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Who is that giant-headed man?

‘Big Head Fred’ visits Riverside to celebrate Olmsted 200

By BOB UPHUES Editor

The celebration of Frederick Law Olmsted’s 200th birthday last April continues apace in Riverside this fall, with several appearances from the man himself – well, someone in an Olmsted costume, at any rate – at a number of public events and local institutions over the past month.

Since late September “Big Head Fred” has stopped by HopStop, Tour de Proviso and the Riverside Far mers Market, and he’s visited local businesses in the village the reno wned landscape architect designed in 1869. He even made a sur prise appearance at the dinner honoring Riverside’s Person of the Year, Connie Guardi.

Last week Big Head Fred began making the rounds at local schools, visiting Ames Central, Hollywood and Blythe Park schools

On Oct. 26 he was slated to appear outside St. Mary school before heading over to the Riverside Public Library at 9 a.m. He’s due to show up before classes star t for the day at Hauser Junior High on Oct. 28.

Big Head Fred came to Riverside courtesy of the National Association of Olmsted Parks (NAOP), which launched a nationwide Olmsted 200 campaign last year in preparation for the anniversary.

Olmsted 200 has hosted events throughout the country in 2022, with Big Head Fred making celebrity appearances during a tour that began April 25 at a 200th birthday gala at Olmsted-designed Central Park in New York City, continued in Chicago and Wisconsin, and will end in San Francisco in November at the American Society of Landscape Ar-

Big Head Fred -- in town for the past month to mark the 200th anniversar y of Frederick Law Olmsted’s bir th -- greets students outside of Central School in Riverside last week before donating a children’s book about the renowned landscape architect to the school librar y.

chitects annual conference.

Since par t of the Olmsted 200 initiative is also to educate people about Olmsted’s vision and impact, Big Head Fred didn’t come empty handed when he visited local schools and the library

Accompanied by Riverside Trustee Aberdeen Marsh-Ozg a, Big Head Fred donated a copy of the children’s book “Parks for the People: How Frederick Law Olmsted Designed America” by National Book Award finalist Elizabeth Partridge and illustrated by Becca Stadtlander cour tesy of the NAOP to each institution.

Marsh-Ozg a was named co-chair of Olmsted 200 activities after the Frederick Law Olmsted Society and the village of Riverside decided to collaborate on Olmsted-

related initiatives in 2022.

They par tnered to plant the Olmsted Overlook atop Swan Pond Park along Fairbank Road and held a 200th bir thday party at the Riverside train station in April. Marsh-Ozg a was able to secure Big Head Fred for a month after he appeared at an event at the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin.

The costume is based on a portrait of Frederick Law Olmsted that the NAOP commissioned from Chicago ar tist David Lee Csicsko for Olmsted 200.

And just who has been inside that giant head at Riverside events. According to Marsh-Ozg a, there have been several volunteers, including Riverside Trustee Alex Galle gos, Riverside Parks & Recreation Director Ron Malchiodi, Frederick Law Olmsted Society board member Mike Maloney and Riverside Village Clerk Ethan Sowl and Visit Oak Park Executive Director Eric Wagner.

“It’s been a wonderful collaboration between community par tners from various sectors,” said Marsh-Ozg a.

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BIG WEEK

Dia de los Muer tos at ompassion Factor y

ompassion Factor y art Galler y & Studio, oadway Ave. in Brook eld, will host a Dia de los Muertos Celebration on Oct. 29 from 4:30 .m.

e will be a live folkloric dance performance, , food, Mexican hot chocolate, café de la Olla and face painting. This event is free, but donations for the food and drinks appreciated. All eeds go toward next year’s event.

Brookfield Parks & Rec Foundation Kickoff

The nonpro t Brook eld Parks & Recreation Foundation, which supports low-income families looking to enroll children in summer camp, before- and after-school care, youth sports and other activities, hosts a kicko event on Nov. 3 from 6 to 8 .m. at Imperial Oak Brewing, 9526 Ogden Ave., Brook eld

Tickets are $25 each and include one drink and snacks. ll proceeds bene t the nonpro t’s mission. Buy tickets at tinyurl.com/4wcf7bnh.

Radio Players present Halloween shows

Haunted Halloween Ride

Cycle Brook eld invites families to its Haunted Halloween Ride on Oct. 28 for a 5-mile slow roll that will take you past the homes decorated for the season.

Don your costumes, decorate and light up your bikes and meet at Compassion Factor y Art Galler y and Studio, 9210 Broadway Ave. at 7:15 p.m. The ride star ts at 7:30 p.m. and ends back at Compassion Factor y for treats and a bon re.

And more

■ North Riverside Park Mall, 7501 Cermak Road, hosts two Halloween-themed kids events in the coming week. On Oct. 29 from noon to 2 p.m. there’s the 2nd Annual Ghost Hunt where kids can search for 20 hidden ghosts throughout the mall, each assigned a special number. Turn in completed clue sheet and get a treat bag. On Oct. 31 from 4 to 7 p.m. there’s a mall-wide Trick-or-Treat event with a costume contest at 4 p.m. and a costume parade at 5 p.m.

■ The Frederick Law Olmsted Society wraps up its 2022 seasonal walking tours of Riverside, highlighting the village’s design, history and architecture on Oct. 30 from 2 to 4 p.m. The tour will cover the area south of the railroad tracks Tours are $20 per person ($15 for seniors 62+ and Olmsted Society members).

Tour groups depart at 2 p.m. from the Riverside Train Depot (east side of platform) at 90 Bloomingbank Road. Reservations required. Email tours@olmstedsociety.com or call 708-447-7635. Payment via PayPal or credit card only at olmstedsociety.org.

wnship Radio Players will present their een show on Oct. 28, recreating ograms from the Golden Age of “The Parade” from the series “Dimension X” and “Don’t Tell Me about Halloween” from “Quiet Please.”

The free per formance star ts at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Riverside wnship Hall, 27 Riverside Road, or more, visit ersidetownshipradioplayers.com.

■ The Brook eld Chamber of Commerce continues its 60-to-Win ra e drawings ever y Thursday through Nov. 17 at 4:30 p.m. at Joe’s Saloon, 9220 47th St. in Brook eld You can also watch a livestream on the Brook eld Chamber of Commerce Facebook page (facebook.com/Brook eldIllinois).

■ Riverside Ar ts Center, 32 E. Quinc y St., presents “Semblance: Unfolded and Brought to Life,” by Chicago photographers Alice Hargrave and Barbara Diener in the Freeark Galler y and

Brookfield Librar y screens ‘The Birds’

Linda Sokol Francis Brook eld Librar y, 3541 Park Ave., invites you to a special screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 horrorthriller “The Birds,” starring Tippi Hedren and Rod Taylor during Movies With Mar ty, presented by lm enthusiast Mar ty Blank on Oct. 29 at 1 p.m.

Register to attend by calling 708-485-6917, ext. 130 or at brook eld.evanced.info/signup.

“Endless,” featuring the work of Darrell Rober ts, in the outdoor Sculpture Garden through Oct. 29. Galler y hours are Thursday through Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m.

There’s also “The Ar t of Seeing,” featuring the work of Shilin Hora through Dec. 29 in the lobby of the Riverside Township Hall, 27 Riverside Road. Viewing hours are Monday-Thursday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Visit riversidear tscenter.com for more.

Tenants piece lives together after apartment building re

Victims return uninhabitable

By BOB UPHUES Editor

With a mix of anger, anxiety, urgency and resignation, tenants made their way back last week to The Gables – the 44-unit apartment building at 8011 Edgewater Road in North Riverside rendered uninhabitable by an Oct. 14 fire – to collect what they could from their apartments

Some already had leads on new places to live, but others were still seeking shelter with family or friends. Others had been living in hotels, unsure what their future accommodation would look like

“I’ ll be fine, but a lot of people aren’t,” said a tenant named Andy who had rented at The Gables for about 10 years and was clearing out his possessions on Oct. 19 when the Landmark visited the property “People are literally refugees.”

By mid-week last week nearly all of the building’s tenants had come to collect their belongings, said Police Chief Christian Ehrenberg, whose officers were onsite all week, making sure tenants could safely remove as much as they could

The initial plan had been to allow tenants back in to get essentials, like pets, medications, personal papers and the like. But it was clear early on that people did not want to leave any of their possessions behind once they’d signed documents and received their security deposits and a pro-rated amount of their October rent.

A portion of the receipt for that money asked tenants to sign a “mutual release,” saying they wouldn’t sue.

“I’m not signing nothing ‘til I get all my stuf f out,” said Jeff Reid, who had lived in the building with his wife, April Garcia, for about three years. On Oct. 19 he was loading his possessions into a moving truck.

Tenants note lack of smoke detec tors

Reid and Garcia, who lived in the complex’s west wing where the most substantial fire damage was located, had found temporary shelter at a hotel. He and his wife were asleep when the fire started. He was awakened by the sound of someone pounding on his door

“I didn’t hear no smoke detectors, no nothing, just one of the tenants banging on my door, saying, ‘Fire, get out!’” Reid said. “I told my wife just ‘Let’s go!’ because I didn’t

know where the fire was I opened the door and saw smoke in the hallway. I had no shoes on – socks, shorts, a tank top.”

Non-functioning smoke detectors was a common theme as tenants recounted the night of the fire.

A woman who lived in the south wing, who declined to give her name, said she only lear ned of the fire because she hadn’t fallen asleep yet and saw flashing lights outside the window.

“I noticed there was a lot of ambulances, then I heard screaming, so I thought there was someone getting into a fight,” she said.

“Once I got up and I opened up the blinds I couldn’t see anything because of all the red lights I opened the door to the room and that’s when I saw all the smoke and smelled all the smoke. It was inside our place.”

The woman grabbed her cat, her husband grabbed his wallet and keys, and they ran outside. The man then said he was worried about an elderly neighbor and went back inside with a police officer to make sure he got out.

“I went back in with [the police officer] and I did inhale some smoke. It was already bad at that time,” the man said.

A woman who lived in the west wing near the unit where the fire started, said she was lucky she and her 3-year-old daughter were alive She happened to be in the kitchen of her apartment at around 11:45 p.m.

“I was awake, and I see that my apartment was filling with smoke from the back of the

refrigerator,” said the woman, who declined to give her name. “The fire alar ms never pop up, so I’m very glad that I was awake and saw the smoke coming out.”

The woman said she ran out into the street and flagged down a police officer to alert him to the fire. There were no emergency lights in the stairwells, making them treacherously dark as people rushed to escape the building.

While she was able to reclaim some of her possessions, many things, particularly home electronics like her microwave oven, had sustained water damage

“Who will pay this? Nobody,” she said. “Right now, we’re rescuing some furniture, clothes, but it’s very traumatic.

“I’m almost homeless I’m living with my aunt for a few days At least I have family here. Some people are staying in a hotel, spending money they don’t have.”

The woman said she’d lived in the apartment building for about a year and described it as a bad experience.

“We always were having problems with the water; sometimes they pull the water for one whole day,” she said. “[There were] problems with the electricity, problems with rats, with animals, because all of the apartments have holes.”

Inspec tor calls for engineering reports

The Landmark requested two years of property maintenance and inspection re-

cords from the village of North Riverside, but received only a list of violations, mainly re garding overflowing dumpsters. There were also complaints of a broken water heater, a heating problem and no water due to a broken pipe

A rental property re gistry instituted by the village this year was an attempt to get village inspectors into buildings like The Gables on a re gular basis. Re gistry information was due to the village in No vember, so inspections could begin, said Village Administrator Sue Scarpiniti.

The village also provided the Landmark with a one-page report written immediately after the fire by its building inspector, who wrote that “the entire building on this property needs to be evaluated” by a structural engineer, an electrical engineer and a mechanical engineer

“Severe damage was noted to the roof, parapet wall, chimney and the brick façade,” the village’s inspector wrote “The electrical systems throughout the building are not functioning properly.”

BEDS Plus still offering assistance

BEDS Plus, the LaGrange-based nonprofit that provides services and shelter to the unhoused, continues to assist some of the families displaced by the fire.

