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Arts Alliance pitches public art installation

If approved by the village council, Little Perspectives will be an interactive pilot project located at Constitution Cour t

By JESSICA MORDACQ Staff Reporter

Imagine yourself walking by Constitution Madison Street in the winter. Though the fountain ther flows in warmer months, in the winter when it off, there’s no ornamental focal point on the thoroughfar But that could change with a new interactive art tion.

The Forest Park Arts Alliance pitched a public ect to commissioners during a presentation at village council meeting. Bridget Lane, the Arts secretary, asked for a permit that would allow Fo er Ian Pfaff to create the group’s first public art tion at Constitution Court to be called Little Pe “We’re always looking for programming that will enhance Forest Park as an arts living space, place where you can always connect to the arts,” Little Perspectives would sit on top of the while it’s off for winter. The installation will be a fi

Local activist Maria ‘Bett Alzamora runs for park board

She’s

a senior program manager at Uber, frequently uses park district resources, and has years of local organizing experience

By JESSICA MORDACQ Staff Reporter

With upcoming municipal elections in April, in the coming weeks, the Review will profile candidates running for the Park District of Forest Park’s Board of Commissioners. The Review’s previous issues have focused on Tim Gillian and Sammiejo Oswalt. Today, the spotlight is on Maria “Betty” Alzamora.

Betty Alzamora moved to Forest Park in 2007 by way of multiple municipalities.

She was born in Caracas, Venezuela; raised in Montreal, Canada; and has lived in Mexico City, Mexico; London, England; New York City; Miami, F lorida; and Chicago

Alzamora’s childhood friend moved to Chicago with her f amily, and Alzamora’s cousin moved to Oak Park with his wife and kids. Alzamora bought a house in Forest Park to be close by, but also because she started feeling claustrophobic living in big cities

“I needed to go back to a place where there’s space,” she said of why she moved to Forest Park. “It’s our proximity to the forest preserve, the parks.”

Alzamora started seriously considering running for the park district board during Covid-19, when she noticed herself appreciating the outdoors more.

A lifelong avid cycler, Alzamora found a growing connection to nature during the pandemic. She started going on more walks through the forest preserve and cemeteries. When the pool opened, she spent at least an hour swimming there every day.

“I’m a product of community centers, recreational centers, and municipal pools.

These we said. Those places, she added, taught her values and entertained her. “Where would I have gone if not safe havens?”

“This has become such an essential part of Alzamora added of these community spaces. “W wouldn’t I be voice, maybe a new perspective?”

During the da nior progr Uber Technologies. rate sector, Alzamora has career experience in customer service and commercial sales.

“The practicalities of managing and organizing and planning and strategic visioning are pa done professionall

But she also has extensive experience in community organizing.

“The commonality between the work that I do and as a community activist, as an organizer, is elements of bringing people together, being able to … build teams, engage people, listen above everything else,”

Alzamora said.

She was a coordinator for Let Forest Park Vote, the group that petitioned for the binding referendum to let locals vote on whether video gaming should be allowed in Forest Park.

Alzamora was an acting campaign manager for Forest Park Forward, the slate of commissioners that Mayor Rory Hoskins ran with in 2019. Jessica Voogd, commissioner of public property, was the only successful commissioner on the slate.

“It brought me a little bit closer to the hyperlocal, the day-to-day issues that matter from a village perspective,” Alzamora said of her Forest Park Forward experience. “It brought me closer to understanding some of our civic institutions … and helped me to establish a better, stronger,

more rooted foothold within

Alzamora co-founded the Area Miant Resettlement Mission Against Racism. She’s also been on the SO, Oak Park Area Lesbian and Gay Asand is currently on the board of directors for Indivisible Chicago Alliance and Equality Illinois.

district board, Alzamora’s priorities would include underlogistically possible when it comes to the Altenheim, the Van Buren H&R Auto. The chosen use of any of these spaces, she said, ll of this is so complex. I want to unbig priorithe interconnectedness, but let’s bring it down to the practicalities.”

She also mentions creating more opportunities at the park district for older teens. And pitches having town halls or organizing office hours with a commissioner at a coffee shop.

“Are we sure that we’re eng aging everybody to the best of our abilities?” she asks.

“There’s a lot of people out there with opinions on things they would want out of a park district.”

Alzamora is also a proponent of making sure that diversity is better re presented throughout park district programming.

“I identify as an out, queer Latina woman,” she said. “When I’m in the pool, I don’t necessarily see people like me.” She added, “as a kid, I thrived when I could look at people and see role models that I could see myself in.”

And while she has a lot of ideas for the park district, if she’s elected to the board of commissioners, she said she’ll respect and listen to everyone’s thoughts and opinions.

“Anytime you put your hand up to do something like this, you have to go at it eyes wide open,” she said of the hard work leading up to the election. She’s focusing on “building relationships, so much learning, so much to unearth and to research, and not taking for granted institutional knowledge that has been doing this for so long. But at the same time being able to say, ‘I’ve earned a seat at this table and there are things I want to ask about.’”

“I might be a newbie and a neophyte in r unning for elective of fice, and I don’ t have any direct experience in working for park districts,” she added. “But if not for park districts, I wouldn’ t know what kind of human I’d grow up to be. That, to me, matters.”

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three-foot box and, depending on which of its viewing ports people look through, they’ll see a different scene of lit-up dioramas inside

The Arts Alliance is hoping that Little Perspectives can get a permit by the spring wine walk down Madison Street.

“National experience suggests that art in a location so central to our vibrant commercial district will cause more visits that last longer,” Lane said. “We think that [Constitution Court] is such a great size for this kind of thing. Very few communities have something like that that’s so connected to their commercial area.”

If the seasonal Little Perspectives installation is a hit before the fountain turns on in late spring, the Arts Alliance hopes to continue installing pieces of public art at Constitution Court, or even throughout the rest of the village.

“That’s why we’re calling it a pilot. We expect to learn a great deal from [Pfaff],” Lane said. “We’re relying on him to tell us a lot about what works and doesn’t work.”

Pfaff has extensive artistic experience. He has worked as a professional artist in several mediums, as well as in the film industry, where he directs, edits and builds props for commercials and TV shows. The Pfaff family won the people’s choice award for the Arts

Alliance’s 48-hour film festival its first year in 2023, and again in 2024. Their team Dead Last won creepiest casket at last year’s casket races.

For potential future art installations, the Arts Alliance envisions having a jury process to select artists and their designs. They also intend to apply for a grant that could help fund future projects.

Though the village council will need to vote at a future meeting about whether to give a permit for Little Perspectives, commissioners seemed to be on board with the project.

“I appreciate the breadth of his art,” Commissioner of Streets and Public Improvements Michelle Melin-Rogovin said of Pfaff at the last village council meeting. And though she said she had a hard time visualizing what exactly the installation would look like at first, she said she was comfortable with Pfaff taking artistic liberty.

“People did ask, ‘Could you draw a picture of this?’” Lane said. “I’d almost rather give him the freedom.”

“I’m familiar with the artist’s work in other capacities,” said Commissioner of Accounts and Finance Maria Maxham. “I really like him. I think he’s got some great ideas He’s funky and cool.”

“I love that you guys are thinking of new and different and interesting things,” said Commissioner of Public Property Jessica Voogd. She added that she appreciates the Arts Alliance’s collaboration with the village on installations at Constitution Court, like the group’s recently introduced Fiber Flash. “You’ve been a really great partner while

Constitution Cour t, where the Forest Park Arts Alliance covered the fountain with ar t for its second year of Fiber Flash in 2024.

we’ve explored something that’s not been done before, and we don’t know what it’s necessarily going to look like.”

Lane told the Review that, with the public interest that the Arts Alliance received after its first Fiber Flash at Constitution Court in 2023, the group wondered how else to use that space.

Lane said that Arts Alliance participants previously met with Director of the Forest

Park Public Works Department Sal Stella and Village Administrator Rachell Entler at Constitution Court to discuss requirements and logistics about where Little Perspectives would be installed

Commissioner of Public Health and Safety Ryan Nero also said he liked the idea: “Full support. I think it’s great for the village of Forest Park.”

