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June 16, 2021

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Caledonia Senior Living chief awarded OBE by Queen Elizabeth PAGE 3 North Riverside police investigate apparent homicide on June 14 PAGE 5

Komarek community celebrates start of renovation, expansion

Yes, we’re open

M t COVID Most COVID-19 19 restrictions t i ti ended d d JJune 11, 11 as governor declares Phase 5 of Reopen Illinois

Around 75 people turn out for ceremonial groundbreaking on June 8

By BOB UPHUES Editor

If the situation looked bleak back in April 2019, when the first of two bond referendums to renovate and expand Komarek School in North Riverside went down to defeat in convincing fashion, the atmosphere outside the school on the evening of June 8 was literally sunny and bright.

About 75 parents, children, local officials and school leaders gathered inside the construction fencing that had gone up earlier that day and stood next to a large backhoe that had been tasked stripping asphalt from around the west building.

While ground technically had been broken already on the $22 million expansion and renovation – made possible by the March 2020 referendum passed by voters – those gathered on 13th Avenue in between the two sides of the campus were there to mark the ceremonial groundbreaking.

“We are so excited, we waited a long time for this,” said Joanna Santos, the mother See KOMAREK on page 12

ALEX ROGALS/Staff Photographer

WELCOME ALL: Maskless crowds flocked to Brookfield Zoo on June 14, three days after the start of Phase 5 of Reopen Illinois. Visitors no longer have to register in advance for tickets and most indoor exhibits and some restaurants have reopened to the public.

By BOB UPHUES Editor

Martin Lynch says March 17, 2020 was one of the saddest days of his life. Instead of celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with a bar full of customers, the owner of Irish Times Pub and Restaurant in downtown Brookfield watched as his tap lines were drained for what looked to be a good long time.

The COVID-19 shutdown had hit home.

“We emptied all the lines on what should have been the busiest day of the year and we didn’t know when we were coming

back,” said Lynch.

While Irish Times and other bars and restaurants were later able to open their doors to varying degrees in the ensuing months, “comeback day” officially arrived June 11, when the state entered Phase 5 of the governor’s Reopen Illinois plan.

“I’m absolutely thrilled to be back in action at last,” Lynch said in an interview last week. “It’s been 15 months of uncertainty and we finally have certainty about moving forward.”

What perhaps made the occasion real was the reappearance of barstools at the

Irish Times bar, which had been removed to ensure social distancing.

“The staff are really happy and the people have been very generous and appreciative of how their lives have been affected last year,” Lynch said.

One other aspect of the business that’s returned after a year’s absence is events.

So many milestones went unmarked, that Lynch said people are making up for that lost time. He’s hired a new events manager, who’s been kept very busy.

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For 75 years, it’s been all in the family Swan Cleaners in Brookfield celebrates business milestone

By BOB UPHUES

doesn’t move, we’ll clean it,’” Melanie said.

“She is a character. She tells it like it is.

We’re more than employees, we’re family.”

Phillips was also known for bringing in If you were scouting locations for a drycleaning business, the corner of 47th Street cakes she’d baked – for birthdays, or for no and DuBois Boulevard might not immedi- reason at all. Phillips essentially was part of ately come to mind. Situated across the street the Kosar family from the time Dennis Kofrom a limestone quarry on the Brookfield sar purchased the business from the origiside of an industrial corridor that runs from nal owners, Jerry Schefer and Eugene Nadar, in 1987, because the business First Avenue to Eberly Avenue, has been the place where the two it’s not what you’d call obvious. families have intersected since But, something must be right the 1940s. about that spot because on June 5, Back in 2018, Phillips told the Swan Cleaners at 9500 47th St. celLandmark that she began workebrated its 75th birthday, making ing at Swan Cleaners after her it surely one of the oldest if not marriage to Maurice Phillips, the oldest continually operating whose uncle owned the business. business in Brookfield.

The Kosar family lived nearby Greg and Melanie Kosar, the on Blanchan Avenue, and long brother-sister team who have before buying the dry cleaners, run the business since their faDennis Kosar worked at Swan ther Dennis Kosar’s death in Cleaners as a boy, as did Greg and 1994, marked the occasion with a Melanie’s uncle and their grandribbon cutting outside the front mother. door, surrounded by family and MELANIE KOSAR The family’s connection with well-wishers.

Swan Cleaners co-owner Phillips goes back almost to the The job of cutting the ribbon year the business opened in 1946. itself, however, was saved for “My grandmother took Mary to 95-year-old Mary Phillips, who get her driver’s license when she began working at Swan Cleaners as a teenager and would end up working there until turned of age,” Melanie said. “Mary has told she was 89 years old, when a hip fracture put me that.”

Dennis Kosar went on to get a college deher out of commission.

“She always said, ‘She’d rather work than gree and, according to Greg Kosar, worked for Aramark for many years. But in his 50s, Denclean the house,” said Greg Kosar.

According to Melanie Kosar, customers nis was thinking about a change.

“I’ll never forget, he calls me and says, would get a kick out of Phillips’ response to their bringing in an unusual item – a lamp- ‘Greg, I want to get out of corporate business,’ and he goes, ‘You know I used to work shade, a piece of furniture – to clean.

“She always used to say to customers, ‘If it at a cleaners and I actually really liked it.”

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“I get to see my brother every day, I got to see my dad every day.

That made it special for me.”

BOB UPHUES/Editor

FAMILY MATTERS: Greg Kosar (from left), his daughter Delaney Kosar and sister Melanie Kosar at Swan Cleaners on June 11. They’re standing in front of a photo of the original 1946 building, which has been altered over the past 75 years as the business grew.

Greg and Melanie, who were in their 20s at the time, might have been wondering what the attraction was, but their father was convinced and took the plunge.

“The thing that he liked was he interacted with people,” Greg said. “He just thought this was going to be a great fit from the customer service aspect and he met a lot of great people, and in fact we see a lot of their kids.”

About seven years into the new venture, however, Dennis Kosar died and his children were faced with the decision of carrying on running the business or getting out. They decided to stay.

“I liked working with my family,” said Melanie, whose own son worked at the cleaners before heading off to college and graduate school. “I get to see my brother every day, I got to see my dad every day. That made it special for me.”

Greg’s daughter, Delaney, also works at the business during the summer, keeping the family aspect of the business as important a

part as it was when it was founded.

While the pandemic did impact business – with people working from home there was less need for crisply pressed shirts and trousers or dry-cleaned skirts – you wouldn’t have known it late last week, with racks loaded with clothes hanging sheathed in plastic.

Swan Cleaners’ signature pickup and delivery service, which shifted from four days and week to just two during the pandemic, is still a draw for customers and was originally an important reason why longtime customer Skip Nemecek did business there.

But, it’s not the reason the LaGrange resident has remained a customer for two decades.

“I learned by coming in that I can actually have a little conversation and have that friendship,” said Nemecek, who popped in on the morning of June 11 to pick up some clothes. “I haven’t done home delivery probably for six, seven years. I enjoy my weekly meeting.”

Police still investigating June 9 Riverside carjacking Cops mum on whether two apprehended have been charged

By BOB UPHUES Editor

Nearly a week after a man had his vehicle hijacked at gunpoint at a Riverside gas station, Riverside Public Safety Director Matthew Buckley said the investigation remained active and provided no further details about the incident or about the two people police had in custody.

On the afternoon of June 9, Buckley confirmed via a press release that the incident unfolded at the 7-Eleven gas station at 2600

Harlem Ave. at about 12:08 a.m. that morning.

The victim, who was not harmed, told police that he was filling up his vehicle at one of the gas pumps when he was approached by two people, one of them armed with a handgun.

The offenders demanded the victim’s wallet, cellphone and vehicle. He complied and the vehicle drove off south on Harlem Avenue.

Police received the 911 call from the victim at 12:08 a.m.

The victim gave police descriptions of both his stolen vehicle and another vehicle that the offenders arrived in at the gas station. Police

broadcast that information and a Stickney police officer observed the two vehicles at Harlem Avenue and 46th Street in Lyons.

Police pursued both vehicles south on I-55.

The vehicle carjacked in Riverside was able to elude police, but the other vehicle crashed around 12:35 a.m. near the Bluff Road exit ramp on I-55 in Channahon, about 40 miles southwest of Riverside.

Two people ran from the crashed vehicle and both were captured a short time later and turned over to Riverside police. No one was injured in the crash, Channahon police reported.

The alleged offenders have not been identified and Buckley would not reveal whether either or both of the two people that police had in custody had been charged.

Numerous police agencies are involved in the investigation, said Buckley.

Among the agencies assisting in the pursuit of the vehicle and apprehension of the suspects were the Illinois State Police, Will County Sheriff ’s Office, Shorewood Police, Elwood Police, Manhattan Police and Grundy County Sheriff ’s Office, according to Channahon police.

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Queen Elizabeth bestows honor on Caledonia Senior Living leader

Gus Noble awarded Order of the British Empire for service to Scots culture in U.S.

By BOB UPHUES Editor

Gus Noble, president of the nonprofit charity Chicago Scots, which operates Caledonia Senior Living and Memory Care in North Riverside, has been recognized as an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II “for service to Scottish culture in the United States of America.”

The OBE, an order of chivalry established in 1917 by King George V to recognize the contributions of British men and women during World War I, is conferred twice a year – on New Year’s Day and on the queen’s birthday. Noble was recognized on the 2021 birthday list.

“It’s an incredible honor for me personally, but I hope everyone here involved with Chicago Scots and Caledonia Senior Living recognizes their role in the accomplishment,” said Noble in a phone interview with the Landmark on June 14. “They’ve given it to me because I have the accent and the kilt, but it’s made possible by everyone working together. There are a ton of people the award is really for.”

Born in Dundee, Scotland, Noble moved to Chicago after graduating from the University of Stirling in 1992. He worked for the British Consulate for seven years and then established the first international office of the Welsh Assembly Government, working there five years.

In 2004, Noble was named president of Chicago Scots and Caledonia Senior Living, which was at that time known as The Scottish Home. As president he’s overseen a capital campaign that resulted in the construction of a state-of-the-art memory care facility and guided the organization through a rebranding effort to help expand its reach.

The nonprofit is the oldest registered charity in Illinois and celebrates its 175th year in 2021.

Noble’s leadership through the COVID-19 crisis helped the institution stay virtually

BOB UPHUES/Editor

FAMILY TRADITION: Gus Noble, president of Caledonia Senior Living in North Riverside, is not the first one in his family to be recognized by Queen Elizabeth for service to Great Britain. In 2002, Noble’s father, Robert, was named a Member of the British Empire, or MBE, for his contributions to Scottish agriculture. free of the disease and has resulted in 100 percent of residents and 99 percent of staff being vaccinated. Last week, he announced the end of regular COVID-19 testing at Caledonia Senior Living as the institution looks to reconnect residents and their families.

“The lesson I’m learning is that we need to trust the vaccines. They are working,” Noble said. “They’re the gateway drug back to normality, literally.”

Noble said he’s been led to understand that his nomination for an OBE had been in the works for a couple of years but that he hadn’t known about it until he received a call from Alan Gogbashian, the British general counsel in Chicago about two months ago.

“Gus is a champion of Scottish culture across Chicago and the Midwest, and this honor reflects the high level of his decades of contributions,” Gogbashian said in a press release. “Additionally, Gus showed tremendous leadership and resolve at Caledonia Senior Living through the COVID-19 pandemic, where exceptional and effective measures were taken to protect residents

from the pandemic.”

