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What happens when cash bail ends?

As task force works to ready justice system, amendments could be forthcoming

By JERRY NOWICKI Capitol News Illinois

Beginning Jan. 1, 2023, cash bail will be abolished in Illinois.

The measure that will eliminate it has been on the books since early 2021, giving the justice system two years to plan for the major overhaul of the state’s pretrial detention system.

It’s also given time for the measure to become politicized to a point where the reality of the law has become indistinguishable from the political rhetoric surrounding it

“As I’ve said many times, what we want to

make sure doesn’t happen is that someone who’s wealthy and commits a terrible violent crime – it could be, by the way, a wealthy drug dealer – doesn’t have an easy time getting bail compared to somebody who maybe commits shoplifting and for a couple of hundred dollars is stuck in jail,” Gov. J.B. Pritzker said at a news conference in August.

But opponents and advocates of the reform agree that, beyond simply ending cash bail, the law seeks to reduce the number of people incarcerated before a guilty verdict by limiting the circumstances in which a judge can order pretrial detention.

Republicans and state’s attorneys have continued to fight for changes to the law, up

to a full repeal, arguing that while the intent may be to empower judges to detain more dangerous individuals, the bill as written is too limiting

A nonpartisan task force for med under the Supreme Court, meanwhile, is working to assist with implementation in the justice system ahead of Jan. 1 and has identified unclear or contradictory sections of the bill that lawmakers should reconsider before Jan. 1.

“It is frustrating because many aspects of the statute are not clear,” retired Judge Robbin Stuckert, who chairs the Pretrial Implementation Task Force, said at a July town hall meeting. “They may be vague, gray areas. And again, we are charged by

the Supreme Court to assist with implementation.”

The law’s sponsors in the General Assembly said they are working with the task force on legislation clarifying some of those matters – particularly when it comes to detainable offenses – for potential passage this fall.

Pretrial detention

The provision to end cash bail, known as the Pretrial Fair ness Act, was included in the SAFE-T Act criminal justice reform passed in a January 2021 lame duck session.

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Cory Billingsley, le , holds the trash bag open for her kids Elouise, 9, and Patrick, 6, on Saturday during the village-w ide clean up.

PHOTO S BY ALEX ROGALS/Sta Photographer

Mike Dmyterko, 9, of Forest Park, has his hands full.

Chickens? In Forest Park? Well, maybe

Hearing in response to public demand

By IGOR STUDENKOV Staff Reporter

Should Forest Parkers be allowed to keep chickens in their yards?

Maria Maxham, commissioner of public health and safety, will hold a public hearing on a potential ordinance that would allow that to happen.

The hearing will be held Oct. 18 at 7 p.m. at village hall. Maxham said that, before developing any ordinance, she wanted to see whether there was enough support to go down that road. She also said she would present re gulations from towns which already allow chickens and bring in experts to respond to resident questions and concer ns

Maxham said she first looked into the is sue while working as editor of the Forest Park Review. Forest Park Public Health and Safety Director Steve Glinke told her at the time that the village wouldn’t consider allowing chickens in the back yards unless “a big group comes forward” asking for it.

When she became commissioner, she decided to continue that policy – until a group of around 20 to 25 residents reached out to her

Maxham said not everyone in the group wanted to raise chickens themselves – some simply thought it was a good idea in prin ciple. The reasons for the support varied, with some wanting their own source of eggs and some simply wanting to keep chickens as pets

“The cost of a dozen eggs has doubled in the past two years,” Maxham said. “The groceries are becoming a lot more expensive, and [the chickens] eat bugs and other pests.”

At the same time, the commissioner was mindful of concer ns that chickens would create noise, and that chicken feed could attract rats and bigger pets Maxham re searched ordinances in other suburbs that allow raising chickens to try to figure out the best practices She specifically mentioned Westchester, Berkeley, Evanston and Lake Bluf f as examples.

While she emphasized several times that there is no draft ordinance of any kind, she discussed things that would most likely be part of it if the village does move forward. Forest Park wouldn’t allow raising roost-

Nanc y Wilson, 74 Wasn’t expected to surv ive past 13

Nancy Jane Wilson of Forest Park died on Sept. 10, 2022 after a short illness Bor n on Oct. 24, 1947 to Clifford and Gwynedd Wilson, she overcame many obstacles She was born premature with cerebral palsy and was not expected to survive past 13 years. Unable to walk until she was 4, she wore le g braces as a child and again later in life, using a walker and then a wheelchair as she lost mobility.

ree backyard chickens in Berkeley

ers, simply because their crowing would be too disruptive. The ordinance would most likely call for re gular inspections, and there would most likely be re gulations on how chicken feed can be stored to avoid the aforementioned concern over rats

Maxham would weigh taking a cue from Evanston and only allow a handful of henraising licenses at first and gradually in creasing the number over time.

The Review invited readers to share their opinion on the issue on Facebook. The re sponse was mixed, with some commenters

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She graduated from Austin High School in Chicago in January 1966. She started her career as an of fice clerk at John Plain & Co., a mail order catalog company for retail stores and worked for 36 years for R.H. Bacon & Co., a media monitoring company for the PR industry, be ginning in their clipping service as a media researcher specializing in newspapers. Later she helped as a special edit clerk as needed. Despite her increased mobility issues, she proudly ear ned many perfect attendance rewards and remained at Cision, the rebranded company, until Oc tober 2012 when the division was sold and shut down. She retired in 2014.

Proud of her Welsh heritage, she and her mother were active in the local Cambrian society. She also belonged to the BPW (Busi ness and Professional Women) organization, attending conventions and serving in various positions

A fierce protector of her rights as a dis

abled person, she was unafraid to speak out when someone gave her g rief for moving too slowly. She hated the word “cripple” and helped others push for an elevator installation at her church. She recently re gistered as an organ donor Through her Eversight organization donation, a blind person may see

A longtime member of St. Martin’s Epis copal Church of Austin in Chicago. She re mained active even when she could no longer attend services, supporting fundraisers. When COVID-19 forced the congre gation to use Zoom, she listened on her flip phone, able to talk to her friends and stay connected. They were her second family where she felt at home

Some of her favorite things were: the color purple, anything chocolate but especially Milky Way Midnight bars, Happy Meals, shopping at Ed’s Way grocery and Walmart, Avon, the British royal family (especially

expressing support and several opposing it, with noise and rat issues being the recurring concer ns

Resident Kat Briones reached out to the Review, saying that she would support it

“[My family and I] moved to Forest Park from Ukrainian Village in Chicago a year ago and are loving our time here -- we have two young kids that go to school in District 91 and have more on the way,” she said. “I’ve always wanted a few chickens and wished Forest Park allowed them, since Berwyn and Oak Park allow them.”

Diana), brightly colored clothes, and Long Island Ice Tea. She was really looking forward to going to Walmart to buy herself a 75th birthday present.

Nancy was predeceased by her parents, her younger brother Bruce, and her stepfather John “Bud” Moriarty. She is survived by her stepsister Carol Ann Lopiccalo, and Kathy Dahl, her “sister of the heart” for 61 years, whose children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren considered her Auntie Nancy. Carol, a for mer coworker for 35 years and daily care giver for the past three years will miss her greatly.

Her family, friends, and for mer co-workers g rieve her passing but know she is now free of pain, frustration, and anxiety.

A memorial service will be held at a later date at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church, 5700 W. Midway Park, Chicago.

Park District applies for $600,000 state grant to renovate

Renovations to include new playground, splash pads

By IGOR STUDENKOV Staff Reporter

Remembrance Park, the park on Randolph Street, could jor upg rade including a new splash pads and a bocce ball if the Park District of Forest cessful in its application for a grant aimed at improving local pa Park commissioners voted Se pt. 15 to apply for the Illinois ment of Natural Resources Space Lands Acquisition and De (OSLAD) grant to fund a little of the costs of improving the Randolph St.

Remembrance Park is one et parks” the village gover nment the park district for a symbolic and the only one of the four nor th of the Eisenhower Express par t of the lease, the park district responsibility for maintaining ing the small parks

Forest Park has six pocket the village retaining control them -- Veterans Park, 631 Circle Ave., and the village do g park at 632 Circle Ave. Since 2021, the park district has been working with Naperville-based Hitchcock Design Group to figure out how to spruce up and improve the other four parks.

According to the preliminary design rendering posted on the park district website, Remembrance Park will get a new play ground with a new play structure and a bocce ball pole on the west end, new swings in the middle and two new splash pads at the east end. The current wood chips would give way to a pour-in-place rubber surfacing with a large American flag painted over it.

Jackie Iovinelli, park district director, emphasized to the Review that they will maintain the existing memorials. The plan shows a new “memorial walk” with the re located monuments

The memorials honor Forest Park police

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those impacted by suicide.

Iovinelli said the project is expected to cost “approximately $850,000.”

The director told park commissioners that, if they get the grant, they will need to keep the features listed in the applications, but they would still be free to add other features She said that, if the grant is secured, they would have a public meeting to give residents a chance to suggest ideas for the final conce pt.

OSLAD grants pay for property acquisition for new parks, as well as for renovations and redevelopment of existing parks The renovation projects can get up to $600,000, and Iovinelli told the Review that the park district is going for the full amount.

On July 8, the park district received a $400,000 OSLAD grant to fund planned renovations of another pocket park, Reiger Pa wo the spring of 2023.

Iovinelli told the park commissioners that, as of Se pt. 14, their grant application for Remembrance Park was “about 80%”

“We are hoping to hear [if we got the grant] by the end of this year,” Iovinelli told the Review. “If that is the case, we should be gin construction Fall 2023.”

Annual Forest Park Cub Scout event draws 60-70 people

Snails and Tails cosponsored by Kiwanis Club

By IGOR STUDENKOV Staff Reporter

Kids and their families gathered at Mohr Community Center, 7640 W. Jackson Blvd. on the evening of Se pt. 22 to see some zoo animals and find out what Forest Park Pack 109 Cub Scouts have to of fer.

Pack leader Steve Rummel, who also serves on the Forest Park School District 91 Board of Education, said Snails and Tails has been their biggest recruitment event for the past few years. He and the other pack leaders estimated that around 60-70 people attended it this year, which put them well in line with the average attendance. Rummel said they were pleased to see many kids express interest in scouting.

Pack 109 is open to kids in kindergar ten through fifth grade. The pack is divided into “dens” based on grade level. Scouts lear n outdoor skills, go on camping trips and take part in volunteer activities and events

The pack org anizes Snails and Tails with the help of the Kiwanis Club of Forest Park. Rummel said all animals at the events are domesti cated, and the exact animals brought each year

vary based on where they are in their breeding cycles and other conditions He emphasized the families in attendance didn’t necessarily have to be interested in scouting, but they were always happy to answer any questions.

While Snails and Tails took a year of f in 2020 due to the pandemic, it retur ned in 2021, and the number of attendees matched what they had before.

