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RDELLEN E. BURKETTBorn: May 30, 1975; in Joliet, ILDied: Dec. 28, 2014; in Morris, IL

Ellen E. Burkett, age 39, of Morris, passed away peacefully Sunday, December 28, 2014, at her home follow-ing a long battle

with cancer.Born May 30, 1975, in Joliet, Ellen

is a daughter of Beth (Thorson) Brooks and Carl Burkett. She was a graduate of Morris Community High School with the Class of 1993 and went on to earn her Aesthetician License. She was a member of First Presbyterian Church of Morris. El-len’s employment included working for Benefit Cosmetics at Macy’s in Water Tower Place in Chicago, as well as serving as a regional man-ager for Decleor Cosmetics. It was during her tenure with Decleor, that Ellen had the opportunity to travel both stateside and abroad.

She was a tremendous lover of all animals; enjoyed reading and shopping; took pleasure in music and dancing, and cherished her beloved coffee. Ellen had a passion for make-up artistry and demon-strated an extreme talent, which was cultivated from her childhood. She will be remembered as simple and elegant; full of grace, and loved by all who knew her.

Survivors include her parents, Beth and Steve Brooks of Morris and Carl and Gail Burkett of Plainfield; two sisters, Bridget (Scott) Miklau-

sich of Locus Grove, Georgia and Megan (Dave) Murray of Minooka; as well as two lifelong friends, who were like sisters to Ellen: Keri Morse-Calvert of Jacksonville, Florida and Julie Yunker of Ottawa; two nieces and one nephew, Katie Miklausich, Ryan Miklausich and Sydney Murray and numerous, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends.

Ellen was preceded in death by her grandparents, Vernon “Bib” and Ha-zel Thorson, Carl and Doris Burkett and Philip and Helen Brooks.

The family will receive friends at the First Presbyterian Church, 200 East Jackson Street in Morris on Saturday, January 3, 2015, from 10:00 a.m. until time of Life Cele-bration 11:00 a.m. Reverend Dr. Roy Backus will officiate.

Preferred memorials may be made as gifts in Ellen’s memory to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place Memphis, TN 38105 (www.stjude.org) or to the Colon Cancer Alliance, 1025 Vermont Ave, NW Suite 1066, Washington, DC 20005 (www.ccalliance.org)

Friends may sign the online guest book or send private condolences to the family by logging onto: www.ReevesFuneral.com

Arrangements have been made under the direction and care of Reeves Funeral Homes, Ltd. in Morris. (815-942-2500)

LEONARD W. DEVICKBorn: Aug. 25, 1945; in Aurora, ILDied: Dec. 30, 2014; in Aurora, IL

Leonard “Lenny” Wade Devick, age 69, of Yorkville, passed away on Tuesday, December 30, 2014, at Rush Copley Medical Center in Aurora. He was born on August 25, 1945 in Aurora, IL, the son of Lyle and Doris

(Cryder) Devick.Lenny was united in marriage

on May 11, 1984, in Yorkville, to Deidre Jan Gibson, and they spent the next 30 happy years together. He attended grade schools in the Yorkville area, and was a 1963 graduate of Yorkville High School.

Mr. Devick proudly served his country during the war in Vietnam as a member of the 1st Calvary Division in the United States Army. Lenny was a land developer and real estate broker in the Kendall County area for over 40 years. He was a long time member of Helmar Lutheran Church in Newark.

Lenny enjoyed golfing, boating, vacationing and spending time with his family and friends. He loved to tell a good story and had an infectious laugh that could be heard from afar. He was a loving husband, father, grandfather, brother-in-law, and uncle who will be deeply missed by his family and many friends.

He is survived by his wife, Deidre “Deed” Devick of Yorkville, IL; his son, Laird (Joey) Devick of Naper-ville, IL; his two grandchildren, Logan and Makenna; his brother-in-law, Jim Dirst of Yorkville, IL; and several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Lyle and Doris Devick; and his sister, Sandra Dirst.

A Funeral Service will be held at 10:00 a.m., on Saturday, January 3, 2015, at Helmar Lutheran Church, 11935 Lisbon Rd, Newark, IL with Pastor James Molstre officiating. Interment will follow in the Aux Sable Cemetery in Minooka, IL. Friends may visit from 3:00 until 8:00 p.m., on Friday, January 2, 2015, at the Larson-Nelson Funeral Home, 1617 N. Bridge St., Yorkville, IL.

Arrangements by Nelson Funeral Homes & Crematory, 630-553-7611 or www.NelsonFuneralHomes.com.

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: City of Morris public works employees clean up a downed tree in July after a major storm that caused power outages in much of the area. Shaun Sloan from Romeoville works at Morris Community High School with a ComEd contractor to fas-ten electric poles to a trailer to be taken to locations that were damaged during the June 30 storm that hit Morris and Grundy County, causing major power outages. Mutual Aid Box Alarm System (MABAS) division 15 water rescue personnel, along with a search dog from Search and Rescue Dogs of Illinois, and his handler, search the shoreline between the dam and Stratton Park in Morris in June for Emily A. Hendricks of Wheaton. Her body was found a few days after she went missing on the Illinois River.

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By CHRISTINACHAPMAN–VAN YPEREN [email protected]

and HEIDI [email protected]

1 Heroin epidemic

In 2014, six people died of heroin overdos-es in Grundy County

and charges related to heroin have become numerous.

So much so that this year the Grundy County State’s Attorney’s Office, in conjunc-tion with numerous other lo-cal offices and organizations, hosted “Heroin in your neigh-borhood” forums around the county to help families recog-nize the signs of heroin use and how to combat it.

The first forum took place in January in Coal City.

One overdose death in Grundy County occurred in October.

Rebecca Smith of Morris, the mother of a 5-year-old, died of a heroin overdose. That same week, a Streator man, Jose Franco, 28, was arrested by Grundy County sheriff’s deputies for alleged possession of 28 bags of hero-in, totalling 13.5 grams.

Franco was taken to the emergency room because he had swallowed a few of the heroin bags.

He pleaded not guilty and will be in court again later this month.

2 Lives taken too soon

Numerous young people were killed in 2014. Here are a few that

hit close to home.On May 26, a Minooka Com-

munity High School graduate, Madison Angus, was killed in a car crash. Her friends and peers held a candlelight vigil a few days later to honor her and to raise money for her family toward funeral expenses.

“Madison was a good friend of mine. We wanted to make it as easy for the family as pos-sible,” friend Carley Deddo said in May. “Madison was the

most giving, selfless person I know. She would do it for any-one else.”

Just a couple of months lat-er, another vehicle accident took the lives of two and badly injured another two on Route 6 in Morris.

On July 21, Tristan Durov of Shorewood was driving an SUV east on Route 6 when he lost control near Gun Club Road, according to authori-ties. The car left the roadway and went into the south ditch, where it rolled several times into a neighboring field.

Kendall Forth, 16, of Minoo-

ka and James Harris III, 22, of Channahon, both backseat passengers in the vehicle, died as a result of the crash. Durov and a front-seat passenger, a 20-year-old at the time from Minooka, survived.

In September, Durov was indicted on aggravated driv-ing while under the influence, reckless homicide and aggra-vated reckless driving charges. He has pleaded not guilty and is set to be in court next Jan. 29, according to Grundy Coun-ty State’s Attorney Jason Hel-land. Durov is still in custody with a $500,000 bond.

3 Coal City marine killed in training accident

The death of Marine Lance Cpl. Steven Hancock left Coal City distraught but brought residents together to honor his memory.

Hancock, 20, of Coal City, died in May after falling from an aircraft during a training flight in North Carolina.

Hancock’s friends and fam-ily remembered him as a hard-working person who was full of joy.

He was honored with a mil-itary funeral and hundreds of flags were waved by commu-nity members who lined the streets of Morris as his body

was transported to the city from Chicago.

4 Numerous drownings plague summer

The dangers of activ-ities on the water were evident in the area when numerous people drowned in the summer of 2014.

On June 3, Dean Freder-icks, 20, of Morris, was canoe-ing on the Kankakee River when his boat overturned in Wilmington. Later that month, a toddler visiting family in Morris drowned in a backyard pool during a party.

Also in June, a Naperville man, 35-year-old Alberto Ro-driguez Jr., entered the Illinois River in Marseilles from an anchored boat to cool off and was swept downriver by the swift current. His body was found a couple days later just west of Allen Park in Ottawa.

After several days of search-ing, Emily A. Hendricks, 24, of Wheaton, was found in the Illi-nois River in Morris on June 25. Hendricks was one of four people on a boat that became lodged in the Dresden Dam. One person in the boat and two others in the river were rescued.

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It’s been quite a year in the Grundy County area as the Morris Dai-ly Herald looks back on 2014.

The news this year ranged from powerful storms causing mu-nicipalities to assess power backup methods, to families being

forced to say goodbye to loved ones taken too soon.

As we take a look at the headlines that filled our news pages through the year, it is evident these events not only affected so many in 2014, but will continue to stay with them in 2015.

Here are a few of the stories, listed in date of occurrence, that cap-tured the attention of our readers and staff.

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When the late Marine Lance Cpl. Steven Hancock, 20, of Coal City, was brought home for his funeral services, community members lined the street to watch the procession to the Morris funeral home.

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Gas prices fall below $2 in MorrisBy HEIDI LITCHFIELD

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MORRIS – Motorists are seeing falling prices at the gas pump.

On Monday night, two area gas stations, the Morris Pilot and the TA truck stop and BP on Romines Drive, fell to $1.99, followed by Casey’s and DJ’s BP on Tuesday in Morris.

“I never thought it would get this low,” said John Sparrow, owner of DJ’s BP. “People can use their money for other things now, like bills and groceries.”

The last time Illinois saw gas prices below $2 was from the end of 2008 to the beginning of 2009, according to gasbuddy.com, which keeps track of gas prices throughout the United States.

Kathy Dillard of Morris said every time she goes to get gas lately she thinks “this is great,” and then the next time the pric-es are lower again.

“I hope it stays cheap in the summer when we go on vaca-tion,” Dillard said. “I can’t re-member it being this low.”

She said she typically fills up her car with gas once a week, costing her $67 in the past. On Monday night, it only took $37 to fill up, a savings of $120 a month.

“The amount we are saving is huge,” she said. “My husband is on unemployment so this gives us extra to spend on gro-ceries or I can pretend it’s not there and save it.”

Scott Martin stopped at Pilot Tuesday morning to fill up de-spite already having a half tank of gas.

“I couldn’t believe the prices were under $2,” he said. “I didn’t really need gas, but I had to stop and fill up at these prices.”

Martin, who lives closer to Chicago, said the prices in Ber-wyn, where he normally fills up, were still more than $2.30 a gallon, which he considered low until he got to Morris.

At BP on Romines Drive, Tina Peterson was filling up her car as she travelled home to Iowa after visiting her parents for the holidays.

“It’s like getting an extra

Christmas present,” she said as she topped her car off at just below $40. “If they stay this low for the summer it will be great. We will be able to visit my mom more often or maybe go some-where with the money we are saving.”

The price is expected to con-tinue to drop into the new year, said Tom Kloza, the global head of energy analysis for Oil Price Information Service.

“The immediate expecta-tions are lower prices,” Kloza said, adding that 2015 prices are predicted on average to be $1 a gallon less than 2014.

For the region, Kloza said prices are going to hover around $2 a gallon outside of Cook Coun-ty. And the country as a whole will experience lower prices rel-ative to 2014.

“We haven’t seen these num-bers since 2009,” Kloza said. “This is more of a resemblance to the late-’90s when there was an oil price war between [Orga-nization of the Petroleum Ex-porting Countries] and between non-OPEC countries.

While prices are expected to rise back above $2 in the spring, with the possibility of a 40-cent swing in some areas, Kloza said the overall prices could range from about $2.09 to $2.80 for most of the year.

“When you look at consum-ers in the aggregate, the gas bill will be about $120 billion lower than 2014. That includes jet fuel, heating fuel and other fuels,” Kloza said.

Shaw Media Reporter Vikaas Shanker contributed to this re-port.

Photos by Heidi Litchfield - [email protected]

Cars line up at the Morris Pilot to get gas as it dips below $2 a gallon.

Gas prices dropped below $2 on Monday in Morris for the first time since 2009.




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Fld: flood stage. Prs: stage in feet at 7 a.m Tuesday. Chg: change in previous 24 hours.Station Fld Prs Chg Station Fld Prs ChgMorris .................. 13 ..... 6.20 .... -0.30Marseilles L&D ... 473 ... 12.55 .... -0.19Ottawa ............... 463 . 459.86 ... +0.01Starved Rock L&D 450 443.55 .... -0.51

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New year brings new statewide lawsBy HEIDI LITCHFIELD

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MORRIS – Law enforcement will see a few changes in the law starting Thursday, but nothing too out of the ordinary, according to Morris Police Chief Brent Dite.