Noble said the news he was to receive an OBE “flabbergasted” him. Noble’s father, Robert Noble, was named a Member of the British Empire (MBE) in 2002 for his service to Scottish agriculture by educating the public and mobilizing safety measures in the wake of the hoof-and-mouth crisis in Great Britain the year before.

Noble said he accompanied his father to Buckingham Palace for the grand ceremony, where Robert Noble received the award from Prince Charles. A photo of Noble and his parents outside the palace from that day hangs on the wall of his office at Caledonia Senior Living in North Riverside.

At some time in the future, Noble said he plans to take his wife and two young sons to the UK for his formal investiture, quite possibly at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the queen’s official residence in Edinburgh.

“As [the OBE] is for service to Scottish culture, it would be appropriate to do it at Edinburgh,” Noble said. “It’s a day I hope will be just as great for my family as it was for me at Buckingham Palace.”

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BIG WEEK June 16-23

Drive-thru Pet Parade

Kick off the North Riverside Public Library’s summer reading program at a Drive-Thru Pet Parade on Saturday, June 19 at 11 a.m.

Visit the library, 2400 Desplaines Ave. and drive through the parking lot with your pet or stuffed animal -even with your pet rock or chia pet.

Get a free goodie bag, notes from local animal partner, a photo op and an extra raffle ticket just by attending. While supplies last.

‘The Long Shadow’ virtual screening MOBA tour, part 2

Take another spin through the collection of the Museum of Bad Art, courtesy of Riverside and North Riverside libraries, during “Living in Tough Times: Having a Bad Day to Dystopian Apocalypse,” part two of a four-part Zoom series, on Wednesday, June 23 at 7 p.m.

Art has always helped get us through tough times, and in this presentation MOBA explores some of ways artists react to small and large, real and imagined, disasters.

Visit northriversidelibrary.org/events-new or riversidelibrary. org/events to register.

Get Growing! Expo at Brookfield Zoo

Interested in gardening but don’t know where to begin?

Then head to Brookfield Zoo, 8400 31st St. in Brookfield, during Father’s Day weekend, June 18-20 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and visit the special Get Growing! Expo.

The Expo features free seminars at noon, 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. exploring plants for pollinators, food gardening tips and tricks and fundamentals of container design with annuals.

The event also features make-and-take terrarium workshops at 1 and 3 p.m. and you can purchase items from a mobile plant boutique. Get Growing! Expo is free with regular zoo admission. For more visit czs.org/GetGrowingExpo.

And more The Riverside Farmers Market continues every Wednesday from 2:30 to 7 p.m. at Centennial Park, 10 Pine Ave., in downtown Riverside. The layout will remain the same as 2020, with an entrance and exit and one-way traffic along with social distancing. Face coverings are required for those who are not vaccinated and no pets are allowed.

The Brookfield Farmers Market continues every Saturday, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Brookfield Village Hall, 8820 Brookfield Ave. Face coverings are required and please practice social distancing. Enter and exit at Brookfield Ave. via the northeast corner of the market. No pets allowed. Park in front of or behind village hall or along Brookfield Ave. ■

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Join Brookfield Public Library and North Riverside Public Library for a free virtual screening of the documentary “The Long Shadow,” directed by Emmy Award winner Frances Causey, which explores the roots of racism and the legacy of slavery.

The documentary will be available to view June 21-28 with a special virtual Q&A with Causey on Thursday, June 24 at 7 p.m.

Call 708-485-6917, ext. 130 or visit brookfield.evanced.info/signup or northriversidelibrary.org/ events-new to register.

In preparation for celebrating the bicentennial of the birth of Riverside’s designer and “the father of American landscape architecture,” the Frederick Law Olmsted Society has partnered with botanical artist Shilin Hora, owner of The Seed, to prepare an Olmsted 200 Botanical Box, which will be given to the Riverside Public Library on Olmsted’s 200th birthday in 2022.

But they need your help and are inviting the public to contribute seeds for the box through a series of monthly “seed hunts,” the next of which will be held Sunday, June 20 at noon.

Meet at the reading circle outside Riverside Public Library, 1 Burling Road, and start off with a seed-themed

Registration is now open for the Riverside Friends of the Fourth 5K, which will take place on June 26. For 2021, the race replaces the Independence Day 5K and will start and end at Riverside’s historic water tower. Those registering after June 1 will get Tshirts after race day. Registration deadline is June 23.

You can register online at tinyurl.com/4y85mcxd.

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Riverside Arts Center, 32 E. Quincy St., presents “Restraint and Limitation” featuring the abstract work of artists Sarah Arrigada, Anna Buckner, Sharon Butler, Magalie Guerin, Elizabeth Powell, Elise Rugolo and Simon Tatum through June 26. Gallery hours are Thursday through Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Email to info@ riversideartscenter.com to schedule an appointment.

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North Riverside Public Library, 2400 Desplaines Ave., offers a number of virtual programs through ■

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Facebook Live (facebook.com/NRPL2400), conference calls and the teleconferencing app Zoom.

For adults, there’s Writer’s Group via Zoom on June 17 at 6 p.m. and Stretching and Meditation on June 21 at 6:30 p.m. via conference call (800-7475150, code 1453322).

For kids, there’s ABCs & 123s in the Parks (location will be emailed no later than Sunday) on June 21 at 10:30 a.m. and Story Safari in the Great Outdoors in the library’s outdoor space or via Zoom on June 22 at 10:30 a.m.

Register at northriversidelibrary.org/events-new for info and Zoom access.

Brookfield Public Library offers virtual classes and programs for patrons of all ages throughout the week. Most youth activities will be presented ■

story read by Nora Durbin, of the youth services department. Then nature guide Susan Lisle will lead families on a 45-minute botanical journey through Swan Pond Park.

Registration and other info can be found at olmstedsociety.org. live on the library’s Facebook page at facebook.com/ BrookfieldPublicLibrary.

For adults, there’s Chair Yoga on June 17 at 11 a.m. Kids can get outside for colorful stories and art projects at Kiwanis Park Pavilion, Arden and Brookfield avenues, during Art in the Park on June 19 at noon and Histories for Kids: The Underground Railroad via Zoom on June 19 at 3 p.m.

Call 708-485-6917, ext. 130 or visit brookfield. evanced.info/signup to register for programs.

Riverside Public Library, 1 Burling Road, invites kids and adults to Friday Outdoor Storytime on June 18 at 10 a.m. No registration required. Weather permitting. There’s also a Long-Term Care Options seminar via Zoom on June 17 at 7 p.m.

Visit riversidelibrary.libcal.com/calendar more info.

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P O L I C E

R E P O R T S

Man reportedly shot dead in North Riverside

North Riverside police say one “person of interest” was in custody as they continue to investigate an apparent homicide early on the morning of June 14 on the east end of the village.

Police responded to Hainsworth Avenue and 25th Street at 1:03 a.m. after receiving a report of a man lying in the middle of the street. According to police, the man was bleeding and had been shot multiple times.

The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the man as 26-year-old David Garcia of Downers Grove, who was pronounced dead at Loyola University Medical Center at 1:37 a.m.

Blood stains visible on the ground at the scene indicate the man was lying in the street near the stop sign at the southeast corner of the intersection. In a press release, police did not report whether or not the man was shot at that location, but it appears that the shooting probably happened elsewhere.

One resident who lives near the Hainsworth-25th Street intersection said he did not hear any gunshots and only realized something had happened when he woke up around 3 a.m. and noticed the flashing lights of police vehicles outside. He said none of his neighbors heard any gunshots.

However, a large number of police officers descended early Monday morning on the 2500 block of Westover Avenue, where blood stains remained visible in the alley north of 26th Street and west of Westover Avenue, and on the sidewalk and roadway leading south.

One resident of Westover Avenue said he woke up around 1:30 a.m. and observed a police squad car idling on Westover Avenue.

That vehicle sped off a short time later, but police returned, closed off Westover Avenue at 26th Street and forensic investigators arrived. The street was closed off for about five hours, the resident said, from about 2:30 to 7:30 a.m.

“The whole place was covered with cops,” the resident told the Landmark.

In their press release, police did not mention the police activity on Westover Avenue, stating only that the offender had fled, that the incident appeared to be an isolated event and that police had taken someone into custody later on June 14.

Burglary/attempted burglary ■A

resident of the 4400 block of Madison Avenue went to police on the morning of June 11 to report that a neighbor had witnessed someone trying to break into his garage around 2 a.m. that morning.

The witness told police that he saw the unknown man attempt to force open a window on the south side of his neighbor’s garage and then unsuccessfully attempt to force

open the garage’s service door. The man then got into the passenger side of a green Ford, which drove off. A license plate number for the vehicle given to police came back as registered to a blue Lexus.

■ Brookfield police responded to the area of Monroe and Maple avenues at about 12:50 a.m. on June 13 after someone called to report a burglary that had just occurred. A witness told police he was parking his vehicle in the alley when he noticed someone next to a large gray work van. When the witness got out of his vehicle, the man dropped several items and ran northbound on Maple and then east between two buildings.

No entry had been made into the van and the items dropped on the ground were proceeds from another burglary, police said.

That vehicle turned out to be an unlocked car parked in the 9200 block of Monroe Avenue.

Later that morning, a resident of the 3400 block of Maple Avenue contacted police to report that during the overnight hours someone had removed several tools from the back of his truck. He found them lying on the ground behind the truck, and no tools appeared to be missing.

Stopped for tinted windows, arrested for possessing stolen car The Cook County State’s Attorney charged a 21-year-old Chicago man with possession of a stolen motor vehicle after North Riverside police arrested him during a traffic stop in the 2400 block of Harlem Avenue on June 8 at about 6 p.m. that was initiated because the 2015 Jeep Cherokee he was driving had tinted windows and pending registration.

The police officer making the stop reported that the vehicle’s VIN number also appeared to have been tampered with and after further investigation learned that the Jeep had been stolen out of Kent, Washington. Police also reported finding three sets of license plates in the undercarriage of the Jeep near the spare tire as well as an empty Springfield Armory magazine.

The man told police he had borrowed the vehicle from a friend to go shopping at North Riverside Park Mall and didn’t know the vehicle was stolen.

These items were obtained from police reports filed by the Riverside, North Riverside and Brookfield police departments, June 7-13 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

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Village mulls registry for companies as well as hiring firm to do inspections, issue fines

By BOB UPHUES Editor

The village of North Riverside is aiming to comprehensively address rat infestations, not just in the village’s commercial districts but also in residential areas after an uptick in complaints in the past couple of years.

In May, Village Administrator Sue Scarpiniti outlined a program during a meeting of the village board’s development committee that would include creating a registry of extermination companies working within the village and hiring a third-party vendor to provide both pest control services in public areas and conduct random inspections to make sure privately hired exterminators are doing their jobs.

The program, whose details are still being worked out and could be considered by the full village board for approval either later this month or in July, would also allow the village’s third-party vendor to issue code violation tickets to exterminators for not meeting minimum standards. At worst an exterminator could have its business license pulled.

The new program would also include a public education campaign to urge residents to refrain from making residential areas attractive to rats by making food easily available.

“With abatement control, it’s a cooperative effort,” Scarpiniti said. “We need everybody

to work together for the common goal, otherwise we’re really competing against one another.”

The village can put out as many traps as they want in an area where there’s increased rat activity, Scarpiniti said, “but if we don’t have a buy-in from the residents that are actually attracting those animals into the area through the feeding, we’re just kind of going around and around, and we’re wasting dollars because it’s really not controlling the issue at hand.”

Scarpiniti proposed using a company called First Illinois Systems, which the village currently uses on a contract basis for targeted rat control. Scarpiniti said she had reached out to a number of companies about the program but that First Illinois Systems was the only one to respond with a qualified proposal.