TODD BANNOR

New Forest Park zoning map approved

e annual update includes a change in zoning to the property that was previously Ed’s Way

By JESSIC A MORDACQ Staff Reporter

Every year, the state of Illinois requires municipalities to publish an updated version of a zoning map with any changes in use or re gulations.

This year was no different, as the Forest Park village council unanimously approved the 2025 zoning map at its Feb. 24 meeting – though it only included one change from the previous year in how the for mer Ed’s Way property was zoned.

The neighborhood grocery store Ed’s Way, which shuttered last year, was approved to be re zoned for development of a 10-unit townhome. So, the 2025 zoning map shows that 946 Beloit Ave, which was previously zoned for businesses, now has a residential designation.

It’s not much of an updated map, considering Forest Park is attempting to rewrite large chunks of the village’s zoning code.

Last year, village staf f started suggesting amendments to portions of the code that reflect Forest Park’s current land use practices. The initial proposed changes would bring hundreds of nonconforming properties into compliance and would increase the maximum impervious lot coverage in the R-1 low density residential district from 40% to 50%.

While the Planning and Zoning Commission approved these changes to the code, Commissioner of Public Property Jessica Voogd and Commissioner of Streets and

Public Improvements Michelle Melin-Rogovin asked at a village council meeting last October to table the zoning code updates until it was clear how they would impact stormwater management and building density

But updates to the village’s zoning code haven’t been brought back to village council since.

In an ef fort to expedite the process, Commissioner of Public Health and Safety Ryan Nero suggested putting the zoning code amendments back on the next village council agenda, which is typically compiled by Mayor Rory Hoskins.

“There’s a lot of stuf f happening in town. Getting those zoning code updates that were before us months ago and shelved – I would love to get that back on the agenda so we can push both residential projects and commercial projects forward,” Nero said during his commissioner comments at the end of the Feb. 24 village council meeting. “Without that zoning update first,

we’re kind of stuck in limbo.”

“It’s disrupted development,” Department of Public Health and Safety Director Steve Glinke told the Review about the stalled work on the zoning code updates.

Glinke said he’s speaking with five residents who want to update their nonconforming properties, but can’t until the zoning code updates are approved – or else they need to individually seek conditional use permits. He said one recently called to tell him he’s moving to another village, rather than waiting for the code updates.

While it remains to be seen whether the proposed zoning code updates from October will be approved in the coming weeks, village staf f still aim to majorly amend the Forest Park’s zoning map this year.

One part of that may be creating a separate designation for cemeteries, which take up about half of Forest Park’s land mass and are zoned for either residential or business districts.

Kalina Pain Institute gets go-ahead to expand

Village Council approves an addition in back of the solo practitioner’s o ce, including a bathroom and surgical suite

By JESSIC A MORDACQ Staff Reporter

Kalina Pain Institute, a solo medical practitioner, has been given the needed approval to expand its space at 334 Circle Ave.

At the Feb. 24 Forest Park Village Council meeting, commissioners unanimously approved a conditional use permit that allows for the 650-square-foot medical office to almost double its size.

Late last month, the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended that the village council approve a conditional use permit for Kalina Pain Institute. Dr Jared Kalina and Linda Lee, his wife and office manager, need that permit before expanding because the property doesn’t currently conform to residential zoning codes in that area.

Kalina Pain Institute offers comprehensive care for pain – including trigger point injections and Botox — plus minimally invasive spine care

Injections around the spine, nearly 80% of Kalina’s injections, require X-rays. Because Kalina Pain Institute lacks appropriate equipment, Dr. Kalina schedules patients that require X-rays at Advanced Ambulatory Surgical Center in Galewood once a week.

Kalina and Lee intend to extend their office by about 580 square feet into the lot’s backyard. The new space would include a second bathroom and surgical suite, where Kalina can perform injections himself

“I would love it,” Kalina previously told the Review, “but the patients would love it, to do the procedure the same day,” rather than scheduling them on Wednesdays at Advanced Ambulatory Surgical Center.

“The way it’s laid out right now makes examinations and procedures rather difficult,” said Department of Public Health and Safety Director Steve Glinke at the Feb. 24 meeting. Glinke is also a patient at Kalina Pain Institute

Kalina said the approved extension shouldn’t impact the number of cars parking in the area.

“I won’t have a bunch more patients coming, and there won’t be a lot more traffic,” Kalina said at the January PZC meeting. “It’s just to create space within the building for the patients.”

“It’s simply a way to provide a property owner with the ability to modify the building and improve the building,” Glinke said.

JESSICA MORDACQ

Dr. Jared Kalina and his w ife, Linda Lee, will expand Kalina Pain Institute into the lot’s backyard

Gene Hackman starred in ‘The Package,’ lmed in Forest Park

Cold War-era thriller used e Altenheim as a key lming location

Gene Hackman, the Oscar-winning actor whose death at 95 remains under investigation, has a Forest Park connection. In December 1988 Hackman starred in “The Package.” Notable scenes in the film, a Cold War ear thriller, were filmed at the Altenheim German Old People’s Home in Forest Park.

The Altenheim, built in 1885, stood in for the American military headquarters in Berlin during filming. Vintage U.S. Jeeps were lined up outside Hackman took a tour of the Altenheim while he was there, met residents in the dining room and offered holiday greetings and apologized for the filming disruption.

Hackman was honored during the Oscars on

Sunday night with Morgan Freeman saying, “Our community lost a giant and I lost a dear friend.”

Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa, a classical musician, were found dead in their home in New Mexico. One of three family dogs was also found dead. Investigators continue their work with autopsy and toxicology reports still pending. Initial reports are that both Hackman and Arakawa had been dead for perhaps nine days when their bodies were discovered.

The Altenheim also was featured in the 1974 film, “Harry and Tonto,” which included an Oscar-winning performance by Art Carney. Again in 1991 the Altenheim was featured on the big screen when film crews came to the site for “The Babe” starring John Goodman. The Forest Park Mall’s Child’s World was used for a segment of the Paul Newman and Tom Cruise film, “The Color of Money.”

Jill Wagner

from the Forest Park Review A Look Back In Time

CRIME

Le : From e Forest Park Rev iew, Dec. 21, 1988.

Below: March 1, 2000.

Woman ips car at cemetery after St. Patrick’s Day Parade

By JESSICA MORDACQ Staff Reporter

Police responded to Forest Home Cemetery after 7:30 p.m. on March 1 and ar rived to find an overturned vehicle that had crashed through the property’s fence. According to the police report, the woman driving the car was awake and breathing with the only visible injury being a cut on her knee. Police reported that she was emotional and had glassy eyes. After Forest Park EMS helped the woman get out of the car, police interviewed her in the ambulance before she was taken to Loyola University Medical Center. The woman told police that she was drinking beer at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade Police found suspected cannabis in the woman’s bag and discovered that she had a revoked driver’s license for a previous DUI. At the police station, the woman’s blood alcohol content was 0.181. She was charged with a DUI, an aggravated DUI, a DUI with a BAC over 0.8, reckless driving, criminal damage to property, operating an uninsured motor

vehicle, two counts of violating state vehicle code, open alcohol, possession of cannabis in a motor vehicle, and having a revoked driver’s license

DUI

On Feb. 28 just after 3 a.m., police pulled over a car in the 7200 block of Jackson for not staying in its lane. Police reported that the driver had slurred speech and smelled of alcohol. She failed multiple Standardized Field Sobriety Tests, according to the police report, so police handcuffed her and took her to the station. There, she refused to comply with commands and provided a BAC breath sample of 0.206. She was charged with a DUI, plus one count for having a DUI over 0.8, improper lane usage, and four counts of resisting an officer

Just after 3 a.m. on March 1, police observed a car at 7207 Roosevelt Road that was running and not parked, though the driver was asleep inside. When police attempted to remove the keys from the ignition, the driver woke up. Police reported that he smelled of

alcohol and had slurred speech. The man attempted to walk away from police multiple times and, at the police station, was irate and belligerent, police reported. He was charged with a DUI.

