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Investigation of Trump’s charity wins Pulitzer Prize

By JENNIFER PELTZ and DEEPTI HAJELA The Associated Press

NEW YORK – The biggest U.S. news story of 2016 – the tumultuous presidential campaign – yielded a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for the Washington Post reporter who not only raised doubts about Donald Trump’s charitable giving, but also revealed that the candidate had been recorded crudely bragging about grabbing women.

David A. Fahrenthold won the prize for national reporting, with the judges citing stories that examined Trump’s charitable foundation and called into question whether the real estate magnate was as generous as he claimed.

Fahrenthold’s submission also included his story about Trump’s raunchy behind-the-scenes comments during a 2005 taping of “Access Hollywood.” His talk about groping women’s genitals rocked the White House race and prompted a rare apology from the then-candidate.

In another election-related prize, Peggy Noonan of The Wall Street Journal won the Pulitzer for commentary for columns that “connected readers to the shared virtues of Americans during one of the nation’s most divisive political campaigns.”

The judges said Fahrenthold’s reporting “created a model for transparent journalism,” a model he built partly by using Twitter to publicize his efforts and let Trump see what he was doing. The president “can expect to see more of

me on Twitter,” said Fahrenthold, now part of a team looking at Trump businesses.

American journalism’s most distinguished prizes also recognized work that shed light on international financial intrigue and held local officials accountable.

The New York Daily News and ProPublica won the Pulitzer in public service for uncovering how authorities used an obscure law, originally enacted to crack down on prostitution in Times Square in the 1970s, to evict hundreds of people, mostly poor minorities, from their homes.

“Thanks to this investigation, New York now sees how an extremely muscular law, combined with aggressive policing, combined with a lack of counsel, combined with lax judges produced damaging miscarriages of justice,” Daily News Editor in Chief Arthur Browne said. The Daily News reporter credited with most of the work was Sarah Ryley.

ProPublica’s managing editor, Robin Fields, said the project was “the type of collaboration that ProPublica had in mind” when the independent, nonprofit organization was launched nine years ago.

The New York Times’ staff received the international reporting award for its work on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s efforts to project Moscow’s power abroad. The award in feature writing went to the Times’ C.J. Chivers for a story about a Marine’s descent into violence after returning home from war.

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ON THE COVER Gayle and Vern Stade, owners of Stade’s Farm and Market in McHenry, pose for a portrait Friday. Stade’s Farm and Market will be open May 26 and is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.

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Vernon Stade, owner of Stade’s Farm and Market in McHenry, checks the growth of an apple tree Friday while working to get the farm ready for opening weekend. Stade’s Farm and Market is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.

‘GOOD THINGS HAVE HAPPENED’ Stade’s Farm & Market in McHenry celebrates 40 years

By JORDYN REILAND

jreiland@shawmedia.com McHENRY – For as long as he can remember, Vernon Stade wanted to be a farmer.

His dreams were confirmed in high school when he took an aptitude test and ‘dairy farmer’ came up as a possible career choice. Stade chose to follow that path, and on April 1, 1977, he began farming on the land that is now Stade’s Farm & Market, 3709 Miller Road, McHenry.

He first milked dairy cows and grew soybeans, corn and hay. Then in the late 1980s, Stade was approached by a truck driver who wanted to buy a few acres of his land to grow crops and sell what he grew on a roadside stand

– which was then located at the corner of Johnsburg and Ringwood roads.

Stade was interested in the endeavor and the two got into business together.

After the first year, the truck driver stepped away from the business but Stade continued.

He opened another stand on the corner of McCullom Lake and Ringwood roads in 1997, which still is open from mid-July into October. The main full-service market, which was part of a large expansion in 2006, is located on their McHenry property.

The markets, which are run by Stade’s wife, Gayle Stade, are stocked with in-season produce, fruit, baked goods, salsa, spices, soup mixes, eggs, honey and gluten-free products, among other items.

When the farm and market reopen for the season May 26, Stade, his family, employees and community members will get a chance to celebrate and reflect on 40 years of growth and change.

“It just all worked together,” Stade said, reflecting on what he has built over the past several decades. “It was God’s plan and it still is. We’re still having a good time with it.”

Although Stade didn’t live out his dream of becoming a “large scale” dairy farmer and stopped dairy farming in 2001, he took his business and love of farming down other avenues.

Stade was first introduced to U-Pick farming, a chance for people to pick their own produce, in the fall of 1996 when a family stopped by and asked if

they could pick their own pumpkins.

He became interested in the idea and officially started U-Pick pumpkins a year later. The farm now offers U-Pick raspberries, 17 acres of strawberries, green beans, sugar snap peas, tomatoes and new this year, apples.

Stade started planting apple trees in the spring of 2013 and 2014, and the farm now has more than 6,700. He also hopes to plant blueberries this year in hopes of them being ready to pick in about four years.

The farm also hosts the Shades of Autumn Fall Festival each year, an event that began in 1997. Previously named Harvest Fest, the only attraction offered at the time was a short

See FARM, page A9

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By BRITTANY KEEPERMAN

bkeeperman@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – The closing of Dean Elementary School is one option that will be presented to the new school board in May. A committee with Woodstock School District 200 has been studying options regarding potential school consolidations in an effort to cut costs and better utilize its existing facilities.

Woodstock District 200 Superintendent Michael Moan presented final options that the Facilities Review Committee recommended to be brought to the school board. New school board members will be seated at the first board meeting in May, and the Facilities Review Committee likely will present the options at a following meeting.

Eighty percent of present committee members voted ‘yes’ to close Dean Elementary School, which has an enrollment of about 330 students, and to create mono language and dual language schools.

“Our main concern is just that they

“I did have a concern about segregation by creating dual-language elementary schools and not exposing monolingual students to the Hispanic students on a significant level. That’s a concern because that is one of the things I value about this community.”

Bridget Belcastro District 200 parent

will be able to stay in the 90/10 program,” said a parent to two Dean Elementary students. “And that they will be able to stay together and not get split up.”

Moan said that a public engagement period likely will be in the fall.

Committee members also recommended the school board end an annex lease, sell the district office and lease open space at the high school to colleges such as McHenry County College. This concerned some parents, who questioned safety on campus.

“This is a very general idea,” Moan said. “But security, of course, will be our

No. 1 priority.”

District parent Bridget Belcastro said the proposals seemed well-thought-out. The closing of the elementary school wouldn’t directly affect her Creekside Middle School student, but she did want to see District 200 continue to offer strong dual-language programming opportunities.

“I did have a concern about segregation by creating dual-language elementary schools and not exposing monolingual students to the Hispanic students on a significant level,” she said. “That’s a concern because that is one of the things I value about this community.”

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Resolution to cut the county tax levy by 10 percent makes progress

By KEVIN P. CRAVER

kcraver@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – The McHenry County Board this month is taking up a resolution to cut the county tax levy by at least 10 percent next year.

The resolution going before the County Board was watered down somewhat last week by its Finance and Audit Committee in that it sets the 10 percent cut as a goal rather than an absolute.

However, board Chairman Jack Franks, who made a 10 percent cut the cornerstone of his successful 2016 election campaign, said the goal will be met.

“The county’s property tax levy will take at least 10 percent less than it did last year,” said Franks, D-Marengo. “We’re going to get this done.”

If passed by the County Board, the resolution amounts to an on-the-record promise to property owners to cut at least $7.93 million in taxation and spending, based on its $79.3 million tax levy for this year. The board over the past five years has not taken the inflationary levy increase it is entitled to under the tax cap in recognition of the plight of county property owners who face one of the nation’s highest property tax burdens, according to one study.

The resolution will only cut the levy for county government, not of other local units of government to which residents pay taxes. However, several township governments this year have cut either their general

“The county’s property tax levy will take at least 10 percent less than it did last year. We’re going to get this done.”

Jack Franks

McHenry County Board chairman fund or their road levies by 10 percent in the months leading to last week’s election.

The version that the County Board will see is a rewrite by Finance and Audit Chairman Mike Skala, R-Huntley. Skala told the committee that he was not comfortable setting a mandatory goal before the process begins of figuring out where the cuts are going to come from.

“My concern with setting a hard number is the unknown of where that’s coming from and how we’re going to achieve it,” Skala said.

But while the committee recommended approval of the changed resolution by a 6-0 vote, it vigorously debated the merits of setting a hard number to meet.

Committee member Larry Smith, R-Harvard, said county government departments may not take the cuts seriously without a mandatory absolute.

“Without a hard number … department by department is going to come to us and say, ‘This is what we can do or we’re going to be devastated,’ and we’re not going to get to any type of minimum,” Smith said.

Committee member Chuck Wheeler, R-McHenry, agreed.

“If you give them wiggle room, they’re gonna wiggle,” Wheeler said.

Franks said the cuts will take place, and that he trusts Skala and his expertise.

The original resolution was written by board member Andrew Gasser, R-Fox River Grove, who wanted the board to take quick and binding action on cutting taxes.

An addition by Franks, which is in the version approved by Finance and Audit, creates a Committee on Tax Reduction to work with county administration to develop tax reduction proposals no later than June 30.

The 12-member committee consists of Franks, the chairmen of each standing committee, and three other members, with Skala acting as vice chairman.

County government accounts for just less than 10 percent of residential property tax bills in McHenry County – about two-thirds of the average bill goes to public schools. While several area school board races in last week’s consolidated election included candidates and slates wanting to reduce taxes, they did not fare particularly well.

About 15 percent of voters participated in the April 4 election.

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Two killed in motorcycle crash near McHenry NORTHWEST HERALD McHENRY – A Carpentersville man and woman on a motorcycle were killed Sunday evening after a collision with a minivan near McHenry.

Emergency responders were called at 7:53 p.m. Sunday to a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of River and Charles J. Miller roads in McHenry Township, according to a news release from the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office.

A 49-year-old Carpentersville man and a 42-year-old Carpentersville woman were on a 2017 Harley-Davidson heading south on River Road.

The 49-year-old man was driving. He had a green light at the time of the

crash, according to the results of a preliminary investigation. A 2014 Chrysler Town & Country van, driven by a 41-year-old woman from Wonder Lake, was driving north on River Road and turning west onto Charles J. Miller Road. The driver of the van failed to yield for the motorcycle. The vehicles crashed in the intersection, according to the news release.

The motorcycle driver was taken to Centegra Hospital – McHenry, where he was pronounced dead. The Carpentersville woman was taken to Advocate Condell Hospital in Libertyville, where she was pronounced dead. There was no indication that the riders were wearing helmets at the time of the crash, according to the

news release. The McHenry County Sheriff’s Office said it was withholding the names of the Carpentersville man and woman pending notification of their families.

The driver of the van was wearing a seat belt and airbags were deployed.

The name of the woman driving the van wasn’t released.

Police detoured traffic for about five hours while they were investigating the crash, McHenry County Sheriff’s Deputy Sandra Rogers said.

The McHenry County Sheriff’s Office Major Crash Investigation Unit, the McHenry County Coroner’s Office and the Lake County Coroner’s Office continue to the investigate the crash.

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kcraver@shawmedia.com On top of electing their representatives to municipal, school and other local governments last week, voters statewide elected all of the officials for all 1,431 Illinois townships.

The following is a list of election results for all 17 townships in McHenry County, in alphabetical order, according to unofficial results.

Alden Township

Algonquin Township

After a hotly contested and contentious Feb. 28 Republican primary that reshaped the face of the township government, the only contest-

ed township assessor, succeeding Doug Hawthorne. Newcomers Thomas Swenson and Shirley Walter will join incumbents Thomas Slater and Sam Finfrock on the board of trustees.

Supervisor Robert Dixon, Clerk Judith Koch and Highway Commissioner Don Staver, all incumbents, also won.

township supervisor to succeed Bob Pierce, and incumbent Clerk Brenda Stack and Assessor Veronica Myers likewise did not face challengers. In another uncontested race, newcomers Richard Hoyt and Bryson Calvin will join incumbents John Sheahan and Christian Cantwell on the board of trustees.

Coral Township

In the only contested race, newcomer Cory Scott edged out incumbent Trustee Kevin Schultz, who lost by nine votes.

Incumbent Trustees Dennis Bischke, David Binz and Ruth Coffey won re-election.

Supervisor John Pihl, Clerk Jennifer Pihl, Assessor Geri Alten and Highway Commissioner David Nolan, all incumbents, ran unopposed.

The only contested race was for trustee, where challenger Judith Link will join incumbents William Damisch, Laurie Cisneros and Michael Grismer.

Burton Township Candidates Thomas Jurs and AniAll incumbents ran unopposed for tra Willis fell short. re-election.

Incumbent Supervisor Roger NaySupervisor Samuel Jones, Clerk lor, Clerk Mary Argall, Highway April Shetsky, Highway Commission- Commissioner Don Argall and newer Dan Sutton, and Trustees Dennis comer Assessor Shawn Green won Reichert, Eileen Miller, John Flood their uncontested races. and Merrilee Anhalt all received Dorr Township four-year terms.

Incumbent Highway CommissionChemung Township er Tom Thurman narrowly lost his While the township races were all re-election bid in the township’s only unopposed, voters promoted one offi- contested race to Trustee John Fuller cial and elected two new faces. by 42 votes.

Trustee John Killeen III was electSusan Brokaw ran unopposed for

Dunham Township

Grafton Township

Although several of the offices were contested in a February primary, voters on April 4 had no contested races.

Eric Ruth will succeed Dennis Kearns, who was elected to the County

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Incumbent Assessor Constance Jones won another term over challenger Michael Crouse. Supervisor Preston Rea, Clerk Kathy Nolen and Highway Commissioner Bart Schnulle, all incumbents, ran unopposed.

Incumbent Trustees Allen Rosio, John Hooper and Candace Picard won re-election, and will be joined by newcomer Andy Madsen. Candidate Debra Durkin fell short.

ed races last week were for the four trustee seats.

Incumbent Republican Dan Shea and GOP newcomers Melissa Victor, Rachael Lawrence and David Chapman won seats.

Democratic challenger Dominique Miller did not win.

Supervisor Charles Lutzow, Clerk Karen Lukasik, Assessor Richard Alexander and Highway Commissioner Andrew Gasser ran unopposed. All four Republican candidates are newcomers, although Lutzow had been village clerk and ran to succeed retiring Supervisor Dianne Klemm.

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mann likewise prevailed over challenger Elisabette Waichunas.

Continued from page A7 Incumbent Supervisor Charles Kruse and incumbent Clerk Laurel Board, as supervisor, and Kathleen Ksepka ran unopposed.

Watson won her race for clerk. Incumbent Highway Commissioner Hebron Township The township didn’t just have unTom Poznanski won re-election, as did Assessor Al Zielinski, who was contested races – there weren’t enough removed from the ballot but mounted candidates to go around.

The only candidate who ran for the a successful write-in campaign.

Newcomers Thomas Welch, Sean four open trustee seats was Brandon Cratty and Matthew Cooper will join Berg – there were not even registered incumbent Dan Ziller Jr. on the board write-ins.

Supervisor candidate James Nichof trustees. ols ran unopposed, as did incumbent Assessor Tracie Von Bergen, Clerk PaGreenwood Township tricia Elswick and Highway CommisVoters faced no contested races. sioner Zeke Nickels.

Supervisor Barbara Klasen, Assessor Karen Roth, Highway CommissionMarengo Township er Don Goad and Clerk Kendra RishSupervisor candidate John Burns ling won re-election. On the board, beat challenger Walter Krause to sucincumbent Trustees Tim Stefaniak, ceed Steven Weskerna, and incumbent Christopher Dahm and Charles Beard Assessor Jon Klick fended off challengwill be joined by newcomer Kelly Li- er Richard Kaszniak III. ebmann.

As in Hebron Township, there was

a shortage of trustee candidates. Incumbent Trustees Tom Kearney and Incumbents won contested races for Ray Jones ran for the four open seats. highway commissioner and the board Incumbent Clerk Heather Greenquist of trustees. and incumbent Highway CommissionHighway Commissioner Michael er Jacob Adamson ran unopposed.

Murray handily defeated challenger Rickland Rasmussen. Incumbent McHenry Township Trustees Eugene Boppart, David Voters had candidates from three Payne, Kathy Porep and Glen Neu- slates to choose from for most offices

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Incumbent independent Supervisor Craig Adams staved off a challenge from Republican challenger Steve Verr by 85 votes, and independent incumbent Highway Commissioner James Condon beat GOP challenger Steve Koerber by 137 votes.

Republican clerk candidate Dan Aylward, however, easily beat Democratic challenger Judith Gottlieb and incumbent independent Marsha Nelson.

Also, the four GOP challengers of Bob Anderson, Mike Rakestraw, Bill Cunningham and Stan Wojewski beat eight other challengers – four Democrats and four independents.

Incumbent Assessor Mary Mahady, one of the few Democrats to hold office in GOP-dominated McHenry County, ran unopposed.

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Paul Hain beat challengers Tamara Valentine-Garza and Ardie Arnold Jr. in a three-way race for supervisor.

Incumbent Assessor Patricia O’Neill and incumbent Highway Commissioner David Bockelmann ran unopposed, as did incumbent trustees Marjorie Stermer, Constance Gradt and Robert Roth, and newcomer Adam Metz.

Riley Township

Incumbent Supervisor Karen Schnable, Highway Commissioner David Diamond, Clerk Jan Tures, and trustees Duane Dahlman, Thomas Nunda Township Republicans beat their Democratic Tucker, Theodore Oberg and Rebecca challengers in the township’s several White ran unopposed. contested races.

Republican clerk candidate Joni Seneca Township Smith defeated Democratic challenger Incumbent Supervisor James KaCheryl Voss. gel, Clerk Dawn Seemann and HighThe GOP slate of Ed Dvorak, Karen way Commissioner Scott Swanson Tynis, Bob Parrish and Tim Parrish ran unopposed, as did incumbent defeated the Democratic slate of Nan Trustees Rosemary Bartman and SuKueller, Lori McConville, John Darg- san Mathews, and newcomers Gerald er and Kelli Wegener. Dvorak and Ty- Gieseke and Jane Gerloff.

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Republican Supervisor Lee Jennings, Highway Commissioner “Iron” Mike Lesperance and Assessor Mark Dzemske ran unopposed.

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LOCAL BRIEFS Community garden plots available this spring

Cary changes board, Committee of the Whole meeting times

CARY – The village has changed its meeting times.

Starting April 18, the Cary Village Board will meet at 6 p.m., followed immediately by the Committee of the Whole meeting.

Previously, the Committee of the Whole met at 6 p.m. and the Village Board met at 7:30 p.m. the same night, regardless of what time the first meeting ended.

At Committee of the Whole meetings, village trustees and the mayor discuss agenda items, and make recommendations to the Village Board regarding all business of the village. At Village Board meetings, trustees make decisions regarding village matters discussed at the Committee of the Whole.

Meetings will continue to take place on the first and third Tuesdays of each month.

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CARY – Community garden plots at Hoffman Park are now available for rent.

Gardeners may rent a 20-by-30-foot garden plot and grow their own fruits, vegetables, herbs, plants and flowers for the 2017 season.

Garden plots are available on a firstcome, first-served basis with rental fees ranging from $42 to $75 for the season. Rentals are taken at the Cary Park District Community Center, 255 Briargate Road, Cary.

The Cary Park District also hosts six demonstration gardens at Hoffman Park.

The demonstration gardens are maintained by local volunteers where all of the harvest is donated to the Cary Grove Food Pantry. Last year, more than 1,000 pounds of organic produce was harvested from the demonstration gardens and donated to the pantry to help families in the area.

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ride to a one-acre pumpkin patch. The festival grew quickly and now is being held in conjunction with the Farmtractions theme park. The park, which first only had a petting zoo and small corn maze, now has more than 30 unique farm-themed attractions.

Stade said one of his favorite attractions on the farm is a 1922 Allan Herschell Carousel with 30 hand-carved wooden animals.

“The most fun thing is an October afternoon when its 70 degrees, no wind and the sun’s out and there’s thousands of people here, everybody is just having a good time,” he said. “That makes it all worthwhile.”

The farm tries to offer something for everyone, whether it be church services every Sunday from Memorial Day weekend until the end of October, a Tractors for Charity event that raises money for local food pantries and Feed My Starving Children, or the Acres of Hope 5K and 10K in July.

Stade also said he always has made education a priority in his agritourism business as people continue to get further away from their farming roots.

The farm started doing field trips in the late 1980s, and it has continued to host them.

“It used to be that everyone had a

grandparent who was a farmer and that’s no longer the case,” he said.

Stade said he wouldn’t have been able to grow the business as much as he has without help from family members, friends, employees and customers.

“Through everything, it’s kind of always been friends, family and church friends that have helped me out, a lot of them still help us,” he said.

Through it all, Stade said one of the challenging things in crop production is the weather. He said there will be times where he has to spend five days in a row staying up all night watering strawberries in order to make sure the flowers don’t freeze. The hard work always pays off, however, when it comes time for people to pick and enjoy them, Stade said.

Stade said the farm still is on track for a normal growing season despite some unseasonably warm weather in February.

Down the road, Stade hopes his children will take over the farm, but for now he hopes to continue making memories for at least another 40 years.

“Good things have happened here in the last 40 years, and God willing, will continue for at least another 40 years,” he said.

For information about Stade’s Farm, visit stadesfarmandmarket.com or its Facebook page at www.facebook. com/stadesfarmandmarket.

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Craig Thompson (left) of Algonquin and Kim Deason of Algonquin wait in the rain Monday to see whether the Dundee-Crown softball game will be postponed because of the weather in Carpentersville. The game was postponed.

