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February 8, 2017 Vol. 35, No. 25 ONE DOLLAR

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Park District of Oak Park opposes downtown high-rise Park board says shade will damage Austin Gardens By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

The debate over whether to allow an 18-story luxury apartment building to be built adjacent to a public park in downtown Oak Park is heating up with a statement from the Park District of Oak Park opposing the project. The Park District Board of Commissioners released a statement on Monday, Feb. 6, stating its opposition to approving a zoning change for the property at 1000 Lake St. that would allow for a building taller than the 80foot height allowed under existing zoning. Albion Residential revealed its plans last week at an open-house meeting to build a 200-foot tall building at the site, which is See HIGH-RISE SHADOW on page 16

Protest, then a policy change

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Protesters march on Scoville Park last Saturday during what was billed as a “Rally for Sanctuary in Oak Park,” an event organized by the Democratic Party of Oak Park and Suburban Unity Alliance, among other groups. Read about Oak Park’s passage of a Sanctuary City ordinance on page 8.

Atheists: OPRF Gospel Choir isn’t complying with law The Freedom From Religion Foundation says it’s thinking about future legal action By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter

A national nonprofit organization, selfdescribed on its website as a “state/church watchdog and voice for freethought (atheism, agnosticism, skepticism),” claims that Oak Park and River Forest High School is

violating the law by allowing one of its faculty members to participate in the high school’s Gospel Choir and, as of last week, was contemplating legal action. In a statement released on Jan. 31, officials with the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation — which boasts that is has over 26,000 members throughout

the country — claimed that it was informed by a “local community member” late last year that the high school’s Gospel Choir was being led by a school employee, an alleged violation of the Equal Access Act. The federal law, passed in 1984 in order to compel schools to allow students equal See GOSPEL CHOIR on page 16

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Heather Mack back on social media Mack most recently made Convicted murdered headlines for releasing a video Heather Mack can’t seem to on YouTube.com, stating that stay away from social media. she alone murdered Von WieseThe former Oak Park and Mack and framed Schaefer, River Forest High School who she says was not involved. student who was sentenced to The story first appeared in the serve 10 years in an IndoChicago Sun-Times. nesian prison – along with There is no evidence to supboyfriend Tommy Schaefer, port her claim in the video or who received 18 years – for her claim that she committed murdering her mother, Sheila HEATHER MACK the murder in retaliation for Von Wiese-Mack, in 2014, has the Von Wiese-Mack murdering maintained a regular presher husband, Heather Mack’s ence on Instagram and other father James Mack, in a hotel in Athens, social media outlets since her convicGreece in 2006. tion.

A march for choice

L!VE lives up to its name

Oak Park For Choice will march this Saturday, Feb. 11, to demonstrate support for reproductive rights and show elected representatives that there is large grass-roots support for continued funding for women’s health issues, including contraceptive education and breast cancer care. The march will begin at 11 a.m. in Scoville Park in Oak Park. The proposed route for the march is to go south on Oak Park Avenue past the Eisenhower Expressway and returning via the same route. For more information, please contact Lauren Langgut at lauren@op4c.org, or call 708-275-3957.

After a soft opening last Sunday, L!VE Café, the new specialty coffee shop located at 163 S. Oak Park Ave., is officially opened for business. The café’s co-owners, Darrel and Reesheda Washington, have described the space as “an event cafe and creative space that aims to build bridges between communities with different demographic make ups, specifically the Oak Park and Austin communities.” The café’s interior is a mosaic of tones and colors that are as enlivening to the senses as its specialty brewed cups of joe. The space, like the coffee, is bright, it’s airy, it breathes and pulses, but not too erratically. Once you step inside, you may not want to leave.

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IT’S AL!VE: Patrons enjoy L!VE Cafe’s hip, airy atmosphere on Monday afternoon. The new coffee shop is now open for business.

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The End of Water? Monday, Feb. 13 at 1:15 p.m., 19th Century Club: Argonne National Laboratory staff scientist Seth Darling presents “The End of Water as We Know It.” The abundance of cheap freshwater is changing. So how can we reshape a better future? $10 suggested donation. Nineteenth Century Charitable Association, 178 Forest Ave. 708-386-2729, www.nineteenthcentury.org

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Strong black women Sunday, Feb. 12 from 2 to 3 p.m., Main Library Second Floor Veterans Room: Storyteller Momma Kemba presents “Strong Black Women,” keeping the spirit of strong black women in American history alive through dramatic storytelling and song. Learn more about the library’s More Than a Month initiative at oppl.org/more. 834 Lake St.

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BIG WEEK Valentine’s Family Dinner Night

Being Mortal Monday, Feb. 13 from 3 to 5:30 p.m., Room 206, River Forest Community Center: Arbor West Neighbors, with support from Township Senior Services, is hosting a webinar event this Monday at 8020 Madison St. Starting at 4 p.m., Dr. Atul Gawande, bestselling author of Being Mortal, will speak on “The Value of Community and Choice as We Grow Older,” a discussion on aging, living life with purpose, and how we can transform the possibilities for the later chapters of everyone’s life. Space is limited for the event. To register, contact Arbor West Neighbors at arborwestneighbors@gmail.com. For more information about the organization, call 708-613-0152.

Storied quilts Thursday, Feb. 9 from 6-7:30 p.m., Oak Park Village Hall: The Oak Park Area Arts Council features fibre artist Trish Williams, who will speak about her quilts and tell the stories behind them. The reception will take place at Oak Park Village Hall, 123 Madison St., Room #101. For more, call 708-358-5692.

Songs of Love Sunday, Feb. 12 at 3 p.m., Open Door Repertory Company: My Funny Valentine: A Concert of Love Puccini-Style, Love AmericanStyle, & Did We Mention Naughty Love? performed by soprano Christine Steyer, tenor Emanuel Caraman and pianist Lisa Kristina. 902 S. Ridgeland in Oak Park, Tickets are $25. For more, call 708-386-5510 or visit www.opendoortheater.net.

Tuesday, Feb. 14, seatings at 5, 6:30 & 8 p.m., Buzz Café: Adult menu ($30): Prime Rib topped with Creamy Horseradish Sauce, served w/ Garlic Mashed Potatoes and Roasted Broccoli accompanied by Tomato Basil Soup and a Cranberry, Feta & Almond topped Salad. Dessert is New York-Style Cheesecake drizzled with wild berry sauce and whipped cream (also a vegetarian option). Kids menu ($15): Cheese-filled Ravioli with Tomato Cream Sauce, accompanied by Classic Chicken Noodle Soup, and a strawberry and yogurt parfait. Dessert is a Classic Chocolate Whoopie Pie. Live jazz, BYOB, reservations required. Call 708-660-0894.

Digital Day Dreams Friday, Feb. 10 from 7 to 9 p.m., Oak Park Art League: The Art League presents Digital Day Dreams, an exhibit from Feb. 10-March 3. A reception will be held on Feb. 10. Located at 720 Chicago Ave. in Oak Park. For more, call 708-386-9853 or visit www.oakparkartleague.org.

Art loves Lit

Spoken Word showcase

Tuesday, Feb. 14 at 7:30 p.m., 19th Century Club: American Art Examines Literature & Daily Life or Art Loves Lit, the second in a series of four lectures by David Sokol, tracing the relationship between visual arts and literary sources. Doors open at 7 p.m., $25 at the door. Nineteenth Century Charitable Association, 178 Forest Ave. 708386-2729, www.nineteenthcentury.org

Beethoven’s Ninth Sunday, Feb. 12 at 4 p.m., Concordia University Chapel: The Symphony of Oak Park-River Forest presents Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. 7400 W. Augusta in River Forest. $30. For more, call 708-218-2648 or visit www.symphonyoprf.com.

Storytelling Open Mic Saturday, Feb. 11 at 6:30 p.m., Dominican University: Illinois Storytelling Inc. presents Mike Lockett at Dominican University’s Lewis Lounge, 7900 W. Division St. in River Forest. The storyteller & author will tell stories honoring lovers. Bring your own stories to the ISI Open Mic. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., Open Mic from 7-8 p.m., Mike Lockett at 8:15 p.m. Admission is free, donations are appreciated. For more, visit mikelockett.com

The letters of St. Paul Thursdays, Feb. 9, 16, and 23 from 7-8:30 p.m., Priory Campus, Dominican University: Timothy Milinovich leads a three-week class covering the life and letters of St. Paul. Held in Room 263, Priory Campus, 7200 W. Division St., River Forest. Sponsored by Dominican University’s Siena Center.

Wednesday, Feb. 8 at 6:30 p.m., Oak Park & River Forest High School: OPRF presents its Spoken Word Winter Showcase, 201 N. Scoville. For more info, call 708-434-3719.

Postcards for Peace Exhibit through Monday, Feb. 13, Oak Park Public Library lobby: Seventh- and eighth-grade fine and applied art students at Brooks Middle School worked with local teaching artist Jill Kramer to create postcards that expressed their ideas & thoughts about social justice. Students were asked: What do you stand for? Why? What can you do about it? How can you promote peace in your community? The postcards displayed at the Oak Park Public Library in the Lobby Community Space will be mailed to local and state civic leaders. Visitors are invited to fill out their own postcard. For more, contact Jill Kramer, 708-917-1737, jkgoldstein@opef.org or Sarah Yale, Neighborhood Services Librarian, 708-524-3416.

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ART BEAT Just in time for Valentine’s Day:

‘Almost, Maine’

he Saltbox Theatre Collective continues its second season at Madison Street Theater, 1010 Madison St., with an episodic romantic comedy by John Cariani called Almost, Maine. This playful, unpredictable midwinter night’s dream features 19 actors in a collection of nine different scenes. All of the segments seem to be happening about the same time on a Friday evening in a fictional small town in northern Maine. Brian Fruits, Saltbox’s surefooted director, Theater Critic presents a funny, often poignant show that arrives just in time for Valentine’s Day. All the loosely intertwined situations focus on all sorts of couples falling in and out of love. This production might make a perfect date night outing although it has appeal to anyone who enjoys a lively rom-com. Two of the episodes feature same-sex couples. But there is no overt sexuality or potentially offensive language, so the show would be appropriate for teens, too. There is a touch of magical surrealism in some of the vignettes, which feature unexpected twists. The stark set includes a brightly painted red bench against a solid black background that suggests a variety of settings. We might also imagine a blanket of snow and a New England village in the distance. The actors mostly wear heavy winter garb. The title of each episode, all of which illustrate the magic and mystery of love, is projected onto the back of the set. In one of the nine episodes, a recent young widow (Janie Crick), who wants to see the Northern Lights, pitches her tent in the backyard of a lonely repair man (Chas Howard) who quickly falls for her. The woman carries her heart, broken into 19 pieces, in a small paper sack. In another vignette, a middle-age husband and wife (Mark and Terri Bernstein) who “don’t have fun anymore” have gone ice-skating. While they’re hunting for her lost left shoe they finally admit they no longer love each other. Two estranged ex-lovers run into each other at the Moose Paddy, a bar that’s mentioned in several scenes. The guy (Ryan Smetana), who has an odd tattoo, hopes to

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rekindle their lost love, but his old flame (Alexandra Rust), who’s there for a girl’s night out, is not interested. The waitress (Kaycee Jordan), however, seems to be connecting with him. Some of the episodes are absurdist. Two best buddies (Brian Bengston and David Burks) literally fall — as in, kerplunk — in love with each other. There are repeated, uncontrollable crashes to the floor as they are swept together to a new level in their relationship. A young man (Cory Kahane) is physically unable to feel pain until he begins to fall in love with a neighbor (Sabrina Harms) in his apartment building’s laundry room, thanks to an ironing board. I had never heard of this heartfelt, oddly funny contemporary play till now, but I’ve learned it’s widely and frequently performed since it requires almost no set or special effects. It could be mounted with a cast of four playing all the roles or, as it is here, with 19 different actors playing all the various compelling couples in separate scenes. Steven Cox is the stage manager. Andy Pederson and Janie Crick created the music. Other members of the cast are: Matthew Bender, Carly Crawford, Corwyn Cullom, Erin Doherty, Angela Jos, Maggie Robinson, Lauren Scislowicz, and Dane Van Brocklin. Almost, Maine is a pleasant, escapist collection of love tales featuring well-paced, deliberate direction, charming performances, and a delightfully goofy script. There is one 10-minute intermission. Performances continue weekends until Feb. 19. On Fridays and Saturdays the curtain is at 7:30 p.m. Matinees on Saturday and Sundays are at 2 p. m. Tickets are $15 for students and seniors, $20 for adults.

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Austin Gardens is not a dog park

ith 270 luxe new rental units towering over Lake Street, the Vantage building is drawing a chic and spendy class of dweller to downtown Oak Park. It’s also bringing their dogs. And these dogs are ravaging Austin Gardens. It’s a shame and it’s an outrage and it’s an issue that Oak Park is going to continue facing as the residential density of the Lake Street corridor mushrooms, with high-rise developments beckoning city folk to urban suburbia. Another would-be tower is in the proposal stages right across the street from Vantage, on the southeastern edge of Oak Park’s premiere nature park. No one walking through Austin Gardens this winter can have missed the ugly divot field on the east side of the preserve. A closer look at the damage reveals dog prints of the sort made when animals are running free and hauling ass, tearing after a ball, after one another, after their own noses. Likewise, no one walking through the park can help noticing the mounds of dog crap left behind for others to admire and perhaps clean up. As a Metra commuter who has strolled through Austin Gardens every weekday morning for several years, I can offer anecdotal evidence that this winter is different than last — it’s much, much worse. One big difference is that Vantage is now open and partially occupied. Almost every morning I see building residents airing their dogs in Austin Gardens. After all, it’s right out the front door. Vantage has actively marketed the building to dog owners. The building allows two dogs per unit, each animal up to 65 pounds, and its rental website also advertises a pet washing station for owners who need to hose down Marmaduke. Yet while they’ve courted dog owners — and the pet fees they’re willing to pay — Vantage management does not appear to have well communicated the rules for walking dogs in neighboring Austin Gardens. Or the expectations for maintaining a unique civic jewel. “We all need to be good neighbors,” Park District of Oak Park Executive Director Jan Arnold said during a recent phone interview. She acknowledged off-leash dogs are a problem in Austin Gardens — and elsewhere in Oak Park — and said the park district has sought increased patrolling and ticketing by police. “We request that people be good stewards of all of our properties,” Arnold said. “Everyone has a right to our parks [but] having a dog on a leash is a responsible dog owners’ thing to do. Cleaning up after them is also a responsible dog owners’ responsibility.” A call to Vantage seeking comment was referred to a marketing staffer who did

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PAWED PARK: The Austin Gardens, gouged. not return a voicemail message. A police department official confirmed officers last month increased patrols at Austin Gardens in response to complaints about off-leash dogs in the park. That official encouraged residents to call police at 708-386-2131 when they witness violations of the village’s leash laws. Arnold is herself a dog owner and said park officials have provided Vantage management with fliers regarding park district leash rules. She acknowledged Austin Gardens is an attractive ersatz dog run because it is fully fenced but pointed out that the village maintains dedicated dog parks at Ridgeland Common and Maple Park and the Cook County Forest Preserve District operates a large dog area near 1st Avenue and Roosevelt Road. But, of course, those facilities aren’t as convenient as Austin Gardens. Surely the charms of Austin Gardens were not lost on the developers who built the Vantage property or to the people who’ve moved into the building. Nor are those charms absent from the marketing strategies of all these downtown development projects. So why foul this singular and special little 3.6-acre gem? That’s a question for my new neighbors, peering down from behind those blue-green Vantage windows: Did you really move here to make Oak Park an uglier place? And to my older neighbors and to village officials responsible for managing growth while retaining the deep community infrastructure that makes this high-tax town attractive and vibrant: Are we willing to settle for a degraded and abused Austin Gardens? Brett McNeil is an Oak Park writer who works in the Loop. He and his wife live near Scoville Park.

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TO GO: It’s been a seven-year run for Red Hen Bread in Oak Park, but owners Rose and Bob Picchietti announced they are closing the cafe on Feb. 17.

Red Hen in Oak Park closing Shop to focus on bread and pastry sales to restaurants By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

It’s been a seven-year run for Red Hen Bread in Oak Park, but owners Rose and Bob Picchietti announced they are closing the restaurant on Feb. 17. The Picchietti’s could not immediately be reached for comment, but a sign on the door at Red Hen, 736 Lake St., noted that Red Hen is focusing on its wholesale operation “providing breads and pastries to hundreds of restaurants and hotels around the Chicago metropolitan area.” “We want to thank each and every one of our valued customers for your support and companionship over the last seven years,” the sign read. The message also was posted on Red Hen’s Facebook fan page on Feb. 3. David King, head of the Oak Park com-

mercial real estate firm David King & Associates, has been hired to lease the store. King said the location at the corner of Oak Park Avenue and Lake Street is “the best corner in the village” for commercial real estate. “We are already having conversations with prospective tenants who, quite candidly, have been on the sidelines waiting on the right space [to locate] in the village,” King said in a telephone interview. Red Hen opened up shop in Oak Park in 2009, taking the place of Great Harvest Bread Co., which was owned by Cathy Yen, who now serves as executive director of the Oak Park-River Forest Chamber of Commerce. The bakery opened its first shop in Chicago and eventually grew to three locations. The Oak Park location is the only retail location listed as being in operation on Red Hen’s website. CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com

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. Light refreshments will be served.

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.

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Oak Park approves sanctuary city ordinance

Immigration advocates say measure is among the strongest in the nation By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

The Oak Park Board of Trustees thumbed its nose at President Donald Trump and unanimously joined the ranks of America’s sanctuary cities, approving an ordinance that immigration advocates said was among the strongest in the nation. Immigration advocates packed village hall Monday night and lined up at the podium to state their support for the so-called Welcoming Village ordinance. “The ordinance you will be voting on tonight is the strongest, most progressive and inclusive ordinance in the country,” said Mony Ruiz-Velasco, executive director of PASO West Suburban Action Project, an immigrants’ rights nonprofit organization. Ruiz-Velasco spearheaded the sanctuary city initiative in Oak Park. She said the move shows Oak Park is “staying true to its strong historical values of equality, diversity and justice.” “You send a strong message that there is no place in Oak Park for anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, anti-woman, anti-LGBTQ policies,” Ruiz-Velasco said. The ordinance was strengthened from a previous version presented to the board in late January that advocates argued included

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WELCOME: Over 100 participants gathered at Scoville Park on Feb. 4, holding signs and chanting “No hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here,” during Oak Park’s Call for Action which supports becoming a sanctuary city. a loophole that would allow local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration officials under certain circumstances. That language was removed in the new ordinance, which was almost universally supported by the advocates at the meeting. The ordinance passed Monday prevents village employees from assisting “in the investigation of the citizenship or immigration status of any person unless such inquiry or investigation is required by an order of a court of competent jurisdiction.” The village also will not accept requests from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials on federal immi-

gration enforcement operations. Village employees who receive a request for support or information from ICE or other federal officials “shall report the request to his or her supervisor, who shall decline the request and document the declination in an interoffice memorandum to the agency director through the chain of command.” Residents, immigration advocates and elected officials took turns speaking in favor of the ordinance Monday – the packed meeting followed a rally in Scoville Park on the issue over the weekend that drew hundreds of supporters. Although the room was largely in favor

of the measure, one man argued that failure to cooperate with federal authorities on immigration would make Oak Park less safe. Larry Morris asked trustees to amend the ordinance and said the proposal should be sent to a public referendum, so Oak Park voters could decide on the issue. “America becomes better when we work with our federal government,” Morris said, adding later that passage of the ordinance was “nothing more than mob legislation in response to street mob actions.” Trustee Bob Tucker rebutted the comment, saying the ordinance and the process “is actually American democracy at its best.” “We’re not going to waste vital police resources on misguided federal actions,” Tucker said. Oak Park Mayor Anan Abu-Taleb, who is Palestinian and grew up in a Muslim household in the Gaza Strip, had, perhaps, the strongest language for the Trump administration. Trump’s policies of exclusion and rhetoric of hate run counter to American values, Abu-Taleb said. “I am outraged by his message and his divisive views,” Abu-Taleb said. “He wishes us to fear one another and he seeks to make us focus on our differences and not our similarities. America should not be a place where a child fears being separated from her parents for deportation.” Abu-Taleb called out Trump, telling the commander-in-chief, “Mr. President, America is not one of your enterprises. America does not belong to you alone and your associates. America belongs to all of us.”