Strong arm robbery

Police responded to 205 Harlem Ave. on Feb. 28 after they got a call for a strong ar m robbery. A 7-Eleven employee reported that a man stole $100 from another customer and fled the store, according to the police report Police detained a suspect who matched the man’s description. While searching him, they found suspected cannabis and cocaine. The man was charged with theft, manufacturing or delivering controlled substances, and possession of cannabis.

Criminal defacement of property

On March 3, police responded to the 7200 block of Franklin St., where they met with the condominium’s board president. The man showed police two swastikas on the elevator’s button panel, which weren’t there

when he used the elevator that morning, but appeared about two hours later. He said this has been happening for about a month, but today was the first time he saw it before it was cleaned, according to the police report. Camera footage shows only one of the building’s residents using the elevator during the time period in question. According to police, the resident has a history of being combative with the condo board and other residents. The man told police that the condo board will handle the incident inter nally.

These items were obtained from Forest Park Police Department reports dated Feb. 28 through March 3 and represent a portion of the incidents to which police responded. Anyone named in these reports has only been charged with a crime and cases have not yet been adjudicated. We report the race of a suspect only when a serious crime has been committed, the suspect is still at large, and police have provided us with a detailed physical description of the suspect as they seek the public’s help in making an arrest.

The local-global-local migrant connection

CROP Walk and CWS reassess in the era of Trump

By TOM HOLMES Contributing Reporter

Participants in the annual CROP Hunger Walk are taking the Trump administration’s free ze on USAID’s spending personally.

Here’s why: In the 41 years this annual event has been held, CROP walkers, in what they call Hunger Walkathon West, have raised over $2 million to feed hungry people at home and abroad.

While President Trump’s values focus on America first, most of the CROP walkers are church people motivated by compassion.

“When I walk,” said Mary Scherer, “I think of people in other countries who must walk for miles to get food and clean water.”

Of the $70,000 raised in the 2024 walk, 25% went to food pantries and nonprofits in this area, and the rest goes to Church World Service (CWS).

ports, “the CWS family mobilized more than 11 million pounds of food, clothing and medical supplies for war-torn Europe and Asia.”

What feels so familiar is that 80 years ago CWS began welcoming refug ees from across the pond “who were looking to star new lives in safety, resettling more than 100,000 refugees in our first 10 years.”

Lauren Brightmore, the Development and Event coordinator for Beyond Hunger, said, “The CROP Hunger Walk has been a vital source of support, providing nutritious food to families during a time of unprecedented need in our communities. Last year alone, funds from the walk helped provide 2,900 meals. We are proud to be a longtime partner in this impactful ef fort, working together to reduce food in and security.

CROP is a widely reco gnized brand in this area, but Church World Service (CWS), the umbrella nonprofit to which 75% of the money raised by the 2,000 CROP walks in the U.S., is not as well known, so here’s a little background.

Seventeen Christian denominations united to create Church World Service in the years after World War II when much of Europe looked like Gaza does today. At first, far mers would donate a percentage of their harvest and CWS would ship the food to war-torn Europe. Hence the acronym CROP, Christian Rural Overseas Project.

“In our early days,” their website re-

“We get USDA commodities and we’ve received ad hoc funding from the state but not on a re gular basis. And beyond the CDBG grant, the majority of the funds raised are through individual donors and private foundations.”

And the rest goes to Church World Service (CWS).

Celine Wo znica, a member of the Leadership Team of the Oak Park Migrant Ministry, tells a story that connects the local work, which the CROP walks help fund, with the work done around the world, using the 75% of funds the walkers raise.

Realizing that CWS was one of the organizations that supported her Venezuelan partners, Celine asked them, “Would you like to walk with us?”

When last year’s CROP Hunger Walk day finally came, she didn’t expect too many of the Venezuelans to show up, but to her surprise, 18 Venezuelan men, women and children ar rived at Pilg rim Church, where the walk always begins, carrying signs that said, “Thank you, CWS, for feeding migrants on our way north.”

Gaza and Ukraine are not local, but they feel that way because we have gotten to know them so well through constant coverage by the media. Money raised by Hunger Walkathon West is being used to address the needs of people in those war-ravaged countries and Church World Service is one of the few NGOs left, but what is important to understand is that although money raised by CROP walks is vital, the majority of CWS funding comes from USAID. Think of CWS has the hose and USAID as the faucet.

Last year CWS received $186,438,735 or 84.6% of its budget from the federal government. USAID relies on nonprofits like

CWS to distribute foreign aid because they have been on the ground a long time, know the needs of the people, and know what they are doing. CWS depends on the federal government because of its vast resources, and no one seems to get bent of shape by separation of church and state considerations.

For Holly Katz, simply writing a check is not as meaningful as actually getting of f her couch and walking.

“The Crop Walk,” she explained, “creates a unique space for my family and me to participate in meaningful mission and fundraising work together. It is a jumpingof f point to talk to my kids, kindergarten and second grade, about food insecurity that exists in our own community, the importance of caring for others, and what it means to come together with other people to raise money for an important purpose.”

You could say that CROP walkers have put their hearts and “soles” into the fundraiser, which this year will be held on May 4.

e next CROP Hunger Walk w ill take place on May 4.

One last hurrah for McGa r’s Saloon?

With Pat Malone injured and now retired, McGa er’s won’t reopen. But a nal toast might be in the works

By BILL DWYER Contributing Reporter

“Don’t it always seem to go, you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone,” Joni Mitchell sang back in the 60s

So, it is with the legendary McGaffer’s Saloon at 7737 W. Roosevelt Road. The iconic bar has been shuttered in the wake of an unfortunate freak accident on Oct. 25 that badly injured owner J.P. Malone

According to eyewitnesses and others, Malone’s injuries were indeed accidental. Two cousins, re gulars at the saloon, were arguing, and when one pushed the other, he fell back into Malone, who fell and struck his head on the hard patio area surface

Joe Byrnes, a retired Forest Park deputy police chief who’s known Malone for more than 50 years, confirmed that, saying, “Two guys were arguing [not fighting], and one pushed the other,” he said. “The guy bumped into Pat, and he fell down and hit his head.”

The incident was documented in brief police shorthand in a report

“Elderly M(ale) subj(ect) was knocked over req(uired) amb(ulance),” it stated. “Officers observed blood coming from Malone’s nose,” and that he was “breathing, non-responsive.”

“I thought he was dead,” said another friend who was there when it happened. Malone was rushed to Rush Oak Park Hospital and spent weeks recovering from a serious head injury

There has been some confusion about the exact circumstances of Malone’s injuries, due to another more violent and disruptive, but separate incident around the same time that same evening involving two belligerent individuals who refused to leave

A Nov. 3 Facebook post announced that McGaffer’s was “going to be closed temporarily for repairs and potential remodeling. We hope to reopen in the near future …”

More than three months later, however,

the blinds remain drawn behind the large picture window, the vertical window in the door is papered over and there are no work permits posted.

Malone is doing well now, but his family doesn’t want him to run McGaffer’s anymore, and the building and attached property parcels have been put up for sale

There will be no renovations, and McGaffer’s will not reopen, said long-time friend Dennis Marani, who is helping Malone with the details of selling

“It’s on the market,” he said.

Back in 1914, when the building was constructed, thousands of Chicago residents routinely made their way west on Roosevelt Road en route to the dozens of cemeteries west of Des Plaines Avenue going all the way to DuPage County. Many stopped at the saloon on Roosevelt just east of Des Plaines for a beer or two afterwards.

People also came to Forest Park for recreation, including the Forest Park Amusement Park to the north at what’s now the Eisenhower Expressway, the Harlem Race Track and the first public golf course in the metropolitan area on the south side of Roosevelt, where the Forest Park Mall is now.

But for all its rich history, the saloon’s true heyday, its golden era, has been the past 48-plus years that Malone ran it since purchasing the building in 1976. He holds the longest active liquor license in Forest Park.

In May, for the first time in 48 years, Malone will not renew the liquor license.