In an interview before the event, Rummel said that 70 people – 40 kids and 30 parents and guardians – re gistered for the Se pt. 22 event.

“It was a popular event before COVID-19,” Rummel said. “I think [in 2021] we had simi lar numbers. I think people were really ready to get back out. This year, it’s the same thing.”

ALEX ROGALS/Sta Photographer

(Top right) Kids hold baby chicks during the annual Forest Park Cub S cout Pack 109 Scales and Tales event at the Howard Mohr Community Center.

(Right) Warren Jacknow balances a chinchilla on his head .

(Below) Scouts interact with a furr y friend.

The Odd Creature Show

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The Life-Changing Magic Of Organizing Your Projec ts

Monday, Oc t. 3, 7-8 p.m., Forest Park Public Librar y Forest Park resident Burhan Syed teaches the basics of projec t management, stressing the ability to get projec ts done. Contact the librar y for registration info.

Fall Kitchen Series with Krist yn Slick: Perfec tly Pumpkin

Tuesday, Oc t, 4, 6:30-8 p.m., Forest Park Public Librar y Kr ystin Slick demonstrates how pumpkins can enhance many a meal, from cookies to pasta. If you’d like to cook along with Kr ystin, recipes will be e -mailed to registered patrons Contact the librar y for registration info.

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The Real Pretenders

Friday, Sept. 30, 7 p.m., FitzGerald’s

This local band, featuring the vocals of Naomi Ashley, plays songs made famous by the Pretenders. 6615 Roosevelt Road, Berw yn.

Create Your O wn Spooky Horror Stor y!

Monday, Oc t. 3, 4-5 p.m., Forest Park Public Librar y

This online event teaches you how to create your own spooky Halloween stories. Designed for ages 11-13. Register with the library for the special Zoom link.

Ford comes to est Park to talk bail reform, public safety

Promises help with addressing safety around CTA terminal, rowdy funerals

By IGOR STUDENKOV Staff Reporter

State Rep. La Shawn Ford (8th), whose district currently includes a portion of Fo est Park south of Roosevelt Road, met with village commissioners and public safety of ficials on the mor ning of Sept. 26 to dis cuss bail reform and village-specific safety concer ns.

Ford, who has co-chaired the State Public Safety and Violence Task Force, is holding several meetings throughout the suburbs to get a better sense of what kind of safety concer ns they face Forest Park of ficials said they’ve been struggling to respond to emergency calls related to the Forest Park Blue Line CTA ter minal and to rowdy fu nerals. Of ficials also discussed manpower issues and the expense of providing ambulance services to the uninsured. Ford said he would push for le gislation to make it easier for villages to get Medicaid reim bursements and reach out to Cook County Sherif f Tom Dart to see if he could help on the manpower side.

The of ficials also spent much of the meeting discussing the Illinois Safety, Accountability, Fair ness and Equity-Today (SAFET) Act, which will do away with cash bail ef fective Jan. 1, 2023. Instead, judges would have to decide whether to release people awaiting trial based on certain risk factors. While Ford said he had his own concer ns about the particulars, he believed that, overall, the system was fairer, since it took money out of the equation.

Aside from Ford, all four commissioners, Mayor Rory Hoskins, Police Chief Ken Gross and Fire Chief Phil Chiappetta at tended the meeting. Village Administrator Moses Amidei said that, because there were more than two elected of ficials gathering in one place, they held the meeting in a public meeting format

Gross said “some of [their] biggest challenges” are responding to calls from the three CTA stations that serve the village, especially the Forest Park Blue Line ter minal. He mentioned mental health crises, drug

use and drug overdoses as major reasons for the calls. Chiappetta said about half of the individuals involved in those calls are homeless, and many of the homeless individuals use CTA trains as shelter

He said around 30% of all ambulance calls are to transport patients from the ter minal. Since his department only has one ambulance, this ties the vehicle up when other emergencies happen. If the patients don’t have Medicaid or private health insur ance, the department is stuck with the bill, which is around $2,000 per call.

“We are on pace to 454 calls [by the end of the year],” Chiappetta said.

Ford said that given Medicaid expansion under Obamacare, the best approach may be to get uninsured individuals on Medic aid, which would pay the ambulance bills Chiappetta responded this would still leave individuals who leave a hospital without sharing any identifying information, as well as patients who die and couldn’t be identified afterword

After some discussion, the of ficials floated the idea of changing the law to allow the villages to be paid through Medicaid for ambulance service for individuals who can’t be identified, with Hoskins suggesting this would only apply to municipalities that have transit stations, and that municipali ties would need to prove that the individu als in question did exist. Ford said he would be willing to pursue legislation to this ef fect – and suggested that Forest Park could get Chicago’s help with lobbying for it

“Chicago would say -- well, we see it all the time, we’d love to get reimbursed,” he said. Aside from Chicago and Forest Park, CTA serves six suburbs. Cicero and Skokie have

o stations, Oak Park and Evanston have seven, and Wilmette and osemont have one.

Ford said he would ke to try to get something in by the upcoming veto session.

The of ficials also discussed working with other entities to improve security. Ford suggested that he and Hoskins should reach out to Cook County Sherif f Tom Dart first.

“We will take all the help we can get,” re sponded Gross.

Turning to rowdy funerals, Gross said Forest Park struggled to respond to the is sue While some funeral homes alert them of funerals for gunshot victims – which are more likely to tur n rowdy – others don’t. While they pulled over drivers in the past, they found it only escalates the situation.

“I’m a fir m believer in bringing our re sources together,” said Ford. “You shouldn’t have to do it by yourself. If it’s funeral coming from the City of Chicago, Chicago should help you. We have to figure out how we can coordinate our law enforcement to help those cases.”

Commissioner Joe Byr nes suggested requiring funeral processions to put up a surety bond. If the funeral procession gets out of control, they would forfeit the money Ford also suggested having the family pay the police to provide security.

Bail Reform

The Pretrial Fair ness Act, the bail reform portion of the SAFE-T Act, will replace cash bail with a system where the person is either released, released with conditions and/or restrictions or kept in jail until trial based on how much risk they pose to the community Ford argued that it would be a fairer ar rangement.

“Come January, [judges will] have two op tions – to keep you locked up or let you go, re gardless of your ability to pay,” he said.” I think that’s going to make us safer.”

Ford added that he was wor ried that the judges’ racial biases may af fect the deci sions.

“Me, as a Black man, I could tell you -- I

would be afraid of a no-bail system based on the courts and the way the courts make trial decisions [about] Black men,” he said. “Are they not going to look at risk factors or are they going to lock me up?”

However, he said he wouldn’t support do ing away with the bail reform altogether

“We have time to make amendments to the act before it goes into ef fect in January,” he said. “Just for the record, there will be no repeal, but I think there is an acknowledgement that we need to do something to improve the SAFE-T Act.”

Gross said he was wor ried about the particulars of issuing war rants against people who don’t show up in court, as well as the state of electronic monitoring. While he said he supports it in principle, he believed that there are currently no real consequenc es for violating the ter ms of the i-bond, and wor ried that it would get worse with the bail reform

Ford responded that it was a valid concern, and something the le gislation may need to work on.

“They won’t get released, because they’re a risk,” he said. “I think we need to do ev erything to make sure we implement the law right.”

Chiappetta asked why the le gislators were only now trying to fix issues with the bail reform.

“Why didn’t you guys look at both sides of these before you passed it, instead of back tracking and asking people [about their concer ns]?” he said.

Ford said passage of the SAFE-T Act forced law enforcement to of fer compromises instead of stonewalling – which, he said, they did at first.

“If we didn’t pass something, we wouldn’t have gotten anything from law enforce ment,” he said. “We wouldn’t have gotten a serious conversation.”

Ford’s remarks on the justice system led the only resident in the audience – who de clined to give the Review her name – to ask what he was basing that on. He responded that there are studies that show racial biases and asked her whether she believes that the justice system would treat her and his chief of staf f, who is Black, the same if they were charged with the same crimes

“I don’t know,” the woman responded

Ford said that it was important to have those conversations.

“If we can’t agree that justice system is biased, we’re at a zero,” he said. “It’s a nonstarter.”

Igor Studenkov/Sta Repor ter

La Shaw n Ford, Rory Hoskins and Moses Amidei.

CASH BAIL Judges maintain discretion

Short for Safety, Accountability, Fair ness and Equity-Today, the SAFE-T Act was a broad-ranging initiative backed by the Illi nois Le gislative Black Caucus in the wake of a nationwide reckoning with racism in the criminal justice system following the death of George Floyd under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer

It was passed by the Senate just before 5 a.m. after an all-day session on Jan. 13, 2021, then cleared the House hours later Pritzker signed it a month later

It has been amended twice, addressing law enforcement concer ns about use of force standards, clarifying some pretrial matters and changing language about po lice body cameras. But provisions re gard ing cash bail have not been amended since the bill’s 2021 passage

The goal of the Pretrial Fair ness Act was clear: to move away from the existing wealthbased system of pretrial detention in favor of one based on an offender’s level of risk of re offending or fleeing prosecution.

Keith Grant, a Lake County public defend er and Pretrial Implementation Task Force member, said that citing and releasing people committing less serious offenses provides better outcomes, saves taxpayer money and frees officers to remain on the beat

“We find that when defendants are de tained even for as little as, research shows, three days, they can become destabilized to the point of lacking all of the social netting resources that they would have otherwise had,” Grant said. “Keeping people in custody when they don’t need to be actually creates a risk of har m to the community.”

The Loyola University of Chicago’s Center for Criminal Justice Research analyzed Illi nois State Police data that showed that from 2020 to 2021, individuals jailed pretrial in Illi nois spent an average of 34 days incarcerated.

The report predicted the numbers would decrease under the PFA for those committing lesser offenses while likely increasing for those held on more serious offenses because they can’t free themselves on bail (See graphic above)

The report further analyzed U.S. Depart ment of Justice data which showed that in 2019, 50 percent of jail detainees in Illinois were Black compared to 15 percent of the population at large; 33 percent were white compared to 76 percent of the population; and 14 percent were Hispanic compared to 18 percent of the population. The racial disparity numbers were driven by Illinois’ three largest counties

Of those detained, 82 percent were being held on felony charges and 89 percent were being held pretrial.

The new law abolishes cash bail and provides for a presumption in favor of release for misdemeanors, traf fic of fenses and other petty of fenses, provided a defendant is not deemed a risk to the community by the ar resting of ficer (See graphic opposite page)

Kane County Chief Judge Clint Hull, a task force member, said at a July town hall that the ar resting of ficers will maintain similar discretion as they are af forded under current law.

“Do they pose an obvious threat to the community or any person or are they a risk to… their own safety?” he said. “In both situations, if they are, the police – despite the fact that this isn’t the most serious of fense – (do) have the discretion to bring that person in to try to make sure that they can identify and address that issue.”

In most cases, individuals committing misdemeanors or petty of fenses will re ceive a citation from law enforcement and a court date within 21 days

Pretrial hearings

After the initial arrest, as under current law, judges will deter mine whether detention continues.