Oak Park to unveil downtown streetscape plan

Open-house meeting planned to discuss preliminary designs By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

The village of Oak Park is holding an open-house meeting to discuss an overhaul of the Lake streetscape project from Harlem to Euclid and repaving Lake from Harlem to Austin. The open house will be held from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in Council Chambers at village hall, 123 Lake St., on Feb. 8. The project, which is planned for 2018, includes: underground utility work for sewer and water; asphalt paving; sidewalk replacement; improvements to concrete curbing; improvements to landscape planters; project costs; and construction schedules. The meeting aims to provide outreach to business owners and residents who will be affected by the construction, Village Manager Cara Pavlicek said at a village board meeting in January. Village Engineer Bill McKenna told the board of trustees that the project is in the preliminary design phase, and village staff is working to develop the scope, cost estimates and construction timelines. “We’re basically looking to wrap that up in late spring, early summer, and then we would move on to developing full-blown construction plans for bidding — that would be

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this summer,” he said. “We would ideally submit those to the state late summer sometime around August of this year for the state to bid the streetscaping portion of the project in January of 2018.” The project is likely to create some consternation with downtown business owners due to the expected disruption in motor vehicle and foot traffic. “Part of the public meeting is really to determine what’s best because that is such a busy corridor, and make sure that we’re really working well with all of the partners along there,” Pavlicek told trustees. She said village staff would return to the board with recommendations from business owners and the public following the open house. Trustee Peter Barber said development at the west end of the

corridor — Elevate Oak Park is currently building a 271-unit luxury apartment building near the corner of Lake and Harlem — would “create more traffic” and “a lot of challenges.” “And this is going to be an additional challenge on top of that for a very long summer,” he said, asking how long the project would take. “Probably the whole implementation is going to take five or six months, isn’t it?” he asked Pavlicek, who noted that a number of projects are taking place along the commercial corridor. “I don’t want to freak anybody out by saying how long it’s going to take,” she said, adding, “I’d prefer if we could talk about it, and I could give you very specific charts that would say here’s where a section should work, and how does that work best for those [business and development] partners?” Barber asked if there were any lessons learned from the Chicago Avenue street paving and streetscaping project last year. Pavlicek replied that she would “not allow the state to select the contractor, and I will say that publicly, and I’m fine saying that.” The state budget impasse threatened to indefinitely halt $2.7 million in funding for the project along Chicago Avenue. The budget funding was ultimately restored, but McKenna said the suspension of contracts and projects pushed the Chicago Avenue project into the fall. “They wouldn’t award projects in the middle of the summer, which is when we were slated for awarding and starting early to beat the school deadlines,” he said.

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Juvenile not prosecuted for punch that killed

Family angry that Cook County State’s Attorney passed on case By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter

Less than a week after Chicagoan Joe Maffris died, several months after being punched outside the Oak Park Public Library, his brother-in-law, Hal Block, called for compassion toward his attacker — a 13-year-old boy from River Forest. Block told Wednesday Journal in the days following Maffris’ death on Sept. 21, 2016, that “the greatest tragedy, other than Joe losing his life, is this kid losing his life, also.” But when the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Juvenile Justice Division chose not to prosecute the case, Block says he felt like his family was denied justice. The incident took place in front of the Oak Park Public Library, 834 Lake St., on June 16. Maffris, according to both police and Block, was dancing at an event being held in Scoville Park. Maffris’ attacker and Block give different accounts of the day. The teenager said Maffris tried to sit in his female friend’s

lap, while Block said police told him Maffris tried to urge the girl to dance with him and others during a music event at the park. Maffris left and went into the library while the teenager and a friend waited for him to come out. They allegedly started a verbal altercation with the 60-year-old man when he left the library but were told to leave by a woman who witnessed the encounter. As the two were turning to leave, the 13-year-old turned and punched Maffris, causing him to fall and hit his head on the concrete sidewalk. Maffris suffered cranial bleeding and died of his injuries over three months later. At the time of the assault, Oak Park police gave the teenager what is known as an “informal station adjustment,” stipulating that he meet curfew, go to school and not return to the library, and released him to his guardian. The charge was upgraded to two counts of aggravated battery when Maffris died. That’s why Block said was shocked to learn from the State’s Attorney’s Office on Jan. 25, that David Weiner, chief of the Juvenile Justice Division, had decided not to prosecute the case. “The level of betrayal we are feeling cannot be conveyed in mere words,” Block said in an email the day he learned about the decision not to prosecute. Weiner did not return multiple calls re-

“The intent of the family and friends is not to put this kid in jail and lock him up … it’s not revenge, it’s a matter of justice and having some rational consequence for his actions.” HAL BLOCK

Joe Maffris’ brother-in-law

questing an interview, but the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office released this statement: “While we certainly understand the pain and anguish felt by the family of Mr. Maffris in the wake of this tragedy, the State’s Attorney’s Office does not have the evidence that would be required to meet the burden of proof to sustain a murder charge in this incident.” Block said he never heard about murder charges until the state’s attorney announced they were dropping the case. “They charged him with felony battery involving grave bodily harm,” said Block, who is an attorney in Costa Mesa, California. “We weren’t expecting him to be charged

with murder or homicide or manslaughter.” He said the teenager should get some form of punishment, though. “We didn’t want his life to be ruined,” Block said, adding that he should be given probation, community service and anger management classes. “The intent of the family and friends is not to put this kid in jail and lock him up … it’s not revenge, it’s a matter of justice and having some rational consequence for his actions.” CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com

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Alleged car thief fatally shot by Forest Park officer Illinois State Police are investigating, following a fatal shooting on Feb. 3 in Oak Park by a Forest Park police officer. The shooting occurred after 26-yearold Marco Gomez allegedly stole a car in Glendale Heights. He ended up driving westbound through Chicago and Oak Park and was stopped near the intersection of Harlem Avenue and Jackson Boulevard, on the border of Forest Park and Oak Park, when a Forest Park officer spotted the vehicle. The officer got out of his car and attempted to stop Gomez as he tried to make a U-turn and flee east. The officer, in the vehicle’s path and “fearing for his life,” fired into the car, killing Gomez. There were no other passengers in the car at the time. The officer was subsequently placed on administrative leave pending the Illinois State Police investigation, Deputy Police Chief Michael Keating confirmed. “He’s a seasoned officer,” Keating said, Feb. 4. “He’s not new.”

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The last night at Home

One last trip through the heart’s chambers, jammed with recollections By ROSS DWORMAN

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his is our last night at 400 Home. Or, as it has been known more formally to a long line of Blue Cab drivers, lost delivery persons, and first-time guests: 400 Home, the Corner of Home and Washington. From room to room, snaking through

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LEAVING HOME: An experience familiar to many homeowners is the last night in a beloved house before moving. doorways into hallways, up and down stairs, on tables and floors, brown moving boxes are sealed and labeled and stacked. They line up in all sizes. Tall wardrobe boxes, short book boxes, mediums with shoulders of different widths, all looking a little dazed. A sad selection blankets some, for they will not be going. They are the refugees of downsizing. The others like uncertain emi-

gres, await tomorrow’s arrival of the big trucks and big strangers who will cart them off to what may as well be a world away, if in fact only two miles north of 400 Home. The walls of Home stand stripped now. Gone are the family photos, gone the souvenir snapshots from blue-white Santorini and the gray pacific coast of Washington. See GOODNIGHT, HOME on page B7

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GOODNIGHT, HOME

A flood of memories from page B1 De-installed are the pastel canvases, the thickly-layered encaustics, and the boldly-striped wooden panels. They lean against one another, bubble wrapped in nondescript uniformity. In the kitchen, open cupboard and pantry are slack-jawed to find themselves emptied. The brushed steel face of the refrigerator is denuded of grandchildren, postcards, magnetic silhouettes of New York State and Minnesota, handwritten reminders about faith and groceries. The tiny, magnetic squares of Do-ItYourself Poetry, Erotic Edition, lie

spent somewhere at the bottom of a brown box. On our last night here, we are steeped in a silence more deep and still than any former, familiar, quiet evening at Home. It’s been a wonderful old house on Home. One that beguiled us from the very start. Its majestic bearing. Its sedate elegance. Its proud, but never prideful, display of yesteryear craftsmanship. A majestic Queen Anne with towering turret and conical spire. Our first encounter was on a whim. We had turned to Oak Park without anticipation or expectation following many long, trying months searching Chicago. That Sunday afternoon, my wife and I each took a turn through the house on Home while the other remained in the car where our 2-year-old daughter slept aslant in her car seat, cheek to cushion, delicate lids lowered, baby bee-

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LIFE ITSELF: Why the abode we dwell in is not just called a “house.” We need an extra word. That word is “home.” sting lips mildly pulsing with each breath. Might she have been dreaming of her life to come at Home? We each returned to the car, our pulse a little quickened. Though the state of Home that afternoon was somewhat depressed — overgrown outside and gloomy inside (its then family having been sadly upheaved by bankruptcy and divorce) — Home’s truth shone through. It had good bones, we agreed. More so, it had a lovely soul. In 1988 when it first countenanced our occupancy, 400 Home bore us as only its fifth family in a nearly 100year lineage of bearing families. We were still a start-up family then: young couple, one gangly son, one toddler daughter, one more to come. Since then, Home has sheltered us, warmed us, borne us through. It has tolerated our tinkering, put up with our efforts to restore to it such original character, as best we could discover or imagine. Sometimes it deigned to reward our paltry efforts with a real show of its stateliness. That very long summer, for instance, when, descaled of blocky, dirt brown asphalt siding, Home’s long rows of slender, lapping clapboards emerged, to be restored in shades of green and aqua-marine. It made us proud. Sometimes, though, it resisted us, fought us, tested our affection for it and our implicit oath to cherish and honor it. It did not always keep out the rain. It did not always stand firmly imporous over the rising tide of a spring melt. In frustration, sometimes we hurled an epithet at it: Old money-pit! we’d cry.

Those were but brief squalls, lovers’ spats. For when those dust-ups passed, when power came back on and plaster-flaking ceased, when seeping waters at last receded, we rested once again in the soothing surround of Home. Love happened here. Made love and found love. Holidays and passageways were celebrated here. Friends were made here; friendship sealed. Joy happened here, expansively filling rooms, as does sunlight streaming through Home’s high windows. Sorrow happened here, pensively, under light-diffusing shades and cloaked mirrors. Here passions were discovered and passions pursued. Misadventures and mishaps here were assuaged. Hope and disappointment sang their round here. Here teasing poked; caring probed. Guffaws rose; tears fell. From time to time, here anger blew out like dust bunnies from baseboard gaps … or were those skittering mice? Here we found solace and solitude as needed. Companionship and encouragement as sought. A family happened here, from its nuclear root sprawling vine-like across clapboard, over fence, blossoming, efflorescing its filial fragrance, bearing fruit, eventually shedding feathery seeds into the far-flinging winds. In short, here life happened. Tomorrow we close the door on our Home on Home. A door, I feel, not merely to a single, long chapter of our lives but to many, many chapters. We’ve lived here for 28 years. More years than either of us individually or both of us together have

lived anywhere else. More years than we are likely to ever live in any one place again. So it is the hub of our story. The sacred center of us: Homephalos. Tomorrow we turn from Home & Washington. Around the corner, new and surprising are before us. Good and bad await us. Ahead there lie adventures we have not yet imagined. There, ahead, lie opportunities not to be grasped without an equal and opposite letting go. I know that. I look forward to that. Still, I will miss my house on Home. I will for the rest of my life be returning to my memory of it, to my crowded mental attic of souvenirs, to my heart’s chambers jammed with recollections large and small, all hoarded because all too, too precious to be cast away, castaway. On this night I am at last sad to leave my house on Home. 400 Home. So in leaving I hope from it just one more thing: That though I will not reside in Home again, Home will ever after reside in me.

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n February, River Forest property owners should receive reassessment notices from the Cook County Assessor’s Office. Appeals will be accepted by the County Assessor’s Office for 30 days after the reassessment notices are mailed. You’ll find the filing deadline for an appeal on your reassessment notice. On Tuesday, Feb. 21 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., the River Forest Township Assessor’s Office is co-hosting a community outreach event with the County Assessor’s Office. All residents are invited to attend and will be able to ask the staff questions regarding your new property assessment. The event will be held at the River Forest Community Center, 8020 Madison Ave., Room 206, River Forest. A resident may file an appeal directly on Feb. 21 or you may file online at the County Assessor’s website. Our office will be glad to help you find comparable properties for your appeal. Contact us at 708-366-2787 or visit www.cookcountyassessor.com.

In the past two tri-annual reassessments: 2011, the median sale price change was -9.95% 2014, the median sale price change was -2.98% A 24% increase in property assessment doesn’t amount to a 24% increase in your tax bill. Your property’s assessment is your portion of the tax burden. Below is a simplified situation in which Cook County and other miscellaneous taxes are not accounted for, but the concept of property assessment and how it is related to the owner’s portion of the total tax burden is illustrated: Let’s imagine that River Forest is a town of six homes. One home is worth $500,000 and the other five homes are worth $100,000. The Cook County assessor values all residential property at 10% of market value. Therefore, a $500,000 home would be assessed at $50,000 and each of the $100,000 dollar homes would be assessed at $10,000. Let’s suppose that this town needs $10,000 to pay for all of the various taxing bodies. Thus the tax bill for the $500,000 home would be $5,000 and for each of the $10,000 homes, the tax bill would be $1,000. This would add up to the $10,000 it takes to fund all of the town’s schools, village municipality and other taxing districts. If this town had a reassessment and the Assessor increased the assessment of all property to 100% of their previous market value, the $500,000 dollar home would be valued at $1 million or assessed at $100,000. The other five homes would be valued at $200,000 or assessed at $20,000. If none of the taxing bodies levied for additional funds the tax bills would remain the same even though the assessments were doubled. The $1 million dollar home would still have a tax bill of $5,000, and each of the homes that were

PAMELA KENDE

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Reassessment facts at a glance River Forest assessments are expected to increase by an average of 24%. Assessed values are set at 10% of a residential property’s market value. The 2017 reassessment will not impact tax bills until the second installment tax bills in 2018. River Forest has an average increase of approximately 24%. The reason is that the overall median sale prices have been increasing since 2014, which was our last reassessment. In 2014, the median sale price was $484,384 In 2015, it was $541,900 In 2016, it was $604,840 That is an increase of 24.04% from 2014 to 2017

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First installment property tax bills for tax year 2016 arrived in the last week of January. Property taxes are paid in two installments. The first installment bill is 55 percent of a property’s total tax bill for the previous year and will be due on March 1. Taxpayers should note that first installment tax bills will not reflect homeowner, senior citizen or other exemptions, nor will they reflect the impact of successful assessment appeals filed in calendar year 2016. Exemptions and successful appeals will instead appear on second installment bills, along with the effect of changes in the tax levies of local governments. Total tax bills for the year should be calculated by late June, at which time second installment bills will be issued. The amount due on the second installment will be the total annual tax bill for each property, less the first installment payment.

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If money for property taxes is paid into an escrow account with a taxpayer’s mortgage company, the financial institution should receive the tax bill electronically, even if the taxpayer also receives a copy of the bill. We advise taxpayers with property tax escrows held by their mortgage companies not to pay property taxes on their own. If they do, an overpayment may result. Property owners who do not have mortgage companies paying their taxes can make tax payments in person, by mail, or online at the Cook County Treasurer’s website, www.cookcountytreasurer.com. In-person payments are accepted at the Cook County Treasurer’s downtown office at 118 N. Clark St. and at any Chase Bank in the Chicago area. Chase branches most convenient to Oak Park residents are located at 800 Madison St. and 1048 Lake St. in Oak Park, 630 N. Harlem Ave. in River Forest.

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valued at $200,000 would still have a tax bill of $1,000. To make up the total of $10,000 to run the town. If the taxing bodies needed an additional $10,000 to run the town and the total town budget was raised to $20,000. The $500,000 home’s tax bill would double to $10,000 and each of the $100,000 homes would have a tax bill of $2,000 to pay the $20,000 needed to run this town. To understand how each home pays its portion of the town’s total budget, go-

ing back to the first scenario where the homes are assessed at $50,000 and $10,000 respectively, if the $500,000 home burned down and lost all of its value (not actually possible as land has value), the other five homes’ tax bills would have to make up the difference. Each of those remaining homes would then have their tax bill increased from $1,000 to $2,000 to pay the town’s $10,000 budget. This office can help you file for your exemptions. Please contact us at 708-366-2787.

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Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $685,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 107 Keystone, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gullo & Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $725,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-1 847 N . East Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$727,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 729 N . Grove, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beyond Properties Realty Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $774,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1127 N . East Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $789,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 1433 Keystone Ave, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $809,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 432 S . Humphrey Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . @properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $925,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 1025 N . East Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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2531 N . Talman Ave . UNIT 2E, Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichert Realtors Nickel Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $215,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 4953 Oakton St . UNIT 702, Skokie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $450,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 Showroom at 139 S . Oak Park Ave ., Oak Park, IL . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $669,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 Showroom at 139 S . Oak Park Ave ., Oak Park, IL . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $684,900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2 Showroom Open at 139 S . Oak Park Ave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $699,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12-2

ADDRESS

REALTY CO.

LISTING PRICE

TIME

622 Grove, Forest Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $339,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 245 S . Oak Park Ave . UNIT E, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re/Max In The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $359,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:30-4 615 Grove Ln, Forest Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $362,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

ADDRESS

REALTY CO.

LISTING PRICE

TIME

419 S . Ridgeland Ave, Oak Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gagliardo Realty Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $525,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 628 William, River Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gloor Realty Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,225,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

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856 Carpenter, Oak Park • 2 BR, 2.5 BA • $325,000 SUPER CHARMING and completely updated home! Beautifully appointed kitchen with granite counter tops and all stainless appliances. Bathrooms completely rehabbed. Replacement windows throughout. Open-concept living on the first floor. Generously sized BRs with TONS of storage! Finished family room in the basement can also be home office or kids play area! Located steps from Southtown Shopping District, restaurants, shops, groceries and more, as well as walking distance to CTA and short drive to 290! Top-rated Lincoln School District-Nothing to do but move in and enjoy! Call Laura!

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7616 Vine St., River Forest 3BR, 2 Full BA • $599,900 BUNGALOW with many upgrades, like new! Fabulous state-of-the-art designer kit and fam rm addition. Baths have been completely updated. Basement is fully finished. $10K credit to build garage. Call Laura!

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415 FRANKLIN – UNIT #3F RIVER FOREST Spacious & Bright 2 BR/ 2 BA.................. $199,000

533 N. HARVEY OAK PARK

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439 Home #1S – Oak Park - $208,500 21 Franklin – River Forest - $421,000 1023 Walnut Way – Oak Park - $563,408 221 N. Taylor – Oak Park - $675,000 143 Keystone – River Forest - $715,000 7310 Holly Court – River Forest - $1,075,000 224 S. Oak Park Avenue #2E – Oak Park - $177,000 126 Francisco Terrace – Oak Park - $325,000

Bright 4 BR/ 2 BA with 1st Floor Family Room on Fantastic Block! .$549,000

1159 Cordula Circle – Naperville - $373,950 241 S. Ridgeland – Oak Park - $500,000 1159 Adams – Northbrook - $530,000 339 Franklin – River Forest - $539,900 532 N. Marion – Oak Park - $585,000 533 N. Harvey – Oak Park - $549,00 415 Franklin #3F – River Forest - $199,000

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214 Harrison, Oak Park •1 BR, 1 BA • $1,300/month INCREDIBLY UNIQUE unit in the heart of the Oak Park Arts District! Completely new inside and out! Top of the line appliances and finishes, fullsize, in-unit laundry, Central Air, and tons of storage. Walk to everything location--CTA Blue line, bus lines, shops, restaurants, schools, library and much more! Convenient on-street parking available. This one won’t last!!

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P R O P E R T Y

T R A N S F E R S

230 S. Scoville Ave. home sells for $785,000

The following property transfers were reported by the Cook County Recorder of Deeds from December 1 to December 30, 2017. Where addresses appear incomplete, for instance where a unit number appears missing, that information was not provided by the recorder of deeds.