First Illinois Systems also was a good fit for what the village wants to do, Scarpiniti added, because it already provides similar services elsewhere.

First Illinois Systems proposed charging the village $4,400 per quarter ($17,600 per year) to implement the program, which would include both commercial and residential areas of the village.

Some of that expense would be recouped by the village charging fees to register all exterminating companies working in North Riverside. Scarpiniti said there are 16 such companies working in the village right now, and she proposed charging a $250 fee to register those firms.

The village also might realize additional revenue from any fines imposed on those companies for not meeting minimum standards the village intends to set. North Riverside would classify types of business

– ranging from restaurants to multifamily residential properties – according to risk and set standards based on those factors.

“One of things we’ve noticed is that although the village does twice-a-year inspections of all restaurants, health inspections are more geared towards the inside of the restaurant,” Scarpiniti said. “They do very little review of property maintenance/code type of issues outside of the property -- refuse containers, grease trap areas that are maintained outside the scope of our health inspectors.”

The company the village ends up hiring to run the program would ensure through inspections “that businesses have a minimum pest control program in place and that their exterminators are actually doing the job they’re being hired to do,” Scarpiniti said.

The village would empower the thirdparty vendor to issue tickets for non-compliance, she added.

Chris Wasicki, an account technician from First Illinois Systems, told elected officials last month that pest control company reports he’s seen from the village’s community development department make it clear “there’s such inconsistencies … that it’s obvious the [rat control] job’s not getting done” in the village’s commercial district in particular.

“I believe that if I can get that commercial area there under control, it’ll create a nice buffer zone between Berwyn, which will then reduce pest pressure in the whole residential area, along with eliminating the wildlife feeding and other contributing factors,” Wasicki said. “It’s not going to take long for me to realize who’s doing their job and who’s not doing their job and who needs more pressure.”

No one hurt in Brookfield house fire Homeowner was not present when accidental blaze ignited

By BOB UPHUES Editor

A home at 4401 Vernon Ave. in Brookfield sustained extensive interior fire and smoke damage after a blaze ignited there at about 2:50 p.m. on June 8.

No one was injured and the homeowner was not present when the fire started, according to a police report about the incident. The homeowner reportedly arrived back home at about 5 p.m.

The police report stated fire investigators believed the fire was not suspicious in nature and that it likely started in the kitchen, was electrical in nature and possibly related to an extension cord into which several

items had been plugged. Earlier that day the homeowner had used a toaster oven to make some food, according to the police report, but the homeowner told investigators it was properly turned off after it was used.

The homeowner had left the residence at about 2:15 p.m., according to the police report, and emergency personnel had no way to contact the homeowner other than a telephone land line.

A 58-year-old Brookfield man who called 911 to report the fire told police he was walking his dog in Ehlert Park when he observed smoke coming from the windows on the north side of the residence, which sits on the southeast corner of Vernon and Congress Park avenues, across the street from

Ehlert Park.

Neighbor Marie LeGros said she learned of the fire after hearing fire engines roaring up to the scene. She said she went outside and saw smoke pouring out of a second-floor window on the north side of the home.

Because they couldn’t locate or contact the homeowner when they arrived, firefighters kicked in a door that led into the attached garage and then entered the house itself through the front door.

Vehicles from about a dozen other fire departments responded to the scene, and the fire was reported extinguished at about 3:54 p.m., but firefighters continued to search the home for any potential victim until the homeowner arrived on the scene.

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Fed money turns RBHS budget deficit into surplus D208 likely to pass 2021-22 budget that’s in the black

By BOB SKOLNIK Contributing Reporter

Last September when the Riverside-Brookfield High School District 208 Board of Education approved the final budget for the 2020-21 fiscal year, officials projected a budget deficit of $1.6 million.

But thanks to an influx of federal money, when the books close on the 2020-21 fiscal year in two weeks, Assistant Superintendent Kristin Smetana is expecting that RBHS will finish the year with a slight surplus.

“It’s hard to pick an exact amount, especially this year, but we received a lot of unexpected federal money as well as a couple of other sources of revenue,” Smetana said.

Two big federal COVID-relief packages passed last year resulted in RBHS receiving approximately $900,000 in federal aid this year. Nearly $790,000 of that was not accounted for in the budget approved last September.

RBHS also benefited from a federal food grant that was part of pandemic relief.

“We anticipated having to spend over $200,000 out of pocket for food service this year, and we ended participating in that federal program which reimbursed us for a lot of those expenses,” Smetana said.

Property tax collection went a little bet-

ter than expected which also improved the school’s financial picture. Last year Smetana projected that the district would only collect 97 percent of its property tax levy, down from the normal 99 percent, because of economic problems caused by the pandemic. But it turned out that RBHS has collected about 97.4 percent of its tax levy.

“We did hit that mark in our budget, and for a long time we didn’t think we would because that money slowly trickled in and didn’t follow the normal collection schedule,” Smetana said.

Smetana said RBHS also collected about $50,000 more than expected in interest income on investments handled by the Proviso Township Treasurer of Schools Office.

Smetana also expects that RBHS will also run a surplus next year. On June 8 the District 208 school board unanimously approved a tentative budget for the 2021-22 fiscal year that projects an operating deficit of $26,715.

But Smetana said that changes in the budget that will be made before the final budget is approved in September will turn that small deficit into a surplus.

“I fully anticipate having a surplus in next year’s budget once we start to finalize the budget in July and August,” Smetana said.

Right now, Smetana is again forecasting a 97 percent property tax collection rate but she will likely increase that projection once she sees exactly how much property tax revenue the district collected this year.

“We will change that in July or likely in August,” Smetana said. “We want to close out

this fiscal year completely before we make that decision.”

The 2021-22 budget is also being boosted by the third round of federal pandemic relief funding approved early this year. Under the ESSERS III program, RBHS expects to receive about $1 million in federal reimbursements for expenses over the next two years.

RBHS will use the federal money in a variety of ways to counter the impacts of more than a year of mostly remote learning. It will use $250,000 in federal money to hire four additional paraprofessionals for next year and $84,000 will be spent to add 1.4 full time teaching positions over what had been budgeted.

The move comes as a way to reduce class sizes, avoid crowded classrooms and promote social distancing.

The school will also use $161,660 in federal money to employ another psychologist to deal with learning loss and promote social and emotional health. Another $171,000 of federal money will be used to purchase Chromebooks, and $161,000 will be used to purchase educational software.

Some $40,000 in federal money will be used to hire additional building security to monitor students at lunchtime and at the start and end of the school day to ensure safe practices entering and exiting the building, while $60,000 will be spent on new wraparound social services for general education students.

The budget picture next year is also brighter because four veteran teachers and one counselor retired at the end of the 2020-21 school year. Smetana says the district typi-

Brook Park School to add social-emotional learning teacher Twice-weekly instruction aims to bolster student support

By BOB SKOLNIK Contributing Reporting

Next year, all students at Brook Park School in LaGrange Park, except for second-graders, will receive regular weekly instruction in what educators call social-emotional learning, or SEL. The Brookfield-LaGrange Park School District 95 Board of Education voted 6-0 on June 10 to establish a full-time teaching position solely dedicated to social-emotional learning.

The Chicago-based Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) defines social emotional learning as “the process by which all young people and adults acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective

goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions.”

Many school districts have beefed up their social-emotional learning instruction in recent years and are doing more next year with the expectation that some students will struggle in their return to school after having been away for regular school for more than a year “We know that things are going to look different [next year],” Mike Sorensen, Brook Park’s principal for grades 3-5, told the school board during a presentation that Sorensen, K-2 Principal Kelly King and Assistant Principal Jill Johnson made prior to the vote.

Many educators have been concerned about students’ mental health as a result of the pandemic. Students have missed social interactions and have gotten out of regular routines.

For some, the return to school, and the school routine, could pose challenges.

Superintendent Mark Kuzniewski said the new position is part of an overall effort to help students.

“SEL is not a reaction to the pandemic,”

Kuzniewski said. “This is just one more piece to give support to students.”

All Brook Park students, except secondgraders, will get 30 minutes of SEL instruction twice a week during the school year. Secondgraders were excluded because of scheduling issues.

The goals of the SEL curriculum include helping students develop more resiliency, to build self-regulation and mindfulness skills, and to help develop collaboration and problem-solving skills.

SEL will be just one of the so called “special” classes which also include art, music, STEAM and physical education.

Now that the new position has been approved, the district has to hire a teacher.

“We’ll find the right person fast,” Sorensen said, adding that he had a couple of in-house candidates in mind.

The new SEL teaching position is likely to be a long-term change, not just a reaction to the pandemic school year.

“This will be more than just one year,” Sorensen said.

cally saves about $70,000 each time a teacher retires and is replaced by a less experienced, and less expensive, new teacher.

The tentative budget projects total operating expenditures of $27,503,480 next year.

Overall expenditures are projected to increase by 2.85 percent in the upcoming fiscal year. The tentative budget is currently available for viewing by the public on the district’s website.

The school board is expected to approve the final budget for the 2021-22 fiscal year in September.

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Brookfield works toward vision for Ogden’s future Public provides feedback for Energize Ogden corridor study

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Toward the end of a roughly 90-minute presentation at the Brookfield Village Hall on June 10 regarding future real estate redevelopment and streetscape improvements along the Ogden Avenue corridor, an audience member asked a question that got to the heart of the matter.

“What kind of timeline are you predicting for completion of most of this?” the man asked the panel of three consultants leading the Ogden Avenue study, known as “Energize Ogden.”

There have been other studies of the Ogden Avenue corridor in the past and of the village generally, the most recent of which was a new comprehensive plan adopted by the village board in 2018, which supplanted the Brookfield Master Plan adopted in 2004, and which also called out for a closer look at Ogden Avenue and provided examples of how it could be redeveloped.

Despite those earlier efforts, the Ogden Avenue streetscape of today looks a lot like the Ogden Avenue streetscape many years ago, with a few exceptions.

Daniel Grove, a planner from the consulting firm Kimley-Horn who is leading the Ogden Avenue study, had a frank and possibly disappointing answer to the man’s question.

“I don’t think you’re ever going to reach completion,” Grove said. “The goal is to continue to make progress and to continue to try to steer towards a vision that’s supported by the community.”

As anyone who has been around Brookfield long enough can tell you, the community vision for Ogden Avenue isn’t necessarily uniform and it changes. Much of what might be possible also depends on property owners, what might motivate them to improve their properties or to either lead redevelopment efforts or sell them so others might assemble properties that make redevelopment attractive.

The Energize Ogden effort, begun earlier

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SEEING THINGS: Consultants hired by Brookfield to lead the Ogden Avenue corridor study presented concepts last week on how the village might seek to beautify the streetscape, showing side-by-side comparisons of how it actually looks (left) and how it might look with improved building facades and signage, landscaping and decorative street lighting. this year and expected to wrap up this fall, isn’t meant to be a blueprint for future development. Rather, Grove said, the goal is to provide the village with a “toolbox” to help them accomplish broad goals.

Some of those goals include eliminating some of the challenges which keep developers and visitors from seeing Ogden Avenue as anything more than a four-lane highway moving vehicles from Point A to Point B. Kimley-Horn has created a website for the Energize Ogden study, which can be found at energizeogden.wpengine.com.

An earlier public meeting, held virtually in March, drew around 20 people and established that the corridor featured a wealth of auto-related and service businesses, but that it was retail and restaurant businesses that people were most interested in seeing more of. In addition, they wanted more attractive building facades and landscaping and improved access to parking.