McGaffer’s wasn’t a bar or a “lounge or a tavern, it was a saloon, a friendly place that welcomed everyone. A place to drink your fill, for sure, but also a gathering spot where everyone and anyone was welcome, so long as they respected other people and didn’t act up

Byrnes is a lifelong Forest Park resident who, after retiring from the police force, served six years on the park board and eight years as a village commissioner. He recalled McGaffer’s as a place to go that attracted folks from many other neighborhoods. A joint where cemetery workers, postal workers, bakery truck drivers, iron workers and hospital employees all stopped by regularly at various times

“People from all walks of life were at McGaffer’s,” Byrnes said. “It didn’t matter your color or religion (or whatever), you were welcome.”

Rich “Chubbs” Polfus tended bar at McGaffers a night or two each week for more than a decade. He’s held fundraisers like

bar.

Christmas with a Cause at McGaffer’s and gone there with his softball teams.

He recalls the saloon being a place people could relax and be themselves. One of his favorite memories were all the T hanksgivings when Malone had at least one and, on one occasion, live turkeys, and all the trimmings, for customers to enjoy with their drinks

“If you didn’t have a place to go, you came to McGaffer’s” Polfus said.

“I don’t know how to explain the place,” said Marani, who has known Malone for more than 40 years. “You walked in there and felt at home.”

McGaffer’s was, he said, “a pretty cool place, the last of the old-time saloons.”

“You’ re not gonna have another place like that,” Byrnes said.

If McGaffer’s wasn’t just a bar, Malone wasn’t just a bar owner. He was, as the lettering states both on the large front picture window, and on the carved wooden sign that ran the width of the building above the entryway, “J.P. Malone, Proprietor.”

And for all his pride in his saloon, that was enough for Malone. When it came to the myriad events and causes that McGaffer’s played host to over the decades, people say, Malone was content to stand in the background (“with a cigar in his mouth”)

and let others have the spotlight.

“He’s a stand-up guy who didn’t want any pats on the back,” said Byrne.

Some hope that the unfortunate events on an otherwise beautiful October evening last fall do not serve as the last hurrah for McGaffer’s.

Byrnes said any such event for Malone would require an entire weekend to accommodate all the people Malone has known.

“I would hope that, before the place shuts down for good, they’d have a weekend to honor Pat,” Byrnes said. “It would have to be a two-day thing for him, to have all the people he’s known be able to stop by and say thank you.”

Polfus wants not only to see one more event at McGaffer’s but also have the village name a section of a nearby street in his honor.

Will there be one last “cheers!” at McGaffer’s Saloon? One last “salute!” echoing of f its walls from a happy crowd toasting the proud proprietor who oversaw it all for decades?

Marani, who’s in re gular touch with Malone, said there are plans in motion, but nothing specific yet.

“We’ re working on something,” he said, without going into details, adding “when it’s warmer.”

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Historic photo of McGa er’s

Parent-pleasing kids’ meal deals

Looking for budgetfriendly family dining options? ese local restaurants o er deals that make dining out easy and enjoyable

By RISÉ SANDERS-WEIR Contributing Reporter

Our area has long been known as familyfriendly, and local restaurants up and down the scale are no exception. When cabin fever hits and you just have to get out of the house, these kids’ meal deals will ease the strain.

One of the marquee restaurants in this category is The Junction Diner With prices that won’t railroad your pocketbook, meals are delivered via model train. For owner Brad Wahl, a balance must be struck to keep families happy.

“Everything has to be up to standards, so adults are willing to go, right?” Wahl said. “The train creates an atmosphere where you’re sitting across from someone, it kind of brings people together.”

And that’s the whole point of family dining.

What’s better than free? All these are dinein-only deals.

Citrine offers one free kid’s meal entrée Tuesdays through Fridays from 4:30 – 6 p.m. with the purchase of each adult entrée. Their Mediterraneaninfluenced meals hardly make you feel like you’re giving up anything to bring the kids along

At Kettlestrings Tavern, the small fry dines for free too. On Sundays, one meal is comped with each adult entrée ordered. The tavern has a stated goal to bring neighbors, friends and families together. This deal helps accomplish that mission.

Lavergne’s Tavern also has trains to keep the kids’ attention, but at their location in Berwyn, the engines are full sized. On Mondays, kids eat free with adults as they watch the tracks next door.

On Wednesdays, the shorties get a free kids’ meal at Chicago’s Home of Chicken and Waffles with every adult meal purchased for $18 or more. If you need soul food other days

Russell’s Barbecue kid’s sandwich with toy.

of the week, kiddie specials are available: one leg or wing, bacon or turkey sausage; with a waffle, mac & cheese or fries, and a drink for $9.25 – for diners 10 years old and under If you have a hankering for Asian and

Babygold Barbecue .

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At Na Siam, the “little bosses” get a taste of Thailand for only $6.95. And Margarita’s feeds the niños with mucho menu options

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Children are always made to feel welcome at New Star. The pan-Asian destination thinks they can get your kids to try something new by putting appetizers on a stick and letting everyone use a tableside grill.

For as long as most can remember Russell’s Barbecue has given each munchkin a token with their meal to use in their toy vending machine.

Not only do Buzz Café and Egg Harbor offer up good deals for little noshers, but they also have charming play areas to keep the littlest ones, who can no longer sit still, busy

Whether your kids can barely sit up or are pushing the boundaries of not wanting to order off the kids’ menu any longer, there are affordable, delicious, welcoming options all around

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What’s green and orange and parading down Madison?

Here’s what I saw walking with the Forest Park Review in the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade

By JESSICA MORDACQ Staff Reporter

Though it’s not St. Patrick’s Day yet, Forest Parkers were certainly in the spirit on Saturday during the village’s annual parade down Madison Street.

It was my second time walking in the parade Last year, I had only been working for the Review one month before the parade came around. I thought it’d be a good way to throw myself into my beat.

My first Forest Park parade was much more overwhelming and exciting than I thought it would be. Boy, do kids love to get grabby for candy, and I ran out about halfway through the route. While I had to wave, empty handed, at dozens of disappointed faces, those who got a sweet treat made my heart smile with their green garb and big smiles

Before this Saturday’s parade, I poured way more candy into our bags than last year. It was a move that served us well in the end – since I finished the route with some leftover grape Laffy Taffy, courtesy of Ferrara Candy Company – but it does still have my shoulders aching a bit. This year, I found the parade to be much more manageable and overall enjoyable than last year’s. I’d say the biggest reason is because I actually knew the co-workers that I was walking with, and there were more of them helping this year to pass out candy and our newly printed stickers. What a difference it can make to feel like you’re a part of the community I initially thought I might have had remaining Laffy Taffys because there were fewer people at the parade in the 30-degree weather. Last year, I wore a long-sleeved shirt, instead of a big jacket and hat this time around But it also seemed like there were more kids with open bags west of Des Plaines on Saturday, and I’m wondering if that’s because most marchers ran out of candy before that point last year. Or maybe because that’s a siren-free zone?

Regardless, I appreciated the handful of adults who complimented the Review and the importance of independent local news. It makes my career choice feel a little more worthwhile in this day and age.

Though we gave older parade-goers newspapers and cards to sign up for our newsletter, I think it’s cute when adults ask for the candy instead If you were one of those people, sign up for our newsletter at https:// www.forestparkreview.com/newsletter-subscription/.

Some of my favorite parade participants included the float for Illinois House Speaker Emanuel ‘Chris’ Welch, which had a DJ and inspired lots of dancing, the Medinah Shriners in their small motorcycles and cars, and of course the Proviso marching band. A special shout out to the Grand Appliance marchers, who were joined by an adorable baby who waved her ar ms to the beat of the music.

