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Supreme Court skeptical of banning sex offenders from social media sites

By MARK SHERMAN The Associated Press

WASHINGTON – With a nod to the importance of social media in American life, the Supreme Court signaled Monday that it could strike down a North Carolina law that bars convicted sex offenders from Facebook, Twitter and other popular sites.

At least five justices, a majority of the court, suggested during argument that they would rule for North Carolina resident Lester Packingham Jr. His Facebook boast about beating a traffic ticket led to his conviction for violating a 2008 law aimed at keeping sex offenders off internet sites children might use.

The state’s lawyer said the law deals with the virtual world in the same way that states keep sex offenders out of playgrounds and other places children visit. More than 1,000 people have been prosecuted under the law, Packingham said in his court filing.

Justice Samuel Alito, who has backed restrictions on speech more often than his colleagues, appeared to be more open to North Carolina’s argument.

But several justices said the law was so broad that it could violate free-speech rights, even of people convicted of sex crimes.

Social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter are so popular that they “have become embedded in our culture,” Justice Elena Kagan said.

The 56-year-old Kagan, the youngest justice and seemingly most conversant on the subject, said the law could prevent people from looking at the Twitter feeds of President Donald Trump and other elected officials.

Justice Anthony Kennedy voiced his concerns with the law by reaching back to before the digital age to note that more communication takes place online than in the traditional “public square,” where the court has been skeptical of limits on speech.

Deputy North Carolina Attorney General Robert Montgomery acknowledged that some digital avenues are cut off from people convicted under the law, but he said alternatives exist.

“This is a part of the internet, but it’s not the entire internet that is being taken away from these offenders,” Montgomery said.

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was among those who wondered whether a narrower law that specifically tried to prevent sex offenders from communicating with minors through social media might withstand court review.

A more constrained law might be constitutional, lawyer David Goldberg said on behalf of Packingham, but North Carolina’s version goes too far.

“The law does not operate in some sleepy First Amendment quarter,” Goldberg said. Instead, it “forbids speech on the very platforms on which Americans today are most likely to communicate, to organize for social change, and to petition their government.”

Louisiana is the only other state with a law similar to North Carolina’s, although the Louisiana law applies only to people convicted of sex crimes with children, according to a legal brief the state filed with the Supreme Court.

But many states have laws that require sex offenders to provide information about their internet use to authorities. Separately, many states limit internet use as a condition of parole or probation.

Packingham, 36, originally pleaded guilty in 2002 to taking indecent liberties with a child.

He had been indicted for the statutory rape of a 13-year-old and ordered to register as a sex offender.

In 2010, a Durham police officer was using his own Facebook account to look for people who shouldn’t be on the site.

He came across a post from Packingham, who used an alias but also included a photo of himself and linked to an account used by his father and namesake.

The officer found six other registered sex offenders in the same session, Montgomery said.

“No fine. No Court costs. No nothing. Praise be to God. Wow. Thanks, Jesus,” Packingham wrote in the post that led to his conviction and suspended prison sentence.

A decision in Packingham v. North Carolina, 15-1194, is expected by late June.

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ON THE COVER Election judges Sharon DeFrancesco and Dave Powell work Monday to set up a voting machine at the polling place in the Nunda Township office in Crystal Lake.

See story, page A3.

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Algonquin, Grafton and Nunda township hopefuls seek shot at making April 4 ballot

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Election judge Claudia Chrusciel talks with McHenry County Clerk Mary McClellan after a voting machine begins to run slowly Monday at the Nunda Township office in Crystal Lake.

Election judges Mary Carol Strug and Ron Salm arrange voting booths Monday at the polling place in the Nunda Township office in Crystal Lake. Republican voters in Algonquin, Grafton and Nunda townships will head to ballot boxes Tuesday to select which candidates for township office will advance to the April 4 election.

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epublican voters in Algonquin, Grafton and Nunda townships will head to ballot boxes Tuesday to select which candidates for township office will advance to the April 4 election.

While voters countywide will decide April 4

who will represent them on McHenry County’s many township, municipal, school, park, library and other boards, the three township GOP organizations chose to hold primaries to whittle down their candidates.

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

See PRIMARY ELECTION, page A11

If you go n WHAT: Algonquin, Grafton and Nunda township primary election n WHEN: 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. n WHERE: Various polling places n INFORMATION: www.co.mchenry. il.us or 815-334-0236

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LOCAL NEWS LOCAL BRIEF Exhibitors sought for annual business expo

JOHNSBURG – The Johnsburg Area Business Association is accepting registration for its 2017 Business and Craft Expo, which will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 11 at Johnsburg High School.

Booth registration forms are available on the “News” link at www.johnsburgjaba.com and at the Johnsburg Public Library, 3000 N. Johnsburg Road. Fees are listed on the form.

For information, call JABA Expo Chairman Richard Bierman at 815-759-9459.

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Longtime GOP chairman Albert Jourdan dies at 82

By JORDYN REILAND

jreiland@shawmedia.com JOHNSBURG – McHenry County GOP kingmaker Albert M. Jourdan Jr. is remembered by colleagues as a man who helped shape local government and the people who run it.

Jourdan, 82, died Saturday. Born and raised in Chicago, Jourdan helped his father run the family’s Jourdan Meatpacking Co. until the business was sold in the 1970s.

In 1957, Jourdan moved with his wife and the first of two children to Johnsburg, where his political Albert M. career began.

Jourdan Jr. He entered McHenry County politics in 1961 as a Republican committeeman, then served as McHenry County Republican chairman between 1968 and 1998.

From 1972 to 1997, he was McHenry County auditor, and between 1991 and 1993, he was head of the Illinois Republican Party.

In 1998, Jourdan became the first inductee into the McHenry County Republican Foundation’s Hall of Fame.

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First and foremost, he was a great family man, and he was truly invested in his community. He considered the community a part of his family.”

Sen. Pam Althoff, R-32nd District

politician Jack Schaffer met Jourdan in the 1960s, when the two were the “new kids on the block” in the Republican Party.

“Over a relatively short period of time, we convinced them we were rational,” Schaffer said.

Schaffer described his colleague and friend as a man who created significant change in every job he held, but he wasn’t one to take credit for much of anything.

Jourdan also was frequently consulted for advice by many prospective politicians throughout the state of Illinois.

“Anyone who thought they were running for office as a Republican statewide

would make sure one of the first five calls they made was to Al Jourdan,” Schaffer said.

As McHenry County Republican chairman, Jourdan ran the office “without a scandal worth talking about,” and was someone who earned the respect from members of both parties.

Republican state Sen. Pam Althoff said Jourdan mentored her for a very long time, as he did for many others over the past several decades.

She said that Jourdan was someone people turned to when a political issue came up.

He also watched the county grow and almost double in size while maintaining close, tight-knit relationships with community members and new civic leaders, she said.

“First and foremost, he was a great family man, and he was truly invested in his community,” Althoff said. “He considered the community a part of his family.”

A visitation will be held from 3 to 8 p.m. Thursday and from 10 a.m. until the 10:30 a.m. funeral service Friday at Justen Funeral Home & Crematory, 3700 Charles J. Miller Road, McHenry. For information, call 815-385-2400 or visit www. justenfh.com.

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Police arrest 2 after finding alleged marijuana growing operation at home NORTHWEST HERALD CARPENTERSVILLE – Two people will appear in court after a search warrant led police to find an alleged marijuana growing operation at a Carpentersville home.

Carpentersville police served a search warrant Thursday afternoon in the first block of Valentine Street in Carpentersville.

During the search, police said they discovered 66 marijuana plants yielding 250 grams of marijuana, drug parapher-

nalia and a shotgun.

Yoshimura, 43, is facing criminal The warrant resulted in the arrest of charges for the manufacture/delivery of Robbie J. Marinkovich and marijuana and possession of marijuana.

Donna L. Yoshimura.

Marinkovich was takMarinkovich, 44, is facing criminal charges of en to Kane County Jail, the production of marijuaand his bond was set at na, manufacture/delivery $30,000.

Yoshimura’s bond was of marijuana, possession set at $5,000, but she was of marijuana, possession Robbie J. Donna L. released on a personal reof drug paraphernalia and Marinkovich Yoshimura cognizance bond, Carpenhaving no firearm owners identification card, Carpentersville po- tersville police said. lice said.

Both will appear in court March 10.

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Highway commissioner race roiled by 2009 YouTube video

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Clip allegedly shows department employees firing guns at junk car

By KEVIN P. CRAVER

kcraver@shawmedia.com A YouTube video showing what appears to be Algonquin Township Highway Department employees firing multiple firearms at a junk car at what could be the township facility has become a last-minute electoral headache for longtime incumbent Highway Commissioner Robert Miller.

The 8½-minute video, posted in 2009, was made public Friday by candidate Andrew Gasser, who is challenging Miller in Tuesday’s township GOP primary – the victor will proceed, uncontested, to the April 4 consolidated election.

While Gasser points to the video as proof that Miller is unfit to lead, Miller calls the video release a politically motivated stunt and Gasser’s description of it inaccurate.

The video shows three men, not counting a fourth holding the camera, firing hundreds of rounds from long rifles, shotguns and handguns into a compact car parked in front of a sand berm.

At least part of the video, in which they drive the car around to see whether it still runs, appears to take place at the 3702 Route 14 township building.

One of the men then smashes it with a loader.

“Yeah, baby! Highway department at work! You stall on the side of the road, watch out, man,” one of them says off camera right before the loader starts smashing.

“When nobody’s looking, let’s go throw it on [Route] 14!” someone yells.

The statute of limitations – three years for felonies and 18 months for misdemeanors – is long passed. Besides the potentially illegal acts depicted on the video, the three violate commonly accepted shooting safety rules.

Behind the sand and material berms on the Algonquin Township property is land belonging to The Hollows, a conservation area criss-crossed by hiking trails maintained by the McHenry County Conservation District.

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I wonder how the McHenry County Conservation District feels about the Algonquin Township employees setting up a dangerously unsafe, uncertified firing range where ricochets could enter their property.”

Andrew Gasser

Gasser, who said he just learned of the video Friday and posted it, called the incident “a direct reflection of Bob Miller’s leadership and management.”

“I wonder how the McHenry County Conservation District feels about the Algonquin Township employees setting up a dangerously unsafe, uncertified firing range where ricochets could enter their property, endangering life and contaminating environmentally sensitive land? Thank God no one was hurt in this reckless incident,” Gasser said in a statement.

Miller blasted Gasser’s accusations on his Facebook and campaign pages. Miller said the employee he recognized in the video, who he said “was let go some time ago,” told him the video was shot more than a decade ago, after hours, and alleged that it took place on the property of a nearby gravel company that was not, at the time the video was shot, part of the township complex.

He also said the loader used to smash the car was not township property, and belonged to the gravel company.

But Miller said that “does not make it any more appropriate.”

“I believe that the video is distressing and think that if the motivation of its release was, in fact, concern for our township, that it would have been

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I believe that the video is distressing and think that if the motivation of its release was, in fact, concern for our township, that it would have been brought directly to me.”

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“Because it was obviously politically motivated, I found it on social media.”

The Northwest Herald was made aware of the video Friday, but was cautious of the video’s legitimacy until Miller commented on it.

Miller supporters have called Gasser, a McHenry County Board member and chairman of the township Republican Party, unqualified for the position of highway commissioner.

Gasser supporters allege that Miller is a good-old-boy politician and flagrant practitioner of nepotism – his wife and two sons-in-law are on the township payroll.

The office of highway commissioner has been in Miller’s family since the mid-1960s – Miller’s father, and his father’s father-in-law, previously held it.

Robert Miller first joined the highway department as an employee in 1972.

Miller was elected late last year to be president of the board of directors of Township Officials of Illinois.

Although the original poster took the video down – his name appears on a list of supporters on Miller’s website – it has since resurfaced on an account that at first glance poses as the official one for the township.

That account also includes a video of what appears to be township employees paying someone $20 to absorb the recoil of a 10-gauge shotgun blast with his groin.

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Lake in the Hills Police Public Information Officer Amanda Schmitt said the incident happened at Lowe’s Home Improvement, 300 Randall Road, Lake in the Hills, where about $800 worth of merchandise was taken.

Schmitt said police are seeking a man who is about 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighs 200 pounds, is unshaven with a goatee and reportedly has sandy blond hair.

According to witnesses, the man left in a four-door tan or gold sedan that was being driven by a second unknown male driver, Schmitt said.

Anyone who has information is asked to call Lake in the Hills police at 847-658-5676.

McCULLOM LAKE – A McCullom Lake fire resulted in significant damage to three detached storage buildings and the contents inside, a fire official said.

The McHenry Township Fire District was dispatched about 8 a.m. Monday to a report of a grass fire in the 2900 block of Spring Road in McCullom Lake.

While responding, fire officials received reports that a shed also was on fire.

Upon arrival, the first fire unit discovered three detached storage buildings on fire.

The fire was under control within 10 minutes.

Battalion Chief Kevin Sears said that it looked as if the fire initially started at a large storage building and spread to two adjacent sheds.

Damage is estimated at $40,000, Sears said, and two nearby residential structures also sustained heat damage.

No residents or firefighters were injured, and investigators are looking into the cause of the fire.

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HUNTLEY – Centegra Health System officials said they will offer a March lecture to provide community members with information about cancer.

Centegra Sage Cancer Center experts will present “Cancer 101” from 6 to 8 p.m. March 9 at the Centegra Hospital – Huntley Foglia Family Foundation Education Center, 10400 Haligus Road in Huntley.

Space is limited and registration is required. To register, call 877-CENTEGRA or visit centegra.org/lectures.

Centegra officials said the lecture will provide a general overview of how cancer is diagnosed and treated.

Multiple topics, ranging from cancer prevention to the ways of addressing treatment side effects, will be discussed.

Tips about the role of nutrition in cancer care will be included, too.

Lecture attendees will learn how Centegra’s team approach to cancer care brings together oncologists, surgeons, genetic counselors, nurses and other experts to create a personal plan for every patient and family.

McCullom Lake fire causes about $40,000 in damage

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K-9 Blue to receive bullet and stab protective vest

By NATE LINHART

nlinhart@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – Blue, the Woodstock Police Department’s K-9, soon will be donning new body armor.

The department will receive a new bullet and stab protective vest for Blue thanks to a charitable donation from Vested Interest in K9s Inc., a nonprofit organization.

The vest is expected to be delivered within the next eight to 10 weeks.

“We are very excited to receive a vest through Vested Interest because police K-9s deserve the best protection, and Blue will benefit tremendously,” K-9 Officer Sharon Freund said in a news release.

Born in the Czech Republic, Blue is a German shepherd who came to the U.S. to begin police K-9 training in September 2015.

Blue is the Woodstock Police Department’s third K-9 unit and is certi-

fied in narcotics detection, tracking, handler protection and searching areas for hidden or fleeing suspects.

Established in 2009, Vested Interest in K-9s provides life-saving body armor to dogs of law enforcement and related agencies nationwide.

Since its inception, the nonprofit has provided more than 2,300 protective vests to K-9 units through private and corporate donations.

The program is open to any dog who is certified, is at least 20 months old and is actively working in the U.S. with law enforcement or related agencies.

New K-9 graduates and ones with expired vests also are eligible for the program.

Each vest is worth about $2,000 and comes with a five-year warranty. Vests are custom made by Michigan-based Armor Express and weigh about 4 to 5 pounds.

For information, call Vested Interest at 508-824-6978.

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Woodstock Police Department K-9 Officer Blue will receive a bullet and stab protective vest provided by a nonprofit organization. Blue is a German shepherd born in the Czech Republic and has been with the department since 2015.

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Rally in support of Trump set

By JORDYN REILAND

jreiland@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – A group is expected to gather on the Woodstock Square this weekend in support of President Donald Trump.

“Spirit of America” rallies are planned in cities across the country Saturday in response to criticism aimed at the president during his first month in office. Some rallies also were held Monday.

The Woodstock event is set to take place at noon on the Square. Conservative radio talk show host and former congressman Joe Walsh is the keynote speaker, organizer Teresa Kopec said.

Additional speakers have not yet been identified.

Kopec said the goal is to bring together community members who support the country and Trump for a “nonpartisan celebration” to recognize what the president already has done and plans to do.

“People have been silent, and I just want them to come out, enjoy the day and show their support,” she said. “We’re not trying to make it about the left or the right. … Just celebrating what Trump is doing for our country.”

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Residents voice concerns about property values, environment at hearing

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“We have a water table that has gravel and sand that is easily polluted,” she said. “We have got to learn from our past, or we relive our mistakes. We already have a polluted water table, do we need another one? … What studies have been done? I see none.”

Super Aggregates will pay the city 5 cents for each ton of gravel, sand and other products excavated or produced at the property, which Hammortree took issue with. He said the city should get more over the course of the 20-year agreement.

“We’re getting 5 cents for the whole 20 years,” he said. “There is nothing in there that says after five years we get another penny or in 10 years we get another penny. This is what I don’t understand. … What are we getting from this?”

The company projected that over the course of the agreement the city would take in more than $2.5 million at the 5-cents-per-ton rate, Pease said.

The Friends of McHenry County College Foundation seeks nominations for the 2017 MCC Distinguished Alumni Award. The award recognizes the accomplishments of McHenry County College alumni who have demonstrated exceptional achievement in their chosen profession and have made a positive impact on their community.

Award winners will be recognized at the MCC Distinguished Alumni Ceremony on May 4 at the college.

The nomination deadline is Friday. For information, visit www.mchenry.edu/ alumni or call 815-455-8556.

Magnificat Day of Renewal set Saturday in Crystal Lake

CRYSTAL LAKE – The McHenry Chapter of Magnificat, a ministry to Catholic women, will host the Magnificat Day of Renewal from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at St. Thomas the Apostle Church, 451 W. Terra Cotta Ave. The event is free, but registration is required by Wednesday. To register, call Dee Slowey at 815893-4061. For information, visit www. magnificatmchenry.com.

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MARENGO – Concerns about foul smell, water contamination and environmental issues were raised Monday at a public hearing on a proposed 510acre quarry in Marengo.

