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ELGIN – The Illinois Appellate Court has overturned the 2014 arson conviction of an Elmhurst man found guilty of setting a fire that destroyed two cars and severely damaged a home in McHenry County.

Joseph Ziegler, 27, has been serving a 12-year prison sentence at Taylorville Correctional Center. He was found guilty on multiple arson charges after prosecutors said he intended to torch the home belonging to Nick Penning- Joseph ton because he believed Penning- Ziegler ton stole drugs from him.

Ziegler instead allegedly set fire to an SUV parked in the driveway of Roseann Aitken’s Pistakee Highlands home. Prosecutors argued that Ziegler mistook Aitken’s dark-colored SUV for one that Pennington was seen in earlier that night. Aitken lived two doors away from Pennington.

The Aug. 8, 2012, fire spread to a second car and ultimately ended up at Aitken’s home. No one was injured.

The first time Ziegler was tried on the charges, jurors failed to reach a unanimous decision and McHenry County Judge Sharon Prather declared a mistrial. He was found guilty of burglary.

A jury was able to convict Ziegler of multiple arson charges at his second trial, but the Illinois Appellate Court sent it back to McHenry County on Feb. 15 to be retried.

Justices said Ziegler’s defense attorney should have requested an accomplice-witness jury instruction at either trial in connection with the testimony of two of the prosecution’s witnesses because “there was probable cause that the two state witnesses were principal actors in or accountable for the arson charges,” Justice Robert B. Spence wrote in his opinion.

While the state’s primary theory at both trials was that Ziegler committed the offenses by himself, its alternative theory was that he committed them with the help of witnesses Dakota Wilkinson and Devon Weber.

The defense attacked the credibility of

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Wilkinson and Weber at trial, including Wilkinson’s observation that Ziegler was carrying a propane tank by himself on a bicycle the night of the fire.

No witness observed the actual commission of the crimes; Weber’s shirt and Wilkinson’s bicycle were found near the scene of the fire, testimony placed Wilkinson and Weber near Aitken’s house in the early morning of Aug. 9, 2012, and police apprehended them about 6:30 a.m. that day after they left the scene of the fire, according to the decision.

The evidence that did not link Wilkinson or Weber but did link Ziegler was the possession of the Garmin GPS device in his pocket.

Prosecutors were granted an accountability instruction, based on the alternative theory that Wilkinson and Weber committed the crimes, and the GPS device demonstrated that Ziegler was a co-conspirator if not a principal actor.

These facts established probable cause that the two were involved in the crimes charged, either as principals or under a theory of accountability, and therefore, Ziegler was entitled to an accomplice-witness instruction.

“Where the witness, rather than the defendant, could have been the person responsible for the crime, the defendant is entitled to have the accomplice-witness instruction given to the jury,” Spence wrote.

Assistant Public Defender Rick Behof, who represented Ziegler at his second trial with Assistant Public Defender Angelo Mourelatos, said Monday he was unsure if his office would represent Ziegler when he returns to McHenry County. Behof declined to comment on details of the appeal.

It’s unclear when Ziegler will be returned to the McHenry County Jail. Prosecutors have 30 days to appeal the court’s ruling.

Assistant State’s Attorney John Gibbons said the office is exploring its appellate options.

“We are disappointed by the appellate court’s decision. We believe that the evidence overwhelmingly supported the guilty verdict of the jury and that the defense did a thorough job of representing their client,” Gibbons said.

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The number of roundabouts being proposed by the Illinois Department of Transportation for a widening project on Route 47 through Woodstock.

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ON THE COVER Hope Takes Action participant Julie Zavorski points Thursday at an area in the yard where she decorated for Halloween last fall.

Hope Takes Action is a program that aims to help people living in long-term poverty become self-sufficient. Zavorski signed a lease for a larger home in early February, a goal she has had for many years. See story on page A3.

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When I’m done and I finally get to where I’m happy with things, I’m going to be a success story.”

Julie Zavorski, Hope Takes Action participant and McHenry resident

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Hope Takes Action participant Julie Zavorski unpacks toys Thursday for her grandchildren. Zavorski had been living in a one-bedroom home down the street when a larger three-bedroom home became available early in February. She signed a lease and plans to move to the new home.

HOPE TAKES ACTION

Program aimed at bringing people out of poverty graduates first class

By HANNAH PROKOP

hprokop@shawmedia.com McHENRY – McHenry resident Julie Zavorski said she had a five-year plan with goals she wanted to accomplish, but she never knew how to implement it.

She and her 18-year-old son were homeless for two years before moving

into a one-bedroom home.

Now after graduating from the Hope Takes Action program, which helps people living in long-term poverty become self-sufficient, Zavorski has checked the first goal off her list – move into a three-bedroom house.

“I was in a very, very bad state of depression when we became homeless before,” Zavorski said. “I honestly felt

like there was no hope, and honestly didn’t care. There were days I didn’t get up. Now I have hope.”

This was the first year the program was held in McHenry County, Hope Takes Action Director Bill Meath said.

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul’s National Council started incorporating it in 2012, and since then it has spread to more than 300 communities through-

out the country, Meath said.

Six McHenry County participants graduated Thursday after completing the 20-week “Getting Ahead in a JustGettin’-By World” workshop series and mentoring program, Meath said.

Classes were three hours a night once a week at The Church of Holy Apostles

See HOPE TAKES ACTION, page A3

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bkeeperman@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – The City Council will discuss a planned road construction project that some worry could put the brakes on business along Route 47 in Woodstock.

Business owners are encouraged to attend the City Council meeting Tuesday to discuss the effect of the proposed Route 47 widening project.

The Woodstock City Council will meet to discuss the proposed plan at 7 p.m. at Woodstock City Hall. Illinois Department of Transportation officials will be present to provide an overview of the design and answer questions.

IDOT plans to widen about 5 miles along Route 47 between Charles Road and Route 14 to allow for two lanes of traffic in each direction, separated by a raised curb median, according to city documents.

The most common problem drivers find on Route 47 is congestion, Public Works Director Jeff Van Landuyt said.

However, the construction could have a significant effect on businesses in that corridor, he added.

“People want to stay away from construction, and so they may go someplace else,” he said. “If people are driving, and it’s not convenient or they don’t feel comfortable navigating, they might avoid the area.”

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If you go: WHAT: Woodstock City Council meeting WHERE: 121 W. Calhoun St. WHEN: 7 p.m. Tuesday INFO: www.woodstockil.gov Business owners previously have expressed concern that the median will reduce access to their stores, as well. Tuesday will be one of the last meetings on the topic before the public hearing, which is expected to be in the summer.

IDOT proposes five roundabouts at different intersections along Route 47.

Sidewalk and bicycle path improvements also are part of the proposed plan. Officials have said the changes will make the road safer and easier for drivers to navigate.

The project still is in its early stages. Funding for the remaining phases of the project – which include land acquisition, construction and construction engineering – are not included in IDOT’s five-year proposed highway improvement program as of yet, according to the city.

“We’ve been told that even if it was funded today, it would still be two or three years before we start seeing construction,” Van Landuyt said.

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It will be a cloudy start to the day along with a slight chance for showers. High pressure will quickly build in, resulting in rapid clearing. Once again, the air mass will remain very mild. Nearrecord warmth will continue through Wednesday with a slight cooling trend Thursday. Showers and storms will arrive Thursday night and Friday.

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Moonrise tomorrow ................. 3:53 a.m.

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Early voting ongoing leading up to area township primaries

By KEVIN P. CRAVER

kcraver@shawmedia.com Republican voters in Algonquin, Nunda and Grafton townships can vote early right up to their Feb. 28 primaries.

The number of Republican candidates for several township races prompted the need for primary races, and the primary winners will advance to the April 4 consolidated election. Voters every four years elect their township representatives along with their choices for municipal, school, park, library and other boards.

Grafton Township voters have three contested primary races.

Eric Ruth and Joseph Holtorf are running to succeed James Kearns, who was elected in November to the McHenry County Board, as township supervisor.

Dina Frigo and Kathleen Watson

are running for village clerk to succeed Kathryn Hurley, and incumbent Highway Commissioner Tom Poznanzki faces challengers Steven Stoltzman and Frank Kearns.

Voters in Nunda Township have contested primaries for all seats except village clerk.

Incumbent Supervisor Lee Jennings faces challengers Catherine Williams and County Board member Michael Walkup. Assessor Mark Dzemske, who was appointed last year to fill out Dennis Jagla’s term after he retired, faces a challenge from candidate Justin Franzke. Incumbent Highway Commissioner “Iron” Mike Lesperance faces a challenge from candidate Eric Dowd.

Seven candidates are running for four open trustee seats. Incumbent Trustees Ed Dvorak, William Boltz, Karen Tynis and Mike Shorten are being challenged by candidates Tim Parrish, Rob Parrish and Debra Heath.

In Algonquin Township, all township offices save for the assessor have contested primaries.

Township Clerk Charles Lutzow Jr. and Crystal Lake City Council mem-

ber Ellen Brady Mueller are seeking to succeed outgoing Supervisor Diane Klemm. Candidates Karen Lukasik and Trustee Melissa Sanchez-Fisher are running to succeed Lutzow as clerk. Incumbent Highway Commissioner Robert Miller faces a challenge from County Board candidate Andrew Gasser.

Seven candidates are running for four open trustee seats. Incumbents Dan Shea and Russell Cardelli face challenges from Terence Ferenc, Melissa Victor, Rachael Lawrence, David Chapman and Scott Taillet.

Seven early voting polling locations will be open through Monday in Woodstock, Crystal Lake, Huntley, Lake in the Hills and McHenry. A list of locations and hours is available on the county website at www.co.mchenry. il.us or by calling 815-334-4242.

Townships have three statutory responsibilities under Illinois law – maintain township roads, assess property and distribute general assistance. Pressure has been mounting on lawmakers to pass legislation making it easier to consolidate or eliminate them.

Huntley student who distributed racist pamphlets will not be criminally charged

By JORDYN REILAND

jreiland@shawmedia.com HUNTLEY – A Huntley High School student who distributed racist pamphlets in school will not be criminally charged, the McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office said.

A minor student shared and distributed the pamphlet Feb. 3 among classmates and online. The pamphlet, a copy of which previously was emailed to the Northwest Herald, is titled “N.....

Owner’s Manual” and contains dozens of uses of the racial slur and other offensive material.

Many students reported being upset by the pamphlets, with some saying they had to leave class or alter routines to compose themselves. Students brought the incident to school officials, and they were able to identify who was distributing the material.

State’s Attorney Patrick Kenneally said his office found the content of the pamphlet “disgraceful and purveying a message that is unacceptable in this community,” but it ultimately could

“The pamphlet, as revolting as it is, appears to be meant as satire.”

McHenry County State’s Attorney memorandum not prove the student guilty of a criminal offense because of the First Amendment, according to a statement.

The office explained in a detailed memorandum why it chose not to pursue criminal charges of disorderly conduct or a hate crime against the minor student.

An investigation determined the student handed out 10 to 15 copies of the pamphlet while at school before and between classes, as well as at lunch.

The student did not give the pamphlet to any black students, and received copies of it from another student, the memorandum stated.

The bottom of the pamphlet stated, “This manual is a joke and is for enter-

tainment purposes only.”

“The pamphlet, as revolting as it is, appears to be meant as satire,” according to the memorandum.

“By our judgment in this case, neither do we mean to suggest that the minor suspect’s conduct on Feb. 3 cannot be severely redressed by his parents, school officials and through social sanction. Indeed it ought to be,” the memorandum stated. “We find the minor suspect’s decision to share this pamphlet to be appalling.

“Sadly a troubled teenager conniving personal attention by eliciting a strong reaction may very well have been the point. However and in view of the overriding and resolute demands of the First Amendment, we find the specific facts as currently alleged cannot sustain criminal charges.”

Huntley Consolidated School District 158 Director of Communication and Public Engagement Dan Armstrong said earlier this month that the district couldn’t legally discuss what disciplinary action had or had not been taken with the student.

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CARY – The McHenry County Planning and Development Department is hosting a public open house so residents can give their input on the Fox River Corridor Plan in Lake and McHenry counties.

The open house will be from 4:30 to 7 p.m. March 2 at Cary Village Hall, 655 Village Hall Drive.

The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning and the county planning and development department are working with other local governments to create a plan to improve water quality, multimodal transportation access, commerce, and recreation and open

space along the Fox River, according to a news release from CMAP. Organizers are looking to hear opinions on the strengths and challenges of the Fox River area spanning from Route 176 in Burtons Bridge to Cold Springs Road in Cary.

The area includes portions of Cary, Fox River Grove, Island Lake, Lake Barrington, Oakwood Hills, Port Barrington, Tower Lakes and Trout Valley, according to the release.

People also can share their thoughts on a survey on the project’s website at www.cmap.illinois.gov.

CMAP created a plan for the Fox River in Algonquin and Carpentersville in December 2015.

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“What they do in the class is they look at resources they have and resources they need in order to escape poverty – more so than just money.”

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in McHenry.

“What they do in the class is they look at resources they have and resources they need in order to escape poverty – more so than just money,” Meath said, adding that the 11 resources everyone needs to have a full life that the program examines include financial, emotional and spiritual needs, as well as a support system.

Part of the class also is investigating what resources are available in the community and how they can be improved, Meath said.

Through the program, participants – who were McHenry and Woodstock residents ranging from age 43 to 64 – were paired with long-term mentors who will continue to help them with their personal plans of action after graduation.

“A lot of people in poverty don’t have what we call social connections,” Meath said. “They don’t have role models. They don’t have people around them that want to see them improve their lives. This provides that on a long-term basis.”

Zavorski said she’s excited to have a mentor to reach out to as she continues to work on her goals of going back to school to earn a culinary and pastry degree, and someday opening her own business.

“When I’m done and I finally get to where I’m happy with things, I’m going to be a success story,” Zavorski,

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Hope Takes Action classmates Michael Moore (right) and Rosie Leith talk Thursday about the speeches they gave at graduation. Hope Takes Action is a program that helps people living in long-term poverty become self-sufficient. Classes are held at The Church of Holy Apostles in McHenry.

52, said adding she would like to be a mentor for the next program.

The five other graduates from the program are on similar tracks to escaping poverty, Meath said.

Rosie Leith, a 57-year-old McHenry resident, said the program helped her feel less self-conscious about living in poverty by being around others in similar situations.

“It’s embarrassing, and so you don’t want to talk to anybody about it,” Leith said. “And people don’t understand.”

Having mentors, however, helps her feel less alone, Leith said, and it helps her get out of her own head.

Michael Moore, a 62-year-old

McHenry resident, struggled after his wife died, and he wasn’t able to work for medical reasons.

“I was ready to just give up and lay down, and figure I was going to die one of these days,” Moore said. “But then through this program, I found all kinds of resources that help me.”

Seeing other people in the program work to turn their lives around inspired him, Moore said. Now he plans on learning how to use a computer so he can take classes at McHenry County College.

Meath said he hopes to have a dozen participants for the next Getting Ahead session, which will start around August. Bridges Out of Pover-

ty educational seminars will be held for the community before the start of the next program to give potential participants and volunteers more information on Hope Takes Action.

The $15,000 it cost to start the first program came from grants from the McHenry County Community Foundation, the Mental Health Resource League for McHenry County, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and other donations, Meath said. To donate to the next program, visit hopetakesaction.net.

For information or to learn about opportunities to volunteer, contact Meath at 815-385-3251 or info@hopetakesaction.net.

• Jennifer M. Cantu, 42, 9890 Wakefield Lane, Huntley, deceptive practices.

• Dominique M. Richmond, 32, 307 N. Lily Lake Road, McHenry, three counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, three counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance and unlawful possession of ammunition without an FOID card.

• Steven M. Haller, 19, 1201 Rocky Beach Road, Johnsburg, unlawful possession of a controlled substance, criminal trespass to real property.

• Andres Villalobos, 19, 11840 Everglades Road, Huntley, unlawful possession of cannabis with intent to deliver, unlawful possession of cannabis, unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia.

• Theresa K. Hawkins, 59, 2006 Aspen Drive, Woodstock, retail theft.

• Joel Escobar-Baron, 23, 810 Northfield Court, No. 2, Harvard, aggravated criminal sexual abuse.

• Eric D. Bender, 31, 3781 Bunker Hill Drive, Algonquin, obstructing justice, obstructing identification, driving with a revoked license.

McHENRY COUNTY GRAND JURY INDICTMENTS Cobblestone Court, Johnsburg, retail theft.

WOODSTOCK – A McHenry County • Edward J. Rabe, 33, 8904 Ramble grand jury this past week indicted these Road, Wonder Lake, two counts of people on these charges: retail theft of items more than $300, • Jason D. Peter, 32, 916 Hiawatha two counts of retail theft subsequent Lane, Marengo, harassment via electron- offense. ic communication.

• Michelle L. Brown, 42, 7718 Finch St., • Gustavo Cardenas, 25, 5210 Harry Spring Grove, two counts of aggravated Court, Crystal Lake, aggravated battery. battery to a peace officer.

• Tyler J. Chrisman, 19, 1016 N. Ches• Christopher J. Strauss, 31, 24616 W. terfield Court, McHenry, mob action, Clinton Drive, Round Lake, retail theft aggravated battery. of items more than $500 subsequent • Joseph Allen Vague-Wihon, 29, 1505 offense.

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crafts, gardening, and spending time with her book club. A favorite pastime was proudly displaying her handiworks in craft shows with her mother. Most of all, Lynnette enjoyed Send obituary information to obits@ spending time with her loved ones and family nwherald.com or call 815-526-4438. members, particularly her granddaughters.

Notices are accepted until 3 p.m. for She is survived by her parents; husband; the next day’s edition. Obituaries also children, Robert L. Ludwigsen of Richland, appear online at NWHerald.com/obits, WA, Aaron Ludwigsen of Crystal Lake; two where you may sign the guest book, grandchildren, Anya and Annabelle Ludsend flowers or make a memorial wigsen; three sisters, Sheryl Beenken Wohlf, donation.

Mary (Douglas) Leifheit, and Debra (William) Craig; 3 nieces, Rachael (Pierre) Letourneau, ROBERT JAMES HALSALL Emily Wohlf, and Nicole Leifheit; nephew, CHARLES F. BENES Paul (Holly) Leifheit; uncles, Terry and Darwin Robert James Halsall, age 74, of Algonquin Olson; unofficial daughter, Jennifer Boksa Charles F. “Chuck” Benes, age 92, of passed away on Saturday, February 18, 2017. Ludwigsen; oh so many cousins; and special McHenry, died Thursday, February 16, 2017, Arrangements are incomplete at the Miller friend, confidant and caretaker, Betty Jean at Alden Terrace of McHenry.

Stoltze of Crystal Lake.

Funeral arrangements are pending at Justen Funeral Home, West Dundee.

Visitation will be held at Querhammer & Funeral Home & Crematory, 3700 Charles J. Flagg Funeral Home, 500 W. Terra Cotta Ave. Miller Road, McHenry, IL 60050. For informain Crystal Lake on Thursday, Feb. 23rd from tion, please call the funeral home at 815-385- LYNNETTE F. LUDWIGSEN 12:00 to 1:00 PM, followed by a celebration of 2400, or visit www.justenfh.com.