Walking with the Review, Dan Haley, a long-time staffer, pushed his granddaughter in a stroller. She slept most of the time, and I couldn’t stop thinking how disoriented I’d be if I woke up to the sound of fire trucks and bagpipes, especially if I’d never heard a bagpipe before in my life. All in all, it seems to me and the rest of the Review staff that the parade was a smashing success, yet again. If I had one complaint, it would be that there weren’t as many dogs as last year. But I already can’t wait for March 2026. We’re talking about getting a bubble gun

Photos by TODD BANNOR

Summer Jobs Initiative looks for partners

Proviso Township Ministerial Alliance Network provides youth internships

By TOM HOLMES Contributing Reporter

The Proviso Township Ministerial Alliance Network (PTMAN) has never waited for the gover nment to address needs in their west suburban communities. They call on church people to step into the breach and do the work that needs to be done with partners right in the neighborhood

In 2016, PTMAN members noticed that many young people had nothing to do in the summer and had no vision for themselves in terms of becoming entrepreneurs and business owners. True to form, they created the Summer Jobs Initiative, aka 4x4x4.

“The Summer Jobs Initiative,” explains

the PTMAN website, “is designed to keep our youth active while helping them to develop a good work ethic, enhance their skills for future employment aspirations, and acquire money management skills.”

The format is 4x4x4: four hours a day, four days a week, for four weeks in the summer. Local businesses and entities like Forest Park Bank, Bellwood Library, Proviso Township, Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch, True Value Hardware in Broadview, and Pattie Marcus Wright DDS in Forest Park have provided internships

Pastor Albert Johnson who directs the program reports that 200 young people have participated in the Summer Jobs Initiative — together with another business experience, an annual car wash.

Lorrenso Webber is the director of Youth Services and has had interns in the program for five years, so 4x4x4 is right up his alley . To illustrate the effectiveness of the program he told the story of two young ladies he supervised several years ago.

“When they came in,” he recalled, “they

were really shy but they took to the program right away. I watched them grow from being not so sure of themselves to being able to work in an office setting and to deliver a very professional presentation at the end of their internship.”

Business people who have supervised interns in the past report that they get as much out of the program as their interns do.

“When I see these kids coming in to work,” said Webber, “I feel good. Often we talk about kids sitting at home on the phone all day playing games. These kids are coming in to work I see them getting exposure they otherwise wouldn’t have. I see them developing leadership skills, and they begin to see the possibility of what they might do in their future.”

There are three ways to get involved in the PTMAN Summer Youth 4x4x4 Program:

1. Supervise an intern for four weeks. Businesses and organizations which have included young people in their everyday business operation include the Bellwood Library, the Proviso Township offices in Hillside, Speaker Welch’s political office, Forest Park Bank,

and True Value Hardware store in Broadview. Supervising interns does not obligate the business owner to pay them, and one size does not fit all interns. Working out the young person’s job responsibilities happens between each supervisor and the intern.

2. Support interns financially. Student interns earn a total of $512 during the fourweek program or $128/week. Some business owners and/or community residents choose to fund the program while not taking an intern.

3. Do both — include an intern in your organization for four weeks and pay them $128/ week.

Rev. Albert Johnson, who directs the program, noted that for some of these young people the Summer Program is the first time in their lives that have held a paycheck in their hands.

Contact Rev. Johnson at 708-397-6944 or via www.ptman.org with questions or if you are interested in sponsoring an intern this summer, paying for one week at $128 or the whole program at $512 or doing both.

Fenwick settles lawsuit alleging sex abuse cover-up

Suit alleged Fenwick leaders covered up multiple allegations of sexual abuse by a teacher in the 1990s

By BRENDAN HEFFERNAN Staff Reporter

A lawsuit filed by a for mer Fenwick High School student alleging that school leaders had covered up and enabled sexual abuse by a teacher in the mid-1990s was settled out-ofcourt last fall.

The suit, filed in 2022, alleged that for mer Fenwick Principal James Quaid had refused to act on allegations of sexual abuse made by several girls against social studies teacher Matthew Dineen during that era, allowing the abuse to continue for months. Allegedly, school leaders did not report any of the allegations to law enforcement or to the girls’ parents and did not add a record of the allegations to Dineen’s personnel file, according to a report by the Chicago Sun-Times pub-

lished last weekend

The suit, which named Quaid and Fenwick as defendants, settled out-of-court on Nov. 6, 2024, according to Cook County court records.

“Defendant fell miserably short of its obligations because Matthew Dineen routinely spent inappropriate amounts of time with and sexually abused and sexually assaulted JANE DOE outside of class, and routinely sexually spent inappropriate amounts of time with and abused and sexually assaulted JANE DOE 2 and JANE DOE 3 during the school day and in the school building,” the plaintiff said in a section of the complaint published by the Sun-Times

The suit also alleged that Dineen had groomed the girls, blackmailed girls into engaging in sexual relationships with him and been allowed to spend time with the girls in inappropriate settings, according to the newspaper.

The suit also alleged that Quaid had intimidated a girl out of making an allegation against Dineen, reportedly telling her “I am going to ask you a question, and if the answer is ‘Yes’ you will be kicked out of school. Are you having an affair with Mr. Dineen?” according to the Sun-Times.

Quaid denied the allegation in a deposi-

tion, according to the paper. Quaid presently serves as superintendent of schools for the Diocese of Joliet.

Dineen would go on to work as a teacher and coach at Gardiner Area High School in Maine, where in 2010 he was convicted of three misdemeanor counts of unlawful sexual touching in a case involving a 16-year-old student. He was sentenced to 120 days in prison, according to the Portland Press Herald

The girls Dineen allegedly abused were among the first classes of female students to attend Fenwick, which had been an all-boys school until the early 1990s Fenwick teachers have been accused of sexual misconduct on several other occasions dating back decades, with allegations implicating both ordained and lay faculty members.

The Dominican Friars of the Central Province, which runs Fenwick, did not list for mer Fenwick Latin teacher John Gambro on its first published list of clergy who’d been credibly accused of sexual assault in 2022. But the order reversed course years later, admitting that it had become aware of his 1978 sexual assault of a boy at Fenwick in 2002, according to the Sun-Times.

Gambro was never laicized and died in 2021.

In 2019, several men spoke with Wednesday

Journal about sexual abuse they’d experienced or heard of from Rev. William P. Farrell, a longtime teacher, counselor and spiritual advisor at Fenwick who died in 1989.

In 2022, Fenwick let go of longtime basketball coach and history teacher John Quinn after allegations of grooming and sexual harassment became public, with the school saying its months-long investigation had “uncovered clear and unequivocal violations” against students.

In a Wednesday Journal column published on the heels of the allegations against Quinn, Jack Crowe wrote that a Fenwick priest named Robert Francis Crowe, the cousin of his father, had sexually abused his older brother Robert Francis Crowe is not mentioned among the Central Province’s list of clergy credibly accused of sexual abuse, while the order says its “Sexual Misconduct Review Board did not consider themselves to have a sufficient basis for making a reliable recommendation about allegations against” William Farrell.

Fenwick, Quaid, lawyers for the woman who brought the case, The Diocese of Joliet and The Diocese of Chicago all reportedly declined requests from the Sun-Times for comment.

PROPER TY TR ANSFERS

Oak Park home sells for $1.2 million

The following property transfers were re ported by the Cook County Clerk from December 2024. Where addresses appear incomplete, for instance where a unit number appears missing, that information was not provided by the clerk.

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OPINION

Please, make a splash

Before we of fer an opinion on plans for the Forest Park Arts Alliance to put an artistic lid on the fountain at Constitution Court on Madison Street, allow us to offer some wider thoughts on public fountains in general.

Over in Oak Park, we’ve reported over time about what used to be the fabulous fountain at village hall (also on Madison Street). Originally, it was both a reflecting pond and a fountain. But then it became basically a drain that leaked water into an already woebegone police department in the basement of village hall. Then it became an empty space for a very long time

Lovely

In Brookfield, we’ve re ported on the many attempts to maintain and protect a fountain in the 8 Corners commercial district. Both before and after renovations, it was hit by a drunk driver. Actually, two different drunk drivers, we assume.

But there is something wonderful about running water in public spaces, and so our favorite towns keep trying.

That brings us to the fountain in Forest Park. It has been there a good long time. Doesn’t seem to leak. Has not been hit by a car that we recall. It is, and don’t take this wrong, just the least ambitious fountain we ever recall seeing in the public way. It very modestly spurts some water a short distance in the air. To us, it is always a relief when they stick the village Christmas tree on top for a few weeks each year.