Joann Boblick, the nonprofit’s stabilization services director, said on Oct. 25 that in addition to the 10 households BEDS Plus had been assisting over the past week, there were another five households they were attempting to assist getting paperwork completed BEDS Plus can provide those displaced by fires with money to pay for security deposits and help them identify new places to live. One family had already moved into a new apartment while three others were on the verge of moving in, Boblick said.

“We see a huge variety of people and situations,” said Boblick. “Some find places very quickly, but there’s a percentage of people who six months from now still don’t have a place to live.”

Boblick encouraged those needing assistance to call her at 708-354-0858, ext. 116. She also encouraged any landlords who are willing to open their units to those displaced by the fire to call the same number.

“We can definitely share vacancy information with those from North Riverside,” Boblick said.

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8011 Edgewater Road in North Riverside on Oct. 20, a er a re on Oct. 14 rendered the building uninhabitable. Last week, tenants returned to recover as many possessions as possible as th ey soug ht new housing elsewhere

Interim principal slots in temporarily at Hollywood School

With Kim Hefner out due to knee surgery, veteran administrator lls void

By BOB SKOLNIK

Contributing Reporter

Hollywood School in Brookfield will have an interim principal for the next month or so.

Maura Zinni, a retired school superintendent and for mer principal, is filling in for Hollywood Principal Kim

Hefner, who is recovering from knee replacement surgery that she underwent last week. Hefner is expected to

be out for three to six weeks

Hefner infor med Hollywood parents of her impending absence before she had the surgery.

“I will truly miss you all and look forward to being able to play basketball and other games at recess, and maybe even help the parents beat the fifth graders in kickball on field day,”

Hefner wrote in her newsletter to parents

Zinni spent two days working with

Hefner at Hollywood last week before Hefner had her surgery Hefner and Zinni visited every class at Hollywood School so students could get to see her before she started and understand that Hefner will be away for a while.

Riverside Elementary School District 96 Superintendent Martha Ryan-Toye knew Zinni from their days working together at River Forest District 90 and reached out to the Forest Park resident, asking her to fill in for

Hefner. Zinni will be paid $500 a day.

In 2021, Zinni retired after seven years as the superintendent of Frankfort School District 157-C. Prior to that she served in administrative positions in school districts in Lombard and Skokie.

Zinni served for five years as the principal of Edison School in Skokie. She began her career as an elementary school teacher at Lincoln Elementary School in River Forest.

Rashid, Schultz spar at 21st District candidate forum

Illinois House hopefuls clash on SAFE-T Act; GOPer says he won’t seek abortion law change

By BOB SKOLNIK

Contributing

Reporter

Abdelnasser Rashid and Matthew Schultz, who are competing to represent the 21st District in the Illinois House, engaged in a spirited Zoom campaign forum on Sept. 29 hosted by the LaGrange Area Chapter of the League of Women Voters.

They are vying to succeed incumbent State Rep. Mike Zalewski (D-Riverside), who Rashid defeated in the Democratic primary. Schultz, a 27-year-old Republican and resident of Brookfield who works for the anti-tax group Taxpayers United, was the aggressor for much of the debate. Schultz mostly focused on economic issues and crime, saying that Illinois was in a bad place after decades of Democratic control in the General Assembly.

“Illinois is falling apart,” said Schultz in his opening statement. “We’ve seen radical laws that attack our safety, our businesses are closing down and moving away, our people are leaving.”

Schultz is a decided underdog in the race in the district that ranges from Cicero to Justice and includes most of Riverside north of the Burlington Norther n-Santa Fe Railroad tracks and a large chunk of Brookfield. The district strongly leans Democratic.

The candidates disagreed on the SAFE-T Act, which will eliminate cash bail on Jan. 1. Schultz said it is badly written law that will endanger the public and noted that many prosecutors, including some Democratic

ones, oppose the la

But Rashid eliminating bail is a matter fairness and will give judg discretion to dangerous ple charged crimes in jail ing their trial.

“Whether have access wealth, whether you have access to a large bank account of have family members who can provide you with money to get out of jail, that’s not fair ness, that not justice,” Rashid said. “Judges will actually have more, not less, of an ability to hold dangerous of fenders in jail because decisions will be based on the public safety evaluation not on whether a defendant has access to cash.”

The candidates also had dif ferent views about banning the sale of automatic weapons Schultz said he would consider such a ban as a last resort but said that prohibitions usually don’t work, and the more immediate problem is a shortage of police.

“Let’s get the basics done first and then let’s discuss additional laws,” Schultz said. Rashid jumped on that response.

“The issue in Highland Park on July 4 was not ‘not enough police.’ The issue in Uvalde, Texas, was not ‘not enough police,’ the issue at Sandy Hook was not ‘not enough police.’ The issue is guns getting

the hands of the wrong people and absolutely do to ban assault ,” Rashid said. two candialso disagreed, degree, on penreform When if they would rt a constituamendment to current state p reduced, Rashid said no, stating that a pension is a promise. Schultz said he would prefer to solve the state’s pension shortfall by increasing economic growth but would consider supporting a constitutional amendment as a last resort “nuclear option.”

“But if it comes down to public services or pensions, we should have a constitutional amendment,” Schultz said.

The candidates agreed on a number of issues Both said that they would vote to protect abortion rights

“I do not want to infringe on a woman’s right to choose,” Schultz said, vowing against any changes to Illinois abortion laws.

Both supported eliminating the Lyons Township Treasurer of Schools office, known as the TTO, which manages money for local school districts

“I think it’s redundant,” Rashid said. “I think the school boards can handle that function.”

And both supported the general idea of

more gover nmental consolidation in Illinois, which has more units of local government than any other state.

“I know there is a North Berwyn Park District and a South Berwyn Park District. Do we need both?” Rashid said.

The candidates also agreed that the local community should welcome immigrants and refugees

“I support any people, especially Venezuelans that are fleeing so called democratic socialism in Venezuela,” Schultz said. “I know a lot of people from the for mer Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic, and Poland that fled those countries when they were communist and came over here. … I hope that they join our community, become American citizens and I hope that they become as wealthy and prosperous as the Czech and Polish communities.”

A heavy favorite in the race, Rashid, 33, attacked Republicans generally as opponents of abortion rights, doubtful of climate change and as threats to democracy

Schultz tried to distance himself from Trump-supporting Republicans who still deny the results of the 2020 election, complaining that Rashid was not addressing his positions on the issues.

“You’re not engaging with anything that I am saying,” he said. “You’re just talking about other Republicans, who I strongly disagree with.”

A resident of Justice, Rashid is from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. He worked the 2016 presidential campaign

ABDELNASSER RASHID MAT THEW SCHULTZ

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LTHS school board awards A/C installation contracts

North Campus clay tile roof also due for attention

By BOB SKOLNIK

Contributing Reporter

School board members and administrators at Lyons Township High School were pleased that the cost to add more air conditioning next summer won’t cost as much as they thought it would.

On Oct. 17, the LTHS District 204 Board of Education unanimously approved three bids, two for air conditioning and one for a partial North Campus roof replacement, which will cost just under $3 million, lower than the $3.5 to $4 million they had estimated.

“I was pretty pleased that it came in lower than what we anticipated,” said LTHS school board President Kari Dillon of the bids

The board approved two bids from Glendale Heights-based Voris Mechanical for air conditioning work. It will cost $1,225,400 to air condition 14 science labs and classrooms in the J Wing on LTHS’s North Campus.

The school board also accepted a $1,037,100 bid from Voris to replace air handlers that cool and heat the North Campus library and LTTV studios. Voris submitted the lowest of five bids for the work -- a combined $2,262,500

of Ver mont Senator Bernie Sanders and the 2015 Chicago mayoral campaign of Jesus “Chuy” Garcia. He has also worked in gover nment jobs for Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi and for mer Cook County Clerk David Or r.

Schultz tried to tie Rashid to Democratic machine, noting that Rashid accepted a $50,000 contribution from the Illinois Democratic Party in 2018 when he was running for the county board and the state Democratic Party was controlled by for mer Illinois Speaker of the House Mike Madigan who is now facing federal corruption charges.

Schultz’s bare bones campaign has been largely funded by the Richard and Eliza-

for the two projects

The board also accepted a bid of $680,000 from Harvey-based Knickerbocker Roofing to replace portions of the clay tile roof at North Campus

Knickerbocker Roofing was one of three companies that bid on the roof replacement work, and its bid was $320,000 lower than the next lowest bid. LTHS Business Manager Brian Stachacz said one reason Knickerbocker could bid so low was that it specializes in clay tile roofs such as the one at LTHS and would not have to subcontract out any of the work

The roof and air conditioning work are scheduled to be done next summer although there is a possibility that some of the air conditioning work could be delayed until 2024 if the equipment doesn’t arrive in time.

Stachacz said that there is currently a 40to 50-week lead time in getting air handling units. LTHS might have to pay to store some equipment if all the work can’t be completed next summer

“There could be some additional costs to store these units if we have to,” Stachacz said.

Each air conditioning contract contains a $50,000 allowance for unanticipated costs.

beth Uihlein, the extremely conversative owners of the Uline Inc. a packaging company and prolific funders of conservative politicians and causes

Richard Uihlein gave $6,000 to Schultz’s campaign in May and his wife Elizabeth Uihlein contributed another $6,000 in October. Schultz’s campaign also received a $2,000 contribution from the campaign fund of House Minority Leader Jim Durkin (RWester n Springs) in September Rashid’s campaign spent just over $434,000 to defeat Zalewski. As of Oct. 1, the campaign reported additional contributions of $21,587.18 since the primary. In October the Democratic paid a little more than $17,000 for mailers for Rashid.

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Riverside trustees approve $698,000 re engine purchase

Village expects delivery of frontline pumper in 18-20 months

By BOB UPHUES Editor

The Riverside Village Board earlier this month voted unanimously to purchase a new Pierce Enforcer pumper truck for the fire department for $698,000 from the Appleton, Wisconsin-based manufacturer, the first of two pumper trucks scheduled to be replaced in the next couple of years.

Because the vehicle was purchased using pricing obtained through a consortium of gover nment agencies, the village did not elect to competitively bid the purchase The

purchase is being funded by using a portion of the roughly $1.2 million the village received in 2021 and 2022 from the federal gover nment through the American Rescue Plan Act enacted to assist gover nment agencies impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to Riverside Public Safety Director Matthew Buckley, the manufacturer has estimated it will take between 18 to 20 months to deliver the new engine.

“I wish it was sooner, but they are backed up on orders.” Buckley told the Landmark.

Many gover nment agencies have chosen to use ARPA money to fund the purchase of big-ticket items like fire engines and ambulances, which they otherwise would have to delay or take out loans to purchase

Riverside used about $300,000 in ARPA funds to buy a new ambulance earlier this year Brookfield in 2022 used about $450,000

By Linda Sokol Francis. E.A.

AN OVERVIEW OF THE CREDIT FOR OTHER DEPENDENTS

Taxpayers with dependents who don’t qualify for the child tax credit may be able to claim the credit for other dependents. This is a non-refundable credit. It can reduce or, in some cases, eliminate a tax bill but, the IRS cannot refund the taxpayer any portion of the credit that may be left over. The maximum credit amount is $500 for each dependent who meets certain conditions. These include:

• Dependents who are age 17 or older.

• Dependents who have individual taxpayer identification numbers.

• Dependent parents or other qualifying relatives supported by the taxpayer.

• Dependents living with the taxpayer who aren’t related to the taxpayer. The credit begins to phase out when the taxpayer’s income is more than $200,000. This phaseout begins for married couples filing a

joint tax return at $400,000. A taxpayer can claim this credit if:

• They claim the person as a dependent on the taxpayer’s return.

• They cannot use the dependent to claim the child tax credit or additional child tax credit.

• The dependent is a U.S. citizen, national or resident alien.

