W E D N E S D A Y
March 1, 2017 Vol. 35, No. 28 ONE DOLLAR
JOURNAL of Oak Park and River Forest
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Gardener’s delight Homes, page 19
Another court win for VMA-backed candidates
Attorney for challengers to petition Illinois Supreme Court By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter
by to listen to a wild performance by Migos while mingling with the music industry’s best and baddest.” Now imagine that you’re 24 years old — not too long removed from the mop-water and metallic scented hall-
Two incumbent candidates for the Oak Park Village Board of Trustees and a village clerk candidate got another legal victory in their effort to maintain access to the ballot in the April 4 municipal election, but the case could face another legal hurdle in the Illinois Supreme Court. Justices James Fitzgerald Smith, Cynthia Y. Cobbs and Daniel J. Pierce ruled last week that the three candidates – trustee candidates Peter Barber and Glenn Brewer and their running mate for village clerk, Lori Malinski – should be allowed access to the ballot because of precedent set by a similar case in 2005. The case brought by challengers Kevin Peppard and Robert Milstein asserts that the three candidates – endorsed by the Village Manager Association – inappropriately collected signatures needed for their nominating petition. Candidates running for office must collect at least 251 signatures – that’s equal to five percent of those who voted in the most recent municipal election – but Barber, Brewer and Malinski collected 735 signatures as a group. Milstein is a former village trustee who once was active in the VMA. Burt Odelson, Peppard’s and Milstein’s attorney,
See GRAMMY on page 14
See VMA CANDIDATES on page 16
Mastering manual dexterity
WILLIAM CAMARGO/Staff Photographer
Children and their parents celebrate the Chinese New Year (known as the Spring Festival in China) on Feb. 25 at the Oak Park Public Library. The festivities were, shall we say, non-traditional. For more photos, visit oakpark.com.
OPRF grad earns share of a Grammy Kevin Rhomberg sings the hook on a song from Chance the Rapper’s Best Rap Album, ‘Coloring Book’
By MICHAEL ROMAIN Staff Reporter
Read GQ Magazine’s short description of its Grammys after-party, thrown at the Chateau Marmont hotel in Los Angeles and co-hosted by YouTube and Chance the Rapper:
“If the hotel’s walls could talk,” GQ’s editors write, “they’d tell you [that the party] was incredibly lit. Like ‘Chance the Rapper won three Grammys’ lit. Hours after the Chicago native cleaned up, guests ranging from Katy Perry and Snoop Dogg to John Legend and Chrissy Teigen packed the fabled lob-
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