Legislation reinstating “sign and drive” will take effect the first of the year. HB 2583/PA 98-0870 prohibits law enforcement from taking a driv-er’s license as bail following a traffic law or ordinance violation.

“We’ve been doing this already for a number of years,” Dite said. “For minor traffic violations and petty of-fenses, we’ve had them sign a promise to comply with the ticket.”

He said the tickets issued that al-low sign and drive have instructions on how to plead guilty without going to court, as well as a court date if the driver wants to go or plead not guilty.

Grundy County Sheriff Kevin Cal-lahan said his deputies also check the notice to comply box and don’t take the driver’s license for petty offenses, such as speeding.

“We haven’t taken bond for tickets in years,” Callahan said. “We used to take cash or the driver’s license, but we no longer do either.”

According to a news release from the Illinois Senate Republicans, Illi-

nois is one of only six states that con-fiscates a driver’s license for a minor traffic offense.

Dite said police still will take the driver’s license as bond in the case of more severe driving offenses, such as driving under the influence, reckless driving or leaving the scene of an ac-cident where someone was hurt.

Another new law taking effect, ac-cording to the release, seeks to reduce wrongful convictions by changing the state’s existing police photo lineup procedure.

HB 802/PA 98-1014 requires police departments, unless not practical, to use an independent administrator, an automated computer program, a ran-dom folder photo lineup method, or any other procedure that does not al-low the lineup administrator to know the identity of a suspect.

Dite said the law won’t affect how

the Morris Police Department oper-ates lineups.

“We’ve been addressing photo line-ups and we video tape interviews,” Dite said. “Some smaller agencies with only one detective may find this law difficult.”

Callahan said they will look at how they can change procedures so that lineups are administrated by some-one not involved in the case.

“We’ve come a long way in how we do lineups, and we do the best we can,” Callahan said. “It’s good to have safeguards in place and it will help cops in the long run.”

The legislation also allows police departments to present each indi-vidual in the lineup separately. Ac-cording to the news release, research suggests viewing the lineups simulta-neously may contribute to wrongful convictions.

Dite said he hasn’t seen such re-search, but agrees tightening up pro-cedures is a good thing.

Dite said he doesn’t think his de-partment has an issue with detectives pointing out a person of interest, but the new law will have someone who doesn’t know who the person of inter-est is show the photo lineup to make sure there is no bias.

“We also tell them the subject may or may not be in the lineup,” Dite

said. “This will be good to get every-one doing it in a consistent way.”

Speed limit changesDriver’s who take one of the state’s

toll highways in Chicago will get to their destination a bit quicker thanks to SB 2015/PA 98-1128, sponsored by state Sen. Jim Oberweis, which brings the toll speed limit up to 70 MPH, to match the highways in the rest of the state.

The Senate Republicans news re-lease said the speed limit will be raised, unless the Toll Highway Au-thority can prove that speed is unsafe.

Senate Bill 2015 had been vetoed by Governor Pat Quinn, but the General Assembly voted to override that veto during the fall veto session.

Ban the boxAnother new law gives job ap-

plicants the opportunity to address questions about a past criminal re-cord in person, during an interview.

It prohibits private employers with 15 or more employees from ask-ing a job applicant about their crim-inal history until the applicant has been selected for an interview or, if there is not an interview, until after a conditional offer of employment is made.

“For minor traffic violations and petty offenses, we’ve had them sign a promise to comply

with the ticket.”

Brent DiteMorris police chief

No objections filed against candidates for April 7 election

MORRIS DAILY HERALD

MORRIS – No more objec-tions appear to have been filed against those running in the April 7 elections in the Grundy County area.

Some city council, village board, mayor and clerk offices are up for election in different Grundy County municipali-ties, as are school board posi-tions throughout the county.

Tuesday was the last day to file objections against candi-dates who have turned in peti-

tions to run for office.Calls to the Grundy Coun-

ty Clerk’s Office, Morris City Clerk, Minooka, Channahon, Coal City, Diamond and Brace-ville village clerks all came back with no objections filed Tuesday afternoon. Calls to other municipalities in Grun-dy County were not returned by press time.

In Morris, two objections were filed previously for can-didates running in the primary election for city offices Feb. 24. Earlier this month, the Morris

Municipal Officers Electoral Board ruled in favor of the ob-jectors to the petitions of Doug Hayse for alderman and Mary Callahan for city clerk.

With the ruling, Hayse, a Republican who sought to run for 2nd Ward alderman, and Callahan, a Republican who sought to run for city clerk, will not be on the primary bal-lot. Second Ward incumbent Julian Houston and current City Clerk Carol Adair, both Republicans, now have no one running against them.

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D W I G H T – T h e murder of two women in Dwight on June 14

had investigators working for months to catch the killer, who ended up being a former Mor-ris man who had killed him-self.

In August, investigators determined Joseph Sipple, 27, used the same gun to kill himself that was used to shoot Donna J. Denker, 60, and her daughter Kelli L. Denker, 30 at their Dwight home.

Sipple committed suicide when police came to arrest him in connection with an unrelated burglary two weeks later. Another male relative also was wounded when the mother and daughter were killed in their home in the 200 block of West North Street in Dwight.

6 Weak tornado touches down in Grundy County

MORRIS – It took several days for the National Weather Service to confirm, but an EF-0 tornado touched down north of Morris June 30.

An EF-0 tornado has wind speeds between 65 and 85 mph. The tornado’s path was north of Morris between Route 47 and Lisbon Road. In compar-ison, there were straight line winds recorded up to 90 mph closer to Morris, which caused more significant damage than the tornado.

About 90 percent of Morris, and much of the surround-ing Grundy County area, was without power as a result of the storms and many went without power for days. The biggest concern was for the city’s water treatment plant and water wells and the city’s shrinking water supply.

Morris officials are look-ing to bid for on-site genera-tors that would supply backup power to the city’s porable wa-ter plant and two of its wells if another massive power outage were to occur again.

With the generators, the

city’s water supply would be as it is on a regular day, Mayor Richard Kopczick said Tues-day.

7 Deadly I-55 crashes

C H A N N A H O N TOWNSHIP – July 21 was a hard scene to swal-

low for first responders arriv-ing at the scene of two deadly crashes that occurred within a half-hour of each other in an Interstate 55 construction zone.

The two crashes left six peo-ple dead and snarled traffic for hours within the Des Plaines River Bridge construction zone.

The semitrailer driver be-hind the wheel of the first crash – 51-year-old Francisco Espinal-Quiroz, of Leesburg, Indiana – was charged with 15 counts of reckless homicide and two counts of falsifying logbook entries in connection with the crash.

According to authorities, he told police at the scene he started work at 2:30 a.m. but had written in the logbook he

had begun at 6:30 a.m.Those who died in the first

collision were Kimberly K. Britton, 43, and Piper Britton, 11, of Urbana; Vicky L. Palaci-ocs, 54, of Coal City; and Ulrike P. Blopleh, 48, of Channahon. Timothy Osburn, 64, of Urba-na, also was involved in the first collision and was pro-nounced dead Aug. 6. The sec-ond collision that day killed Deividas Mockus, of Darien.

Over the course of the on-going investigation, it was dis-covered Espinal-Quiroz was blind in one eye but has driven trucks since 1991 with a feder-al vision waiver. His license was renewed the day before the crash.

8 YMCA finds a home

MORRIS – On Aug. 4 the city of Morris vot-ed to lease the former

Morris city hall and police de-partment on Wauponsee Street to the Morris Area YMCA to give it a temporary home until a permanent facility could be built.

The Morris Community

YMCA is part of the Greater Joliet Area YMCA and holds programs in Morris such as summer camps and an adult soccer league. The organiza-tion hired Operations Director Missy Durkin in 2013 for the Morris area.

The new space is ideal, be-cause of its proximity to the downtown and the people it attracts from all over the coun-ty, Durkin said in August after the city voted.

“Obviously, downtown Morris is a central hub in our community,” she said.

The three-year agreement between the YMCA and Mor-ris includes an option to ex-tend the contract another two years.

The YMCA held informa-tional meetings during the fall to find out what the communi-ty wanted from its YMCA as it moved forward with building renovations in anticipation of a January 2015 opening. A grand opening celebration will be held from noon to 6 p.m. Jan. 10.

More than 300 members have already joined the Mor-ris YMCA, and as a nonprof-it charity, it offers financial assistance and a scholarship program to ensure programs are available to everyone and no one is turned away because of an inability to pay.

9 Grundy County turnover

MORRIS – Similar to 2013, Grundy County

saw more staff turnover in the human resources and county administrator positions.

After going through three administrators since 2011, it appeared the county had final-ly found a permanent adminis-trator – its Land Use Director

Heidi Miller. Miller had acted as interim administrator sev-eral times in between previous administrators and the board finally hired her full time.

But in September, she re-signed from the administrator position. At the time, Miller said she decided to resign be-cause she made a mistake as an administrator and “was not following county procedure.” Miller retained her Land Use position.

Shortly after the Grun-dy County Board accepted Miller’s resignation, Debra Johnson, human resources di-rector, resigned from her po-sition. Although the board de-cided to put a letter in her file related to the Miller incident, Johnson said at the time that her resignation had nothing to do with that.

She said the Personnel Committee wanted a full-time director and she was unwill-ing to go more than part-time.

Johnson was the third per-son in the position since 2012. The board has since hired a new human resources director and is working on filling the county administrator position.

10 Weather cancellations

C o l d a n d snowy days last

winter resulted in some area school districts using all their allotted snow days.

Most school districts in Grundy County ended up hav-ing to move their graduation dates due to make-up days from school cancellations during the winter.

• Shaw Media reporters Lauren Leone-Cross and Felix Sarver contributed to this re-port.

• STORIESContinued from page 3


A tree fell at the corner of Pine and Chapin streets during the June 30 storm, causing electrical wires to spark and catch fire for a few hours before electricity could be cut to the lines.

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10FAYE C. GILMOURBorn: April 11, 1920Died: Dec. 23, 2014

Faye C. Gilmour, age 94, of Kankakee and formerly of Mazon and Morris, passed away Tues-day, December 23, 2014, at the Gilman

Healthcare Center.Born April 11, 1920, in Mazon, Faye

Cleopal was a daughter of the late Lena and Dennis Plott. She gradu-ated from Mazon Verona Kinsman High School in 1938 and attended Chicago Business College. Faye married Paul Irwin Gilmour in Coal City, and together they had three children. As an active community leader and member of the Mazon Congregational United Church of Christ, Faye authored “The History of Mazon Congregational Church” and was a member of the Mazon Con-gregational United Church of Christ Women’s Fellowship. She was also a past member of the Eastern Star, an active 4-H Leader, and an avid member of the Genealogical Club of Kankakee, Illinois.

As a professional, Faye worked for two decades at the Army Procure-

ment and Supply Agency (APSA) in Joliet, Illinois, as secretary to the Adjutant General, editing operating instructions and publications for the management of workers and produc-tion of armaments and equipment in APSA posts. She retired from APSA IN 1970. In later years, she was an active member of the Aroma Park United Church of Christ where she co-authored the faith-based cookbook “Seasons of Christian Refreshment” with colleague Betty Reynolds. Faye remained a lifelong member of the Mazon Congregation-al United Church of Christ regardless of her place of residence.

Faye is survived by her daughter, Denise Alaine Schrum of Kanka-kee; (5) grandchildren; (11) great grandchildren; and one brother, Don (Elizabeth) Plott of Mazon.

She is preceded in death by her husband, Paul; daughters, Aleta Michelle and Lisa Surprenant; grandson, Douglas Montana; and two brothers, Robert and Ivan.

Visitation and video tribute will be held on Saturday, January 3, 2015, from 10:00 a.m. until time of funeral service 11:00 a.m. at Reeves Funeral Home, 75 North Broadway (one block north of Illinois Route 113) in Coal City. Pastor Tyler Carrell from Park Street Church in Mazon will officiate. Burial will follow in Mazon

Brookside Cemetery, where Faye will be laid to rest with her late husband Paul.

Preferred memorials may be made as gifts in Faye’s memory to the Park Street Church, 804 Park Street, P.O. Box 266, Mazon, Illinois 60444. Friends may sign the online guest book or send private condolences to the family by logging onto: www.ReevesFuneral.com

Funeral services and arrangements have been made under the direction and care of Reeves Funeral Homes, Ltd. in Coal City. (815-634-2125)

DONALD E. JENNINGSBorn: May 27, 1934; in Joliet, ILDied: Dec. 29, 2014; in Morris, IL

Donald Edward Jennings, age 80, of Morris, IL, died Monday, December 29, 2014, at Morris Hospital.

He was born May 27, 1934, in Joliet, IL to the late

Angela (nee Feeney) and Arthur G. Jennings. He attended Minooka High School and had resided in Morris for many years.