McHENRY – A 55-year-old McHenry man was killed Sunday in a motorcycle crash after he struck a tree, authorities said.

The McHenry County Sheriff’s Office, Johnsburg Police Department, McHenry County Conservation Police and McHenry Fire Protection District were called at 6:46 p.m. Sunday to a report of a single motorcycle crash near Ringwood Road and Meadowhill Lane, the sheriff’s office said in a news release.

Sheriff’s deputies said their preliminary investigation found the 2010 Harley-Davidson motorcycle was heading west on Ringwood

Road west of Meadowhill Lane when it left the road and struck a tree. The intersection was closed for several hours while the crash was investigated.

The 55-year-old man, who was the only person on the motorcycle, was taken by ambulance to Centegra Hospital – McHenry, where he died, deputies said. The name of the driver is being withheld pending family notification.

The motorcyclist was wearing a helmet at the time of the crash, deputies said.

Investigations are ongoing by the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office Major Crash investigation Unit and the McHenry County Coroner’s Office.

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RICHARD C. DAY

Richard Charles “Dick” Day, 67, of Crystal Lake passed away peacefully surrounded by his loving family on April 9, 2017.

Dick was one-of-a-kind. He loved making his wife, Aimee, laugh, inspiring his daughter, Beth, to try different adventures, and sharing stories with his grandchildren, Timmy and Charlotte. Dick was a loyal friend, a great entertainer, and happiest sitting in the stands at Camp Randall, cheering on his Badgers with Aimee. Many passions filled Dick’s life that helped shape his character. As a child growing up in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, he earned his Eagle Scout badge and spent hours in the pool, swimming for his high school team. Later, Dick served on the board of the Delta Upsilon Alumni Association to support the organization that had given him so much during college. He was a devoted member of the Crystal Lake Country Club in IL, promoting and carrying out many of its programs and efforts.

Dick loved being on the golf course, slinging his clubs on his back walking alongside his buddies in Ireland.

In his professional life, Dick worked for the West Bend Company for over 30 years. He covered sales territories, moving with Aimee from North Carolina, to Texas, Georgia, and finally, Illinois, as director of national accounts for the company.

Dick is survived by his loving wife of 42 years, Aimee (nee Pearce); daughter, Beth (Tim) Lawrence; grandchildren, Timmy and Charlotte Lawrence; brother, Gordon F. Jr. (Constance)

11 Day; nieces, Elizabeth (Chris) Casey and Lindsey Day; great-nephews, Andrew and Gavin Casey.

Many loving relatives and friends also survive.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Gordon F. Day Sr. and Mary Ann Day. Visitation will be Wednesday, April 12, from 4:00 PM until 7:00 PM at Davenport Family Funeral Home and Crematory, 419 E. Terra Cotta Ave. (Rte. 176), Crystal Lake, IL 60014. Funeral service will be Thursday, April 13 at 10:00 AM at St Mary’s Episcopal Church, 210 McHenry Avenue,Crystal Lake, IL. Interment will be private.

Memorial donations can be made to the Delta Upsilon of Wisconsin Foundation, 933 Winding Way, Middleton, WI., 53562, St Mary’s Episcopal Church, 210 McHenry Avenue, Crystal Lake, IL., or JourneyCare Foundation, 2050 Claire Ct., Glenview, IL 60025.

For information, please contact Davenport Family Funeral Home, 815-459-3411.

For online condolences please visit, www. davenportfamily.com.

Chicago, IL. She was the daughter of the late George and Sigrid Baron of Lombard, IL. On April 24, 1946, she married Walter Golec.

They lived with her mother in Villa Park, IL until moving to Hoffman Estates “Parcel A” with their family as some of the first residents of Hoffman Estates where she lived for over 61 years until moving to Heritage Woods McHenry this past October.

Lorraine is survived by her daughters, Linda (Dean) Hettel of Algonquin and Kimberley (Joseph) Drogosz of Columbia, TN; and a grandson, Michael (Katie) Hettel of Oak Creek, WI. She was preceded in death by her son, Richard; and her husband, Walter.

Visitation Thursday, April 13, 2017 10:00a.m. until time of memorial service 11:00a.m. at the Countryside Funeral Home and Crematory 1640 Greenmeadows Blvd. (at Barrington Rd.) Streamwood/Schaumburg. Committal service to follow at Memory Gardens. (630) 289-8054.

DEBRA I. HARLAN Born: January 25, 1954 Died: March 29, 2017

Lorraine C. Golec nee Baron, age 93, passed away Saturday, April 8, 2017, at The Springs in Crystal Lake.

Lorraine was born December 21, 1923, in

Debra I. (Peterson, LaBelle) Harlan, age 63, passed away suddenly and peacefully on March 29, 2017 in Marietta, GA from a ruptured brain aneurysm.

She is survived by her loving husband, Michael Harlan; her two children, Tamara (Richard) Merryman and Nathan LaBelle; her grandchildren, Megan, Sydney, Kali, and Richard Merryman, Kirsten and Mike Shelby, Cameron and Callie Harlan, and Taidgen LaBelle.

Debra was born January 25, 1954 to the

from 2 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. Tuesday, April 11, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 10307 Dundee Road, Huntley. The Mass will be celebrated at 6 p.m. at the church. Burial will be private. For information, call Fredrick Funeral Home at 847-683-2711.

Wayne R. Gaylord: The memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 3, at VFW Post 4600, 3002 W. Route 120, McHenry.

Lorraine C. Golec: The visitation will be from 10 a.m. until the 11 a.m. service Thursday, April 13, at Countryside Funeral Home and Crematory, 1640 Greenmeadows Blvd., Streamwood/ Schaumburg. For information, call 630289-8054.

Jean Marie Hackler: The memorial service will be from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 15, at Smith Funeral Home, 1402 Tuckaleechee Pike, Maryville, Tennessee.

Debra I. Harlan: The service will be from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday, April 15, at the VFW, 117 S. 1st St., West Dundee.

Kerry D. Johnson: The visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday, April 13, at

Davenport Family Funeral Home and Crematory, 149 W. Main St., Barrington.

For information, call 847-381-3411.

Frank L. Haubold: Interment will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 27, in Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood.

Dorothy B. Plut Krueger: The visitation will be from 9:30 a.m. until the Mass is celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 11, at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, 410 N. First St., Cary. Interment will be in St. John’s Cemetery in Fox River Grove.

Brandon Peter LeBron: The visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 11, at St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church, 300 Jefferson St., Algonquin. The service will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday, April 12 at the church. Burial will be private. For information, call 874-741-8800.

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

Gina Marie Pellegrinon: The visitation

LORRAINE C. GOLEC

Born: December 21, 1923; in Chicago, IL Died: April 8, 2017; in Crystal Lake

late Ronald and Dorothy Peterson. She was Specialist Coordinator at IHG in Georgia for the last 15 years. In her spare time, she enjoyed cuddling with her dog, and traveling to visit her grandkids or to a sunny location with a pool.

A Memorial Service will be held at the VFW, 117 S. 1st St., West Dundee, IL on April 15, 2017 from 2:00 to 6:00 pm.

In lieu of flowers, a memorial in Debra’s name may be made to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, 26 Broadway, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10004.

ROBERT THOM HORDER Robert Thom Horder was born in Evanston, IL on December 10, 1937.

He was preceded in death by his wife of 55 years, Eleanor (nee Greenholt); parents, Earl and Genevieve (nee Thom) Horder; and brother, Donald Horder.

Robert is survived by his three children, Robert Paul, Julie Ann (Howard) Husslein and Linda Joan (Scott) Chencinski. Robert was a proud and loving grandfather to Genevieve, Justin, David, and Matthew.

Services Private. For information, Nelson Funeral Home 847-823-5122 or www.nelsonfunerals.com.

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FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS Marie Alma Baker: The funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, April 13, at First Presbyterian Church, Marengo. Burial will follow in Marengo City Cemetery.

For information, call Marengo-Union Funeral Home at 815-568-8131.

Nancy M. Berg: The memorial gathering will be at noon Saturday, April 22, at the home of Pam and Dan Sorenson, 6514 Greenwood Road, Wonder Lake.

Donald L. Correll: The celebration of life service will be at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, July 23, at Hebron Community Park on Price Road, Hebron. For information, call Ehorn-Adams Funeral Home at 815-678-7311.

Richard C. Day: The memorial will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 12, at Davenport Family Funeral Home and Crematory, 419 E. Terra Cotta Ave., Crystal Lake. The service will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, April 13, at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, 210 McHenry Ave., Crystal Lake. For information, call the funeral home at 815-459-3411.

Tyler G. Gardner: The visitation will be

will be from 5 p.m. until the 5:40 service Thursday, April 13, at Colonial Funeral Home, 591 Ridgeview Drive, McHenry. Interment will be private. For information, call the funeral home at 815-385-0063.

Marty W. Pickett: The service will be at 4 p.m. Tuesday, April 11, at the Polish American Legion, 1034 Park St., McHenry.

Arthur P. Raabe Jr.: The memorial gathering will be from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 15, at Bull Valley Golf Club, 1311 Club Road, Woodstock. For information, call Justen Funeral Home and Crematory at 815-385-2400.

Clifford C. Thomas: The celebration of his life will be from 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday, May 13, at Kip and Deb’s Tavern in Sharon, Wisconsin.

Edna E. Wittmus: The visitation will be from 10 a.m. until the 11 a.m. funeral service Tuesday, April 11, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Harvard. For information, call Saunders & McFarlin Funeral Home at 815-943-5400.

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Down Under comedian John Clarke dies at 68

By NICK PERRY

The Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand – After Australia’s then-Prime Minister John Howard refused to formally apologize to indigenous Aboriginal people for past atrocities, an actor who happened to have the same name as the nation’s leader read out a moving apology on a television show.

The 2000 skit on “The Games” was one of many culturally iconic moments dreamed up by John Clarke, a comedian and political satirist beloved in Australia and New Zealand.

Clarke’s family said the 68-yearold died Sunday of natural causes while taking photographs of birds in the Grampians National Park, a three-hour drive from his home in Melbourne, Australia. Friend and former colleague Ross Stevenson said Clarke died from a heart attack.

His death had people from both countries reminiscing about the skits and songs Clarke performed that often touched on the essence of life Down Under.

The apology in “The Games,” a mock documentary about the 2000 Sydney Olympics, resonated and was later read out in Parliament, becoming part of the official record.

“I speak for all Australians in expressing a profound sorrow to the Aboriginal people. I am sorry. We are sorry,” the actor John Howard said on the show. “Let the world know

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KERRY D. JOHNSON

Born: May 23, 1958 Died: April 8, 2017

Kerry D. Johnson, 58, of Trout Valley, was born on May 23, 1958 to Carl and Gloria (nee Lips) Johnson in Chicago, and passed away on April 8, 2017.

Kerry was the loving husband of Wendy Johnson (nee Hudson) for 31 years, and the proud father of his son, Hunter Liam Johnson. Kerry’s family meant everything to him. He was a devoted and generous son-in-law. He also enjoyed his career as a bond broker at the Chicago Board of Trade for more than thirty years.

Kerry is survived by his wife and son, his dog; his brother, Donald S. Johnson; his aunt, Anita (Betty) Stewart; his niece, Guinevere K. Johnson; his nephew, Gunnar W. Johnson; and his cousins, Grant and Scott Stewart.

The laughter and love of life he brought to his family and friends was one of a kind; he was unforgettable. Kerry will be forever missed by all who were lucky enough to have met him.

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In this undated photo provided by the Australian Broadcasting Corp., John Clarke, a comedian and political satirist beloved in Australia and New Zealand, poses for a photo.

Clarke’s family said the 68-year-old died Sunday of natural causes while taking photographs of birds in the Grampians National Park, a three-hour drive from his home in Melbourne, Australia. and understand, that it is with this sorrow, that we as a nation will grow and seek a better, a fairer and a wiser future.”

Stevenson, who co-wrote the show, said the apology was Clarke’s idea.

“Every word of it was his,” Stevenson said. “It’s remarkably brilliant and poetic.”

Stevenson said Clarke had a great appreciation for the absurdity found in daily life and was driven by a passion for social causes and anger about

injustice.

“He maintained that rage,” Stevenson said. “It never diminished for him.”

He said his friend’s death came as a shock because Clarke lived a healthy lifestyle and kept himself fit.

“As he liked to say, he dearly loved to commit golf,” Stevenson said.

Clarke was perhaps best known for his 27-year collaboration with Bryan Dawe producing weekly satirical political interviews.

A memorial visitation will be held on Thursday, April 13, from 4:00 to 8:00pm at Davenport Family Funeral Home and Crematory, 149 W. Main St. (Lake-Cook Rd.), Barrington.

To leave online condolences for the family, visit www.davenportfamily.com.

For more information, call 847-381-3411.

Joe; Grandma, Joan Butenschoen.

He was preceded in death by his grandfather, Edward Butenschoen; and a cousin, Adam Moring.

Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, April 12, 2017 at 1:00 PM at St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church, 300 Jefferson St., Algonquin. Burial will be private. Visitation will be held on Tuesday evening from 5:00 to 8:00 PM in the church.

Wait Ross Allanson Funeral & Cremation Services Chapel, 201 S. Main St., Algonquin is assisting the family. 847-741-8800 or www.lairdfamilyfuneralservices.com.

BRANDON PETER LeBRON

Born: July 30, 1984; in Carpentersville, IL Died: April 7, 2017; in Elgin, IL Brandon Peter LeBron, 32, of Lake in the Hills, passed away on Friday, April 7, 2017.

He was born on July 30, 1984 in Carpentersville, IL the son of Peter J. LeBron and Wendy Rae Lindsey.

He is survived by his father, mother, Wendy and (J.D.) Wagner; sisters, Lyndsey and Sophie; brother, Jack; and a nephew,

GINA MARIE PELLEGRINON Born: April 21, 1965; in Chicago, IL Died: March 19, 2017; in McHenry, IL

Gina Marie Pellegrinon, age 51, of McHenry, passed away Sunday, March 19, 2017. Gina was born April 21, 1965, to the late Gino and Virginia Louis ( Binz) Pellegrinon.

Gina worked at Green Street Café, in McHenry, for 15 years. She most recently worked at Big R in McHenry. She was together with her boyfriend, Ed Shultz, of McHenry for 12 years. They loved to travel together.

Born in Palmerston North, New Zealand, Clarke achieved fame in his home country before moving to Australia in the 1970s. He created the persona Fred Dagg, a gumboot-wearing farmer and archetypal good bloke.

As Dagg, Clarke performed a song about his gumboots, which are now on display in New Zealand’s national museum, Te Papa: “Now there’s rugby boots and racing boots, and boots for drinkin’ rum. But the only boots I’m never without are the ones that start with ‘gum.’ ” New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English took time during a media conference Monday to reminisce about some of Clarke’s skits, saying he was “a man who showed us how to laugh at ourselves and created a rural vernacular for New Zealand.”

Jay Cassells, another friend and creative collaborator, said Clarke was a voracious reader and had a particular interest in poetry. He said Clarke was also a careful student of human nature but had the knack of being generous rather than cruel in his critiques.

Cassells recalled once leaving a show with his friend in Melbourne when an eager fan came up to Clarke and said “I love your work.”

“Oh,” Clarke replied, “You’re the one.”

Clarke is survived by his wife Helen; daughters Lorin and Lucia; grandchildren Claudia and Charles; and son-in-law Stewart Thorn.

Gina is survived by her two brothers, Gianni Pellegrinon and Randall Puls; and her boyfriend, Ed. In addition to her parents, Gina is preceded in death by her brother, Terry Puls.

A visitation will be held on Thursday, April 13, 2017, from 5:00pm until time of service of at 5:40pm at Colonial Funeral Home, 591 Ridgeview Drive, McHenry. Interment will be private.

For more information visit www.colonialmchenry.com or call 815-385-0063.

IN LOVING MEMORY

Karen Marie Anderson 12/20/48 – 4/8/16

Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my open mind possessing and caressing me.

We love and miss you, Leo, Cheryl, Eric and Brad

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MCC’S GOLDEN HOMECOMING

WHEN: 3 to 6 p.m. April 11 WHERE: McHenry County College Commons Area, 8900 Route 14, Crystal Lake COST & INFO: Celebrate MCC’s 50th anniversary by joining students, employees, alumni and retirees for a walk down memory lane. Stop by for a few minutes, or stay for the entire event, which will feature a variety of activities. Information: www.mchenry.edu/50.

KNITTING GUILD – The Cultured Purls of McHenry Knitting Guild members show off their creations made during the group’s January knit along at the group’s March 14 meeting. Members are Susan Kelly (from left), Diane Huff, Connie Bell, Karen Hirschey, Lorraine Bixler, Lisa Payne, Valerie Laub, Julie Ludko, Connie Vivado and Linda Stroeger, Cyndi White and Emily Stahl. The group meets at 7 p.m. the second Tuesday of the month at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, 2107 Three Oaks Road, Cary. Its next meeting is April 11, where members will show off their April projects: pillows.

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McHenry County

VIP MEMBER – The Algonquin Garden Club named Cathy Zange its VIP member on Marcy 20 during the Garden Clubs of Illinois State Convention. Pictured are Sandra Robinson, Zange and Laurel DeBoer.

The Illinois Jaycees selected Kelly Hulata as an honoree of its Outstanding Young Persons of Illinois awards program, which recognizes young people throughout Illinois who excel in their chosen fields and show a great commitment to their communities. The award will be presented at a banquet May 6 at the Wyndham Kelly Hulata Springfield-City Centre.

Hulata, 39, is being recognized in the category of business, economic and/or entrepreneurial accomplishment. Hulata is regional vice president of sales for Stonemor Partners LP, which owns, develops and operates cemeteries and funeral homes in multiple states. She oversees 52 locations with a combined budget of $38 million in Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin.

Hulata also has been a longtime member of the CaryGrove Jaycees. She has chaired many community projects, including Cary Days, and was recognized by the Illinois Jaycees in 2012 as an outstanding vice president. Hulata is married to Dan and has two kids, Paige and Paiton.

Cary-Grove Jaycee Kelly Hulata

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NORTHLAND AREA ART LEAGUE

WHEN: 7 p.m. April 11 WHERE: Woodstock Opera House Community Room, 121 Van Buren St., Woodstock COST & INFO: Presenter will be filmmaker, sculptor and photographer Greg Gantner, who will discuss his evolution as an artist, exploring numerous mediums with an emphasis on his sculpture and installation art. Open to all. Information: northlandareaartleague@gmail.com.

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CIVIL WAR ROUNDTABLE

WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. April 11 WHERE: Woodstock Public Library, 414 W. Judd St., Woodstock COST & INFO: Historian David Powell will give a presentation on Tullahoma. Free. Information: www.mchenrycivilwar.com

COMMUNITY

CALENDAR April 11

• 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 only, which must be made in person.

• 6 p.m. – “Know the 10 Signs: Early

Detection Matters,” Heritage Woods of McHenry, 4605 W. Crystal Lake Road, McHenry.

Training to discuss the warning signs of Alzheimer’s disease and hear from people who have the disease. Free. Information: 815-484-1300 or looyen@alz.org.

• 6 to 8:30 p.m. – Tuesdays with Movies, Crystal Lake Public Library, 126 W. Paddock St., Crystal Lake. Bring dinner to screening of “A Man Called Ove (En Man Som Heter Ove)” (PG13; 2016). Free. Information: 815-459-1687.

• 6:30 to 9 p.m. – Mindshifters Group, Unity Spiritual Center of Woodstock, 225 W. Calhoun St., Woodstock. Presents a series of self-help tools for personal and spiritual growth. Free.

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

• 7 to 9 p.m. – Dance of the Woodcock, The Hollows Conservation Area, 3804 Route 14, Cary. For youth ages 14 and older. Celebrate an annual rite of spring during the Dance of the Woodcock program. Dress for the weather.

Registration required. Cost: Free for McHenry County residents or $5 for nonresidents. Information: 815-479-5779, .

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

Photos may be emailed to neighbors@nwherald.com.

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STATE

Airlines often end up bumping passengers

By DAVID KOENIG

The Associated Press United Airlines booted 3,765 passengers off flights last year just because it sold more tickets than there were seats on the plane, but none of those got as much attention as the man who was dragged off a plane in Chicago over the weekend.

Video posted on Facebook showed the shock on the faces of other passengers. And it created a public-relations nightmare for the airline Monday as news of the video spread.

Airlines are allowed to oversell flights, and they frequently do, because they assume that some passengers won’t Audra D. Bridges via AP show up. U.S. airlines bumped 40,000 This image made from a video provided by Audra D. Bridges shows a passenger being passengers last year, not counting those removed from a United Airlines flight Sunday in Chicago. who volunteered to give up their seats.

But there are some federal rules that When voluntary offers don’t work, Compensation apply. the airlines can deny boarding – or Compensation varies by how long “bump” passengers against their will. the passenger will be delayed. If the Volunteers That appears to be what happened be- airline can rebook the passenger and When they know a flight is oversold, fore Sunday night’s United flight from airlines will ask for volunteers to give Chicago to Louisville, Kentucky. When get him to his destination within an up their seat, usually for a travel vouch- it comes to forcing passengers off a hour of his originally scheduled arriver or other reward, and a seat on a lat- flight, Southwest is the undisputed lead- al time, no compensation is required.

If the passenger will arrive between er flight. According to the government, er among the larger airlines – it bumped one and two hours later than planned 434,000 passengers voluntarily gave up nearly 15,000 passengers last year, ac– or between one and four hours for an seats on the country’s largest 12 airlines cording to government figures. last year, including nearly 63,000 on Federal rules spell out how much the international flight – the airline must United. The champion of overbooking airline must pay each passenger who pay the passenger twice the amount of was Delta Air Lines – about 130,000 pas- is forced off a flight. Airlines must give the one-way fare to his destination, up sengers on Delta agreed to give up their bumped passengers a written statement to $675. seats last year. that explains their compensation rights.