The Marengo City Council held the hearing to allow concerned residents to voice their opinions on the proposed quarry, which would be located off Pleasant Grove Road in Marengo.

McHenry-based Super Aggregates sought an annexation agreement for the property, but residents are concerned about the long-term implications of the plan.

Super Aggregates plans to merge an existing 256-acre quarry to adjacent land to create Marengo Lakes LLC, a sand and gravel mining entity. Super Aggregates also plans to have space in the quarry for landscape waste and composting, dependent on an Illinois Environmental Protection Agency permit, company officials said.

City Council members voted to annex the property and give Super Aggregates the necessary special-use permits to carry out the plan, with Alderman Dennis Hammortree casting the only dissenting votes.

The company would let waste such as grass clippings and leaves sit on the property until there was enough to transfer it to a composting facility, said Jack Pease of Super Aggregates.

Marengo resident Rebecca White said she was concerned about lowered property values and the lack of a study on how the plan could affect the area’s water.

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Karen Tynis and Mike Shorten are being challenged by candidates Tim Parrish, Rob Parrish and Debra Heath.

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. Dina Frigo and Kath-

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

Polls open at 6 a.m. Tuesday and will be open until 7 p.m. A list of locations is available on the county website at www.co.mchenry.il.us, or by calling

the county clerk’s call center at 815334-0236. While the call center will be up and running, the clerk’s office itself will be closed to regular business on election day.

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Township Clerk Charles Lutzow Jr. and Crystal Lake City Council member 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 member 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.

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,

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D-12 named to AP D-15, D-156 candidates District Honor Roll to be featured at forum Enrollment in courses nearly doubles, number offered up from ’14 to ’16

By NATE LINHART

nlinhart@shawmedia.com JOHNSBURG – Johnsburg School District 12 recently has been placed on the seventh annual AP District Honor Roll by The College Board.

District 12 is one of only 21 Illinois school districts to receive the honor.

To be considered, school districts must have improved access to AP courses and see improved performance levels on AP exams from 2014 to 2016.

“Over the past several years at Johnsburg High School, we have worked diligently to increase the Advanced Placement offerings for our students and with dedicating our-

selves to prepare our students with the skills and knowledge to perform well in these difficult courses,” Johnsburg High School Principal Kevin Shelton said.

According to District 12, since the 2014-15 school year, the number of AP students enrolled at Johnsburg High School has nearly doubled from 116 students to 269 students.

In that same time period, Johnsburg High School also has added more AP courses, from offering seven AP courses in the 2014-15 school year to 14 for the 2016-17 school year.

“We are very proud of the staff and students at Johnsburg High School,” District 12 Superintendent Dan Johnson said. “We see our recognition by The College Board as a fantastic honor for our entire Johnsburg School District 12 community.

“We look forward to continuing to provide excellent academic programs for our students throughout the entire district.”

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McHENRY – Voters will be able to meet and hear from the candidates for the McHenry School District 15 and McHenry Community High School District 156 boards Wednesday evening.

The League of Women Voters of McHenry County is holding a forum for both races, which starts at 7 p.m. at Parkland School, 1802 N. Ringwood Road.

Because of previous resignations, all but one of the seven seats on the District 15 board are up for election this year – four full four-year terms and two two-year unexpired terms.

Seven candidates – Amanda Geyer, Kimberly Qualls, Paul Santopadre, Erik John Sivertsen, Hugo J. Mercado, Kevin Christopher McConville and Mark Jaeger – are running for four-year terms.

Candidates Patrick D. Miller, Jan Riemann, Janet M. Szymkowiak

n WHAT: League of Women Voters of McHenry County candidates forum for D-15, D-156 boards n WHEN: 7 p.m. Wednesday n WHERE: Parkland School, 1802 N. Ringwood Road and Matthew Stauner are running for two-year terms. District 15 operates eight elementary and middle schools.

In District 156, which runs McHenry High School’s east and west campuses, seven candidates – Pat Arnold, Arne Waltmire, Giuseppe Veneziano, Timothy Hying, Michael Lovitsch, Gary Kinshofer and Ronald Fischer – are running for four open seats.

Both districts include all or parts of McHenry, McCullom Lake, Holiday Hills, Lakemoor and Bull Valley.

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OBITUARIES SYLVIA MAE COOPER

Born: November 23, 1926 Died: February 16, 2017

Sylvia Mae Cooper, born November 23, 1926, died peacefully in her sleep on February 16, 2017.

Sylvia was born and grew up in Gary, Indiana. Following graduation, she attended nursing school, where she met the love of her life, Paul N. Cooper, and they were happily married for over 60 years. Sylvia’s love for children inspired her to open a nursery school and day care center in McHenry, Illinois, named “Cooper Kiddie College.” She turned a small baby-sitting job in her basement into a thriving day care business for over 27 years.

After retirement, Sylvia and Paul spent many years traveling around the United States in their motor home. Many of you will remember her for teaching hundreds and hundreds of children how to swim in the swimming pool in her backyard. Of all things, Sylvia loved her dogs more than anything else; her other passions included eating icecream topped with Bailey’s Irish Cream, taking long walks in Glacial Park, and spending her winters as a snowbird in Orlando, Florida.

She was preceded in death by her father and mother, Michael Hirschberg and Anna Weinstein Hirschberg; and her brother, Robert Hirschberg.

Sylvia was the beloved wife of Paul N. Cooper; mother of Mark Steven Cooper (Gail), Dave Cooper (Noriko), Phil Cooper (Kathleen), Annette Johnson (Herb), and Michele Reiser (Scott); also the grandmother of Lori Cooper McKendree (Edward McKendree, Jr. – Ken), Kevin Cooper, Stephanie Cooper, Alan Cooper (Erina), James Cooper, Jane Cooper, Phillip Cooper Jr. (Andrea), Sarah Strzalka (James), Mikael Johnson, Trevor Johnson (Jessie), Joseph Reiser, Amy Reiser, Ashley Reiser; and great-grandchildren, Eddie and Lana McKendree, Rachael, Faith and Isaiah Vela, Tyson, Paxton and Gavin Cooper, Ethan Demers, Brinleigh and Makenna Johnson.

Celebration of Life Memorial will be for family.

In lieu of flowers, donations are appreciated and can be sent to Pets In Need P.O. Box 58, Ringwood, IL 60072 or to Alzheimer’s Association www.alz.org.

Friends may leave an on-line condolence

message for her family at www.justenfh.com.

SHIRLEY A. FIFER Shirley A. Fifer, 86, of Montpelier passed away Saturday at Genesis HealthCare in Bryan Ohio.

She was born on September 2, 1930 in Toledo to Carl F. and Harriet F. (Bunting) Wolfe.

She married Ovid L. Fifer and he preceded her in death.

She is survived by her son, O. Lynn (Linda) Fifer of Woodstock, Illinois; three grandchildren, Lainie Fifer, Logan (Lynn) Fifer, and Lucas (Jaclyn) Fifer; five great-grandchildren, Lillian, Lincoln, Jacob, Liam and Anna; and a sister, Marilyn (Norman) Wisman.

Shirley was preceded in death by her parents, husband Ovid; and a brother, Carl R. Wolfe.

Condolences can be left at www.thethompsonfuneralhome.com.

ALBERT M. JOURDAN JR.

Born: September 19, 1934; in Oak Park, IL Died: February 25, 2017; in McHenry, IL Albert M. “Al” Jourdan Jr., age 82, of Johnsburg, Illinois, passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family, on Saturday, February 25, 2017, in McHenry.

He was born on September 19, 1934, in Oak Park to Albert M. Sr. and Charlotte (Sellick) Jourdan. The son of a meat packer, Al also began his career as a meat packer. Until 1970, he was the general manager of Jourdan Packing House, a fourth-generation family-owned sausage making packing house on Chicago’s South Side. Through his business contacts, he became acquainted with Richard B. Ogilvie, and later helped deliver the vote in Ogilvie’s successful bid for governor in 1968. Al’s political career began in 1961 when he became McHenry Township 16th Precinct committeeman. He was chosen McHenry County Republican chairman in 1968 and served in that role until 1998. From 1972 until 1997, he was McHenry County auditor and from 1991-1993, he served as the head of the Illinois Republican Party. In 1998, he became the first inductee into the McHenry County Republican Foundation’s Hall of

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For information, please call the funeral home at 815-385-2400, or visit www.justenfh.com, where friends may leave an on-line condolence message for his family.

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Fame. Al was appointed to the RTA board in 2008 and served until 2013. In recent years, Al served as a political consultant for many candidates and projects within McHenry County and the State of Illinois.

Despite growing up in a household of Chicago Bears fans, Al was a diehard Green Bay Packers fan. He also enjoyed supporting the Chicago White Sox. Al enjoyed spending time outside with his family and boating.

He was an active member in the Johnsburg Community Club and was a former member of the Johnsburg Kiwanis Club, Bimbo’s SAC Athletic Baseball Club, and the Sunnyside Inn Baseball Club. Al was an outstanding member of the Loyal Order of Racoon for the State of Illinois. He will be fondly remembered for being a loving husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, mentor and friend to many.

Al is survived by the love of his life and wife of 62 years, Carolyn “Carrie” Jourdan nee Kollman; daughter Debra Diedrich; and son, Albert III (Kelline) Jourdan; seven grandchildren, Christine Diedrich, Scott (Laura) Diedrich, Austin Jourdan, Samantha (Eric) Tatera, Jonathan (Kristin) McMeins, Amanda Kochan, and Michelle (Matt) Mutchler; and seven great-grandchildren, Leland Tatera, Brayden Kochan, Mason Mutchler, Wyatt Kochan, Lexie Tatera, Alex Diedrich and Morgan Mutchler.

Al was preceded in death by his parents; and his sister; Charlene Fischer.

A visitation will be held Thursday, March 2, 2017, from 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Justen Funeral Home & Crematory, 3700 Charles J. Miller Road, McHenry. Visitation will resume at 10:00 a.m. Friday prior to the 10:30 a.m. funeral service in the funeral home. Interment will be in Woodland Cemetery in McHenry.

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Edgar L. Ream, 79, of Huntley passed away Sunday, February 26, 2017 at Centegra Hospital in Huntley.

Arrangements are pending with the James A. O’Connor Funeral Home in Huntley. Info (847)669-5111.

MARIANNE P. SHINE-TACKETT Marianne P. Shine-Tackett, age 60 of Fox River Grove passed away February 25, 2017.

Arrangements are pending at the Kahle-Moore Funeral Home. 847-639-3817.

JEFFREY K. SMITH

Born: April 6, 1952; in Elkhorn, WI Died: February 22, 2017; in Kenosha, WI Jeffrey K. Smith, 64, of Lady Lake, FL and of Antioch, IL, passed away Wednesday, February 22, 2017 at the Hospitality Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Kenosha, WI. He was born on April 6, 1952 in Elkhorn, WI the son of Linvell and Arlene (Wendorf) Smith. Jeffrey worked as an accountant for Abbott Laboratories. He enjoyed traveling and was an avid organist and piano player.

Jeffrey graduated from Augustana College with a bachelor’s degree in music.

Per his wishes, he will be cremated and the family will have a celebration of his life at a later date.

Jeffrey is survived by his mother, Arlene Smith of Minocqua, WI; one sister, Valerie (Jerry) Karr of Harvard, IL; aunts; cousins and many friends.

He was preceded in death by his father Linvell.

Family and friends may sign the online guest book at www.saundersmcfarlin.net.

For more information, call Saunders & McFarlin Funeral Home at 815-943-5400.

Preserving the Independence of McHenry County Seniors Call 815- 455-3120 or visit scvnmchenrycounty.org 7105 Virginia Road, Suite 25, Crystal Lake, IL 60014

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Judge Joseph Wapner is honored Nov. 12, 2009, with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. part is that I have carte blanche.”

“The People’s Court” cases were tried without lawyers by the rules of Small Claims Court, which has a damage limit of $1,500. Researchers for the producer, Ralph Edwards Productions, checked claims filed in Southern California for interesting cases.

The plaintiff and defendant had to agree to have the case settled on the show and sign a binding arbitration agreement; the show paid for the settlements.

In some metropolitan counties, the number of small claims cases more

Author, columnist Jay Cronley dies

By KEN MILLER

The Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma-based author Jay Cronley, whose books were made into movies starring some of Hollywood’s most notable funnymen, has died at age 73.

The longtime Tulsa newspaper columnist died Sunday night at his home of an apparent heart attack, his daughter Samantha Noel told The Associated Press. She said he would want to be remembered for his writing, humor and creativity.

“He would find humor in the most mundane parts of life. He didn’t like praise, he didn’t like attention, he just

liked to write and be read,” Noel said.

Cronley’s books included “Funny Farm,” which was turned into a 1988 movie starring Chevy Chase, and “Quick Change,” made into a movie starring Bill Murray in 1990.

He also wrote “Good Vibes,” which was the basis for the 1989 movie “Let It Ride” starring Richard Jay Cronley Dreyfuss as a horseplayer who couldn’t lose. Cronley called Dreyfuss a great actor and praised the adaptation of his book onto the screen, saying: “I loved every second of this movie. It is the book.”

Cronley worked at the Tulsa Tribune

for 22 years before joining the Tulsa World in 1992, according to the Tulsa World. His final column appeared in March 2016.

In a column last January reflecting on the films, Cronley admitted that he was hesitant to watch “Funny Farm,” in which New Yorkers try the rural life.

“I held my breath the first time I saw it, concerned that my favorite line from the novel would be axed. But ‘Cue the deer,’ ... emerged intact,” he wrote.

He also noted that “Quick Change” was first turned into a French movie before Bill Murray made an American version – but “somebody changed the ending big-time.” He said Murray, who co-directed the heist comedy, was funny in person.

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• Tuesday, February 28, 2017

LOS ANGELES – Joseph Wapner, the retired Los Angeles judge who presided over “The People’s Court” with steady force during the heyday of the reality courtroom show, died Sunday at age 97.

Son David Wapner told The Associated Press that his father died at home in his sleep. Joseph Wapner was hospitalized a week ago with breathing problems and had been under home hospice care.

“The People’s Court,” on which Wapner decided real small-claims from 1981 to 1993, was one of the granddaddies of the syndicated reality shows of today. His affable, no-nonsense approach attracted many fans, putting “The People’s Court” in the top five in syndication at its peak.

Before auditioning for the show, Wapner had spent more than 20 years on the bench in Los Angeles, first in Municipal Court and then in Superior Court. At one time he was presiding judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court, the largest court in the United States. He retired as judge in November 1979, the day after his 60th birthday.

“Everything on the show is real,” Wapner told the AP in a 1986 interview.

“There’s no script, no rehearsal, no retakes. Everything from beginning to end is like a real courtroom, and I personally consider each case as a trial.”

“Sometimes I don’t even deliberate,” he added. “I just decide from the bench, it’s so obvious. The beautiful

than tripled during the 1980s; some cited Wapner as a cause.

Johnny Carson invited Wapner him to come on “The Tonight Show” and settle a dispute between himself and David Letterman. Carson wanted to do it as a skit, but Wapner said no and conducted it like a trial.

The dispute was over an old truck that Letterman kept parked by his property in Malibu. Carson said it was an eyesore and had it hauled away.

When Letterman got it back, the headlights had been broken.

“I awarded Letterman $24.95,” Wapner said.

By the time Wapner left the show, in 1993, interest in the genre had cooled, but trials such as the Simpson trial and the courtroom theatrics of “Judge Judy” revived the TV-court craze starting in 1997.

Wapner returned to “The People’s Court” show in 2000 to help celebrate its 3,000th episode, judging the case of a man suing over a piece of sports memorabilia. He said he had seen snippets of Judge Judy’s work, but generally never watched such shows.

“I never watched myself,” he said.

“Why should I watch them?”

He also had a series on the Animal Planet cable channel called “Judge Wapner’s Animal Court.”

Wapner was a Los Angeles native and received a law degree from the University of Southern California.

He is survived by his wife of 70 years, Mickey, and by two sons, both of whom joined the legal profession. A daughter, Sarah, died in 2015.

Gertrude Baumann: The celebration of her life will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 25, at Harvard Sportsmen’s Club in Harvard. Interment will be in St. Joseph’s Cemetery in Harvard.

Ronald W. Gluff Sr.: The celebration of his life will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 4, at Coleman’s Tavern and Grill in Woodstock. The visitation will be from 9 a.m. until the 9:30 a.m. Mass celebration Monday, March 6, at St. Mary Catholic Church in Woodstock.

William M. Hauri Jr.: The memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Sunday, March 26, at McCullom Lake Hunt Club, 10603 Okeson Road, Hebron. For information, call Colonial Funeral Home and Crematory at 815-385-0063.

Albert M. “Al” Jourdan Jr.: The visitation will be from 3 to 8 p.m. Thursday, March 2, at Justen Funeral Home & Crematory, 3700 Charles J. Miller Road, McHenry.

The visitation will continue from 10 a.m. until the 10:30 a.m. funeral service Friday, March 3, at the funeral home.

Interment will be in Woodland Cemetery in McHenry. For information, call the funeral home at 815-385-2400.

Robert J. Nehrlich: The memorial visitation will be from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 6, at Colonial Funeral Home and Crematory, 591 Ridgeview Drive, McHenry.

Ricardo Efrain Saldivar Jr.: A gathering will take place at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, March 12, at The Centre, 100 Symphony Way, Elgin.

Betty Jane Steffen: The visitation will be from 9 to 10:45 a.m. followed by the 11 a.m. funeral service Wednesday, March 1, at Highland Garden of Memories Chapel, 9800 Route 76, Belvidere.

Elizabeth Volberding: The visitation will be from 10 a.m. until the noon memorial service, Saturday, March 4, at DeFiore-Jorgensen Funeral Home, 10763 Dundee Road, Huntley. For information, call the funeral home at 847-515-8772.

Gary Charles Weightman: The celebration of his life will be from 2 to 4 p.m.

Sunday, March 26, at the Kloshe Illahee Clubhouse, 2500 S. 370th St., Federal Way, Washington.

