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April 27, 2022

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Brook Park Council election sparks controversy

Schools edge back toward ‘normal’

Pushback after anti-mask parents file to run for exec board

By BOB SKOLNIK Contributing Reporter

The annual elections for the executive board of the Brook Park Council (BPC), which is a parent organization similar to a PTA for Brook Park Elementary School in LaGrange Park, are typically sleepy affairs. The biggest challenge is usually getting enough parents to volunteer to fill all the positions. Contested races are almost unheard of.

This year is different.

When three Brook Park parents who were strongly opposed requiring face masks in school filed to run for the BPC executive board -- including for president of the board – it immediately sparked controversy.

All three candidates -- Jamie Baker, Robert Cheval and Anthony Santos -- made public comments calling for an end to the mask mandate at the crowded Feb. 10

All-school rally returns to LTHS, grade schoolers back at lunch tables STORY ON PAGE 6

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North Riverside Plaza sold in package deal

New York REIT also picks up Elmhurst Crossing

By BOB UPHUES Editor

North Riverside Plaza, a 384,707-squarefoot shopping center at the southwest corner of Harlem Avenue and Cermak Road has been purchased by the New York Citybased real estate investment trust Brixmor Property Group.

The sale, the terms of which were not disclosed, was announced April 21 by MidAmerica Real Estate Corporation, which had been retained last fall by the shopping center’s longtime owner, Federal Construction Inc., which is headquartered in Montreal.

The Cook County Clerk’s Office has not yet recorded the sale. The Landmark first reported on the impending sale of the North Riverside Plaza in March.

The North Riverside property, anchored by a Kohl’s department store, Best Buy and a soon-to-open Amazon Fresh grocery store, also includes Petco, Burlington, Sketchers Warehouse Outlet and Michael’s as well as Chik-Fil-A, Chili’s, Panda Express, YiaYia’s and other retail stores.

According to Mid-America, the North Riverside Plaza was sold as a package with the Elmhurst Crossing shopping center, which is located at Route 83 and St. Charles Road, and was also owned by Federal Construction Inc. The Elmhurst shopping center also has Kohl’s and Petco as anchors as well as a Whole Foods grocery store, At Home, Portillo’s and others.

In all, Brixmor’s purchase comprises 732,000-square-foot – nearly 17 acres -- of Chicago suburban commercial property.

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A tree grows for Kendra Family, colleagues, friends gather for tree planting in memory of late Brookfield planner

IN THIS ISSUE

Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Classified . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Kosey Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 Obituaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11, 13 Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

By BOB UPHUES Editor

Each spring, on a little rise overlooking the new canoe launch in Kiwanis Park just behind the Brookfield Village Hall, you’ll see a Purple Prince crabapple bursting with rosy pink blossoms. Each fall the tree’s leaves will turn purple and its red fruit will help sustain wildlife through every winter.

The tree eventually will grow to about 20 feet and its dazzling floral display each spring will be a permanent reminder of Kendra Kuehlem, who was Brookfield’s village planner when she was fatally struck by a Metra train while trying to cross the BNSF tracks at Prairie Avenue on Feb. 4.

She was 27 years old.

Kuehlem’s presence remains in Brookfield in more KENDRA KUEHLEM than just spirit.

During a ceremony witnessed by about 35 people, including Kuehlem’s mom, Amee, during a chilly but sunny afternoon on April 19, Kuehlem’s ashes were buried with the tree, which was planted by Village Forester Victor Janusz after remarks by Emily Egan, who was Kuehlem’s immediate supervisor and friend.

“Today we’re really gathering not to mourn, but to celebrate, our co-worker, our friend, our granddaughter, our cousin, our niece, our daughter, Kendra Christine Kuehlem,” said Egan in her remarks prior to the tree planting.

“Her family will never forget the caring, charismatic, sensitive, artistic, creative and imaginative child that Kendra was. As an adult, Kendra was altruistic, inspiring, intelligent, motivated, genuine, unique, kind, adventurous and brave.”

Kuehlem joined the village as its staff

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Family, work colleagues and friends gathered April 19 in memory of the late Kendra Kuehlem, who was Brookfield’s village planner when she was fatally struck by a train in February. Those gathered last week witnessed Village Forester Victor Janusz inter Kuehlem’s ashes at the base of a crabapple tree planted in Kiwanis Park following a brief ceremony.

planner in April 2021 after having served briefly as an intern in the Brookfield Community Development Department during the summer of 2017 after graduating with a degree in urban and regional planning from the University of Illinois.

In a Facebook post shared on the Brookfield Connections community page about two weeks after her daughter’s death, Amee Kuehlem called her “every parent’s dream.”

Being hired as village planner in Brookfield,

she said, was Kendra’s “dream job.”

A single mom, Amee Kuehlem said she was determined Kendra would be “someone big. Someone that made a difference.”

Amee Kuehlem also acknowledged community members, who stepped up to provide both emotional and financial support in the wake of her daughter’s death.

An online fundraiser organized to help pay for the cost of Kuehlem’s funeral expenses collected almost $25,000.

“Kendra was taken away from me too soon, but I take comfort in knowing she touched so many lives in her short time here on earth,” Amee Kuehlem wrote.

In her short time in Brookfield, Kuehlem garnered praise not only from Egan and Village Manager Timothy Wiberg, but from members of the Brookfield Planning and Zoning Commission whose members depended on the analysis and review provided by the village planner.

“You can’t measure it in years,” said Patrick Benjamin, a Planning and Zoning Commission member who spoke at April 19 memorial planting. “She did a lot of great stuff for the village, and her memory is going to live on.”

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BIG WEEK

Salt Creek cleanup day

April 27-May 4

Climb aboard!

North Riverside Parks and Rec will host a Transportation Exploration Day on May 4 from 4 to 6 p.m. in the parking lot of the North Riverside Police Department, 2359 Desplaines Ave. Kids can get in the driver’s seat of some of the biggest, coolest vehicles in the area. Meet the drivers, honk the horn, sound the sirens and explore. Free and open to the public.

Call 708-442-5515 for more info.

Naz presents ‘SpongeBob: The Musical’

Mark Arbor Day in Brookfield The village of Brookfield invites community members to its Arbor Day celebration and tree planting on April 29 at 1:30 p.m. in Ehlert Park near 9001 Shields Ave. (south of the skate park and fire station).

Courtesy of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, the village will hand out 30 oak saplings in one-gallon containers to interested attendees.

Brookfield will mark its designation as a Tree City U.S.A. for the 41st year running.

And more The Frederick Law Olmsted Society and village of Riverside will hold a Landscape Workday on April 30 from 9 a.m. to noon at Indian Gardens near the Scout Cabin. Come for as long as you like. Supervised children welcome. Bring work gloves and a water bottle. All other supplies and snacks provided.

Look for the public works dump truck.

The League of Women Voters of the LaGrange Area and LWV of Oak Park/River Forest will host a candidate forum for the Congressional District 7 primary on May 4 at 7 p.m. via Zoom. Submit questions in advance ■

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Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Find out during Nazareth Academy Drama’s spring musical “SpongeBob Squarepants” on the stage of the Romano Family Theater at the school, 1209 W. Ogden Ave. in LaGrange Park.

Performances are April 28-April 30 at 7 p.m. and on May 1 at 1 p.m. Tickets are $18. Call 708-387-8515 for reservations.

to league@lagrangearealwv.org (put CD7 in the subject line). Register to attend by visiting lagrangearealwv.org.

Riverside Arts Center, 32 E. Quincy St., hosts its Riverside-Brookfield High School Annual Advanced Placement Art Exhibition through May 7 in the Freeark Gallery and Sculpture Garden. Gallery hours are Thursday through Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m.

There’s also a photography exhibition, “Love You Bro” featuring the work of Stephanie Graham in the lobby of the Riverside Township Hall, 27 Riverside Road, Riverside, through June 30. Hours are Mon.-Thurs. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Friday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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North Riverside Public Library, 2400 Desplaines Ave., invites you to make an appointment to visit the Ancestry Help Desk on April 29 from 2 to 6 p.m. There’s also Stretching and Meditation via conference call (800-747-5150, code 1453322) on May 2 at 6:30 p.m. and a family Pajama Storytime via Zoom on May 2 at 6:30 p.m. Register for programs at northriversidelibrary.org/events-new.