Beloved husband of 61 years to Juanita J. (nee Ferguson) Jennings; loving father of Donald A. (Vicki, nee Workman) Jennings and James J. (Jackie, nee Bockman) Jennings, all of Morris. Proud grandfather of Erin (Brian) Dolwick of Carol Stream, IL, Jordan Jennings (fiancee Michelle Jancik) of Naperville, IL and Jessica (Justin) Holman of Morris. Great grandfather of Mason James and Madalyn Delaney Dolwick. Dear brother of Lois (late Cookie) Norton of Minooka and June Kisellus (Dave Bruder) of Bradenton, FL. Many nieces and nephews also survive.

Preceded in death by his moth-er, Angela; father, Arthur; and step-mother, Dorothy Jennings.

Don, the owner of Donico Inc. for over 50 years, was also a real estate developer in the Morris area. He was a member of Immaculate Conception Parish, Morris Country Club and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. Hobbies included watching the stock market and more specifically Jim Kramer as well as entering his standard-bred racehorse in competitions. His true passion however, was spending time with his family, especially at the lakehouse in St. Germain, WI.

Funeral services for Donald E. Jennings will be held Friday, January 2, 2015, at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, 516 E. Jackson St., Morris, where a Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:00 a.m. Interment will follow in Mt. Car-mel Cemetery. Visitation Thursday, January 1, 2015, from 3:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the Fred C. Dames Funeral Home, 1201 W. Route 6 at Deerpath Drive in Morris.

In lieu of flowers, memorials in Don’s name to Immaculate Concep-tion School or Operation St. Nick would be appreciated.

For information (815) 942-5040 or www.fredcdames.com

JACKIE MYDLER

Jackie Mydler, 67, of Dwight, passed away suddenly on December 30, 2014.

Arrangements by Hager Memorial Home.

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FAMILY TABLESimple, satisfying soup takes the chill out of winter

By RUSS PARSONS Los Angeles Times

Here is one of my favorite soup recipes sure to warm you up this winter.

Braised Greens and Potatoes with Lemon

and FennelStart to finish: 1 hour

Servings: 4

1/2 cup olive oil, plus good, fruity olive oil for drizzling, divided

2 onions, halved and thinly sliced2 carrots, quartered and cut in

1-inch lengths4 green onions, white and most of

green parts, thinly sliced1 fennel bulb, trimmed and coarse-

ly chopped, fronds and tender stalks reserved

4-6 fingerling potatoes, cut in bite-sized pieces

1 teaspoon fennel seeds, crushed with a mortar and pestle or finely ground

2 pounds mixed greens, spinach, sorrel, Swiss chard, outer leaves of romaine lettuce, pea shoots,

nettle tops or any combination of sweet leafy greens, large leaves coarsely chopped

1/2 cup white wine1 cup water1/4 preserved lemon, flesh discard-

ed, rinsed and chopped1/2 to 1 teaspoon salt, or more to

taste3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice, or

more to taste1/2 cup chopped fresh dill or wild

fennel, divided1 to 2 teaspoons marash pepper

or a good pinch of crushed red pepper flakes, or to taste

In a wide, deep soup pot, heat the olive oil over medium heat. Add the onions and cook, stirring frequently, until soft, about 5 minutes. Add the carrots, green onions, fennel bulb, potatoes and fennel seeds, stir to coat with the oil and cook an additional 3 minutes.

Add the greens in batches, starting with the larger leaves and gradually adding the smaller, more tender ones. Stir a few times to help the leaves wilt and reduce in size, then add the wine and cook for 1 minute; add the water,

the preserved lemon and salt to taste.Reduce the heat to low and simmer

until the greens and potatoes are ten-der and most of the juices have been absorbed, 15 to 20 minutes. If there is still too much liquid, raise the heat to high and continue to cook until the liquid is reduced, up to an additional 10 to 15 minutes.

4. Add the lemon juice, half the dill, the fennel fronds and stalks and sprinkle with the red pepper; toss, taste and adjust the seasonings as desired. Cook an additional 2 minutes to marry the flavors, then sprinkle with remaining dill.

5. Serve warm or at room tempera-ture, drizzled with the good, fruity olive oil.

Nutrition information: Calories 390; Protein 7 g; Carbohydrates 28 g; Fiber 9 g; Fat 28 g; Saturated fat 4 g; Cholesterol 0; Sugar 8 g; Sodium 666 mg

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Governor’s mansion still lacks a governorSPRINGFIELD – Yet

another Illinois governor says he won’t live in the Executive Mansion, at least for now.

First there was Rod Blago-jevich who said he couldn’t move to Springfield because he didn’t want his daughters to go to school here.

Then there was bachelor Gov. Pat Quinn who didn’t have a family to blame.

He promised to move to Springfield. He never did.

And now, Governor-elect Bruce Rauner says he says he can’t move into the 158-year old manor because it’s in such bad shape.

The basement floods. The roof leaks. The whole house is in disrepair.

Rauner, who compared the building to his college frat house, said he’s still mov-ing to Springfield despite the condition of the mansion.

But he will rent his own place until the mansion gets fixed up.

And he’s seeking private funding to renovate the his-toric building.

Some folks don’t see the importance of a governor living in Springfield.

But imagine the outcry if

George W. Bush or Barack Obama refused to live in Washington, D.C., during their presidencies.

Just as Washington is the nation’s capital, Springfield is our state’s seat of govern-ment.

Whether one chooses to live in Springfield speaks loudly to a governor’s level of engagement.

And, rightly or wrongly, Illinoisans living outside of the Chicago area have inter-preted the absence of a chief executive in Springfield as a sign of contempt for down-state Illinois.

The Blagojevich family didn’t help matters any.

Who can forget first lady Patti Blagojevich comments at the Illinois State Fair?

After watching thousands of downstaters teeming about the fairgrounds, the first lady said the state should promote the fair more because nobody knows about it.

Ouch.And of course it was Rod

Blagojevich who insisted on nightly flights back to Chicago, in a state plane at taxpayer expense, at time he was warring with the legisla-ture and calling it into daily special sessions.

It was as if he were saying he was too good to lay his head in the Capital City.

Illinois lacks the cohesive self-identity that other states like Texas or Florida have. Much of that is because of the state’s sad history of regional infighting.

The last two governors to live in Springfield – George Ryan and Jim Edgar – were downstaters themselves.

For Bruce Rauner, a Chi-cago-area native, to choose to live in Springfield sends a message of unity.

And that’s one thing Illi-nois sorely needs.

If only the state’s fiscal situation were as easy to fix as the mansion’s physical condition.

• Scott Reeder is a veteran statehouse reporter and a journalist with Illinois News Network, a project of the Illinois Policy Institute. He can be reached at [email protected].

OPINIONOUR VIEW

Get a better handle on state finances

Come Thursday, Illinois residents who pay income taxes will receive the promised reduction in the temporary 5 percent rate that they have paid the past four years.

The income tax rate will decline to 3.75 percent, which will mean more money in taxpayers’ pockets, even as it means less revenue for state coffers.

Gov. Pat Quinn, who signed the temporary tax increase into law in January 2011 after its approval in a lame-duck legislative session, announced earlier this year that he wanted to make the new rate permanent. His defeat in the November election derailed those plans.

We’ve heard it described that the rate increase from 3 percent to 5 percent, effective the past four years, was equivalent to each taxpayer paying the state an extra week’s wages a year.

The reduction to 3.75 percent is akin to getting the wages of three of those days back. Another way of putting it is that a family with a $50,000 income will have an extra $625 a year in their pocket.

The state will now have less income tax revenue with which to pay its bills – a fact that Gov.-elect Bruce Rauner must factor into his budgetary plans.

In 2011, the temporary income tax increase was billed as a way to rescue Illinois’ finances. Its extra $7 billion shot of revenue each year was supposed to help the state pay its unpaid bills and right the financial ship. But matched against rising annual public pension payments, which reached $7.8 billion in fiscal year 2014, the “rescue” failed.

And, in the wake of a judicial ruling that declared the Legisla-ture’s December 2013 pension reform bill unconstitutional, pension payments likely will continue to increase.

To Rauner’s incoming budget director, whoever that person is, the state’s prospects might look bleak.

The authors of “Fixing Illinois” devote Chapter 2, “Fixing Past Budgeting Sins,” to this problem. Jim Nowlan and Tom Johnson point out many opportunities for the state to improve the way it manages its money, as well as how it takes in and spends money.

The authors describe how the state has had a “structural deficit” in its budget since 2000. Borrowing and one-time revenue infusions, such as selling a state asset, helped cover the structur-al deficit, but those practices led to the state’s current massive indebtedness.

Nowlan and Johnson call on Illinois to simply reduce its spending increases to below the rate of inflation, and increase its revenue to above the rate of inflation.

The state historically relies on boosting revenue through tax rate increases, such as the temporary four-year income tax hike that is about to expire.

Nowlan and Johnson argue for “an appropriate revenue sys-tem” for the state, which could include broadening the revenue base through taxes set at low rates, lessening exemptions and exclusions, instituting a sales tax on services, and eliminating the five percent tax credit against state income taxes for real estate taxes paid (which in itself represents half a billion dollars in lost revenue to the state).

Working with the Legislature, the incoming Rauner adminis-tration must get a better handle on the state’s financial situation and take intelligent action to improve it.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of

speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.THE FIRST AMENDMENT

Scott Reeder

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Morris’ Mya Shannon (right) and LaSalle-Peru’s Megan Krolak lunge for the finish line at the Class 2A Morris Regional. Krolak was ruled the winner by 0.1 second.

Photo provided


After finishing as a state runner-up in 2013, Coal City junior Cody Minnick won the Class 1A 113-pound state championship in the 2014 season, finishing with a 45-1 record.

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By ROB OESTERLE [email protected]

1 Morris’ Knapp wins third straight high jump title

Even though she was a two-time defending state champion in the high jump, Haleigh Knapp was still ner-vous about her chances head-ing into the IHSA Class 2A girls track and field finals at Eastern Illinois University.

The Morris senior realized that she was up against a qual-ity field in the event. But after matching last year’s title ef-fort, Knapp went 5-feet-8 inch-es to assure herself a third trip to the top of the awards stand, prevailing by an inch over Bloomington’s Molly McGraw.

S h e j o i n s A d r i a n n e Leschewski (1998-2000, shot put) as the only three-time champions in the same event for the Redskins.

In addition, Knapp became just the fifth athlete statewide to win three or more titles in the high jump.

“This year feels the most exciting because the competi-tion was so good,” Knapp said. “I knew that I had to do what I had to do to win, but I was so nervous and I had absolutely no clue about what the out-come would be. At first, I was really nervous and I kind of let that take over, but I pulled through and did it. I really couldn’t have asked for a bet-ter day.”

2 Morris’ Baldridge, Coal City’s Minnick win wrestling titles

By virtue of go-ing 4-0 at the IHSA wrestling individual finals, Morris’ Kenny Baldridge became the Redskins’ first titilist in eight years by winning the 132-pound weight class.

“It feels really good. I’ve been working at this since I was seven years old,” Baldridge said after capping off his four-day run down at the State Farm Center at the University of Illinois in Cham-paign. “I got my butt kicked all the way through IKWF and

then got to high school and started getting better and bet-ter. Finally this year I made it into the finals and won it.”

He won it in a most impres-sive fashion, too.

Going up against the same opponent who had beat him the previous weekend at the Pontiac Sectional – Alexander Butler of Rockford Boylan – Baldridge completely changed his style to pull off what many considered an upset.

To win his first title, Coal City’s Cody Minnick had to beat a two-time defending state champion in the process.

North Boone’s Brandon Briggs had previously won the Class 1A titles at 106 and 113, respectively, in his freshman and sophomore seasons before

losing to Minnick (46-1), 3-2, in the finals.

“Cody going in against a two-time state champion, it shows his caliber. Especially after last year when he came in here undefeated,” Coal City coach Mark Masters said. “Things didn’t work out for him then. I can tell you that Cody stayed in good position the whole tournament. He at-tacked his offenses. He had a great tournament. He wrestled real well. I’ve come to expect that out of him.”

Minnick said the champi-onship went about as expected.

“It played out exactly how I thought it would,” he said. “Dominating on my feet and escaping out from bottom. It was perfect.”

3 Minooka’s Janile Rogers wins state long jump title

Minooka’s Janile Rogers capped her career by winning the title in the Class 3A long jump (18-10.75), beating Lakes’ Brittany Griesbaum by an inch and a quarter, to join Manette Cheshareck (discus, 1987) as that program’s only state champions.

She also placed fourth in the 100 (12.01) and ran on the fifth-place 4x400 and sixth-place 4x200 relays.

“This feels amazing,” Rog-ers said. “I’ve just been work-ing on getting the height and the form and it all came to me. This is very exciting, espe-cially coming from Minooka, where we haven’t had many state champions. It’s really been an honor to compete for Minooka.”

4 Seneca’s Lovett wins 110-meter hurdles state title

T o m m y L o v e t t wanted to cap his career at Seneca in style at the Class 1A boys track and field finals and he certainly did that.