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PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – Make a commitment to do your best. Figure out the best way to get what you want, and start moving forward.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) – Keep a lid on the way you feel. Observation will be in your best interest. Don’t make assumptions or engage in

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – Emotional distress will take charge if you try to control situations. Choose to let everyone, including yourself, have the freedom to do whatever will bring the best results.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – Reconnect with a former co-worker in order to forge a new beginning. Your ability to make things happen through discipline and hard work will be admired.

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WHEN: 7 to 8 p.m. Feb. 28 WHERE: Crystal Lake Public Library, 126 W. Paddock St., Crystal Lake COST & INFO: Chicago Wolves Hockey Player Bryce Gervais (below) will talk about his career in hockey and why reading is so important. Registration required for adults and children.

Free. Register at www.clpl.org or call 815-459-1687. Free.

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BIONEERS SPEAKER SERIES

WHEN: 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Feb. 28 WHERE: McHenry County College, 8900 Route 14, Crystal Lake COST & INFO: Shalini Gupta will present Building the Social Justice Narrative on Our Environmental Crises. Gupta is the co-founder and executive cirector of the Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy (CEED) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Information: www. mchenry.edu/bioneers or 815-455-8778.

AP SUPPORT – The Rotary Club of McHenry Charitable Foundation Inc. presented a $3,000 check to McHenry School District 156 in support of its Advanced Placement Program testing. AP courses and exams can help students earn college credit while still in high school and strengthen their college applications. The largest fundraiser of the Rotary Club of McHenry Charitable Foundation Inc. is Blues, Brews & BBQ, which is scheduled for Aug. 18-20 at Petersen Park. Pictured (from left) are District 156 Superintendent Ryan McTague, AP student Maddie Weaver, West Campus Associate Principal Terry Fitzgibbons, AP student Jessica Long, AP student Cole Petty, AP student Tague Sode, Principal Martha Potthoff, Club President Bill McLemore and Foundation Chairman Ron Bykowski.

McHenry District 15 to host kindergarten registration McHenry Elementary School District 15 kindergarten registration is scheduled for March and April 2017.

Registration will be from 4 to 6 p.m. March 1 at Hilltop School; March 14 at Valley View School; March 16 at Edgebrook School; and April 5 at Riverwood School. For information about Landmark School, call 815-385-8120.

Any child who will be 5 years of age by Sept. 1 is eligible for kindergarten. Parents should come to their child’s future school on registration

YOUNG PHILANTHROPIST – Meredith Angelo, 11, decided what she wanted most for her birthday was to help out a nonprofit art studio.

She asked guests to contribute art supplies that she then brought to Creative Arts Inc. nonprofit art studio in Crystal Lake. For donation and volunteer information, visit www. creativeartsinc.org/ donate.

night to complete the required registration documentation and pay the kindergarten registration fee of $57.50. A copy of the child’s county birth certificate and proof of residency are required to complete the registration process. The birth certificate can be obtained from the county clerk’s office in the county where the child was born. Children do not need to attend the registration night.

For information, call the McHenry School District Office at 815-385-7210.

COMMUNITY

CALENDAR Feb. 28

Crystal Lake

• 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. – AARP Senior Tax Appointments, Woodstock Public Library, 414 W. Judd St., Woodstock. Volunteers from the AARP will assist senior citizens with their income taxes.

Appointments must be scheduled ahead of time at 815-344-3555.

• 9:15 a.m. to 2 p.m. – AARP Free Tax Help for Seniors, Heartland Bank and Trust Co., 12101 Regency Square Parkway, Huntley. Free tax help for seniors by appointment made in person only.

• 6 p.m. – Club House Artists – Drawing, Administrative Building, 1 E. Crystal Lake Ave., Crystal Lake. Learn to draw in 3-D. Students will learn more realistically, using perspective techniques.

Materials provided. For ages 6 and older. Cost: $15.

Information: www.crystallakeparks.org.

• 6:30 to 9 p.m. – Research Your Crystal Lake Home, Crystal Lake. For ages 18 and older. Twonight workshop will take you through the resources available at the Crystal Lake Historical Society. Cost: $25-$35. Information: www.crystallakeparks.org.

• 7 p.m. – Taize service, First Congregational Church, 461 Pierson St., Crystal Lake. Pray for peace and reconciliation for our troubled world. Free.

Information: 815-459-3321 or www.fcc-cl.org.

• 7 p.m. – CancerCare Support Group by Journey of Hope Friends, St. John’s Lutheran Church, 6821 Main St., Union. Christ-centered CancerCare Support group for people who are experiencing cancer. Caregivers also are welcome. Free. Information: 815-923-2733 or deaclauren@sbcglobal.net.

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

Photos may be emailed to neighbors@nwherald.com.

Crystal Lake

Magnificat Day of Renewal March 4 at St. Thomas The McHenry Chapter of Magnificat, a ministry to Catholic women, will host the Magnificat Day of Renewal from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 4 at St. Thomas the Apostle Church, 451 W. Terra Cotta Ave. Keynote speaker the Rev. Kyle Manno, parochial vicar at St. Patrick Parish in St. Charles, will present “God’s Desire.” The event is free, but registration is required by March 1.

To register, call Dee Slowey at 815-893-4061. For information, visit www.magnificatmchenry.com.

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Community backs detained immigrant The ASSOCIATED PRESS WEST FRANKFORT – A southern Illinois community that solidly backed President Donald Trump has rallied behind a Mexican restaurant manager who doesn’t have legal permission to live in the U.S. and has been detained by immigration officials.

Letters of support for Juan Carlos Hernandez Pacheco have poured in from West Frankfort’s mayor, police chief, high school athletic director and the county prosecutor. They describe Hernandez as a role model and praise his robust civic involvement, including funding school scholarships, benefit dinners for families in need and hosting a law enforcement appreciation event.

Hernandez, 38, came to the U.S. in the 1990s but didn’t obtain legal sta-

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News from across the state Gov. wants more Medicaid clients on managed care

SPRINGFIELD – Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration is seeking to offer more Medicaid services through managed-care programs.

Rauner and two Cabinet members announced the plan Monday in Chicago.

It involves choosing a vendor that will provide managed-care services to 80 percent of Medicaid clients.

Bruce That’s up from 65 Rauner percent now. It also will be expanded to all Illinois counties and children in the care of the Department of Children and Family Services.

Rauner’s Department of Healthcare and Family Services said the program will encourage prevention and offer services backed up by evidence of success.

Illinois began moving Medicaid patients to managed care in 2011. Managed care pays insurers and health networks fixed per-patient fees instead of paying separately for each treatment or test.

Nearly two-thirds of the state’s 3

“I think people need to do things the right way, follow the rules and obey the laws, and I firmly believe in that. But in the case of Carlos, I think he may have done more for the people here than this place has ever given him.

I think it’s absolutely terrible that he could be taken away.”

munity with coal mining roots, about 100 miles southeast of St. Louis.

He was arrested at his home earlier this month and remains in custody at a U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement facility outside St. Louis. ICE officials did not explain why Pacheco was arrested, but noted his drunken-driving convictions from 2007.

Some residents in the community of about 8,000 didn’t know Hernandez lacked legal status in the U.S. until word spread of his arrest.

Although the community largely Lori Barron backed Trump – who has made an West Frankfort business owner aggressive stance on immigration central to his agenda and has promised to deport millions of immigrants tus, according to friends. He has been who have no permission to live here the manager of La Fiesta Mexican – many residents of West Frankfort Restaurant for a decade in the com- said Hernandez’s case has complicat-

ed their views on immigration policy.

“I think people need to do things the right way, follow the rules and obey the laws, and I firmly believe in that,” Lori Barron, the owner of a beauty salon, told The New York Times. “But in the case of Carlos, I think he may have done more for the people here than this place has ever given him. I think it’s absolutely terrible that he could be taken away.”

Hernandez’s attorney is pushing for him to be freed on bond until his case can be heard.

His wife, Elizabeth Hernandez, and three children are U.S. citizens.

She told The (Carbondale) Southern Illinoisan that she hopes her husband can come home and “continue his efforts on becoming an American citizen, something that he has wished for a very long time.”

deal to replace the buckets at toll booths with updated machines. The new machines would have touchscreens that can accept credit cards or bills as well as coins.

About 100 of the machines still exist.

They largely became outdated with the use of I-PASS lanes. Tollway spokesman Dan Rozek said the toll buckets are at least 20 years old and they’re hard to fix because parts are scarce.

The new machines will cost about $76,000 apiece. They will be installed gradually, with the rollout finishing within one year of the contract being signed this spring.

vide teacher pension fund release.

The school district has gone to court to accuse the state of creating separate and unequal systems for funding public education. They contend one is for Chicago, whose students are 90 percent nonwhite, and one for the rest of Illinois, which is predominantly white.

The district filed a motion Monday in Cook County Circuit Court seeking a preliminary injunction barring the state from disbursing education funds until it adequately funds Chicago schools.

Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool said the June 1 closure is a “worst-case scenario,” if a judge doesn’t expedite the lawsuit or if Gov. Bruce Rauner and lawmakers don’t act.

“We will work to find any options to avoid a shortened school year,” Claypool said during a news conference.

In a letter to parents, Claypool said that in addition to the possibility of finishing the school year ahead of the scheduled end date of June 20, summer school would be canceled for all but special education students.

The nearly 400,000-student district recently instituted a spending freeze, program cuts and furlough days because the roughly $5.4 billion budget was contingent upon $215 million in pension relief from the state. Rauner, who’s accused the district of years of fiscal mismanagement, vetoed it.

million Medicaid clients are on managed-care plans.

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Judge: Probation for clerk’s office employee

CHICAGO – A former Cook County clerk employee who pleaded guilty to lying about an alleged bribe to a company run by the clerk’s husband has been sentenced to three years of probation.

Sivasubramani Rajaram pleaded guilty to making a false declaration to a grand jury. The maximum sentence was five years in prison. Rajaram said Monday that he lied to the grand jury investigating Cook County Circuit Court Dorothy Brown’s office because he feared retaliation from politically connected people.

Rajaram said stress from the investigation caused him to be hospitalized.

He has characterized the $15,000 given in 2014 to Goat Masters Corp., run

by Brown and her husband, Benton Cook III, as a loan. Rajaram was later hired by the clerk’s office.

Neither Brown nor Cook have been charged with wrongdoing.

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Tollway eliminating buckets that catch tolls

DOWNERS GROVE – The large plastic buckets that Illinois Tollway drivers usually toss change into to pay tolls soon will be eliminated.

The (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald reported tollway leaders have approved a

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Body recovered from river near downtown Chicago

CHICAGO – Authorities said a body has been recovered from the Chicago River near downtown Chicago.

Chicago police said Marine Unit officers retrieved the body Sunday evening after somebody reported seeing it in the water. No information about the gender or age of the body has been released.

An autopsy was expected Monday.

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Chicago schools continue effort to get more funds

CHICAGO – Chicago Public Schools officials on Monday said the nation’s third-largest school system will end the academic year three weeks early if the state of Illinois does not provide enough funds to close a deficit and pro-

– Wire reports

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NATION & WORLD BRIEFS fense request to move the trial Feds rescind opposition to part of Texas voter law because of worldwide media AUSTIN, Texas – The U.S. Justice Department said Monday that it is abandoning its long-standing opposition to a key aspect of Texas’ toughest-in-the-nation voter ID law, costing voting rights groups their most important ally and possibly encouraging other conservative states to toughen their own election rules with President Donald Trump in charge.

It’s a dramatic break from the agency’s position under President Barack Obama, which spent years arguing that the voter ID law passed in 2011 by Texas’ Republican-controlled Legislature was intended to disenfranchise poor and minority voters.

The law requires voters to show one of seven forms of state-approved photo identification – gun permits are acceptable but college IDs are not. Voting rights activists sued, and the case returns to court Tuesday in Corpus Christi, Texas, before U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos.

Sequestered jury to decide Bill Cosby case

NORRISTOWN, Pa. – A sequestered jury from an outside county will decide the sexual assault case against Bill Cosby, a suburban Philadelphia judge ruled Monday, rejecting a de-

reports that the actor’s lawyers say brand him a “serial rapist.”

Montgomery County Judge Steven O’Neill will oversee a June 5 trial over charges Cosby drugged and molested a former Temple University employee in 2004.

The judge’s ruling came after lawyers for the 79-year-old TV star argued his trial should be moved to Philadelphia or the Pittsburgh area. The larger, more diverse population would make it easier to find unbiased jurors, lawyer Brian McMonagle argued, but even then, he said, there was no guarantee Cosby could get a fair hearing.

Oscars’ ‘In Memoriam’ includes living producer

LOS ANGELES – The best picture mix-up apparently wasn’t the only gaffe at Sunday night’s Academy Awards.

An Australian film producer said she’s “alive and well” despite her photo’s inclusion in the “In Memoriam” tribute at the Oscars.

Jan Chapman’s photo was shown during the montage next to the name of Janet Patterson, an Australian costume designer who died in 2015.

Chapman and Patterson were both nominated for Oscars for their work on 1993’s “The Piano.”

– Wire reports

Trump calls for surge in military spending

By ANDREW TAYLOR The Associated Press

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is proposing a huge $54 billion surge in U.S. military spending for new aircraft, ships and fighters in his first federal budget while slashing big chunks from domestic programs and foreign aid to make the government “do more with less.”

The Trump blueprint, due in more detail next month, would fulfill the Republican president’s campaign pledge to boost Pentagon spending while targeting the budgets of other federal agencies. The “topline” figures emerged Monday, one day before Trump’s first address to a joint session of Congress, an opportunity to re-emphasize the economic issues that were a centerpiece of his White House run.

Domestic programs and foreign aid would as a whole absorb a 10 percent, $54 billion cut from currently projected levels – cuts that would match the military increase. The cuts would be felt far more deeply by programs and agencies targeted by Trump and his fellow Republicans, such as the Environmental Protection Agency, as well as foreign aid.

Veterans’ programs would be exempted, as would border security, additional law enforcement functions and some other areas.

“We’re going to start spending on infrastructure big. It’s not like we have a choice – our highways, our bridges are unsafe, our tunnels,” the president told a group of governors at the White House on Monday. He added, “We’re going to do more with less and make the government lean and accountable to the people.”

However, Trump’s final version of the budget is sure to leave large deficits intact – or even add to them if he follows through on his campaign promise for a huge tax cut.

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Budget Director Mick Mulvaney speaks to reporters Monday during a daily press briefing at the White House in Washington.

His plan faces strong opposition from Democrats, who possess the power to block it.

The immediate reaction from Republicans was mixed, with prominent defense hawks such as Sen. John McCain of Arizona saying it would do too little to help the Pentagon, and fiscal conservatives and supporters of domestic agencies expressing caution.

The White House indicated that the foreign aid cuts would be particularly large.

Asked about those plans, top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell of Kentucky would say only, “We’ll see how it works out.” House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce, R-Calif., declined to comment when approached in a Capitol hallway.

A congressional showdown is inevitable later this year, and a government shutdown a real possibility.

White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said the spike in Pentagon spending would bring the total defense budget to a record $603 billion – and that’s before including tens of billions of dollars for overseas military operations.

The U.S. already spends more on defense than the next

seven countries combined, but military leaders have complained repeatedly that aircraft are aging. Congress was told recently that the average age of Air Force aircraft is 27 years, and more than half of the service’s inventory would qualify for antique vehicle license plates in Virginia.

“It is a true America first budget. It will show the president is keeping his promises and will do exactly what he said he was going to do,” Mulvaney said. “It prioritizes rebuilding our military, including restoring our nuclear capabilities, protecting the nation and securing the border, enforcing the laws currently on the books, taking care of vets and increasing school choice.”

Senate Democratic leader Charles Schumer of New York said, “It is clear from this budget blueprint that President Trump fully intends to break his promises to working families by taking a meat ax to programs that benefit the middle class.” He declared, “A cut this steep almost certainly means cuts to agencies that protect consumers from Wall Street excess and protect clean air and water.”

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Trump looks to refocus his presidency President to give first speech to Congress

By JULIE PACE

The Associated Press WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s first address to Congress gives him a welcome opportunity to refocus his young administration on the core economic issues that helped him get elected – and, his allies hope, to move beyond the distractions and self-inflicted wounds that have roiled his White House.

Trump’s advisers say he will use his prime-time speech Tuesday to declare early progress on his campaign promises, including withdrawing the U.S. from a sweeping Pacific Rim trade pact, and to map a path ahead on thorny legislative priorities, including health care and infrastructure spending.

“We spend billions in the Middle East, but we have potholes all over the country,” Trump said Monday as he previewed the address during a meeting with the nation’s governors.

“We’re going to start spending on infrastructure big.”

The White House said Trump has been gathering ideas for the address from the series of listening sessions he’s been holding with law enforcement officials, union representatives, coal miners and others. Aides said he

AP photo

President Donald Trump speaks to a meeting of the National Governors Association on Monday at the White House in Washington. still was tinkering with the speech Monday night.

Republicans, impatient to begin making headway on an ambitious legislative agenda, hope Trump arrives on Capitol Hill armed with specifics on replacing the “Obamacare” health law and overhauling the nation’s tax system, two issues he’s so far talked about in mostly general terms. More broadly, some Republicans are eager for the president to set aside his feuds with the media, the intelligence community and the courts, which have overshadowed the party’s policy priorities.

“Results aren’t going to come from that,” said Judd Gregg, the former Republican senator from New Hampshire. “Results are going to come from driving the policies he said he would do.”

The pressure from Republican lawmakers makes this a critical moment for a new president who ran for office on a pledge to swiftly shake up Washington and follow through on the failed promises of career politicians.

While most new presidents enjoy a honeymoon period, Trump is saddled with record low approval ratings –

just 44 percent of Americans approve of his job performance, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey. His most sweeping executive order was blocked by federal courts, sending advisers scrambling to write a new travel and immigration directive, which the president is expected to sign Wednesday.

Morale also is plummeting among some White House staffers after a string of leaks that have left aides questioning each other. On Sunday, Politico reported that White House press secretary Sean Spicer had sprung surprise “phone checks” for members of his communications team after details from a staff meeting were made public.

In public, Trump has continued to speak about his presidency with his usual confident bluster, declaring that there’s “never been a presidency that’s done so much in such a short period of time.” But he’s privately vented frustrations to friends and associates, particularly about what he sees as the ineffectiveness of the White House’s communications efforts and the scattershot nature of his first weeks in office.