OAK PARK ADDRESS

PRICE

SELLER

BUYER

6629 North Ave 112 Home Ave

$3,570,000 $2,300,000

Sandra Oak Pk Acq Llc Kenton House Llc

230 S Scoville Ave 824 S Kenilworth Ave 1024 S Highland Ave 235 S Oak Park Ave 642 N Kenilworth Ave 912 N Oak Park Ave 801 Linden Ave 400 Home Ave 837 N Marion St 900 N Grove Ave 321 N Elmwood Ave 533 N Harvey Ave 212 S Maple Ave 26 1023 Mapleton Ave 1123 Augusta St 611 Belleforte Ave 604 S Oak Park Ave 111 Washington Blvd 540 N Cuyler Ave 514 Clinton Ave 714 N Marion St 1033 S Grove Ave 156 N Oak Park Ave 17 111 Bishop Quarter Ln

$785,000 $746,000 $735,000 $725,000 $700,000 $665,000 $570,000 $550,000 $535,000 $535,000 $532,500 $515,000 $505,000 $500,000 $475,000 $465,000 $455,000 $450,000 $449,000 $410,000 $405,000 $357,000 $350,000 $310,000

North Columbian Llc Nas Prop & Mgmt Llc-Series Pd 114 Home Powers John Herman Thomas E Meagher Mark Gee Douglas J Castrogiovanni Philip J Counts Tobin L Lassiter Brandon Dworman Deborah J Parks Ryan Florek Darzyslaw Palazzolo Thomas Clarke Kevin Crane Steven Peak Five Prop Llc Temming Jason Enstrom Robert V Studney Thomas M Tr Morrison John D Tr Arsovski Gocc T Nied Richard Tijerijna Sandra L Lipton Saul P Sullivan Jeanne W Tr Howie James E Jr

1024 S Highland Ave., Oak Park

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Pastrovich Ryan Wilkens Matthew Bachman Michael Obrien Daniel E Tchang Kira Riegler Nathan J Lewis Justin S Stark Daniel May Ryan P Riley Michael J Trust Martin Jessica Garms Matthew Berman Phil Jr Tr Davenport Charlene H Robinson Catherine Warren Michael Florek Darzyslaw Granlund Lena Snyder Dustin Nied Alexander Lucas Alexander J Castaneda John P Dickerson Paul Capozzi Lisa Marie

ADDRESS

PRICE

SELLER

BUYER

726 N Harvey Ave 324 N Marion St 2N 1179 S Humphrey Ave 1107 S Lombard Ave 141 N Ridgeland Ave 1412 415 Harrison St

$299,000 $285,000 $285,000 $266,500 $250,000 $240,000

Alvarez Bob Agyepong Tera Riveros Francisco M Socie Michael Vaughn David V F Holdings Llc

1005 Washington Blvd 2B 1107 S Lombard Ave

$231,000 $239,850

Martinez Haidee Brennan John Mcginnis Carol Friedman Ronald Odell Vivian Chicago Title Land Trust Co Tr 0000000003900 Prejzner Ella Socie Michael

1103 S Lyman Ave 930 Ontario St 2C 431 S Kenilworth Ave 1S 930 Ontario St 2A 500 Home Ave 110 Madison St 113 S Scoville Ave 3S 118 N Austin Blvd 1182 248 S Marion St 101 7056 Roosevelt Rd 1032 Forest Ave 301 W Chicago Ave 3SW 949 Pleasant St 1AW 104 N. Oak Park 3384 428 N Harvey Ave GSE 204 N Ridgeland Ave 550 Forest Ave 529 N Oak Park Ave 1131 Wesley Ave

$225,500 $222,500 $220,000 $218,000 $209,000 $200,000 $165,000 $155,000 $143,000 $140,000 $133,500 $130,000 $110,000 $71,000 $45,500 Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown

Lessing Joel Gdn Price Evan Riley Elizabeth M Chiu Yiu Ming Jpmorgan Chase Bk Mustari Frank J Miedlar Matthew N Zowski Carol V Lake Willie L Callahan Betty A Chaloemtiarana Thad Bunney Joseph W Blueprint Fundg Inc Wilkowski Krzsztof Deutsche Bk Natl Trust Co Tr Bellile Corky Equity Trust Co Judicial Sales Corp Virruso John H

Simmons Thomas Kamani Vishal Fotopoulos Elizabeth Pease Karen Anne Dechase Llc 110-112 Madison Partners Llc Stefanisin Molly Penn Cenulssso Kevin Webb Natalla Pena Walsh Ronald Sr Weber Ryan M Lowry Nicholas Chicago Mutu Real Est Grp Inc Qian Zhijian Delgado Eliel N Bellile Corky Reaf Solo 401K Trust Us Bk Trust Virruso John H

Cortinovis Luca C Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc

P R O P E R T Y

T R A N S F E R S

OAK PARK ADDRESS

PRICE

SELLER

BUYER

219 N Grove Ave 2192

Unknown

Piotrowski Mark

930 Ontario St 1A 635 S Kenilworth Ave 1156 Wenonah Ave 212 N Lombard Ave 137 Francisco Ter 204 N Ridgeland Ave 724 Erie St 7241 801 S Lyman Ave 1150 Home Ave 1184 S Elmwood Ave 703 Forest Ave 828 S Ridgeland Ave 538 N Lombard Ave 612 S Scoville Ave 614 S Lombard Ave 949 Pleasant St 1AW 109 N Oak Park Ave 832 S Maple Ave 400 N Marion St 704 S Lombard Ave 929 Belleforte Ave 210 N Taylor Ave 1209 N Harlem Ave 7 304 Clinton Ave

Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown

Sherrell Robert Jr Tr Balch George I Davis Timothy A Gallagher David Hoover Thomas W Gamble William Moglia Margaret A Tr Chiang Mark Anderson Robert Judicial Sales Corp Lurio Laurence B Roman Edgar Judicial Sales Corp Felichio Julie A Williams Christopher J Doyle Patricia Tr Carlin Valerie Ryan Tr Hussein Jaafar Hussein Jaafar Vitaliano Felix Liechty Karl Edmund Bielawa Michael J Cook County Clerk Mack Industries Ii Llc

125 S Oak Park Ave 851 Columbian Ave

Unknown Unknown

Boudros Nick K Mack Industries Ii Llc

1005 S Kenilworth Ave 921 Ontario St D 1223 N Euclid Ave 1016 Belleforte Ave 1201 Columbian Ave

Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown

Piper Justin Michel Lyna Hedgeman John Stroupe Kevin T Judicial Sales Corp

Chicago Title Land Trust Co Tr 0008002368795 Sherrell Robert Jr Balch Trust Davis Timothy Tr Gallagher David M Tr Hoover Thomas W Tr Bellile Corky Moglia Henry J Tr Su Karen Anderson Robert Bank Ny Mellon Lurio Melissa Roman Edgar A Tr Peerless Cap Mgmt Llc Judical Series Bayview Loan Servicing Llc Williams Christopher J Vecchione David Tr 109 N Oak Park Llc Jaafar H Hussein Family Ltd Ps Jaafar H Hussein Family Ltd Ps Vitaliano Felix Tr Liechty Trust Bielawa Trust Lech Wojciech Chciago Title Land Trust Co 0008002372790 Boudros Nick K Tr Chicago Title Land Trust Co 0008002372790 Piper Justin L Tr Greene Ronald O Allen-Hedgeman Bridgett L Stroupe Kevin T Earthmover Cu

RIVER FOREST

419 Thatcher Ave 515 Auvergne Pl 1139 Lathrop Ave 7355 Greenfield St 511 Lathrop Ave 7925 Washington Blvd 339 Ashland Ave 1535 Park Ave 203 415 Franklin Ave 3FN 1420 N Harlem Ave 1507 Jackson Ave 7354 Central Ave 104 1417 Bonnie Brae Pl 4C

$3,200,000 $1,375,000 $1,065,000 $750,000 $520,000 $410,000 $360,000 $216,000 $190,000 $163,000 Unknown Unknown Unknown

Els River Forest Llc Walker Peter S Extr Steinberg Robert L Tr Bernthal Margaret L Tr Drumm Barbara A Chambers Gregory J Keane Patrick Shore Arjan Harmon Anne V Tr Legare Deborah M Borowski-Beszta Leszek Taglia Mary E Sikora Gerald E

621 Bonnie Brae Pl 316 Ashland Ave 1531 Bonnie Brae Pl P5 1422 Monroe Ave 629 Clinton Pl 7575 Lake St 4B 941 William St 149 Park Ave

Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown

Hickey Audrey C Kunkel Eugene H Kapusniak Christopher Binder John J O Neill Carol Phillips Mary E Courtney John V Patel Sanjay

Greenplan 419 Thatcher Llc Vogt Susan L N Romans Christopher D Johnson Kenneth Distefano Justin R Biggins Donald F Kelty Mark Ayyagari Swati Munoz Sarah Oshea Fetiza Mirame Rezai Pedram Taglia Gerald J Chicago Title Land Trust Co Tr 0008002373112 Hickey Audrey S Tr Kunkel Eugene H Tr Fanchi Bernard J Binder John J Tr O Neill Carol Ann Tr Phillips Mary E Tr Courtney John V Tr Anfi Prop Llc

1318 Elgin Ave., Forest Park

FOREST PARK ADDRESS

PRICE

SELLER

BUYER

1318 Elgin Ave 1051 Dunlop Ave

$370,000 $350,000

Pventure Llc-P-3 Home Tree Llc

Campbell Carol Rolanda D Crawford

819 Ferdinand Ave 927 Harlem Ave

$350,000 $320,000

Mazur Michael Scianna Renovations Inc

Trankina Robert Williams Nathan C

922 Beloit Ave 632 Marengo Ave

$278,000 $200,000

Wolfe Jennifer Peiler Valerie J

Alvers Brian C Ebadi Reza

1029 Circle Ave

$175,500

Duffield Carl J

215 Marengo Ave 2E

$199,000

Chicago Title Land Trust Co Tr 0000011789708 Fierro Nina C

227 Elgin Ave 6E

$143,000

Mcginnis Carol

424 Elgin Ave 10

$85,000

Chicago Title Land Trust Co Tr 0000000991125 Johnson Preston Jr

315 Des Plaines Ave 407

$80,000

Williamson Jason

815 Hannah Ave

Unknown

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp Jensen Debra L

Dye Mary A

7251 Randolph St MANY 7614 Madison St

Unknown Unknown

Cebulski Jarrod Infinity Holdings Grp Llc

Leflore Andrea E Russom George

1101 Harlem Ave 201 7441 W Harrison Ave

Unknown Unknown

Judicial Sales Corp Madison Coal Corp

Us Bk Trust Park Dist Forest Pk

211 Elgin Ave 6J 1105 Beloit Ave

Unknown Unknown

Rana Gurinder Tr Thompson Nicole

Streeter Earleata Swinger Karen A

7704 Roosevelt Rd

Unknown

Forest Pk Plz Llc

Forest Pk

614 Thomas Ave

Unknown

Mcdonnell Michael

614 Thomas Llc

211 Elgin Ave 2A

Unknown

Seanor Barbra E

Seanor Barbra E Tr

915 Ferdinand Ave

Unknown

Renovo Fin Llc

Rflf 3 Llc

320 Circle Ave 211

Unknown

Gereb Peter J

Federal National Mortgage Association

314 Lathrop Ave 302

Unknown

Christiana Trust

Seraphin Thomas B

7641 Adams St

Unknown

Difebo Frank G

140 Marengo Ave 302

Unknown

Holub Dean A Tr

Holub Dean A

7713 Adams St

Unknown

Wolinski Thaddeus

Wolinski Thaddeus Tr

Conway Phillips Regina

Marmer Ronald L Tr

February 8, 2017 â&#x2013; Wednesday Journal/Forest Park Review

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F O R E S T PA R K

OAK PARK OPEN SUNDAY 12-2PM

OPEN SUNDAY 12-2PM

NEW LISTING!

1223 Woodbine Ave 3BR, 2.1BA $564,900

847 N. East Ave 3BR + 1BSMT, 3.1BA $727,000

F O R E S T PA R K

OPEN SUNDAY 1-3PM

OPEN SUNDAY 12-2PM

OPEN SUNDAY 1-3PM

NEW LISTING!

1229 Woodbine Ave 3BR, 2BA $515,000

1104 S. Cuyler Ave 4BR + 1BSMT, 3.1BA $669,000

OAK PARK

613 Grove Ln 2BR, 2.1BA $349,000

612 Beloit Ave 3BR, 1.1BA $295,000

OPEN SUNDAY 12-1:30PM

1115 Thomas Ave 4BR, 3BA $449,900

NEW LISTING!

1029 S. Clinton Ave 4BR, 2BA $365,000

823 Fair Oaks Ave 4BR, 3BA $799,900

NEW PRICE!

OAK PARK

1137 Linden Ave 3BR, 1.2BA $499,000

222 N. Grove Ave 2BR, 2BA $199,000

RIVER FOREST 3D

NEW PRICE!

835 Columbian Ave 4BR + 1BSMT, 4.1BA $1,075,000

NEW LISTING!

222 N. Grove Ave 2BR, 2BA $234,500

RIVER FOREST 3D

1050 N. Humphrey Ave 2BR, 1BA $239,000

F O R E S T PA R K 3D

NEW LISTING!

712 Lathrop Ave 4BR, 2.1BA $625,000 Susan Abbott Dale Anderson 3D Adriana Cook Lorraine Cooper Monica Dalton Christine DeLeon David Dieschbourg Michael Dmyterko

614 Fair Oaks Ave 3BR, 2.1BA $624,900

938 S. Euclid Ave 4BR, 3.1BA $699,000

M AY W O O D 3D

NEW LISTING!

121 Des Plaines Ave Duplex + PKG $225,000 Jannie Earl Kelly Fondow 3D Mitch Goldstein Trevor Good Priscilla Haddad Robert Hann Mari Hans Richard Holland

446 Thomas Ave 2 Flat + PKG $339,500

John Lawrence – Managing Broker/Owner Jennifer Hosty Enea Lako Mark Hosty 3D Alex LeGare 3D Evelyn Humphries Linda Little Donna Karpavicius Nick Lovett Zak Knebel Jeanette Madock Barbara Kohut Kris McCartney Cory Kohut Alice Fox McMahon Meg Kryger Jose Munoz

101 N. Oak Park Ave, Oak Park, IL 60301 • 708-848-5550 www.weichertnickelgroup.com

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1116 S. 6th Ave 3BR, 2BA $139,900

131 Ashland Ave 4BR + 1BSMT, 3.1BA $699,000

433 N. Lombard Ave 1BR, 1BA $107,000

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to view 3D 3D Tours and see what else is on the market!

Adam Murphy Tabitha Murphy 3D Jeffrey O’Connor Sarah O’Shea Munoz Jonathan Paul Michael Rabichow Jon Reith Jessica Rivera

Janet Rouse Donna Serpico Pauline Sharpe Marcos Sierra Patti Sprafka Wagner Victoria Witt

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Visit our new website at:

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Weichert, Realtors - Nickel Group congratulates Adam and Tabitha Murphy of The ATM Team for being the top real estate agent for 2016 in the Oak Park Area Association of Realtors! #1 in total closed sales • #1 in total sales volume

dam and Tabitha Murphy have been selling real estate since 2007 and have quickly risen to the top as the #1 Real Estate Agent for 2016 in the Oak Park Area Association of Realtors both in total transactions and total sales volume.

all led to their success. The team uses creativity and new marketing techniques to get their clients’ homes sold for the highest price possible, in the least amount of time.

While Adam and Tabitha serve many clients, their goal remains to provide The ATM Team’s passion for their clients superior service both to sellers and along with their expertise in preparing buyers as they navigate the sale and/or a home for sale, marketing, negotiation, purchase of their homes. and construction knowledge have

Here’s what their clients have to say about the ATM Team: “I had the pleasure of working with both Adam and Tabitha within a 5 month time span (buying and selling my home). They are wonderful to work with. Tabitha did an absolutely stunning job staging my home and we had offers within the first week and it sold within 14 days of being on the market! Not only did they meet my expectations but they exceeded them. I am definitely going to recommend Adam and Tabitha to all my friends and family for future selling and buying of real estate. When the time comes for me to buy my dream home, I know who I’m calling! Choosing Adam and Tabitha to represent me was THE best decision I made in the home buying and selling process.”

“Tabitha, Adam, Crystal, and team did a PHENOMENAL job. They helped me purchase my house a year ago and when a work related move resulted in me needing to sell my home I reached out to them for the sale. I cannot express how fantastic they were in facilitating the sale and helping me through the process. The new work situation had me traveling constantly. The team helped me through each step of the process. They anticipated and communicated the tasks I needed to do before I traveled so I could get them done and eliminate last minute surprises. The sale was seamless thanks to their hard work. They are the best realtors I have ever worked with.”

- Elizabeth K.

- Erika K. 101 N. Oak Park Ave, Oak Park, IL 60301 • 708-848-5550 www.weichertnickelgroup.com

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Welcome to the Spring Market! CALL PATTI SPRAFKA WAGNER ACCREDITED STAGING PROFESSIONAL and a CERTIFIED LUXURY HOME MARKETING SPECIALIST

(708) 218-8102 • pswagner@live.com www.PattiWagner.com www.OakParkRiverForestRealEstate.com

Nickel Group

NEW LISTING!

UNDER CONTRACT!

3+ BR, 2.1 BA, Talmadge & Watson-built stone Tudor. Hardwood floors, tandem off large master & rec room. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $624,900

4 BR, 3 BA, BRICK HOME with so much space! Master BR suite with balcony, huge eat-in kitchen & oak floors.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $449,000

4 BR, 3 BA, VANBERGEN-BUILT PRAIRIE that is unusually bright! Huge family rm off the kitchen, 2 fireplaces & deck. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $799,900

3+ BR, 3.1 BA, FRAME VICTORIAN with updates galore. Fantastic master suite, island kitchen & lower level. . . . . . . . . . . . . $629,000

UNDER CONTRACT!

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3 BR 1.2 BA, SIDED FARMHOUSE on beautiful lot. Hardwood floors & oak kitchen with granite counters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $320,000

EXCEPTIONAL 2-FLAT with 3 BRs in each unit. Oak floors, fireplaces, natural wood, new kitchen & baths! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $335,000

3 BR, 1.2 BA, 2-STORY in true move in condition! Hardwood floors, remodeled kitchen, baths & rec room! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $405,000

2 BR, 1 BA CONDO with in-unit washer & dryer, parquet flooring, great closet space, spacious balcony & parking! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $192,000

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2 BR, 2 BA CONDO in elevator building, 2 covered parking spaces, newer kitchen. Right in the center of town. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $199,000

2 BR, 2 BA CONDO in elevator building with parking. Laundry is allowed in the unit. New oak floors & kitchen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $178,000

Patti Sprafka Wagner was #1 in Overall Sales for the Tri-Village Area of Oak Park, River Forest & Forest Park, for both 2016 and 2015, in the entire MRED Multiple Listing Service!