Linda Sokol Francis Brookfield Library, 3541 Park Ave., invites you to join film enthusiast Marty Blank and jazz enthusiast Ian Tiele as they present “The Rich History of Chicago Jazz” on April 30 at 1 p.m. in the Meeting Room and to learn about invasive plant species during “Wanted: Invasive ■

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The Salt Creek Watershed Network is putting out a call for nature-loving volunteers to help with their Salt Creek Spring Cleanup on April 30 in Bemis Woods North.

Individuals, families and groups are welcome. Participants can also enjoy environmental programs and a complimentary cookout lunch. If you would like to bring your own canoe or kayak and paddle along the creek to collect debris, call Scott Saacke at 424-241-8192 prior to the event.

Volunteers should meet at the Bemis Woods North Forest Preserve foot bridge by 9 a.m. to sign in. Water craft users will meet by the bridge at 7 a.m. for sign-in to be back in time for the 11 a.m. cookout lunch.

Entrance to the Bemis North parking area is off of Wolf Road between Ogden Avenue and of 31st Street.

More info at saltcreekwatershed.org or call Ron Hursh at 708-354-4434.

Native plant presentation and sale

Riverside Public Library, 1 Burling Road, will host a presentation on Native Plant Gardening and a Plant Sale on April 30.

Get inspired about native plants during this talk with local gardener and author Cathy Maloney and purchase plants CATHY MALONEY to support UCP Seguin.

The sale is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The presentation is at noon.

Registration required for the presentation but not the sale. Visit riversidelibrary.org/events.

Species in Your Ecosystem” on May 2 at 7 p.m.

Call 708-485-6917 or visit brookfield.evanced.info/ signup to register for programs.

Riverside Public Library, 1 Burling Road, hosts a screening of ‘Monty and Rose 2’ about a pair of endangered piping plovers attempting to nest on a Chicago beach on April 28 at 7 p.m. Talk with director Bob Dolgan follows. To register for programs visit riversidelibrary.org/events.

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The Brookfield Elks Lodge, 9022 31st St., hosts bingo the second Sunday of every month.

Doors open at 1 p.m. and games start at 2 p.m. with cash payouts.

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P O L I C E

R E P O R T S

Car dealership door smashed North Riverside police responded to Zeigler Ford, 2100 Harlem Ave., on April 18 at about 8:20 p.m. after a security employee called to report that an unknown man had just shattered a glass door at the dealership.

The employee told police he was seated in his vehicle near the Harlem Avenue entrance when he observed a man walk up to the main entrance doors. After pausing briefly, the man struck the glass door with an unknown object, shattering it.

The offender was last seen walking southbound along Harlem Avenue. Police did not locate a suspect.

Catalytic converters stolen The catalytic converters were sawn off of two vehicles parked on the far west end of North Riverside last week, police have reported.

A resident of the 2200 block of 17th Avenue contacted police on the morning of April 19 to report that during the overnight hours someone had removed the catalytic converter from his 2015 Mitsubishi, which was parked at the rear of the property.

A resident of the 2300 block of 15th Avenue also called to report that during the early morning hours of April 19 someone had removed the catalytic converter from her 2008 Toyota, which was parked in front of her residence.

DUI ■ Riverside

police charged a 27-year-old Lyons woman with driving under the influence of alcohol after an officer reported her driving 58 mph in a 25-mph zone along East Burlington Street west from Harlem Avenue on April 10 at about 4:10 a.m.

Police pulled over the woman’s vehicle on North Cowley Road. According to police, the driver appeared intoxicated and a male passenger inside the vehicle had an open cognac bottle next to his leg. Police also reported recovering a small bag of cannabis from the vehicle’s center console.

■ Brookfield police charged a 28-year-old Lyons man with DUI and other offenses after he allegedly lost control of his gray 2007 Acura sedan and drove it into the front of a residence in the 9400 block of Congress Park Avenue on April 13 just after 2 a.m.

According to the police report, the alleged offender denied being behind the wheel at the time of a crash but admitted he jumped from the passenger seat to the driver’s seat

in order to try to back the car away from the house. However, the car had sustained serious front-end damage and both front tires were flat. A witness reported seeing another person leaving the scene of the crash.

The man arrested by police told officers that another vehicle described as a Dodge Challenger was also involved in the incident, and a witness told police that a silver sports car might be involved. Police did locate a silver Ford Mustang with side damage driving southbound on Deyo Avenue, but they were unable to confirm it was involved.

Online dog breeder scam A 61-year-old Brookfield woman called police on April 23 to report that she was the victim of an online scam.

The woman told police she was in the market to buy a border collie and had come across a breeder online who appeared to be legitimate. The breeder asked the woman to use an app to send $600 for the puppy and $200 for shipping.

The woman did as instructed but was later advised the shipping crate was not authorized by the airline and instructed to send an additional $1,300 to upgrade the crate. At that time the woman asked for a refund but has not gotten a response.

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Driver eludes police pursuit North Riverside police say they are looking for a black Jeep Cherokee in connection with a high-speed pursuit during the early morning hours of April 19 in North Riverside, Berwyn and Oak Park.

An officer attempted to stop the vehicle at around 12:30 a.m. after seeing the Jeep, which had no front license plate and heavily tinted windows, at 23rd Street and 8th Avenue.

The driver of the Jeep sped away, disregarding multiple stop signs and red lights before racing north on Harlem Avenue at 90 mph to the I-290 ramp where the Jeep headed east and police terminated the pursuit.

These items were obtained from police reports filed by the Riverside, North Riverside and Brookfield police departments, April 10-24, and represent a portion of the incidents to which police responded. Unless otherwise indicated, anybody named in these reports has only been charged with a crime. These cases have not been adjudicated.

— Compiled by Bob Uphues

Saturday, April 30th

9:00 am – Noon

Riverside Masonic Lodge parking lot 40 Forest Avenue, Riverside This FREE event is only for Riverside Township residents and only for personal, confidential documents. No business shredding, magazines, or junk mail. Each household is restricted to no more than 3 boxes of paper.

Your documents will be securely destroyed on site by American Mobile Shredding and Recycling.

As always, this will be a contactless, drive-up event. No need to get out of your car; place the documents in your trunk, follow the signs at the event and then simply pop the trunk. We will remove the documents from your vehicle and shred them for you.

Please bring a non-perishable, unexpired food item to donate to the Riverside Township Food Pantry!

For more event info, call Riverside Township at (708) 442-4400 or visit our website: www.riversidetownship.org

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Local schools make their way back to ‘normal’ LTHS hosts first all-school rally since 2019; grade schoolers back at lunch tables

By BOB SKOLNIK Contributing Reporter

Just two months ago school officials across the state were still wrestling with the need for masking inside school buildings as COVID-19 cases started dropping sharply and pressure increased to drop the mandates.

In a sign of just how quickly things have changed, more and more school districts are returning to building environments that more closely resemble the prepandemic normal – even if the pandemic hasn’t disappeared and there are signs that local case rates may be ticking up.

One of the most vivid illustrations of that shift in thinking played out April 22, when for the first time since 2019 Lyons Township High School staged an all-district assembly, held indoors in the North Campus fieldhouse.

Unthinkable just three months ago, students from South Campus packed into nearly 40 buses and streamed into the fieldhouse where the entire 4,000-student body – the vast majority unmasked --stood shoulder to shoulder, cheering on classmates competing against one another in games like tug o’ war or applauding numbers performed by the marching band, color guard and Steppers.

While the all-school assembly might have a been a special on-off event this school year, other school districts are changing policies that have been in place for more than two years and sought to limit direct contact between students.

One school period where school administrators had taken pains to keep students apart during the pandemic was lunch. But, lunch is getting back to normal at Brook Park School in LaGrange Park as well as at other local elementary schools.