Under current law, bail hearings typically occur within 72 hours of arrest and last less than five minutes Prosecutors detail the defendant’s charges and may recommend a bail amount. The judge then decides the conditions of their release, including how much money, if any, the defendant must post before their release from custody.

Under the PFA, the hearings will be more intensive Defendants are given a right to

legal representation and prosecutors can detail their reasons for continued detention.

“One of the primary goals of the law is to make sure that we’re having in-depth, detailed hearings when we’re taking away someone’s freedom,” said Sarah Staudt, an advocate with the Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts, which worked with lawmakers on the bill.

Prosecutors wishing to keep an individual detained would petition the court for pretrial detention.

Upon petition, the law requires an “immediate” detention hearing which could co incide with the defendant’s first appearance in court. If a continuance is requested and granted, the court would have 48 hours in serious felony cases to hold such a hearing.

The court would have the authority to de tain an individual pending a continuance.

For pretrial detention to be ordered, the state must prove “by clear and convincing evidence” that the defendant committed the crime, poses a specific threat to a person or persons and that no other pretrial conditions can mitigate the defendant’s risk to that person or persons.

It’s a heightened standard that prosecutors have war ned may be too difficult to meet within the short timeline, but advocates say is necessary to protect a constitutional presumption of innocence.

For lesser offenses, the court would have 24 hours to conduct the same procedure. The PFA makes no exception for holidays or weekends.

Limits to detention

State’s attor neys have been the most vocal critics of the law as written, arguing that it leaves too little leeway for judges to detain

dangerous individuals in certain circumstances

Among them is Republican DuPage County State’s Attor ney Bob Berlin, who said he was not opposed to ending cash bail in principle.

“I want to stress, this is very fixable,” Berlin said. “I’m not one of the people out there saying ‘Oh, re peal re peal, just get rid of it.’ We can fix this. And we can fix it be fore January 1.”

John Curran – an implementation task force member, GOP state senator and for mer assistant Cook County state’s attor ney – said he also didn’t oppose ending cash bail, but he saw several shortcomings with the system replacing it

He, Berlin and other state’s attor neys have called on Illinois to emulate a system put in place in New Jersey in 2017, which eliminates cash bail but gives greater discretionary authority to judges to impose pretrial detention than does Illinois’ law.

“The first big difference is New Jersey doesn’t limit the number of offenses that are detainable,” Berlin said in an interview. “New Jersey allows judges to detain in any criminal offense, which would include misdemeanors. We believe that judges are in the best position to make decisions about who should be detained or not.”

While the PFA does not create categories of offenses that are “non-detainable” under ev ery circumstance, it does, as written, create circumstances in which a judge would have no statutory authority to detain a defendant that doesn’t have a prior record or present a risk of fleeing prosecution.

Another Loyola University study estimated that a judge would not have been able to detain the defendant in 56 percent of arrests that occurred statewide in 2020 and 2021 had the PFA been in place.

From 2020 to 2021, according to the re search, 193,387 people were admitted into jails statewide each year, with 90 percent held for some length pretrial. Due to varying lengths of pretrial detention, the report estimated there were between 13,827 to 15,994 people being held pretrial daily.

Once the PFA is implemented, between 44,000 and 70,000 individuals per year will be eligible for initial detention, the report estimated

About 70 percent of those would be in re lation to domestic violence or violations of order of protections, according to the study, which is one reason the SAFE-T Act had sup port from anti-domestic violence groups.

“If post-COVID trends continue,” the re port reads, “that means somewhere between 89,000 and 115,000 individuals per year could not be initially detained under the PFA once the law goes into effect on January 1, 2023.”

Detention standards

Curran’s and Berlin’s concer n lies in the language beginning on page 370 of the 764page SAFE-T Act which lays out the specific circumstances in which a judge can order pretrial detention.

The language allows a judge to deny pretrial release if a defendant is a danger to an individual or the community and is accused of non-probational offenses such as firstdegree murder, as well as aggravated arson, residential burglary, stalking, domestic battery, certain gun offenses and several specified sex offenses.

While misdemeanors and other low-level offenses are generally non-detainable under the new law, all charges become detainable if the defendant is already on pretrial release, probation or parole.

The language also allows detention for in dividuals charged with a forcible felony “for which a sentence of imprisonment, without

probation, periodic imprisonment or conditional discharge, is required by law upon conviction.”

The task force has noted that language specifically excludes offenses for which a defendant is eligible for probation. Berlin said that means, under the law as written, judges cannot order pretrial detention of an individual accused of second-degree murder, drug traf ficking, arson, robbery, aggravated battery, threatening a public official and other probational offenses unless prosecutors prove they are a risk for “willful flight” from prosecution.

The willful flight standard, unlike the dangerousness provision, can be applied to anyone committing a crime greater than a Class 4 felony – which includes many prop erty crimes and offenses such as aggravated DUI and driving on a revoked license – who is deemed by a judge as “planning or attempting to intentionally evade prosecution by concealing oneself.”

But because the law states that past non-

appearances in court are “not evidence of fu ture intent to avoid prosecution,” Berlin said it will be difficult to prove.

“I mean, you’ve gotta show that they’ve got a ticket to get out of town,” Berlin said.

Advocates, on the other hand, say the differentiation between the willful flight and dangerousness standards was intentional, although further changes may be forthcoming

“If someone’s going to cooperate with the prosecution in a nonviolent case, we don’t want a situation where they’re being de tained,” Staudt said.

Sen. Robert Peters, a Democrat and Senate co-sponsor of the law, said he’s open to discussions about amending the bill’s willful flight standards and detainable offense language based on the Pretrial Implementation Task Force’s recommendations.

“Anytime you take human life and you’re saying I’m going to take away their freedom, that should be somewhat of a higher standard,” he said. “What I again will say is that

I’m willing to have conversations about the practices of this.”

Rep. Justin Slaughter, a Chicago Democrat and the law’s House sponsor, said language regarding detainable offenses in the existing bill is “misleading” and “unclarified,” and his plan is to address it in follow-up legislation this fall.

“We will have a system that prioritizes public safety, and we will have a system (in which)… there’s no such thing as a non-de tainable person,” Slaughter said when asked about the goal of follow-up legislation at a Sept. 15 news conference.

He declined to go into specifics due to ongoing discussions

Curran, who said he’s been pushing for such changes since January 2021, noted another section of the bill states that “at each subsequent appearance” in court, a judge must find that continued detention of a defendant is necessary “to avoid the specific, real and present threat to any person or of willful flight from prosecution to continue detention of the defendant.”

The task force identified the language as problematic, and advocates have said standardizing the language throughout the bill will be a goal of follow-up legislation.

Follow-up bill

Slaughter said lawmakers are working with the task force to address concer ns He’s currently sponsoring House Bill 5537, a 219page bill that, among other changes, seeks to standardize the detention language It was filed in January, has no cosponsors and likely does not represent a final bill.

While court officials like Berlin have engaged lawmakers regarding potential chang es, several others have raised broader alar ms and pushed for a full repeal – an outcome unlikely with Democrats in control of the General Assembly and gover nor’s office at least through the PFA’s effective date.

At a news conference with county sheriffs earlier this month, GOP gover nor candidate and state Sen. Darren Bailey pushed for a full repeal and didn’t offer alter native amend ments he’d work to implement. He said he believed repeal would be possible because he believed the Pretrial Fair ness Act was tied to unspecified property tax increases.

At a Sept. 14 news conference, Pritzker re iterated he supports the new law but didn’t say when changes would happen or to what extent they are necessary.

“Are there changes or adjustments that need to be made? Of course,” he said. “And there have been adjustments made and there will continue to be Laws are not immutable.”

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NBA player, Maywood native Sterling Brown now a TV host

Brown is the star of ‘How Cool Is is,’ a STEM education and lifestyle show

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

Sterling Brown may be best known for his skills on the cour t, but that could change. If things go according to plan, the NBA forward could be the host of his own education and lifestyle show on a major TV network.

The show, “How Cool Is This,” will have Brown, a forward with the Houston Rockets, exploring “discoveries, happenings and innovation in the STEM [Science, Tech nolo gy, Engineering and Math] world [through] a multi cultural lens,” according to a statement released by the show’s producers.

In the premiere e pisode, which is available on YouTube, Brown visited the Lyndon Johnson Space Center in Houston and talked to astronaut Dr. Jeanette Epps about her training for a mission to the Inter national Space Station.

In a recent interview, Brown said the show allows him to explore things that have interested him since he was a young boy growing up in Maywood.

“This is who I’ve been since I was a kid,” Brown said. “I’ve always been good with numbers and math and been interested in lear ning how things come about.”

Brown star red on the basketball cour t for Proviso East High School in Maywood but attended Proviso Math and Science Academy in Forest Park He said PMSA nur tured and expanded his interest STEM.

Lar ry James, one of the show’s producers and a longtime family friend, said the idea to make Brown a host of a STEM-friendly TV show catered to young people came about rather naturally.

“Sterling was reaching out to some kids in Dallas and it kind of dawned on us that they had no idea of his background,” James said. “Sterling is a gifted basketball player but he’s just as gifted in the ar ts, sciences and math.”

James said he and another co-producer, Jon Marc Sandife a programming executive at Enter tainment Television (BET), are shopping “How Cool Is This” around to networks He said at least two major networks are vying for the show. James said he didn’t want to identify the networks while ne gotiations are still happening.

“There will be six markets for this show and one of the markets will be [Brown’s] own — Chicago,” James said.

He added that there will be additional educational awareness and outreach initiatives that will supplement the show’s mission to spark interest in STEM subjects

among young people in places like Brown’s hometown of Maywood.

James said, in addition to after school programming, they’re planning a STEM fair that will take during NBA All-Star Weekend in e City, Utah in February 2023. shooting the first e pisode with Dr Epps gave him a new perspective on NASA and the aeronautics field.

“It was good for me to see that,” he said. “It definitely gave me a lot more respect for that field.”

James said Dr. Epps was so impressed with Brown that she invited him to attend her launch.

“She most graciously invited him to be at the launch,” James said. “When she goes up there, she wants him there. I thought that was the greatest thing.”

Epps is cur rently being wait-listed, James said, adding

that NASA still has to set a hard date for when she and her fellow astronauts will take of f.

Brown said hosting the premiere e pisode allowed him to hone his broadcasting chops.

“When this oppor tunity presented itself, it was something I was already thinking about,” he said. “Being a host for this was an oppor tunity for me to get my feet wet and see what adjustments I need to make.”

James said the larger message of the show, particularly for young people in Maywood and the sur rounding suburbs, is that there are career options beyond spor ts and enter tainment.

“Everybody is aspiring to be basketball players or hip hop ar tists, and that’s really great, but don’t shun the other gifts you’ve been blessed to be given,” James said. “Give yourself the biggest shot possible and don’t shut the doors on anything.”