In order to make that more possible, the

consultants on June 10 highlighted some concepts, including creating more angled parking on streets immediately north and south of Ogden Avenue, consolidating driveways to provide more strategic access to properties and eliminate rolled curbs in order to make the corridor more pedestrian friendly.

Participants at the June 10 meeting especially favored eliminating rolled curbs, which allow vehicles to drive up and park on sidewalks, because there is no parking on Ogden Avenue itself.

They also favored the consultants’ concept to widen sidewalks and plant parkway trees, where possible, install decorative streetlights and have the village work with property owners whose buildings are set back from the property line to improve landscaping.

One concept that also drew favorable reactions from the 25 or so people who attended the June 10 session was strategic use of mu-

rals, for example at the western end of the Galloping Ghost Arcade, as a way to beautify the corridor.

They also preferred any new development to be mixed-use buildings that included interior parking areas that could be shared.

Village Manager Timothy Wiberg, who was present at the June 10 meeting, said it could take years for some aspects of the final corridor study to come to fruition and will be complicated by the fact that the Ogden Avenue right-of-way – which includes the sidewalks as well as the roadway – is under the jurisdiction of the Illinois Department of Transportation.

“The goal here is for this plan to be developed,” Wiberg said. “Once you have a plan, you can shop that around to federal and state officials and seeks grants for it. I think we have a pretty good chance of getting significant grant money once we have a plan and have identified this is the vision we want to accomplish.”

RBHS, D96 ink deal to share music teacher Matthew Loeb will stay at high school part time and instruct in grades 5-8

By BOB SKOLNIK Contributing Reporter

Matthew Loeb will teach orchestra next year at both Riverside-Brookfield High School and in Riverside Elementary School District 96 after both school boards unanimously approved an intergovernmental agreement for the unusual job-sharing position.

Loeb will teach half time at RBHS and have a 0.3 full time equivalent position in District 96 teaching beginning orchestra to fifth-graders and spending one morning a week teaching at L.J. Hauser Junior High School.

He just completed his first year teaching at RBHS and received rave reviews from teachers and parents. But this spring, despite protests from many orchestra students

and parents, his position at RBHS was reduced to half time due to reduced enrollment in music classes.

When District 96 Superintendent Martha Ryan-Toye read about the situation, she realized that District 96 needed a part-time orchestra teacher next year and reached out to District 208 Superintendent Kevin Skinkis to see if they could work out a job sharing agreement.

Loeb will teach for two hours in each morning in District 96 before heading over to RBHS to teach high school students in the afternoon. On Monday through Thursday Loeb will work will fifth-graders at the district’s elementary schools and on Friday mornings he will co-teach Hauser orchestra students with Andrea Ferguson.

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D96 to reimburse RBHS from page 8 “We’re really excited to have Matthew joining our music department,” said Angela Dolezal, the director of teaching and learning for District 96. “We are looking forward to him working with our incoming fifthgraders to this orchestra program and then the work he’ll do at the junior high with Andrea Ferguson.”

Dolezal said Loeb will be able to work with students from the time that they are learn-

Loeb’s colleagues in the music ing an instrument as fifth-graddepartment at RBHS are happy ers through their high school he’ll return for another year and years. get to teach future RBHS stu“We’re just excited about the dents. They had feared that Loeb possibilities that provides for would leave RBHS for a full-time us to be able to better align with teaching job elsewhere.

RB’s orchestra program, and “We’re all excited for what to work on continuing to build this will mean for the orchesthe orchestra program from our tra program in these districts,” fifth-graders through the high said RBHS music teacher James school,” Dolezal said.

MATTHEW LOEB Baum in an email.

Loeb will get his salary from District 96 is the only feeder RBHS, but District 96 will reimburse the high school for the equivalent of a 0.3 FTE district to RBHS that has an orchestra prosalary on the District 96 pay schedule plus gram.

In addition to teaching Loeb, a talented pian administrative fee of $6,008. Loeb will be anist, works as the associate music director classified as a RBHS employee.

at the Hinsdale United Methodist Church, where he directs the children’s music ministry, the worship band and serves as the church’s audiovisual specialist for worship services and event logistics.

Loeb also directs the United Methodist Church of Hinsdale Community Jazz Ensemble and is the piano collaborator for the Cantores Community Choir of Downers Grove.

Before coming to RBHS last year, he taught at Montini Catholic High School and performed as an onboard musician for Carnival Cruise Lines. Loeb has a master’s degree in music education from DePaul University and earned his undergraduate degree in music from Northern Illinois University.

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BACK AT THE BAR: C.C. Hargrove (left) talks with Nick DePalma while having a drink at the bar on June 14 at Irish Times in Brookfield. The barstools returned June 11 for the first time since March 16, 2020, the day before the governor shut down all bars and restaurants due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Restrictions phasing out from page 1 “There’s a huge demand for events, and we’re fortunate to see that coming back,” said Lynch. “We’re all geared up for that now.”

Brookfield, North Riverside to end states of emergency The Brookfield Village Board on June 14 extended its COVID-19 state of emergency, but President Michael Garvey and other trustees made it clear that would be the final extension of the order.

When the matter comes up for a vote again on June 28, the emergency order will end.

But with the village planning to close down Grand Boulevard for outdoor dining and a live entertainment June 25-27 as part of the COVID-19 emergency powers, officials want to make sure that goes ahead as planned. Garvey said he may issue other executive orders to continue the monthly summer outdoor dining street closure in the future.

The village of North Riverside’s emergency declaration will stay in place at least until the village’s board of trustees meets again on June 21. Mayor Joseph Mengoni indicated in a text message that the declaration is likely to get lifted, telling the Landmark, “We are working through the lawyers for the proper way of rescinding the order.”

While the village of Riverside never declared an official state of emergency, the village president and trustees did exercise certain powers during the pandemic, including expanding outdoor dining for restaurants in the public right of way.

Village President Joseph Ballerine, meanwhile, announced that the Friends of the

Fourth will host Riverside’s annual Concert in the Park, held the night before the Independence Day parade. It will take place this year on July 2 from 6 to 10 p.m. in Guthrie Park.

The event, which usually draws hundreds, many of whom begin staking territorial claims in the park early that day, will feature a pair of bands, food courtesy of local restaurants and a beer truck.

Anyone under 12 or not vaccinated will be asked to wear a face covering at the event.

In addition, Riverside Recreation Director Ron Malchiodi confirmed that with Illinois moving to Phase 5, the parade on July 3 will follow its traditional route, starting at Delaplaine and Longcommon roads and heading south across the tracks to the Riverside Township Hall.

Zoo ends timed ticketing You might not have known it by the foot traffic at Brookfield Zoo, but June 11 marked the park’s first “normal” weekend in more than a year. After enduring complete shutdown last spring for three months and a self-imposed two-month hiatus to open 2021, Brookfield Zoo welcomed back visitors last Friday without requiring them to first reserve a time.

According to Sondra Katzen, the zoo’s director of public relations, nearly 22,000 people visited Brookfield Zoo on June 11 and June 12, a number that was actually a bit lower than what the zoo had been seeing with the timed ticketing in place, though temperatures around 90 with high humidity and then a soaking thunderstorm on Saturday didn’t help.

Hand-sanitizing stations and non-functional water fountains were other reminders that the pandemic hasn’t completely disappeared, but some restaurants and many of the zoo’s indoor exhibits are once again open to visitors, though face coverings are still required indoors.

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Movie audiences building Also for the first time in more than a year, the movie theaters at the North Riverside Park Mall are again operating at full capacity, though patrons haven’t rushed back into the seats since the North Riverside Luxury 6 reopened with restrictions on April 15.

“We were at 10 percent capacity when we reopened, but it keeps building,” said Chris Johnson, CEO of Classic Cinemas, which operates the mall’s movie theaters. “You can’t expect everyone to run out instantly.”

The movies being released to theaters from the production studios had been targeted to young males, Johnson said, since they were determined to be the most adventurous when it came to visiting places like movie theaters when pandemic restrictions were in place.

But that began to change last week, with the release of the musical “In the Heights” and the animated film “Peter Rabbit 2,” which appeal to wider audiences. “’In the Heights’ is certainly bringing in a new demographic,” said Johnson, who said that, overall, business is about half of what the theaters did in 2019. “And the velocity of new releases is increasing, and that’s everything to us.”

Asked if the theater’s debut of “In the Heights” had been timed to coincide with Illinois’ reopening date, Johnson said it was just the luck of the draw.

“I’ve had about 100 different plans during the past year, and they’ve all gone south,” Johnson said. “With ‘In the Heights,’ it’s just dumb luck.”

Masks begin their slow fade One of the more visually jarring aspects of the reopening began seeping into daily life in early June when the CDC updated its guidelines on wearing face coverings. Fully vaccinated people, according to the CDC, generally are free to go maskless though individual institutions and businesses can impose their own rules.

Employees and many customers at Binny’s Beverage Depot were without masks on June 11 for the first time since the business was allowed to reopen last summer. A sign posted on the front door stated that vaccinated customers were free to forego wearing masks.

Mask-optional day came for employees at Riverside Foods on June 11 as well, although customers have had the option for a bit longer, said co-owner Peter Boutsikakis.

“We’re not enforcing masks for anyone who’s vaccinated,” Boutsikakis said, adding that some people still opt to do so as a nod to employees.

If you’re visiting the Riverside and North Riverside public libraries, however, you’re still required to wear a face covering while inside, according to the directors of those institutions.

In a message announcing the start of Phase 5, the Riverside Public Library issued this statement: “It is the position of the board of trustees that since the library serves children under 12 and other vulnerable populations, and these patrons are not eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations, mask usage will be required in the Riverside Public Library until further notice.”

The ongoing renovation of the Riverside Public Library’s lower level still has that portion of the building closed, but June 11 meant the return of study carrels and tables, along with limited seating.

Computer time limits expanded to two hours per session and the library again has hard copies of newspapers and magazines back for in-house browsing.

The lower level of the North Riverside Public Library, which houses youth services, remains closed as a couple of renovation projects wrap up, said Director Natalie Starosta, but the library reopened for browsing without appointments on June 2. Seating remains limited to encourage shorter visits.

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of a rising second-grader and eighth-grader. While the eighth-grader won’t get the chance to experience the finished school, Santos has another child who will only ever know the new-and-improved Komarek when he turns 3 and heads into pre-K. “The new technology will be good – and the A/C,” Santos said.

For kids and their parents, the prospect of a fully air-conditioned school is one of the most attractive aspects of what’s coming.

“The first couple of months for them, August and September, are so hot,” Santos said. “They come home and they’re so tired, so it’s going to be good for them just be able to learn. You can’t really learn when you’re dripping sweat and hot.”

Sayali Seshadri, the mother of twin second-graders, agreed that the air-conditioning and overall better air quality will be a major improvement. But, she also referenced the state of the school’s old buildings.

The oldest building was a two-room schoolhouse built in 1936. Six additions built between 1946 and 1970 brought the campus to its present look.

“A new building means you don’t have to worry about small things, like something falling down one day,” Seshadri said.

BOB UPHUES/Editor

DIGGING IN: Komarek School District 94 Superintendent Todd Fitzgerald (center), flanked by co-principals Caitlin DiLallo (left) and Diane Michelini, turns over a spade of earth during the groundbreaking ceremony for the school’s renovation and expansion on June 8.

Several different groups of people had a chance to don hard hats and grab a shovel to turn over spadesful of earth spread out on the pavement of 13th Avenue, which in time will be vacated by the village and become enclosed outdoor campus space.