If the passenger will be delayed

ILLINOIS ROUNDUP

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News from across the state Criminal case judge fatally shot outside his home

CHICAGO – A judge who oversaw criminal cases in Cook County was shot to death early Monday outside his Chicago home and a woman he knew was shot and wounded, police said.

Investigators are looking at the possibility that the shooting of Associate Circuit Court Judge Raymond Myles and the acquaintance could have been part of an attempted robbery, although police don’t believe anything was stolen from the victims or the house. Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said Myles also “may have been targeted for one

reason or another.”

“The offender shot him numerous times,” Guglielmi said.

No arrests have been made in the shootings that happened around 5 a.m. on Chicago’s South Side. Myles was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Since the woman who was shot is a witness to a killing, her name is not expected to be released, Guglielmi said. Chief of Detectives Melissa Staples described the woman as a close associate of Myles and said she was shot once and is expected to survive.

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General Assembly takes break – with no budget

SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois General Assembly left the capital city last week for a two-week spring break – without progress on an annual budget.

The House approved an $817 million spending plan Democrats call a “lifeline.”

It would take money from special funds to help universities and human services.

Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner disapproves of the measure. And the Senate continues work on a “grand bargain” to end the budget drought.

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State Rep. Drury explores run for Illinois governor

SPRINGFIELD – A third-term Illinois state representative said he’s considering a run for the Democratic nomination for governor in 2018.

Scott Drury said Monday that he wants to stop the “partisan bickering, public corruption and uncontrolled violence” in Illinois. He blames both Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan for the two-year budget stalemate.

The former assistant U.S. attorney from Highwood was notable in January when the 100th General Assembly was sworn in.

He was the only Democrat not to vote in favor on Madigan’s election to a 17th term as speaker.

more than two hours – or four hours for international flights – the airline must pay him four times the one-way fare, up to $1,350.

Avoiding getting bumped

Airlines will usually bump people flying on the cheapest tickets because the required compensation will be lower. Carriers have other rules, too.

United Airlines said that when deciding who gets bumped, it considers how long it will take for passengers to reach their destination on a later flight, it won’t break up a family group, and won’t bump minors who are traveling alone.

Airlines are most likely to oversell flights during busy travel periods, such as spring break and the summer-vacation season, but bumping can happen any time there is bad weather that causes some flights to be canceled.

If you want to be bumped

Some savvy travelers see oversold flights as an opportunity – for them.

They’ll give up their seats if the airline makes a sweet enough offer. Some check their flight’s seating chart ahead of time to see whether it’s sold out. If you aim to be bumped, sit near the gate agent’s desk so you can pounce before other passengers take that offer of travel vouchers, gift cards, and sometimes cash. If offered a spot on a later flight, make sure it’s a confirmed seat. And don’t check a bag.

Democrats who have announced challenges to Rauner in 2018 include businessmen Chris Kennedy and J.B. Pritzker, state Sen. Daniel Biss, Chicago Alderman Ameya Pawar, small-business owner Alex Paterakis and educator Bob Daiber.

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Niles woman pulls stone slabs on top of her, dies

NILES – A 77-year-old Niles woman has died after two large stone slabs fell on top of her home.

The Chicago Sun-Times reported that Mary Sullivan was at her home in Niles on Friday when in an attempt to keep from falling, grabbed the stone slabs leaning against the stairwell she was on.

The slabs fell on top of her.

An autopsy found she died of mechanical asphyxia and entrapment under the stone slabs, and her death was ruled an accident by the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.

– Wire reports

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NATION & WORLD BRIEFS the personal toll of the case.

Teacher, boy die when husband opens fire in class The self-avowed white suprem-

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – A man walked into his estranged wife’s elementary school classroom in San Bernardino and opened fire without saying a word, killing her and an 8-year-old student before shooting himself in a murder-suicide that spread panic across a city still recovering emotionally from a terror attack just 15 months ago.

A 9-year-old student also was critically wounded. He and the boy who died were behind their special-education teacher, Elaine Smith, 53, the target of the man she had married months earlier, police said.

Staffers knew Cedric Anderson, who had been estranged from his wife for about a month, and he got into the school by saying he had to drop something off for Smith, officials said.

acist entered his guilty pleas while standing at the defense table with his attorneys, clad in a gray and white striped jail jumpsuit and handcuffed to a chain at his waist.

Sweden mourns 4 killed, 15 wounded in attack

STOCKHOLM – Sweden observed a minute of silence Monday on a national day of mourning for the four people killed and 15 wounded in a truck attack last week, while the suspect’s name emerged in court papers and the U.N. Security Council condemned the rampage.

Swedish royalty, foreign diplomats and politicians were among the crowds gathered for a noon observance outside Stockholm City Hall, where Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said “the whole of Sweden” sympathized with the families and friends of the victims.

The suspect, named in court 9 life sentences in state documents Monday as 39-yearcase on church slayings CHARLESTON, S.C. – Convicted old Uzbekistan national Rakhmat Charleston church shooter Dylann Akilov, allegedly drove the truck Roof was given nine consecutive into a crowd outside an upscale department store in central Stocklife sentences in prison after he holm on Friday. The four people pleaded guilty to state murder killed included two Swedes, a charges Monday, leaving him to await execution in a federal prison British man and a Belgian woman.

The victims’ home countries and sparing his victims and their suffered “horrendous acts of families the burden of a second terrorism, but we have also seen trial. the strength and determination Judge J.C. Nicholson imposed and power of our democratic the sentences after a hearing societies,” Lofven said. in which church members and – Wire reports Roof’s grandfather testified about

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President Donald Trump watches as Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy administers the judicial oath to Judge Neil Gorsuch on Monday during a re-enactment in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Gorsuch’s wife, Marie Louise, holds a Bible at center.

Gorsuch sworn into Supreme Court, restores conservative tilt

By VIVIAN SALAMA and SAM HANANEL The Associated Press

WASHINGTON – Justice Neil Gorsuch took his place in history Monday as the newest addition on the bench of the Supreme Court, restoring a narrow conservative majority and marking a much-needed political victory for President Donald Trump.

Gorsuch was sworn in during a sunsoaked ceremony in the Rose Garden, nearly 14 months after the seat was left vacant with the unexpected death of Justice Antonin Scalia. The oath was administered during the White House ceremony by Justice Anthony Kennedy, whom Gorsuch once served as a law clerk. A smiling Trump stood behind his nominee.

It was the second of two oaths – the first was conducted privately in the Justices’ Conference Room by Chief Justice John Roberts.

“To the Scalia family, I won’t ever forget that the seat I inherit today is that of a very, very great man,” Gorsuch said to the audience of family and administration staffers, as well as all the sitting Supreme Court justices.

“I will do all my powers permit to be a faithful servant of the Constitution and laws of this great nation,” he said.

Gorsuch joins the court that is often the final arbiter for presidential policy.

Speaking ahead of Gorsuch at the ceremony, Trump said that “our country is counting on you to be wise, impartial and fair, to serve under our laws, not over them, and to safeguard the right of the people to govern their

own affairs,” hinting at his own friction with the judiciary.

Gorsuch’s confirmation was a badly needed boost for an administration riddled with controversy and misstep. Trump failed to get enough Republicans on board to support his plan to repeal and replace President Barack Obama’s signature health care bill. His efforts to build a physical border wall with Mexico remain uncertain and his attempts to ban certain travelers from entering the U.S. because they pose a security threat have been blocked by the courts.

Trump was lighthearted about his latest win, saying that Gorsuch’s successful nomination came during his first 100 days in office and added: “You think that’s easy?”

Trump said Americans would see in Gorsuch “a man who is deeply faithful to the Constitution of the United States” and predicted greatness for the 49-year-old former appeals court judge from Colorado.

Gorsuch said he was humbled by his ascendance to the nation’s high court and thanked his former law clerks, saying of his former law clerks, “your names are etched in my heart forever.”

Scalia had anchored the court’s conservative wing for nearly three decades before he died unexpectedly in February 2016. In nominating Gorsuch, Trump said he fulfilled a campaign pledge to pick someone in the mold of Scalia.

Gorsuch is the youngest nominee since Clarence Thomas, who was 43 when confirmed in 1991.

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What exactly is U.S. Syria policy? Big questions for allies

By JOSH LEDERMAN The Associated Press

LUCCA, Italy – Seeking support from abroad, the U.S. struggled Monday to explain a hazy Syria strategy that has yet to clarify key questions: whether President Bashar Assad must go, how displaced Syrians will be protected and when America might feel compelled to take further action.

Successive attempts by top Trump administration officials to articulate a plan have only furthered the appearance of a policy still evolving, even after the U.S. broke with precedent last week by attacking Assad’s forces. In the absence of answers, other countries seem to be moving ahead on their own terms.

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, after a meeting in Italy with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, floated the possibility of new sanctions on both the Syrian and Russian militaries, an idea the U.S. has only briefly mentioned. In an unusual announcement for a foreign government, Johnson also said the U.S. could launch more cruise missiles into Syria like the ones President Donald Trump ordered last week in reaction to Assad’s use of chemical weapons.

“Crucially, they could do so again,” Johnson said.

Tillerson himself raised fresh expectations for aggressive U.S. action – and not only in Syria – as he visited Sant’An-

na di Stazzema, a Tuscan village where the Nazis massacred more than 500 civilians during World War II. As he laid a wreath, he alluded to the Syria chemical attack.

“We rededicate ourselves to holding to account any and all who commit crimes against the innocents anywhere in the world,” Tillerson said.

Though such comments hint at a more activist U.S. foreign policy focused on preventing humanitarian atrocities, Trump has consistently suggested he prefers the opposite approach. His young administration has generally downplayed human rights concerns while promoting an “America First” strategy de-emphasizing the concerns of foreign nations.

The uncertain view of U.S. objectives prevailed as Tillerson planned to attend a meeting Tuesday of the “likemindeds” – countries that share a similar approach to resolving Syria’s protracted civil war. The session on the sidelines of the Group of 7 summit in Italy was to include Middle East countries, including Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, that share a U.S. interest in resolving the conflict and resisting Iran’s influence in Syria.

Tuesday night, Tillerson will fly to Moscow, the first official visit by a Trump Cabinet official to Russia, Assad’s strongest ally. The U.S. has said its Syria strategy centers on persuading President Vladimir Putin to stop

supporting Assad. On Monday, the U.S. upped the stakes significantly by accusing Russia of knowing in advance of the chemical attack and using a Russian-operated drone to help cover it up.

No component of Trump’s Syria policy has engendered more confusion than Assad’s future – an issue that similarly befuddled the Obama administration, whose once-adamant position that Assad must go softened substantially by the time President Barack Obama left office in January.

Leading up to the U.S. missile attack, Trump’s administration had said Assad’s future was up to the Syrian people. Then Trump, the day after the assault, said his thinking about Assad had changed. Tillerson answered a question about effecting regime change by saying the U.S. was organizing a coalition to do just that.

Yet after Trump’s retaliatory strike, the position became less clear. Some officials, such as Tillerson, said the U.S. was confident Syrians would choose on their own to push Assad aside, while suggesting the U.S. wouldn’t mandate it. U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and others said ousting Assad was indeed a U.S. goal, but only one of several.

Another unanswered question: Did Trump’s strike set a precedent that any chemical attack will trigger a U.S. response?

At the White House, spokesman Sean Spicer insisted that Trump wouldn’t

box himself in by disclosing his actions in advance. But he added further uncertainty to the equation by saying that even barrel bombs – which Assad has used with frequency – would necessitate U.S. action.

“If you gas a baby, if you put a barrel bomb in to innocent people, I think you will see a response from this president,” Spicer said.

Minutes later, the White House rushed to clarify that Spicer wasn’t announcing any new policy on barrel bombs. “Nothing has changed in our posture,” a White House official said in a written statement.

On one point, the administration has been consistent: Defeating the Islamic State group in Syria is the first priority.

There’s less certainty about what comes now.

Tillerson and other officials have said the next priority is to create “zones of stability” in Syria where those displaced by civil war can live without fear of violence. They say that entails negotiating cease-fires between Assad’s government and rebels, who have been fighting both IS and Assad. With stability restored, they say, conditions will be ripe for a U.N.-brokered political transition. Yet it’s unclear why rebel groups would agree to cease-fires with Assad, who would protect the zones, and how.

Assad’s willingness to clear the way for political talks predicated on him leaving power is deeply in question.

Alabama governor resigns, pleads guilty to misdemeanors

By KIM CHANDLER and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE The Associated Press

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Gov. Robert Bentley resigned Monday rather than face impeachment and pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor campaign violations that arose during an investigation of his alleged affair with a top aide.

In a remarkable fall, the mild-mannered 74-year-old Republican Gov. Robert and one-time Baptist Bentley deacon stepped down as the sex-tinged scandal gathered force over the past few days.

Legislators turned up the pressure by opening impeachment hearings Monday. Last week, the Alabama Ethics Commission cited evidence that Bentley broke state ethics and campaign laws and referred the matter to prosecutors.

“There’ve been times that I let you and our people down, and I’m sorry for that,” Bentley said in the old House chamber of Alabama’s Capitol after he

pleaded guilty.

The violations were discovered during the investigation of his affair but were not directly related to it.

In court, Bentley appeared sullen and looked down at the floor. One misdemeanor charge against Bentley stemmed from a $50,000 loan he made to his campaign in November that investigators said he failed to report until January. State law says major contributions should be reported within a few days. The other charge stemmed from his use of campaign funds to pay nearly $9,000 in legal bills for Rebekah Caldwell Mason last year.

“He did what he did and he deserves now to be called a criminal,” said Ellen Brooks, a retired district attorney overseeing the state investigation.

The plea agreement specified that Bentley must surrender campaign funds totaling nearly $37,000 within a week and perform 100 hours of community service as a physician. The dermatologist also cannot seek public office again.

Bentley’s successor is Lt. Gov. Kay Ivey, who became Alabama’s second fe-

male governor. The first was Lurleen Wallace, wife of segregationist and four-term Gov. George C. Wallace. She ran as a surrogate for her still-powerful husband in 1966 when he couldn’t seek re-election because of term limits. She won, but died in office in 1968.

“The Ivey administration will be open. It will be transparent. And it will be honest,” Ivey said.

Bentley said in his statement that he no longer wanted to subject his family and staff “to the consequences that my past actions have brought upon them.”

His staff gave him a standing ovation as he entered and exited the old House chamber.

Bentley’s resignation follows the ouster of former House Speaker Mike Hubbard, who left office in 2016 after being convicted on ethics charges, and former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, who was suspended from his post last year over an order opposing same-sex marriage.

Bentley, a staunch family-values conservative who won two terms partly because of his reputation for moral rectitude, was first engulfed in scandal last

year after recordings surfaced of him making sexually charged comments to 45-year-old political adviser Mason.

An investigative report prepared for the House Judiciary Committee and released last week said Bentley encouraged an “atmosphere of intimidation” to keep the story under wraps and directed law enforcement officers to track down and seize the recordings. The report portrayed the governor as paranoid and obsessed with trying to keep the relationship secret.

The committee on Monday started what was expected to be days of hearings.

Bentley lawyer Ross Garber had argued that impeachment should be reserved for only the “most grave misconduct,” noting that only two U.S. governors have been impeached since 1929, and both were indicted for serious felonies. The last U.S. governor to be impeached was Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich in 2009. He was removed from office, and is now serving a prison sentence, for conspiring to sell an appointment to President Barack Obama’s vacant U.S. Senate seat.

By ANNA GRONEWOLD and DAVID KLEPPER The Associated Press

many of her classmates will be surprised to learn they will not be able to apply for those positions immediately after graduation.

“I think it’s going to be harder than people think,” Reed said.

Ashley Mendez, 18, a journalism and communications major, said the proposal is a fair compromise because many residents will stay anyway.

“I’m a New Yorker. I wouldn’t leave the state for anything,” Mendez said.

Sara Goldrick-Rab, a Temple University professor who studies college affordability, said the requirement undercuts the promise of free tuition and could deliver a nasty shock to students who fail to read the fine print, or who take the money believing they will stay in New York, only to find better job opportunities elsewhere.

“It’s absolutely bait and switch,” she said. “You entice people with something they really, really need and then you penalize them if they can’t find a decent job and have to leave.”

Republican lawmakers pushed for the requirement during closed-door state budget negotiations.

“We took the governor’s original plan and made it better, by requiring students to maintain a certain GPA and to live and work in New York after they graduate,” said Scott Reif, a spokesman for the Senate’s Republican leadership.

Students who receive free tuition and then leave the state for an advanced degree won’t have to pay the money back assuming they return to New York once they complete their graduate studies. State officials also plan to make accommodations for graduates who leave the state for military service.

As part of the budget, lawmakers also approved a new tuition assistance program for students at private colleges and universities that offers up to $3,000 in tuition grants. That assistance also comes with a requirement that a student remain in New York after graduation for the same number of years they received the benefit.

Le Pen criticized for denying French blame in WWII roundup

By SYLVIE CORBET and ELAINE GANLEY The Associated Press

PARIS – Marine Le Pen, a leading contender in France’s presidential race, has prompted an outcry by denying that the French state was responsible for the roundup of Jews in World War II. Her remark rolled back more than two decades of policy on France’s responsibility in the darkest period of its modern history.

Marine Le Pen said Sunday Le Pen on RTL radio, “I don’t think France is responsible for the Vel d’Hiv” – a reference to the Paris stadium where thousands of Jews were rounded up before being sent to Nazi death camps.

Those responsible “were those in charge at the time,” she said.

Her statement upends the 1995 acknowledgement by then-President Jacques Chirac that the French state was responsible for deportations – not the collaborationist Vichy regime.

It also appears to run counter to her own efforts to rid her National Front party of the stain of anti-Semitism and racism.

Some 13,000 Jews were deported by French police on July 16-17, 1942, many of whom were first detained under harsh conditions at the indoor cycling stadium.

In all, about 75,000 Jews were sent to Nazi concentration camps from France during World War II. Only 2,500 survived.

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were quick to condemn Le Pen’s remark.

“If one doubted whether Marine Le Pen is far-right, there is no doubt anymore,” Socialist candidate Benoit Hamon told RTL radio.

Le Pen’s main rival in the race, independent centrist Emmanuel Macron, said at a news conference Monday that Le Pen made a “serious mistake.” Macron is a front-runner – along with Le Pen – in the two-round presidential election that will be held on April 23 and May 7.

“On the one side, it’s an historical and political mistake. And on the other side, it’s the sign that Marine Le Pen is the daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen,” Macron said, referring to Le Pen’s father, co-founder of the anti-immigration party she now leads.

The elder Le Pen repeatedly has been

convicted of crimes related to anti-Semitism and racism. Marine Le Pen pushed him out of the National Front party as part of her effort to scrub the party image to appeal to more mainstream voters.

“I hope the French will sanction this realignment of Marine Le Pen with her father,” famed French Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld told the Associated Press.

Le Pen has taken major steps to remove the anti-Semitic label long associated with her party. She has instead targeted Muslims, voicing fears their civilization will upend that of France.

Le Pen specified in a written statement that she “considers that France and the Republic were in London” during the war, and that the Vichy regime that collaborated with the Nazis “wasn’t France.”

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ALBANY, N.Y. – There’s a big string attached to New York’s free middle-class college tuition initiative: Students must stay in the state after graduation or else pay back the benefit.

Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday that the requirement was added to protect the state’s investment in a student’s education by ensuring they don’t take advantage of free tuition and then leave New York. The rule wasn’t a part of Cuomo’s free college tuition proposal when he unveiled it in January but was inserted during final negotiations with lawmakers over the state budget, which was approved Sunday.

The tuition initiative, which Cuomo said is a national model, covers state college or university tuition for in-state students from families earning $125,000 or less. Students must remain in New

York for as many years as they received the benefit. They must repay the money as a loan if they take a job in another state.

“Why should New Yorkers pay for your college education and then you pick up and you move to California?”

Cuomo said during a call with state editorial writers. “The concept of investing in you and your education is that you’re going to stay here and be an asset to the state. If you don’t want to stay here, then go to California now, let them pay for your college education.”

Students at University at Albany, part of the state university system, aren’t so sure.

“I don’t know how much I like feeling confined, even to staying in the state for four more years,” said Bobby Rickard, an 18-year-old freshman from Brewster who has not yet decided his major. “I don’t know what life will have for me.”

Cumorah Reed, a 19-year-old English major, said certain technology jobs are concentrated on the West Coast and

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NORTHWEST HERALD EDITORIAL BOARD:

Kevin Lyons

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Valerie Katzenstein

John Sahly

Kyle Nabors

ANOTHER VIEW

A bright idea for ‘skinny budget’ It would be hard to write a blueprint for federal discretionary spending and not have it include a single worthy idea. Case in point: President Donald Trump’s “skinny budget” includes a lot of penny-wise, pound-foolish budget-cutting ideas – and a smart expression of support for modernizing the nation’s outmoded system of air-traffic control.

Currently, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) runs civilian air-traffic control in the United States, and, by all accounts, the system is safe. There has not been a single fatal accident involving a scheduled airline flight in the United States since 2009. It could be much better, however, and more efficient.

The problem has been the FAA’s inability to push through a $35.8 billion program, NextGen, whose goal is to move the agency, belatedly, into the age of digital communications and GPS. The difficulties with NextGen, in turn, reflect the FAA’s reliance on multiple streams of funding, including not only dedicated user fees and taxes, but also, in recent years, congressional appropriations.