Trump recently complained to one associate that the White House was trying to do too many things at once and none of it was breaking through. He told another associate that the White House had lost control of the story surrounding Michael Flynn, who was fired as national security adviser after misleading Vice President Mike Pence and others about his contacts with Russia.

911 call: Shooting suspect said he’d killed ‘Iranians’ The ASSOCIATED PRESS OLATHE, Kan. – A bartender at the restaurant where a man was arrested last week for an apparently racially motivated bar shooting of two Indian men told a 911 dispatcher that the suspect admitted shooting two people, but described them as Iranian.

A recording from Henry County, Missouri, 911 reveals that the bartender warned police not to approach the building with sirens blaring or the man would “freak out” and “something bad’s going to happen.”

The man, Adam Purinton, 51, of Olathe, Kansas, made his first appearance in court Monday via video link. He has been charged with first-degree murder and first-degree attempted murder.

According to witnesses, Purinton yelled “get out of my country” at two 32-yearold Indian men, Srinivas Kuchibhotla

and Alok Madasani, before he opened fire at Austin’s Bar and Grill in the Kansas City suburb Wednesday evening.

Kuchibhotla was killed and Madasani injured. The two had come to the U.S. from India to study, and they worked as engineers at GPS-maker Garmin. A third patron, Ian Grillot, 24, was wounded when he tried to intervene.

Adam After the shooting, Purinton Purinton, who is white, drove 70 miles east to an Applebee’s restaurant in Clinton, Missouri, where he made the shocking admission to the bartender.

In the 911 call, the bartender, Sam Suida, told the dispatcher that a man had come into the bar and said he’d done something “really bad” and was on the run from the police.

“He asked if he could stay with me and my husband, and he wouldn’t tell me what he did. I kept asking him, and he said that he would tell me if I agreed to let him stay with me,” the bartender said. “Well, I finally got him to tell me and he said, like, that he shot and killed two Iranian people in Olathe ...”

Authorities have declined to discuss a possible motive for the attack or to say whether they are investigating it as a hate crime. But the incident has raised concern about the treatment of immigrants, who feel targeted by President Donald Trump’s promises to ban certain travelers, build a wall along the Mexico border and put “America first.”

During Monday’s court appearance lasting less than two minutes, Purinton was seen wearing what was described by a sheriff’s department spokesman as a “safety smock,” assigned to suspects

who said something during jail processing that suggested they might do harm to themselves.

Johnson County sheriff’s Master Deputy Rick Howell would not disclose the comment by Purinton that raised concern, but said the suspect would wear the smock until mental health professionals say otherwise.

Andy Berthelsen, a neighbor of Purinton’s for the past 15 years, told the AP that Purinton had become “a drunken mess” after his father’s death about 18 months ago. He said he doesn’t believe the shooting stemmed from hatred, and that it likely resulted from Purinton’s physical and mental deterioration.

The University of Kansas Health System released a video Sunday of an interview with Grillot, of Grandview, Missouri, who is recovering after a bullet went through his right hand and into his chest.

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As a tribute to Pink Floyd, Pink Droyd brings the look, feel and sound of the band to audiences, both young and old, around the country. Their show is both accurate to the Pink Floyd music and visually stunning with their robotic, intelligent light show, digital video accompaniment (including the Pink Floyd traditional circular video screen) and amazing laser show.

The band is celebrating the 40th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s classic 1977 release, “Animals” this year. Pink Droyd will play the album complete and uncut as well as many other Floyd classics. In addition, Pink Droyd is celebrating 10 years of performing the music of Pink Floyd as a band. Their combined Pink Floyd tribute band experience now spans over seven decades.

The show is set for March 4 at 8 p.m.

Consequence of Sound recently referred to “Animals” as “beloved by Floyd diehards” and “among the proggiest of Pink Floyd’s studio LPs.” They called it “the band’s bleakest studio album” yet one that “feels eerily relevant in these grave times.”

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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump declared Monday that “Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated.” Yet the opposite has long been painfully obvious for top congressional Republicans, who face mounting pressure to scrap the law even as problems grow longer and knottier.

With the GOP-controlled Congress starting its third month of work on one of its marquee priorities, unresolved difficulties include how their substitute would handle Medicaid, whether millions of voters might lose coverage, how their proposed tax credits would work and how to pay for the costly exercise.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office made things complicated recently by giving House Republicans an informal analysis that their emerging plan would be more expensive than they hoped and cover fewer people than former President Barack Obama’s statute.

The analysis was described by lobbyists speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations with congressional aides.

In a fresh blow, a leading House con-

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, said that Republicans have made numerous changes to that draft, but Walker’s objections underscored internal tensions over the effort.

For many in the party, those problems, while major, are outweighed by pledges they’ve made for years to repeal Obama’s 2010 law and substitute a GOP alternative. Conservatives favoring full repeal are pitted against more cautious moderates, and governors looking to curb Medicaid’s costs also worry about constituents losing coverage. But Republicans see inaction as the worst alternative and leaders may plunge ahead as soon as next week with initial House committee votes on legislation.

“I believe they have left themselves no choice. Politically they must do something,” Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a Republican economist and health analyst, said Monday.

Trump spoke about health care’s complexities on a day he held White House talks with dozens of governors worried Republicans could shift a huge financial burden to the states by curbing Medicaid, the federal-state program that helps low-income people and those in nursing homes pay bills.

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OPINIONS

NORTHWEST HERALD EDITORIAL BOARD:

Kevin Lyons

Brett Rowland

Valerie Katzenstein

John Sahly

Kyle Nabors

ANOTHER VIEW

Don’t mess with Clean Power Plan

Republicans have pledged they would not just repeal the Affordable Care Act, but also replace it with a serious alternative. They should hold themselves to the same standard on climate change.

If President Donald Trump moves to eviscerate the nation’s efforts to combat global warming, Republicans must have a believable alternative plan ready that would reduce emissions as much or more than current regulations would, enabling the U.S. to meet its international commitments.

Trump can start the process of undermining federal efforts to reduce the emissions of heat-trapping gases any time he wants – and he appears poised to begin soon. Much of the nation’s climate policy was not explicitly written into law by Congress; rather, the Environmental Protection Agency assembled it during the Obama years, based on general authorities Congress gave the agency years ago in the Clean Air Act. Using this administrative approach, the EPA has over the past decade finalized a series of rules on both vehicles and power plants, most notably the Clean Power Plan, which demands electric utilities cut their emissions from existing power stations.

Now that the Senate has confirmed the president’s pick to lead the EPA – former Oklahoma attorney general Scott Pruitt – The Post’s Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson report that Trump is preparing executive orders demanding the agency rewrite the Clean Power Plan and a water quality rule, appearing to confirm predictions the new administration would be hostile to environmental concerns. At best, a rewrite would signal the administration will put enforcement of the Clean Power Plan on hold as a long, formal process of regulation drafting and litigation takes its course. The country also could see its premier global warming policy replaced by a substantially weakened rule that lends the U.S. little international credibility – and harms what had been accelerating global efforts to fight emissions collectively.

For all the talk of job-killing federal overreach, the EPA estimated the Clean Power Plan would cost the economy only $5.1 billion to $8.4 billion in 2030 – far less than a drop in what now is a $17 trillion economy – and that ignores the value of various health and climate benefits on the other side of the ledger. Even for those on the fence about climate science, it should be clear enough that the U.S. must participate in the international effort to hedge against very bad potential climate outcomes.

If Trump or other Republicans have a better way of doing this, they should detail it before doing anything to the Clean Power Plan. In fact, a coterie of senior former GOP officials have offered a conservative path forward, proposing to replace EPA climate rules with a substantial carbon tax whose revenue would be rebated straight back to Americans. This is what conservative governing looks like. What do Trump and the rest of his party want to do?

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ANOTHER VIEW

Trump demands more from NATO For years, U.S. presidents have complained that the members of NATO refuse to kick in as much as American taxpayers do in providing for Europe’s defense. Let us hope President Donald Trump succeeds in his efforts to nudge them to pay their fair share.

NATO is a 28-nation alliance that was built to stop aggression from the Soviet Union in its tracks. An attack on any one member is regarded as an attack on all.

It was founded when Europe still was trying to dig out from World War II. Those days are gone. But NATO members have found it easier to play America for a sucker than to fund their own defense.

NATO members have pledged to spend at least 2 percent of their gross domestic product on defense. The United States leads its members far and away by committing 3.6 percent of its GDP on defense, a good deal of it to protect the Western world from threats.

Besides the U.S., only four countries have met their commitment to 2 percent: Britain, Poland,

Estonia and Greece. That means 23 NATO members are failing to carry their weight. The list includes such economic giants as France (1.78 percent), Germany (1.19 percent) and Canada (.99 percent).

Last week, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis delivered an ultimatum at a defense ministers meeting in Brussels: The U.S. will scale back its commitment to NATO unless other nations pull their weight.

“No longer can the American taxpayer carry a disproportionate share of the defense of Western values,” Mattis said. “Americans cannot care more for your children’s future security than you do.”

Unfortunately, Trump’s foolish and blustering remarks during his campaign and before he took office tended to muddy this message, leaving Europe with the sense that he wants the U.S. to retreat from NATO. In an interview with the Times of London and the German newspaper, Bild, before he took office, Trump branded NATO obsolete.

“It’s obsolete because it wasn’t taking care of terror,” he said.

Not exactly. NATO forces aided Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan, and are now assisting in the effort to bring down the Islamic State.

NATO also is vitally important in keeping Russia from expanding further into Europe, after seizing Crimea and parts of Ukraine. As Mattis said, “Events of 2014 were sobering.” A strong NATO must not permit Russia to expand its influence.

This re-balancing of NATO commitments cannot occur overnight. But the warning has gone out to European nations to shift their budgeting priorities if they want the U.S. to retain its full commitment to NATO. Since the U.S. remains the most powerful military force on the globe, European states would be foolhardy to give up its protection for the sake of failing to kick in a little more to defend themselves.

That would only be fair. Let us hope the Trump administration holds firm on this issue.

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Dumbed-down America

To the Editor: The dumbing down of America is not about a high school or college education.

It’s about ideology taking the place of common sense and rational thinking. The choice of being ignorant and uninformed now is worn as a badge of honor. Alternative facts, conspiracy theories and fake news now are embraced.

As Americans, not Republicans or Democrats, we have some serious questions to ask ourselves.

• When did bigotry, racism and misogyny get a mainstream platform?

• When did we go back to “the world is flat” mentality and have a total disregard for science, research and facts?

• When did we replace honor, character and dignity with buffoonery?

• When did we enable religious zealotry and dogma to dictate to us not only what it means to be a Christian but whose side God is on?

• When did we, as Americans, stand by and not question a deliberate campaign to discredit and intimidate our free and legitimate press?

• When did blind partisanship ignore the serious personality disorders of narcissism and pathological liar which this president

for what they called a global “apology tour,” wrongly claiming that his speeches in historical hot spots like the Middle East and Vietnam amounted to blaming the U.S. for the world’s contemporary problems. Over the past several weeks, however, Trump cabinet members really have been on a “he-didn’t-mean-it” tour, insisting that allies can safely ignore Trump’s anti-Muslim narrative or stated disdain for the North American Treaty Organization and the U.S.-provided security umbrella in Asia.

Another sign of confusion that Trump could address Tuesday night came when the president denied Secretary of State Rex Tillerson his choice of veteran diplomat Elliott Abrams as deputy secretary of state – the appointment was nixed just before it was to be announced when Trump was told about derogatory statements Abrams made about him during the campaign.

Beyond the management issues raised by undercutting a secretary of state, the incident raised policy questions. Abrams is a prominent neoconservative, a supporter of the Iraq war and robust American interventionism.

This was exactly what Trump campaigned against, even lying about his early support for the Iraq War.

exhibits on a daily basis?

History will be the final judge not only of this president, but of us as a country. When we emerge from chaos, many will be asked how they could have stood by and let these events happen. Many will not have an answer.

But there still will be one truth. A lie is a lie, no matter who tells it. That is a fact.

Trump, not a big reader, would do well to glance at the initial congressional speeches of his two immediate predecessors. Both laid out clear policy priorities: Obama for investments in clean energy and education and universal health care coverage, Bush for tax cuts and selective education initiatives.

Both addresses indicated that national security would be secondary.

The White House has put out the word that Tuesday’s speech will be more upbeat in tone than Trump’s darkly hued inaugural address. That would be welcome. Maybe he’ll even stop fudging the truth. Contrary to his claims, he has not accomplished more than any president at a comparable stage; Obama had real legislative achievements a month into his presidency and the Reagan and Bush agendas were further along.

Here’s another forlorn hope for Tuesday night: Might this self-absorbed, humorless man show a flash or two of a lighter side?

• Albert Hunt is a Bloomberg View columnist. He was the executive editor of Bloomberg News, before which he was a reporter, bureau chief and executive Washington editor at the Wall Street Journal.

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To the Editor: There is one very easy decision to make at this upcoming primary election at the end of February. Those of us in Algonquin Township get to choose between a highly qualified highway commissioner and someone else.

Bob Miller has been running the highway department in Algonquin Township more than the 25 years I have lived here. He is highly qualified and has been very helpful whenever I have questions about maintenance of the private roads that I am in charge of. He runs a department that takes about 2 percent of my real estate tax and does it very well. I encourage all voters in Algonquin Township to come out Tuesday,

Feb. 28, and vote for a highly qualified candidate, Bob Miller. The hard part in the upcoming elections will be finding someone on the school boards who wants to reduce my tax burden.

Steve Schwarz Cary

County private road takeover

To the Editor: Andrew Gasser voted to take 23 miles of nondedicated roads for an estimated cost of $50 million to $100 million. Gasser is a supporter for this free road program and voted to encumber every taxpayer in McHenry County with this tax burden for the benefit of a very small class of people who won’t lift a finger or pay a dime for

their road. He also voted against a property tax freeze referendum.

Gasser’s performance qualifies him as a hypocrite, one who pretends to be better than he really is.

Gasser is running for Algonquin Township highway commissioner against Bob Miller.

If Gasser’s record is an indication of future actions, I would suggest you vote for Miller. No doubt, Miller has issues but he won’t lie and clearly is better qualified and is a far better choice.

Bob Anderson has been chipping his teeth to abolish townships and Gasser wants to expand by adding miles to maintain.

Marshall E. Lowe Cary

• Tuesday, February 28, 2017

President Donald Trump’s initial address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night may be the most anticipated in memory. Not, as Trump would claim, because he’s so compelling.

Rather it’s because, when it comes to substance, we don’t know who he is.

For Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan, a first February speech to Congress was a chance to add definition to well-articulated policy architecture. Trump, by contrast, has conveyed little sense of a governing structure, preferring to recycle the insults and clichés that defined his campaign.

On issues ranging from health care, taxes and the budget to China, NATO and foreign interventions, in five weeks he has created more confusion than clarity. Whether that reflects a lack of knowledge or lack of interest, Tuesday offers an opportunity for a reset.

In broad strokes – he’s not presenting a budget, so it’s reasonable to leave out the fine detail – he can spell out priorities and preferences. Is he willing to delay his announcement of a huge infrastructure project until next year,

as many Republican congressional leaders wish? How will he slash spending without touching big entitlements like Social Security and Medicare, as he promised voters in the fall?

Republicans are tied in knots over how to fulfill their pledge to repeal and replace Obamacare. Trump has vowed to enact universal coverage that’s better and cheaper. He should explain how to perform that impossible balancing act.

On taxes, it would be useful to hear what Trump thinks of the big new “border-adjusted” sales tax favored

by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady and Speaker Paul Ryan. A variation of a European-style, value-added levy that favors exporters over importers, it’s on political life support. Trump could either help revive it, or kill it by not mentioning it.

It’s probably asking too much to call on this president to quit pretending that he can fulfill his campaign promises cost-free, and to start explaining how he wants to pay for them. That includes the big increase in military spending he’s sure to embrace; will he lay out a strategy to justify his Pentagon wish list?

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United looks to rise after decline in revenue

By DAVID KOENIG

The Associated Press DALLAS – United Airlines, which lost the distinction of being the world’s biggest carrier after shrinking for several years, plans to regain lost ground by adding more flights from key airports this summer.

The airline wants to upgrade facilities at key airports and trim the use of smaller planes on important business routes. If the expansion plans pan out, United could staunch slipping revenue numbers, which fell nearly 2 percent in the past five years, while revenue at industry leader Delta Air Lines Inc. rose 8 percent.

United has slipped in other ways, too.

Only once in the last five years did United Continental Holdings Inc. top Delta’s operating income. And it consistently ranks worse in on-time flights and cancellations.

Delta and American Airlines Group Inc. have been adding flights, often on bigger planes, between major cities. Not United.

“We’ve been shrinking, and our competitors have been growing at our expense,” said Scott Kirby, who jumped from president of American Airlines to the same job at United in August. “We’re going back on offense.”

Many analysts are upbeat about United’s prospects, but say the path won’t be easy for the Chicago airline.

“Delta is not standing still either, so it’s not only getting back to where they used to be, but it’s leapfrogging Delta,” said Helane Becker, an analyst with Cowen and Co.

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A United Airlines passenger plane lands Sept. 8, 2015, at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J. United Airlines seeks to narrow gap on competitors, such as Delta, by beefing up routes from hub airports. The airline also wants to upgrade facilities at key airports and reduce its use of smaller planes on important business-travel routes.

Reducing the number of delays and cancellations is crucial, Becker said.

After a 2010 merger with Continental Airlines, United alienated important customers with cost-cutting initiatives that backfired.

A decade ago, for instance, United flew eight daily flights on Boeing 737s between Atlanta and Newark, a big business route where it competes with Delta.

By 2013, United flew six times a day on small regional jets or turboprops.

Business travelers detest the small planes because they are more likely to be delayed or canceled, and their lack

of enough overhead bins can mean carry-on bags get gate-checked – adding a time-consuming trip to baggage claim.

“Our best customers started abandoning us and flying on the competition, who had a better product,” Kirby said.

“We have to turn that around.”