Born: December 3, 1951; in Blue Earth, MN life there after. Rev. Sally Harris will officiate.

Died: February 18, 2017; in Crystal Lake, IL Interment in Windridge Memorial Park will be Lynnette F. Ludwigsen, 65, private.

RENA A. CANTO Arrangements by Querhammer & Flagg of Crystal Lake died peaceBorn: August 20, 1942 Funeral Home (815) 459-1760. Online condofully in her home Saturday, Died: February 17, 2017 lences may be made at www.querhammerFebruary 18th after a long and courageous fight with cancer. andflagg.com.

Rena A. Canto, 74, of Woodstock, passed She was born Dec. 3rd, away Friday, February 17, 2017 at Valley 1951 in Blue Earth, Minnesota Hi Nursing Home surrounded by her loving MADELINE M. ROBERTS to Leonard and LaVonne (Olson) Beenken. family.

Born: September 28, 1945; in Chicago, IL She was born on August 20, 1942 in Mount Lynnette graduated from Logan High School Died: February 18, 2017; in Rockford, IL Clemens, MI to William and Doris (O’Connor) in LaCrosse, Wisconsin in 1970. Lynnette married Robert W. Ludwigsen on March 29, Lambert.

Madeline M. Roberts, 71, formerly of Rena worked as a CNA for Valley Hi Nursing 1975 in Crystal Lake, IL. She graduated from Marengo, passed away February 18, 2017 in Home and the Woodstock Residents Nursing Northern Illinois University with a master’s Rockford.

Home for many years. She was a loving, car- degree in education. Lynnette first taught Born September 28, 1945 in Chicago; she ing, and passionate person with a great sense English at McHenry West High School, where she met her devoted husband. After spending was the daughter of David and Leona (Caruof humor and she will be greatly missed. so) Roberts. An avid horse rider, she enjoyed many years lovingly focused on raising her She is survived by her children, Douglas arts and crafts, movies, animals, movies, Howard Benedict, Ronald Harrison Benedict, sons Lynnette returned to teaching, first at being outside with nature, riding her bike to MCC, then at Marian Central HS, and finally and Tracy Anne Benedict; Benjamin (Digna) the library, reading books, and spending time Canto Jr., Eduardo (Josephine) Canto, Reynal- retired after several years at Northwood with her family.

Middle School in Woodstock. do (Elisa) Canto, Rufino Canto, Rose Belinda She is survived by her brother, Robert Lynnette and Robert loved camping and Canto, and Lucita Canto; numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren; her sisters-in- exploring the world, particularly scenic Route (Diana) Roberts; nieces, Michele (Chris) Rion and Nicole Goode; and a nephew, Thomas law, Jennie Lambert, and Amy Smith; and her 66. She also had many other interests and (Jamie) Goode. talents, such as quilting, knitting, arts and uncle, Dean Lambert.

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She was preceded in death by her parents; and her loving husband, Benjamin Canto Sr. A visitation will be held on Saturday, February 25, 2017 from 2:00 to 6:00pm at the Schneider Leucht Merwin & Cooney Funeral Home, 1211 N. Seminary Ave. in Woodstock.

All other services will be private.

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

Madeline was preceded in death by her parents.

Visitation 4:00 until 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, February 22, 2017, at Marengo-Union Funeral Home, 505 E. Grant Hwy, Marengo. Funeral service 10:00 a.m. Thursday, February 23, 2017 at the funeral home. Burial will take place in River Valley Memorial Gardens, West Dundee.

Online condolences may be submitted at www.marengo-unionfuneralhome.com.

DAVID W. WIEGEL

Born: December 9, 1950; in Des Plaines, IL Died: February 17, 2017; in Woodstock, IL David W. Wiegel, age 66, of McHenry and formerly of Cary, passed away February 17, 2017 at JourneyCare in Woodstock.

He was born December 9, 1950 in Des Plaines, IL, the son of Gottfried H. and Beatrice E. Wiegel, they precede him in death.

David is survived by his wife, Betty J. (Canalini) Wiegel; his children, Matthew (Jen Poremba) Wiegel, Daniel (Kayle Lauth) Wiegel and Jessica (Matt) Reuter; his grandchildren, Sydney Wiegel, Emily Wiegel and Scarlett Reuter; as well as two sisters, Susan (David) Nelson and Mona Westfall.

David worked for the Cary Park District followed by the Crystal Lake Park District for 30 years.

Visitation will take place on Wednesday, February 22, 2017 from 4:00 PM until 8:00 PM with a Service at 7:00 PM at the Kahle-Moore Funeral Home, 403 Silver Lake Rd., Cary.

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CHILDREN’S STORYTIME

WHEN: 10:30 a.m. Feb. 21 WHERE: Read Between the Lynes, 111 E. Van Buren St., Woodstock COST & INFO: A free storytime hosted weekly. Children of all ages welcome. Free. Information: 815-206-5967 www.readbetweenthelynes.com or arlene@ readbetweenthelynes.com.

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WILLIAMS STREET REPERTORY AUDITIONS

WHEN: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 21 WHERE: 140 W. Terra Cotta Ave., Crystal Lake COST & INFO: Williams Street Repertory, the professional in-house theater company for the Raue Center for the Arts, is looking for actors for the summer and fall 2017-2018 season.

Auditions for “Guys and Dolls” and “Little Shop of Horrors” are scheduled. Information: “Play with us” at www.wsrep.org.

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CHRISTY MATHEWSON

WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. Feb. 21 WHERE: Harvard Diggins Library, 900 E. McKinley St., Harvard COST & INFO: In “America’s First Sports Hero,” hear about Mathewson’s accomplishments on and off the field – a college athlete, Hall of Fame baseball player, playwright, war veteran and more. Free. Reserve a spot at 815-943-4671. Information: www.harvard-diggins.org.

STUDENTS OF THE MONTH – Marengo Community High School students Sydney Row and Bryan Zuniga were selected as the Indian Pride Outstanding Students of the Month for January. They were recognized for their community service, good grades and good attendance. Row is a senior who is involved with Future Farmers of America, including volunteering monthly at the MORE Center. She also participates in track and field, National Honor Society, the Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering team and theater. Zuniga is a junior who is a member of the Latino Advisory Group, helping to plan many activities for Spanish-speaking families. He also plays lacrosse. Pictured (from left) are Zuniga, Indian Pride award sponsor Tom Jurs and Row.

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• 9:30 to 10 a.m. – 3 and 4 years old storytime (STEM), Crystal Lake Public Library, 126 W. Paddock St., Crystal Lake.

Information: www.clpl.org.

• 10 to 11:30 a.m. – English Conversation Club/Vamos a Conversar!, Woodstock Public Library, 414 W. Judd St., Woodstock.

A casual small group setting in which to practice English conversation skills with other adults who speak English as a second language. Information: www.woodstockpubliclibrary.org.

• 10:30 to 11 a.m. – Drop-in birth to 5 storytime, Crystal Lake Public Library, 126 W. Paddock St., Crystal Lake. Children must be accompanied by a parent or adult caregiver.

Information: www.clpl.org.

• 10:30 to 11 a.m. – Books and Babies storytime, Woodstock Public Library, 414 W. Judd St., Woodstock. Books, songs, activities and playtime during each lap-sit program. Information: www.woodstockpubliclibrary.org.

• 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. – Get to Know Go-

odreads, Crystal Lake Public Library, 126 W. Paddock St., Crystal Lake. Goodreads is a social network for book lovers. Learn how to keep track of the books you’ve read, recommend books to your friends, create book reviews and discover what to read next. Registration required at www.clpl.org.

Information: 815-459-1687.

• 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. – Brush Bots, grades 4-8, Crystal Lake Public Library, 126 W. Paddock St., Crystal Lake. Create a simple micro robot using a toothbrush head and a micro-motor. All supplies provided. CLPL cardholders only. Registration required at www.clpl.org. Information: 815-459-1687.

• 6 to 7 p.m. – Coffee With The Chief, Crystal Lake Police Department, 100 W. Woodstock St. Do you have any questions on IRS Scams? You’re not alone. Featuring a guest speaker from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Seating is limited. R.S.V.P. to Officer Ed Pluviose at 815-356-3731 or epluviose@crystallake.org.

Information: email info@clchamber.com.

• 6:30 to 9 p.m. – Mindshifters group, Unity Spiritual Center of Woodstock, 225 W. Calhoun St., Woodstock. This supportive group, facilitated by Dr. Tim Hayes, watches a one-hour videotaped lecture by Dr. Michael Ryce, author of “Why is this Happening to me...

Again,” in which he presents a series of selfhelp tools for personal and spiritual growth. The group then discusses the material and applies the practical tools presented. Free. Information:

Lost Valley Visitor Center is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily for Nature Detectives, a self-guided outdoor family exploration event. Start the adventure at the visitor center in Glacial Park at Route 31 and Harts Road in Ringwood.

Indoor displays and activities will get you ready for an outdoor exploration, and each month a new topic is featured.

February’s topic is Winter Trees. Read the story “A Tree for All Seasons” and then learn how to show your family a magic trick about photosynthesis. Play a matching game to learn how to identify trees in winter and then go out for a hike for a winter tree scavenger hunt.

Visitors who wish to borrow items to take out for a hike must leave a drivers’ license and must return items 30 minutes before closing. For information, call Prairieview Education Center at 815-4795779.

815-337-3534, thayes@ch4cs.com or http:// unitywoodstock.org.

• 7 to 8 p.m. – Stress & Its Affect on Hormones, Crystal Lake Park District, 1 E. Crystal Lake Ave., Crystal Lake. For ages 14 and older.

Janice Wodka, practitoner of functional diagnostic nutrition, discusses how stress affect our bodies, how hormone imbalances relate to Osteoporosis, fatigue, premature aging, weight gain, insomnia and more. Program fee: $12 nonresidents, $10 residents.

Information: www.crystallakeparks.org.

• 7 to 8:30 p.m. – Quilters discussion forum, Woodstock Public Library, 414 W. Judd St., Woodstock. Open to any topic related to the art of quilting: construction, design, tools, books and more. Group meets on the third Tuesday of each month. Information: www.woodstockpubliclibrary.org.

• 7 p.m. – “Engaging Citizens in Civic Ecology Practices,” McHenry County College Luecht Conference Center, 8900 Route 14, Crystal Lake.

Great Lakes Bioneers Speaker Series presentation

by Tania M. Schusler, lecturer at Loyola University Institute for Environmental Sustainability and coordinator of Solutions to Environmental Problems (STEP). Free. Information: 815-479-7765 or www. mchenry.edu/bioneers.

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

Photos may be emailed to neighbors@nwherald.com.

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Newspaper Enterprise Association TODAY – Look for alternatives whenever you are faced with daunting situations.

Emotions will be difficult to handle if you aren’t willing to compromise and move forward. Don’t dwell on the past when you should be embracing the future. How you approach life will determine how successful you become.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – Helping others without taking on too much or overdoing it will be difficult. Make suggestions, but don’t feel obliged to shirk your responsibilities to help someone else get ahead.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) – Size up your professional position and consider how to

make gains. You can garner greater approval through your response to a volatile situation.

Discipline and honesty will pay off.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – Try giving back to society and see what happens. Getting involved in a cause that you care about will bring you closer to a solution that serves you well. You can’t complain if you don’t take part.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – Concentrate on how you can improve your assets in order to get ahead. Don’t trust anyone to take care of your responsibilities. Use your intelligence and stamina to advance.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) – Short trips that offer insight into different ways of doing things will be beneficial. Partnerships will face some hardships requiring unusual solu-

tions. Be willing to compromise.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – Personal improvements will give you the competitive edge and confidence you need to forge ahead.

Personal gratification will be yours if you work hard and believe in your abilities.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – Listen to the people you encounter at community events. Be a participant and make a difference. There are causes out there that need your help, and groups that could use your presence.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – You must take what others are telling you seriously. You stand to gain by the information you receive.

Don’t allow your emotions to take you in a direction that you’ll regret.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – Changes you make at home will add to your comfort and

encourage you to indulge in something you’ve wanted to pursue for some time. Your insight will be uncanny.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – Look beyond familiarities and delve into something that makes you more aware of the changes you want to make to improve your life and personal situation.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – If you think deeply about what’s happened in the past, you will discover a way to get around a sticky situation that someone is pushing you toward.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – An opportunity will develop to make money or to invest in something that will give you greater freedom to explore your skills and talents. Call in favors to ensure your success.

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Workers’ comp for pro athletes in question

By KIANNAH SEPEDA–MILLER The Associated Press

SPRINGFIELD – Should injured pro athletes be allowed to earn workers’ compensation benefits until they are 67 years old, like other workers, even if their athletic careers normally would have ended more than 30 years earlier?

That issue is being debated between the Chicago Bears and the NFL Players Association in the Illinois Legislature as one unlikely element of a compromise proposal to end a nearly two-year fight over the state’s budget.

The Bears are leading other Chicago sports franchises in backing a measure that would reduce a former player’s ability to tap into workers’ compensation after a career-ending injury. They want to cap certain payments to athletes at no older than 35 or five years after their injury. Currently they can claim benefits up to age 67, like other workers.

Neither the teams nor players’ advocates will say how much money is at stake. They agree it is not a relatively big pot – while theoretically some could claim millions, most if not all athletes settle their claims for reduced sums up front, the players association said.

Only a handful of pro players filed for the benefit here in the past four years, although the association would

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Illinois schools adapting to new ‘asthma emergency’ law

CHICAGO – School personnel across Illinois are adapting to a new state law that requires districts to have an emergency protocol to deal with asthma emergencies.

Under the law, anyone who works with students must be trained to handle asthma emergencies. All children with asthma must have a written “asthma action plan” at the school as well, the Chicago Tribune reported. Gov. Bruce Rauner signed the legislation in August, and it went into effect Jan. 1.

Mothers such as Sheri Hurdle, whose 12-year-old daughter, Imanni, has severe asthma, still worry. Hurdle previously has made sure that school staff had the medication and training needed to keep

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State Sen. Napoleon Harris, D-Harvey – a former NFL linebacker – speaks Jan. 13, 2016, at the Capitol in Springfield. The Chicago Bears and the NFL Players Association are at odds over a workers’ compensation benefit bill in the Illinois Legislature. not identify them or describe their individual cases.

But one example in the public record of an athlete who claimed this compensation is former Bears offensive lineman Ted Albrecht, a firstround draft choice whose career ended with a back injury in 1982. An arbitrator tried to deny his claim, but an

appeals court ruled he was entitled to receive an award based on the difference between his $130,000 Bears salary and what he later earned as a travel agent and sportscaster, which ranged from $87,000 to $36,000 between 1983 and 1986.

The Bears said Illinois’ law regulating compensation is overly generous.

her daughter safe while she attended Walter S. Christopher Elementary School in Chicago.

“It can be overwhelming and scary,” Hurdle said. “Now that she’s older and stronger, managing her asthma has become less intense, but nevertheless it remains a daily priority.”

a Democratic governor.

Two Democrats already have announced they’re running. They are businessman Chris Kennedy and Chicago Alderman Ameya Pawar.

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U.S. Rep. Bustos: Not running for Illinois governor in 2018

MOLINE – Democratic U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos said she won’t run for Illinois governor in 2018.

In a statement Monday, Bustos said she decided staying in Congress is “the best way for me to continue getting real results for working families across the heartland.”

Bustos recently was elected to Democratic leadership in the U.S. House, where she is co-chairwoman of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee.

The East Moline resident had said publicly for months that she was considering challenging Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner.

She said Monday that she looks forward to “actively campaigning” to elect

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Ex-Illinois prosecutor’s 2nd murder trial set next week

QUINCY – A retrial is set to begin next week for a former Illinois prosecutor charged with first-degree murder for the 2006 death of his first wife.

The Quincy Herald-Whig reported that Curtis Lovelace’s second murder trial is scheduled to start Feb. 27 in Sangamon County.

The former Adams County assistant state’s attorney was arrested in 2014 and accused of suffocating 38-year-old Cory Lovelace in their Quincy home.

Lovelace said he discovered her dead in bed after he dropped their children off at school. His first murder trial ended with a deadlocked jury.

Lovelace was released from jail last year after a judge lowered his bond from $5 million to $3.5 million and friends posted

They also argue the existing rules attract players from other states to file claims in Illinois.

“Will there be savings? Yes, there will be savings,” Bears attorney Cliff Stein said.

But the Bears said the measure is really about being fair to other Illinois workers with longer careers in other fields.

NFL Players Association spokesman George Atallah said the benefits provide a lifeline to players whose athletic careers end suddenly – especially lower paid athletes performing just on practice teams or in minor leagues, who may lack sufficient savings and education to fall back on.

“The savings to these (team) owners are negligible whereas the benefits to these players are everything,” Richard Gordon, an attorney who represents NFL players, told The Associated Press.

Napoleon Harris, a former NFL linebacker and now a Democrat in the Illinois Senate, opposes the provision.

He said it would unfairly “carve out” professional athletes from laws meant to protect employees.

“It almost feels like players are being used,” Harris said. “The owner’s not limping after the game, but the owner’s collecting billions of dollars in profits.”

the $350,000 needed for his release. He’s currently on home confinement.

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Metra buys shooting range for its police officers

BLUE ISLAND – Officials with Metra said their police officers likely will start training at the Chicago commuter rail line’s own shooting range this spring.

Metra Police Chief Joseph Perez told the Daily Herald that the department is waiting for a concrete pad to be installed at the range, which is located in the southern Chicago suburb of Blue Island.

The agency bought the range for $509,000. Metra directors approved funding for the facility in November. It can be used year-round because it has heating and air conditioning. It consists of two joined steel shipping containers.

Officials said police spent about $120,000 in overtime on firearms training last year.

Officials said the new range will eliminate those costs. Metra officers used to train at Chicago and Illinois state police facilities.

– Wire reports

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The Supreme Court is seen at day’s end Feb. 14 in Washington, D.C. The Supreme Court on Tuesday is hearing an appeal to a case involving a 2010 shooting of a Mexican boy by a U.S. Border Patrol agent.

By MARK SHERMAN The Associated Press

WASHINGTON – Sixty feet and the U.S-Mexico border separated the unarmed, 15-year-old Mexican boy and the U.S. Border Patrol agent who killed him with a gunshot to the head early on a June evening in 2010.

U.S. officials chose not to prosecute Agent Jesus Mesa Jr. and the Obama administration refused a request to extradite him so that he could face criminal charges in Mexico. When the parents of Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca tried to sue Mesa in an American court for violating their son’s rights, federal judges dismissed their claims.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday is hearing the parents’ appeal, which their lawyers said is their last hope for some measure of justice.

The legal issues are different, but the Supreme Court case resembles the court battle over President Donald Trump’s ban on travelers from seven majority Muslim nations in at least one sense. Courts examining both issues are weighing whether foreigners can

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have their day in U.S. courts.

Privacy experts also are watching the case because it could affect how courts treat global internet surveillance, particularly when foreigners are involved.

It’s there that the “Fourth Amendment question in Hernandez seems to matter most,” George Washington University law professor Orin Kerr wrote on the Volokh Conspiracy blog.