Last week students at Brook Park were able to eat at lunch tables for the first time this school year. Prior to April 18, Brook Park students had to eat lunch at individual seats lined up in a physically distanced row. Now kids have the option to sit around the lunch table with their friends for the first time since March 2020.

“It feels like things are getting back to normal which kind of feels refreshing,” said Brook Park fifth-grader Lucy Radzi-

BOB SKOLNIK/Contributor

Students at Brook Park School can now eat lunch at traditional lunch tables (background) or at the individual tables prevalent during the height of the pandemic. More and more, administrators are adapting policies to move to a more “normal” school environment. won. “It feels good to get back into somewhat of a normal school year. I’m happy because this is my last year at Brook Park.”

Other Brook Park fifth graders agreed.

“It’s very enjoyable,” said Thomas Tselepis about being back at a lunch table.

“It’s very nice to sit with my friends a lot closer now and it’s overall better. All of my friends can sit together and we don’t have to have, like, six different seats.”

Brook Park students sitting at lunch tables don’t have to keep any particular distance away from each other. They can, and often do sit, shoulder to shoulder.

Brook Park students still have the option to still sit in individual seats, but by the end of last week the only a few Brook Park students were not sitting at the lunch tables.

“I think the best thing about this is that we’re giving kids the choice,” said Brook Park K-2 Principal Kelly King.

But students don’t yet have a choice at S.E. Gross Middle School, which like Brook Park is part of Brookfield-LaGrange Park District 95. At S.E. Gross, students still eat

lunch in their individual seats and will do so for the remainder of the school year.

Principal Ryan Evans said that he decided not to significantly change the seating arrangements for the final six weeks of the school year.

“Consistency is important with kids,” Evans said.

However, Evans said students now do have more freedom to move their individual seats together in pods and to move about the lunchroom.

Rules have also been relaxed in Riverside Elementary School District 96, which was one of the last local school districts to drop its masking policy. Students are now expected to remain at least three feet apart, down from the six-foot rule in effect for most of the school year.

Because of the change, District 96 students are now mostly eating lunch at tables in lunchrooms rather than having some kids eating lunch in hallways as was the case at the Central and Ames schools until recently.

Central School is using both its new mul-

tipurpose room and the school’s gym for lunch, but the other elementary schools are back to mostly using one room for lunch.

“It’s more normal than it’s been all school year,” said District 96 Superintendent Martha Ryan Toye.

There has been no change in lunch seating arrangements at Komarek School in North Riverside even after students have moved into the just completed new building at Komarek.

“We’ve essentially just moved our students from our old cafeteria to the new cafeteria,” said Komarek superintendent Todd Fitzgerald. “We’ve kept the same seating arrangement which is rows and columns -- students eating at TV trays being socially distant at least three feet or more.”

Face masks are becoming rare in local schools. The face mask mandate ended in early March and only a few students and teachers are still wearing masks in school.

But as social distancing rules are being relaxed, COVID cases are creeping up again with the emergence of the new BA.2 omicron variant of the virus after a steep decline in February and March.

District 96 has reported 39 cases of COVID (34 students and five staff) thus far in April compared to only nine cases in all of March.

“We continue to reflect what’s going on in society in general, and there is some uptick,” Ryan-Toye said. “We’re not hearing that kids are terribly ill. Kids that are being picked up are often on our saliva testing, so they’re pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic. This isn’t over yet.”

Fifteen students and one staff member tested positive for COVID-19 in BrookfieldLaGrange Park District 95 last week. Riverside-Brookfield High School has reported 20 cases (12 students and 8 staff) thus far in April compared to only four cases in all of March. Komarek School has reported six cases (two student and four staff) this month compared to just one case in March.

And, at Lyons Township High School, officials reported that for the weeklong period from April 15-21 – ending the before the all-school assembly – seven students and 12 staff tested positive for COVID-19.

From April 1-14, the school had reported four student and three staff cases.

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Pritzker lifts public transit mask requirement Decision followed a federal court ruling striking down CDC mandate

By GRACE KINNICUTT Capitol News Illinois

Gov. J.B. Pritzker officially lifted the state requirement that face coverings be worn on public transportation on April 20 after a federal judge overturned the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention mask mandate.

U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle of the Middle District of Florida ruled on Monday that the federal mask mandate was unlawful since it exceeds the authority of the CDC. The ruling comes about a week after the CDC extended the mask mandate through May 3.

Masks are no longer required on public transit, in public transit hubs or at airports, but local governments still have the right to maintain their own face covering requirements on public transportation.

Pritzker’s order now only requires masks

where they are federally mandated, as well as in congregate facilities and health care settings.

“I’m proud of the work our state has done to fight COVID-19 and protect our most vulnerable,” Pritzker said in a news release. “I continue to urge Illinoisans to follow CDC guidelines and, most importantly, get vaccinated to protect yourself and others.”

Following Pritzker’s announcement on Tuesday about revising mask requirements, the Chicago Metra and CTA announced that masks will no longer be required, effective immediately. The Chicago Department of Aviation, which oversees O’Hare and Midway International Airports, also announced that masks are no longer required.

A number of major U.S. airlines such as Delta, United and Southwest immediately dropped the requirement following the court ruling as well.

The CDC continues to recommend face coverings for those who are immunocompromised, people who can’t be vaccinated and in areas of high transmission.

Amaal Tokars, acting director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, said in a

news release that the department continues to closely monitor COVID-19 cases throughout the state and is working with local public health partners to keep the public informed.

The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 3,931 confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 and nine deaths on April 20, the highest one-day case count since Feb. 11.

There were 568 individuals hospitalized for COVID-19 as of April 19, 61 in intensive care beds and 29 on ventilators, all of which remained near pandemic lows.

More than 21 million vaccine doses have been administered with about 73 percent of Illinois residents age 5 and over fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

“The best way to protect yourself and your loved ones is to remain up-to-date on your vaccinations, and that includes booster shots, especially for those who are at risk for more severe health outcomes,” Tokars said.

COVID cases ticking up locally After an eight-week period during which the Cook County Department of Public Health reported a fairly steady but low number of weekly new COVID-19 cases in Brook-

field, Riverside and North Riverside, local cases are back on the rise.

For the weeklong period ending April 4, none of the three towns saw more than five new cases. But that changed the following week where new cases in both Brookfield and Riverside rose into double digits and continued for the week ending April 18, when Brookfield reported 32 new cases, with Riverside remaining in double digits at 15 and North Riverside seeing seven new cases, its largest number since early February.

For the weeklong period ending April 25, cases numbers were up again. According to the CCDPH, Brookfield recorded 42 new cases, with Riverside and North Riverside logging 28 and 20 new cases, respectively. Those are the highest one-week totals for all three towns since mid-February.

The Cook County Medical Examiner has not reported any new deaths from COVID-19 in any of the villages, but it announced on its online dashboard tracking COVID-19 deaths that it would no longer take jurisdiction over hospital, nursing home or hospice COVID-19 deaths.

Bob Uphues contributed to this report.

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Scammers take advantage of tragedies and disasters.

Scams requesting donations for disaster relief efforts are especially common over the phone.

Taxpayers should always check out a charity before they donate, and they should not feel pressured to give immediately.

Taxpayers who give money or goods to charity may be able to claim a deduction on their federal tax return by reducing the amount of their taxable income. However, to receive a deduction, taxpayers must donate to a qualified charity. To check the status of a charity, they can use the IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search tool. It’s also important for taxpayers to remember that they can’t deduct gifts to individuals or political organizations and candidates.

Here are some tips to help taxpayer avoid fake charity scams: Individuals should never let any caller pressure them. A legitimate charity will be happy to get a donation at any time, so there’s no rush. Donors are encouraged to take time to do their own research.

Confirm the charity is real. Potential donors should ask the fundraiser for the charity’s exact name, website and mailing address, so they can confirm it later. Some dishonest telemarketers use names that sound like well-known charities to confuse people.

Be careful about how a donation is made. Taxpayers shouldn’t work with charities that ask for donations by giving numbers from a gift card or by wiring money.

That’s a scam. It’s safest to pay by credit card or check - and only after researching the charity.