101 N. Oak Park Avenue, Oak Park, Illinois 60301 B18 View more at OakPark.com/Real-Estate ■ February 8, 2017

Generations of Excellence since 1958

708.771.8040 • 7375 W. North Ave., River Forest Donna Barnhisel Cibula 7375 West North AvenueJoe Dan Bogojevich Don Citrano MANAGING Anne Brennan Julie Cliggett BROKER/OWNERS River Forest, Illinois 60305 Karen Byrne Alisa Coghill Kevin Calkins JoLyn Crawford 708.771.8040 Tom Carraher Andy Gagliardo Maria Cullerton Pat Cesario

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Julie Downey Kurt Fielder Yvonne Fiszer-Steele Ramona Fox Chris Garvey Lisa Grimes Dan Halperin Sharon Halperin

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Greg Jaroszewski Vee Jaroszewski Joanne Kelly Michael Kinnare Sherree Krisco Jack Lattner Susan Maienza Vince McFadden

Charlotte Messina Kathleen Minaghan Colleen Navigato Rosa Pitassi Katie Possley Michael Roche Sue Ponzio-Pappas Jenny Ruland

Laurel Saltzman Rob Sarvis Meg Sullivan Laurie Shapiro Tom Sullivan Debbie Watts George Wohlford Nancy Wohlford

1046 FRANKLIN RIVER FOREST

946 ASHLAND RIVER FOREST

711 JACKSON RIVER FOREST

900 FAIR OAKS OAK PARK

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BURMA BUILT BUHRKE HOUSE combines Tudor revival & chateau style architecture elements. Gorgeous décor and impeccable attention to detail and care found in house and landscaped grounds, extends to fabulous in ground pool and patios. Perfect for entertaining. ........................................................................ $2,449,000

PRAIRIE STYLE HOME on large corner lot. This 6 bedroom, 5 full bathroom, 2 half bathroom home has a beautiful center entrance with marble foyer and spiral staircase. Lower level has large rec room with dry bar, wine cellar, 2 game rooms and several storage areas. .....................................................................................$1,795,000

CLASSIC BRICK COLONIAL with all high-end finishes. First floor features hardwood floors, family room off kitchen. Finished basement has media room, 2 addl BRs, full bath, plenty of storage. Backyard offers private deck, large heated patio, built in pool. 3 car garage, heated driveway. ...................................................$1,695,000

GORGEOUS HOME WITH OPEN FLOOR PLAN. This 4 bedroom, 3-1/2 bath brick colonial sits on a majestic corner lot in Historic Oak Park! Spacious living room, sun room or home office, expansive dining room, family room and a true chef’s kitchen with large eat-in area. .................................................................... $760,000

1104 N KENILWORTH OAK PARK

1451 KEYSTONE • RIVER FOREST

735 BONNIE BRAE • RIVER FOREST

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BEAUTIFUL KENILWORTH PARKWAY! 3 bedroom, 2-1/2 bath Classic Colonial in ideal location. Brick, slate roof, curb appeal galore and move in ready!!! Walk up attic, lower level playroom, screened porch overlooks exquisite landscaped backyard. All you need to do is move in! ...............................................................................$679,000

STUNNING BRICK ENGLISH TUDOR with 5 bedrooms, 4-1/2 baths on one of River Forest’s most private streets. This house has everything you need. Fabulous family room, large eat-in gourmet kitchen, a truly amazing basement with a full spectacular wet bar. This is a must see .................................................................$1,195,000

LOCATION,LOCATION,LOCATION. Stucco home with a great floor plan. Hardwood floors, large rooms through-out. Living room includes a gas fireplace. Separate dining room with built-ins and stained glass windows. L-shaped kitchen, family room. Koi pond in the backyard........................................................................... $629,000

BEAUTIFULLY RESTORED VICTORIAN style three bedroom, two bath home in central Oak Park. Large front porch. Open high end kitchen with granite, perfect for entertaining! All new furnace/ ac, windows, siding, roof, etc. make this a nearly maintenance free home. .......................................................................................$519,900

OPEN SUNDAY 1-3

ADDITIONAL OPEN HOUSES SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2017

RIVER FOREST HOMES RESTORE THIS HOUSE with fabulous curb appeal or Build your dream home on this 100’ x 184’ lot. ...............................................................................................$1,400,000 GEORGOUS FRENCH NORMANDY with 5 bedrooms, 5 full & 5 half baths sits on a 75 foot corner lot. Gleaming hardwood floors and fireplace in LR, simply stunning eat-in kitchen with adjoining family room. Lower level rec room with gas fireplace. Beautifully landscaped grounds. .........................................................................$1,099,900 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 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 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. ........................................................................................................................$385,0000

510 JACKSON • RIVER FOREST OPEN SUNDAY 1-3

1227 FRANKLIN• RIVER FOREST OPEN SUNDAY 1-3

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

MID CENTURY RANCH with plenty of options to work with in this open floor plan. Extra large kitchen with eating area. Family Room with gas fireplace. Three Bedrooms with master suite. Two and a half baths. Huge rec room in basement. Attached 2 car garage. Private yard. .............................$570,000

1433 KEYSTONE • RIVER FOREST OPEN SUNDAY 1-3

111 ROCKFORD • FOREST PARK OPEN SUNDAY 1-3

BEAUTIFULLY MAINTAINED HOME features a detailed LR, DR and kitchen with east facing sun/breakfast room on 1st FL. 2nd FL features sun filled library w/fireplace, large master suite. Finished basement includes a family room with a fireplace and a game room. ...........................................$809,000

TOTALLY REMODELED!! All new: kitchen, hardwood floors, windows, siding, roof, light fixtures, plumbing fixtures, doors and hardware, and fenced-in yard. Master bedroom has walk-in closet, master bath, and walk out deck. 2 car garage with additional exterior parking space. .............................$559,900

419 S RIDGELAND • OAK PARK OPEN SUNDAY 1-3

VINTAGE BRICK TWO FLAT on large lot with 3rd floor addition. Front and rear deck on 2nd floor; balcony on 3rd. Third floor features wood floors and front rear staircases, wood-burning fireplace, master bedroom suite, and 3rd bath. Parking for 4 cars ..................................................................................................$525,000

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 ROOM FOR EVERYONE and stunning finishes throughout. Newly finished kitchen features 2 dishwashers and a built in bar with beverage center. Top end bathrooms. Master Suite features a deck, walk-in closet and a redone bath. Beautiful decorating. Beautiful landscaping.........................................................................................................................................$719,000

812 AUGUSTA • OAK PARK

BEAUTIFULLY REMODELED 5 bed/ 2 full bath home with a newly remodeled kitchen with a large attached breakfast area or family room. Bathrooms updated this year. Four large bedrooms on 2nd fl , 5th BR on 1st floor, perfect for company, or your private office.............................................................................................................$474,900 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

FOREST PARK HOMES 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

CONDOS/TOWNHOMES/2 FLATS RIVER FOREST 1BR, 1BA. Entertainment area. ...............................................$89,000 PRICE REDUCED! OAK PARK 3BR, 2-1/2 BA. ...........................................$499,000 OAK PARK 2BR, 2-1/2BA. Large wrap around deck. ......................................$359,400 PRICE REDUCED! OAK PARK 2BR, 2BA. ...................................................$275,000 OAK PARK 2BR, 1BA. Loads of natural light! ...................................................$177,000 OAK PARK 1BR, 1BA. Fantastic vintage building. ...........................................$139,000 OAK PARK 1BR, 1BA. Updated kitchen and bath. .............................................$69,000 FOREST PARK 2BR, 2BA. Spacious corner unit..............................................$289,000

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NEW LISTING

PRICE REDUCTION

1435 Park Avenue, River Forest $723,900 :: 4 bed :: 4.5 bath Spacious, meticulously maintained Georgian family home. Walk to elementary school.

1142 Franklin Ave, River Forest $1,600,000 :: 4 bed :: 4.5 bath Custom modern 6000 sq. ft. home. Dramatic design and unique detailing throughout.

PRICE REDUCTION

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847 Clinton Pl, River Forest $1,149,000 :: 4 beds :: 3.5 baths Beautifully designed center entrance brick colonial with a gourmet kitchen. Walk to train.

101 N Euclid Avenue #24, Oak Park $565,000 :: 3 bed :: 3.5 bath Town house with attached two car garage. End unit, walk to everything!

KATHY & TONY IWERSEN 708.772.8040 708.772.8041 tonyiwersen@atproperties.com

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Getting Down To Business

with the Oak Park - River Forest Chamber of Commerce February 6th, 2017

The Appeal of Development

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By CATHY YEN, Executive Director

ell of course you are pro development because it puts more boots on the ground,” said my coffee date, responding to his own inquiry. Because I represent local business, people assume I favor any development that adds shoppers. Businesses are not looking to urban planners to help generate sales. Taxes by far is the most common concern. Second is business climate. Sales is a distant third. Yes, sales are critical to success. They depend on strong product, quality service, appealing prices, successful marketing and sufficient customer volume. Unlike the first two concerns, business owners can impact sales with their own planning, resources and decisions.

The first two issues are outside the business person’s control. Climate refers to whether the environment is friendly to commerce. Culture, government, parking, safety, disposable income. Businesses contribute to climate but mostly work within it. Taxes impact businesses and residents alike with the same powerful force. They are a fixed cost, increasing annually with little recourse. And businesses do not vote. Oak Park’s taxes are among the highest in the county. Not only are local taxes high, but they are higher for businesses. In Cook County, businesses pay two and a half times the residential rate. This is an incredible barrier to success for small local business. According to the Civic Federation, the effective property tax rate for Oak Park businesses was 9.31% in 2015. That compares to a residential rate of 2.92%. The rates in Chicago were 4.18% for business and 1.56% for residential. Evanston’s rates were 6.55% and 2.14% respectively. In Oak Brook, both

businesses and residential rates were 1.12%. Naperville was 2.56%. It is expensive to do business in Oak Park. The community will debate the appropriateness of various development plans. Local businesses are hoping for tax impact. There are only three ways to decrease taxes: lower the cost of government services, increase fees or increase the pool of contributing property owners. We like our services. We do not like fees. Sure, development might help sales. And if we cannot stabilize taxes, we will need more sales to offset the cost. But, addressing taxes head-on? That’s the appeal of development.

Edward-Elmhurst Health 932 Lake St., Ste 300, Oak Park eehealth.org

… to Edward-Elmhurst Health on their opening! Representing Edward-Elmhurst and the business community: Jeanne Schultz Angel, Nineteenth Century Club; Cliff Osborn, Gloor Realty; Mary Lou Mastro, EdwardElmhurst Health; Shanon Williams, Downtown Oak Park; Lee Owens, Name On Anything; Viktor Schroeder, Oak Park Economic Development Corporation; Pamela Dunley, Edward-Elmhurst Health; Christian Harris, MaidPro; Sen. Don Harmon; Dan Sullivan, Edward-Elmhurst Health; Anan Abu-Taleb, Village of Oak Park / Maya del Sol; Dave Atchison, Edward-Elmhurst Health; Kim Goldschmidt, AXA Advisors; Bill Kottmann, Edward-Elmhurst Health; Teresa Powell, Village of Oak Park; Cathy Yen, OPRF Chamber of Commerce; Kathy Marchwiany, Community Bank of OPRF; Keith Carrizosa, Azure Horizons

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WEST COOK YMCA Camp Magellan Summer Camp 2017 Registration now open | Register by April 30th and save 10% Details and registration forms available at westcookymca.org/camp or contact Elizabeth Lopez at 708-434-0230 or elopez@westcookymca.org.

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offering the following camps: • Minecraft Modding • BattleBot Engineering • LEGO Robotics • VEX IQ Robotics • Kids Can Code w/SPHERO & WEDO • Stop Motion Animation • STEM Adventure. Our STEM camps are both Full Day and Half Day for Grades K-8th. For more information call 708.374.8286 or visit codeplaylearn.com.

Berwyn Park District

Adventure Camp June 12 – August 18, 2017 5yrs-13yrs Monday-Friday 9am-4pm $165/Week or $35/Day

Field Trips and Swimming every week! Free Breakfast, Snacks, and Lunches! $5 Before Care 7am-8am Free 1 hr Before Care (8-9am) & Free 2 hrs After Care (4-6pm) Location: Liberty Cultural Center 6445 W.27th Place Berwyn, IL 60402 For more information contact Kristine Kalfas Email: kkalfas@berwynparks.org Phone: 708-956-7858

Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio

Design Camps in Wright’s Studio

Code Play Learn

Two Locations: 1148 W. Diversey, Chicago, IL 60614 30 Chicago Ave, Oak Park, IL 60302 Is your child interested in to coding, technology, robotics, Minecraft, or building with LEGOs? Code Play Learn summer camps lay a STEM foundation by teaching programming, computational thinking, and problem solving through hands-on STEM programs. This summer we are partnering with Legacy Sports to provide full-day programs that engage children both physically and mentally. We will be

In the room where Frank Lloyd Wright and colleagues pioneered a new vision for American architecture and design, In Wright’s Studio summer camps let young participants collaborate and create with professional architects, artists and designers. These new workshops serve grades 3-12. High school students build portfolios during single-day Saturday workshops: Architect as Artist (June 24), Color / Pattern / Print: Designing in Two Dimensions(July 22) and Form / Mass / Shape: Designing in Three Dimensions (Aug. 12). Two week-long workshops serve younger students: Upcycle Studio(July 10-14, grades 3-5) and Sustainability Studio (July 31 to Aug. 12, grades 6-8).

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GIVING ARTFULLY KIDS

Camp Date Weeks: Ages 4-6: July 10-14 & July 24-28 Ages 7-10: June 19-23, July 17-21 & July 31-August 4 Ages 10-13: June 26-30 9am -12pm creativita 7502 1/2 Madison Street Forest Park Have your kids join us this summer as we EMPOWER KIDS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE through crafting! We teach them about the importance of giving through helping others and spreading kindness. They will be exploring their creative side and having fun while making an impact on important causes and organizations. Don’t miss this opportunity for your kids to be part of Building Generation Kindness! Register at www.givingartfullykids.com/classes Questions: email us at GAKids@givingartfully.com

Howard Mohr Center

Summer Clubhouse: for children grades K -5. Summer Clubhouse campers enjoy creative projects, free play, weekly field trips, swimming, structured games and exciting indoor and outdoor sports to keep your children active during the summer months. Summer Clubhouse provides children with summer adventures that promote a healthy mind, body and spirit. We

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For registration and information about all our programs visit www.codeplaylearn.com 708-374-8286 • 30 Chicago Ave, Oak Park, IL 60302

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DISCOVER THE POWER OF INDIVIDUAL VISION Design Camps in Wright’s Studio

Sign up your young designer for these NEW architecture and design summer camps in the historic drafting room of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Studio. June 24 The Architect as Artist Grades 9-12 July 10 to July 14 In Wright’s Studio: Upcycle Studio Grades 3-5 July 22 Color/Pattern/Print: Designing in 2 Dimensions Grades 9-12

July 31 to August 4 In Wright’s Studio: Sustainability Studio Grades 6-8 August 12 Form/Shape/Mass: Designing in 3 Dimensions Grades 9-12

Now Enrolling Summinformation Mathnasium of Oak Park/ er or to register for classes, contact

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River Forest

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practice the 3 B’s : Be Respectful, Be Responsible, behind or leaps ahead, Mathnasium develops Be Safe. a program to challenge and excite their math Summer Clubhouse is located at the muscles. Howard Mohr Community Center and the Mathnasium now has learning centers in both hours are 6:30am to 6:00pm. Children Oak Park and La Grange! For more information should bring a morning snack and a sack and to schedule a trial session, call Mathnasium lunch Monday – Thursday. Every Friday we and see what a difference it can make. provide lunch for your child. We feature a qualified and trained staff with many years of childcare experience. Our child to staff ration is 7 720 Chicago Ave to 1. We believe the most important elements of Oak Park a positive summer camp are the well-being and safety of your child. oakparkartleague@gmail.com Teen Clubhouse: for grades 6 – 9. Teen oakparkartleague.org Clubhouse will experience weekly field trips, Gallery Office: 708-386-9853 development of leadership skills, adventures The Oak Park Art League is in nature, swimming and much more! Teen offering summer art camps for children ages clubhouse allows children to work as a team 5-8 and 9-12 years old. One week camps run when making decisions about their future lunch from June 12 to August 18 and meet weekdays outings and some of their daily activities. They from 9:00 am until noon. The Oak Park Art will attend a weekly skill/team building session, League offers educational programming in as well as a daily motivational session with our a variety of mediums to all age groups, with DCFS qualified instructor. foundation classes for the first-time art student Teen Clubhouse is located at the Howard to advanced instruction for the experienced Mohr Community Center and the hours are artist. Summer art camps will provide budding from 8:00am to 4:30pm. Please bring a lunch artists the opportunity to explore creativity and snacks. We provide lunch on Friday and an through multi-sensory, experiential art-based afternoon snack daily. (min. 5/max. 15) projects and activities, led by practicing artists for and experienced art educators. For more

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Use the Summer to let Mathnasium help your child Catch up, Keep Up, and Get Ahead! Mathnasium is the nation’s leading math only learning center, specializing in teaching kids math in a way that makes sense to them in a IN EN fun and engaging environment. Mathnasium OP W NO can prevent the summer learning slide and ! GE LA GRAN prepare your student for the rigors of his or her Grades Pre-K-12 new math curriculum in the fall. Working with EARLY REGISTRATION SPECIAL: students in Pre K-12th grade, Mathnasium can Remediation • Enrichment make a student’s summer both enjoyable and 25% OFF* ALL Summer WE ARE EXPERIENCED Summer Slide Prevention productive. Whether your child is significantly MATH SPECIALISTS FREE CONSULTATION FREE CONSULTATION

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the Oak Park Art League at: 708-386-9853 or visit the OPAL website at: www.oakparkartleague.org

Park District of Oak Park

218 Madison St. Oak Park, IL 60302 708-725-2000

The Park District of Oak Park offers summer camps for all ages! We have a variety of camps available including Preschool, Nature & Ecology, Sports, Art, Circus, Gymnastics, Skating, Hockey and Teen camps. Registration for Oak Park residents started on 2/4 and non-resident registration starts on 2/11. A $25 deposit reserves your space in camp. Register by April 30 and pay 2016 camp prices! All prices increase May 1 2017. Camps are accredited by the American Camp Association. Scholarships are available. For more information and to register visit www.pdop.org/camps.

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Part-Time (2 – 4 hrs.)

Full-Time (6 – 11 hrs.)

Three For All (3 yrs. by 9-1-17) M,W: 10:15am–12:15pm T,Th : 9:30–11:30am

Adventure Camp (2nd – 4th gr.) M-F: 10:00am-4:00pm Extended Care 7:00am-10:00am & 4:00pm-6:00pm

Little Explorers (4 & 5 yrs) M-Th: 9:00-11:30am

Urban Safari (5th – 8th gr.) M-F: 10:00am – 4:00pm & 4:00pm-6:00pm Extended Care 7:00am-10:00am & 4:00pm-6:00pm

Breakfast Club (15 mos. – 2 yrs) Parent and Tot Camp M,W : 9:00–10:00 am

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Young Voyagers (3 yrs. - 1st gr.) M-F: 10:00am– 4:00pm Extended Care 7:00am-10:00am & 4:00pm-6:00pm

Summer Scene (K – 7th grade) M-F: 12:00-4:00pm Extended Care 7:00am-10:00am & 4:00pm-6:00pm

Unforgettable Adventures from June 12th– August 25th Arts & Crafts, Games, Sports, Swimming Field Trips, Special Events, and More!

River Forest Community Center 8020 Madison Street River Forest, IL 60305 708-771-6159

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Children entering K & 1st grade at Riverside Township 8:30am-1pm

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Children entering 6th-9th grade 8:30am - 4pm

AFTERNOON CAMP 3 to 6 y/o 1pm-4:15pm

CAMP CENTENNIAL

3 to 4 y/o at Riverside United Methodist Church 8:30am-1pm This is one of the hottest camps in the area growing by leaps and bounds. Register with your friends and make tons of new ones in this one-of-a-kind program. Check out what all the buzz is about!

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Riverside Parks and Recreation Summer Camp

27 Riverside Rd. Riverside, IL 60546 708-442-7025

Riverside Parks and Recreation Summer Camp is a 10 week program of fun, education, and recreation. We have 5 different camps based on age groups to cater to a more unique lesson plan and for convenience for families. We are proud to offer this camp series that families keeping coming back to! We hope to see you this summer!

River Forest Community Center

Summer Camp Programs 8020 Madison Street River Forest, Illinois 60305 708-771-6159 www.rfcc.info Offering full and part-time programs for parents & tots and children ages 3-12 years of age. Activities include arts &crafts, games, sports, swimming, field trips, special events, and more!

Camps for every age, ability and interest including: Traditional Day Camps Half-day, Full-day & Extended Care General Sports Camps Tennis LEGO Camps Golf Soccer Lacrosse Science & Nature Football Skateboarding Arts Circus Basketball Figure Skating Baseball Gymnastics Teen Scene Counselor-In-Training Program Chess Hockey Preschool Camps Adventure Volleyball Cooking & more!

See our camp guide at www.pdop.org/camps New this year! Register before May 1 and pay 2016 prices!

West Cook YMCA

255 S. Marion St. Oak Park IL 60302 708-383-5200 www.westcookymca.org BEST SUMMER EVER!

There is no better way to spend a summer than enjoying outdoors with friends. And this year, West Cook YMCA is the place for kids to be all summer long.

RELATIONSHIP We facilitate relationships with and among youth, creating a space for them to make new friends, and develop strong relationships with staff.

ACHIEVEMENT

We provide thoughtful program activities to help youth gain new knowledge, skills, abilities, build confidence, and discover who they are.

BELONGING

Join us for a great summer! We make memories that last a lifetime. Our fees include all activities, like field trips every week!

For more info, see our website, www.berwynparks.org, or call Kristine at 708.956.7858

We provide a safe and inclusive environment, so that every youth feels welcome and finds a place to belong.

CAMP MAGELLAN June 12th – August 25th

Special Advertising Section West Cook YMCA’s Camp Magellan is your child’s destination to have the best summer ever! Days filled with activities at the local forest preserve, swimming, games, sports, and field trips. Your child will experience the best of what summer has to offer- all in a safe environment where he or she can try something new, build friendships, and make memories to last a lifetime. Plus, daily reading keeps children from falling behind over the summer, giving them a great start to the next school year! For children ages 5-17. Camp runs weekly sessions from 9:00am – 4:00pm with available extended care from 7:00-9:00am and 4:007:00pm, so you can rest easy knowing your child is having their best summer ever, all day, with the Y. Plus, we have Summer Boosts – a chance to focus on extra activities that teach skills that are fun and just may impact a camper’s future. Campers can be registered for Summer Boosts to enhance their camp experience during weeks 2 through 9 of Camp Magellan. For 1-2 hours every day, kids will enjoy summer boosts like: S.T.E.M. (science, technology, engineering and math), Dance, Drama, Arts, Creative Writing, Strong4Life, and Cooking!