Kirby thinks that new routes from hubs will win over, or win back, passengers. If traffic picks up, and as United takes delivery of new planes, it should eventually be able to phase out small planes on key business-travel routes, he said.

On Monday, United announced that

this summer it will add four new destinations in smaller cities including Rochester, Minnesota, and Santa Rosa, California, add new connections to other medium-sized towns, and add daily flights on 15 other routes that connect with the big hubs. It will add seasonal flights between San Francisco and Munich.

United also wants to expand and upgrade facilities at key airports, including more gates at Chicago’s O’Hare. The airline just opened a new club at Los Angeles International Airport, and Kirby told union pilots that United wants part or all of a future terminal there, where Delta and American have been making improvements.

Becker, of Cowen and Co., said United underinvested at its airports after two downturns in the airline business and a trip to bankruptcy court. Now, however, it is solidly profitable, with $8 billion in pretax income for 2015-16. (Delta’s pretax earnings in those two years were $13.8 billion.)

United is starting to fly planes with fancy new seats in business class on a few international routes. There have been fewer upgrades in the main cabin, however, and even a move that some travelers consider a step backward – the debut of “basic economy” tickets that are priced below regular economy but come with severe restrictions, including no use of the overhead bins.

Delta just announced it will bring back free meals on transcontinental flights. United has been mum on whether it will do the same. Asked whether his airline was studying free meals, Kirby said, “I wouldn’t even say that.”

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LOS ANGELES – Actress Patricia Arquette said she was upset the Oscars left her transgender sister out of the “In Memoriam” tribute.

Arquette told ABC News she thought the Academy Awards “would have a little bit more respect” for the transgender community. Arquette said her sister, Alexis Arquette, should have been honored because she had a great body of work and was one of few transgender artists in the business.

Alexis Arquette died Sept. 11 from a heart attack and battled HIV for 29 years.

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‘Biggest Loser’ host Bob Harper suffers heart attack

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Clint Hartman, a sign spinner from Portland, Ore., performs a routine Friday in downtown Las Vegas during the annual World Sign Spinning Championships.

Sign spinners’ moves nab attention on street, at contest LAS VEGAS – You’ve seen them at intersections and outside strip malls spinning an arrow-shaped sign and trying to grab the attention of drivers and passers-by.

Turns out, there’s more to it than just twirling the sign, and the ones with the most creative moves compete every year for the title of World Sign Spinning Champion.

More than 100 of the human billboards broke out their best moves for a crowd in downtown Las Vegas last week. In multiple heats with hip-hop and pop tunes blasting, the competitors twirled a 5-pound sign with one hand, on their head, while taking off a jacket and even while holding a handstand.

“I thought it was going to be temporary, maybe a few weeks,” Clint Hartman, a sign spinner from Portland, Oregon, said of the job he has now held for 12 years. “My father always told me to get another job, but it turned into a career.”

The competition’s 10th edition was only open to employees of Los Angeles-based AArrow Inc., which requires its sign spinners to master 10 moves before they head to the streets. They also must be personable. For those skills, AArrow pays $10 to $20 an hour, depending on experience and city, while other sign spinners can earn less and see less steady work.

Hartman, 27, stands five to nine hours a day at major intersections. He also teaches moves to others at least once a week. He has advertised for apartment complexes, Verizon Wireless, Cricket Wireless and several other companies.

“When I say Clint, you say Hartman!” he repeated multiple times as he warmed up the crowd before his first performance Friday. Donning a cap, he rotated the sign for a bit over 30 seconds, finishing his routine by throwing the arrow into the air, sliding on his knees and catching the twirling sign with one hand.

His moves didn’t nab the title, which went to Jose Angeles of San Francisco, along with $5,000 in prize money. Hartman finished in 15th place Saturday.

NEW YORK – Fitness trainer and host of NBC’s “Biggest Loser” Bob Harper said he is recovering from a serious heart attack that left him unconscious for two days.

Harper told TMZ that he was working out in a gym in New York City this month when he collapsed. He said a doctor who also was in the gym performed CPR on him.

The 51-year-old Harper said he spent eight days in a New York hospital and has not yet been cleared to fly home to Los Angeles.

Harper has been a fixture on all 17 seasons of “The Biggest Loser.” He served as a trainer on the show from 2004 to 2015. He took over as host of the reality weight loss program last year.

Serial burglar guilty of raid at Simon Cowell’s home

LONDON – A habitual burglar has been found guilty of stealing nearly $1.25 million of jewelry from the home of entertainment mogul Simon Cowell.

Darren February was convicted Monday at Isleworth Crown Court in London.

February was convicted of breaking into Cowell’s London home in December 2015 while the “American Idol” judge and his family were sleeping.

Cowell’s security worker said he must

have been using the bathroom when February entered the property through a patio door before stealing jewelry and passports.

Cowell said in a court statement the safe had been left open to allow his partner, Lauren Silverman, to collect her jewelry before a flight the next morning.

Nelson, Chesney, more to honor Merle Haggard

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The late country star Merle Haggard will be honored a year after his death with an all-star concert featuring his longtime friend and duet partner Willie Nelson as well as Kenny Chesney, Miranda Lambert, John Mellencamp and more.

“Sing Me Back Home: The Music of Merle Haggard” will be held in Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on April 6, which would have been the songwriter’s 80th birthday.

Additional performers include Loretta Lynn, Hank Williams Jr., The Avett Brothers, Alison Krauss, Dierks Bentley, Ronnie Dunn, Warren Haynes, Jamey Johnson, Kacey Musgraves, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Lucinda Williams, Ben Haggard, John Anderson, Connie Smith and Bobby Bare. Tickets go on sale Friday.

Keith Wortman, CEO of Blackbird Presents, which has produced tributes to John Lennon, Kris Kristofferson and Gregg Allman, said Nelson came up with the idea for a tribute concert and Haggard’s wife, Theresa, and his son, Ben, helped select the artists.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS Actor Gavin MacLeod is 86. Singer Sam the Sham is 80. Actor-director-dancer Tommy Tune is 78. Actor Frank Bonner (“WKRP in Cincinnati”) is 75. Actress Kelly Bishop (“Gilmore Girls”) is 73. Actress Stephanie Beacham (“Beverly Hills, 90210,” “SeaQuest DSV”) is 70. Writer-director Mike Figgis is 69. Actress Bernadette Peters is 69. Actress Ilene Graff (“Mr. Belvedere”) is 68. Comedian Gilbert Gottfried is 62. Actor John Turturro is 60. Singer Cindy Wilson of The B-52’s is 60. Actress Rae Dawn Chong (“The Color Purple”) is 56. Actress Maxine Bahns (“The

Brothers McMullen”) is 48. Actor Robert Sean Leonard (“House, M.D.”) is 48. Singer Pat Monahan of Train is 48. Actress Tasha Smith (“Empire”) is 46. Actor Rory Cochrane (“24,” “CSI: Miami”) is 45. Country singer Jason Aldean is 40. Actor Geoffrey Arend (“Madam Secretary”) is 39. Actress Michelle Horn (“Family Law,” “Strong Medicine”) is 30.

Actress True O’Brien (“Days of Our Lives”) is 23. Actress Madisen Beaty (“The Fosters”) is 22. Actress Quinn Shephard (“Hostages”) is 22. Actor Bobb’e J. Thompson (“The Tracy Morgan Show”) is 21.

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TECHNOLOGY Challengers compete to fill Samsung void

By MARIE MAWAD Bloomberg

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Chief executive officer of consumer devices division for Huawei Technologies Co. Richard Yu presents the new phone Huawei P10 Plus on Sunday before the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.

Samsung showcases tablets

Company delays its new phone under heightened scrutiny

By ANICK JESDANUN The Associated Press

NEW YORK – Samsung’s product showcase Sunday is notable for what’s missing: a new flagship phone.

Instead, Samsung is spotlighting new Android and Windows tablets after delaying the Galaxy S8 smartphone – an indirect casualty of the unprecedented September recall of the fire-prone Note 7 phone. The new tablets will carry the Galaxy brand and come with many of the Note 7’s features, including the S Pen stylus and screens with rich colors.

Consumers will have to wait at least a few weeks longer for details on Samsung’s next major smartphone. That’s partly so Samsung wouldn’t have to share the stage with its smartphone rivals at the Mobile World Congress trade show, which began Monday in Barcelona, Spain. The delay also gives Samsung more time to make sure it has done everything right, given that any minor bug surely will draw outsized attention.

“The microscope is going to be firmly on Samsung,” said Geoff Blaber, an analyst with the research firm CCS Insight.

About the tablets

Samsung said the new tablets will go through extensive safety

checks put in place after dozens of Note 7 phone overheated and in some cases exploded. Those incidents prompted aviation authorities to ban them on flights; Samsung eventually killed the product.

Samsung now wants everyone to focus on its tablets’ most notable features: • The new Galaxy Tab S3, running Google’s Android system, will have a glass back and metal frame, borrowing designs from Samsung’s smartphones. The screen technology, called AMOLED, offers richer colors and purer blacks than standard LCD screens.

The display will support high-dynamic range, a feature that promises brighter whites, darker blacks and a wider range of colors – at least for the handful of video titles produced with that capability.

• For those wanting a laptop replacement, Samsung is releasing the Galaxy Book with Microsoft’s Windows 10 and more powerful processors from Intel. Only the 12-inch version will get AMOLED, though; the 10-inch Galaxy Book will use LCD. Both models come with a keyboard attachment, something sold as an optional accessory for the S3. The Galaxy Book is Samsung’s answer to Apple’s iPad Pro and Microsoft’s Surface devices.

All models come with Samsung’s S Pen and include standard features from the Note phones, such

as taking on-screen notes when the phone is locked. But unlike the Note, these tablets lack spring-loaded cavities for storing the stylus.

Prices and release dates haven’t been announced.

Samsung’s next phone

Samsung took a $5.3 billion hit on its earnings in recalling millions of Note 7 phones. Its reputation also took a hit – but not necessarily permanently.

“In the process of addressing the situation, I think Samsung buys back some of the good will with consumers,” said Ramon Llamas, an analyst with IDC. “What people want is an assurance that it doesn’t happen again.”

This could mean being more conservative in the S8 features, although it also needs some breakout features to restore excitement in the brand. Llamas said that could come through software features, such as S Voice, a voice assistant rivaling Apple’s Siri, or Samsung Flow, a way for multiple devices to work together. The new tablets will come with Samsung Flow so you can make phone calls and answer texts using the tablet as a bridge to a phone sitting on the table or in your pocket.

Blaber said Samsung was smart in delaying the launch of the S8, as it needs a smooth rollout to recover.

Huawei Technologies and LG Electronics are angling to steal the show at this year’s Mobile World Congress, ushering in new smartphones that each hopes will fill a void created by the absence of a new handset from the usually dominant Samsung Electronics Co. A day before the industry’s biggest conference gets going in Barcelona, LG hosted an event to show off its new G6 smartphone with an edgeto-edge display – no plastic or metal bezel around it. Huawei updated its flagship line, introducing the P10 phone with Leica camera technology and curved edges at its own event Sunday.

With Apple skipping the gathering as it has in previous years and Samsung introducing new tablets instead of phones, Europe’s technology mecca is a prime stage for smaller handset makers striving to become household names. Both Huawei and LG over the past years have gone from low-cost, basic phones to products that rival the features of Samsung’s Galaxy or Apple’s iPhone at cheaper prices.

“As the two leading players continue to battle for the top spot, several Chinese vendors have solidified their position as valid contenders,” Anthony Scarsella, a research manager at IDC, said in a report this month. “They will need to find growth beyond their home turf to eventually knock off either Samsung or Apple at the top.”

LG and Huawei also will face competition from two brands with European and U.S. roots. HMD Global, which has licensed the Nokia brand for its devices, unveiled the Nokia 3 and Nokia 5 smartphones that each will sell for less than $200, along with a new version of its Nokia 3310 feature phone. Lenovo Group, which acquired the Motorola handset business three years ago, showed the Moto G5 and Moto G5 Plus premium devices.

On Monday, Sony and Line Corp., Japan’s most popular messaging service, said they were considering joining forces to develop devices powered by artificial intelligence.

By ALEX OLLER

The Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain – While smartphones get top billing at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, it’s the quirky, under-the-radar products that are getting a lot of the visitors’ attention.

Here’s a glimpse of some of the gadgets and apps displayed by start-up companies this week at the fair, the world’s largest for wireless technology.

Cute robot

Just add water

Growing your own veggies may become possible even for urbanites with tiny studio apartments.

Israeli startup Living Box offers a modular, unfoldable, solar-powered little greenhouse you can use to harvest anything from tomatoes to tea and herbs.

“We have a slow release water system for irrigation, with a novel liquid nutrient solution and bacteria to avoid the use of pesticides, as well as an app prototype updating weather conditions and other relevant data right to your smartphone, so you don’t have to monitor it,” explained Nitzan Solan, CEO of the company.

The idea was to create a sustainable, affordable and simple mobile farming system that could be operated by anyone around the globe.

As of now, Living Box is testing in 50 sites around Israel, the U.S. and

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Nigeria, and aims to try locations in Spain and Fiji. It is expected to carry a market price of $300.

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problems can see more clearly.

The glasses still are in a developmental stage and, although it’s still too early to venture a market price for them, Samsung Senior Engineer Junghoon Cho hopes to compete with other more expensive visual aids out there.

Besides correcting blurred images, the headset can eliminate blind spots and improve peripheral vision.

“If we make our own project, people who are visually impaired can walk outside using our glasses. ... We want to help them have a better social relationship with other people,” Cho said.

The hang, a metal percussion instrument shaped like a flying saucer, is beloved of street performers the world round and often associated with meditation practices such as yoga. Now it comes in a fully digital version.

When delicately tapped, the Oval can reproduce the sounds of a hang as well as other instruments, such as drums, trumpets and even violins.

Musicians Ravid Goldschmidt and Shopping vision Alex Posada, the co-founders of the Worried the new couch might not Spanish startup that makes the Oval, say they sought to start a “revolution of squeeze through a door?

Sri Lanka-based startup Liveroom percussion” with this instrument. is trying to solve your angst. Its virAlready on the market, the Oval is tual reality technology aims to give aimed at all kinds of consumers, with shoppers a live look at how products in about 40 percent estimated to be amateur or professional musicians. online stores would fit into your home.

It goes for about $950.

This is how it works: you shoot an image of the space in question via a To see or not to see liveview button and then consult their Samsung’s Relumino headset aims catalog on the app for the item you to do nothing less than help the blind want. The item will pop up on your see. tablet or smartphone set in the image The gadget, shaped like virtual real- of your home. You can move and rotate ity glasses, recasts images of the world the item and change its colors, fabric in a way that someone with vision and material.

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Living in Seoul, Jong-Gun Park looked around him one day and decided his fellow South Koreans needed some help expressing their emotions.

“We are so busy these days, always running to and from work, taking our kids to school, studying, that we no longer find the necessary time to interact with each other,” said Park, CEO of the company Circulus.

Enter Pibo, the friendly dinner table ice-breaker.

Pibo is a charming little robot whose goal is to get you and your loved ones sharing your daily life more. “Are you tired?” he asks, “I will play music without boredom.”

Sure, he still needs to hone his

English, but he’s always eager to ask about your day or provide updates on weather conditions.

Still a prototype, Pibo comes in a case, should you wish to take him along on vacation. He is, after all, a member of the family. For an expected $490 a pop.

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Astigmatism can be corrected Dear Doctor: Our son recently went to the optometrist, and we were surprised to learn he has astigmatism and needs glasses.

My friends say astigmatism is common, but that it means he’ll never be able to wear contacts. Is this true?

Dear Reader: Your friends are both right and wrong. Yes, astigmatism is a common condition that occurs when part of the eye is not symmetrical.

Instead of being perfectly round, the cornea – we’ll talk more about this in a minute – is shaped more like a football.

And no, having astigmatism doesn’t automatically mean you can’t wear contacts.

Let’s start with a bit of anatomy.

The human eye is a remarkable organ that is made up of more than 2 million working parts.

Your eyes see light, shape, color, depth, distance and motion. They can focus on something a few inches from your face, on objects that are miles away and can detect peripheral motion in a surprisingly wide radius.

Of all the organs in the human body, only the brain is more complex.

Our eyes are so crucial to our survival that they are seated deep within the protective casing of the skull. Only about 15 percent of the entire eye is visible. The visible parts are the mechanisms that admit and control light, much like a camera.

And that’s where astigmatism comes into play.

The clear, dome-shaped surface of the eye is called the cornea. Behind it sits the iris, the colored part of the eye, which controls the size of the pupil. As light passes through the cornea, it bends, moves through the pupil and bends again as it passes through the lens.

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ASK THE DOCTORS Elizabeth Ko and Eve Glazier When the cornea is round, incoming light hits just the right spot on the lens.

The lens then sends a perfect image to the retina, a thin bit of tissue at the back of the eye. The retina is embedded with millions of receptor cells, which translate incoming light into the signals that the optic nerve will send to the brain.

When the cornea is less than perfectly round, this is known as astigmatism.

Incoming light misses the target area of the lens and the retina gets an imperfect image. The signals sent to the brain are then interpreted as blurred vision.

The good news is that astigmatism is easily corrected with prescription eyeglasses. And while at one time individuals with astigmatism couldn’t wear contact lenses, technological advances have made it possible.

Due to the asymmetry of the cornea, correction for astigmatism is directional.

That is, the corrective lens must sit at a certain angle.

Thanks to new technologies, contact lenses are now “weighted.” Instead of spinning out of focus with every blink, the thicker bottom edge settles into place for optimal correction. Your optometrist can tell you whether contacts are an option for your son’s particular kind of astigmatism.

• 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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It’s about 8 inches by 6 inches (quite large), and she did it without any advance discussion with me, which has left me sort of shocked. Her position is that it’s her body and she’ll do what she wants. This has driven a wedge between us, and I’m not sure if we can move forward. What is your advice? – Unmarked in Nevada Dear Unmarked: To me, what’s important is not that your wife got the tattoo without discussing it with you, but her motive for doing it in secret. My advice is to do nothing in haste or in anger. Try to get her to explain to you what the tattoo symbolizes to her, because it may be important. After that, whether you decide to move forward – or move out – is something only you can decide.