So yes, we are enthused to see plans by the ever-ambitious Arts Alliance to gar ner village council support for an ar t project created by Forest Park artist Ian Pfaf f. Titled “Little Perspectives,” it will of fer dioramas for visitors to look at from various viewing ports.

Sounds creative, fun and interactive. And if this goes over, let’s pitch in to give the Arts Alliance a small pool of money to retool a fountain that is also creative, fun and interactive

A sendo for McGa er’s

The plans are still forming, but we lend our support to the idea that McGaffer’s Saloon, currently shuttered after an accident involving owner Pat Malone and unlikely to ever actually reopen, deserves one last celebration of what may be Forest Park’s single most-hometown watering spot.

Malone has owned McGaffer’s for decades and has made it a welcoming home for softball teams, shift workers, charities staging an event, and average folks looking for a friendly face and a cold beer.

While Malone is gradually recovering from the accident in the bar last October, multiple close friends say the saloon will not be reopening. Instead as the weather warms, we’re hoping for a final weekend of send-offs and thank-yous.

Watch this space.

A psalm for the rst day of Lent

Today is Ash Wednesday Churches will not be filled tonight.

“Remember that you are dust” does not raise viewership ratings.

Folks these days would rather hear “sleep in heavenly peace” and “he is risen” than be reminded That they’re going to die someday. Truth remains true

Whether it comforts or disturbs Remember that you are dust And to dust you shall return. Teach me to number my days That I may gain a heart of wisdom. We are very smart, we humans. When I look east to the skyline

HOLMES

The babel towers impress me, Impress me with what we mor tals can create. Is there anything we humans cannot do?

Reason and science, Technology comes up with one miracle after another,

Miracles my grandparents could not imagine. Settlements on the moon?

Or even Mars?

Sure. Why not?

What are humans, asks the psalmist, That you are mindful of them?

The snake tempted Eve to disobey the commandment

By suggesting that in the freedom of disobedience

She would become like God. Paradise was lost in that delusion. Speed without direction Means we are getting nowhere fast. Yet the psalmist declares You have made us a little lower than angels, Made us rulers over the works of your hands. How have we humans done with that vocation, The vocation of dominion?

Made in the image of God, The glorious vision

The blessed identity

Who we are at the core. Yet the polarization, The distortion of the image.

The lies, the hatred, the self-centeredness.

The spoiling of creation

Over which we were created to rule

Tikkun olam.

Repair the world.

We’ve messed up the dominion thing.

Ash Wednesday,

A reminder that we are

Not only transient mortals

But fallen from that heady, blessed image

In which we were created

The sin we confess tonight

Is Eve’s sin,

Believing the delusion

That we are qualified to captain our own ship

To create the beloved community

Without help from the outside

From above.

The paradox

We are composed of dust

From elements found in asteroids.

At the same time a little less than angels.

Tonight those who come will hear,

Remember you are dust,

Receive a smudge of ashes on the forehead,

And confess that we aren’t the “little less than angels”

At the core of our identity

Not a put-down at all,

But a willingness to pay attention to old Socrates,

Who urged us to know ourselves,

As we really are.

No shame in that.

Not beating up on ourselves

If the king has no clothes on

It’s better to open his eyes,

Confess his reality,

And clothe his nakedness

Religion at its best,

Not a fantasy at all,

It’s looking at reality squarely in the eye

Not with cynicism or despair

But with hope and grace.

Save Our Schools!

The stakes are high for this year’s District 209 school board election. Jenny Barbahen is part of Proviso 209 United, which is running a slate of concerned parents. Four of them are first-time candidates for public of fice. They are parents, not politicians.

Barbahen wants to build on her earlier success at the ballot box. She unseated a 20-year incumbent, Theresa Kelly by 12 votes. She was also part of the effort that removed Superintendent James Henderson from his position.

Barbahen and her slate are strong supporters of Superintendent Krish Mohip and his vision for the district. They have the endorsement of the Proviso Teachers Union. In fact, board members and teachers are teaming up to canvass voters door-todoor in the district.

Ebony Smith will be canvassing alongside Proviso teachers. Smith was born and raised in Bellwood and in 40 years, hasn’t seen improvements in the schools. She graduated from Roosevelt Jr. High School but did not follow her brothers’ path to Proviso high schools

She attended Walther Lutheran High School instead. After graduation, she at-

tended Hampton University, a historically black college in Virginia. She earned her degree in Political Science and etur ned to purchase property in Bellwood

Smithe went on to ear n a master’s degree in Public Policy. he is a proponent of quality education: be it lear ning a trade, going to college or becoming an entrepreneur. She admits that public speaking makes her nervous, but she is already on the campaign trail.

Rolandro Morris also came of age in Bellwood but private education was not an option for her family. Her son, Austin, is a senior at Proviso West, and it hasn’t been a good experience. He has endured fighting and bullying. He has sat in classrooms with no assigned teacher. A 209 board member told Morris her concer ns were ir relevant.

Morris refuses to believe that. She is a product of public education who went on to college. Austin is also doing well and has been accepted by every college he applied to. “I believe we can pull the community together for the students.”

Nicole Molinaro shares that belief. She is an imbedded tutor at Triton Colle ge and works with the Academic Success Unit. Mo-

Elizabeth Hillmer, rst doctress of

Harlem

Mrs. Elizabeth Hillmer, “first doctress,” is shown here with her husband, Mr. Henry Hillmer, “first carpenter” of Harlem. The only doctor in the early days of Harlem was Mrs. Elizabeth Hillmer. She had studied medicine in Germany before coming to the area known as Harlem. She was a midwife, and was called to attend to all who needed care from illnesses in the area. It is noted that she was kind-hearted and charitable to the poor and often served without compensation. She died in 1886.

Jill Wagner

linaro was the first member of her family to attend college. She obtained her degree in horticulture and is very active with the Westchester Park District.

Molinaro used to cry at D209 meetings because she was so upset with the bad behavior of board members. She believes the high schools were failing the students. They weren’t doing enough to help struggling students. She predicts this election will have a low turnout making every vote important.

Finally, there is Forest Park resident, Will Fisher, who has a PhD and works in educational research at the University of Chicago. When he was growing up, Fisher was an “ar my brat” constantly moving to new communities

He has heard that families move out of Forest Park when their kids reach middle school. Fisher doesn’t want to move. He wants to live in a destination community that is part of a destination high school district. He can lend expertise to the board in terms of developing curriculum.

So, there you have it: A group of concer ned parents who have banded together to change the culture at District 209. As Barbahen said, these candidates are not beholden to anyone. They have a new vision and a superintendent they can support “We’ll do things the right way,” Barbahen said. “Not the ‘Proviso way.’”

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ADVERTISEMENT OF BIDDING

Request for bids for the “Skate Shop and Automatic Door Improvement” Project at the Ridgeland Common Recreation Center, 415 W. Lake St. Oak Park Il. 60302

Owner: Park District of Oak Park 218 Madison St, Oak Park, IL 60302

The Park District of Oak Park will accept sealed bids for the “Skate Shop and Automatic Door Improvement Project” located at the Ridgeland Common Recreation Complex, 415 Lake St. Oak Park

The project generally consists of specified demolition in a customer service area (Skate Shop), featuring electric, carpentry, masonry and other trade work.

Removal and replacement of a service counter in a new location, replacement of service windows, replacement of rubber flooring, replacement of existing manual doors with and automatic sliding ADA door. The Park District of Oak Park will receive individual sealed Bids until 10:00 a.m. (Central time) on Thursday, March 27th, 2025, at 218 Madison St., Oak Park, IL. The bidding documents and requirements will be available on the Demand Star website as of 9am, Thursday, March 6th, 2025. An optional pre-bid walk-thru is scheduled for 9am, March 13th, 2025, at Ridgeland Common Recreation Complex, 415 Lake St. Oak Park, Il. 60302. Bid bonds will be required by bidding contractors. Copies of the bidding specifications available via the Demand Star website at: https://www.demandstar.com/ app/buyers/bids/492955/details For additional information, contact Bill Hamilton at bill.hamilton@pdop.org or 708-725-2052. Only bids prepared in compliance with the bidding documents will be considered. Project must adhere to the Prevailing Wage Act of 2024. The Park District of Oak Park encourages minority and women owned business firms to submit bids for this project.