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Astronaut Jeanette Epps and NBA player Sterling Brow n at the Lyndon Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Cook County Clerk calls on veterans to be elec tion workers

Yarbrough says there’s a ‘serious shortage’ of judges and poll workers

By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough, whose office r uns elections in suburban Cook County, is calling on military veterans to sign up as election judges and poll workers in the Nov. 8 Guber natorial Election.

“We have a serious shor tage of judges and poll workers,” Clerk Yarbrough said during a press conference on Sept. 20. “We’ve seen our number of election judg es shrink significantly in recent years.”

Yarbrough said the number of poll workers has fallen by 40 percent over the last eight years. She said she has about 4,000 people who have indicated their availability to work on Election Day but she needs at least 7,000 to cover every open position.

Polling place technicians make $365 and election judges make $200 for their day-long service. Anyone interested in

working the polls can apply at cookcountyclerk.com/work

Yarbrough explained that the pandemic and age are contributing to the re duction in polling workers in suburban Cook County. She said the average elec tion judge is between 65 and 70 years old.

T he clerk said 4,500 election judges showed up for service on Election Day in June compared to more than 7,100 judges who worked on Election Day in the 2018 midter m election — the last midterm be fore the COVID-19 pandemic.

She said the dearth of election work ers is a problem across the nation, before pointing out that “an estimated 130,000 poll workers have stopped serving over the past three midterm elections across the nation.”

Yarbrough said the idea to reach out to veterans came after she realized just how much the county clerk’s office interacts with them through the Veterans Service Of fice in Chicago.

“These are tough times for democracy and those in the veterans’ community took many years out of their lives to fight for this democracy and we’re asking you to fight for this democra cy ag ain by serving on Election Day,” said Brian Cross, the head of the Veterans Service Office.

Real People, Real Results†:

Ed Michalowski, the deputy cler of elections, said while the clerk’s of fice saw about 70 percent of voters cast their ballots before Election Day by voting early or through the mail in the 2020 General Election and 2021 Consolidated Election, Election Day operations are still impor tant.

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He said the clerk’s office has reduced the number of precincts to keep up with worker shor tages, but they still need to meet their goal of more than 7,100 work ers to avoid overloading existing poll workers.

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racy on their shoulders,” Michalowski said.

Radical Botanical o ers care for sick plants, classes for kids

By IGOR STUDENKOV Staff Reporter

The first thing one notices about the plant store that opened two months ago at 7607 Madison St. is the sheer size and variety plants visible through the storefront window.

“I literally get a crowd of people just taking a pause in front of my window and breathing,” said co-owner Carina Guer rero

That is precisely what she and her pa ner, Robert Ungaro wanted to see when they opened Radical Botanical. They wanted to do more than just sell plants and heal sick plants. As the name suggests, they saw a store as an opportunity to help their customers, mentally and spiritually, and bring them closer to nature. Even before they opened a physical location, they got a posi tive response

Guer rero and Ungaro said they became interested in growing plants before they met each other, for their own, separate reasons. Guer rero said she’s been interested in plants since she was a child. About six years ago, she started out growing a rose bush, and she soon became interested in the farm to-table movement. Living in a “tiny Cicero apartment,” she began growing a few herbs, and bought books on plant growing at Half Price Books to get better at it. And while she sold some herbs and ve getables around the neighborhood and at her daughter’s school, she didn’t think about turning it into busi ness until she met Ungaro.

Ungaro said he got into growing plants while working with fellow veterans. Taking care ofthe plants, he said, proved to be ther apeutic, because it gives veterans “something to take home and take care instead of just themselves.”

But it wasn’t until after the two met that they thought about starting a business that would allow them to share the benefits they got from plants with the community

“The overall mission is to create pockets ofsanity and divinity in the community, in their house,” Guer rero said. “For them to have a resting place, to kind ofease the mind in the spirit when all the hecticness is going on. We live in the concrete jungle, instead of a natural place.”

While the “botanical” part ofthe name was self-evident, she said that the “radical”

part reflected the “radical idea” that people could come to na ture for healing. While she said she doesn’t want to disparage medical science, it shouldn’t be the only source of treatment.

A physical location at the River Forest/ Forest Park border made sense, since Guer rero grew up in the western suburbs and their daughter attended a school in River Forest.

“I got back, joined the American Legion down the street and decided that it’s the neighborhood where I wanted to open my plant shop with my queen,” Ungaro said.

Radical Botanical also offers classes where kids learn about the plant growth cycles and how to take care of them, mostly through hands-on learning – something that she said was inspired by her learning about plants from her grandmothers and passing that knowledge on to her daughter Each class lasts around an hour

“There’s no test, so don’t wor ry about that,” Ungaro added. “It’s just a simple 5-10 minute [lesson on] how the plant will grow in the future, and then they literally push it into the ground itself.”

Guer rero said they didn’t want customers to feel pressured to buy something, prefer ring instead to work with them and find the plant that’s right for them.

She also said she likes to see customers stay in touch.

“I don’t like when people just buy a plant and take it home,” Guer rero said. “If I was working at Home Depot, God forbid, and if they did not come back and tell me how the plant is doing, I’d be upset.”

ALEX ROGALS/Sta Photographer Co-owner Carina Guer rero trims the plants at Radical Botanical.

CRIME

Two drivers in rowdy funeral procession charged with reckless driving

Two Chicago women taking part in a funeral procession were cited for negligent driving after they blocked traffic near the intersection of Jackson Boulevard and Des Plaines Avenue.

The incident took place Sept. 24 at around 1:20 p.m. Forest Park police were alerted that a rowdy funeral procession was heading west on Jackson Boulevard. One ofthe officers set up his squad car at 7200 Jackson Blvd and saw a 2015 Kia SUV re por tedly swerve into oncoming traffic with passengers hanging out ofthe car windows. An officer pulled up to the Kia and told the driver, a 22-year-old Chicago woman, to stay in the lane. The woman instead blocked the center lane with her car.

During the stop, the officer saw a black 2014 Nissan Murano swerve driving behind them, also swerving into the oncoming traffic, with drivers also hanging out the windows and sunroof. The driver, a 41-yearold woman, also began blocking traffic.

Both women were issued local ordinance citations.

Armed robbery

A South Dakota man was alle gedly robbed at the 7-Eleven location at 7749 Roosevelt Rd. on Se pt. 25, at 8:55 p.m.

The victim said he was standing in front ofthe store when a man in a brown jacket and a black mask approached him, showed his handgun and demanded that the victim give him all his money. The victim gave the robber $250, and the alle ged robber ran northwest toward Desplaines Avenue.

While the store had a security camera pointing toward the location ofthe robbery, the police officers weren’ t able to re view the footage at the time of the re port.

Burglaries from vehicle

Forest Park saw multiple instances of burglaries from vehicles, though some were more successful than others.

On Sept. 23 at around 2:30 a.m., a man living at the 7500 block ofBrown Avenue woke up to his car’s alarm going of f. The car, a white 2009 Volkswagen Jetta, was locked. The victim went back to slee p, but when he woke up later that night, he saw

e-mail alerts from his banks advising him that someone may have fraudulently used his credit and debit cards in Cicero and Maywood.

The victim checked his car and discovered that a wallet was missing from his center console. There was no damage to the car and no sign of forced entry. The victim cancelled his cards.

On Sept. 25, at 3:50 p.m., a man returned to his car, a black 2014 Ford, and found his wallet missing from the center console. The vehicle was parked at 520 Desplaines Ave., and the victim said it was unlocked because he had issues with the car’s lock.

On Sept. 21, at around 5:48 a.m., a woman living on the 7600 block of Taylor Street discovered that someone broke the driver’s side window ofher black 2012 Ford Focus, which was parked in the building parking lot. However, while the burglar opened the central console, they didn’t take anything from the car. The victim said that she had several valuable items in the car including a MacBook laptop.

Later that day, at 11:56 a.m., a 29-year-old Chicago man alle gedly burglarized a white 2020 Chevrolet parked in the alley behind the house at the 1000 block ofS. Harlem Avenue. The victim’s son spotted the man rummaging through the car and called police. The suspect left and headed north along the alley, checking car door handles.

While searching the area, officers spotted the alle ged burglar at the BP gas station at 7140 Roosevelt Rd. The officers arrested the man without incident. The officers found “a significant amount ofloose change” in the alle ged burglar’s T-shirt pocket. He told the police that he was addicted to PCP and was going through cars looking for loose change.

The man was charged with one count of burglary from a motor vehicle.

These items were obtained from police re ports filed by the Forest Park Police Depart ment, Sept. 19-25, and re present a portion ofthe incidents to which police responded. Unless otherwise indicated, anybody named in these re ports has only been charged with a crime. These cases have not been adjudicated.

Compiled by Igor Studenkov

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OUR VIEW

Use your voice

The event last Friday at Centuries & Sleuths bookstore made an impact, as the Forest Park Public Library and the Forest Park Ar ts Alliance combined to host a discussion on the scourge of book bannings taking place across America.

It is a despicable situation when our corrosive politics yields a rising tide of ef for ts from the far right to silence authors, to deny Americans the right to choose what they read and what ideas they debate, to whitewash the very history of this nation. But the data is clear. There is a rising tide against public libraries and school libraries to have books banned from class reading lists and library collections

And like many aspects of the far-right assault on basic freedoms, this is an org anized ef fort that we must actively and vigilantly battle. It is not going away readily and a fierce response is needed at the local level.

The Forest Park Review was happy to play a part in this Banned Books Week event. Today, on pages 16 and 17, we are publishing several essays by Forest Parkers speaking up for books, for ideas, for freedom, for the need to use your voice to speak out against censor ship. These essays were gathered by the library and the ar ts alliance. We are honored to publish them.

Things we like

■ Forest Park is about to have a conversation about allowing homeowners to raise chickens. Yes, we’ve ar rived at that point in our vil lage’s evolution that we are for mally discussing reintroducing critters into the eco-system

This is on par with Forest Park’s first Starbuck s, with painting a Pride design on Madison Street, with having a local brewery.

Once you have chickens pecking in the dir t in multiple back yards then the cool factor of Forest Park is of ficially raised. Home values will rise. School enrollment will begin to tick up. The restaurants will be fuller. And we’re cer tain to get a mention in Chicago magazine. We can’t wait.

■ If they are successful in obtaining another state grant, the over achieving park district will next tackle the upgrade of Remembrance Park, that small cor ner at Randolph and Circle.

Since taking over the operation of four “pocket parks” long owned and under-maintained by the village gover nment, the park district has been strate gically remaking these precious open spaces in a crowded village.

A new playg round, two splash pads and a better focus on the multiple memorials that give the park its name, are in the plans if the $600,000 OSLAD g rant materializes. It’s not cer tain, but we wouldn’t bet against this park district.

■ Brown Cow has been an institution in town for a long time now. Like many businesses it faced an existential threat during COVID when the creamery that produced its custom ice cream faced supplychain problems and was no longer able to supply Brown Cow.

