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Dominican reaffirms sanctuary campus University president welcomes undocumented students in time of uncertainty By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter
open house format that did not involve a group presentation and question-andanswer session. Instead, residents were left to discuss various aspects of the proposal – including layout, shadow studies and traffic – individually with representatives of the development team.
It’s a time of uncertainty for undocumented immigrants, particularly those who were granted partial citizenship under President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The so-called DREAMers in the DACA program could see their status – the program provides protection to undocumented immigrants who entered the U.S. before the age of 16 and before June 2007, including the ability to apply for two-year work permits – reversed if President Donald Trump follows through with his campaign promise to end the program. Dominican University in River Forest is reaffirming its commitment to serve as a sanctuary campus for undocumented students, highlighting a resolution passed by the school’s board of trustees in December. Dominican President Donna Carroll says the resolution formalizes Dominican’s longstanding commitment to immigrant students. Along with its commitment to equal protection for all students, regardless of immigration status, the reso-
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Protestors were out in force at O’Hare International Airport on Jan. 28. to protest President Trump’s ban on refugees from some Middle Eastern Muslim countries. According to the Sun-Times, a man who resides in Oak Park was held and then released after flying into O’Hare.
Hundreds roll out for tower proposal By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter
Oak Park residents packed the 19th Century Club Monday night for their first glimpse of a new 18-story luxury apartment building planned for the northwest corner of Lake Street and Forest Avenue – directly across the street from
the 21-story Vantage apartment building completed last year. Roughly 200 residents turned out for the open house put on by Albion Residential, a developer which revealed in January that it plans to demolish the existing two-story brick building at 1010 Lake St. to make room for the project. Many expressed disappointment at the
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Trump, meet Charlie; Charlie, you know Trump
Oak Park media guru Charlie Meyerson misses the email business so much he’s decided to return to it — which is natural, considering he helped pioneer what’s now become something of a growth sector. The veteran journalist, who spent nearly 10 years operating the Chicago Tribune’s Daywatch (the city’s first “newscast by email”), will return to form with Chicago Public Square. The project, which launched last Friday, is a daily email newsletter and an accompanying website, chicagopublicsquare.com, which allows people to sign up for the e-newsletter. “Each weekday morning, Meyerson will collect, curate, and report on some
D200 supt. to host community meetings
District 200 Superintendent Joylynn Pruitt-Adams, who was appointed in December to fill the position permanently after serving as interim superintendent since last July, will host five community meetings from now until March. According to district officials, the meetings are designed for community members to share their thoughts on the issues affecting Oak Park and River Forest High School. Each meeting includes a complimentary light meal served during the first half-hour and free babysitting for those who need the service. The district is recommending that those interested in attending the meet-
of the top news stories of the day — all of which will appear in subscriber’s inboxes in one handy email,” according to Chicagoland Radio and Media. Meyerson told Chicagoland his decision to get back in the game was prompted, in part, by the specter of President Donald Trump. “Especially with the Trump administration making big news every day, I’ve had an itch for some time to get back to the front lines,” he said. Meyerson will continue in his role as vice president of editorial and development at Rivet Radio. He’ll also stay on as principal of his consulting firm, Meyerson Strategy.
ings RSVP to Karin Sullivan, the district’s communications director, by calling 708-434-3691 or emailing ksullivan@oprfhs.org. Sat., Feb. 4, RSVP by Jan. 28 Hatch Elementary School 1000 N. Ridgeland Ave., Oak Park Updated time: 1- 3 p.m. Mon., Feb. 6, RSVP by Jan. 30 Roosevelt Middle School 7560 Oak Ave., River Forest 6-8 p.m. Wed., March 15, RSVP by March 8 Irving Elementary School 1125 S. Cuyler Ave., Oak Park 6-8 p.m. Sat., March 18, RSVP by March 11 Roosevelt Middle School 7560 Oak Ave., River Forest 9:30-11:30 a.m.
Rush emergency department advances
Rush Oak Park Hospital announced this week that it has received approval from the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board for its proposal to build a 55,000-square-foot emergency department on its Oak Park campus. The state review board approved the hospital’s certificate of need application, paving the way for Rush to begin filing construction permits with the village of Oak Park. The new emergency department, which will be located at the corner of Maple Avenue and Madison Street, will replace a five-story Oak Park Medical Arts Building, which originally served as a nursing school dormitory. The $30 million emergency department will replace the existing emergency
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department, which was built in 1969 to handle roughly 15,000 patients annually. Rush noted in a press release that it currently serves 37,000 patients a year. That number is growing every year, and the new facility will help accommodate the increasing demand and “meet contemporary emergency care standards.” “With consistent patient volume increases in our emergency department over the years, the need for a larger and more modern facility has been a priority,” Rush Oak Park Hospital President and CEO Bruce Elegant said in the press release. Construction is expected to begin in spring and be completed by late 2018 or early 2019. “This project is another example of Rush’s commitment to building or upgrading new infrastructure in order to continue to provide the best health care possible for our patients,” Rush President Michael Dandorph said. “A state-of-theart emergency facility at Rush Oak Park Hospital makes best use of the high-quality emergency services Rush provides.”
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Lincoln School Carnival Saturday, Feb. 4 between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., Lincoln Elementary School, Oak Park: Saturday, Feb. 4 between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., Lincoln Elementary School, Oak Park: Lincoln School is gearing up for its 68th annual Family Carnival. Games range from classics such as “Plinko” and “Bozo Buckets” to Lincoln originals like “Tip the Pig.” 25 fun games, activities and prizes without breaking the bank. 1111 South Grove Avenue, Oak Park. Questions? Contact lincolncarnival@gmail.com.
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BIG WEEK Door County Fish Boil Musical Journeys
Saturday, Feb. 4 around 4:30 p.m., FitzGerald’s parking lot ot in Berwyn: FitzGerald’s Nightclub hosts its annual Door County-style fresh fish boil, accompanied by live music. Doors open at 3:30, with the first boil at approximately 4:30, conducted by Ken Koyen, aka “the Fish Mortician.” Live music starts in the big room at 4:45 and nd continues throughout the evening. The Island All-Star Band strikes kes up at 7:30. For more, call 708-788-2118. Roosevelt Road and Clarence. arence.
Sunday, Feb. 5, 3:30 to 5 p.m., 19th Century Club, Oak Park: “Musical Journeys” with Stephen Kleiman explores three centuries of piano music. A look into the piano’s development involves a look at some Sunday, Feb. 5 at 3 p.m., Good Shepherd of the most profound and personal Lutheran Church, Oak Park: ion levels of expression and emotion Monday, Feb. 6 at 7 p.m., Viva Vivaldi’s Gloria will be performed with professional in musical history. $25 at the door. Oak Park Public Library: solo soloists, a chamber orchestra, and the Good ShepMonday, Feb. 6 at 1:15 p.m. m. Singer/songwriter/pianist Kenny White will perform herd choir. A reception will follow. Good Shepherd Chicago author Natalie Moore in the Veterans Room. The successful NYC-based (www.GoodShepherdLC.org) is located at 611 Ran(www discusses her recent book, record producer has worked with stars like Mick Jagger, Merle Haggard, and dolph, at the corner of East and Randolph, in Oak do The South Side. Divided into Keith Richards. 834 Lake St., in Oak Park. CDs will be for sale and signing. Park. There is no admission fee, but free-will ethnic/cultural groups clusContact Debby Preiser, 708-697-6915 or dpreiser@oppl.org. p eiser@oppl.org. donations to support the music program are tered in defined neighborappreciated. All are welcome. hoods, Moore examines how ule suburban growth and home rule n. continue to foster segregation. $10 suggested donation. Tuesday, Feb. 7 from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Thursdays, Feb. 2, 9 and 166 Wednesday, Feb. 8 at 1 p.m., Cheney Mansion, Oak Park: David Sokol presents “Art Loves Literafrom 7 to 9 p.m. at Heming-The OP-RF Garden Club presents Pam Todd from the West est Cook ture, From the Colonial Period to the Civil rthplace: way’s Birthplace: chapter of the National Wild Ones lecturing uring on “Wildly War: Religion and National Identity,” The Ernest Hemingway way Foundation Beneficial: Native Plants for Landscaping.” aping.” Social the first in a four-lecture series. $25 at of OOak Park’s writer-in-residence r-in-residence (2015hour with refreshments sstarts at noon, the door. 20 2017), David W. Berner, will conduct a followed by the progra program m at 1 p.m. Free Nineteenth Century Charitable Association, seri series of writing workshops ending with and open to the publi public. ic. 220 N. Euclid. 178 Forest Ave. For more, call 708-386-2729 a workshop on getting your writing For information, go to the website or visit www.nineteenthcentury.org. pu published (Feb. 23 from 7 to 8:30 p.m.). http://gcoprf.org or ca calllll 708-725-2500. Berner writes memoirs, personal eessays, literary nonfiction, and fiction. His new book, October Song: A Memoir of Music and the Journey of Time, will be availab available in April. He is an associate professor at Columbia College, a journalist, and broadcaster. Learn more at www.davidwberner.com. 339 N. Oak Park Ave. For details, visit ehfop.org.
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Almost, Maine Feb. 3-4, 10-11, & 17-18 at 7:30 p.m. and Feb. 4-5, 11-12, & 18-19 at 2 p.m. at Madison St. Theatre, Oak Park: Almost, Maine, a play by John Cariani, directed by Brian Fruits, will be performed at 1010 Madison St. in Oak Park. The Saltbox Theatre Collective is selling tickets for $20 (adults) and $15 (stu (students/seniors). For more ticket info, go to www.saltboxtheatre. org. Conta Contact: Brian Fruits, 709-2680240.
M Health Mini & Wellness Fair Wednesday, FFeb. 8 from 3 to 6 p.m., Oa Park Public Library: Veterans Room, Oak The Community Mental Me Health Board of Oak Park Township, in partnership with the Oak Park Public Library, is hosting the first Mini Health & Wellness Fair. The fair will consist of Flu Shots, Shingles Testing, Parenting Resources, Blood Pressure Screenings, and more. For more information, contact Vanessa Matheny at vmatheny@cmhb-oakpark.org or call 708-358-8855.
The League of Improv Heroes Saturdays, Feb. 4, 11 and 18, Open Door Theater, Oak Park: Impr Improvisational Comedy featuring Second City teachers, alum alumnae and some of the lovely ladies of “The Spew.” Tickets: $$15 at www.opendoor902@gmail.com or call 708-386-5510. 708-386 5 Located at 902 S. Ridgeland Ave.
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ART BEAT Changing the world through music
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ing,” Kay said. “It was so fun and I felt so alive. I felt like a rock star.” As for those previously recorded background vocals, Kay and the others had tracks on all but one song for the concert. Lucia Rodriguez-Nelson, a Soprano II in her first season with Voice of Chicago, found inspiration on a smaller scale early in the season. The Chicago Children’s Choir has neighborhood choirs across the city.
ake 100 or so Chicago-area teens, add outstanding singing voices, and an organization with a mission to “inspire and change lives through music” and you get Voice of Chicago, the top-tier audition-based ensemble of the Chicago Children’s Choir. Three of these teens are high school juniors from Oak Park, and the range of accomplishments they are achieving this season go from high profile to personal. Henry Griffin, a Bass II with Voice of Chicago, who sang before he spoke and is in his eighth year in the Chicago Children’s Choir, has sung in Cuba and Carnegie Hall in previous seasons, but had his big moment with Voice of Chicago more recently. He was one of the 24 singers who performed with Eddie Vedder of Pearl Photo courtesy of the Chicago Children’s Choir Jam before President Obama’s Farewell Speech at McCormick Place. LOCAL VOCAL: Oak Park teens (from left to “Being asked was a huge honor,” right) Lucia Rodriguez-Nelson, Georgia Kay, Griffin said, “and singing for the farewell speech of this groundbreaking, and Henry Griffin at rehearsal with the Voice first African American president ce- of Chicago. mented our mission of changing lives through music.” “We sang with the Austin Children’s Choir,” Griffin and the others only had a few days to she said. “There were only seven and they prepare and go through background checks. were just starting out. It was inspiring to be When Jan. 10 arrived, they sang “Rockin’ in part of that.” the Free World,” “People Have the Power,” The choir’s season continues with the and “(Something Inside) So Strong.” World Music Festival on Feb. 4 at the Coper“Our composer-in-residence arranged nicus Center. Music performed by the Voice the parts, so they were meaty,” Griffin exof Chicago will include pieces from Israel, plained. “Then, singing with Eddie Vedder was so inspiring. He played the guitar with Portugal and Iran. According to Griffin, their choir director spent a lot of time resuch passion.” searching the Iranian song to understand it Afterward, Griffin had the privilege of and get the pronunciations right. witnessing Obama’s speech and feeling “This opens our eyes to other cultures what he described as “hope for the future” that we would not normally be exposed to,” as well as “the raw emotions of the room.” Georgia Kay, an Alto II and part of the he said. Rodriguez-Nelson added, “We learn what Chicago Children’s Choir since seventh music means and how it makes the audigrade, received a surprise call in August to ence feel. You can incorporate love into mube available to sing that same evening. “I was one of eight who would record sic and that’s beautiful.” The same applies background tracks for Chance the Rapper to when singing in other languages, she said. use at his concert,” she said. When she ar- “We can sing it with the same passion.” At the Paint the Town Red concert on May rived at the studio, “It was scary — this is professional music. But he hugged all of us. 26, the entire Chicago Children’s Choir, including all the neighborhood choirs, 4,400 He is really nice.” Over the next three hours, the teens took singers in all, will put on a free performance 5-15 minutes to learn each song before lay- in Millennium Park. Kay said this is an exing down the background tracks. They con- ample of how the choir breaks barriers. “People who would never meet, from places tinued for another three hours the next day. As if that weren’t enough, Voice of Chica- like Englewood and Austin and Lincoln Park, go was invited to sing backup to one song live hold hands and sing ‘We Shall Overcome,’” when Chance performed at his Magnificent she said. “Being part of that makes me believe that we can change the world through Coloring Day at sold-out US Cellular Field. “Walking out on stage was mind-blow- music and lives can be transformed.”
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Shedding Oak Park’s insularity
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n a moment when a rogue president is closing America’s borders to refugees and immigrants from majority Muslim countries, in a moment when that same president caricatures the complex problems of Chicago and wrongly portrays our historically black neighborhoods as nothing beyond violence and devastation, it was a balm to spend last Thursday evening in the sanctuary of the Greater St. John Bible Church in Austin. There gathered the annual meeting of the Community of Congregations. It was not by accident that the Oak Park-River Forest Community of Congregations met in neighboring Austin last week. As with so much that needs doing, it was by intention that this mostly white group of faithful activists was in the chapel of Rev. Ira Acree’s church. Before the evening closed but after the fine meal in the church hall, after the welcome in the sanctuary, after the small-group discussions and after the reports from the varied charitable efforts sponsored by this group, there was the single action item of the meeting. By acclamation, the group of 24 congregations chose to drop the geographic limits of “Oak Park-River Forest” from its name, acknowledging the strong work of the past two years in prayerfully connecting with church leaders in Austin and Garfield Park. It wasn’t more than 15 or so years ago, that this group last changed its name. What for decades had been the Community of Churches became the Community of Congregations. That opened the doors for the local Jewish temples to join in, and, hell, they even let the Unitarians in. All of this is part of the gradual shedding of Oak Park insularity. The insularity simultaneously allowed the generous and necessary focus on racial integration within the village’s narrow borders while we threw up stiff, largely impenetrable walls on those same borders. The cul-desacs installed in the 1970s on every noncommercial intersection along Austin Boulevard from North Avenue to Roosevelt Road are not quite as offensive as
Trump’s plan for a wall to blot out Mexico, but the intention was not so dissimilar. Even as Oak Park basked in its press clippings and deserved awards for its commitment to diversity, the historic ties between Oak Park and Austin withered. The intimate bonds of shared families, easy commerce and common values were replaced with fear and enforced distance. The distrust was also mutual, with many in Austin resentful of Oak Park and suspicious of most of the limited outreach efforts as potential signs that white Oak Park might just want to colonize this proud black community. For a quarter-century now, Wednesday Journal has also published the Austin Weekly News (edited by WJ education reporter Michael Romain), making us one of a handful of businesses working on both sides of the boulevard. We, too, subscribed to the theory that the neighborhoods were more different than similar, and so we followed our model of publishing entirely local papers, which gave few hints of a shared root. That changed in recent years under the leadership of Dawn Ferencak, our associate publisher. She grasped that the frayed ties were still ties, that Oak Park and Austin had shared needs. And out of that sense, we created informal groups we called West Side Bridge, West Side Women, West Side Men, which brought together good people from both communities for a meal and conversation. We see shared efforts by the local chambers in Austin and Oak Park. We see tighter relationships between police in Oak Park and Austin. The Oak Park Regional Housing Center is building programs in Austin. And now our faith communities, powerful and abiding forces, are finding practical and inspired ways to partner. It will be neighborhood by neighborhood, organization by organization, congregation by congregation that we put fear aside, acknowledge difference but are not separated by it, and that we nurture hope in a troubling moment.