Taxpayers can claim the credit for other dependents in addition to the child and dependent care credit and the earned income credit. They can use the IRS Interactive Tax Assistant (Does My Child/ Dependent Qualify for the Child Tax Credit or the Credit for Other Dependents?) to help determine if they are eligible to claim the credit.

in ARPA funds to pay a portion of the $1.25 million it needed to purchase a new combination pumper/ladder engine for its fire department. The balance was funded through a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Once in service, the new Pierce Enforcer pumper will replace a 2003 E-One engine as the Riverside Fire Depar tment’s primary response engine.

In addition to responding to fire calls, the engine responds to all emergency medical calls along with an ambulance. The department will retain its 1996 E-One engine, which is the reserve vehicle but in much better condition mechanically than its younger counter part.

According to an Oct. 6 memo from Buckley to the village board, the 2003 pumper has driven nearly 90,000 miles and has

logged nearly 1,000 engine hours.

While the miles themselves are high, the engine hours place a lot of wear and tear on the vehicle. Even though the wheels might not be moving, the engine at the scene of a fire operates at high RPMs, similar to driving down a highway, in order to pump water from the engine to the hoses.

The 1996 engine has driven roughly onethird of the miles of its frontline counterpart and has logged about one-third fewer engine hours. The engine was custom designed for Riverside and car ries all of the department’s rescue equipment and other supplies.

Riverside of ficials have scheduled replacing the 1996 pumper in 2024, according to the village’s 10-year Capital Improvement Plan. However, there’s not a funding source for buying that engine right now.

Hephzibah at 125 years

Hephzibah is celebrating its anniversary with a series of stories about the children and families whose lives were transformed by our programs and services, as well as some of the “Hephzibah Heroes” who help make our mission possible.

This month, we’re featuring for mer Executive Director Mary Anne Brown, who led Hephzibah Children’s Association with vision and creativity for more than 40 years, from 1976 until her retirement in 2017.

Fueled by her passion for helping

trailblazer helped transform He phzibah from a small day care center with an annual budget of $100,000 into a nationally reco gnized child welfare agency with a comprehensive ar ray of services and a $9 million annual budget.

In this article, Brown reflects on the changing needs of children and families during her four-decade tenure—and shares some of the ways that Hephzibah’s passionately committed staff and board met those needs with the support of a caring ommunity.

atch for more 125th-anni versary stories in the months to come. We hope you find them as inspiring as we do!

A Champion for Children and Families

In 1976, Mary Anne Brown followed her heart to Hephzibah Home and began a 41-year jour ney that would bring hope and healing to thousands of children and their families.

When Brown—an Oak Park wife and mother with a master’s degree in child behavior and development—left her previous post as director of the South Austin Community Day Care Center to lead Hephzibah into its next chapter, society was going through some seismic shifts.

“Hephzibah was at a crossroads,” she recalls. “More women were entering the workforce— and the need for quality, affordable day care had surpassed the need for a children’s home. Two years before I ar rived, Hephzibah had suspended its residential program for the first time since the agency’s founding in 1897 to redirect its resources to day care for working parents.”

During her first year on the job, Brown did a lot of listening. What she heard was that there was a pressing need for more before- and after-school day care programming—as well as a full-day summer camp—to provide recreation and enrichment for Oak Park elementary schoolers while their parents were at work.

“At the time, our program was tiny,” Brown notes. “We were serving 20 children on the first floor of Hephzibah Home. The need for nurturing, enriching day care far exceeded our available space—and our waiting list was growing longer by the day.”

Constrained by the program’s meager budget, Brown began searching for creative solutions.

“We approached the Oak Park school district with a proposal to provide day care on site at the village’s elementary schools. The district gave us

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MARY ANNE BROWN

Former Hephzibah executive direc tor

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Mary Anne Brown and children from the Hephzibah a er-school daycare program posing for the annual agency holiday card.

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the go-ahead, and we piloted our schoolbased day care program at Oak Park’s Lincoln and Mann elementary schools in 1976. We continued to roll out additional sites until we were providing day care on a sliding scale for more than 600 children annually at every elementary school in Oak Park and one summer camp location.”

This alliance between Hephzibah and District 97 was the first of many fruitful partnerships that would be forged over the next four decades to help children thrive and families flourish. But Brown soon realized that Hephzibah’s founding mission to care for society’s most vulnerable children could not be accomplished with day care alone.

issues such as unemployment, housing insecurity, chronic health problems, substance abuse or domestic violence, we realized that some children needed foster care,” Brown explains “But, at the time, children at risk of harm from neglect or abuse were transported out of our community to a centralized Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) intake center and placed in foster homes throughout the Chicago area.”

That troubled Brown, who hoped to minimize the disruptions in the lives of these children by keeping them in the Oak Park/River Forest community

Picture originally published in Wednesday Journal announcing Mary Anne Brown as new director of Hephzibah.

“There were day care kids who needed help, and their families needed help,” she states. “So we began to work with the social workers at the police department to provide emergency services for day care families in crisis.”

That infor mal arrangement with the Oak Park police set the stage for Hephzibah’s Day Care Social Services Program, which continues to enhance the lives of hundreds of day care families each year with crisis intervention services and referrals for medical and mental health services, housing, vocational support and legal assistance, as well as direct assistance such as bus passes, grocery store gift certificates, clothing, school supplies and other family needs.

Community-based foster care was a relatively new concept in Illinois at the time. But Brown firmly believed that children were better of f in the familiar environs of their own neighborhoods, where they could attend their own schools and maintain relationships with their teachers, neighbors and friends. So she began to lay the groundwork for a community-based foster care program.

It was an ambitious goal. But, where some people saw obstacles, Brown saw opportunities. In 1980, Hephzibah launched one of the first community-based foster care programs in Illinois to keep children close to home while protecting them from neglect and abuse

Retired executive direc tor

It also paved the way for Hephzibah Foster Care.

“As we became more involved with day care families that were struggling with

Soon, a new need emerged as the first cases of what would later become known as AIDS were re ported in the U.S. From the onset of the epidemic through 1994, an estimated 14,920 HIV-infected infants were born in the U.S. (“Pediatric HIV/AIDS in the United States,” https://www pedaids.org/pediatric-hiv-aids-united-states/) —and Hephzibah pivoted to meet an unprecedented need.

“In the early 1980s, DCFS contacted us

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Brown and sta member Jean Clements sor ting through holiday donations in the early 1980’s at Hephzibah Home.

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Brown and former Oak Park Village President, Anan Abu-Taleb, at Hephzipaloozah - a street festival in Oak Park in 2017 organized by Hephzibah to honor Brown as she retired.

“There were daycare kids who needed help, and their families needed help.”

MARY ANNE BROWN

about HIV-positive babies in need of foster care for reasons unrelated to their HIV status,” recalls Hephzibah Foster Care Specialist Davida Williams, who retired in 2013.

After visiting the quarantined babies—who were being housed in an isolation unit at a DCFS children’s shelter and closely monitored by three Chicago children’s hospitals— Williams conferred with Brown and Hephzibah’s board of directors. Their response was unanimous and unequivocal: “These babies were vulnerable and needed the care of loving families

took to help these babies because none of us could stand the thought of these tiny humans being housed in a secluded isolation ward,” says Williams. “We began reaching out to our foster families to see if they were willing to care for HIV-positive infants. A handful of these families instantly said, ‘We’re in.’ These were mostly older parents who were willing to take the risk because they had already raised their children and had empty nests.”

With half a dozen Hephzibah foster families on board, Williams met with DCFS to work out the details.

education. So we worked with the medical experts from DCFS and Cook County Hospital to educate our foster families about caring for these infants.”

According to Williams, Hephzibah’s foster families were prepared to love and nurture the HIV-positive babies to their dying days. But then a surprising thing happened.

“The majority of these foster babies— who tested HIV-positive at birth because they still had their mothers’ antibodies in their systems—seroconverted to HIVnegative status during their first year of life,” she recalls. “We then developed permanency plans for the babies, who were eventually reunited with family members or placed in loving adoptive homes.”

“Hephzibah was one of two agencies in the state of Illinois that stepped forward without hesitation to care for these HIV-positive babies,” notes Brown today. “Thanks to the courage and dedication of Davida Williams and some truly amazing foster parents who took on the risks and unknowns of caring for these children, many are now healthy adults living productive and happy lives.”

The launch of Hephzibah’s foster care program sparked a period of unprecedented growth as the organization expanded its mission to include a full complement of child welfare services

Over the next two decades, Hephzibah

opened one of the state’s only diagnostic treatment centers to assess the physical, emotional and psychological needs of neglected and abused children; established a residential treatment program to provide long-ter m, therapeutic interventions for children who had been severely traumatized by chronic abuse or neglect, failed adoptions or abandonment; launched an adoption program to provide safe and loving forever homes for children who could not return home to their biological families; and introduced a comprehensive array of services for families in crisis

Yet, as Hephzibah continued to serve more children in substitute care, Brown noticed a disturbing trend. Many of the children at Hephzibah Home—and in group and foster homes across the nation—were lagging far behind their peers academically due to the many disruptions in their lives.

Brown believed that education was the ticket to a successful and fulfilling life, so she recruited some of the community’s most accomplished educators to serve on an Academic Advisory Board in 1999. Together they began brainstor ming about ways to help close the achievement gap. That same year, they piloted a Summer Reading Academy in partnership with Dominican University to boost the children’s reading and literacy skills.

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Brown and a young visitor at an ag ency holiday party for foster families.

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Brown and Peter Bear form the Peninsula Chicago Hotel visiting the children at Hephzibah Home with Halloween treats.

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We were prepared to do whatever it took to help these babies...”

DAVIDA WILLIAMS

Retired foster care specialist

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In the years that followed, Hephzibah launched an After-School Academy powered by an all-volunteer force of Homework Helpers to provide afterschool tutoring for the children living at Hephzibah Home; recruited local artists to open doors to dance, painting, music and other artistic pursuits through the Colorful Days Arts Academy; and introduced One Book, One Hephzibah—a 12-week summer prog ram designed to take the solitary struggle out of reading and make it fun by engaging the children in group activities and field trips related to each week’s featured book.

In 2003, Brow tackled another troubling issue: At the time, 75 percent of all children in substitute care separated from their siblings in different group or foster homes. It was often the final—and most devastating blow for children who were already g rieving the loss of their homes, schools and communities.

therapists and child care workers—who were out on the front lines every day and often the first to perceive a need came up with the ideas for many of Hephzibah’s most innovative programs,” Brown stresses. “We were able to pivot quickly to put their ideas into action because our board was infor med and responsive—and our staf f members were always willing to say, ‘Okay, we can try that.’”

Growth takes commitment, which Brown and her staf f had in spades. But it also takes resources—and this was where Brown’s gift for spreading the word about Hephzibah’s mission came in

“We had a collective vision of what children and families needed to be successful,” she says. “Whenever we communicated those needs to our friends and supporters, they responded with extraordinary generosity to make our mission possible.”

PROVIDED Brown and Juanita, an adopted child ser ved by Hephzibah.

To help mend these broken bonds, Brown and her team piloted Camp HepSIBah—a summer camp experience for children se parated in the child welfare system. Nearly every summer since then—with a hiatus during the COVID-19 pandemic—sibling groups have reconnected at a r ustic woodland camp to share childhood adventures and form deep emotional bonds that will support and sustain them throughout their lives.

Hephzibah pioneered many other innovative programs during Brown’s tenure. But she is quick to point out that none of these programs would exist without the input, creativity and flexibility of Hephzibah’s staf f and board of directors.

“Our program directors, social workers,

Although Brown is now five years into retirement, people still seek her out to share their “Hephzibah stories.” Some recall how grateful they were as young, cash-strapped parents to have access to nur turing, af fordable day care. Others remember the hope and help that Hephzibah gave them when their families were in crisis. And then there are the children who found a safe haven and a place to heal at He phzibah Home—all grown up now—with smiles on their faces and gratitude in their hear ts.

For Brown, the feeling is mutual.

“I can’t imagine my life without the children and families I grew to know and love during my 41 years as executive director—and the incredible community that was always there to support our ef forts,” she muses today. “Whenever there was a need, people came together and we found a way to meet it.”