The Fighting Irish ath-lete, who also placed sixth at the Class 1A state meet at 182 pounds in wrestling and was all-conference in football, turned in a winning time of 14.67 in the 110 high hurdles to defeat Peoria Christian’s Josh Kirby by two-tenths of a sec-ond for the championship.

He became the first individ-ual champion in the sport at his school. A 4x800 relay squad won Seneca’s only other title in 1990.

The best showing by an in-dividual before Lovett was F. Wehling’s second-place finish in the long jump in 1932.

“This is the best feeling in the world,” Lovett said. “To have all of these people here to watch you and to show off your talents is the greatest gift that there is. Any one of the guys could have won, it just depend-ed on who got the best start, and I feel like I had a strong start. The biggest thing for me is that I didn’t want to let the

nerves get to me. It was great to be able to represent my school since these have been the best four years of my life.”

5 Baseball, softball win regional titles within a half-hour of each other

In a rare scheduling quirk by the IHSA, Morris hosted both a Class 3A softball and baseball regional final on the same day. As it happened, both Redskin teams reached that final. In the baseball game, sophomore Matt Walk-er pitched Morris to its first regional championship since 2003 as the Redskins defeated LaSalle-Peru, 2-0.

After that on-field celebra-tion ended, the baseball team was able to witness the final half-inning of the softball team’s 2-1 victory over Ottawa. Two pairs of siblings won re-gional titles that day, Trevor and Leah Lines and Matt and Kellen Bernickus.

6 First Morris girl advances to state in cross country

The Morris girls cross country program has been around for a long time, but until 2014, it had never been represented at the state meet at Peoria’s Detweiller Park. Freshman Mya Shan-non, by virtue of her fifth-place finish at the Class 2A East Peoria Sectional, made the first appearance by a Mor-ris girl at state. At the section-al, Shannon edged LaSalle- Peru’s Megan Krolak at the wire, avenging a photo-finish defeat the week before at the Morris Regional. Shannon ran the Detweiller Park course in a personal-best time of 18:22, placing 43rd.

7 Coal City football reaches Class 4A football semifinals

In a season that saw him become the school’s all-time winningest football coach, Coal City’s Lenny

As 2014 winds to a close, we thought we would take a look at the year’s highlights in the area sports world.

Douglas Cottle file photo for Shaw Media

Morris’ Haleigh Knapp competes in the Class 2A high jump during the state finals in Charleston. Knapp won the state title for the third straight year.

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Trojans’ pressure gets best of MorrisBy RYAN WOODEN

Shaw Media correspondent

PLANO – Coming off his team’s most complete victo-ry of the season against Bur-lington Central in the Plano Christmas Classic quarterfi-nals on Saturday, Morris bas-ketball coach Joe Blumberg worried that a 48-hour layoff might interrupt their momen-tum.

Monday night, that wor-ry came to fruition as the Redskins dropped a tourna-

ment semifinal to Mendota, 69-56.

Offensively, the Redskins struggled with Mendota’s ball pressure and were forced off their spots, often making touches more than 30 feet from the rim and struggling to get into their offense. They also turned the ball over 22 times and allowed Mendota’s talented guards to get out into transition.

“Our senior leadership had no sense of urgency with the ball and then the foul trou-

ble with [Jake] Walker and [Austin] Patterson put some less experienced, more timid players on the floor and they exploited us,” Blumberg said after the loss.

F o r M e n d o t a , g u a r d s James Carroll, Ryan Reeder and Joe Lashonse stole the show.

The trio combined for 12 steals on the night and con-verted those thefts into easy buckets as Carroll had 21 points, Reeder had 28 points and Lashonse had nine points

despite the Trojans failing to make a single 3-pointer.

When Morris was able to shake free from Mendota’s pressure, it was able to make enough shots from distance in the second half to narrow the Mendota lead to five on multi-ple occasions.

Senior guard Walker hit six 3-point attempts on the night and scored 20 points, while senior forward Patter-son hit four 3-pointers and added 14 on the night.

Patterson’s final 3 of the

night came from the volley-ball line and gave Morris (7-4) its final five-point deficit with just over three minutes to play, but Mendota would finish the game on an 8-0 run to close it out.

“For the second year in a row, we’re in a semifinal [at the Plano Christmas Classic] and it was like pulling teeth to get our guys to play hard and to play with some intensi-ty and enthusiasm. We’re just not good enough to turn on the switch,” Blumberg said.

Newark outscores Genoa-Kingston for OT winSTAFF REPORTS

PLANO – A track meet broke out in the 11th-place game at the Plano Christmas Classic, and Newark outscored Genoa-Kingston for a 90-84 win in overtime.

The game was tied at 67 heading into the four-min-ute extra period, and the Norsemen (7-7) outscored Ge-noa-Kingston, 23-17, in over-time.

Will Clausel led Newark with 24 points, while Jack Clausel scored 22 and Evan Schomer added 18 points and 12 rebounds. Karter Kunkel had 18 points on 6 of 7 shoot-ing from beyond the 3-point line for the Norsemen. Tommy Lucca of Genoa-Kingston led

all scorers with 42 points.Indian Creek 82, Coal City 42:

Christian Johnston scored 14 points to lead Coal City as the Coalers settled for 24th place in the Plano Tournament. Collin Hundley scored seven points and Isaiah Washington added six for the Coalers.

Gardner-South Wilming-ton 73, Tri-Point 70 (OT): At the Marseilles Tournament, eighth-seeded Tri-Point trailed 15-3 after one quarter and 46-23 going into the fourth quarter. But, behind the hot shooting of Jordan Hamilton and Tim-my Crouch, Tri-Point scored 40 points in the fourth quarter to send the game into overtime tied at 63.

Tri-Point even took the lead in overtime, but they couldn’t

hold it as fifth-seeded GSW prevailed behind five play-ers with at least nine points. Kyle Robison had 18 points and Scott Horrie 14 points as GSW moved into the fifth-place game against Marquette. Blake Marks had 13 points and 13 rebounds.

Minooka 53, Schaumburg 51 (OT): In the York Tournament, Joe Butler had 20 points and seven rebounds to lead the In-dians to the win. Nick Clem-mons had 15 points for Minoo-ka, while Larry Roberts scored eight.

GIRLS BASKETBALLElgin Academy 45, Coal City

37: Nicole Borgetti scored 13 points and hauled in six re-bounds to lead the Coalers in

the Lisle Tournament, while Rebecca Cash scored nine points.

Wheaton Academy 45, Coal City 38: At the Lisle Tourna-ment, Madison Bunton led Coal City with 18 points and 11 rebounds, while Nicole Bor-

getti had 13 points and seven boards.

Newark 44, Lisle 41: At the Lisle Tournament, Kelsea Zitt led Newark (12-5) with 13 points, while Mozelle Kempiak and Jessica Hager each scored eight.

BOYS BASKETBALL: PLANO CHRISTMAS CLASSIC – MENDOTA 69, MORRIS 56

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Onsen used the old reliable standards of running the ball and playing defense to great success. The Coalers had a massive offensive line, head-ed up by 6-foot-5, 305-pound Matt Long; 6-4, 280 Andrew Mathena; and 6-5, 285 L.J. Lightner. Behind them was lightning-fast Jack Dibble at running back, collecting 2,522 rushing yards and scoring 33 touchdowns. Meanwhile, the defense allowed just 14 points

a game as the Coalers went 10-3 and made a run to the Class 4A semifinals before finally los-ing to Chicago Phillips at Gate-ly Stadium.

8 Foltynewicz called up to major leagues by Astros

Last baseball sea-son, Minooka graduate Mike Foltynewicz got his name on the national radar when he almost broke the radar gun. A few of his fastballs were clocked at 103 miles an hour while in the minor leagues. The parent club Houston As-

tros took notice and called Fol-tynewicz up to the majors on Aug. 1. On Aug. 2, he made his first appearance against the Toronto Blue Jays, retiring Melky Cabrera on a popup and striking out Jose Bautista.

He finished with an 0-1 record with a 5.30 ERA. He appeared in 16 games, and pitched 182⁄3 innings. In that time, he struck out 14 and walked seven, allowing 23 hits.

9 Saratoga baseball finishes second in state

The Saratoga base-

ball team won its first 22 games this season, and its first loss came in the IESA Class 2A championship game, 5-2, to Teutopolis.

The Wooden Shoes scored two runs in the first and three more in the fourth before Sara-toga scored single runs in the sixth and seventh innings. Cody Bledsoe and Jacob Over-beck each had two hits for the Hawks, while losing pitcher Luke Olbrot had an RBI and Chad Heren and Chatten Dry-fhout each scored.

It was the first state base-ball trophy in school history.

10 G-SW’s Daly Galloway takes 2nd at state in Class

1A cross-countryThe top area individu-

al showing during the state cross country meet came in the Class 1A girls race, where Gardner-South Wilmington’s Daly Galloway improved one spot from a year ago to take second place.

She turned in a time of 16:52 while champion Anna Sophi Keller of St. Anthony ran in 16:27.

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FRIDAY’S EVENTSWRESTLINGTBA – Coal City, Seneca at St.

Thomas More Dual Team Tourna-ment at University of Illinois’ Huff Gymnasium

SATURDAY’S EVENTSGIRLS BASKETBALL2 p.m. – Gardner-South Wilm-

ington at Reed-Custer2:30 p.m. – Serena at SenecaWRESTLINGTBA – Coal City, Seneca at St.

Thomas More Dual Team Tourna-ment at University of Illinois’ Huff Gymnasium

10 a.m. – LaSalle-Peru, Ottawa, Pontiac at Morris

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CROSSWORD SUDOKU BRIDGE by Phillip Alder

CELEBRITY CIPHER

PUZZLES

For the last two days, declarer has struggled in a 4-3 fit. Today he has nine trumps, but the original declarer did not foresee the danger and went down in his game contract.

Against four spades, West led a top-of-nothing heart nine. East won with his ace and shifted to the dia-mond seven. How should South have continued?

After East overcalled one heart, South’s one-spade response guaran-teed at least a five-card suit. (With only four spades, he would have made a negative double.) West raised hearts with three-card support and a single-ton. East competed to three hearts, the nine-trick level, because he knew that his side had nine hearts between them. But South’s jump to four spades silenced everyone.

Note West’s lead. Since he had raised hearts, he led his highest. If he had passed throughout, he would have led his lowest. (Yes, all right, if he were psychic, he would have led a diamond, which would have defeated the contract with subsequent accurate defense.)

South won the second trick in the dummy and called for a trump, but East dashed up with his ace and shifted to the club nine. West won with his ace and gave his partner a diamond ruff for down one.

How could declarer have avoided this outcome?

He had to win trick two on the board, cash the heart queen and continue with the heart 10, discarding both of his clubs. Then West could not have gained the lead to give East the critical ruff. Declarer would have lost only one spade and two hearts with a textbook scissors coup.

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± 7 p.m. ABC 7 Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2015: In his third year of hosting without the presence of the late Clark, Seacrest holds forth in New York’s Times Square with co-host Jenny McCarthy as this event again fills ABC’s primetime schedule, then extends into late night — for, of course, the midnight ball drop. Taylor Swift and Elton John are among this year’s East Coast performers, with Fergie again pre-

siding over Hollywood portions. Also, segments from Nashville feature Lady Antebellum and Gavin DeGraw.

± 7 p.m. WGN 9 iHeartradio Music Festival Night 1: Recorded at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand in September, the showcase for numerous music acts fuels a two-night television special ending Thursday. Taylor Swift, Coldplay, Usher, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj, Iggy Azalea, Lorde, One Direction, Ed Sheeran, Train, Paramore, Motley Crue, Bastille, Calvin Har-ris and Neon Trees are among the featured artists. The country genre also is represented thanks to Zac Brown Band, Eric Church and Kacey Musgraves.