For more details, visit westcookymca. org/camp or contact Elizabeth Lopez at 708-434-0230 or elopez@ westcookymca.org

Wolfpack School of Basketball

This summer Wolfpack is introducing Howl at the Moon, a NEW 3-day overnight basketball camp. This fun-packed program combines two of Wolfpack’s best features: our blast skill development system and our signature King of the Den camp format in a fun, basketballcentric learning environment. Participants will also compete in a variety of contests for the opportunity to win custom Wolfpack prizes, including a pair of Nike shoes! Camp is open to boys only, ages 8-14 (Players will be separated based on age, size and ability). The dates are June 18th-20th, 2017 and the location is Lewis University, Romeoville, IL. The fee is $425 (Due by June 2nd: Includes camp, room and board, and meals) For more information, email us at info@ wolfpackschoolofbasketball.com or call 708-6699762

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Summer ART Camps

Your Night-out Resource.

For children ages 5–13 June 12 through August 18 OPAL caters to the creative child with one-week summer camps that:

• Nurture the fundamentals • Develop a young artist’s vocabulary • Introduce modern practices • Explore a variety of mediums and processes • Encourage creativity in a fun and supportive atmosphere!

Developing artistic talent in our community for 96 years! For more information on summer camps and five-week class sessions go to:

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720 Chicago, Oak Park, IL 60302 • 708-386-9853 The Oak Park Art league is partially funded by grants from the Oak Park Area Arts Council and the Illinois Arts Council, a State Agency.

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participants will enjoy creative projects, free play, weekly field trips, games and exciting indoor and outdoor sports, while still in a structured setting. Also, swimming daily at the Forest Park Aquatic Center! Summer Clubhouse features a qualified, first aid trained and state licensed staff with many years of childcare experience. Parents must provide lunch Monday thru Thursday. Clubhouse will provide lunch every Friday. The Summer Clubhouse program will be held at the Forest Park Community Center, at 7640 Jackson Blvd. We will be open every weekday from June 5, 2017 until August 18, 2017. Our hours of operation are 6:30am to 6:00pm.

NEW - Teen Clubhouse is for individuals in grades 6 – 9. Teen Clubhouse will experience all that Summer Clubhouse participates in, plus their own weekly field trips, development of leadership skills, adventures in nature, swimming and much more! Teen Clubhouse is staffed by qualified, first aid trained, state licensed, fun adults. This program is housed at the Forest Park Community Center, 7640 Jackson Blvd. Teen Clubhouse begins June 5, 2017 and runs until August 18, 2017. The hours of operation are 8:00am – 4:30pm.

Howard Mohr Community Center 7640 Jackson Blvd. • Forest Park, IL 60130 708-771-7737

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Here’s how our story doesn’t end

ur story begins decades ago. That’s when this reporter and a child psychiatrist (I became her favorite patient) got married. We first met many moons ago in college. As working professionals, we got married in City Hall at noon when each of us was on lunch break from our respective jobs. By 1 p.m. we were back at work. Since then, we’ve been blessed with daughter Lauren and twin sons, Amman and Jordan, all college grads who are working professionals in their respective fields. On this day, we find ourselves at the lush Waikiki Beach Hilton, then a block away at the Duke Kahanamoku statue, renewing our marriage vows in a surprise romantic gesture of love, faith and commitment, thanks in part to Rev. June Dillinger from “I Do Hawaiian Weddings.” She delivers our vows in English and Hawaiian. Duke, a Hawaiian-born Olympian Gold and Silver medalist in swimming (1912, 1920, 1924) is considered the father of modernday surfing. To many, his huge 27-year-old statute is both a secular and spiritual symbol. Many couples marry here or renew their vows at this picturesque spot you’ve probably seen on Hawaii Five-0. It seemed to be an appropriate backdrop for our ritual featuring my lovely bride in this tropical place where we’ll eventually retire once the sub-zero Chicago winters become too much to bear. It’s a joyful story. But not without complications. One of the first things they teach us in journalism school, is “don’t become part of the story.” One of the things we teach in Columbia College’s Creative Nonfiction classes is that your point-of-view, rich research, ample dialogue, character-as-a place, and “voice” are essential to storytelling as long as you get the story right. Truth be told, the official reason we’re here is I am presenting a paper on late great writer James Baldwin and screening my

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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.

Sanctuary village? Really?

Let’s have a ban on immigration fictions

rderly immigration and assimilation made America great. Born in Belgium, my mother became a naturalized U.S. citizen. Grossvater Wemhoff left Prussia for America in the 1860s, and became a citizen. Both of my wife’s parents were born in Eastern Europe and became citizens. E pluribus unum. Until recently, in order to immigrate, one had to be free of communicable disease; otherwise, you were sent back, or put into quarantine (think the opening scenes of Godfather II). If you had a criminal record, you did not get into America. If you misbehaved after immigrating but before becoming a citizen, you were deported. There were quotas in order to protect our culture from being overwhelmed, to keep out “bad apples,” and to foster assimilation. To be naturalized, one had to pass a test and take an oath to defend America. These were, and are, prudent and just measures to protect Americans and our culture.

A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots. his statement really came to life for me during the past decade or so as falsehoods about immigration have circulated and multiplied like the hydra, with two falsehoods appearing to replace every one that was discredited. It can be difficult for a layperson to separate fact from fiction. I have the same advice for those who aren’t immigration experts as I give to young lawyers just starting out in the field. Be skeptical. Don’t believe everything you are told. Have an open mind. And whatever you do, check the primary sources of your information rather than simply believing what you are told by those with a political agenda. One common misperception is that the Obama administration somehow opened the borders to the undocumented, allowing a flow of undesirables to cross the border. Fortunately, the Pew Charitable Trusts, which is a non-partisan

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Already missing Salzman

ak Park has been fortunate over many years to have mainly good village trustees. There has, of course, been a supply of actual clunkers who ranged from all-in seat warmers to actively negative forces. Then, in limited numbers, there have been a small number of unusually strong elected officials. The village is losing one of that select group later this month when Adam Salzman resigns his seat. Salzman has taken a new and fascinating job that specifically precludes holding public office. He will become the executive director of the Chicago Legal Clinic. Since 1981, this pro bono legal aid provider has focused on immigration, ex-offender rights and domestic violence. They have found a champion to lead them in Salzman. As an Oak Park trustee, Adam Salzman has been a rare combination of an official clear in his goals and purpose for seeking office, open to the ideas of others, and completely steady in his approach. A sense of humor, but no grandstanding. Sees the strengths and the warts of village government, but doesn’t feel the need to be defensive about that mix. Hard to find that blend. We recall with admiration the response of Salzman and Trustee Bob Tucker in the aftermath of the village presidential election in 2013 when a small core of VMA hardcases did not react maturely to the overwhelming victory of Anan Abu-Taleb. In a letter to the Journal, these two trustees made plain their support of the election outcome and their intention to welcome Abu-Taleb. That was governance. Depending on the outcome of the current electoral challenge to the sitting VMA trustees up for reelection — to be settled after press time — the next Oak Park village board could be weaker and more novice. We’ll really miss Adam Salzman.

Who wants to be clerk? While Oak Park has an overflow of candidates for its diminishing village clerk post in April’s election, River Forest failed to scare up a single candidate for its elected clerk position. At least not a candidate who passed petitions and filed to get placed on the actual election ballot. Instead, River Forest now has three write-in candidates for clerk. Two are actually certified as write-ins by the County Clerk while the third is a plain-old write-in. This divergence of clerk fortunes raises a few thoughts. Namely, in this technological age, why do we need clerks? There are many easy ways to record meetings, generate and share minutes, post public meetings and whatever else makes up the official duties of these largely non-speaking clerk roles. These are clerical duties which might better be handled by an administrative assistant in the office of the village manager or administrator. In Oak Park’s ongoing and overdue reorganization of services at village hall, the sundry other duties assigned to the clerk have gradually, and recently more rapidly, been peeled from the wellpaid clerk’s job description. That leaves the current crop of Oak Park clerk candidates sort of inventing some type of ombudsman role, as if elected trustees and the mayor cannot be expected to listen to the concerns of locals. They better be listening. In Oak Park there has been quiet talk of eliminating the clerk’s post. But so far, no one has been up to the potentially risky task of making that call, setting in motion a citizen referendum to dump the job. The time to do it would have been with the coming retirement of Teresa Powell after two terms. Everyone talks about streamlining government, and in Oak Park of potentially saving tax dollars. Time to make this a more focused discussion.

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A Valentine for those who dream Barefoot, she smiled, leapt without looking, and tumbled into the Seine. The water was freezing; she spent a month sneezing, but said she would do it again. Here’s to the ones who dream, foolish as they may seem. Here’s to the hearts that ache; here’s to the mess we make.

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a mess. We aren’t here to make things perfect. Snowflakes are perfect, stars are perfect. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and, and die! The storybooks are b.s. Now I want you to come upstairs with me and get in my bed!” You see the same romantic energy unleashed in films like Silver Linings Playbook, Zorba the Greek and Cinema Paradiso — or in Kurt Vonnegut’s wonderfully romantic short story, “The Long Walk to Forever.” And you see it in La La Land. She told me a bit of madness is key To give us new colors to see. Who knows where it will lead us? And that’s why they need us. So bring on the rebels, the ripples from pebbles, The painters and poets and plays And here’s to the ones who dream Crazy as they may seem. Here’s to the hearts that break; here’s to the mess we make. As Zorba, that romantic for the ages, tells his timid master: “A man must be crazy once in a while or he dares not cut the ropes and be free.” Poet Mary Oliver advises, as we float down river in the skiff of our ordinary lives, “When you hear, a mile away and still out of sight, the churn of the water as it begins to swirl and roil, fretting around the sharp rocks — when you hear that unmistakable pounding — when you feel the mist on your mouth and sense ahead the embattlement, the long falls plunging and steaming — then row, row for your life toward it.” Not the kind of advice a realist would likely give. Which is not to disparage the realist, who in the best of all possible worlds willingly works with the romantic to turn dreams into reality. Each of the dreamers in La La Land helps the other to realize their respective dreams. The realist in one emerges when the romantic in the other weakens. Later, the romantic takes charge when the realist is close to giving up. In the end, though, they actualize their dreams without the other. The dream that doesn’t come true is happily ever after. In the beautiful compression montage of images at the end, the two lovers play out in their hearts the romantic dilemma: What could have been … what should have been … what cannot be. Sad? Tragic? Something in the future that may yet be consummated? Perhaps. But for true romantics, happily ever after is rarely a realistic ending. As my college professor in Romantic Poetry class some 40 years ago said about Keats’ Ode on a Grecian Urn, “You can look at this poem two ways: One is, the two lovers had it, but it was only for a moment. The other is, it was only a moment, but they had it.” The first is spoken by the realist. Romantics know the second is often all that life allows — but that moment redeems everything else. I trace it all back to then, Her and the snow and the Seine. Smiling through it, she said She’d do it again.

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You can fully enjoy the film La La Land only if it speaks to the romantic deep inside — with whom you may not yet be well acquainted. The film is a classic romance, which means it covers what I call the romantic trinity: “What could have been … what should have been … what cannot be.” Romantics are fundamentally out of synch with the world of realists and idealists. But I still harbor a longstanding (and romantic) hope: That everyone has a romantic hiding somewhere inside. Many of us find a way to let the romantic breathe, and even let it loose here and there, usually under carefully controlled conditions, like a prisoner on furlough, because we fear the power of that energy. Midlife “crises” usually mean the romantic has wriggled free, with or without our consent. At certain points in our lives that energy becomes uncontainable. The romantic in us is the embodiment of the life force itself, so if you never set it free, you probably haven’t truly lived. Too many of us live without our hearts in what we do. Romantics show us how. That’s why we need them. But that energy can tear lives apart if left unchecked, so most of us keep the romantic under wraps. Some try to strangle it altogether. You know them by their unhappiness. Some are disappointed or disillusioned romantics. You know them by their cynicism. The rest of us let the romantic loose in small doses. He sometimes comes out after an extra glass of wine or in our dreams or blurting out our true feelings for someone in an unguarded moment. A reader once called me a romantic when I wrote a column threatening to chain myself to the Magikist lips, the late, great neon sign that hovered over the Eisenhower Expressway near Cicero. But a true romantic would actually do it. It’s the difference between handing your significant other flowers and telling her, as Jack Nicholson’s character does in the film As Good As it Gets: “You make me want to be a better man” — and then becoming that man. For some, it might be one great romantic moment in a lifetime; for others, it’s a series of small blossomings. One of the main functions movies serve is sublimating our romanticism, allowing us to live it vicariously. That can be a drawback if it keeps us from living our own life more fully. Nonetheless, it’s thrilling to see Ronny in “Moonstruck” tell the realist Loretta after they attend the opera “La Boheme”: “I don’t care if I burn in hell. I don’t care if you burn in hell. The past and the future is a joke to me now. The only thing that’s here is you and me. ... Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is. Love don’t make things nice; it makes things

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Living and dieting

tarting last November, in order to take my mind off the Presidential election disaster and cleanup, I decided to go on a diet. I scoured the internet and talked to my skinny friends. There sure was a lot of information out there. I was amazed how many B-list celebrities were fat, but are now skinny, and were even willing to share their diet secrets for a price. First, I wrote down all the reasons I wanted to lose weight. That was easy: I want to dance with my oldest grandchild at her wedding. She’s 8. I’m 67. So unless she is a child bride, I’ve got some nonwalker living to do. I could liberate my skinny pants wardrobe. I could get people to ask if I had AIDS. I could get lucky at my 50th High School Reunion this September. Second, I needed a plan of diet and exercise. It is quite hard to lose weight without working on both. As to exercise I went to the YMCA and walked on the treadmill for 60 minutes almost every day at a pace and elevation until I burned 500 calories. If you sweat, you know you are exercising. Bringing in the groceries is not exercising. For breakfast I made an omelet that included vegetables every morning and a piece of double fiber toast; for lunch a gigantic salad with oil and vinegar

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dressing; and for dinner, a meat, vegetable and starch. This regimen is kind of boring, but you are so hungry, cardboard would taste good. Then there is prohibited food. Pretty much everyone in the world knows these foods are terrible for you: cheeseburgers, Fritos, pizza, fried anything, anything sweet other than fruit, anything salty, any liquid other than low fat milk or water, and meats of dubious provenance. You are left with fruits, vegetables, fish, chicken and whole grains. More than half the world would love such a limited diet. This was really hard, but I lost 24.2 pounds. It helps to be a little OCD because I weighed myself every day. When I was good the day before my morning weigh-in, it was exhilarating. When I was bad, it was like walking to the gallows. Sorta. Losing weight is empowering. If you can change your physical appearance, you can change everything. You can be a better, kinder person. You can do things you always wanted to do but thought you just weren’t that kind of person. You can’t change the world, but you can change you. So now the challenge is to keep the weight off. I’ll let you know after the reunion. (I hope Marsha doesn’t read this column.)

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Credit Manager Laurie Myers “Revisiting Afro Cuba” documentary at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, thanks to a part-time Columbia faculty development grant. That said, the unofficial reason is to see that shocked look on my wife’s face when I tell her to put on a “special dress for an event that involves food, rum and fun. What’s not to like?!” According to an MSNBC news feature on the reason why Earlene stands on my left: “Typically the groom will always stand on the right, with the bride on their left — and no, it’s not because it’s his or her better side in photos. While it may seem trivial, the reason why this is the standard position dates back hundreds of years ago — and it’s not exactly romantic. According to The Knot, the practice dates back to the times of ‘marriage by capture,’ which, yes, was as horrible as it sounds. It involved the man simple capturing (read: kidnapping) the woman he wanted to marry and is actually reportedly still practiced in some countries in Central Asia and parts of Africa.” The only thing I fought off were the pesky sea gulls wanting to get in on the action. Rev. June was so enamored by our story she performed the ceremony for costs. “This was a total surprise,” Earlene said. “It was so romantic — and to think I almost didn’t come because a couple days before my aging mom was hospitalized with a serious throat disorder. I checked on her every day. She’s better now. Me, too. Corny as it sounds, all’s well that ends well.” We celebrated under the nearby cabana outside the Moana Surfrider Beach Bar over a bottle of bubbly as the sunset breeze blew over the warm Pacific Ocean. That’s how our story doesn’t end.

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Silence will not protect you The following is an excerpted version of Rev. Taylor’s sermon to the Unity Temple Unitarian-Universalist congregation on Sunday, Jan. 29:

tions. Last week, President Trump claimed that he lost the popular vote because of people voting illegally. He signed executive orders that will needlessly tear apart families, increase the suffering of refugees, profile and discriminate against Muslims, ignore the signs of climate change, and prevent many women and poor Americans from getting health care. During the election, I spoke out against the rhetoric of hate and fear that filled the presidential campaign. When Donald Trump was elected, I quietly hoped he would move to a more unifying stance. I told myself, “Don’t be premature in getting upset. Judge the man on his actions when he becomes president.” Just over a week into his presidency, I feel compelled to urge you to consider whether our core values — including each of our seven Unitarian Universalist principles — are being violated. Have we reached a post-fact, post-enlightenment world? No. We are not in a post-fact world, but we are living in an era where the post-fact constituency is in power. With faith in the doctrine of Manifest Destiny and a dark view of the rest of the world that justifies denying the humanity of those who they think are in the way of their vision, the current administration threatens the very ideals on which this country was founded. The question now: to what extent will we the people let the administration achieve their vision? Our silence will not protect us or anyone else. Unitarian Universalists, at our best, resist retreating to a reactionary stance where we view the world as “us versus them.” But not doing so is hard, especially when hordes of post-truthers respond to individuals who take issue with the president. At a campaign stop when Trump had only 5 million Twitter followers, 18-year-old Lauren Batchelder spoke up. “I might be wrong,” she said, “but it seems to me that you are no friend to women.” After Trump’s response, she said, “I want to get paid the same as a man, and I think you understand that, so if you become president, will a woman make the same as a man, and do I get to choose what to do with my body?” That night Trump tweeted his outrage that this 18-year-old challenged him. Batchelder received over 10,000 messages on her voicemail and social media, calling her the most vulgar names, many messages threatening her safety. I can’t but wonder what rage will be poured on Judge Ann Donnelly who last night issued a temporary stay of President Trump’s executive order to prevent even green-card-carrying residents of this country from entering if they happen to be Muslim or come from certain countries. This kind of bullying must be highlighted for what it is: mean, cowardly, truly uncivil, and unpatriotic. This new cultural reality relies on a reality TV paradigm and technology to funnel rage and loathing anonymously. There’s probably never been a veracity crisis as great as we’re facing now. If there is ever a call for the cultivation of prophetic community, it is now. Rev. Alan Taylor is senior minister of the Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist Congregation.