But the trio awarded the honor of digging their shovels into the earth first were Melissa Obrock, Christian Rodriguez and Alan Myers, who had founded Citizens for

District 94, which campaigned door-to-door for both referendums and who sat on the steering committee tasked with building the broad support that made the difference in 2020.

“We wanted to say thank you to everyone in our community whose hard work and belief in this project brought us to where we are now,” said Obrock, who was elected to the Komarek District 94 school board in

April and will see the project completed during her term in office, during remarks before the ceremonial groundbreaking.

“For everyone who voted to pass this and make the financial part happen, thank you as well,” she added.

Obrock also announced that a time capsule would be sealed inside the cornerstone of the new addition to the school. While the school will be taking additional suggestions for a short time, the stainless-steel cylinder will contain photos of the groundbreaking, newspaper articles about the referendum and construction planning, a 2020-21 yearbook, notes from families and students and – indispensably for 2020-21 -- a Komarek school face mask, among other items.

Komarek District 94 Superintendent Todd Fitzgerald, hired just after the successful referendum in 2020, singled out the steering committee for their efforts but acknowledged the wider support and participation in the planning process.

“Whether it was providing feedback and ideas to the builder and architects, communicating the needs of our school district to the North Riverside and Broadview communities, or garnering support for the passage of the building referendum in March of 2020, this project would not be possible without all of those people,” Fitzgerald said.

Fitzgerald also had some good news to announce to those gathered.

“I’m happy to report that after one day of construction, we are on schedule and under budget.”

LEGAL NOTICE VILLAGE Of RIVERSIDE ANNUAL DRINKING WATER QUALITY REPORT FOR CALENDAR YEAR 2020

Riverside (IL #0312670) 2020 Regulated Contaminants Detected

The Village of Riverside is committed to providing the highest quality drinking water to our residents and businesses. Our water is frequently sampled according to strict Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations. This report will inform you about the source, quality, and safety of our drinking water. The report will not be mailed, but will be published in the June 16, 2021 edition of the Landmark Newspaper.

Copper and Lead C ollection Date: 2020 D efinitions: Action Level (AL): The concentration of a contaminant which, if exceeded, triggers treatment or other requirements which a water system must follow.

Action Level Goal (ALG): The level of a contaminant in drinking water below which there is no known or expected risk to health. ALG's allow for a margin of safety.

WATER SOURCE Lake Michigan is the sole source of drinking water for Chicagoans and 118 suburban communities. The water is treated at the Jardine Water Purification Plant and at the South Water Purification Plant located on the lakefront of Lake Michigan in Chicago. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found that the quality of Lake Michigan water has improved dramatically over the past thirty years. The Village of Riverside purchases surface water from the Village of McCook, which in turn purchases surface water from the City of Chicago.

WATER QUALITY CONTROL & TESTING The City of Chicago water treatment facility controls the quality of water supplied to the Village of McCook and the Village of Riverside. Chicago adds chemicals to the water for disinfection purposes, to settle out impurities, and to prevent lead leaching. The City also adds carbon to remove odors and adds fluoride for teeth. The Village of Riverside monitors and adjusts chlorine to maintain safe drinking water on a daily basis. The Village also samples the water for various requirements mandated by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency on a monthly basis.

VIOLATIONS The Village of Riverside is proud to have met or exceeded all federal and state standards for drinking water for the calendar year 2020.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION If you should have any questions regarding the attached report or the quality of water in the Village of Riverside, please do not hesitate to contact Public Works Superintendent Joe Coons at the Village of Riverside (708) 442-3590, or call the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) Safe Drinking Water Hotline at (800) 426-4791. Residents are encouraged to voice concerns, ask questions, and participate in decisions that may affect the quality of the water, etc. at the Village Board meetings held on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month at 7:00pm at the Riverside Village Hall. The Village of Riverside has available upon request this year’s Consumer Confidence Report (CCR). The CCR includes basic information on the source(s) of your drinking water, the levels of any contaminants that were detected in the water during 2020, and compliance with other drinking water rules, as well as some educational materials. To obtain a free copy of the report, please call 708-442-3590, or you may pick the report up at Village Hall, 27 Riverside Road, Riverside, IL or Public Works, 3860 Columbus Blvd., Riverside, IL. DEFINITION OF TERMS/TABLE FOOTNOTES • MCLG – Maximum Contaminant Level Goal – The level of a contaminant in drinking water below which there is no known or expected risk to health.

• MCL – Maximum Contaminant Level – The highest level of a contaminant that is allowed in drinking water. MCL is set as close to the MCL Goals as is feasible using the best available treatment technology.

• TT – Treatment Technique – A required process intended to reduce the level of a contaminant in drinking water. continued on next page

Copper MCLG

1.3 ppm

Copper Action Level (AL)

Copper 90th Percentile

# Sites Over Copper AL

Lead MCLG

Lead Action Level (AL)

Lead 90th Percentile

# Sites Over Lead AL

Violation

Likely Source Of Contamination

1.3 ppm

0.13 ppm

0

0

15 ppb

5.7 ppb

1

No

Corrosion of household plumbing systems; Erosion of natural deposits

If present, elevated levels of lead can cause serious health problems, especially for pregnant women and young children. Lead in drinking water is primarily from materials and components associated with service lines and home plumbing. The Village of Riverside is responsible for providing quality drinking water, but cannot control the variety of materials used in plumbing components. When your water has been sitting for several hours, you can minimize the potential for lead exposure by flushing your tap for 30 seconds to 2 minutes before using water for drinking or cooking. If you are concerned about lead in your water, you may wish to have your water tested. Information on lead in drinking water, testing methods, and steps you can take to minimize exposure is available from the Safe Drinking Water Hotline at (800) 426-4791 or at http://www.epa.gov/safewater/lead.

Water Quality Test Results Definitions: The following tables contain scientific terms and measures, some of which may require explanation. Regulatory compliance with some MCLs are based on running annual average of monthly samples. Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL): The highest level of a contaminant that is allowed in drinking water. MCLs are set as close to the Maximum Contaminant Level Goal as feasible using the best available treatment technology. Maximum Contaminant Level Goal (MCLG): The level of a contaminant in drinking water below which there is no known or expected risk to health.

MCLGs allow for a margin of safety. mg/l: milligrams per litre or parts per million - or one ounce in 7,350 gallons of water. ug/l: micrograms per litre or parts per billion - or one ounce in 7,350,000 gallons of water. na: not applicable. Avg: Regulatory compliance with some MCLs is based on running annual average of monthly samples .Maximum Residual Disinfectant Level (MRDL): The highest level of disinfectant allowed in drinking water. Maximum Residual Disinfectant Level Goal (MRDLG): The level of disinfectant in drinking water below which there is no known or expected risk to health. MRDLGs allow for a margin of safety.

Regulated Contaminants Disinfectants & Disinfection ByProducts

Collection Date

Highest Level Detected

Range of Levels Detected

MCLG

MCL

Units

Violation

Likely Source Of Contaminant

Chlorine

2020

1

1 --1.3

MRDLG=4

MRDL=4

ppm

No

Water additive used to control microbes

Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)

2020

18

9.87 - 29.7

No goal for the total

60

ppb

No

By-product of drinking water disinfection

TTHMs [Total Trihalomethanes]

2020

46

18.22 – 64.3

No goal for the total

80

ppb

No

By-product of drinking water disinfection

Note: The state requires monitoring of certain contaminants less than once per year because the concentrations of these contaminants do not change frequently. Therefore, some of this data may be more than one year old. Not all sample results may have been used for calculating the Highest Level Detected because some results may be part of an evaluation to determine where compliance sampling should occur in the future.

The Village of Riverside had no violations in 2020.

The Landmark, June 16, 2021

LEGAL NOTICE

Chicago (#IL0316000) 2020 Regulated Contaminants Detected

continued from previous page • Level Found – Represents an average of sample result data collected during the calendar year.

• Range of Detection – Represents a range of individual sample results from lowest to highest in a calendar year

• Sodium – There is no state or federal MCL for sodium. Monitoring is required to provide information to consumers and health officials concerned about sodium intake due to dietary precautions. If the level were greater than 20mg/L, people on a sodium-restricted diet should consult a physician.

• Fluoride – Fluoride is added to the water supply to help promote strong teeth. The Illinois Department of Health recommends an optimal fluoride range of 0.9 mg/l to 1.2mg/l.

• %<0.5 NTU – Percent samples less than 0.5 NTU

Coliform Bacteria Maximum Contaminant Level Goal

Total Coliform Maximum Contaminant Level

Highest No. of Fecal Coliform or E. Coli Maximum Positive Contaminant Level

0

5% of monthly samples are positive

0.2

Total No. of Positive E. Coli or Violation Fecal Coliform Samples

0

No

Lead and Copper Date Sampled: 9/19/2108 Definition: Action Level (AL) The concentration of a contaminant which, if exceeded, triggers treatment or other requirements which a

• Turbidity – A measure of the cloudiness of water. Turbidity is monitored because it is a good indicator of water quality and the effectiveness of the treatment process.

• Unregulated Contamination – A maximum contaminant level (MCL) for this contaminant has not been established by either the state or federal regulations, nor has mandatory health effects language. The purpose for monitoring this contaminant is to assist USEPA in determining the occurrence of unregulated contaminants in drinking water, and whether future regulation is warranted.

• n/a – not applicable • nd – not detected

• % pos/mo – Percentage of positive samples per month.

• NTU – Nephhelometric Turbidity Units

Drinking water, including bottled water, may reasonably be expected to contain at least small amounts of some contamination. The presence of contaminants does not necessarily indicate that water poses a health risk. Because water is the universal solvent, many materials are easily dissolved upon contact. At low levels, the contaminants generally are not harmful in our drinking water. Removing all contaminants would be extremely expensive, and in nearly all cases, would not provide greater protection of health. If a resident is concerned, a suggestion is to run tap water for 30 seconds. More information about contaminants and their potential health effects can be obtained by calling the EPA’s Safe Drinking Water Hotline (800) 426-4791. Some people may be more vulnerable to contaminants in the drinking water than the general population. Immune compromised persons such as persons with cancer and/or undergoing chemotherapy, organ transplant recipients, people with HIV/AIDS or other immune system disorders, some elderly people, and infants can be particularly at risk from infections. These people should seek advice about drinking water from their health care providers. EPA/CDC guidelines on appropriate means to lessen the risk of infection by cryptosporidium and other microbial contaminants are available from the EPA’s Safe Drinking Water Hotline (800) 426-4791.

The sources of drinking water (both tap and bottled water) include rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, reservoirs, springs, and wells. As water travels over the surface of the land or through the ground, it can dissolve naturally occurring minerals, and pick up substances resulting from the presence of animals or human activity. Possible contaminants consist of Microbial contaminants, such as viruses and bacteria, which may come from sewage treatment plants, septic systems, agricultural livestock operations and wildlife; Inorganic contaminants, such as salts and metals, which may be naturally occurring or the result from urban storm water runoff, industrial or domestic wastewater discharges, oil and gas production, mining or farming, Pesticides and herbicides, which may come from a variety of sources such as agriculture, urban storm water runoff and residential uses, Organic chemical contaminants, including synthetic and volatile organic chemicals, which are byproducts of industrial processes and petroleum production, and may also come from gas stations, urban storm water runoff and specific Radioactive contaminants, which may be naturally occurring or be the result of oil and gas production and mining activities. In order to ensure that tap water is safe to drink, USEPA prescribes regulations that limit the amount of certain contaminants in water provided by public water systems. FDA regulations establish limits for contaminants in bottled water, which must provide the same protection for public health.