Connie Brown tur ned to the community for its suppo rt in building out her own creamery. Friends and neighbors came through. As we re por ted last week, having its own production facility has allowed Brown Cow to be gin producing custom ice cream for other area restaurants. A remarkable and welcome innovation.

OPINION

The need to become more uncivilized

In just a few weeks, the trees in the residential neighborhoods of our town will be blazing with autumn reds and golds, and many of our friends and neighbors will be saying, “Gotta get out to Starved Rock State Park or at least the Arboretum.”

We love nature, or at least we say we do. Every one of my friends has at least one story about a time when they were awestruck by something in nature — sitting speechless at the lip of the Grand Canyon at sunset; seeing Denali for the first time; standing at the foot of a Sequoia and feeling like they were on sacred ground.

We might even pull our copy of Walden of f the shelf and read again Henry David Thoreau’s rapturous lines: “I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so stur dily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a cor ner, and reduce it to its lowest ter ms.”

The problem is that Thoreau had this romantic, idealized image of nature in his head and heart, but he didn’t really live in it. His cabin was a short walk from his mother who re gularly helped him out by doing his laundry and packing a lunch for him to car ry back to his “wilder ness cabin.”

“In reality,” writes Kathryn Schulz in the New Yorker, “Walden Pond in 1845 was scarcely more of f the g rid, relative to contemporaneous society, than Prospect Park is today. The commuter train to Boston ran along its southwest side; in summer the place swar med with picnickers and swimmers, while in winter it was frequented by ice cutters and skaters.”

We, too, often wax eloquent about our love of nature, but when we do get away from civilization and “back to nature” we do it in a civilized way. We view it through the windshield of our air-conditioned car or in the comfort of a tour bus or on the deck of a cruise ship sailing through a Norwegian fjord.

We love nature in the abstract and in comfortable doses, but hardly anyone wants to live in it.

I think it’s fair to say we love civilization more than nature, and now you might say that nature, with its forest fires and floods, is suing civilization for divorce. The benefits of civilization, it seems

obvious to me, have all been made possible by fossil fuels. And now — ask folks in Pakistan and Puerto Rico — nature like a jilted lover is demand ing that we star t paying alimony.

Most of us know how to survive in the urban jungle more than we do in a campg round in Wisconsin. And that’s a problem because, to me, many of the lessons needed to reduce global war ming will not be lear ned in the big city

I have some good news and some bad news, the doctor told her patient.

The bad news is you’ re over-medicat ed. The good news is we have a pill for that.

Technology and our consumer economy have brought us the highest level of material comfort the world has ever known, but it has also pushed us to the edge of an apocalyptic environmental disaster. Fantasizing that technolog y and the private sector will be the “pill for that” is an illusion.

As I’ve watched myself and the people around me behave for 75 years now, thinking that wind and solar are going to satisfy our addiction to “flip of the switch” to unlimited energy is shor tsighted at best. We have to become “uncivilized,” if you will, and lear n to live with and in nature more than we do now. That will require personal change.

For star ters it might mean grabbing a rake instead of a leaf blower, a shovel instead of a snow blower

Those of us who say they love nature often mean they love to be an occasional “tourist” in nature. We don’t want to put up with mosquitoes and single-digit temperatures at football games.

We want it both ways, and but it doesn’t work that way.

We look for the words “all natural” on the labels at the grocery store, and I think we have to do the same with our lifestyles.

Living naturally does not always mean living comfortably. Nature can be challenging, if not downright cruel, as well as beautiful. Talk to ad dicts in recovery Withdrawal is not fun, but they/ we do it because we keep our eye on the prize.

Nature has a lot to teach us “civilized” people, but the lessons can’t be lear ned while standing on the deck of a cruise ship.

Somehow we have to become more un-civilized

Using their voices to speak up for books and freedom

Local essays on why book censorship is a threat to be conf ronted

The Forest Park Public Library joined with the Forest Park Ar ts Alliance to celebrate the freedom to read and the freedom to use your voice as America marks what is its most consequential Banned Books

Week.

The American Library Association tracks ef for ts across the country to have books removed from public and school li braries It has been tracking this number

Our bodies, our reading, our selves

By PAT WILLIAMS

Many years ago, in 1975, I graduated high school. As I was preparing to go of f to colle ge, my sister (11 years my senior) asked me what I could use, and I asked for a collegiate dictionary. Not only did she give me a colle giate dictionary, but she also gave me a thesaurus, bedding for my dorm and the book Our Bodies, Ourselves The dictionary and thesaurus were mainstays on my lap whenever I needed to do any writing as it was long before computers were common in homes or dor ms

However, when the school work was over and classmates would gather in my room, we would talk about everything under the sun. The book Our Bodies, Ourselves was always laying around in my room, and of ten people would pick it up When they did, what transpired was rich, wonderful dis cussion about women’s issues That book was a resource for all the women on my floor of the dorm.

Although some of us had sex education star ting in middle school, sex ed was still in its early stages, and many things that were not discussed in classrooms Our Bodies, Ourselves enriched and filled in the gaps of our education. It was invaluable We lear ned about things our mothers didn’t share, or didn’t even know. Our lives were richer and more infor med because of that book.

After graduating colle ge, I worked in rural South Dakota. The minister of the church that I attended in town had a wife who was on the school board. One day she was sitting in the gym at our school, and was looking over the book Our Bodies, Ourselves. I shared that it had been a great resource for me for years. She told me the school board was considering banning the book. I showed dismay at the thought of it not being available to other young women

in the area and let her know how I felt. I never knew the outcome, but hope that the book was not banned in that district, as it apparently had been in other areas

Recently I asked my sister how in the world she decided to give me that book at that time. She was working at a local community colle ge, and the nursing staf f there highly recommended the book. I told her how much of a resource it was, especially in the dorm room, when young women were finding their way and trying to understand their bodies at a time when it was still taboo.

Of all the “banned books” I have read, Our Bodies, Ourselves has been the most influential to me in understanding myself as a woman. However, every banned book I have ever read has been rich in one way or another Banning a book seems similar to taking an enriching treasure and locking it away for no one to be able grow from or enjoy.

I use my voice in support of reading

By KAREN ROZMUS

I am a voracious reader — no particular genre. I read science fiction, bio graphies, fantasy, mysteries, thrillers, contemporary novels and history. I tell my grandchildren that if they like to read, they can lear n anything in the world. My grandsons like to show me their new books and have me read with them. My 10-year-old granddaughter, who lives in Pennsylvania, calls me on Facetime every night to read to me for 30 minutes, as she has for the past three years. What precious memories we are creating It is hard for me to acce pt that some nar row-minded (I’m projecting) people

for 20 years. Not a sur prise that 2022 in on course for the highest number of challenges ever

The library and ar ts alliance asked the Forest Park Review to publish a number of

essays they collected over the past month from Forest Parkers expressing their views on these essential freedoms which we have largely taken for granted

Here are six of those essays

would ban a book for what ever reason they may cite. I can’t imagine squelching the stories and verbal pictures created by Steinbeck, Dick ens, Hemingway, Vonne gut, Asimov, Herbert, Heinlein, London, Doyle, Twain, Har per Lee, J.K. Rowling and so many others. I believe you could just list every author and it would be the length of a book — perhaps a heavy book or even an encyclopedia.

A book can give insight into another’s point of view or provide under standing of another’s life experience totally dif ferent from your own. A good book will provide historical knowledge — hopefully the truth of history, both good and bad. A good book will inspire a dreamer, provoke thought, support an opinion, provide an escape to another place or time. A good book will help you grow and expand the library of your mind

To those who are of fended by some writ ten words, I would not chastise you or wish to silence your voice in opposition. I would, however, ask you to acce pt that others should not be denied what you would deny yourself I would ask you to “change the channel” and read what is acce ptable to you without any interference or prohi bition from others. Do you have a favorite book or story? Imagine how you would feel if some unknown person somewhere in the world thought to deny you the oppor tunity to read your favorite book.

Of course, some books are not appropriate for everyone, especially young readers. If you wish to oversee your child’s reading choices, read with them. The time spent will give so much pleasure and create a wonderful bond. As they grow older, you will have interesting conversations and you will appreciate the person you have helped develop You will understand their interests by talking about the books they like. You will be happy that you assisted

in the development of their intellect and knowledge. Read. Help others to enjoy read ing. You can wear the T-shirt that states, “I read, and I know things.” Read. Read some more

You can lear n anything in the world!

Reading, writing and recipes

By ANITA JACKSON-HALL

My beloved 92-year-old mother, Daisy Jackson, passed away nine months ago. An avid reader throughout her life, she in stilled that same joy of reading in me and my siblings at an early age. As I process my g rief, I have fond memories of the various books Mama lined our home bookshelf with during my childhood. My favorite and most treasured book on the shelf was Cu linary Ar ts Institute Encyclopedic Cookbook, published in 1948 and edited by Ruth Berolzheimer.

This cookbook was Mama Daisy’s and our connection to one another It’s how I ear ned my training wheels in the kitchen as she passed down her love for baking to me at the age of 10. Mama always said, “You can give someone a recipe, but if they don’t know what to do with it, it’s still just a recipe on a piece of paper.” So through the hundreds of recipes in this bulky book, she taught me reading comprehension, how to follow directions, and math through ingredient measurements I also lear ned food science while marveling at the culinary magic of seeing a liquid batter transfor m into a perfectly baked cake.

I attempted to make cookies, cakes and even doughnuts when Mama gave me free reign of the kitchen to practice following recipes in the cookbook without her assistance My tiny 10-year-old hands dropped the heavy cookbook and broke the binding. I looked like the Pillsbury Doughboy with a mess of flour on my clothes and the

kitchen table, and I was often disappointed that not all the recipes tur ned out the way they should. However, Mama was patient and said practice was the only way I would lear n.

Although the original cookbook was published in 1948, I bought the revised 1976 edition when I became an adult and moved out on my own. My sister owns a copy of the revised edition, too, as Mama also taught her and my niece how to bake and cook many of our favorite family recipes. There are some changes in the new edition but so much of the information and recipes are still relevant today.

Now the updated version sits on the bookshelf in my home After Mama passed, I found her 1948 version tucked away on a shelf in one of the bedrooms at my childhood home, where my dad still resides. The pages are yellowing, the hardback cover is missing and the loosened binding is a humorous reminder of my clumsy hands.

I still visit home a few days each week to help my sister care for Dad. I bake for him favorite treats that Mama used to make. I use her mixer to whip up a pound cake, or chocolate cake. I use my hands to knead and hug dough to make her famous yeast rolls

Baking in Mama’s kitchen is my g rief therapy as I celebrate her le gacy of love flowing from each recipe I smile, knowing the aromas per meating the walls are her blowing kisses from heaven.