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We work for a small, family-owned business.

Everyone knows she tried to kill herself, but no one knows why. She has reduced her hours and her stress level, at least at work. I have picked up most of her duties, and I’m quick to lend a hand. She’s a lot older than I am, and I’m not comfortable lending an ear.

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Dear Abby: As DEAR ABBY parents of an adopted child, we Jeanne were concerned Phillips about when we would have “the conversation.” Then a neighbor told us about how they would celebrate “Gotcha Day” with their adopted daughter each year.

Gotcha Day is a day to celebrate because it’s the day we became a family. We “adopted” their idea and have been doing something special on this day since before our child could even say the word “gotcha.”

Early on, she had no idea what we were celebrating; she just knew it was a special day for us. Through the years, she was able to process exactly what it meant at her own pace, which relieved the need to ever have that dreaded conversation. Recently our daughter told us she loves this day more than her actual birthday.

I thought I’d share this with other adoptive parents who worry about when the right time might be to explain to their child that they were prayed for, wanted, loved and adopted. – Bless-

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This deal contains a nasty trap that would catch almost everyone.

You have the benefit of seeing all 52 cards. How can South make four spades after West leads the club ace?

North’s three-club rebid was a double negative, indicating some 0-4 points. South’s three hearts was forcing, but North’s three spades was not.

At the table, we would ruff the club ace and cash the spade ace, then recoil in horror at the 4-0 split.

We would no doubt continue with the heart ace, heart king and heart four. Here, though, West would ruff with the spade nine and shift to the diamond two. East would win with his king and give partner a second heart ruff. Then the diamond queen or a diamond to the ace would set the contract.

If South anticipates the bad breaks, he will discard a diamond at trick one; and if West leads another club, declarer should ditch his second diamond. Then, when West ruffs the third heart, which costs his natural trump trick, he cannot reach his partner for the second ruff.

Perhaps you noticed that ruffing at trick one was not fatal. After cashing the major-suit aces, South must exit with a diamond to start cutting the defenders’ communication. East can win and play a heart, but South will win and lead another diamond.

East takes that trick and gives West a heart ruff, but, again, that costs his trump trick.

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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.

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 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 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

CLASSIFIED 37 rpor 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 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

38 CLASSIFIED • Tuesday, February 28, 2017 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 assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in \"AS IS\" condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the

gag pay 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 (Published in the Northwest Together with all buildings and imHerald, February 21, 28, 2017 provements thereon, and the teneMarch 7, 2017) ments, 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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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 CENTERS, INC., A FOOD 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

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, Address: 128 S. County Farm Defendants.

Su And UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

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.

I715396 (Published in the Northwest Herald February 21, 28, 2017 March 7, 2017)

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

rp 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: 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

pur 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 (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.

I714800 (Published in the Northwest Herald, February 21, 28, 2017 March 7, 2017)

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 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 14, 21, 28, 2017) 1265835

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Woodstock’s Josh Turner (left) fouls Woodstock North’s Collin Mergl in the first quarter of their Class 3A Richmond-Burton Regional game Monday in Richmond. Woodstock won, 56-44.

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Colts sign CL South grad Cooper Fahn Cooper, a 2011 Crystal Lake South graduate, signed an NFL contract with the Indianapolis Colts on Monday.

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sports@nwherald.com RICHMOND – Woodstock and Johnsburg faced the challenge of beating a team for the third time in a season Monday night. The two boys basketball teams took on Woodstock North and Harvard, respectively, in Class 3A Richmond-Burton Regional first-round games.

The Blue Streaks never trailed in their crosstown rivalry matchup, taking down Woodstock North, 56-44, to advance to play the regional’s top seed, Marengo, in a semifinal Tuesday.

Point guard Matt Shook, who has brought a renewed energy to the team since an early-season injury, led Woodstock (12-17) with 20 points.

“I think the first few baskets got me in a little groove,” said Shook, who scored 10 of Woodstock’s 17 first-quarter points.

“I had great teammates getting me the ball in positions to score. Any wins before the postseason don’t mean you’re going to come in and beat them again.

It’s win or go home, so you have to come ready to play.”

The Blue Streaks did just that, taking a 17-8 lead after the first quarter and 2713 at halftime, while holding Woodstock North (5-21) to 29 percent shooting (17 of 57) over the course of Monday night’s game.

Woodstock coach Al Baker said he was worried about the Thunder’s ability to rebound coming into the game but thought his team’s defense and work on the glass helped contribute to the win.

“That was by far my biggest concern,” Baker said. “I had us, at worst, even with them on the boards, and to do that with a team that rebounds very well is a great effort by our guys tonight. Even putting aside the crosstown rivalry … that is a good team (in Woodstock North). They probably deserve better than what their final record indicated.”

Justin Turner (11 points, 10 rebounds) and Evan Bridges (10 points) joined Shook in double figures for Woodstock.

Vic Ortiz scored a game-high 23 points (16 in the fourth quarter) for North.

Johnsburg coach Mike Toussaint referenced the NCAA tournament to his team before Monday’s game, saying that seeds don’t matter, but effort does.

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Woodstock’s Michael Gardner (30) battles for a rebound between Woodstock North’s Joe Haynes (left) and Zach Ramirez as Josh Turner (right) watches during the third quarter of a Class 3A Richmond-Burton Regional game Monday in Richmond. Woodstock won, 56-44.

OUTSIDE THE BOX SCORE q UNSUNG HERO

Mike Nowakowski

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In his first varsity game, Nowakowski came off the bench to score seven points and added a block to help Johnsburg to an 86-56 win over Harvard.

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3-pointers made by the four teams – Woodstock, Woodstock North, Harvard and Johnsburg – (in 57 attempts)

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In what has turned into a miniature Kishwaukee River Conference tournament, the Class 3A Richmond-Burton Regional semifinals have top-seeded Marengo taking on Woodstock, with Johnsburg vs. the host Rockets afterward Tuesday.

Toussaint saw his team go on a 32-6 run from the middle of the first quarter to the middle of the second quarter to take command of Harvard in an 86-56 victory in Monday’s second game.

The Skyhawks advance to Tuesday’s semifinal against host R-B, a team they have beaten in two of three matchups this season. “[Tuesday is] going to be fun,” Toussaint said. “We played them three times

Scoreboard Monday’s first round (7) Woodstock 56, (9) Woodstock North 44 (6) Johnsburg 86, (10) Harvard 56 Tuesday’s semifinals (2) Marengo vs. (7) Woodstock, 6 p.m.

(3) Richmond-Burton vs. (6) Johnsburg, 7:30 p.m.

Friday’s championship Semifinal winners, 7 p.m. and have a lot of guys in [the locker room] that are fired up to play. That place is going to be rocking.”

Sophomore Zach Toussaint led the charge Monday, scoring a game-high 19 points. Brody Frazier joined him in double figures with 13 points, adding 10 rebounds in the 30-point victory.

“Focus is key in these games,” Zach Toussaint said. “You have to give 100 percent. If you give 99 percent, you may not win. Every team getting this far wants it, and you have to want it more.

R-B tomorrow, at their place, it’s going to be fun, but these games are what you play basketball for.”

Johnsburg (14-16) had 14 players score Monday.

Harvard (5-22), which ended the season losing its final 18 games, was led by senior Roy Amaya Jr. with 15 points.

BOYS BASKETBALL: CLASS 4A LAKE ZURICH REGIONAL

By JOE STEVENSON

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q UNSUNG HERO

Chris Walther Cary-Grove, sr., F

After a quiet first half, Walther had six points and four rebounds in the second half as the Trojans pulled away from Round Lake.

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C-G’s field goal percentage in the first half (7 of 29). The Trojans hit 58.1 percent (18 of 31) in the second half.

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Walther grabbed a rebound and fired in a bank shot from 6 feet for his first basket of the game, losing his left shoe in the process. After the basket, the officials called a timeout so Walther could grab his shoe, and he was replaced so he could put it back on.

5 Grant facing C-G at 7:30 in the other semifinal. The championship game is at 7 p.m. Friday.

“A lot of it (in the third quarter) was mental,” Carhart said. “We had a three-

Scoreboard

Monday’s first round (14) Wheeling 60, (20) Dundee-Crown 36 (12) Cary-Grove 66, (21) Round Lake 40 Tuesday’s semifinals (4) Lake Zurich vs. (14) Wheeling, 6 p.m.

(5) Grant vs. (12) Cary-Grove, 7:30 p.m.

Friday’s championship Semifinal winners, 7 p.m. point lead, and we thought we were much better than that. We just had to do what we knew we could do on defense and make our shots and we’d be fine.

The top (of the 1-3-1) is a nice spot because when we get steals, you get all the layups.”

Carhart had four layups alone in the third quarter, including one that was part of a three-point play. Danny Clarke hit a pair of 3-pointers and added 12 points. The Trojans forced 10 turnovers in the third quarter.

C-G (15-12) hit a rough stretch late in the regular season with four losses in its last six games, but Trojans coach Adam McCloud liked the way his team came

out in the second half, as the Panthers (3-23) scored only 18 points.

“We were getting good shots, we just weren’t finishing,” McCloud said. “We said, ‘Hey, let’s just ratchet it up on the defensive end, and that’ll create some easy baskets.’ That’s kind of what happened.”

D-C (4-23) went inside early against Wheeling (11-16) with 6-7 Gabe Bergeron and led, 11-9, after the first quarter. The Chargers committed 17 turnovers in the next two quarters.

“I felt good about the game; I liked our chances,” D-C coach Lance Huber said. “I liked our size against their zone.

We had that stretch in the second quarter when they put that diamond press on us and we made lazy passes. We couldn’t throw the ball to anybody who was open.”

Wheeling led, 22-15, at halftime, but Chargers guard Jack Orndahl still liked his team’s chances.

“We definitely weren’t down; we came in (to the third quarter) with a positive state of mind,” Orndahl said.

“We didn’t keep our composure when we should have.”

Bergeron finished with 11 points.

BOYS BASKETBALL: CLASS 4A JEFFERSON REGIONAL

Powell lifts Hampshire into semis; Huntley falls

By JOHN WILKINSON

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ROCKFORD – Tre Powell’s first two Billy Dumoulin Hampshire, sr., F easy-slung, long-range 3-pointers gave Hampshire an early lead in Monday’s reDumoulin scored nine of gional quarterfinal, but it was the Whiphis 11 points in the fourth Purs’ ball movement that later broke the quarter, including making game open. seven of eight free throws to After eight early points from Powhelp close out the Whip-Purs’ ell, Hampshire went cold and trailed at victory over Belvidere North. the end of the first quarter. As the game q THE NUMBER wore on, however, Powell and the rest of the Whip-Purs opened up Belvidere Team-high points for Hampshire’s North’s defense with their passing and Tre Powell against Belvidere North cutting.

“We made a more concerted effort to q AND ANOTHER THING ... get the ball inside,” Hampshire coach Huntley coach Will Benson on his postgame Ben Whitehouse said. “We put our bigs message: “I thanked the seniors. They’ve been on the outside and crashed them down, a very unselfish group, very consistent group in kept our guards out, so basically invertterms of leadership and showing up every day. ed our offense ... that opened up the outIt’s hard for them to understand right now, but side shot better, and when they didn’t, going forward the groundwork that they helped we were able to convert our layups betlay, I will always refer back to for years to come ter in the second half.” as we continue to get better and improve.”

The Whip-Purs outscored the Blue Thunder, 41-29, in the second half to beat Belvidere North, 63-53, in a Class 4A Jef- points, including four 3s.

“He can definitely fill it up, but he’s ferson Regional quarterfinal at Jefferstarting to understand that he can do son.

Powell finished with a team-high 24 other things than just score,” White-

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Scoreboard

Monday’s first round (9) Hampshire 63, (7) Belvidere North 53 (6) Jefferson 78, (10) Huntley 48 Tuesday’s semifinal (1) Boylan vs. (9) Hampshire, 7 p.m.

Wednesday’s semifinal (4) Rockford Lutheran vs. (6) Jefferson Friday’s championship Semifinal winners, 7 p.m. house said. “The better he plays, the better we play.”

Nathan Gomez, Billy Dumoulin and Nathan Cork scored 11 points apiece while J.D. Shaw added six. Cork hit three 3-pointers.

Belvidere North led, 11-8, at the end of the first quarter and, 24-22, at halftime.

The Blue Thunder were led by a gamehigh 27 points from Marco Yates.

“The first half we weren’t playing as ourselves,” Gomez said. “We went into the locker room during halftime and we talked to our guys, made sure we got our heads in the game and we really started moving around, scoring and playing our kind of game.”

The Whip-Purs advance to face top-seeded Boylan in the semifinals at 7 p.m. Tuesday.

“We’re going to fight and scrap like we’ve been doing all year,” Whitehouse said. “We’ve played good teams. ... We’re going to do our thing; we’re going to play as hard as we can and look forward to competing against one of the better teams around.”

In Monday’s second quarterfinal, Huntley lost, 78-48, to host Jefferson. The J-Hawks led by six through one quarter and pulled away in the second, outscoring Huntley, 22-8, to take a 41-21 lead at the half.

“It’s been the same old story for a lot of different games. We go through stretches where we don’t score,” Huntley coach Will Benson said. “... When that team shoots it like that, with their quickness, it’s tough to beat, and they shot it well tonight on their home court.”

Thirteen players scored for Jefferson, led by My’Quion Garrett, who had a game-high 17 points. The J-Hawks will face Rockford Lutheran in the semifinals Wednesday.

Christopher Costantino led Huntley with nine points, while Cory Knipp and Zack Loveisky each added seven.

• Tuesday, February 28, 2017

LAKE ZURICH – Cary-Grove, which needed three Zach Beaugureau free throws with no time remaining in the second quarter to lead three-win Round Lake at halftime, was more than eager to set things straight in the third quarter.

“We weren’t hitting shots and being aggressive,” forward Chris Walther said. “We weren’t rebounding. We weren’t playing with passion. We had to get our heads in the game and play more aggressive.”

The Trojans wasted little time in establishing that mindset with their 1-31 half-court defense, sparked on top by Sam Carhart. The 6-foot-2 junior guard scored nine of his team-high 13 points in the third quarter, and No. 12-seeded C-G blew past the No. 21 Panthers, 66-40, in their Class 4A Lake Zurich Regional boys basketball game Monday night.

In the earlier game, No. 14 Wheeling defeated No. 20 Dundee-Crown, 60-36, also breaking open the game with a big second half. No. 4 Lake Zurich will meet Wheeling at 6 p.m. Tuesday, with No.

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Streamwood tops CL South

By TIM FROEHLIG

sports@nwherald.com ALGONQUIN – Early in the third quarter of Monday night’s Class 4A Jacobs Regional first-round game, Crystal Lake South senior Matt Meyers soared through the air and grabbed an alley-oop pass from teammate Luke Nolan.

But when Meyers tried to finish what would have been a highlight-reel dunk, the ball bounced off the inside of the rim.

The play was typical of South’s tough luck all evening, as the 11th-seeded Gators’ season ended with a 61-44 loss to No. 10 seed Streamwood.

The Sabres advance to face top seed Jacobs at 6 p.m. Tuesday in a regional semifinal.

“It was just one of those nights where we gave it our best, but it wasn’t enough,” Meyers said. “Their size and speed combination was too much for us. We weren’t used to that.”

To further illustrate how things went, the Gators (10-18) attempted 11 more field goals than the Sabres (8-22) in the fourth quarter yet were outscored, 18-14. A key reason was Streamwood guard Jason Manalansan, who scored a game-high 20 points and shot 5 for 9 from 3-point range.

“We started out man-to-man defensively, then went to zone and tried different ways of pressuring the ball to slow Streamwood down, but we didn’t have much luck,” Gators coach Matt LePage said. “I think the biggest fac-

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Despite the loss, Crystal Lake South had nine steals and five second-half 3-point field goals.

Sophomore Matt Reall provided a spark off the bench with eight points. tor was Streamwood’s size. They’re a much bigger team than us, so our hope was we could find a way to stop their transition game and keep them out of the lane. But they just passed right over the top of us.”

Still, the Gators did an admirable job of battling the Sabres’ size. South was outrebounded, 34-27, but had three more total field goal attempts (54-51), and forced Streamwood to commit 15 turnovers.

The key difference was Streamwood’s 10-for-19 shooting from 3-point range, which helped it open the game on a 17-4 run. The Gators cut a 17-point halftime deficit to nine early in the fourth quarter but came no closer.

South will lose three seniors to

Scoreboard

Monday’s first round (10) Streamwood 61, (11) Crystal Lake South 44 Tuesday’s semifinals (1) Jacobs vs. (10) Streamwood, 6 p.m.

(4) St. Charles North vs. (9) Crystal Lake Central, 7:30 p.m.

Friday’s championship Semifinal winners, 7 p.m. graduation in Meyers (team-high 12 points), Nolan and James Del Vecchio.

“Being part of this program meant a lot to me,” Meyers said. “Coach LePage is a great guy, and he showed confidence in me as a freshman when he told me I had the talent to be on the varsity level some day. Despite our final record, he’s the right guy to be leading all the sophomores, juniors and younger guys coming back next year.”

Streamwood also got big contributions from Keenan Cole (18 points) and Brendon Marton (16 points, 13 rebounds). They’ll need them again Tuesday if they hope to pull a huge upset against Jacobs.

“I have no idea how we’re gonna handle Jacobs,” Streamwood coach Paul Kowalyszyn said. “I’d like to think we’ll key on (Cameron) Krutwig, but if we do that, it’s going to leave their other guys open, and they can shoot. There’s no easy answer.

I’ve got to look at as much film as possible tonight.”

Boys basketball regionals CLASS 3A Rochelle Regional Monday Game 1: (8) Freeport 71, (11) Stillman Valley 55 Tuesday Game 2: (1) Rochelle vs. (8) Freeport, 7 p.m.

Wednesday Game 3: (4) Marian Central vs. (5) Belvidere, 7 p.m.

Friday Game 4: Winner Game 2 vs. Winner Game 3, 7 p.m.