We want our valued customers to be informed about their water quality. If you would like to learn more, please feel free to attend any one of our regularly scheduled Village Board meetings. The source water assessment has been completed by the Illinois EPA. If you would like a copy of this information, please stop by the Village Hall or call the Village’s Water Superintendent, Joe Coons, Public Works Department at 708-442-3590. To view a summary version of the completed Water Source Assessments, including: Importance of Source Water; Susceptibility to Contamination Determination; and documentation/ recommendation of Source Water Protection Efforts, you may access the Illinois EPA website at http://www.epa.state.il.us/cgi-bin/wp/swap-fact-sheets.pl.

The Illinois EPA considers all surface water sources of community water supply to be susceptible to potential pollution problems. They very nature of surface water allows contaminants to migrate into the intake with no protection only dilution. This is the reason for mandatory treatment for all surface water supplies in Illinois. Chicago’s offshore intakes are located at a distance that shoreline impacts are not usually considered a factor on water quality. At certain times of the year, however, the potential for contamination exists due to wet-weather flows and river reversals. In addition, the placement of the crib structures may serve to attract waterfowl, gulls and terns that frequent the Great Lakes area thereby concentrating fecal deposits at the intake and thus compromising the source water quality.

Conversely, the shore intakes are highly susceptible to storm water runoff, marinas and shoreline point sources due to the influx of groundwater to the lake.

Naturally present in the environment.

water system must follow. Action Level Goal (ALG) The level of a contaminant in drinking water below which there is no known or expected risk to health. ALGs allow for a margin of safety.

Lead MCLG

Lead Action Level (AL)

Lead 90th Percentile

0

15 ppb

9.1 ppb

# Sites Over Copper Action Copper MCLG Lead AL Level (AL)

Copper 90th Percentile

# Sites Over Copper AL

0.091 ppm

0

Likely Source of Contamination

Violation

• ppb – Parts per billion or micrograms per liter

• Lead – Infants and young children are typically more vulnerable to lead in drinking water than the general population. It is possible that lead levels at your home may be higher than other homes in the community as a result of materials used in your home’s plumbing. If you are concerned about elevated levels in your home’s water, you may wish to have your water tested and flush your tap for 30 seconds to 2 minutes before using tap water. Additionalinformation is available from the Safe Drinking Water Hotline (800-426-4791).

Likely Source Of Contamination

• ppm – Parts per million or milligrams per liter

• AL – Action Level – The concentration of a contaminant which, whenexceeded, triggers treatment or other requirements which a water system must follow.

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3

1.3 ppm

1.3 ppm

Corrosion of household plumbing systems; Erosion of natural

No

deposits; Leaching from wood preservatives.

Regulated Contaminants Disinfectants and Disinfection By-Products

Collection Date

Highest Level Detected

Range of Levels Detected

MCLG

MCL

Units

Violation

Chlorine

12-31-2020

1

1-1

MRDLG=4

MRDL=4

ppm

No

Water additive used to control microbes.

Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)*

2020

12

6.8 – 17.6

No goal for the total

60

ppb

No

By-product of drinking water chlorination.

Total Trihalomethanes (TThm)*

2020

29

15-40

No goal for the total

80

ppb

No

By-product of drinking water chlorination.

Likely Source Of Contaminant

Not all sample results may have been used for calculating the Highest Level Detected because some results may be part of an evaluation to determine where compliance sampling should occur in the future.

Regulated Contaminants

Collection Date

Highest Level Detected

Range of Levels Detected

MCLG

MCL

Units

Violation

Likely Source Of Contaminant

Barium

2020

0.0201

0.0198 - 0.0201

2

2

ppm

No

Discharge of drilling wastes; Discharges from metal refineries; Erosion of natural deposits.

Fluoride

2020

0.7

0.69 - 0.72

4

4.0

ppm

No

Water additive which promotes strong teeth.

Nitrate [measured as Nitrogen]

2020

0.42

0.35 - 0.42

10

10

ppm

No

Sodium

2020

10

8.73 – 9.55

n/a

n/a

ppm

No

MCL

Units

Violation

Inorganic Contaminants

Runoff from fertilizer use; Leaching from septic tanks, sewage; Erosion of natural deposits.

Erosion from naturally occurring deposits; used as water softener regeneration.

Radioactive Contaminants

Collection Date

Highest Level Detected

Range of Levels Detected

MCLG

2020

0.95

0.83 - 0.95

0

5

pCi/L

No

Erosion of natural and man-made deposits.

2020

3.1

2.8 – 3.1

0

15

pCi/L

No

Erosion of natural and man-made deposits.

Combined Radium 226/228

Gross alpha excluding radon and uranium

Likely Source Of Contaminant

Turbidity

Limit (Treatment Technique)

Level Detected

Violation

Highest Single Measurement

1 NTU

0.16 NTU

No

Soil Runoff.

Likely Source Of Contaminant

Lowest monthly % meeting limit

0.3 NTU

100%

No

Soil Runoff.

Turbidity is a measurement of the cloudiness of the water caused by suspended particles. We monitor it because it is a good indicator of water quality and the effectiveness of our filtration system and disinfectants.

Total Organic Carbon

The percentage of Total Organic Carbon (TOC) removal was measured each month and the system met all TOC removal requirements set by the IEPA. Illinois EPA considers all surface water sources of community water supply to be susceptible to potential pollution problems. The very nature of surface water allows contaminants to migrate into the intake with no protection, only dilution. This is the reason for mandatory treatment for all surface water supplies in Illinois. Chicago’s offshore intakes are located at a distance that shoreline impacts are not usually considered a factor on water quality. At certain times of the year, however, the potential for contamination exists due to wet-weather flows and river reversals. In addition, the placement of the crib structures may serve to attract waterfowl, gulls and terns that frequent the Great lakes area, thereby concentrating fecal deposits at the intake and thus compromising the source water quality. Conversely, the shore intakes are highly susceptible to storm water runoff, marinas and shoreline point sources due to the influx of groundwater to the lake.

2020 VOLUNTARY MONITORING

The City of Chicago has continued monitoring for Cryptosporidium, Giardia and E. coli in its source water as part of its water quality program. To date, Cryptosporidium has not been detected in these samples, but Giardia was detected in 2010 in one raw lake water sample collected in September 2010.

Treatment processes have been optimized to provide effective barriers for removal of Cryptosporidium oocysts and Giardia cysts in the source water, effectively removing these organisms in the treatment process. By maintaining low turbidity through the removal of particles from the water, the possibility of Cryptosporidium and Giardia organisms getting into the drinking water system is greatly reduced. In 2020, CDWM has also continued monitoring for hexavalent chromium, also known as chromium-6. USEPA has not yet established a standard for chromium-6, a contaminant of concern which has both natural and industrial sources. Please address any questions or concerns to DWM’s Water Quality Division at 312-742-7499. Data reports on the monitoring program for chromium-6 are posted on the City’s website which can be accessed at: http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/water/supp_info/waterquality_resultsandreports/city_of_chicago_emergincontaminantstudy.html

Chicago Violations Table

Consumer Confidence Rule: The Consumer Confidence Rule requires community water systems to prepare and provide to their customers annual consumer confidence reports on the quality of the water delivered by the systems.

Violation Type Violation Begin Violation End Violation Explanation We failed to provide to you, our drinking water customers, an annual report that informs you CCR Report 7/1/2020 7/6/2020

about the quality of our drinking water and characterizes the risks from exposure to contaminants detected in our water system.

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The Landmark, June 16, 2021

THE LANDMARK VIEW

Phase 5 arrives

J

une 11 was the day for which we’ve all been waiting for 15 months. With Illinois moving to Phase 5 – full reopening – many of the restrictions we’ve been living under since mid-March of 2020 fell away.

It’s strange, you live so long with things like wearing face coverings in all non-home indoor settings, making sure you’re six feet away from people around you, when you’re free of the restrictions it feels kind of weird.

The first time you shook hands with someone, did you hesitate? If not, the thought likely went through your mind, ‘Hey, look, I’m shaking hands!” The first time you walked into a store and both customers and employees were walking around with nothing covering their faces, what went through your mind?

These are the baby steps to normal, and we have begun that journey thanks to many, many people -- from the scientists who worked overtime to create vaccines to local, county and state health officials who had to make tough decisions to ensure the pandemic didn’t do more damage than it might have, to local elected leaders who had to impose unpopular restrictions that canceled public celebrations and closed public buildings, to recreation and library staffs that made sure our lives remained enriched, to restaurant and grocery store owners and staff who turned their lives upside down to change the way they sustained us and themselves, and to educators who reinvented the way they delivered instruction, on the fly.

And, yes, we also get to thank ourselves for enduring a remarkable year, full of uncertainty and doubt, and for the most part keeping our eye on the ball when it came to limiting the impact of COVID-19 on our families and those around us.

This summer, we’ll be gathering for parades and for concerts and movies in the park. It’ll be interesting after a year of those things being absent from our lives to experience them having gone through the past year.

Of course, the pandemic lingers as the number of people being vaccinated slows. As we head through summer – weekly COVID-19 cases last week, five in Brookfield and one each in North Riverside and Riverside, returned to a low level we haven’t seen since this time last year – we can only hope we don’t see the kind of spike in cases that we saw beginning late last summer.

As weird as it might feel to get back to normal, it would feel much weirder, and quite frankly depressing, to have to re-impose restrictions now that Phase 5 has become reality.

It’s still up to us to make sure we continue to enjoy “normal.”

Opinion KOSEY CORNER

Buy a T-shirt, help some great causes

T

his summer you can fill your wardrobe to a T. Local groups are helping to get you limited edition T-shirts of a Riverside nature that will not only have you recognized by your good taste in fashion as a supporter of some great local organizations.

Caledonia Senior Living and Memory Care -- or as you may still call it, the Scottish Home -- at 2800 Desplaines Ave. in North Riverside, is selling T-shirts to honor Scottish heritage with a different “hero” remembered on a shirt each month.

This month the Scottish honoree is Jim Clark, winner of the Indianapolis 500 in 1965. There are also two children’s shirts, featuring the Loch Ness monster and a unicorn. Proceeds will go to support people who live and work at Caledonia. Information can be found at chicagoscots.itemorder.com/sale.

You can be a Friend of the Fourth in Riverside by purchasing a limited edition T-shirt, which will help fund the July 2 concert in Guthrie Park, which is put on completely through private donations. This year’s striking dragon fly-inspired shirt design was created by Riverside resident Pat Cornolo of Speakeasy Custom Tattoo in Wicker Park.

You can go on line to see the design and/or order on at

friends-of-the-fourth-july-2-2021.cheddar up.com.

Stand out in the crowd and show your support for Friends of the Fourth with the purchase of a shirt.

Hey runners, this year the 5K race will be held on June 26 and you can get a T-shirt by signing up and participating. This year the race is being called the Friends of the Fourth 5K and you guessed it, proceeds will benefit the Friends of the Fourth concert. Visit riverside.il.us/185/Friendsof-the-Fourth-5K to sign up and lace up those running shoes.

Kayakers ready? The annual Scuff Gross Regatta is planned for June 27, and this year an original T-shirts will be available. The design is the work of two students from Riverside-Brookfield High School. Proceeds will go to the Riverside Township Lions Club. Visit the Riverside Township Lions Club District 1A page on Facebook for information.

Most organizations’ fundraising efforts were affected by COVID-19, so they are looking to other ways to raise money.

Wouldn’t it be nice to show your philanthropic side while wearing one or all of the above T-shirts? Show that you not only have heart but you have style, as we try to get back where we were over a year ago.