REV. ALAN TAYLOR

orty years ago, Audre Lorde wrote prophetically: “Your silence will not protect you.” She wrote: “When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” And she asks, “What are the words you do not yet have? ... We have been socialized to respect fear more than our own need for language.” We’ve been exploring what it means to be a Community of Prophecy. Prophecy doesn’t mean predicting the future as much as seeing what needs to be seen and naming what needs to be named, even though it can bring great pain to see and name what is really going on. The Jewish prophets of old read the signs of their times and spoke clearly about what they learned, but as they spoke truth to power they often risked their own lives. As they compared the realities of their time with sacred teachings about justice, many tried to flee their assignments. Yet most responded with loyalty to something larger than their individual lives and fears, and larger than the systems of injustice. The role of the prophet today is also no easy task. For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own need for courageous language. Unitarian Universalist theologian James Luther Adams wrote: “The prophetic liberal church is the church in which all members share the responsibility to attempt to foresee the consequences of human behavior (both individual and institutional) with the intention of making history — in place of merely being pushed around by it. Only through the prophethood of all believers can we together foresee doom and mend our common ways.” There have always been a number of people who agree to an ample amount of risk-taking in the name truth and justice — drawing the curtain back on transgressions of power, oppression, knowing that one’s perishing or jailing may be the ultimate end. To what degree will we be claimed by our fears or by our loyalty to that which is greater than each of us? What are we willing to sacrifice for our own convictions? How shall we create a community that supports those drawn to the front lines? A member here asked me, “How do you reconcile prophecy in a post-truth world?” When society turns postmodern, truth becomes relative and situated, and the claim to have legitimacy gets shattered. How do we pursue truth and justice when they become irrelevant and meaningless to those with economic and political power? The new president of the United States of America claimed his inauguration was the most highly attended in history even though evidence showed it clearly was not. His spokeswoman defended what she called Mr. Trump’s “alternative facts.” Over the last several months, facts have become politicized, shadowy, relative sugges-

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Educational ‘equity’ is really about justice

hen I first began to formulate my views on the issue of student achievement gaps and equity as a candidate rather than a concerned citizen, activist, and father, I knew immediately that what I would have to propose would be difficult, controversial, and perhaps even unpopular, especially among the parents of the white, financially well-off students our education system is designed to benefit. So when a woman named Barbara Bodner replied to my comments at the SUA Candidate Forum in a letter to the editor in Wednesday Journal, questioning my stance and wondering in a tone of cautious indignation what such an approach would look like in practical terms, I can’t say I was surprised. [Equity vs. advantage, Viewpoints, Feb. 1] I was a student at Oak Park and River Forest High School from 2006 to 2010, and from my freshman year, “the achievement gap” was a topic of discussion that virtually all students and teachers were aware of. Research on the topic as a nationwide issue dates back to the 1960s, and Oak Park has been dealing with it since at least the early 1990s. These facts alone should make it clear to all community members, and especially would-be leaders (like myself), that the solutions we’ve been trying for decades simply do not work. Demonstrably, a serious attempt to strive for increased equity requires solutions that are — as Michael Romain said of my response in the Jan. 18 Journal article “School board candidates riff on equity” — radical. During the SUA forum I mentioned that using a word like “equity” is unhelpful because it obscures the causes of the issue of student achievement disparity. I would much prefer the word “justice.” Equity is a banal, opaque word meant to make privileged white people feel comfortable. It implies that this system has occurred naturally, that it is something to be combatted without anybody taking responsibility for it.

Justice, on the other hand, is frightening. If we strive for justice, we are admitting that our current system is unjust, and injustice comes from people. When I proposed talking about equity as a “debt of education” owed to students of color and other marginalized groups, I was aping a term I heard from Gilman Whiting, a professor at Vanderbilt University and founding chair of the Achievement Gap Institute for the George W. Peabody College of Education. Speaking about a conference his institute held, Professor Whiting readily acknowledged how dangerous it is to use such language: “We use the term achievement gap,” he said, “and I used it in this conference, for one purpose only. If I called it ‘a debt owed to low-income, minority, and other [students] who haven’t had opportunity,’ no one would show up.” Any political strategist would tell me that it’s electoral suicide to speak so strongly and decisively against the “white moderates” that Martin Luther King Jr. castigated in his Letter from Birmingham Jail as “the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom.” But Oak Park is a progressive town, a town whose white residents pride themselves on “diversity.” A town that, I hope, will prove unafraid to come together in solidarity, and radicality, to become a leader — not just in Illinois but nationwide — in educational justice. Because of the limited space in this section, I cannot go into detail here. I urge all who are interested to search for my blog on Huffington Post’s Chicago section, where they will find a greatly expanded version of this letter, including specific policy proposals. It would be very easy for me to mirror other candidates and politicians both past and present by reassuring Oak Park’s white residents with vague platitudes like “a rising tide lifts all ships.” The problem with that metaphor is that it isn’t true. A rising tide does not lift sunken ships.

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Remove 2 signs for every 1 erected In view of President Trump’s executive order that two regulations be trashed for every new regulation adopted, I wish to renew my recommendation of last year that Oak Park be required

to remove two street signs for every new sign erected. For once, Mr. Trump and I are on the same page.

Bob Stigger

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Wednesday Journal, February 8, 2017

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Dangers of uncontrolled immigration from page 19

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Busting immigration myths from page 19 foundation aimed at rigorously studying the real effects of our nation’s policies, has been studying the patterns of migration of the undocumented population in the U.S. for decades. The reality is that the number of undocumented immigrants in the country peaked in 2007 and has gone down slightly since then. http://www.pewresearch.org/ fact-tank/2016/11/03/5-facts-about-illegalimmigration-in-the-u-s/ Additionally, spending on both interior enforcement and border enforcement escalated dramatically under the Obama administration, both in terms of technology and the proverbial “boots on the ground.” Another non-partisan organization performing research and issuing reports in this area is the American Immigration Council (disclosure alert: I’m on the board of trustees of the council), and they produced an excellent fact sheet, along with easy-toread graphs, showing how immigration enforcement has increased over the years and decades (https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/the-cost-of-immigration-enforcement-and-border-security). A common rumor spread about immigration is that there is a link between immigration and criminality. The conservativeleaning Cato Institute did a comprehensive review of a variety of studies of crime rates in the native-born and immigrant population, and their research showed no correlation between immigrants and crime, and went even further to note that some studies actually showed a negative correlation between certain crimes and the immigrant population (https://www.cato.org/blog/ immigration-crime-what-research-says). This makes sense. The consequences to an immigrant of committing even a relatively minor crime can often go well beyond what is provided for in the criminal justice system, and those consequences can include deportation and separation from your family with little to no chance of returning

to the U.S. The elephant in the room, of course, is the most recent executive order on immigration issued by the Trump administration, which purported to initiate a temporary ban on travelers from seven countries entering the U.S. (Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen). The order reserved the right for the president to extend the ban indefinitely. The administration first said the order covered both Green Card holders and temporary visa holders (non-immigrants), and later announced it would only cover non-immigrants from the seven listed countries. Once again, we turn to the Cato Institute, which has sifted through decades of criminal data from 1975 to 2015 (https://www.cato.org/ blog/little-national-security-benefit-trumpsexecutive-order-immigration. The data was not yet complete for 2016, so that year wasn’t included in their study). Their conclusion was that foreigners from the seven listed countries killed zero Americans in terror attacks on U.S. soil during that time period. Zero. The individuals who carried out the World Trade Center attacks were from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Lebanon, all countries that were not listed in the executive order. To add a further layer of complexity, in my practice and in advising attorneys at airports across the country in dealing with the executive order (which has since been put on hold by the Federal Courts), I have seen a number of individuals who have been our allies in the war on terror who were affected by the ban. This includes Iraqi translators and military experts who risked their lives to help the U.S. military. The federal courts have given us a chance to pause and reflect on who we are as a country. I am hopeful that all of us, including the Trump administration, can use that pause to spend some time getting beyond the rhetoric and enact policies that are based on facts, not fictions. And I hope we can keep in mind those ideals that have made our country a beacon of hope to immigrants around the world. Ian Wagreich is an OPRF High School graduate who has practiced immigration law for the last two decades, most recently with the firm Hughes Socol Piers Resnick Dym, Ltd.

Legally, and morally (St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, I-II, Q.105, A.3), no nation is required to accept anyone or everyone who knocks on its door. Starting with Bush, immigration enforcement was relaxed. Obama went further and — with the UN Commission on Refugees — actively recruited illegal aliens, cramming them down into all 50 states. Obama gave illegals the benefits that only citizens rightly deserve (and that we pay for). Obama removed the fear of deportation, even for illegals who are violent felons. These changes were not driven by concern for us American citizens. No, they were done out of hatred for, and intolerance of, traditional America, in order to achieve “fundamental change.” The “haters” are not Donald Trump and Americans like me. We seek only justice, restoration of our bleeding borders, and reasonable immigration and assimilation. The real haters are those who, cloaking their actions in false “charity,” seek to re-engineer our culture through un-

controlled immigration — tantamount to invasion. A nation without borders is not a nation. Americans are the most generous people on earth, but our goodness is being exploited by Hard Left globalists with an agenda. We would be naïve dupes to think otherwise. By hiding violent criminals or terrorists, we act stupidly. We side with the real haters against our own people. Logic, common sense, true charity, and patriotism dictate a higher duty of care to our fellow Americans. By declaring Oak Park a “sanctuary” for illegals and evil-doers, we break with American values and culture. We once again look the fool. Only this time, we also will place ourselves and our families into the clear and present dangers of disease, violent crime, terrorism, and cultural erosion. Most compellingly, where sanctuary cities have been tried, people overwhelmingly reject them. See http:// news.berkeley.edu/2015/09/04/igs-pollcalifornians-oppose-sanctuary-cityflexibility/ When illegal aliens harm Oak Parkers, will we rationalize our neighbors’ sufferings as the necessary price of our clinging to our false feelings of smug moral superiority — even in the face of inconvenient truths — about “sanctuaries”? A proponent of orderly immigration and assimilation, Joseph A. Wemhoff is a 34-year resident of Oak Park.

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V I E W P O I N T S

The red-light camera solution

Recently you ran two articles about the red-light camera scandal [A street paved with gold, Jan. 11, and Easy money, Jan. 18]. WBEZ also interviewed a local citizen regarding the same subject [Brett McNeil, co-author of our two part series on red-light cameras on Harlem Avenue]. No one had done a survey of the citizens of OP-RF to ask a simple question: Is it commonplace for drivers in our fair community to “pause” but not obey the stop signs or lights? For an answer to that question, one only need observe and they will discover that almost no one makes a complete stop at traffic control points in either Oak Park or River Forest, except when inhibited by heavy traffic. Not to mention those who “blow through” signs with no hesitation whatsoever. I visit another suburb, notably Elmhurst, to see if this habit, like a pandemic, has reached further west. Nope! On my many visits to see my grandkids, it is rare to see a “pause” or “blow through.” Further study is needed to check north, south and east of our beloved community. Situation ethics might find that if no conflicting traffic is imminent, does the stop sign really exist, like the sound of a tree falling in the woods? The injustice related to the red-light camera scandal is that just those several points that observe traffic anarchy are rigged and

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The red-light camera at Harlem and Lake catches many a motorist turning right on red. not the hundreds of other control points. So if justice is to be served, either remove those million-dollar producers completely, cutting off funds to what might be considered our contributing to the County of Cook’s systemic corruption or monitor every single traffic control point in those towns whose populace is being fleeced. I say “rip ’em all out” and make our police more observant and occasionally ticket a driver who has made a bad choice. Of my driving habits: mea culpa!

Jim Ihrig

River Forest

How about an essay contest on ‘white privilege’? Recently, I heard a reporter on the radio mention a controversial essay contest being held in Westport, Connecticut that involved the term “white privilege.” With my interest piqued, I went to the internet to find out more. What I found made me shake my head because another opportunity to constructively discuss diversity, race, and equity may have been inadvertently sabotaged by the very people trying to move the needle forward. In case you missed it, TEAM Westport and the Westport Library asked local high school students: “In 1,000 words or less, describe how you understand the term ‘white privilege.’ To what extent do you think this privilege exists? What impact do you think it has had in your life — whatever your racial or ethnic identity — and in our society more broadly?” As reported in Michael Melia’s Associated Press article titled, “‘White Privilege’ Essay Contest Ruffles Upscale Coastal Town,” not all of the feedback from adults has been positive. I couldn’t help but wonder how this essay contest would play out here in Oak Park. A series of questions came to mind. Would some see the essay contest as a good idea?

Would some protest in writing or through marching? Would some want to proceed carefully so as not to risk being labeled as insensitive or hostile? Would dialogue remain cordial or dissolve into name-calling? Would some see the essay as yet another attempt to evoke guilt? Would some suggest we read a book on diversity and hold discussions? Would political ideologies (liberal/ progressive, conservative/right-wing, moderate) come into play? Would some bring up the academic performance gaps or disciplinary policies in our local schools? Would some mention economic or housing diversity? Would immigration reform find its way into the discussion? Would someone file a lawsuit if their essay was not chosen the winner? Would anything meaningful get accomplished through the essay competition? Oak Park may be ahead of other cities in regard to diversity, race, and social equity. How much further are we willing to go and how soon will we begin to lean into the difficult process? Misunderstandings will happen along the way but the end result will be worth it.

Ken Woods Oak Park

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My comments were misrepresented … again Once again Deb Kadin misrepresents my comments and intentions [New sustainability commission, News, Feb. 1]. In October, I tried to obtain information about the difference between a committee and a commission and how it would affect the sustainability group. As I stated then and will repeat, I am not a fan of unnecessary layers of bureaucracy. But I have always supported the goals of this group. That does not translate to me opposing the sustainability committee. My comments at our last board meeting

were along those lines, not an apology. The only apology needed is for the Wednesday Journal’s continual misrepresentations of what transpires at our board meetings in River Forest. These letters from me to Wednesday Journal are getting repetitive. Just a bit of advice: Listening to a tape of our meetings and calling the village president for a comment does not make for a very accurate article.

A disappointing first outing by Albion

Trumped in Trumpville

Judging by the throngs of disgruntled Oak Parkers milling around the 19th Century Club last Monday evening, I’m guessing I was not the only person feeling very misled by the event taking place. The Wednesday Journal reported that Albion Residential, the development company hoping to erect a 16- to 20-story, mixed-use high rise on the northwest corner of Lake Street and Forest Avenue would hold a community meeting with nearby residents and businesses to discuss the project. Instead, the more than 200 attendees were greeted by drawings of the building, sales staff and a sign-in sheet, presumably to be used by the developer for marketing purposes. There was no formal presentation and no opportunity for meaningful group dialogue about residents’ concerns. Some issues attendees wanted addressed, for example, involved: traffic and parking congestion on Lake and side streets in the area, other infrastructure impacts on this increasingly dense area, adverse effects of the building’s shadows on Austin Gardens and on the new solar panel-powered park district education center in the park, possible wind tunnel effects of having two 20-story buildings directly across the street from each other, and the esthetic impact of adding yet another high-rise tower to downtown Oak Park. Let us hope that the zoning, planning and village boards will give a thorough hearing and consideration to the serious issues raised by this initiative, which last evening’s meeting did not. If that gathering was the developer’s idea of meaningful engagement with the community, it clearly does not understand Oak Park or indeed the very concept of seeking neighborhood buy-in.

Katie Frankle Oak Park

Mike Gibbs

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So here we are in Trumpville Where the orange-haired jester smirks And the finalists for cabinet posts Grin like goblin-ghosts. And here we are in Trumpville Where statecraft is a joke Those to whom he first appealed Were duped by mirrors and smoke. So here we are in Trumpville Where the majority’s votes don’t count Where the rich are richly rolling and Common sense is rout. And here we are in Trumpville As his council beats the band He lies, he cheats, he makes jokes of us: Will steal the oil, frack the land. So here we are in Trumpville Social justice takes its leave Human rights, civil rights, basic rights That’s the stuff, he believes, we don’t need. And here we are in Trumpville Where corporate welfare breathes The high clean air of freedom Regulations? Gone to seed. So here we are in Trumpville As he starts throwing people out And the “lady of the harbor” Has begun to wear a shroud. And here we are in Trumpville Where the hungry days do lag And families shiver in the cold And sleep in garbage bags. So here we are in Trumpville Where his name gleams night and day And the promise of this nation Is being ratcheted away.

Mary Young Oak Park

Wednesday Journal, February 8, 2017

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Democracy in action was thrilling

A poor kicker for your caption

Keep Cathy Hamilton as principal of Lincoln

The Women’s March was thrilling to view for those of us watching on TV. For me, it was truly an outpouring of democracy in action. It was especially interesting to observe the variety of issues that concerned the participants — Women’s Rights, saving Planned Parenthood, right of choice, Obamacare, civil rights, voting rights, acceptance of immigrants, and many antiTrump folks. Of course, the success of this enormous march can only be measured by the changes to be accomplished. So far, President Trump has not been deterred from his desire to eliminate “Obamacare.” He has rejected the plan to lower mortgage rates and he plans to cut “company” (big business) taxes by 20 percent. Who will suffer for that? President Trump is still supporting all of his Cabinet appointments even though most of them are unqualified to serve in those posts. Most of them are billionaires (Goldman Sachs) buddies of President Trump and Senator Sessions (though not in the billionaire class) is a known anti-civil rights advocate. He is President Trump’s selection for Attorney General and the person who is supposed to guard our civil rights. Even with all the evidence against these cabinet candidates, it seems that our “gutless” legislature is planning to accept these presidential choices. My hope is that the millions of marchers and those of us who could not participate but feel strongly about the issues, will all send emails, letters or call the president and the legislature expressing their concerns. Imagine the president receiving millions of messages! That should be effective.

It was maddening to see your caption titled, “Ovary-Acting?” on the front page of the Jan. 25 issue. That this poorly chosen caption accompanied an article highlighting the Women’s March that took place on the 21st here in Chicago and across the nation was a slap in the face to all those who marched or support the movement. Women and men came together on Saturday not only in protest of Trump but also in solidarity to stand for the protection of our rights and to celebrate our diverse country. This type of caption supports the idea that those opposed to the march put forth, that the women marching are being overly sensitive about a little locker room talk. It also feeds into the epidemic of painting women as emotionally unstable and irrational and attempts to belittle our movements and our viewpoints. Perhaps you were making a poor attempt to reference the protest sign in the image above, but if your caption was meant to be a statement of support, you would have included the sign in its entirety, which stated “We’re NOT just ovary-acting.” Instead, your choice of “Ovary-Acting?” suggests that this is a question we should be asking ourselves and legitimizes the idea that perhaps the marchers are just overreacting. That you felt this caption was appropriate highlighted for me another reason #WhyIMarch, and I hope in the future you will join those of us who did in pushing back against systemic misogyny and traditional tropes of women in the media wherever they are found, even if it is on the front page of your own newspaper.

In response to the Feb. 2 District 97 email to the Lincoln community: Dr. Carol Kelley and the District 97 Board of Education are refusing to hear the voices of countless community members who want Cathy Hamilton to remain as principal of Lincoln School. Kelley and the board’s menial offer of “a substitute teaching position” instead of remaining in her current position as principal is both insulting and degrading. The board stated, “We believe the solution we have presented to Ms. Hamilton will help her achieve the main objectives she cited in her letter.” Offering her a sub position, after the number of years she has been in the district is disgraceful. The point of this insurgence is to point out that the position of Lincoln School principal is not being cut. There is still an opening for a leader. We are asking our elected officials and superintendent to save our community valuable time and money and reinstate Cathy Hamilton as principal at the base principal salary. It is fiscally responsible as well as what the community wants! What are the reasons for not reinstating Cathy at the base principal salary? Email Carol Kelley, and the District 97 Board of Education and ask them! Please contact Dr. Carol Kelley or the District 97 board with this question, or request a meeting with the superintendent. Dr. Kelley - ckelley@op97.org or call 708-524-3004 D97 Board of Education - d97board@op97.org

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On behalf of the Lincoln School community

Harriet Hausman

Elizabeth Lee

Anna & Peter Harlan

OUT ABOUT Junior Theater Festival students get a heartwarming sendoff from Senator Harmon and Representative Lilly at the Oak Park Arms! February 9-13, 47 Oak Park students will be hopping a plane for the west coast to hit ‘the big stage’ and participate in the inauguration of Junior Theater Festival (JTF) West in Sacramento. The kids, representing Brooks’ Middle School’s award-winning Bravo! Program, have been rehearsing for weeks and are excited about more than just their own upcoming performances. This year, Pasek and Paul, the awardwinning composing team that just won a Grammy, a Golden Globe, and two Oscar nominations for “City of Stars” from La La Land will be performing and participating as well. BREAK-A-LEG JTF WEST 2017!

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O B I T U A R I E S

Carol Best, 79 Daughter of Oak Park’s first village president

Carol Anne Christianson Best, 79, of Columbia, South Carolina, formerly of Oak Park, died on Jan. 26, 2017. Born on Dec. 12, 1937 in Oak Park, she was the daughter of the late J. Russell and Gladys Rogers Christianson. Russ Christianson was a former president of the village of Oak Park and general counsel of the Chicago Bar Association. Ms. Best graduated from Oak Park and River Forest High School in 1955 and began college at Miami of Ohio in the fall of 1955. CAROL BEST In the summer of 1957, she met Thilo H. Best (“T”), and the two were married on June 21, 1958. After their wedding, they moved to New York City where T began a career with Cargill Inc. She finished her college degree at NYU, graduating with honors in 1959. In 1961, the Bests moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and then to Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1968. While in Chattanooga, she raised her children, played tennis and was involved with the Junior League. She moved to Columbia, South Carolina in 2000 to be close to her daughter. An intelligent woman with a generous spirit and beautiful smile, she was a loving mom who cherished her children and grandchildren more than anything. Along with her parents, she was preceded in death by a brother, Russell Christianson. Carol Best is survived by her son, Thilo David Best and his wife, Betsy, and their children, Elizabeth S. and Meredith A. Best; her daughter, Diana B. Ayers, her husband, Lee, and their children, Clifton Ayers, Jacob Ayers, and his wife, Elizabeth, and Garrett Ayers; her sister, Lois Giess, and her husband, John; her brother, Don Christianson; and several nieces and nephews. A memorial service for Carol was held on Feb. 4 at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral. Shives Funeral Home, Trenholm Road Chapel, handled the arrangements.