Two teachers

By LESLIE SINGEL

Her very first year of teaching, her hands would not stop shaking at the be ginning of each class The syllabi and worksheets and assignments would flutter through her hands

She had no experience Many of the students were older. She tried her best to establish authority by speaking loudly, by maintaining good posture, by rarely smiling. On one dire occasion, she actually had to directly ask for their bare minimum re spect. She barely survived. On the last day of class, she celebrated with a good dinner and many drinks

The next year, she figured it out, as most teachers do: Show them what’s out there. Show them the world in words and let them explore. Then they gravitate toward what they couldn’t lear n before. Slavery. Discrimination. War. Bodies of poetry. Bodies in poetry The ache of human life, captured in words, in images Like falling down a rabbit hole. It worked. They read it all and wrote about poverty. And nooses on trees

And miso gyny And loving someone for their soul and not their biolo gy

On the last day of class, a student ap proaches He says she reminds him of his favorite teacher from his youth in his home country. The same enthusiasm, the same hung ry urgency to help students lear n. What a nice thing to say, she says What subject does he teach? Oh, the student blithely says, he also taught literature but he doesn’t teach anymore. They shot him for it

Her hands go back to shaking. Every day she teaches, she thinks of this man. What did he hope his students would read? Did he want them to lear n enough to become discontented with the life they were hand ed? Did he lend them books secretly after class in the hopes that they too would be inspired by the wider world? Did he know he had planted seeds even as they raised the gun?

The years pass and she cannot shake him loose For him, she teaches books from dangerous authors. She teaches books banned in prison. She teaches books banned in the South. For him, she asks to teach banned subjects She asks to teach what her colleagues in other states are fired for. This nameless, faceless man, cremated and scat tered somewhere hot and dry. In the wrong time and place She wakes up to car ry him forward, lecture by lecture, page by page. And as each student reads, she feels a little more at peace

Never at rest, just at peace.

Meeting someone I admired

By MARY MORITZ

When I was 8, I read a book about Har riet Tubman. I’d only been reading for about a year, but I was madly in love with the new worlds it opened for me I can remember ly ing on my bottom bunk bed, so absorbed in a story my whole world drifted away.

My father would knock on my door at times, wor ried about my isolating, but the last thing I felt was alone: I was with Mad eline, “In an old house in Paris covered in vines” (1) one of “twelve little girls in two straight lines” (2) or hanging with Emily Elizabeth and Clif ford, her big red do g. I traveled to new worlds voraciously.

When I read Runaway Slav e: The Story of Harriet Tubman, by Ann McGovern, I experienced a place I never could have imagined on my own: the South before the Civil War when slavery was thriving. I lear ned how millions of Black people were kidnapped in Africa, shipped to America

and sold as slaves. I read as Har riet lear ned about the Underground Railway, conduc tors leading slaves to freedom by following the Nor th Star, and decided that she would be free, and she would retur n and lead other people to freedom.

This would’ve been around 1966, when Mar tin Luther King Jr and his family moved to the South Side of Chicago to show that racism and lack of oppor tunity wasn’t unique to the South. I lived on the Southwest Side, among people who worshipped every Sunday and sent their kids to Catholic schools But many of the people in my neighborhood were also very prejudiced. I could feel the hatred they had toward Black people, and I didn’t understand it.

The only exposure I had to the Black community came through Har riet. I admired her. She was strong and brave, and helped people escape hor rible, soul-crushing lives. She wasn’t lazy, or ignorant, or selfish, so I never understood the racism that I was hearing. Her people believed in God and sang His praise even while they were being hor ribly mistreated. I knew Martin Luther King Jr., like Har riet, was trying to free his people, free them from poverty and oppression.

Reading Runaway Slav e gave me an op por tunity to oppose the racism so prevalent in society simply because Har riet wasn’t like that. Her people weren’ t like that. I wasn’t morally superior. I was just a girl who loved to read and, through read ing, met people I admired, and lear ned lessons that otherwise would not have been available to me I’m forever grateful to Ann McGovern for the lessons she taught me And I’m grateful for whoever it was that chose Runaway Slav e for the Scholastic book sale It wouldn’t have been an obvious choice in my school, and it changed my life.

1 Madeline, Bemelmans, Ludwig, 1939, Pa ge 1

2 Madeline, Bemelmans, Ludwig, 1939, Pa ge 2

Message chain

By DAVID HUDSON

Se ptember 9

Principal: Hey, just a heads up, I’ve gotten a couple of “concer ned” emails from parents about your first book selection this year

Teacher: Shadow and Bone?

Principal: Yeah, they have some concer ns about the super natural elements, etc., conflicting with their religious faith.

Teacher: Okay um, I’d rather not pull it. It’s a great story and really resonates with this age. They actually read it.

Principal: No, no, I don’t think we should pull it. Maybe just of fer an alter na-

tive. What about Tuck Ev erlasting

Teacher: Probably not, last time I taught that I had parents put to gether a petition that, since Tuck is actually 107 years old, it is an inappropriate relationship between Tuck and Winnie.

Principal: I ... wasn’t around for that one Teacher: Oh, it was real.

Principal: How about The Outsiders?

Teacher: Possible, though I’ve gotten pushback before for the abusive elements and the violence.

Principal: Any other suggestions?

Teacher: Well, I would suggest that parents allow their children to think for themselves and let them form their beliefs after being exposed to a variety of sources and to express to their kids that fiction is just that — fiction.

Principal: If only it were that easy.

Teacher: I remember I had a golden two years where I had the kids read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. That was be fore some satirical news ar ticle from Canada got picked up: out of context on a lot of Christian channels and the books were suddenly devil worship.

Principal: Yeah, and with Rowling’s comments about trans rights a while back, I don’t see that flying.

Teacher: Yeah, it’s a bit frustrating. I don’t agree with her, but the books are still just riveting and amazing. I hope we can find a way past that one. Of course, I’m not a great person to talk to Those books were my childhood

Principal: I know ... hang on a second. Let’s put Sorcer’s Stone out there as the alter nate title

Teacher: Wait, what?

Principal: Trust me on this.

Se ptember 12

Principal: Happy Monday, how was your weekend?

Teacher: Not long enough, lol. But what else is new?

Principal: I hear you there. So, good news, Har ry Potter has full support as the alter nate title

Teacher: Shut up From the same parents who objected to Leigh Bardugo be cause of the magical elements?

Principal: Ye p, each and every one of them

Teacher: I don’t understand ... Wait ... do you think it’s because of the kerfuffle around Rowling’s comments?

Principal: All I’m saying is, we now have two books on the list and no parents saying their kids can’t at least read one of them.

Teacher: Isn’t this kind of a deal with the devil?

Principal: Or the Wizard.

Teacher: I can live with it

REVIEW

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Big Week Editor James Porter

Staff Photographers Alex Rogals, Shanel Romain

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S ales and Marketing Representatives

Lourdes Nicholls, Marc Stopeck, Kamil Brady

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Poetry is a hard sell. Many people do not like it. So why not a column of haikus?

The leaves are falling. The snow is coming too soon. Let’s get out of here.

Election season. Signs go up on the front lawns. Don’t forget to vote

The Sox were awful. They ripped our hear ts out daily. When will owner sell?

Smoking on the “el.” Some stretching out on the seats. Boom boxes are back.

How do you like haikus?

work Workers wear jammies Cubs are loveable. There are no expectations. Only way is up Classic rock boring. Talk ra dio can get old. Opera endless.

Writing children’s book. Limit is 300 words. Characters are trees.

Classrooms empty. No one wants to go to school. Students wear jammies

Shor tage of teachers. District 209 a mess We need a new board.

McGaf fer’s Book Club We’re reading circus books next. We miss the circus

Motorcycles roar. Riders flood the expressway. They weave in and out.

Flying is a pain. Too many flights are cancelled. Shor tage of pilots.

People work from home. They live wher ever they want. Most choose to be war m.

Trucks are a menace. They make driving too scary. In Indiana.

Pocket parks facelifts. Family-friendly designs. Using g rant money

Some don’t ask questions. They are not interested. There’s no give and take.

Walking quiet streets. Good for our health and our minds. Outlaw leaf blowers!

Reading a real book. It feels good to tur n pages. Bookmarks needed

Day drinking feels good. A beer in the after noon. Fall asleep by 5:00.

The road construction. It drives motor ists crazy. Hate the color orange.

The Bears are moving. Leaving their lakeside spaceship. No more thoroughbreds.

The bucket boys gone. No more drumming after games. Lori’s idea.

Of fices empty. No one wants to go to

Private schools thriving. Some public schools are hurting. Parents objecting.

Single-use plastic. It’s destroying the ocean. We need to stop now!

Drivers are crazy. They put us all in danger. They use the shoulder

Inflation is real. Burger costs ten bucks. The fries are extra.

No one goes shopping. They order their stuf f online. The boxes pile up.

Retirement busy. How did we work full-time jobs? Watch grandsons play spor ts

High school reunion. Fifty years is a long time. Still fear detention.

A L OOK BA CK IN TIME

Theaters are hurting. It’s easier to stay home. Streaming the movies.

Scrolling phones is good. Hours spent on Facebook and news. But it hur ts your neck.

We need more nature. It’s soothing to walk through woods Watch for coyotes

No All School Picnic We lost a great tradition. Private schools are gone

Fall is the best time. The weather is crisp and cool. Please, no pumpkin beer.

Miss burning the leaves. It hur t the environment. But it smelled so good.

Will miss my neighbors. We’ ll all be hiber nating. Or in F lorida

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Jer ry Gleason Chevrolet opened its new, state-of-the-art, showroom at Desplaines and Roosevelt in 1990. The new Gleason facility boasted 48,000 square feet, allowing 15 models on display, while the previous one only held six. In addition, the facility gained more room for stock and a larger service de par tment. The “GM Quick Lube” shop was able to compete with the 20-minute oil change and filter shops. With 70 percent of the business coming from Forest Park and the sur rounding area, Gleason’s was sending out fliers locally with of fers to save anywhere from $1,000 to $6,000 on new cars and trucks

Jill Wagner

Frank Pinc, Forest Park Review Archives, Dec. 5, 1990.

Latest model: New Jerr y Gleason show room was open and ready for business

contributing to the Congregation’s mission through the smooth and effective accounting of Unity Temple’s financial ledgers and is responsible for journal entries and balance sheets. Working with the Director of Finance & Administration, the Bookkeeper will prepare statements, investigate and clear discrepancies, compile reports and analyses of accounts and update congregational pledge data.

org/job -postings/. To apply, send a cover letter and résumé to jobs@ unitytemple.org indicating “Nursery Supervisor / Childcare Coordinator” in the subject line.

CUSTOMER SERVICE

REPRESENTATIVE II

HELP WANTED

OFFICE ASSISTANT

Core Competencies

- Accounting principles

- Bookkeeping procedures

Class specifications are intended to present a descriptive list of the range of duties performed by employees in the class.

Specifications are not intended to reflect all duties performed within the job.

DEFINITION

To perform various network/system administration, computer support, and operational activities for the Village including computer system setup, configuration, and testing.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED AND EXERCISED

Reports directly to the Information Technology Services Director.