FOX 32 Big Bang Mod Fam New Girl ’ Mindy Project New Girl (14) Mindy Project sNews (N) Mod Fam TMZ (N) (PG) Dish Nation TMZ Live (PG)

ION 38 Criminal Minds ’ (14-V) (CC) Criminal Minds ’ (14-D,L,V) Criminal Minds ’ (14-V) Criminal Minds ’ (14-L,V) The Listener ’ (14-V) (CC) The Listener ’ (14) (CC)

TEL 44 Caso Cerrado: Edicion Los Miserables (N) ’ (SS) Tierra de Reyes (N) ’ (SS) Senora Acero (N) ’ (SS) sTelemundo (N) nTitulares, Mas Tierra de Reyes ’ (SS)

MY 50 Family Feud Family Feud Law & Order: Criminal Intent Law & Order: Criminal Intent Big Bang The Simpsons How I Met How I Met Anger Anger

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BRAVO Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce Real Housewives/Beverly Real Housewives/Beverly (N) Girlfriends’ Guide-Divorce (N) Real Housewives/Beverly Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce

CMT Raising Hope Raising Hope Hot 20 Countdown (PG) (CC) Hot 20 Countdown (PG) (CC) Hot 20 Countdown (PG) (CC) Hot 20 Countdown (PG) (CC) Hot 20

COM Tosh.0 (CC) Tosh.0 (CC) Tosh.0 (14) Tosh.0 (14-L) Tosh.0 (14-L) Tosh.0 (14) Tosh.0 (MA-L) Tosh.0 (MA-L) Scary Movie 2 (’01) ›‡ Shawn Wayans. (CC)

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DISC Moonshiners ’ (14) (CC) Moonshiners: Outlaw Cuts (N) Moonshiners (N) ’ (14) (CC) Moonshiners (N) ’ (14) (CC) Moonshiners ’ (14) (CC) Moonshiners ’ (14) (CC)

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ESPN2 nCollege Basketball Florida at Florida State. (N) (Live) nCollege Basketball Missouri vs. Oklahoma State. (N) (Live) nSportsCenter (N) (Live)(CC) nSportsCenter (N) (Live)(CC)

FAM (4:30) The Hunger Games (’12) ››› The Proposal (’09) ››‡ Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds. The 700 Club ’ (G) (CC) So Raven So Raven

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FX Mike & Molly Mike & Molly Step Brothers (’08) ››‡ Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly. Step Brothers (’08) ››‡ Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly. Salt (’10) ››› Angelina Jolie.

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HGTV Fixer Upper (G) (CC) Fixer Upper (G) (CC) Fixer Upper (G) (CC) Hunters Hunters Int’l Fixer Upper (G) (CC) Fixer Upper (G) (CC)

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MTV 16 and Pregnant ’ (14) (CC) The Real World: Skeletons ’ The Real World: Skeletons ’ Real World: Skeletons (N) Challenge (N) The Real World: Skeletons ’ The Challenge

NICK (5:30) iCarly ’ (G) (CC) (DVS) Full House (G) Full House (G) Full House (G) Full House (G) Fresh Prince Fresh Prince Friends (PG) Friends (PG) How I Met Your Mother (CC)

OWN The Haves and the Have Nots The Haves and the Have Nots The Haves and the Have Nots The Haves and the Have Nots The Haves and the Have Nots The Haves and the Have Nots

OXY Redemption Bad Girls Club: Redemption Redemption Bad Girls Club: Redemption Bad Girls Club: Redemption Bad Girls Club: Redemption Snapped (PG)

SPIKE Ink Master ’ (14) (CC) Ink Master ’ (14) (CC) Ink Master ’ (PG) (CC) Ink Master (N) ’ (14-L) (CC) Tattoo (N) Tattoo Night. Tattoo Night. Tattoo Night.

SYFY Apocalypse L.A. (’14) Justin Ray, Ali Williams. Volcano (’97) ›› Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche. Volcano (’97) ›› Tommy Lee Jones.

TBS Seinfeld (CC) Seinfeld (CC) Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Ground (N) Big Bang Conan (14) (CC) Ground Floor Conan (14)

TCM Beneath Planet of Apes Topkapi (’64) ›››› Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov. (CC) Imitation of Life (’59) ››› Lana Turner, John Gavin. (CC) Kiss-Goodbye

TLC The Little Couple ’ (G) (CC) The Little Couple ’ (G) (CC) The Little Couple (N) (G) (CC) Little and Looking for Love The Little Couple ’ (G) (CC) Little and Looking for Love

TLN The 700 Club (N) ’ (G) (CC) Pure Passion Ctr Law Focus on Is 10 Struggles Sig. Insights Urban Altern. Robison Sacred Name Voice Focus on Is

TNT Castle ’ (PG-L,V) (CC) (DVS) Castle (PG-L,V) (CC) (DVS) Castle (PG-L,V) (CC) (DVS) Castle ’ (PG-V) (CC) (DVS) CSI: NY ’ (14-L,V) (CC) CSI: NY ’ (14-V) (CC)

TOON Advent. Time Regular Show King of Hill King of Hill Cleveland Cleveland American Dad American Dad Family Guy ’ Family Guy Chicken Mr. Pickles

TRAVEL Hotel Impossible (PG) (CC) Hotel Impossible (PG) (CC) Hotel Impossible (N) (PG) Bizarre Foods/Zimmern Bizarre Foods America (PG) Hotel Impossible (PG) (CC)

TVLAND Walker, Texas Ranger (14-V) (CC) Family Feud Family Feud Raymond King King King King Friends (14) Friends (14)

USA Law & Order: SVU Mod Fam Mod Fam Mod Fam Mod Fam Benched (N) Benched (Sea Benched (14) Benched (14) Law & Order: SVU

VH1 Beauty Shop (’05) ››‡ Queen Latifah. Bye Felicia! (N) ’ (PG-L) Suave (N) Bye Felicia! ’ (PG-L) Beauty Shop (’05) ››‡ Queen Latifah.

CIU 26 Mike & Molly Mike & Molly House/Payne House/Payne There Yet? There Yet? Family Guy ’ Raising Hope Seinfeld (CC) Seinfeld (CC) King King

U2 26.2 Jerry Springer ’ (14) (CC) nAHL Hockey Grand Rapids Griffins at Chicago Wolves. (N) (Live) American Dad King of Hill Cleveland King of Hill

ME 26.3 M*A*S*H (PG) M*A*S*H (PG) Andy Griffith Andy Griffith Hogan Heroes Gilligan’s Isle Taxi (PG) (CC) Taxi (PG) (CC) Cheers (PG) Perry Mason (PG) (CC) Dragnet (PG)

ME2 26.4 Batman (G) Batman (G) The Wild, Wild West (PG) Cheyenne (G) Broken Arrow Broken Arrow Wanted... Combat! (PG) 12 O’Clock

BNC 26.5 Diff. World Diff. World South Central (’92) ››› Glenn Plummer, Byron Keith Minns. Feel the Noise (’07) ›› Omarion Grandberry. Ali (’01) ››› Will Smith. (CC)

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DEAR ABBYDear Abby: My 16-year-old

daughter, “Sierra,” started baby-sitting in the after-noons for a couple when she was 15. Sometimes her dad or I would drop her off; some-times the husband, “Karl,” would before he left for work. My husband and Karl became friends, and when Karl and his wife split up, we let him stay on our couch for a few months.

Then we found out Sierra was pregnant and that she and Karl had been sleeping together before he split with his wife. My daughter is upset that we want to involve the police and press charges because she was underage. How can I get Sierra to stop

hating me and understand that this relationship isn’t healthy? – “The Enemy Mom” in South Carolina

Dear “Enemy Mom”: Sierra is mad at you because you are injecting an unwelcome note of reality into her fantasy of “love.” Karl is a predator who needs to be answerable for what he did. He will also have to support that child until he or she is no longer a minor. Because he has shown himself to be amoral and irresponsible, involve not

only the police but also the department of social services to ensure that he lives up to all of his responsibilities.

Dear Abby: It was brought to my attention that an em-ployee in my workplace was asked by his supervisor if he would be OK with working with a gay male before the person was interviewed. Is this even legal? She basically “outed” the potential employ-ee in the workplace.

If the person she asked did have a problem working with someone who’s gay, it im-plies the man wouldn’t have been hired, which would be discrimination, wouldn’t it? Couldn’t that lead to a possi-ble lawsuit? Or am I wrong? –

Right or Wrong in WisconsinDear Right or Wrong: I dis-

cussed your question with an attorney from Lambda Legal, the national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of LGBT people. Currently, 21 states plus the District of Columbia have laws that protect gay people from employment discrimination. Wisconsin is one of them.

The attorney said that “outing” the candidate to the other employee was “not necessarily illegal,” but that it was “DEFINITELY a bad business practice.”

In the 21 states that offer protection for gay people, a prospective employer cannot

base a hiring decision on how comfortable someone is with the candidate’s sexual orientation, or the percep-tion that a co-worker or customer might be uncom-fortable with a gay person. That is discrimination, and it IS illegal.

Dear Readers: The year is almost over – I can’t believe how fast it has gone! Please accept my heartfelt wish for a happy, healthy and pros-perous 2015. And if you are partying this evening, please be safe! – Love, Abby

• Write Dear Abby at www.dearabby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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JOHN SLYKAS, et al Defendants

14 CH 00038NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NO-

TICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pur-suant to a Judgment of Foreclosureand Sale entered in the abovecause on August 22, 2014, anagent for The Judicial Sales Corpo-ration, will at 9:00 AM on January28, 2015, at the Grundy CountyCourthouse, 111 East WashingtonStreet front door entrance, MORRIS,IL, 60450, sell at public auction tothe highest bidder, as set forth be-low, the following described realestate:

Commonly known as 1521BLUESTEM LANE, MINOOKA, IL60447 Property Index No. 03-13-177-018. The real estate is im-proved with a residence. Saleterms: 25% down of the highestbid by certified funds at the close ofthe sale payable to The JudicialSales Corporation. No third partychecks will be accepted. The bal-ance, including the Judicial salefee for Abandoned ResidentialProperty Municipality Relief Fund,which is calculated on residentialreal estate at the rate of $1 for each$1,000 or fraction thereof of theamount paid by the purchaser notto exceed $300, in certifiedfunds/or wire transfer, is due withintwenty-four (24) hours. No feeshall be paid by the mortgagee ac-quiring the residential real estatepursuant to its credit bid at the saleor by any mortgagee, judgmentcreditor, or other lienor acquiringthe residential real estate whoserights in and to the residential realestate arose prior to the sale. Thesubject property is subject to gener-al real estate taxes, special assess-ments, or special taxes leviedagainst said real estate and is of-fered for sale without any represen-tation as to quality or quantity of ti-tle and without recourse to Plaintiffand in "AS IS" condition. The sale isfurther subject to confirmation bythe court. Upon payment in full ofthe amount bid, the purchaser willreceive a Certificate of Sale that willentitle the purchaser to a deed tothe real estate after confirmation ofthe sale. The property will NOT beopen for inspection and plaintiffmakes no representation as to thecondition of the property. Prospec-tive bidders are admonished tocheck the court file to verify all in-formation. If this property is a con-dominium unit, the purchaser ofthe unit at the foreclosure sale, oth-er than a mortgagee, shall pay theassessments and the legal fees re-quired by The Condominium Prop-erty Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1)and (g)(4). If this property is acondominium unit which is part ofa common interest community, thepurchaser of the unit at the foreclo-sure sale other than a mortgageeshall pay the assessments requiredby The Condominium Property Act,765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOUARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOME-OWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHTTO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN OR-DER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCOR-DANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGEFORECLOSURE LAW. You will needa photo identification issued by agovernment agency (driver's li-cense, passport, etc.) in order togain entry into our building and theforeclosure sale room in CookCounty and the same identificationfor sales held at other countyvenues where The Judicial SalesCorporation conducts foreclosuresales. For information, examine thecourt file or contact Plaintiff's attor-ney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C.,15W030 NORTH FRONTAGEROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL60527, (630) 794-9876 Pleaserefer to file number 14-13-18577.THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORA-TION One South Wacker Drive,24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You canalso visit The Judicial Sales Corpo-ration at www.tjsc.com for a 7 daystatus report of pending sales.CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C.15W030 NORTH FRONTAGEROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE, IL60527 (630) 794-5300 AttorneyFile No. 14-13-18577 AttorneyARDC No. 00468002 Case Num-ber: 14 CH 00038 TJSC#: 34-15239 NOTE: Pursuant to the FairDebt Collection Practices Act, youare advised that Plaintiff's attorneyis deemed to be a debt collector at-tempting to collect a debt and anyinformation obtained will be usedfor that purpose.I638657

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Notice of Pending Forfeiture

The State will proceed with civilforfeiture of $46,500 cash seizedfrom Jerry Hoyer on November 6,2014, on I-80 in Grundy Countyfor money laundering. Any claimmust be filed within 45 days to theOffice of the Attorney General,Statewide Grand Jury Bureau, 100W. Randolph St., 11th Floor,Chicago, IL 60601. The claimmust include a current address, thenature of the claim, the legal rea-son why the property is not subjectto forfeiture, all essential facts, andthe relief sought. 725 ILCS 150/6.

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PUBLIC NOTICE

Notice of Pending Forfeiture

The State will proceed with civilforfeiture of $46,500 cash seizedfrom Jerry Hoyer on November 6,2014, on I-80 in Grundy Countyfor money laundering. Any claimmust be filed within 45 days to theOffice of the Attorney General,Statewide Grand Jury Bureau, 100W. Randolph St., 11th Floor,Chicago, IL 60601. The claimmust include a current address, thenature of the claim, the legal rea-son why the property is not subjectto forfeiture, all essential facts, andthe relief sought. 725 ILCS 150/6.