The family would like to thank the staff and nurses at White Oak Manor, who loved and took such good care of Carol. Special thanks to the 11th floor nurses at Palmetto Health Richland for their tender care; also to R. Caughman Taylor for his love and counsel to the family. Memorials may be made to the Churchyard Fund at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 1100 Sumter Street, Columbia, SC 29201 or to One Mind Institute: www.onemindinstitute. org/get-involved/donate.

Leonard Fisher, 93 WWII veteran, hospital volunteer

Leonard Dean Fisher, 93, of Oak Park, died on Jan. 24, 2017. Born on Aug. 30, 1923, he grew up in Zanesville, Ohio, where he graduated from Lash High School in 1941. He began his service in the Ninth Army Air Force in December 1942. While stationed in England with the 453rd Air Service Group, he assisted with preparations for the glider assaults of Operation Overlord (Normandy) and Operation Market Garden (Holland). A musician, he also played LEONARD FISHER in dance bands that entertained Air Force pilots and their English guests. Like his father before him in WWI, he was stationed in France for a brief time. He returned to the U.S. in November 1945 having attained the rank of staff sergeant. After the war, he attended Ohio University in Athens, Ohio and graduated in 1949 with a major in accountancy and a minor in economics. He married Johanna Yvonne Baker in 1951 and lived with his family throughout Ohio while he worked for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, until 1967 when he led them to the Chicago area. Before his retirement, he worked as a computer systems analyst for Pullman Standard and the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Hospitals. After retirement, he lived with his son’s family in Oak Park and worked as a volunteer at a local hospital. Leonard Fisher was the father of Carlton

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(Dr. Linda) Fisher, Gregory (Becky) Fisher, Tanya (Carl) Mahnke and Lynette (Noel) Griffin; the grandfather of Paul (Lauren) Fisher, Sarah (Cory) Hahn, Jason (Samantha) Fisher, Brian Fisher, Lynnsey (Dusty) Brownfield, James Mahnke and Annie (Michael) Lilly; the great-grandfather of four; the brother of the late Laurence (Irvalee) Fisher; and the former husband of the late Johanna Yvonne Baker Fisher. Memorial visitation will be held on Saturday, Feb. 11 from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m., followed by a memorial service at noon and a celebratory luncheon, all at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 611 Randolph St., Oak Park. Interment will be private.

Albina Samko, 101 La Grange Park resident

Albina C. Samko (nee Rumsa), 101, of La Grange Park, formerly of River Forest, died on Feb. 5, 2017. Born on July 7, 1915, she worked as an administrative assistant. Albina was the wife of the late Colman V. Samko; the sister of the late Sophia “Peggy” Hanks; and the aunt of many nieces and nephews. A funeral Mass was held on Feb. 8 at St. Francis Xavier Church, followed by interment at Queen of Heaven Cemetery. Arrangements were handled by Hitzeman Funeral Home Ltd. in Brookfield.

Margaret Singleton, 70 Longtime Oak Park resident

Margaret J. Singleton, 70, a longtime resident of Oak Park, died in her Melrose Park home on Jan. 30, 2017. She was a member of Unity Church of Oak Park, and a longtime employee of the Forest Park Post Office. Margaret is survived by her children, James, Jermaine and Meosha (Tughril) Muhammad; her grandchildren Aminah and Ava Muhammud; and her siblings, Dolores Hicks, Patricia McDougal, James Wright, and Betty Carter. She was preceded in death by her husband, James Singleton; her parents, Garfield and Frances Wright; and her siblings, Arthur Wright, Garfield Wright Jr., Mary Jimmerson and Stanley Wright. Visitation was held on Feb. 3 at Woodlawn

Funeral Home in Forest Park. Funeral services were held at Unity Church of Oak Park on Feb. 4, followed by interment at Forest Home Cemetery.

Jack Tavolacci, 22 OPRF grad

Jack Tavolacci, 22, of Kansas City, formerly of Oak Park, died as a passenger in a car accident in Kansas City on Jan. 25, 2017. Jack grew up in Ascension Parish and went to school there until second grade, then attended Longfellow Elementary, Julian Middle School, and OPRF High School. His effervescent personality helped him make friends easily. His father, Chris, recalled that when he visited his best friend’s house, he also befriended his friend’s little brother. “The parents told us that all of Marek’s other JACK TAVOLACCI friends wouldn’t give his brother the time of day. Jack was that kind of person,” Chris said. “He lived, he laughed, and he loved and he did all of these things with aplomb. We felt he was an old soul. In sports, he never cried if he struck out but played for the love of the games. He loved us and was an excellent student. He suffered a concussion sophomore year. Despite the headaches and periodic depression, he still reached out to others and made people laugh.” He moved to Kansas City to pursue studies in pharmacy. “He was proud to be an organ donor,” Chris said. “The coroner told us his organs may save two lives, and other tissues will be used to enhance the lives of at least 50 other people. That’s Jack in a nutshell.” Jack Tavolacci is survived by his father, Chris; his mother, Christine; his two brothers, Peter and Marcus; and many aunts, uncles and cousins. A celebration of Jack’s life will be held this Saturday, Feb. 11 at 11 a.m. at Ascension Church, 808 S. East Ave.

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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)

3:30-4:00pm

Nationwide

WJYS-TV (M-F)

6:30-7:00am

Chicago, IL.

WCIU-TV (Sun.)

10:30-11:00am

Chicago, IL.

Word Network

10:30-11:00am

Nationwide

(M-F)

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

fairoakspres.org

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

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

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

You’ll be as happy as a lark here; come visit us to find out why.

The Traditional Catholic Latin Mass

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

Unity

UNITY CHURCH OF OAK PARK 405 North Euclid Ave.

You have limitless potential.

Rev. James Hurlbert, Pastor

Roman Catholic

But the Altenheim is so much more… it is surrounded with beautiful grounds and wildlife, seniors who look out for one another and apartment selections and activities to suit your lifestyle.

Our Lady Immaculate Church

Grace Lutheran School

Preschool - 8th Grade Bill Koehne, Principal 366-6900, graceriverforest.org

And at the Altenheim, you’ll be able to protect it with rent that is reasonable.

7824 West Madison Street Forest Park, IL 60130 708.366.2206 www.thealtenheim.com

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INCS Job Fair, Sat 3/18!

The Illinois Network of Charter Schools will host its 12th annual job fair on Saturday, March 18 at ASPIRA Business and Finance Campus (2989 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL, 60618) from 10:0012:30pm. Representatives from the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s charter schools will be on hand to recruit hundreds of teachers, social workers, counselors, nurses, and other administrators. Register for free at www.teacherjobfair.org and contact Stephanie Arias at sarias@incschools.org with any questions. PART TIME PARKING SERVICES The Village of Oak Park is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Part-time Parking Services Specialist. This position which performs a variety of responsible and difficult clerical work in support of parking & mobility services functions; and to perform the more difficult and complex clerical duties including but not limited to parking permits, parking passes and vehicle stickers. Applicants are encouraged to visit the Village of Oak Parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website http:// www.oak-park.us/. Interested and qualified applicants must complete a Village of Oak Park application. PRESCHOOL TEACHER WANTED Lead classroom of 3 to 5-yr olds Creative Curriculum Early morning to afternoon M-F Seeking qualified, enthusiastic teacher/team player Call 708-386-1033 Send email to admin@oakparkbuildingblocks.com

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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

OAK PARK FOREST PARK Studio, 1, and 2 BDRM. Heated. Dining room. Parking available. Walk to El. $625-$1250.

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.

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Berwyn 6 RM, 2BR. Heated. Dining rm. Close to transport. Nice area. $995.

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Riverside 5 RM, 2BR. Heated. Pkg. Close to train & bus. $950.

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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 OAK PARK SMALL 1 BR Downtown Oak Park. Hardwood floors throughout. All utlities included. $800 per month. Call 708-657-4226.

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Office located at: 320 S. Wisconsin Ave. Oak Park

708-763-9927 www.glapropertymanagement.com

Properties may be broker owned.

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Apartment listings updated daily at:

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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.

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 reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d. $895. Call 773-443-8019. 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.

ROOMS FOR RENT AUSTIN CLEAN ROOM With fridge, micro. Nr Oak Park, Super Walmart, Food 4 Less, bus, & Metra. $116/wk and up. 773-637-5957 Large Sunny Room with fridge & microwave. Near Green line, bus, Oak Park, 24 hour desk, parking lot. $101.00 week & up. New Mgmt. 773-378-8888

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BEAUTIFUL CHURCH FOR RENT

in OAK PARK. Perfect for a congregation. Other potential uses. Corner of Scoville & Adams. 708-848-5460

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ITEMS FOR SALE

TAX SERVICES

OUTDOOR FURNITURE High Quality Outdoor furniture. Heavy wrought iron. $150 obo. Call 708-488-8755.

INCOME TAXES BY CPA.

SEWING MACHINE Singer Sewing Machine. Like new. $99.00. Call 708-488-8755.

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TECHNICS STEREO Sony tuner, Technics Stero System with 5 surround sound speakers, automatic turntable, cassette deck and and 5-CD player. $175 obo. Call 708-386-0087

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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.

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WANTED MILITARY ITEMS: Helmets, medals, patches, uniforms, weapons, flags, photos, paperwork, Also toy soldiers-lead plastic-other misc. toys. Call Uncle Gary 708-522-3400

7777 Lake St. - 3 & 5 room suites 7756 Madison St. - Store: 926 sq. ft. - Office: 2800 sq. ft.

6955 North Ave. - 3 room office suite 6957 North Ave. - 2 room office suite 6142-44 Roosevelt Rd. - 4 & 5 room office suites

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HOUSING WANTED 2BR APT WANTED Working mother of 2 with steady employment seeks 2BR apartment in west suburbs or Austin. Laundry on site preferred. Call 708-712-8633.

ITEMS FOR SALE MOTOR SCOOTER Childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ZIP electric motor scooter. $69.00. Call 708-488-8755. 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.

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.

PETS While youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re away, your pets are okay . . . at home

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PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held by the Community Design Commission, acting as the Design Review Commission, of the Village of Oak Park on Wednesday evening, February 22, 2017 at 7:00 p.m. in Room 101 of the Village Hall, 123 Madison St., Oak Park, Illinois on the following matter: Cal. No. 03-17-DRC: 3 Erie Court, West Suburban Medical Center

Karen Dodge with Municipal Resolutions, on behalf of West Suburban Medical Center, is requesting that a variation be granted from Section 7.7.15 (D) (1) (b) of the Sign Code of the Village of Oak Park, which section requires that wall signs for buildings located on corner lots shall only be placed along the front lot line or the corner lot line. The proposal shows an â&#x20AC;&#x153;EMERGENCYâ&#x20AC;? sign located on the North Elevation of the Emergency Center building, an area where there is no street frontage at the premises commonly known as 3 Erie Court.

DATED AT OAK PARK, ILLINOIS, this 8th Day of February, 2017 Published in Wednesday Journal 2/8/2017

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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: 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 NORTH RIVERSIDE, IL 60546. Published in Landmark 1/25, 2/1, 2/8/2017

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PUBLIC NOTICES 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: 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. Published in Landmark 1/25, 2/1, 2/8/2017

PUBLIC NOTICE ADVERTISEMENT OF BIDDING Request of bids for the flooring replacements at Longfellow & Stevenson Center. Owner: Park District of Oak Park 218 Madison St, Oak Park, IL 60302 The Park District of Oak Park will accept sealed bids for the Flooring Replacements at Longfellow & Stevenson Center in Oak Park. The project consists of the removal of existing flooring and installation of new LVT flooring at both centers. The Park District of Oak Park will receive individual sealed Bids until 10:00 a.m. (Chicago time) on Friday, February 24th, 2017, at 218 Madison St., Oak Park, Illinois. The bidding documents and requirements will be available on the Park Districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website as of 5:00 pm Friday, February 10th, 2017. A non- mandatory pre-bid walk-thru is scheduled for Friday, February 17th at 10:00 a.m. (Chicago time) at 49 Lake St., Oak Park, IL 60302. Bid bonds will be required by bidding contractors. Copies of the bidding specifications are available via the Park District of Oak Park website at: http://www.pdop.org/bids-and-rfps/ For additional information, contact Chris Lindgren at chris.lindgren@ pdop.org or (708) 725 2050. Only the bids prepared in compliance with the bidding documents will be considered. This project must adhere to the Prevailing Wage Act of 2015. The Park District of Oak Park encourages minority and women owned business firms to submit bids for this project. Park District of Oak Park By: Sandy Lentz, Secretary Park District of Oak Park 218 Madison St. Oak Park, IL 60302 Published in Wednesday Journal 2/8/2017

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PUBLIC NOTICES Notice is hereby given by the President and Board of Trustees of the Village of Brookfield, Illinois that bid proposals will be received for the following project: 2017 STREET IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT VILLAGE OF BROOKFIELD, ILLINOIS This project will include the replacement of concrete curb and gutter, sidewalks, driveway aprons, and drainage structures, replacement of certain sections of combined sewers, milling and resurfacing certain pavements, reconstructing certain pavements, landscaping disturbed areas, and performing other related work. The contractor shall be paid in cash for the work to be performed on this project. Sealed bids will be received up to the hour of 11:00 A.M. on Wednesday, the 1st day of March, 2017, in the office of the Village Manager in the Village Hall located at 8820 Brookfield Avenue, Brookfield, Illinois. All sealed bids received will be publicly opened and read at 11:00 A.M. on the same day, Wednesday, the 1st day of March, 2017, at the Village Hall. Bidding documents, consisting of the bid proposal, project specifications, and project plans are avail-

PUBLIC NOTICES PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS able at the office of Edwin Hancock Engineering Co., 9933 Roosevelt Road, Westchester, Illinois 60154, upon payment of a non-refundable charge of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per set of bidding documents. No bidding documents will be issued after 4:30 P.M. on Wednesday, the 22nd day of February, 2017. All bid proposals offered must be accompanied by a bid bond, cashierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s check or certified check in an amount not be less than Five Percent (5%) of the total amount of the bid, as a guarantee that if the bid proposal is accepted, a contract will be entered into and the performance of the contract properly secured. Checks shall be made payable to the Order of the President and Board of Trustees of the Village of Brookfield, No bid proposal shall be considered unless accompanied by such bid bond or check. All bidders wishing to obtain bidding documents must be approved by the Village prior to obtaining bidding documents. All bidders must provide proof that they are prequalified with the Illinois Department of Transportation to perform at least 50% of the value of the work before being issued bidding documents. Any bidder in doubt as to the true meaning of any part of the bidding documents may request an interpretation thereof from the Village.

PUBLIC NOTICES The bidder requesting the interpretation shall be responsible for its prompt delivery. At the request of the bidder, or in the event that the Village deems the interpretation to be substantive, the interpretation will be made by written addendum duly issued by the Village. In the event that a written addendum is issued, either as a result of a request for interpretation or the result of a change in the bidding documents issued by the Village, a copy of such addendum will be mailed to all prospective bidders. The Village will not assume responsibility for receipt of such addendum. In all cases it will be the biddersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; responsibility to obtain all addenda issued. The Contractor and Subcontractor shall comply with all regulations issued pursuant to Prevailing Wage Act (820 ILCS 130), and other applicable Federal Laws and regulations pertaining to labor standards. The Village of Brookfield reserves the rights to determine the lowest, responsive, responsible bidder, to waive irregularities, and to reject any or all bid proposals. BY ORDER THE PRESIDENT AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES VILLAGE OF BROOKFIELD, ILLINOIS

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STATE OF ILLINOIS) COUNTY OF COOK )ss Circuit Court of Cook County, County Department, Domestic Relations Division. In re the marriage of Marisela Ramirez,Petitioner and /bJose Luis Ortiz, Respondent, Case No. 2016D-011584. The requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is hereby given to you, the above named Respondent, that a Petition has been filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, by the Petitioner, for Dissolution of Marriage and for other relief; and that said suit is now pending. Now, therefore, unless you, the said Respondent, file your response to said Petition or otherwise make your appearance therein, in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, Room 802, Richard J. Daley Center, 50 West Washington Street, in the City of Chicago, Illinois, on or before / bMarch 13, 2017, /rdefault may be entered against you at any time after that day, and a judgment for Dissolution of Marriage entered in accordance with the prayer of said Petition. DOROTHY A. BROWN, Clerk. Published in Wednesday Journal 2/8, 2/15, 2/22/2017

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William St. Alley Improvements This project generally consists of the reconstruction of approximately 515 square yards of an asphalt alley pavement with the installation of approximately 210 square yards of pervious pavers and the associated pervious cross-section. The bidding documents are available for download starting Thursday, February 2, 2017 at: http://vrf.us/government/bids-a-rfps Bids must be submitted by Wednesday, February 22, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. at: Public Works Department, 2nd Floor Village of River Forest 400 Park Avenue River Forest, IL 60305 The bid proposals will be publicly opened and read at that time. Proposals will be considered not only on the basis of cost, but also on past performance, experience and ability to perform the work. No bid shall be withdrawn after the opening of the Proposals without the consent of the President and Board of Trustees of the Village of River Forest for a period of thirty (30) days after the scheduled time of the bid opening. The Village of River Forest reserves the right in receiving these bids to waive technicalities and reject any or all bids. Published in Wednesday Journal 02/8/2017

Owner: Park District of Oak Park 218 Madison St, Oak Park, IL 60302 The Park District of Oak Park will accept sealed bids for the Roofing Replacement at Stevenson Center at 49 Lake Street in Oak Park. The project consists of the removal of existing roofing and installation of a new PVC roof system. The Park District of Oak Park will receive individual sealed Bids until 2:00 p.m. (Chicago time) on Wednesday, March 1st, 2017, at 218 Madison St., Oak Park, Illinois. The bidding documents and requirements will be available on the Park Districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website as of 5:00 pm Wednesday, February 8th, 2017. A non-mandatory pre-bid walk-thru is scheduled for Tuesday, February 14th at 10:00 a.m. (Chicago time) at 49 Lake St., Oak Park, IL 60302. Bid bonds will be required by bidding contractors. Copies of the bidding specifications are available via the Park District of Oak Park website at: http://www.pdop.org/bids-and-rfps/ For additional information, contact Chris Lindgren at chris.lindgren@ pdop.org or (708) 725 2050. Only the bids prepared in compliance with the bidding documents will be considered. This project must adhere to the Prevailing Wage Act of 2015. The Park District of Oak Park encourages minority and women owned business firms to submit bids for this project. Park District of Oak Park By: Sandy Lentz, Secretary Park District of Oak Park 218 Madison St. Oak Park, IL 60302 Published in Wednesday Journal 2/8/2017

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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 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

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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

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

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

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

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 914 N. AUSTIN BLVD. UNIT #B2, OAK PARK, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-05-320-040-1009. 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 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, 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

PUBLIC NOTICES 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: D17149402 on January 24, 2017. Under the Assumed Business Name of M MEJIA CONSTRCTION with the business located at: 7829 RUTHERFORD AVE APT 1NW, BURBANK, IL 60459. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: MACEDONIO MEJIA SILVAS 7829 RUTHERVORD AVE APT 1 NW BURBANK, IL 60459.

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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 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.