The Fourth Amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures.

Precisely what happened in the cement culvert that separates El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, is in dispute, although the competing accounts are legally irrelevant to the court’s decision.

Sergio’s family said he was messing around with his friends that day, playing a game in which they ran down the culvert from the Mexican side and up the American side to touch an 18-foot fence. Mesa arrived on a bicycle and detained one person while the others

scampered back across the culvert, actually the dry bed of the Rio Grande River. He then shot Sergio as the boy ran toward a pillar supporting an overhead rail bridge. Mesa and other agents who arrived on the scene rode away on their bikes, without checking on the boy or offering medical aid, the family says.

The Justice Department said Mesa was trying to stop “smugglers attempting an illegal border crossing” and fired his gun after he came under a barrage of rocks. Mesa argues in his court filings that Sergio was among the rock throwers.

But Robert Hilliard, the family’s lawyer, said U.S. officials met privately with the parents to explain the decision not to prosecute Mesa and told them that their son had not thrown rocks. A cellphone video appears to show that Sergio was running and trying to hide before he was shot.

Had Sergio been shot a few feet to the north, he would have been on American soil and U.S. courts would be open to his family, Hilliard said.

There’s no dispute that Mesa was on the U.S. side of the border, he said.

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died unexpectedly Monday after falling ill in his office at Russia’s SAN FRANCISCO – Forecasters U.N. mission.

Vitaly Churkin was taken to a issued flash flood warnings Monday throughout the San Francis- hospital, where he died a day before his 65th birthday, said Rusco Bay Area and elsewhere in Northern California as downpours sia’s deputy U.N. ambassador, Vladimir Safronkov. The cause of swelled creeks and rivers in the his death was unknown. already soggy region.

As Russia’s envoy at the The National Weather Service United Nations since 2006 and said heavy rain was expected a diplomat for decades, Churkin to persist into the evening and was considered Moscow’s great cause flooding on the Carmel champion at the U.N., where he River in Monterey County and was the longest-serving ambasCoyote Creek in Santa Clara sador on the powerful Security County.

Council.

In the San Joaquin Valley, residents were patrolling levees N. Korean envoy blasts for signs of danger, reviewing Malaysians, calls for probe evacuation plans and filling KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia hundreds of sand bags as the San – North Korea’s ambassador Joaquin River kept rising. to Malaysia denounced the “Our community is pulling together like real champs,” said San country’s investigation into the Joaquin River Club resident Paula death of the exiled half brother Martin, who is helping coordinate of North Korea’s ruler, calling it politically motivated and emergency plans for the private demanding a joint probe amid neighborhood of 800 homes. increasingly bitter exchanges The weather service issued snow and wind advisories, includ- between the once-friendly nations. ing a flash flood warning for the Malaysia responded with its Soberanes burn area in Monterey County. It said winds could reach own accusations, with a foreign 60 mph in the San Francisco Bay ministry statement saying the ambassador’s comments were Area. “culled from delusions, lies and half-truths.” Early Monday, Russia’s ambassador to U.N. falls ill, dies at age 64 Malaysia said it was recalling its ambassador to Pyongyang.

NEW YORK – Russia’s ambasThe diplomatic spat comes in sador to the United Nations, a veteran diplomat known as a po- the wake of the death last week tent, savvy yet personable voice of Kim Jong Nam, who died after for his country’s interests who apparently being poisoned in the could both spar and get along Kuala Lumpur airport.

– Wire reports with his Western counterparts,

Trump looks to move past controversial month

By JULIE PACE

The Associated Press WASHINGTON – As President Donald Trump begins his second month in office, his team is trying to move past the crush of controversies that overtook his first month and make progress on health care and tax overhauls long sought

by Republicans.

Both issues thrust Trump, a real estate executive who has never held elected office, into the unfamiliar world of legislating. The president has thus far relied exclusively on executive powers to muscle through policy priorities and has offered few details about what he’ll require in any final legislative packages, like how the proposals should be paid for.

The White House also sent conflicting signals about whether the president will send Congress his own legislative blueprints or let lawmakers drive the process.

White House chief of staff Reince Priebus told The Associated Press that he expects a health care plan to emerge in “the first few days of March.”

Pressed on whether the plan would be coming from the White House, Priebus said, “We don’t work in a vacuum.”

On Sunday, White House advisers held a three-hour meeting on health care at Trump’s South Florida club, their third lengthy discussion on the topic in four days. Gary Cohn, the former Goldman Sachs banker now serving as Trump’s top economic adviser, and newly sworn in Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin have been leading talks with Republican lawmakers and business leaders on taxes. Neither man has previous government experience.

Republicans long blamed Democrats for blocking efforts to overhaul the nation’s complicated tax code and make changes to the sweeping 2010 health care law signed by President Barack Obama. But with the GOP now in control of both the White House and Congress, making good on those promises rests almost entirely with the president and his party.

To some Republicans’ cha-

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President Donald Trump listens as Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster talks Monday at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., where Trump announced that McMaster will be the new national security adviser. grin, both issues were overshadowed during Trump’s first month. The president spent more time publicly fighting the media than selling Americans on his vision for a new health care law. Fresh questions emerged about Trump’s ties to Russia, particularly after national security adviser Michael Flynn was fired for misleading the White House about his conversations with a Russian envoy. The White House botched the rollout of a refugee and immigration executive order, Trump’s most substantive policy initiative to date, and the directive was quickly blocked by the courts.

Priebus said the distractions did not slow down work happening behind the scenes on the president’s legislative priorities.

“Obviously with the White House staff, you’re able to walk and chew gum at the same time,” Priebus said. “The economic team isn’t screwing around with the legal case and the lawyers aren’t screwing around with tax reform.”

One of the biggest questions on Capitol Hill is how involved Trump plans to be in legislative minutia. One GOP leadership aide whose office has been working with the White House described the president as a “big picture guy” and said he expected Trump to defer to Capitol Hill on health care in

particular. The aide was not authorized to speak publicly and insisted on anonymity.

Priebus said he expects Congress to pass both a tax package and legislation repealing and replacing Obama’s health care law by the end of the year.

But the White House’s outward confidence belies major roadblocks on both matters.

After spending years criticizing “Obamacare,” Republicans are grappling with how to replace it and pay for a new law. While some lawmakers worry about getting blamed for taking health insurance away from millions of people, others worry the party won’t go far enough in upending the current system.

“My worry now is that many people are talking about a partial repeal of Obamacare,” said Rep. Rand Paul, R-Ky. “If you only repeal part of it and you leave it some sort of Obamacare light, which some are talking about, my fear is the situation actually gets worse.”

Trump has said he wants to keep popular provisions such as guaranteeing coverage for people with pre-existing medical conditions and allowing young people to stay on their parents’ insurance plans until age 26. He also has raised the prospect of allowing people to buy insurance across states lines, which is not part of the law.

By RAF CASERT

The Associated Press

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Vice President Mike Pence and European Union Council President Donald Tusk address a news conference Monday at the EU Council building in Brussels. Pence is on a two-day visit to meet with EU and NATO officials.

“What we are doing is rolling up our sleeves and saying instead of complaining we are going to take action,” De Croo said in an interview with The Associated Press.

Ten EU nations wrote to the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, telling her that Europe cannot let down women in developing nations whatever the U.S. policy.

“Collectively we have a responsibility not to allow this to happen,” the nations said in a common call against Trump’s order, which massively expanded previous Republican bans on providing federal money to international family planning groups that perform abortions or provide abortion information.

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BRUSSELS – After President Donald Trump’s raucous first month in office, Europeans have reacted with demonstrations, counter-barbs and sheer angst that a century of trans-Atlantic friendship may be sinking.

“Too much has happened,” European Union leader Donald Tusk said Monday, “for us to pretend that everything is as it used to be.”

The governments of some traditional allies have gone a step further, uniting with fundraising plans and a special conference to balance the new U.S. administration’s reverse tack from Barack Obama’s presidency on abortion policies.

Beyond Trump’s orders on immigration, few of the administration’s policies have unsettled many European nations as much as his ban on funding for international groups that perform abortions or provide information about abortions to women in developing nations.

Belgian Vice Premier Alexander De Croo was so shocked that words were not enough. He said European nations, fearful that thousands of women and girls will die without family planning information, already are cooperating to make up as much of funding gap as possible.

trations restricted international funding over abortion, the reaction against the Trump order was much more vociferous.

Within five days of Trump’s action, Dutch Foreign Development Cooperation Minister Lilianne Ploumen said she received thousands of messages from over 150 countries, with many seeking information how to donate funds.

Belgium, Denmark and the Netherlands already have committed $10.5 million each and will host an international pledging conference March 2 to help cover the financial hole Trump left.

The Swedes showed their scorn toward Trump in a different way.

Trump signed the anti-abortion order two days after taking office as seven men looked on in the Oval Office. Soon after, Sweden’s Deputy Prime Minister Isabella Lovin posted on Facebook a photo that showed her signing a government document, surrounded by an all-woman cast.

Lovin said she left it “to the observer to interpret the photo.”

The doubts about Trump made it a tall order for U.S. Vice President Mike Pence during Monday’s talks with Mogherini and other EU leaders.

Pence said that Trump sent him to Europe “to express the strong commitment of the United States to continued cooperation and partnership with the European Union.”

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OPINIONS

NORTHWEST HERALD EDITORIAL BOARD:

Kevin Lyons

Valerie Katzenstein

John Sahly

Kyle Nabors

ANOTHER VIEW

Ethanol, big player in renewable energy There has been so much buzz about solar energy the past couple of weeks in Kearney, Nebraska, that some among us may have forgotten about one of the most dominant and well-established sources of renewable energy – ethanol.

Across the United States, about 70 percent of all gasoline burned in everyday vehicles such as cars and light trucks is blended with ethanol, and of that, ethanol, about 2 billion gallons is produced by the Nebraska’s 25 plants right here in using corn produced right here.

We in farm country are big on ethanol because we know that using Nebraska corn to make it creates a higher demand for the grain harvested in our fields.

Ethanol plants operating in Nebraska consume about 700 million bushels of corn a year.

That’s such a significant demand that it now is difficult to imagine what might happen to the price of corn if ethanol plants weren’t distilling the grain into ethanol.

Ironically, some of the critics of ethanol claim that using so much corn to make fuel is driving up the cost of food, but that’s untrue. Corn used in ethanol doesn’t land on our dinner table.

It’s used for many other things, and one of the byproducts of making ethanol – distillers grains – is a fantastic feed for livestock.

There’s very little waste from the Nebraska-grown corn that goes into ethanol.

We’ve said a lot about the merits of ethanol, but what’s most important is that it’s a clean-burning fuel that reduces emissions almost 80 percent, and it does that by boosting octain without harming engines.

– Kearney Hub

THE FIRST

AMENDMENT

ANOTHER VIEW

Lessons from former presidents

President’s Day may seem somewhat contrived, an attempt to work a three-day weekend into the month when our two greatest national leaders were born, with the goal of making February a little more tolerable. But somewhere under the annual glut of ads for improbable bargains, there’s real meaning to the day, especially in this year of rancor, division and shameless deceit.

It is to be found in the lives of the two men who are the focus of the holiday: George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Their examples have endured; when they cease to matter to us, we will be in trouble.

Washington’s most important contribution to the new nation may have come from the example he set. He was, in the words of historian David Hackett Fischer, a model of “integrity, self-discipline, courage, absolute honesty, resolve and decision, but also forbearance, decency and respect for others.”

This did not necessarily make him a popular figure with everyone. Rather, it made him an honored, respected

and trusted one – the only president to win every electoral vote in both of his elections and the one who set an important precedent by stepping down (with genuine relief) after two terms.

Washington had no need to talk of how “strong” he was. His strength was self-evident.

Lincoln was born poor yet proceeded to rise to the top with the kind of sureness and dignity that does honor to a democratic country. He had little formal schooling, but he educated himself into a command of the English language that puts modern speechwriters to shame. He was a practical politician and sometimes did things he found distasteful. But on the vital issues of his day, he was knowledgeable, eloquent and solidly principled. In a time when a large national party had been pushing to exclude the Irish Catholics and Germans pouring into the country, he voiced praise for immigrants.

A little more than a week before his inauguration, our new president announced he would leave the running of his business interests to his two

eldest sons. Not that he couldn’t handle everything himself, he assured us. “I could actually run my business and run government at the same time,” he said.

In the weeks since, it’s possible that he has learned, the hard way, that the presidency is not a part-time job.

We hope Congress also has learned something in the past month: that with truth, openness and integrity becoming scarce commodities in the White House, and with ethnic nationalist and other anti-democratic forces gaining in many countries, an inescapable challenge is looming before the House and the Senate, the same one presented to another Republican Congress 154 years ago by a president who always spoke with honesty and courage: “We cannot escape history,” Lincoln said then.

“We ... will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.”

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

– The Washington Post

By MARGARET SULLIVAN The Washington Post

the law was enacted 100 years ago.

And reporters were drawn into the fray.

Investigative reporter James Risen of the New York Times faced the very real possibility of jail time for protecting a confidential source during the leak investigation of Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA officer. More extreme still was the Justice Department’s naming of another Washington journalist, James Rosen of Fox News, as a criminal co-conspirator in a different leak case, thus allowing the government to track his phone calls, emails and trips to the State Department.

And it was partly because of the strong criticism of these efforts – both of which eventually were dropped – that new Justice Department guidelines were agreed upon. Then-attorney general Eric Holder eventually said publicly he never wanted a journalist go to jail for doing his work. But the blueprint was there. One of the recent guidelines calls for the attorney general himself to sign off before a reporter is subpoenaed.

That sounds like a formidable obstacle, but in his confirmation hearing earlier this month, Jeff Sessions ducked the question of what he would do.

You might think the First Amendment would protect journalists from getting drawn into court. After all, cases that rely on the First Amendment, especially one related to the Pentagon Papers, prohibit the government from “prior restraint” of publication.

But when it comes to the so-called “reporter’s privilege,” case law is notoriously shaky, and Justice Department guidelines enacted in recent years are well-intentioned but toothless.

“The protections are normative, not legal,” said Susan Hennessey, managing editor of the Lawfare blog and a former National Security Agency attorney.

And folks, we don’t live in Normal Town anymore.

Separately, congressional efforts to enact a federal “shield law” – like those in many states – have seemed promising, but gone nowhere.

Instead, journalists remain dependent on something far less certain: what former Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole (referring to the Justice Department guidelines he helped develop) called a “shadow shield law.”

Trump, meanwhile, has seen the enemy. And it is, well, us.

His media attacks apparently signal strength and resolve to his core supporters.

Make no mistake: This is a calculated move on his part – and, politically, a proven winner.

Will he or his advisers take the next logical step against “the opposition party,” as they call journalists, and pull them into damaging court battles?

If so, a “shadow shield law” sounds like pretty flimsy protection.

• Margaret Sullivan is The Washington Post’s media columnist.

IT’S YOUR WRITE Flynn must be investigated

To the Editor: The New York Times and the Washington Post both ran stories Feb. 10 stating National Security Adviser Michael Flynn inappropriately entered into discussions with the Russian government concerning sanctions imposed by President [Barack] Obama as the result of Russian-backed hacking of the 2016 presidential election. These allegations are corroborated by current and former high ranking security officials from numerous agencies.

Additional inappropriate contacts between Flynn and the Russian government are alleged to have occurred over a prolonged period dating back to before the November election, possibly in attempts to collude with the Russians in swaying the election to then-candidate [Donald] Trump.

It is time for Congress to put aside its internal differences in order to protect the interest of the American people and to “preserve, protect and defend the Consti-

tution of the United States.”

I urge Congress to do all in its power to convene a special select committee to investigate these allegations of misconduct.

The American way of life depends upon it.

Michael Czosnyka Crystal Lake

Toxic White House

To the Editor: In the beginning, the biblical God is said to have created two natural beings – a man, a woman. Then, He coyly admonished them NOT to do what comes naturally. When they did, He went for the throat.

Conservatives like their idols vindictive and authoritarian (hello, Mr. president).

A fellow reader wrote liberals should not be protesting, as if our United States of America was not founded on protest. This fellow reader said this current president (not MY president, for heaven’s sake) has

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been doing good things so far. He alluded to this president who stands against the law and the constitution on a daily basis.

This pathological liar with the eighth-grade conversational skills who placed a racial bigot in charge of protecting our country’s laws. This so-called president with the obvious taint of infantile regression syndrome (look it up) placed a labor scofflaw in charge of our Department of Labor. And the nice lady billionaire who could not an-

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swer the most basic questions regarding public education? She now governs our children’s futures.

Dear conservatives, it is not that Hillary lost, as you constantly claim, that brings our protests. It is the toxicity and the lack of oxygen you introduced into our nation’s White House! Shame on you! Shame!

Art Dulan Crystal Lake

• Tuesday, February 21, 2017

For those who care about press rights in America, President Donald Trump’s words last week were stunning and disturbing.

The news media is not merely “scum,” as he has said many times before, but now “the enemy of the American People.”

This tweeted pronouncement, with its authoritarian echoes, came soon after Trump’s vow to stamp out the unauthorized flow of intelligence-community information to journalists.

“I’ve actually called the Justice Department to look into the leaks,” he said.

“Those are criminal leaks.”

Add up these two elements and you get a troubling question: Will the Trump administration’s crackdown on leaks include journalists as well as their sources?

Some knowledgeable lawyers and academics said it’s unlikely.

“Right now, it’s a deviant practice, certainly not in the ordinary course of business, to subpoena a journalist,” said David Pozen, a Columbia University law professor who wrote the landmark study, “The Leaky Leviathan: Why the Government Condemns and Condones Unlawful Disclosures of Information.”

But, Pozen told me: “If we’re in a new paradigm, that could change.”

That such things already are changing was evident in Trump’s

statement, quoted above, about making an assignment for Justice Department officials – who, after all, are supposed to operate with a measure of independence, choosing their own cases, not as corporate functionaries reporting to the chief executive.

As for a new paradigm, it – or something else quite weird – was on full display in that news conference in which Trump hardly stopped attacking the assembled news media. That surreal 75 minutes included mind-spinning contradictions about real leaks somehow creating “fake news.”

But wait, you might say. Why should journalists be treated any differently from any other citizens? Why shouldn’t they testify about their sources or even be prosecuted themselves when information obtained illegally is published?

Well, because the democracy is built on their ability to serve as a check on government power. They need to be able to do their watchdog job unfettered, and to tell citizens at least some of what their government is doing in secret.

A crucial part of that is the ability to promise confidentiality to sources.

Oddly enough, if the Trump administration goes down the dangerous road of eroding those freedoms, it’s the Obama administration that will have set those wheels in motion. Nine times during the past eight years, the Justice Department used the once-obscure Espionage Act to prosecute leakers – three times the usage of any other administration since

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BUSINESS

Atlanta eyes test tracks for self-driving cars

By JEFF MARTIN Associated Press

ATLANTA – Self-driving vehicles could begin tooling down a bustling Atlanta street full of cars, buses, bicyclists and college students, as the city vies with other communities nationwide to test the emerging technology.

Atlanta would become one of the largest urban areas for testing self-driving vehicles if plans come together for a demonstration as early as September.