Article statistics sourced from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Car theft spree reported in Nor th Riverside

North Riverside police reported three one vehicle thefts on Oct. 20 and two more on Oct. 21 with a fourth vehicle likely the target of an unsuccessful theft Oct. 21.

Officers responded to 7222 Cer mak Road on Oct. 20 at about 5:25 p.m. after an employee of Pearle Vision called to report that his red 2021 Kia Forte had been stolen from the parking lot sometime after 9:50 a.m.

Police observed broken glass on the ground where the car had been parked. License plate reader cameras captured video of the vehicle traveling northbound on Harlem Avenue at Roosevelt Road at 5:27 p.m. The vehicle had a broken rear passenger window.

On Oct. 21 at about 7 p.m., police once again were called to 7222 Cer mak Road by an employee of Binny’s Beverage Depot who had parked his white Hyundai Sonata in the west lot at that address

A 9 mm Smith & Wesson handgun was locked in the glove box of the vehicle, the victim told police.

Just about 45 minutes earlier, at about 6:15 p.m., North Riverside had responded to Zeigler Ford, 2100 Harlem Ave. for a report of a possible attempted vehicle theft. An employee told police that a few minutes earlier a maroon Kia entered the dealership’s south parking lot and pulled up to a Kia SUV belonging to the dealership.

At least two people exited the sedan and tried to break into the SUV, breaking out the passenger side rear window before employees confronted them. The Kia sedan was last seen speeding southbound on Harlem Avenue The offenders’ Kia sedan had its passenger side rear window broken out and covered by a plastic trash bag, police said.

Finally, police were called to the east food court parking lot of North Riverside Park Mall, 7501 Cer mak Road, at about 10:20 p.m. by someone who reported that while she was inside the movie theater, someone stole her white Kia.

The victim parked the vehicle in the lot at about 8:05 p.m. When she retur ned a little more than two hours later, the car was gone and broken glass lay near where her car had been parked.

Security camera video showed that the vehicle was stolen around 8:40 p.m. The vehicle is seen leaving the parking lot southbound along with a dark colored sedan.

Multiple vehicle burglaries in Brookfield

Brookfield police re por ted a wave of break-ins between Oct. 19 and Oct. 24, all

of which involved someone breaking out the window of a locked vehicle and nearly all of them taking place south of the BNSF railroad tracks.

Not all of the break-ins resulted in items being stolen, but police believe the intent likely was burglary.

Four incidents were reported on the mor ning of Oct. 19. During the over night hours, someone smashed out the windows of two vehicles parked in the 8800 block of 45th Place, one in the 4600 block of Raymond Avenue and one in the 9100 block of Sahler Avenue.

A bag containing credit cards, a checkbook and other items was taken from one of the vehicles on 45th Place. The offender reportedly used two of the credit cards at a gas station, making purchases totaling about $175.

On Oct. 21, 23 and 24 residents of the 3700 block of Raymond Avenue, the 4600 block of Grove Avenue and the 3800 block of Morton Avenue reported similar incidents In one instance, a victim reported hearing the sound of smashing glass at about 4:30 a.m. and looked out the window to see someone exiting the rear passenger door of a vehicle.

Anti-LGBTQ+ posters taped to church door

Brookfield police are investigating a suspicious incident at a local church, saying it could be connected to a similar incident reported last week at a church in LaGrange.

On the mor ning of Oct. 18, a representative of Holy Covenant Metropolitan Church, 9145 Grant Ave., called to report that two posters disparaging and condemning homosexuality had been taped to a church entrance overnight on Oct. 16-17.

The action was not captured on security camera video, but LaGrange police notified Brookfield that a similar incident had taken place in that village, and that police were attempting to identify two suspects

Road rage incident

Brookfield police charged a 49-year-old Chicago man with battery after he allegedly slapped a 16-year-old Brookfield boy during a road rage incident on the after noon of Oct. 17 at the intersection of Park and Jackson avenues.

According to the police report, the victim was skateboarding and had yelled at the driver of a silver Mercedes-Benz, which he felt was traveling too fast as it passed him. The driver of the Mercedes-Benz stopped at the

intersection, exited his car and confronted the boy, who reportedly started yelling at him. At that time, the Chicago man allegedly slapped the boy in the face, shoved him and displayed a handgun he had in a holster on his hip. The man reportedly told police he felt threatened by the boy and believed he would damage his car with the skateboard. He also denied displaying the handgun, but police noted that he was ar med with the 9 mm subcompact Springfield XD.

These items we re obtained from police re ports filed by the Ri verside, North Ri verside and Brookfield police de partments, Oct. 17-24, and re present a portion of the incidents to which police responded. Unless otherwise indicated, anybody named in these re ports has only been charged with a crime. These cases ha ve not been adjudicated.

— Compiled by Bob

Brookfield Public Works building renovation close to $200,000

Former ESDA facility will house department’s water division

By BOB UPHUES Editor

The village of Brookfield finally will be able to move forward with a project to renovate the interior of the for mer ESDA building on the Brookfield Public Works site at 4523 Eberly Ave., although it’s still going to cost more than officials had hoped.

On Oct. 10, village trustees voted 4-0 to award a $197,666 contract to YAD Construction, which submitted the lowest of seven bids, to complete the work The village had budgeted $150,000 for the project.

The second-lowest bid, from Blue Reef LLC, came in at $219,000, while the highest bid, from TORI Construction, was $415,000.

It was the third time the village had sought bids for the interior renovation project. The first attempt resulted in no fir m bidding to do the work. In June, the village received just one bid of $370,000, which the village board for mally re-

jected in order to seek more bids this fall.

Brookfield is familiar with YAD Construction, which is based in Chicago, because the same fir m replaced the ESDA building’s roof and perfor med exterior repairs in 2021. That bid also came in above the village’s estimate, but it was significantly lower than bids from four other firms.

Public Works Director Carl Muell told the Landmark he had scheduled a pre-construction meeting with YAD Construction for this week and hoped to get the work started before the end of the month.

“I would like to be in the building by Thanksgiving or soon after,” Muell said in a text message

Many years ago, the building served as the headquarters of the Brookfield Emergency Services and Disaster Agency (ESDA), which was disbanded in 2006 after 50 years. It has since served as a public works storage garage for a Vactor sewer-cleaning truck, pumps and miscellaneous water parts.

Since late 2021, Muell has wanted to make the shabby two-story interior space better serve the needs of the department’s water division. In addition to continuing to serve as the storage garage for water equipment and the Vactor truck, the building will also house an office for the water

department’s foreman, an office and locker room for water department staff, a conference room, a laundry area and a handicapped-accessible restroom.

The building’s heating and air-conditioning systems will be replaced, with a ventilation system added to extract the Vactor truck’s exhaust. Work also includes adding a new electrical panel and LED lighting.

Trustees reject bids for DPW roof project

While the third time was the char m on the ESDA i nterior renovation project, Brookfield trustees on Oct. 10 rejected the one bid it rece ived for a project to complete structural re pairs to the metal trusses suppo rt ing the roof of the main public wo rks building at 4545 Ebe rly Ave.

In 2020, the village paid about $100,000 to re p lace the building’s shingle roof and perf or m some masonry and truss re pairs

While doing that wo rk , it became clear that the trusses we re more d amaged than expected. T he c ost to do the truss re pairs was far mor e than the village had budg eted for the wo rk , so they decided to bid it out as a se parate project in 2022.

T he only fir m submitting a bid when they we re d ue in Se p tember was Krause C onstruction, wh ich proposed charging the village $217,471 for the wo rk , wh ich the village had estimated costing $100,000.

Of ficials have not yet decided whether to rebid the wo rk this year or wait to include it in the village ’s 2023 budg et.

PHOTO S BY BOB UPHUES/Editor

e v illage of Brook eld replaced the roof and did exte rior repairs to the fo rmer ESDA building (above) at 4523 Eberly Ave. in 2021, setting the stage for a f ull remodel of the interior (below) which has served as a storage garage for the water division of the public works depa rtment.

Despite adopting new state standards, D96 sex ed remains unchanged

Riverside students continue to begin instruction in 5th grade

By BOB SKOLNIK

Contributing Reporter

A new state law re garding sex education has caused concer n among some parents, but local educators say nothing has changed in their sex education cur riculum. Last year Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the Kee ping Youth Safe and Healthy Act, which made Illinois the first state in the nation to codify new national sex education standards created by SEICUS: Sex Ed for Social Change, a national group that promotes sex education.

Under the new Illinois law, school districts that of fer “comprehensive” sex education are supposed to follow the new standards which, among other things, calls for teaching about gender identity and sexual orientation as early as early as kindergarten through second grade. However local districts need not teach “comprehensive” sex education.

Among local school districts, Riverside Elementary School District 96 appears to be the only one to for mally pass a policy of teaching “comprehensive” sex education. District 96’s policy specifically refers to the new law and the new national sex education standards

However, District 96 of ficials say that despite their adoption of that policy, they

COVID FRAUD

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Security (CARES) Act, the U.S. attor ney for the Nor ther n District of Illinois, John R. Lausch Jr. announced Oct. 20.

Also charged were Marko Nikolic, 34, of LaGrange; Nebojsa Simeunovic, 37, of Lyons; Mijajlo Stanisic, 33, of Willowbrook; Branko Aleksic, 33, of Chicago; Milica Sumakovic, 31, of Chicago and Dorde Todorovic, 32, of Chicago.

T he 33-count indictment alle g es that

don’t be gin any sex education until the fifth grade and don’t teach all of the new standards.

“We’ve opted not to teach [sex education in] kinderg ar ten through fourth grade, because we feel it is developmentally appropriate for our community to be gin with fifth graders talking about puberty,” District 96 Director of Teaching and Lear ning Angela Dole zal told the Landmark.

“Between last year and this year, we haven’t changed anything.”

District 96, like many other local districts, uses educators from Candor Health Education, for merly known as the Robert Crown Center, to teach sex education.

In District 96, fifth graders attend one 90-minute session called Puber ty I. It continues with Puber ty II in sixth grade and moves on to Teen Sexual Health in seventh and eighth grades. Each grade level receives one 90-minute session taught by Candor Health Education staf f.

Puber ty I teaches the basics of puberty such as the growth of body hair and other facts about developing bodies. Puber ty II gets into a discussion of how gender roles

Maja Nikolic and the others submitted more than 300 applications for loans and cash advances the federal gover nment was providing through its Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) progr am, which was part of the CARES le gislation in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, to businesses with 500 or fewer employees

According to the indictment, the defendants sought those funds purp or ting to be of ficers of corporations that had once been active, but which were dissolved at the time of application.

T he applications also alle gedly included fraudulent estimates of revenues and costs of goods sold during the 12 months prior to Jan. 20, 2020, submitting f alse

and manifestations have changed throughout history, according to Katie Gallagher the director of health education for Candor Health Education.

In Teen Sexual Health in seventh and eighth grades, gender identity is discussed

“We define what sex assigned at birth is,” Gallagher said.

Teen Sexual Health makes distinctions between sex and gender and talks about various types of sexual orientations and expression, including references to people who are not binary or whose feelings of identity do not match the sex they were born with.

At a District 96 school board meeting last month Debbie Alm, the parent of adult children who attended District 96 schools, questioned the school board about why they adopted their policy

“In that curriculum, they say in the brain is where your sexual identity is and that your genitalia is only how you have sex, it has nothing to do with your gender,” Alm said.

Robert O’Bryan, the father of twin first graders at Central School, as well as four older children who attended District 96

federal corporate income tax documents.

T hey also alle gedly listed the number of people those companies purp or tedly employed, when they actually employed no one

T he indictment also alle g es that Maja Nikolic and the other defendants fraudulently re presented in those applications that they were U.S. citizens, when they were actually Serbian nationals exce pt for Stanisic and Aleksic, who are Montene g rin nationals.