Park District of Oak Park

By: Sandy Lentz, Secretary Park District of Oak Park 218 Madison St. Oak Park, IL 60302

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LEGAL NOTICE

The Village of Oak Park will receive sealed bids from qualified contractors at the Public Works Center, 201 South Boulevard, Oak Park, Illinois 60302 Monday through Friday, 7�30 a.m. to 3�00 p.m. local time until 3�00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 21st, 2025 for the following: Village of Oak Park 2025 Village Hall and Marion Street Fountain Maintenance Bid Number: 25�118

Bid documents may be obtained from the Village’s website at http://www.oak-park.us/ bid. For questions, please call Public Works at �708� 358�5700 during the above hours.

Published in Wednesday Journal March 5, 2025

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION

WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLEY IN ITS CAPACITY AS OWNER TRUSTEE FOR OCWEN LOAN ACQUISTION TRUST 2023-HB1 Plaintiff, -v.-

UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF RICKY WILSON, DECEASED, UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS AND LIENHOLDERS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF RICKY WILSON, DECEASED, UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS AND LIENHOLDERS AGAINST THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF RICKY WILSON, DECEASED, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF ALLIE MAE WILSON AKA

ALLIE M. WILSON, DECEASED, UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS AND LIENHOLDERS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF ALLIE MAE WILSON AKA

ALLIE M. WILSON, DECEASED, UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS AND LIENHOLDERS AGAINST THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF ALLIE MAE WILSON AKA ALLIE M. WILSON, DECEASED, BONNIE M. WILSON, JOHN LYDON, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF RICKY WILSON, DECEASED, WIL-

Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.

The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g) (4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION FIRST SAVINGS BANK Plaintiff, -v.DDI HOLDINGS LLC, AN ILLINOIS LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY; TANPHI WELLNESS INC., AN ILLINOIS CORPORATION; SPINOX1 INC., AN ILLINOIS CORPORATION; DONALD OLIPHANT; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS

Defendants 2023 CH 03962 6201 - 6209 WEST NORTH AVE OAK PARK, IL 60302

NOTICE OF SALE

Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW.

You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales.

For information, contact Paulina Garga-Chmiel, DYKEMA GOSSETT PLLC Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 10 SOUTH WACKER DRIVE, SUITE 2300, CHICAGO, IL, 60606 (312) 876-1700. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE

You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc. com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: At sale, the bidder must have 10% down by certified funds, balance within 24 hours, by certified funds. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information.

For information call Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Diaz Anselmo & Associates P.A., 1771 West Diehl Road, Suite 120, Naperville, IL 60563. (630) 453-6960. 1496-197806

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION intercountyjudicialsales.com I3261492

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Order of Default, Default Judgment, Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, and Appointing Selling Officer entered in the above cause on February 22, 2024, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 28, 2025, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker, 1st Floor Suite 35R, Chicago, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate:

Paulina Garga-Chmiel DYKEMA GOSSETT PLLC 10 SOUTH WACKER DRIVE, SUITE 2300 CHICAGO IL, 60606 312-876-1700

E-Mail: pgarga@dykema.com Attorney Code. 42297 Case Number: 2023 CH 03962 TJSC#: 45-479 I3261453

LIAM P. BUTCHER, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF ALLIE MAE WILSON AKA ALLIE M. WILSON, DECEASED Defendants

Commonly known as 6201 - 6209 WEST NORTH AVE, OAK PARK, IL 60302

18 CH 07072

643 S. 19TH AVENUE MAYWOOD, IL 60153

NOTICE OF SALE

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

Property Index No. 16-05-102032-0000

For information, contact HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 601 E. William St., DECATUR, IL, 62523 (217) 422-1719. Please refer to file number 323264.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION

One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 17, 2024, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 18, 2025, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker, 1st Floor Suite 35R, Chicago, IL, 60606, sell at a public in-person sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 643 S. 19TH AVENUE, MAYWOOD, IL 60153

Property Index No. 15-10-322017-0000

The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $205,161.17.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours.

The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc. com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.

HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC 601 E. William St. DECATUR IL, 62523 217-422-1719

Fax #: 217-422-1754

E-Mail: CookPleadings@hsbattys. com

Attorney File No. 323264

Attorney Code. 40387

Case Number: 18 CH 07072

TJSC#: 44-3268

NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Case # 18 CH 07072 I3260849

The real estate is one-story commercial building. The judgment amount was $2,667,110.06. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g) (4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION US BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS OWNER TRUSTEE FOR VRMTG ASSET TRUST Plaintiff vs. UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF ROSIE L. SIMPSON; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF ERNEST ROGER BRYANT; DENISE LASHONE COLLINS; ERSKINE LATRELL RICKS; KENOSHA DEANNA RICKS; DENOTA C. RICKS AKA DEONTE C. RICKS; REGGIE L. RICKS AKA REGGIE RICKS; ROSIE RICKS AKA ROSE RICKS; ANDREA LYNETTE COLLINS; AMIR MOHABBAT AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR ROSIE L. SIMPSON; ERNEST R. RICKS; FIFTH THIRD BANK, N.A. S/I/I FIFTH THIRD BANK; RAYMOND E. RICKS; LATASHA D. RICKS; EARNESTINE RICKS; KENTON K. RICKS; RAQKOWN D. RICKS; DEMARCUS M. COLLINS; SHANNON RICKS; CORNELIUS RICKS; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendant 24 CH 393 CALENDAR 62

NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on April 8, 2025, at the hour 11:00 a.m., Intercounty’s office, 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, IL 60602, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 15-10-319-012-0000. Commonly known as 602 S. 21st Ave., Maywood, IL 60153. The real estate is: single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a

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Spring Performing Guide Arts 2025

April 28, 2025

Symphony Center Choral Spectacular Symphony Center, Chicago 7:30 pm

June 8, 2025

Resplendent Romantics

Concerts on Sundays, 4 pm at Concordia University Chapel, River Forest Students through college admitted free of charge Free parking at 1124 Bonnie Brae Place

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adaptations of instrumental masterpieces by Gillespie, Ellington, Coltrane, and more!

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Additional Performances Mar. 29 – Apr. 6 in Chicago, Evanston, and Naperville

Voices Take Center Stage: Chicago a cappella’s Fresh Take on Jazz

Chicago a cappella (CAC), the city’s premier unaccompanied vocal ensemble, continues its 2024/25 Season with Jazz a cappella—a fresh take on jazz classics through the power of voice. This dynamic program blends beloved vocal standards (My Funny Valentine, Embraceable You) with a cappella adaptations of instrumental jazz masterpieces by Gillespie, Ellington, and Coltrane. Birdland and Satin Doll take on new life alongside a premiere from HerVoice competition winner Devon Gates, honoring jazz’s artistry and legacy.

Curated by CAC’s Artistic Director John William Trotter and Guest Music Director Paul Langford, the concert features innovative arrangements of Sing, Sing, Sing, Every Day I Have the Blues, A Night in Tunisia, and Giant Steps. Gates, an emerging jazz

musician and composer, will attend CAC’s Evanston and Naperville performances on April 5 and 6 for postconcert Q&As.

Her piece is the latest premiere from CAC’s HerVoice Emerging Women Composers Competition, now in its fifth year and currently accepting new submissions through March 15. The program, launched in 2021, provides mentorship and performance opportunities for women choral composers.

The Jazz a cappella concert series comes to Oak Park’s Nineteenth Century Club on March 30 at 3 PM, with additional performances in Chicago, Evanston, and Naperville from March 29 to April 6. Tickets are $38–$48, with student and Pay-What-You-Can pricing available. Visit www.chicagoacappella. org for tickets and more information.

Johann Sebastian Bach

MASS IN B MINOR

March 29, 2025 7 p.m. + March 30, 2025 4 p.m.