Nationwide, 10 sites were designated last month as “proving grounds” for automated vehicles by the U.S. Department of Transportation.

They include North Carolina turnpikes, the eastern Iowa prairie and a Michigan site where World War II bombing aircraft were produced in a factory built by automobile pioneer Henry Ford. Atlanta isn’t on the list, but city officials nevertheless hope to make an impact.

Backers of driverless cars said they could be part of a broader effort to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure, something President Donald Trump has pledged to do. As roads and highways are rebuilt, “we think it would be very, very wise to build modern infrastructure with 21st-century capability in mind,” said Paul Brubaker, president and CEO of the Washington, D.C.-based Alliance for Transportation Innovation.

Self-driving vehicles, he said, “should be a national priority.”

The Trump administration hasn’t revealed its approach to the technology, but two U.S. senators this month announced a bipartisan effort to help speed deployment of the vehicles on the

A driverless shuttle sits on display Jan. 26 at the Riverside EpiCenter in Austell, Ga. AP photo

nation’s roads. Republican John Thune of South Dakota and Democrat Gary Peters of Michigan said they’re considering legislation that “clears hurdles and advances innovation in self-driving vehicle technology.”

Atlanta has sought proposals from companies for a demonstration of an autonomous vehicle on North Avenue later this year, city documents show.

The street, which connects the Georgia Institute of Technology campus to some of the South’s tallest skyscrapers, would be among the busiest urban environments yet for such testing.

In Atlanta, city officials say a key goal is to create optimal conditions on North Avenue for such vehicles to operate.

The goal of September’s demonstration is to show how such a vehicle would navigate in real-world traffic, though a driver will be inside and can take the controls if needed, said Faye DiMassimo, an Atlanta official involved in the North Avenue project.

“We still think that autonomous ve-

hicles are sort of ‘The Jetsons,’ right?”

DiMassimo said. “When you looked at all the information, you realize not only is this here and now, this has been in development for quite some time.”

North Avenue would first be equipped with devices and sensors, enabling vehicles to communicate with traffic signals and warning self-driving cars of red lights or treacherous conditions such as snow or ice, the city documents show.

Cameras would provide live video of traffic, and computers would analyze data on road conditions, concerts or other events likely to clog streets.

Security is a key concern, however.

“Imagine if these vehicles were hacked. Imagine if the system that controls them were hacked,” said Jamie Court, president of Consumer Watchdog.

“I don’t think our society is going to want a robot glitch or a software hack to be responsible for mass deaths,” he said. “If we sanction robots controlling these vehicles without really knowing

the risks, I think the technology will go under when the first major catastrophe befalls us.”

Court’s group worked with California transportation officials as they developed rules for testing vehicles developed by Google and other companies.

Now, Court and others are watching to see how often human drivers must take over to prevent crashes as vehicles are tested in California.

Tying together massive amounts of data from so many sources “will pose myriad security challenges,” Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed acknowledged in a report last year on a related initiative to transform Atlanta into a “smart city.”

Researchers at Georgia Tech, Reed said, will be key to that effort.

Public acceptance of the vehicles is among the main challenges to their widespread use on city streets and highways, Brubaker said.

He and others see Atlanta as a logical base for the emerging industry.

Atlanta’s notorious traffic congestion could lead residents to welcome such vehicles, Brubaker said.

“In any city that has that level of congestion, people have a relatively open mind to embracing technology solutions that will improve the traffic flow,” Brubaker said.

However, critics say the cars are not yet able to safely navigate clogged streets with traditional cars and pedestrians.

“The real problem is these technologies tend to fail when they’re around pedestrians, cyclists, human drivers,” Court said. The key obstacle, he said: “Human behavior is really unpredictable.”

Uber to investigate sexual harassment claim by engineer

By DANICA KIRKA and DAVID KOENIG The Associated Press

LONDON – Uber’s chief executive ordered an investigation Monday into a sexual-harassment claim made by a female engineer who said her prospects at the company evaporated after she complained about advances from her boss.

In a blog post about her year at Uber, Susan Fowler Rigetti said the company’s human resources department ignored her complaints because her boss was a high performer.

CEO Travis Kalanick responded

Monday on Twitter that he had instructed the ride-hailing app company’s chief human resources officer to look into Rigetti’s charges.

“What’s described here is abhorrent & against everything we believe in,” Kalanick tweeted. “Anyone who behaves this way or thinks this is OK will be fired.”

The engineer, who goes alternately

by Fowler or Rigetti online, said she joined Uber in November 2015 as a site-reliability engineer in San Francisco. She said that on her first official day on her team at Uber, her boss propositioned her in a string of messages on

the company chat.

She took screen shots of the messages because they were “clearly out of line.”

“Upper management told me that he ‘was a high performer’ (i.e. had stellar performance reviews from his superiors), and they wouldn’t feel comfortable punishing him for what was probably just an innocent mistake on his part,” she wrote.

Rigetti said she changed assignments but found her career path blocked. She said sexism was rampant at Uber, although her original boss eventually left the company. Fowler also left, joining

an online-payments company.

Rigetti’s remarks will strike a nerve among those trying to bolster the number of women in science and engineering, who have long argued that the male-dominated atmosphere discourages talented women from seeking careers in the sector.

“It sounds like (Uber) is doing the right thing in trying to investigate what went wrong here,” said Deborah Rhode, a legal-ethics expert at Stanford University law school. “But in too many organizations, high achievers often have a sense that they are invulnerable and entitled.”

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THINGS

WORTH TALKIN’ ABOUT TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017

NEW YORK – Former “Partridge Family” star David Cassidy said he’s struggling with memory loss.

The 66-year-old actor-singer told People magazine his family has a history of dementia and he had sensed “this was coming.” He said for now he wants to stay focused and “enjoy life.”

Cassidy has had numerous personal problems in the decades after his initial success, ranging from substance abuse to bankruptcy. He’s the stepson of actress and fellow “Partridge Family” star Shirley Jones.

BUZZWORTHY

Trump wigs in big demand for Austrian Carnival season

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Milo Yiannopoulos speaks on campus Jan. 25 at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colo. On Monday, publisher Simon & Schuster announced it has pulled the right-wing provocateur’s book “Dangerous” after “careful consideration.”

Simon & Schuster cancels Milo Yiannopoulos book ‘Dangerous’ NEW YORK – Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos’ publisher has canceled his planned book, “Dangerous.”

Simon & Schuster and its Threshold Editions imprint announced Monday that “after careful consideration” they had pulled the book, which had been high on Amazon.com’s best-seller lists and was the subject of intense controversy.

The announcement came hours after the Breitbart editor was disinvited to this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference because of past comments about relationships between boys and men. He has said remarks he made that could be construed as favoring men and boys having sex were edited wrongly.

“Dangerous” was originally scheduled to come out in March. But Yiannopoulos had pushed back the release to June so he could write about the uprisings during his recent campus tour. At the time of his publisher’s announcement, it ranked No. 83 on Amazon’s overall list and No. 1 in the subcategory of Censorship & Politics.

More than 100 Simon & Schuster authors had objected to his book deal, which was announced last December, and Roxane Gay withdrew a planned book.

Some bookstores had said they would not sell his book, although the National Coalition Against Censorship and other free speech organizations had defended the publisher.

Threshold is a conservative imprint that has published books by Republican President Donald Trump and Republican former Vice President Dick Cheney among others.

Kim Roberts.

The awards were presented in New York and Los Angeles on Sunday night by the PFAFSTAETTEN, Austria – So many people want to be Donald Trump this Carnival sea- Writers Guild of America, West and East. son in Austria that some costume shops have “The Americans” featured a team of seven run out of wigs mimicking the U.S. president’s writers and won for best television drama series. Best comedy went to “Atlanta” and its memorable hairstyle.

Shop owner Manuela Plank, recognizing a team of five writers, including Donald Glover and Stephen Glover. business opportunity, went to work making her own toupees a la Trump.

3 men convicted in $110M Plank thought she was ready to meet Paris modern art heist demand with the 10 Trump wigs she had PARIS – An agile thief nicknamed “Spiderstocked for Austria’s pre-Lenten season of man,” an antiques dealer and an art expert balls and other masked events. But they were were sentenced to prison Monday and quickly snapped up. ordered to pay Paris for stealing five masterThat’s when she started snipping, backpieces from the city’s Modern Art Museum combing, teasing and spraying blond hairworth $110 million. pieces to give them the Trump look.

The paintings by Picasso, Matisse, “It all takes quite a bit of time,” Plank said.

Modigliani, Braque and Fernand Leger have “You have to do a lot of back-combing. But not been seen since the dramatic 2010 heist. you can get it done.”

The Paris court convicted “Spiderman” ‘Moonlight,’ ‘The Americans’ Vjeran Tomic of stealing the paintings and sentenced him to eight years in prison. earn Writers Guild Awards Jean-Michel Corvez, the antiques dealer NEW YORK – The screenplay for “Moonwho orchestrated the theft, was sentenced light” and the scripts for “The Americans” and “Atlanta” were among the winners of this to seven years.

Yonathan Birn, who stored the paintings year’s Writers Guild Awards. and told the court he destroyed them out of Barry Jenkins’ script for the Oscar-nomfear of getting caught, screamed at the judge inated “Moonlight” won the Guild prize for best original screenplay. Oscar nominee Eric who sentenced him to six years in prison.

Investigators think the paintings were Heisserer of “Arrival” won for best adapted smuggled out of France, although they were screenplay. Best documentary screenplay not able to prove that, court documents went to “Command and Control,” based showed. Birn’s co-defendants testified he on a telescript by Robert Kenner and Eric Schlosser and story by Brian Pearle and was “too smart” to destroy the masterpieces.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS Actor Gary Lockwood (“2001: A Space Odyssey”) is 80. Actor Peter McEnery is 77. Record company executive David Geffen is 74. Actress Tyne Daly is 71. Actor Anthony Daniels (C3P0 in “Star Wars” films) is 71. Actor William Petersen (“C.S.I.”) is 64. Actor Kelsey Grammer is 62.

Singer Mary Chapin Carpenter is 59. Actor Jack Coleman is 59. Actor Christopher Atkins is 56.

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English Beat is 56. Actor William Baldwin is 54. Actress Aunjanue Ellis (“Quantico”) is 48.

Country singer Eric Heatherly is 47. Actor Tituss Burgess (“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”) is 38.

Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt is 38. Comedian Jordan Peele of Key and Peele is 38. Opera/pop singer Charlotte Church is 31. Actress Ellen Page (“Inception,” “Juno”) is 30. Actress Sophie Turner (“Game of Thrones”) is 21.

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DAVID CASSIDY FIGHTING MEMORY LOSS, WANTS TO STAY FOCUSED, ‘ENJOY LIFE’

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Zuckerberg’s goal: Remake a world Manifesto reinforces goals of globalization for everyone

By BARBARA ORTUTAY The Associated Press

NEW YORK – Mark Zuckerberg helped create the modern world by connecting nearly a quarter of its citizens to Facebook and giving them a platform to share, well, everything – baby pictures and Pepe memes, social updates and abusive bullying, helpful how-to videos and live-streamed violence.

Now he wants to remake it, too, in a way that counters isolationism, promotes global connections and addresses social ills – while also cementing Facebook’s central role as a builder of online “community” for its nearly 2 billion users.

The Facebook founder laid out his thoughts Thursday in a sweeping 5,800-word manifesto that hews closer to utopian social guide than business plan. Are we, he asked in the document, “building the world we all want?”

In a phone interview with The Associated Press, Zuckerberg stressed

he wasn’t motivated by the recent U.S. election or any other particular event.

Rather, he said, it’s the growing sentiment in many parts of the world that “connecting the world” – the founding idea behind Facebook – no longer is a good thing.

“Across the world there are people left behind by globalization, and movements for withdrawing from global connection,” Zuckerberg, who founded Facebook in a Harvard dorm room in 2004, wrote Thursday. So it falls to his company to “develop the social infrastructure to give people the power to build a global community that works for all of us.”

Connecting on Facebook’s interest

Zuckerberg, 32, told the AP he still strongly believes more connectedness is the right direction for the world.

But, he added, it’s “not enough if it’s good for some people but it’s doesn’t work for other people. We really have to bring everyone along.”

It’s hardly a surprise Zuckerberg wants to find ways to bring more people together, especially on Facebook. After all, getting more people to come together on the social network more frequently would give Facebook more opportunities to sell the ads that generate most of its revenue, which totaled $27 billion last year. And bringing in more money probably would boost Facebook’s stock price to make Zuckerberg – already worth an estimated $56 billion – even richer.

And while the idea of unifying the world is laudable, some critics – backed by various studies – contend Facebook makes some people feel lonelier and more isolated as they scroll through the mostly ebullient posts and photos shared on the social network.

Facebook’s famous “like” button also makes it easy to engage in a form of “one-click” communication that can displace meaningful dialogue.

Facebook also has been lambasted as a polarizing force by circulating posts espousing similar viewpoints and interests among like-minded people, creating an “echo chamber” that can harden opinions and widen political and cultural chasms.

Community support

Today, most of Facebook’s 1.86 billion members – about 85 percent – live outside of the U.S. and Canada.

The Menlo Park, California-based company has offices everywhere from Amsterdam to Jakarta, Indonesia, to Tel Aviv, Israel. (It is banned in China, the world’s most populous country, though some people get around the ban.) Naturally, Zuckerberg takes a global view of Facebook and sees potential that goes beyond borders, cities and nations.

Equally naturally, he sees the social network stepping up as more traditional cultural ties fray. People already use Facebook to connect with strangers who have the same rare disease, to post political diatribes, to share news links (and sometimes fake news links). Facebook also has pushed its users to register to vote, to donate to causes, to mark themselves safe after natural disasters, and to “go live.”

For many, it’s become a utility. Some

1.23 billion people use it daily.

“Our next focus will be developing the social infrastructure for community – for supporting us, for keeping us safe, for informing us, for civic engagement, and for inclusion of all,” he wrote.

Long view

Zuckerberg has gotten Facebook to this position of global dominance – one that Myspace and Twitter, for instance, never even approached – partly thanks to his audacious, long-term view of the company and its place in the world.

Last fall, Zuckerberg and his wife, the doctor Priscilla Chan, unveiled the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative , a long-term effort aimed at eradicating all disease by the end of this century.

Then, as now, Zuckerberg preferred to look far down the road to the potential of scientific and technological innovations that have not been perfected, or even invented yet.

That includes artificial intelligence, which in this case means software that’s capable of “thinking” enough like humans to start making the sorts of judgments that Facebook sometimes bobbles. Last September, for instance, the service briefly barred the famous Vietnam War-era photograph dubbed “Napalm Girl” because it featured a nude child, and only reversed its decision after users – including the prime minister of Norway – protested.

AI systems also could comb through the vast amount of material users post on Facebook to detect everything from bullying to the early signs of suicidal thinking to extremist recruiting. AI, Zuckerberg wrote, could “understand more quickly and accurately what is happening across our community.”

Speaking to the AP, Zuckerberg said he understands we might not “solve all the issues that we want” in the short term.

“One of my favorite quotes is this Bill Gates quote, that ‘people overestimate what they can get done in two years and underestimate what they can get done in 10 years.’ And that’s an important mindset that I hope more people take today,” he said.

Mark Zuckerberg, chairman and CEO of Facebook, waves at the CEO summit during the annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Lima, Peru. Zuckerberg released a missive Thursday outlining his vision for the social network and the world at large.

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Reconsider anything that insists upon more, especially if it wants full access to your calendar, contacts and/or social media accounts. You may want the functionality that such access provides, but you should make owner of smart technology. the conscious decision to enable or Before buying a smart device, disable it rather than simply selectcheck for recalls, data breaches or ing the default settings (which often other problems. Don’t buy from amount to “enable everything and companies that haven’t committed then some”). to protecting their users. Look for When configuring a smart device, companies that provide easy-to-unimmediately change the default derstand information and that are passwords. This is one of the most proactive if problems occur. Comimportant things you can do to secure municate with vendors and tell them your device. Change the remaining you, as a consumer, care about the default settings as appropriate, using security capabilities of the products your manufacturer’s documentayou buy. tion as a guide. Check for software Also before you buy, evaluate the updates, and make sure you are using device’s settings to see if they can the latest version for your device. be changed. Some devices ship with In addition to securing your smart insecure settings and no way to redevice, you need to secure your netconfigure them. In general, security work. Most routers these days have experts recommend granting minimal built-in firewall capabilities. Check access, no more than the device or to see whether yours are enabled app requires to perform its function. and appropriately configured to

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keep snoops away from your smart technology.

Change default router passwords and check network security settings.

Configure wireless networks with appropriate encryption and filtering.

Your router may have the ability to set up a separate network you can use for your smart devices. Never use smart devices on public or insecure networks, and don’t let guests use the same network as your smart devices.

Securing the Internet of Things isn’t a one-time event. You’ll need to install any security updates that are released in the future and continue to monitor your smart devices’ settings.

If you register your products with their manufacturers, you should receive update notices and other relevant information.

• Triona Guidry is a freelance writer and computer specialist. Her Tech Tips blog www.guidryconsulting.com/techtips offers tech support advice for Windows and Mac.

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Do you have smart home devices that connect to the internet? Perhaps you have a WiFi thermostat, an app-based home security system or even smart toys for your kids. But if you don’t take steps to lock down the online security of these devices, they can be used to wreak havoc on your network as well as the internet at large.

Collectively, we refer to everyday objects with online capabilities as the “Internet of Things.” Unfortunately many of these smart devices, by default, are not well-secured. This is creating a wave of vulnerable systems that can be used to hack other computers. Imagine thousands of mass-controlled machines hijacking networks and spewing malware.

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Doctors should provide quality care Dear Doctor: A recent study found elderly patients with female doctors fared better than those who were treated by men. I wonder – what do Dr. Ko and Dr. Glazier think about these results?

Dear Reader: You’re referring to the results of a study performed by Harvard researchers, published in December in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine. Our reactions follow later.

Researchers analyzed data from more than 1.5 million Medicare patients 65 and older who were hospitalized between January 2011 and December 2014. What they found was that patients whose doctors were women were less likely to be readmitted to the hospital in the next 30 days, and had lower mortality rates than the patients who were treated by men.

This particular study didn’t look into the reasons why, but the authors cited prior studies that found differences in how women and men practice medicine. Specifically, the research suggests female doctors are more likely to adhere to clinical guidelines, provide more preventive care and communicate more effectively than their male peers.

The Harvard study was prompted, in part, by the fact women doctors now account for one-third of all physicians and one-half of medical students. Researchers were interested to learn whether career interruptions to start a family, the challenges of home-life balance, and the resulting increase in parttime employment might compromise the quality of care.

So what did we think of the results?

Dr. Glazier: My gut reaction is that it is very hard to generalize. As a patient, I have had both men and women who were extraordinary and compassionate physicians. And I have had teachers, mentors and colleagues who are exceptional, irrespective of their gender.

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ASK THE DOCTORS Elizabeth Ko and Eve Glazier Considering this is a single study of modest statistical significance, I don’t give it tons of credence. What I would say is it is paramount to find a doctor with whom you connect both personally and professionally, someone who is compassionate, kind and smart, all qualities that transcend gender.