JOANNE KOSEY

LETTERS

OBITUARIES

Insist on not appealing D204 lawsuit ruling

Arlene M. Hess, 92

The League of Women Voters of the LaGrange Area urges the Lyons Township School Treasurer’s Office (LTTO) trustees to accept the recent decision in their eight-year lawsuit with Lyons Township High School District 204 and not appeal.

Lyons Township High School District 204 has said it would not appeal.

No more taxpayer dollars should be spent in this dispute. Over $4 million dollars have been spent in legal fees.

Residents should be contacting both their local school board and the LTTO trustees, who are elected, to insist that education tax dollars not be wasted in an appeal. Please refer to your local school board’s website for the board’s contact information.

The contact emails for Lyons Township School Treasurer’s Office trustees can be found at lyonstto.net/services.html Taxpayers need to understand that the legal fees paid by the Lyons Township School Treasurer

Office have come out of our local school district funds. The LTTO is a separate entity from the school administration and provides financial services to those districts, and the school districts pay the LTTO’s expenses, including litigation. The LTTO sued Lyons Township High School District 204 because of a dispute about the costs of the services.

It is estimated that the LTTO has spent $4 million in the lawsuit. This was paid by Western Springs 101, LaGrange 102, Lyons 103, Summit 104, LaGrange 105, Highlands 106, Pleasantdale 107, Willow Springs 108, Indian Springs 109 and Argo HS 217 school districts. The school boards of these districts are responsible for managing our tax dollars. They should be insisting that the LTTO does not appeal this decision.

Ann Lee and Laurie Braun, co-presidents

League of Women Voters of the LaGrange Area

Retired legal secretary Arlene M. Hess (nee Zimmerman), 92, of Stickney and formerly of Brookfield, died June 7, 2021.

Ms. Hess was a retired legal secretary for the Cook County Appellate ARLENE M. HESS Court. She was also a member of American Legion Post #687 Women’s Auxiliary, Stickney Golden Agers and a longtime member of Faith Community Reformed Church.

She was the wife of the late Lawrence E.; the mother of Karen (Rocco) Schumacher and the late Larry Steven Hess; and the grandmother of Eric Schumacher.

Services have been held. Interment was at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Stickney.

Memorial donations are appreciated to Faith Community Reformed Church.

Ivins/Moravecek Funeral Home, Riverside, handled arrangements.

The Landmark, June 16, 2021

P R O P E R T Y

Wright’s landmark Coonley Playhouse sells in Riverside

T R A N S F E R S

The following property transfers were reported by the Cook County Clerk from January 2021. Where addresses appear incomplete, for instance where a unit number appears missing, that information was not provided by the recorder of deeds.

Brookfield ADDRESS

PRICE

SALE DATE

4038 Grove Ave. 4419 Forest Ave. 3835 Arthur Ave. 3300 Vernon Ave. 3220 Elm Ave. 3524 Sunnyside Ave. 3328 Sunnyside Ave. 4249 Elm Ave. 3837 Raymond Ave. 8942 Monroe Ave. 3512 Oak Ave. 3509 Hollywood Ave. 9510 Lexington Ave. 3738 Forest Ave. 3912 Maple Ave. 3337 Arden Ave. 3730 Forest Ave. 9018 Sheridan Ave. 3742 Raymond Ave. 3921 Grove Ave. 4429 Eberly Ave. 9509 Monroe Ave. 4222 Blanchan Ave. 3533 Morton Ave. 3334 Arden Ave. 4120 Park Ave. 3148 Vernon Ave. 8924 Southview Ave.

$275,000 $229,000 $225,000 $260,000 $258,000 $210,000 $207,500 $235,000 $256,000 $200,000 $165,000 Unknown $272,000 $285,000 $171,000 $400,000 $270,000 $86,500 $352,000 $335,000 $440,000 $225,000 $395,500 $190,000 $155,000 $320,000 $200,000 $238,000

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4038 Grove Ave., Brookfield

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LTHS soccer rallies to advance to state’s final four Lions score twice in second half of supersectional to top Sandburg 2-1

By MELVIN TATE Contributing Reporter

Late in the first half of its IHSA Class 3A girls soccer supersectional versus Carl Sandburg High School on June 14, not only did Lyons Township High School allow just its second goal this season, it trailed for the first time all season.

But LTHS coach Bill Lanspeary felt confident that the Lions could rally, based on past experience.

“We’ve got a group of kids that have been in that situation before, so they were able to maintain their composure,” he said after undefeated LTHS rallied for two second-half goals to knock off the Eagles 2-1 at Reavis High School in Burbank. “There were some early jitters, but as the game went on we started playing our soccer, and that led to some more opportunities for us in the second half.”

The victory advances the Lions (19-0) to the IHSA state semifinals that take place June 18 at Hoffman Estates High School.

LTHS will meet either Barrington or St. Charles East, who met June 15 after the Landmark’s press time.

With the Lions trailing 1-0 a little more than five minutes into the second half, the

Sandburg goalkeeper was ruled to have committed a foul inside the penalty area, thereby awarding a penalty kick to the Lions.

Eleanor Musgrove took the attempt and buried it, tying the score at 1-1. Lanspeary believed that was the game’s turning point.

“Getting that penalty kick gave us a lot of momentum going forward,” he said.

Then midway through the second half, the LTHS defense forced a turnover, leading to a counterattack that resulted in a goal by the team’s leading scorer, Jordan Lee-Caracci, at the 20-minute mark.

“Jordan has been fantastic,” said Lanspeary. “I’m really happy for her; she’s a kid that has worked really hard and done a nice job for us.”

From there, the defense took over, not allowing Sandburg any good opportunities to score. The best the Eagles could do was a pair of long free kicks that were easily stopped by Lions goalkeeper Izzy Lee. This will be LTHS’ ninth appearance in the state finals, and the first time the program has qualified for them in consecutive seasons since a five-year run between 2003 and 2007.

The Lions placed fourth in 2019; last year’s season was canceled by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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FIGHTING BACK: A Carl Sandburg defender lunges in on LTHS forward Katie O’Malley (9) during the Lions’ 2-1 comeback victory in the IHSA state supersectionals on June 14, a win that advanced LTHS to the Class 3A state semifinals.

RBHS boys track advances to state in 4 events Proteau, Marrs step up to qualify in 1,600, two relays

By BILL STONE Contributing Reporter

Riverside-Brookfield High School junior Paul Proteau and freshman Cooper Marrs were determined to hold their No. 1 and 2 seeds for the 800-meter run at the IHSA Class 3A Morton Sectional on June 10 and advance to their first boys track and field state meet.

They never finished the race.

At the cut-in point to the inside lanes around 100 meters, Marrs and Proteau collided. Both fell with Marrs getting spiked.

“I remember Cooper tried to get up. I stopped because at that point I knew we were through,” Proteau said.

“I was super devastated, but Paul’s kind of got my back,” Marrs said. “We kind of knew we had to go one-two in the 1,600, even

though we weren’t necessarily seeded No. 1 and 2.”

As the No. 3 and 6 seeds, Proteau and Marrs in fact finished 1-2 in the 1,600 to lead several inspired efforts that earned the Bulldogs four state berths June 19 at Eastern Illinois University.

Proteau (4 minutes, 34.24 seconds) and Marrs (4:34.74) both ran personal-best 1,600s. They then won the 1,600 relay with junior James Dalton and senior Miles Rubio (3:35.45) after earlier winning the 3,200 relay with freshman Jack O’Brien and Dalton (8:13.49).

“In all honesty, it was the smoothest-feeling [1,600] I’ve ever run and it felt good. I’m super happy for Cooper,” Proteau said. “To come off and take first, that was pretty cool.

And a PR, which was nice.”

Marrs did his part in the 1,600 by moving

from sixth to second on the final lap with a 58-second split.

“We didn’t take it out too fast. We held back until it was time to go,” Marrs said. “I felt really strong. We had a lot of motivation from what happened the previous race.”

Marrs and Proteau were the top two runners for the cross country team, whose abbreviated postseason never happened. The Bulldogs were placed in COVID-19 quarantine just before regionals.

O’Brien energized the third-seeded 3,200 relay with a 2:01 leadoff leg – a five-second best. The second-seed 1,600 relay fed off of Rubio.

“I think that was the highlight, an incredible one lap where he put us in position (to win). He had a great last 200 meters,” Proteau said.

Taking fourth were William Smithing (300

intermediate hurdles in 44.24), Dalton (400 in 52.70) and Muhammad Salem (2.74m/9-0 in pole vault).

LTHS boys qualify relay, 2 individuals for state The Lyons Township High School boys track team placed eighth at the IHSA Class 3A sectional at Naperville North on June 10 with 30.5 points, qualifying one relay and two individuals for the state finals June 19.

Jocqael Thorpe (2nd in the 800 meters; 1:56.62) and Owen Hays (3rd in the 3,200; 9:27.64) were LTHS’ top individual performers. The Lions’ 3,200-meter relay of Charlie McLawhorn, Cade Nelson, Charlie McMahon, and Thorpe also advanced downstate, finishing third in a time of 7:57.21.

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Dickman breaks state record, finishes third in 1,600

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LTHS senior one of three to surpass all-time mark at state finals

By BILL STONE Contributing Reporter

Lyons Township High School senior Kate Dickman already appeared on pace for her greatest IHSA Class 3A girls track and field state meet after breaking the 800-meter school record by .40 of a second on May 22.

The Illinois-bound Dickman, however, had her sights on the 1,600.

“I think that was always the plan. That’s always been the race I love the most,” Dickman said.

When Dickman finally got to run her 1,600 at the state finals Saturday night, she ran 4:44.54 -- the fourth-fastest 1,600 meters in IHSA state finals history -- at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston.

Amazingly, that only got Dickman third place.

Normal Community freshman Ali Ince (4:40.85) and Oak Park-River Forest junior Josephine Welin (4:42.55) both broke the all-time state finals record of 4:43.65 from 2A by Woodstock’s Kayla Beattie in 2011.

“I’m like, ‘Aw, seriously (third place)?’ No, no, I’m totally so happy with it, so excited that I got to be a part of it. It was such a special race,” said an elated Dickman, who also broke the 3A state finals record (4:47.36 in 2019) by 2020 Glenbard West graduate Katelynne Hart.

Dickman then earned her fourth top-nine, all-state medal by anchoring the eighth-place 1,600 relay with sophomore

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KEEPING UP: LTHS distance runner Kate Dickman, shown here in second place, trails OPRF’s Josephine Welin during the 1,600-meter state finals on June 12 in Charleston. Dickman along with two others, including Welin, would break the existing state record in the race, but finished third.

Becky Phillips, senior Lillie George and junior Abby Deuter (4:02.77). From the lineup at the LT Sectional June 3, Deuter replaced senior Cate Judy, the lone returnee from the 2019 sixth-place state finisher who already planned to be out of

town before the IHSA extended the original state date by three weeks.

In her sectional 1,600, Dickman (4:46.40) finished second to Welin (4:44.52) and comfortably broke LT’s 1,600 record of 4:55.68 by Lisa Gordon, who in 2012 also had LT’s previous highest state finish in the event (4th, 4:55.99).

Earlier Saturday, Welin won the 3,200 (10:36.36) and Ince the 800 (2:07.06), just .01 shy of that state finals record. However, moments after completion of the 300 low hurdles, the event before the 1,600, came the second of two lightningstorm delays that lasted more than four hours.

Dickman’s 1,600 race did not begin until about 9:40 p.m. By that time, the hot, humid afternoon had turned into optimal evening distance-running conditions.