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Solar panels installed at Ridgeland Common, Longfellow Renewable energy will reduce operating costs and carbon footprint By MARTY FARMER Staff Reporter
In continued efforts to utilize solar energy at a cost-effective price, the Park District of Oak Park has installed new solar panel systems at Ridgeland Common and Longfellow Center. Previously, a 19.6 kilowatt solar panel system was installed during construction of the Austin Gardens Environmental Education Center. At Ridgeland Common, a 100.8 kilowatt solar photovoltaic (PV) system has been installed on the south roof (above ice rink) by Eco Solar Solutions. The solar system is owned by Realgy, LLC, an alternative energy service supplier in Illinois that owns six solar PV systems. Per their agreement, the park district is leasing the Ridgeland Common roof to Realgy with the latter paying for the solar system’s installation and maintenance. In return, the park district will pay for the power generated by the solar panels at a marketbased cost, which is estimated at about five percent lower than ComEd rates. The solar panel system at Ridgeland Common will produce over 125,000 kilowatt hours of energy annually and more than 3.1 million kilowatt hours over the next 25 years. The solar panels are also estimated to save the park district approximately $7,000 annually through energy service and delivery costs. “The solar system will reduce not only our operating expenses but our carbon footprint,” said Jan Arnold, park district execu-
tive director, in a press release. “The park district is always looking to expand solar opportunities to increase sustainability as well as improve our overall environmental conditions.” At Longfellow Center, 20 solar panels have been installed to power 5.7 kilowatts of solar energy. The park district partnered with the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) on the cost of the solar panels’ installation. “NRDC gifted half of the solar panels at Longfellow Park to meet the requirements of the Living Building Challenge,” said Chris Lindgren, the park district’s buildings and grounds chief. According to Lindgren, the Living Building Challenge is the most rigorous green building certification that can be acquired. “NRDC chose the park district as their partner due to the strong stance that the park district has on sustainability,” Lindgren said. “They were very impressed with our recent efforts on green infrastructure and happy to gift this system to us. The park district decided to match the panels given to us, and this system will provide most if not all of the power needs in the summer months.” According to the park district, the solar panels will provide a substantial amount of the power needed at Longfellow Center, Ridgeland at Adams. With that energy savings, the park district should be able to recover all costs from the purchase and installation of the solar system in less than six years. Although three park district facilities are currently generating solar energy, expansion is possible. “Sustainability is one of the park district’s strategic initiatives and also one of our core values,” Lindgren said. “We will always be looking at areas for renewable energy, although currently we do not have a next site in mind.”
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50 years after the Blizzard of ’67, the dance goes on
Lois and Ernie Baumann have brought fun to thousands since the big snow postponed their wedding By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter
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AFTER ALL THESE YEARS: Lois and Ernie Baumann enjoy themselves inside the new $2.1 million Maywood dance studio completed last year. Since the Blizzard of 1967 interrupted their wedding plans, the couple has brought opportunity to thousands of young people from Oak Park, Austin and the western suburbs.
Around this time 50 years ago, Oak Park was digging itself out of the worst Their life plans interrupted, Lois and snowstorm ever recorded in the Chicago Ernie did what they’ve been doing for 50 area. And Lois and Ernie Baumann were years without ceasing and regardless of having the time of their lives. epic snowstorm or fire or racial turbulence On the day the blizzard hit — Thursday, Jan. or economic decay: They had fun. 26, 1967 — Lois, now 69, was on a Blue Line “We just went out in the snow and had a train traveling into the Forest Park terminus great time,” said Ernie during last week’s station. She was coming from taking classes interview inside of the new dance studio at Roosevelt University and on the couple built last year her way to pick up her bride’s through Maywood Fine Arts dress. Her wedding was in two — the venerable nonprofit that days. was born from their wintry “It was just an ordinary day,” ■ To read more marriage 50 years ago. Lois said during an interview The Maywood-based VISIT OAKPARK.COM last week. “But on my way organization serves over 1,000 home, the train — we called it kids a week from all racial, ethnic the Des Plaines ‘L’ back then and income backgrounds — 31 of them from — came to a fierce halt in the middle of Oak Park — with thousands more alumni. the Eisenhower. The windows on the train “My mother was real upset and was kept getting smaller, because the snow amazed at how calm I was,” said Lois, was covering them up so quickly. I looked recalling how she handled her disrupted around the car and thought, ‘I’m going to wedding plans. “I think, probably for my die with this group of people.’ We must have mother’s sake, I should’ve been more upset! been stuck for two hours.” But, you know, weddings weren’t the sitBy the day’s end, roughly 23 inches of down dinner, banquet, band, bore your snow had ground village life to a halt and friends for two hours affair they’ve become buried the Baumann’s wedding plans, along in the last 50 years. It was just a simple with everything else, under unprecedented ceremony in the church and back to the mounds of snow. house for sandwiches. That’s what we did.” The wedding, which had been scheduled The Baumann’s wedding, which to take place that Saturday at First Christian eventually took place a week later, on Feb. Church in Maywood, didn’t happen, of 4, is the ultimate emblem of the kind of course. Air travel was suspended. Even resilience that’s kept their marriage, and those who lived in town, within blocks their mission, going for half-a-century. of the church, would find navigating the “The thing that bonded us from the very snowdrifts nearly impossible. beginning was our commitment to children,
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and particularly, at that time, to the children in Maywood,” said Lois, who has lived her whole life in the village. “We saw the disparity in what was happening in the country. This was during the Civil Rights Movement.” The couple met in 1966, roughly three months before marrying. Lois was a waitress at a restaurant in Maywood and Ernie was the owner of a small shop in town called The Newspaper Store. “People would go get their newspapers before they caught the train and on their
way to work,” said Lois. “It was kind of one of those old-fashioned stores that was like a hangout. It was a lot of fun.” “A hippie hangout,” is what Ernie calls it. It’s where he and Lois befriended people like the famous singer-songwriter John Prine, a native of Maywood who, along with Lois, attended Proviso East High School. Ernie had stopped by the restaurant for a cup of coffee one day. Lois took his order — and his heart. “All I had to say was, ‘You want cream in your coffee, honey?’” Lois recalled. “Those
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OAKPARK.COM | RIVERFOREST.COM were my first words to him. It was absolutely love at first sight.” But love doesn’t automatically translate into a great marriage, the two agreed. Ernie, roughly eight years older than his wife, said the age difference may have been the source of some strain. Lois said their strong personalities might have signaled disaster for the union if it hadn’t been for their mutual love of children and their penchant for movement. Not long after marrying, the couple began coordinating programming for the Maywood Recreation Department. Lois taught dance and Ernie taught tumbling. “You had two counselors present all day, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and you had set activities that the kids did each day in those parks, so the children in the neighborhood left their houses,” Lois recalled. Eventually, Ernie said, their tumbling and dance classes began to grow exponentially, precipitating something of a philosophical standoff with village officials. “We did everything — bike parades, canoe trips, everything you can think of,” he said. “We had the support of the director, but what kind of happened with the dancing was the program got so good and enrolled so many people that they saw this as a cash cow. They wanted to start raising the prices. We said, wait a minute. You’re eliminating people by doing this, which is not the way it should go. So we left and started our own thing and ran it how we thought it should be run.”
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50 YEARS MORE: Ernie and Lois on their wedding day, a week after the Blizzard of ’67 postponed the event. (Right) Oak Park Avenue at Van Buren after 23 inches of snow and high winds brought commerce to a standstill. Their affordable array of artistic programming, many of their patrons say, has been a beacon of light for communities like Maywood and Austin, where, over the last 50 years, recreational options and park district programming have declined markedly. Between 1970 and 1980, according to U.S.
Census data, the population of Maywood changed from 60 percent white to 75 percent black. In addition, the suburb lost more than 2,000 residents, along with thousands of manufacturing jobs and a plethora of small businesses. “We thought we could really impact things,” said Ernie. “We were right in the
middle of ‘White Flight’ and people would come to our doors and say, ‘Look we can buy your house. You’re leaving aren’t you?’ We go, ‘Huh? We ain’t going anywhere.’” Read more about some of MFA’s prominent alumni and how MFA didn’t miss a beat even after its dance studio caught fire at oakpark.com
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D200 fleshes out new engagement committee
A launch team will form by early next month By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter
At a Jan. 17 regular meeting, District 200 officials fleshed out the details of the new community engagement and outreach committee that the school board approved last December after Oak Park and River Forest residents voted against funding up to $25 million in referendum bonds for a $44.5 million five-year facilities plan. The new committee will “review previous processes, make recommendations, and strengthen community partnerships pursuant to district goals related to equity, academic programming needs, facilities to support those needs, and finances, in order to ensure that the district meets the educational needs of the next generation of learners,” according to a board resolution establishing the recommending body. District 200 Superintendent Joylynn Pruitt-Adams said that she has invited a
small group of community members to join her and Karin Sullivan, D200’s communications director, on a launch team comprised of citizens who voted for and against the referendum, in addition to “citizens who we don’t how they voted,” Pruitt-Adams said. Those launch members “must agree to subordinate personal interests for the longterm good of the community,” according to a district memo created by Pruitt-Adams and Sullivan. The launch team will be responsible for determining the qualifications of the members who will serve on the broader community engagement committee. The superintendent said members of the launch team won’t be required to be on the broader committee, but will have an opportunity to apply. Between January and March, the launch team will conduct a “community all-call” inviting residents to apply for committee membership, “including a postcard mailed to all residential addresses.” The launch team will also hold mandatory pre-application meetings for all individuals seeking membership on the broader committee. Those meetings will provide potential members with “an overview of work
that’s been done to date and outline the scope of the work that will be required of committee members.” Once those meetings are held, the launch team will identify and select 25 committee members to serve on the broader community engagement committee. A mandatory orientation period (“in order to establish sufficient background knowledge and understanding to be effective”) for those members will take place in April. “We sent out invitation letters today and I’m pleased to say the response has been quite favorable,” Pruitt-Adams said during the Jan. 17 meeting. The broader committee will select two co-chairpersons who will be designated to facilitate the meetings along with an expert facilitator who will be selected from outside of the community. Committee members will decide on meeting schedules, subcommittees and other administrative details. Pruitt-Adams emphasized that the committee would be largely inoculated from the influence of the school board in order to ensure that the process is “driven by the community and not the administration.” Although the school board will have the
final say-so on whether or not to implement the committee’s recommendations, only one school board member will be represented on the 25-person committee and that member will only be present “as a listening voice, not as a contributor to conversation,” said Pruitt-Adams, adding that the administration’s voice will also be relatively quiet. “There will be faculty and staff on the committee, but we don’t want even the perception that it is being driven by the administration,” she said. Pruitt-Adams said that one component of the committee’s comprehensive evaluation will entail analyzing the district’s finances and how they bear on any decision-making. District officials said that the committee will report monthly to the school board as it deliberates between May and October. The committee is scheduled to present its recommendations to the board in October, which could approve a referendum question as soon as November — if that’s what the committee recommends. The next primary and general elections after November are March 20, 2018 and Nov. 6, 2018, respectively. CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com
Students, parents support suspended OPRF teacher
Some community members say the school’s handling of Danielle Dobias reflects poor approach to sexual assault cases By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter
During a Jan. 27 regular District 200 school board meeting, a large contingent of Oak Park and River Forest High School community members expressed support for tenured special education teacher and former girls’ cross-country assistant coach Danielle Dobias. In December, Dobias was terminated for reasons that have not been disclosed by the school district or Dobias’s lawyer. Kathleen Schrobilgen, whose two children were involved in OPRF’s cross-country team and is a close friend of Dobias’s, said that she saw the letter the district sent explaining its initial decision to terminate the teacher. During public comments at last Friday’s meeting, Schrobilgen said the district explained it was terminating Dobias “for ‘insubordination’ for not attending meetings last fall,” but that the district “failed to inform [Dobias] of [the meetings] in a timely fashion.” In a phone interview Monday, Schrobilgen said the letter also indicated that Dobias “would not answer all of the board’s questions at the meetings she did attend.” Those meetings took place last summer, Schrobilgen said. Earlier this year, the district reversed its initial decision to terminate and instead opted to suspend Dobias without pay. Ac-
cording to numerous sources, those meetings referenced in the termination letter pertained to Dobias and Thomas Tarrant, the girls’ cross-country coach and special education behavioral interventionist. In 2015, Dobias filed a federal discrimination lawsuit that named OPRF District 200, Tarrant, and OPRF athletic director John Stelzer as defendants. In the lawsuit, Dobias claims that she was subjected to sexual and retaliatory discrimination, a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The complaints made by Dobias in that federal lawsuit date back to at least January 2012. Dobias claimed that Tarrant made multiple sexual advances toward her and that, when she rejected them, he then began “a pattern of retaliatory freeze-out” against her by deliberately withholding behavior intervention resources from her classroom and writing poor reviews of her coaching performance. Dobias also alleged that Tarrant stalked and harassed her, and that D200 officials and Stelzer, in particular, continuously refused to discipline Tarrant. In September 2013, Tarrant reportedly filed two separate written complaints against Dobias accusing her of “verbal and physical aggression,” “violation of [a] noncontact agreement,” and “assault,” among other allegations. Tarrant’s allegations against Dobias
prompted the teacher to file a state lawsuit against Tarrant, Stelzer and D200 in Cook County Circuit Court in 2013 “for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress,” according to the Cook County Record. Dobias sought more than $50,000 in damages. The defamation lawsuit was dismissed by a state trial court, but a state appellate court eventually reversed that ruling, sending the case back to the lower court to be heard again. Both Dobias’s federal and state defamation lawsuits are pending. According to federal court documents filed Jan. 25, attorneys for both Dobias and the district have filed a joint motion agreeing to a request to stay an administrative hearing and the two lawsuits, pending mediation. In a phone interview on Monday, Schrobilgen said that in the summer of 2015 she and several other cross-country parents met with OPRF Principal Nathaniel Rouse about Tarrant’s behavior toward Dobias. “The district said nothing,” Schrobilgen said. “The only thing Mr. Rouse ever said to us [about the Dobias case] was there’s nothing to it, it’s been dismissed. Mr. Rouse and [David] Ruhland [District 200’s HR director at the time] didn’t seemed concerned at all.” D200 officials have not commented directly about the case, citing board policy that prohibits them from publicly discussing personnel matters. Dobias’s lawyer also declined to
comment on the specifics of the case. Schrobilgen was among at least a dozen community members, parents, students and former students who spoke in support of Dobias, with some also criticizing OPRF’s current methods of responding to sexual harassment claims. Former OPRF student Conner Davis said that Dobias, his former teacher, offered him important advice at a critical time in his life. “The guidance I received from her wasn’t what I wanted to hear but it was, ultimately, what I needed to hear,” he said at last Friday’s meeting. “I still think of her as the strongest mentor I’ve had.” “There’s pretty pervasive sexism in the athletic department,” said Schrobilgen on Monday. “It’s run by males, for males.” Oak Park resident Tanya Prewitt-White, an expert in sport psychology who has researched social justice in sports, said that she appreciates the district’s current attempts to overhaul its sexual misconduct policies — reform efforts that stem from a separate case of alleged sexual assault among students that happened last August — but she argued that more could be done. “First rights of alleged victims are never highlighted,” she said, adding that the procedure by which victims of sexual assaults report allegations of abuse should be clearer and more transparent. CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com
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Minimum wage opt-out? By DEB KADIN
Contributing Reporter
River Forest appears to be leaning toward opting out of two ordinances that starting July 1 would impose some working conditions on private businesses throughout Cook County. Village trustees asked Greg Smith, the village attorney, to look at the merits and legal ramifications of not adopting the county rules that would raise the minimum wage and require employees to get paid sick leave. Smith also will look at a legal opinion the Cook County State’s Attorney Office issued in October noting that the county lacks the home rule authority to enact the living wage. In late October, the Cook County board adopted an ordinance that would raise the current hourly minimum wage from $8.25 to $10 on July 1. The wage would gradually increase to $13 in 2020. Subsequent increases would be at the rate of inflation. At the same time, the county passed an ordinance which spelled out that an employee in Cook County working at least 80 hours within any 120-day period can be eligible for paid sick leave. Village President Catherine Adduci said the county ordinance adds to an already confusing picture of minimum
wage laws that are in effect. “The question to think about is because of so many conflicting bills, does this make sense to opt out of the county. We have to have some simplicity, we have to have one rule,” said Adduci, referring to the state and federal laws governing minimum wage. The one path that seemed attractive to some trustees is to use as a template the ordinance Barrington adopted in December. The far west suburban community did not opt-out but created a new section of its code making federal and state laws on minimum wage and paid sick leave applicable to businesses in the community. Smith has also been directed to look at that. “I’m concerned about the way a law is written, that units of government are, “said Trustee Mike Gibbs. “I’m not a fan of businesses following rules that governments don’t have to follow themselves.” The federal government’s hourly minimum wage is $7.25; it has not been raised since 2009. The state’s current hourly minimum wage is $8.25 and it could rise to $9 an hour if a bill pending in the Illinois Senate becomes law. That law would exempt Cook County and Chicago, according to a spokesman for the Illinois Senate President’s Office.
New sustainability commission By DEB KADIN Contributing Reporter
A proposal to elevate River Forest’s sustainability committee into a full-fledged village commission moved forward as village trustees Jan. 23 unanimously consented to preparing the documents to set it up. Staff and the village attorney will work on a draft ordinance the committee presented as part of a packet that included answers trustees requested during the group’s initial presentation in October. Committee members also will look at the final copy and sign off if necessary, village officials said. That measure will be ready for a vote on Feb. 13, Village President Catherine Adduci said. Full support for proceeding was an acknowledgement of the hard work of the sustainability committee. And it also meant that trustees endorsed their roles as environmental stewards on behalf of the community, said Katie Brennan, the committee’s chair. The committee was formed as a partnership between the village and the River Forest Parks Foundation and since 2014 has acted as River Forest’s go-to environmental team. Since then, it has successfully spearheaded more than 20 initiatives and won praise from many in the community for its dedication, expertise and ingenuity. Admiration for its work also came from
trustees. But the idea of moving it to commission status – making it a part of village government -- was met with some opposition when committee members and their allies initially presented the idea before the board. Two trustees – Mike Gibbs and Tom Dwyer – in October objected. Gibbs didn’t want a new commission for any reason. Dwyer said another panel would strain resources. Trustee Carmela Corsini wanted more information. Brennan countered that creating a commission was a signal to residents and potential homebuyers that the village prioritized environmental initiatives and provides opportunities for residents to volunteer and participate. Julie Moller, another committee member, said that because committee members work already with staff on initiatives and attend meetings it would have no impact on staffing or cost. “A commission would give residents a voice, a say … help set priorities, objectives and strategies,” Moller said. “We would have more input and a stronger direction.” The presentation and the additional information brought from Gibbs an apology about his prior statements. “I was just trying to present our concerns before casting something in stone. ….It was never about what the group does and continues to do,” he said.
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Monday, February 6 – 1:15 – 2:00 Chicago author Natalie Moore discusses her recent book, The South Side. Are we still fostering segregation?
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Monday, February 14 – 1:15 – 2:00 The Duelists: Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton – Joyce Hayworth In 1804, a vice president and a former secretary of the treasury met along a riverbank at dawn with loaded pistols to settle an “affair of honor” in a duel.
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English Country Dance is social dancing with a long history and vibrant modern presence, frequently accompanied by live music. No partner is needed and all dances are taught and called. Special live music dance, $15 adults, $10 students and seniors, $5 spectators.
