows: Section One: That the sum of SEVEN MILLION THREE HUNDRED SIX THOUSANDDOLLARS AND NO CENTS ($7,306,000.00) assessed and levied from and against all taxable property within the limits of the said McHenry Township Fire Protection District as the same is assessed and equalized for State and County purposes for the current year, 2016, and duly published as provided by law and the specific amount hereby levied is set forth under the column entitled "Amount To Be Raised By Tax Levy," as follows: AMOUNTS TO BE RAISED BY TAX LEVY: CORPORATE FUND Corporate Fund Levy $4,018,300.00 The foregoing amount is hereby levied for general corporate purposes pursuant to the provisions of 70 ILCS 705/14.

AMBULANCE FUND Ambulance Fund Levy $ 3,287,700.00 The foregoing amount is hereby levied for ambulance expense purposes pursuant to the provisions of 70 ILCS 705/22.

LEVY SUMMARY TOTAL CORPORATE FUND $ 4,018,300.00 TOTAL AMBULANCE FUND $ 3,287,700.00 GRAND TOTAL $ 7,306,000.00 STATE OF ILLINOIS ) ) SS COUNTY OF MCHENRY ) SECRETARY'S CERTIFICATE I, ROBERT MEYER, the duly qualified and acting Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the McHenry Township Fire Protection District, McHenry County, Illinois, do hereby certify that attached hereto is a true and correct copy of an Ordinance entitled: ORDINANCE NO. 2016-08 ORDINANCE LEVYING AND ASSESSING TAXES OF THE MCHENRY TOWNSHIP FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS FOR 2016 which Ordinance was duly adopted by said Board of Trustees at a meeting held on the 17th day of November, 2016.

I do further certify that a quorum of said Board of Trustees was present at said meeting,and that the Board of Trustees complied with all the requirements of the Illinois Open Meetings Act. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 17th day of November,2016. /s/Robert Meyer Secretary, Board of Trustees McHenry Township Fire Protection District Section Two: That the Secretary is hereby directed to file a certified copy of this Ordinance with the McHenry County Clerk within the time specified by law.

(Published in the Northwest Herald Section Three: If any item or portion of this Ordinance is for any reason held invalid,such decision shall not affect the validity of remaining portions on January 5, 2017) 1256503 of the Ordinance.

Section Four: That this Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval as required by law.

ADOPTED this 17th day of November, 2016, pursuant to a roll call vote as follows: AYES : Bennett, Meyer, Miller, Justen, Schaefer NAYS: None ABSENT: None /s/ Allen Miller President, Board of Trustees McHenry Township Fire Protection District ATTEST: /s/Robert Meyer Secretary, Board of Trustees McHenry Township Fire Protection District MCHENRY TOWNSHIP FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT TRUTH IN TAXATION CERTIFICATION I, ALLEN MILLER, hereby certify that I am the presiding officer of the Board of Trustees of the McHenry Township Fire Protection District, McHenry County, Illinois, and as such, I hereby certify that the levy ordinance, a copy of which is appended hereto, was adopted pursuant to, and in all respects in compliance with, the provisions of Section 18-60 through 18- 85 of the Truth in Taxation Law, 35 ILCS 200/18-55 et seq.

The provisions of Section 18-60 through 18-85 of the Truth in Taxation Law are inapplicable to the District's 2016 levy.

In print daily IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have placed my signature this 17th day of November, 2016. /s/ Allen Miller Online 24/7 President, Board of Trustees McHenry Township Fire Protection District Northwest Herald

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