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PUBLIC NOTICE



Plaintiff,-v.-






PUBLIC NOTICE



Plaintiff,-v.-




LOT 275 IN LAKEWOOD TRAILSUNIT 1 BEING A SUBDIVISION OFTHE NORTHWEST QUARTER OFSECTION 13 AND THE SOUTH250.00 FEET OF THE SOUTHWESTQUARTER OF SECTION 12, ALL INTOWNSHIP 34 NORTH, RANGE 8EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPALMERIDIAN, IN THE VILLAGE OF MI-NOOKA, AUX SABLE TOWNSHIP,ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THERE-OF RECORDED APRIL 30, 2003 ASDOCUMENT NUMBER 417002AND AMENDED BY CERTIFICATESOF CORRECTION RECORDED JULY24, 2003 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER421156, AND SEPTEMBER 3,2003 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER423288, IN GRUNDY COUNTY,ILLINOIS.



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LOT 275 IN LAKEWOOD TRAILSUNIT 1 BEING A SUBDIVISION OFTHE NORTHWEST QUARTER OFSECTION 13 AND THE SOUTH250.00 FEET OF THE SOUTHWESTQUARTER OF SECTION 12, ALL INTOWNSHIP 34 NORTH, RANGE 8EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPALMERIDIAN, IN THE VILLAGE OF MI-NOOKA, AUX SABLE TOWNSHIP,ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THERE-OF RECORDED APRIL 30, 2003 ASDOCUMENT NUMBER 417002AND AMENDED BY CERTIFICATESOF CORRECTION RECORDED JULY24, 2003 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER421156, AND SEPTEMBER 3,2003 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER423288, IN GRUNDY COUNTY,ILLINOIS.



PUBLIC NOTICE

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE13TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

GRUNDY COUNTY - MORRIS, ILLINOIS

CitiMortgage, Inc.PLAINTIFF

Vs.John E. Hardy; Lora Wilder-Hardy;Unknown Owners and NonrecordClaimants

DEFENDANTS14 CH 00134

NOTICE BY PUBLICATIONNOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU: John

E. Hardy, Lora Wilder-Hardy, Un-known Owners and NonrecordClaimants; That this case has beencommenced in this Court againstyou and other defendants, prayingfor the foreclosure of a certain Mort-gage conveying the premises de-scribed as follows, to-wit:

LOTS 7 AND 8, IN BLOCK 7, INFORDYCE'S ADDITION TO THETOWN OF DIAMOND, BEING INSECTION 1, TOWNSHIP 32NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THETHIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, INGRUNDY COUNTY, ILLINOIS.

COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 1850E. Clark Street, Diamond, IL 60416

and which said Mortgage wasmade by: John E. Hardy, LoraWilder-Hardy, the Mortgagor(s), toMortgage Electronic RegistrationSystems, Inc. as Nominee for Heart-land Mortgage Centers, as Mort-gagee, and recorded in the Office ofthe Recorder of Deeds of GrundyCounty, Illinois, as Document No.477490; and for other relief; thatsummons was duly issued out ofsaid Court against you as providedby law and that the said suit is nowpending.

NOW, THEREFORE, UNLESSYOU file your answer or otherwisefile your appearance in this case inthe Office of the Clerk of this Court,

Karen E. SlatteryClerk of the Circuit Court,

Grundy County 111 East Washington Street,

Room 30 P.O. Box 707

Morris, IL 60450on or before January 30, 2015,

A DEFAULT MAY BE ENTEREDAGAINST YOU AT ANY TIME AFTERTHAT DAY AND A JUDGMENT MAYBE ENTERED IN ACCORDANCEWITH THE PRAYER OF SAID COM-PLAINT.CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C.Attorneys for Plaintiff15W030 North Frontage Road,Suite 100 Burr Ridge, IL 60527(630) 794-5300DuPage # 15170Winnebago # 531Our File No. 14-14-16891

NOTE: This law firm is deemedto be a debt collector.I639150


PUBLIC NOTICE

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE13TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

GRUNDY COUNTY - MORRIS, ILLINOIS

CitiMortgage, Inc.PLAINTIFF

Vs.John E. Hardy; Lora Wilder-Hardy;Unknown Owners and NonrecordClaimants

DEFENDANTS14 CH 00134

NOTICE BY PUBLICATIONNOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU: John

E. Hardy, Lora Wilder-Hardy, Un-known Owners and NonrecordClaimants; That this case has beencommenced in this Court againstyou and other defendants, prayingfor the foreclosure of a certain Mort-gage conveying the premises de-scribed as follows, to-wit:

LOTS 7 AND 8, IN BLOCK 7, INFORDYCE'S ADDITION TO THETOWN OF DIAMOND, BEING INSECTION 1, TOWNSHIP 32NORTH, RANGE 8 EAST OF THETHIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, INGRUNDY COUNTY, ILLINOIS.

COMMONLY KNOWN AS: 1850E. Clark Street, Diamond, IL 60416

and which said Mortgage wasmade by: John E. Hardy, LoraWilder-Hardy, the Mortgagor(s), toMortgage Electronic RegistrationSystems, Inc. as Nominee for Heart-land Mortgage Centers, as Mort-gagee, and recorded in the Office ofthe Recorder of Deeds of GrundyCounty, Illinois, as Document No.477490; and for other relief; thatsummons was duly issued out ofsaid Court against you as providedby law and that the said suit is nowpending.

NOW, THEREFORE, UNLESSYOU file your answer or otherwisefile your appearance in this case inthe Office of the Clerk of this Court,

Karen E. SlatteryClerk of the Circuit Court,

Grundy County 111 East Washington Street,

Room 30 P.O. Box 707

Morris, IL 60450on or before January 30, 2015,

A DEFAULT MAY BE ENTEREDAGAINST YOU AT ANY TIME AFTERTHAT DAY AND A JUDGMENT MAYBE ENTERED IN ACCORDANCEWITH THE PRAYER OF SAID COM-PLAINT.CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C.Attorneys for Plaintiff15W030 North Frontage Road,Suite 100 Burr Ridge, IL 60527(630) 794-5300DuPage # 15170Winnebago # 531Our File No. 14-14-16891

NOTE: This law firm is deemedto be a debt collector.I639150


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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGVILLAGE OF MAZON

TAX INCREMENT FINANCING DISTRICT

The Village of Mazon, Grundy County, Illinois hereby gives Notice of a Public Hearing to be held at 6:00 p.m., CentralStandard Time, on January 19, 2015 at the American Legion Post 352, 500 Depot Street, Mazon, Illinois, to considerits proposed Tax Increment Financing District Redevelopment Project Area, Plan and Projects. All interested persons,including all taxing districts of which taxable property is included in the Area and the Illinois Department of Commerce andEconomic Opportunity, will be given an opportunity to be heard at said Public Hearing and to file with the Village Clerk writtenobjections to any issues embodied in this notice, and are also invited to submit written comments, prior to the date of theHearing, to the Village at the following address: Village of Mazon, Village Clerk, 520 Depot Street, P.O. Box 33, Mazon,Illinois 60444. A Summary of the proposed Redevelopment Plan and Projects, and a Boundary Map and Legal Descriptionof the proposed Redevelopment Project Area are presented below. The Redevelopment Plan and Projects complies withthe provisions of the “Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act”. A copy of the proposed Redevelopment Plan and Proj-ects is available at the Mazon Village Clerk’s Office, 520 Depot Street, Mazon, Illinois for examination during regular officehours, Monday through Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. For further information, please feel free to contact Jeff Marques,Director of Public Works and TIF Committee Chairman, at (815) 448-2206.

VILLAGE OF MAZON PROPOSED TIF DISTRICTSUMMARY OF REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT AREA, PLAN & PROJECTS

Proposed Redevelopment Plan and Project Area: The Village of Mazon proposes to establish a RedevelopmentProject Area and adopt a Redevelopment Plan and Projects pursuant to the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act[65 ILCS 5/11-74.4 et. seq.] (the “Act”) for the proposed “Mazon Tax Increment Financing (TIF) District” in order to stimu-late commercial, residential and light industrial development within the Village. The intent of the Redevelopment Plan isto promote and protect the health, safety, morals, and welfare of the public, address blighted conditions in the proposedArea and institute conservation measures so as to remove and alleviate adverse conditions, encourage private investment,develop business and real estate projects in order to increase employment and restore and enhance the tax base of alltaxing districts by undertaking public and private redevelopment projects within the designated Area. The RedevelopmentProject Area (the “Area”) for the proposed Mazon TIF District includes areas shown on the enclosed Boundary Map and theboundary is legally described in the enclosed Legal Description of the TIF Area. These properties have been neglected orhave not been developed by either public or private sectors, and have not benefitted from coordinated planning efforts. Allproperties within the proposed Area would substantially benefit by a series of proposed public and private redevelopmentprojects. Pursuant to the Act, the proposed Area includes only those contiguous parcels of real property and improvementsthereon which would be substantially benefitted by a redevelopment project and the Area is not less in the aggregate than1½ acres. The overall Area consists of two hundred ten (210) improved and vacant parcels, 93.3% of which qualify as acombination of “Blighted” and “Conservation” Areas and, also, an “Industrial Park Conservation Area” as defined in the TIFAct. Improved properties included in the Area display characteristics of dilapidation, obsolescence, deterioration, violationsof municipal code, excessive vacancy, inadequate utilities, overcrowding, deleterious uses, and a lack of public infrastruc-ture and community planning. Vacant parcels throughout the Area display characteristics of obsolete platting, deteriorationof adjacent properties, unused railroad right-of-ways, and chronic flooding or contribute to flooding within the same water-shed. Evidence of a lag in Equalized Assessed Valuation (EAV) growth is apparent throughout the Area as a whole and hasbeen documented pursuant to data made available by the Grundy County Assessor’s office. The, Redevelopment ProjectArea on the whole has not been subject to growth and development through investment by private enterprise and wouldnot reasonably be anticipated to be developed without the use of tax increment financing. By attracting new private invest-ment and improving infrastructure throughout a designated Redevelopment Project Area, the Village expects to create newemployment opportunities, improve or construct public services necessary for future population increases, stimulate thelocal economy, and improve the overall quality of life for its residents.

Long Term Goals and Objectives: The Village intends to use the Mazon TIF District to redevelop property that is cur-rently underutilized for commercial, residential and light industrial development in an effort to increase population, improveemployment opportunities, expand and diversify the local real estate tax base, manage growth and increase the overallquality of life for its residents. This Redevelopment Plan will allow the Village to alleviate and/or remove blighted conditionssuch as the lack of adequate public infrastructure. All of the property within the redevelopment project area will substan-tially benefit by a series of public and private redevelopment projects made possible with tax increment financing. TheRedevelopment Project Area is not otherwise reasonably expected to be further developed without the use of tax incrementfinancing. The Mazon TIF District Redevelopment Plan includes, but is not limited to, the following general long-term goalsand objectives: (1) Eliminate or reduce those conditions which qualify the Redevelopment Project Area as a Combina-tion of Blighted and Conservation Areas and, also, as an Industrial Park Conservation Area; (2) Facilitate the construction,improvement and maintenance of public infrastructure and other capital projects which the Village finds is in furtheranceof this Redevelopment Plan or necessary to encourage new commercial, residential and light industrial development; (3)Construct, improve, upgrade and maintain storm water drainage and sanitary sewer lines and related infrastructure through-out the Redevelopment Project Area; (4) Construct, improve, upgrade and maintain antiquated and/or inadequate waterlines and mains, as well as water storage facilities and related distribution systems; (5) Construct, improve, upgrade andmaintain streets (including, but not limited to the future extension of Center St., Main St., Primrose Ln., Commercial Dr., andIndustry Parkway), street lighting, landscaping, curbs, alleys, parks, public green space, recreational amenities, sidewalks,bike paths and other pedestrian walkways throughout the Redevelopment Project Area; (6) Enhance the tax base for theVillage and other taxing districts through coordinated, comprehensive planning efforts by either the public or private sectorswhich focus on efforts to improve infrastructure, property reuse, and the upgrade of existing buildings; (7) Attract new com-mercial and light industrial development which complies with Village zoning and land use ordinances, increases assessedvaluations and enhances the real estate tax base for the Village, thereby creating additional employment opportunitieswithin the Mazon community; (8) Encourage new residential development which would increase the Village’s population, ad-dress declines in Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Elementary School District 2C and Seneca Township High School District #160’senrollments and expand the overall economic base of the Village; (9) Attract tourism, new retail/commercial businessesand vigorous reinvestment in existing properties within the Central Business District through the use of financial incentives

offered by Tax Increment Financing; thereby increasing retail business activity which will lead to an increase in municipalsales tax revenue for the Village, Grundy County and the State of Illinois; and (10) Undertake redevelopment projects whichwill further improve the overall quality of life, health and well being of the Mazon community.