EXAMPLE OF DUTIES: Essential and other important duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following:

Essential duties and responsibilities

1. Ensure that best in class customer service is provided to both internal and external customers and also embrace, support, and promote the Village’s core values, beliefs and culture.

2. Configure, test, and deploy network systems, such as, firewalls, routers, switches, wireless equipment, network servers and storage arrays.

3. Configure, test, and deploy system servers, such as, file, print, Internet, e-mail, database, and application servers.

4. Configure, test, and monitor server and end-user systems for security, such as, user accounts, login scripts, file access privileges, and group policy management.

5. Configure, test, and deploy end-user systems, such as, workstations, laptops, mobile devices, printers, and software.

6. Test, configure, deploy, and support security systems, such as, facility access system, video & audio system.

7. Monitor and auditing of networks, systems, and user activities to ensure security and efficiency of systems. Create scripts and reports of detail activities for regular review.

8. Perform and participate in disaster recovery activities, such as, backup procedures, data recovery, and system recovery planning.

9. Assist end-users with computer problems or queries. Troubleshoot systems as needed and meet with users to analyze specific system needs.

10. Ensure the uniformity, reliability and security of system resources including network, hardware,

HELP WANTED • NETWORK SPECIALIST

software and other forms of systems and data.

11. Prepare, create and update user/technical procedure documentations and provide computer training.

12. Assemble, test, and install network, telecommunication and data equipment and cabling.

13. Participate in research and recommendation of technology solutions.

Other important responsibilities and duties

1. Train users in the area of existing, new or modified computer systems and procedures.

2. Participate in the preparation of various activity reports.

3. Travel and support remote facilities and partner agencies.

4. Operate, administer and manage the Village and Public Safety computer systems, including E-911 center, in-vehicle computer systems.

5. Prepare clear and logical reports and program documentation of procedures, processes, and configurations.

6. Complete projects on a timely and efficient manner.

7. Communicate effectively both orally and in writing.

8. Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.

9. Perform related duties and responsibilities as required.

QUALIFICATIONS

Knowledge of:

Principals and procedures of computer systems, such as, data communication, hierarchical structure, backups, testing and critical analysis.

Hardware and software configuration of. computers, servers and mobile devices, including computing environment of Windows Server and Desktop OS and applications, Unix/Linux OS, VMware, iOS/Android.

Network protocols, security, configuration and administration, including firewalls, routers, switches and wireless technology.

Cabling and wiring, including CAT5/6, fiber network, telephone, serial communication, termination, and punch-down.

Telecommunications theory and technology, including VoiP, serial communication, wireless protocols, PBX, analog, fax, voicemail and auto-attendant.

Principles and methods of computer programming, coding and testing, including power shell, command scripting, macros, and

VB scripts.

Modern office procedures, methods and computer equipment.

Technical writing, office productivity tools and database packages.

Ability to:

Maintain physical condition appropriate to the performance of assigned duties and responsibilities, which may include the following:

- Walking, standing or sitting for extended periods of time

- Operating assigned equipment

- Lift 50 pounds of equipment, supplies, and materials without assistance

- Working in and around computer equipped vehicles

Maintain effective audio-visual discrimination and perception needed for:

- Making observations - Communicating with others

- Reading and writing

- Operating assigned equipment and vehicles

Maintain mental capacity allowing for effective interaction and communication with others.

Maintain reasonable and predictable attendance. Work overtime as operations require.

Experience and Training Guidelines

Experience: Three years of network/system administration in the public or private sector, maintaining a minimum of 75 Client Workstation computers. AND Training: Possession of a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in computer science or a related field. Certifications in Microsoft Server Administration, Networking, Applications and Cisco Networking.

Possession of a valid Illinois Driver License is required at the time of appointment.

Vaccination against COVID-19 strongly preferred.

WORKING CONDITIONS

Work in a computer environment; sustained posture in a seated position for prolonged periods of time; continuous exposure to computer screens; work in and around computerized vehicles outdoor and garage facility; lifting heavy equipment, communication cabling and wiring into walls and ceilings.

Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist Congregation is looking for a part time Office Assistant. The Office Assistant plays a key role in contributing to the Congregation’s mission through the smooth and effective running of Unity Temple’s administrative and office needs. Working with the Director of Finance & Administration, sitting at the front desk and welcoming visitors, managing the congregational calendar, ensuring the procurement of supplies and supporting the rental program of our historic and culturally renowned buildings is the focus for this position.

Core Competencies

-Organization and Planning: Organizes people, funding, materials, and support to accomplish multiple, concurrent goals and activities.

-Vision and Purpose: Commitment to and knowledge of Unitarian Universalist Principles and values (see Support for the Mission and Values of the Congregation below)

-Trust and Integrity: Is widely trusted to keep confidences, admit errors, and adhere to a transparent set of personal and professional values that are congruent with the ministry of the congregation.

Proficiencies: Google Workspace, specifically Google Drive, organizational skills with a strong detail orientation, ability to communicate with a variety of different people, familiarity with CRM software is a plus (UTUUC uses Realm).

You can find more information about the position at https://unitytemple. org/job-postings/. To apply, send a cover letter and résumé to jobs@ unitytemple.org indicating “Office Assistant” in the subject line.

BOOKKEEPER

Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist Congregation is looking for a part time Bookkeeper.

Hours: 15 hours/week Sept – December 2022, then 10 hours/week as of 1/1/2023

The Bookkeeper plays a key role in

- Vision and Purpose: Commitment to and knowledge of Unitarian Universalist Principles and values (see Support for the Mission and Values of the Congregation below)

-Trust and Integrity: Is widely trusted to keep confidences, admit errors, and adhere to a transparent set of personal and professional values that are congruent with the ministry of the congregation.

Proficiencies: Quickbooks Online (certification is a plus but not required), Google Workspace (specifically Google Drive), organizational skills with a strong detail orientation, ability to communicate with a variety of different people, familiarity with CRM software is a plus.

You can find more information about the position at https://unitytemple. org/job-postings/. To apply, send a cover letter and résumé to jobs@unitytemple.org indicating “Bookkeeper” in the subject line.

NURSERY SUPERVISOR AND CHILDCARE COORDINATOR

Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist Congregation is looking for a warm, welcoming and experienced Nursery Supervisor and Childcare Coordinator to work with the youngest among us on Sunday mornings in the nursery as well as coordinate babysitting for congregational events outside of Sunday mornings. This is one job with two different roles. As Nursery Supervisor, this person will provide a compassionate and consistent presence in caring for our babies and toddlers during the Sunday morning worship service times, supervise, train and schedule other nursery staff, maintain the nursery as a safe and clean environment, welcome and orient new families to the nursery, and build relationships with and communicate effectively with parents. The nursery hours are Sundays from 9:30–11:30am, and approximately one hour outside of Sunday morning worship service.

You can find more information about the position at https://unitytemple.

The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Customer Service Representative II in the Development Customer Services Department. This position provides customer service to the public by providing a variety of responsible and difficult customer service and receptionist work including high volume telephone traffic; and to perform the more difficult and complex customer service duties depending on the department including but not limited to service requests, permits, parking passes, block party permits, accounts payable processing and vehicle stickers. This position is crosstrained with the other Customer Service Representative IIs in the Village.

Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website at http://www.oak-park.us/jobs.

Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Parkapplication. First review of applications October 5, 2022.

The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago will be accepting applications for the following classification(s):

Engineering Draftsman II (Original)

Engineering Draftsman III (Original)

Administrative Specialist (Original)

Principal Environmental Scientist (Original)

Additional information regarding salary, job description, requirements, etc. can be found on the District’s website at www.districtjobs.org or call 312-751-5100.

An Equal Opportunity EmployerM/F/D

PARKING ENFORCEMENT

OFFICER

The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Parking Enforcement Officer in the Police Department Field Services Division. This position will perform a variety of duties and responsibilities involved in the enforcement of Village parking regulations; and to provide general information and assistance to the public. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www.oak-park.us/. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application.

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE COORDINATOR

The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Emergency Preparedness and Response Coordinator in the Health Department/ Village Manager’s Office. This position will coordinate disaster response, crisis management and medical countermeasure dispensing/ distribution activities for the Village of Oak Park, provide disaster preparedness training, and prepare emergency plans and procedures for natural (e.g., floods, earthquakes), wartime, or technological (e.g., nuclear power plant emergencies, hazardous materials spills, biological releases) or disasters. This single class position is also responsible for the complex administrative duties required for state, federal and local response processes and grant management. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www.oak-park.us/ jobs. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application. First review of applications will be August 5, 2022.

FIRE INSPECTOR

The Village of Oak Park is seeking a qualified candidate for the position of Fire Inspector Part-Time in the Fire Department. This serves the public through enforcement of Village fire & life safety codes and ordinances; through inspections of residential, commercial and industrial properties; and provides consultation and information to residents, architects, attorneys, fire services personnel and builders regarding laws, rules, regulations and policies relating to fire and life safety. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www.oakpark.us/jobs

GRANTS COORDINATOR

The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Grants Coordinator in the Development Customer Service Department. This position will develop and coordinate CDBG and other grant-funded programs for the department; coordinates assigned activities with other departments and outside agencies; and to provide highly responsible and complex staff assistance to the Development Customer Services Neighborhood Services Division Manager and department director. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www.oak-park. us/jobs. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application.

Responsibilities:

The On-Call Substitute will work in place of the individual he/she will be temporarily replacing during the scheduled day. This individual may also be asked to perform other duties as required in relation to the substituting assignment.

Qualifications:

One of the following licenses:

• Professional Educator License (PEL)

• Substitute Teaching License (Bachelor’s degree required; beginning January 2023 enrolled in an IL approved educator program & have completed 90

semesters hours of coursework)

• Short-term Substitute License (Associate’s degree or at least 60 college credit hours)

• Educator License with Stipulations

• Paraprofessional License (Associate’s degree required)

• Short-term Paraprofessional License (High School Diploma w/3 years to work towards obtaining Paraprofessional license.)