Dr. Ko: As a female physician early in my career, I am naturally delighted to hear the findings. Medicine historically has been dominated by men, who have been seen as more intelligent and more capable than women. The results are validating and confirm my role to perform this noble work.

The authors admit they can’t answer the question “Why?” But since prior studies suggest women tend to communicate better, listen more effectively and have more emotional intelligence, then the message here is communication is key. Our training of young physicians should focus on honing these skills and exemplifying these qualities.

The danger is some patients may oversimplify these results, assuming that to prevent death and re-hospitalization, they need a female physician. But the truth is there are as many male physicians who are compassionate communicators as there are women physicians who lack those qualities.

What I do hope is all physicians will take a cue from these results to embrace the qualities and behaviors that may contribute to better care.

• Eve Glazier, M.D., MBA, is an internist and assistant professor of medicine at UCLA Health. Elizabeth Ko, M.D., is an internist and primary care physician at UCLA Health.

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Dear Abby: DEAR ABBY Because I had a promiscuous Jeanne past prior to Phillips getting married, it was understandable my husband and I have gone through some rough patches.

It’s been three years since our wedding, and he still can’t let it go sometimes. A recent argument just escalated into his calling me a whore and stupid. We have a beautiful little girl together, so it’s not like I can just up and go whenever I want.

When is enough, enough? Where is the point that I can give in to the thought that I can’t do it anymore? Or is this just what marriage is?

We already have done counseling, and it just made it worse. I feel really alone, so can you please give me some feedback? – Rough Patch Dear Rough Patch: If your husband knew about your promiscuous past when he married you, he has no right to throw it at you when he’s angry. That’s fighting dirty, and it never resolves the issue at hand. You are neither a whore nor stupid, and this is not what marriage is supposed to be. Good husbands build their partner’s self-esteem; they don’t undercut it the way yours is doing, because it is abusive.

Since the counseling you had didn’t work, you now must decide whether you need to try again with a different therapist or talk to a lawyer. If I were living like this, I know what I would do, but the only person who can decide what’s best for you and your daughter is you.

Dear Abby: My husband and I have been friends with a bachelor for 30 years. Over the past year we have had a problem with him that seriously is straining our friendship. When he uses the bathroom in our home, he leaves a terrible mess. There’s urine all over the toilet and a large puddle on the bathroom floor. The last time he was here, it was obvious he had stepped in it and tracked it around as he left the room! I’m extremely upset and angry.

In addition, it’s obvious he doesn’t wash his hands, as the sink and soap are bone-dry.

I don’t want him to come over anymore. My husband wants me to be more forgiving. We’re both too embarrassed to say anything to him.

Should we stop being his friend, or have a frank talk? He is oblivious and continues to contact us and wants to visit. We either put him off or try to arrange to meet him elsewhere. It is becoming unbearable. – Disgusted

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Laurence Olivier, a four-time Oscar-winning English actor, said, “I take a simple view of life: Keep your eyes open and get on with it.”

Good bridge players keep their eyes open and get on with it. For example, look only at the South hand. West opens one diamond, North overcalls three spades and East passes. What should South do now?

North’s bid shows a respectable seven-card suit and some 6-10 highcard points. South’s choices are pass, three no-trump, four clubs (assuming it is forcing), four spades and five clubs.

Pass is far too cautious. Three no-trump looks like a sensible shot to me. Four clubs does not serve much purpose, unless South would pass a four-spade rebid. Four spades could work, but partner will ask where your trumps have gone! And if five clubs makes, surely three no-trump will as well.

What should South do in three no-trump after West leads the diamond queen?

If the clubs are 2-2 or 3-1, three no-trump is easy. If West has all four clubs, South is in trouble. But if East holds them all, declarer is safe as long as he takes the first trick with his diamond ace. He cashes the club ace and sees the bad break. Then he plays a diamond to the king, takes a club finesse and runs for home.

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10 ACRES, Zoned AG, 21 year old 2.5 story home needs updating. 12 rooms, 5 baths, 6 fireplaces, 3924 sq ft + 1521 sq ft ground level in-law arrangement. 4 car garage, dormers with guest quarters, Florida room/whirlpool, 3 decks, 2 ponds, 35x104 pole building, part heated with offices and bath, 3 stall barn. I have Home Inspection Report. Market Value $352,000, Bank Appraisal as is and Shown $260,000.

Cash Buyers Only, Must Close 30 Days. $230,000/FIRM, BY OWNER 815-568-0008 Newer Home, 30 Acres + Wooded, Pond is a Plus Privacy, Northern IL or Southern WI. 406-239-9526

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22 nd JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF McHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS ST. CHARLES BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, f/k/a ELGIN STATE BANK, an Illinois state banking corporation, PLAINTIFF, vs.

SYED S. ASGHAR, an individual; SHAHWAR F. SYED, an individual; VILLAGE OF HUNTLEY; UNKNOWN OWNERS and NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, DEFENDANTS. CASE NO. 15 CH 964 SHERIFF'S NO. 17-699 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment for Foreclosure herein entered, the Sheriff of McHenry County, Woodstock, Illinois, or his deputy, will onThursday the 23rd day of March, 2017, at the hour of 10:00 A.M. at the McHenry County Courthouse, Room 262, 2200 N. Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, Illinois sell at public tio th highe and

public auction to the highest and best bidder, property legally described as follows: Lot 14 (except therefrom part taken in case 08ED9 by Illiinois Department of Transportation) in Block 5 in Huntley's Addition to the Village of Huntley Station, a subdivision of part of the East half of the Southwest quarter of Section 28, Township 43 North, Range 7, East of the Third Principal Meridian,, according to the plat thereof recorded May 20, 1875 in Book 59 of Deeds, Page 23, in McHenry County, Illinois.

PIN: 18-28-326-046 Common Address: 10696 North Route 47, Huntley, IL 60142 This property is commonly known as 10696 North Route 47, Huntley, Illinois 60142 and is a vacant lot. Terms of Sale: This real estate is being sold in an "As Is Condition" for cash or certified funds and the successful bidder is required to deposit 10% of the bid amount at the time of the sale with the McHenry County Sheriff and the balance to be paid by noon the following

pai by ng Tuesday after the sale, except by arrangement and agreement of the present owner/occupant. For information regarding this real estate interested parties should may contact: Jeffrey S. Burns, Haskin, Corrigan, Tabis & Parravano, P.C., 128 S. County Farm Road, Suite A, Wheaton, Illinois 60187 (630) 665-0800 Dated: February 21, 2017 BILL PRIMM Sheriff of McHenry County Attorney: Jeffrey S. Burns Attorney for Plaintiff Haskin, Corrigan, Tabis & Parravano, P.C. 128 S. County Farm Road, Suite A Wheaton, Illinois 60187 630-665-0800 (Published in the Northwest Herald on February 21, 28, March 7, 2017) 1267323(R)

PUBLIC NOTICE

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22 nd JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF McHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS St. Charles Bank and Trust Company, f/k/a Elgin State Bank, an Illinois state banking corporation, Plaintiff, vs.

Sahara Holdings, LLC, a dissolved Illinois limited liability company; New Sahara Holding, LLC, an Illinois limited liability company; Syed S. Asghar, an individual; Abrar Arshad, an individual; Shahwar F. Syed, an individual; Mussarat Arshad, an individual; Syed S. Asghar, M.D., P.C., an Illinois corporation; A.M. Arshad M.D., S.C., an Illinois corporation; Pediatric & Child Development Clinic, Inc., an Illinois corporation; United States of America; Unknown Owners; and Non-Record Claimants, Defendants.

And UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Counter-Plaintiff, vs.

ST. CHARLES BANK & TRUST, SAHARA HOLDINGS, NEW SAHARA HOLDING, LLC; SYED S. ASGHAR, ABRAR ARSHAD, SHAHWAR F. SYED, MUSSART ARSHAD; SYED S. ASGHAR, MD, PC; A.M. ARSHAD, MD SC PEDIATRIC & CHILD DE

MD, SC; PEDIATRIC & CHILD DEVELOPMENT CLINIC, INC., UNKNOWN OWNERS and NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, Counter-Defendants.

CASE NO. 15 CH 902 2575 West Algonquin Road, Algonquin, IL 60120 Sheriff's No. 17-698 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure herein entered, the Sheriff of McHenry County, Woodstock, Illinois, or his deputy, will on Thursday, the 23rd day of March, 2017, at the hour of 10:00 A.M. at the McHenry County Courthouse, Room 262, 2200 N. Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, Illinois sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, property legally described as follows: PARCEL 1: LOT 1 IN MONTERO'S SUBDIVISION, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED FEBRUARY 1, 1996 AS DOCUMENT 96R005406 BEING A RESUBDIVISION OF LOT 4 IN EAGLE COMMERCIAL CENTER, A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE EAST ½ OF THE SOUTHEAST ¼ OF SECTION 30, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACORDING TO THE THEREOF RECORDED PLAT NOVEMBER 4, 1993 AS DOCUMENT NO. 93R067593, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLIINOIS (EXCEPTING THEREFROM THAT PART TAKEN FOR ALGONQUIN ROAD BY INSTRUMENT RECORDED AS DOCUMENT 200R2239474).

PARCEL 2: EASEMENT FOR INGRESS AND EGRESS FOR THE BENEFIT OF PARCEL 1 AS CREATED BY AGREEMENT MADE BY MONTERO PARTNERS LTD., AN ILLINOIS CORPORATION RECORDED FEBRUARY 1, 1996 AS DOCUMENT 96R005407 AND RE-RECORDED FEBRUARY 27, 1996 AS DOCUMENT 96R009438 OVER AND ACROSS THAT PART OF LOT 2 IN MONTERO'S SUBDIVISION AFORESAID SHOWN AS “24 FOOT INGRESS

AND EGRESS EASEMENT” AND AS FURTHER DESCRIBED IN EXHIBIT “C” OF SAID EASEMENT AGREEMENT. PARCEL 3: EASEMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF PARCEL 1 FOR INGRESS AND EGRESS AS CREATED BYY AGREEMENT MADE BY AND BETWEEN JEFFERSON STATE BANK, AS TRUSTEE UNDER TRUST AGREEMENT NO. 1776 AND EAGLE CENTERS, INC., A FOOD CORPORATION, DELAWARE RECORDED NOVEMBER 4, 1993 AS DOCUMENT 93R67789 OVER AND ACROSS THE WEST 46 FEET OF LOT 1 IN EAGLE COMMERCIAL CENTER AFORESAID, AND AS SHOWN ON THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED NOVEMBER 4, 1993 AS DOCUMENT 93R67593.

PIN: 19-30-426-020-0000 Common Address: 2575 West Algonquin Road, Algonquin, IL 60120 This property is commonly known as 2575 West Algonquin Road, Algonquin, Illinois 60120 and is improved with a commercial building.

Terms of Sale: This real estate is being sold in an "As Is Condition" for cash or certified funds and the successful bidder is required to deposit 10% of the bid amount at the time of the sale with the McHenry County Sheriff and the balance to be paid by noon the following Tuesday after the sale, except by arrangement and agreement of the present owner/occupant. For information regarding this real estate interested parties should may contact: Jeffrey S. Burns, Haskin, Corrigan, Tabis & Parravano, P.C., 128 S. County Farm Road, Suite A, Wheaton, Illinois 60187 (630) 665-0800.

Dated: February 21, 2017 BILL PRIMM Sheriff of Mc Henry County Name: Jeffrey S. Burns Attorney for Plaintiff Address: 128 S. County Farm Road, Suite A City: Wheaton, Illinois 60187 Phone: 630-665-0800 (Published in the Northwest Herald on February 21, 28, March 7, 2017) 1267383(R)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC Plaintiff, -v.JAMES M. ADAMS, et al Defendant 16 CH 00653 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 5, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on April 7, 2017, at the NLT Title L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 4404 GIANT OAK DRIVE, MCHENRY, IL 60051 Property Index No. 15-30-227-003.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessial levied

sp ments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in \"AS IS\" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701 (C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver's license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-16-08603.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-16-08603 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 16 CH 00653 TJSC#: 37-437 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22 nd JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF McHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS ST. CHARLES BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, f/k/a ELGIN STATE BANK, an Illinois state banking corporation, PLAINTIFF, vs.

SYED S. ASGHAR, an individual; SHAHWAR F. SYED, an individual; VILLAGE OF HUNTLEY; UNKNOWN OWNERS and NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, DEFENDANTS. CASE NO. 15 CH 964 SHERIFF'S NO. 17-699 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that in pursuance of a judgment heretofore entered by the said court in the above entitled cause, Bill Prim, Sheriff of McHenry County, Illinois will on Thursday the 23rd day of March A.D. 2017, at the hour of 10:00 A.M., McHenry County Courthouse, Room 262, 2200 N. Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, McHenry County, Illinois sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash and all singular, the following described premises and real estate in said judgment mentioned, situated in the County and State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said judgment to wit: Lot 14 (except therefrom part taken in case 08ED9 by Illiinois Department of Transportation) in Block 5 in Huntley's Addition to the Village of Huntley Station, a subdivision of part of the East half of the Southwest quarter of Section 28, Township 43 North, Range 7, East of the Third Principal Meridian,, according to the plat thereof recorded May 20, 1875 in Book 59 of Deeds, Page 23, in McHenry County, Illinois.

PIN: 18-28-326-046 Common Address: 10696 North Route 47, Huntley, IL 60142 Together with all buildings and improvements thereon, and the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging.

Dated: February 21, 2017 Name: Jeffrey S. Burns Attorney for Plaintiff Address: 128 S. County Farm Road, Suite A City: Wheaton, Illinois 60187 Phone: 630-665-0800 (Published in the Northwest Herald on February 21, 28, March 7, 2017) 1267323(L)

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22 nd JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF McHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS St. Charles Bank and Trust Company, f/k/a Elgin State Bank, an Illinois state banking corporation, Plaintiff, vs.

Sahara Holdings, LLC, a dissolved Illinois limited liability company; New Sahara Holding, LLC, an Illinois limited liability company; Syed S. Asghar, an individual; Abrar Arshad, an individual; Shahwar F. Syed, an individual; Mussarat Arshad, an individual; Syed S. Asghar, M.D., P.C., an Illinois corporation; A.M. Arshad M.D., S.C., an Illinois corporation; Pediatric & Child Development Clinic, Inc., an Illinois corporation; United States of America; Unknown Owners; and Non-Record Claimants, Defendants.

And UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Counter-Plaintiff,

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ST. CHARLES BANK & TRUST, SAHARA HOLDINGS, NEW SAHARA HOLDING, LLC; SYED S. ASGHAR, ABRAR ARSHAD, SHAHWAR F. SYED, MUSSART ARSHAD; SYED S. ASGHAR, MD, PC; A.M. ARSHAD, MD, SC; PEDIATRIC & CHILD DEVELOPMENT CLINIC, INC., UNKNOWN OWNERS and NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, Counter-Defendants.

CASE NO. 15 CH 902 2575 West Algonquin, IL 60120 Sheriff's No. 17-968 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that in pursuance of a judgment heretofore entered by the said court in the above entitled cause, Bill Prim, Sheriff of McHenry County, Illinois will on Thursday the 23rd day of March A.D. 2017, at the hour of 10:00 A.M., McHenry County Courthouse, Room 262, 2200 N. Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, McHenry County, Illinois sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash and all singular, the following described premises and real estate in said judgment mentioned, situated in the County and State of Illinois, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy said judgment to wit: PARCEL 1: LOT 1 IN MONTERO'S SUBDIVISION, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED FERUARY 1, 1996 AS DOCUMENT 96R005406 BEING A RESUBDIVISION OF LOT 4 IN EAGLE COMMERCIAL CENTER, A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE EAST ½ OF THE SOUTHEAST ¼ OF SECTION 30, TOWNSHIP 43 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED NOVEMBER 4, 1993 AS DOCUMENT NO. 93R067593, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLIINOIS (EXCEPTING THEREFROM THAT PART TAKEN FOR ALGONQUIN ROAD BY INSTRUMENT RECORDED AS DOCUMENT 200R2239474).

PARCEL 2: EASEMENT FOR INGRESS AND EGRESS FOR THE BENEFIT OF PARCEL 1 AS CREATED BY AGREEMENT MADE BY MONTERO PARTNERS LTD., AN ILLINOIS CORPORATION RECORDED FEBRUARY 1, 1996 AS DOCUMENT 96R005407 AND RE-RECORDED FEBRUARY 27, 1996 AS DOCUMENT 96R009438 OVER AND ACROSS THAT PART OF LOT 2 IN MONTERO'S SUBDIVISION AFORESAID SHOWN AS “24 FOOT INGRESS AND EGRESS EASEMENT” AND AS FURTHER DESCRIBED IN EXHIBIT “C” OF SAID EASEMENT AGREEMENT. PARCEL 3: EASEMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF PARCEL 1 FOR INGRESS AND EGRESS AS CREATED BYY AGREEMENT MADE BY AND BETWEEN JEFFERSON STATE BANK, AS TRUSTEE UNDER TRUST AGREEMENT NO. 1776 AND EAGLE FOOD CENTERS, INC., A DELAWARE CORPORATION, RECORDED NOVEMBER 4, 1993 AS DOCUMENT 93R67789 OVER AND ACROSS THE WEST 46 FEET OF LOT 1 IN EAGLE COMMERCIAL CENTER AFORESAID, AND AS SHOWN ON THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED NOVEMBER 4, 1993 AS DOCUMENT 93R67593.

PIN: 19-30-426-020-0000 Common Address: 2575 West Algonquin Road, Algonquin, IL 60120 Together with all buildings and improvements thereon, and the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging.

Dated: February 21, 2017 Name: Jeffrey S. Burns Attorney for Plaintiff Address: 128 S. County Farm

y Road, Suite A City: Wheaton, Illinois 60187 Phone: 630-665-0800 (Published in the Northwest Herald on February 21, 28, March 7, 2017) 1267337(L)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 22ND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS Wells Fargo Financial Illinois, Inc. PLAINTIFF Vs. Jacqueline E. Ruiz; Pablo E. Ruiz; Virginia Road Condominium Association; Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Claimants DEFENDANTS 16CH 00329 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU: Jacqueline E. Ruiz Pablo E. Ruiz Unknown Owners and Nonrecord Claimants That this case has been commenced in this Court against you and other defendants, praying for the foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying the premises described as follows, to-wit: COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 621 Virginia Road Unit #308 Crystal Lake, IL 60014 and which said Mortgage was made by: Jacqueline E. Ruiz Pablo E. Ruiz the Mortgagor(s), to Wells Fargo Financial Illinois, Inc., as Mortgagee, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of McHenry County, Illinois, as Document No. 2008R0039680; and for other relief; that summons was duly issued out of said Court against you as provided by law and that the said suit is now pending.