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I713065 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 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,

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT–CHANCERY DIVISION BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC Plaintiff, -v.JOYCE MORRIS, OAK PARK TERRACE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, 914 N. AUSTIN CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 16 CH 006865 914 N. AUSTIN BLVD. UNIT #B2 OAK PARK, IL 60302 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on October 19, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 1, 2017, at The Judicial Sales Corporation, One

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR LONG BEACH MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-7 Plaintiff, -v.JOHNNY JAMISON, SUSAN 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. 1605-303-023-0000. 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 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 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. 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

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 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. 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: 10 CH 21202 TJSC#: 3614591 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. I713207

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: JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC, 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125, Chicago, IL 60606, (312) 5419710 Please refer to file number 15-2716. 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. JOHNSON, BLUMBERG & ASSOCIATES, LLC 230 W. Monroe Street, Suite #1125 Chicago, IL 60606 (312) 541-9710 E-Mail: ilpleadings@johnsonblumberg.com Attorney File No. 15-2716 Attorney Code. 40342 Case Number: 15 CH 16132 TJSC#: 36-14542 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. I713609

Plaintiff, -v.CARL T. GROESBECK, LEIGHTON HOLDINGS, LTD., UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NONRECORD CLAIMANTS Defendants 16 CH 009347 331 N. TAYLOR AVENUE OAK PARK, IL 60302 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 15, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 17, 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 331 N. TAYLOR AVENUE, OAK PARK, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-08-109-011-0000. The real estate is improved with a residence. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for Abandoned Residential Property Municipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential real estate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of the amount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certified funds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. No fee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential real estate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential real estate whose rights in and to the residential real estate arose prior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general real estate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes levied against said real estate and is offered for sale without any representation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourse to Plaintiff and in “AS IS” condition. The sale is further subject to confirmation by the court. Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will receive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to a deed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale. Where a sale of real estate is made to satisfy a lien prior to that of the United States, the United States shall have one year from the date of sale within which to redeem, except that with respect to a lien arising under the internal revenue laws the period shall be 120 days or the period allowable for redemption under State law, whichever is longer, and in any case in which, under the provisions of section 505 of the Housing Act of 1950, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701k), and subsection (d) of section 3720 of title 38 of the United States Code, the right to redeem does not arise, there shall be no right of redemption. The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiff makes no representation as to the condition of the property. Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file to verify all information. If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay the assessments and the legal fees required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g) (1) and (g)(4). If this property is a condominium unit which is part of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by The Condominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1). IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30 DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOIS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW. You will need a photo identification issued

by a government agency (driver’s license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry into our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook County and the same identification for sales held at other county venues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosure sales. For information, examine the court file 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 1416-08522. 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. 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. 14-16-08522 Attorney ARDC No. 00468002 Attorney Code. 21762 Case Number: 16 CH 009347 TJSC#: 37-47 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. I713637

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: Visit our website at service.atty-pierce. com. between the hours of 3 and 5 pm. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES, Plaintiff’s Attorneys, One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300, CHICAGO, IL 60602. Tel No. (312) 476-5500. Please refer to file number 13394. 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. PIERCE & ASSOCIATES One North Dearborn Street Suite 1300 CHICAGO, IL 60602 (312) 4765500 E-Mail: pleadings@pierceservices.com Attorney File No. 13394 Attorney Code. 60489 Case Number: 12 CH 31058 TJSC#: 371065 I714231

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT AS TRUSTEE FOR CARLSBAD FUNDING MORTGAGE TRUST Plaintiff, -v.WILLIAM M. LAWRENCE, ANNAMARIE POPLAWSKA AKA ANNA POPLAWSKA AKA A. POPLAWSKA, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS EMPLOYEE’S CREDIT UNION Defendants 10 CH 21202 1017 South Harlem Ave. Forest Park, IL 60130 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on December 19, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 21, 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 1017 South Harlem Ave., Forest Park, IL 60130 Property Index No. 15-13-423-020-0000. The real estate is improved with a single family residence. The judgment amount was $244,072.49. 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.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (‘’FANNIE MAE’’), A CORPORATION ORGANIZED AND EXISTING UNDER THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Plaintiff, -v.WYNONA REDMOND, BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. Defendants 15 CH 16132 521 SOUTH BLVD. 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 December 14, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 16, 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 521 SOUTH BLVD., Oak Park, IL 60302 Property Index No. 16-07-403-059-0000 Vol. 142. The real estate is improved with a townhouse. The judgment amount was $293,186.61. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION CITIZENS BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION F/K/A RBS CITIZENS, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO CHARTER ONE BANK, F.S.B SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO HINSDALE FEDERAL BANK FOR SAVINGS

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT– CHANCERY DIVISION U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, ON BEHALF OF THE HOLDERS OF J.P. MORGAN MORTGAGE TRUST 2007-S2 MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES Plaintiff, -v.MICHAEL PACE AKA MICHAEL J. PACE, DIANE PACE, LYONS FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., FORD MOTOR CREDIT COMPANY LLC F/D/B/A LAND ROVER CAPITAL GROUP, BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. Defendants 12 CH 31058 730 LATHROP AVENUE RIVER FOREST, IL 60305 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause on February 25, 2016, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, will at 10:30 AM on March 16, 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 730 LATHROP AVENUE, RIVER FOREST, IL 60305 Property Index No. 15-12-105-021-0000. The real estate is improved with a two story single family home with an detached garage. Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds at the close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation. No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, including the Judicial sale fee for 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

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that really hurt. His last couple of weeks have probably c been his best of practice.””

Pursuing 4-peat from page 36 regional ional champions. Senior Brian Holloway (26-7 at 160) and d junior Jack Fisher (10-4 at 145) finished second. Renteria enteria is the defending 3A individual state champion at 120. 20. Madrigal and Hernandez were 2016 state runners-up ners-up at 126 and 138, respectively. “It It was a great day. We’ve talked a lot over the last last couple of weeks of what we can control and getting our guys to wrestle estle Huskie style, which is an unrelenting elenting pace no matter what at the score is,” OPRF coach ch Paul Collins said. OPRF, PRF, ranked No. 2 in 3A by by IllinoisMatmen. com, m, also began pursuit of its ts fourth straight team m championship by winning nning the regional 264.5 to 216.5 16.5 over No. 11 Wheaton North, which won the DuPage Page Valley Conference to end Glenbard North’s streak at 18 straight. aight. In n the finals, the Huskies beat the Falconss in eight of 10 head-to-head matchups. “It was was almost like a dual meet in those finals,” als,” Collins said. “It’s always good to have good d competition. Some of those guys we see all offseason offseason (training with our program).” In n the finals, Eddie Bolivar won 6-5 in his first first meeting with previously undefeated Glenbard e G ed lenb le nbar nb ard d We West st senior sen enio iorr Charlie io Char Ch arli liee li Faber (37-1), an all-state fifth at 113 last season. In the third period, Faber tied the match 4-4 with an early escape but Bolivar gained control and got the winning takedown with 23 seconds left. “My first regional. I won and I guess that feels pretty good,” Bolivar said. “I practice with (Faber in the offseason) a little bit. It shows me that I can do better. I’m probably going to see him at sectionals.” “(Faber is) a strong 120-pounder and for Eddie to step up, that’s big time,” Collins said. “That (victory) was awesome. He’s a gamer. He’s a competitor.” Matticks won by pin in 5:19 after two previous first-period pins. Hernandez had 13 takedowns in a 27-12 technical fall and Renteria, Madrigal and Nico Bolivar won major decisions. Thurman, Osit, Holloway, Fisher and Nico Bolivar also made their individual regional debuts. Thurman won 5-0 and, as the No. 2 seed, Osit edged Wheaton North’s Bo Neidballa 3-1 on a takedown with 20 seconds remaining. “My arms are a little tired. But winning a regional title, it’s pretty cool,” Osit said. Interestingly, Middlebrooks (23-2) won only one match, a 26-second pin in the semifinals. He had a first-round bye, and his finals opponent forfeited. “(I found out) while I was warming up,” Middlebrooks said. “It was real bittersweet because I came here and only wrestled one match. It felt good to win but I still wanted to wrestle more than one match, at least show what I’m made of.” It was quite a contrast to 2016 regionals, when Middlebrooks finished behind the eventual 285 fourth- and fifthplace state finishers. “He was in arguably the toughest bracket of any regional in the state,” Collins said. “(Not advancing) was something

OPRF wrestlers Tariq Thurman, (left), Elijah Osit, (right) and Jack Fischer have been key contributors for the Huskies this season. Photos by Jonna Borgdorff

Fenwick National Signing Day

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Seven Fenwick student-athletes signed their national letter of intent onWednesday, Feb. 1. (Pictured top): Jack Henige, University of Notre Dame/football; Joe Calcagno, Penn State University/football; (Pictured bottom): Ryan Kupiec, DePauw University/soccer; Kyle Poland, Bucknell University/water polo; Ellis Taylor, Fordham University/football; Jacob Keller, Northern Iowa/football; Adrian Nourse, St. Ambrose/football)

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All-court Moore powers Friars’ resurgence

A gifted scorer, junior guard emulating former Fenwick star Erin Power defensively By MATT LE CREN

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tand Kate Moore and Erin Power next to each other and they could pass for sisters. In addition to their physical resemblance, they share an uncanny athletic ability on the basketball court. Moore, who leads the Fenwick High School girls basketball team in scoring, is a 5-foot10 junior guard. With her long arms, lanky frame and languid movements, she reminds basketball insiders of Power, who is the assistant coach under her legendary father, Dave. Erin Power was nicknamed “Inspector Gadget” in high school for her long arms and ability to deflect nearly any pass she wanted to. She was the defensive stalwart on Fenwick’s 2007 state championship team and went on to star at Penn. Power has found a willing disciple in Moore, who was mainly a shoot-first offensive threat until Power joined the coaching staff last year. “I’ve kind of always been more of an offensive player but I feel like, especially this year with Coach Erin Power joining us for the whole season, my defense has gotten a lot better as well as my basketball IQ,” Moore said. “She always says be hustling and smart on defense. I feel like me and the whole team have gotten so much better defensively.” Moore, a three-year starter, averaged 12.2 points, 3.5 rebounds and 0.6 blocks as a sophomore. She has always been known for

her shooting. “She’s an unbelievable shooter,” Fenwick junior forward McKenzie Blaze said. “Her shot has always been phenomenal, but now it’s ridiculous.” But shooting isn’t Moore’s only skill. “Her passes are great,” Blaze said. “She’s a great ball distributor, so I think that really helps the team.” Indeed, Moore’s evolution into a multidimensional player is borne out by the statistics and has benefitted the Friars. She has increased her production in nearly every category and currently is averaging 12.4 points, 4.2 rebounds and 1.7 blocks. “Kate has added components to her game that a year ago I don’t think she really had,” Dave Power said. “She’s really developing into a complete player. “I do credit Erin with a lot of that because she’s worked very hard on her physical and mental game.” Moore has relished working with Erin Power and hopes to emulate her. “For sure, I definitely look up to her a lot,” Moore said. “Just before the Trinity game we watched a really cool highlight video of (the 2007) team winning state, which was cool. “I think we all look up to her as a role model. She was telling us about her days when she won state and I definitely take her advice and try to be like her.” Moore showed off her improved game during a 63-46 victory Jan. 16 over Plainfield North at the Subway Classic. She had 14 points, including two 3-pointers, to go

OPRF National Signing Day

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Photo by Don Bartecki

Fenwick junior Kate Moore has always been an excellent offensive player. Guided by Erin Power, Moore is flourishing defensively as well. with a game-high 12 rebounds, three assists and two steals. Most impressively, seven of her boards came on the offensive end, keeping plays alive for the Friars. “Kate really hit the glass for us, giving us second and third opportunities, which is what Plainfield was living off of in the first half,” Dave Power said. “I was so impressed with the things she was doing above and beyond scoring. “I always tell kids there is a difference between hitting a three in the game and hitting a timely three, and she had some 3s that just gave us a little padding we needed in case they made a little run, and they did make a couple runs.” The Friars were famous for making runs during Erin Power’s career. They would often get steals off her deflections and beat

On Wednesday, Feb. 1, 11 studentathletes signed a letter of intent to play college football. Pictued with OPRF’s head football coach John Hoerster and principal Nate Rouse, here are the collegebound Huskies (left to right): Khori Blair- North Central College; Keyon Blankenbaker-Univeristy of Wyoming; Wesley Cheatham-Wabash College; David Claiborne-Robert Morris University; Brenden Flowers-Grand View University; Eddie Gorens-Central Missouri Univeristy; Jacob HaleCentral Missouri University; Ethan Lemons-McKendree University; Jared Scott-University of Wyoming; Davion Talbert-Lincoln University; Tariq Thurman-St. Francis University

opponents down the floor. But Erin Power wasn’t known for her shooting like Moore is. “In practice I don’t think I’ve seen her miss a shot in two weeks,” Erin Power said after the Plainfield game. “She lights it up. “Defensively we’re starting to turn the corner so she can be more like me. With her length, she can get her hands on some shots.” That will only enhance Fenwick’s rise. After enduring the worst two-year stretch in program history, the Friars (18-9) are poised to make a run in the Class 3A playoffs and perhaps return the area’s elite next winter. “I think Kate’s going to start getting a stat that you don’t see a lot, which is deflections,” Dave Power said. “Erin was probably the greatest player I ever saw with that. “When Kate starts getting those, that will add some quick baskets for us.” Dave Power is pleased to see that Moore is willing to do what it takes to add to her repertoire. “You watch kids when they’re younger and you say, ‘OK, this kid does this or that,’” he said. “Sometimes that’s all that they do throughout their career. They rely on that one or two things that they’re really good at. “I think Kate realizes that ‘if I’m going to exert a lot more energy, it might take a little bit of the edge off my shot, but my overall game now helps the team win on many levels.’” Winning is definitely foremost on Moore’s mind, though she feels she shares the leadership role with Blaze and some other upperclassmen. “We’re definitely going uphill,” Moore said. “Everyone is a good leader. “Now that we’re upperclassmen we just have a bigger role to be leaders, not just on the court but off the court. We have young talent on our team, so helping them out is something I have to do.”

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Hard work pays off for Hernandez Two-time, all-state wrestler er is a top contender to win 138-poundd state title By BILL STONE Contributing Reporter

Oak Park and River Forest senior and two-time, all-state trating and disapwrestler Jaime Hernandez endured a frustrating pointing freshman season. Oftentimes, there were even a few tears. “Oh yeah. I wouldn’t say every day, but a couple of times a week,” Hernandez said. “My (practice) partners were just brutal. I got my butt kicked around, but itt helped me in the long run. I love what happened to me freshman shman year – in a good way.” By the end of last season, Hernandez was as the recipient of the Huskies’ annual Tough Guy Award. At 138 pounds, Hernandez finished second nd at the Class 3A individual state meet and accomplished thee feat despite having his left eye basically closed after a head ad butt during the second period of the quarterfinals. “His progression has been one that was much more about building toughness and building confidence,” nce,” OPRF coach Paul Collins said. “You had to push him to get him to believe in himself.”

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Hernandez went from not even advancing to sectionals as a freshman to that summer winning a Greco-Roman state title and taking second at the USA Wrestling Cadet freestyle nationals. Significant progress with the Huskies resulted in taking fourth at 2015 state at 132. On Saturday, Hernandez (11-0) won the Leyden Regional title at 138 as is No. 2 in the IllinoisMatmen.com rankings behind Glenbard North senior Austin Gomez (42-1), last year’s 126 state champion. Hernandez also has been impressive in the classroom, getting As and some Bs as he prepares to compete for the University of North Carolina. His major is undecided. “As long as I’m going straight up, I’m happy with what I’m doing. And I’ve got the bestt (training) partners in thee state, in the country,” Hernandez said.

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Then there’s simply pure desire. Hernandez displayed that last year at individual state as his eye continued to worsen throughout his final three matches. He held on

to win 3-1 in the quarterfinals and 8-3 in the semifinals and only lost to Marmion graduate AJ Jaffe 4-2 for the title. “For the semis, I was like, ‘I don’t know how I’m going to do this.’ It was like wrestling with an eye covered,” Hernandez said. “The coaches kept k telling me, ‘You’re ready, you’re good. We’re W not using this as an excuse.’ I just put that tha in my mind. If I wrestle hard with one eye, then I’ve got to do what I’m got to do.” For the team state finals the folweekend, lowing week nande z’s Her nand eye was recovering. Then he ttook shot. another sh “What he did tournaat the state tou award) ment and team state, (his aw was a no-brainer,” Collins ssaid. compete at “The ffact act that he could go out and compet level that lev vel that many matches literally with one competing eye, com mpeting with nationally-ranked guys ((was impressive).” impressive ve).” days HerThese da ays in the practice gym, Collins said H partnandez is th tthee one showing leadership for his p pushing ners, push hing them to become their best. “Honestly, work “Honestl tly, I think it’s just putting in the w making and maki kiing n sure you’re going hard and doing evHererything right – eating right, sleeping right,” H freshman nandez said. “That’s what I really changed freshm freshyear to now and not to be scared. I was scared fr man year. I’ll admit it. Then I just started getting a lot going to more confidence in myself. Big wins, they’re goin come.”

Renteria aims for another state title Senior could become first Huskie to reach individual state title match all four years By BILL STONE Contributing Reporter

Even at an early age, Oak Park and River Forest senior and three-time all-state wrestler Jason Renteria brought a special intensity and aggressiveness to his numerous sports. “I played basketball. I ended up tackling somebody. In baseball, the kid went for my pop fly, he caught it and then I tackled him,” Renteria said. “People started saying I should be in contact sports.” By age 5, Renteria started wrestling and by 8 he began “taking it serious.” Now he’s on the verge of achieving OPRF history by becoming the first to reach the individual state championship match all four years. The defending Class 3A state champion at 120 pounds and two-time state runner-up should join 2016 graduate Isaiah White and 2015 graduate Larry Early as the only fourtime all-staters with top-six finishes. White won three state titles and was third as a freshman. Early won in 2014 and was second twice. “It’s incredible that I would be the first one (in four finals) after I’ve been behind and on the team with Isaiah and Larry,”

Jason Renteria

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Renteria said. Renteria (35-2) won the 3A Leyden Regional title at 132 Saturday, but this season has been far from usual. He’s preparing to compete for the University of Nebraska, where he plans to study accounting or physical therapy. Renteria also has improved channeling his intensity, made himself a better student and emerged as a team leader.

“A year ago, if we were having this conversation, I would say he wasn’t prepared for Nebraska. He’s just put forth great effort (in academics), just like in wrestling,” OPRF coach Paul Collins said. “There’s been some emphasis on (wrestling) technique but the majority of it has been him controlling his emotions. And I think he’s really waited for senior year to be a leader and that’s something he really en-

joys and he’s embracing.” Collins said Renteria only needed to apply more time toward improving his grades. Renteria now considers himself a studentathlete, one ready to contribute as a true college freshman. “(I thought), ‘Let’s see you do the best in both,’ ” Renteria said. “I realized I could be the best wrestler and the best student. I don’t have to choose either one.” It’s also mind over matter on the wrestling mat. Since his younger days, Renteria tasted success that included multiple Illinois Kids Wrestling Federation state championships. Renteria continues making strides in using that talent and intensity -- and sometimes even anger -- always toward his advantage in matches. “It’s not, ‘Let’s try to beat up the guy.’ Now it’s more, ‘Let’s try to use our technique,’” Renteria said. “At first I was doubting it. Eventually it came out and I’m having a lot more fun trying new things out and giving the crowd something special.” Renteria is ranked No. 1 by IllinoisMatmen.com with his only two losses to out-ofstate opponents. And he’s focused on another state championship. “I like (in wrestling) that I can’t put the blame on somebody else. You can tell the work I put in when I step on the mat,” Renteria said. “Ever since I was little, I’d hate to lose. If we play checkers, I have to play until I beat you. We play anything, we’re going to play until I win, and then we’ll stop.”

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OPRF senior Drew Matticks (27-7) won the 170-pound title at the Leyden Individual Regional on Saturday, Feb. 4. Photo by Jonna Borgdorff

Huskies dominate Leyden Regional OPRF produces 11 champions and 13 qualifiers for the Conant Individual Sectional

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ak Park and River Forest senior wrestler Christopher Middlebrooks often recalls last season’s thirdplace regional match at 285 pounds. With a sectional berth at stake, he lost 2-1. The decisive point came on a controversial call for us-

ing locked hands. “It’s motivated me a lot because last year, I was really heart-broken. Very,” Middlebrooks said. “It gave me a certain hunger that I just had to win.” Now at 220 for the Class 3A Leyden Individual Regional Saturday, Middlebrooks was among the Huskies’ 11 champions and 13 qualifiers for the Conant Individual Sectional with top-three regional finishes.

Seniors Jaime Hernandez (11-0 record at 138), Drew Matticks (27-7 at 170), Jason Renteria (34-2 at 132) and Tariq Thurman (20-9 at 182), juniors Tony Madrigal (32-2 at 126), P.J. Ogunsanya (29-5 at 113), Eddie Ordonez (11-6 at 152) and Elijah Osit (21-14 at 195), sophomore Eddie Bolivar (186 at 120) and freshman Nico Bolivar (25-5 at 106) also were See PLAYOFFS on page 32

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