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FREE COMMUNITY WELLNESS PROGRAM
Culture of a Woman’s Heart Tuesday, Feb. 21 6 – 8:30 p.m. The Carleton Hotel of Oak Park 1110 Pleasant St. Oak Park, IL All presentations will be in English.
Join experts from the Rush Heart Center for Women and learn how to care for your heart. You may be aware that heart disease affects women differently than men, but did you know that your ethnicity can have an impact as well? Cardiologists from the Rush Heart Center for Women will provide an informative program that will outline your risk factors based on your ethnicity and explain how you can take charge of your heart health. Breakout sessions include Asian, black, Latina and white groups. WILLIAM CAMARGO/Staff Photographer
Light refreshments will be served.
To register call 708.660.4636 or visit roph.org/calendar.
roph.org PLEASE NOTE: All physicians featured in this publication are on medical staff at Rush Oak Park Hospital or Rush University Medical Center. Some of the physicians are in private practice and, as independent practitioners, are not employees or agents of Rush Oak Park Hospital or Rush University Medical Center.
Registered guests will be eligible to win a pair of Chicago Bulls tickets in a free drawing during the event. Must be present to win.
Rush is a not-for-profit health care, education and research enterprise comprising Rush University Medical Center, Rush University, Rush Oak Park Hospital and Rush Health. 16-HEART-4757
Oak Park man detained at O’Hare By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter
An unidentified Oak Park resident was allegedly one of 18 travelers who were detained at O’Hare Airport over the weekend, following President Donald Trump’s executive order blocking refugees and green card holders from seven Muslim majority countries from entering the country, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The Sun-Times reports that U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., said the Oak Park man is originally from Iran and has dual citizen-
ship in his home country and the United Kingdom. Schakowsky told the Sun-Times that the man has a U.S. green card. A representative of Schakowsky’s office did not return a phone call requesting additional information. Trump’s executive order barred people from entering the United States from the following seven countries: Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Sudan, Yemen and Iran. The order and detainments resulted in dozens of people being detained at airports across the nation, sparking protests at O’Hare and elsewhere.
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SANCTUARY CAMPUS Reaffirming refuge from page 1 lution says the school “will not provide access to student information, including any records that identify immigration status, except as required by federal, state or local laws, and only in the presence of formal documentation.” Dominican also affirms that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials “should enter the campus for law enforcement purposes without the permission of the university only under the most exigent and compelling circumstances.” Carroll, who has long advocated for undocumented students – about 5 to 10 percent of Dominican’s student population is undocumented – said many undocumented students are more vulnerable now than they were before DACA was signed in 2012. That’s because some 750,000 people registered under DACA have provided the federal government information that could lead to their deportation. “I worry because this is such an uncertain time, and it has also exposed those students who have provided some record of their existence,” Carroll said. “I still hope that ultimately good decisions will be made to be supportive of young women and men who are productive and achieving in our country that they will have pathways to citizenship.” She said the university is not only recom-
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WELCOMING: President Donna Carroll sat down on Jan. 26 to speak about Dominican University becoming a sanctuary campus for undocumented students. mitting to protecting undocumented students in the Trump era; it’s also working to help ease the psychological burden the new administration has placed on undocumented students. “There are likely to be more organized services we provide students because right now students are so uncertain about what’s
going on,” Carroll said, noting that the university is exploring providing additional counseling to students worried about changes proposed by the Trump administration. She said that although the resolution is widely supported by the President’s Advisory Council and Dominican Board of Trustees, the declaration is not without its
detractors. “It’s not without its risks,” she said. “It’s not without its negative comments or its challenging comments, but most people understand the stance we take in the context of [Dominican’s] mission ...” Carroll said detractors have a choice in how they frame the question as it concerns illegal immigration. “We can see the glass half empty or we can see the glass half full,” she said. “I happen to think that there’s always opportunity for talented hard-working students.” The resolution comes at the same time the Village of Oak Park is considering a resolution declaring Oak Park a so-called sanctuary city. That proposed ordinance, which was presented to the board of trustees in mid-January, affirms a commitment by the village and its police department to not share information with federal immigration authorities. The initial proposal faced staunch opposition from immigration advocates and some village residents due to what they argued was a loophole that would allow police to turn over some criminals to ICE officials. The board tabled the ordinance to further explore the provision and is scheduled to revisit the proposal in February. Carroll emphasized in an interview that the school’s resolution “does not say we are going to break the law.” “It says we are going to support our students in the context of the law and maybe push the envelope a little,” she said. CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com
At Dominican, activists reflect on Obama’s presidency By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter
On Jan. 18, two days before the nation’s first black presidency was set to end, and on the day of Martin Luther King’s birthday, a crowd of roughly 40 people gathered inside Dominican University’s Lund Auditorium to grapple with a dilemma of Barack Obama’s two terms. The event was held in order to consider Barack Obama’s presidency in light of Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy. One of the most poignant moments of the roughly hourand-a-half discussion was when the threeperson panel tried interpreting the pardons and commutations the president had granted in his last few days in office. On the day before the panel discussion, Obama had commuted the 35-year sentence of Army Private Chelsea Manning, who famously leaked sensitive classified material to WikiLeaks, and the 55-year prison sentence of Oscar Lopez Rivera, a 74-year-old Puerto Rican political activist who was imprisoned for trying to overthrow the United States government, among other charges. Both Manning and Rivera are considered traitors or terrorists by some and heroes and political prisoners by others, depend-
ing on where the critics line up along the left-right ideological divide. Neither, however, are associated with the radical black freedom struggle that King embodies and which, in large part, made Obama’s presidency possible, the panelists noted. Dometi Pongo, a news anchor for WVON 1690, said his radio station had polled its predominantly black audience about which political figures they would want Obama to focus his mighty presidential pen. Many callers, Pongo said, suggested the president pardon the late Marcus Garvey, the early 20th-century Black Nationalist who was sent to jail in the 1920s for mail fraud, a charge that many of his supporters believe was politically motivated. Others named notable former Black Panthers — many now either serving long sentences or in exile — like Mumia Abu-Jamal, H. Rap Brown and Assata Shakur. Pongo credited the outgoing president with his late-blossoming stance on the issue of mass incarceration and the hundreds of pardons he granted imprisoned African Americans, but he wanted to know why the president’s mercy toward transgender and Latino radicals didn’t extend to black radicals. “If he released some of these black nationalists, would there be too much political
blowback?” Pongo said. “It’s a calibration of political capital and what is considered suitable political etiquette,” explained Salim Muwakkil, himself a former Black Panther and veteran journalist, who was working for the Associated Press in 1973 when Shakur allegedly murdered a New Jersey State Trooper during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike. Shakur was subsequently convicted of firstdegree murder and sent to prison before escaping to Cuba in 1979. “I knew Assata and I knew the specifics of the crime and I knew that she was absolutely innocent,” Muwakkil said. “At the AP, objectivity was the byword. You had to be objective. They had to assure the facts were presented as plainly as possible, but I began to see that objectivity was really a ratification of the status quo. In order for something to have veracity we had to say ‘the police said’ after every sentence.” The mask of objectivity worn by the AP, Muwakkil argued, was also worn by Obama, whose position of authority constricted his ability to buck the status quo that put radical black figures like Shakur beyond the pale of political acceptability. Muwakkil also argued that Obama’s historic two terms “stalled the progress of the
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black freedom movement and disrupted the dynamics of a protest tradition that has framed black activism for at least a century.” “This outcome is not necessarily Obama’s intention or even his fault,” Muwakkil said. “The rupture of tradition caused by his victory was simply inevitable.” Historically, he explained, black activists like King, W.E.B. DuBois, Paul Robeson and Rosa Parks had cultivated adversarial relationships with political leadership. Over the last half-century, however, that relationship has changed. “Obama’s victory represents the logical conclusion of a political strategy outlined 45 years ago … that designated politics as the next step in the Civil Rights Movement. Because of that strategy, I guess you can call it ‘black faces in high places syndrome,’ many of us have grown accustomed to conflating political campaigns with civil rights crusades.” The result, the panelists and some in the audience seemed to concede, was a black presidency long on symbolism and hope, and short on political substance. “I feel like every time it’s something with black people, it’s always, ‘That’s a little too far,’” said one panelist, a poet who goes by the name Authentic. “What’s not too far?” CONTACT: michael@oakpark.com
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ALBION TOWER Density discussion from page 1 The site is zoned to allow for construction of an eight-story building, so Albion must ultimately receive approval from the Oak Park village board for a project of that height. Andrew Yule, Albion’s vice president of development, said Albion is working to acquire the property under the condition that the village approves the project. He said the building would include 265 apartments and 243 parking spaces. Yule said Albion aims to submit a planned development application to the village, which would first be reviewed by the village’s Plan Commission. They hope to break ground on the project sometime in the fourth quarter of 2017. Judy Eckberg, a board member of the 19th Century Club who attended the meeting, said “many people here thought this would be a presentation, that we would sit down and be able to hear about it.” “There’s a lot of disappointment about that,” she said. Eckberg questioned whether another high-rise building is appropriate for downtown. “Do we need another tall building; we already have two here,” she said. Eckberg also voiced concern that construction of another tall building would worsen the “wind tunnel” created by the erection of the Vantage building adjacent to the 19th Century Club. “When the wind blows, you can hardly open our front door,” she said. “It was not like that before.”
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An estimated 200 people turned out at the 19th Century Club on Monday, Jan. 30, for their first glimpse of a proposed 18-story luxury apartment building by Albion Residential — directly across the street from the 21-story Vantage Oak Park. She also questioned developer’s assertion that the positioning of the building would reduce the shadow cast over Austin Gardens, a public park directly north of the property. “I don’t know how you won’t have a shadow when it’s 18 stories,” she said. Oak Park resident Frank Pond, a former village employee, was said he was open to hearing more about the proposal before making a judgment, but added that he is generally supportive of tall buildings in downtown Oak Park. “I’d like to give the developer the opportunity to present their ideas,” he said, adding that he hopes Albion will work with residents on their concerns and return with a proposal “that is acceptable.” “I tend to be afraid that many of the people who are against the development don’t want any development,” he said. He noted that the village’s 2005 Downtown
Master Plan slates the parcel of land for park use. “I believe that a municipality’s downtown is where development should occur, and although we are right on the fringes of the historic district, I still think this is our downtown where high rises are going to be built … whether they are eight stories or 18 stories, they belong in the downtown.” Oak Park architect Brian Hammersley, a local architect, said he, too, was disappointed with the format of the meeting. “I was expecting that there would be a public presentation, where people could actually get a sense of what they had planned and interface in a public forum,” he said. “The fact that this is an open house is disappointing.” Hammersley said he would have preferred a public conversation about the effect the project would have on Austin Gardens “to get people’s opinions.”
“There are hundreds of people here but no one got to talk,” he said. Monica Sheehan, who successfully advocated for a referendum to prevent construction of a multi-million pool construction project at Oak Park and River Forest High School, echoed the sentiment that the format was low on information. “People were disappointed that developers did not hold a session whereby people could ask questions in a group,” she said. Sheehan said she’ believes developers for the project “don’t want to answer questions.” “Why wouldn’t they actually hold a presentation and have a Q&A session, so that you don’t have to answer the same questions over and over?” she asked. “I think there’s a reason why they didn’t do that.” Yule said the purpose of the open house format was to get feedback from residents. CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com
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Armed men rob woman in her garage
A woman was robbed at gunpoint in her garage in the 1100 block of Wenonah about 6:45 p.m. on Jan. 25. The robbers, two white men between the ages of 16 and 21, both armed with semi-automatic handguns, approached the woman inside her garage. The first man pointed the handgun at her and said, “Give me your phone. Give me your keys.” She handed over her phone, wallet and keys. The second man stood in the alley while the robbery took place. They both fled the scene southbound on foot. The first man was described as standing 5-foot8 to 5-foot-10 inches tall, weighing 130-150 pounds, and wearing a white hoodie with a mask. The second man was described as wearing a dark colored hoodie. The loss was an estimated $1,000.
Robbery arrest Pianche Guidry-Watkins, 27, of the 400 block of S. Kenilworth, was arrested at his
home at 1:48 p.m. on Jan. 26 and charged with robbery after being positively identified by his victim. Police report that he had allegedly forcibly removed the victim’s cellphone and earphones from their hand. A date for the robbery was not given.
Burglary to motor vehicle ■ A black 2010 Chevrolet Malibu was burglarized in the 300 block of S. Maple at 3:40 a.m. on Jan. 26. The offender gained entry to the vehicle by breaking the front passenger window with a rock. The offender then stole a clear plastic bag containing a black dress, a gold-colored Swarovski necklace and a gold-colored pendant. The loss was an estimated $270. ■ A white 2007 Chevrolet pickup was burglarized in the 300 block of S. Kenilworth sometime between 4 and 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 20. Once inside, the burglar took a backpack containing a Brooks teacher identification
card, office equipment and a black Apple iPad. The loss was an estimated $330.
Motor vehicle theft A gray 2002 Dodge Caravan was stolen by unknown means from the 100 block of North Cuyler sometime between 6:30 and 9 p.m. on Jan. 25. No additional information was given.
Vehicle stolen from Volvo of Oak Park A black 2017 Volvo S90 was stolen from Volvo of Oak Park, 1140 Garfield St., at about 2:20 p.m. on Jan. 26. All four of the suspects were described as being in their late teens. They were seen entering the lot in a white 2002 Ford Taurus. Three of the suspects were seen pulling door handles of vehicles on the lot. The first suspect was seen entering the S90 and driving off eastbound on Garfield. The second and third
suspects left on foot and the fourth suspect left the scene eastbound on Garfield in the Taurus. Police had no description for two of the suspects. One of the four suspects was described as 5-foot-8 to 5-foot-10 inches tall, thin, and wearing a black coat and black jeans. The other suspect for which police provided a description also was 5-foot-8 to 5-foot-10 inches tall and wore a black windbreaker and black jeans. These items, obtained from the Oak Park and River Forest police departments, came from reports, Jan. 20-27, and represent a portion of the incidents to which police responded. Anyone named in these reports has only been charged with a crime and cases have not yet been adjudicated. We report the race of a suspect only when a serious crime has been committed, the suspect is still at large, and police have provided us with a detailed physical description of the suspect as they seek the public’s help in making an arrest.
— Compiled by Timothy Inklebarger
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Village of Oak Brook sues to halt red-light camera By BRETT McNEIL
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Lawyers representing the Village of Oak Brook on Wednesday filed suit seeking to halt the installation and operation of redlight cameras near the Oakbrook Center shopping mall at Route 83 and 22nd Street. The lawsuit may be the first of its kind in Illinois — one neighboring community suing the other to halt the installation of redlight cameras — and it underscores significant disagreement between local officials in DuPage County about the purpose and legal justifications for red-light cameras in the state. “Defendants’ determination to install and operate RLC cameras at the intersection is an unreasonable exercise of police powers and a violation of state law,” lawyers for Oak Brook wrote in their complaint against the installation by Oakbrook Terrace. The suit also alleges Oakbrook Terrace officials voted to install red-light cameras in the busy intersection “unfairly and irrationally based not upon a serious traffic problem or a significant number of accidents but rather efforts by the Defendant City of Oakbrook Terrace to increase its revenue.” The Oakbrook Terrace cameras, approved late last year by officials at the Illinois Department of Transportation, would be operated by SafeSpeed LLC, the same privately held Chicago company that controls six redlight cameras on Harlem Avenue between North Avenue and Cermak Road. A Wednesday Journal series recently documented SafeSpeed cameras along that fourmile stretch of Harlem have issued more than $26 million in citations since 2014. The Wednesday Journal investigation also found SafeSpeed cameras in the Oak Park area are likely among the most lucrative in the state, far surpassing even the most prolific Chicago red-light cameras in ticket issuance. SafeSpeed maintains red-light camera contracts locally with River Forest, North Riverside and Berwyn. River Forest Village President Cathy Adduci, whose community has two red-light cameras, said she’d never seen a lawsuit like the one filed by Oak Brook. “On its surface it seems like a fairly odd suit and something that I can’t imagine succeeding,” she said, noting that the two municipalities have different jurisdictions. “(Oakbrook Terrace has) all the rights of a municipal government to enact what they feel would be in the best interest of their residents and public safety,” she said. The Oak Brook lawsuit refers to the vendor contract SafeSpeed allegedly maintains with Oakbrook Terrace as “an unnecessary tax and … an improper and unconscionable use of public funds.” The suit alleges
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RIGHT-TURNERS BEWARE: The red-light camera at Harlem and Lake catches many a motorist turning right on red. SafeSpeed stands to receive about 40 percent of all ticket revenues. The company has similar contracts in River Forest, North Riverside and Berwyn. The Oak Brook lawsuit was filed in DuPage County and seeks a court-ordered injunction to halt the operation of two cameras on the west side of Route 83 at 22nd Street. The lawsuit names numerous defendants, including the village of Oakbrook Terrace and its elected officials; SafeSpeed LLC; and company President Nikki M. Zollar. SafeSpeed sister company Triad Consulting is also named as a defendant. Timothy Inklebarger contributed to this article.
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hen Jani Westcott and Steve Krasinsky were looking for a larger home in Oak Park, the couple did what a lot of Oak Park families do: they found a fixerupper. They needed a bit more space but didn’t want the large environmental footprint, not to mention the large price tag, of an estate-sized house. Looking for the right-sized house for their family of four — and Westcott’s mother — they found a dilapidated two-flat ripe for a makeover. Their exhaustive efforts to remake their home recently earned the couple a 2016 Historic Preservation Award.
Two-flat to single family The Italianate-style house on Clinton Avenue was built in 1873 and converted to a two-flat in 1918. Over the years, subsequent owners continued to make changes to the structure. Westcott said you can see echoes of the Italianate style in some of the neighboring houses built during the same era. Much of her home’s original character was covered up by the time she and her husband purchased the home in 2015. “They’d added on in a hodge-podge way,” she said. “What is now the kitchen was probably part of the second addition, and what is the rear bedroom was probably a third addition. The house was covered in 1950s asphalt shingles. We took it back to the original style, and in doing so, revealed original ornamental See TWO-FLAT CONVERSION on page 20
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REUNITED: The newly renovated house on the 200 block of Clinton in Oak Park. Jani Westcott with her mother, who moved in after the renovations of their home were completed. The flamingos (top) are not original to the house.