Nikolic and the other defendants also alle gedly opened bank accounts in the names of the phony companies and directed into them millions of dollars in fraudulently obtained federal funds,

schools, attended last month’s school board meeting but not speak, although he told the Landmark he has talked with school board President Dan Hunt about his concer ns and has traded emails with District 96 Superintendent Martha Ryan-Toye

In a telephone interview with the Landmark, O’Bryan said he believed schools should only teach the very basics about sex to students and leave the rest to parents.

“Sperm, egg, get the rest from your parents,” O’Bryan said.

Hunt said the adoption of the sex ed policy was done on the advice of the district’s lawyers and was not meant to signal any change in the district’s sex ed curriculum.

“I don’t think there was anything significant or special about it at the time,” Hunt said.

Other local school districts have not chosen to teach comprehensive sex education. They are just continuing to teach what they have taught for years.

In Brookfield-LaGrange Park District 95, sex education star ts in sixth grade. In LaGrange-Brookfield School District 102, which includes the southwester n portion of Brookfield, sex education star ts in the fourth grade.

In all school districts, parents have the option of opting out their children from sex education instruction.

which they used for personal benefit.

T he indictment names Maja Nikolic in 13 of the 33 counts, alle ging Nikolic fraudulently directed about $1.7 million of federal funds into bank accounts in the United States

Federal prosecutors also alle ge Nikolic eng aged in money laundering by wirin g about $710,000 from a Citibank account to a bank outside the U.S. on July 28, 2020, a move “designed in whole or in part to conceal and disguise the natur e, loc ation, source, ownership and control of the proceeds.”

Each wire fraud and money laundering charge is punishable by up to 20 years in federal prison.

“Between last year and this year, we haven’t changed anything.”

ANGELA DOLEZAL

D96 direc tor of teaching and learning

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Safety net

In the past year, elected of ficials in both Riverside and Nor th Riverside voted to create registries for rental proper ties in each village. The goal of the re gistries is multifaceted, and they seek to protect a segment of the population whose lives, as we have seen recently, are in danger of being tur ned upside down in a second, through no fault of their own.

In addition to getting information about exactly who is living in rental properties, so they can be provided with information about how to contact the village with concer ns and complaints, one goal is to get village inspectors inside buildings re gularly to address code violations that otherwise go unseen because private property owners are loath to have gover nment officials snooping around all the time

Each village is handling that end of the process a little differently, but it’s clear that better inspection regimens are needed after a number of awful incidents in recent years concer ning properties owned and managed by the same cast of characters.

In Riverside, the village moved to act after a man fell to his death when a faulty staircase railing gave way and tenants in winter 2021 went without heat for a week at the same building.

Two weeks ago, scores of people were made homeless in an instant when a fire rendered their North Riverside apartment building uninhabitable. The Landmark and the village had been hearing anecdotal complaints about the building for some time, but inspection records provided to the newspaper by the village made clear inspectors hadn’t been inside the building much, if at all, recently.

Following the fire, the village’s building inspector has recommended structural, electrical and mechanical engineering reports be handed over before of ficials allow the building once again to be occupied.

That’s a minimum, we’d argue. The villages also need to be robust in their efforts to regularly inspect these buildings via their new registries. Literally, lives are at stake.

Judging the judges

Selecting judges to vote for is, for most of us, an invitation to feel inadequate as active citizens of Cook County. It’s very hard to know who these people are, what are their views on the role of judges within a system many of us have doubts about. Maybe we see passing references to endorsements by various local bar associations.

And then most of us vote blindly or we skip voting for judges entirely. Doesn’t feel good

So, we’re proud this week to be partnering again with Injustice Watch, an outstanding nonprofit newsroom, and including its 2022 judicial election guide in all of our print editions across the Growing Community Media chain. That’s Wednesday Jour nal of Oak Park and River Forest, Austin Weekly News, Forest Park Review, Riverside-Brookfield Landmark and the Village Free Press, which covers Proviso Township. It’s a convenient, one-stop resource to help you decide which box to check when it comes to candidates for judge. Have look and let us know what you think.

Filling treat bags and battling temptation

Time to get those little treat bags to gether, because Halloween is next week. I always like to put treats in little bags so I know everyone is getting the same amount and I can tell how many little goblins came to our house.

I like to have cute Halloween bags if I can get them. If not, snack baggies work just fine. I like to put two or three treats in a bag, which usually includes a Dum Dum lollipop, sort of my own tradition. They, whoever they are, said that this year the candy would cost more and that the bags would be smaller, but that won’t stop me. I’ll do what I usually do -- it’s for the kids.

JOANNE KOSE Y

It is nice though that we can get individually wrapped candy and a big variety, but what I need to do is find bags of candy that aren’t such a temptation to me. I thought if I purchased some candy I didn’t care for it would be easier, but I discovered there were not too many I didn’t care for. While most trick-or-treaters are fine with candy,

there are those who aren’t able to have candy, so there are alternatives for those children. I’ll stop at one of the dollar stores to pick up a variety of things to pass out. In the past, I have given out Halloween pencils or there are small decks of cards, and what kid wouldn’t want a spider ring? Check these items out, plus you won’t be tempted

I can remember my mom would run out of candy and then would be checking her change purse to pass out coins. A quarter isn’t a bad thing to get. I always liked the wax lips or little bottles that contained liquid when you bit into them. Ah, those were the days.

So, Husband Joe and I will sit outside and pass out treats. What’s fun is to see the next generation come out and celebrate. I remember the Dvorak kids coming to the door to see if we could guess who they were -- now it’s their kids Quick get those Reese’s Pieces into a bag before I get tempted – oops, too late! Is that a Mounds bar I see?

OBITUARIES

JoAnn M. DePergola, 73

Dedicated nurse

JoAnn Mary DePergola (nee Ballerine), 73, died Oct. 13, 2022 at home with her children by her side after a brief battle with cancer.

Ms DePergola was born in Chicago to the late Joseph and Patricia Ballerine. She dedicated her life to nursing and the caring of her patients and coworkers. She was a special person with an infectious personality that made people gravitate towards her. She was a friend and supported anyone who was in need

In her free time, Ms DePergola enjoyed volunteering at the zoo, traveling and spending time with her loved ones Her passion for life and adventure will live on in her family. She was a loving mother, grandmother, caring sister and faithful friend. She will be missed by all.

Ms. DePergola is survived by her three children, Stacia (Randall) Keegan, Benedict (Kim) DePergola

and Joseph (Mary) DePergola; her grandchildren, Hanah Papkov, Garrett DePergola, Justin DePergola, Kalista Grey, Roman DePergola, Gianna Chivilo and Ethan DePergola; and her great grandson, Oliver DePergola.

In addition to her children and grandchildren, she is survived by her sister Barbara Schafer and brother Joseph (Donna) Ballerine.

A service will be held to celebrate her life on Nov. 5 from noon to 6 p.m. at Ivins Funeral Home, 80 E. Burlington St., Riverside

Mildred F. Hamouz, 94

North Riverside resident

Mildred F. Hamouz (nee Kubacka), 94, of Nor th Riverside and for merly of Berwyn, died Oct. 20, 2022.

Ms Hamouz worked in an administrative capac-

ity for a manufacturing company prior to retiring.

She was the wife of the late Joseph Hamouz; the mother of Joe Hamouz and Donna L. (Mark) Welke; and the grandmother of Devin Welke and Ian Welke. She was predeceased by two brothers and two sisters.

Visitation is on Wednesday, Oct. 26 from 9 a.m. to time of service at 11 a.m. at Hitzeman Funeral Home, 9445 31st St., Brookfield. Interment is at Woodlawn Cemetery, Forest Park.

Express condolences online at HitzemanFuneral.com. Send sympathy cards to Hitzeman Funeral Home, 9445 31st St., Brookfield, 60513, c/o Mildred Hamouz family

Patricia Lavorato, 84

Brook eld Zoo event specialist

Patricia “ Pat” Lavo rato (nee Walsh), 84, a longtime resident of Rive rside, die d Oct. 20, 2022.

Ms. Lavo rato was bo rn Dec. 21, 1937.

S he wo rked as an event specialist fo r over 40 years at the Brookfield Zoo and was a well-reco gnized face to the visitors and employees at the zoo. S he love d and adored her gr andchildren, and she enjoyed playing cards with friends ever y week, especially poke r.

S he was the w ife of the late Sa m Lavo rato; the mother of Michael (Holly) Lavo rato and Mary DeGroot; the proud and b est “Nonnie” of Talia and Maura DeGroot and Gianna Lavo rato; the d aughter of Francis and L ouise (nee G ryrzowski) Walsh; the sister of Pe gg y (the late Frank) Crement, Pam (the late Gary) Tindall and Frank (Paula) Walsh; the daughter in-l aw of the late Sam A. Sr. (late Mary) Lavo rato; the sister in-l aw of the late Erma (late Irv) Kieback; Barbara (Larry) S eaman and John (Mary Kaye ) Lavo rato; and an aunt to many nieces and ne phew s

Family and friends will be rece ived at the C onboy-Westchester Funeral Home 10501 W. Cermak Road (2 blocks west of Mannheim Road), Westchester on F riday, Oct. 28 from 3 to 8 p. m. A f uneral Mass will be c elebrated Saturday, Oct. 29 at 10:30 a.m. at St. C letus C hurch. I nterment is at All Saints Cemeter y.

In lieu of fl owers d onations to the St Ju de Children’s Research Hospitals (stjude.org) are appreciated

Ar r angements we re handled by the O riginal Ku ratko Family, B rian D. Kuratko, director.

Ruth M. Luif, 87

Former Brook eld resident

Ruth M. Luif, 87, of LaGrange and formerly of Brookfield, died Oct. 16, 2022. She was retired from a career in accounting for a telecommunications company.

Ms. Luif was the daughter of the late August Luif and the late Lucille Luif (nee Hasenfang); the sister of Linda Luif, Shirley (the Guido) Arquilla, the late Marlene (the late Harold) Lave and the late Karen Sho gren; the aunt of many nieces and nephews; and a cousin to many.

A funeral Mass was celebrated Oct. 21 at St. Barbara Church, Brookfield, followed by interment at St. Mary’s Cemetery, Evergreen Park.

Hitzeman Funeral Home, Brookfield, handled arrangements.

Send sympathy cards to Hitzeman Funeral Home, 9445 31st St., Brookfield, 60513, c/o Ruth Luif family.

Stephen Nemic, 85 Worked for railroad and in real estate

Stephen Nemic, 85, a for mer longtime resident of Brookfield, died Oct. 16, 2022 in Nevada.

Before retiring to Nevada, Mr. Nemic resided in Brookfield for over 50 years. He was a member of St. Panteleimon Orthodox Church in Summit, and he was a kind gentleman who gave to many and was a proud alumnus of Penn State University.

After graduating from Penn State, he served in the U.S. Ar my. During employment at the now-defunct Rock Island Railroad, Mr. Nemic began and enjoyed a successful career in real estate for over 30 years.

He was born in Pennsylvania to Steven and Olga Nemic. His sister, Valerie (the late Dale) Boswell, preceded him in death in 2021.

Survivors include his sisters, Melody (late Allan) Keith and Suzanne (Edward) Akiona of Nevada; his ne phews, Mark Boswell, James (Linda) Keith and Gregory (Cathy) Boswell; his grandne phews, Gregory Boswell, Matthew Keith; and his grand-

nieces, Hannah and Ashley Keith, Cece and Eva Boswell.

Visitation is Sunday, Oct. 30 from 3 to 8 p.m. at Johnson-Nosek Funeral Home, 3847 Prairie Ave., Brookfield. A funeral service will be held Monday, Oct. 31 at 9 a.m. at St. Panteleimon Church. Private burial to follow at Elmwood Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, donations to St. Panteleimon Or thodox Church, 7549 W. 61st Pl., Summit, 60501, are appreciated Online condolences, memories and photographs may be shared at JohnsonNosek.com.

Jose Rodriguez, M.D., 85

Family medicine physician for more than 40 years

Jose “Carlos” Rodriguez, M.D., beloved husband, father and grandfather, died on Oct. 18, 2022, after a long illness in Princeton, Illinois, at age 85.