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With successor lined up, state Sen. Landek quits re-election race Mike Porfirio, a close ally, the only other candidate in June primary race

By BOB SKOLNIK Contributing Reporter

As expected, state Sen. Steve Landek (DBridgeview) withdrew from his race for re-election on April. His withdrawal from the race had been in the cards ever since his close associate, Mike Porfirio, filed to run for Landek’s senate seat on March 14, the last day that candidates could file to run in the June 28 primary.

Landek, 66, who also serves as the mayor of the village of Bridgeview, had filed to run for re-election to the Senate on March 7, the first day candidates could file. An incumbent filing for reelection and STEVE LANDEK then pulling out after his preferred successor files at the last minute is not an uncommon tactic in Illinois politics.

Landek, who generally likes to keep a low profile, declined to comment about why he withdrew from the race.

Porfirio, who grew up in Bridgeview but now lives in LaGrange, currently serves as a Lyons Township trustee and also serves as the chairman of the Justice-Willow Springs Water Commission.

He has been on the water commission for 10 years.

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MIKE PORFIRIO Porfirio served as the part-time village administrator of Summit from 2015 until 2018.

A graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Porfirio served on active duty for six years. Porfirio is currently a commander in the U.S. Navy Reserve.

He earned a master’s degree in political science from Purdue University where he also served as an NROTC instructor. He also earned an M.B.A. from University of Illinois at Chicago.

Porfirio could not immediately be reached for comment.

Landek was appointed to the Illinois Senate in 2011, replacing Lou Viverito who had resigned. In the state Senate, Landek has been a legislator who generally prefers to operate behind the scenes.

He is considered a moderate Democrat and helped elect Don Harmon (DOak Park) state Senate president in 2020.

Landek has represented most of Riverside and Brookfield during his 11 years in the state senate.

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Mike Porfirio.”

Every Saturday, Landek Landek has spent his enholds office hours at the tire adult life involved in Lyons Township Organizalocal politics. He was first tion headquarters in Sumelected to public office when mit. he was just 19 years old and He works with all sorts won a seat on the Bridgeview of people. As more of an Park District board. He then old school, party organizabecame a village trustee in tion kind of guy Landek Bridgeview and was elected was nevertheless able to mayor in 1999. Even as a forge relationships with state senator, his focus was some younger, more proSTATE REP. MIKE ZALEWSKI on constituent services. gressive people.

“What I admire about “Nobody we elect is goSteve is that he always put ing to vote 100 percent the a focus on delivering outway we would love them standing constituent servicto vote all the time,” said es, always what we can do to help people, and Meaghan McAteer a co-leader of the IndivisI think his emphasis on constituent services ible Illinois Brookfield chapter and a memis why his career has been so successful,” ber of the Brookfield-LaGrange Park Dissaid Chris Crisanti, the head of the Brook- trict 95 school board. “But I’ve seen him help so many people get elected and involved in field Democratic Organization. local government, it’s unbelievable, I mean Landek was considered a close ally of former Illinois House Speaker Mike Ma- he doesn’t have to do that. digan. A 2012 Chicago Tribune story noted “It’s interesting to go there during those that Bridgeview hired an insurance com- office hours because there is a different pany that Madigan’s son Andrew worked group of people there who I wouldn’t enfor around the time Landek was appointed counter in any other way so he clearly to the state Senate. Landek has said that the brings together people from all walks of hiring of Mesirow Financial had no con- life. Politics is his sport.”

“I’m excited for whatever the future holds for [Landek], and I’m excited to work collaboratively with Mike Porfirio.”

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Private equity giant acquires Tony’s Fresh Market Unclear whether sale includes company’s North Riverside shopping center

By BOB UPHUES Editor

Tony’s Fresh Market, the family-owned Chicago area grocery chain that arrived in North Riverside in 2008 before decamping to the Cermak Plaza in Berwyn a decade later, has been acquired by Apollo Global Management, a New York-based private equity fund.

Terms of the deal weren’t announced.

According to Apollo’s announcement of the sale, members of Tony’s founding family will “partner” as both shareholders and as management in the future.

“My family has been feeding our communities for generations and are incredibly excited to partner with Apollo to build on that legacy of fresh and healthy food, at an affordable price and delivered with respect to the many cultures of our customers,” said Frank Ingraffia, the CEO of

Tony’s and a member of the company’s founding family.

This is not Apollo’s first foray into grocery sector investments. In 2011, the firm invested $200 million in a San Diego-based chain called Sprouts and consolidated it with another San Diego chain called Henry’s Farmers Market, which was a subsidiary of another Apollo purchase, Smart & Final.

By 2015, after taking Sprouts public, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal, Apollo reaped gains of more than 10 times that initial investment.

Apollo acquired another chain, The Fresh Market, in 2016 for $1.36 billion and took the public company, described in a Reuters article as a “moribund U.S. specialty grocery retailer,” private.

In 2021, Apollo signaled it would seek to take The Fresh Market public once again, although that has not yet transpired.

Apollo also has invested in Albertson’s,

the parent company of Jewel-Osco.

While Tony’s moved its retail operation out of North Riverside in 2018, a corporation managed by Ingraffia and Domenico Gambino still owns the shopping center where the store had been located.

IG Riverside LLC bought the North Riverside Park Plaza in September 2007 for $21,750,000 and took out a $17,400,000 mortgage to finance the purchase.

In 2017, there were a series of financial moves, beginning with the original mortgage terminating that July and Tony’s Finer Food Enterprises lending $10 million to IG Riverside LLC. In August 2017, ownership of the shopping center changed, with IG Capital LLC obtaining the property from IG Riverside LLC via quit claim deed. Both companies’ management partners are identical.

In October 2017, IG Capital LLC obtained a $43.8 million mortgage for multiple properties, including the North Riv-

erside land, from Village Bank & Trust.

That mortgage represented two loans, one of them a capital loan of $37.8 million. The unpaid principle on the capital loan was scheduled to come due in October 2022.

It is unclear whether Apollo’s purchase of Tony’s Fresh Market includes the North Riverside real estate holdings.

Apollo Global Management did not respond to an email from the Landmark about any potential consolidation of operations or about the North Riverside Park Plaza.

North Riverside Village Administrator Sue Scarpiniti said she had reached out to her contacts at Tony’s Fresh Market about the future of the North Riverside property to no avail.

“We’re trying to find out about that as well,” Scarpiniti said. “We haven’t been able to get any type of response.”

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LTHS grading system still concerns parents, officials Despite tweaks around homework, mixed reviews continue

By BOB SKOLNIK Contributing Reporter

Parents and now some school board members are still voicing concerns about the new grading system that was implemented last year at Lyons Township High School.

The new system doesn’t count homework toward the final grade in a class and also doesn’t count class participation. It allows multiple retakes of tests and is concerned only with whether students eventually master the material in the course. Under the new system late work is not penalized.

“What we’re looking to do with grades is to ensure that a grade doesn’t have anything in it that doesn’t tell you about what a student has learned,” said LTHS Director of Curriculum and Instruction Scott Eg-

gerding. “So, we’ve taken out extra credit and points for behavior, or participation points, or dressing for P.E. or those kinds of things.”

Administrators tweaked the system after the first semester to require students to complete a certain amount of homework to be eligible for retakes of tests. Many students during the first semester became enmeshed in an endless cycle of test retakes.

But some say the system is still not working.

“It has caused problems at LT since its introduction yet it continues some 20 months later,” said parent Elizabeth Slezak at the April 18 school board meeting. “That, to me, is unacceptable.”

Krystal Steiner, a Brookfield resident and the mother of an LTHS sophomore said that since homework is not graded, students often are not motivated to do their homework.

“They’ve moved the homework fight 100 percent on me, because they don’t require it,” Steiner said. “They’re using kids as guinea pigs to see if this science experi-

ment is going to work.”

In two meetings this month, school board members also began raising concerns about the system while saying that they support the goals, which include promoting fairness and equity.

“I’m still hearing of retakes being packed,” said board member Dawn Aubert at a recent school board meeting.

Aubert and others have noted that many teachers seem to not like the new system.