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TWOFLAT CONVERSION Historic Preservation award from page 17 details and restored those too.” Working with local architect Steve Ryniewicz of Studio R Architecture and Loop Construction, they were able to read the clues left behind to create a new home with much of the character of the original house. Westcott credits the experience of both architect and contractor in working to preserve and update the historic home. Along with structural updates, interior changes, bringing the roofline of the rear addition up to the roofline of the original house, and rebuilding the home’s front porches, Ryniewicz said they incorporated many “green” elements into the remodel. A geothermal system heats and cools the house, and a greywater system reuses shower and bathtub runoff to provide the toilets in the home with water. A rear addition on the first floor that once housed a dining room and bedroom was turned into an open kitchen and dining space. A former family room was turned into a bedroom suite for Westcott’s mother. On the second floor, the former kitchen of the apartment was converted into a combination laundry and craft room. Throughout the process, Ryniewicz and Loop worked with the goal of honoring the home’s historic character while making it more livable for a family. Ryniewicz likens the process to peeling an onion. “You don’t really know what the original beauty looked like,” he noted, “but you keep removing layers to discover that. Then you try to bring the new work you do up to the original level of the house in the stature and style it had in the late 1800s.”
Craftsmanship, old and new Westcott and Krasinsky were keen to keep original features wherever possible in the house and with the work of their construction crew, they did just that. Of the wood trim, Westcott observed, “When we took the house apart, we found 7-8 different kinds of moldings. The guys took the molding on the front windows, since that was probably original to the house, and replicated that throughout the house.” Part of the original staircase was altered when the home was converted to a two-flat, so Loop constructed a new newel post to match the two existing posts of the staircase, and even Westcott can’t tell the new from the originals. Throughout the home, original leaded glass windows were restored and the living room’s original fireplace still stands as a place of honor, now converted from coal-burning to wood-burning. The pink granite edifice may not have been the elaborate, modern choice some homeowners would embrace, but Westcott points out the crinoids embedded in the Lake Michigan stone, saying they never could have
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OLD MEETS NEW: Interior renovations retained the look of the original home. changed it. “We respect this house. We could have made it more ornate, but we wanted to keep it.” Even before they purchased the home, Westcott and Krasinsky turned to local interior designer Amanda Miller for advice on how to approach the project. Westcott credits Miller, who had worked with them on their previous home, with much of what makes the house feel like a home. Working with the architect and construction crew, Miller and her staff were able to make the most of the gutted rooms and found unexpected spaces for storage and display. “With an old house like that,” she said, “you just don’t really know what you’ll get until you do exploratory surgery.” Behind the fireplace wall, Miller created a wall of bookshelves, and in a first floor bathroom, she created another storage cabinet built into a wall. A niche on the stairwell landing is the perfect size to store the fam-
ily’s record collection. Miller credits her cabinet maker, Botto Designs, with addressing so many different needs in the home. “He really covered a range of different styles,” she said, “from the custom-built island in the kitchen with reclaimed flooring on the back to the mudroom cabinetry and the cabinets in the bathroom.” With Miller’s help, the couple reduced the eco-footprint of the project. They bartered and bought materials off other jobs, using stone remnants for their kitchen counters and leftover cement tiles for a bathroom floor. They carried their love of salvage over to the light fixtures as well. While three modern pendants hang over the kitchen island, a rewired antique fixture hangs over the dining room table. In an upstairs hall, Westcott saved antique light fixture bowls and chains and had them put together to create a set of five antique-style pendants.
Family togetherness The Westcott and Krasinsky family’s entire outlook changed in 2015 when Westcott’s father and her children’s grandfather passed away in Pennsylvania. “When Opa died,” she said, “we got my mom. She is so brave to move here with us. She had lived her whole life in Pennsylvania. Having my mom here was the whole reason we bought this house.” Miller said her team felt it a tremendous privilege to design a first-floor bedroom suite for Westcott’s mother. “It is something so special to have three generations living together in harmony. We wanted to create a beautiful space for Oma to age in place with her family.” The life-change has benefited everyone, Westcott said. “This is one of the most singular, best decisions we have ever made. We eat dinner together every night.”
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BEAUTIFUL, MOVE-IN READY REHAB in River Forest. Large open kitchen with all brand new SS. New 3/4 inch Brazilian Koa wood floors throughout. Designer baths. Wood burning fireplace. Master suite. Full basement. Great backyard with covered patio. Close to great schools! .....$385,900 LARGE VICTORIAN with 4 bedrooms, 2-1/2 baths has great original details including wide moldings, wood burning fireplace, beamed ceilings, large room sizes and high ceilings. Master bedroom with bath, good closet space. Large backyard with deck. ..........................................................$385,000
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RIVER FOREST HOMES RESTORE THIS HOUSE with fabulous curb appeal or Build your dream home on this 100’ x 184’ lot. ..............................................................$1,400,000 BEAUTIFUL STYLISH UPDATED HOME with 4 BRs, 3.2 BAs on four floors of living space. Includes LR w/ frpl, new high end kitchen, Breakfast Rm, 1st FL office. LL has Fam Rm, Rec Room, Laundry, Wine Cellar and Full Bath. 2 car garage with extra storage and rooftop deck............................$1,049,000 CLASSIC TUDOR located in the center of town includes many upgrades and a lot of remodeling! Bathrooms, basement, added closets including MBR walk-in. Resurfaced numerous hardwood floors. Stained glass windows. 2 car attached garage. Large private backyard. A can’t miss! ......................$999,900 CHARMING, SPACIOUS QUEEN ANNE BUNGALOW in pristine condition. Art glass windows, French doors, wood trim, hardwood floors. Granite kitchen, breakfast nook. Family room and 1st floor bedroom. 3 bedrooms on 2nd floor. Finished basement, enclosed porch, 2 car garage. ....................................................................................................................$639,900 SPECIAL HOME IN SPECIAL LOCATION! Good size rooms, large picture window, views out every window, family room overlooks kitchen. Just finish off the basement with the second fireplace located there. Beautiful brick pavers, attached garage. Make this home yours. ................................$599,000
OAK PARK HOMES UNPRECEDENTED ESTATE in the Frank Lloyd Wright Historical district of Oak Park! This meticulously renovated 5 BR, 5 full / 2 half bath property offers exquisite details and refined finishes that boast timeless materials and over the top custom millwork. This is a showcase home!.............. $2,525,000 BEAUTIFUL, SPACIOUS TWO STORY HOME in the Arts District in Oak Park. Large Living Room with adjoining Sun Room, Dining Room, Family Room, updated Kitchen. Unfinished dry basement. Wood floors and freshly painted. Parking pad for 3 cars. Nice backyard with a patio and shed. .....................................................................................................................$349,500
NOTHING TO DO BUT MOVE IN! Newly stained dark hardwood floors throughout, including the kitchen. Three large bedrooms. New deck and many upgrades. Don’t pass this one by.... larger inside than it looks. Sunny back yard ready for your perennial garden. Fenced yard....................$284,000
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River Forest couple says don’t make assumptions about Muslims By TOM HOLMES
to sunset, every day for four weeks. Nausheen sounds very much like a Jew on Yom Kippur or a Christian during Lent when she describes what Muslims are striving for during Ramadan. “What people may not know,” she said, “is that the purpose of Ramadan is to bring you closer spiritually to your Cre-
ator, to develop patience, gratitude and to perfect one’s character. When fasting, a Muslim is supposed to be on their best behavior, avoid anger, bad language, lies, etc. Many people give up bad habits, for example smoking. It is a time of introspection and self-reflection on how to bet-
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Oak Park police officers will soon be equipped with an anti-opioid overdose drug known as Narcan, confirmed Oak Park Deputy Police Chief Tony Ambrose. A state law that went into effect in January mandates that all Illinois police departments begin carrying the drug in an effort to prevent overdoses from heroin and opioid-based prescription drugs. Ambrose said in a telephone interview that the OPPD is working with the Oak Park Fire Department to receive training and grant funding for the Narcan program. Oak Park Deputy Fire Chief Peter Pilafas said in a telephone interview that fire department paramedics have been trained to administer Narcan for some time and used it an average of four times a month in 2014 and 2015. Pilafas applied on May 20 for the grant, which will cover 100 percent of the costs for the OPPD program, and it was approved three days later. He said now police and fire department officials will attend a training seminar to instruct police officers on how to administer the drug. Earlier this year, Oak Park Township Supervi-
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By CATHY YEN, Executive Director
o, I missed another protest due to prior engagements. Keeping up in our current world is overwhelming. Although I continue to do what I do, focusing my small nonprofit on the local economy, I find it difficult to stay focused at this historical moment. Or to remain confident that I am focusing on the right things amidst a constant barrage of issues – all critically important. I imagine others feel the same. I always have kept a tight schedule. It never occurred to me last November that I should pencil in time this year to accommodate last minute trips to the airport, group postcard-writing sessions, flash-mob fundraisers, additional information meetings and time to call, fax and email politicians.
But here we are. And that is just national-level politics. By press time, there will have been a likely-contentious meeting about a high-rise in downtown Oak Park. I went to get my paper Sunday morning only to find a flyer from an activist not pleased with the proposed developments on Madison Street. There are dozens of candidates running for local office this April all wanting to be heard. I am trying to keep up with what it means to be a “sanctuary village” although I missed that meeting as well. The new District 200 superintendent is hosting a “listening tour” to gauge local sentiment regarding the high school. Oak Park District 97 is scheduling forums to explain the elementary school referenda on April’s ballot. Events to discuss equity keep showing up in my Facebook feed. Speaking of Facebook, I need a new outlet for recreational chatter. No longer is
my guilty pleasure filled with family news, birthday reminders and a glimpse into the lives of warm acquaintances. Now it is a constant stream of rally cries. Appropriate and (usually) informative. Just exhausting. We each need to find balance, a way to impact our world without burning out. We arrived at this banquet with an already full plate. Do what you do and add on what you can. Let’s make our voices heard without beating ourselves up if we miss something. Looks like we will have plenty more opportunities.
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few weeks ago, former astronaut/engineer Eugene Cernan died. He was the last of the 12 humans (thus far) to set foot on the moon. He grew up in Maywood and Bellwood and graduated from Proviso Township High School (now Proviso East) and Purdue University. The Cernan Earth and Space Center at Triton is named for him. A year ago, former astronaut/ physicist Edgar Mitchell died. He was the sixth human to walk on the moon. On his way back to earth, as he looked out the spacecraft window and saw that glorious blue marble we call Earth floating against the stark black background, Mitchell had an “a-ha” moment, also known as a noetic experience. He realized, to the depth of his soul, the interconnectedness of all things. Upon his return to earth, Edgar Mitchell founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), a vehicle to help bridge science and spirituality. Today, IONS continues to conduct evidence-based research into non-traditional scientific investigations. About five years ago, IONS created, developed, tested and rolled out the Conscious Aging Workshops program. About two years ago, I became a trained facilitator for these workshops. How can we reframe our views about aging and dying? How can we, as Dr. BJ Miller queries, “allow life to play itself all the way out, so that rather than just getting out of the way, aging and dying can become a process of crescendo through to the end?” In other words, how can we live well? The IONS Conscious Aging Workshops program addresses these kinds of questions. It is a series of eight 2-hour sessions, each dealing with a specific topic, including self-compassion, life review, forgiveness, death makes life possible, and creating a new vision of aging. Sessions are organized around small-group and large-group discussions, presentations, journaling, readings and sitting quietly. A few months ago, a program coordinator at the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) contacted IONS regarding the Conscious Aging Workshops. Because the aging prison population is burgeoning and because the federal prison bureaucracy is way behind this curve, there is interest in bringing these IONS workshops to BOP facilities. In 2016, The U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG) authored a review titled, “The Impact of an Aging Inmate Population on the Federal Bureau of Prisons.” Among the OIG findings: inmates 50 and older are the fastest growing and most expensive segment of the BOP inmate population; the BOP does not provide program-
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From Oak Park to D.C.
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went to D.C. on a rally bus, leaving Friday evening, Jan. 20, and riding 13 hours through the night. I’ve taken my kids to Disneyland; I thought I knew crowds. But I’ve never been in the midst of anything like this. We walked for hours, a shuffling zombie sort of walk that was the fastest we could manage — at times, we couldn’t move at all because the crowd was pressed too thickly. Eventually, we made it to the Capitol Mall and just stood there for a while, in the center, trying to take in the enormity of the crowd. My phone camera entirely failed to capture it — you could gaze down the mall to the Washington Monument on one side, the Capitol on the opposite, the cross streets for blocks and blocks, the steps of the various museums — it was just people, people, people, a sea of exuberant pink-hattedness as far as you could see. It felt unreal. Over 500,000 in D.C., over 250,000 in Chicago, 100,000 in London — across the world, down to the 30 protesters in Antarctica, millions of people, mostly women, stood up to say that their issues would not be ignored. This was why I went, to be a part of history, to put my body on the line and demand to be counted. Women marched for reproductive rights, of course, and against sexual violence. For many marchers I talked to, those issues were at the forefront of their minds. But they were also concerned about a host of other issues: health care, domestic abuse, equal pay and glass ceilings, the paucity of women in government office and in so many science and engineering jobs. The marchers were worried about other issues too — my own sign referenced Black Lives Matter, LGBT rights, immigrant issues, and science being real — the latter not something I ever thought I’d have to protest about, but here we are. Those may not all be women-specific, but they are absolutely issues that women have strong opinions on, opinions that their legislators are going to have to learn to listen to. We’re seeing a vast movement being born — people who had perhaps been complacent (myself included), now energized to participate on a level they never had before. I’d done my share of Pride marches, worked as an arts activist to amplify the voices of many, including women and people of color. I had tried to be a good ally to people fighting other social justice battles. But after the election, I joined Oak Park Progressive Women for Action; I hosted community gatherings and sign-making parties for the march and even decided to run for local office. I’ve been to a village hall meeting about making Oak Park a Welcoming Village to immigrants and was moved to tears by the enthusiastic support of this diverse community. We live in a special place, one that is in many ways already a leader in progressive ideals. Now, I think, a lot more of us are going to get involved to try to make it even better. Whether we’re calling our legislators, writing postcards, or just talking to our neighbors, Oak Parkers (and our neighbors in River Forest, Berwyn, Austin, and elsewhere) are
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SIGN ME UP: Mary Anne Mohanraj (center) traveled to Washington, Jan. 21, with family members to march for minority and LGBT rights and for taking science seriously. coming together to make our communities as strong as possible. I hope we can set an example for the nation. Mary Anne Mohanraj is a UIC English professor, writer, mom, and a candidate for Oak Park’s library board.
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n the making for, what, 70 years? Oak Park is finally going to step back and take a new look at the tangled mish-mash of its parking regulations. Conceived and incrementally enacted from the days of DeSotos and Hudsons, built for a town of one-car families, the Oak Park Village Board has now charged staff and the Transportation Commission with an eight-month review of all things parking. This is an exceptionally good idea. No system that has been built, fundamentally, to solve a single micro-issue at a time can stand much scrutiny at the macro level. So a traffic diverter installed to appease one block’s residents might not make as much sense when the view is of an entire quadrant of the village. Fifteen-minute meters installed to satisfy a dry cleaner and a now out-ofbusiness pharmacist warrant a new look. And while we applaud the “guiding principles” laid out by the village board before it sent the Transportation Commission off into the desert for two-thirds of a year — sustainability, public safety and customer service — we’d suggest more pre-study clarity is needed. First up, how about a one-sheeter that sets out all the current revenues and costs linked to our parking system. On the revenue side: Parking meter revenues, garage revenues, parking tickets by day part, on-street overnight parking by both the nightly pass and by quarterly permits, vehicle stickers. On the cost side: remaining debt service and maintenance on the parking garages, annual leases on surface lots rented by the village, wages and benefits for the “community service officers/ticket generators.” And then, because most fundamentally there isn’t enough space to park, the village board needs to set its priorities and values for apportioning the parking we do have. Are parking tickets in our retail areas truly designed to create customer turnover for stores and restaurants or are they a profit center? Is the overnight parking ban vital to Oak Park in the same way the diversity statement is vital or is it just a way to placate single-family homeowners at the expense of apartment renters? Are we able yet to prove that the tall buildings in downtown are really able to operate with fewer tenant parking spaces because of the virtues of “multi-modal transit orientations”? Only after the village leadership frames out answers to these questions can the Transportation Commission deduce best practices and most current technology.
Dominican’s clear light
As Oak Park’s village government moves toward adoption of its Welcoming Village ordinance, it is worth noting that Dominican University in River Forest has already made clear its determination to stand with students threatened by the federal government’s reckless inability to settle rational and empathetic immigration law. In December, the university’s board of trustees adopted a sanctuary campus resolution that makes real this school’s “advocacy as a moral imperative” to stand with students, documented and undocumented. We note that this outcome, while true to Dominican’s values, has been long in gestation. The impetus began with students who bravely came forward some years ago with their fears and upset over the endless threat of deportation. Steadily, this school and its leaders listened and responded with a clear statement that has now been adopted at all levels of the campus community. This is a model of institutional engagement and of courage.