Dr. Rodriguez was born in 1936 to Isolina and Manuel in La Paz, Bolivia. He rece ived his medical degree from the Universidad Mayor de San Andres in La Paz. As a medical intern, he was recr uited to Chicago in 1965 to fill physician vacancies by those serving in the Vietnam War.

He was working his internship at Cook County Hospital when he met his wifeto-be Carol, a nursing student at West Suburban Hospital. Dr. Rodriguez was a respected medical community member and practiced family medicine for over 40 years.

Dr. Rodriguez spent his retirement writing poetry, painting and playing guitar He loved to travel and did so at every opportunity he got. Whether visiting his son

Marc in China and England or his homeland Bolivia with his daughter Serina, or a quick weekend g etaway to Paris with his daughter Aimee, he was always up fo r exploring. T he f amily is forever grateful to his son-in-law, Matt, who took him on his most recent and final adventure to New York this past August.

Most of all, he showed his love to his close friends and f amily. Dr. Rodrigue z had an infectious smile that brought warmth to all of those around him. He loved to meet people and was most content joking and bringing gatherings to life with his humor. He loved jokes (both good and bad) and always had an idea up his sleeve. He was truly a man of many ideas.

Carlos and Carol spent over 40 years in Riverside, where they raised their f amily before moving to rural Illinois to spend time on their farm. He enjoyed raisin g chickens, growing fruit trees, and sitting among the tall grasses at his favorite spot along the creek r unning through the property

He loved visits from his grandkids and especially enjoyed beating them in poker g ames and late-night Dairy Queen r uns. T heir love of the simple farm life overjoyed him, and he was always so happy to be able to share it with them.

Dr. Rodriguez is survived by his wife, Carol; three children, daughter Serin a (Matt) and grandchildren Hannah, Josh, and Ethan; son Marc (Andrea) and granddaughters Alice and Charlotte (in England); and daughter Aimee (Mark) and grandchildren Olive, Cooper and Drake; his sister Luz (Rober to) of Las Ve gas, and many nieces and nephews who were dear to his heart.

Growing Community Media

HELP WANTED

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

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

DEFINITION

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

SUPERVISION RECEIVED AND EXERCISED

Reports directly to the Information Technology Services Director.

EXAMPLE OF DUTIES:

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

Essential duties and responsibilities

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

software and other forms of systems and data.

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

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

13. Participate in research and recommendation of technology solutions.

Other important responsibilities and duties

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

2. Participate in the preparation of various activity reports.

3. Travel and support remote facilities and partner agencies.

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

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

6. Complete projects on a timely and efficient manner.

7. Communicate effectively both orally and in writing.

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

9. Perform related duties and responsibilities as required.

QUALIFICATIONS

Knowledge of:

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

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

Network protocols, security, configuration and administration, including firewalls, routers, switches and wireless technology. Cabling and wiring, including CAT5/6, fiber network, telephone, serial communication, termination, and punch-down.

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

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

VB scripts. Modern office procedures, methods and computer equipment. Technical writing, office productivity tools and database packages.

Ability to:

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

- Walking, standing or sitting for extended periods of time

- Operating assigned equipment

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

- Working in and around computer equipped vehicles

Maintain effective audio-visual discrimination and perception needed for:

- Making observations

- Communicating with others

- Reading and writing

- Operating assigned equipment and vehicles

Maintain mental capacity allowing for effective interaction and communication with others. Maintain reasonable and predictable attendance. Work overtime as operations require.

Experience and Training

Guidelines

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

Possession of a valid Illinois Driver License is required at the time of appointment. Vaccination against COVID-19 strongly preferred.

WORKING CONDITIONS

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

YOGA SIX FITNESS SALES ASSOCIATE

exceed weekly and monthly sales goals established by the General Manager

ACCOUNT CLERK II

The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Account Clerk II. This position performs a variety of accounting clerical duties involving financial record keeping and/or transactions including accounts payable and receivable and to provide a variety of accounting support to the Development Customer Services Department. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www.oakpark.us/jobs. First review of applications November 4, 2022.

NURSERY SUPERVISOR AND CHILDCARE COORDINATOR

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

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

PART-TIME

ELECTRICIAN’S HELPER

Call contracter for more info. 708-738-3848

If you are passionate about health and fitness, enjoy connecting with people and thrive in an environment that encourages you to exceed personal and team goals - this is the role for you! Our ideal candidate brings at least a year of sales experience along with a good understanding of prospecting leads through telemarketing, phone sales, and member referrals. If you are interested in starting or growing your sales career in the dynamic fitness industry, apply today!

Fitness Sales Associate duties include working closely with current and potential customers to recommend classes and membership options based on their wellness goals, answer their questions about the studio and help resolve customer concerns.

The Fitness Sales Associate is responsible for appointment booking and ensuring first time visitors to studio have an overwhelmingly positive experience. The successful Sales associate will stay up-to-date with sales promotions, maintain the studio’s visual appearance in high standards, and strive to exceed individual and studio sales goals.

Responsibilities

-Customer experience: welcome visitors and members to the studio, answer phones and assist customers at the front desk with various administrative tasks. Handle member issues professionally and objectively, seeking to resolve them through exceptional customer service. Build productive trust relationships with customers.

-Sales: Support the sales process by contacting sales prospects via telephone and text messaging, setting up appointments, and reviewing membership options with new visitors to the studio. Assess customers needs and provide assistance and information on studio features, class offerings and membership options. Meet and

-Prospecting: support in and out of studio events to generate new sales prospects (health fairs, community events, marathons, etc.) Support studio marketing and social media activities.

-Member engagement: Conduct studio tours with new prospects to build rapport to facilitate sales; set new members up for success, support members with class selection and participate/lead member appreciation events

-Operations: Maintain a high degree of cleanliness and studio presentation for current and potential customers. Assist in maintaining a safe environment for all.

-Self Management: Assumes responsibility for developing selling skills, reviewing training materials and participating in staff meetings to support achievement of personal and studio goals. “Go the extra mile” to drive sales and deliver exceptional customer service

-Other duties as assigned

Skills

- Proven work experience as a Retail Sales associate, Sales representative or similar role (i.e. Orangetheory fitness, Gym or health club front desk, Gap, Victoria’s Secret)

-Basic understanding of sales principles and customer service practices

-Proficiency in English

-Excellent phone skills

-Solid communication and interpersonal skills

-A friendly and energetic personality with customer service focus

-Ability to perform under pressure and address complaints in a timely manner

-Availability to work flexible shifts

-BS degree in Marketing or related field would be a plus https://yogasixoakpark.applytojob. com/apply/8VFe6DzMAT/FitnessSales-Associate

Custom Frame Company Clean,

Software Engineer II sought by Coyote Logistics, LLC in Chicago, IL. Telecommuting is permitted. Apply at jobpostingtoday.com Ref# 37465.

PART-TIME ASSISTANT FACILITIES MANAGER

First United Methodist Church of Oak Park 324 N Oak Park Ave, Oak Park

First United Methodist Church is seeking a part-time Assistant Facilities Manager to work the following hours:

- Sunday mornings 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM

- Two Mondays per month from 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM

- Every Wednesday evening from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM

The position will also cover additional hours for weekdays and occasional weekend hours as needed.

Responsibilities of this position include:

- Opening and closing procedures on Sunday mornings and at the end of other church or guest events.

- Locking and unlocking appropriate doors for each event

- Overseeing the loading and unloading of bulky items through church doors

- Setting up and breaking down tables

- Directing guests to legal parking options

- Providing security for church events

- Contacting emergency medical, police or fire personnel when required

- Ensuring snow removal contractors arrive in time to clean sidewalks, or removing snow on private sidewalks if needed

- Accessing items in storage as needed, such as power strips, proper tape

- Handling minor repairs and contacting the Facilities Manager, Trustees or directly calling contractors when necessary

- On occasion there is some cleaning required of spaces used

This individual must present himself/ herself to the public in a professional

Manufacturing

Top rated firm, Alpina Manufacturing LLC, founded in 1992, locally owned beautiful campus in Galewood, near Mars candy, 3 blocks north of Oak Park. We build and sell display framing systems to customers nationwide including Wal-Mart, Verizon, Circle K, Hospitals, CTA. Apply in person M-F 8am to 4pm • Alpina • 6460 W Cortland St Chicago, IL 60707

www.fastchangeframes.com

River Forest Public Schools

River Forest School District 90 is seeking On-Call Substitute Teachers and Teacher Aides, $130-$150 per day!

FLEXIBLE Schedule between the hours of 7:50a - 3:20pm

Work one day a week or up to 5 days a week, half days or full days

Responsibilities:

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

Qualifications:

One of the following licenses:

• Professional Educator License (PEL)

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

semesters hours of coursework)

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

• Educator License with Stipulations

• Paraprofessional License (Associate’s degree required)

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

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

HELP WANTED

manner as a representative of our church.

May fill in when needed for the Facilities Manager or the Custodian This position reports to the Facilities Manager, Trustees or the Pastor as needed. Must be willing to serve on rotation for emergency response from our Burglar system or the Fire Department.

Successful completion of background checks must be completed prior to work. Covid vaccinations are required.

Pay - $20 an hour. Resumes can be sent to LKMasters47@gmail.com.

GRANTS COORDINATOR

The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Grants Coordinator in the Development Customer Service Department. This position assists the Village’s Grant Supervisor in developing, coordinating, and administering various grants programs for the Village of Oak Park. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Park’s website http://www.oakpark.us/jobs. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application.

PARKING ENFORCEMENT OFFICER

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

MARKETPLACE

GARAGE SALE

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE COORDINATOR

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

OFFICE/RETAIL FOR RENT

OFFICE/RETAIL FOR RENT

FIREWOOD

& SAT OCT 29 & 30

Grandmothers clock, towels, hardware, fishing equipment, trolling motor, fans, home goods, frames, pictures, gardening, CDs, DVDs, antique cookbooks, books, small furniture, table/chairs, stools, boom boxes, mini-stepper, clothes Ladies 6-16 & Men’s L-XXL, boy christening outfit, macrame plant hangers, Xmas tree-houses-outdoor décor, so much more!

RIVER FOREST–7777 Lake St.

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CLASSICS WANTED

708-38

$$ Top $$

Porsche, Corvette, Ferrari’s, Jaguars, Muscle Cars, Mustang & Mopars

$$ Top $$ all makes, Etc. Collector James 630-201-8122

WANTED TO BUY

WANTED MILITARY ITEMS: Helmets, medals, patches, uniforms, weapons, flags, photos, paperwork, Also toy soldiers – lead, plastic – other misc. toys.

Call Uncle Gary 708-522-3400

PUBLIC NOTICES

Division.

In re the marriage of RAMIA SALEH KASSIM, Petitioner and MAHDI AHMED MOHAMMED GHALEB, Respondent, Case No. 2022D007467.

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.

back of Card B after the Judicial Retention Candidates.

For all in-person voters, the touchscreen ballot is approximately 20+ pages and any local referenda questions will be at the end of the ballot after the Judicial Retention Candidates.

A specimen ballot is included with this notice on pages 8-11 .

PUBLIC NOTICE

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: Y22009773 on October 20, 2022

Under the Assumed Business Name of INFINITE HEALING TINCTURES

Village of Oak Park

PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD for the:

Community Development Block Grant Program Year 2021

LEGAL NOTICE

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Board Of Education of the Oak Park and River Forest High School, Consolidated High School District 200, Cook County, Illinois, 201 North Scoville Avenue, Oak Park, Illinois, 60302, that the District will be applying for the following Application:

Waiver or Modification of the Illinois School Code Section 27-24 (105 ILCS 5/27- 24.3). We are re-applying for this waiver to allow 18 hours of practice driving in a simulator system in lieu of 3 hours of instruction in a dual controlled car. This request is based upon fulfilling the intent of the Driver Education Mandate in a safer, efficient and innovative way for our student drivers, as well as improving student performance.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that a public hearing on said waiver application will be held within the Business Section of the Regular Meeting of the Board of Education beginning approximately at 7:30 p.m. (immediately following the closed session) on Thursday, November 17, 2022 in the Board Room, Room 2163 at Oak Park and River Forest High School.