NOW, THEREFORE, UNLESS YOU file your answer or otherwise file your appearance in this case in the Office of the Clerk of this Court, Katherine M. Keefe Clerk of the Circuit Court 2200 N. Seminary Woodstock, IL 60098 on or before March 23, 2017, A DEFAULT MAY BE ENTERED AGAINST YOU AT ANY TIME AFTER THAT DAY AND A JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRAYER OF SAID COMPLAINT. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff 15W030 North Frontage Road, Suite 100 Burr Ridge, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 DuPage # 15170 Winnebago # 531 Our File No. 14-16-04240 NOTE: This law firm is a debt collector.

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PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC Plaintiff, -v.JAMES M. ADAMS, et al Defendant 16 CH 00653 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on January 5, 2017, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on April 7, 2017, at the NLT Title

Apr L.L.C, 390 Congress Parkway, Suite D, Crystal Lake, IL, 60014, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: THAT PART OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 30, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 9, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 30 AND RUNNING THENCE WEST ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SAID NORTHEAST QUARTER 101.46 FEET; THENCE NORTH 19 DEGREES 45 MINUTES WEST 0.5 FEET; THENCE NORTH 72 DEGREES 07 MINUTES WEST 134.19 FEET TO PLACE OF BEGINNING; THENCE NORTH 8 DEGREES, 29 MINUTES EAST 232.9 FEET TO THE CENTERLINE OF A CREEK, THENCE WESTERLY ALONG SAID CENTER LINE 50.0 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 8 DEGREES 16 MINUTES WEST 225.2 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 72 DEGREES 07 MINUTES EAST 49.95 FEET TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS, ALSO; THAT PART OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 30, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 9 EAST, OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 30 AND RUNNING THENCE WEST ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SAID NORTHEAST QUARTER 101.46 FEET; THENCE NORTH 19 DEGREES 45 MINUTES WEST 0.5 FEET; THENCE NORTH 72 DEGREES 07 MINUTES WEST 184.14 FEET FOR THE PLACE OF BEGINNING; THENCE CONTINUING NORTH 72 DEGREES 07 MINUTES WEST 49.95 FEET; THENCE NORTH 8 DEGREES 03 MINUTES EAST 217.5 FEET TO THE CENTER LINE OF A CREEK; THENCE EASTERLY ALONG SAID CENTER LINE 50.0 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 8 DEGREES 16 MINUTES WEST 225.2 FEET TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 4404 GIANT OAK DRIVE, MCHENRY, IL 60051 Property Index No. 15-30-227-003.

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in \"AS IS\" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be fo in ectio d plaintiff

prope y open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required

by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701 (C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a (driver's agency government license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-16-08603.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL 60527 (630) 794-5300 E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-16-08603 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 16 CH 00653 TJSC#: 37-437 NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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public Any not filed within six months from the date of first publication or claims not filed within three months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to Creditor, whichever is later, shall be barred.

Claims may be filed in the office of the Clerk of Circuit Court at the McHenry County Government Center, 2200 North Seminary Illinois, Avenue, Woodstock, 60098, or with the representative, or both.

Copies of claims filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered to the representative and to his attorney within ten days after it has been filed. /s/ Katherine M. Keefe Clerk of the Circuit Court (Published in the Northwest Herald on February 7, 14, 21, 2017) 1263740

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STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MCHENRY COUNTY-IN PROBATE In the Matter of the Estate of CAROLYN L BENSON Deceased Case No. 17PR000038 CLAIM NOTICE Notice is given of the death of: CAROLYN L BENSON of: CRYSTAL LAKE, IL Letters of office were issued on: 2/3/2017 to: Representitive: JAMES A HOLLENSTEINER 186 KIMBERLY RD BARRINGTON, IL 60010 whose attorney is: MCANDREWS, PATRICK J 4318 W CRYSTAL LAKE RD SUITE A MC HENRY, IL 60050-4281 Claims against the estate may be filed within six months from the date of first publication. Any claim not filed within six months from the date of first publication or claims not filed within three months from the date of mailing or delivery of Notice to Creditor, whichever is later, shall be barred.

Claims may be filed in the office of the Clerk of Circuit Court at the McHenry County Government Center, 2200 North Seminary Illinois, Avenue, Woodstock, 60098, or with the representative, or both.

Copies of claims filed with the (Published in the Northwest Clerk must be mailed or delivered Herald, February 21, 28, 2017 to the representative and to his attorney within ten days after it has March 7, 2017) been filed. /s/ Katherine M. Keefe PUBLIC NOTICE Clerk of the Circuit Court STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF (Published in the Northwest Herald THE TWENTY-SECOND on February 14, 21, 28, 2017) JUDICIAL CIRCUIT 1265835 MCHENRY COUNTY-IN PROBATE PUBLIC NOTICE In the Matter of the Estate of JAMES ROBERT LUIF NOTICE TO BIDDERS Deceased Sealed bids for the following surplus equipment declared Case No. 17PR000030 described herein will be received at CLAIM NOTICE Notice is given of the death of: the office of the Lake in the Hills JAMES ROBERT LUIF Sanitary District, 515 Plum Street, Lake in the Hills, Illinois 60156, of: ALGONQUIN, IL Letters of office were issued on: until 11:00 A.M., Wednesday, March 1, 2017 and will be 2/1/2017 to: publicly opened and read.

Representitive: The declared surplus equipment ROBERT LUIF consists of 1995 Ford F350 with 1221 N FORREST AVE ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL 60004 2 yd dump body, four wheel drive, whose attorney is: 7.5 L V-8, automatic transmission, with 9400 miles.

MCANDREWS, PATRICK J 4318 W CRYSTAL LAKE RD Forms for submitting bid may be obtained at the Lake in the Hills SUITE A MC HENRY, IL 60050-4281 Sanitary District, 515 Plum Street, Claims against the estate may Lake in the Hills, Illinois 60156, be filed within six months from the (847) 658-5122. date of first publication. Any claim Items are available for inspec-

sp tion on Thursday, February 23, 2017 between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. at the Lake in the Hills Sanitary District offices.

The President and Board of Trustees of the Lake in the Hills Sanitary District reserve the right to reject any and all bids and to waive technicalities.

Karen Thompson District Clerk Lake in the Hills Sanitary District (Published in the Northwest Herald February 14, 21, 2017) 1265638

PUBLIC NOTICE

The McHenry County Housing Authority is seeking sealed bids for the following project: PHASE 1: Complete Mold Remediation of Home. Movement of client's personal items to contractor provided lockable storage unit for a single family home on Willow Lane in McHenry, Illinois through the CDBG Owner Occupied Home Rehab Program. Contractor must request a bid packet to attend the Contractor Walk Through which will be on Friday 2/24/17 @ 1 p.m. Bids are due at the McHenry County Housing Authority by Friday 3/3/17 by 2 p.m. Public bid opening will be at The McHenry County Housing Authority on Friday 3/3/17 @ 2:10 p.m. Info on this and future bids are located at: www.mchenrycountyhousing.org or call Michael P. Isitoro at 815/228/7752X133. Work Comp & Liabiity insurance req. McHenry County Housing Authority is an equal opportunity employer.

Small,, minority and women owned businesses are encouraged to apply.

(Published in Northwest Herald on February 21, 2017) 1267396

PUBLIC NOTICE

The Board of Trustees of the Harvard Fire Protection District hereby announces there will be an opening on the Board of Trustees commencing May 1, 2017 and ending April 30, 2020. The term is for three years.

Any person seeking an appointment to this board may forward a request for an application to the McHenry County Government Center, 2200 N. Seminary Ave, Woodstock, IL. 60098 Attn: Briget Geenen, or you may download application at www.mchenrycountyil.gov.

All applications should be received at the McHenry County Government Center, 2200 N. Seminary Ave. Woodstock IL. 60098 Attn: Briget Geenen by 2 p.m. on March 17, 2017.

(Published in the Northwest Herald February 21, 2017) 1267408

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION OF SPRING GROVE, ILLINOIS Notice is hereby given in compliance with the Village of Spring Grove Zoning Ordinance that on March 8, 2017, at 6:00 p.m., a public hearing will be held before the Planning and Zoning Commission of the Village of Spring Grove in the Spring Grove Village Hall, 7401 Meyer Road, Spring Grove, Illinois, for the purpose of considering and hearing testimony as to amending and updating certain sections of the Village's Zoning Ordinance.

You are further notified that the terms of the new Zoning Ordinance may be changed, altered, modified, or amended in their entirety after the public hearing. Copies of the amendments and updates of the Zoning Ordinance are on file at Village Hall or can be viewed on the

lage village's website at www.springgrovevillage.com.

All interested parties are invited to attend the public hearing and will be given an opportunity to be heard.

Dated this 21st of February, 2017. /s/ Michael Gajewski, Chairperson Village of Spring Grove Planning and Zoning Commission (Published in the Northwest Herald on February 21, 2017) 1267314

CLASSIFIED 35 postthe persons owning, conducting and transacting the business known as THAT WEED GUY located at: 2201 COUNTRY LN MCHENRY, IL 60051 Dated February 9, 2017 /s/ Mary E. McClellan McHenry County Clerk

(Published in the Northwest Herald PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE on February 14, 21, 28, 2017) 1265705 TWENTY SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT McHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS TEXT ALERTS IN THE MATTER OF MARTIN PARRISH, Deceased Case No 17 PR 24 PUBLICATION NOTICE INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATION TO: CREDITORS, CLAIMANTS, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES 1. Notice is hereby given of the death of Martin Parrish who died on 12/28/16, a resident of 495 Alexandra Blvd, Crystal Lake, Illinois.

2. The attorney for the estate is: Scott P. Larson 200 W. Main St, St. Charles, IL 60174 (Ph. Number: 630-513-9800) 3. Claims against the estate may be filed on or before August 8, 2017. Claims against the estate may be filed with the Clerk of the Circuit Court, 2200 N Seminary Ave, Woodstock, IL 60098 or with the Representative, or both. Any claim not filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered to the Representative and to the attorney within 10 days after it has been filed.

4. On January 26, 2017 an Order Admitting the Will to Probate and appointing the Representatice was entered.

5. Within forty-two (42) days after the effective date of the original Order Admitting the Will to Probate, you may file a petition with the Court to require proof of the validity of the Will by testimony or witnesses to the Will in open Court, or other evidence, as provided in Article VI 5/6-21 (755 ILCS 5/6/21).

6. Within six (6) months after the effective date of the original Order Admitting the Will to Probate, you may file a petition with the Court to contest the validity of the Will as provided under Article VIII 5/8-1 of the Probate Act (755 ILCS 5/8-1).

7. The estate will be administrated without Court supervision unless an interested party terminates independent supervision administration by filing a petition to terminate under Article XXVIII 5/28-4 of the Probate Act (755 ILCS 5/28-4).

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Dundee-Crown seniors Allison Michalski (right) and Paige Gieseke fight for the ball with Rockford Boylan senior Bridget Bishop during a Class 4A Hampshire Sectional semifinal Monday at Hampshire. Boylan won, 47-37.

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GIRLS BASKETBALL: CLASS 4A HAMPSHIRE SECTIONAL

Upset bid falls short

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If you don’t know the rules, you really shouldn’t be yelling at the refs #3seconds #over&back #thatsafoul – @coachkarenwiley (McHenry County College women’s basketball coach and athletic director) Follow our writers on Twitter: Kyle Nabors – @KyleNabors Joe Stevenson – @NWH_JoePrepZone Sean Hammond – @sean_hammond Alex Kantecki – @akantecki John Wilkinson – @jwilks26

What to watch College basketball: Northwestern at Illinois, 7 p.m., BTN The Illini (15-12, 5-9 Big Ten), who upset the Wildcats, 66-61, Feb. 7 in Evanston, will go for the regular-season series sweep in Champaign. Northwestern (20-7, 9-5) can break the program’s single-season wins record with a victory.

HAMPSHIRE – Dundee-Crown’s Allison Michalski walked off the court at Hampshire High School with reddened eyes but her head held high after a dominating performance in what turned out to be her final high school basketball game.

The 5-foot-11 senior kept the Chargers toe-to-toe with state-ranked Rockford Boylan for three quarters, but D-C’s inability to handle the Titans’ zone press after the first quarter of Monday’s Class 4A Hampshire Sectional semifinal resulted in a 47-37 loss.

For the third straight season, D-C’s season ends in a sectional semifinal defeat. The Chargers entered Monday with a 10-game winning streak after rallying to earn a share of the Fox Valley Conference title by winning their last eight regular-season games.

Boylan, ranked No. 5 in the latest Associated Press state poll, advances to Thursday’s final against Rockford East, which beat Streamwood, 51-45, in the second semifinal.

D-C (19-12), led by Michalski’s 10 points in the opening quarter, scored the first four points and took a 15-10 lead into the second while making 5 of 11 shots with only two turnovers.

“Man-to-man, No. 25 (Michalski) was eating us up alive,” Boylan coach Paul Perrone said.

In the second quarter, Boylan (30-1) switched from man-to-man to a press, causing all sorts of problems for D-C, which committed 10 turnovers in the quarter. The Titans made an 8-0 run and took a 20-19 lead into halftime.

“We really had the momentum. We were feeling really confident, and we thought that we had it,” said Michalski, who scored a game-high 26 points with eight rebounds, going 9 of 17 from the field and making 8 of 10 free throws.

“We should have known ... it’s still the first quarter and there’s a whole lot more game left. We worked on the press in practice. We worked on trying to get quick passes, but we just kind of choked when it came to it.”

Chargers coach Sarah Miller said the key to the team’s recent 10-game winning streak was confidence, but, for the first time in a long time, she felt her players were lacking some.

“We’ve handled a lot of pressure from a lot of guards,” Miller said. “Coming out, we felt like we did exactly what we wanted. We knew they were going to pressure us. We worked on that; we brought coaches in, but it just really came down to playing with confidence.”

Despite scoring only 12 points com-

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Dundee-Crown senior Allison Michalski receives congratulations Monday after fouling out of a Class 4A Hampshire Sectional semifinal against Rockford Boylan at Hampshire.

Michalski scored 26 points in her team’s 47-37 loss.

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Atherton led D-C with four assists, adding two points and four rebounds in the season-ending loss. Two of her assists came in the first quarter, when D-C outscored Boylan, 15-10.

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Three of Dundee-Crown’s five starters Monday played in their final game: Atheron, Michalski, and Paige Gieseke. Michalski and Gieseke averaged 10 points and five rebounds entering their final game. bined in the second and third quarters, D-C trailed by two, 29-27, entering the fourth. Michalski scored on an assist from junior Kennedy White to tie the score, but Boylan scored the next six points to take a 35-29 lead.

D-C got to within four points on two free throws by Michalski with 3:12 remaining, but Boylan padded its lead by hitting 14 of 17 free throws in the quarter.

Michalski fouled out with 52 seconds left to a standing ovation from the Chargers’ fans.

Scoreboard Monday’s semifinals Boylan 47, Dundee-Crown 37 Rockford East 51, Streamwood 45 Thursday’s championship Boylan vs. Rockford East, 7 p.m.

McKenzie Brown led the Titans with 22 points, making 15 of 18 free throws, and Ashley Reyes had 15.

White scored six points on two 3s for D-C, and senior Paige Gieseke had three points and three assists in her final game.

“We knew going in it would be a pretty tough game, matchupwise,” said D-C senior Lucy Atherton, who led the Chargers with four assists. “We came in confident, and that showed in the first quarter, but after that, we kind of let down.

“I think we panicked a little. Toward the end, I think we found it again, but it’s just coming out strong and sticking with it.”

D-C will lose three seniors to graduation, but Michalski, who committed to Benedictine University last month, said she sees the program making bigger strides next season.

“It was a crazy ride. It was a lot of fun,” said Michalski, Miller’s only fouryear varsity player since taking over in 2013. “I think they’ll have great success.

They all put in great work, and everybody is committed. If they just keep it up, it will go far for them.”

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The 5-foot-11 Grove pulled down a game-high 15 rebounds to help the Giants defeat Hiawatha.

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Despite being outscored in the second half, 2120, Alden-Hebron scored the first four points of each quarter en route to its 10-point victory. night as a group, the Giants held Hiawatha to 27 percent shooting, including a first quarter in which the Hawks shot 1 for 14.

Senior Taylor Glenn, who scored a game-high 17 points, was in charge of defending Hiawatha 7-foot center Paul Rubelt. Glenn allowed Rubelt to score only four points and grab six rebounds while battling foul trouble for much of

Scoreboard

Monday’s quarterfinal (11) Alden-Hebron 46, (9) Hiawatha 36 Tuesday’s quarterfinals (3) Orangeville vs. (13) Elgin Academy, 6 p.m.

(5) Christian Life vs. (12) Faith Lutheran, 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s semifinals (2) Westminster Christian vs. (11) AldenHebron, 6 p.m.

Orangeville/Elgin Academy winner vs. Christian Life/Faith Lutheran winner, 7:30 p.m.

Friday’s championship Semifinal winners, 7 p.m. the first half.

“Height doesn’t matter,” said Glenn, who is listed as A-H’s tallest player at 6-2. “It’s all about sound technique and strength to box guys like that out. Doing drills that focus on that in practice helps, but yeah, that’s how you do it.”

Mathis called Glenn their “horse” in the middle, saying he’s “tough to move around in there” despite his height.

Joining Glenn in double figures for the Giants was fellow senior Austin Stauss, who was encouraged by the fact

that his team was able to pick up a win, despite not playing its best.

“Honestly, we know we can play much better than we did tonight,” said Stauss, who finished with 11 points. “It got a little sketchy there at the end, but it was nice that we held them off and got the win.”

After taking a double-digit lead in the first half on back-to-back layups by Glenn, including a steal and finish just before the halftime buzzer, the Giants never allowed Hiawatha to get within single digits.

Next up for A-H (7-20), the No. 11 seed in Sub-Sectional A of the Pecatonica Sectional, is No. 2 seed Westminster Christian in the regional semifinals at 6 p.m.

Wednesday.

“We get them in the Thanksgiving tournament, in conference and we always seem to end up finding a way to see them in the regional,” Mathis said.

“They’ll give us a fight. We’ll have to keep our composure … try and control it.

We are going to have to try and be David in the David and Goliath in that one.”

Brad Judson added eight points off the bench, knocking down both of A-H’s 3-pointers.

Inside Boys Basketball ATHLETE OF THE WEEK EVAN BRIDGES Woodstock, so., G Bridges demonstrated why Blue Streaks coach Al Baker calls him one of the best shooters on the team, as he scored a combined 46 points in two Woodstock victories.

On Tuesday, Bridges hit six 3-pointers and scored 24 points as the Streaks beat Johnsburg, 85-75. The 5-foot-8 guard also made 4 of 4 free throws.

Bridges came back Friday with 22 points, and another six 3s, as Woodstock held off Woodstock North, 52-47. He was 2 of 2 from the line in that game.

“We were really more concerned about the 20 we gave up than the zero we scored,” he said. “We needed to get that part fixed if we had any chance to come back.”

It wasn’t a lot better at halftime, as Central trailed, 35-18, but the second half was remarkable. Central (8-16 overall, 4-10 FVC) Proud Sponsor of outscored D-C (4-21, 2-13), 43-18, to rally for a Athlete of the Week 61-53 victory.

Sophomore C.J. Lerum hit three of his four Crown and Huntley last week and allowed a 3s in the second half and led the Tigers with total of 64 points.