“We still seem to have a large contingent of teachers that are not on board,” Aubert said.

Eggerding acknowledged that some teachers don’t like the new system. In an effort to get more buy-in, more teachers are being added to the grading implementation committee.

According to a survey done by the LTHS administration, approximately 14 percent of surveyed high schools are, like LTHS, not counting so-called formative work, such as homework, in the grading process.

That concerned school board Vice President Alison Kelly.

“I’m having a hard time understanding why we’re on the aggressive side of this,” Kelly said. “I’m just a big fan of homework. … I don’t think the kids are doing the formatives. I’m not comfortable with what I’m hearing and seeing.”

But school board President Kari Dillon said her experience has been different, noting that one of her children has taken only one retake in the last two years.

“I know a lot of students are doing the formatives,” Dillon said.

Ultimately, the LTHS administration would like to change the current numericalbased grading system, which still results in letter grades with pluses and minuses, to a simpler A-F system without plusses and minuses. That system is being piloted this year by some 30 teaching groups.

Originally, the goal was to implement the A-F system schoolwide by next year but the administration now says full implementation is at least four years off as much curricular works need to be done.

“We made a deliberate choice to slow down,” Eggerding said.

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OBITUARIES

Marianne A. Kaminski, 77 Worked at Hines V.A. for 28 years Marianne A. Kaminski (nee Kruzich), 77, of McCook, died March 2, 2022.

Ms. Kaminski was born Aug. 3, 1944 at MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn and attended Morton High School in Cicero.

Following graduMARIANNE A. ation, she worked KAMINSKI for the United States Naval Base making ammunition. In 1967, she took a purchasing position at the Hines Veterans Administration Hospital, receiving several superior performance awards and retiring in 1995 after 28 years.

In 1991 she attended The Wilton School in Darien for a course in the Wilton Method Basic Cake Decorating and received a certificate of merit. In 2001, she received a certificate of appreciation from Feed the Children whose gifts had helped provide 100 meals for hungry boys and girls. She also had participated in sending care packages to Soldiers Angels who provide aid to the military, veterans and their families.

She was a giving and kindhearted person with a funny sense of humor. She enjoyed many things throughout her life, including dancing, donating to foundations, outings with family or friends, blues music, rainbows, sunsets, Harley motorcycles, wildlife, her pet cats (favorite Shadow), collecting cat statues/figurines, also collecting many recipes, and baking her famous Fourth of July cake (blueberries for the stars and strawberries for the stripes).

Ms. Kaminski was the daughter of the late William and Mary Kruzich; the sister of James (Rose) Kruzich, and the late William (Patricia) Kruzich; the aunt of the late William J Kruzich and Roseann (Mike) Norman and Kimberly, James Jr., Kristine and Kathleen Kruzich; the great-aunt of Megan and John Norman, James Anthony, Jacqueline Kruzich and Westin Kruzich; and a cousin to many.

In her memory, Marianne had requested lots of blue flowers. Visitation will be on Friday, May 6 from 9 a.m. until time of prayers at 11 a.m. at Johnson-Nosek Funeral Home, 3847 Prairie Ave., Brookfield. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11:30 a.m. at St. Barbara

Church, Brookfield. Inurnment is a Queen of Heaven Cemetery, Hillside.

Online condolences, memories and photographs may be shared at JohnsonNosek.com.

Helen Maracich, 98 Former North Riverside resident Helen Maracich (nee Miller), 98, of LaGrange and formerly North Riverside, died April 21, 2022. Ms. Maracich worked in a clerical capacity at a high school before retiring.

She was the wife HELEN MARACICH of the late Nicholas J. Maracich and the mother of Nancy Maracich and Judith (Peter) Hughes. Helen was preceded in death by all of her siblings and their spouses: Vlasta (Joseph) Nohava, Laddie (Floy) Miller, Mildred (George) Cermak and Jerry (Evelyn) Miller. She was the aunt of many nieces and nephews.

Services have been held. Interment was at Queen of Heaven Cemetery, Hillside. Memorial donations are appreciated to your favorite charity.

Hitzeman Funeral Home, Brookfield, handled arrangements.

Sympathy cards can be sent to Hitzeman Funeral Home, 9445 31st St., Brookfield, 60513, c/o the Helen Maracich family.

John Zdenek, 81 Electrical engineer John Zdenek, 81, of Riverside, died April 17, 2022.

Mr. Zdenek was born March 19, 1941 and was a lifetime electrical engineer and neighborhood Mr. Fix It. He was the husJOHN ZDENEK band of Sue (nee Gentry); the father of Jerry and Jeff (Amy); the grandfather of Alice and Miles; and the brother of the late James.

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BPC ELECTION

Candidates withdraw from page 1 meeting of the Brookfield-LaGrange Park District 95 Board of Education.

In the wake of opposition, two of those candidates, Baker and Santos, have now pulled out of their races. Cheval is running unopposed for the position of recording secretary. The BPC executive board election will be held May 10 at Brook Park

School. BPC has 187 members and those voting must be dues-paying members.

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Before she withdrew from the BPC race, Baker was set to face off against current BPC Vice President Leah Picek. Baker said she withdrew from the race for president because of time demands, but she was also upset by the reaction to her candidacy.

“I don’t think the position really is worth the amount of time that I would have to dedicate to it, especially if people weren’t be appreciative of the work or any kind of new suggestions that I could bring to the table,” Baker said. “They were fixated on the fact that I had started a chapter of Awake Illinois and basically used that as a way to attack me, my family and my name, not even knowing that I don’t even have a chapter anymore and that I don’t have any members, never did. But no one came to me from the BPC and asked me about my affiliation with Awake Illinois. Or asked me personally anything about it.”

Baker, who described herself as a political independent, said her involvement with Awake Illinois was limited to the mask issue.

“That was something I did during the pandemic to get the masks off the kids,” Baker said.

Baker, who has been an active BPC member and volunteer this year, said she wanted to be president just to serve the students and the school.

“My focus was on the kids and being there for my child and all the other kids at Brook Park,” Baker said. “But when I started hearing the background chatter, I don’t have time for this.”

Some mobilized to campaign against Baker, Santos and Cheval. Mitzi Norton, the co-leader of the Indivisible Brookfield, a left-leaning progressive organization, said that she sent emails to about 10 households asking them to join to BPC and to vote in the executive board elections.

“We were made aware that a group under Awake Brookfield, under Awake Illinois, was formed to run, but our ask was that people vote for the incumbents,” Norton said. “I didn’t name anyone.”

Baker wonders why so much was made of her involvement with Awake Illinois, noting that two people currently on the District 95 school board, Meaghan McAteer and Jessica Filbey, are affiliated with Indivisible Brookfield.

“We’ve got two people on our school board that are part of that group Indivisible Illinois that believes in defunding the police, and they get to sit on the board, no

questions asked,” Baker said. “And I don’t even have a group anymore and I’m being attacked for it.”

McAteer, a co-founder and co-leader of Indivisible Brookfield said she has never tried to hide her involvement with Indivisible.

“I co-founded Indivisible Brookfield in September of 2017, and I am proud of the work we have done here in our community,” McAteer said in an email. “I was very open and transparent about this when I ran for the D95 school board. I would also like to point out that, among other things, Indivisible advocates for and supports fully funded public education for all students.”

Some were concerned that Baker and her running mates were trying to use the BPC as a springboard to a race for the school board next year. Baker says that she hasn’t decided whether to run for a seat on the school board but said that the reaction to her candidacy for the BPC executive board would give her pause.

“I have not made a decision on that,” Baker said.

Santos denied that he was affiliated with Awake Illinois and said that he wasn’t even aware of the group until he read about it on social media.

“My intentions was nothing but purely being a dad involved with his kids,” Santos said.

He said the controversy and infighting led him to withdraw as a candidate, which he did so officially on April 25.

“It just turned south so quickly,” Santos said accusing opponents of bullying people on social media.

Cheval could not be reached for comment.

Picek, the BPC vice president now running opposed for president, is the mother of a sixth-grader at S.E. Gross Middle School and a kindergartner at Brook Park.