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electoral college? President Trump makes many statements that fact-checker websites show to be untrue, most recently his claims about the size of the crowd at his inauguration and alleging that massive voting fraud prevented him from winning the popular vote. If his supporters criticized President Trump for saying things that aren’t true, do you think he might be more careful and considered before he speaks? Are you willing to criticize him for saying things that clearly are not true? Does President Trump act in accordance with your Christian beliefs and principles? Is his recent ban on Muslims from various Middle East countries — and giving preference to Christians — in synch with your Christian beliefs and principles? Does it make you uneasy that you voted for a man who was enthusiastically endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan? Is it OK for Mr. Trump to brag about groping Do you see any possibility of common ground women — even if it isn’t true, even if he thinks his between our two sides? comments aren’t being recorded? Do you believe our polarized nation can ever be Do you agree with the old adage that a person’s united? true character is revealed by the way Do you see us as the enemy? he behaves when he thinks no one is Is there anything we can agree watching? on? Would you support President How about economic inequalTrump if you found out he broke the ity? Has your life been impacted law multiple times in his business negatively by economic inequality dealings? like ours has? If he cheated on his wife — or Do you agree with us that the former wives when married to them wealthy elite has profited exces— would you still support him? sively at the expense of the averWhat are the chances of success age American? for any president when well over Is it possible for a billionaire half of the women in America are real estate magnate to reduce supremely pissed off at him? economic inequality and create an What must he do in order for you economy that is more just and fair to consider him a successful presifor everyone? dent? If we oppose what President How would you assess his perforTrump does and says, does that MERRICK GARLAND make us disloyal Americans? mance as president after his first 10 Un-nominated If so, were you a disloyal Ameridays in office? can when you opposed President Should President Trump lift sancObama’s actions and words? tions against Russia in spite of their incursions in Do you support Republicans refusing to hold Ukraine? hearings for an entire year on Merrick Garland, Do you support Russia’s involvement in upholdPresident Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court, ing the Assad regime in Syria after Assad used even though the Constitution requires Congress to chemical weapons against his own people? “advise and consent”? Which is more important: Improving relations Would you have supported President Trump with Russia or supporting NATO? nominating Merrick Garland, respected by RepubliDo you object to the Russian government’s atcans and Democrats alike, as a gesture to help unify tempts to influence the outcome of our presidential the country? election? Or do you consider stealing a Supreme Court What should be done about it? nominee from a Democratic president “just good What do we need to know about Trump supportpolitics”? ers that goes beyond stereotypes? Hillary Clinton lost Wisconsin, Michigan and Was your vote more for Trump or against Clinton Pennsylvania by less than 1 percent of the vote in or against the Washington establishment — or all each state. If 1 in every 100 voters in those states of the above? had voted for Clinton instead, she would have won Did your vote truly reflect your values and your in the electoral college 273 to 258. As it was, Clinton vision of government? won the popular vote by almost 3 million. In spite What is your vision of government? of this, do you believe President Trump has a Have you made any effort to reach out to Clinton mandate? supporters and find out more about them? If Trump had won the popular vote and lost in We look forward to hearing your answers to these the electoral college, would you still defend the questions and getting to know you better. hose of us on the losing side of this election have been told we should reach out to the other side, try to understand who they are and why they voted the way they did. I can’t help wondering why the onus isn’t on the winning side to reach out to the losing side, but, as ever, we seem to be held to a higher standard. Democratic Congressman John Lewis, speaking about what he learned during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, said, “You try to appeal to the goodness in every human being. And you don’t give up. You never give up. Hate is too heavy a burden to bear.” In a spirit of honest dialogue, therefore, assuming the best in the other side, here is a list of questions we invite you to answer:
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Reducing the stigma of mental health issues they have treatment options, and it does not On Aug. 30, a woman walked into Conhave to stand in the way of their greatness. gressman Danny Davis’ office, poured hand Young people should know they are not sanitizer over herself and set herself on fire. alone in this fight. There are so many people I still think about this incident, and for many in our state, country and world who have the people it may be difficult to grasp how somesame issues they do. But most of all, know one could harm themselves in this manner. that you can get through this. However, I don’t ask myself why this I look forward to the implementation of woman did what she did. The real question is: this legislation. We are taking an important “What could have been done to help her long step in fighting the stigma of mental health, before this happened?” combating suicide and creating a better When I heard about what happened at learning environment for all children. Cong. Davis’ office, I was still working on Requiring screenings for our children legislation requiring mental health screenState senator, 4th Dist. is a good step forward, but we are going ings for school-age children. My heart hurt to have to invest more effort and resources to deal with for that woman, and it made that proposal even more these issues. I will continue working with advocates and important to me so that just maybe it could help someone communities to bring more comprehensive solutions to struggling just like her. mental health issues. It was signed into law on Friday. I encourage communities, families and friends to I want young people struggling with mental health to spread awareness of mental health, and continue fighting have the option to get help. I want families to know that if for those who are suffering. their child is battling a mental health issue, it is normal,
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Plenty to talk about
Thank you for alerting neighbors and stakeholders to the Jan. 30 community meeting about Albion Residential’s planned development at the site of the old Lyttons building on Lake and Forest. The meeting’s stated intention was to discuss the density of the project as well as shadows cast by the structure. In addition, the general form and size of the building will be revealed. While it is commendable that Albion is engaging the community at a relatively early phase, I hope this opportunity didn’t pass without other key issues being touched upon:
1. Is there going to be a traffic study conducted that takes into account both the residential component of the building as well as potential retail tenants below? 2. How is the building construction going to be coordinated with the comprehensive Lake Street repaving and streetscaping project slated to begin in 2018? 3. Will the garage constructed for the building be able to be used by both residents as well as retail shoppers? As Cooper’s Hawk and other businesses come online, the Vantage garage will be much more heavily utilized.
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Achieving equity requires a racial-equity lens
ecent articles have highlighted the persistent and systemic achievement and opportunity gaps at OPRF High School. As many in the community know, the division of academic success at OPRF too often runs along racial lines. Students of color are disproportionately relegated to fewer academic opportunities. This disparity cannot continue. District 200 needs to take deliberate steps to further educational equity at OPRF. The board must commit to providing a quality education to each and every OPRF student. To best accomplish this mission, the D200 board and OPRF administration must implement a framework for evaluating future policies and strategies through a racial-equity lens. Much in the way an environmental impact statement assesses the positive and negative environmental effects of a proposed action, an equity lens considers the positive and negative effects of proposed school policies and procedures on students who suffer academically because of the systemic and structural biases in place. Such an inquiry seeks to remove unintended barriers to opportunity and achievement.
Implementation of a racial-equity lens simply asks D200 — when it makes decisions or policies regarding hiring, discipline, facilities, curricula, school fees, staff, etc. — to consider the potential impact on all students, and particularly those disproportionately disadvantaged by the prevailing status quo. Direct consideration by D200 and the OPRF administration of the racial impact of school policy decisions will help to bring negative and racially disparate outcomes to light and to avoid them going forward. A racial-equity lens is not a radical idea. States and school districts around the country (including Oregon, Minneapolis, and Seattle public schools) have adopted a racialequity lens, committing those entities to considering the future financial and societal impacts of not providing a quality education to all their students. Closer to home, District 90 in River Forest has embraced the concept of equity in educa-
tion. D90 has adopted an equity vision statement, has instituted both an Inclusiveness Advisory Board and a Board Equity Committee, and is committed to implementing policies and practices in curriculum, hiring, and professional development to ensure robust educational opportunities for all River Forest school children. District 97 in Oak Park likewise has an equity vision statement and seems to understand the urgent need for equity and improvements in classroom culture, cultural responsiveness, and equity considerations in leadership and professional development. All three Oak Park and River Forest school districts must continue their work with the recognition that excellence in education requires a commitment to action as well as vision. To its credit, OPRF has made strides in recent years and has undertaken various equity initiatives, including implicit-bias training for teachers, a freshman mentor-
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Equity vs. advantage
Reading the Jan. 18 Wednesday Journal article, “School board candidates riff on equity” raises many questions for me. As a 44-year resident of Oak Park who raised four children in the Oak Park public and private schools, I am interested in participating in the discussion regarding the new education challenges our villages face. In 1996, a student acquaintance graduated from an Oak Park junior high to attend a local private high school. Much to his surprise, testing placed him in noncredit “remedial classes.” Realizing he was capable of more challenging work, he increased effort, engaged in assistance and went on to graduate a member of the National Honor Society. He also enjoyed a level of support not available to all students. But a pathway was provided for improvement and there was no attempt to disguise a deficiency and call it by another name. Is this approach of providing classes at different competency levels out of vogue? Should this approach be revisited? Add mentorship from the community to encourage achievement? Candidate Christian Chiakulas suggests a much different approach. What is an example of how to structure an English class that “comes down to the students’ level and brings all students up together”? How is that accomplished when some students read at or above grade level and others below grade level? Nicole Hannah-Jones, staff writer for New York Times magazine, describes her difficult choice to “surrender advantage” by placing her daughter in a segregated public school in her New York City neighborhood. (www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/magazine/choosinga-school-for-my-daughter). Is this the type of sacrifice Chiakulas is referring to? For Hannah-Jones, the sacrifice was choosing a low performing school for her child in the interest of improving all students. For OP-RF residents, our high school has a number of programs that have a rigor not all students are ready for. Do we dismantle them toward a more median norm? How does this affect graduates’ ability to succeed at the college level? How do we “surrender advantage”?
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ing program, as well as a move away from zero tolerance discipline policies and toward restorative justice practices. OPRF High School is poised to achieve great things. D200’s hiring of Superintendent Pruitt-Adams is a significant step forward. Dr. Pruitt-Adams has the vision and determination necessary to lead initiatives that will shrink the achievement gap at OPRF and advocate for the academic success of all OPRF students. It is time for OPRF to put true equity into action and to make a racial-equity analysis an institutionalized component of any inquiry or action D200 undertakes. It is time for D200 and our OPRF community to embrace the hard but valuable work of delivering a rich and fulfilling education to all of our students. It takes a village to raise a child. Oak Park and River Forest are our villages. Laura Hardwicke is a member of Committee for Equity and Excellence in Education (CEEE). Melanie McQueen is a member of African American Parents for Purposeful Leadership in Education (APPLE). Anthony Clark is the founder of Suburban Unity Alliance (SUA) and an OPRF faculty member.
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he concept of a school charging a student for a Band-Aid seems absurd. If a person is bleeding, they obviously need something to treat whatever injury they have, and a publicly-funded institution should not force students to pay twice for resources their taxes already cover. So then what is the basis for charging students for feminine hygiene products? My first time encountering this issue was freshman year, when I walked into the nurse’s office and was promptly charged a small fee to obtain something that was basic for my health. It angered me then, and I knew early on that I fundamentally could not depend upon OPRF High School, a place at which I spend a majority of my waking hours, to provide for my basic health care. Sending this message to students is wrong. It lets those who menstruate know that their bodies, even though they make up a great deal of the nation’s population, are not a priority for their schools, their government, or anyone else. Today, two and a half years after that first incident, I needed a tampon, and I reached out to a friend instead of my school, as I had learned to do. However, I wanted to see if OPRF had changed its backward policy, so I went to the nurse. Sure enough, I was asked: “Do you have a quarter?” This isn’t about the amount of money; it’s about the principle. No student should be inconvenienced or embarrassed by the fundamentals of adequate health care. I, and other people like me, should be able to go to school with the basic knowledge that my health and comfort matter to my school, that I matter to my school.
But within this system, I’m still lucky; even though I know my school won’t give me the basic guarantee of free menstrual health care in a tight situation, I still normally have access to those products. However, in America today, the number of people living under the poverty line is shockingly large, and a significant amount of this subset of the population are women, especially women of color, who may be unable to afford their own hygiene products. This phenomenon leads at best to discomfort, and at worst to serious sanitary issues and health problems. The issue is further exacerbated by our government’s ongoing de-prioritization of women’s health — from the widespread and arguably baseless denunciation of Planned Parenthood, to President Trump’s recent pledge that federal funds cannot be allocated to any NGO that promotes abortion. Uneducated and poor citizens, two identities that often intersect in our country, are now at the whim of a singular leader whose policies will undoubtedly worsen and complicate their lives. So let’s talk about periods. Acting as if it’s a taboo topic shames the large portion of society who experience them — especially when those people require help and resources. Why should I, or anyone at my school, be charged for the need to be comfortable and healthy while in a place that claims the pretense of an educational environment? We need to progress as a school, community, and nation, and become a place where women, transgender people, poor people, people of color, and everyone else knows that their rights, health, and safety matter. Grace Scully is a resident of Oak Park and a student at OPRF High School.
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Jean Ott made a difference
the “Emily Dickenson” of Oak Park, she was not. Her father was her hero and, as you so eloquently wrote, teaching at Ascension was her life. She was a very private person with a small, close, wonderful circle of friends, who would meet for lunch, catch a ballet, movie r. Trainor: or a nearby Shakespearean production Katie Vanaria, director of and share conversation. Her nightstand Institutional Advancement at Ascension School sent me a copy reading at the time of her passing was a biography of William Halleck, Lincoln’s of your piece on Jean Ott in rechief of staff. sponse to some communication that I had My family visited Jean on occasional with her office late in 2016. [The Prime trips back to Oak Park and we spoke of Miss Jean Ott, News, April 27, 2016]. I almost weekly on the phone. It was during am “the cousin from New York state” and one of those phone conversaJean’s closest next of kin who tions that she had asked me to served as executor of her will be executor of her will and sucand successor trustee of her cessor trustee of her trust. trust. I accepted and a few years I grew up in a house at South later, after speaking with Jean Grove Avenue and Jackson on the evening of Feb. 21, 2016, Boulevard that was purchased by my maternal grandmother the phone rang at 3 a.m. the somewhere around 1916. My next morning with a call from grandmother’s first husband, her former associate and the August Meter (father of my news that no one wants to hear. mother and aunt) died when he I’m left being the persona of JEAN OTT was very young. My grandthe distant cousin who quietly mother then married P.J. Winflew in from New York, took kler, who was the brother-in-law of her first care of his cousin’s business and departed husband and brother to Mayme Winkler. under the darkness of night. To those Mayme Winkler married August Ott. who are curious, I can say that I followed They had two daughters, Miriam and Jean. my cousin’s wishes to the letter as close Both of my parents attended Ascension as I was able. I notified a couple of the School. I was a member of Ascension’s luncheon ladies, whose names were left class of 1960. My dad passed away in 1949 on a small piece of paper. There would be when I was 2. My earliest memories are no wake, mass or funeral. I asked Jean of Christmas and Thanksgiving holidays several times about this and she was spent either at Grove and Jackson or at adamant about this request. Her response 739 Scoville with Jean, her mom and sister was such that I would not need to ask for Miriam, who was my godmother. clarification again. She said that on All I married my high school sweetheart, Souls Day, the parish had a mass for all Jody Sandoval Tucker (Ascension class of those who passed in the preceding year. 1961) at Ascension Church in 1969. Jean She said she knew she would be rememwas godmother to one of our two sons. bered then and believed that students Each Christmas and Thanksgiving and would be attending. all the family gatherings that we had took I prayed that Jean would understand place at one house or the other until each my breaking part of my promise in that family member passed over time and Jean some of the “lunch club” and her forwas left alone. Then she joined Jody and I mer associate with her adopted family and our sons for holidays at our home. requested to be at the interment. We met We moved our family to Long Island at the cemetery and with the guidance of in 1981, but never really lost touch with the funeral director and a deacon from a Jean. For holidays, Jean was “adopted” nearby parish, laid her to rest. Jody and by a family of one of her fellow AscenI joined the ladies for one last lunch that sion teachers, who lived in Naperville, so lingered well into the afternoon. Jean Jean’s holiday celebrations moved even would have loved it. further west. She visited us twice on Long I am most appreciative of your wonderIsland between then and now and as she ful obituary. Your measured, thoughtful grew older she became less mobile. prose was a gift in itself. We are ever-soI knew nothing of her writing even grateful also to Ascension Parish, the though I knew her my entire life. I do school, its faculty and alumni for providknow, but with little detail, that she lived ing a direction and an environment that the normal life of a young lady, which allowed Jean the opportunity to follow a included study, romance and travel. I was dream and make a difference each and surprised to find passports that indicate every day. several visits to Great Britain, France Ed O’Donnell is a resident of Northport, and Germany between 1972 and 1985, so New York. He grew up in Oak Park. Editor’s note: Last week we received the following update on Jean Ott, whom we profiled last April. For those interested, it fills in some of the details of her life. We’re grateful to Ed O’Donnell for doing so.
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No hate, no fear … and silence is no option
o begin, let me introduce you to Martin Niemoller. As a Lutheran clergyman in Germany during the 1930s, Niemoller emerged as an outspoken critic of Adolph Hitler and was thus detained in a concentration camp in 1937. He was confined at various sites until liberated by Allied troops at the end of World War II in 1945. However, he had not always protested the rise of the Nazi regime. In the early 1930s, he held right-wing nationalistic and, at times, antiSemitic views. In a private audience with Hitler in 1932 the latter assured Niemoller that he would not interfere with affairs of the church, a promise which was soon broken. As his views moderated during that decade, he was caught in the mass arrest of Christian leaders, including Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and confined for over seven years. During his imprisonment, his views continued to change and he concluded that Protestant church leaders had been complicit — through their silence — in the Nazi imprisonment, persecution and murder of millions of people. After the end of the war, Niemoller and other church leaders issued the Stuttgart “Declaration of Guilt,” confessing that the church had not done enough to protect the victims of Hitler.
With that as background, consider this most celebrated early post-war statement, which he included in many lectures: First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out — because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me. I suggest that we substitute some of the following terms. Instead of “Socialists,” substitute “Muslims.” For “Trade Unionists” enter “Mexicans.” For “Jews,” substitute “Women” or “Journalists.” Is it an exaggeration to compare the rise of Nazi rule in the 1930s with the installation of our present administration in Washington? After all, we are a democracy, containing the checks and balances needed to avoid repressive regimes! Americans are basically decent and generous people, not given to totalitarianism! Not so fast. How does one explain that the same society that gave us Bach, Beethoven and Brahms also gave us Adolph Hitler? A review of author Peter Hayes’ new book Why? Explaining the Holocaust asks, “Why
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did a modern and cultured society that existed at the time embark on a course that led to genocide?” Is it possible that the German people needed Hitler to “make Germany great again” after WW I, and that he needed an ethnic scapegoat to blame for the German defeat in that war and for subsequent severe economic crises? Could it happen here? Perhaps it is unlikely that our administration or future administrations would resort to the final solutions similar to those implemented in Germany 75 years ago. Yet we see current executive orders and proposed public policies which, cumulatively, can marginalize, threaten, and endanger entire groupings of people based on their heritage, color or religion, particularly in this modern technological age. To quote the final three words of Hayes’ book cited above: “Beware the beginnings!” What is to be done? The remarkable, unprecedented marches of Jan. 21 promise the embryo of a strong nationwide, multicultural, multigender, multiracial resistance movement. If so, we and our children will be spared the need to be latter-day Martin Niemollers, apologizing for our silence. To quote my favorite chant of the marchers in Chicago on that sunny Saturday: “No hate, no fear. Everyone is welcome here!”