21 points. Adam Wittenberg added 17 and 4. Richmond-Burton (14-9): The Rockets Alex Timmerman scored 16. Central took full beat Woodstock North for their seventh consecutive win and stayed in first place (tied with advantage at the free-throw line, hitting 20 of 23 for the victory.

Burlington Central) in the Kishwaukee River “To our kids’ credit, they did not look beat at Conference.

5. Marengo (19-7): The Indians were stymied the end of the first quarter,” Czeslawski said.

“They acknowledged that we played a poor first

by Burlington Central’s pressure defense in a quarter, and they dug in and worked together to 63-43 loss, then came back to beat Harvard.

NORTHWEST HERALD POWER RANKINGS Marengo is one win away from a fourth consec- climb out of the hole.”

1. Jacobs (24-1): The Golden Eagles extended utive 20-win season.

Top spot: As expected, Jacobs landed the No. their winning streak to nine with wins over 1 seed in the Class 4A Elgin Sectional when the Cary-Grove and Prairie Ridge. That also put IHSA announced the seeds last week.

NOTEWORTHY Jacobs alone atop the Fox Valley Conference The Golden Eagles were the second team Crazy comeback: Crystal Lake Central’s with two remaining games. outside the top 10 receiving votes in The start at Dundee-Crown was abysmal. The 2. Prairie Ridge (18-7): The Wolves put Tigers trailed the Chargers, 20-0, after the first Associated Press Class 4A poll last week with together a furious comeback with 26 points seven votes. St. Charles East, Prairie Ridge and quarter. in the fourth quarter against Jacobs and lost, St. Charles North were the other top seeds in Central coach Rich Czeslawski sensed his 61-54. Even without leading scorer Kyle Loeding players felt bad enough that he and his staff Sub-Sectional A. Boylan was the top seed in (knee) they are tough to deal with.

Sub-Sectional B. didn’t need to pile on any more. Instead, the 3. McHenry (16-10): The Warriors have won coaches gave them little adjustments and In the Robert Morris University Sectional, four consecutive games and remain one of the small goals, “Like getting on the scoreboard,” one in which the entire sectional was seeded, top three FVC teams. McHenry beat DundeeMcHenry earned a No. 10 seed and Cary-Grove Czeslawski joked.

was No. 12.

The Class 3A Richmond-Burton Regional could be renamed the Kishwaukee River Conference Regional as all six teams are from the KRC. Only Burlington Central, which was sent to Sub-Sectional A of the Genoa-Kingston Sectional, is missing.

Rochelle, which hosts its own regional, got the top seed in Sub-Sectional B of the G-K Sectional. Marengo (2), R-B (3) and Marian Central (4) were the next three. With Marian edging out Belvidere (5), the Hurricanes are sent west to Rochelle.

Good week: Three area teams with sub-.500 records (Central, Hampshire and Woodstock) all came through last week with 2-0 records.

WHAT TO WATCH Marengo at Richmond-Burton 7 p.m. Tuesday, Lou Ramirez Gymnasium R-B is tied with Burlington Central atop the KRC standings and needs wins against Marengo and Harvard to grab a share of the title. Burlington finishes with Harvard and Woodstock North.

McHenry at Jacobs 7 p.m. Tuesday, the Eagles’ Nest The Warriors are on a four-game winning streak, while Jacobs is looking for a third consecutive outright conference title and riding a nine-game string. The past two titles were in the FVC Valley Division.

– Joe Stevenson joestevenson@shawmedia.com

• Tuesday, February 21, 2017

ELGIN – “A win is a win.”

Alden-Hebron boys basketball coach Todd Mathis summed up his team’s effort against Hiawatha on Monday night with a smile.

It wasn’t pretty at all times, but the Giants found a way to hang onto a lead from start to finish in a 46-36 win over Hiawatha in the Class 1A Westminster Christian Regional quarterfinals.

The Giants shot only 33 percent and committed 22 turnovers – 10 in the fourth quarter – but managed to knock down shots and get key defensive stops when they needed it most.

“We’ve known from Day 1 that every game is going to be a fight with us,” Mathis said. “I liked how we hung in there and played with a lead. Usually we’re trying to come back, but at this time of the year, you want to start fast.

I thought there are definitely things to clean up before Wednesday, but at this point, all you need to do is find a way to win.”

Mathis said one of his team’s keys coming into the game was defensive effort. Despite having a poor shooting

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By BRUCE MILES

bmiles@dailyherald.com

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Cubs strength and conditioning coach Tim Buss dressed up with a top hat, some chains for bling and a walking stick to add some fun to Monday’s workout.

CUBS NOTES

Good to be back outside

By BRUCE MILES

bmiles@dailyherald.com MESA, Ariz. – Finally.

After two days of rain and chilly weather, the Cubs were able to hold their first full-squad workout Monday.

“Even leaving this morning from the RV, it was nice,” manager Joe Maddon said. “It was warmer than I thought. It was good. We got our work in. Didn’t get everything in that we’d like to on the field, but plenty of hitting in the cages. The pitchers got to throw, and that’s the important thing.”

The main event was “live” batting practice, with pitchers such as Jon Lester and John Lackey throwing to Cubs hitters. The pitchers weren’t throwing full force, and the hitters knew what was coming, but it got everybody outdoors.

During parts of the batting practice, coaches yelled out situations – such as man on second and nobody out – so that hitters could practice advancing the runner. Lester threw to second-year catcher Willson Contreras, who is expected to take over for retired David Ross as Lester’s catcher. After Monday’s session, pitching coach Chris Bosio and catching coach Mike Borzello went over things with Contreras.

“Our pitchers looked good out there,” infielder-outfielder Ben Zobrist said. “They’re all just trying to get loose. They’re throwing 10 miles (per hour) slower than they normally do.

But yeah, it was a good day. It was fun.”

The Cubs also had fun with the morning stretch. Tim Buss, the team’s

strength and conditioning coordinator, dressed up in a top hat and bling – a whole bunch of neck chains – while carrying a walking stick.

The garish get-up, Maddon said, was to preach the importance of humility to the defending world champions.

“I give the guy credit,” Maddon said of Buss. “On a daily basis, he’s able to pull something off that makes the guys laugh, and it’s a great way to start the day.”

This could be fun: Recently acquired lefty Brett Anderson sounds like he could be a quotable guy. He threw a bullpen session in cool weather Monday morning and returned to the clubhouse lathered up.

“I can sweat in a snowstorm,” he said.

On his personality, he likened himself to laconic pitcher Lester, with one difference.

“I’m more like Lester except for my social media,” he said, explaining he’s sarcastic on Twitter. “I kind of sit back and observe. I’m not a huge talker in person, but I can kind of show some of my personality and candor on some of those things.

“You look at stuff and you get to a new team and say, ‘Oh, man, did I say anything about anybody that’s going to [tick] them off and whatnot?’ The only thing I said about the players is that Kyle (young pitcher Hendricks) looks like he could have some Oreos and milk after pitching in the World Series.

That’s kind of the guy he is. Just the calmness and stuff he shows is something we can all try to strive for.”

MESA, Ariz. – Brett Anderson says he likes Cubs fans, and he wants Cubs fans to like him, too.

The bearded left-hander wasn’t feeling quite so charitable in October when he was a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers. After the Cubs won Game 6 of the National League Championship Series to eliminate the Dodgers at Wrigley Field, Anderson went on Twitter to take some Cubs fans to task.

“Real classy cubs fans throwing beer in the Dodgers family section. Stay classy (bleeping) idiots,” he tweeted.

After working in the bullpen Monday morning, Anderson said he didn’t mean all Cubs fans, only the few who he said threw beer on the visiting team’s family members.

“Obviously, I wasn’t in the stands,” he said. “There were some beers thrown where the families were. I’m going to stick to my family and my side. Rightfully so, some of the Cubs fans were mad.

But I wasn’t calling out the whole stadium. It was just whoever threw the beer on the family section.

“Everybody has their fans, and they’re kind of rowdy and unruly. That just happened to be a situation. You like those people on your side. I played in Oakland, and they had some of the rowdiest fans in the playoffs. The Cubs fans, just visiting there, it’s a fun crowd to play (before) because it’s an intimate setting and you feel like they’re right on top of you and so loud. It will be fun to have those people on your side.”

Anderson signed a one-year contract with the Cubs in January. Now that he’s a Cub, Job 1 is trying to win a spot in the rotation as the fifth starter. He is battling with his catch-playing buddy, Mike Montgomery, another lefty.

Health will be the issue to watch with the 29-year-old Anderson. He appeared in only four games for the Dodgers last season because of arthroscopic surgery in March to repair a bulging disk in his back. For his career, Anderson is 38-43 with a 3.86 ERA in 127 games (115 starts) with Oakland, Colorado and the Dodgers.

“You’re not out there trying to blow the doors off in a bullpen (session),” he said. “You can only do so much. Your adrenaline is only so high, especially at 7:45 (a.m.). I like my chances. I think I’m a good pitcher when I’m healthy. That’s been the biggest issue my whole career.

When I’m healthy and able to go out

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Left-hander Brett Anderson, who was with the Dodgers last season, is trying to win a spot in the Cubs’ rotation as a fifth starter. there and do my work and consistently pitch, I like the pitcher that I am.

“Whoever the fifth starter is, it’s going to be a formidable rotation just based off the track record of all the guys we have in camp. It’s good to have healthy competition.”

Manager Joe Maddon saw Anderson in 2009, when Anderson came up with Oakland and went 11-11 with a 4.06 ERA. Maddon said he is not concerned about the results early in spring training games.

“To pitch well early is not a concern; health is,” Maddon said. “Guys with the great track record like that, and he’s not that old, you watch him (in the bullpen) and he looks fine.

“I don’t get overly enamored with spring training evaluations. I learned that years ago that you can be seriously fooled, both ways.”

Anderson has a history of injuries.

He had elbow surgery in 2011 and the first of two back surgeries in 2014.

He is the son of former Oklahoma State baseball coach Frank Anderson, and he said his status as a baseball lifer helped in the tough times.

“I’m a baseball guy,” he said. “It kind of sounds cliché, being a baseball player. I don’t have as much service time as some of these guys, but I’ve been at the field probably more so than any of these guys just because I’ve been going to the field since I could walk and talk and annoying college kids.”

• Follow Bruce Miles’ Cubs and baseball reports on Twitter @BruceMiles2112.

WHITE SOX SPRING TRAINING

First-round pick wants to prove doubters wrong

By DARYL VAN SCHOUWEN

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AP photo

White Sox catcher Zack Collins, the team’s first-round draft pick last year, is confident he can play the position at the major league level. er, wanted to prove he could catch, but he is primarily an outfielder now.

“They kind of expect you to catch as well as you can hit, which is tough to do,’’ Collins said. “We’re kind of in the same boat, although he’s more prestigious right now. Follow his same path but stay behind the plate.’’

Sox catching coordinator John Orton, for one, believes Collins will. When the Sox drafted Collins, Orton went to watch him catch for the University of Miami.

“I heard all the talk of worries about his catching and said, ‘I’m going take

a look at this guy,’ ’’ Orton said. “After the first inning, the way he received and moved back there, I said, ‘Yeah, this guy can catch at the higher level.’ ’’ Orton first looks at hands, how a catcher moves behind the plate, footwork and receiving. Those things looked good to him, and he believes Collins will be a good pitch framer because he has good hands. The skill that Collins lacks now is throwing. Not arm strength, but “the timing of the footwork and when the ball comes out of the hand where the throws are accurate,’’ Orton said.

Orton said throwing, while import-

WHITE SOX NOTES

Newcomer Holland sees strong team chemistry

By DARYL VAN SCHOUWEN

dvanschouwen@suntimes.com

GLENDALE, Ariz. – If there is something to be said for team chemistry and esprit de corps, the White Sox got off to a good start during their first week of getting to know each other.

“The camaraderie has been fantastic,’’ newcomer Derek Holland said.

“The way these guys are interacting with each other – chemistrywise – I don’t know a lot of these guys, but you can tell there is not one person that doesn’t want to be around another one.’’

Holland, 30, who signed a one-year deal with the Sox after pitching for the Rangers for nine seasons, said “team chemistry” on the AL West division winner was second to none.

“Coming from teams I’ve play with, that’s the most important thing,’’ Holland said. “That can take you far. I know

how early it is, but we’re in a good position with the group of guys we have in here now.’’

The rebuilding project entered into by general manager Rick Hahn is evident with prospects such as Yoan Moncada, Lucas Giolito, Michael Kopech, Reynaldo Lopez, Zack Derek Holland Collins moving about.

It’s also evident in the low win projections for this team, which could become a rallying cry.

“Nobody is picking us to do [anything], and I love that,’’ Holland said.

Holland’s locker is on the west wall of the team’s clubhouse at Camelback Ranch, traditionally for players with the most service time. This year, it’s (from left) Melky Cabrera, Todd Frazier, Holland, James Shields, Jose Quintana, Da-

vid Robertson and Nate Jones.

“It’s important for us to make the rookies feel comfortable,’’ Holland said.

Garcia weight loss: Avisail Garcia took about two weeks off during the offseason, playing winter ball in his native Venezuela, working on his defense and losing 14 pounds before coming to spring training. Down to 254 pounds, the right fielder wants to get down to 248 by the end of spring.

It’s an important year for the 25-yearold who hit 12 homers, drove in 51 runs and hit to a .245/.307/.385 slash line while providing below average defense in 2016, falling short of the high expectations that have always preceded him. Garcia did hit .355 with runners in scoring position.

“I do my routine every morning,’’ Garcia said. “After practice, I go back to the gym. When you work and believe in yourself nothing can stop you.’’

Geo squared: The clubhouse has catcher Geovany Soto and left-hander Giovanni Soto. And then there’s Lucas Giolito.

“We are pretty good friends, and it’s kind of surreal he has the same name,’’ Geovany Soto said.

“Hopefully, I can get a big check in his name and cash it.’’

Soto was with the Sox in 2015.

“Feels like I never left,’’ he said.

This and that: The Sox are scrapping the usual intrasquad game before Cactus League games begin Saturday. Manager Rick Renteria said the time will be used on drills instead.

• Coach Joe McEwing continues to work with infield prospect Yoan Moncada on stabilizing his lower half.

• Carlos Rodon, easing into the season at a slower pace than teammates, played catch again, but Renteria did not say when Rodon will throw his first bullpen session.

• Tuesday, February 21, 2017

GLENDALE, Ariz. – First-round draft choice Zack Collins can hit. Whether he can catch at the major league level will have to be proved, some scouts say.

The White Sox believe he will. Collins, as you’d expect, is confident he can.

“A lot of teams were kind of doubting whether I could catch,’’ Collins said.

“So I just work my butt off to prove people wrong. Honestly, that’s the best thing people could have said about me – that I couldn’t catch.’’

One of the best hitters in the draft, the Sox selected the left-handed hitting Collins 10th overall in June, drooling at the luxury in a good bat wrapped around a premium defensive position and checking off two organization needs: catching and left-handed hitting.

Collins, who projects as a 25-homer guy, some say, might make a swift climb to the majors like left-handed hitting college catcher Kyle Schwarber did because of his bat.

Schwarber, who has more raw pow-

ant, is not at the top of the list of priorities for a catcher. And it’s a teachable skill, and Collins strikes him as a learner.

“He’s a smart kid, wants to learn, and learns quick, which is a sign of intelligence, obviously,’’ Orton said. “Passionate.’’

And motivated.

“I’m here to prove everyone wrong who thinks I can’t catch at the bigleague level,’’ he said. “That’s my position, and that’s where I want to stick.’’

Collins is rated fourth among catching prospects behind the Cardinals’ Carson Kelly, the Indians’ Francisco Mejia and the Phillies’ Jorge Alfaro.

Kelly and Alfaro already have had a taste of the majors.

Collins, who hit .258 with six homers over 36 games at Class A Winston-Salem after producing a .362/.544/.668 slash line with 16 homers at Miami his junior season, figures to begin the season at the high A level again.

For now, he’s soaking in his first major league camp.

“It’s been amazing,’’ Collins said.

“Honestly, it’s kind of surreal to me.

I’m so young, and just a couple years ago I was watching Todd Frazier, and watching James Shields throw (as a fan). Now, sitting here in the same locker room as them and playing with them, it is crazy to me.

“I’m excited for this year. We have a lot of great young talent, and it’s a very exciting time to be a White Sox.’’

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WEDNESDAY

at Minnesota 7 p.m.

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THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

ARIZONA 7:30 p.m.

NBCSN, CSN AM-720 PHOENIX 7 p.m.

WGN AM-890

at Cleveland 7:30 p.m.

ABC AM-890 ATHLETICS* 2:05 p.m., WGN at Giants* 2:05 p.m. at Dodgers* 2:05 p.m.

AM-890 *–Spring training

WHAT TO WATCH

Pro hockey 7 p.m.: Blackhawks at Minnesota, NBCSN, CSN Men’s basketball 5 p.m.: Purdue at Penn St., BTN 5 p.m.: Rhode Island at La Salle, CBSSN 6 p.m.: South Carolina at Florida, ESPN 6 p.m.: Oklahoma at Baylor, ESPN2 6 p.m.: Clemson at Virginia Tech, ESPNU 6 p.m.: Auburn at LSU, SEC 7 p.m.: Northwestern at Illinois, BTN 7 p.m.: Green Bay at Illinois-Chicago, CSN+ 7 p.m.: St. John’s at Marquette, FS1 7 p.m.: Davidson at Richmond, CBSSN

8 p.m.: Indiana at Iowa, ESPN 8 p.m.: Kentucky at Missouri, SEC 8 p.m.: Mississippi at Mississippi St., ESPN2 8 p.m.: East Carolina at Tulane, ESPNU 9 p.m.: Colorado St. at New Mexico, CBSSN Boxing 9 p.m.: Miguel Flores vs. Dat Nguyen, junior lightweights, FS1 Soccer 1:30 p.m.: UEFA Champions League, Round of 16, Leg 1, Manchester City vs. Monaco, FS1 1:30 p.m.: UEFA Champions League, Round of 16, Leg 1, Bayer Leverkusen vs. Atletico Madrid, FS2

SPORTS BRIEFS

Kings cut ties with Cousins, giving Pelicans dominant duo

Sacramento general manager Vlade Divac headed into All-Star weekend convinced it finally was time to part ways with ultratalented center DeMarcus Cousins.

Befitting a franchise that appears headed to an 11th straight season without a playoff berth, the Kings even seemed to botch that. Sacramento dealt Cousins and forward Omri Casspi to New Orleans in exchange for Tyreke Evans, 2016 first-round draft pick Buddy Hield, Langston Galloway and first- and second-round draft picks this summer.

When asked Monday why he didn’t wait for a better offer closer to Thursday’s

trade deadline, Divac gave a curious response that raised more questions than it answered.

“Most likely we would get less because I had a better deal two days ago,” Divac said. “I don’t want to go into details. I don’t want to discuss the process.”

Former Derby, Preakness winner Charismatic dies

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Former Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Charismatic, whose bid for the Triple Crown ended with a dramatic leg injury as he neared the finish line in the Belmont Stakes, has died at a thoroughbred retirement farm in Kentucky.