She has been involved in the BPC since her sixth-grader was a student there and has served as vice president of the BPC for the last two years.

Picek says that it’s unfortunate the BPC election became contentious.

“The controversy is so blown out of proportion, I think, especially from the other side because we just keep telling them we’re not doing anything, like we’re not emailing people, we’re not making public posts,” Picek said. “We’re very careful with what we post on our Facebook pages and our comments about things, because we don’t want them to get misconstrued and we don’t anyone to feel like they’re not welcome because our whole initiative this year is to bring our people together.”

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THE LANDMARK VIEW

KOSEY CORNER

All for show

Weather aside, spring has surely sprung

t appears that there will be a change in the number of people on the board of the Lyons Township Treasurer of Schools Office, following legislation crafted by state Sen. Steve Landek and sponsored by state Rep. Mike Zalewski and state Sen. Antonio Munoz.

Instead of three elected members, there will now be four members elected by voters and three others appointed by school districts the office represents.

Landek’s parting gift to school districts served by the Township Treasurer’s Office (or TTO, for short) – after filing to run for re-election, Landek just announced he’s making way for longtime ally Mike Porfirio -- is being painted as a compromise after years of questionable governance that has included a former treasurer being convicted of stealing more than $100,000 in agency funds and the agency’s board spending $4 million in a lawsuit where they collected less than $800,000 – not to mention its politically connected hiring practices.

The four elected members of the board will retain a majority on the future board, and traditionally those candidates have come from the ranks of those connected politically to the power structure that continues to give the TTO life.

Of course, there’s always the possibility that good-government candidates will want to line up to serve voters’ interests regarding this obscure, obsolete office. Good luck with that.

This is kabuki theater serving to maintain the status quo, and it will succeed, for now – until the next headscratching example of wasteful governance, or worse.

Until then, long live the TTO, if anyone cares.

A lasting memory

There’s something extraordinarily touching knowing that every time you see the Purple Prince crabapple tree in flower, overlooking the new canoe launch in Brookfield’s Kiwanis Park, you’ll think of Kendra Kuehlem.

The late village planner, just 27 at the time of her death and a full-time village employee for less than a year, leaves a legacy in the form of that tree, sustained in part by Kendra’s ashes buried among its roots.

It’s a perpetual sign of life born out of tragedy, a gift she and her family – her mom Amee, in particular – has generously shared with the village Kendra served.

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h, the harbingers of spring! In my corner of the world that would include the sighting of robins, daffodils and tulips popping up and friends with sports cars driving past our house to remind me of the days when I had a sports car (I miss that Jaguar XKE).

I even saw my first slip and slide on Saturday, complete with shivering kids and moms ready with big towels. Then there are the golf sightings, with clubs shined and a new supply of golf balls.

With golf in mind, we only need to look at the Riverside Golf Club, which was established in 1893 and is known as one of the oldest and most historic courses in the country. But did you know there was a golf range was built directly across the street, where the North Riverside police and fire stations are now? It existed from 1957 until 1975. We liked to call it “Stop and Sock.”

The golf range was built by Fred Wilson, an educator and dean at Morton High School. Wilson was a North Riverside resident, who served the village as trustee and mayor from the years 1957 to 1975.

Children liked to go with parents to hit a bucket of balls and with child-sized clubs in hand, we were thrilled if we could hit the ball off the tee. Teenagers liked to try to hit the machine which picked up the golf balls on the range.

Since many of the jobs at the golf range were staffed by kids, some of them got to ride the machine and became the target of their friends. Occasionally, a ball would slice its way over to the railroad tracks and hit a passing train.

That whole area along the east side of Desplaines Avenue has changed. At one time it was the site of the favorite restaurants and night spots like Melody Mill Ballroom, Czech Lodge and Braccio’s.

While the east side of the street is very functional and a plus for North Riverside with all it provides for its residents, you still can’t forget what used to be with appreciation.

Despite the return of cold weather early this week, I took the snow brush out of the car and baseball has started. So whatever is your spring thing, enjoy it and take time to smell the roses, the lilacs and whatever else does it for you.

JOANNE KOSEY

OBITUARIES

Luanne E. Lechner, 86 Nurse Luanne E. Lechner, nee Miklos, 86, of Chicago, died April 16, 2022. Ms. Lechner was retired from a career as a nurse.

She was the wife of the late James M. Lechner; the mother of James M. (Gwen) Lechner Jr., Michael (Wendy) Lechner, Kenneth (Jennifer) Lechner and Daniel (Sarah) Lechner; the grandmother of Nicole, Laura, Christopher, Joseph, Jaclyn and Abigail; the great grandmother of Brandon; the sister of Ronald (Betty Lou) Miklos, Carol Lee Obis; and the aunt of many nieces

and nephews. The family would like to thank Irena for the care given to Luanne and the late Jim. A funeral Mass was celebrated April 22 at St. Louise de Marillac Church LaGrange Park. Interment was at Resurrection Catholic Cemetery, Justice.

In lieu of flowers, memorials appreciated to the Alzheimer’s Association of Chicago, 225 N. Michigan Ave., 17th Floor, Chicago, 60601 or West Suburban Humane Society, 1901 W. Ogden Ave. Downers Grove, 60515.

Sympathy cards can be sent to Hitzeman Funeral Home, 9445 31st St., Brookfield, 60513, c/o the Luanne E. Lechner family.

LUANNE E. LECHNER

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Sports

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Red-hot LTHS softball remains undefeated this spring Lions off to 10-0 start as they eye first downstate trip since 1990

By BILL STONE Contributing Reporter

Lyons Township High School softball players Emily Joseph and Ava Paganis first sparked the “twin home run flame” last season.

“Whenever she hit a home run, I’d hit one -- or vice versa.

It’s super cool,” Paganis said.

As fourth-year varsity seniors, they, Lily Hanafin and Anna Bryant have the Lions off to a fiery 10-0 start and 3-0 in the West Suburban Conference’s Silver Division after beating St. Ignatius 4-1 on April 23 and Proviso West 23-3 on April 25.

The Lions seek their first regional crown since 2017, first sectional since 2004 and first downstate trip since 1990. They lost last year’s regional final to Oak Park and River Forest after sweeping the regular-season meetings.

“I think we can do really well,” Hanafin said. “We have a really strong offense and defense. Our goal should be to make it to state, obviously. I think we can just keep winning and doing our best.”

Pitcher/first baseman Hanafin, third baseman Joseph, shortstop Paganis and first baseman Bryant form the core of the infield. Paganis (Bryant University) and Hanafin (George Washington) will play Division I college softball.

In 2021, Joseph, Hanafin and junior catcher Tess Meyer earned All-WSC Silver honors. Paganis and Bryant were hon-

COURTESY OF NICOLE PALUCH

Lyons Township High School softball players (from left) Lily Hanafin, Anna Bryant, Emily Joseph and Ava Paganis are in their fourth varsity seasons. orable mention.

This season, Joseph (.429, 4 HR, 13 RBIs, 17 runs) and Paganis (.424, 2 HR, 13 RBIs, 15 runs) have continued their power package. Paganis hit a three-run homer and Hanafin struck out 15 against St. Ignatius.

“They ultimately have been the foundation of our success over the last four years,” LTHS coach Nicole Paluch said. “I feel the way they have bonded as teammates has helped our team to become very close knit.”

Paganis, Joseph and Hanafin have been varsity starters since day one.

Paganis moved from second base to shortstop in 2020. Joseph always has been at third base after no previous game experience.

“I was completely shocked. I didn’t think I was good enough to make [varsity]. I was nervous, very nervous,” Joseph said.

“Freshman Emily would be very proud of senior Emily.

With the help of welcoming upperclassmen, Hanafin and Paganis agreed that freshman nervousness evolved into confidence and leadership.

“We kind of knew each other but it was nice to have the three of us going in so we kind of made our little bond,” Hanafin said.

Bryant is recovering from ACL surgery on her right knee, injured during the second girls basketball game last fall. Bryant continues attending practices and games and provides team updates on GameChanger and Instagram.