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Juggling emotional issues at OPRF I attended the District 200 school board meeting at Oak Park and River Forest High School on Jan. 26 and was struck by the contrasting atmospheres between the Dec. 22 meeting and this one. The December meeting had no public comments, a report on visits to Evanston Township to glean information from that school district’s efforts to address academic performance gaps, and a celebration of the appointment of Dr. Pruitt-Adams as permanent D200 superintendent. The only two potentially negative things from the meeting may have been one board member’s rejected request to further discuss a consent item regarding “Summer 2017 Capital Improvement Bids” and the other being the board’s vote to dismiss tenured OPRF special ed teacher and assistant coach Danielle Dobias. The packed January board meeting began with acknowledgement of OPRF All-State and All-America swimmers. This contrasted later during public comments with a father asking the board to consider overriding Pruitt-Adams’ denial of his son and other male gymnasts independently representing OPRF at the IHSA state gymnastics meet in May. This was never stated but apparently there is no formal male gymnastics team at the school. IHSA rules allow school representation by independent athletes at the state meet. The perception was that the male gymnasts were not being afforded the same opportunity to represent OPRF as their swimming counterparts. See EMOTIONAL ISSUES on page 35
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His sidearm was sensational, but he had a different pitch in mind
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eorge Warren was my best friend in grade school — and probably the best school-age pitcher I ever saw. When he threw a sidearm fastball, the ball hummed, and it seemed that he always threw strikes. Few people ever got hits off of George’s sidearm fastball. Both Mr. Franco, our gym teacher who had seen George pitch, and I tried to convince George to play organized baseball, but George was happy to simply play sandlot baseball. One Saturday afternoon in February of our eighth-grade year, George and I were shooting baskets on my driveway. We had shoveled the snow off the cement, but there was still a lot of good packing snow on the grass. Just as I was ready to take a shot, I felt something hit me on the back. When I turned around to see what had happened,
I got hit in the shoulder by a hard-packed snowball thrown by Eric Bourne, my neighbor. Bourne and three of his buddies, who had come into the yard behind us, were laughing at George and I, and that’s when George went into action. George packed a snowball and threw it at Bourne. The snowball hit him in the thigh. Bourne let out a yell and fell on to the cement. When he got up, George hit him on the shoulder. Bourne’s buddy Merton hit me on the leg, and I hit him on the neck. George then sidearmed a snowball that carried away Merton’s cap. The other two guys lobbed a couple of snowballs that fell short, and then they ran
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south to Chicago Avenue. When George and I were in high school, I once again tried to convince him to play organized baseball, but he always said he was not interested and simply liked to play for fun. I saw George less as the high school years passed because he was a loner and went directly home after school was dismissed. During our senior year, George sat down with me one day in the cafeteria and told me that he had chosen a career. He decided that he would be a minister with the ultimate goal of being a mission-
ary. Before I left for college in September 1957, George said he wanted to play one more game. We rounded up a bunch of guys and
George pitched for the team I was on that day. George’s sidearm had not lost any zip because he threw a two-hitter over the seven innings we played. He graduated from the seminary and established a Methodist mission in Venezuela, where, to the best of my knowledge, he still resides. I wonder if George taught the sidearm to any of his young parishioners over the years because I have heard that some young Venezuelan men have become star pitchers in the realm of professional baseball. John Stanger is a lifelong resident of Oak Park, a 1957 graduate of OPRF High School, married with three grown children and five grandchildren, and a retired English professor (Elmhurst College). Living two miles from where he grew up, he hasn’t gotten far in 76 years.
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How about a page of Austin news in WJ? I recently attended the Community of Congregations annual dinner at a church in the Austin neighborhood. What became clear from this meeting was that the Austin neighborhood is as much a part of Oak Park as the River Forest area. Oak Park is sandwiched between these two very different areas and yet it always seems to include River Forest in its daily life while barely including Austin. I understand one reason for the alliance between OP and RF is the shared high school system, but it seems Wednesday Journal and many other parts of Oak Park life coincide with River Forest and exclude Austin.
At the Community of Congregations event we talked about how to build a bridge (not a wall) between the Oak Park, River Forest and Austin neighborhoods. One great way to build a bridge would be for the Wednesday Journal to feature a page dedicated to news about the Austin neighborhood. Wednesday Journal writes a lot about the District 200 issues and other issues that apply mostly to people with children in the school system here. I could easily find a page or two to replace OPRF news with Austin news.
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fortable in the D200 board room. Single requests came from the floor for the board to take action steps in addressing the academic performance gap and for protection of immigrant students. After such a long and emotional public comments session, there wasn’t much else left for the D200 board to discuss in the open, beyond certification of mid-year graduates, so it soon went into a closed session. After a week of hearing about protest marches, border walls, gang-related shootings, the state budget impasse, and environmental and corporate deregulation, I left the D200 meeting humming “Make me wanna holler ... throw up both my hands!” from Marvin Gaye’s classic song “Inner City Blues” from the early ’70s. I wondered just how the D200 board was going to adequately juggle the emotional issues present today and those to come.
from page 34 Most of the open session of the January D200 board meeting was taken up by public comments. Many of those comments centered around Danielle Dobias’ termination from OPRF, her positive impact as a teacher, coach and mentor, her exemplary reviews prior to the conflict with a male supervisor, an active lawsuit (which could not be discussed with specifics), and what some perceived to be an inadequate response by OPRF and the D200 board to Ms. Dobias’ allegations of sexual harassment in the workplace. Immediately following comments regarding Dobias, there were many comments regarding OPRF’s level of response to allegations of sexual assault and aggression within the school community. Things got a little uncom-
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BLESOFF from page 29 ming opportunities designed specifically to meet the needs of aging inmates; and the physical infrastructure of BOP institutions limits the availability of appropriate housing for aging inmates. After focused and enthusiastic negotiations, starting this week I am facilitating a first-of-its-kind pilot Conscious Aging Workshops program for aging prisoners at a federal prison facility in Massachusetts. I am humbled and excited by this opportunity. Last year, IONS asked me to think about why Conscious Aging Workshops across the country and around the globe are attended mostly by women. The participants in my pilot prison program are all male. So starting later this month, I will facilitate an all-male Conscious Aging Workshops program here in Oak Park. It will run parallel to the incarcerated program in Massachusetts. I hope to generate experience and data about similarities and differences between the two groups. I also hope to learn more about increasing male participation in the workshops in general. If you are male, age 50 or above, and have any interest in participating in this one-time Oak Park program, please contact me (marcblesoff1@comcast.net). Marc Blesoff is a former Oak Park village trustee, co-founder of the Windmills softball organization, co-creator of Sunday Night Dinner, a retired criminal defense attorney, and a novice beekeeper. He currently facilitates Conscious Aging Workshops and Wise Aging Workshops in the Chicago area.
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Carl Bergersen, 89 Veteran, raised in Oak Park
Carl Hagen Bergersen, 89, of Palm Desert, California, died peacefully with his wife by his side on Jan. 6, 2017. Born on March 12, 1927 in Chicago to Carl Trygue and Marguerite (Hagen) Bergersen, he was raised in Oak Park, attended Longfellow Elementary and Oak Park and River Forest High School, and graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1951. Prior to college, he served as an AntiTank Gun Crewman in the 88th Division 361st Infantry Regiment as a chaplain’s assistant, Red Cross CARL BERGERSEN driver, and aide to the field director while stationed in Italy. He was a purchasing agent at various manufacturing companies but spent 35 years at Prudential Insurance Company of America in Los Angeles. His favorite pastime was golf and scored three holes-in-one. He was also a talented pianist and organist. Carl Bergersen is survived by Carolina, his wife of 46 years; his children, Laura Berg-
ersen and Paul Bergersen; his daughter-inlaw, Sandy; his grandchildren, Robert and Michael; and his three great-grandchildren. Services will be held on Feb. 2 at St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, 47355 State Highway 74, Palm Desert, California 92260, followed by A Celebration of Life. The family appreciates donations to this church, which he attended every Sunday, www.stmargarets.org.
Ellen Davey, 95
Ellen Marie Davey (nee Hurtgen), 95, a longtime resident of DuPage County, died on Jan. 25, 2017. She is survived by her children, Jo Ellen Davey Cohen (Michael Henry Cohen), Gregory Wayne Davey, Susan Davey DeGuzman (Armando DeGuzman) and Bruce Wesley Davey; her three grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; three siblings; her niece, Eileen Semph; and many other nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Chester Wesley Davey; and her parents, Albert James Hurtgen and Sarah Amanda Hurtgen (nee Sabby). Services and interment were held at Bronswood Cemetery. Arrangements were handled by Drechsler Brown & Williams Funeral Home. See OBITUARIES on page 36
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Kathleen Panschar, 82
Third-generation Oak Parker and family matriarch Kathleen Mary Panschar (nee Maguire), 82, a longtime Oak Park resident, died on Jan. 3, 2017 at home in Anchorage, Alaska, surrounded by family. Born in Oak Park on July 10, 1934, she was the youngest child of Jean Isabelle (nee Rigney) and Alexander Francis Maguire of West Chicago. Her two siblings, Jean Elizabeth and Alexander Francis, preceded her in death. Her roots in Oak Park go back three generations. Her father’s name appears on the World War I memorial in Scoville Park. Her mother and her KATHY PANSCHAR aunt Phyllis Brady grew up in a house on Gunderson Avenue in South Oak Park. She grew up in West Chicago and attended Marycrest College, an all-girls Catholic college in Davenport, Iowa, where she majored in education and met many of the lifelong friends that settled with her and their families in Oak Park. She taught elementary school in Glen Ellyn for six years before being swept off her feet by Edward Panschar. Their first date was at the Tip Top Tap on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago. They married in West Chicago on Nov. 3, 1962. After a short time, Kathleen and Ed moved to Oak Park in 1964, where she stayed at home to raise their four children, and where they lived until 2009. In the 1970s, the Panschar family became one of the founding families of the St. Giles Family Mass, held in the gymnasium at St. Giles School, and led by the long-haired and bearded Father Steve, who
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often accompanied his Masses with Bob Dylan songs played on his acoustic guitar. Among her spare-time pursuits, she enjoyed yoga, reading, attending concerts of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and travel. She and Ed enjoyed overseas trips with a group of Oak Parkers and former Marycrest classmates who adopted the name “Drinking Club with a Travel Problem” (thanks to Bill Dring). She and Ed lived in Anchorage until 2012 when they moved to North Palm Beach, Florida. After her struggles with Alzheimer’s disease, they moved back to Alaska to be with their daughter Martha and son Alex. Kathleen was the matriarch of a large extended family — her wide and lively crowd of nieces and nephews were a source of enjoyment and created many family legends that are retold to the grandchildren at family gatherings. She continues to be a source of appreciation and joy, and she is part of our hearts so she will never really leave us. We all miss her very much. Kathleen Panschar is survived by her husband, Ed; her children, Ruth Mary Levy, Martha Jean Amore, Matthew George Panschar, and Alexander Francis Panschar; and five grandchildren, Kathleen Mary Amore, Lily Jean Amore, June Isabelle Amore, Jakob Ryan Levy and Delilah Grace Levy. She donated her body for scientific and medical purposes. There will be no service. If desired, donations may be made to the National Alzheimer’s Research Foundation.
Sally Caldicott, 59 Businesswoman, author
Sarah (Sally) Miller Caldicott, 59, former Oak Park resident, died unexpectedly at her home in Boca Raton, Florida on Jan. 24, 2017. Born on Dec. 27, 1957 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Sylvia Lucas Miller and Richard H. Miller, she graduated from Wellesley College in 1980 and from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
College in 1984 with a master’s degree in marketing. Her business career included positions at Quaker Oats and Helene Curtis, where she served as director of international marketing. She established her own firm, StarWaves Marketing, which was designed to serve small companies. A great-grandniece of Thomas Alva Edison, after long years of studying Edison’s career, she wrote Innovate Like Edison with co-author Michael J. Gelb. She then SALLY CALDICOTT began a career as a consultant to major businesses, including some Fortune 500 companies, promoting Edison’s innovation techniques and strategies. This led to her second book, Midnight Lunch, which was followed by her e-book, Inventing the Future: What Would Thomas Edison Be Doing Today? She founded and became CEO of Power Patterns of Innovation, which promotes the application of Edison’s methods to modern business, which led to a speaking and lecturing career and conducting numerous seminars on best practices to innovate. In 1984, she married Brian Caldicott, with whom she had two sons, Nicholas and Connor. They were divorced in 1993. She moved to Weston, Florida with Nick and Connor and in 2006, moved back to Illinois. She lived for many years in Oak Park, where she met, and in July of 2012, married Wayne Myers, senior pastor of Fair Oaks Presbyterian Church. A few years later she and Wayne moved to Boca Raton, Florida when he became pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Pompano Beach, aka “The Pink Church.” Sally Caldicott was a kind and affectionate soul who led a life of compassion and contagious optimism. She was an accomplished musician, author, international businesswoman, and a loving wife and parent.
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She is survived by her husband, Wayne; her sons, Nicholas (Alexa) and Connor; her step-sons, Daniel and Taylor; her siblings, Cindi Smith (Paul) and Richard H. Miller Jr. (Pam); her parents and her stepmother, Miriam Reading; her former husband, Brian Caldicott (Dawn); her stepsisters, Rebecca Howell (John), Lindsey Korth (William), Mathilda Wheeler (Andrew), Ann Reading and Elizabeth Reading (Keith); and many other relatives. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 3 at Fair Oaks Presbyterian Church, 744 Fair Oaks Ave., Oak Park. In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made to the Chautauqua Foundation, Chautauqua, NY; Wellesley College; Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College; First Presbyterian Church of Boca Raton, Florida; Fair Oaks Presbyterian Church of Oak Park; or a charity of the donor’s choice.
Robin Bruce, 75 Educator, member of Calvary Memorial Church
Roberta “Robin” Bruce, 75, a 45-year resident of River Forest, died at her daughter’s home in Lebanon, Illinois on Jan. 23, 2017. Born on Sept. 16, 1941 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to the late Harold Barclay and Margaret (nee Zinn) Hargreaves, she was raised in Malvern, Pennsylvania and graduated from Conestoga Valley High School, then attended Wheaton College and received her bachelor’s degree in education. She taught U.S. History in Maryland and in LaGrange and was a substitute special education teacher in both the River Forest and Oak Park school districts for many years. An active member of Oak Park’s Calvary Memorial Church, a prayer partner, and a Sunday School teacher, she was also an avid perennial gardener. Robin Bruce is survived by Robert E. Bruce, her husband of 47 years; her children, Jennifer (Brad) Giemza, Bonnie (Tom) Krumsieg and Robert E. III (Erin); her grandchildren, Jackson Giemza, Abigail Giemza, Ellie Krumsieg, Jonathan Krumsieg, David Krumsieg, Luke Krumsieg, Grace Krumsieg, Hannah Krumsieg, Naomi Krumsieg and Fiona Bruce; and her sisters, Sheila Hargreaves, Louise Lavenau and Martha (Carl) Brown. Visitation will be held on Friday, Feb. 3 from 10 a.m. until time of service, 11 a.m., at Calvary Memorial Church, 931 Lake St., Oak Park 60301, followed by interment at Forest Home Cemetery. The family appreciates memorials to Calvary Memorial Church or to Wycliffe Bible Translators, P.O. Box 628200, Orlando, Florida 32862. Arrangements were by Drechsler, Brown & Williams Funeral Home, 708383-3191 and www.drechslerbrownandwilliams.com.
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Religion Guide Methodist
Check First.
First United Methodist Church of Oak Park
First Congregational Church of Maywood
400 N. Fifth Avenue (1 block north of Lake St.) Come join us for Sunday Morning Worship at 11 am Pastor Elliot Wimbush will be preaching the message. Refreshments and fellowship follow the service. 708-344-6150 firstchurchofmaywood.org When you're looking for a place to worship the Lord, Check First.
You’re Invited to A Church for All Nations A Church Without Walls SERVICE LOCATION Forest Park Plaza 7600 W. Roosevelt Road Forest Park, IL 60130
William S. Winston Pastor (708) 697-5000
324 N. Oak Park Avenue 708-383-4983 www.firstUMCoakpark.org Sunday School for all Ages, 9am Sunday Worship, 10am Children’s Chapel during Worship Rev. Jenny Weber, Pastor Professionally Staffed Nursery Fellowship Time after Worship Presbyterian
Fair Oaks
Lutheran—ELCA
United Lutheran Church
409 Greenfield Street (at Ridgeland Avenue) Oak Park Holy Communion with nursery care and children’s chapel each Sunday at 9:30 a.m. www.unitedlutheranchurch.org
708/386-1576
Sunday Service 7AM, 9AM & 11:15AM
LIVE Webcast - 11:15AM Service Believer’s Walk of Faith Broadcast Schedule (Times in Central Standard Time) Television DAYSTAR (M-F)
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www.livingwd.org www.billwinston.org
West Suburban Temple Har Zion
1040 N. Harlem Avenue River Forest Meet our Rabbi, Adir Glick Pray, learn, and celebrate with our caring, progressive, egalitarian community. Interfaith families are welcome. Accredited Early Childhood Program Religious School for K thru 12 Daily Morning Minyan Weekly Shabbat Services Friday 6:30pm & Saturday 10:00am Affiliated with United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism 708.366.9000 www.wsthz.org
Lutheran-Independent
Grace Lutheran Church
7300 W. Division, River Forest David R. Lyle, Senior Pastor David W. Wegner, Assoc. Pastor Lauren Dow Wegner, Assoc. Pastor Sunday Worship, 8:30 & 11:00 a.m. Sunday School/Adult Ed. 9:45 a.m. Childcare Available
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
744 Fair Oaks Ave. Oak Park 386-4920 Rev. Daniel deBeer, Interim Pastor Sunday Schedule Christian Education for All Ages 9:00am Worship Service 10:00am
Roman Catholic
St. Bernardine Catholic Church Harrison & Elgin, Forest Park
CELEBRATING OUR 105TH YEAR! Sat. Masses: 8:30am & 5:00pm SUNDAY MASSES: 8:00am & 10:30am 10:30 Mass-Daycare for all ages CCD Sun. 9am-10:15am Reconciliation: Sat. 9am & 4pm Weekday Masses: Monday–Friday 6:30am Church Office: 708-366-0839 CCD: 708-366-3553 www.stbern.com Pastor: Fr. Stanislaw Kuca Traditional Catholic
Child care available 9-11am
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OAK PARK MEETING OF FRIENDS (Quakers) Meeting For Worship Sundays at 10:00 a.m. at Oak Park Art League 720 Chicago Ave., Oak Park Please call 708-445-8201 www.oakparkfriends.org
Roman Catholic
Ascension Catholic Church
The Traditional Catholic Latin Mass
Our Lady Immaculate Church 410 Washington Blvd Oak Park. 708-524-2408 Mass Times: Sat. 8:00am Sun. 7:30 & 10:00am Operated by Society of St. Pius X. Confessions 1 hr. before each mass
Third Unitarian Church 11am Service: “Celebration of Life” thirdunitarianchurch.org (773) 626-9385 301 N. Mayfield near Austin and Lake
Grace Lutheran School
Preschool - 8th Grade Bill Koehne, Principal 366-6900, graceriverforest.org Lutheran-Missouri Synod
Christ Lutheran Church
607 Harvard Street (at East Av.) Oak Park, Illinois Rev. Robert M. Niehus, Pastor Sunday Bible Class: 9:15 am Sunday School: 9:10 Sunday Worship Services: 8:00 and 10:30 am Church Office: 708/386-3306 www.christlutheranoakpark.org Lutheran-Missouri Synod
St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church
305 Circle Ave, Forest Park Sunday Worship, 8:30 am and 11:00 am Adult Bible Class, 10:00 am Wheelchair Access to Sanctuary Leonard Payton, Pastor Roney Riley, Assistant Pastor 708-366-3226 | www.stjohnforestpark.org
808 S. East Ave. 708/848-2703 www.ascensionoakpark.com Worship: Saturday Mass 5:00 pm Sunday Masses 7:30, 9:00, 11 am, 5:00 pm Sacrament of Reconciliation 4 pm Saturday Taize Prayer 7:30 pm First Fridays Feb.– Dec. & Jan. 1 Holy Hour 6:00 pm Third Thursdays
Rev. James Hurlbert, Pastor
Roman Catholic
St. Edmund Catholic Church
188 South Oak Park Ave. Saturday Masses: 8:30 a.m. & 5:30 p.m. Sunday Masses: 9:00 & 11:00 a.m. & 5:30 p.m. Weekday Mass: 8:30 a.m. Holy Day Masses: As Announced Reconciliation: Saturday 4:15 p.m. Parish Office: 708-848-4417 School Phone: 708-386-5131
Unity
UNITY CHURCH OF OAK PARK 405 North Euclid Ave.