Apply online at: www.district90.org/about/employment

HELP WANTED

(Colt Internet US Corp - Chicago, IL w/ option to work remotely in any location nationally)

Sales

Act as the customer facing technical specialist for bespoke Asian fin’l mkt connectivity solutions. Define technical specification of any 3rd party reqmts & solutions. Reqts: Bach in any field, + 5 yrs of exp in the position offd, or as a Solutions Consultant, Project Mgr, or rel. Must have 5 yrs of exp w/all the following: Dsgng or implmtg exchange connectivity & electronic trading infrastructure solutions for customers trading in Asian fin’l mkts; Working w/ low latency electronic trading tech infrastructure, incl specialist server h/ware, & specialist n/work switches & routers, FPGA appliances, & accurate timestamping solutions; Dsgng or implmtg solutions for fin’l svcs customers utilizing telecommunications data connectivity products incl wide area n/working tech (WAN), optical transmission tech, carrier Ethernet, multiprotocol label switching (MPLS), Internet access, Cloud connectivity, IP addressing, routers, switches, & firewalls; Working w/in stock exchange IT infrastructure incl trade engines, order routing platforms, mkt data protocols, risk mgmt platforms, customer connectivity options, licensing & reporting reqmts, regulatory reqmts, & exchange & colocation envrmts; Dsgng or implmtg Asian Exchange Access solutions for US based customers, incl working & liaising w/ the Japanese Stock Exchange (JPX) on their behalf; Working w/ key Asian fin’l mkts incl Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX), Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX), Korean Stock Exchange (KRX), Australian Stock Exchange (ASX), Taiwanese Stock Exchange (TWSE), & Asian foreign currency (FOREX) trading venues, liquidity providers & platforms; Dsgng or implmtg low latency electronic trading infrastructure solutions for customers trading SGX, HKEX, KRX, ASX, JPX & TWSE mkts; Dsgng or deploying China fin’l mkts connectivity solutions for foreign firms, incl Shanghai (SSE), Shenzen (SZE), Shanghai Futures Exchange (CFX). Up to 10% travel req. To apply go to https://joblistings.colt.net/ & search Job ID 32054. EOE.

Software Engineer sought by Amount, Inc. in Chicago, IL. to Work with other engineers and technical product managers to write, test, and deploy your code safely and automatically to production. Telecommuting permitted. Apply at jobpostingtoday.com Ref# 43057.

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PUBLIC NOTICE

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: Y22009637 on September 9, 2022 Under the Assumed Business Name of ZOYPHCO with the business located at: 815 LATHROP AVE, FOREST PARK, IL 60130. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: ZOEPHIA VICTORIA LAUGHLIN 815 LATHROP AVE FOREST PARK, IL 60130, USA

Published in Forest Park Review September 14, 21, 28, 2022

LEGAL NOTICE

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF MARICOPA NO. FN2022-091197

SUMMONS (Domestic Relations)

In re the Marriage of TEARA DYNAE CARPENTER, Petitioner, and TYISHA PENNINAH MARSHALL, Respondent, THE STATE OF ARIZONA

TO THE ABOVE NAMED RESPONDENT, YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend in the above entitled action within TWENTY (20) DAYS, exclusive of the date of service, if served within the State of Arizona, or within THIRTY (30) DAYS, exclusive of the date of service, if service is made without the State of Arizona. If service is made by publication, service is complete THIRTY (30) DAYS after the date of FIRST PUBLICATION and you must appear and defend within THIRTY (30) DAYS thereafter.

In order to appear and defend, you must file a proper response or answer in writing with the Clerk of this Court, accompanied by the required filing fee. Failure to appear and defend will result in judgment by default being rendered against you for the relief requested in the Petition. You are required by law to serve a copy of your response or answer upon the Petitioner, and such response or answer should be addressed as follows: TEARA DYNAE CARPENTER 99 W PALOMINO DR APT 173 CHANDLER, AZ 85225 If service is made by publication, a copy of the Petition and other papers filed in this matter may be obtained from the Clerk of this Court whose address is as follows: CLERK OF SUPERIOR COURT 201 W. JEFFERSON ST PHOENIX, AZ 85003 Request for reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities must be made to the Court by parties at least three working days in advance of a scheduled court proceeding.

SIGNED AND SEALED this date: 08/18/2022, CHRISTOPHER COURY, Clerk /s K. CLARK, Deputy Clerk

Published in Wednesday Journal September 14, 21, 28, October 5, 2022

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on 17 October 2022, at 7:00 P.M. in the Council Chambers of the Village Hall, 517 Desplaines Avenue, Forest Park, Illinois, the Planning and Zoning Commission will conduct a public hearing to consider a text amendment to Title 9 of the Forest Park Zoning Ordinance to add a Permitted Variation. Additionally, there will be a public hearing for a variation request to allow the resubdivision of two adjacent lots, under common ownership, on the following described properties(s):

Parcel 1:

LOT 7 (EXCEPT THE NORTH 30 FEET) AND LOT 6 (EXCEPT THE SOUTH 56 FEET) IN BLOCK 7 IN RAILROAD ADDITION TO HARLEM IN THE SOUTH EAST 1/4 OF SECTION 12, TOWNSHIP 39 NORTH, RANGE 12 EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS.

Commonly known as 118 Rockford Street, Forest Park, IL

Parcel 2:

THE SOUTH 56 FEET OF LOT 6 IN BLOCK 7 IN RAILROAD ADDITION TO HARLEM, BEING A SUBDIVISION IN THE SOUTH EAST QUARTER OF SECTION 12, TOWNSHIP 39 NORTH, RANGE 12, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS.

Commonly known as 7515-7521 Dixon Street, Forest Park, IL

PINs: 15-13-407-026-0000, 15-13407-034-0000, 15-12-407-018-0000

The applicant is Jerome Olson.

Signed: Marsha East, Chair Planning and Zoning Commission

Published in Forest Park Review September 28, 2022

PUBLIC NOTICES

PUBLIC NOTICE

STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT

WALWORTH COUNTY

Plaintiff CURT PATRICK

158 W. Whitewater Street Whitewater WI 53190

-vsDefendant DOMINIQUE SOOKIKIAN 517 S. Lombard Avenue Oak Park IL 60304

Publication Summons And Notice (Small Claims) Case No: 2022SC000634

If you require reasonable accommodations due to a disability to participate in the court process, please call 262-741-7012 at least 10 working days prior to the scheduled court date. Please note that the court does not provide transportation.

Publication Summon and Notice of Filing

TO THE PERSON(S) NAMED ABOVE AS DEFENDANT(S): You are being sued by the person(s) named above as Plaintiff(s). A copy of the claim has been sent to you at your address as stated in the caption above. The lawsuit will be heard in the following Small Claims court:

Walworth Co. Judicial Center 1800 County Road NN, P.O. Box 1001 Room 2055 Elkhorn WI 53121

On the following date and time: October 20, 2022 at 9:30am.

You must appear at the time and place stated. If you do not appear or answer, the plaintiff may win this case and a judgment entered for what the plaintiff is asking.

/s/ Alyssa S. Wilson 7/28/22 Bar No. 1099926 262-725-0175

Published in Wednesday Journal September 28, October 5, 12, 2022

PUBLIC NOTICES

PUBLIC NOTICE OF COURT DATE FOR REQUEST FOR NAME CHANGE

STATE OF ILLINOIS, CIRCUIT COURT COOK COUNTY.

Request of Caleb Jordan Baze Case Number 20224003956

There will be a court date on my Request to change my name from: Caleb Jordan Baze to the new name of: Caleb Jordan

The court date will be held:

On October 18 at 11:00am at 1500 Maybrook Drive Maywood, Cook County in Courtroom # Zoom

Published in Wednesday Journal September 28, October 5, 12, 2022

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR MERRILL LYNCH MORTGAGE INVESTORS, INC., MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, MANA SERIES 2007-OAR4

Plaintiff, -v.-

ELLEN C. SCHNACK, RANDALL C. SCHNACK Defendants 19 CH 14891

626 NORTH TAYLOR AVENUE OAK PARK, IL 60302

NOTICE OF SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 4, 2021, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on October 11, 2022, 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:

Commonly known as 626 NORTH TAYLOR AVENUE, OAK PARK, IL 60302

Property Index No. 16-05-319-0080000

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

The judgment amount was $417,344.71.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

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

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

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

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE

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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 The sales clerk, LOGS Legal Group LLP Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301, Bannockburn, IL, 60015 (847) 291-1717 For information call between the hours of 1pm - 3pm.. Please refer to file number 19-092500.

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION

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

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

LOGS Legal Group LLP

2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301 Bannockburn IL, 60015 847-291-1717

E-Mail: ILNotices@logs.com

Attorney File No. 19-092500

Attorney Code. 42168

Case Number: 19 CH 14891

TJSC#: 42-3258

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 # 19 CH 14891 I3202427

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN HOME MORTGAGE ASSETS TRUST 2006-5; MORTGAGE BACKED PASS THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2006-5; Plaintiff, vs. KARRI L. SPILLANE; PRAIRIE PLACE AT 6436

ROOSEVELT CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION; ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 19 CH 14565

NOTICE OF SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Monday, October 17, 2022 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 16-18-428-043-1032, 16-18428-043-1051and 16-18-428-0431059.

Commonly known as 6436 Roosevelt Road, Unit 415 and P-17 and P-25, Oak Park, IL 60304.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a condominium residence. The purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by subdivisions (g)(1) and (g) (4) of Section 9 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down

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by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call Law Clerk at Plaintiff’s Attorney, The Wirbicki Law Group, 33 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603. (312) 360-9455. W19-0997 ADC

INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION intercountyjudicialsales.com I3202441

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC Plaintiff, -v.-

CLEMENT C. RYZA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND LEGATEES OF ELAINE E. RYZA, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, CARY ROSENTHAL, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR ELAINE E. RYZA (DECEASED) Defendants

2022 CH 01290 830 N GROVE AVENUE OAK PARK, IL 60302

NOTICE OF SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on June 13, 2022, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on October 24, 2022, 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: Commonly known as 830 N GROVE AVENUE, OAK PARK, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-06-306-0060000

The real estate is improved with a residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

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

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

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shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption.

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

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

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

For information, examine the court file, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL, 60527 (630) 794-9876

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION

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

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

CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE IL, 60527 630-794-5300

E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com

Attorney File No. 14-22-00572

Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762

Case Number: 2022 CH 01290 TJSC#: 42-2273

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 # 2022 CH 01290 I3202624

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR GSAA HOME EQUITY TRUST 2006-14, ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-14 Plaintiff, -v.-

ELIZABETH SMITH, LARRY E. SMITH Defendants

2018 CH 03138 646 LYMAN AVE

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

OAK PARK, IL 60304

NOTICE OF SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on July 27, 2022, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on October 31, 2022, 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: Commonly known as 646 LYMAN AVE, OAK PARK, IL 60304

Property Index No. 16-17-114-0150000

The real estate is improved with a single family residence.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

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

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

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

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW.

You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL, 60527 (630)

794-9876

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION

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

You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100 BURR RIDGE IL, 60527 630-794-5300

E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com

Attorney File No. 14-18-00602

Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762

Case Number: 2018 CH 03138 TJSC#: 42-2855

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 # 2018 CH 03138 I3203178

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

ASSOCIATED BANK, NA; Plaintiff, vs. SHEILA CONNER; STEVEN CONNER; THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE OFFICE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY; THE STATE OF ILLINOIS; CITIMORTGAGE, INC.; Defendants, 19 CH 13166

NOTICE OF SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, October 25, 2022 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 16-08-311-001-0000.

Commonly known as 200 South Humphrey Avenue, Oak Park, IL 60304.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a 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: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (614) 220-5611. 19-038564

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INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION intercountyjudicialsales.com I3202926

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