– Wire reports

FAVORITE Rhode Island Purdue at BAYLOR at VIRGINIA TECH Auburn at FLORIDA at CENT. MICHIGAN at TOLEDO at BUFFALO Ohio at BALL ST. Cleveland St. at N. KENTUCKY at OAKLAND at DAYTON at VALPARAISO Green Bay at WICHITA ST. at RICHMOND at GEORGIA TECH

Tuesday LINE 3 7 11 2 2½ 10 3 5½ 7 5½ 3½ 1 3 13½ 11½ 15 1½ 19½ 1½ 5½

UNDERDOG at LA SALLE at PENN ST. Oklahoma Clemson at LSU South Carolina N. Illinois W. Michigan Kent St. at MIAMI (OHIO) E. Michigan at DETROIT Wright St. Youngstown St. George Mason Milwaukee at ILL.-CHICAGO Evansville Davidson NC State

NBA

Central Division GP W L OT Pts Minnesota 58 39 13 6 84 Blackhawks 59 36 18 5 77 St. Louis 60 31 24 5 67 Nashville 58 28 22 8 64 Winnipeg 62 28 29 5 61 Dallas 60 23 27 10 56 Colorado 57 16 38 3 35 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts San Jose 60 35 18 7 77 Edmonton 59 32 19 8 72 Anaheim 61 31 20 10 72 Calgary 59 29 26 4 62 Los Angeles 58 28 26 4 60 Vancouver 60 26 28 6 58 Arizona 58 21 30 7 49

at MARQUETTE Northwestern at IOWA Kentucky at MISSISSIPPI ST. Akron at TULANE at NEW MEXICO

11 2½ 1 16½ 2 6 1 3½

St. John’s at ILLINOIS Indiana at MISSOURI Mississippi at BOWLING GREEN East Carolina Colorado St.

NHL

FAVORITE at MINNESOTA at NY RANGERS Pittsburgh at NEW JERSEY at DETROIT at TORONTO at TAMPA BAY at NASHVILLE Los Angeles

Saturday LINE UNDERDOG -130 Blackhawks -137 Montreal -125 at CAROLINA -108 Ottawa -105 NY Islanders -140 Winnipeg -118 Edmonton -152 Calgary -181 at COLORADO

Updated odds available at Pregame.com

LINE +120 +127 +115 -102 -105 +130 +108 +142 +166

PREPS

EASTERN CONFERENCE

WESTERN CONFERENCE GF 195 172 170 164 180 165 113

GA 133 151 173 159 194 193 190

GF 166 171 156 153 143 142 140

GA 144 152 154 167 145 172 183

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 59 31 20 8 70 166 153 Ottawa 57 31 20 6 68 156 152 Florida 58 28 20 10 66 149 162 Boston 59 30 23 6 66 159 156 Toronto 58 27 20 11 65 181 173 Buffalo 60 26 24 10 62 147 168 Tampa Bay 58 26 24 8 60 160 166 Detroit 59 24 25 10 58 149 175 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Washington 58 39 12 7 85 195 126 Pittsburgh 58 36 14 8 80 204 165 Columbus 58 37 16 5 79 187 143 N.Y. Rangers 58 38 19 1 77 196 152 N.Y. Islanders 58 27 21 10 64 174 174 Philadelphia 59 28 24 7 63 154 179 New Jersey 59 25 24 10 60 138 170 Carolina 55 24 23 8 56 141 162 Note: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Monday’s Results Florida 2, St. Louis 1 Arizona 3, Anaheim 2 Tuesday’s Games Blackhawks at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Ottawa at New Jersey, 6 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Carolina, 6 p.m.

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

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

Winnipeg at Toronto, 6:30 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Calgary at Nashville, 7 p.m.

Los Angeles at Colorado, 8 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Edmonton at Florida, 6:30 p.m.

Washington at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Boston at Anaheim, 9:30 p.m.

Central Division W L Pct Cleveland 39 16 .709 Indiana 29 28 .509 Bulls 28 29 .491 Detroit 27 30 .474 Milwaukee 25 30 .455 Atlantic Division W L Pct Boston 37 20 .649 Toronto 33 24 .579 New York 23 34 .404 Philadelphia 21 35 .375 Brooklyn 9 47 .161 Southeast Division W L Pct Washington 34 21 .618 Atlanta 32 24 .571 Miami 25 32 .439 Charlotte 24 32 .429 Orlando 21 37 .362

GIRLS BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS

GB — 11 12 13 14 GB — 4 14 15½ 27½ GB — 2½ 10 10½ 14½

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio 43 13 .768 Houston 40 18 .690 Memphis 34 24 .586 New Orleans 23 34 .404 Dallas 22 34 .393 Northwest Division W L Pct Utah 35 22 .614 Oklahoma City 32 25 .561 Denver 25 31 .446 Portland 23 33 .411 Minnesota 22 35 .386 Pacific Division W L Pct Golden State 47 9 .839 L.A. Clippers 35 21 .625 Sacramento 24 33 .421 L.A. Lakers 19 39 .328 Phoenix 18 39 .316

BIG TEN CONFERENCE

Conference W L PCT Wisconsin 11 3 .786 Purdue 11 3 .786 Maryland 10 4 .714 Northwestern 9 5 .643 Minnesota 8 6 .571 Michigan St. 8 6 .571 Michigan 7 7 .500 Iowa 6 8 .429 Penn St. 6 8 .429 Nebraska 6 8 .429 Illinois 5 9 .357 Indiana 5 9 .357 Ohio St. 5 10 .333 Rutgers 2 13 .133

Overall W L PCT 22 5 .815 22 5 .815 22 5 .815 20 7 .741 20 7 .741 16 11 .593 17 10 .630 14 13 .519 14 13 .519 12 14 .462 15 12 .556 15 12 .556 15 13 .536 13 15 .464

Tuesday’s Games Purdue at Penn St., 5 p.m.

Northwestern at Illinois, 7 p.m.

Indiana at Iowa, 8 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Michigan at Rutgers, 5:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Maryland, 7:30 p.m.

Conference W L PCT Akron 12 2 .857 Ohio 9 5 .643 Buffalo 9 5 .643 Ball St. 8 6 .571 Kent St. 7 7 .500 Toledo 7 7 .500 W. Michigan 7 7 .500 C. Michigan 6 8 .429 N. Illinois 6 8 .429 E. Michigan 5 9 .357 Bowling Green 5 9 .357 Miami (Ohio) 3 11 .214

Overall W L PCT 22 5 .815 17 8 .680 15 12 .556 17 10 .630 15 12 .556 14 13 .519 11 15 .423 16 11 .593 14 13 .519 13 14 .481 11 16 .407 10 17 .370

Tuesday’s Games N. Illinois at Cent. Michigan, 6 p.m.

E. Michigan at Ball St., 6 p.m.

Ohio at Miami (Ohio), 6 p.m.

W. Michigan at Toledo, 6 p.m.

Kent St. at Buffalo, 6 p.m.

Akron at Bowling Green, 8 p.m.

Friday’s Games C. Michigan at Toledo, 6 p.m.

Akron at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

GB — 4 10 20½ 21 GB — 3 9½ 11½ 13 GB — 12 23½ 29 29½

Monday’s Schedule No games scheduled Tuesday’s Schedule No games scheduled Wednesday’s Schedule No games scheduled Thursday’s Games Portland at Orlando, 6 p.m.

Charlotte at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Houston at New Orleans, 7 p.m.

New York at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Denver at Sacramento, 9:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

AP TOP 25 POLL

The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll, with firstplace votes in parentheses, records through Sunday, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking: Record Pts Prv 1. Gonzaga (59) 28-0 1,618 1 2. Villanova (5) 26-2 1,556 2 3. Kansas (1) 24-3 1,503 3 4. Arizona 25-3 1,356 5 5. UCLA 24-3 1,316 6 6. Oregon 24-4 1,297 7 7. Louisville 22-5 1,267 8 8. North Carolina 23-5 1,138 10 9. Baylor 22-5 1,108 4 10. Duke 22-5 1,014 12 11. Kentucky 22-5 943 13 12. West Virginia 21-6 908 9 13. Florida 22-5 822 15 14. Purdue 22-5 807 16 15. Cincinnati 24-3 733 18 16. Wisconsin 22-5 713 11 17. SMU 24-4 554 19 18. Virginia 18-8 427 14 19. Florida St. 21-6 419 17 20. Saint Mary’s 24-3 375 22 21. Notre Dame 21-7 322 25 22. Butler 21-6 295 24 23. Creighton 22-5 178 20 24. Maryland 22-5 159 23 25. Wichita St. 25-4 153 — Others receiving votes: VCU 39, Northwestern 25, Iowa St. 22, South Carolina 12, Southern Cal 10, Dayton 9, Middle Tennessee 8, Oklahoma St. 7, Minnesota 5, Miami 2, Monmouth (N.J.) 2, Michigan 1, Vermont 1, Virginia Tech 1.

AP TOP SCHEDULE

CLASS 3A Johnsburg Sectional Tuesday Game 1 at 6 p.m.: (1) Antioch vs.

(4) St. Viator Game 2 at 7:30 p.m.: (2) Johnsburg vs.

(3) Carmel Thursday Game 3 at 7 p.m.: Winner Game 1 vs.

Winner Game 2 CLASS 4A Hampshire Sectional Monday Game 1 at 6 p.m.: Boylan 47, DundeeCrown 37 Game 2 at 7:30 p.m.: Rockford East 51, Streamwood 45 Thursday Game 3 at 7 p.m.: Boylan vs. Rockford East

BOYS BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS

NCAA BASKETBALL

MID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE

BETTING ODDS COLLEGE BASKETBALL

NHL

Monday’s Results No. 12 West Virginia 77, Texas 62 Miami 54, No. 18 Virginia 48 (OT) No. 19 Florida St. 104, Boston College 72 Tuesday’s Games No. 9 Baylor vs. Oklahoma, 6 p.m.

No. 11 Kentucky at Missouri, 8 p.m.

No. 13 Florida vs. South Carolina, 6 p.m.

No. 14 Purdue at Penn St., 5 p.m.

No. 25 Wichita St. vs. Evansville, 7 p.m.

CLASS 1A Westminster Christian Regional Monday Game 1 at 7 p.m.: (11) Alden-Hebron 46, (9) Hiawatha 36 Tuesday Game 2 at 6 p.m.: (3) Orangeville vs.

(13) Elgin Academy Game 3 at 7:30 p.m.: (5) Christian Life vs. (12) Faith Lutheran Wednesday Game 4 at 6 p.m.: (2) Westminster Christian vs. (11) Alden-Hebron Game 5 at 7:30 p.m.: Winner Game 2 vs. Winner Game 3 Friday Game 6 at 7 p.m.: Winner Game 4 vs.

Winner Game 5

SCHEDULE

TUESDAY Boys basketball: Cary-Grove at Hampshire, Crystal Lake Central at Prairie Ridge, Crystal Lake South at Huntley, McHenry at Jacobs, Johnsburg at Woodstock North, Marengo at Richmond-Burton, Burlington Central at Harvard, 7 p.m.

MLB SPRING TRAINING SCHEDULE

Wednesday Grand Canyon University vs. Arizona at Scottsdale, Ariz., 2:10 p.m.

Thursday Florida Southern College vs. Detroit at Lakeland, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

University of Tampa vs. Philadelphia at Clearwater, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Northeastern University vs. Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Friday Baltimore vs. Detroit at Lakeland, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Philadelphia vs. N.Y. Yankees at Tampa, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets vs. Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee vs. Milwaukee at Phoenix, 2:05 p.m.

Cincinnati vs. San Francisco at Scottsdale, Ariz., 2:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay vs. Minnesota at Fort Myers, Fla., 5:05 p.m.

Saturday Oakland vs. Cubs (ss) at Mesa, Ariz., 2:05 p.m.

White Sox vs. L.A. Dodgers at Glendale, Ariz., 2:05 p.m.

Cubs (ss) vs. San Francisco at Scottsdale, Ariz., 2:10 p.m.

St. Louis vs. Miami at Jupiter, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Toronto vs. Atlanta at Kissimmee, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Houston vs. Detroit at Lakeland, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees vs. Philadelphia at Clearwater, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh (ss) at Bradenton, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (ss) vs. Tampa Bay at Port Charlotte, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Minnesota vs. Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Washington vs. N.Y. Mets at Port St. Lucie, Fla., 12:10 p.m.

Cincinnati vs. Cleveland at Goodyear, Ariz., 2:05 p.m.

Seattle vs. San Diego at Peoria, Ariz., 2:05 p.m.

Kansas City vs. Texas at Surprise, Ariz., 2:05 p.m.

Colorado vs. Arizona at Scottsdale, Ariz., 2:10 p.m.

Milwaukee vs. L.A. Angels at Tempe, Ariz., 2:10 p.m.

BLACKHAWKS

Team will have to make a decision on center eventually

By MARK LAZERUS

mlazerus@suntimes.com

Kruger’s an interesting case. His $3.08 million contract is somehow both outlandish and completely warranted. Your average fourth-line center doesn’t make anywhere near that much money, but Kruger’s not your average fourth-line center. He played a key role in two Stanley Cup runs, is the Hawks’ top penalty killer, and on a team with perennial Selke Trophy candidates Jonathan Toews and Marian Hossa, he actually is the Hawks’ best purely defensive forward.

“Marcus does lots of small things that people don’t see really well, especially in the the defensive zone,” Hossa said.

“He kills penalties and plays against top lines, and you might not see it all when you’re sitting in the stands, but we see it on the team. He’s a good player.”

He’s a difference-maker, too, the kind of player who makes good teams great.

But he still is a bottom-six player with two goals in two seasons making $3.08 million. And with the cap potentially staying flat and Artemi Panarin’s new contract kicking in, the Hawks might not be able to make the math work.

With eight players locked in with no-movement clauses, the Hawks don’t have a lot of flexibility when it comes to

the expansion draft. Kruger is a candidate to be left exposed, and Vegas could alleviate the Hawks’ cap concerns by plucking Kruger instead of a cheaper option such as, say, Trevor van Riemsdyk, or a veteran role player on a new contract, or an experienced minor-leaguer.

But although Dennis Rasmussen and Tanner Kero both are solid bottom-six centers, Krugers don’t come along all that often.

“Organizationally, that’s something that’s looked at a lot, whether it’s the money side of it, the business side of it, the hockey side,” coach Joel Quenneville said. “There have been some (expansion draft) discussions, but it’s a little bit out there and really not on my front burner.”

But the Hawks will have to make a difficult decision on Kruger eventually, because he somehow is both invaluable and overpaid – a luxury. And one the Hawks might not be able to afford.

“I’ve never been a guy that’s really paid much attention to stuff like that,” Kruger said. “That’s just how I am. If you have Twitter, you probably see a lot of rumors and stuff like that. I’m pretty protected from that. I just focus on myself, and whatever happens, happens.”

• Tuesday, February 21, 2017

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – Marcus Kruger used to exist in a blissful bubble of oblivion, free from the inexhaustible news cycle and rumor mill of the hockey world. When it came to hockey news, Kruger usually was the last person to know, which is just how he liked it.

Then Niklas Hjalmarsson got a Twitter account.

“Me and Hammer sit together on the bus, and when something big happened before when he didn’t have Twitter, he didn’t find anything out, and I didn’t find anything out,” Kruger said.

“Now he’s on there all the time. It’s almost like having a new guy on the bus or something. But it’s good. Because he can sort through everything for me and keep me updated.”

So far, none of that news has involved Kruger himself. With the March 1 trade deadline almost a week away, Kruger’s not going anywhere. But it’s entirely possible he’s going somewhere eventually. Kruger carries a cap hit of $3.08 million, and the Blackhawks might be inclined to leave him unprotected in the expansion draft after the season, or make him the latest salary-cap casualty after that.

Kruger understands the reality, and grasps the possibility. But he’s not going down interMarcus Kruger net rabbit holes trying to do the roster math, or figuring out what the Vegas Golden Knights might have in mind, or asking Hjalmarsson for updates about his future.

“I try not to worry about that,” Kruger said. “Obviously, you know stuff’s going to happen in the summer. I mean, look at all the guys that came here the same time as me – they’re not here anymore. You know that’s always something that could happen, but you can’t really worry about it, because then it’s going to affect your game negatively.

I’m here now.”

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8 BULLS

Bulls taking, not making, calls on Butler

The feeling around All-Star’s camp is he isn’t going anywhere

By JOE COWLEY

jcowley@suntimes.com The idea that the NBA is a business isn’t sneaking up on Jimmy Butler.

“I control what I can control,” the three-time All-Star has insisted several times throughout the season when asked about the trade rumors that have swirled around him since June.

But Butler also has a good enough rapport with the Bulls’ Gar Forman that although he doesn’t fully trust everything the general manager has said to him over the years, he does believe him on one key front: The Bulls aren’t looking to move Butler by Thursday’s trade deadline.

A source again reiterated Monday that although the Bulls have taken

numerous calls on Butler, they haven’t been making them.

Basically the same message they’ve been delivering to Butler, who privately feels like he won’t be moved unless “something crazy happens” between now and the deadline.

The only team really capable of that type of “crazy” would be Boston, not only because they own numerous first-round draft picks over the next few seasons, but also because they have young, NBA-ready talJimmy Butler ent to also package for Butler.

And it isn’t like they are shy about adding Butler to the mix, either.

“He’s got the full package,” Celtics All-Star guard Isaiah Thomas said of Butler over the weekend. “He can shoot. He can make plays for others. He can defend. He’s got good size. And he works hard. One thing I do know about him is he’s a hard worker, and at the beginning of his career he wasn’t real-

ly given anything. He didn’t have the opportunity to play – we kind of have the same situation where we didn’t play as much. And then when we were given our opportunity, we took it and ran with it.”

Thomas also said he could see how he and Butler’s games would complement each other if they did join forces.

“For sure,” Thomas said. “We have some of the same similarities. We work hard, we don’t back down from anybody and we would never give them anything.”

Butler going to Boston would undoubtedly at least make the Celtics a bigger threat to dethroning the top-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference, but a threat and actually pulling it off are two different things.

What can’t be overlooked, however, is where the Bulls’ currently stand.

At 28-29, they will start the final push for a playoff spot in the No. 7 spot with 25 regular-season games left, and close out April with that schedule working in their favor.

The last five games for the Bulls include at New York, at Philadelphia, at Brooklyn, home to Orlando and then home to Brooklyn in the regular-season finale. It couldn’t set up any better.

Playoffs matter to this front office, evident by how it often points out all the playoff appearances they’ve made in the past decade, despite only reaching the Eastern Conference finals only once.

Moving Butler would make the playoffs a much tougher road to reach, while also assuring that Dwyane Wade would exit stage left this offseason. Basically, the two best recruiters for free agents that the Bulls have.

That doesn’t mean the Bulls will be silent come Thursday, either.

While Butler is the most attractive piece to move and one who has by far the biggest return, Taj Gibson, Nikola Mirotic and Rajon Rondo each is a possibility to be elsewhere. Both Gibson and Mirotic are hitting the free-agent market this summer, while Rondo hasn’t been happy with his back-up role since the beginning of January.

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