As most of the airline industry and even the air-traffic controllers’ union now realizes, this vital function is too important to be left to such political and bureaucratic vagaries. It should be transferred to a separate entity, perhaps a government- chartered corporation, with a separate board of directors and the autonomy to deal with technological issues more nimbly, according to the needs of the vast majority of the flying public – not congressional committees and the various interest groups that exercise disproportionate influence there.

Similar spinoffs have taken place in Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom, generally with good results. A new report by the Eno Institute, a bipartisan think tank whose board includes three former secretaries of transportation, proposed creating a government corporation or a nonprofit independent entity funded by direct payments from the system’s users. Key senators are opposed, however, which is why Pennsylvania Rep. Bud Shuster’s version went nowhere during the last FAA reauthorization process. In part, their objections reflect the usual political turf protection; but there are legitimate issues as well, such as the need for a sufficiently lengthy transition period to a new system, and the difficulties – financial and legal – of transferring the FAA’s assets to a new entity. As the experience of other countries shows, however, none of those obstacles is insurmountable. With the latest in a series of short-term FAA reauthorization bills set to expire in September, the time is now for Congress to start good-faith discussions about how to overcome them.

Air-traffic modernization is overdue. And with the White House on board, there may finally be a real chance to make it happen.

– The Washington Post

THE FIRST

AMENDMENT

ANOTHER VIEW

Show us your tax returns, Mr. President Dear President Donald Trump, Letting the public see your recent tax returns would be not only in the best interest of the country, but also is in your own interest. With millions of us filing our own tax returns this month, there is no better time for release of your returns than now.

We understand you want to allow an audit by the Internal Revenue Service to be completed before you release your tax information. Your business sense – probably along with your attorneys and accountants – is telling you to avoid subjecting your tax information to double-jeopardy scrutiny by the public and IRS. But you are no longer primarily Donald Trump, business executive. You are Donald Trump, president of the United States.

You remain the only president to withhold his tax returns from public review since Richard Nixon opened his returns in 1973.

Furthermore, other presidents have made their tax returns public despite undergoing annual audits required of all presidents

while in office.

It is important for us, as a nation, to have your tax information so we can evaluate what – if any – business relationships you may have had that pose potential conflicts of interest, especially connections with Russia, accused of meddling in the 2016 presidential election. We also deserve to know what sorts of tax breaks you have received so that we can better evaluate the tax reform legislation you are developing and what – if any – personal gain or loss you might suffer from that reform.

It is important for you to reveal your tax information because a president needs the public’s confidence and support.

Because of serious questions about your associates’ links to Russian businesses and to Russian officials as well as concerns about your personal stake in tax reform, you are facing skepticism that threatens your ability to get things done. You lost your first attempt to repeal Obamacare. Your tax reform is already under attack. Your public approval ratings are low. A

contributing factor is the cloud of suspicion around you from continuing to withhold your tax information.

We have your 2005 tax return, leaked to a reporter. There were no red flags. But your 2005 return, perhaps deliberately leaked for a political purpose, is not enough to put concerns to rest.

We need more recent returns to properly answer our questions. You do not need to reveal your entire return. Your 1040 form will offer access to your sources of income to help us discover any suspicious business relationships. Your Schedule A will show us your itemized deductions so we can understand which tax breaks affect you personally.

Your opponents are sure to use information from your returns for political grandstanding. But most of us are capable of sifting through the partisan sensationalism to find the issues of national interest.

Release your returns, Mr. President.

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

– Wisconsin State Journal

VIEWS Rich Miller to be 5 percent, and [Rauner] let it lapse down to 3¾ percent. And that’s what started a lot of the problems that we’ve got in the state. So, if you just put it back, that’s $5 billion. That doesn’t get you everything you need, but it’s a good way toward, you know, toward getting real revenue in the state.”

The comment was eerily similar to one made by Speaker Madigan in late 2015. “A good place to begin,” Madigan said back then, “would be the level we were at before the income tax expired.

Starting there, you can go in whatever direction you want to go.” Rauner immediately pounced on that comment to claim that Madigan wanted to raise the income tax above 5 percent, even though he never actually said that.

Pritzker’s private comments along with a claim that he’s in league with Madigan’s “plan” were sent to reporters hours before Pritzker’s official campaign kickoff.

“I think that we ought to start with the millionaires and billionaires and make sure that they’re paying taxes first,” Pritzker responded when asked,

in apparent reference to a graduated income tax or a surcharge on the wealthy, “We’re not going to talk about raising taxes on middle class families until we take care of that problem,” the Sun-Times reported.

But taxation like that would require a constitutional amendment because the state’s Constitution mandates a flat income tax. And that means it would require a three-fifths majority in both legislative chambers, and the Republicans (along with some Democrats) have historically resisted a graduated tax. So, forget it.

After Pritzker’s news conference, the Republicans released yet another audio snippet of Pritzker admitting the hard truth about a graduated tax: “So let’s just talk about this flat income tax, because we’re not going to be able to turn it into a millionaire’s tax, a fair tax – it’s gonna take us three years.”

The Republicans used that second snippet to claim that Pritzker wasn’t telling the truth to reporters earlier in the day. And their point has merit.

Rauner insists his plan is better because tax hikes are coupled with his reforms. But even his full package of reforms from back in 2015 would’ve only slightly moved the economic and budgetary needles, according to his very own analysis that he sent to legis-

lators that year. His reform demands have since been significantly scaled back. And while some of his reforms are undoubtedly needed (particularly workers’ comp costs), much of the rest is little more than political window dressing (term limits) and have next to nothing to do with spurring growth.

We are in this hole because our leaders refused to be honest, starting with the 2011 “temporary” tax hike, right through the 2014 campaign, then allowing the tax hike to partially expire and then fighting over who would blink first on raising taxes and accepting “reforms.”

And the public prefers the lies.

Polls show Illinoisans are convinced somebody else should solve the problem, either millionaires via taxation (which wouldn’t raise enough cash) or the faceless bureaucracy via cuts (except for just about every state program under the sun).

Again, I suppose it’s too much to ask that candidates and the governor are honest about this stuff. But that means this contest could not only turn out to be the most expensive in Illinois history, it could also be the most dishonest.

• Rich Miller also publishes Capitol Fax, a daily political newsletter, and CapitolFax.com.

IT’S YOUR WRITE Environmental strides undermined

To the Editor: Families everywhere have cause for concern. Today’s dirty energy executive orders to protect polluters, signed

by President Trump at EPA headquarters, are an unprecedented attack on clean air safeguards.

Our children will bear the costs. Our families will bear the costs. Our communities will bear the costs. Never has a president, or an EPA head, acted with such reckless disregard for our health – or our safety in the face of the clear and present danger of climate change.

By making official his administration’s plan to begin the process of dismantling America’s Clean Power Plan, a plan that protects all families in America by curbing dangerous carbon pollution and reducing other toxic pollutants from power plants, our president is taking aim at our health and well-being.

What’s more, the president also is undermining the most significant step that our country has ever taken to address the climate change. Air pollution has re-

al-life effects, and dismantling the Clean Power Plan would harm us all. Make no mistake about it. As a mother of two in Barrington, I say: not on my watch.

As parents, and as moral human beings, we have an obligation to fight against air pollution that imperils our children’s health and makes climate change worse.

Anita Ehlers Barrington

Decentralize government

To the Editor: Politicians from both the Republican and Democratic parties are doing a disservice to our country by dividing its citizens by age, race, religion, ethnicity, wealth and any other demographic they can appeal to for votes and campaign contributions.

Politicians always are promising us that paradise is just around the corner.

All we need to do is go along with their next plan or piece of legislation. And yet with all the plans and legislation in place, paradise never seems to arrive unless you are a government bureaucrat,

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lobbyist, or wealthy and well-connected to government officials.

The rest of us just pay for all the promises. Those of us fortunate enough to have jobs find ourselves paying for someone else’s retirement through Social Security taxes, we are paying for someone else’s health care through Medicare taxes, and we pay for the less fortunate through the Medicaid program.

We also pay for the health insurance for yet another group through the Affordable Care Act and whatever half-baked plan the Republicans come up with to “replace” it.

Combined with the high level of state

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and local taxes in Illinois, it certainly is a challenge to save and take responsibility for your own affairs.

It has been proved that centralized government planning does not work – it never will. Limited government, freedom, personal responsibility and the free enterprise system work for everyone regardless of demographic group.

These are the keys to prosperity that are right and moral, not the promises and false choices that too many politicians promote and defend.

James Kastner Crystal Lake

• Tuesday, April 11, 2017

I suppose it’s too much to expect that we get an honest debate about the need for more state revenues in the already active gubernatorial race.

Candidates will be candidates and voters will be voters, after all.

Gov. Bruce Rauner’s campaign blasted out an email last week telling supporters that newly announced billionaire Democratic candidate JB Pritzker wants to raise the state income tax to over 5 percent, which, the campaign claimed, would be “Higher than it was under Pat Quinn!”

Nevermind that Rauner himself privately supports raising state taxes to historically high levels. He’s OK with a 4.99 percent income tax rate and a 7 percent corporate tax rate. But he also backs a new tax on sugary beverages and a new sales tax on several services. If all that was implemented, the state government would be taxing residents billions of dollars more than it ever has before.

So, apparently, you can only be for the massive tax hikes that Rauner wants. Otherwise, you’ll be portrayed as being in House Speaker Michael Madigan’s hip pocket.

The Illinois Republican Party obtained audio of Pritzker speaking at a private Democratic event. In one snippet, Pritzker is heard saying: “Let’s remind everybody, the tax used

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BUSINESS

Wells claws back $75 million from execs

By KEN SWEET

The Associated Press NEW YORK – The problems at Wells Fargo and its overly aggressive sales culture date back at least 15 years, and management had little interest in dealing with the issue until it spiraled out of control, resulting in millions of accounts being opened fraudulently, according to an investigation by the company’s board of directors.

The bank’s board also clawed back $75 million in pay from two former executives, CEO John Stumpf and community bank executive Carrie Tolstedt, saying both executives dragged their feet for years regarding problems at the second-largest U.S. bank. Both were ultimately unwilling to accept criticism that the bank’s sales-focused business model was failing.

The 110-page report has been in the works since September, when Wells acknowledged that its employees opened as many as 2 million checking and credit card accounts without customers’ authorization. Trying to meet unnaturally high sales goals, Wells employees even created phony email addresses to sign customers up for online banking services. “(Wells’ management) created pressure on employees to sell unwanted or unneeded products to customers and, in some cases, to open unauthorized accounts,” the board said in its report.

Many current and former employees have talked of intense and constant pressure from managers to sell and open accounts, and some said it

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Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf testifies Sept 20, 2016, on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Banking Committee. In the results of an investigation released Monday, Wells Fargo’s board of directors has blamed the bank’s most senior management for creating an “aggressive sales culture” at Wells that eventually led to the bank’s scandal over millions of unauthorized accounts. pushed them into unethical behavior.

Monday’s report backs up those employees’ stories.

“It was common to blame employees who violated Wells Fargo’s rules without analyzing what caused or motivated them to do so ... (or determine) whether there were responsible individuals, who while they might have not directed the specific misconduct, contributed to the environment (that caused it),” the board said.

The report also said that problems

in the bank’s sales culture date back to at least 2002, far earlier than what the bank had previously said, and that Stumpf knew about sales problems at a branch in Colorado since at least that year.

Wells Fargo’s CEO, Tim Sloan, said in a conference call with reporters that it was “frustrating” to hear that the bank may have had sales problems dating back so long ago.

The bank has already paid $185 million in fines to federal and local author-

ities and settled a $110 million class-action lawsuit. The scandal also resulted in the abrupt retirement last October of Stumpf, not long after he underwent blistering questioning from congressional panels. The bank remains under investigation in several states and by federal authorities.

The board’s report recommended that Stumpf and Tolstedt have more of their compensation clawed back for their negligence and poor management. Tolstedt will lose $47.3 million in stock options, on top of $19 million the board had already clawed back.

Stumpf will lose an additional $28 million in compensation, on top of the $41 million the board already clawed back.

Along with the millions clawed back from other executives earlier this year, the roughly $180 million in clawbacks are among the largest in U.S. corporate history.

The board was unrelenting in their criticism of Stumpf and Tolstedt, saying that both, when presented with the growing problems in Wells’ community banking division, were unwilling to hear criticism or consider changes in behavior. The board repeatedly faulted Tolstedt, calling her “insular and defensive” and unable to accept scrutiny from inside or outside her organization.

The board also found that Tolstedt actively worked to downplay any problems in her division. In a report made in October 2015, nearly three years after a Los Angeles Times investigation uncovered the scandal, Tolstedt “minimized and understated problems at the community bank.”

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WORTH TALKIN’ ABOUT TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 2017

NEW YORK – The author of “Hidden Figures” is setting her next book around two prominent African-American households in mid-20th-century Baltimore.

Viking said on Monday that it had a two-book deal with Margot Lee Shetterly that will continue her quest to tell of African-Americans who have been overlooked by historians. The first book centers on the Murphy family, which owned a leading African-American newspaper in Baltimore, and the Adamses, who were influential philanthropists and investors.

BUZZWORTHY

‘Shawshank Redemption’ oak tree cut up, hauled away

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Bill Cosby departs the Montgomery County Courthouse on April 3 after a pretrial hearing in his sexual assault case in Norristown, Pa. Cosby’s “Little Bill Books” series is among those making the American Library Association’s annual top 10 list of “challenged books.”

Cosby books on library list for ‘most challenged’ works NEW YORK – A celebrity once beloved among young people now finds himself on a list of books parents and other community members most wish to see removed from libraries: Bill Cosby.

Cosby’s “Little Bill Books” series is among those making the American Library Association’s annual top 10 “challenged books.” The reason is unique for the list, which the ALA announced Monday: not the books themselves but the multiple accusations of sexual assault against the actor-comedian.

The Cosby series was launched in 1997 in the biggest way possible for the publishing industry; the first three releases, “The Meanest Thing to Say,” “The Treasure Hunt” and “The Best Way to Play,” were selected by Oprah Winfrey for her book club. “Little Bill” later became the basis for an Emmy-winning animated TV program that aired on CBS. James LaRue, who directs the ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, said he would have a two-part defense if a parent objected to a library’s carrying the books.

“I would say we try to purchase books that appeal to a certain age group, that the books themselves were well reviewed and that they have positive messages,” he said during a recent telephone interview. “I would also say that you may disagree with him as a person, but these books aren’t about that.”

Cosby ranked No. 9 on a list topped by Mariko Tamaki’s “This One Summer,” which has been restricted and even banned for LGBT characters, drug use and profanity. Several books were challenged because of sexuality and the presence of transgender characters.

MANSFIELD, Ohio – What remained of a 200-year-old oak tree made famous by the movie “Shawshank Redemption” has been cut up and hauled away by an owner of the north-central Ohio property.

The Mansfield News-Journal reports Dan Dees said last week he plans to use some of the wood to make a table. The tree was rotted in the middle when high winds knocked down a portion in 2011. It was further damaged during a storm last July.

The tree was in one of the final scenes of the 1994 film starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. It’s underneath the tree that Freeman’s character finds an important letter buried by Robbins’ character.

Fans could view the tree as part of a series of places in the Mansfield area-related to the film.

George, Charlotte to be in Pippa Middleton’s wedding

LONDON – Look for Prince George and Princess Charlotte to steal a few hearts when their aunt Pippa Middleton marries next month.

Kensington Palace said Monday that George, 3, and Charlotte, 1, will be page boy and bridesmaid at the May 20 nuptials of Middleton and financier James Matthews.

They are the children of Prince William and his wife, Kate, who is Pippa’s sister.

William, Kate and Prince Harry will all attend the high-profile wedding. It’s not yet clear what role Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, will have in the wedding

party of her only sister.

Matthews proposed to Pippa Middleton last year. The couple will marry at St. Mark’s Church in Englefield, 45 miles west of London.

Branch Davidian TV shootout series to film in New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A six-part television series covering a deadly standoff between the federal government and the Branch Davidians spiritual sect more than two decades ago will be filmed in New Mexico.

Work on “Waco” will begin in mid-April and last through June, officials with the New Mexico Film Office said Monday. Locations will include everything from the rural reaches of Santa Fe County – standing in for the prairies of Central Texas – to urban office buildings and studios.

The series will star Michael Shannon, Taylor Kitsch and John Leguizamo and will premiere on the Paramount Network in 2018.

It will be directed by John Erick Dowdle and produced by The Weinstein Co. The series will explore the details leading up to and chronicling the 51-day standoff in which four federal agents were killed along with some 70 people inside the sect’s compound in Central Texas.

Millions watched live TV coverage of the fiery end of the government’s standoff with Branch Davidian members, including sect leader David Koresh, whom authorities had been trying to arrest on weapons charges. The sect had been tipped off about the raid and a shootout ensued.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS Actor Joel Grey is 85. Actress Louise Lasser is 78. Actor Peter Riegart is 70. Actor Bill Irwin is 67. Country singer-songwriter Jim Lauderdale is 60. Guitarist Nigel Pulsford (Bush) is 56. Country singer Steve Azar is 53. Singer Lisa Stansfield is 51. Bassist Dylan Keefe of Marcy Playground is 47. Rapper David Banner is 43. Drummer Chris Gaylor of All-American Rejects is 38. Actress Kelli Garner (“Taking Woodstock,” “Lars and the Real Girl”) is 33. Singer Joss Stone is 30.

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‘HIDDEN FIGURES’ AUTHOR TO SET NEXT BOOK IN BALTIMORE

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TECHNOLOGY

Google offers streaming

YouTube TV has some nifty features - and some big drawbacks

By ANICK JESDANUN The Associated Press

NEW YORK – YouTube TV, Google’s new streaming package of about 40 television channels, is the tech industry’s latest bid to get cable-shunning millennials to pay for live TV over the internet. It offers intriguing advantages over rivals, but it remains hobbled by a limited channel selection.

Don’t confuse the YouTube service, which debuted Wednesday, with Netflix, Amazon Prime and other streaming offerings. Like similar efforts from Sony, Dish and AT&T’s DirecTV, YouTube TV primarily aims to let you channel surf over the internet, not to stream from an online library of shows and movies. So these internet-cable services can offer live programming, especially sports.

But they also come with some serious drawbacks. While these services typically are cheaper than traditional cable or satellite services, people haven’t been signing up in droves.

Google is targeting viewers who have never subscribed to cable or satellite TV and are just as happy to get all their video from the internet; getting them to cough up $35 a month could be a hard sell.

Google aims to lure subscribers with more sophisticated program search, personalized recommendations and a more fully featured online DVR than rival services offer. But it faces many of the limitations its rivals have.

YouTube TV, for instance, features staples such as ESPN and major broadcast networks, but lacks key networks such as PBS, CNN and Comedy Central. And it initially will be only available in a handful of major U.S. cities because media rights still are stuck in the 20th century.

What you get ... and what you don’t

YouTube TV offers plenty of live sports, one of the chief reasons people stick with cable. Pick a team, and the service automatically records all the televised games it can find. Available channels include ESPN, Big Ten and sports networks from Comcast, Fox and CBS – but not Turner networks such as TBS and others that aired the bulk of March Madness. New York Mets fans won’t get baseball games on

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YouTube CEO Susan Wojicki speaks Feb. 28 during the introduction of YouTube TV at YouTube Space LA in Los Angeles. Google’s online package of about 40 television channels debuted April 5.

SNY. YouTube also has the youth-oriented Freeform and CW networks; its rivals lack The CW. AMC is coming in a few weeks, so you’ll have to wait to catch up on the just-ended season of “The Walking Dead.”

Since most channel numbers and names are meaningless in a digital world, YouTube TV arranges live channels by topic, starting with broadcast networks, sports, youth-oriented channels, then everything else.

Subscriptions initially are limited to New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and the San Francisco Bay Area – all locations where YouTube could get rights to local ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC stations.

Search party

As you’d expect from Google, search is one of YouTube’s big selling points. Its rivals already offer search by shows and sometimes by actors; YouTube adds topical searches, such

as “aliens” or “road trips.”

Unfortunately, it’s still a work in progress. A search for “nerd comedy” brings up “The Big Bang Theory,” but “comedy about nerds” does not. And a search for “Modern Family episode on basketball” doesn’t bring up the episode titled “Basketball.”

YouTube also could stand to take a cue from TiVo recorders and let you automatically record all programs featuring, say, Jennifer Lawrence, including her talk-show appearances.

You can search for Jennifer Lawrence, but you need to go through the results and choose shows to record individually – too much work for a service that promises simplicity.

One big plus: YouTube’s unlimited DVR will store recordings for nine months, long enough for entire seasons of network shows. Sony’s PlayStation Vue – the only similar service offering an unlimited online DVR – offers only 28 days of storage, nowhere near enough for binge-watching.

YouTube TV works on phones, tablets and laptop browsers. Watching on an actual TV requires Google’s Chromecast, an inexpensive streaming stick you control with your phone.

(Early subscribers get one for free.)

About your privacy

This being Google, your viewing and search histories might be mined for targeted advertising. You can suspend tracking in the settings, although that will hinder personalized recommendations. (It’s too early to tell whether that’s a loss or not, although some of the early recommendations have been spot on.)

You can share your subscription with five friends or relatives in your household, with three simultaneous streams allowed. No need to share passwords; they sign in with their own Google accounts. Recordings and recommendations are kept separate, so your roommates can’t make fun of you for bingeing “The Real Housewives.”