Bryant joined varsity late in the 2019 regular season. In her first varsity at-bat, Bryant homered off York’s Lauren Derkowski, now playing at Michigan.

“It was an unreal experience and I felt like I was dreaming. In the moment I couldn’t even remember what had happened,” Bryant said. “Honestly the best night of my softball career probably.”

Joseph’s 2021 two-run homer against OPRF at home remains her biggest highlight. That, and a Paganis homer, helped the Lions rally for a 5-3 victory.

“It was the best thing in the world because LTTV was there and I got to watch it after. We were just feeding off each other’s energy,” Joseph said.

LTHS’ Sommerfeld dazzles in spring debut at Distance Night Junior shatters school record in 3,200 meters to win at prestigious meet

By BILL STONE Contributing Reporter

Working her way back after missing most of the girls indoor track and field season, Lyons Township High School junior Catherine Sommerfeld tried the 3,200-meter run for the first time at Distance Night in Palatine on April 23.

Sommerfeld not only won her top-seeded heat but also the overall title among 61 finishers in four heats. In addition, her time of 10 minutes, 37.74 seconds broke the school record of 10:43.80 by Sarah Barcelona as a sophomore in 2017.

“That was my goal, to go out, be more aggressive. I just tried to respond when somebody ever made a move. I was still there the last 400 [meters] and I had a kick in me to go for it,” Sommerfeld said. “I didn’t really expect it. I tried not to look at the clock while I was running or worry about the time too much.”

The annual meet featured many of the state’s top distance runners in girls and boys

800, 1,600 and 3,200 races with at least 49 finishers in each event. There also was a freshman boys 1,600 with 17 finishers.

An IHSA Class 3A cross country all-stater in November, Sommerfeld ran only in the Lions’ first indoor track meet (1,600) and last (3,200 relay) because of a shin injury.

In 2021, she barely missed a state track berth in the 1,600.

“I’ll see what events I’m going to do going forward. It’s just a good confidence booster,” Sommerfeld said. “[Distance coach Eric Simon] wanted me just to see what time I could produce, and running [the 1,600], this would make it feel shorter to me. Now I’ll have to rethink things.”

LTHS sophomore Nick Strayer was 19th in the boys 1,600 (4:26.01) among 62 finishers.

The Lions’ Isaac Constas was ninth in the freshman boys 1,600 (4:44.34).

Strayer’s personal-best 4:21.76 indoors Jan. 16 already is under the 3A state-qualifying standard of 4:23.68.

“The time [on April 23] wasn’t exactly what I wanted, but mentally I felt like I was more in the race. I was more focused on my form throughout,” Strayer said. “I know I’m capable of making state. I just have to physically perform consistently. [This race is] not the end goal yet, but it’s definitely a step forward.”

S P O R T S

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RBHS softball honors seniors prior to Elmwood Park loss

Bulldogs remain above .500 after falling 13-3 at home

By BILL STONE Contributing Reporter

One of the Riverside-Brookfield High School softball team’s recent greatest moments required hustle and teamwork.

Last season, the varsity Bulldogs decorated the Class of 2021 seniors’ houses in toilet paper the night before Senior Day using just two cars.

“That was really fun because you get to be with the girls on an off-night. You can be together, run around and just kind of be crazy,” Sydney Weinert said. “It was just really fun and really good team bonding.”

This season’s four seniors -- Danika Apostolovich, Allie Krueger, Hannah Organ and Weinert -- were honored before the Bulldogs’ game against Elmwood Park April 19 at Veterans Park in North Riverside. The Bulldogs (6-4) lost 13-3 in five innings.

The decoration tradition has continued with a new twist or plunge, so to speak.

“We already got Tee-Peed last night,” Apostolovich said. “What’s funny about it is they even put a plunger with each of our names on the plunger, along with a dog bone.”

All four seniors are four-year program members. Organ, a pitcher who will play softball at Miami (Ohio), is a four-year var-

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RBHS senior Sydney Weinert ducks under a softball bat arch formed by teammates before the team’s Senior Day game on April 19 in North Riverside. sity starter and among the program’s all-time standouts.

The other seniors are in their second varsity seasons. In 2019, Apostolovich began with the junior varsity and Krueger and Weinert with the freshmen.

“I just liked the feeling when we won con-

ference last year. It was cool to be a part of,” Apostolovich said.

The seniors were introduced with their parents before the game by RBHS coach Doug Schultz. The other Bulldogs formed two straight lines near third base and joined raised bats to form an arch for the seniors

to run under toward the mound and receive flowers from assistant coach Emma Jarrell.

“I was ducking running out. I didn’t want to get hit in the head,” Weinert said. “I’ve been really grateful. It’s so nice to have two coaches who are so positive but at the same time stern with you. I think it’s really something that helped me grow as a player.”

All four seniors started. Organ has not played since after the second game March 17 when her surgically repaired knee flared up.

Organ was at third base for the game’s first pitch. Schultz called time and replaced her with freshman Eleanor Megall.

Junior Ellary Hastings and freshman Mariah Urbina, who both pitched, have been handling the mound duties with junior Mia Gonzalez. Sophomores Emily Organ (.486, 4 HR, 11 RBIs) tripled and Zoe Levine (.562, 4 HR, 21 RBIs) doubled. Megall is hitting .379 with 11 RBIs. “I like how [our program is] a good atmosphere for every person,” Apostolovich said.

“When we get hyped up, we’re really hyped.

When we come together and have these games, everyone feels the energy, even the people in the crowd.”

Apostolovich plans to study criminal justice. Krueger and Weinert will attend Illinois and be roommates. They’ve been teammates even before they were 10.

“As young as you can get when you start,” Krueger said. “Tee-Peeing was my favorite memory, honestly. One of the best memories of high school ever, so much fun. It was really so fun.”

RBHS baseball notches 13-game win streak Second no-hitter recorded by ace Owen Murphy

By BILL STONE Contributing Reporter

Through traveling baseball, RiversideBrookfield High School senior catcher Brian Twomey has become used to playing in beautiful professional and semi-pro stadiums.

“It’s the best. The seats can be empty but you just get that feeling you’re on the big stage,” Twomey said. “It’s nice being sur-

rounded by something that’s bigger than you.”

Twomey also is becoming acquainted with the special feeling when RBHS senior and pro prospect Owen Murphy is pitching.

At the Joliet Slammers’ DuPage Medical Group Field on April 19, Murphy threw his second no-hitter this season as the Bulldogs defeated Aurora Central Catholic 10-0 in six innings. With a 5-1 Metro Suburban Conference victory over Elmwood Park on April 25, the Bulldogs (15-2, 5-0 in MSC) have won 13 in a row.

“It’s kind of just the standard at this point.

When somebody does by chance get a hit, that’s where the surprise is coming,” said

Twomey, who will play at Lewis University next year. “[Murphy] knows what we expect out of him and he just goes out there and performs. We trust him to do it and he always does.”

Murphy struck out 16 and surrendered his first walk this season to follow up his perfect game on April 5. Murphy (4-0, 0.00 ERA) has 70 strikeouts in 27 innings and allowed just four hits with one hit batter.

While his success on the mound has been notable, Murphy is almost more excited about his offensive numbers -- .521 batting average with 12 homers, 43 runs batted in and 18 extra-base hits toward his 1.438 slugging percentage.

“It’s been a good ride,” said Murphy, who hits second. “The whole mentality is get on base for the next guy, keep the line moving.”

Jake Tyler had three hits and Connor Chapulis two with a double. Twomey did his part with three walks. The Bulldogs already have drawn 108 walks this season to contribute to a .494 on-base percentage. Murphy (17), Luke Yachnin (16) and Cooper Marrs (15) lead the way.

“I was lucky enough to do that that game.

I fouled off some pretty good two-strike pitches,” Twomey said. “Seeing pitches is definitely one of the strengths on this team.

We work pitchers so the pitch count runs up with us.”

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CLASSIFIED PUBLIC NOTICES PUBLIC NOTICES PUBLIC NOTICE OF COURT DATE FOR REQUEST FOR NAME CHANGE STATE OF ILLINOIS, CIRCUIT COURT COOK COUNTY. Request of Barbara Wynn Coughlin Case Number 20224001670.