Published in Wednesday Journal October 19, 26, 2022

PUBLIC NOTICE

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: Y22009744 on October 12, 2022 Under the Assumed Business Name of INTENTIONALBREATH with the business located at: 1414 BONNIE BRAE, RIVER FOREST, IL 60305. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/ partner(s) is: MARY LISA WAHLFELDT1414 BONNIE BRAE, RIVER FOREST, IL 60305.

Published in Wednesday Journal October 19, 26, November 2, 2022

PUBLIC NOTICES

LAW OFFICES OF MALIKA T. ASSAR, P.C.

Attorney for Petitioner 420 West Huron Street, 1st Floor Chicago, IL 60654

LEGAL NOTICE

STATE OF ILLINOIS)

COUNTY OF COOK )ss

Circuit Court of Cook County, County Department, Domestic Relations

Now, therefore, unless you, the said Respondent, file your Appearance to said Petition and Response electronically to said Petition with the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, on or before November 18, 2022, default may be entered against you at any time after that day, and a Judgment for Dissolution of Marriage entered in accordance with the prayer of said Petition.

Iris Y. Martinez, Clerk.

Published in Wednesday Journal October 19, 26, November 2, 2022

LEGAL

NOTICE STATE OF ILLINOIS) COUNTY OF COOK )ss

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

In re the allocation of SHANNON JEAN FITCH, Petitioner and JOHN EASDALE BARCLAY, IV, Respondent, Case No. 2022D008089.

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 Temporary and Permanent Sole Allocation of Parental Responsibilities, Child Support, and Contribution to Child-Related Expenses; 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 November 18, 2022, default may be entered against you at any time after that day, and a judgment for Temporary and Permanent Sole Allocation of Parental Responsibilities, Child Support, and Contribution to Child-Related Expenses entered in accordance with the prayer of said Petition.

DOROTHY A. BROWN, Clerk.

Published in Wednesday Journal October 19, 26, November 2, 2022 PUBLIC NOTICE OAK PARK TOWNSHIP NOTICE OF NOVEMBER 8, 2022

ELECTION

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the legal voters, residents of the Township of Oak Park, County of Cook, and State of Illinois, that the General Election is scheduled for November 8, 2022. All voters who request a paper ballot, will receive or should have received two ballot cards (Card A & Card B). The local referenda questions will be on the

DaToya

Burtin-Cox Oak Park Township Clerk

Published in Wednesday Journal October 26, 2022

PUBLIC NOTICE Notice of Public Hearing Park District of Oak Park November 3, 2022, 7:30 p.m. 2022 Tax Levy

Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of the Park District of Oak Park will conduct a public hearing concerning the adoption of the Park District’s 2022 Property Tax Levy on November 3, 2022, at 7:30 p.m. at the Hedges Administration Center, 218 Madison St, Oak Park, IL, during the Board of Commissioners’ committee of the whole meeting.

By: Commissioner Chris Wollmuth Secretary, Board of Commissioners Park District of Oak Park

Published in Wednesday Journal October 26, 2022

Public Notice

ADVERTISEMENT OF BIDDING

Request of bids for the Park District of Oak Park 228-230 Lot Restoration, 228-230 Madison St., Oak Park.

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

The Park District of Oak Park will accept sealed bids for the 228-230 Madison Lot Restoration, 228-230 Madison St., Oak Park. The project consists of removal of sidewalk, asphalt, curb and gutter; grading, new driveway approach, paving, sidewalk, masonry, drainage, pavers, striping, bike racks and more.

The Park District of Oak Park will receive individual sealed Bids until 2:00 p.m. (Central time) on Friday, November 18th, at 218 Madison St., Oak Park, IL. The bidding documents and requirements will be available on the link below as of 5:00 pm Friday, October 28th, 2022. A non-mandatory pre-bid walk-thru is scheduled for Tuesday, November 8th at 9:00 a.m. at the 228-230 Madison St., Oak Park, IL 60302. Bid bonds will be required by bidding contractors. Copies of the bidding specifications are available via this link: https://rb.gy/ yoqnmo For additional information, contact Chris Lindgren at chris.lindgren@pdop.org or (708) 725-2050.

Only the bids prepared in compliance with the bidding documents will be considered. This project must adhere to the Prevailing Wage Act of 2022. The Park District of Oak Park strongly encourages minority and women owned business firms to submit bids for this project.

Park District of Oak Park

By: Chris Wollmuth, Secretary

Park District of Oak Park 218 Madison St. Oak Park, IL 60302

Published in Wednesday Journal October 26, 2022

AND CO. with the business located at: 7000 WEST FOREST PRESERVE DR. #1061, NORRIDGE, IL 60706. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: TENNILLE TENARD 1543 FRANKLIN AVE UNIT B RIVER FOREST, IL 60305, USA.

Published in Wednesday Journal October 26, November 2, 9, 2022

PUBLIC NOTICE

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: Y22009754 on October 18, 2022

Under the Assumed Business Name of WRAPTHATUP with the business located at: 4232 EDGEWATER AVENUE, HILLSIDE, IL 60162. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: STEEVE KIDD 4232 EDGEWATER AVENUE HILLSIDE, IL 60162, USA

Published in Wednesday Journal October 26, November 2, 9, 2022

CONSOLIDATED ANNUAL PERFORMANCE AND EVALUATION REPORT

Date of Publication: November 9, 2022

Village of Oak Park, 123 Madison Street Oak Park, IL 60302, (708) 383-6400

PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD

Notice is hereby given that the Village of Oak Park Program Year 2021 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Draft Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) will be available for public review beginning Wednesday, November 9, 2022. The CAPER is the City’s annual CDBG report to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). It will reflect the Program Year 2021 results, which began October 1, 2021 and ended September 30, 2022.

The Village of Oak Park invites comments on the CAPER. The public comment period will begin November 9, 2022, and end

November 25, 2022 at 5:00pm CST. The report will be available by visiting the Village of Oak Park, 123 Madison Street, Oak Park, IL 60302 and at: www.oak-park.us/ cdbg.

Written comments can be sent to the address to the attention of Development Customer Services, CDBG Department or may be emailed to grants@oak-park.us.

Reasonable accommodations will be made for persons with disabilities and non-English speaking persons, as needed. Any public comments will be submitted with the CAPER to the Village Board and HUD.

Published in Wednesday Journal, October 26, 2022

The Village of Oak Park will receive sealed bids from qualified contractors at the Public Works Center, 201 South Boulevard, Oak Park, Illinois 60302 Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. local time until 2:00 p.m. on Friday, November 11, 2022 for the following:

Village of Oak Park 2022 – 23 Calcium Chloride & Salt Brine Purchase Bid Number: 23-102

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

Published in Wednesday Journal October 26, 2022

LEGAL NOTICE

The Village of Oak Park will receive sealed bids from qualified contractors at the Public Works Center, 201 South Boulevard, Oak Park, Illinois 60302 Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. local time until 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 9, 2021 for the following:

Village of Oak Park Stone & Sand Materials Bid Number: 23-103

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

Published in Wednesday Journal October 26, 2022

PUBLIC NOTICES

EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY

All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation or discrimination based on age, race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or intention to make any such preferences, limitations or discrimination.

The Illinois Human Rights Act prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental or advertising of real estate based on factors in addition to those protected under federal law.

This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law.

All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis.

Restrictions or prohibitions of pets do not apply to service animals.

To complain of discrimination, call HUD toll free at: 1-800-669-9777.

GROWING COMMUNITY MEDIA

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHAN-

CERY DIVISION

ILLINOIS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY; Plaintiff,

vs. KATHRYN CASSIDY AKA KATHRYN J. CASIDY AKA

KATHRYN J. CASSIDY AKA KATIE

CASSIDY; KATHRYN

CASSIDY AKA KATHRYN J. CASIDY AKA KATHYRN J.

CASSIDY AKA KATHIE CASSIDY AS TRUSTEE UNDER THE KATIE CASSIDY LIVING TRUST DATED

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006, AS LIVING

TRUST; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS; MAJESTIC CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION; Defendants, 22 CH 1952

NOTICE OF SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIV-

EN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, November 22, 2022 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate:

Unit 428-2-E in the Majestic Condominiums as delineated on a survey of the following real estate:

P.I.N. 16-07-419-029-1011.

Commonly known as 428 South Euclid Avenue, Oak Park, IL 60302.

The mortgaged real estate is improved with a condominium residence. The purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by subdivisions (g)(1) and (g)

(4) of Section 9 of the Condominium Property Act Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (614) 220-5611. 22-004739

F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION intercountyjudicialsales.com

I3204933

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE REAL ESTATE FOR SALE REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION SELENE FINANCE LP Plaintiff, -v.-

LARSENIA HORTON, NEIL SMITH, ASSURANCE RESTORATION & CONSTRUTION, INC., PRAIRIE HOUSES OWNERS ASSOCIATION, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS

Defendants 18 CH 12736

14 DIVISION STREET, # 14

OAK PARK, IL 60302

NOTICE OF SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIV-

EN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 16, 2019, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on December 7, 2022, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker, 1st Floor Suite 35R, Chicago, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate:

Commonly known as 14 DIVISION STREET, # 14, OAK PARK, IL 60302

Property Index No. 16-05-127-0480000

The real estate is improved with a brown brick, three story townhouse, attached one car garage.

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

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

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

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

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

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

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

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION

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

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

MCCALLA RAYMER LEIBERT PIERCE, LLC

One North Dearborn Street, Suite 1200 Chicago IL, 60602 312-346-9088

E-Mail: pleadings@mccalla.com

Attorney File No. 20-04687IL_613739

Attorney ARDC No. 61256

Attorney Code. 61256

Case Number: 18 CH 12736

TJSC#: 42-1079

NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, you are advised that Plaintiff’s attorney is deemed to

be a debt collector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Case # 18 CH 12736 I3204167

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT - CHANCERY DIVISION FIFTH THIRD BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

Plaintiff, -v.-

HENRY K. CUSHING, MARY KAY O’GRADY, MARGUERITE HOLDING, THE HUNTINGTON NATIONAL BANK

Defendants 2022 CH 02884 115 S RIDGELAND AVENUE OAK PARK, IL 60302

NOTICE OF SALE

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIV-

EN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on July 18, 2022, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on November 18, 2022, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker, 1st Floor Suite 35R, Chicago, IL, 60606, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate:

Commonly known as 115 S RIDGELAND AVENUE, OAK PARK, IL 60302

Property Index No. 16-07-405-0180000

The real estate is improved with a residence.

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

title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court.

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

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

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

IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file, CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Plaintiff’s Attorneys, 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL, 60527 (630) 794-9876

THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION

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

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

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

E-Mail: pleadings@il.cslegal.com

Attorney File No. 14-22-02626

Attorney ARDC No. 00468002

Attorney Code. 21762

Case Number: 2022 CH 02884

TJSC#: 42-2725

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

Case # 2022 CH 02884

I3204837

Bulldogs square off against Kaneland in state playoffs

RBHS football nishes regular season 6-2 a er trouncing Bishop Mac

By BILL STONE Contributing Reporter

Senior retur ning star ting of fensive lineman Phillip Vazzana had high expectations for this season’s RiversideBrookfield High School football team.

After a 6-3 re gular season, they’ve grown.

“I’ve never felt more confident than what we have right now,” Vazzana said. “I’m very happy with where we’re at. Coming into this year, I knew we had a lot of talent. I feel like this is exactly where I thought we would be at.”

The Bulldogs are retur ning to the IHSA Class 6A playoffs for the third straight postseason but with even bigger aspirations, star ting with their first playoff victory

since 2015.

The No. 10 seed in their half of the 32team bracket, the Bulldogs visit No. 7 Kaneland (6-3) at 7 p.m. on Oct. 28.