TECH BRIEF

– Wire reports

Many people assume Macs aren’t affected by viruses and internet threats the way Windows computers are. But just because you’re on a Mac doesn’t mean you can be complacent about computer security.

As a longtime Mac expert, I can tell you Mac viruses always have existed, and can pack as much punch as Windows viruses do. In fact, Macs are increasingly lucrative targets for online criminals. That’s why I teach the same safety skills to both my Mac and Windows customers.

The latest viruses are so fast, they can take out every device on a network with lightning speed. Ransomware holds your data hostage, demanding payment or your files will be deleted.

And there are plenty of ransomware variants that infect Macs.

Macs can be carriers for Windows viruses, even if they aren’t directly affected by them. A Windows virus could linger dormant in a file on your Mac until it has the opportunity to connect to a Windows computer, either across a network or via removable media such as a USB drive. Windows viruses also can affect Macs running Windows through Boot Camp or a virtual program such as Parallels or VMWare.

You’ll find free Mac antivirus

TECH Triona Guidry programs from Sophos and avast!, as well as paid solutions such as Intego VirusBarrier and Norton Antivirus. But watch for fake apps pretending to be real antivirus, an increasing problem for Mac and Windows users alike. If you run virtual Windows on your Mac, you’ll need to install Windows antivirus for it.

Some Internet threats can affect you no matter what you use. This includes password-harvesting pages that resemble real logins for popular sites such as Facebook. You might click a link, perhaps in email or an online message, and accidentally find yourself at such a login page. Once you’ve entered your username and password, hackers have access to your account. If you use the same password elsewhere, those accounts will be hijacked, too. This is all done through automated software, meaning hackers instantly can check to see if a valid password works elsewhere.

Always use strong passwords that are unique on every site, and don’t

re-use passwords. Avoid clicking links when possible. Instead, visit the site directly by typing the address into your address bar. That’s especially true for banking and social media sites.

You also can protect your Mac by installing all updates for both your system and your apps. Pay particular attention to your web browser, whether you use Apple’s Safari or another product such as Chrome or Firefox. Be sure to update your iPad or iPhone, too.

Older computers are more vulnerable to viruses, so be cautious when using an older computer on the internet. On Apple’s website, you’ll find the technical specifications for the latest system software, which at the moment is macOS Sierra (version 10.12). This includes a list of compatible systems.

If yours isn’t on the list, it means you should consider an upgrade for the best protection from Internet threats.

Don’t forget to back up your Mac. If a virus takes out your computer, a clean backup is the fastest way to get up and running again.

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

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• Tuesday, April 11, 2017

NEW YORK – Facebook is launching a resource to help you spot false news and misleading information that spreads on its service.

The resource, similar to previous efforts around privacy and security, is basically a notification that pops up for a few days. Clicking on it takes you to tips and other information on how to spot false news and what to do about it.

Tips to spot false news include looking closely at website addresses to see whether they are trying to spoof real news sites and checking websites’ “about” sections for more information.

Some sites might look like real news at first glance, but their “about” sections inform the visitor they are in fact satire.

Adam Mosseri, vice president of News Feed at Facebook, said he hopes people will become “more discerning consumers” of news.

The new feature is part of a broader plan by Facebook to clamp down on false news stories, which gained outsized attention in the months leading up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) – Take pride in everything you do. Pay attention to detail and be consistent. You have plenty to gain if you are confident and informative. Avoid bad influences.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) – Take on the role of instigator and get everyone around you fired up about something you want to see happen. Your

enthusiasm will be contagious and will bring about positive change.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) – Deal with personal papers and any problems you face with government agencies or institutions. Taking care of business will help ease uncertainty and ongoing stress.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) – Take time to evaluate and develop your ideas instead of rushing into something you know little about. Be a leader, not a follower.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – You can bring about positive change at work and home. Taking responsibility and sticking to your plans will help you avoid getting into a disagreement. Honor your word.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – A partnership that offers mental stimulation and promotes equality

will encourage growth and invite responsible change. Travel and educational pursuits are favored. Live your dream.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) – Information you receive will spark you to make a sudden change in the way you deal with others and how you view yourself and the things you stand for.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) – An emotional plea will help you sort out differences you have with someone. Expressing your thoughts will help you live up to your standards and implement personal improvements.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) – Question anyone who is asking for something that makes you feel uneasy. It’s important to avoid getting trapped by someone pressuring you to make a

commitment that infringes on your integrity.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – Too much of anything will turn into a bad thing. Keep moderation in mind and avoid anyone who is inconsistent or unreliable. Concentrate on home, family and accomplishing your goals.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) – Weigh the pros and cons of any offer that comes your way.

Someone will try to take advantage of you if you don’t ask questions and require changes that will suit your needs.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) – Don’t take a chance or forget the past when it comes to dealing with expenses, money matters or people who have caused problems or cost you financially. Avoid being used.

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An excellent question we received asked for advice on how to get the most out of the relationship with one’s family physician. In an upcoming column, we will discuss what we do to create the most useful relationships with our patients, and how we strive to serve them.

Finally, the other category of letter we get is from individuals sharing some interesting and surprising solutions to the problems many of us face. This one came from a 94-year-old gentleman who was diagnosed with sleep apnea, which occurs only when he sleeps on his back. How to assure you don’t roll over onto your back once you’re asleep? His family doctor had an ingenious solution: “As suggested by my doctor, my wife sewed a pocket on the back of my pajamas to hold an everyday tennis ball. It was easily removable for washing. Since then, I have slept very comfortably, but only on one side or the other. And no longer do I snore.”

So thank you again for making this column part of your lives and for taking the time to write to us. We, in turn, will make responding to your letters part of ours.

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

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Dear Readers: When we first began writing this column, we wondered how we would know if we were reaching anyone.

The answer came almost immediately, via your letters, all of which are read.

It has been heartwarming to learn we have helped many of you, delightful to discover how studious and curious you are about science and medicine, and humbling to have you engage us at such a personal level about your health issues and your lives.

We quickly learned that some of our columns, in which we answer a specific question or discuss a particular topic, give rise to a host of new questions. Many of these can and will be answered in future columns.

Some of the letters we receive are, unfortunately, so personal and specific we are unable to address them. But even in these letters we often find a more universal question that can be useful to discuss in the future.

So far, the columns about veganism, shingles, postpartum depression, vitamin B12 and toenail fungus have sparked the liveliest discussions.

Regarding the column about the specific nutritional needs of vegans, we received appreciative notes from families who are considering the move to a vegan diet. We also were taken to task for not congratulating the potential vegans who wrote to us for advice regarding their new direction.

The truth is, we are deeply appreciative of how engaged you, the readers, are in living the healthiest lifestyle possible.

We celebrate every query that reveals an interest in a better life. We’re thrilled when we can help and do our best to offer the most useful, well-rounded explanations and information.

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Dear Abby: A DEAR ABBY few years ago, I met a wonderful Jeanne person. I spent Phillips roughly three months with him in a budding relationship. My issue is one night he said those three little words, and I panicked and disappeared from his life. I know it was a horrible and cowardly thing to do. I just didn’t know how to handle it other than ask him why and saying, “You can’t mean me, right?”

I have felt horrible that I vanished without any explanation and most likely hurt him. I really would like to apologize for my actions and immaturity. He didn’t deserve that type of treatment. I recently found his address and wonder if it would be all right to send an apology, or if it would be best not to open potential wounds. – Disappeared In Illinois Dear Disappeared: Because you feel an apology and an explanation are in order, I see no harm in offering them. However, before you do, think this through. Is there more to this than a guilty conscience? Because years have passed, you both may be at different places in your lives than you were then. One or both of you may be married or involved with others. So before you do this, be absolutely sure not only of your motivations, but also of your expectations.

Dear Abby: I recently have had discussions with friends and family about the best way to express concern for someone who is facing major surgery. Some say they’d prefer hearing about others who have undergone similar procedures successfully. (But might that set expectations that can’t be met, since not all procedures and physical circumstances are the same?) Or is it best to keep comments general?

For example: “You will be in my thoughts/ prayers/heart,” or “I hope it goes even better than you hope it will.” What’s the most helpful way to express concern? – Sensitive Subject Dear S.S.: Unless the surgery is for something life-threatening – in which case the thoughts, prayers and heart are necessary – keep the message upbeat and positive. Example: “Is there anything I can do for you while you’re recuperating?” And if the answer is no, say, “I’ll give you a call in a couple of days to see how you’re doing, and we’ll visit when you’re up for company.”

Dear Abby: If you give a wedding shower gift, is it proper to also give a wedding gift? I have done both for many years, but recently was questioned about why I do it. I told the person that’s the way my mother raised me. Was she correct? – Gift Giver In Conroe, Texas Dear Gift Giver: Your mother raised you right. Weddings and showers are separate events. When attending a shower, it is customary to give the honoree a gift. The same is true for a wedding. That someone has given the bride a shower gift does not mean the person is not supposed to give the couple a wedding gift.

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Chemtech Plastics, Inc.

765 Church Road, Elgin, IL 60123 or email: jobs@chemtechplastics.com

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Excellent Opportunity with benefits. Strong computer skilsl with accuracy a must. $15/hr.

Contact HR dept. 800-518-8472 Crystal Lake, IL.

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80 yr old father in our home. Must be experienced driver w/valid DL. Daily meals, med reminders, toilet/shower, exercise help, & light housekeeping.

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Chemtech Plastics, Inc., a state of the art Injection Molding Company is seeking a highly motivated Maintenance Technician for Third Shift. Qualified candidate must be able to maintain, evaluate & repair equipment such as injection molding machines, dryers, granulators and automation cells. Minimum 3 year of experience with preventive maintenance, and troubleshooting of Injection Molding machines is a requirement. Top wages paid for the Fox Valley area, and an excellent benefits package, including: 401K, health dental & disability insurance and paid vacations. EOE. Qualified candidates should apply in person or email resume to: 765 Church Road, Elgin, IL 60123 jobs@chemtechplastics.com

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Common wisdom recommends making the stronger hand of a partnership the declarer. But that does not work all of the time. In today’s deal, the second consecutive sixheart contract my wife and I bid at bridgebase.com last month, it would have been better if North were the declarer. But that seems impossible in a normal sequence.

In our auction, two diamonds was natural and game-forcing. Then, once we had agreed hearts at the three-level, a drawback of two-overone arose: Neither player knew partner’s strength, except that each had opening values. We use a variation of an idea that was originally proposed, I believe, by Eric Rodwell. With a minimum, South would have raised to four hearts. With middling strength, she would have bid an artificial three no-trump: a semi-serious slam-try. Her actual three-spade control-bid was a serious slam-try.

After I control-bid four clubs, East doubled to ask for a club lead. This might have given my partner pause, but she drove into six hearts.

West led the club eight. Declarer needed hearts 3-2 and West with the diamond ace. Also, just in case spades were 5-0, after winning with the club ace and cashing the heart ace-king, South played a spade to the king.

She then drew the last trump, ran the spades (discarding two clubs and a diamond from the board) and led the diamond jack.

Declarer took five spades, three hearts, one diamond, one club, a diamond ruff in her hand and a club ruff on the board.

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PUBLIC NOTICE

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.APRIL NEIHENGEN, et al Defendant Gary Swift 15CH 01086 NOTICE OF SALE Berkshire Hathaway Starck Realty PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY McHenryCountyRentToOwnHomes.com GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 11, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Corporation, will at 1:00 PM Port Barrington- Is Lk area. Roommate to share Sales on May 9, 2017, at the NLT Title fully furnished house $800/mo util incl. 847-639-7162 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 Crystal Lake - Lakewood, Female to Share following described real estate: known as w/FE, full house privil, $900/mo. 815-322-6595 Commonly 3307 W. BRETONS DRIVE, MCHENRY, IL 60050 Property Index No. 09-35-481-013.

Furnished Room. Utility, cable, internet.

The real estate is improved with a $550/mo + references. 815-404-1326 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 spring & summer storage of p/u truck 847-915-0510 balance in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the Publisher's Notice: All real estate advertising in this residential real estate pursuant to its newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which credit bid at the sale or by any makes it illegal to advertise "any preference, limitation mortgagee, judgment creditor, or or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, other lienor acquiring the residential handicap, familial status or national origin, or an real estate whose rights in and to intention, to make any such preference, limitation of the residential real estate arose prior discrimination." Familial status includes children under to the sale. The subject property is the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, subject to general real estate taxes, pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18. special assessments, or special This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate taxes levied against said real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that and is offered for sale without any all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal representation as to quality or opportunity basis. quantity of title and without To complain of discrimination call HUD toll-free at 1-800-669-9777. recourse to Plaintiff and in \"AS IS\" The toll-free telephone number for the hearing impaired is 1-800-927-9275 condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

Upon payment in full of the Newspaper subscriptions make great gifts! amount bid, the purchaser will Show them you care everyday! receive a Certificate of Sale that will Call 815-459-8118 today to send a gift subscription. entitle the purchaser to a deed to Northwest Herald the real estate after confirmation of

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Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver's license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Corporation conducts Sales 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 14-15-17466.

THE JUDICIAL SALES

Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com • Tuesday, April 11, 2017 • 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. 14-15-17466 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 15 CH 01086 TJSC#: 37-3153 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.

I719110 (Published in the Northwest Herald, April 11, 18, 25, 2017)

PUBLIC NOTICE

prop ty p are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

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

For information: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5 pm. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES, Plaintiff's Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 476-5500. Please refer to file number 252457.

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.

PIERCE & ASSOCIATES One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300 CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 476-5500 E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com Attorney File No. 252457 Case Number: 16 CH 95 TJSC#: 37-3097 I719106

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (''FANNIE MAE''), A CORPORATION ORGANIZED AND EXISTING UNDER THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Plaintiff, -v.THUAN NGUYEN A/K/A THUAN T NGUYEN, et al Defendant 16CH 95 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 May 8, 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 (Published in the Northwest following described real estate: Herald, April 11, 18, 25, 2017) Commonly known as 6703 WATERFORD DRIVE, www.HuskieWire.com MCHENRY, IL 60050 Property Index No. All NIU Sports... All The Time 09-32-376-016.

The real estate is improved with a taupe vinyl siding, two story single family home, wtih an attached three car garage.

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 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\" The Northwest Herald condition. The sale is further subject reaches 137,000 adult readers to confirmation by the court. in print every week, and Upon payment in full of the 259,000 unique visitors on amount bid, the purchaser will NWHerald.com every month. receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to Call to advertise in the the real estate after confirmation of At Your Service directory. the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no 877-264-2527 representation as to the condition of classified@shawsuburban.com the property. Prospective bidders

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PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given in compliance with the City of Woodstock Unified Development Ordinance that the City of Woodstock Plan Commission will conduct a public hearing on Thursday, the 27th day of April, 2017 at 7:00 p.m. in the City Hall Council Chambers (2nd Floor) at 121 West Calhoun Street, Woodstock, Illinois. The hearing will be in regards to a petition submitted by John and Maria Knuth for rezoning from B3 Service and Retail district to B2C Central Business district, for the real estate commonly referred to as 117, 123, 128 and 129 Hutchins Street, Woodstock, Illinois (13-05-329005; 13-05-329-006; 13-05329-007; 13-05-330-004; and 13-05-330-005).

5) A copy of the petition which is the subject of this public hearing is on file and available for public viewing at Woodstock City Hall. Anyone wishing to comment may attend the meeting and be heard. Written comments may be submitted to the Department of Building & Zoning Department at City Hall on or before 5:00 p.m. on the day of the hearing, or during the hearing and prior to its close. /s/ Katherine Parkhurst, Plan Commission Chair (Published in the Northwest Herald on April 11, 2017) 1397918

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PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on August 11, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 1:00 PM on May 9, 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: LOT 21 IN UNIT TWO OF BRITTANY HEIGHTS, BEING A SUBDIVISION IN THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 35, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED OCTOBER 30, 1987 AS DOCUMENT NO. 87R008131, IN PUBLIC NOTICE MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR 3307 W. BRETONS DRIVE, THE TWENTY- SECOND MCHENRY, IL 60050 JUDICIAL CIRCUIT Property Index No. MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS 09-35-481-013.

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, The real estate is improved with a NATIONAL ASSOCIATION single family residence.

Plaintiff, Sale terms: 25% down of the -v.highest bid by certified funds at the APRIL NEIHENGEN, et al of the sale payable to The close Defendant Judicial Sales Corporation. No third 15CH 01086 party checks will be accepted. The NOTICE OF SALE balanc in tified funds/o wi PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY

party pt balance 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.

Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable

day pe for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF

AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver's license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information, examine the court file or contact Plaintiff's attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-15-17466.

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

(6 ) E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com Attorney File No. 14-15-17466 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Case Number: 15 CH 01086 TJSC#: 37-3153 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.

I719110 (Published in the Northwest Herald, April 11, 18, 25, 2017)

PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE TWENTY- SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT MC HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (''FANNIE MAE''), A CORPORATION ORGANIZED AND EXISTING UNDER THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Plaintiff, -v.THUAN NGUYEN A/K/A THUAN T NGUYEN, et al Defe dant

Defendant

16CH 95 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 May 8, 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: LOT 43 IN SHAMROCK FARMS SUBDIVISION-NEIGHBORHOOD 9, BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 31 AND PART OF THE SOUTH 1/2 OF SECTION 32, TOWNSHIP 45 NORTH, RANGE 8, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN AND PART OF THE NORTHWEST 1/4 OF SECTION 5, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 8, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED NOVEMBER AS DOCUMENT 7, 2002 2002R0103434, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Commonly known as 6703 WATERFORD DRIVE, MCHENRY, IL 60050 Pr Ind No

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The real estate is improved with a taupe vinyl siding, two story single family home, wtih an attached three car garage.

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 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 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

g room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Corporation conducts Sales foreclosure sales.

For information: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce.com. between the hours of 3 and 5 pm. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES, Plaintiff's Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 476-5500. Please refer to file number 252457.

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.

PIERCE & ASSOCIATES One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300 CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 476-5500 E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com Attorney File No. 252457 Case Number: 16 CH 95 TJSC#: 37-3097 I719106 (Published in the Northwest Herald, April 11, 18, 25, 2017)

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWENTY-SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, McHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS

YASER AZMI MOHAMMAD and KHOLOOD MOHAMMAD, Petitioners, v.

ADHAM MASOUDI, GHIZLANE AICHA, and ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, Respondents.

Case No. 17 AD 10

NOTICE BY PUBLICATION

TO: GHIZLANE AICHA and ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU that this case has been commenced in this court against you, asking for a judgement of adoption terminating your parental rights and other relief relating to ADHAM MASOUDI, a male child born on August 16, 2016 to GHIZLANE AICHA in Fes, Morocco.

UNLESS you file your response or otherwise file your appearance in this case with the McHenry County Circuit Court, 2200 North Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, Illinois 60098 on or before May 1, 2017, a judgement by default may be taken

PUBLIC NOTICE

PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS OF THE VILLAGE OF HUNTLEY

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF Kimo and Ruth Treadway 8810 Pearsall Drive Huntley, IL 60142

LEGAL NOTICE

Notice is hereby given in compliance with the Zoning Ordinance of the Village of Huntley, Illinois, that a public hearing will be held before the Huntley Zoning Board of Appeals upon the application of Kimo and Ruth Treadway relating to the real estate commonly known as 8810 Pearsall Drive, Huntley IL 60142; PIN: 18-17-426-017.

The request is filed in connection with a building permit application to construct a 10.5' x 16', ±168 square foot addition on the rear (east side) of the single-family residence. The proposed addition will encroach ±7.3 feet into the requisite 40-foot rear yard building setback.

The property is zoned “RE-1 (PUD)” - Residential Estate - Planned Unit Development.

A Public Hearing before the Zoning Board of Appeals will be held on Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 6:30 p.m. at the Village Board Room, 10987 Main Street, Huntley, IL 60142, at which time and place any person determining to be heard may be present. The public hearing may be continued or adjourned to a new date, time, and place in accordance with the requirements of the Illinois Open Meetings Act. James Williams, Planner Recording Secretary Zoning Board of Appeals (Published in the Northwest Herald April 11, 2017) 1397739

aring, g g pr torney within ten days after it has prior to its close. been filed. /s/ Katherine Parkhurst, Plan ComRequest of /s/ Katherine M. Keefe SAMANTHA ASHLEY PETRIAK mission Chair Clerk of the Circuit Court (Published in the Northwest Herald Case Number 17 MR 184 (Published in the Northwest Herald on April 11, 2017) 1398037 March 28, April 4, 11, 2017) Public notice is hereby given that I 1391835 have filed a Petition for Change of Name and scheduled a hearing on my Petition on May 5th, 2017 PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE at 9:00 a.m., in the Circuit Court of NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING the Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit, NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING McHenry County, Illinois in Court- Notice is hereby given in compli- Notice is hereby given in compliroom #201 praying for the change ance with the City of Woodstock ance with the City of Woodstock of my name from SAMANTHA Unified Development Ordinance Unified Development Ordinance ASHLEY PETRIAK to the new name that the City of Woodstock Plan that the City of Woodstock Plan of: SAMANTHA ASHLEY KOPACZ Commission will conduct a public Commission will conduct a public pursuant to the Illinois Compiled hearing on Thursday, the 27th day hearing on Thursday, the 27th day PUBLIC NOTICE of April, 2017 at 7:00 p.m. in the of April, 2017 at 7:00 p.m. in the Statutes on Change of Names.