We behold the Christ in you. Sunday Services 9 am & 11 am Youth Education 11 am 708-848-0960 — unityoakpark.org
Upcoming Religious Holidays
Feb 1 Vasant Panchami Hindu 2 Candlemas Presentation of Christ in the Temple Christian Imbolc / Lughnassah Wicca/Pagan Northern & Southern Hemispheres Presentation of Christ in the Temple Anglican Christian Saint Brighid of Kildare Celtic
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FOREST PARK CONDO Spacious 3 bedroom 2 bath condo for rent. Hardwood flooring living room/dining room. Freshly painted. 1 assigned parking space. Heat included. $1450 Contact (630)6972994 or (708)526-3815.
902 S. 3RD AVENUE (2 blks W of 1st Ave & 1 blk N of Madison) Tired of renting? Why not consider buying an affordable 2BR condo w/ 1000+ sq ft of living space? Savings are built in from a unique 12 year tax freeze plus lower utility costs from energy saving systems and appliances. Onsite pkg, exterior lighting and enhanced security systems included. Plus you can customize and design your living space to better meet your needs! For details Call 708-383-9223.
SUBURBAN RENTALS BERWYN 2 BR Large 5RM 2BR vicinity of Clinton & 21st St. Residential prop. Owner occupied. Close to shopping & transport. Fully applianced. Carpeted. All util. incl. $1100/mo. Credit check. Good tenants. 708-347-2500
Riverside 5 RM, 2BR. Heated. Pkg. Close to train & bus. $950. Brookfield Deluxe 4 RM, 1 BR. Excellent woodwork. Fully applianced. Heated. Laundry. Close to park. $825. No smoking. No pets. Credit Check a must. Welcome good tenants.
(708)284-2500 FOREST PARK 3BR APT March or Apr 1 avail. Spacious 1st flr of 3 flat. Laundry on site. Large backyard. Heat incl. Close to trans port. Pkg. spot incl. $1400 + sec. dep. Call 708-341-0678. 2BR APT OAK PARK 1322 N AUSTIN 1014 S HUMPHREY No pets. $1100/mo. Contact Walsh Management 708-548-1110
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OAK PARK SMALL 1 BR Downtown Oak Park. Hardwood floors throughout. All utlities included. $800 per month. Call 708-657-4226. OAK PARK FOREST PARK Studio, 1, and 2 BDRM. Heated. Dining room. Parking available. Walk to El. $625-$1250.
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RIVER FOREST 2BR CONDO River Forest condo for rent. 2 BR, 1 BA, Hardwood floors, built-in microwave and dishwasher. $1350 per month includes heat + 1 parking space. 1-1/2 month security deposit. $39.95 application fee. Call Vicki at 708-714-0686 or vicki@beyondpropertiesrealty.com. RIVER FOREST 2BR CONDO River Forest condo for rent. 2 BR, 1 BA, Hardwood floors, built-in microwave and dishwasher. $1350 per month includes heat + 1 parking space. 1-1/2 month security deposit. $39.95 application fee. Call Vicki at 708-714-0686 or vicki@beyondpropertiesrealty.com.
CITY RENTALS 2 BR APT 5000 BLK OF ERIE Nicely remodeled. Hardwood floors. Appliances included. Tenants pay util. 1 garage space avail. for rent. $40 application fee and Move-in fee req’d. $895. Call 773-443-8019. Augusta & Kildare: PERFECT FOR SENIORS Studio Apartment A gorgeous studio apt. features include kitchen, dining room, large living room, walk-in closet, hardwood floors, incl. heat, appliances, and laundry room, in a beautifully landscaped & well maintained building, quite, safe & secure, rent $585.00, for more information call 773-838-8471. Augusta & Harding: Beautiful 2-bedroom condo-like apt, in a sunny, safe, secure 8 unit bldg. Large newly tiled kitchen & bath, hardwood floors, central air, appliances included, tenant pays utilities, rent 785.00, for more information call 773-838-8471. AUSTIN VILLAGE 5939 W. Midway Parkway Remodeled 1 BR. Half block from Oak Park, Green Line & shops. 3rd Floor. $800/month. Heat not included. 708-383-9223 or 773-676-6805.
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AUSTIN CLEAN ROOM With fridge, micro. Nr Oak Park, Super Walmart, Food 4 Less, bus, & Metra. $116/wk and up. 773-637-5957
MOTOR SCOOTER Child’s ZIP electric motor scooter. $69.00. Call 708-488-8755.
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CHURCHES FOR RENT BEAUTIFUL CHURCH FOR RENT
in OAK PARK. Perfect for a congregation. Other potential uses. Corner of Scoville & Adams. 708-848-5460 MAYWOOD COUNTRY CHURCH Lovely, old fashioned country church in Maywood, on corner of Fifth and Erie is looking for a roommate or tenant. We are willing to work out a flexible arrangement if you are an appropriate tenant. Various size spaces. Call 708 344-6150, leave a message.
SPACE FOR RENT OAK PARK SPACE Suitable for not-for-profit. Varied uses possible such as school, office spaces, community services center, clinic, etc. Please call 312-810-5948
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OAK CABINET & HUTCH Solid wood. Perfect condition. $150 both pieces together. Call 708-488-8755. Old Hausen Pool Table The best in billiards. Upright Freezer Entertainment Center Armoire Martha Stewart Cherry wood. Yamaha Upright Piano Black lacquer. Pitch perfect. Thomasville Table Mahogany square cocktail table. Ryan Grass Aerator Milwaukee Buffer Cars for Sale. All good condition. Call for prices (708) 447-1762 OUTDOOR FURNITURE High Quality Outdoor furniture. Heavy wrought iron. $150 obo. Call 708-488-8755. SEWING MACHINE Singer Sewing Machine. Like new. $99.00. Call 708-488-8755. SONY STEREO Sony Stereo with 5 surround sound speakers and CD classic player. $175 obo. Call 708-386-0087 TOY MOTORCYCLE Motorized child sized Harley Davidson motorcycle. $69.00. Call 708-488-8755. WROUGHT IRON DINING TABLE Together with glass top. $99.00 Call 708-488-8755.
TO BE GIVEN AWAY LIVING ROOM CHAIRS 2 upholstered high back living room chairs, Oyster/Off-White. Very Good Condition. Call 708-485-0697. REPLACEMENT WINDOW Double hung, double pane, Argon gas, Almond color. Rough Opening 31.75 x 53.5. Call 708-442-7760.
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MOVING NEEDED LIGHT MOVING ASSISTANCE NEEDED Need help moving 2 book cases. Probably need truck, not van. Call 708-790-8617.
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The Village of Oak Park will receive sealed proposals at the Office of the Village Engineer, 201 South Boulevard, Oak Park, Illinois 60302, until 10:00 a.m. on Thursday February 16, 2017 and at that time will be publicly opened and read aloud for the following Village Project: 17-4, ALLEY IMPROVEMENTS. In general, the improvements consist of the removal of the existing alley pavements and garage aprons; installation of storm sewers and drainage structures; installation of concrete alley pavements and garage aprons; parkway restoration; and all appurtenant work thereto. Plans and proposal forms may be obtained from the office of the Village Engineer starting on Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 4:00 pm. A non-refundable deposit of $50 is required for each set of plans and specifications. The Village of Oak Park reserves the right to issue plans and specifications only to those contractors deemed qualified. No bid documents will be issued after 4:00 p.m. on the working day preceding the date of bid opening.
All prospective bidders must prove they are pre-qualified by the Illinois Department of Transportation before receiving bid documents. This project is financed with local Village funds and federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds and thus is subject to all federal rules, regulations and guidelines, including Davis-Bacon and Related Acts, Section 3, and Equal Opportunity requirements. Locally funded phases of the project are subject to the Illinois Prevailing Wage Act, 820 ILCS 130/0.01 et seq. THE VILLAGE OF OAK PARK Bill McKenna Village Engineer Published in Wednesday Journal 2/1/2017
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PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given, pursuant to â&#x20AC;&#x153;An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,â&#x20AC;? as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number D17149235 on January 10, 2017. Under the Assumed Business Name of WW CONSULTING SERVICES with the business located at: 740 E 160 ST, SOUTH HOLLAND, IL 60473. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: CHRISTOPHER WALKER 740 E 160 ST SOUTH HOLLAND, IL 60473. Published in Wednesday Journal 1/18, 1/25, 2/1/2017
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The Village of Oak Park will receive sealed bids at the Public Works Service Center, 201 South Blvd., Oak Park, Illinois 60302, until 10:00 a.m. on Friday, February 24th, 2017 for the following:
The Village of Oak Park will hold an open house public meeting to discuss and seek input on upgrades and improvements being studied for Lake Street from Harlem Avenue to Austin Boulevard:
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Village of Oak Park Public Works Center Fleet Shop Electrical and Lighting Upgrades Proposal Number: 17-112 Issuance Date: 2/1/17
DATE: February 8, 2017 TIME: 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. LOCATION: Oak Park Village Hall Council Chambers 123 Madison Street Oak Park, IL 60302
Bid forms may be obtained from the Public Works Customer Service Center by calling 708358-5700 or by stopping by the office located at 201 South Blvd., Oak Park, Illinois between the hours of 7:30am and 4:00pm. The Village of Oak Park reserves the right to issue bid documents and specifications only to those vendors deemed qualified. No bid documents will be issued after 4:00 p.m. on the working day preceding the date of bid opening. THE VILLAGE OF OAK PARK Published in Wednesday Journal 2/1/2017
LEGAL NOTICE The Village of Oak Park will receive sealed proposals at the Public Works Service Center, 201 South Boulevard, Oak Park, Illinois 60302, until 3:00 p.m. on Friday, February 17, 2017 for the following PROPOSAL # 17-109 2017 PARKWAY TREE WATERING
Proposal forms may be obtained at http://www.oak-park.us/bid or from the Public Works Customer Service Center by calling 708358-5700 or by stopping by the office located at 201 South Boulevard, Oak Park, Illinois between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. The Village of Oak Park reserves the right to issue proposal documents and specifications only to those vendors deemed qualified. No proposal documents will be issued after 4:00 p.m. on the working day preceding the date of proposal opening. The Village of Oak Park Published in Wednesday Journal 2/1/2017
Exhibits will be on display showing current information regarding the project related to resurfacing, reconstruction, traffic and pedestrian planning, streetscape enhancements, and utility work. Members of the public are invited to attend at any time during the two and a half hour time period to view project information and speak with Village of Oak Park staff and consultants working on the planning and design project. For more information, please contact Byron Kutz, Village of Oak Park Assistant Engineer, at (708) 358-5729 or bkutz@oak-park.us. The meeting is accessible to individuals with disabilities. For questions about accessibility or to request an accommodation, please contact the ADA Coordinator at (708) 358-5430 or by email at adacoordinator@oakpark.us at least 48 hours before the meeting. Persons planning to attend who will need a sign language interpreter or similar accommodations can call the TTY/ TTD number at (800) 526-0844 or 711. TTY users who speak Spanish may call (800) 5010864 or 711. For Telebraille, dial (877) 526-6670 or 711. Requests should be made at least five days prior to the meeting. More information about the project is posted at www.oak-park. us/lakestreetimprovements. Published in Wednesday Journal 1/25, 2/1/2017
PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given, pursuant to â&#x20AC;&#x153;An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,â&#x20AC;? as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: D17149360 on January 20, 2017 Under the Assumed Business Name of BENSFIELD FOUNDATION with the business located at: 8130 W 27TH ST, NORTH RIVERSIDE, IL 60546. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: THOMAS BENSFIELD 8130 W 27TH ST NORTHRIVERSIDE, IL 60546. Published in Landmark 1/25, 2/1, 2/8/2017
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PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held by the Zoning Board of Appeals of the Village of Oak Park on Wednesday evening, February 15, 2017 at 7:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers of the Village Hall, 123 Madison St., Oak Park, Illinois on the following matter: Cal. No. 02-17-Z: 1171 S. Grove Avenue, Mark Meagher
Mark Meagher, Owner and Applicant, requests that a variation be granted from Section 3.5.4 (B) (1) of the Zoning Ordinance, which section requires a front yard setback of not less than 20 feet for the principal structure, to permit the demolition of the existing principal building, which is currently located approximately 17 feet from the front lot line, and the rebuilding of the principal structure approximately 17 feet from the front lot line. Those property owners within 500 feet of the Subject Property and those persons with a special interest beyond that of the general public (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Interested Partiesâ&#x20AC;?) wishing to cross-examine witnesses must complete and file an appearance with original signatures with the Village Clerk not later than 5:00 PM on the business day preceding the public hearing. All papers in connection with the above matter are on file at the Village of Oak Park and available for examination by interested parties by contacting the Zoning Officer at 708.358.5449.
DATED AT OAK PARK, ILLINOIS, this 1st Day of February, 2017 Published in Wednesday Journal 2/1/2017
PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO VENDORS The Executive Board of the West Central Consolidated Communications (WC3) is accepting proposals for: Fiber Optic Connectivity Sealed proposals will be accepted until 1:30PM CDT, Friday, February 24, 2017 at the WC3 Consortium Hall, at which time they will be publicly opened and read in the Board Room. Proposal specifications will be available on Monday, January 30, 2017, after 2:00PM. RFP specifications will be available at: WC3 Offices and North Riverside Police Station 2359 Des Plaines Ave Riverside, IL 60546 To obtain RFP specifications please email Jason Rodgers at jrodgers@northriverside-il.org. Direct any questions to Jason Rodgers, Executive Director of WC3 at jrodgers@northriverside-il.org Published in RB Landmark 2/01/2017
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CONCERNING THE INTENT OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF FOREST PARK SCHOOL DISTRICT 91, COOK COUNTY TO TRANSFER MONEY FROM THE TRANSPORTATION FUND TO THE OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE FUND
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Tuesday, February 21, 2017 at 7:00 P.M. in the Council Chambers of the Village Hall, 517 Desplaines Avenue, Forest Park, Illinois, the Zoning Board of Appeals will conduct a public hearing to consider a map amendment to re-zone from current B-2 to Residential zoning to permit a townhome PUD at the property legally described as follows:
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PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Education of Forest Park School District 91, Cook County, Illinois will hold a public hearing on the 9th day of February, 2017, at 6:30 P.M. The hearing will be held at the District Office, 424 Des Plaines Avenue, Forest Park, Illinois, 60130. The purpose of the hearing will be to receive public comments on the proposal to transfer money from the transportation fund to the operations and maintenance fund of the School District. By order of the Board of Education of Forest Park School District 91, Cook County, Illinois. DATED this 1st day of February, 2017. Kim Rostello, Board Secretary Published in Forest Park Review 02/01/2017
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: D17149331 on January 19, 2017 Under the Assumed Business Name of STRIVE STRATEGIES with the business located at: 82 SOUTH LA GRANGE ROAD SUITE 204, LAGRANGE, IL 60525. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/ partner(s) is: DENNIS W COOK 82 SOUTH LA GRANGE ROAD SUITE 204 LAGRANGE, IL 60525.