Description of Tax Increment Financing: A TIF District establishes a geographic boundary (a “redevelopmentproject area”) in which new private and public investment is encouraged. A municipality may issue obligations to financeimprovements that will enable the redevelopment of deteriorated, blighted, or other key conservation areas within itscorporate limits. By making public improvements, the municipality may invite new private investment so that the expectedincrease in property tax revenues can be captured, temporarily, to amortize the public improvement costs. A municipalitymay also choose to use TIF funds on a pay-as-you-go basis whereby revenue is spent as it is collected. In either case, it isexpected that new investment in a designated redevelopment area will stimulate a resurgence of population, employmentand assessed valuation throughout the entire community. It should be noted that TIF DOES NOT raise property taxes andit IS NOT a new tax or a new taxing district. Only an increased assessment or an overall increase in tax rates can raisetaxes. TIF is merely used to reallocate increased property tax revenues created by increased assessed valuation thatis realized after a TIF District is established. A TIF District may last for up to 23 years. With Tax Increment Financing, aproperty tax base is preserved during the life of the TIF District that will continue to pay for the basic public services theproposed redevelopment area already receives. All taxing districts will continue to receive taxes from this property tax base.New incremental property tax revenue in the Village of Mazon may be used to help pay for the infrastructure necessary forstimulating additional private-sector investment.

VILLAGE OF MAZON PROPOSED TIF DISTRICTPROPOSED LEGAL DESCRIPTION

Beginning at the northwest corner of the Southwest Quarter of Section 15, Township 32 North, Range 7 East of the ThirdPrincipal Meridian; thence easterly on the north line of the Southwest Quarter of said Section 15 to the east line of the WestHalf of the Southwest Quarter of said Section 15; thence southerly on said east line to the north right-of-way line of theAtchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad; thence southwesterly on said north right-of-way line to the north right-of-way lineof North Street (Grand Ridge Road); thence westerly on said north right-of-way line to the east line of the West Half of theSouthwest Quarter of said Section 15; thence southerly on said east line and the east line of the West Half of the NorthwestQuarter of the Northwest Quarter of Section 22, Township 32 North, Range 7 East of the Third Principal Meridian, to thesouth line of the West Half of the Northwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter of said Section 22; thence westerly on saidsouth line and the south line of the Northeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter of Section 21, Township 32 North, Range 7East of the Third Principal Meridian to the west right-of-way line of Center Street; thence northerly on said west right-of-wayline to the southerly right-of-way line of South Street; thence southwesterly on said southerly right-of-way line to the north-west corner of Lot 4 in Block 17 of Isham’s Sixth Addition to Mazon, also being the east right-of-way line of Seventh Street;thence northwesterly to the southeast corner of Lot 2 in Block 18 of Isham’s Sixth Addition to Mazon, also being on the westright-of-way line of Seventh Street; thence northerly on said west right-of-way line to the southerly right-of-way line of SouthStreet; thence southwesterly on said southerly right-of-way line to the east right-of-way line of Eighth Street; thence south-erly on said east right-of-way line to the intersection of said east right-of-way line and the easterly prolongation of the southline of the North Half of Lot 2 in Block 19 of Isham’s Sixth Addition to Mazon; thence westerly on the south line of the NorthHalf of said Lot 2 and its easterly and westerly prolongations to the east line of Lot 1 in Block 1 of Morris’ First Addition toMazon; thence northerly on the east line of said Lot 1 to the southerly right-of-way line of South Street; thence southwester-ly on said southerly right-of-way line to the northwest corner of Lot 1 in Block 3 of Morris’ First Addition to Mazon; thencesoutherly on the west lines of said Lot 1 and Lot 3 of said Morris’ First Addition and on the west lines of Lots 1, 2, 3, and 4of Morris’ Second Addition to Mazon, to the southwest corner of said Lot 4; thence South 89° 58’ 00” West on the south lineof a parcel of land described by Warranty Deed to Gene H. and Nancy N. Isham in Document Number 295992, a distanceof 348 feet to the southwest corner of said Isham parcel; thence North 00° 02’ 30” West on the west line of said Isham par-cel and its northerly extension, to the north right-of-way line of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad; thence north-easterly on said north right-of-way line to the east line of the West 45 feet of Lot 3 of Henderson’s SecondAddition to Mazon;thence northerly on said east line to the south right-of-way line of Grundy Avenue; thence northeasterly to the southwestcorner of Lot 15 of Henderson’s First Addition to Mazon, also being the north right-of-way line of Grundy Avenue; thenceeasterly and northerly on the north and west right-of-way lines of said Grundy Avenue to the northeast corner of Lot 1 inBlock 2 of Henderson’s Subdivision, also being on the south right-of-way line of Harmony Avenue; thence northeasterly tothe southwest corner of Lot 6 in Block 1 of Henderson’s Subdivision, also being on the north right-of-way line of HarmonyAvenue; thence easterly on said north right-of-way line to the southeast corner of Lot 4 in Block 1 of Henderson’s Subdivi-sion; thence northerly on the east line of said Lot 4 to the northeast corner of said Lot 4; thence westerly on the north linesof said Lot 4 and Lots 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16 of Block 1 of Henderson’s Subdivision to the northwestcorner of said Lot 16; thence northerly on the west line of the East Half of the Northwest Quarter of said Section 21 to a linebeing 35 feet south of and parallel with the north line of said Section 21; thence westerly on said line being 35 feet south ofand parallel with the north line of said Section 21 to the west line of said Section 21; thence northerly on said west line to thesouthwest corner of Section 16, Township 32 North, Range 7 East of the Third Principal Meridian; thence northerly on thewest line of said Section 16 to a line being 35 feet north of and parallel with the south line of said Section 16; thence east-erly on said line being 35 feet North of and parallel with the south line of said Section 16 to the west line of the SoutheastQuarter of the Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of said Section 16; thence northerly on said west line to the northline of the Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of said Section 16; thence easterly on saidnorth line to the west line of the Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of said Section 16; thence northerly on saidwest line to the north line of the Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of said Section 16; thence easterly on saidnorth line to the west line of the Northeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of said Section 16; thence northerly on said westline to the north line of the Southeast Quarter of said Section 16; thence easterly on said north line to the Point of Beginning;EXCEPTING therefrom the following described parcels; EXCEPTION NO.1: Lot 63 of Breisch’s Garden Estates Fifth Addi-tion to Mazon; EXCEPTION NO.2: Lots 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 17, 23, 24, 35, and 36 of Breisch’s Garden Estates Fourth Additionto Mazon; EXCEPTION NO.3: Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 18, 19, 20, 21, and 22 of Breisch’s Garden Estates Third Addition toMazon; EXCEPTION NO.4: Lots 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24 of Breisch’s Garden Estates First

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Addition to Mazon; EXCEPTION NO.5: Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 of Breisch’s Garden Estates Second Addition to Mazon;EXCEPTION NO.6: Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 of Breisch’s Garden Estates Subdivision; EXCEPTION NO.7: Lots1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 in Block 6 of L. E. Daniel’s Subdivision; EXCEPTION NO.8: Lots 11 and 12 in Block 7 of L.E.Daniel’s Second Addition to Mazon; EXCEPTION NO.9: Lots 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, and 11 in Block 5 of Isham’s First Addition toMazon; EXCEPTION NO.10: Lots 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, and 11 in Block 6 of Isham’s First Addition to Mazon; EXCEPTION NO.11:Lots 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, and 12 in Block 7 of Isham’s Second Addition to Mazon; EXCEPTION NO.12: Lots 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, and13 in Block 8 of Isham’s Second Addition to Mazon; EXCEPTION NO.13: Lots 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, and 11 in Block 7 of Isham’sThird Addition to Mazon; EXCEPTION NO.14: Lots 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14, 15, and 16 in Block 8 of Isham’s Third Additionto Mazon; EXCEPTION NO.15: Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 in Block 12 of Isham’s Fourth Addition to Ma-zon; EXCEPTION NO.16: Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, and 22 in Block 13 ofIsham’s Fourth Addition to Mazon; EXCEPTION NO.17: The right-of-way for Park Street extending easterly from the westlines of Blocks 12 and 13 of Isham’s Fourth Addition to Mazon, to the east line of Lot 11 in Block 5 and the east line of Lot2 in Block 6 of Isham’s First Addition to Mazon; EXCEPTION NO.18: The right-of-way for Seventh Street adjacent to Block13 of Isham’s Fourth Addition to Mazon and adjacent to Block 8 of Isham’s Third Addition to Mazon; EXCEPTION NO.19:The right-of-way for Seventh Street adjacent to Block 12 of Isham’s Fourth Addition to Mazon and adjacent to Block 7 ofIsham’s Third Addition to Mazon; EXCEPTION NO.20: The right-of-way for Hill Street adjacent to Block 8 of Isham’s SecondAddition to Mazon and adjacent to Block 6 of Isham’s First Addition to Mazon; EXCEPTION NO.21: The right-of-way for HillStreet adjacent to Block 7 of Isham’s Second Addition to Mazon and adjacent to Block 5 of Isham’s First Addition to Mazon;EXCEPTION NO.22: The right-of-way for the Public Alley within Block 12 of Isham’s Fourth Addition to Mazon; EXCEPTIONNO.23: The right-of-way for the Public Alley within Block 13 of Isham’s Fourth Addition to Mazon; EXCEPTION NO.24: Theright-of-way for the Public Alley adjacent to Block 7 of Isham’s Third Addition to Mazon and adjacent to Block 7 of Isham’sSecond Addition to Mazon; EXCEPTION NO.25: The right-of-way for the Public Alley adjacent to Block 8 of Isham’s ThirdAddition to Mazon and adjacent to Block 8 of Isham’s Second Addition to Mazon; EXCEPTION NO.26: Beginning at thesouthwest corner of Lot 3 in Block 3 of George W. Daniel’s Addition to Mazon; thence northerly on the west line of said

Block 3 and its northerly extension and the west line of Block 2 of George W. Daniel’s Addition to Mazon, to the northwestcorner of Lot 2 in said Block 2; thence easterly on the north line of Lot 2 in said Block 2 to the northeast corner of Lot 2 insaid Block 2; thence southerly on the east line of Lots 2, 3, 6, 7 and 10 and southerly extension of the east line of Lot 10 insaid Block 2 and the east line of Lots 2 and 3 in said Block 3 to the southeast corner of Lot 3 in said Block 3; thence westerlyon the south line of Lot 3 in said Block 3 to the Point of Beginning; EXCEPTION NO.27: LOTS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,11, 12, 13, and that part of Lot 14 lying north of the north right-of-way line of Front Street on Block 2 of the Original Town ofMazonville; EXCEPTION NO.28: The right-of-way for the Public Alleys within Block 2 of the Original Town of Mazonville;EXCEPTION NO.29: Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 in Block 3 of Isham’s First Addition to Mazon; EXCEPTION NO.30: The right-of-way for the Public Alley within Block 3 of Isham’s First Addition to Mazon; EXCEPTION NO.31: Lots 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14, 15, and 16 in Block 3 of the Original Town of Mazonville; EXCEPTION NO.32: The right-of-way for the Public Alleywithin Block 3 of the Original Town of Mazonville; EXCEPTION NO.33: Lot 5 in Block 4 of Isham’s First Addition to Mazon;EXCEPTION NO.34: Lots 8, 9, 12, 13, 16, 17, and 20 in Block 4 of the Original Town of Mazonville; EXCEPTION NO.35:Part of the Southeast Quarter of Section 16, Township 32 North, Range 7 East of the Third Principal Meridian, described asfollows: Beginning at the southwest corner of Lot 2 of Breisch’s Garden Estates Subdivision; thence easterly on the southline of Breisch’s Garden Estates Subdivision, 200 feet; thence south 105 feet; thence west 50 feet; thence south 265 feet;thence west 150 feet to the west right-of-way line of Main Street; thence northerly on said west right-of-way line to the Pointof Beginning; and EXCEPTION NO.36: Part of the Southeast Quarter of Section 16, Township 32 North, Range 7 East ofthe Third Principal Meridian, described as follows: Beginning at the northeast corner of Lot 22 in Breisch’s Garden EstatesThird Addition to Mazon; thence southerly on the east line of said Lot 22 and the east line of Breisch’s Garden Estates Sec-ond Addition to Mazon and the east line of Breisch’s Garden Estates Subdivision to a point being 748 feet north of and 258feet west of the southeast corner of said Section 16; thence easterly to the apparent west right-of-way line of Illinois Route47; thence northerly on said apparent west right-of-way line to the south right-of-way line of Jonquil Lane; thence westerlyon said south right-of-way line to the Point of Beginning.