City Hall Council Chambers (2nd City Hall Council Chambers (2nd /s/ Samantha Petriak STATE OF ILLINOIS Floor) at 121 West Calhoun Street, Floor) at 121 West Calhoun Street, Petitioner IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF (Published in the Northwest Herald Woodstock, Illinois. The hearing Woodstock, Illinois. The hearing THE 22nd JUDICIAL CIRCUIT on March 28, April 4, 11, 2017) will be in regards to a petition sub- will be in regards to a petition subMcHENRY COUNTY mitted by Pearl Street Commercial, mitted by Rodney Poore for rezon1391667 IN RE: THE MARRIAGE OF: LLC, for approval of a Special Use ing from M1 Limited Manufacturing CITLALI MENDEZ PUBLIC NOTICE Permit for a Planned Unit Develop- District to B3 Service and Retail disPlaintiff, STATE OF ILLINOIS ment/Subdivision for the real estate trict, for the real estate commonly vs.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT commonly referred to as 2000 S. referred to as 333 E. Judd Street AGUSTIN SANTANA RUBIO, OF THE TWENTY-SECOND Eastwood Drive, Woodstock, Illinois and 350 E. Church Street, WoodDefendant. and 13-17-276- stock, Illinois (13-05-389-012 (13-17-276-001 CASE NO. 2017DV185 JUDICIAL CIRCUIT and 13-05-389-013).

003).

NOTICE OF PUBLICATION MCHENRY COUNTYNotice is given you, Agustin A copy of the petition which is the A copy of the petition which is the IN PROBATE Santana Rubio, Defendants, that subject of this public hearing is on subject of this public hearing is on Case No. 17PR000040 this case has been commenced in In the Matter of the Estate of file and available for public viewing file and available for public viewing the Court against you and other Thomas Justen at Woodstock City Hall. Anyone at Woodstock City Hall. Anyone defendants, asking for the Deceased wishing to comment may attend wishing to comment may attend entry a judgement for Dissolution the meeting and be heard. Written the meeting and be heard. Written CLAIM NOTICE Of Marriage. Unless you file your Notice is given of the death of: comments may be submitted to the comments may be submitted to the response or otherwise file your THOMAS JUSTEN Department of Building & Zoning Department of Building & Zoning appearance in this case in the Department at City Hall on or be- Department at City Hall on or beoffice of the McHenry County Clerk of: McHenry, IL Letters of office were issues on: fore 5:00 p.m. on the day of the fore 5:00 p.m. on the day of the of Court, Mchenry County Govern3/21/2017 hearing, or during the hearing and hearing, or during the hearing and ment Center, 2200 N. Seminary to: Avenue, Room C380, Woodstock, Representative: Illinois 60098, on or before May LUCY LAYTON 16, 2017, a Judgment or decree 4405 CHARNETA CT by default may be taken against PUBLIC NOTICE LAS VEGAS, NV 89130 you for the relief asked in the The McHenry County Housing Authority is seeking sealed bids for: whose attorney is: complaint.

HVAC, minor electrical, minor plumbing, and roof replacement for a ROTH MELEI April 4, 2017 454 WEST VIRGINIA STREET single family home in on Memory Trail in Wonder Lake, Illinois, /s/ Katherine M. Keefe through the CDBG Owner Occupied Home Rehab Program. Contractor CRYSTAL LAKE, IL 60014 Clerk of the Circuit Court Claims against the estate may be must request a bid packet to attend the Contractor Walk Through which Name: Rodolfo J Rios filed within six months from the will be on Wednesday 4/19/ 2017 @ 3:30 p.m. Bids are due at the Attorney for: Petitioner date of first publication. Any claim McHenry County Housing Authority by Wednesday 4/26/17 by 4 p.m. .

Address: 164 Division St., Ste. 208 not filed within six months from the Public bid opening will be at The McHenry County Housing Authority on City, State Zip: Elgin, IL 60120 date of first publication or claims Wednesday 4/26/17 @ 4:05 p.m.. Info on this and future bids are loTelephone: 224-629-6700 not filed within three months from cated at: www.mchenrycountyhousing.org or call Michael P. Isitoro at: the date of mailing or delivery of 815/338-7752x133. Work Comp & Liability insurance req. McHenry (Published in the Northwest Herald County Housing Authority is an equal opportunity employer. Small, miApril 11, 18, 25, 2017) 1397796 Notice to Creditor, whichever is lat- nority and women owned businesses are encouraged to apply. er, shall be barred.

April 11, 2017 Claims may be filed in the office Northwest Herald 1397711 of the Clerk of Circuit Court at the PUBLIC NOTICE McHenry County Government CenSTATE OF ILLINOIS ter, 2200 North Seminary Avenue, CIRCUIT COURT Woodstock, Illinois 60098, or with MCHENRY, COUNTY the representatice, or both.

PUBLIC NOTICE Copies of claims filed with the LEGAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING #2016-010 NOTICE OF FILING A REQUEST FOR Clerk must be mailed or delivered IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF to the representative and to his atNAME CHANGE (ADULT) RANDOLPH S. WIRKUS AND KELLY J. HELLYER, OWNERS, FOR AN AMENDMENT OF THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE OF McHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS FOR A CONDITIONAL USE PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given in compliance with the McHenry County Unified PUBLIC HEARING Development Ordinance, that a public hearing will be held before the BEFORE THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS McHenry County Zoning Board of Appeals, in connection with this OrdiOF THE VILLAGE OF HUNTLEY nance, which would result in a conditional use for the following IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF described real estate.

Arthur and Gail Tepper THE NORTH FIFTY ACRES OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 13633 Roosevelt Drive 16, TOWNSHIP 44 NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL Huntley, IL 60142 MERIDIAN, IN MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS, EXCEPTING THAT PORLEGAL NOTICE TION TAKEN FOR ROAD PURPOSES, AS DESCRIBED IN DOCUMENT NUMBER 2009R0003926. PIN #14-16-100-004 Notice is hereby given in compliance with the Zoning Ordinance of the Village of Huntley, Illinois, that a public hearing will be held before the The subject property is located approximately 2,200 feet northeast of the intersection of Crystal Springs Road and Walkup Road, with a comHuntley Zoning Board of Appeals upon the application of Arthur and Gail Tepper relating to the real estate commonly known as mon address of 2120 South Crystal Lake Road, Crystal Lake, Illinois, in 13633 Roosevelt Drive, Huntley IL 60142; PIN: 02-06-329-013.

Nunda Township.

The request is filed in connection with a building permit application to The subject property is presently zoned “A-1” Agriculture District and construct a 16' x 19', ±304 square foot addition on the rear (east side) consists of approximately 49.9 acres with “A-1” zoning to the North, of the single-family residence. The proposed addition will encroach South, and East, and “E-1” zoning to the West.

The Petitioners are requesting Renewal of Conditional Use Permit #95±3.63 feet into the requisite 20-foot rear building line setback as established in Ordinance #97-07-24-01 for the “SF-2-PDD” Garden Resi84 to allow a Commercial Golf Course on the property in question.

The Petitioners presently reside at 16N931 Sleepy Hollow Road, dential Planned Development District-zoned property.

A Public Hearing before the Zoning Board of Appeals will be held on Dundee, Illinois.

Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 6:30 p.m. at the Village Board Room, A hearing on this Petition will be held on the 27th day of April, 2017 at 1:30 P.M. in Conference Room A at the McHenry County Government 10987 Main Street, Huntley, IL 60142, at which time and place any person determining to be heard may be present. The public hearing Center/Ware Rd. Administration Building, 2200 N. Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, Illinois at which time and place any person desiring to be may be continued or adjourned to a new date, time, and place in accordance with the requirements of the Illinois Open Meetings Act. heard may be present.

James Williams, Planner DATED THIS 5th DAY OF April, 2017. by: Richard Kelly Jr., Chairman, McHenry County Zoning Board of Recording Secretary Appeals, 2200 N. Seminary Avenue Woodstock, IL 60098 Zoning Board of Appeals (Published in the Northwest Herald April 11, 2017) 1397770 (Published in the Northwest Herald April 11, 2017) 1397855 judge nt by y against you for the relief sought in the petition. /s/ Katherine M. Keefe Clerk of the Circuit Court Chris S. Haaff Attorney #6243052 Law Office of Christopher Haaff Attorney for Petitioners 210 North Walkup Avenue Crystal Lake, IL 60014-4339 815-355-8194 phone; no fax chris@haafflegal.com www.haafflegal.com (Published in the Northwest Herald on April 4, 11, 18, 2017) 1395325

aring, g g prior to its close. /s/ Katherine Parkhurst, Plan Commission Chair (Published in the Northwest Herald on April 11, 2017) 1397980

PUBLIC NOTICE

City of Harvard, McHenry County, Illinois Budget Hearing Notice

Notice is hereby given in compliance with the Illinois Municipal Code, 65 ILCS 5/8-2-9.9, that the Mayor and City Council of the City of Harvard will hold a public hearing on the City's tentative budget for Fiscal Year 2017/2018 on Tuesday, April 25, 2017, at 7:00 pm, in the Harvard City Council Chambers, 201 W. Front St., Harvard.

City Clerk Andy Wells City of Harvard (Published in the Northwest Herald April 11, 2017) 1397732

PUBLIC NOTICE

CLASSIFIED 39 #107 SAMANTHA SYE 8417 SHADY LANE Wonder Lake, IL 60097 $820.00 (Published in the Northwest Herald on April 11, 2017) 1397780

PUBLIC NOTICE

The Village of Lake in the Hills will be accepting sealed proposals for Police Towing Services. Proposal packets can be downloaded from the Village website at www.lith.org.

Sealed proposals must be submitted to the Police Department by May 15, 2017, at 10 a.m. when all proposals will be opened and read. All interested parties are invited to attend.

(Published in the Northwest Herald on April 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 2017) 1397842

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LEGAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING #2016-009 IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF WILLIAM R. JARVIS AND JOAN M. JARVIS, OWNERS, FOR AN AMENDMENT OF THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE OF McHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS FOR A CONDITIONAL USE Notice is hereby given in compliance with the McHenry County Unified Development Ordinance, that a public hearing will be held before the McHenry County Zoning Board of Appeals, in connection with this Ordinance, which would result in a conditional use for the following described real estate.

THAT PART OF THE WEST HALF OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 10, TOWNSHIP 46 NORTH, RANGE 6, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE WEST HALF OF SAID SOUTHWEST QUARTER; THENCE NORTHERLY ALONG THE EAST LINE OF THE WEST HALF OF SAID SOUTHWEST QUARTER, A DISTANCE OF 1179.16 FEET; THENCE NORTHWESTERLY ALONG A LINE WHICH FORMS AN ANGLE OF 38 DEGREES 03 MINUTES 08 SECONDS TO THE LEFT WITH THE PROLONGATION OF THE LAST DESCRIBED COURSE, A DISTANCE OF 350.21 FEET FOR THE PLACE OF BEGINNING; THENCE NORTHWESTERLY, ALONG A CONTINUATION OF THE LAST DESCRIBED COURSE, A DISTANCE OF 225.0 FEET; THENCE SOUTHWESTERLY, AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE LAST DESCRIBED COURSE, A DISTANCE OF 1016.0 FEET TO THE CENTERLINE OF ALDEN ROAD; THENCE SOUTHEASTERLY ALONG THE CENTERLINE OF ALDEN ROAD, WHICH FORMS AN ANGLE OF 88 DEGREES 47 MINUTES 06 SECONDS TO THE LEFT WITH THE PROLONGATION OF THE LAST DESCRIBED COURSE, A DISTANCE OF 155.54 FEET TO AN ANGLE IN SAID CENTERLINE; THENCE SOUTHEASTERLY, ALONG THE CENTERLINE OF ALDEN ROAD, WHICH FORMS AN ANGLE OF 00 DEGREES 37 MINUTES 33 SECONDS TO THE RIGHT WITH THE PROLONGATION OF THE LAST DESCRIBED COURSE, A DISTANCE OF 69.53 FEET; THENCE NORTHEASTERLY, ALONG A LINE WHICH FORMS AN ANGLE OF 91 DEGREES 50 MINUTES 27 SECONDS TO THE LEFT WITH THE PROLONGATION OF THE LAST DESCRIBED COURSE, A DISTANCE OF 1021.53 FEET TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING. BEING SITUATED IN ALDEN TOWNSHIP, MCHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS. PIN #02-10-300-012 The subject property is located approximately 2,000 feet southeast of the intersection of Hebron Road and Alden Road, with a common address of 10302 Alden Road, Harvard, Illinois, in Alden Township.

The subject property is presently zoned “A-1” Agriculture District and consists of approximately 5.261 acres with “A-1” zoning to the North, South, East and West.

The Petitioners are requesting Renewal of Conditional Use Permit #9540 to allow a small engine repair business on the property in question.

The Petitioners presently reside at 10302 Alden Road, Harvard, Illinois.

A hearing on this Petition will be held on the 27th day of April, 2017 at 1:30 P.M. in Conference Room A at the McHenry County Government Center/Ware Rd. Administration Building, 2200 N. Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, Illinois at which time and place any person desiring to be heard may be present.

DATED THIS 5th DAY OF APRIL, 2017. by: Richard Kelly Jr., Chairman, McHenry County Zoning Board of Appeals, 2200 N. Seminary Avenue, Woodstock, IL 60098 (Published in the Northwest Herald April 11, 2017) 1397867

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Join IHSA or not?

Tweets from last night

Some clubs wait to see what D-155 will do

By JOE STEVENSON

New to the #Blackhawks Beard-A-Thon?

That’s ok, @RHartzy18 is giving it a go for the first time, too.

Get started! https://www.beardathon. com/blackhawks/ – @NHLBlackhawks (on Ryan Hartman, a West Dundee native)

Final score: Typhoon 1 CLS 0 – @CLSSoftball (Crystal Lake South softball, after Monday’s rainout)

Thankful to be able to announce I have received an offer from Jacksonville University! #PhinsUp @Bstan34 – @bgroves69 (CaryGrove offensive lineman Brett Groves) Chrishawn Orange (@COrange_5) of @ HDJ_Athletics named MVP, Best Defensive Player for Augustana men’s hoops, which finished as D-3 runner-up.

– @BarryOnCampus (Northwest Herald contributor on Orange, Chrishawn a Jacobs graduate) Orange Follow our writers on Twitter: Kyle Nabors – @KyleNabors Joe Stevenson – @NWH_JoePrepZone Sean Hammond – @sean_hammond Alex Kantecki – @akantecki John Wilkinson – @jwilks26

What to watch MLB: White Sox at Cleveland, 3 p.m., CSN The Sox visit the Indians to open a three-game series. The Sox’s James Shields (1-0, 1.69 ERA) faces Carlos Carrasco (1-0, 3.18).

joestevenson@shawmedia.com

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he eyes of area lacrosse clubs are focused on District 155’s every move.

Presidents from the four D-155 clubs (Cary-Grove, Crystal Lake Central, Crystal Lake South and Prairie Ridge) have stated their case to the school board and hope to have a vote by next month on whether the lacrosse teams will play as an IHSA sport in the 2017-18 school year.

They are not the only ones.

McHenry and the three District 300 clubs (Dundee-Crown, Hampshire and Jacobs) are waiting to see what happens and may follow whichever path D-155 takes.

For several years, lacrosse has grown as an emerging IHSA sport. The IHSA voted last year to bring it in as an official sport for the 2017-18 school year, meaning that school districts need to decide this spring.

The Illinois High School Lacrosse Association has existed to provide a state tournament series for teams at the end of their seasons, but IHSLA president Rich Martin said that with teams going to the IHSA, the IHSLA no longer will be necessary.

Those teams that choose not to go IHSA next year could have their boards vote to go in 2018-19. But many in the lacrosse community feel it would make scheduling games more difficult and that programs would suffer.

“It will be very, very different,” Martin said. “They will have very few teams to play. My guess is programs will disintegrate because it will be a club outside the school, and it won’t have the same appeal. It doesn’t look good if they’re not a part of the IHSA program.”

WORKING TOGETHER

Crystal Lake Central Lacrosse Club president Buddy Metz is encouraged by talks with D-155 Superintendent Johnnie Thomas, other administrators and the board last month. Initially, a study showed an estimate of $10 million in capital improvements to fund lacrosse teams at the D-155 schools.

The clubs say those numbers – which included artificial turf fields at all four schools – were grossly exaggerated.

Metz said the clubs convinced D-155 at a meeting last month that, through fundraising and pay-to-play options next year, lacrosse could be run for less than $200,000 for all four schools combined.

“We’d work with various booster

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Huntley’s Johnny Ambrogio (right) chases Cary-Grove’s Tyler Forney during a game last year. With lacrosse becoming an official IHSA sport for the 2017-18 school year, local club programs are in the process of deciding whether to join the IHSA or remain independent.

Where they stand The IHSA added lacrosse as an emerging sport in 2009 and voted last year to add it as a boys and girls sport in the 2017-18 school year. Here is where the local schools who have teams stand for next year.

THEY’RE IN IHSA sport for next year.

Huntley, Marian Central Dundee-Crown, Hampshire, Jacobs Huntley’s school board already voted to go The three District 300 schools are waiting IHSA. Marian athletic director Curtis Price to see what D-155 does, according to Jacobs said his school also will go IHSA, where the coach John Bigler. It looks like D-300 might Hurricanes will play many of the schools in go where D-155 goes. their East Suburban Catholic Conference.

McHenry UNDECIDED McHenry club president Shawn Strach Cary-Grove, Crystal Lake Central, Crystal indicated that District 156 likely will move Lake South, Prairie Ridge with the D-155 schools when that decision is The four District 155 schools are urging made. their school board to approve lacrosse as an – Joe Stevenson clubs and pay for all the helmets,” Metz said. “The programs would cost $600 to be a member, with a plan to slide that down $100 each year. We need to get a foot in the door and ease in transition.

[The board members] have all told us they want lacrosse. The wave is coming.”

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McHenry rolls in water polo NORTHWEST HERALD Michael Matusek scored nine goals to lead McHenry to a 24-9 win over Riverside-Brookfield on Monday at McHenry.

Jonah Smith (six), Riley Hedberg (five) and Tyler Hemphill (two) scored multiple goals for the Warriors, while Luke Rose and Braedon Bromley added one apiece. Hemphill also had 11 steals, and Adam Starus made 12 saves for McHenry (10-5).

BASEBALL Burlington Central 6, Woodstock 1: At

Burlington, Woodstock couldn’t recover after giving up four runs in the first inning and lost to Burlington Central in a Kishwaukee River Conference game.

Woodstock’s John Kubacha and Josh Turner each had a double to lead the Blue Streaks’ offense, with Turner driving in Kubacha for Woodstock’s only run.

Turner took the loss, starting and going three innings. Turner allowed five runs, one earned, on five hits and two walks. He struck out one and allowed a home run. Kyle Dehn-Franklin pitched three innings of relief, allowing one unearned run on a hit and three walks while striking out seven.

Now, with one game remaining in the regular season, the Bulls have to do the same.

Monday night’s win – which represented the Bulls’ biggest margin victory of the season – was a step in the right direction. The Bulls, still playing without starting point guard Rajon Rondo, jumped on the Magic early and never took their foot off the gas.

Now, with one game to determine whether they will control their own destiny and clinch a postseason berth with a win or allow the actions of others to determine whether the season ends Wednesday, the Bulls don’t have any other choice but to follow Monday night’s effort with a similar effort.

“When you come into the season, your goal is to make the playoffs,” Wade said. “That’s what our goal has continued to be through it all whether we were playing well, playing bad, whatever the heck was going on. At the end of the day, you want to put yourself in position to make the playoffs.

“Once you do that, a whole other season starts.”

The IHSA considers sports where it does not have a state tournament as “emerging sports.” There is no limit on how long it can be considered an emerging sport, but the interest in lacrosse dictated it was becoming big enough for the IHSA to have state tournaments, so it was voted in.

Lacrosse clubs were satisfied with the emerging sports status because they could fund and run themselves yet still have some affiliation as playing for their own high school. Now, the high schools eventually will be paying for another sport, which has caused some hesitation for fiscally minded school boards.

either way.”

McHenry Warriors Lacrosse Club president Shawn Strach expressed similar sentiments.

“Our (D-156) superintendent (Ryan McTague) has voiced his opinion with lacrosse at McHenry moving forward (to the IHSA), if the majority of the other local teams move forward,” Strach said. “My athletic director (Barry Burmeister) is the same as the superintendent. If everybody else goes, we will figure out how to do it. If not, we’ll probably hesitate. It is an important venture for us to move forward to that and be a school sport, but it’s only if everybody goes.”

The only FVC member that has decided what it will do with lacrosse is Huntley, which is going to the IHSA next year.

“A lot of people see the legitimacy of being a school sport as a big deal. Apart from that, when you have a state playoff series, it’s pretty much like every other IHSA sport, other than it’s not being operated out of an athletic department.”

The FVC could field an eight-team conference without Huntley, then find a handful of other games throughout the season. Strach considers that a viable option.

“If everybody opts not to go, we move on like we have the past seven years,” Strach said. “We are a club sport and we move on. If we splinter, that’s when we’ll be in trouble. We just need to have one or the other.”

GO WITH THE FLOW

WHAT IF THEY DON’T GO?

ORLANDO (75) Fournier 6-13 1-1 14, Ross 1-5 1-1 3, Gordon 4-6 2-2 10, Vucevic 6-14 1-2 14, Payton 5-13 0-1 11, Georges-Hunt 0-2 2-2 2, Rudez 1-3 0-0 2, Garino 0-1 0-0 0, Biyombo 2-4 3-3 7, Augustin 2-9 1-2 5, Meeks 0-5 0-0 0, Hezonja 2-9 1-2 7.

Totals 29-84 12-16 75.