LOTS 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, AND 22 IN BLOCK 4 IN THE SOUTH ADDITION TO HARLEM, BEING A SUBDIVIDION OF THE EAST HALF OF THE EAST HALF OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 13, TOWNSHIP 39 NORTH, RANGE 12, EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS (EXCEPTING THEREFROM THAT PORTION CONDEMED FOR STREET PURPOSES IN CASE NO. 96150527 DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID LOT 22; THENCE SOUTH 89 DEGREES 13 MINUTES 02 SECONDS WEST (ASSUMED) 5.00 FEET ALONG THE SOUTHERLY LINE OF SAID LOT; THENCE NORTH 44 DEGREES 12 MINUTES 20 SECONDS EAST 7.07 FEET TO THE WESTERLY RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF HARLEM AVENUE (ILLINOIS ROUTE 43); THENCE SOUTH 00 DEGREES 48 MINUTES 23 SECONDS EAST 5.00 FEET ALONG SAID RIGHT OF WAY LINE TO SAID POINT OF BEGINNING). The applicant is Mariano Mollo 7415 W. Madison St. Forest Park Il. 60130 Common Address: 949 S Harlem, Forest Park, IL 60130 Parcel Index Numbers: 15-13-415-029, 030, 031, 032 Signed: Austin Zimmer, Chairman Zoning Board of Appeals
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Tuesday February 21, 2017 at 7:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers of Village Hall, 517 Desplaines Avenue, Forest Park, Illinois, the Village of Forest Park Zoning Board of lage of Forest Park Zoning Board of Appeals will conduct a Public Hearing regarding a request for a text amendment to amend Section 9-4C- 1 of the Zoning Ordinance to provide as a permitted use in the DBD Downtown Business District Zoning District, “Shared Office Spaces”, or other such designation and definition as may be necessary. The applicant is the Village of Forest Park, 517 Desplaines, Forest Park, IL 60130. Signed: Austin Zimmer, Chairman Zoning Board of Appeals Published in Forest Park Review 02/01/2017
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION DITECH FINANCIAL LLC Plaintiff, -v.UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF MARGARETTE STOILJKOVIC, DECEASED, UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS AND LIENHOLDERS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF MARGARETTE STOILJKOVIC, DECEASED, UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS AND LIENHOLDERS AGAINST THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF MARGARETTE STOILJKOVIC, DECEASED, ELENA STOILJKOVIC AKA ELENA M. STOILJKOVIC, IVAN STOILJKOVIC, PORTFOLIO RECOVERY ASSOCIATES, LLC, WILLIAM BUTCHER, AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF MARGARETTE STOILJKOVIC, DECEASED Defendants 16 CH 04550 1180 S. Scoville Ave. Oak Park, IL 60304 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment
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of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 6, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 7, 2017, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive–24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 1180 S. Scoville Ave., Oak Park, IL 60304 Property Index No. 16-18-427-0160000. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $354,975.58. 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 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, contact Plaintiff’s attorney: HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC, 111 East Main Street, DECATUR, IL 62523, (217) 422-1719 If the sale is not confirmed for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the purchase price paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC 111 East Main Street DECATUR, IL 62523 (217) 422-1719 Fax #: (217) 4221754 CookPleadings@hsbattys. com Attorney Code. 40387 Case Number: 16 CH 04550 TJSC#: 3614040 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. I712537
sale fee for 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 twentyfour (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 or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-16-05071. 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. 14-16-05071 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 16 CH 006281 TJSC#: 36-13934 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. I712981
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION; Plaintiff, vs. WILLIAM KAHN; CHRISTINE KAHN; FIRST MERCHANTS BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 16 CH 9486 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above entitled cause Intercounty Judicial Sales Corporation will on Tuesday, February 28, 2017 at the hour of 11 a.m. in their office at 120 West Madison Street, Suite 718A, Chicago, Illinois, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, as set forth below, the following described mortgaged real estate: P.I.N. 15-01-407-002-0000. Commonly known as 939 Lathrop Avenue, River Forest, IL 60305. The mortgaged real estate is improved with a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by certified funds, balance, by certified funds, within 24 hours. No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection. For information call Sales Department at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC, One East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60601. (614) 220-5611. 16-018353 F2 INTERCOUNTY JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION Selling Officer, (312) 444-1122
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT–CHANCERY DIVISION BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC, A DELAWARE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Plaintiff, -v.REBECCA MURRAY, DEREK MURRAY, THE 148-150 NORTH AUSTIN CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, LVNV FUNDING LLC Defendants 16 CH 006281 11 RANDOLPH STREET UNIT #6A OAK PARK, IL 60302 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on November 28, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 2, 2017, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive–24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 11 RANDOLPH STREET UNIT #6A, OAK PARK, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-08-317-024-1016. The real estate is improved with a condo/ townhouse. 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
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT–CHANCERY DIVISION NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC Plaintiff, -v.SHERRI LASKO, HARBOR FINANCIAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION F/K/A NEW AMERICA FINANCIAL, INC., CAPITAL ONE BANK (USA), N.A., SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO CAPITAL ONE BANK, JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO GREAT AMERICAN FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, ASSOCIATED BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO GREAT AMERICAN FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION Defendants 12 CH 41397 401 SOUTH MAPLE AVENUE Oak Park, IL 60302 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on September 13, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on February 23, 2017, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive–24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 401 SOUTH MAPLE AVENUE, Oak Park, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-07-321-019-0000. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $473,172.93. 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 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 twentyfour (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, contact The sales clerk, SHAPIRO KREISMAN & ASSOCIATES, LLC, 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301, Bannockburn, IL 60015, (847) 2911717 For information call between the hours of 1pm–3pm. Please refer to file number 15-076981. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. SHAPIRO KREISMAN & ASSOCIATES, LLC 2121 WAUKEGAN RD., SUITE 301 Bannockburn, IL 60015 (847) 291-1717 E-Mail: ILNotices@logs. com Attorney File No. 15-076981 Attorney Code. 42168 Case Number: 12 CH 41397 TJSC#: 37635 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. I713028
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 or contact Plaintiff’s attorney: CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL 60527, (630) 794-9876 Please refer to file number 14-16-04652. 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. 14-16-04652 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 16 CH 006865 TJSC#: 36-12688 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. I713183
JAMISON, STATE OF ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, CITY OF CHICAGO, MIDLAND FUNDING, LLC Defendants 11 CH 25850 841 N. Lombard Ave. Oak Park, IL 60302 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on May 19, 2015, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 13, 2017, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One South Wacker Drive–24th Floor, CHICAGO, IL, 60606, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, as set forth below, the following described real estate: Commonly known as 841 N. Lombard Ave., Oak Park, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-05303-023-0000. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $487,146.09. 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 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 twentyfour (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, contact Plaintiff’s attorney: HEAVNER, BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC, 111 East Main Street, DECATUR, IL 62523, (217) 422-1719 If the sale is not confirmed for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the purchase price paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATION One South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 606064650 (312) 236-SALE You can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation at www.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales. HEAVNER,
BEYERS & MIHLAR, LLC 111 East Main Street DECATUR, IL 62523 (217) 422-1719 Fax #: (217) 4221754 CookPleadings@hsbattys. com Attorney Code. 40387 Case Number: 11 CH 25850 TJSC#: 3611955 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. I713178
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OPRF gymnastics primed for postseason Jochaniewicz, Weeks and Luptak lead Huskies to fourth place in conference By BILL STONE Contributing Reporter
Sophomore Grace Luptak soon will become a leader for the Oak Park and River Forest girls gymnastics team. She’s had great role models in senior four-year members Natalie Weeks and Alyona Jochaniewicz, a 2016 state qualifier in all-around. “With Natalie, I think I’ve learned high school gymnastics is supposed to be fun so to not let it get in your head,” Luptak said. “Alyona really inspires me. She’ll go through five routines in practice and stick them all. She’s inspires me to work hard.” After joining them last season as individual sectional qualifiers, Luptak once again rose to the occasion at the DeKalb Regional Monday. Luptak was expected to add vault and compete for the first time this season as an all-arounder after inflaming ligaments in her right ankle during the pre-season. Luptak competed on the other three events at the West Suburban Conference Silver Division Meet Saturday at Glenbard West. “I land most of (my vaults) in practice,” Luptak said Saturday. “(Last season) really inspired me to try and go all the way (to state) this year – hopefully.” After Thursday, the Huskies will learn their team and all individual hopes for the six-team Glenbard North Sectional Feb. 8.
Seeded ninth in the sectional, the Huskies finished fourth at the Silver Meet (134.80 points) and fourth in the final overall standings after a 3-2 dual record. Jochaniewicz earned three top-five medals by taking fourth on floor exercise (9.25) and balance beam (8.825) and fifth in all-around (34.75). Luptak, Weeks and sophomore Sophia Preys had top-10 finishes. “We’d like to tweak some things here and there but I think in general it’s good,” OPRF coach Kris Wright said. “This is the brutal time of the year where you’re trying to make sure you’re doing a good job of keeping them healthy and strong. Now we’re working on the detail work, really presenting solid routines.” Jochaniewicz missed last year’s Silver Meet recovering from a concussion and sprained finger. She returned for the postseason to earn her first trip to state. “All-around definitely (again) and floor finals is the goal, at least floor,” Jochaniewicz said. “Just to finish it off for senior year. I’m pumped. I’m excited. I’m ready to go. I’m just hoping that as a team we can all make it to state, sectionals.” Luptak was seventh on uneven bars (8.375). Preys was ninth in all-around (33.525) and tied for ninth on beam (8.575) and Weeks was ninth on uneven bars (8.3) and 10th in all-around (33.225). Jochaniewicz and Weeks have been perennial sectional qualifiers. Luptak joined them at sectionals in all-around and floor.
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OPRF sophomore Grace Luptak is a burgeoning star for the Huskies. “I have been competing (club gymnastics) so it’s a lot different. (High school is) a lot more fun and team oriented, which I really liked,” Luptak said. “I’ve learned it doesn’t matter if you have a bad day. You can always push through.” After a rough first two events, taking eighth on vault (8.875) and 20th on uneven bars, Jochaniewicz bounced back to more than double her previous Silver Meet medals for fourth in all-around (2015) and beam (2014). “I’m still kind of nervous at every meet, but it’s what you expect,” Jochaniewicz said. “Just one more time (at state), that’s what I’m hoping for, and finish it strong.”
Relays power Fenwick swimming on Senior Night
Friars finish first in all three relay races; Lulich wins 100 backstroke By MARTY FARMER
(2:12.58) and 100 breaststroke (1:06.49).
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The Fenwick High School boys swimming team took first in all three relay races against visiting Brother Rice and St. Ignatius on Jan. 24. The sweep set the tone for a celebratory Senior Night, with Fenwick now turning its attention to the MCAC tournament and IHSA sectional. The Friars will host both of those events. On Senior Night, the 200-yard medley relay of Ben Lulich, Dan Lynch, Kevin Finn and Conor Hendzel finished first with a time of 1 minute, 42.76 seconds in the second race of the night. In the 200 freestyle relay, Hendzel, Kyle Poland, Lynch and Liam Hutchinson won their race with a time of 1:29.61. The Friars completed a sweep of the relay titles when the quartet of Matt Hoban, Hendzel, Poland and Hutchinson recorded a time of 3:17.28 in the 400 freestyle relay. In the individual events, Lulich touched the wall at 58.44 to win the 100-yard backstroke. Hutchinson earned a pair of runnerup results in the 200 freestyle (1:45.27) and 500 free (4:49.44). Hoban placed second in the 200 individual medley (2:10.35) and third in the 500 free (5:06.55). In the 100 breaststroke, Luis Murphy swam a time of 1:06.25 to place second. Lynch placed third in the 200 free
Although the Fenwick High School boys basketball team took two of three games against St. Joseph last season, the Chargers won the game that mattered the most. St. Joseph withstood Mike Smith’s 34 points to upset the top-seeded Friars 59-55 in the Westinghouse Sectional title game last year On Friday, however, Fenwick resumed its winning ways against the Chargers with a 66-51 victory in Westchester. Four players scored in double figures for the Friars, led by junior guard Sam Daniels and freshman guard DJ Steward with 17 points apiece. Senior forward/center Mike O’Laughlin (14 points) and senior swingman Jamal Nixon (13 points) also contributed for the victors. Fenwick controlled the game from start to finish with a 20-10 advantage after one quarter and 43-21 halftime lead. Although he suited up, senior point guard Jacob Keller didn’t play due to a bone bruise on his foot. The Friars (16-4, 7-0 CCL North) will host DePaul Prep Friday at 7 p.m. and RiversideBrookfield Saturday at 6 p.m.
OPRF boys basketball The Huskies (15-6, 6-1) remained in contention for the West Suburban Conference
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Fenwick senior so-captain Matt Hoban placed second in the 200 IM (2:10.35) and third in the 500 free (5:06.55) at Fenwick’s Senior Night triangular. Silver Division championship with a pair of wins last week. OPRF defeated Lyons Township Saturday as Isaiah Fuller scored 18 points and Malachi Ross contributed 12 points and nine rebounds. “We had our best first quarter of the year against LT,” OPRF coach Matt Maloney said. “Our defensive energy set the tone for the game and helped us score 22 first-quarter points.” The Huskies also beat Proviso West 68-56 with a balanced offensive attack. Sophomore guard Dashon Enoch scored 18 points
and senior forward Jared Scott had 15 points. Senior forward Cam Gross finished with 13 points, 10 rebounds and five assists.
OPRF hockey The Huskies closed out the regular season with an impressive 5-2 victory over visiting Maine Township at the Ridgeland Common Recreation Complex. Goaltender Ben Ostler and forward Liam Burns were picked as AHAI All-State players. The All-State game will be held in Bensenville on Monday, Feb. 13.
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Blazers’ leader from page 44 through some trying times. She missed the first half of her freshman year with a stress fracture in her lower back, then moved into the starting lineup last season as the Blazers coped with a coaching change which resulted in Valente taking over from Ed Stritzel. Lee helped Trinity go 30-6 and finish third in the Class 4A state finals, the program’s highest ever finish. She was an IBCA Special Mention All-State selection. But that came in a supporting role. Following the graduation of stars Annie McKenna and Kaitlyn Aylward and the transfer of several other players, Lee is the only returning starter and has had to carry a much heavier burden. She and junior center Alex Fanning are the only Blazers with significant varsity experience. “She was always a point guard in the past,” Valente said. “Now she’s starting to do other things. “She’s primarily a scorer now. She’s our No. 1 scorer, she plays in the post, she defends the best player, so it is a little bit of everything.” Lee and the 6-2 Fanning are Trinity’s top two scorers and have become a formidable inside-outside duo. “Lauren took a big step leading this team as a point guard and helping as a leader,” Fanning said. “I wouldn’t be as good without her and we just have this connection together and it’s unbreakable. “She helps the team so much. She’s definitely a great leader for the freshmen, someone to look up to. “I know I look up to Lauren even though we’re the same age. We learn from each other.” Lee has learned a lot about herself since taking the reins. She was hesitant at first about the increased responsibility. “It definitely was (scary) especially because it was all happening at once,” Lee said. “(After the transfers left) we’re like, ‘what do we do now?’ But the whole team is staying positive and we really like the group that we have.” Indeed, what was supposed to be a rebuilding year for the Blazers has turned out to be better than expected. Despite having only three seniors, they are 14-5, including a win over resurgent local rival Fenwick. “It’s a different team,” Lee said. “Last year in close games we definitely had to rely on Annie McKenna and Kaitlyn Aylward a lot. “They were the rock of the team. But this year they’re gone and it has switched. We have to fill in that role and hopefully we’re doing a good job.” Valente said the results show that to be the case. “(Lee) has been the glue that has kept us together,” Valente said. “She’s sort of
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Trinity guard Lauren Lee is a smart, selfless player with a complete game. That’s why she’s attracting a lot of recruiting interest. teaching the younger kids what it’s all about to continue our tradition. “We expect to win. It might be rebuilding, but we think of it more as reloading and our young kids have gained a ton of experience this year. Lauren has been a big part of it sort of teaching them the way.” If Lee plays and communicates like a senior, it is out of necessity. She has come into her own. “I think in a way I almost had to, but I think it’s good because taking a leadership role now, even as a junior, that’s going to help me in life,” Lee said. “I definitely had to do it but it’s worth it. I’m glad that I had to take that role on this team.” Regardless of what happens this season, Lee has an extremely bright future. She has a 4.0 GPA and scholarship offers from several Division I schools, including DePaul, Bradley and Wichita State. She’s also looking at Ivy League colleges. Princeton and Columbia scouted her at the Subway Classic. “I’m in the Ivy program at Trinity, so academics is huge for me,” Lee said. “I think that’s going to be a big factor in the college that I choose.” Lee’s academic success is probably more
noteworthy than what she does on the court. “My parents have definitely supported me,” Lee said. “I think basketball actually helped with my grades. “I started basketball in second grade and it kind of clicked with me and everything else just flowed with it, which is interesting. I don’t know how that ended up working but it did.” Everything seems to work out with Lee, who learned to expand her horizons even while going to school within walking distance. “I love where I live,” Lee said. “I can wake up five minutes before school starts and get there. “(Attending Trinity) taught me to be a little more independent with everything. It’s not people I grew up with, so I had to make a fresh start.” Valente knows this is only the beginning. “She has a high ceiling,” Valente said. “She’s got a college-ready game right now. “Now it’s just about fine-tuning it and pushing a little more on her mentality of taking over games at times. When things get down, she takes over and that’s what we’re trying to get her to do a better job of.”
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Adaptable Lee sparks Blazers’ success Junior guard leading Trinity to another winning season, while mulling college offers By MATT LE CREN
our offense.” That starts with Lee. Transitions are easy for the 5-foot-10 River Forest resident, he transition happened in an instant. who has made several big ones in the last few years. Trinity junior guard The first came when she gradLauren Lee stole the ball uated from Roosevelt Middle from a Brooks player, School. She went from attending took off down the court a public co-ed school to a private and fed teammate Sinead Molall-girls school high school. loy for an easy layup. “It wasn’t that bad for me,” Lee made steals on the Lee said. “I was pretty sure I was next two possessions, leadgoing to go to St. Ignatius, but ing to baskets by Molloy and my mom definitely steered me Shaheen Dowling. Then she toward Trinity. buried a 3-pointer. “I’m definitely glad that TrinThat four-possession ity was my choice. I didn’t really sequence, which happened MIKE VALENTE know a lot of people except for during the third quarter of Trinity coach some of my basketball friends Trinity’s 75-38 victory Jan. 16 but it wasn’t too bad. I ended up at the Subway Classic at Wilgetting friends right off the bat lowbrook, was just a taste of and I stuck with them.” what Lee can do. She finished Lee has stuck with Trinity with 11 points, five steals, four rebounds and two assists. “She’s so smart and that’s See LEE on page 43 what makes her special,” Trinity coach Mike Valente said. “She plays both ends WILLIAM CAMARGO/Staff Photographer of the court real well. A lot of colleges Lauren Lee (#11) of Trinity High School talk about that, (that) you (have to) play defense. That’s what they like. goes up against Regina during a varsity “We feel with our effort we can wear basketball game in River Forest on Saturteams down, get deflections and that starts
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