VILLAGE OF MAZON PROPOSED TIF DISTRICT PROPOSED BOUNDARY MAP

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGVILLAGE OF MAZON

TAX INCREMENT FINANCING DISTRICT

The Village of Mazon, Grundy County, Illinois hereby gives Notice of a Public Hearing to be held at 6:00 p.m., CentralStandard Time, on January 19, 2015 at the American Legion Post 352, 500 Depot Street, Mazon, Illinois, to considerits proposed Tax Increment Financing District Redevelopment Project Area, Plan and Projects. All interested persons,including all taxing districts of which taxable property is included in the Area and the Illinois Department of Commerce andEconomic Opportunity, will be given an opportunity to be heard at said Public Hearing and to file with the Village Clerk writtenobjections to any issues embodied in this notice, and are also invited to submit written comments, prior to the date of theHearing, to the Village at the following address: Village of Mazon, Village Clerk, 520 Depot Street, P.O. Box 33, Mazon,Illinois 60444. A Summary of the proposed Redevelopment Plan and Projects, and a Boundary Map and Legal Descriptionof the proposed Redevelopment Project Area are presented below. The Redevelopment Plan and Projects complies withthe provisions of the “Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act”. A copy of the proposed Redevelopment Plan and Proj-ects is available at the Mazon Village Clerk’s Office, 520 Depot Street, Mazon, Illinois for examination during regular officehours, Monday through Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. For further information, please feel free to contact Jeff Marques,Director of Public Works and TIF Committee Chairman, at (815) 448-2206.

VILLAGE OF MAZON PROPOSED TIF DISTRICTSUMMARY OF REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT AREA, PLAN & PROJECTS

Proposed Redevelopment Plan and Project Area: The Village of Mazon proposes to establish a RedevelopmentProject Area and adopt a Redevelopment Plan and Projects pursuant to the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act[65 ILCS 5/11-74.4 et. seq.] (the “Act”) for the proposed “Mazon Tax Increment Financing (TIF) District” in order to stimu-late commercial, residential and light industrial development within the Village. The intent of the Redevelopment Plan isto promote and protect the health, safety, morals, and welfare of the public, address blighted conditions in the proposedArea and institute conservation measures so as to remove and alleviate adverse conditions, encourage private investment,develop business and real estate projects in order to increase employment and restore and enhance the tax base of alltaxing districts by undertaking public and private redevelopment projects within the designated Area. The RedevelopmentProject Area (the “Area”) for the proposed Mazon TIF District includes areas shown on the enclosed Boundary Map and theboundary is legally described in the enclosed Legal Description of the TIF Area. These properties have been neglected orhave not been developed by either public or private sectors, and have not benefitted from coordinated planning efforts. Allproperties within the proposed Area would substantially benefit by a series of proposed public and private redevelopmentprojects. Pursuant to the Act, the proposed Area includes only those contiguous parcels of real property and improvementsthereon which would be substantially benefitted by a redevelopment project and the Area is not less in the aggregate than1½ acres. The overall Area consists of two hundred ten (210) improved and vacant parcels, 93.3% of which qualify as acombination of “Blighted” and “Conservation” Areas and, also, an “Industrial Park Conservation Area” as defined in the TIFAct. Improved properties included in the Area display characteristics of dilapidation, obsolescence, deterioration, violationsof municipal code, excessive vacancy, inadequate utilities, overcrowding, deleterious uses, and a lack of public infrastruc-ture and community planning. Vacant parcels throughout the Area display characteristics of obsolete platting, deteriorationof adjacent properties, unused railroad right-of-ways, and chronic flooding or contribute to flooding within the same water-shed. Evidence of a lag in Equalized Assessed Valuation (EAV) growth is apparent throughout the Area as a whole and hasbeen documented pursuant to data made available by the Grundy County Assessor’s office. The, Redevelopment ProjectArea on the whole has not been subject to growth and development through investment by private enterprise and wouldnot reasonably be anticipated to be developed without the use of tax increment financing. By attracting new private invest-ment and improving infrastructure throughout a designated Redevelopment Project Area, the Village expects to create newemployment opportunities, improve or construct public services necessary for future population increases, stimulate thelocal economy, and improve the overall quality of life for its residents.

Long Term Goals and Objectives: The Village intends to use the Mazon TIF District to redevelop property that is cur-rently underutilized for commercial, residential and light industrial development in an effort to increase population, improveemployment opportunities, expand and diversify the local real estate tax base, manage growth and increase the overallquality of life for its residents. This Redevelopment Plan will allow the Village to alleviate and/or remove blighted conditionssuch as the lack of adequate public infrastructure. All of the property within the redevelopment project area will substan-tially benefit by a series of public and private redevelopment projects made possible with tax increment financing. TheRedevelopment Project Area is not otherwise reasonably expected to be further developed without the use of tax incrementfinancing. The Mazon TIF District Redevelopment Plan includes, but is not limited to, the following general long-term goalsand objectives: (1) Eliminate or reduce those conditions which qualify the Redevelopment Project Area as a Combina-tion of Blighted and Conservation Areas and, also, as an Industrial Park Conservation Area; (2) Facilitate the construction,improvement and maintenance of public infrastructure and other capital projects which the Village finds is in furtheranceof this Redevelopment Plan or necessary to encourage new commercial, residential and light industrial development; (3)Construct, improve, upgrade and maintain storm water drainage and sanitary sewer lines and related infrastructure through-out the Redevelopment Project Area; (4) Construct, improve, upgrade and maintain antiquated and/or inadequate waterlines and mains, as well as water storage facilities and related distribution systems; (5) Construct, improve, upgrade andmaintain streets (including, but not limited to the future extension of Center St., Main St., Primrose Ln., Commercial Dr., andIndustry Parkway), street lighting, landscaping, curbs, alleys, parks, public green space, recreational amenities, sidewalks,bike paths and other pedestrian walkways throughout the Redevelopment Project Area; (6) Enhance the tax base for theVillage and other taxing districts through coordinated, comprehensive planning efforts by either the public or private sectorswhich focus on efforts to improve infrastructure, property reuse, and the upgrade of existing buildings; (7) Attract new com-mercial and light industrial development which complies with Village zoning and land use ordinances, increases assessedvaluations and enhances the real estate tax base for the Village, thereby creating additional employment opportunitieswithin the Mazon community; (8) Encourage new residential development which would increase the Village’s population, ad-dress declines in Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Elementary School District 2C and Seneca Township High School District #160’senrollments and expand the overall economic base of the Village; (9) Attract tourism, new retail/commercial businessesand vigorous reinvestment in existing properties within the Central Business District through the use of financial incentives

offered by Tax Increment Financing; thereby increasing retail business activity which will lead to an increase in municipalsales tax revenue for the Village, Grundy County and the State of Illinois; and (10) Undertake redevelopment projects whichwill further improve the overall quality of life, health and well being of the Mazon community.

Description of Tax Increment Financing: A TIF District establishes a geographic boundary (a “redevelopmentproject area”) in which new private and public investment is encouraged. A municipality may issue obligations to financeimprovements that will enable the redevelopment of deteriorated, blighted, or other key conservation areas within itscorporate limits. By making public improvements, the municipality may invite new private investment so that the expectedincrease in property tax revenues can be captured, temporarily, to amortize the public improvement costs. A municipalitymay also choose to use TIF funds on a pay-as-you-go basis whereby revenue is spent as it is collected. In either case, it isexpected that new investment in a designated redevelopment area will stimulate a resurgence of population, employmentand assessed valuation throughout the entire community. It should be noted that TIF DOES NOT raise property taxes andit IS NOT a new tax or a new taxing district. Only an increased assessment or an overall increase in tax rates can raisetaxes. TIF is merely used to reallocate increased property tax revenues created by increased assessed valuation thatis realized after a TIF District is established. A TIF District may last for up to 23 years. With Tax Increment Financing, aproperty tax base is preserved during the life of the TIF District that will continue to pay for the basic public services theproposed redevelopment area already receives. All taxing districts will continue to receive taxes from this property tax base.New incremental property tax revenue in the Village of Mazon may be used to help pay for the infrastructure necessary forstimulating additional private-sector investment.

VILLAGE OF MAZON PROPOSED TIF DISTRICTPROPOSED LEGAL DESCRIPTION

Beginning at the northwest corner of the Southwest Quarter of Section 15, Township 32 North, Range 7 East of the ThirdPrincipal Meridian; thence easterly on the north line of the Southwest Quarter of said Section 15 to the east line of the WestHalf of the Southwest Quarter of said Section 15; thence southerly on said east line to the north right-of-way line of theAtchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad; thence southwesterly on said north right-of-way line to the north right-of-way lineof North Street (Grand Ridge Road); thence westerly on said north right-of-way line to the east line of the West Half of theSouthwest Quarter of said Section 15; thence southerly on said east line and the east line of the West Half of the NorthwestQuarter of the Northwest Quarter of Section 22, Township 32 North, Range 7 East of the Third Principal Meridian, to thesouth line of the West Half of the Northwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter of said Section 22; thence westerly on saidsouth line and the south line of the Northeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter of Section 21, Township 32 North, Range 7East of the Third Principal Meridian to the west right-of-way line of Center Street; thence northerly on said west right-of-wayline to the southerly right-of-way line of South Street; thence southwesterly on said southerly right-of-way line to the north-west corner of Lot 4 in Block 17 of Isham’s Sixth Addition to Mazon, also being the east right-of-way line of Seventh Street;thence northwesterly to the southeast corner of Lot 2 in Block 18 of Isham’s Sixth Addition to Mazon, also being on the westright-of-way line of Seventh Street; thence northerly on said west right-of-way line to the southerly right-of-way line of SouthStreet; thence southwesterly on said southerly right-of-way line to the east right-of-way line of Eighth Street; thence south-erly on said east right-of-way line to the intersection of said east right-of-way line and the easterly prolongation of the southline of the North Half of Lot 2 in Block 19 of Isham’s Sixth Addition to Mazon; thence westerly on the south line of the NorthHalf of said Lot 2 and its easterly and westerly prolongations to the east line of Lot 1 in Block 1 of Morris’ First Addition toMazon; thence northerly on the east line of said Lot 1 to the southerly right-of-way line of South Street; thence southwester-ly on said southerly right-of-way line to the northwest corner of Lot 1 in Block 3 of Morris’ First Addition to Mazon; thencesoutherly on the west lines of said Lot 1 and Lot 3 of said Morris’ First Addition and on the west lines of Lots 1, 2, 3, and 4of Morris’ Second Addition to Mazon, to the southwest corner of said Lot 4; thence South 89° 58’ 00” West on the south lineof a parcel of land described by Warranty Deed to Gene H. and Nancy N. Isham in Document Number 295992, a distanceof 348 feet to the southwest corner of said Isham parcel; thence North 00° 02’ 30” West on the west line of said Isham par-cel and its northerly extension, to the north right-of-way line of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad; thence north-easterly on said north right-of-way line to the east line of the West 45 feet of Lot 3 of Henderson’s SecondAddition to Mazon;thence northerly on said east line to the south right-of-way line of Grundy Avenue; thence northeasterly to the southwestcorner of Lot 15 of Henderson’s First Addition to Mazon, also being the north right-of-way line of Grundy Avenue; thenceeasterly and northerly on the north and west right-of-way lines of said Grundy Avenue to the northeast corner of Lot 1 inBlock 2 of Henderson’s Subdivision, also being on the south right-of-way line of Harmony Avenue; thence northeasterly tothe southwest corner of Lot 6 in Block 1 of Henderson’s Subdivision, also being on the north right-of-way line of HarmonyAvenue; thence easterly on said north right-of-way line to the southeast corner of Lot 4 in Block 1 of Henderson’s Subdivi-sion; thence northerly on the east line of said Lot 4 to the northeast corner of said Lot 4; thence westerly on the north linesof said Lot 4 and Lots 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16 of Block 1 of Henderson’s Subdivision to the northwestcorner of said Lot 16; thence northerly on the west line of the East Half of the Northwest Quarter of said Section 21 to a linebeing 35 feet south of and parallel with the north line of said Section 21; thence westerly on said line being 35 feet south ofand parallel with the north line of said Section 21 to the west line of said Section 21; thence northerly on said west line to thesouthwest corner of Section 16, Township 32 North, Range 7 East of the Third Principal Meridian; thence northerly on thewest line of said Section 16 to a line being 35 feet north of and parallel with the south line of said Section 16; thence east-erly on said line being 35 feet North of and parallel with the south line of said Section 16 to the west line of the SoutheastQuarter of the Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of said Section 16; thence northerly on said west line to the northline of the Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of said Section 16; thence easterly on saidnorth line to the west line of the Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of said Section 16; thence northerly on saidwest line to the north line of the Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of said Section 16; thence easterly on saidnorth line to the west line of the Northeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of said Section 16; thence northerly on said westline to the north line of the Southeast Quarter of said Section 16; thence easterly on said north line to the Point of Beginning;EXCEPTING therefrom the following described parcels; EXCEPTION NO.1: Lot 63 of Breisch’s Garden Estates Fifth Addi-tion to Mazon; EXCEPTION NO.2: Lots 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 17, 23, 24, 35, and 36 of Breisch’s Garden Estates Fourth Additionto Mazon; EXCEPTION NO.3: Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 18, 19, 20, 21, and 22 of Breisch’s Garden Estates Third Addition toMazon; EXCEPTION NO.4: Lots 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24 of Breisch’s Garden Estates First

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