CHICAGO (122) Mirotic 6-12 1-1 16, Lopez 9-14 0-0 18, Grant 7-12 1-1 17, Wade 5-10 3-4 13, Butler 5-11 7-7 17, Zipser 3-8 0-0 7, Felicio 2-3 0-1 4, Portis 4-5 0-0 10, Lauvergne 1-2 0-0 2, Canaan 1-3 2-2 5, Carter-Williams 2-5 0-0 4, Morrow 1-2 0-0 3, Valentine 2-2 0-0 6. Totals 48-89 14-16 122.

Orlando Chicago

13 24 34 30

22 28

16 — 75 30 — 122

3-Point Goals–Orlando 5-27 (Hezonja 2-6, Vucevic 1-1, Fournier 1-4, Payton 1-4, Garino 0-1, Ross 0-2, Meeks 0-3, Augustin 0-6), Chicago 12-26 (Mirotic 3-6, Valentine 2-2, Portis 2-3, Grant 2-5, Morrow 1-2, Canaan 1-2, Zipser 1-3, Lauvergne 0-1, Butler 0-1, Carter-Williams 0-1). Fouled Out–None. Rebounds–Orlando 37 (Vucevic 10), Chicago 54 (Lopez, Zipser 8). Assists–Orlando 18 (Payton 4), Chicago 33 (Grant 11). Total Fouls–Orlando 18, Chicago 16.

Technicals–Wade.

wait until Wednesday, when a victory over the Brooklyn Nets will secure a spot. With a loss, that the Bulls blew a nine-point lead against the Nets on Saturday night makes their situation much murkier.

“What you want to be able to do is to control your own destiny,” guard Dwyane Wade said after scoring 13 points

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District 300’s administrative office declined to comment on the future of lacrosse. Jacobs coach John Bigler said he thinks the district will go with which way the Fox Valley Conference teams can best stay together.

“D-155 has four schools. That’s half our conference,” Bigler said. “If they say no, that’s basically half our conference. If they say yes, that’s basically half our conference. Had you asked me back in January or February, I’d say we’d probably be waiting it out because 155’s not going. Since their meetings, they’ve had a lot of turnout and some changes, and now things look like they’re on the table. It’s not a done deal

A lot of lacrosse people feel not going IHSA could be disastrous for the teams.

Prairie Ridge coach Josh Cole is not among those folks. Cole, the 2016 IHSLA Coach of the Year, agrees it would be easier to schedule as an IHSA team, but he believes teams still could survive.

“I don’t think [not being an IHSA team] will keep anyone from playing lacrosse,” Cole said. “There’s about 20 independent schools that did not sign the (IHSA) emerging sport agreement.

They can have their own league. There could be about 30 schools, fairly locally.

I don’t think it will make a big difference to the kids. The only people it will make a difference to are the parents.

A BIG DEAL

Metz has two sons playing lacrosse and finds the sport’s growth remarkable. Even in the past few years, he has seen the ability levels of players rise because of their training and competition.

Bill McDowell, the president of Prairie Ridge’s Wolves Lacrosse Club, appreciates D-155’s open-mindedness about the sport. He sees an already burgeoning sport getting even more popular if it goes IHSA. “This is a sport, right now, that has 150-plus kids (at all levels for a high school),” McDowell said. “If it’s a school sport, that number could be even higher. The sport’s grown so much over the years. I believe it’s (the IHSA) going to happen (in D-155). I’m not sure it’s going to be next year. I think 2019 may be more on the radar. That’s just my personal opinion.”

• Tuesday, April 11, 2017

CHICAGO – As Fred Hoiberg began to empty his bench midway through the fourth quarter, the only uncertainly that remained, at least as far as the Bulls were concerned, was playing out 1,300 miles to the south.

From the outset Monday night, the Bulls had overwhelmed the visiting Orlando Magic which, unlike the Bulls, entered the penultimate game of the regular season with nothing to play for.

But as time ticked away on the Bulls’ lopsided 122-75 victory at the United Center, Hoiberg and his players could only wait and see whether a 47-point victory would be enough to land them a spot in the Eastern Conference playoffs.

As it turns out, it wasn’t.

At least not Monday night.

Miami’s 124-121 overtime victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers in South Florida prevented the Bulls from clinching a playoff berth Monday night.

Now, with their postseason future still to be determined, the Bulls will

Monday night. “That’s what we have the ability to do. If we don’t win the game, we don’t deserve to be in.”

The Bulls, who have had their share of issues with the NBA’s also-rans, quickly left no doubt that they wouldn’t fall into the same trap against Orlando as they had over the past week. All five Bulls starters – led by Robin Lopez’s 18 points – reached double figures in a win the Bulls controlled from the start.

After a sloppy road stretch last week when the Bulls couldn’t manage wins over the Knicks and Nets, Monday’s effort was much-needed. In the days after the Bulls failed to close out a playoff berth, Hoiberg’s message had been simple.

Control what you can control. Let everything else fall where it may.

That’s the mentality the Bulls played with against the Magic. It’s the one they’ll again need Wednesday night against Brooklyn.

“It better (carryover),” Hoiberg said.

“We’re playing a team on Wednesday that is playing their best ball of the season.”

BULLS 122, MAGIC 75

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What’s a little wait for Cubs fans?

Rain delays celebration of 2016 World Series title almost 2 hours

By BRUCE MILES

bmiles@dailyherald.com CHICAGO – Nothing was going to dampen the spirits of Cubs fans Monday night.

Not a steady rain that poured down during the early evening hours and certainly not a wind that shifted from warm to chilly in an instant.

This was the night the Cubs raised their championship banner, and what’s a little waiting to Cubs fans?

The ceremony got underway close to two hours late, and members of all levels of the organization had their Theo Epstein take on what celebrating the 2016 World Series title meant and how the evening – and the banner – might unfurl.

“I’m looking forward to seeing the looks on everyone’s faces as that banner goes up, players and fans alike,” team president Theo Epstein said.

“They say all glory is fleeting, and it is. But the flag will fly forever, and that feeling of being part of something bigger than ourselves will last forever, too. To me, that’s what it symbolizes.”

Four new flagpoles behind the center-field bleachers provided a hint that more than just the 2016 banner would be hoisted.

Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg raised the banner for the 1907 world championship. Fergie Jenkins did the honor for 1908. Billy Williams raised the National League championship banner from 2016.

Finally, Anthony Rizzo led his teammates as they put up the 2016 world championship banner. Fireworks shot out from behind the videoboards, and the ceremony culminated with team owners Laura, Tom and Todd Ricketts throwing out ceremonial first pitches.

The cheers were thunderous.

“It’s being part of something,” manager Joe Maddon said. “It’s being part of something bigger than you. That’s the really impressive part about it. Of course winning a World Series and winning a World Series in Chicago with the Cubs for the first time in a long time and the fan base, the tradition, the city itself, the organization, it’s just different.”

Pressed as to why it’s different, Maddon explained it from the point of view of a relative newcomer. He arrived on the scene in the offseason of

AP photos

ABOVE: Fans watch fireworks during ceremonies before the Cubs’ home opener against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday night at Wrigley Field. BELOW: Tim Kanive waits out a rain delay before Monday’s game, which the Cubs won, 3-2. Read about the game at NWHerald.com.

2014-15.

“I’ve been to every ballpark in the big leagues now, and there are some really good ones,” he said. “Great fan bases, wonderful traditions. But

there is just something different about this place. Maybe it’s just because the ballpark is in a neighborhood. It has something to do with it. I know Fenway is kind of like that, but not quite

like this.

“Maybe the long-term suffering of the group’s not having won in so many years. There’s an intellectualism about this place also that I think is different. There’s a passion about it. It really runs the gamut of all the spectrums of groups that are following this team and the reasons why. I didn’t know that. I did not know that before I got here.”

The players shared their experiences, too. World Series MVP Ben Zobrist won the 2015 championship with the Kansas City Royals, but doing it with the Cubs resonated differently.

“Recently, I had a guy basically cry on my shoulder, an officer from the city here,” Zobrist said, relating how he ran into the man in St. Louis. “To see how emotional it makes people and how much it means to them that we were able to win, I think all the stories people share about their families, that they’ve experienced the Cubs with their families over all the years, they’ve lost loved ones that didn’t get a chance to see it, it just reminds them of their loved ones. Those are the stories that touch the heart the most.”

WHITE SOX

By DARYL VAN SCHOUWEN

dvanschouwen@suntimes.com

AP file photo

White Sox second baseman Yoan Moncada hits against the Milwaukee Brewers during a spring training game March 10 in Phoenix.

“Fair question, but I can’t give you an answer because I don’t know the answer,’’ Getz said, “But he’s getting better every day. He’ll be there, let’s just put it that way.’’

There are service-time issues in play, not unlike those when the Cubs waited until April 17 to call up Kris Bryant

in 2015. If the Sox wait until after May 15, they’d prevent Moncada from becoming a free agent until 2023, when he’s 28.

Bryant, however, was 23 at that time and farther along than Moncada, who collected 31 days with the Red Sox after getting called up from Double-A Portland in September

in 2015 and 135 total in three seasons, none higher than Single-A before this year, the Sox’s primary goal for him “is to get innings under his belt,” Getz said.

Although some scouts see him profiling as a closer, “we view him as a starter,” Getz said. “And he’s shown all the signs he can. He actually has a smooth, repeatable delivery considering he can throw triple digits.”

“As he refines some of the tools and starts to pitch with the power that he has, we have something that is going to be pretty good.

“Each player will let us know when that time is right.

In Moncada’s case, or any player or some of these pitchers (Reynaldo Lopez, Lucas Giolito, Carson Fulmer, Zack Burdi at Charlotte) they’ll let us know. Watching the Charlotte club the last four days, these guys are getting closer.

They’re performing right out of the gate.’’

Note: Right fielder Willy Garcia was named International League batter of the week after going 8 for 15 with two homers and nine runs scored in four games for Charlotte. The Sox claimed Garcia on waivers from the Pirates in January.

CUBS NOTES

Maddon tries something different – for him

By BRUCE MILES

bmiles@dailyherald.com CHICAGO – Cubs manager Joe Maddon made one slight change to his starting lineup for Monday night’s home opener against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The Cubs held a 1-0 lead after three innings. They took that lead in the third after two outs, when Kris Bryant doubled home Kyle Schwarber.

After batting the pitcher eighth for the first six games of the season, Maddon went back to a more traditional-looking lineup against the Dodgers.

He batted pitcher Jon Lester ninth, with Javy Baez in the eighth spot.

The Cubs were facing left-hander Alex Wood.

“That was just based on their pitch-

er,” he said. “We’ve only seen righty starters (except for the Brewers’ Tommy Milone). With Schwarbs batting leadoff, I just thought it looked different. I didn’t like the way it looked, with the pitcher eighth and Baez ninth.

“I really have a lot of faith in Jon swinging Jon Lester the bat, but I think it’s even more difficult against a tougher lefty. So I just thought popping Javy in front of him right there, even if they don’t pitch to Javy to get to Lester, at least that moves the batting order around to the leadoff hitter next.”

Lester and the Cubs waited out a 1-hour, 56-minute delay at the start because of rain and the Cubs’ banner-rais-

ing ceremony. When Lester took the mound at 9:01 p.m., he started off sharp, working a 1-2-3 first inning. He walked Franklin Gutierrez leading off the second, but Gutierrez was caught trying to steal second base on a double play, with Yasiel Puig striking out.

Wood got two quick outs in the bottom of the third before Schwarber lifted a high fly down the right-field line. Puig had the ball pop out of his glove and into the stands for an error, giving Schwarber new life. Schwarber then walked and came home on Bryant’s double to left.

The new environs: Batting practice was canceled because of pregame rain showers, so the Cubs did not get to test out how the ball would bounce off the new bullpen doors in left-center and right-center.

No longer are there bullpen mounds on the field down the lines, but with new seating, the walls are closer to the field.

“There’s less (foul territory) over there to worry about,” said Ben Zobrist, who started Monday in right field but who also plays second base. “In the outfield, you’ve got to be more careful.

We’ve got to be careful, with the (bullpen) window over there and see what the balls going off of it.”

He said it: Monday night’s starting lineup featured the players who contributed to last year’s World Series championship. Maddon did the same thing in the season-opener in St. Louis.

“This is all about the heartbeat,” Maddon said, using one of his catchphrases for 2017. “We’re keeping math out of tonight’s lineup.”

• Tuesday, April 11, 2017

CLEVELAND – The White Sox felt validated about the Chris Sale trade when they got their eyes on second baseman Yoan Moncada and right-hander Michael Kopech during spring trainMichael ing. The miKopech nor league debuts of those two, ranked No. 3 and No. 15

by MLBPipeline.com among baseball’s top prospects, did nothing to kill the vibe.

“To get three hits on Opening Night and four the second day and a home run [on the third],’’ that obviously is a good thing to see,’’ first-year Director of Player Development Chris Getz said Monday.

That’s what Moncada, 21, showed for Triple-A Charlotte against Norfolk, going 8 for 20 with one walk and six strikeouts. Kopech, 20, struck out 10 over 41/3 innings of two-run ball for Double-A Birmingham at Jackson.

A direct answer wasn’t expected but it was asked, anyway: So when will Moncada be called up?

(going 4 for 19 with 12 strikeouts over eight games) but is now gathering his first Triple-A experience. He would stand to benefit from more time there, most talent evaluators agree.

How much more is up to the Sox. “When he goes [to Chicago], the development of his game isn’t going to stop when he gets to the major leagues,’’ Getz said, “but we want to put him in the best position right out of the gate to be able to perform in all aspects of the game to the best of his ability. Whether it’s the defensive side, hitting left-handed, right-handed or baserunning.

He can do all those things, but we want him to be in the best position to succeed when he gets there.

“He’s certainly not a finished product by any means.

But he’s getting close.”

Getz saw a smiling face on Moncada, who seems to be having fun and enjoying being on a team that bolted to a 4-0 start going into Monday night.

Kopech, with his 100-mph fastball and comparisons to Noah Syndergaard, is rated as baseball’s No. 1 pitching prospect (seventh overall) by ESPN’s Keith Law. With no more than 65 innings logged

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FIVE-DAY PLANNER TEAM

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

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THURSDAY

FRIDAY

NASHVILLE* 7 p.m.

CSN AM-720

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SATURDAY NASHVILLE* 7 p.m.

NBC AM-720

BROOKLYN 7 p.m.

WGN AM-890

at Cleveland 3:10 p.m.

CSN, MLBN AM-890

L.A. DODGERS 7:05 p.m.

ABC-7 AM-670

L.A. DODGERS 1:20 p.m.

CSN AM-670

PITTSBURGH 1:20 p.m.

WGN AM-670

PITTSBURGH 1:20 p.m.

CSN AM-670

at Cleveland 5:10 p.m.

CSN AM-890

at Cleveland 5:10 p.m.

WGN AM-890

at Minnesota 7:10 p.m.

CSN AM-890

at Minnesota 1:10 p.m.

WGN AM-890 *-Playoffs

WHAT TO WATCH Pro baseball 3 p.m.: White Sox at Cleveland, CSN, MLBN 6 p.m.: St. Louis at Washington, ESPN 9 p.m.: Houston at Seattle OR Arizona at San Fran, MLBN Pro basketball 7 p.m.: Oklahoma City at Minnesota, NBATV

Soccer 1:30 p.m.: UEFA Champions League, Quarterfinal, 1st Leg, Juventus vs. Barcelona, FS1 1:30 p.m.: UEFA Champions League, Quarterfinal, 1st Leg, Borussia Dortmund vs. AS Monaco, FS2

SPORTS BRIEFS AP sources: Fisher retiring as San Diego State basketball coach

18 seasons at SDSU. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because Fisher’s decision hasn’t been announced by the school.

SAN DIEGO – Steve Fisher is retiring from The school scheduled a news conference for a basketball coaching career that includes a national championship at Michigan, directing Tuesday.

Fisher didn’t return a call seeking comment. the Fab Five and then turning San Diego State from a laughingstock into a West Coast He had one year remaining on a three-year contract extension he signed in November power.

Two people with knowledge of the situation 2014. said Monday that Fisher, 72, is retiring after – Wire report

MLS EASTERN CONFERENCE

W Columbus 3 Orlando City 3 Atlanta United FC 2 Fire 2 New England 2 New York City FC 2 New York 2 D.C. United 2 Toronto FC 1 Montreal 0 Philadelphia 0

L 2 1 1 1 2 2 3 2 0 2 3

T 1 0 2 2 1 1 1 1 4 3 2

Pts 10 9 8 8 7 7 7 7 7 3 2

GF 9 4 13 6 9 8 5 4 6 5 5

WESTERN CONFERENCE Portland FC Dallas Houston

W 4 3 3

L 1 0 2

T 1 1 0

Pts 13 10 9

GF 16 6 11

GA 7 3 5 7 6 5 9 8 4 8 9 GA 8 2 9

Sporting K.C. 2 0 3 9 5 2 San Jose 2 2 1 7 7 7 Los Angeles 2 3 0 6 7 8 Seattle 1 1 3 6 7 6 Real Salt Lake 1 3 2 5 6 8 Colorado 1 2 1 4 4 6 Vancouver 1 3 1 4 6 10 Minnesota United 1 4 1 4 10 22 Note: Three points for victory, one point for tie Saturday’s Results Fire 1, Columbus 0 New England 2, Houston 0 D.C. United 2, New York City FC 1 Portland 3, Philadelphia 1 Atlanta United FC 2, Toronto FC 2, tie FC Dallas 2, Minnesota United 0 Real Salt Lake 3, Vancouver 0 Seattle 1, San Jose 1, tie

Sunday’s Results Orlando City 1, New York 0 Sporting Kansas City 3, Colorado 1 Friday, April 14 New York City FC at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Seattle at Vancouver, 9 p.m.

FC Dallas at San Jose, 10 p.m.

Saturday, April 15 New England at Fire, 4 p.m.

Atlanta United FC at Montreal, noon Los Angeles at Orlando City, 1:30 p.m.

D.C. United at New York, 6:30 p.m.

Toronto FC at Columbus, 7 p.m.

Minnesota United at Houston, 7:30 p.m.

Real Salt Lake at Colorado, 8 p.m.

Kansas City at Portland, 9:30 p.m.

BETTING ODDS MLB

FAVORITE at MIAMI at WASHINGTON New York at PITTSBURGH at COLORADO at SAN FRANCISCO at CLEVELAND at DETROIT at BOSTON at Los Angeles Houston at TORONTO

Tuesday National League LINE UNDERDOG -130 Atlanta -135 St. Louis -135 at PHILADELPHIA -184 Cincinnati -170 San Diego -124 Arizona American League -220 White Sox -128 Minnesota -116 Baltimore -105 Texas -115 at SEATTLE Interleague -184 Milwaukee

LINE +120 +125 +125 +169 +158 +114 +200 +118 +106 -105 +105 +169

NBA

FAVORITE

Tuesday LINE O/U

UNDERDOG

at ATLANTA at MINNESOTA Denver at LA LAKERS at SACRAMENTO

7½ 2 1 OFF 3½

(206) (215½) (212) (OFF) (219)

Charlotte Oklahoma City at DALLAS New Orleans Phoenix

NHL

FAVORITE at MONTREAL at PITTSBURGH at MINNESOTA at EDMONTON Boston at BLACKHAWKS at WASHINGTON at ANAHEIM

Wednesday LINE UNDERDOG -137 NY Rangers -154 Columbus -145 St. Louis -135 San Jose -120 at OTTAWA Thursday -163 Nashville -193 Toronto -153 Calgary

Updated odds available at Pregame.com

LINE +127 +144 +135 +125 +110 +153 +178 +143

NHL STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS FIRST ROUND (best-of-7)

WESTERN CONFERENCE

BLACKHAWKS VS. NASHVILLE Thursday: Nashville at Blackhawks, 7 p.m.

Saturday: Nashville at Blackhawks, 7 p.m.

Monday, April 17: Blackhawks at Nashville, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 20: Blackhawks at Nashville, TBD Saturday, April 22: Nashville at Blackhawks, TBD* Monday, April 24: Blackhawks at Nashville, TBD* Wednesday, April 26: Nashville at Blackhawks, TBD* MINNESOTA VS. ST. LOUIS Wednesday: St. Louis at Minnesota, 8:30 p.m.

Friday: St. Louis at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Sunday: Minnesota at St. Louis, 2 p.m.

Wednesday, April 19: Minnesota at St. Louis, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 22: St. Louis at Minnesota, TBA* Monday, April 24: Minnesota at St. Louis, TBA* Wednesday, April 26: St. Louis at Minnesota, TBA* ANAHEIM VS. CALGARY Thursday: Calgary at Anaheim, 9:30 p.m.

Saturday: Calgary at Anaheim, 9:30 p.m.

Monday, April 17: Anaheim at Calgary, 9 p.m.

Wednesday, April 19: Anaheim at Calgary, 9 p.m.

Friday, April 21: Calgary at Anaheim, TBA* Sunday, April 23: Anaheim at Calgary, TBA* Tuesday, April 25: Calgary at Anaheim, TBA* EDMONTON VS. SAN JOSE Wednesday: San Jose at Edmonton, 9 p.m.

Friday: San Jose at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m.

Sunday: Edmonton at San Jose, 9 p.m.

Tuesday, April 18: Edmonton at San Jose, 9 p.m.

Thursday, April 20: San Jose at Edmonton, TBA* Saturday, April 22: Edmonton at San Jose, TBA* Monday, April 24: San Jose at Edmonton, TBA*

EASTERN CONFERENCE

MONTREAL VS. N.Y. RANGERS Wednesday: N.Y. Rangers at Montreal, 6 p.m.