Bach Cantata Vespers Chorus and Orchestra in collaboration with Consonance–Chicago Choral Artists

Michael D. Costello, conductor

Katelyn Lee, soprano

Alexandra Kassouf, soprano

Sarah Ponder, mezzo-soprano

Brian Skoog, tenor

Sam Handley, bass-baritone

Presented in concert with intermission.

Pre-concert lecture with Carl Grapentine begins one hour prior to each performance.

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No ticket reservations needed

$25 Per person suggested donation

708-366-6900 www.graceriverforest.org

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March 14, 7:30 p.m. in River Forest Leipzig Thomanerchor

The St. Thomas Boys Choir of Leipzig, Germany Thomaskantor Andreas Reize, conducting

Purchase tickets ($25–$55) at www.bachvespers.org or call the Grace Music Office at 708-366-6900.

We strongly urge concertgoers to purchase tickets in advance. We expect this concert to be sold out.

7300 Division Street River Forest, Illinois 708-366-6900 www.graceriverforest.org

March 10, 1:15 pm

March 10, 1:15 pm

CelebratingMusicofWomen

CelebratingMusicofWomen

March 10, 1:15 pm

CelebratingMusicofWomen

Tatyana Stepanova and Sara Su Jones present a concert featuring women composers, introduced by WFMT’s Dennis Moore.

March 10, 1:15 pm

CelebratingMusicofWomen

March 10, 1:15 pm

March 10, 1:15 pm

March 10, 1:15 pm

Tatyana Stepanova and Sara Su Jones present a concert featuring women composers, introduced by WFMT’s Dennis Moore.

women composers, introduced by WFMT’s Dennis Moore.

March 17, 1:15 pm

CelebratingMusicofWomen

CelebratingMusicofWomen

All programs are open to the public. Building is fully accessible. Donations to help support programs are appreciated.

Tatyana Stepanova and Sara Su Jones present a concert featuring women composers, introduced by WFMT’s Dennis Moore.

Tatyana Stepanova and Sara Su Jones present a concert featuring women composers, introduced by s Dennis Moore.

TheOriginal “A Star is Born”

March 17, 1:15 pm

March 17, 1:15 pm

TheOriginal “A Star is Born”

Celebrating Music of Women Tatyana Stepanova and Sara Su Jones present a concert featuring women composers, introduced by WFMT’s Dennis Moore.

March 17, 1:15 pm

Kathleen Rooney shares the story of silent film star Colleen Moore, whose fairy castle is in Chicago!

All programs are open to the public. Building is fully accessible. Donations to help support programs are appreciated.

March 17, 1:15 pm

Tatyana Stepanova and Sara Su Jones present a concert featuring women composers, introduced by s Dennis Moore.

All programs are open to the public. Building is fully accessible. Donations to help support programs are appreciated.

All programs are open to the public. Building is fully accessible. Donations to help support programs are appreciated.

TheOriginal “A Star is Born”

TheOriginal “A Staris Born”

March 17, 1:15 pm

March 24, 1:15 pm

All programs are open to the public. Building is fully accessible. Donations to help support programs are appreciated.

Kathleen Rooney shares the story of silent film star Colleen Moore, whose fairy castle is in Chicago!

Kathleen Rooney shares the story of silent film star Colleen Moore, whose fairy castle is in Chicago!

The Original “A Star is Born” Kathleen Rooney shares the story of silent film star Colleen Moore, whose fairy castle is in Chicago!

All programs are open to the public. Building is fully accessible. Donations to help support programs are appreciated.

A Staris Born” Kathleen Rooney shares the story of silent film star Colleen Moore, whose fairy castle is in Chicago!

Kathleen Rooney shares the story of silent film star Colleen Moore, whose fairy castle is in Chicago!

March 17, 1:15 pm

A three-course lunch is offered at noon. Lunch reservations required by Wednesday prior; contact the office.

All programs are open to the public. Building is fully accessible. Donations to help support programs are appreciated.

March 24, 1:15 pm

Chicago’s African-American StudioPhotographers

TheOriginal “A Star is Born”

March 24, 1:15 pm

March 24, 1:15 pm

March 24, 1:15 pm

March 24, 1:15 pm

A three-course lunch is offered at noon. Lunch reservations required by Wednesday prior; contact the office.

A three-course lunch is offered at noon. Lunch reservations required by Wednesday prior; contact the office.

A three-course lunch is offered at noon. Lunch reservations required by Wednesday prior; contact the office.

A three-course lunch is offered at noon. Lunch reservations required by Wednesday prior; contact the office.

Chicago’s African-American StudioPhotographers

Chicago’s African-American StudioPhotographers

Chicagos African-American StudioPhotographers

Dr Amy Mooney examines how photographers helped develop a collective racial consciousness.

Chicago’s African-American StudioPhotographers

Kathleen Rooney shares the story of silent film star Colleen Moore, whose fairy castle is in Chicago!

Chicago’s African-American Studio Photographers

Dr Amy Mooney examines how photographers helped develop a collective racial consciousness.

A three-course lunch is offered at noon. Lunch reservations required by Wednesday prior; contact the office.

March 24, 1:15 pm

March 31, 1:15 pm

Dr Amy Mooney examines how photographers helped develop a collective racial consciousness.

Dr Amy Mooney examines how photographers helped develop a collective racial consciousness.

March 31, 1:15 pm

March 31, 1:15 pm

Chicago’s African-American StudioPhotographers

Dr Amy Mooney examines how photographers helped develop a collective racial consciousness.

March 31, 1:15 pm

March 31, 1:15 pm

TheMarginalizationofAfrican BeautythroughHistory

Programs are livestreamed and can be viewed on our website. Previous programs can also be seen on our website: nineteenthcentury.org

A three-course lunch is offered at noon. Lunch reservations required by Wednesday prior; contact the office.

The Marginalization of African Beauty through History

TheMarginalizationofAfrican BeautythroughHistory

TheMarginalizationofAfrican BeautythroughHistory

Programs are livestreamed and can be viewed on our website. Previous programs can also be seen on our website: nineteenthcentury.org

March 31, 1:15 pm

Programs are livestreamed and can be viewed on our website. Previous programs can also be seen on our website: nineteenthcentury.org

Dr Amy Mooney examines how photographers helped develop a collective racial consciousness.

Dr Amy Mooney examines how photographers helped develop a collective racial consciousness.

Karen J Anderson shifts the narrative about beauty and how African American women are seen in art, history, and modern media.

Karen J Anderson shifts the narrative about beauty and how African American women are seen in art, history, and modern media.

TheMarginalizationofAfrican BeautythroughHistory

Karen J Anderson shifts the narrative about beauty and how African American women are seen in art, history, and modern media.

Karen J Anderson shifts the narrative about beauty and how African American women are seen in art, history, and modern media.

Programs are livestreamed and can be viewed on our website. Previous programs can also be seen on our website: nineteenthcentury.org

Karen J Anderson shifts the narra-tive about beauty and how African American women are seen in art, history, and modern media.

March 31, 1:15 pm

TheMarginalizationofAfrican BeautythroughHistory

TheMarginalizationofAfrican BeautythroughHistory

Programs are livestreamed and can be viewed on our website. Previous programs can also be seen on our website: nineteenthcentury.org

Programs are livestreamed and can be viewed on our website. Previous programs can also be seen on our website: nineteenthcentury.org

Programs are livestreamed and can be viewed on our web-site. Previous pro-grams can also be seen on our website: nineteenthcentury.org

178 Forest Ave., Oak Park, IL 60301 708-386-2729 nineteenthcentury.org

Karen J Anderson shifts the narrahistory, and modern media.

178 Forest Ave.,

178 Forest Ave., Oak Park, IL 60301 708-386-2729 nineteenthcentury.org

nineteenthcentury.org for more program details.

Karen J Anderson shifts the narrative about beauty and how African American women are seen in art, history, and modern media.

178 Forest Ave., Oak Park, IL 60301 708-386-2729 nineteenthcentury.org

178 Forest Ave., Oak Park, IL 60301 708-386-2729 nineteenthcentury.org

178 Forest Ave., Oak Park, IL 60301 708-386-2729 nineteenthcentury.org

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