“We’ve just got to do what we’ve been doing all year, just bring the intensity It all star ts with us and it’s going to end with us,” Vazzana said.

Kaneland finished third in the Interstate Eight White with losses to first- and secondplace Sycamore and Mor ris as well as Geneva. In the Knights’ victorie s, they’ve scored at least 41 points five times and allowed more than one score only once.

“We know they’re a good team. T hey’re physical, a pretty experienced team,” first-year RBHS coach Sam Styler said.

“They’ve got some real good ballplayers

on both sides of the ball so it’s going to be a real good g ame.”

RBHS ended the re gular season on Oct. 21 with a convincing 42-7 nonconference victory at Bishop McNamara (3-6).

Quar terback Diego Gutierre z passed for three touchdowns, two to Ig gy Bielobrade k and one to Luke Kumskis. Ryan Novak r ushed for two touchdowns and David Valencia one.

T he Bulldogs allowed no more than one score for the fifth straight time in a victory. The of fense continues to thrive behind a seasoned line in center David Her nande z, guards Jackson Ramos and Manny Garcia and tackles Joe Midona and Vazzana.

“It’s just a sense of brotherhood that this team has right now that I’ve never experienced in the three years I’ve b een

on varsit y,” Vazzana said. “Everybody’s close. Everybo dy works hard. We compete during practice and most of all we have fun.”

Novak star ted the season as a two-way star ter, rushing for three touchdowns in the opening-week 35-28 victory over Mor ton, but also suf fered an upper ankle sprain that limited his rushing and snaps overall. Novak said he’s 100 percent for the playof fs.

“I think we j ust need to play hard and f ast. It all star ts up front,” Novak said. “The mindset, for me at least, is dif ferent because I’m a senior and I know this could potentially be my last g ame of high school football. We really like our matchup. We don’ t mind traveling. We’ ll play any place, any time. We’re ready to go.”

LTHS swimmers shine in 2nd place showing at conference

Lions win two relays, two individual events

By BILL STONE

Contributing

Reporter

Audrey Cavaliere understands why Lyons Township High School girls swimming coach Scott Walker and teammates consider her a team mom, even as a sophomore in her first full varsity season.

“For star ters, I’ve swum with these girls forever. Finally reuniting with them at LT, it’s all clicked. It’s not like joining a new team,” Cavaliere said. “A lot of people think I’m a team mom because I really try to bring out the team aspect of swimming.”

There was plenty for the Lions to enjoy at the West Suburban Conference Silver Meet on Oct. 21 at Hinsdale Central, even though

the host Red Devils (316 points) edged out LTHS (311) for the conference title.

Seniors Maggie Adler and Becky Phillips, sophomore Ella Jean Kelly and Cavaliere won the 400-yard freestyle relay in a pool-record 3 minutes, 32.69 seconds and the 200 free relay (1:36.77).

Individual event winners were Adler (100 free in 53.26) and junior Amelia Mari-

ano (50 free in 24.46).

T hey were the first varsity conference titles for everyone

“I definitely didn’t expect to win three, but really the relays pulled through, which was hug e,” said Adler after her four th varsity WSC Silver meet.

“As a freshman, I never expected to be in the spot I’m in so that was cool, especially being [unrested],” Adler said. “I was in gymnastics and I didn’t take swimming as seriously. I didn’t think my whole life would revolve around the spor t. I’m especially proud of our relays.”

Finishing 2-3 were Grace Karan (2:12.81) and Phillips (2:12.83) in the 200 individual medley, Lindsay Forebaugh (59.21) and Karan (59.95) in the 100 butterfly and Lauren Jablonski (1:08.26) and Dylan Jorg ensen (1:09.26) in the 100 breaststroke. Also taking second were Phillips (100 free in 53.54) and the 200 medley relay

of Kylie T hompson, Jablonski, Karan and Cavaliere (1:48.81). Adler (200 free in 1:55.54) and Cavaliere (50 free in 24.74) also were third .

T he Lions next compete at the IHSA Hinsdale Central Sectional on Nov. 5. Sectional champions as well as entries that achieve state-qualifying time standards at the meet advance to state.

With the focus on sectionals, many Lions weren’ t rested on Oct. 21. For others, it was their chance to excel in the final meet of the season.

“I love seeing girls g et their goals and achieve what they’ve been working so hard for,” Cavaliere said. “I think this year’s conference meet is my favorite meet I’ve ever watched. Seeing people’s faces after they g et their dream times is the best feeling, even though they’re not suited or tapered. It’s good seeing everyone have their good last meets, last races.”

PHILLIP VA ZZANA

RYAN NOVAK

AUDRE Y CAVALIERE MAGGIE ADLER

RBHS’ Vlcek splashes to 100 free title at SPC meet

Sophomore looks to qualif y for her second state meet at sectionals

By BILL STONE

Contributing Reporter

Riverside-Brookfield High School swimmer Hailey Vlcek has continued her progress from qualifying for last year’s state meet in the 100- and 200-yard freestyles.

Vlcek also was second in the 200 free (1:54.39) after finishing third in both freestyles as a freshman. The Bulldogs (185 points) once again finished third overall.

Dobbe, senior Riley Daun, Ryan and Baartman was fifth (2:07.75). Senior Gemma Sambugaro was sixth in the 100 butterfly (1:12.02).

The Bulldogs compete at the IHSA Hinsdale Central Sectional on Nov. 5. Sectional champions automatically qualify for state as well as entries that achieve state-qualifying time standards at the sectional.

Junior Will Kallas (7th, 16:57.46), sophomore Brady Norman (8th, 17:10.01) and junior Hayden Marrs (9th, 17:28.90) also were top 10 and junior Brennan Lester (17:48.52) was 14th.

The Bulldogs (23 points) easily captured their fifth regional in the past six postseasons over defending Class 2A state champion Fenwick (52).

SPORTS ROUNDUP

“This season I’ve been better about handling it mentally,” Vlcek said. “I’ve just been good about not being so nervous and just keeping myself in line before I swim, getting into a good mindset.”

Vlcek certainly felt good Oct. 22 as she won her first Southwest Prairie Conference title at Oswego East by winning the 100-yard freestyle (53.61 seconds).

“It was pretty cool to go this year and get first,” Vlcek said. “I was really happy with how I did based off of how tired I’ve been ([through training].”

Freshman Maria Ellis was second in the 200 individual medley (2:17.83) and fourth in the 100 breaststroke (1:12.93).

The 200 free relay (Vlcek, Ellis, senior Emma McVicker and junior Kate Ryan in 1:45.88) and the 400 free relay (junior Emily Baartman, Vlcek, McVicker and Ellis in 3:50.39) both finished third

The 200 medley relay of sophomore Olivia

Vlcek already has broken all-time school records in the 100 fly (59.14) and 200 IM (2:10.00) and set the sophomore school record in the 500 free (5:11.96).

RBHS cross country

The RBHS boys and juniors Cooper Marrs and Jack O’Brien dominated the IHSA Class 2A Hinsdale South Regional on Oct. 22 at Katherine Legge Memorial Park.

Marrs (15 minutes, 19.05 seconds for 3.0 miles) and Jack O’Brien (16:11.11) finished 1-2 just as they did at the Metro Suburban Conference Blue Meet. They and senior Zack Gaynor (5th, 16:40.58) earned top-five all-regional honors.

The RBHS girls (63 points) were third. Sophomore Gianna Gelb (19:40.49) took second to Nazareth Academy senior Colette Kinsella (18:30.64) for all-regional honors.

Senior Bryce Pacourek (21:01.72) and juniors Lily Kocourek (21:14.81) and Maria Dalton (21:14.90) were 12th, 13th and 14th, followed by senior JoJo Rodriguez (22nd, 22:14.65), junior Maiana Nelson (30th, 22:50.28) and senior Mia Wagner (33rd, 23:00.41).

Both teams compete at the IHSA Kaneland Sectional on Oct. 29 and need top-seven finishes to advance to state. The top 10 individuals not among the qualifying teams also advance to state

Clutch header secures regional soccer title for LTHS

Lions score twice a er Argo’s opener put them in jeopardy

By BILL STONE

Contributing

Reporter

sdale Central on Oct. 25 after press time with hopes of reaching the sectional final at 6 p.m. on Oct. 28 against No. 2 Morton or No. 3 Benet Academy. The East Aurora Supersectional is at 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 1.

LTHS had beaten No. 8 Argo 7-1 on Oct. 13 at home. Last week, the Argonauts had only two shots on goal, but the first one gave them an early 1-0 lead

vino and Kracker (goal each) and Jimmy Brejcha, Mason Burda, Haris Sarajlija and Jack Rempfer (assist each) accounting for the scoring.

LTHS cross country

The LTHS boys and girls cross country teams seek IHSA Class 3A state berths at the Waubonsie Valley Sectional on Oct. 29.

Brendan Whelton (24th, 17:02.37).

The Lions finished just behind Oak Park and River Forest (42) and one point ahead of Downers Grove North, which rested its No. 2 runner

“Today was really about running smart, not necessarily running a super fast time,” Strayer said. “I think we were able to execute on that plan.”

SPORTS ROUNDUP

Senior Patrick Kracker once again delivered a clutch goal for the Lyons Township High School boys soccer team on Oct. 21. His second-half header off senior Brian Salvino’s indirect kick inside the box proved to be the game-winning goal as the Lions rallied to defeat 2-1 in the IHSA Class 3A Argo Regional final.

“I’d definitely put that up there for maybe [my] top goal because it’s a win-or-go-home situation,” Kracker said.

“The other games, it might have been against more exciting teams, [but] this one means a lot because it was able to help our program go through to the sectional.”

The Lions (15-5-3), the No. 1 seed in the Hinsdale Central Sectional, again met rival Hin-

“I thought we played with a lot of determination to get back those goals,” LTHS coach Paul Labbato said. “We had the majority of the play and sometimes it gets nerve wracking when the goals aren’t going in.”

The Lions were fortunate that they answered roughly five minutes later for a 1-1 tie as Ben Swicionis scored with another Salvino assist.

Kracker scored when he was left open on the far post and beat an oncoming defender to Salvino’s restart.

“The ball was placed perfectly, and I just headed it in. It was great to help out the team,” Kracker said. “We kind of dialed in and our set pieces in the second half and were very effective.”

LTHS beat Kenwood 7-0 in the Oct. 18 regional semifinals. Austen Wisniewski (3 goals, assist), Joe Mazurowski (2 goals), Sal-

The top seven teams qualify for state as well as the top 10 individuals not among those advancing teams

On Oct. 22, the boys were second (48 points) and the girls third (74 points) at the LTHS Regional meet.

Juniors Nick Strayer and Cillian Henning and senior Catherine Sommerfeld earned allregional honors with top-five finishes.

Strayer (15:42.18) and Henning (15:44.23) were second and third in the boys race behind Oak Park and River Forest senior Liam Newhart (15:28.65).

“I was hoping we could go two and three, and that’s what we did. But I would have been happy with anything top five,” Henning said.

Senior Aidan Collins was seventh (15:58.39), followed by seniors Mike Ferrell (17th, 16:35.22), Reuben Guevara (19th, 16:36.69) and Matt McGovern (21st, 16:53.71) and junior

Sommerfeld earned her second all-regional honors with a third-place finish (18:25.20), just 1.7 seconds from second behind York’s Bria Bennis and Michaela Quinn.

“Definitely sentimental, last time on the LT course, but looking forward to the next two weeks,” Sommerfeld said.

Third at regionals in 2021, Sommerfeld finished third behind the same two runners at the conference meet Oct. 15.

“I was just trying to keep it calm and together, knowing that it would be the same situation [as conference[ and the same last kick to see who got [second],” Sommerfeld said.

Juniors Shannon Cranny (14th, 19:26.64) and Julianne Melby (15th, 19:28.66) also were top 15, followed by seniors Charlotte Lange (20th, 19:40.79) and Scarlett Lestina (22nd, 19:49.57) and juniors Kristina Findley (28th, 20:21.12) and Anna Bylsma (32nd, 20:32.17).

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