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

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

Tuesday, April 18: Montreal at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m.

Thursday, April 20: N.Y. Rangers at Montreal, TBA* Saturday, April 22: Montreal at N.Y. Rangers, TBA* Monday, April 24: N.Y. Rangers at Montreal, TBA* OTTAWA VS. BOSTON Wednesday: Boston at Ottawa, 6 p.m.

Saturday: Boston at Ottawa, 2 p.m.

Monday, April 17: Ottawa at Boston, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, April 19: Ottawa at Boston, 6:30 p.m.

Friday, April 21: Boston at Ottawa, TBA* Sunday, April 23: Ottawa at Boston, TBA* Wednesday, April 26: Boston at Ottawa, TBA* WASHINGTON VS. TORONTO Thursday: Toronto at Washington, 6 p.m.

Saturday: Toronto at Washington, 6 p.m.

Monday, April 17: Washington at Toronto, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, April 19: Washington at Toronto, 6 p.m.

Friday, April 21: Toronto at Washington, TBA* Sunday, April 23: Washington at Toronto, TBA* Tuesday, April 25: Toronto at Washington, TBA* PITTSBURGH VS. COLUMBUS Wednesday: Columbus at Pittsburgh, 6:30 p.m.

Friday: Columbus at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Sunday: Pittsburgh at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Tuesday, April 18: Pittsburgh at Columbus, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 20: Columbus at Pittsburgh, TBA* Sunday, April 23: Pittsburgh at Columbus, TBA* Tuesday, April 25: Columbus at Pittsburgh, TBA* * if necessary

MLB

NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE x-Boston y-Cleveland x-Toronto y-Washington x-Atlanta x-Milwaukee Indiana Bulls

W 52 51 50 49 42 42 41 40

L 29 30 31 32 38 39 40 41

Pct .642 .630 .617 .605 .525 .519 .506 .494

GB — 1 2 3 9½ 10 11 12

Miami Detroit Charlotte New York Philadelphia Orlando Brooklyn

40 37 36 30 28 28 20

41 44 45 51 53 53 61

.494 .457 .444 .370 .346 .346 .247

12 15 16 22 24 24 32

WESTERN CONFERENCE Pct .815 .753 .667 .617 .617 .575 .531 .506

GB — 5 12 16 16 19½ 23 25

Denver 38 42 .475 New Orleans 33 47 .413 Dallas 32 48 .400 Sacramento 31 49 .388 Minnesota 31 49 .388 L.A. Lakers 25 55 .313 Phoenix 24 57 .296 x-clinched playoff spot, y-clinched division, z-clinched conference

27½ 32½ 33½ 34½ 34½ 40½ 42

z-Golden State y-San Antonio x-Houston x-L.A. Clippers y-Utah x-Oklahoma City x-Memphis x-Portland

W 66 61 54 50 50 46 43 41

L 15 20 27 31 31 34 38 40

Monday’s Results Bulls 122, Orlando 75 Indiana 120, Philadelphia 111 Boston 114, Brooklyn 105 Miami 124, Cleveland 121, OT Milwaukee 89, Charlotte 79 Washington 105, Detroit 101 Portland 99, San Antonio 98 L.A. Clippers 125, Houston 96 Utah 105, Golden State 99 Tuesday’s Games Charlotte at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Denver at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

New Orleans at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m.

Phoenix at Sacramento, 9:30 p.m.

PREPS SCHEDULE

TUESDAY Softball: Alden-Hebon at Westminster Christian, Woodstock at Rockford East, Marengo at Burlington Central, Johnsburg at Woodstock North, Harvard at Richmond-Burton, Prairie Ridge at Hampshire, Dundee-Crown at Huntley, Rolling Meadows at Crystal Lake South, Crystal Lake Central at Jacobs, McHenry at Cary-Grove, 4:30 p.m.

Boys tennis: Marengo at Streamwood, Prairie Ridge at Hampshire, Dundee-Crown at Huntley, Woodstock North at Crystal Lake South, Crystal Lake Central at Jacobs, McHenry at Cary-Grove, 4:30 p.m.

Baseball: Alden-Hebron at Westminster Christian, McHenry at CaryGrove, Crystal Lake Central at Jacobs, Dundee-Crown at Huntley, Prairie Ridge at Hampshire, Marian Central at Christian Crossroads, Marengo at Woodstock North, Richmond-Burton at Harvard, 4:30 p.m.

Girls soccer: Belvidere at Hampshire, Woodstock North at Woodstock, Marengo at Johnsburg, Cary-Grove at Prairie Ridge, 4:30 p.m., Burlington Central at Harvard, 6 p.m., Richmond-Burton at Grant, McHenry at Zion-Benton, 6:15 p.m., Marian Central at Badger, Crystal Lake South at Grayslake North, 6:30 p.m., Dundee-Crown, Jacobs at PepsiCo Showdown, TBA Boys track and field: Wauconda, North Boone at Harvard, 4:15 p.m.; Marian Central, St. Viator, Marist at Benet, Harvard, Marengo, Woodstock North at Richmond-Burton, 4:30 p.m.

Girls Track and Field: Harvard, Marengo, Johnsburg and Woodstock North at Richmond-Burton, 4:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY Softball: Woodstock North at Richmond-Burton, Woodstock at Wauconda, St. Edward at Marian Central, McHenry at Antioch, Crystal Lake South at Grant, Hampshire at Dundee-Crown, 4:30 p.m.

Boys tennis: Larkin at Woodstock, Johnsburg at Grayslake Central, McHery at Grant, Crystal Lake Central at Marian Central, 4 p.m., Cary-Grove at Lake Zurich, 4:30 p.m.

Baseball: Crystal Lake South at Johnsburg, Harvard at Richmond-Burton, Woodstock North at Marengo, Burlington Central at Woodstock, CaryGrove at McHenry, 4:30 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Central Division W L Pct 5 2 .714 5 2 .714 3 3 .500 2 5 .286 2 5 .286 East Division W L Pct New York 4 3 .571 Washington 4 3 .571 Miami 3 3 .500 Philadelphia 3 4 .429 Atlanta 1 5 .167 West Division W L Pct Arizona 6 2 .750 Colorado 5 3 .625 Los Angeles 4 4 .500 San Diego 4 4 .500 San Francisco 3 5 .375

Cubs Cincinnati Pittsburgh St. Louis Milwaukee

GB — — 1½ 3 3 GB — — ½ 1 2½ GB — 1 2 2 3

Monday’s Results Cubs 3, L.A. Dodgers 2 San Francisco 4, Arizona 1 Cincinnati 7, Pittsburgh 1 N.Y. Mets 4, Philadelphia 3 Washington 14, St. Louis 6 San Diego 5, Colorado 3 Tuesday’s Games Cincinnati (Davis 0-0) at Pittsburgh (Taillon 0-0), 6:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Harvey 1-0) at Philadelphia (Buchholz 0-0), 6:05 p.m.

St. Louis (Lynn 0-0) at Washington (Gonzalez 0-0), 6:05 p.m.

Milwaukee (Peralta 1-0) at Toronto (Happ 0-1), 6:07 p.m.

Atlanta (Colon 0-0) at Miami (Straily 0-1), 6:10 p.m.

San Diego (Weaver 0-1) at Colorado (Senzatela 0-0), 7:40 p.m.

Arizona (Ray 0-0) at San Francisco (Samardzija 0-1), 9:15 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games L.A. Dodgers at Cubs, 7:05 p.m.

San Diego at Colorado, 2:10 p.m.

St. Louis at Washington, 3:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 6:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 6:05 p.m.

Milwaukee at Toronto, 6:07 p.m.

Atlanta at Miami, 6:10 p.m.

Arizona at San Francisco, 9:15 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Central Division W L Pct Minnesota 5 1 .833 Detroit 4 2 .667 Cleveland 3 3 .500 White Sox 2 3 .400 Kansas City 2 5 .286 East Division W L Pct Baltimore 4 1 .800 Tampa Bay 5 3 .625 Boston 3 3 .500 New York 3 4 .429 Toronto 1 5 .167 West Division W L Pct Los Angeles 5 2 .714 Oakland 4 4 .500 Houston 4 4 .500 Texas 2 4 .333 Seattle 2 6 .250

GB — 1 2 2½ 3½ GB — ½ 1½ 2 3½ GB — 1½ 1½ 2½ 3½

Monday’s Results N.Y. Yankees 8, Tampa Bay 1 Detroit 2, Boston 1 Oakland 2, Kansas City 0 Seattle 6, Houston 0 Tuesday’s Games White Sox (Shields 1-0) at Cleveland (Carrasco 1-0), 3:10 p.m.

Minnesota (Santiago 1-0) at Detroit (Boyd 0-1), 12:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Peralta 1-0) at Toronto (Happ 0-1), 6:07 p.m.

Baltimore (Bundy 1-0) at Boston (Pomeranz 0-0), 6:10 p.m.

Texas (Hamels 0-0) at L.A. Angels (Skaggs 0-1), 9:07 p.m.

Houston (Musgrove 0-0) at Seattle (Miranda 0-0), 9:10 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games White Sox at Cleveland, 5:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 12:05 p.m.

Minnesota at Detroit, 12:10 p.m.

Milwaukee at Toronto, 6:07 p.m.

Baltimore at Boston, 6:10 p.m.

Oakland at Kansas City, 7:15 p.m.

Texas at L.A. Angels, 9:07 p.m.

Houston at Seattle, 9:10 p.m.

CALENDAR

May 16-18: Owners’ meetings, New York.

June 12: Amateur draft starts.

July 11: All-Star Game, Miami.

July 7: Last day to sign for amateur draft picks subject to deadline.

July 30: Hall of Fame inductions, Cooperstown, N.Y. July 31: Last day to trade a player without securing waivers.

Sept. 1: Active rosters expand to 40 players.

SOCCER: 2026 WORLD CUP

By ROB HARRIS

The Associated Press

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Sunil Gulati (from left), president of the United States Soccer Federation; Decio de Maria, president of the Mexican Football Federation; and Victor Montagliani, president of the Canadian Soccer Association, take part in a news conference Monday in New York. The three soccer federations announced a bid to co-host the 2026 World Cup. dent,” Gulati said of the Trump controversies. “He is fully supportive of the joint bid, encouraged the joint bid, and is especially pleased with the fact Mexico is participating in the

SPORTS BRIEFS

Bears release CB Porter

The Bears released veteran cornerback Tracy Porter on Monday, one month after signing cornerbacks Prince Amukamara and Marcus Cooper, and 13 months after signing Porter to a three-year extension.

Porter, who turns 31 in August, played in 30 games the past two seasons with the Bears, often playing through injuries. In 2015 he was the most productive player on the defense, with 12 passes defensed and a crucial interception against the Packers on Thanksgiving.

Last season, Porter played in every game and had 48 tackles, nine passes defensed and two interceptions. He was instrumental in helping a young cornerbacks group.

joint bid.”

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment Trump has also faced criticism over his plans – since

stay on the road for a nationally televised game in Week 3 in Tennessee against the Titans on Aug. 27. The noon kickoff will be available to a national audience on Fox. As per tradition, the Bears conclude their preseason against the Browns, this time Aug. 31 or Sept. 1 at Soldier Field The Bears play in Cleveland during the regular season.

Former Braves player Nixon found safe after being reported missing

ATLANTA – Former Atlanta Braves player Otis Nixon, who went missing last weekend, has been located, police said Monday.

Nixon has been found and he’s “safe,” said Brittany Duncan, a spokeswoman for police in Woodstock, a suburb northwest Bears open preseason vs. Denver of Atlanta. She had no other details about The Bears announced their 2017 presea- his condition, where he was found or the circumstances. son schedule Monday, and it will begin with a game against the Broncos at Soldier Nixon, 58, had been last seen around 10 a.m. Saturday leaving his home in WoodField for the second year in a row. stock, Georgia, about 30 miles northwest The Bears will open the preseason between Aug. 10-14 against John Fox’s for- of downtown Atlanta, police said. He left in mer team. Last year, the Broncos shut out a gray Range Rover and was on his way to a golf course where he had a tee time but the Bears, 22-0, in the preseason opener.

The Bears also opened the 2012 preseason never arrived, police said.

Nixon’s girlfriend, who lives with him, against Denver.

In Week 2 (Aug. 17 to 21), the Bears trav- had reported him missing, Duncan said.

– Staff, wire reports el to Arizona to face the Cardinals. They

hattan.

The North American nations are seeking to bring the World Cup back to the region for the first time since 1994, when the U.S. was the sole host. Mexico wants to be the first three-time World Cup host after previous editions in 1970 and 1986.

The U.S., Mexico and Canada all expect to qualify automatically – as the last co-hosts South Korea and Japan did in 2002 – but the FIFA Council has the final decision on the 2026 slots. The quota of finalists for CONCACAF, the North and Central American and Caribbean region, will double to at least six under the new format.

The hosting rights are due to be awarded by FIFA in 2020.

Africa and South America are eligible to bid, but no countries from those continents have publicly declared an interest. Argentina and Uruguay are keen on co-hosting in 2030 to mark the 100-year anniversary of the event that was first staged in Uruguay.

• Tuesday, April 11, 2017

The United States launched its bid to co-host the 2026 World Cup with Mexico and Canada on Monday after gaining the support of President Donald Trump to pursue soccer’s showpiece amid heightened regional political tensions.

Trump derided Mexico as a source of rapists and criminals in his campaign and has vowed to build a wall on the southern border. Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto recently canceled a trip to Washington over Trump’s insistence that Mexico pay for the wall.

U.S. Soccer Federation President Sunil Gulati immediately faced questions about the impact of Trump’s stance toward Mexicans on staging one of the biggest events in sports as he presented the bid alongside his counterparts from Mexico and Canada in New York.

“We have very specifically addressed this with the presi-

stopped by courts – to bar new visas for people from Iran, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Libya. FIFA President Gianni Infantino said last month that all players, team officials, and support staff from the 48 finalists “need to have access to the country, otherwise there is no World Cup. That is obvious.”

The U.S., Mexico and Canada have to guarantee freedom of travel as part of the bidding requirements.

The proposal for the first World Cup with the field expanded from 32 to 48 teams is that the U.S. hosts all the games from the quarterfinals. The U.S. would get 60 games; Mexico and Canada would have 10 each.

“We don’t believe sport can solve all the issues in the world but, especially with what’s going on in the world today, we believe this is a hugely positive signal and symbol of what we can do together in unifying people, especially in our three countries,” Gulati said atop the Freedom Tower in lower Man-

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8 BLACKHAWKS

Rookies prepare for pressure of playoffs

By MARK LAZERUS

mlazerus@suntimes.com CHICAGO – Nick Schmaltz never has faced a defensive-zone draw in the second overtime of a Stanley Cup playoff game. He’s never made a daring pass through traffic that could lead to the game-winning goal or the game-losing turnover in a potential series clincher. He’s never had the puck on his stick and the Stanley Cup on the line.

But he knows a thing or two about playing – and winning – under pressure. A year ago this week, Schmaltz scored the game-winning goal with 56.8 seconds left in the NCAA national semifinal, sweeping in a rebound and propelling North Dakota to an eventual national championship. It’s not the Stanley Cup playoffs. But it’s not nothing, either.

“It helps, just knowing that you can make those plays when you need to,” Schmaltz said. “When crunch time comes around, you’re not nervous to make a play. I think I’ll be ready and not too nervous.”

He’d better be. The Hawks are among the most tested teams in the league, with a staggering 1,462 career playoff games among the roster. But they won’t go anywhere this postseason without contributions from the four rookies in the lineup – Schmaltz on the top line, Ryan Hartman on the third line, and John Hayden and Tanner Kero likely on the fourth line. And there’s no dipping a toe in the water when it comes to the playoffs; you get thrown right into the deep end.

“We’ll need these guys to be important players, like they were most of the season,” Hawks coach Joel Quenneville said. “We’ve had a number of guys that have come in and played some key situations for us. … They’re going to get important ice time.”

There’s nothing quite like the pressure and intensity of the Stanley Cup playoffs. But the Hawks rookies have been in big games before. Schmaltz played in the Frozen Four in each of his two seasons at North Dakota and twice played in the World Juniors, posting eight points in seven games in a bronze-medal effort last season. Hartman had two goals and two assists in five games during the 2014 World Juniors and played 11 AHL playoff games in Rockford. Kero played in nine playoff games in Rockford and had a goal and nine shots on goal in his one NCAA tournament game. Hayden played in the NCAA tournament after his sophomore and junior seasons at Yale.

It’s not much. But it’s something.

“It helps,” Hayden said. “Even the games I’ve been playing here, I’ve learned a lot. I’ve been trying to have a playoff mentality every night.”

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Kings defenseman Derek Forbort fall as he battles for the puck with Blackhawks rookie center Nick Schmaltz on Saturday in Los Angeles. The Hawks open the playoffs Thursday against Nashville.

The grind that awaits the rookies is all new. College hockey ends in April. The IceHogs have won one playoff series in the past eight years. Schmaltz said “it’s crazy” that there could be two more months of hockey ahead of the Hawks, given how much they’ve already played. He says he feels great physically, but the mental wear and tear in the Stanley Cup playoffs is unlike anything he’s faced.

“It’s a lot different mentally,” Schmaltz said. “Last year was just one and done – if you lose, you’re out. This year, it’s seven-game series, so it’s a lot more mental fatigue, and you’ve got to be mentally sharp every game.

We’ve got a lot of great guys in here to look up to, guys who have won before and know what it takes. I’ll just try to do my best and follow the leaders we’ve got in here.”

Schmaltz never will forget his game-winner in the Frozen Four last season, although he joked he “blacked out” during the raucous celebration. At this point, it’s the biggest goal of his career by far.

He hopes to replace it soon.

“For sure,” he said. “I don’t think it can be much bigger than a goal in a Stanley Cup playoff game that decides a series or swings the momentum your way. I’m hoping I can contribute.”

Stanley Cup playoffs: Western Conference preview The Blackhawks have been here so many times before. They’re 16 postseason wins away from a fourth Stanley Cup title in eight years, and their veteran core knows it has the talent and the experience to survive the two-month playoff grind.

Nobody else in the Western Conference playoff picture can say any of that.

None of the other seven teams has won a recent Stanley Cup. In fact, only three of those franchises have raised the Cup at all, and only two players were in their current uniform for it: Anaheim’s Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry, who won their rings a decade ago.

So is it the Hawks’ conference crown to lose when postseason play gets underway Wednesday?

The top-seeded Hawks have been around for too long to believe anything matters except Game 1 on Thursday night against Nashville.

“I think that energy, that ambition and motivation is back,” Hawks captain Jonathan Toews said. “We have that feeling again, that every single moment and every single game matters. It’s a lot of fun to play at this time of the year.

It’s why we work all year to get to this point, and as we have said in the past, the real season begins. Obviously, we want to see what we are made of, and I think we are all pretty confident what we are able to do.”

The rest of the West is about to find out if it measures up.

Here’s what to watch in the four first-round series beginning this week: BLACKHAWKS vs PREDATORS Toews, Patrick Kane, Duncan Keith, Brent Seabrook and Marian Hossa are just part of the veteran group that propelled the Hawks down the stretch to the West’s top record and the NHL’s third-best performance since New Year’s Day (58 points).

Yet these Hawks have been refreshed by an infusion of youngsters hoping for their first taste of Stanley Cup glory, most notably Artemi Panarin. The high-scoring Russian is in only his second NHL season, and his first postseason run ended abruptly last year with the Hawks’ first-round loss to St. Louis.

The Predators were the Hawks’ first-round postseason opponents before the Hawks’ Stanley Cup title runs in 2010 and 2015. Nashville’s record (41-29-12) was almost identical to last season’s mark, but the Predators have made one big change: P.K. Subban replaced Shea Weber as their top defenseman this season, headlining a blue-line corps including Roman Josi and Ryan Ellis in front of goalie Pekka Rinne.

The Hawks know that if Rinne plays at his all-world best, even they could have trouble scoring enough to win.

WILD vs BLUES Minnesota was cruising toward the Central Division title before a late-season slump, while the Blues surged into the postseason after firing coach Ken Hitchcock and trading top defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk.

Both teams are regular playoff qualifiers, but both are hoping for a breakthrough this spring after years of disappointment. Keep an eye on Minnesota goalie Devan Dubnyk, whose proficiency against Vladimir Tarasenko and the Blues’ scorers could determine this series.

DUCKS vs FLAMES Anybody who is aware of the Flames’ 25-game regular-season losing streak at Honda Center could be excused for thinking the Ducks have an astonishing home-ice advantage in this matchup of the five-time defending Pacific Division champions and the West’s top wild card.

The Flames are loaded with young talent, but this series rests heavily on Getzlaf, Perry, Ryan Kesler and the rest of Anaheim’s veteran core, which simply hasn’t been able to finish: The Ducks have lost a Game 7 at home in each of the last four postseasons.

The Ducks streaked into the postseason on an 11-0-3 roll, and they have more talent and experience. But after Anaheim’s first-round flop against Nashville last season, the Flames realize they might be facing some sitting Ducks in their quest for a playoff breakthrough.

OILERS vs SHARKS Connor McDavid will make his Stanley Cup playoff debut at Rogers Place’s first postseason game Wednesday night, and the hockey world can’t wait to see what he does next.

McDavid already won the NHL scoring title and led Edmonton back to the postseason after a 10-year absence. The Oilers even finished above the Sharks, who have much the same team that won the West last season.

San Jose might be far from full strength: Centers Joe Thornton and Logan Couture are out with injuries, and it’s unclear when they’ll return.

– Greg Beacham The Associated Press