“Today, Ali approached me before the break and was like, ‘Hey, we should go break that record,’ and I was like, ‘OK. I’ll work with you on that,’” Dickman said. “All three of us were the only distance girls we had here from our teams, so we could use each other as teammates and really push that throughout the race.”

LTHS’ 400 relay of sophomore Emma Kwak, junior Ava Kuhlman, senior Lily Sutkus and Phillips was 14th (49.44).

Senior London White was 17th in the 100 high hurdles (15.86) and 23rd in the 300 low hurdles (49.63) and Kwak was 22nd in the 100 (12.75) and 23rd in 200 (26.87).

In the first heat of the 100, Kwak ran by herself when the other two entries scratched. Finding out five minutes beforehand, Kwak ran a personal best by .03.

“They couldn’t move me because it’s state, so I had to run alone,” Kwak said. “Super weird. I was afraid I wasn’t going to do as good because I was running against myself.”

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For more information CALL 708-738-3848 GRANTS SUPERVISOR The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Grants Supervisor in the Development Customer Services Department. This position will perform a variety of responsible for developing. Administering and coordinating activities related to Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and other grant-funded programs for the Village. 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 no later than June 25, 2021.

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LEGAL NOTICE The Village of Oak Park --Office of the Village Engineer, 201 South Boulevard, Oak Park, Illinois 60302-- will receive electronic proposals until 10:00 a.m. on Thursday July 1, 2021 for Project: 21-3, Sidewalk Improvement Program. Bids will be received and accepted, and bid results posted via the online electronic bid service listed below. In general, this contract includes sidewalk angle-cutting, removal and replacement of public sidewalk, parkway and carrage walks, combination curb and gutter, driveways, and PCC basecourse; pavement adjacent to curbs, adjustment of drainage structures, buffalo boxes and all appurtenant work thereto. Sidewalk sequencing during the work and adherence to the completion date is of emphasis for this project as outlined in the plans and proposal forms.

Plans and proposal forms may be obtained via the electronic service starting on Thursday June 17th, at 4:00 p.m. Plans and proposal forms can be found at https://www.oak-park.us/your-government/budget-purchasing/requests-proposals or at www.questcdn.com under login using QuestCDN number 7879915 for a non-refundable charge of $30.00. The Village of Oak Park reserves the right to issue plans and specifications only to those contractors deemed qualified. No bid documents will be issued after 4:00 p.m. on the working day preceding the date of bid opening.

All prospective bidders must prove they are pre-qualified by the Illinois Department of Transportation by providing a certificate of eligibility to the Engineering Division at which time a password will be issued for access to the online bid documents. This project is financed with local Village funds and federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds and thus is subject to all federal rules, regulations and guidelines, including DavisBacon and Related Acts, Section 3, and Equal Opportunity requirements.

Locally funded phases of the project are subject to the Illinois Prevailing Wage Act, 820 ILCS 130/0.01 et seq.

THE VILLAGE OF OAK PARK Bill McKenna Village Engineer Published in Wednesday Journal June 16, 2021

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On June 24th, 2021 at 1:00 p.m., a meeting conducted by District 94 will take place at Komarek School.

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 schools and home schools within the district for the 2021 - 2022 school year. If you are a parent of a home-schooled student who has been or may be identified with a disability and you reside within the boundaries of Komarek School District, you are urged to attend.

El 24 de junio de 2021 a las 1 de la tarde, el Distrito 94 va a organizar una reunión en la escuela de Komarek. El propósito de esta reunión será discutir los planes del distrito de ofrecer servicios de educación especial a estudiantes con discapacidad que asisten a escuelas privadas o que aprenden en casa en el distrito, para el año escolar 2021-2022. Si usted es padre de un estudiante que participa en el aprendizaje en casa, que ha sido o quizas sera identificado con una discapacidad, y usted vive en los límites del Distrito Escolar Komarek, le alentamos a que asista a la junta.

If you have further questions pertaining to this meeting, or would like to attend in-person or virtually, please contact Caitlin DiLallo at 708-447-8030 ext. 115.

Si tiene alguna pregunta acerca de esta junta, o le gustaría asistir en persona o virtualmente, por favor comuníquese con Caitlin DiLallo al 708-447-8030 ext. 115

Published in RB Landmark June 16, 2021

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING VILLAGE OF OAK PARK ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS HEARING DATE: July 7, 2021 TIME: 7:00 p.m. or as soon thereafter as the Agenda permits CALENDAR NUMBER: 12-21-Z APPLICATION: The Zoning Board of Appeals (“Board”) will conduct a public hearing on an application filed by the Applicant, Katie Costianis, seeking a variance from Section 8.3 (Table 8-1: Use Matrix) of the Oak Park Zoning Ordinance, which section prohibits medical/dental clinics from being located within the first 50 feet of the street lot line at grade level or on the ground floor of any building within the DT-1 and DT-2 SubDistricts of Downtown, to allow a medical/dental clinic (chiropractor) use on the ground floor within 50 feet of a street line at the premises commonly known as 191 N. Marion Street, Oak Park, Illinois, Property Index Number 16-07-118-049-0000 in the DT Downtown Zoning District.

A copy of the application and applicable documents are on file and are available for inspection at Village Hall, Development Customer Services Department, 123 Madison Street, Oak Park, Illinois 60302, Monday through Friday between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

The Board will conduct the public hearing remotely with live audio available and optional video. The meeting will be streamed live and archived online for on-demand viewing at www.oak-park.us/commissiontv as well as cablecast on VOP-TV, which is available to Comcast subscribers on channel 6 and ATT U-Verse subscribers on channel 99. The remote public hearing is authorized pursuant to Section 7(e) of the Open Meetings Act. The Village President has determined that an in-person public hearing is not practical or prudent due to the COVID-19 outbreak during Governor JB Pritzker’s current disaster proclamation. It is also not feasible to have a person present at the public hearing due to public safety concerns related to the COVID-19 outbreak.

All interested persons will be given an opportunity to be heard at the public hearing. Interested persons may provide written evidence, testimony and public comment on the application by email to Zoning@oak-park. us or by drop off in the Oak Park Payment Drop Box across from the entrance to Village Hall, 123 Madison Street, Oak Park, Illinois, to be received no later than 5:00 p.m. on July 7, 2021. An individual’s name and their testimony or comment will be read aloud into the record at the public hearing if received no later than 30 minutes prior to the start of the public hearing. Interested persons may also participate in the hearing to cross examine the applicant and its witnesses, present evidence, testimony or public comment by emailing Zoning @oak-park.us before 5:00 PM on the day prior to the public hearing to sign up. Individuals who sign up to participate in this manner will receive an email from Village staff with information about how to join the meeting online through Zoom web-conference means or by phone.

The public hearing may be adjourned by the Board to another date without further notice by public announcement at the hearing setting forth the time and place thereof.

Published in Wednesday Journal June 16, 2021

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Circuit Court of Cook County, County Department, Domestic Relations Division.

In re the marriage of BRUNILDA OTERO, Petitioner and IYAD ANWAR MOH’D MUSTAFA, Respondent, Case No. 2021D003027.

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 July 6, 2021, 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 June 2, June 9, June 16, 2021

LEGAL NOTICE LAW OFFICE OF LINDA EPSTEIN Attorney for Petitioner 722 W. Diversey Parkway Ste. 101B Chicago, IL 60614 STATE OF ILLINOIS) COUNTY OF COOK )ss Circuit Court of Cook County, County Department, Domestic Relations Division.

In re the marriage of Bridgette Thatch-Nixon, Petitioner and Cedric Nixon, Respondent, Case No. 2021 D 004962.

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, on or before July 14, 2021, 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 June 16, June 23, June 30, 2021

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Questions should be directed to Bridget Deatrick, Andy Howard, or Eric Hornig, Hitchcock DesignGroup (630) 961-1787, bdeatrick@hitchcockdesigngroup.com, ahoward@ hitchcockdesigngroup.com, or ehornig@hitchccockdesigngroup. com

Park District of Forest Park 7501 Harrison Street Forest Park, Illinois 60130 Aquatic Center Splash Pad The Park District of Forest Park does hereby invite sealed bids for Aquatic Center Splash Pad. Work will include removals, earthwork operations, asphalt paving, concrete curbs and paving, site furnishings, splash pad equipment, utilities fencing, seeding, planting, and subdrainage.

Project manuals, including bid form and specifications, and construction documents are available after 10:00 A.M. on June 16, 2021, from Accurate Reprographics 2368 Corporate Lane, Suite 100, Naperville, Illinois 60563, 630.428.4433 www.hitchcockplanroom.com. Bidding documents are available to download and print at the non-refundable cost of reproduction.

Bids will be accepted at the Park District of Forest Park, 7501 Harrison Street, Forest Park, Illinois 60130 during regular office hours.

All bids must be submitted in a sealed envelope marked with the Contractor’s name and address, and “Bid for Aquatic Center Splash Pad,” on the face of the envelope.

Bids must be received no later than July 14, 2021, 10:00 AM. Bids will be opened on July 14, 2021, 10:00 AM at the Park District of Forest Park, 7501 Harrison Street, Forest Park, Illinois 60130. All bidders will be required to submit Bid Security in the form of a Bid Bond in the amount of 10% of the Base Bid, payable to the Park District of Forest Park.

The successful bidder, as determined by the Park District of Forest Park, shall be required to pay, and to agree to pay no less than the Prevailing Rate of Wages, pursuant to the Illinois Prevailing Wage Act (820 ILCS 130) for the locality of the Park District of Forest Park (Cook County), to each laborer worker, or mechanic needed or used to complete the work as detailed in the contract to be let. The successful contractor, and all subcontractors shall be required to submit, to the Park District of Forest Park, certified payrolls no later than the tenth day of each calendar month for the immediately preceding month.

The Park District of Forest Park reserves the right to reject any and all proposals, parts of any and all proposals, or to waive technical errors or omissions in submitted proposals.

No submitted bid may be withdrawn until a period of ninety (90) days after the bid opening date, without written consent of the Park District of Forest Park. The Park District of Forest Park encourages minority business firms to submit bids on this project and the successful contract bidder to utilize minority businesses as subcontractors for supplies, equipment, services, and construction.

Published in Forest Park Review June 16, June 23, 2021

PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE OF ANNUAL BUDGET Notice is hereby given by the Board of Education of Riverside School District No. 96 in the Cook County, State of Illinois, that a budget for said school district for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2021, will be on file and available for public inspection by appointment Monday through Friday from 9 am to 3 pm starting the 18th day of June 2021, at the district’s administrative offices on 3340 South Harlem Avenue in Riverside Illinois. To schedule an appointment please email fittonj@district96.org.

Notice is further given that a public hearing on said amended budget will be held at 7:00 o’clock p.m. on the 21st day of July 2021 followed immediately by the scheduled regular board meeting.

Board of Education Riverside School District No. 96 Cook County, Illinois By: Wesley Muirhead, Board Secretary Published in RB Landmark June 16, 2021

PUBLIC NOTICE Notice of Special Riverside Township Meeting The Riverside Township board will hold a Special Meeting on Tuesday, June 22, 2021 6:00 p.m., Room 4, 27 Riverside Road Riverside, IL 60546 Agenda: 1. Call to order/Roll Call 2. Pledge of Allegiance 3. Bridge Bid Analysis and Award 4. Appointment of Deputy Clerk 5. Grant for Riverside July 2, 2021 Concert 6. Adjournment Michael C. Dropka, Clerk Published in RB Landmark June 16, 2021

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