Richmond-Burton Regional Monday Game 1: (7) Woodstock 56, (9) Woodstock North 44 Game 2: (6) Johnsburg 86, (10) Harvard 56 Tuesday Game 3: (2) Marengo vs. (7) Woodstock, 6 p.m.

Game 4: (3) Richmond-Burton vs. (6) Johnsburg, 7:30 p.m.

Friday Game 5: Winner Game 3 vs. Winner Game 4, 7 p.m.

CLASS 4A Jefferson Regional Monday Game 1: (9) Hampshire 63, (7) Belvidere North 53 Game 2: (6) Jefferson 78, (10) Huntley 48 Tuesday Game 3: (1) Boylan vs. (9) Hampshire, 7 p.m.

Wednesday Game 4: (4) Rockford Lutheran vs. (6) Jefferson, 7 p.m.

Friday Game 5: Winner Game 3 vs. Winner Game 4, 7 p.m.

Jacobs Regional Monday Game 1: (10) Streamwood 61, (11) Crystal Lake South 44 Tuesday Game 2: (1) Jacobs vs. (10) Streamwood, 6 p.m.

Game 3: (4) St. Charles North vs. (9) Crystal Lake Central, 7:30 p.m.

Friday Game 4: Winner Game 2 vs. Winner Game 3, 7 p.m.

Larkin Regional Monday Game 1: (6) Bartlett 65, (7) South Elgin 60 (OT) Game 2: (5) Larkin 59, (8) Elgin 54 Wednesday Game 3: (2) St. Charles East vs. (6) Bartlett, 6 p.m.

Game 4: (3) Prairie Ridge vs. (5) Larkin, 7:30 p.m.

Friday Game 5: Winner Game 3 vs. Winner Game 4, 7 p.m.

Lake Zurich Regional Monday Game 1: (14) Wheeling 60, (20) Dundee-Crown 36 Game 2: (12) Cary-Grove 66, (21) Round Lake 40 Tuesday Game 3: (4) Lake Zurich vs. (14) Wheeling, 6 p.m.

Game 4: (5) Grant vs. (12) Cary-Grove, 7:30 p.m.

Friday Game 5: Winner Game 3 vs. Winner Game 4, 7 p.m.

Palatine Regional Monday Game 1: (13) Palatine 65, (18) Grayslake Central 31 Tuesday Game 2: (2) Conant vs. (13) Palatine, 7 p.m.

Wednesday Game 3: (7) Barrington vs. (10) McHenry, 7 p.m.

Friday Game 4: Winner Game 2 vs. Winner Game 3, 7 p.m.

Inside Boys Basketball ATHLETE OF THE WEEK MATT MEYERS Crystal Lake South, sr., G Meyers turned in a strong week with a pair of 19-point games as the Gators split with Huntley and Cary-Grove.

On Feb. 21, Meyers scored 19 points to lead South, which lost to Huntley, 47-46.

Meyers came back with another big game Friday, again scoring 19 and hitting three 3s as the Gators defeated CaryGrove, 55-45.

NORTHWEST HERALD POWER RANKINGS 1. Jacobs (26-1): The Golden Eagles ran their winning streak to 11, but it was not easy.

McHenry had Jacobs down by nine points midway through the fourth quarter, yet the Eagles prevailed late on a pair of Ryan Phillips free throws, 42-41. Jacobs now has three consecu-

Proud Sponsor of Athlete of the Week tive Fox Valley Conference championships, two in the FVC Valley Division and one for the FVC. 2. Prairie Ridge (20-7): The Wolves won 20 or more games in coach Corky Card’s first five seasons (2003-07) and now have back-to-back 20 win seasons again. Prairie Ridge won the FVC Fox Division the past two years and finishes one game behind Jacobs this season.

3. McHenry (17-11): The Warriors almost had Jacobs, which would have given Prairie Ridge a co-championship, before the Eagles hung on at the end. McHenry has five wins in its past six games heading to meet Barrington on Wednesday in the Class 4A Palatine Regional.

4. Marengo (21-7): The Indians have not had four consecutive 20-win seasons since 1989-92 under Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Famer Bill Barry. They ended Richmond-Burton’s seven-game winning streak and finished tied for second in the Kishwaukee River Conference, one game behind Burlington Central.

5. Richmond-Burton (16-10): R-B has won eight of its past nine games heading into the postseason and gets to host its own Class 3A regional. The Rockets shot poorly in their loss to Marengo, but should be a tough out in the postseason.

NOTEWORTHY Still flying high: The near loss to McHenry probably jolted Jacobs a bit, which might not have been a bad thing for a team with such high aspirations entering the tournament.

Although of all teams, Jacobs knows about bitter postseason disappointments. Two years ago, a team shooting for back-to-back Class 4A

regional titles was dumped by Bartlett in the first round.

The Eagles are the top seed in Sub-Sectional A of the Elgin Sectional and have possibly their best shot for a sectional championship.

“Our focus has to be singular,” Eagles coach Jimmy Roberts said. “Focus on the task at hand.

That’s the beauty of the state tournament, you can have some great, great moments, or you can be home after one night. We experienced that a couple years ago.”

Jacobs takes the first step in its own regional this week. To get to the sectional, the Eagles must become the first team in school history to win three regionals in four years.

Do it again: Prairie Ridge is the No. 3 seed in Sub-Sectional A of the Elgin Sectional and trying to reach the sectional in back-to-back years for the first time since 2004 and 2005. St. Charles East is seeded second in the Larkin Regional and also trying to repeat as a regional champion.

– Joe Stevenson joestevenson@shawmedia.com

BLACKHAWKS

By MARK LAZERUS

mlazerus@suntimes.com

AP photo

The Blackhawks’ Patrick Kane skates past the bench to celebrate with teammates after scoring a goal against the St. Louis Blues in the first period Sunday at the United Center.

“There’s definitely some motivation there, for sure. You see Jonny get hot, you want to follow him. He’s been doing a great job of leading us as of late, so I think that’s an important thing.”

Both Toews and Kane were having subpar seasons through the first half.

Kane still was racking up points, thanks in part to a career year by Artem Anisimov, but he had only eight goals through the first 32 games, far below the pace he set last season when he scored a career-high 46. But only five players in the league have more goals than his 16 since.

Toews, meanwhile, had four goals in his first 26 games this season; he has 12 in the 27 games since. Two months ago, Toews was destined for the worst offensive season of his career. But he has been so ridiculously productive lately that he’s exactly back at his career average of 0.87 points a game. After dealing with a back injury that cost him nine games in November and December, Toews looks like his old self again, with that familiar burst of acceleration and the strength to win battles in the corners and to get to loose pucks in the crease.

BULLS

Portis makes most of added court time

By JOE COWLEY

jcowley@suntimes.com CHICAGO – Bobby Portis has been keeping track.

The second-year big man knows which outsiders have been criticizing his game and deeming him unworthy as the No. 22 pick overall in the 2015 draft.

Monday, he had some answers for those doubters.

“I don’t care about nobody judging me,” Portis said when asked whether he has been evaluated fairly since putting on a Bulls uniform. “At the end of the day, I’m going to play basketball.

That’s my job. I’m going to go out there and do the things I do well. I feel like sometimes people misconstrue just because you don’t play, and they can say some things like that.

“I don’t really care about anybody

judging me at this point. At the end of the day, I’m still going to be Bobby Portis.”

Make that Bobby Portis – starting forward for the Bulls.

Since Taj Gibson and Doug McDermott were shipped to Oklahoma City at the Thursday trade deadline, Portis has been the fill-in starter for the Gibson vacancy. Bobby Portis Even before that, he was playing a bigger role the two previous games before the All-Star Game, as Nikola Mirotic was struggling with a back issue, and just struggling in general with his game.

Portis saw 31 minutes in the loss in Minnesota, scoring 16 points, and was huge in the Feb. 16 win over Boston, pouring in 19 points in 26 minutes. In

the two games he started since Gibson was sent west, he has averaged eight points and five rebounds – both wins for the Bulls.

“Actually, I was over at Taj’s house two days before [the trade], and we were just talking about everything, like some of the trade rumors and things like that,” Portis said. “Once Taj got traded, I sent him a big, long thank you for showing me the way, things like that.

“He was always saying, ‘Always stay ready BP, because around this league crazy things happen.’ You know, crazy things happened for real, so it was just a crazy moment a couple days ago.”

The one obvious difference between Portis and Gibson is range. At 6-foot11, Portis will step out from beyond the 3-point arc and let it loose, shooting 38 percent from out there this season. Gibson’s game was more about the paint.

“The one thing it does allow us to do

is our first and second groups are playing very similar,” coach Fred Hoiberg said of the look they now get from Portis. “Before that, that first unit really had its own package.”

Portis hasn’t been the only young Bull to start showing what he can do with more minutes, either. The trade also has given Denzel Valentine more playing time, especially with McDermott out of the way.

All Valentine has done the past two games is average 13 points, and shoot 8 for 13 from beyond the 3-point arc.

“I feel like all the young guys, we come in here and work hard every day, so of course when the opportunity is given we’re going to give big minutes,” Portis said of his teammates who now are getting in the rotation. “That’s the biggest thing with us. Going out there and playing hard, playing together as a team. Just trying to get wins, man.”

• Tuesday, February 28, 2017

CHICAGO – No matter how many goals he scores, no matter how much his line tears up the league, no matter how much hardware he racks up, Patrick Kane always is going to be a second-liner with the Blackhawks.

That’s because Jonathan Toews is the No. 1 center, and his line – in all its dozen-plus incarnations over the past two seasons – is always designated the “top line.”

“Yeah, I think they’ve always been the first line, right?” Kane said with a laugh. “They’re No. 1 on the depth chart.

Hopefully, going into the playoffs, you have that 1A, 1B type of situation.”

Well, it’s only February, but that’s certainly the case these days, as the Hawks’ top two lines are red hot and feeding off each other. Since Toews was joined on the top line by Nick Schmaltz and Richard Panik, the trio has combined for 15 goals and 23 assists in 10 games, nine of which were victories. In that same span, Kane has nine goals and seven assists, even matching Toews’ hat trick in Minnesota with one of his own the next game.

Toews shrugged off the idea that there’s internal competition between him and Kane, but Kane freely admitted it exists.

“Sure, absolutely,” Kane said.

“We’re so much deeper as a team when both lines are dangerous [and] effective,” Hawks coach Joel Quenneville said. “It gives the other team something to think about over the course of a game.

And when they’re both contributing offensively, it’s tough to contain.”

Indeed, Toews’ resurgence has completely changed the complexion of the team. For the first time, really, since the start of last season, the Hawks aren’t just a one-line team, leaning heavily on Kane, Artemi Panarin and Anisimov.

Opponents now have to pick their poison, because they can only use their shutdown line on one or the other.

Not that anyone’s been able to shut down either line lately.

“It’s good that both lines are producing,” Toews said. “We’re clicking and want to keep that going.”

And with the Minnesota Wild and the top seed in the Western Conference suddenly within reach, the top two lines – or perhaps more accurately, the two top lines – could make the difference.

“You see the way they play – they control the puck, they’re fending off checks, they get to the net,” Kane said of Toews’ line. “It’s definitely a little bit of motivation. It couldn’t come at a better time, especially with this stretch run, where we need to win games going into the playoffs. Those guys have been playing awesome. They’ve been leading the charge, and [we’re] just trying to follow.”

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WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

PITTSBURGH 7 p.m.

NBCSN AM-720

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DENVER 7 p.m.

CSN AM-890 L.A. ANGELS* 2:05 p.m.

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

N.Y. ISLANDERS 7:30 p.m.

WGN AM-720

at Nashville 7 p.m.

CSN AM-720

GOLDEN STATE 7 p.m.

TNT AM-890 at Kansas City* 2:05 p.m.

SEATTLE* 2:05 p.m. at Cincinnati* 2:05 p.m.

ARIZONA* 2:05 p.m.

L.A. CLIPPERS 7:30 p.m.

ABC AM-890

at Cincinnati* 2:05 p.m. at Arizona* 8:10 p.m.

CINCINNATI* 2:05 p.m.

at San Francisco* 2:05 p.m.

at San Diego* 7:40 p.m.

L.A. DODGERS* 2:05 p.m.

WGN L.A. ANGELS* 2:05 p.m.

AM-890 *–Spring training

WHAT TO WATCH

Pro basketball 6 p.m.: Golden State at Washington, NBATV 7 p.m.: Denver at Bulls, CSN 9:30 p.m.: Charlotte at L.A. Lakers, NBATV Pro hockey 6 p.m.: Colorado at Philadelphia, NBCSN Men’s basketball 5 p.m.: Buffalo at Ohio, CBSSN 5:30 p.m.: Maryland at Rutgers, BTN 5:30 p.m.: Georgetown at Seton Hall, FS1 6 p.m.: Indiana at Purdue, ESPN2

6 p.m.: Florida St. at Duke, ESPN 6 p.m.: Mississippi St. at South Carolina, ESPNU 6 p.m.: Texas A&M at Missouri, SEC 6 p.m.: St. Bonaventure at Davidson, CSN+ 7 p.m.: St. John’s at Creighton, CBSSN 7:30 p.m.: Ohio St. at Penn St., BTN 7:30 p.m.: DePaul at Providence, FS1 8 p.m.: Vanderbilt at Kentucky, ESPN 8 p.m.: Oklahoma St. at Iowa St., ESPN2 8 p.m.: Pittsburgh at Georgia Tech, ESPNU 9 p.m.: Fresno St. at Boise St., CBSSN

SPORTS BRIEFS

Reports: Bears will not use the franchise tag on WR Jeffery

suspended four games for violating the league’s policy on performance-enhancing The Bears will not use the franchise tag substances. He missed seven games in 2015 for a variety of soft-tissue injuries. on Alshon Jeffery, according to NFL Net– Kevin Fishbain, work and ESPN, which likely will send the kfishbain@profootballweekly.com receiver to the free-agent market March 9.

To apply the tag on Jeffery for the second year in a row, the Bears would have spent Parise, Pominville about $17.5 million on their No. 1 wideout out for Wild with mumps for a one-year tender, unless the two sides ST. PAUL, Minn. – Minnesota Wild forwards Zach Parise and Jason Pominville would agree to a long-term contract. have been diagnosed with mumps and The Bears still could re-sign Jeffery, but chances are he will find a more lucrative deal must miss at least three games. The Wild announced Monday, shortly before faceoff on the market as the clear-cut top receiver against Los Angeles, that Parise and Pominavailable with teams such as the Eagles in ville have the highly contagious virus, along desperate need of talent at the position.

Jeffery, 27, had 52 catches for 821 yards with other members of the organization. and two touchdowns last season and was – Wire report

BETTING ODDS NBA

FAVORITE at BULLS Golden State at DETROIT at MEMPHIS at OKLAHOMA CITY Charlotte

Tuesday LINE O/U 3½ (221) 6½ (229½) 5 (214½) 10 (211) PK (204) 3 (216)

UNDERDOG Denver atWASHINGTON Portland Phoenix Utah at LA LAKERS

at CREIGHTON at PROVIDENCE at PENN ST at KENTUCKY at GEORGIA TECH at IOWA ST at COLORADO ST at BOISE ST

FAVORITE Maryland at SETON HALL Texas A&M at PURDUE at DUKE at DAVIDSON at SOUTH CAROLINA at AKRON at CENT. MICHIGAN at TOLEDO Kent St at OHIO at N. ILLINOIS

UNDERDOG at RUTGERS Georgetown at MISSOURI Indiana Florida St St. Bonaventure Mississippi St Miami (Ohio) E. Michigan Ball St at BOWLING GREEN Buffalo W. Michigan

St. John’s Depaul Ohio State Vanderbilt Pittsburgh Oklahoma St Wyoming Fresno St

NHL

COLLEGE BASKETBALL Tuesday LINE 7 4 5½ 10 OFF 3 11 15 PK 6 2½ 4½ 2

9½ 13 2½ OFF 2½ 3 7½ 4½

FAVORITE at NY RANGERS Nashville at PHILADELPHIA at BOSTON at MONTREAL at FLORIDA at ST. LOUIS at WINNIPEG Pittsburgh Los Angeles at VANCOUVER at SAN JOSE

Saturday LINE UNDERDOG -110 Washington -134 at BUFFALO -201 Colorado -280 Arizona OFF Columbus -135 Carolina -125 Edmonton OFF Minnesota -145 at DALLAS -108 at CALGARY -114 Detroit -143 Toronto

Updated odds available at Pregame.com

LINE +100 +124 +181 +250 OFF +125 +115 OFF +135 -102 +104 +133

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NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Central Division GP W L OT Pts Minnesota 60 40 14 6 86 Blackhawks 62 39 18 5 83 Nashville 62 31 22 9 71 St. Louis 61 31 25 5 67 Winnipeg 63 28 29 6 62 Dallas 62 24 28 10 58 Colorado 60 17 40 3 37 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts San Jose 61 36 18 7 79 Edmonton 63 33 22 8 74 Anaheim 63 32 21 10 74 Calgary 63 33 26 4 70 Los Angeles 62 30 27 5 65 Vancouver 61 26 29 6 58 Arizona 61 22 32 7 51

PREPS

GF 203 187 183 172 184 173 121

GA 142 159 173 177 199 201 199

GF 170 181 162 169 154 143 148

GA 145 166 161 177 156 176 196

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 63 34 21 8 76 176 163 Ottawa 61 33 22 6 72 161 162 Boston 62 32 24 6 70 172 165 Toronto 61 28 20 13 69 189 182 Florida 61 28 23 10 66 155 172 Tampa Bay 61 28 25 8 64 171 171 Buffalo 62 26 26 10 62 152 176 Detroit 60 24 26 10 58 150 178 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Washington 61 41 13 7 89 203 133 Pittsburgh 60 38 14 8 84 211 168 Columbus 60 39 16 5 83 199 145 N.Y. Rangers 62 40 20 2 82 206 164 N.Y. Islanders 61 29 22 10 68 180 182 Philadelphia 61 28 26 7 63 157 187 New Jersey 62 25 25 12 62 145 180 Carolina 58 25 25 8 58 146 168 Note: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Monday’s Results Montreal 4, New Jersey 3 (OT) Tampa Bay 5, Ottawa 1 Minnesota 5, Los Angeles 4 (OT) Tuesday’s Games Washington at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m.