There will be a court date on my Request to change my name from: Barbara Wynn Coughlin to the new name of: Wynn Coughlin Robertson The court date will be held: On 06/07/2022 at 11am at 1500 Maybrook Drive, Maywood, Cook County in Courtroom #0112 Published in Wednesday Journal April 13, 20, 27, 2022

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING The Oak Park and River Forest High School District 200, located at 201 N. Scoville will conduct a Timely and Meaningful Consultation Meeting which will take place remotely via video/telephone conference on Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 3:00pm.

The purpose of the meeting will be to discuss the district’s plans for providing special education services to students with disabilities who attend private/parochial schools and who are home schooled within the district for the 2022-23 school year. If you are the parent of a home-schooled student who has been or may be identified with a disability and you reside within the boundaries of Oak Park & River Forest High School District 200, you are urged to attend.

If you would like to join the meeting, please contact Marilyn Thivel at mthivel@oprfhs.org or call (708) 434-3706 to request the Zoom Link information.

Published in Wednesday Journal April 20, 27, 2022

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LEGAL NOTICE

LEGAL NOTICE

STATE OF ILLINOIS) COUNTY OF COOK )ss Circuit Court of Cook County, County Department, Domestic Relations Division.

In re the marriage of GUILLERMINA SALGADO, Petitioner and JAVIER SALGADO, Respondent, Case No. 2022D001482.

The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given to you, the above named Respondent, that a Petition has been filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, by the Petitioner, for Dissolution of Marriage and for other relief; and that said suit is now pending.

Now, therefore, unless you, the said Respondent, file your response to said Petition or otherwise make your appearance therein, in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, Room 802, Richard J. Daley Center, 50 West Washington Street, in the City of Chicago, Illinois, on or before May 18, 2022, default may be entered against you at any time after that day, and a judgment for Dissolution of Marriage entered in accordance with the prayer of said Petition.

DOROTHY A. BROWN, Clerk.

Published in Wednesday Journal April 20, 27, May 4, 2022

RIVERSIDE BROOKFIELD TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT 208 TIMELY AND MEANINGFUL CONSULTATION FOR PARENTS AND ADMINISTRATORS OF PRIVATE AND HOME SCHOOLED CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES In accordance with the requirements of Section 612(a) (10) of the Federal Individuals with Disabilities Improvement Act of 2004 (“IDEA 2004”), Riverside Brookfield High School will conduct a Timely and Meaningful Consultation on Friday, May 06, 2022, at 10:00 AM at Riverside Brookfield High School, 160 Ridgewood Road, Riverside, Il 60546--Due to the Pandemic this meeting will be held via Zoom. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss how students with disabilities, who attend private schools or are homeschooled within the district boundaries, will be served by District 208 during the 2022-23 school year.

Parents and private school administrators who would like to attend should contact Kevin Baldus, Director of Special Education, at baldusk@rbhs208.net Zoom invitation will be forwarded prior to the meeting.

PUBLIC NOTICES

PUBLIC NOTICES

STATE OF ILLINOIS) COUNTY OF COOK )ss Circuit Court of Cook County, County Department, Domestic Relations Division.

In re the marriage of Lynne Catherine Rogers, Petitioner and Julio Walter Funes-Merida, Respondent, Case No. 2022 D 002265.

The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given to you, the above named Respondent, that a Petition has been filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, by the Petitioner, for Dissolution of Marriage and for other relief; and that said suit is now pending.

Now, therefore, unless you, the said Respondent, file your response to said Petition or otherwise make your appearance therein, in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, Room 802, Richard J. Daley Center, 50 West Washington Street, in the City of Chicago, Illinois, on or before May 18, 2022, default may be entered against you at any time after that day, and a judgment for Dissolution of Marriage entered in accordance with the prayer of said Petition.

DOROTHY A. BROWN, Clerk.

Published in Wednesday Journal April 20, 27, May 4 2022

PUBLIC NOTICES PUBLIC NOTICE OF COURT DATE FOR REQUEST FOR NAME CHANGE STATE OF ILLINOIS, CIRCUIT COURT COOK COUNTY. Request of Abdul Shahid Williams Case Number 20226002024.

There will be a court date on my Request to change my name from: Abdul Shahid Williams to the new name of: Abdul Shahid The court date will be held: On May 20, 2022 at 9am at 16501 S Kedzie Pkwy, Markham, Cook County in Courtroom # 0207 Published in Wednesday Journal April 13, 20, 27, 2022

LEGAL NOTICE tendance to the pre-Bid meeting The Village of Oak Park --Ofis not required in order to bid the fice of the Village Engineer, 201 project.

South Boulevard, Oak Park, Illinois 60302-- will receive electronic All prospective bidders must prove proposals until 11:00 a.m. on they are pre-qualified by the Illinois Thursday May 19, 2022 for ProjDepartment of Transportation by ect: 22-2, Resurfacing of Various providing a certificate of eligibilStreets. Bids will be received and ity to the Engineering Division at accepted, and bid results posted which time a password will be isvia the online electronic bid sersued for access to the online bid vice listed below. In general, this documents. contract includes removal and This project is financed with local replacement of curb and gutter, Village funds, federal Community sidewalks, ADA ramps, driveways, Development Block Grant (CDBG) installation of 6” ductile iron pipe funds, and Illinois Department of water main, connection and disCommerce and Economic Opporconnection of water main, minor tunity (DCEO) grant funds and thus drainage improvements, installais subject to all state and federal tion of pavement patching, coldrules, regulations and guidelines, milling of asphalt roadways, instalincluding Davis-Bacon and Relation of level binder and hot-mix lated Acts, Section 3, and Equal asphalt surface courses, drainage Opportunity requirements. structure adjustments, pavement Contractor will be required to striping, parkway restoration, and comply with the Business Enterall appurtenant work thereto. prise Program (BEP) for MinoriPlans and proposal forms may ties, Females, and Persons with be obtained via the electronic Disabilities Act (30 ILCS 575/0.01 service starting on Thursday April et seq.). This project will have a 28th, at 10:00 a.m. Plans and BEP utilization goal set by DCEO proposal forms can be found at for a percentage of the grant dolhttps://www.oak-park.us/yourlars going to businesses that have government/budget-purchasing/ been certified as owned and conrequests-proposals or at www. trolled by persons who are minorquestcdn.com under login using ity, female or who have disabilities.

QuestCDN number 8182491 for a Contractors are required to reach non-refundable charge of $30.00. the utilization goals or show good The Village of Oak Park reserves faith efforts to reach the utilizathe right to issue plans and specition goals. See project manual for fications only to those contractors details. Non-compliance with the deemed qualified. No bid docuBEP goal and requirements will ments will be issued after 4:00 disqualify the bid. p.m. on the working day preceding the date of bid opening.

THE VILLAGE OF OAK PARK A pre-Bid Meeting will take place virtually through Microsoft Teams Bill McKenna on Thursday, May 5th at 11:00 AM. Village Engineer Meeting invites will be sent to all plan holders prior to meeting. At-

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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff, -v.RASHINDA PLUMP, WAVERLY CLARK, JR, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, WAVERLY CLARK, JR., INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATOR Defendants 12 CH 25204 1187 SOUTH HIGHLAND PARK 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 December 11, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on June 1, 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 1187 SOUTH HIGHLAND PARK, OAK PARK, IL 60304 Property Index No. 16-17-325-0470000 The real estate is improved with a one story two unit brick building with no garage.

Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, 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.

MCCALLA RAYMER LEIBERT PIERCE, LLC Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200, Chicago, IL, 60602. Tel No. (312) 346-9088.

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.

MCCALLA RAYMER LEIBERT PIERCE, LLC One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200 Chicago IL, 60602 312-346-9088 E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com Attorney File No. 20-05419IL_615363 Attorney ARDC No. 61256 Attorney Code. 61256 Case Number: 12 CH 25204 TJSC#: 42-1426 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 # 12 CH 25204 I3192970

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