INSIDE
SPORTS Several colleges after Westphal PAGE 13
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NEWS Summer learning comes to Valley View PAGE 2
Our Village, Our News
MAY 10, 2012
Vol. 5 No. 42
ZONING BATTLE PERSISTS Liberty Temple Gospel Church calls on Mayor Claar to end village’s lawsuit By Laura Katauskas Staff Reporter
In a continued attempt to bring attention to its trouble in securing a location for its worship services, the Liberty Temple Full Gospel Church of Bolingbrook is calling on the village to end a lawsuit over the issue. In an open letter to Bolingbrook Mayor Roger Claar, Apostle Clifford Turner, Liberty Temple Full Gospel Church of Bolingbrook, asserts that the village tried unsuccessfully to stop the church from worshiping in its current location in the
Bolingbrook Commons by providing “phony zoning arguments, phony parking arguments and other illegal obstructions.” Village attorney Jim Boan said the village is unable to comment on pending litigation. Liberty Temple filed a federal lawsuit, which is still pending, against the village last year. The suit asserted that the village discriminated against them by making demands on the church that the mayor and the village had not made on See ZONING, page 4