Arizona at Boston, 6 p.m.

Colorado at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Nashville at Buffalo, 6 p.m.

Columbus at Montreal, 6:30 p.m.

Carolina at Florida, 6:30 p.m.

Edmonton at St. Louis, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Detroit at Vancouver, 9 p.m.

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

Cleveland Boston Toronto Washington Atlanta Indiana Bulls Detroit

W 41 38 36 34 33 31 30 28

L 17 22 24 23 26 29 29 31

Pct .707 .633 .600 .596 .559 .517 .508 .475

GB — 4 6 6½ 8½ 11 11½ 13½

Miami Milwaukee Charlotte New York Philadelphia Orlando Brooklyn

27 26 25 24 22 22 9

33 32 34 36 37 38 49

.450 .448 .424 .400 .373 .367 .155

15 15 16½ 18 19½ 20 32

WESTERN CONFERENCE Pct .847 .776 .689 .627 .610 .583 .576 .441

GB — 4½ 9 13 14 15½ 16 24

Sacramento 25 35 .417 Portland 24 34 .414 Dallas 24 35 .407 Minnesota 24 36 .400 New Orleans 23 37 .383 L.A. Lakers 19 41 .317 Phoenix 18 41 .305 x-clinched playoff spot

25½ 25½ 26 26½ 27½ 31½ 32

x-Golden State San Antonio Houston Utah L.A. Clippers Memphis Oklahoma City Denver

W 50 45 42 37 36 35 34 26

L 9 13 19 22 23 25 25 33

Monday’s Results Cleveland 102, Milwaukee 95 Golden State 119, Philadelphia 108 Toronto 92, New York 91 Atlanta 114, Boston 98 Dallas 96, Miami 89 Indiana 117, Houston 108 Minnesota 102, Sacramento 88 Tuesday’s Games Denver at Bulls, 7 p.m.

Golden State at Washington, 6 p.m.

Portland at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Phoenix at Memphis, 7 p.m.

Utah at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

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

NCAA BASKETBALL BIG TEN CONFERENCE

Conference W L PCT Purdue 12 4 .750 Wisconsin 11 5 .688 Minnesota 10 6 .625 Maryland 10 6 .625 Michigan St. 10 6 .625 Northwestern 9 7 .563 Michigan 9 7 .563 Iowa 8 8 .500 Illinois 7 9 .438 Ohio St. 6 10 .375 Indiana 6 10 .375 Penn St. 6 10 .375 Nebraska 6 10 .375 Rutgers 2 14 .125

Overall W L PCT 23 6 .793 22 7 .759 22 7 .759 22 7 .759 18 11 .621 20 9 .690 19 10 .655 16 13 .552 17 12 .586 16 13 .552 16 13 .552 14 15 .483 12 16 .429 13 16 .448

Tuesday’s Games Maryland at Rutgers, 5:30 p.m.

Indiana at Purdue, 6 p.m.

Ohio St. at Penn St., 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Michigan at Northwestern, 6 p.m.

Michigan St. at Illinois, 8 p.m.

MID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE

Conference W L PCT Akron 13 3 .813 Ohio 10 6 .625 Ball St. 9 7 .563 Kent St. 9 7 .563 Buffalo 9 7 .563 W. Michigan 9 7 .563 Toledo 8 8 .500 N. Illinois 7 9 .438 Bowling Green 7 9 .438 C. Michigan 6 10 .375 E. Michigan 6 10 .375 Miami (Ohio) 3 13 .188

Overall W L PCT 23 6 .793 18 9 .667 18 11 .621 17 12 .586 15 14 .517 13 15 .464 15 14 .517 15 14 .517 13 16 .448 16 13 .552 14 15 .483 10 19 .345

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

Kent St. at Bowling Green, 6 p.m.

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

Ball St. at Toledo, 6 p.m.

Buffalo at Ohio, 6 p.m.

W. Michigan at N. Illinois, 7 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. Kansas (58) 26-3 1,618 3 2. Villanova (2) 27-3 1,487 2 3. UCLA (3) 26-3 1,474 5 4. Gonzaga (2) 29-1 1,419 1 5. North Carolina 25-5 1,381 8 6. Oregon 26-4 1,343 6 7. Arizona 26-4 1,223 4 8. Louisville 23-6 1,176 7 9. Kentucky 24-5 1,119 11 10. West Virginia 23-6 1,041 12 11. Baylor 23-6 923 9 12. Florida 23-6 807 13 13. Butler 23-6 795 22 14. SMU 25-4 738 17 15. Florida St. 23-6 722 19 16. Purdue 23-6 651 14 17. Duke 22-7 622 10 18. Cincinnati 25-4 504 15 19. Notre Dame 22-7 482 21 20. Saint Mary’s 26-3 445 20 21. Wichita St. 27-4 250 25 22. Wisconsin 22-7 206 16 23. Virginia 19-9 194 18 24. Iowa St. 19-9 168 — 25. Miami 20-8 123 — Others receiving votes: Minnesota 66, Oklahoma St. 54, Dayton 32, Michigan 14, Middle Tennessee 13, Creighton 12, Southern Cal 7, Michigan St. 3, Monmouth 3, Vermont 2, VCU 2, Virginia Tech 2, Arkansas 1, BYU 1, Maryland 1, Princeton 1

AP TOP 25 SCHEDULE

Monday’s Results No. 1 Kansas 73, Oklahoma 63 No. 23 Virginia 53, No. 5 North Carolina 43 No. 11 Baylor 71, No. 10 West Virginia 62 Virginia Tech 66, No. 25 Miami 61 Tuesday’s Games No. 9 Kentucky vs. Vanderbilt, 8 p.m.

No. 15 Florida St. at No. 17 Duke, 6 p.m.

No. 16 Purdue vs. Indiana, 6 p.m.

No. 24 Iowa St. vs. Oklahoma St., 8 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games No. 3 UCLA vs. Washington, 10 p.m.

No. 8 Louisville at Wake Forest, 8 p.m.

No. 12 Florida vs. Arkansas, 6 p.m.

No. 19 Notre Dame vs. Boston College, 7 p.m.

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Monday’s Results White Sox 4, Cubs 4 Detroit 10, Atlanta 7 Minnesota 9, Miami 6 N.Y. Yankees 4, Baltimore 1 St. Louis (ss) 7, Boston 2 Tampa Bay 7, Philadelphia 2 St. Louis (ss) 5, Washington 4 Pittsburgh 2, Toronto 1 Houston 5, N.Y. Mets 2 Kansas City 14, Seattle 3 Colorado 7, L.A. Dodgers 1 Milwaukee 5, Texas (ss) 0 Oakland 5, San Francisco 4 Cleveland 3, Texas (ss) 2 Arizona 6, Cincinnati 1 L.A. Angels 5, San Diego 3 Tuesday’s Games L.A. Angels vs. Cubs at Mesa, Ariz., 2:05 p.m.

Seattle vs. White Sox (ss) at Glendale, Ariz., 2:05 p.m.

White Sox (ss) vs. Cincinnati at Goodyear, Ariz., 2:05 p.m.

Baltimore vs. Philadelphia at Clearwater, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Detroit vs. N.Y. Yankees (ss) at Tampa, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Houston vs. Washington at West Palm Beach, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Minnesota vs. Tampa Bay at Port Charlotte, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets vs. Miami at Jupiter, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (ss) vs. Boston at Fort Myers, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

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

Toronto vs. Pittsburgh at Bradenton, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

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

Cleveland vs. Oakland at Mesa, Ariz., 2:05 p.m.

Kansas City vs. Milwaukee at Phoenix, 2:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers vs. Colorado at Scottsdale, Ariz., 2:10 p.m.

San Francisco vs. San Diego at Peoria, Ariz., 2:10 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Cubs vs. Kansas City at Surprise, Ariz., 2:05 p.m.

Arizona vs. White Sox at Glendale, Ariz., 2:05 p.m.

Boston vs. Baltimore at Sarasota, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Miami vs. Houston at West Palm Beach, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets vs. St. Louis at Jupiter, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Philadelphia vs. Tampa Bay at Port Charlotte, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

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

Washington vs. Detroit (ss) at Lakeland, Fla., 12:05 p.m.

Detroit (ss) vs. Toronto at Dunedin, Fla., 12:07 p.m.

Cincinnati vs. Milwaukee at Phoenix, 2:05 p.m.

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

Oakland vs. San Diego (ss) at Peoria, Ariz., 2:10 p.m.

San Diego (ss) vs. Colorado at Scottsdale, Ariz., 2:10 p.m.

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

Atlanta vs. N.Y. Yankees at Tampa, Fla., 5:35 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers vs. San Francisco at Scottsdale, Ariz., 7:05 p.m.

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Admits to feeling ‘a sense of a little blow’ when Cubs let him go

By DARYL VAN SCHOUWEN dvanschouwen@suntimes.com

him to sit out a year and re-evaluate things.

“Oh, sure, it would be a lie if that wasn’t a part of being able to get through that,” Renteria said. “You’re able to spend time with your family, take advantage of that particular situation.”

If hard feelings linger, Renteria is doing a good job of hiding it.

“You have to allow everybody to enjoy the things that are moving forward,” he said. “Once you’re out of it, you step back and let them enjoy what they are reaping. They deserve it.”

The Cubs celebrated their first world title since 1908 while Renteria was preparing to help the Sox build from the ground up, hopefully in the same way the Cubs did.

“I guess there is some irony to it, but it’s all good,” Renteria said. “I’m really happy to be here, in the situation we’re in. The organization is taking the step that is, hopefully, leading us, as many organizations have done over the last six or seven years, to create something more sustainable over time.”

Epstein said he saw Terry Francona take things he had learned on the job with the Phillies to his job with the Red Sox, where Epstein and Francona won together. There is a benefit to a second go-around for a manager, Epstein said.

“Seems like [Renteria] has a lot of talented young players to work with over there,” Epstein said. “And his energy and personality will be real assets to help develop those kids, keep them positive, keep them moving forward.”

When Maddon didn’t meet Renteria at home plate for the lineup exchange before the Cactus League game between the teams Monday, there was a little press-box buzz that Maddon was snubbing him. But Maddon never goes out there in spring training.

Perhaps Renteria will give him the business over that beer.

“He’s a really good fellow,” Maddon said. “He’s a really bright fellow, too.

Very engaging, gregarious. Shoot, I’d love to know him better. I think he’s awesome.”

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• Tuesday, February 28, 2017

MESA, Ariz. – White Sox manager Rick Renteria and Cubs manager Joe Maddon crossed paths last week at a media event.

“Just said hello,” Renteria said.

“Just briefly. He’s always been very cordial. I’m sure we’ll have a beer sometime, absolutely.”

Oh, to be a fly on the tavern wall to hear those two talk. It was Maddon who took over for Renteria as the Cubs’ manager after the 2014 season, guiding them to the National League Championship Series in his first season and to a World Series championship in his second.

It was tough for Renteria to watch.

He had helped develop some of the Cubs’ young players before being un-

ceremoniously let go by Theo Epstein and Co. with two years left on his contract.

Renteria sat out the 2015 season, joined the Sox as then-manager Robin Ventura’s bench coach last season and now is managing the Sox through a rebuild.

“I’m in a great place,” Renteria said.

“Baseball does what it does, and I think we all have to take account of ourselves. We keep perspective, and we try Rick Renteria to find some balance.

There are worse things that have happened to people.

“Always initially you feel a sense of a little blow. But you put it in perspective and realize things keep moving forward, and here I am now with the Chicago White Sox. Things happen.”

Other teams reached out to Renteria with coaching offers when Maddon unexpectedly became available to the Cubs. That he still was on the Cubs’ payroll made it easier for

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Breakout season hard to process Hendricks, 27, led majors with 2.13 ERA in ’16

By BRUCE MILES

bmiles@dailyherald.com

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uick. Who are the Cubs’ all-time pitching leaders in postseason games started?

First, you have Mordecai “Three Finger” Brown, the Hall of Famer who started seven World Series games for the powerhouse Cubs teams of the early 20th century.

You also have co-aces Jake Arrieta AP file photo and Jon Lester, who have seven starts Cubs starting pitcher Kyle Hendricks throws during the first inning of Game 7 of the World apiece over the past two postseasons.

Series against the Indians on Nov. 2 in Cleveland.

Joining them is Kyle Hendricks.

“That is amazing. Are you kidding Cubs, Sox tie in Renteria’s first game managing against former team me?” Hendricks said recently at Cubs spring training camp in Mesa, Arizona.

MESA, Ariz. – When Cubs prospect Chesny the Cubs up, 4-3, in the bottom of the seventh.

“A team that’s been around that long?

Young struck out to end the ninth inning MonFor the Cubs, starting pitcher Brett Anderson Yeah, that doesn’t feel right at all. day, leaving Munenori Kawasaki at third base, pitched around a leadoff single for a scoreless “That doesn’t make sense. That’s inning in his Cubs debut and said he felt strong wild to think about. I never would have the Cubs and White Sox were tied 4-4.

And that’s where it ended as the teams and ready to get into an every-fifth-day routine thought that.” packed up and headed home with the rain to prepare for the season.

At the still-young age of 27, Henstarting at Sloan Park.

Cubs All-Star shortstop Addison Russell hit dricks may be in position to take the overall lead in postseason starts and It was Sox manager Rick Renteria’s first game his first homer of the spring, a long solo shot to hold the record for a long time. managing against the team that fired him to left in the second inning off Sox starter Lucas Last year was a breakthrough season hire Joe Maddon, a back-and-forth game played Giolito, and the Cubs led until the fifth. all the way around for Hendricks. He before a sellout crowd.

That’s when Sox first baseman Jose Abreu’s went 16-8 with a major league-leading The Sox tied it in the eighth on a one-out two-out, two-run homer in the fifth inning off 2.13 ERA and finished third in the balgrounder to second by Willy Garcia, driving minor-leaguer Brad Markey capped a three-run loting for the National League Cy Young home Peter Bourjos from third. inning that put the Sox ahead, 3-2.

Award behind winner Max Scherzer of – Gordon Wittenmyer Young drove a two-out, two-run single to centhe Nationals and Lester. gwittenmyer@suntimes.com ter field off right-hander Tommy Kahnle to put Hendricks kept going in the postseason, getting one start in the division series, two in the championship series little bit,” he said. “The other one is a The 6-foot-3, 190-pound right-hander and two in the World Series, including two-seam changeup that kind of fades is not an overpowering pitcher. But he Game 7. He put up a 1.42 ERA in the has helped himself immensely by devel- or sinks. So it’s basically off a four-seam postseason. oping a pair of changeups to get out both or two-seam fastball. You want to give More on Game 7 in a bit. them the same look. Hitters are so good right-handed and left-handers hitters.

How did Hendricks process it all? these days. They can see the spin on According to FanGraphs, he increased “A lot of time just sitting there in the ball, see it coming out of your hand. use of the changeup from 20 percent in thought trying to soak it in. But I still To have the appearance of the same, a 2015 to 27.1 percent last year. don’t think it’s fully set in, even what four-seam fastball, a four-seam change“It was huge, especially when I you’ve done, just drawing on how I restarted doing it when I was in Triple-A, up or a two-seam fastball to a two-seam lied on my routine and the things I did throwing both changeups,” he said. “It changeup, the similar appearances, I to get myself ready to deal with those took some time to learn to use which think, just throws them off.” experiences,” he said. “Those are the one, in which situations to use which Now, about that Game 7 start. Henthings that I really remember and build one. Yeah, I really settled into it last dricks said he has not watched a replay off, and hopefully I can just take those year and found out where I like to use of the game that gave the Cubs their into the future with me this year and it, where I have confidence with each first world championship since 1908. coming years. changeup against lefties and righties. It But he said he remembers walking onto “It’s very tough to remember a lot of just gives them a different look, two dif- Progressive Field in Cleveland on Nov. those moments. Remembering what you ferent pitches they have to think about.” 2 and taking it all in. did, how you went about your work to “I just kept telling myself, ‘Look at So how do they work? get yourself ready for those games was a the opportunity you have in front of “Basically, one’s a four-seam chanyou,’” he said. “From knowing that, geup that goes straight down or cuts a big experience builder for me.”

Hendricks at a glance Some key numbers for Cubs starter Kyle Hendricks: Year W-L ERA WHIP 2014 7-2 2.46 1.08 2015 8-7 3.95 1.16 2016 16-8 2.13 0.97 Career 31-17 2.92 1.07

Source: baseball-reference.com by the time that I did walk out onto the field, I was able to look around and see all the fans. They start chirping at you.

That’s part of the game that you love.

Once you’re in that environment, that element, it was really special. You could tell it was a different feeling, different tension in the air definitely amongst the crowd.”

It became more “different” when manager Joe Maddon took Hendricks out of the game after 42/3 innings The Cubs entered the bottom of the fifth inning leading the Indians, 5-1. Hendricks got two quick outs before he walked Carlos Santana. Maddon yanked Hendricks in favor of Lester, saying that was the plan all along if trouble arose.

The Indians scored two runs that inning. After the Cubs got one back on David Ross’ homer in the sixth, Cleveland tied the score in the eighth before the Cubs wound up winning the game, 8-7, in 10 innings.

Those pitching moves have been dissected ever since, but Hendricks insists he’s OK with it all.

“Everybody’s asking it,” he said.

“My answer is, as a competitor in the moment, obviously you never want to come out. But nobody can sit in Joe’s position and make those decisions in real time. You’re never going to have a perfect manager. There are never perfect decisions.

“In that game there were so many other factors people don’t see. I got into a few jams that kind of hurt me getting deep into the game. You have to get guys warm in a Game 7 like that. Once you start getting guys up in the pen, then you’ve got to use them eventually or else you’re going to lose them.

“I knew going into the game if I were to get four innings even, it was going to be a long start for me. With all that being said, [Maddon] is the guy that we have at the helm, and trust me, I trust him with everything.”

Shortly after that game, both Maddon and Hendricks were fitted for World Series rings.

“We did it,” Hendricks said. “That’s all that matters.”